The cutting of team sports has begun (cutting of classes soon to follow).
Guster CD played by Sarah Thein in computer room...3 pple rejoice, Mr. Feigenbaum asks for it to be lowered :oP
LAVA LAMP FOUND!
Site updated as a last resort to avoid doing research for senior thesis.
The fade is gone, *sniffle,* due to protest.
Italics used way too much in this update.
Drivers Ed. results in nice nap…hopefully actual driving will not.
2/18/01 was the Kubricfest at my house...Cohen to become an engineer.
2/19/01 spent walking from 96th St to Chambers St due to guilt, chocolate.
Action of the day for 2/21/01: running to the bathroom...from Matt’s room. But now I’ve said too much...
Jackson earns the name "Inaction" due to lack of punctuality, action.
2/23/01: if a normal person eats lunch in front of an anorexic, is she considered a pig?*
Snood: increases procrastination up to 300%! Download it today!
The search for a lava lamp continues
Lava lamps still sexy
Amount of homework completed as of 1/2 day before school begins again: history term paper/project, grading of someone else’s essay.
Amount of homework left: much research in order to outline my sr. thesis for Ms. Raggi *shudder;* studying for French, history tests.
Barenaked In America to be released April 3rd! Mark your Calendars!
SOMEONE...let’s call him...Matt W...no wait, that’s too obvious...M. Waldron...has yet to call me.
Roger to call me every day to prove males actually know how to use phones and that he’s a stalker.
It's now Monday, and an interesting turn of events: Matt calls, Roger doesn't. Can't say I'm disappointed by this turnout :)
Jackson bitten by tiny shark while swimming in Hudson River...or at least that's the story we came up with for his scar.
*NOTE: Ms. Piggy is exempt from this question. Then again, she’s a muppet, so she never would have entered into the question. Unless if a muppet were to eat lunch in front of an anorexic…
THE ONLY COUNTDOWN THAT MATTERS:
days 'til graduation!
"Once I had this dream..."
I’d had this dream a few times, actually, over the past year or so. It involves me driving in a car, although it’s more like me frantically trying to control the car as it kinda goes down the street. I can’t use the pedals well (can’t get a smooth ride) and steering’s not easy either. I’m really freaked out, and I’m the only one in the car, so there’s no one to help me. I’m just driving down a public street w/ other cars fearing for my life and hoping against hope that I don’t crash into anyone. It’s one of those dreams where you wake up in a cold sweat w/ your heart beating fast and thank anything within 5 ft of you that you that it wasn’t real.
And yet, it just became reality...
Some Consideration For the (Scared Sh*tless) Student Driver, Please!
Ok, let me state that I am the only person ever to have not driven a car before having entered drivers’ ed. (or so it seems to me). Heather and I get into our car after the hr-long nap lecture, along w/ this kid Jed who’s in my homeroom (but I don’t really know him) and this girl who goes to the Friends Seminary, where the drivers’ ed.’s being held. Heather’s 1st to drive, and having driven for long pd.s of time on highways, roads before, she does really well. We’re out on the cold, congested streets of midtown, and let me tell you, it’s the real deal. I mean…there are TAXIS out here! And we all know how cabbies drive.
So it’s my turn next, and as I climb outta the back seat, I say to the other passengers there, "I hope you’ve written your wills." At which pt I get into the front seat, proclaim to the instructor that honestly, I have no clue how to drive this thing, despite having watched my parents behind the wheel thousands of times. So the instructor’s nice enough, and we get off to a weird start cuz it’s hard to judge how far down the pedal needs to be pushed to get a certain speed. We’re s’posed to be going under 25, but I always seem to push down too hard on the pedal and he’d tell me to slow down. When you push the gas down a leetle bit, you go nowhere. Then, ease it a little more, and WHOOSH you’re speeding down the street and an eye-popping 30mph. It’s funny how much more comfortable it is to go at 30 than at, like, 2mph, even though I have no clue what I’m doing and am sure I’m going to wind up injuring someone/something. I was so scared behind that wheel…it was like my crazy out-of-control driving dream all over again…the EXACT same feeling. That was one hell of a nightmare, and one hell of a ride I took Tuesday.
Quote of the Day for Tuesday, 2-27-01*: "It’s ok, we have insurance." – My driving instructor (repeated multiple times during the drive)
* Happy Birthday, Roger!
Does Senioritis Apply To Sports Meetings As Well?
Apparently, in my case, YES. This is the 2nd time I’ve been late for a practice, although this time all I really had to do was ref the games of the new kids trying out this yr. For those of you who don’t know, I’m on the Stuy girls’ handball team (see, all those yrs playing handball in the schoolyard pay off!), which has its season from March to May/June (direct conflict w/ SING! of course :oP). Last year I was able to juggle SING! practices and handball games/practices; I’ll see if I can pull it off again this year. The only problem I have is that I’d really rather hang out than go all the way to 96th St to practice in Central Park. So I arrived late to my Saturday morning practice over vacation, and I showed up late today due to hanging around school w/ Matt, people, and I’m sure I’m going to be late to many other practices as well. This sucks, cuz practice is definitely something I need at this pt...
