Today

Amazingly, I do not have to go anywhere. Nor does Dad. Or Mom, even. She's not going to art class. We can all crash. Maybe take down the tree, too.

Orchestra

Yesterday was orchestra day. We are getting ready for our second performance of the school year. Next week we're having orchestra at the church, because it's a school holiday. After that, it's the concert. In the concert we are playing dia de los muertos and that's it.

LARP

I am never doing a vampirism sacrifice with Stone ever again. I'll back up a bit first. So, at first, everything was going fine. It was simple. We were doing small things, and were going to do a group sacrifice for Stone and one other guy to go half-vampire. (His old half-vampire character got jailed by paladins.) Reese, Kate, another girl, and I were going to sacrifice some stuff for them. I sacrificed my spare spear. The other people sacrificed a bunch of other stuff, Reese sacrificed his hair, most of them sacrificed their shadows and their reflection as well. Stone and the other guy also sacrificed two mana. (you have five normally, and mana fully regenerates every day. You can safely use two any day. If you go down to two, I have no idea what happens. If you go down to one, you go insane. If you hit zero, you die.) Stone said that it would be really annoying if I got all of the powers. I didn't. Instead, Kate (who I think was already some sort of vampire, but I'm not sure) was temporarily turned into a greater vampire. Everyone except for Reese are now officially her servants for the rest of their lives. It's kind of like being charmed, except it's a part of your very being. She then mana drained me, stone, and the other guy. Except, she only drained four mana from each of us. And I had five. Stone and the other guy each had three. They both died. I didn't. I got to go insane. Temporarily, until I went to sleep. Or died. If I died, I would be permanently insane. But, thankfully, it was the second to last mission, and the last one I went to was a safe lecture by mages.

It was kind of funny, actually. One person was like: "I hope the lecturer isn't Melissa. Her definition of a lecture is to teleport you off to some faraway place. With monsters. And if you die, oh well." The lecturer was Melissa. Thankfully, however, her lecture was on vampirism (Gee, I wonder why...) As we were getting ready to go, I asked Chris what my insanity was. Apparently, I thought I saw demons rising up from the ground, the end of the world was coming, and that I was an oracle. It was kind of funny, actually.

Other than being turned into some weird vampire-servant thing, the first adventure that we went on was going up against a bunch of goblin tortoise riders who were slowly attacking crops. I found a wandering tortoise that was just kind of standing there. I picked it up a carried it back to town as my pet tortoise, Bitey. Except I'm going to sacrifice Bitey to my goddess, along with some mana, in hopes of gaining a familiar. I can't sacrifice my reflection or my shadow, since I lost both as part of the ritual.

Then we did a thing with a well in town. I found some guys trying to seal it, so we drove them away and then I stood guard around the well. Then one NPC voluteered to jump into the well. I told him as follows:
"If you scream once, there's undead. Scream twice, something's pulling you under the water. Scream three times, and there's nothing."
The response:
"What happens if I don't scream?"
"There's undead and it's pulling you into the water."
After he jumped in, we were told we heard one bloodcurdling scream.
"Alright, there's undead in there. What do we do now?"

Today...

I have my gig. AAAAHHHHHH!! Thankfully, I have been informed that we will be doing selections from the christmas gig book as well as the regular gig book, which is very good. That means that we not only have extra pieces to play, but we also have easier pieces to play.

Game night.

Today is game night, and a normal day of school otherwise. Tomorrow, however, I have a gig. A two and a half hour long gig. With just my quartet playing it. I'm feeling rather scared.

Today.

I am going on a field trip in the evening. We are heading to the de young museum in san fransisco. First field trip of the year, on the first school day of the year! (Mom forgot that I didn't have school until today- I had Monday and Tuesday off. Granted, I forgot too.) So, here I am. In my first school day of the year. I feel complete again.

New year

Today is the third day of the new year. I have school. Oh god! Where did 2010 go? Where did my time until my concert go? It's the end of this month! AAAAAHHH!!!