Tuesday, September 28, 2004

India... the final frontier.

Unit 1 is leading an expedition to India to see the maybe future thief of her maybe future grandchild (it may be imaginary, but it's never too early to start preparing. Annie, maybe today would be a good day to write your will!)

So, I had to go get passport pictures for my visa. And, as is a perfectly reasonable question when you are getting passport pictures, the man at the camera shop asked where I was going. When I said India, he said "why would you want to go there?" When I didn't say anything, one of his (younger) co-workers jumped in with, "Wow. I bet you're excited!"

Now, I grant you, going someplace that requires you to get 6 needles stuck in your arm (and I am not talking acupuncture needles here, people -- my arm hurt for days!) is not exactly the same as a trip to the mall, but he seriously gave me a look like I had said, "I don't really trust the news, so I thought I'd head over to Iraq and check it out firsthand." As Mr. young coworker said, "some people think there isn't anything out there once you cross the border of the US." Here be dragons, folks.

In other news... Kitten is now Mrs. Kitten. Or maybe Paul is actually Mr. Kitten. I'm not quite sure how this works out. Check out the link to see our Pretty Pretty Princess tie the knot.

Monday, September 27, 2004

Welcome to the worst day ever!

20 days into school, and I've already had the worst day ever. That's right I managed to have soemthing due in every class I take. Here was my schedule for the day: Pre-Calc quiz, hand in English paper, take Physics quiz, Spanish Test, Lunch where I ate in 10 minutes and studied for the other 30, History Test, Religion Quiz. Don't you wish you were living my life? I was awfully frazzled from staying up studying and taking 101 things all day. I got a chocolate in homeroom for wearing my nametag, and somehow managed to crush in my pocket. Hey! Guess what I keep in my pocket? Franklin aka my ipod. Luckily my spidey senses told me something was wrong, and the chocolate didn't get quite everywhere. And now my kilt smells like chocolate. Delightful. I'm sure I'll draw everyone towards me with my chocolateyness.

So after my worst day ever, I came home watched some freaks and geeks and took a nap. Naps, I can't get enough of them. I also found out I don't have so much homework, so that's not bad. Yeah, so I just thought you all might want to be enlightened by my crazzapy monday.

Picked my official team: Cincinnati Bengals. That's right bengals, they're tigers! You're jealous.

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Don't touch me!

I've become quite hostile towards the fall season. It's not hot and it's not snowing so I don't like it. Plus it's symbolic for all things evil, meaning school. I'm determined to go swimming before the end of summer. I'm a little too late so I'm gonna try to swim before the end of the week. It's questionable considering the amount of tests I have though. Other than that, school's going well.

I think I'm quickly developing a gambling problem. I've already won 10 bucks, and can't stop the gambling. It's bad.

Anyone know where the Gilmore Girls dvd is? Missy wants to borrow it. Premiere tonight, quite exciting. Maybe we'll find out what Dean needed to borrow other than Rory's virginity.

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

...So you don't want to be in my commercial?

So I didn't want to be in Mary's commercial, or skip school, hard to believe, I know. Today I saw the musical episode of Arthur. It was pretty darn exciting, and made me want a library card. "Having fun, isn't hard when you've got a library card." Wow. Inspiring.

So I'll admit I have been going to school, as well as attending classes. It will definitely be hard learning for a full year; I'm not quite ready for that kind of responsibility. I mean that trip to New Orleans halfway through the year, hit the spot. Not only am I attending classes but in an attempt to not go online, I find that it is more successful if I avoid the computer room all together. Therefore, I have been ignoring the blog. Sorry blog, hope I didn't hurt your feelings. Assignments that need to be typed aren't helping, but I think that typewriter is going to help out.

Anything else exciting going on? Not really. I'll give a recap of some not-so-exciting but noteworthy experiences. Volunteered at XPN for 8 hours and 45 minutes. Found my fake Grandma. She rules. Been reading Slaughter House Five. I'll probably finish that this week and start Lovely Bones. Set-up N64. Had a Mario Kart party on Friday. Dominated Alex. Decided to start betting on football. Haven't found a good game to bet on yet. Baked a snackin cake and muffins. Weird, I think so. So far school year's going well. Prep Dance on friday meaning the school year has officially started. Do I want to go to the Malvern dance? Not that you care. iPod is savior for horrible bus rides with haverford boys. Made much better when I can't hear them. Didn't go online for a whole day! Yeah, I think that's it.

Hey! What's with everyone backing out of the Vote for Change concert. Not cool, family definitely not cool. I'd also like to point out that Mary tried to replace me when she came home. "Trying to avoid Mary" That's right Mary she avoids you and eats my muffins! She only ate one though leaving the other for me obviously proving her love for me. Booyea!

OH WAIT! Exciting news! I think I'm still growing because I've been sleeping in excessive amounts. There's still hope!

Where have all the posters gone?

To School: Jane, instead of bumming around and amusing us with her witticisms, is actually going to school. And doing science experiments on raisins?!?! And here I thought she was in high school. She did make me a muffin the other day, though.

To Work: You'd think, with the 20 minutes a day I'm now saving on my commute, I would have 20 minutes to post blog entries. And I suppose you would be right, if anything even vaguely amusing ever happened to me. Instead, what have I been doing?

Dress Shopping: Only funny if you are there to witness either the amusing outfits I concoct with only the raw materials provided to me by the store, or you are looking at price tags.

Setting up a new office: While a certain barnyard animal and her aquatic friend were able to amuse themselves while painting, painting, unpacking boxes, and dragging furniture around the room are inherently dull activities.

Avoiding Mary: Why? Because every phone call starts with, "I have a favor to ask you....." Granted, her last favor was, "I want you to be on television." Although I was not able to participate, viewers in Alyson Schwartz's district will soon be able to see the illustrious Mike Sweeney as "Medical Technician #1". Mary is invited to post her rebuttal, if she has one.

Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Another School Year...

So school started today, and I already miss summer. So following my school year's goal: get into college. I have a multi-step program to help me do this.

1. Get good grades. I'm hoping for high honors. In order to execute this first and most important step, I'm going to become more organized as well as avoid going online during the week. I can go on to ask people questions but that's it. If people want to talk to me they can call, but I get too ditsracted online.

2. Did I say get organized? This year, I'm going back to my freshmen ways. No loose papers in my backpack. Try to stay on top of homework and projects. No surprise tests.

3. Stay committed to my extracurriculars. Whatever I'm going to do, I'm going to do it all the way. there's no point in dedicated so much time to something I don't care about.

4. Make my own lunch. I'm convinced this will improve my quality of life. Not only will I be eating what I want, but also won't be getting ripped off. Last year this lasted a semester. This year we're going for a semester and a quarter. We'll see how that goes.

Thinking about college makes me want to stay in high school for the rest of my life.