THE SEARCH HAS ENDED!!!!!
Have I told you recently that I LOVE eBay?! Two days ago I won an auction for a lava lamp! A lovely blue one that "works perfect" according to its description (although, this guy’s grammar doesn’t). My winning bid: $20.50. Half the price of the cheapest store in which I’d found lava lamps sold. Total cost w/ shipping, insurance: $31.38. Not bad, if I do say so myself. Now we play the waiting game. I’ll tell you when it arrives so everyone, especially Rebecca, Inaction Jackson, can be mesmerized :)
REDRUM (or) "Hey, I Just Realized That's 'Murder' Spelled Backwards"
So about 3AM Sunday morning, Jason Cohen and I decide to finally watch all the movies we’d said we’d love to watch at 3 in the morning...only, we decided to do it later that day, at around 3 in the afternoon. My brother TEDDY (Timmy) had rented a bunch of Stanley Kubric films, (he’s a famous director who actually died recently, his last movie being Eyes Wide Shut…in case you were unaware) and Cohen, Sarah, and Matt met up at my house to watch as many as we could.
Cohen erected an shockingly stable structure made out of the pillows of my couch to block the glare, and with chips unused from the NYE bash in hand, we all sat down to watch Dr. Strangelove and The Shining.
Dr. Strangelove: I didn’t get to see much of this movie because I was too busy trying to work out fitting Matt and myself into a one-person recliner without massive injury and/or squishing. From what I managed to catch of the movie, it had something to do with America fighting against the USSR in the Cold War. There was an un-defusable bomb and some guy waving a cowboy hat involved. This movie was confusing and mostly unfunny, except for the phone convo between some U.N. or Pentagon leader and a drunken Russian official. And Cohen mentioned something amusing about Coca-Cola in there...
The Shining: This is a movie I’ve been waiting to see for a long time…even though I have yet to read the book. Not only that, I got to enjoy it from the comfort of my couch because we knocked down Cohen’s pillow construction once the sun went down. This movie proves that at one point Jack Nicholson was young…and that’s scary enough without all the bloody elevators and psychotic tendencies to kill family members. I think that seeing Hannibal, Silence Of The Lambs, and The Shining all in a 2-wk span has given me a taste for these psychological thrillers…and for BLOOOOOD! ("Run away, run away!") . Oh, and it’s a good thing Matt was there, because otherwise none of us would have realized 3/4 of the way through the movie that redrum is murder spelled backwards :)
The Wrath Of Mom
My mom has gotten seriously pissed that I’m the only one who seems to be throwing parties. This was partly alleviated by Matt’s movie thing (more on that later), but she has told me that I’m not allowed to throw any more parties (well, we’ll just see about THAT!). She just doesn’t like preparing food for guests, buying chips, etc, even though I’ve told her she doesn’t have to. So…sorry, Mangan.
**HINT: have more parties, you guys, if you ever want to see my house again!
5 and a Half Miles For Chocolate...And I’m Not Even Cohen
Monday I was supposed to be at Central Park at 8:30AM for the Stuy Girls' Handball team’s "Preseason Day." Pff...right, like I’m waking up at 7:30 in the morning on a non-school day. So I get to the park at 10:00 AM and nobody really cares. I only got to play for about an hour, though, which is sad, cuz I haven’t played in a year and I really suck. What’s even sadder is that I’m a starter for the team...
So at 11:30 AM, my friend Sophia Feng and her boyfriend Alex took me to this pizza place for lunch. I had pizza for the first time in about 3 yrs...sausage and mushroom...it was gooooood. Afterwards, I felt so guilty about having eaten that greasy mess that I walked from 96th St all the way down to Chambers St, where I went into the Rocky Mtn Chocolate place and bought my mom a ½ pound of the sugar-free chocolate she lives on (yes, she’s a health nut…and she’s the one who’s turned me against pizza! Blame her!). Afterwards I went into Starbucks to warm up and get some reading done, and then I went home. It was a nice day outside…there’s so much to see in this city!
So Then There Was That Thing At Matt’s...
Tuesday night I told Roger to ask Matt if we could all go to his place to watch movies, since Matt had extended this offer previously and we’d yet to take him up on it. So the answer being yes, I was supposed to meet Roger at 11:45AM the Wednesday at the Blockbuster on Ave U to rent *shudder* Caddyshack. So due to train delays (ie, trains not showing up) I met Roger at 12:10PM, at which point he tells me the Blockbuster is sold out of that movie (yeah, like they’d ever had it in stock in the 1st place). So why couldn’t he have met me at the station and saved us both the extra 20 mins? I dunno, this is Roger...
