DFTBA

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. "
- Walt Whitman

_____Today was the first official day of summer marching band! (Of course, the blog comes to life again when there's color guard on the line.) I'm very very excited for this year of marching band! We have our first parade on Saturday, which is very stressful! By then, though, Eva should have an actual routine and the band should be good at all of their songs, so we will not have dead arms and we will not have dead brains!
_____For a scout thing, Lexie and I are participating in some activity planning for the Honey Bee Festival! It is at the Sorenson Center from 4:00 to 8:00 on June 23rd! Why did I put so much information? Because people should come. : ) Honey bees are important to us all! Did you know that it takes 7-8 pounds of honey consumed by bees to make 1 pound of wax? Crazy! And one bee in their whole lifetime makes about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in their entire life? It takes 576 bees working their whole life to make one cup of honey!
_____Also, I have accomplished one of my goals for tenth grade! Though, admittedly, I wish I had done many more. But, I got my 4.0(!), survived AP Euro, Kenna does not yell at me for not eating meat (much) anymore, I haven't gotten lost, I talked more than I did in middle school, and I sort of know more about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince now! I definitely need to get the book from the library again, because I was more than half way through! It's quite good, and Snape really needs to make sense. Lexie leaked to me the other day accidentally that Dobby dies in the seventh movie... I must watch part one too!
_____On a final note, I am reading John Green's Paper Towns, and I really really like it! I went into the book with lots of expectations, because I am a Nerdfighter now and know that John and Hank Green can both have massively brilliant moments, but I'm happy with it. It wasn't how I expected a John Green book to be. I didn't think there'd be so much swearing or talking about sex or drunk people screaming "YES!", but it created an identity separate from the person that I saw, and I'm really happy with that. I'm pretty sure that I have about 20 more pages left, so I am going to leave and finish it up, then go to bed to prepare for another wonderful day of summer marching band! Mmm... plus John Green makes me want to delve into the world of poets, like Walt Whitman.
_____WEAR SUNSCREEN, KIDDOS. I LOVE YOUR SKIN, AND SO SHOULD YOU.