[FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=2][COLOR=#a0199b]Okay. This starts off easy enough. Since Thursday i've been gone towards Ashland for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. 'Tis one of the best Shakespeare/acting in general festivals in the world. This year, their productions of [I]Othello[/I][I]A Midsummer Night's Dream[/I] were amazing with [I]Corialanus[/I] and an old Indian play, [I]The Clay Cart[/I] also being...wow. This year's production of [I]Comedy of Errors[/I] still needs a bit of work, but not much. Would have liked to see the other plays, but time and money constricted. [I]Our Town, [/I]August Wilson's [I]Fences[/I], [I]Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, A View From the Bridge, Welcome Home Jenny Sutter, [/I]and finally, [I]The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler[/I] are the plays I was not able to see.

If anyone else can go to it, GO. This year's productiong of Midsummer is just brilliant. Basically, this one is a "fairy dance party," complete with hippies, men in tutus (not tacky at least), and so much more. xD


Well, now to the woes of this night.

I think we offended some traffic gods.

We left after seeing the matinee performance of Clay Cart.

We left. All was good for a while. Then some idiot shot a police officer about half way back home. Complete stop on south-bound I-5. Apparently, that's still going. We waited an hour (one of the first to be caught by the blockage) and then broke a few laws by crossing the median, got slightly lost, yelled at by a stressed police officer for going too fast at one point when he was directing traffic, and basically added two hours to the whole driving time. Our arrival now is set at 2:15 AM or so. Part of it was the perimiter which was kinda crazy to get through. You can also kinda understand why the officer was yelling. Heck, one of his co-workers had been shot.

Second was road work near Vacaville. People were being asses and merging literally, last second. As in, knocking over the traffic cones, must get as far ahead of as many people as possible type asses. Okay, I may exaggerate a bit, but they were still being really annoying. That added another 45 min or so.

We thought to get home at midnight originally.
We ended up here at 3.


Yeah.
Ah well. It's all over now.


Edit:
Link to story on shooting which stopped traffic the first time. I completely understand why they blocked off the area since heck, he was an ex-convict and used a high-powered rifle to punch through a kevlar jacket and mortally wound a police officer.
[url]http://www.sacbee.com/749/story/1016114.html[/url]
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[color=#a0199b][size=1]After singing at Graduation tomorrow, i'll be popping over to Fanime. Sunday also. I think i'll edit this post when i'm done there.[/size][/color]

[color=#a0199b][size=1]I joined Menewsha one year ago today. From then, i've been on and off during different periods of time, sometimes active, sometimes screwed over by school to the point where I couldn't get on. This feels so odd to be saying this. This year was a ninja. I dunno where it went. xD

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[COLOR=#a0199b][SIZE=1]'Twas today. What happened is that they were able to get the second half of our school-day cancelled, added in big slides/inflatable jumping house things, got a band (they're actually pretty good, can't remember their name), are giving out free food, and so on and so forth.

Currently typing this from the field where the band is playing. We've got campus-wide wifi and i'm happy because of it.

.....
Whoa.
I recognize this song. I can't remember it.

Gah.

Take On Me.
Got it.



Ah well. I don't think this is too bad. I'm fine with missing math and programming for a band, jumping around, etc, etc, etc.



Edit:
The band is "Smith Point." They aren't huge, but they're pretty decent.

Also forgot the awesome part of what the seniors did this morning. Main hall. They put down bubble wrap on the floors. They put black streamers/more bubble wrap/cardboard cutouts across the hall. It was beautifu. I think one of the cutouts was a reference to Caramelldansen. Thing is that people didn't dodge around the stuff, but kinda ran right through it. By the beginning of school, it was trashed. I should have taken pictures. It was a masterpiece...
Someone must have. If I can get some, i'll post them.
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[FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=2][COLOR=#a0199b]The trip was relatively uneventful. We didn't get into full on downtown Portland, but were were pretty close.

On they day of the competition, everything was hectic. Coaching 5 people with 4 coaches is hard, not to mention that a large part of Y14 and a few from Y12 would be able to outclass me, not to mention the competitors. The real fun was another part though.

Division I. Last chance for Olympic qualification points. FREAKING INSANE. Bascially, whenever I could, i'd go over and watch Div I team epee or sabre because these people were just...wow. Heck, I talked with/watched Ivan Lee who placed 4th in individual sabre in Athens. Gerek Meinhardt was watching some of the other fencers also. He's the sole US foil representitive this year for our teams/other individuals didn't qualify. He may even have a chance to be in the top rankings by where he's been placin in international competitions.

So basically, I saw a ton of awesome people. Those two were the first two who popped into my head, but there were quite a few people on the high international level competing.


Didn't get to see much of the city, but I don't care much. Seriously fun. ~ <3[/COLOR]
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