Dinkles... the world's greatest marching shoes...
oh boy another extraspectacular day. lol not really. yesterday was just another yard work day. i called laura up and we talked a while. and late last night, jaws was on so i decided to watch the end of that and i was an hour late in getting to bed which wasn't the greatest.

i had to get up this morning at 7:30 am because it was memorial day and there was a parade to march in. it was also raining out which made everything worse. the parade was cancelled so all we had to do was play at this ceremony that was held in our auditorium. nothing very eventful there either. we had to wear our blue pants and these white shirts with the band logo on them and these white shoes called 'dinkles'. they are about the queerest looking shoes in the entire world. they're somewhat comfortable at least but they look really really gay. lol. no one really likes them but it's what we have and i suppose we should all be thankful for that.

and then afterwards, i went down to the vfw for a free lunch. it was alright. just your basic vfw food. so that was about it. i'm still searching for this label maker thing which i need desperately to make a label for a notebook with. i have no idea where it is. don't you just hate that? i mean you use this stupid label maker thing (which is shaped like a puppy's head and the label comes out through its mouth) like only a year ago and you put it somewhere because you figure you won't need it ever again. and you try to remember where you put it. but then you'll come across it while your looking for something else you've managed to lose and you put the label maker thing away somewhere else because you don't need it. but then here comes the time when i need the label maker and it's no where to be found! i always lose things in this house. maybe i'll get lost one of these days.

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that will be $9 sir... out of $10?.... okay $1 is your change..$9 and $1 is $10 have a good day
yeah so that's what was saying to the customers down at the coffee roasters all day from 9am to 3pm. boy there was quite a rush in like the last half hour and there were like a million people wanting coffee.

but hey i bet your wondering about finals. well friday i had the american history final. i wrote these two awesome essays. we'll just have to see what happens. and i also presented my holocaust project on "the devil's arithmetic" (which is a good book by the way) and that went very well. i drew these two great drawings. i think it's one of the better displays that i have done during my school years. hopefully, the rest will be as good or even better than that one.

it's getting kind of late here. man it's been an entire week since i watched schindler's list. i could watch that move again it was so good, such a compelling and powerful story. i think everyone should watch it sometime in their lifetimes.

well after the final in history, we had like an entire hour left to mess around "quietly" so we arm wrestled and listened to our cd players. i have weak arms so i'm not to great at arm wrestling but listening to music was good fun. dom let me listen to this strange german music stuff. like german disco-trippy music. it was....erm....very.....unique.

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the first day of finals
i suppose you're wondering how my day went? lol. it was the first day of finals (4 more days to go) and we had to take it in the power tech room which was not air conditioned. so it got a bit stuffy in there. at least he had a few fans going and that was a big help. the finals were for periods 1/2 which meant that i took my fcs, power tech, and art finals. the art one was probably the easiest along with the power tech one. but the fcs one was probably more difficult and i'm afraid i didn't do as well on that one than the others.

we had a like a half hour left over (we were in power tech for finals from 8:00 am to 11:00 am) so matt and i went to the back of the room to test paper airplanes. that was fun even though all my crazy designs are never aerodynamic in any sense of the word. there was also this huge, hairy black spider and matt killed it with his shoe. man that thing looked pretty poisonous to me! lol.

after that we went to our advisement period for an hour until lunch. advisement wasn't very productive. i think we were supposed to be studying but we did everything but that. just signed yearbooks and whatnot. and then it was off to lunch. nothing much just sat with a bunch of different people than i usually did. i sat with david, laura, and a bunch of others. it was fun.

you know tomorrow is my american history final. oh joy lol. i studied for it and it took like an hour but i seem to know everything on the review list so that's just dandy. i'm sure i'll do alright tomorrow. and also i'm playing for my band final to bring my grade up on it. i got an 86 on the final (with "the curve" which is something that i don't understand lol) and playing helps bring it up. so all i have to do is play 3 scales and sight-read something. and it's possible that i could bring it up to an 'a'. that would be good because i don't want my gpa to go down from it's 3.9876 (practically a 4.0 except i got a 'b' on the stupid math final earlier in the year). and i am going to work my butt off next year. i am taking a lot of stuff. i have so much stuff to do, i don't have time for gym class so i'm taking that after school. wow. so that's all for now. i will leave another message tomorrow.

