Regina Spektor has a beautiful voice. I love her song "The Call" from Narnia. Don't you love it when you find a song that you can identify with completely?
On a different subject, recall the Flo Valley writing contest? Well, close to a month ago, the gentleman in charge emailed me to confirm I was a Flo Valley student. I informed him I was enrolled at Wildwood and Meramec, but not Flo Valley. Then the unfortunate news came. He said I wasn't eligible then.
I wasn't upset at all. Instead I was flat out confused because the teacher running the Wildwood contest had entered me into the Florissant Valley contest. I explained to him a teacher entered me into it, but he said there must be some confusion.
I figured "oh well" because there were plenty of writing contest opportunities out there. Times like that I think, wow what optimism! Well, optimism certainly pays off because today on this dreadfully dreary day, I received an email from the gentleman again.
Pardon moi?
Yep. He came back to announce the mistake and misunderstanding.
Because I am Wildwood's poetry and drama representative, I am eligible in the contest.
Results will be announced in two to three weeks!
He even wished me luck and told me my poems looked lovely. What a gentleman! Anyway, my rainy day just got a million times brighter.
Tonight is Open Mic Night.
I'll be reading Pascal's Revolution.
I tried to write yesterday, but it wasn't coming very smoothly and didn't feel the words. I'm hoping for a new poem soon. I guess I need some form of minor tragedy to occur so I can get over emotional and write. I've noticed that tends to be the trend with my poetry.
I will have my loving parents film my poetry reading tonight. After all, it is my first :)
Thanks to everyone who has supported me!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes a sun...
Good afternoon!
I'm officially on spring break and day one has been filled with sleeping in, eye doctor appointment, breakfast with my sister, Pokemon Silver, and preparing graduation announcements. I only wish it was sunny outside. Instead I'm stuck with 46 degrees and rain.
I've had the chance to write a short story that I'll eventually post. It's called Necropolis and I'm particularly fond it. So fans keep a lookout for that!
Open Mic Night at the community college is on the 25th of March, two weeks from yesterday. This is where people of all talents come and perform at the open microphone with an audience to listen - a chance for my poetry to be heard. At least I'm thinking about reading a poem and hopefully a new one. Knock on wood!
The official date for the release of Sycamore, the literary journal my three works will be published in, is April 15th! I'm so excited and can't wait to see them in there. I wonder how it will be sorted and if there will be any acknowledgement of the other winners in it. Speaking of which, I had the opportunity to meet another poetry winner. He's actually in creative writing club and looks about in his late 20s. He's quite fascinating! Apparently as a teenager he was homeless and now he's about to have a children's book published! Isn't that incredbile? It amazes me how far people can come and how miracles can truly work their way into any life.
Awards night is still undecided, sadly. They're talking about having it the same time as an Art Festival because it would bring more attention to it. And the earnings won't be given in check that night. They're switching to a cash-less, check-less, pure online system which in my opinion is the most ludicrous thing I've heard. From the internet, they'll deposit the money into the winner's checking account. And if the winner doesn't have a checking account (me), it will go to the parent's account. I informed my mom about it, so we'll go and move it to my account when we can. After that I can donate to the Earthquake Relief Fund for Haiti :)
A particular song has really struck me and I've decided to play it at my wake and funeral when I die. It's from the musical Wicked (excellent musical by the way) and it's called For Good. I'll change my song on my blog to it so everyone can listen to it.
Have a great spring!
I'm officially on spring break and day one has been filled with sleeping in, eye doctor appointment, breakfast with my sister, Pokemon Silver, and preparing graduation announcements. I only wish it was sunny outside. Instead I'm stuck with 46 degrees and rain.
I've had the chance to write a short story that I'll eventually post. It's called Necropolis and I'm particularly fond it. So fans keep a lookout for that!
Open Mic Night at the community college is on the 25th of March, two weeks from yesterday. This is where people of all talents come and perform at the open microphone with an audience to listen - a chance for my poetry to be heard. At least I'm thinking about reading a poem and hopefully a new one. Knock on wood!
The official date for the release of Sycamore, the literary journal my three works will be published in, is April 15th! I'm so excited and can't wait to see them in there. I wonder how it will be sorted and if there will be any acknowledgement of the other winners in it. Speaking of which, I had the opportunity to meet another poetry winner. He's actually in creative writing club and looks about in his late 20s. He's quite fascinating! Apparently as a teenager he was homeless and now he's about to have a children's book published! Isn't that incredbile? It amazes me how far people can come and how miracles can truly work their way into any life.
Awards night is still undecided, sadly. They're talking about having it the same time as an Art Festival because it would bring more attention to it. And the earnings won't be given in check that night. They're switching to a cash-less, check-less, pure online system which in my opinion is the most ludicrous thing I've heard. From the internet, they'll deposit the money into the winner's checking account. And if the winner doesn't have a checking account (me), it will go to the parent's account. I informed my mom about it, so we'll go and move it to my account when we can. After that I can donate to the Earthquake Relief Fund for Haiti :)
A particular song has really struck me and I've decided to play it at my wake and funeral when I die. It's from the musical Wicked (excellent musical by the way) and it's called For Good. I'll change my song on my blog to it so everyone can listen to it.
Have a great spring!
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