We started our stock market game in am studies today. The first 6 rows all picked cards that had to do with rows switching, taking half of, and rotating stock prices, which had no effect because the second card picked was "stock crash" where we were all reduced to zero. Row six picked a card that added 4 points automatically to everyones stock. I picked last for row 7, which is only 3 people, much less than the other teams. My card was "trivia question", answer right and gain 5 points, answer wrong and lose 5. Pressure's on me, my team members are lightweights. Zentz asks me to name the president who most historians blame the depression on, and the president directly preceding fdr. EASY. I answered correctly with Harding, and Hoover. We are now ahead of the rest of the class.
After school while playing drums, I impressed myself. I was playing along to "HTML Rules D00d" by TDWP, and while I was going for the cymbal grab, I hit my knuckle on the cymbal's relatively sharp edge, cutting myself. I did not notice this, and kept on playing. My knuckle started bleeding. The action of my hand having much speed, and rapidly slowing down as the stick impacts the crash cymbal caused the blood to fling off of my finger, and onto the white head of my snare drum.
This is an accomplishment. And it's just really tight.
Another highlight of today was playing classical guitar. My dad got me a book for christmas with a multitude of styles in it, jazz, metal, latin, and of course classical. Classical is much different than what I usually play, modern acoustic, rock, and metal. It's different musically in a very obvious way, sounding very elegant with mature chord progressions, but its also different technically, playing finger-picking style, which is much more difficult. It's fun to play, and definitely out of the ordinary. I love learning new things.
