In case anyone was wondering, I’m not dead. Nothing of the sort. Wow, February 22 was my last entry. It really has been awhile. How long is that..? Feb, Mar, Apr, June… almost 3 months, I guess. That’s like a quarter of a year. Wait a minute… Feb, Mar, Apr, May, June… 4 months! I knew I forgot something. That’s like.. a third of a year! Wow. Fascinating. I guess I really have lost interest in maintaining this site. Though I have seemingly lost interest, I have no intention of closing the site, or even of not renewing the domain come July or August or whenever it expires. I guess I like having a spot on the net, just in case.

So what’s new with me? Let’s see here. I was elected as Male President for next year at my school. The Female President elected is actually a long time friend. We’ve been going to school together since Kindergarten, so I guess both of us being presidents in our final year of high school will be an interesting way of ending the 12 or 13 years together. It’s kind of sad to think of it that way, so I won’t.

Speaking of schooling, I still don’t have much of an idea of what I want to do after high school. I definitely want to do something with audio. I’m torn between studio recording and live sound. Both I think have their strong and weak points. Working in a studio would likely mean working in the same place and not moving around a lot, whereas live sound would likely mean touring around and whatnot. If and when I finally do make up my mind between the two, I’m not too sure of where to go from there. I guess this is where the councelors at school would come in handy. I’ve actually be meaning to setup a meeting with one of them for the past few months. I should really get to that.

The school year seems to be coming to an end rather quickly. A week and a half left of classes and then 5 days of exams follows to end off the year. I wish my marks were quite a bit higher, but there’s not too much I can do about that at this point. I have been hearing about that and I’m sure I’ll continue hearing about that from my parents endlessly. I’m not overly excited about this school year ending.

I think that’s about all. I’m not going to write the cliched close of saying that hopefully I’ll write here more frequently because I don’t honestly have much of an intention at this point of doing that. I’ll write again when I do. :) See you soon.

-Travis

The funeral for the person I wrote about in the previous entry was yesterday. It took place in a town about an hour and a half away from here. It’s where the girl was born. Even though it was out of town, there were still a lot of people who took the trip there - including me. I went there with a few friends, so there were some pretty fun times on the way there. I guess we were sort of subconsciously putting off what was coming up. The funeral was really tough. The whole thing didn’t really hit me until the casket was being wheeled out. The whole cemetary thing was so sad. A grandmother, I believe, at the cemetary completely broke down there and it was just heartbreaking. It just felt so weird that we were burying “one of us.” It shouldn’t be like that. Not now. I don’t know.

Changing subjects… who watched Grey’s Anatomy tonight?! Pretty intense. That’s pretty much all I”m going to say about the episode so don’t worry about spoilers if you don’t want to know what happened. I’ve yet to watch the final conclusion to The OC tonight. I’m not too concerned about it - if I see it, I see it - otherwise, no big deal. I’ve really lost interest in it, this season especially, and hearing that it got cancelled didn’t really surprise me.

Has anyone heard the new Anberlin album, Cities? I haven’t been able to pick up the disc yet since apparently it’s not released in Canada until next Tuesday, the week after initial release, but I do already have all the songs on my computer. I’m pretty happy with it. I’d have to say that my favorite song off the album is The Unwinding Cable Car so I suggest you give that a listen. You can hear that, along with the rest of the album on Anberlin’s myspace page.

That’s about all for now - Travis out.

It sort of seems weird writing here after months of not, but I would somewhat like to vent.

Sometime early yesterday morning, February 15 2007, a girl from my school took her own life. She was in the same grade as me, and we’ve had classes together in the past. I didn’t know her overly well, but we did know each other. We’d say exchange greetings when we saw each other and would strike a few random conversations. She always seemed like a fighter. Tough. And she always seemed to be generally happy. It was somewhat know that she may not have had the best family life, but given her tough character, nobody dreamt of this.

It’s really weird and hard to describe. I didn’t know her very well, yet there’s definitely a huge sense of loss. I’m not really sure how to describe it any further. When I found out yesterday, nothing really hit me. It’s all starting to bother me more now. It seems really hard to even fathom how bad of a life, or how bad of a life she thought she had, to go through with such a thing. I don’t know. It’s extremely sad, and I really don’t know what else to say about it. Rest in peace.

Oh, hello there. I didn’t see you there. I bet you’re surprised to see this new entry here. Actually, probably not, since this is probably the first time you’ve ever been to this site because the few people who may have “regularly” - that’s how you spell that right? haha.. That actually took me a minute or two to check around to make sure that’s how you spell it! I’m cool like that. - Oh wow. I think I may have overused the ” - “. (That’s not a smiley, btw.) I guess you’re not allowed to just put a ” - ” in and then write a few sentences in, then another ” - ” and expect the reader to just remember what was going on beforehand and continue reading regularly. (Anyone noticing a random-esque theme with this writing?) Okay.. so.. back to… ah yes. The people who may have been “regulars” are long gone and I can’t blame them. This entry is coming in just 5 days short of the 2 month point. Talk about active blogger, eh? “Eh?” How stereotypical of me, a Canadian, to say. I’m not gonna lie, I probably do say that quite often, though it kind of blends in with me talking so I don’t really notice it. Definitely don’t say “aboot” though for “about,” just incase you were wondering.

