Two-hour early dismissal!

Today, during my first period of the day, it started snowing/freezing raining. This continued and changed to snow during lunch. So, thanks to the early dismissal that that won us, I am now sitting at home, not wanting to work on the science fair project essay/procedure writeup due tomorrow.

Assuming we have school.

I'm gonna go work on that. People keep saying that the ice is going to melt before it can cancel school tomorrow.

Snow Day!

I got to sleep in today... always a wonderful surprise when my parents don't wake me up until 9:30 AM. And it's one of those snow days that starts with a mediumish amount of snow that can cancel school, yet the plows get out and, within a few hours, get the roads ready for an extra weekend day, equivalent to any Saturday one could go shopping or get a haircut. Actually, my mom and I are planning to do that now. I probably should get dressed before I leave... I don't want to be refused a haircut because I am wearing pajamas (although if I were planning to attempt this, I might bring a camera to preserve the look on the receptionist's face.)

Anyway, its probably best that we are getting out of the house today because the basement-finishing people are doing something that (a) smells really bad, and (b) may trigger my asthma. So I probably should get out of here soon.

Maybe I can convince Mom we should eat lunch out... that happens so rarely that it's kinda fun. (although my mom is a really good cook. We just don't eat out much.)

Boy, is tomorrow ever Monday...

Well, the chorale was great. They did a couple of commissioned songs (kinda weird, but still great), a version of the Twelve Days of Christmas that had each verse representing a different composer or a different musical period, going from Gregorian Chants to John Phillip Sousa. I have to say, my favorite verse was the one done in Wagner's style-—or rather, Ride of the Valkyries style. Hilarious. And now I want a Brunhilde hat.

They also did the Christmas portion of Handel's Messiah. And the Hallelujah Chorus. It sounded great. (Especially the bass soloist... in his bio in the program, it says that he sang Sarastro's part in Die Zauberflöte. One of the lowest bass notes ever written is in that part. He's good.)

Anyway, other thing that happened yesterday was that I went to see the new Pride and Prejudice with my church's youth group. It was a great movie, but I like the (five hour!) 1995 A&E made-for-TV version better. None of the characters really looked quite right in this one... especially Mr. Darcy. He looked better in the five-hour one.

And, since the moviemakers were trying to not make a loooooonnnnngggg movie (although the five-hour one is worth it), the transitions were very fast. I think I had jet lag for a few hours afterward.

Anway, I have to get sleep so I don't fall asleep in school tomorrow. (Assuming that it doesn't snow tonight and cancel school...)

First try at email blogging... hope it works.

So this is my first try at emailing my blog a message. From a
non-HTML mail client. Hopefully the text won't garble...

Anyway, I just decided on a laptop bag that I want for Christmas.
It's a gigantic backpack with a laptop sleeve and room for my stuff.
I almost went with the Crumpler bags "School Hymn 12 inch," but
I really wanted a backpack, not something that would fit inside a
backpack. And they are the same price.

Well, supper is being served soon, and then I'm going to listen to my
mom's holiday chorus practice. The ------- Chorale really has sounded
great (want to protect them from being sold out by random blog readers
of Kyrian), and so I wanted to hear their dress rehearsal.
Apparently, people listen in on the rehearsals all the time, which is
cool. And free.

One last thing... I get to go with my church's youth group to see the
new Pride and Prejudice tomorrow! *happy dance*It also gets me extra credit in English...

EDIT: Apparently, mobile blogging/email blogging makes the blog post a draft. So this is a few days off.

Grrr, Blogger. GRRR!

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