happy taxes! also, happy ara day!

i think it's a good possibility that the mouse moved outside. he hasn't eaten any of the peanut butter i have so lovingly left out for him this week. every now and then i think that i hear him, but i've become so paranoid about his presence that it very well could be my overactive imagination. or perhaps he's been storing up all of the food from the traps he has so cunningly avoided and has no need for the new stuff. who knows? not i.

so ascension convention is done for the year. it's kind of sad. we got started so late preparing for it that there didn't seem to be the usual build up of excitement. the weekend before we practiced a couple times, and then a few days later, there it was. and it was great. really great. everything ran so smoothly during the weekend, we had very few problems with the kids, the sound system was better than ever... i dunno. i just left feeling so... spiritually satisfied, so peaceful, so full. and i wasn't even tired afterwards. i mean, i took a nap and everything, but it always seems that i feel wiped out for a few days after the convention. but not so this year. i suppose the fact that daylight savings time has added an hour to evening brightness helps too. and that the weather has been pretty decent. spring is here, and it makes everything feel new.

yesterday some genius decided that chapel time would be used for ascension convention 2005 preparation. i know in writing it sounds like a good idea, starting to plan so far in advance for next year's convention. but a) the two top dawgs of the convention weren't there, and b) it turned into an uncensored bar room brawl. it is my feeling that every once in awhile the student body needs to spend some time duking it out, but i do have to admit that yesterday was slightly ridiculous. people were complaining that we should have had more CLC students up on stage, others retorted that we don't really have other students that are qualified to be up there, and we should not be appointed to high profile positions when we don't have the skills to fill it. of course then students say we don't have the skills because the people in authority don't really do their jobs well. and really, all of those statements are at least partially true i would say. but quite a few feelings were hurt and general feelings of grumpiness all around today.

in other completely unrelated news, i had a drum lesson with tony today. usually we rotate between guitar lessons and djembe stuff, but the djembe wasn't around today, so i played on the actual drum set. the first time in years that i've ever even picked up sticks. maybe the 3rd time ever that i've sat behind the set. and it was strange... tony kept telling me what to do with my hands and my feet, and it felt... strangely natural.

i think there might be a drummer in me that is trying to get out.