Yes, that's right. Prom. I was dressed in a satin lapel jacket with immaculate french cuffs pressed without starch with my girlfriend gorgeously dressed in cornflower blue. As much as I try and kid myself, they were all staring at her.

It was a lot of fun, though, I got in because my girlfriend's actually older than I am, but only by a year. I think(/hope?) I made a good impression on her parents, considering her dad gave her permission to date me. Anyways, we got to drive up in her father's blue Jaguar, with another couple. The night was very long, being on a school night, and unfortunately, our friend Stephanie had to leave early because she was just so exhausted. We followed soon after.

I think that prom's a little over glamorized by the media, but I had a great time.

-Just a little rant/tangent

Yep, I am just terrible at updating fmcat.net, aren't I?

School's going great. I've got a girlfriend, and things are going at a crazy speed.

Some Apple endorsement: my iPod broke offically on my birthday, the day when I got it. So, the warranty was out, but the guy at the apple store replaced it free of charge with a 30 day warrantee.  I could not be happier with apple.

My brother was rediculously generous and noticed I had been looking at the Nikon D40. Well, he pooled money with me and my parents and made it happen for me. I have both the kit lens and a 55-200. My work is up at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fmcat/

I performed in an honors orchestra recently for the second year, and I'm considering joining my regional orchestra. Things are going really well, but I'm afraid for finals will be arriving soon. Also, this summer, I'll be headed to Philmont Scout Ranch as a crew leader. The training hikes are getting very dramatic between the adults, so its hard for us to move on and work as a team.

Anyways, I'm still working on my Eagle project, and I hope to finish by next year.

Later for now

Well, I just got back from the annual yurt trip. A good time, in general, was had. I have been staring at my site and thinking "I really should update this".

Christmas was nice, a new palmpilot for pillaging the wifi in the area, was among one of the many amazing gifts.

I've been involved in a relationship now, which is something I have been out of for a long time. She's a great girl, and appreciates me for who I am. How much better could you get?

I've also gotten into my fair share of drama. I lost two friends. It's behind me now, but that was a shaky part of my life. Ironically, and not intentionally, my girlfriend is the mortal enemy of one of the girls who hates me. Oh well.

I have plans to totally redux the site, but I just don't have the time any more to do this sort of thing. But, never the less, I might as well use the domain I paid for again, and use the space which my friend Tom Levens, to whom I haven't really been very communicative with any more (my fault), to its full extent. Expect big things.

I don't know what to say. I don't really have a "diary" of any sort, so I figure this might be just as good of a place as any to use as a soapbox for how I feel.

Current mood: constricted

My parents, I love them dearly, but they drive me nuts. I figure if they read this, my opinion on the subject matter won't really change, so I might as well continue.

I personally like to think of myself as the neat person in the house. A neat person born in a packrat house, if you will. My mom has admitted to me that she can't just "up and go" with everything like I can. Well, I don't just put random things around the house and like hope I know where they are in a month to use for some obscure reason. It's really driving me crazy. I can't stand being in the house because it seems like a complete and total disaster. This is a change because it was not so long ago that I was generating the crap in the house and my parents were the ones who wanted it cleaner. But as of recent years, I've helped them (id est, done a lot of) cleaning the rooms in the house. They don't contain random piles of random things. However, my mom still has piles of her stuff everywhere.

The rooms I stay in at the house, my desk, my room, and the living room are all clean. I keep the hallway clean, but I leave the family room which they sit in alone. I asked my mom if I could move the bookcase which was getting beaten up where it is right now (my chair slams into it every time I get up, it just doesn't fit) into my room. "Well, it doesn't fit". Pure and utter crap. I've told her several times that I'd like to have her come up and see me lay out the dimensions on the floor of my room and see that it fits better than where it is now. Every time she says she has things better to do. And, you know what? She doesn't. There's a pile of her stuff that she hasn't touched in about 5 years that contains stuff from when she was teaching. I'd be more than willing to put my old bookcase in the place where this one is so she can still have her stuff she never uses there. But, she doesn't want to hear about that.

So, she told me that I better not have stuff in my room under my bed or next to my bed. To which I replied, "apparently you haven't been in my room in a while."

There are no such things. I keep that place clean, with only a book or two on the floor and the speakers for my iPod to wake me up every morning. But, she insists that it is different. Well, you don't see me yelling her to pick up her piles of crap, do you? Hmm.. it's so frustrating to be wrongly criticized. Why does she pick on my room when her room like isn't in nearly as good of shape?

The answers to all those questions I obviously do not know. And they probably aren't important.. but it was good to get that out there.

