A snapshot of pre-concert anticipation

[Julie]

I posted a whole journal entry about this in my LJ (http://rokofages75.livejournal.com/), but to keep it short, I came across this poem I had to write for lit class my junior year of high school, and it's about my first Bsb concert.

We had to write a poem about a situation in which you're doing something that requires your outward attention, while inwardly you're thinking about something else (basically spacing out, daydreaming), and the poem had to include both the "outer" and "inner" voices. I wrote my poem about the day I saw my first Bsb concert with my best friend Jen, our freshman year of high school. The concert was in St. Louis, which meant a three-hour drive, and it was on a Tuesday, so we had to go to school that day, but we got to get out early so we could leave for the show. So our last class of the day was choir, and I still remember quite vividly sitting through choir, which was normally one of my favorite classes, and wishing it would be over so we could leave. Jen and I kept looking at each other and grinning; we were SO excited! So this is the poem I wrote about it...


Good job, sopranos. Now, let's hear it
From the top. Everyone in.
Sit up straight and concentrate.
We have to get ready for the concert.

I cannot wait for the concert.
I have been ready for months,
And now the day is finally here,
And it's almost time for us to leave.

Altos, can I hear you on measure ten?
We've got some wrong notes in there.
Sing through to measure sixteen,
And then we'll go back and get everybody in.

Everybody? That's a Backstreet Boys song.
I know they'll sing it at the concert tonight.
It's one of my favorites; I love their dancing.
Of course, nothing compares to their singing.

Alright, everyone sing starting at measure ten.
We have to get these notes right, ladies.
Our concert is only two months away.
We have to be ready.

Oh, don't worry. I've been ready for months.



^ It made me smile, so I thought I'd share.

[Karina]

awww, that's pretty cool Julie! Must've been pretty funny running through old stuff like that

[Julie]

LOL it was! I posted some other ones I was amused by in my LJ. I wrote one about ER and procrastinating, made a cluster on reasons I dislike Justin Timberlake, and put a part of Code Blue in there! Probably because I was too lazy to come up with something else original LOL.

[Karina]

LOL. "made a cluster on reasons I dislike Justin Timberlake"
Sounds lovely!

[Julie]

LOL I had to create a cluster about a famous person I do not admire, and I did mine on Justin Timberlake. I had to choose one characteristic about him to emphasize, and I chose "Irritating."

Then the phrases that went around my web were:
- arrogant and in love with himself
- adored by millions of screaming teenyboppers
- talks in ebonics and thinks he's black
- ugly, bad hair
- talentless
- annoying, whiny singing voice

[Karina]

LOL. what class was that?

I like it though... all true. Especially that he thinks he's black! lol.
I admit, there was ONE time when I thought I might like him.. Do you remember that movie "Model Behavior"? It was when he was in that, but then I figured out that it was his charactor I liked.

Anyways, that cluster must have been interesting!

[Julie]

LOL it was actually for British Literature... but it was part of this "Daybook" that we had to complete, that was full of poems and literature that we had to annotate and interpret and respond to... it was awful!! I loved that class, everything but the stupid Daybook LOL. It was such BS. Anyway, this stuff is all out of that.

I totally remember Model Behavior! LMAO! I made fun of it, of course. It was actually on TV over the summer once, when my sister and I were both at our parents' house, and we watched part of it... so funny!!

[Karina]

I didn't know there could be a class for British Literature! lol. Was this college or high school?
a "daybook"? Just the name of it almost sounds BS! I'll take your word that it was.

LOL. Imagine watching it now! Wasn't his hair the ugly-curls in that movie? That would be a good laugh!

[Julie]

It was high school; junior year, we had the option to take either British or American literature. Brit Lit was actually one of my favorite classes of high school, definitely of junior year.

But yeah, the Daybook sucked ass. I'm really not into the whole "Let's interpret abstract poetry!" thing. I like the Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss kind of poetry LMAO.

[Karina]

ooh, that sounds really cool! I wish we had that here, I'm pretty sure we don't though.

LOL! Well they are good poets!

[Julie]

I enjoyed it because we studied the history of every era we read literature from, so it was almost as much a history class as it was literature, and that was the best part. I love history, and since it was really just the history of Britain, there was a lot of content I'd never learned before. It was really interesting. That was the class I first read Harry Potter for too... we had to do book reports over books by British authors, and Harry Potter was on the list, so that's why I read it for the first time.