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| ^ A line from a new VersaEmerge song. Still can't believe Ant left. But the band is still doing an amazing job to just put away all the hate and come out with incredible music (as if they couldn't maintain their awesomeness). I am currently listening to them as I type. Anyway, my weekend was pretty jam-packed, on Saturday I had riding (the usual) but there was also babysitting, a funeral, and going out to dinner involved. Sunday, I got my first three hours for high school by volunteering at this fair at a nearby park. It was very cloudy and lightly drizzling, no more than 40 people showed up. Which made things a lot easier for us  . My new friend Shu Fan, these two other girls and I were working at the cotton candy machine, and some other people got another one but at first our machine was crap and couldn't keep on going. Haha. After a while we got the hang of it. Once I left I went shopping (YESS) and found a really ugly Betseyville bag. It had tigers on it. Hit or miss, definitely a miss for me. School has really been a lot better, I know a lot more people now and am occupied basically every lunch hour.  I made two new friends from my gym class, Farah and Zoe. I actually met Zoe years ago at an old friend's house. So it's pretty cool to be hanging out with her now. Annnd I have to play matchmaker for one of them. It's kind of fun. The only troubles are that our art teacher is a little strange (not in the cool, artsy way, but in an aging way... 'sok though, she gave me 100% on a project a just handed in), everyone in my class is failing science (and I actually got my first 75%... ohjeez) and we have a mandatory retest tomorrow ("Tous les tests étaient affreux!" she made clear), and.. um... This is embarassing. Guys. >.< I can not believe just said that. But, yes, Smiley, who was once a repellant to boys as OFF bugspray is to mosquitoes, is now experiencing some... erm, stuff. I don't want to make this public though. Haha. I want to learn every single VersaEmerge song on guitar and make some sort of medley. [p][e][a][c][e][!]
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| When Ant posted that he was no longer in Versa... well, that basically ruined my whole past-two-days-and-counting. They're like, the first band that I've liked even before they got signed. Anthony (and Blake, lol) CREATED VersaEmerge, and now he's gone?! This helped me understand a little better.. Sunday, September 20, 2009
For all concerned...
Current mood: sad First off i'll say that that things like this are never easy to go about. Before a band, we are a group of friends, which make this whole thing much more difficult. The truth is that because of some very serious personal reasons (which we will not go into detail about,) and for the sake of a friendship, we felt the need to let Anthony go. This band aside, certain problems have been ongoing and have gotten progressively dysfunctional as time (and relentless touring) have gone on. The only way we could see these things improve for him is to give him exactly what we thought he needed. That being time to gain a clear perspective on his life. Although unfortunate (especially since he has been a part of VersaEmerge since the beginning,) we think that this change will be personally beneficial for him in long terms. We are all more than supportive of his choices and will do anything to assist him in finding whatever it is that will make him truly happy. This has without a doubt been one of the most difficult decisions we have ever had to make as people, and would have never made unless we saw it as crucially important to his health and well-being. To the people reacting to our immanent decision with animosity... A decision like this may come off as harsh or as if it has been done with our heads buried in the sand. And from an outsider's view, i can see how it may be easy to judge a situation like this without hesitation or full understanding. Regardless, you have no position to bring such hate on someone for something you know little to nothing about. Forgive us for not recoiling to every petty comment we receive on the web because we're trying to go about such a sensitive matter a little more maturely. The details are extremely personal and are no ones business but ours and Anthony's. The excessive hate we have received is very hurtful. We appreciate your passion but ask you to please be respectful and mindful that we act with the heaviest of hearts. We are still very much here for Anthony in every way we can be. We ask for your continued support, as well as to continue to support Anthony in whatever he chooses to do. Assuredly, things will not be the same with Anthony gone but we're all working harder than ever to continue doing what we do. That is making music for you. And that will not change. Great things are on the way. With Love, Blake, Sierra, Devin & Jerry --- Eek. I totally did overreact. And I'm not a hater, I don't see how anyone could hate a band for letting someone go, even though it... came as a shock. Usually when I'm shocked I get upset. So, all the best to Anthony. He really needs all the support he can get right now, and not only him but the rest of the band. I'm sure there are much, much greater things to come though, from all of them.  [p][e][a][c][e][!]
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| FUSE was kinda fun, actually! Not too lame however everyone got skinned knees. Haha. I joined three clubs that day, but I don't know why or how I agreed to joining the third, which was a muilticultural club, which no offense at ALL but seems a little uninteresting and not a lot of people joined. So I'm thinking of un-signing up... yeahh. lol. On Friday I got asked to audtition for the jazz band. I was really trying to avoid this because everyone was going on about how complicated all the pieces were, tralala, but I was like whatevs. So I went after school today. I played all the easy parts in the two auditioning songs (which everyone else had time to look over, I only got them right then!) and no so much anything else, and I still made it in. Plus most people weren't supposed to know until Wednesday. So that was nice Saturday was riding! I am on Fitzroy. I have Michelle as an instructor now. Tomorrow is picture day, which is also Spirit Week/Battle of the Grades. wtf. Every grade has to wear a specific colour of shirt, to represent our 'school spirit', woohoo! Our whole grade has to wear blue. At least we're not in 11th, otherwise we'd have to wear just grey. I won't even bother changing so I'll try to make the best out of it. I had a nice start to the week.
Other than being super sick. Bleh. [p][e][a][c][e][!]
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| Alright, so what happened was that Julia girl turns out to be BFF with this girl I used to know and was once really close to, but then she decided to keep to herself and maybe 2 other girls. However, whenever she wanted to hang I'd always be open to it. Anywayyy, this year she's all happy, or so it seems, that she has this group of 7-or-so friends that she's known for the past 2 years, and can share the marvelous experiences of high school with. Probably forgetting the times where I was the one back then with the friends and being nice to people, she seemed pretty taken aback when I started talking to Julia, and acted pretty snobby, like "What the hell do you think you're doing? I don't want to be that close a friend to you." So basically, I only talk to Julia in music class, and in art, but that's about it. That other girl whose name I forgot... well, her name is Anna. She's so nice, hard to find in this school. Did I mention that 80% of the school/neighbourhood's population is blonde, mostly uninviting, and wear nothing but American Eagle? That's why the high school next to us absolutely hates us. Off topic. Anna, she reminds me a lot of the other Anna, and not only do they sort of resemble each other but they freakishly do the exact same things... only this one's more into getting involved with everything. Sports, musicals, you name it. We talk and hang out, so I'm guessing she is officially my first new friend at school. (As for that other girl, she knows Anna pretty well too [duh, same school] and completely ignores me whenever I walk past with her.) Aside from violent froshing and fighting against lonely lunch hours, the year has had an okay start, I guess. I'm talking to people that I never thought I'd ever speak to, but it's really okay now. I recognize a lot of people, and some of them remember me, too. It's just that... it's so much more fun and easier for the people who do go to school with their friends. You don't have to worry about being able to find someone to talk to, or being completely by yourself, or finding out certain things the hard way with no warning from a friend... I felt so much more relieved when I called Morgan last Friday. We talked about the trannys we saw at our schools, my stalkers who go to her school and hers who go to mine... and not so much the struggles. Because there was no need to talk about the struggles. Everything felt like it was back to last year, and I was calling her, just because. My head hurts. There's too much going on this week. CAT testing, FUSE camp day tomorrow, and band early tomorrow morning. I need to see my old friends again, and soon. [p][e][a][c][e][!]
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| "I had a lot of fun today... Oh, two new friends... Tra la la...!"
Nope! Forget that last post. High School SUCKS. --Not even gonna peace out. | | |
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