Am in Seventh grade. Ask me anything!

[AmandaRuth]

I am in seventh grade in Hicktown U.S.A. I have band, no other elective, and my P.E teacher wants to strangle me every day. I also have good friends that think I'm funny.

The food tastes pretty bad, too.

MiniAmandaRuth

[Maddy McCall]

1. Hi, Amanda.

P.E. teachers can be a pain, can't they. :D

So, what's your favorite piece of jewelry and who gave it to you?

[AmandaRuth]

12. My favorite piece of jewelry is my ring

It is black hills gold, decorated with little leaves on the band. My mom sorta gave it too me when I was obssessed with The Lord of the Rings. It looks elvish.

MiniAmandaRuth

[RagingInMiami]

2. I hated seventh grade

I hated eighth grade. And I hated ninth grade. I also hated high school, but not as bad as I did middle school (or what we called junior high back then).

Life does get better.

[libhill]

7. Yup

I hated school too - always likened it to a penal institute. Graduated H.S. and never looked back. People who are into H.S. reunions are beyond my comprehension. Oh well, takes all kinds I guess.

[Droopy]

3. How did you get so smart?

When I was in 7th grade I couldn't talk well let alone express myself in the written word.

[AmandaRuth]

14. Well, I did many things

The main things I did do were read, write, and listen to my Mom.

Also bugged the heck out of my Dad when I was little to tell me how things were made.

MiniAmandaRuth

[DBoon]

29. Do you help your Dad fix things around the house?

My wife did that when she was your age. Helped her learn a lot of practical things.

I was very impressed to meet a woman with a complete set of tools who knew how to fix things.

[AmandaRuth]

30. Nope,

But one time, he asked me to stick my foot right next to a lawnmower blade...

MiniAmandaRuth

[tammywammy]

4. What instrument do you play in the band?

I played the cello through high school.

[AmandaRuth]

15. I play

Alto saxophone. Only alto sax in Seventh grade, only female sax player in my middle school.

Whoo me!

MiniAmandaRuth

[tammywammy]

22. That's really awesome

I had a really good friend in junior high that played the alto sax, she loved it. When we got to high school she got in the jazz band and was really awesome.

[bobthedrummer]

5. I play drums and my wife, Charron, plays bass. We are The Books

Banned.
When I was in 7th grade I was always in competition for first chair percussionist.
What do you play?
Music isn't age selective.

[AmandaRuth]

16. Like I said above

I am an Alto sax player. I also play piano quite well.

MiniAmandaRuth

[bobthedrummer]

18. Do you like jazz?

I've sat in with Berkley Fudge.

[AmandaRuth]

21. I love jazz!

That's why I play sax and piano!

MiniAmandaRuth

[bobthedrummer]

26. My favorite reed player is Rhassan Roland Kirk, but I also like Pharoh

Sanders, Eddie Harris and Gato Barbieri.

[DBoon]

6. Same question I asked previously

Does your handle refer to your name, or to the song by the band "Rank & File" (a 1980's cowpunk band)?

I only ask because their album Sundown was one of my favorites & I saw them live several times.

See:
http://www.rhinohandmade.com/browse/ProductLink.lasso?Number=7816

and:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-08-15/music_phases15.html

[DBoon]

28. And you answered it too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3104079&mesg_id=3104188

[hippiepunk]

8. How's life?

Are you goin to have fun this weekend?

[AmandaRuth]

17. Yep

Am going to the ocean this weekend after my saxophone lesson and am going clamming with my uncle and dad.

YAY!

MiniAmandaRuth

[Tom Kitten]

9. Hi Amanda Ruth!

Have you ever heard the song "Amanda Ruth" by Rank and File? It is from one of my all time favorite albums.

[AmandaRuth]

19. Yes, I sure have

I love Rank and File, as does my Mommy. She got her name from that.

MiniAmandaRuth

[The Whiskey Priest]

10. Hi Amanda

God love you. Enjoy every minute of the seventh grade. Best wishes for a wonderful life.

[AmandaRuth]

20. Thanks!

I am enjoying almost every minute of seventh grade, 'cept crap moments like P.E and dealing with rednecks.

MiniAmandaRuth

[SarahB]

11. I already have a daughter in 7th grade.

She posts on here once in a blue moon too (her mean mom has control of her password ;)). No questions, but I'll pass along a :hi: to you.

[punpirate]

13. Umm, Hicktown, USA...

... that's in Godforsaken County, Alabama, right? :)

I guess what I'd like to ask is: how many kids you go to school with are sort of straight-up salute-the-flag, Bush is great, kill-the-ragheads types as opposed to the kids who are more politically aware and understand what's happening today, just in rough percentages?

Cheers.

[AmandaRuth]

24. Hmmm... I have to work with a few...

Well, Bushies are about 98% while the good, smart people are about 1%, while the 'I do not care' people *COUGHLIBERTARIANSCOUGH* are about 1% as well.

Hicktown, U.S.A is in Washington State. It is one of the several Hicktowns through this country. Kinda like Springfield, but more hickish...

MiniAmandaRuth

[punpirate]

27. Well, I think I know...

... where the several Hicktowns you might be in might be... I lived in Moses Lake many decades ago.... :)

[LynneSin]

23. That's about the age I started getting into Politics

and also my question - isn't it past your bedtime?

Anyhow, glad to see more of our kids with progressive thoughts, even those from Hickstown U.S.A (which btw, I'm an alumni of)

[AmandaRuth]

25. No. I have no bedtime

What is this strange and frightening bed-time you speak of? Surely I have no bedtime.

Actually, I have no bedtimes on weekends, just have to be in my room by One o clock in the morning. On weekdays I go to bed by ten.

MiniAmandaRuth

[hippiepunk]

31. Ouch, that's some harsh restrictions.

You have curfew? Mine's undefined (I'm in high school)