I changed my username. My new one is phantomofthebandroom.
Love Always From,
Meredith

Most of you know about my near obsession with all things band related. May I just say that the band jamboree was awesome and has made me even more band crazy than I was before, if that is possible. Still I wish it had been on a different night so I could have gone to the class too. I didn't know the date of the class until after I had already signed up to be a guide at the jamboree. Alas, I will simply have to make sure I attend each and every other class to make up for it. So, there is my blurb. Embrace it, enjoy it, explore it, remember it.
Awaiting the Day,
Meredith Jane

Hilary is a new member. Visit her!!!!

Yall are really starting to depress me with your lack of comments.

I was thinking about this at school. We were cooling off after P.E. and all the girls about how they think our vice principal is gay. Then they talked about who liked who and how it was completely hopeless. Then I realized, they were acting just like the snotty people in movies that everyone hates. Besides, if the best thing we have to talk about is who likes who and who's gay, what has society as we know it come to? 100's of people are paid to write and report rumors. The gossip column is the most read colmn next to the comics. More people read Star Weekly than the Birmingham News. Should the focus of our entire life be on things that might not even be true? I don't think it should. when I shared my thoughts with my friends, they just laughed and said we were too young to be thinking about that. If that's true, shouldn't we also be too young to even know what homosexuality is? What if everyone just skipped that period in their lives where they only care about the right now. We could focus on the imortant things. We could be living on the moon, but people can't get over the artificially important things to see the real meaning of life; to see the potential in themselves. In 30 years, is it really going to matter whether the vie principal is gay or if Susy liked Jim? Shouldn't we be thinking about things that will last much longer than rumors do. Actions, reactions, doing something because it's the right thing, not because mommy told me to. Doing things because I want to, not because everyone else is doing it. The everlasting things, the things that really matter, are the things that should make us get up and thank the Lord that we are still breathing. I know that's sort of deep but imagine all of that occuring to you in the blink of an eye. Can you say brain cramp? Anyway, send thoughts.
Love Always From,
Meredith

Where do I go from here?
Shall I continue in my old ways?
Or shall I forge a path anew
And follow in it to the end of my days?

Shall I smell the roses along my path
Or journey swiftly to the end?
Shall I enjoy the bird that sweetly sings
Or let it into the scenery blend?

Where do I go from here?
Shall I continue in my old ways
Or shall I forge a path anew
And follow in it to the end of my days

Shall I forge the path alone
Or shall I take a friend
A companion, faithful, just and true
To follow me around the bend

Where do I go from here?
Shall I continue in my old ways
Or shall I forge a path anew
And follow in it to the end of my days

And when at last my jounrney's old
I'll tell those who are new
The path I took, mistakes I made
That they might make it through

Where do I go from here?
Shall I continue in my old ways
Or shall I forge a path anew
And follow in it to the end of my days