Prom Today

Songs of the Day:

Ridin' Solo

Jason Derülo

Symphony #9 In E Minor, Op. 95, Adagio, Allegro Molto and Largo

Dvořák

Well, prom's today and that's a scary thought. It's my first time, and I can't wait. I'll be going with my lovely girlfriend Katie DB. If you want the details, just read her blog.

I went out to her grandparent's house which is, like Katie said, out in the boonies. Just driving down their driveway though, you get a sense of how beautiful the place is. You follow the twists and turns through the woods until you can tell you're getting closer to the house. Flowers are blooming everywhere and the air feels alive. I went out on their porch when I was there, and I was speechless at the view. The house overlooks a shallow valley that is heavily landscaped. I'm told that there were around 600 trees in addition to the many already there before the mother's day tornadoes a while back. Now, the effect of the valley is magnified because of the tall trees on the surrounding hills.

We're having dinner and camping in one of the many gardens, and I'm about to leave to help set up right now. It'll be beautiful and fun.

Bye for now

My quest to learn how to tie a bow-tie.

It's either a lot harder than it looks, or I'm just uncoordinated...

It's probably the latter rather than the former. I need to go ahead and learn how to do this before Friday, senior breakfast. So now I'm consulting several tutorials and infographic charts...

We'll see how this goes. Hopefully, it'll go well because I love bow-ties and want to try to 'pull it off'.

My first couple of tries were rather unsuccessful...

My first tutorial was this one by monkeyseevideos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws0g31zufr0

The guy in the video seems pretty dapper and know's what he's talking about. He uses a pretty simple and quick method, but the video is a bit too quick for me... I'm a slow learner, especially when it comes to tying knots (I was a terrible boy scout)

The next video came from Howcast (a personal favorite), the providers of many how to services to men like the 'How to Undo Her Bra with One Hand' video, the 'How to Tell Real Breasts from Fake" video and many more.

This video was very interesting but I was a little distracted...

Here is "How to Tie a Bow Tie (with Playboy)": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbvjaUGiM4A&feature=fvsr

Finally, I checked out the aptly named "How to Tie a Bow Tie" from Howdini: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vui9Lzg7o_Q&NR=1&feature=fvwp

In the end I was despaired and kept messing up. The end part, where you make a second bow with the short end of the tie, was confusing. But eventually...

Success...

Don't believe a word...

We live in a pretty bleak world. Not many recording artists still know how to eloquently address world issues...

Thanks to my APUSH and Sociology teacher, who is pretty cool I guess, I have been enlightened to the apostolic lyrics of Third Eye Blind. I love their music and can't wait till their next album comes out.

Here's "Don't Believe a Word" - Third Eye Blind

Oh well, I'll be posting more later, especially when I'm done with all of my finals and papers...

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