Wow, this is random. I thought I’d give a break for you in between the randomness, but I think, unintentionally, this may have just added to the random-factor. Don’t worry, I’m not hopped up on pills or anything like that. Well, I guess I could be hopped up on Penicillin, since I have a sinus infection or something of the sort. I’m quite convinced it isn’t helping though. Maybe I have the flu too. Can that happen? Two different things. Going by House, it can, which is what I’ll go by.

So anyways, it’s been pretty cold here lately. Well not really lately, but I have to talk in terms of months, so in the last month, it’s been considerably colder than it was, if I recall correctly, than it was on… Oct. 16. That only makes sense though, since it is December and I do live in Canada, as previously mentioned. The last week or so has warmed up a bit though, which is nice. *knocks on wood*

Okay, so perhaps you’re wondering… “what the hell have you been up to which has kept you away for 2 months?!” My answer: nothing too much. I wasn’t off “finding myself” or anything of the sort like you might be thinking. I didn’t take time away from the computer because I have a new-found life. I was still on the computer, it just seems like I never got around to writing one of these entry-mabobs out. Here I am, though, so everything’s good to go.

This entry is going to be long. Well it’s probably long right now. But it’s getting longer by the second. So anyone who comes is probably going to be like “Hey, he blogged!” followed by the “Holy shit, did he ever,” followed by the moving onto a website with a reasonably lengthed blog to read. Moving on…

School has been pretty uneventful from what I can recall over the past couple of the months. It has lately anyways. Tomorrow, my physics class is taking a little field trip over to one of the elementary schools in town to do some science demos. That should be pretty exciting, as long as the little kids don’t start “hating on me.” Whatevs, they’re just haters. haha.

This past weekend was quite amusing. My parents were gone to Edmonton to move some of my sister’s stuff, so I was here all by my lonesome. “Party?!” No, not in my house. On Friday I just hung out at a friend’s house with some people. And then a whole bunch of random people started showing up because they heard people were over. Like, it wasn’t supposed to be a “party” at all. Just a few people hanging out. But then a bunch of people who we barely knew started coming. Like, what goes through people’s heads? I know, unless it was supposed to be an actual party, that I wouldn’t just show up at someone I barely knew’s house to get drunk. Like.. awkward much? Maybe if it was me and a bunch of people, but not like me and a friend or two just walking in. That didn’t really make much sense. I’m just trying to say that unless it was actually a “part-ay” I wouldn’t just barge in unannounced.

On Saturday I hung out at a different friend’s house, but with a lot of the same people as on Friday. We all had a good time. Somewhere in the process, we broke the couch (it was old. It was its time.) and someone fell down the stairs. Not in a particularly painful way or anything. They were fine, it was just.. really funny. When we left, I went to one of the friends who I was hanging out with’s place. There were some amusing stories from that night, but I have a feeling they were all “had to be there” type of moments. You’d actually probably have to know the people too. Oh well.

I’ll be spending Christmas in Hawaii with my family this year. We leave on the 21st, I believe. Knowing me - and I like to think I know myself pretty well - this will be the last time you hear from me before then. So, assuming that I’m right, I’ll wish everyone Happy Holidays. Hopefully I will get in an entry before New Year’s. Hopefully.

Travis out.

Blah. I really should write on here more often but I always have trouble thinking of what exactly to write.

Speaking of having trouble thinking of what to write, that was just the case with my english essay that was due this past Friday. We had roughly 2 entire weeks to work on the essay in class. That was the only thing we were working on - just the essay. So by nature, I’m a talkative person. I make conversation when there shouldn’t be any. That doesn’t come in handy when you should be working on important assignments. So 2 weeks and a few good conversations later, I come to the realization that the essay is due the next day and I haven’t written one word down yet. Not on the prewriting things. Not on anything. So okay, no real big problem. I’ve written entire essays in one night before. I can do it again. So to most people in my class’ surprise, I walked into class the next day and handed in a complete essay. Of course they all knew that I hadn’t done anything for the past two weeks. I do have a rather loud voice, after all. So I handed the essay in and then found out, along with most of the rest of the class, that we actually had time that day to work on it and the essay was actually due at the end of class. Oh well. The 4 or so other people who were done stayed back in the classroom and had another oh-so-exciting conversation about random things while the rest of the class finished up in the computer lab. So wait - I, of all people, was one of the very few who was actually prepared and done beforehand? Ironic much? I think so. I’ve yet to get the mark for it back.

Tomorrow I’m going to be DJing a dance. In the middle of the week? A Tuesday?! Honestly. That’s just ridiculous. I do go to school, people. I need sleep too. I can’t be up all night doing some dance that definitely won’t really be worth having. This was a dreaded event last year, and I’m not getting my hopes up that it’ll be much better this year. Oh well. I guess it’ll give the two people I DJ with and myself something to do.

That’s about it. Hopefully I’ll get another entry in here long before another month has passed. Oh yeah - we had our first real snow today. Real in that I think it’s actually sticking around. No pun intended. Har har har. The snow seems to just.. make things seem warmer inside. It’s sort of hard to describe. A friend and I had a chat about this earlier. On the snow note, I came relatively close to hitting the ditch on the way to school this morning. Haha… that was interesting. I was pretty calm throughout the ordeal so that sort of made it funny. Okay.. seriously.. that’s it. Goodbye.