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05.29.08
So I'm officially done, for three months. All the finals have been taken, performed, and laughed at and now I'm done.
It's crazy to think I've already gone through two years of high school. Hell, next year I'm supposed to be planning the beginning
of the rest of my life. People keep approaching me and telling me sneaky ways to pay for college but I can't bring myself to listen
since, hello, it's TWO years away. Yeek. I'm still not sure how people can fail school...maybe that's just because I was raised so
I couldn't really fail school but I still don't understand it. I understand the idea that people aren't interested in the topics of,
I don't know, physics and chemistry and english and everything else that composes every day life. They don't care HOW it works as long AS it works...
Meh...I'll see them at Dairy Queen getting my ninety-nine cent fries. Bah humbug. By the way, Dairy Queen is just a little TOO cheap, it's kind of creepy
how you still pay about one dollar for a plate of fries the size of your head. It's so cheap it's makes you wonder what exactly they're made out of...
Recycled french fries sounds good. Ooh! Recycled french fries painted to look like regular ones with so much salt encrusting the top you can't taste
anything past the crystals. To conclude: I'm not sure I trust the DQ. Dairy Queen just sounds like an egotistcal cow....Stupid cocky cows.
I seem to be slightly off the topic, so here it is...SUMMERTIME YO!!!!!! Now, I'm off to go play some Quake III.
03.23.08
Easter weekend and I've successfully been out almost every night since Thursday.
I say almost because I managed to remain at the homestead Friday. Oh and I just got a letter
saying that the guitar picture (look east young monk---->) has gotten into the finals of a
photo competition at Picture.com or some weird stuff like that. Apparently I could win either
1,000 or 10,000 dollars on the grand prize. Well, shit, I can buy a lot of hair spray with
1,000 dollars. Ah, well...anywho, back to my weekend! Thursday I had some drinks and muffins with
a couple of friends before heading to Target to buy some plaid shorts and environmentally unsafe hairspray.
Of course because I live in the middle of nowhere and I can't give directions to save my life, my friend got
lost driving me home; always an adventure. Friday I just chilled at home and Saturday I headed over to
Melissa's house for a kicking sleepover...hell yeah (you'll see the products of that below). We didn't really
do much and still managed to have a ton of fun, that's how cool we are. I love people. They're so interesting
and fun to talk to. Friends are frickin TOPS and sleepovers have to be one of the coolest things ever behind
potatoes and hot showers.
I feel like there's nothing better in this world than a hot shower. At first you're all nude and dirty and cold
and then you step in. Ahhhhh..... A big, wet, warm, holy blanket covers you and fixes everything.
Suddenly you don't mind doing all the menial motions it requires to get clean, you're a little happier in general.
The world is warm, cozy, soapy, and comfortable.
Of course, on the other hand, the worst thing in the world is a cold shower. A cold shower...where you're shivering
in the small enclosure of your dimly lit bathroom. You can't help but remember some prisoner of war novels where
they were forced to take cold showers and you know why they were so miserable. Every inch of you is freezing and
all the soaping up is taking forever. Of course you end up doing a crappy job of cleaning yourself because you were so intent
upon getting out of the freezing hole of encapsulized winter.
To summarize: hot showers good, cold showers bad.
Now for the aforementioned photos.
Currently Listening To: Rise Against-Survive
In my history class we're watching Hotel Rwanda with THE MAN, Don Cheadle. This movie is very engaging
and a little upsetting at times but more for the Tutsis than for the cozy watcher, I'm sure. This movie
is an insight into the genocide that occured in 1994 between two African tribes: the Hutu and the Tutsi.
The Tutsis had rule over the country but the Hutu assassinated their president just following the agreement to peace between the two
and civil war ensues. Tutsis are being massacred because of their former ruling over the country.
Don Cheadle plays a Hutu named Paul who ends up sheltering a ton of Tutsi refugees at the hotel he manages.
Sigh...
It's disgusting what people will do in some situations. Sure...admittedly the question "kill or be killed"
is a sort of brain scratcher, but I don't believe I could participate in mass killings. Hell, I don't know if
I could even kill anyone, not one person. Yes, I do watch blood-filled, death bringing movies and play
gory video games but I haven't been desensitized that much. I mean, has anyone? Can you be desensitized to the point of
becoming a sociopath? It's kind of a scary thought. Someday all the R rated flash videos on Newgrounds and
Kill Bill movies will eventually destroy any semblance of a conscience the future generation will have. It's a sad
thought. But I'm not sure video games, rap music, and horror movies are the only culprits. If you watch the news everyday
it starts to get to you. At least with movies you have that plexiglass wall that reads "it's not real" for some sort of
protection, but not with the 5,7,9, or 10 o' clock news. Than, when a five year old gets raped, murdered, and left in a ditch
it was in your neighborhood with someone you've secretly thought was creepy but never said anything. My dad always told me that
the media was trying to scare people which explains why every couple of hours a new disease is infecting you, a new brain-melting
condition has been discovered, and more toys have been found not suitable to swallow. The more scared you are the more you have to know
so the more you watch. It's disgusting, really.
Sigh...
Now for things that really aren't disgusting.