So I had brought Field Of Dreams and Dead Man On Campus (neither of which we ended up watching) with me from my house, and when Roger and I arrive at Matt’s apartment at 1:30PM we found that he’d already rented Wayne’s World so we set out to watch that before Action Jackson was s’posed to get there at 2PM, since he didn’t want to see it or something. So we watch the movie, and Action "Reliable" Jackson (henceforth to be known as INaction) didn’t show up til 3! This kid had never been on time to a social gathering, I’m convinced.
After Wayne’s World ends, Inaction and Roger leave to get food and Matt’s brother escapes somewhere with his guitar and a Metrocard. The place is conspicuously empty...hmm, Matt, what should we do? …And later I have to sprint to the bathroom when we hear his mother unlocking the door…but now I’ve said too much ;)
After Roger and Inaction return with their food, we debate which movie to rent next, Caddyshack or This Is Spinal Tap. At this point, Matt’s mother completely disses Caddyshack and Roger tries to defend the movie, until he realizes, "wait, why am I so defensive, it’s not like it’s my movie." We end up trekking a few blocks down the hill to rent Spinal Tap and get Inaction some more Viagra Lactaid. Man, is it ever cold...FRIGGIN WINTER! I had never seen Spinal Tap before, and I wasn’t sure I was gonna like it, but let me tell you, it wins Movie Of The Week in my book. Go rent it, if you haven’t seen it already, and if you have, rent it again! It’s incredibly funny…especially the Stonehenge part and the amplifier that goes to 11!
Roger, Inaction, and I ended up staying at Matt’s til about 11:30PM, during which time we got to watch him feed his obsession over Final Fantasy 7, and got a sneak preview of his website. He has an offline program that lets him do it! No fair, Cheater! (as I write this in Microsoft Word…). But seriously, the website looks as it will when he puts it online, with the colors and the graphics and everything, which is more than I can say for this stupid word processor. We also played You Don’t Know Jack (vol. 1) a few times, in which matt won the 1st game, and I won the next 2. He also showed us how the game’s host responds when 3 players type in "fuck you." Very funny.
Further Proof That Roger is Anorexic
So Roger and I planned to go for Chinese food on Ave U Friday. I was supposed to meet his at 11:30AM at the subway station, but I got there at 11 and decided to just go to his apartment (hah, who’s the stalker NOW?!). See, so I made up for my lateness from 2 days before :) We go eat lunch in Ocean Palace, a nice Chinese restaurant a few blocks away from the subway, because I haven’t had dim sum in a long time (you know, they’re kinda like a variety of little appetizers, brought around to your table in these carts and you can choose what you want…yeah…) so we went there. We bought a few things, but Roger only ended up picking through about half of his stickyrice in the half hour we were there. These things aren’t that big, this kid just doesn’t eat. Anyway, he was nice enough to foot more than his share of the bill, so maybe anorexics are of a generous nature.
P.S: Roger, remember to give me back Field Of Dreams at some pt before we graduate
Snood To Inhibit Graduation
So Cohen IMs me Thursday night asking if I’ve ever played this game called Snood. I told him no, and he tells me to download it, and now I’m hooked. The game is freakin’ addictive, and it’s what caused me to get to the library 15 mins before closing time Saturday, even though I woke up at 1PM. I see much lack of sleep due to this game in the near future :)
The Search Continues…
I’ve wanted a lava lamp for a very long time now. It all started when my friend at camp 3 yrs ago had one in her room…it’s mesmerizing, it’s fantastic...it’s an object that has eluded my grasp ever since. My brother recently got a "blob lamp" as a party favor from a bat mitzvah he attended (he goes to private school, all his friends are rich. Grrr...), but since he forbids me from entering his room (pff...) I don’t get to sit and watch it all that often, and frankly, I need yet another distraction to keep me from my work (even with Snood). So now, in every attempt not to do work, I’ve begun actively searching again for a lava lamp. I found a place in the village that had them for $40, but being the cheap Jew that I am, that doesn’t cut it for me at this point. Maybe it would have a few months ago, but now that I’ve been pestered by parental units to get a job for college, their bitching and complaining has gotten on my nerves and I’ve had only limited funds for extraneous luxuries. So I’ve turned to my dear old friend eBay. Ah, eBay, the place where dreams come true...if you’ve ever seen my room, all of my posters have been won from auctions on eBay, as well as much of the rest of my Barenaked Ladies paraphernalia. So my search continues on eBay for the elusive lava lamp...
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THE ONLY COUNTDOWN THAT MATTERS:
days 'til graduation!
