Blog, I have neglected you

I am quite sorry to say that it looks as though that's going to continue.
As the weather gets nicer and the AP tests draw nearer, I have to say, blogging is not high on my priority list. I do have news-ish type stuff though I guess...
I don't know if I ever mentioned it, but this year I joined Ultimate. I was lucky - I joined the same year that most of my friends decided it'd be cool to join as well - so it's not just me, absolutely sucking and feeling bad about it, and sort of being awkward around all the other people. It's me, not-completely sucking, and being able to laugh about it and talk about it with people.
Joined Ultimate, play is coming up (Go Back for Murder, I'm on House Management, which is basically just selling refreshments and tickets).
OH! I got to see Avenue Q!!
It was awesome and hilarious, and I loved it. I don't even know how to describe everything that went on in it - only that it was like Sesame Street if Sesame Street grew up. Favorite song was probably "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" though "A B.A. in English/It Sucks to Be Me" was a close second. And I absolutely loved the Bad Idea Bears.
Ordway. Next week. Anyone in the area should come - Tuesday, 7pm I think? At the Ordway (duh!). I'm in the orchestra - playing the tuba! Yah tuba!
And, finally, I am at book 34. Soon to be book 35 (I mean, really soon. Like, fifteen minutes after I post this.)



[the following paragraph is a massive rant. You can and probably should skip it]




Whenever I join new sports, my mom always asks who else is doing it, and when I list them, she always says, "Oh, so it's a social event," - like that a bad thing! I don't know about anybody else, but I'm a pretty social person; I like to talk, and I like being with friends. And really, I enjoy things more (generally) when I'm doing them with friends - I think that's true for most people. And I've never managed to find a sport I genuinely enjoyed for the sport itself - one that I would play or do no matter who I was with (part of this has to do with my extra non-athleticism). My sister and I have been on the swim team ever since we were too old for lessons, but swimming is by no means my favorite sport in the world. You have to get into cold water and do monotonous workouts, and unlike some other sports there are little to no breaks in the swimming. It's not like you can scrimmage in practice all that well either. Swim practice is just swimming. It's boring. And if you're not doing it with people you like, who you can talk to (and sometimes, even when you are doing it with people you like), it sucks. Majorly. Especially if you aren't very good at it, and you aren't improving. People are always so surprised when I say I don't want to go to swim practice - they ask, "Why do you do it if you don't enjoy it?" And the answer is, because my mother makes me. She has always required my sister and me to do a sport, claiming first that it would make us more well-rounded, then later that it was something we would be able to do all our lives. Most parents do something like this when you're 8 - maybe even when you're 11 or 12. But 15? 16? Not so much.
That felt good. I like ranting.