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the past few days
i haven't left a message here for a while so i figured i would because i have some time to spare. the past few days have gone pretty fast i believe. yeah i think it's been like a week since my last message. a lot has happened but i think i'll just focus on the exciting stuff. oh yeah sure exciting.

well thursday night, i decided to pop on down to our school's talent show to see some real talented people lol. some of the dance routines were pretty crappy. one of the songs had audio trouble and the mic kept cutting out. geez. well i thought that this group called The City Girls was the best dance group out there. they should have at least placed 3rd or 2nd. but nooooo. it was a strange turnout. one of the guitar instrumentals ended up taking first and 2nd went to a song that someone sang, and 3rd went to a group that played "one" by metallica. so sort of a bittersweet ending i suppose.

then the next night, i decided to head down to the faculty vs. students football game. i hadn't originally planned on going but i had nothing else to do. so i went. that was really fun to watch. and i found a few people to hang out with and that was nice. see everyone was like "oh yeah i don't think i'm going" or "i have plans tonight" and then it turns out they all showed up. lol. it was a great time. i think the faculty won the game. david, matt, and i went over to visit teresa and some of the girls and it was so funny because they were taking all of the balloons down off of the stands and breathing the helium that was in them. boy teresa sure did sound funny lol.

it turns out, the game had to be stopped right after half-time (half-time was like an hour long lol) because of a severe thunderstorm heading our way. and kristin, david, kassie, and i were all sitting up on the main bleachers when all of a sudden, it started to just pour down rain. and thunder and lightning. it was like someone turned the faucet on. and we were stuck up on the bleachers underneath this little overhang on the announcment box at the very top of the bleachers. so that was interesting. and then we had to run down through the rain to take shelter by the snack bar.

well now i'm angry at the stupid national guard that was there ("come support our troops blah blah blah") because they had this hummer. and while i was walking back to the car with david, kristin, and kassie, the hummer had to leave. and it came up right behind us and people had to jump out of the way. and i tried to jump over this huge mud puddle and i did but i slipped and well yeah. i didn't exactly fall. but mud sprayed all over my pants and my NEW SHOES. yes that's right. the new blue suede ones. grrrrrrrrr.

so then saturday i had to work. i am working on saturdays now. oh boy. so that was a lot of work. well maybe not that much. i had to take a package down to the post office to mail, take care of some of the customers' orders, and fill all these 3 lb bags of coffee for some restaurant out in winchester. oh and make the usual sample packets and whatnot.

that night, i watched schindler's list. wow. that's all i can really seem to say about it. it had to have been the most intense, realistic, and gruesome of all holocaust movies i have ever seen. but what a great work. it seemed like a work of art that could move. the emotions portrayed were so real. it had some disturbing moments in it, some that i could hardly even stand (and i like never get emotional about movies anyway). oh man. i think everyone should watch this movie to get a good view on the holocaust and one man's brave struggle to save as many of the jews as he could.

i decided to watch it because we're learning about the holocaust in english. and we read a little out of the diary of ann frank. it's a great book emotion wise i think. it's a sad ending though, it is complete in a way and yet it still seems like the distant thunder is yet to come. and it did. the ending that was never written. it's too bad that she was killed in the death camps. the ending that many jews, unfortunately, had to suffer. may it never happen again.