It's been crazy around here. It seems like every Thursday, I'm breaking down under the pressure. I have a full load of classes, plus I'm in so many clubs/ groups that my head explodes. However, it is unseasonably warm here (bring on the foliage!) and I've had since yesterday off, and I continue to miss school on Monday. Oh what fun. I've realized that I've left key people out of my life by being so busy, so this weekend is dedicated to finding and being with these people again. It's been quite fun so far. I've played the games I haven't had time for, watchd movies I haven't had time for and just loafed around. It feels strange not having anything to do, but what can I say?

So, news as far as technology is concerned? I've been customizing my mac so much between Growl and Quicksilver that whenever I get onto another computer, it may have faster specs than mine, but it sure as heck takes a lot more steps to operate. I also found a search feature in Firefox which I was wishing would exist forever. It's this search bar at the bottom of the window and it allows you to search a webpage for a keyword. I always used google caches for this, but there were never enough caches for all of the websites I wanted to search.

For now, this ought to do it, I might as well go eat some breakfast and be able to think for a bit.

Summer is no longer! It was just last Tuesday I was taking a nap in a hammock with no cares or worries on an island away from the busy and drama filled life of my school. And now, it's almost as if summer had never happened. Oh well, at least I don't have to be a clueless freshman any longer. I'm sort of looking forward to the fall, but the heat is still here. Honestly, I can't wait until the holidays come. Some of my fondest memories come from this time of the month, and now is only the beginning.

While hanging in Maine with my brother on said island, I managed to pick up a crap load of White Stripes albums. I also picked up a Midi Keyboard thanks to my brother, and man, has it made making music so much easier and more enjoyable. I've so far mastered "Take, Take, Take" on the piano part, so I'm thinking about starting a small band.

Who knows where this will lead. Anyways, I'm sure there's plenty to write about, but I have to go yet again!

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These two are street performers who do this for a living. Although Greg, the flute player, does work a part time job outside of this, it does make me worry every time I want to start a career based on music. It could end up being some very sketchy financial times.

Heck yes! Finally, I am free. I spent a week at the local Boy Scout camp. I was handed the Senior Patrol Leader clipboard at the end of the week, but not after much pranking. I found my bed on top of a latrine, all of my boxers were stolen at the beginning of the week and hung from the flagpole, along with my kilt. Numerous times I had found my footlocker suspended in trees. But, despite all of the pranking, I had a lot of fun. Richie brought along his guitar so there was always music around (stranded without an iPod). He also invited me to go see the Roger Waters: Dark Side Of The Moon concert. What a blast, I have to say. As a non Floydian, I appreciated it. As a result, I have been spending a lot of time listening to rock and less on the electronic crap. Believe me, I'm a sucker for electronica, but I need something with lyrics, lyricccss! Finally when I got home, I was able to get my parent's sound system hooked up to the iPod. Boy, I never realized how much i missed having good bass. What awesome sound.

Other than that, I'm really just relaxing here. It's really stupid though to have to watch all of my friends go through stupid stages in their lives and you can tell when they're going to screw up. However, you can't really say anything other than be helpful once the deed is done.

Anyways, I better get going on some things I've been procrastinating on.

I was getting very tired of staring at my other one. This one is a lot more interactive than the previous, so I'm still working on getting it set up.

Well, I must say, the end of the school year just sort of ended abruptly. I took my last final, and usually, I do not watch the clock, however, I was in the most revolting class I can think of (let's say, it rhymes with Isometry). Needless to say, I was out the door to clean out my locker in a heartbeat. In said locker, I found two old fleeces I'd never worn, a book I never read, and my English binder down at the bottom, never used in pristine condition. So, once I cleared that mess out, I ran out the door, got one hug and jumped into the Jeep and pretty much said "get me out of here." There were no tears shed, just a lot of anxiety to get out. And once I was out, it was the absolute strangest thing not to have any sort of deadlines hanging over my head.

That leads me to being able to write this. And, today has to be the best day I've had so far of vacation. I've had emotional crap flung at me from all directions, but it seems like I can just settle down. I went to bed at 11, got up at 11 to Thriller playing on the iPod. Got up, and went here, and wrote this to you. Exciting, no? But to me, that made my morning.

So, let's see, I attended a bonfire that is second largest in size to the one at the Texas A&M. The thing gets really hot very fast. Once it falls down, you really have to step back. But it was a lot of fun. Got to see people and have a general good time.

Basically, I'll just leave on an open end, because I'm not exactly certain of what's going to happen.