It's that time again. The

It's that time again.

The week's been a good one, I think.

Monday was alright, I went to classes in the morning, math was review day (got back my two quizzes and I actually did better than Tyler on one of them! heh). English we pretty much did nothing if I can remember correctly, I think we watched more Truman Show (good flick, too bad we never finished it). Photography class we made prints for our class books. After school I didn't do much, but I did work on editing my video.

Tuesday was much of the same, except in the morning Paul came into my car around 7:30 (woke me up the damn bastard ;-) ) and asked if I wanted to go to McDonalds. So we did. This was very convenient because when I went to bed Monday night around 11:30 I had checked my messages and Pam Healy had asked how I was doing my annotated bibliography for Creative Writing ... something I had completely forgotten about altogether. Plan was to simply show up and say I'd forgotten ... which would have been 100% the truth ... and great thing is it didn't matter. But McDonalds instead of Creative Writing posed many convenient opportunities. So we did that. Lots of fun, came back for government and watched My Fellow Americans. Humanities we watched more Spirited Away but also reviewed some Baroque crap. Stupid bitch ms. cheevers is. Physics was a free day.

After school Tuesday was the NHS party, pizza everywhere and I decided not to eat any because I'd had McDonalds that morning and didn't pack a lunch but wasn't hungry anyway. Left the party at 3:00, called my Dad's secretary to find out what time I was getting my vaccine shots for Vietnam and turns out ... 3:15! So she calls over there to let them know I'm going to be late, because while Jewish Hospital Medical Campus is a mile away from school, I left the forms I needed at home. So I rush home, traffic was a fuggin' biotch, leave the door at 3:15 and by the time I'm downtown OF COURSE, third street has to have construction all the way to liberty and liberty is backed up for the entrance to the highway. I pull into the first lot, turns out it's for MRI patients only, so I have to pull back out, I pass the next lot which unfortunately was the only other lot and the one I needed to park in ... realize this fact, but traffic again is bumper to bumper cause of the highway onramp, and so I turn right onto the next street and thankfully find a meter to park at. I put in 2 hours worth of quarters (don't ask why) and run to the building, and thankfully there's already some ladies getting on an elevator and I hop in.

I wasn't late. Well, I wasn't late for my 3:30 extension that is. They said if I couldn't make it by 3:30 not to bother. But I made it. BARELY. Anyway, talked to the lady, had to get Typhoid, Hepatitis A, Malaria pills, and some Traveler’s Diarrhea pills. When she gave me my shots, I was feeling great. I'm like "man, I can't believe I used to faint when I got these things." She puts in the right arm, and actually I wasn't sure she'd actually done the right arm or not until she was wiping it. Then the left arm hurt like a bitch. But I was still doing fine, and she's cleaning up, and then all of sudden WHOOSH I'm so light headed I nearly faint again. But I didn't. She ran and got ice and some wet towels and I slowly felt better. That left my arms sore for the rest of the day, it got really bad around 9 or 10, but then slowly got better from that moment.

I then stayed up till 4:30 working on my video for English. It's so pomo it's crazy. Funny thing is that Tuesday I talked to her about how my video was a little long, and would actually go over my nine minute max plus I'd still need a presentation, and she said "ok I'll let you go last so you'll probably have to present Friday." Aiight. But I still stayed up till 4:30 finishing so that I could have it done with and over.

Wednesday I was constantly falling asleep in math because of the above bedtime, then English everyone presented and we definitely had to see Aaron Patterson with his shirt off 3 times in his video, plus Todd Elkin in the same state. Might I just take this moment to say that it was very traumatizing. Anyway, then photo more work on the class book.

That night my family left for Baltimore. The grandmother was home for all the graduations (the brother's at Hopkins, mine this Thursday) and all of them, including her, left for Joe's. I stayed home for finals. Anyway, that afternoon I napped for about two hours, and then got up and went to Kroger to buy everything for my chili conqueso (16oz Velveeta cheese, 2 cans of Hormel chili with beans, and 4oz of diced green chilies, pour everything into a container, preheat to 350, cook for 30 minutes ... stir ... eat) and ran into Amanda Steinhauer while I was paying for it all. She was there to interview for a job. So I invited her back to my house to see the English final, considering she was one of the actresses, and we did that, and then she left and I started working on my annotated bibliography. Then I made the conqueso around 11:00, and went to bed around 11:45. Heated it back up that morning, Creative Writing I made my credo/pledge thing, last ten minutes of class I heated the conqueso back up again in her microwave. Government we finished My Fellow Americans and watched our English projects, whoever had one. Oh! And we watched a pep rally tape from 1995 with a skinnier, younger Ms. Stewart as the dazzler coach! Physics final was pretty easy. Only couldn't answer two of them.

Napped after school, and then went to Joanna's concert. Turns out others had the same plan, I figured I'd be the only one there, but Marc, Ashley, Anna, Robert, and some others showed up. The show was incredible! Reception afterwards, and then stopped off at Kroger to buy fruit, milk, and orange juice. Worked on the final when I got home, fixed up some stuff, etc, finished around 1:30 or so, outputted it to two tapes (one for her to keep) and then made this sheet that explained some stuff. Went to bed around 2:00. Math final in the morning, which I thought went very well until afterwards everyone including Tyler thought it was hard and didn't go well. This basically means that I did horrible, because something had to have gone wrong for ME to think that I did well. Scheisse.

Finally presented the final, we had our donuts in class and the milk and orange juice (and the fruit I brought was for me, since I'm not eating sweets (I'm on the sweets bet again with the sister)). The final went off well, and she gave me the following hilarious comments on my card. "You really 'get' the complexity of the po-mo" (so I have decided along with the help of Marjorie to incorporate pomo into the contemporary slang dictionary) and then "You raise some frightening questions." I thought this was funny. Want to see for yourself?

My English Final!
It's 40 megs, I was able to download it in 2 minutes 3 seconds (335kb/sec) on my cable modem. Dial-ups won't be so lucky.
It's being shared on XDrive, I had to sign up for a free 14 day trial and I HAVE TO REMEMBER TO CANCEL before that ends, or else they'll charge me five dollars a month.
It's realmedia, if you don't have that go download it.

And that's basically it. Finished the photo class book (which I'll scan later) and then after school went to Dairy Queen with some people (couldn't eat any though, again, sweets bet) and after THAT went to the Vietnam kitchen with Mr. Curtis, Joanna, Ashley, Marjorie, Matt Schauer, and Tony Parker. SUCH GOOD FOOD! Came home, napped about, and did nothing for the rest of the night but work on getting some sort of internet video of my English project.

Spork.

PS - let me know what you think of the video! all of you!