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zigman's latest
i haven't left a message here in a little while so i figured i'd leave one for you all. the band final is coming up tomorrow. i hope i do well. i studied at least. okay maybe not for an hour more like 10 minutes. and then i had to clean the turtle tank which was absolutely spectacular work lol. and then i talked on the phone with laura for like a half an hour or so. and now i am on here. but before all this occured, i was dog sitting, this guy comes out of this field and tells me that i have to pick up after the freakin dog because it was his private property. geez. that was probably the most vile and disgusting thing i've ever done. yuck! lol. i have to do that twice a day till thursday. oh boy. i guess it's worth the 50 dollars. today i also tested the bridge project for power tech class. our bridge (mine and sarah's) held 47 ibs! that's like way more than i thought it would hold. that means our efficiency on the bridge was 1072 or something over a thousand. that's great. that means we get an 'a' on the project. i wished we could've done it differently (in fact if i could go back and do things differently, i probably would). it's a good thing i got a good grade on it at least. we're reading the diary of ann frank in english (which i read in like 4th grade lol) and that always makes me think of keeping some diary of some sort. not even a public blog like this but a private one. i don't think i would have the time to but oh well. it's good that i have this. i think we should all feel thankful for what we have. even if it sucks. i mean you could be far worse than you are right now i guess. oh and i watched the first hour of the matrix last night. it was pretty far out. to think that it's a pretty deep thought to think that all that we think we think are actually made-up thoughts that make us think things we think we thought but actually not real thoughts at all. whoa.



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new shoes
whew i needed new shoes. and so i went and got some lol. it was that easy. they're blue suede vans and they are so comfortable. the heels on my other shoes had blown out and all that was left was the plastic part which rubbed against my foot. and that hurt. i gotta figure out a new way of tying these new ones because the laces are a little long.

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new conflicts
man everyone is bugging me to join field band. boy is it getting annoying. and i might do it. i think i want to. but it would be really hard to. i would have to work it all out family and job-wise. and it would mean less time to do school work and i want to put as much work into everything (job, school, and field band, and other activities). i would have to work super hard to maintain this level of activity. to join also requires mandatory practices during the summer which i may not be able to attend. also, games and competitions are usually on weekends and this means less time to do school work and job work. i would like be working my pants off 24/7 and field band has to be a commitment. so i'll sleep on it tonight and i might sign up tomorrow. the odds are against me though but perhaps i will overcome them by the 'morrow. it would be nice if everyone would stop bugging me though...

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after the first day
well i finished my first day of work yesterday. whew! what a bunch of work. it was an interesting experience. and i worked for 6 straight hours and made $36. not too shabby. and the fact that i like never spend any of my money means that i will be rich soon lol. i think i'll invest in something on the stock market. then i could make more money! lol. i wonder what i should buy first...

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grass stains...
i just got finished mowing the lawn. man it was getting really deep. now i think our yard is about as short as our neighbors. that's a good thing lol! it bugs me when their yard is shorter. well today i got my design on the freakin silk screen thing and i'll be ready to print tomorrow. the first screen had something on it which caused it to streak and it messed up the designs. someone must have messed up back in the dark room. oh well. at least all is ready now. i'm looking forward to friday. friday we play kickball in american history and then in english we have this pizza party. and after school is cathy's birthday party. so hopefully all of friday goes well. and today the stupid school got my schedule messed up. i was scheduled for a career planning session and they thought it was day 2 and it was actually day 3 and i had band. so i had to miss band for that. and then my i.e.p. conference was also scheduled at the exact same time. so they really messed up. so i turned out missing the i.e.p. conference because it wasn't mandatory and the career planning center said that they would reschedule my session some other time. so after a lot of walking fast i just ended up going to band after all. geez...

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my day as it was
well today was not very eventful. i'll be getting my pictures from 6 flags back on thursday. what a while to wait now. lol. we're screen printing in power tech so that is pretty fun. my design will come out ok i hope. it's all pretty neat. i wish i had my own silkscreen thing at home. then i could make all sorts of designs and put them on t-shirts.

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