Monday, May 24, 2010

May 24, 2010

-Right now I'm sitting outside of the school wasting away a few minutes until lunch starts. I'm on my Junior privilege.
-When I first got out I didn't know what to do without a car on Junior privileged, well I still don't. I rode my Razor Scooter down to my work which is the building next store to the school so it took not long at all, and I checked up to see if anyone had offered to cover my shift I can't make yet. No one did, so I asked a lady if she would do it f I couldn't find anyone else, which she could. So I will still try to find another cover, but it takes a load of my back knowing that I'll still be able to go to this band concert on Thursday, if I didn't, I'd fail the class. Or the quarter anyways. Don't get me wrong, I have an A+ in band, just concerts count for so much of the grade.
-Well, not much else has happened today, it's not even 10:30a.m. yet. Last night I started planning out going to prom with that girl. I am a little nervous about going to a big formal dance at another school but oh well. (It's her school's prom, mine already happened. Plus were both juniors so we couldn't go to mine, but apparently juniors can go to hers along with seniors?).
-Well I'm going to eat lunch now.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

May 23, 2010

-Right now I'm at PBJ, I'm having fun eating a "Great Depression", it's a sandwich that's got nuttella, sliced strawberries, and grape nuts (for a crunch) on it. I just went on a pretty intense scooter ride around Portland with my friend, that was cool.
-Yesterday i got to hang out with the girl I went stargazing with again, I asked her out and she said yes, so were going out :) She made me a very cool bracelet, it's black and blue, kind of like a friendship bracelet. Except, it's a lot more pro looking than that. Well, I guess I'll start more from the beginning.
-So I woke up on Saturday morning at 7:00a.m. to go into work a bit early in order to fill out completion certificated I han't done earlier because there wasn't enough photo copies the day before. For the next four hours between 8 and noon, I just wasted time in classes and handed out pass/fail certificates. After that I got to clean my room and get my hair under control. Then this girl came over. First we hung around the house, then we went on a nice bike ride using the most comfortable bikes ever. Next we bought and ate a pasta dinner at a local store, then we started watching the "G.I. Joe Resolute", which is basically the Adult Swim remake of G.I. Joe but in a serious light. So, in the kids version theres no gore or intense violence or anything, well in this one Cobra kills 10 million people by blowing up moscow, just to prove a point. It was pretty intense and cool. Well, the progressed into us just laying around on my futon/bed being tired for like 3 hours until she had to go, then I asked her out.
-Then today I woke up (after sleeping in which was great) and mowed the lawn. Unlike usual, I actually took the time to do it nicely. Well, then I came out to PBJ, I'm having an amazing weekend, I guess it makes up for such a messy week.... :)

