Day 18: High school coffee houses are pretty awesome

Yes, yes, I am fully aware that this is a day late. Yesterday I was volunteering at the Symphony book sale again. I saw a few people I know again, which was cool - Asian Guy Who Is His Girlfriend's Slave, My Genius Cousin In University (seriously. She's scarily smart. She works in the freakin' Syncratron. If you don't know what that is, Google it. If that's how it's spelled. XD), and Colombian Rice Eater, who I actually reminded to come. Apparently his mom has been meaning to come for years but always forgot, so I did her a big favour by reminding Colombian Rice Eater, I guess. XD He got piano music and a book about the physics of Christmas. Awesome, eh? :D

I got a few books myself. Another few on sewing stuffed animals and dolls, one mini-book thing about 20 pages long that basically laughs at us ladies and our (minor!) obsessions with Shoes, Chocs, Bags, and Frocks. It's actually pretty clever. XD The last book, which shall remain shrouded in mystery until I post a blog entry about it, is called Dancing with Cats. OMG it is SO AWESOME. Seriously.

AW CRAP OFF TOPIC. ANYWAYS. On Thursday night I was at this coffee-house-type-thing at my school, only the tables weren't set up like a coffee house, they were all facing this one corner for the performances. No tables. SAD. Oh well, I GOT CHEESECAKE!!!! :D MINE miiiiine MIIIIIINE mine MINE

Some of the performances weren't THAT great - this one guy supposedly composed his own guitar piece, but I couldn't hear any notes at all the electric guitar's... Reverb? Echo? Whatever. His SHIZ was all set so high I couldn't make out any notes at all. It all kind of blended together. BLAH. However, the hosts were pretty good - the dude created a kind of character for himself, with a bowtie and a really nerdy voice (reminiscent of Singing Actor And SGU Fan's character in the One Acts). A few of the acts were REALLY awesome - Freakishly Smart Person's Singing Older Brother (who, I have discovered, has an absolutely MAGNIFICENT voice) sang this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNsmF9JTpuI Trust me, he did WAY better. SO SEDUCTIVE OMG. <3 Then there was a show choir that sang "525 600 Minutes" (from RENT) and another cool song. They were SO GOOD. One of my friends, let's call him Quiet Smart Guy With Hidden Talents, just did somethin' funky to his ankle and is on crutches, but he hobbled around like a champ and was in THREE different groups, including a saxaphone quartet with Freakishly Smart Person, who also played the piano for the show choir. GOD DAMMIT. HOW MANY THINGS CAN THIS DUDE DO? He also plays the violin. I FEEL SO USELESS NOW. There were some really good singers as well, including this one girl who has a truly epic voice and sang "Perfect" (by Hedly. derp) without any music at all, but then close to the end forgot what came next and whispered "Oh shit!" in shock, but we all immediately cheered for her and clapped because she was so tank.

IN BRIEF: My school is filled with awesome talent, Freakishly Smart Person makes me feel so inferior with his God-like talent in EVERYTHING it's not even amusing, Freakishly Smart Person's Singing Older Brother has a very, VERY sexy voice, and cheesecake is good.