Music and Confusion

Before I go to a concert, I always get a little nervous. It’s not the moshing or the loud noise that scares me, it’s the idea that I have to dance. Should I dance? That’s what you do at a concert. Even though that’s what everyone else does, I don’t think I should be dancing. I’m not a good dancer.

So then when music is playing, what should you do?

This is now the dilemma I face everyday when Ms. Serensky plays music before Bobbie’s Blog Banter. What do you do when music plays? If you know the song is it appropriate to sing along? What if you have a terrible voice? I have a terrible voice, but I love belting out a good tune. However, I don’t think my English class is quite ready for that torture. So if singing is off the table, that leaves…humming? I have a feeling that would bother other listeners. I suppose you can tap your hands or move your head or foot. That’s really awkward when you don’t know the song. Then it may just look like I have a tick or something. Its definitely weird just staring at the other people around you. Or watching Ms. Serensky to see what she is doing. I’m sure that would make her feel very uncomfortable. There are so many options, but none of them seem right. I guess I can just observe what everyone else does and mimic that so I won’t seem weird. I guess that’s what I’ll be doing when the music’s playing: spy on everyone else.

Unless anyone has any better suggestions, prepare for my eyes. Staring straight at you.

p.s. Ms. Seresky- I love the music at the seeing the way it ties in to your banter, I just now have this confusion at the beginning of class every day. 

Dread

All day today (and unfortunately for the past couple days), the only thing on my mind was the approaching days of school. Every once in a while I would tell myself "Wow. I can't even believe I will be in school in [insert number here] days. Break went by too fast." Then, tonight, as I once again dwelled on the fact that at 6:30 a.m. tomorrow I will not be sleeping as I have been for the past 2 weeks, but I will be dragging myself out of bed and getting myself ready for school, I remembered the homework I have due tomorrow. Calc. Bio. English. Wait.. I thought it was called a break? Guess not. So, I logged in to Blogger, ready to make a comment and find another topic to blog about. After reading Henry Gilbert's blog (shout out!), I felt comforted by the fact that I wasn't the only person suffering week after week to think of an interesting, English-related blog topic. At the end of his blog, he wrote about indirectly characterizing himself. This got me thinking. Sure, I can indirectly characterize myself, but I would not be nearly as critical as us AP English 12-ers are when we do this to characters from our books. From my actions, I would indirectly characterize myself as a pessimist. Since Wednesday, I have have the dreaded feelings that come with the return to school after break. Why would I let this ruin my break? I still had FIVE days. It is completely ridiculous that I couldn't put the negative aside and enjoy sleeping in, no school work, and lazy days. Even though that may seem harsh, I don't think it's 1/10 as bad as the nasty things we harsh out to poor Gogol, Ashima, or almost any character in The Namesake. So, I'd like to open the floor to my fellow mean, cruel, loathsome, classmates. How would you indirectly characterize my behavior? Please, do your worst.