Thursday, May 20, 2010

May 20, 2010

-I don't even know where to start.
-Today i woke up late in a rush like usual and drove off to school, everything went normally. Then at school I got rewarded as "student of the day", that was really cool. I was having a very good day, then we got out of school and I talked to the guidance counselor about colleges.
-He said I had a good chance of getting into Bentley, Babson was alright, Boston University was pushing it, and I don't remember what he said about North Eastern. Well he also said I had decent SAT scores, but that wasn't enough for my family's, which I will get to later.
-So then we arrived at the school at 3:00 p.m. to cart people over to the ultimate frisbee game, but there was one person without a ride. I offered to give him a ride, I wasn't just going to let him be left behind. So we drove off, 7 people in my compact car, it holds 6 legally. Then while we were driving I had to cut a guy off in order to get in the correct lane, which I felt very bad about, but he felt much worse. He was behind us and followed us. I remember at one point the music was loud, and I turned it down and said "I don't want to draw attention to us, because were doing something illegal." Then the angry as hell guy behind me leans out his window and caught my attention, so i leaned out and asked him what he was saying and he said "if you're doing something illegal you shouldn't draw attention to yourself", it was hilarious. Well then we had to pass through a police blockade, and they didn't notice my overloaded car because they were to preoccupied with the guy in front of me. That was a very close call though. We were all really nervous!
-So after the police barrier, we kept driving until we got lost haha. Which we did very effectively. So we were driving at what was a sort of a T intersection when we were all confused if we should turn or not. So I put on my blinker, and then I turned it off like a second or so later and continued straight. Well the lady pulling out of the adjacent street looked at me in that quick moment I had my blinker on and didn't look gain, so she ended up crashing into us. it was pretty cool though, very little damage, my car is a tank apparently, and only had scrapes all over the passenger side haha. Her front of the car was pretty crushed however. Well then the cops came of course, and then I got busted for having to many passengers, but at least they were all buckled in, so I don't think he gave me a ticket for it, unless hes going to mail it to me or something. Well, he didn't give me one in person. I think he was to busy dealing with the crash (everyone was okay by the way). Then once all the information was exchanged I went to drive off and my car and it wouldn't turn anyway but right. It turns out (from what I know of now) the tie rod and drive shaft are all busted. My passenger side front tire won't turn, and the passenger side front door won't even open. I also have a transmission fluid leak, I guess my car is only a tank on the outside.
-AAA arrived to tow my car, this was probably the second best part of my day. Only beat by that exciting split second moment of being able to steer an out of control car, I wish I could feel that fast paced action more often.... I didn't realized how much fun it was until it was all over. Well the tow guy was an extremely chill guy, having a conversation with him was fun.
-Then, after dropping it off at the auto-shop, I got a ride home. The whole way home my mom told me that I should cheer up. When i didn't she informed me that my life had not been ruined, she followed this up by telling me the story of when she found out that my brother was autistic. She said the day he was diagnosed with autism, her life was crushed. She cried every day for at least year after that. Although she said that it hadn't ruined her life, I feel bad to say this, but in some peoples eyes, it did. She is now stuck taking care of him for the rest of her life, he will never graduate and leave. She will always be stuck trying to find coverage so he can work, and we don't want to send him to a group home because they abuse mentally disabled kids there way to often. THen I realized what it meant to have your life ruined. Not just the type of realize where you hear and understand, the type where you actually get to experience it, although I wasn't their first hand, I've dealt with it my whole life and will continue to. I understood. Then came lessons. My lessons were alright, of course, by now I didn't want to be teaching them, but oh well. On a cool note though, some girl lost her tooth at the bottom of the pool, I tried to find it, but couldn't.
-After lessons I checked the new work schedule for the next month. I found out the two shifts I have are at times I couldn't do, so I had to give them away. There goes my income for the month....
-Finally I got myself cheered up, I don't really know how though. Well as soon as I walked in the door home kind of cheered up, my mom informed "I've got bad news for you". She said my family was flipping out about my SAT scores and are forcing me into taking a prep class, which would either be directly conflicting with the new swim team I joined or marching band. So I have to give up doing one of them... I'm still deciding which one to pick. Although I'm going to look around fo more options, I'm not giving up that easily. It's just annoying because Im extremely devoted to both of them.
-As selfish as it seems, after listening to my mom list all fo her tragedies and how they don't compare to my brothers diagnosis of autism, I realized my mom has really bad luck. Then she informed me that I am inheriting it, and although biology can't rove it, from how my life has gone (no sob story, sorry if it is) I think she is right). And yes, I know there are kids in third world countries and so on. But as a comparison as to people with our standard of living and such, our family is definitely nearing the bottom with the luck and happiness chart. I have many more things to I don't feel comfortable discussing that are aiding that.
-Now I'm going to do homework, I don't really know where to go in all aspects of my life, I don't really feel very much up for anything. Except I'm going to a BBQ tomorrow, i've been planning it forever and I don't want anything to get int he way of it, we'el see.... Goodnight I guess.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

May 16, 2010

- Yesterday i had the most amazing day, i was really happy.
- It started off with me getting up to teach lessons and consequentially teaching lessons. nobody threw up or used the bathroom on me, that was cool. Then when that was done, I bought a bunch of cake making and decorating equipment/ingredients. It was costly but worth stocking up for the summer.
-Right before I went home I stopped at Bug Light and checked out the kite festival, it was really cool, I was impressed.
-After that I spent about three hours setting up my wireless router, which is very helpful now that the new one actually works as opposed tot he old one. Then my day turned for the best.
-Soon after I enjoyed the fruits and luxuries of wireless, this girl I invited over showed up. I was impressed she found my house from a city or two away, I get lost on things like that. Well she came over and we made a german U-Boat cake. Although it turned out looking more like a whale, the experience was the fun part, I had a lot of fun. Then we went into the old port and I bought us bubble tea. Nancy (the lady who works there) was very entertaining. We had a very lengthily conversation with here and then wondered around the old port a bunch. It was pretty cool, especially not being cold and all. After that we went to my house so I could buy MGMT concert tickets online which I had wanted to do for a while. But the tickets were to expensive for my tight budget and I wouldn't even be able to sit with anyone I know, so I decided not to get them instead.
-Then we went down to bug light, now it was 8:30p.m. maybe 9:30p.m., and we went star gazing. We laid down and she said she just wanted to see the big dipper, but with all the clouds you could only see one star every so often. Then almost like magic the clouds above us pated and right there, was the big dipper. it was perfect. We spent 2 or 3 hours just gazing at the sky, but it only felt like minutes, I've never been that mesmerized with the sky. Then I remembered why i used to want to be an astronomer, if only it was a more social job, I would do it in a heartbeat. Well then we went back to my house and I taught her/owned her at Othello. I really like that game, ever since my grandma taught me when I was a little kid I've always loved it.
-Then she left and I went back on my new wireless computer! I surfed the web until I fell asleep, literally on my computer. Leading me into today. This morning I woke up to a humming sound, and then i realized my face was flat smooshed on my keyboard, I jumped up in terror. but luckily due to some miracle, I didn't drool that night, if I had my computer would of been toast.
- Then right when I walked out of my room, my mom heard me and made me do the hedge, which took an hour or 2. Then I ate with her and headed over to Peanut Butter Jelly Time, which is where I am now.
-First some guy came in with a small dog balanced on his shoulders and these crazy sandals that were like sneakers without the heel suports on them, it was crazy. Then some guy came up to me and carried out a conversation with me like I knew him. I feel like I do, I just can't recognize him, and that makes me feel bad. But I also feel like I've never seen him in my entire life. he seemed nice though. I'm about to go to a party later, but besides that, yeah.
-Oh and i am going with that girl to either the movie or the planetarium next Saturday, I don't know which one to pick!
-Lastly, I just realized how happy I am I didn't buy those tickets, because I needed the money to buy a $15.00 gift certificate to Peanut butter Jelly Time for the winner of the Grand Sandwich Building Competition that sandwich club is hosting tomorrow, I'm looking forward to it.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

