News from the Brak front

Work didn't suck. We had to send someone to the hospital. She's probably dehydrated. Other than that it was pretty uneventful.

Sid Vicious bit me on the face yesterday. I had to steal steri-strips from work to put on it. It still bleeds when I take them off, so I'm just gonna leave them on for a few days. I hope it doesn't scar. Or if it does, I hope it at least makes me look scary and intimidating. It's not like I had the prettiest face to begin with.

Ames is going out of business. They're pretty far away to just do general shopping most of the time, bue whenever I do go out there, they're a pretty reliable source of *NSYNC merchandise of all sorts. Now that they're going out of business I figure they'll drag out all their old inventory. Karen and I are going when I get back from church. I'll let y'all know how it turns out.

Success!

Found lots of cool boyband stuff at Ames. Even cooler stuff at the mall. I got me the best T-shirt ever. It's black and it says "Good boys need a spanking too." Love it!! The best part is it's XL. I haven't worn XL since I was 13! I also got a nice pine chest that I need to put together. I'm woefully lacking in storage space.

People will be getting mail.

He's a chicken, I tell you! A giant chicken!!

We had our first rehearsals of the season for TRCS tonight. The church was hot and I felt grimy from the mall anyway, so the first thing I did when I got home (well, after putting the groceries away) was take a shower. And I feel so much better. More good news: My face isn't bleeding anymore. Now the cut just itches like a mofo.

We have to reaudition every year. If you sang the year before, you always get in, but the director likes to hear our voices by themselves so he knows where to put us. He tells me I'm probably a 2nd tenor now. Don't know how that changed exactly. I've been a Baritone 1 since I was 17. Could it be the weight loss? I don't know. But the thing is, we're such a small group, that he can't afford to lose me from the Baritone section. So there I stay, and fine by me. I can't read music, but I have a great ear. I've learned to pick out the baritone part from accompaniement, and I've learned which voices to listen to. I think I'd be lost if I had to start singing a different part now.

Three people at rehearsal today complimented me on my weight loss. Just when I was starting to feel like it wasn't working too. That was nice. I like it when people tell me how much weight I've lost, because frankly, I don't see it. But I think we really notice change in ourselves the least. Especially since I look at myself in the mirror every day and these are people I haven't seen since June.