Currently Listening To: Third Eye Blind-I Want You
03.06.08
Unlike the 1.19 check-in, I feel absolutely spectacular. Outside the sun is shining, snow covers the muddy ground,
a light breeze blows through, and school has been cancelled for today :). Thus, I'm sitting at work attempting to get lightbox 1 up
instead of the primitive thumbnail system I'm using now for the sake of not having to work hard. Of course technical guides always make
my head spin so I'm getting JB to help me decode it, he is the master after all.
Hours Later...
Yes! Lightbox 1.0 is officially up. Go ahead...click on any picture and let the magic work for you and your itty bitty monitor.
It looks pretty. I love it when things look as pretty as they are. I wonder how the world would be different if everyone looks were equal
to the positive actions and thoughts they had. It would be well-accepted to judge people by how they looked because that's how they'd be.
Ugly looking people would be ugly people all over. Pretty girls would be sweet and spend their spare time at a veterenarian.
Mean, unattractive people would be exiled out of society and then maybe natural selection would step in and in the short, short time of one
million years, there could be no mean/ugly people and we'd be living in a Cobie Callait song (where everyone draws inspiration from puppies and sunsets).
But if everyone were nice...what would happen to the world. No wars-Global cooperation...not seeing a downside to that. We might all become wimps if
the world became nice...One mean thing would destroy everyone's defenses and self-esteem. And who's to saw what's mean anywho?
Everyone's got different opinions of things like that. The point is I like things that are pretty all over.
Like my wonderful hometown Santa Fe. Awesome little city with nothing to do. It's pretty. Enjoy some pretty SF pics.
Currently listening to: Third Eye Blind-Jumper
01.19.08
Eh, not the best day and I'm not sure why. I blame the fact that since my fourth period didn't go as hilarious as usual, it couldn't really carry me thoughout the day.
Of course my fifth period is the most boring, useless class I could ever have.
I literally have not learned one-single-thing in that classroom.
School is supposed to be about learning, I'm in Pre ADVANCED PLACEMENT classes for Pegg's sake and, yet, I can go a whole year without learning a single thing.
This sh** is not hard people. If you show up eighty percent of the time, turn in most assignments half-done, and read the books, you'll get a B.
A good, solid B.
And...somehow...51% of the people at my school DROP OUT. It's ridiculous, really. At the town's rival school, 64% of kids drop out.
It's completely ridiculous, really. I don't understand why people can't just shut up and put up with all the day-to-day administration crap.
People don't care about their education and most of them are going to regret it.
In this society, your education truly reflects how smart you are. Jobs are dealt out based on degrees, not necessarily capibility.
But I suppose not everything can be dealt with on an individual basis. Blarg.
My mom works for the local police department and I recently read a speech one of the officers had written for the chief to read at a meeting and it was crap.
It was horribly written and just pathetic. Now, I'm not expecting people to write poetry but something you wouldn't be ashamed to read in front of a group of people.
Some of the officer's reports are so bad they're unreadable and must be edited with a red pen and sent back to be retyped, yes, like grade schoolers.
These hired professionals can't even write a readable paragraph. Utterly ridculous!
And SPEAKING of ridiculous notions of the police department, our police officers are working with security technology from the 1950s!
They cannot get funding to get proper technology to catch bad guys! We rely on these officers to help us in the most vulnerable of times
and they don't have enough money to buy up-to-date technology. Of course when the city does get money for city workers, it goes into a big pool
to be distributed among ALL the organizations that desperately need it. Right now, the city needs a second firehouse. A firehouse! My hometown
can't fund a second firehouse. I believe fire stations are kind of important, you know, to get firefighters to go...fight the fires that alight the
the governor's house. I happened to learn all this at a city council meeting I happened to attend where an Average Joe was infuriated that his small business had been
broken into and the cops couldn't sufficiently catch the guy because they didn't have proper technology.
My city's police station can't get sufficient funding for proper equipment but Hillary Clinton can raise 18 million dollars in the month of February. Yes, I know they're completely unrelated
but I just wish my police station and firehouse had 18 or even 14 million dollars...
And now for my photos of the people who get me through the eight hours of brain melting...
Currently listening to: Baby Bash-Sugah, Sugah
01.11.08
They say an obsession is at its worst when you do it alone, by yourself, alone in your room, at one in the morning.
Am I speaking of an alcohol obsession?
Drugs?
Of course not!
I am under the influence of a British comedy obsession. Specifically the wonderful world of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
By the way, if you have no clue who those gods of the world would be, you have my full and complete permission to
have a good friend strap you to a chair with some Home Depot brand duct tape (make sure the bedpan's clean) and sit you in front of the tele. and
have a Bloody British Marathon!
Yay!
This of course means that you start with Shaun of the Dead, a lovely zombie movie,
followed by another hit movie of their's by the sexy name of Hot Fuzz.
From there I leave you to your own to go into uncharted territory and watch some other Simon Pegg projects such as:
I really can't help you with any of those since I've never watched any (hence the uncharted territory line).
That (very) impressive list of movie titles was stolen from Simon Pegg's Wikipedia entry
Because I have faith in the god that is Wiki.
And on a slightly related note, what do people think of when they think Zombies??
Brains. and Halloween.
Thus, enjoy some of last years (Oct. 1007) Halloween greats. (No zombies included)
---Fun Fact---
The picture of me as a 'Dirty Cowboy' was inspired by the music video 'The Future Freaks Me Out' by Motion City Soundtrack where the lead singer (Justin Pierre) impersonates a cowboy.--
Currently Listening To: Muse-Map of the Problematique