May 9, 2010

-Right now I'm in peanut Butter jelly Time chilling out. I'm surfing the web on my new laptop. Just a few days ago my Uncle gave me a Macbook Pro 15" Snow Leopard Edition. It's pretty cool, I'm enjoying it a lot. he said that he wanted me to have it because he felt he was never pushed hard enough in terms of education. I thought that was nice of him, but i don't feel any more motivated, and I feel bad about that.
-Today is also mothers day, I spent a bit of time with my mom. Although, after mowing the lawn for 2 hours I was fed up with her and all the stuff she makes me do on mothers day. So before she could assign me more chores I left, I told her I was leaving of course, and she seemed disappointed. I feel bad about that, but not to much. Mowing the lawn was a nightmare today. First, after taking ten minutes of pulling the string and primer just to get it started, the oil tank cap fell off. Not only did it fall of, the metal bar connected to it that informs me how full my oil tank is got all bent up, and then a huge smoke cloud formed all around me. I finally unbent it and took another 5 minutes to start it up again. Then just as I started being okay with mowing the lawn, the handle broke. My mom then made me go to the hardware store to get the part to fix it. As if this wasn't enough, I got into the groove of mowing once again, and it ran out of gas! I got more gas for t and finally finished mowing. I was done with being pushed around because it's purely mother's day, so I left.
-HAHA! My friend how works ate BJ just gave me a belgium waffle that he messed up cooking, I like it.
-Right now, I'm the only one of my friends in PBJ. Theres this girl I used to be close friends with, but I've lost all respect for her, and I'm disappointed she's ruining my Sunday by being here. THe weird thing is though, she always nice to me, it's only once I'm nice back that she's mean. So I almost feel bad for being mean, but then I remember not to. Mind games. Who likes them, right?.....
-2 days ago i took my Advanced Placement United States History Test. I think i did very well. On the test, theres a huge essay on a specific topic every year. Luckily, the night before the test I decided to study up on colonial New England because I felt like I forgot a lot of it. Then, the huge essay was on exactly that! I bossed at the test, I felt confident and content.
-Im also not sure if I mentioned this in a previous entry, but if I didn't I'd regret it. A week or to so ago. I flew a kite out of my sunroof, it was amazing.
-I don't get why the bad things always do better. like from a business aspect, lets say bad orange juice. Every time I come to PBJ I always want this horrible orange juice from concentrate, because there's more and for less money. I just finished the bad orange juice I bought today, and it tasted really bad. i think i want to try to lean mor towards good things.
-I also took the SAT's a week ago, and after I met this new person. I like meeting new people, not because of the hobby of meeting new people, but because the moment you meet someone, anything could happen. They could turn into your wife or your rival. So far this new person isn't my rival, and were not married, but were making a cake in the shape of a U-Boat on Saturday. I'm looking forward to that.
- On another note, I started up Pine tree, the swimming club. I probably already set this before, oh well. I'm enjoying it, they get me good and tired, but I have fun doing so. I don't have much more to comment about that.
-Oh, yesterday I was teaching swim lessons, and the person on guard told me to shower when I got home because some one took a massive #2 in the pool yesterday, and on the diving board, and ont he pool deck, and everywhere.... So that grossed me out, but I had to keep teaching. Then, five minutes before I got to leave, at the end of my last class. I was teaching a preschooler to swim, when he said, "I'm done with this" and tried to get to the edge. i thought he was being a wimp an pulled him back towards me to keep swimming, he then turned around and threw up on me. At this point i was so grossed out, but w/e. Gross stuff happens. i guess if gross things didn't happen allt he time, we wouldn't have any comparison to base our definition of the word clean off of.
-I hope the rest of my day goes well.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

May 4, 2010

-I recently took the SAT's. I did alright, but I got a little off topic with my essay, and felt horrible through the whole test, well confidence-wise.
-Yesterday I started Pine Tree, which is a private swim club. It was pretty doable and fun. Although it was the first day, and that's how first days go I guess. I did learn a lot of new stuff though, about how to improve my stroke.
-Today, we were playing frisbee. Our coach was really cool, and even though it was thundering and lightning, let us play anyways. Then, some guy in a truck came and basically said "did you know I'm really rude?", then we had to leave. But while we were leaving, the athletic director came up to our coach and talked to him, I didn't hear, but it looked like he was being the usual stricktler along with a bunch of others from our society.
-I also had my first junior privilege today. I piled my car full with kids from my study hall, and we left to go to a local diner. Then we ate. After that we came back, it was lunch but I was already full. It helped break up the usual drone of how the day goes down.
- Boring....