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This weekend, my parents and I drove to Oxford for Scholars Day at the University of Mississippi. I missed school, which entailed the travel peprally, and the playoff game on Friday. When I found out that we lost, I was sad because I realized that I had missed my last high school football game, but my weekend in Oxford was the best I have had in a long time!

When I arrived in town on Friday afternoon, I had meetings with the Barksdale Honors College and Croft International Studies/Chinese Flagship. The admissions officers for those programs are so nice; especially Mr. Nate Flake who I met when I attended StarTalk this summer. After I met with them, I went shopping at some of the cute little shops on the square. I got a new gray patagonia jacket and some warm brown boots. Then, I met my friend, Lizzy, at Yaya's (frozen yogurt shop on the square) and we fixed ourself a snack and headed to the Oxford High School football game. The energy at the game was pretty high. Everytime they made a touchdown, they would throw corn kernels! That was...interesting. haha. At the game, Lizzy introduced me to her friends Megan and Austin. They were both incredibly funny and nice! Austin, Lizzy, and I spoke a little Chinese for fun. Oxford lost the game, but no one seemed to mind too much. I spent the night at Lizzy's house and we watched Captain America with her brother Luke and his friend, Joey.

On Saturday, Lizzy and I went to Scholars Day, which was really informative! After that, the StarTalk reunion got into full swing. Lizzy and I drove out to Mark Apartments to pick up our friend Caitlyn. Her directions were sketchy, and we were having a hard time finding her. To combat this problem, we eventually just started blasting ghetto hood rap while driving around her neighborhood. Needless to say, she found us. For dinner, we went to South Depot Taco Shop where our college tutor, Alyssa, from the program met us. The people at the table beside us started screaming quotes from that viral video "Can I have your Number." Of course we joined in! After dinner, Alyssa and I picked up the other college tutor, Gabe, and then we went to Alyssa's apartment to play the boardgame, Balderdash. Our friend Alayna showed up in the middle of the game. The visit was shortlived, however, because we had to get to Caitlyn's brother's apartment to watch the Bama v. LSU game. I won't say much about that other than it was fun! That night we crashed at Lizzy's house and watched Bad Teachers. Bad BAD movie, but hilarious!

I was really sad that I had to leave today. Honestly, I grew so close to Lizzy, Caitlyn, and Alayna this summer. Those girls are my sisters. It's crazy how deeply you come to know people when you spend an entire month living in a dorm with them 24/7. Everything comes to the surface, flaws and attributes alike. That's why we became so close I think. We all accepted each other for exactly who we are. I really missed them when school started back and seeing for the first time since then was surreal. None of us have changed, including me haha.

Anyway, it was a fantastic weekend! Now all I need is a reunion with my University of Texas and Girls State friends.

Dear Hunter,
There's a problem with leaving your blog open on a school computer. Anyone can open it and do anything they want too. However, lucky for you someone much nicer than that logged on. I hope you will log out next time. :)
Sincerely,
Will

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I'm sitting in the Library, and I haven't felt like working all day. Neither has Austin, Sammi, Michael, or Catherine Grace...Well, maybe they have, but I like to think they're just as lazy as I am. Sammi keeps shooting glances at Austin, those playful fake-spiteful glances. They were hitting each other earlier, and they're still poking each other's hands. I don't see how they keep that battle up. Then again, they are both consistently competitive and persistent people. Catherine Grace is on pintrest, and she keeps showing me pins. She just showed me one, and it was this dog puppy and the caption was "Mary had a little lamb." Then it shows another picture of the same dog puppy with its face all menacing-like and the caption "HAD!" hahahahahaha!!!! Catherine Grace also reminded me that we're gonna be dissecting fetal pigs next block in anatomy! Honestly, the idea of cutting open a once living creature bothers me, but I'm gonna try to mask that with my excitement about having something to which I can relate my new knowledge of the muscular system. Anyway, Michael's just sitting here all casually in his alcohol stained boots that he wore to the country music awards when he went last year! He looks like a cawntray boy! He wanted me to blog about Coldplay's new album, Mylo Xoto. Although I like it, I still haven't gotten quite enough into it to muster the motivation to blog about it. Well, this entire post is just a product of my lack of focus. I really like my research topic that I'm supposed to be researching. I don't know why I'm so unfocused. Maybe I just needed a mental break.

