I'm feeling really weird... Like I'm really sugar high but I'm not... Just had a Cherry Pepsi a while ago, but those don't get me hyper, only the really concentrated lollipops do.
OK! My nana came today to give me a violin lesson on my district music. I played it way better like I always do when she teaches me. She's good. She's been playing for like 50 years, which is 10 times as long as me! WHat we have for districts is Finlandia by Jean Sibelius, Sheep May Safely Graze by Bach, Stars and Stripes Forever by Sousa, and Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah and I don't know the composer. It's all over the level that it should have been but I still have like 3 weeks and I'm chugging along! And it's not so tough, now. I can at least practice it! Before I was so bad, I couldn't even practice them.
Then I practiced when she left. What I played, in this order, was Dancla's 4th Air Varie, Moldau, Reflections from Mulan, Eighteenth Variation on Paganini's theme, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirate's Legend, and finally, Dance of the Choral, Sherzo, and Dance by some guy. In March we have a huge concert called All Strings Night where every group from 5th (beginning of program) to 12th (end, duh) comes and plays like one or two pieces. Then we have the finale with everyone. The finale this year is Pirates of the Caribbean and there's a whole like 30 measure section (that's like a whole page!) where only my group can play because it's weird rhythm and besides, it's in 12/8 time so it's not like they can even count it! That's the part with the cello solo that I can't really describe over the journal... lol. The theme of the concert is Water Music so we're calling it the H20 Concert! Well not really, that's just what WE call it, it's really called All Strings Night.
My violin teacher's name is Mr Vinci and he's the conductor, too. He's cool. So sometimes when he's not looking or out of the room I leave notes (haha, pun!) that say, "YO V-DAWG!" and sign it in someone else's name 8) I'm a cool kid! T-chilly L.J Coolio! Next year I'm taking Music Tech I which is like composing on a computer and he teaches it :) I'm going to have an A for sure.
This year I've gotten good at violin, like faster than I was before. Last night I had a great dream (READ MY DREAM!) The concertmistress, who is incredible and she's going to the National Orchestra, told me, "Nan, when I graduate you'll be concertmistress!" YEAH RIGHT! But I'll tell her about it when vaca's over. I'm like 1st violin 4B, yeah right I'll be concertmistress! No way. If I practiced every day for three hours and everyone good died, maybe.
Well!
jekyll wrote:HAL-9000 wrote:jekyll wrote:
HAL-9000 wrote:Why do you need a reporting feature though? Aren't the mods competent enough to be able to moderate themselves? I know a mod who thinks the system should be done away with. Like I said before Lithium ran fine without reporting why can't these forums?
Competence has nothing to do with this. There are far too many post for MODs to look at all of them to see if they're up to snuff, just like there can't be police at every corner looking for crime. They are dependant on reports of violations that need action.
On Lithium we had millions of posts, and the mods were able to keep up, the Lithium forums far outnumbered the amount of posts these new forums have. I think the mods can handle it.Maybe Lithium just had more mature posters, but I can't believe the handful of MODs here could scan every single post without it being a full-time job, especailly with all the time out they'd have to take for taking actions against violators.
Agreed.. A lot of times even posts that get reported don't get locked or deleted for a while
^^MY 1000th POST! Normally I don't celebrate these, but... :):D:P;):lol::oops::roll:8):!::o:evil:
See, you really need to check back here if you ever want to know anything since I update so much before posting anew. Now here's some avatar urls that are ONLY for me, even though I just got them off google. W/e, use it if you WANT... I want to be unique, can you blame me? lol, no one is going to use my avs. So whatever, these are just here for me to use at the moment...
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The last one's the one I'm using right now.