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Last night, Trey Ossenfort joined our MYF praise band. I had no idea that he could play guitar, drums, and sing. I mean, he's no Dave Grohl, but he really is good! Anyway, we performed pretty well last night with him on drums, which is good because a lot of people showed up for youth group.

For some reason, his joining the band has really gotten me pumped up about praise band. I had a meeting with everybody in the band after MYF and we talked about how we all wanted to stop being mediocre and start really being good. So, we have agreed to start practicing thirty minutes earlier every Sunday, and we'll probably do some additional practices periodically.

Additionally, we are going to start playing more secular music with Christian undertones, so that the youth group can better relate to the songs. Next time we play, we're going to do Radioactive by Kings of Leon, and then Trey and I are going to do a duet of the General by Dispatch. If you look hard at the lyrics of those songs, you can see that they could be interpreted having a Christian meaning. I might throw another song in there, but I'm not sure yet.

I am just so fired up about music right now. I spent the last hour and a half arranging Radioactive. I really hope it sounds good!

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Ah, I post this in a hurry as I need to finish studying for my Spanish test before I go to sleep tonight. It seems like my schedule is getting more and more relaxed, but it feels busier because I fill my day with useless timewasters, namely facebook. Today I made a pledge to only log on facebook once a day for the rest of the semester. I think it will be good for me. I still haven't used my facebook log-in for the day, and I feel good.

This afternoon I parked cars for the Kiwanis club at the fair, and I had a great conversation with Chris Gerhart. He always automatically makes me feel happy when I'm around him. I love people like that. On another note, I can't wait for "Rock the Rams" day tomorrow. I bought myself an AC/DC shirt, and I am ready to go!

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Tonight is senior night. It is the last regular season home game of my high school career. I know that I should feel sad or something, but I just don't. Maybe it's because it still hasn't registered that I'm going to graduate in May and leave Andalusia, thus becoming an adult...Or maybe I'm just so used to leaving Andalusia that I'm not depressed or scared about what will happen when I do graduate. It's not that I'm wishing away my last year of high school; I'm enjoying it immensely, actually. College just seems so close that I almost feel numb to the pre-nostalgia of senior year. It doesn't affect me when people say "Aw, dang guys, It's our last band competition," and "Aw, six and a half months from today will be our last break outside." It's useless to think like that. We can't stop time. It's impossible. We are all meant to move on, meet new people, follow our adult dreams, and when chance allows, reunite and catch up. We're going to go to college or get a job, get married or live it up single, have children or not...it's beautiful because after May 27th this year, those choices will be ours to make. So I will enjoy my senior year, untainted by dread and sadness. I will relish in all the "first lasts." I will not fear the end of my childhood. I will treat my senior year this way simply because that is how life is supposed to be lived.

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Gosh, this blog is cutting it close to being on time; mostly because this week has been SOOO busy. It's only going to get worse too. There are midterms going on and regular tests on top of that. We also have band practice after school until 6 tomorrow! . Geez, when is it going to end?! At least the Straughn game is coming up this Friday. I'm so excited for dress like a hick day. Really, I'm going to go all out. Everyone's saying we won't make it all the way in football, and I guess they're right. I still have hope, though. Oh, I got a new trombone last Saturday at the A-Town Band Invitational. It's a silver Blessing, and it's so beautifully shiny! I wonder if I'll miss not being in band when I go to college. Ah, speaking of college, my Texas application was sent off on Sunday. My fingers are crossed that they accept me. 122