LUCKY....

I had to order my Cap and Gown stuff tonight since its due tomorrow, but it turns out all of Jakes stuff fits me. I just need the announcements and the tassel. I can even wear his Valedictorian medal and pretend that I am one too. It will be great!
Tonight was also the night for my asking Allison Bertelson to Winter Formal. I went to numerous craft stores, but apparently the only place to buy the glow in the dark stars was Omsi. I didnt want to go there so I improvised. I bought a bottle of glow in the dark paint, then painted large posterboard and cut out "W F ?" and put them on her ceiling, but unfortunately the tape sucked so they kept falling. So I ended up putting them on her bed, making a card to explain and I made it out just before she got home from dance. I have yet to hear a response, but I am hoping for a yes.
Other news, I had a dream involving Christine Halls sister and her old boyfriend. I was on a yoga ball and she and matt(her old boyfriend) walked up. I said I could pick her up and cradle her while I was on it, but she wouldn't let me. So I got up and did it and she was really light. I couldn't understand it but went on and carried her to a pizza place a few yards away. It turned out to be Matt's pizza place, then i don't remember anything else. So thats it! I am a bad story teller, it happens, get over it.

I'll make it short...

Today was my last day of Thanksgiving vacation, which for most people isn't too big, but i haven't been to school in about 9 days. Thats a pretty sweet break if you ask me. I am not sure what to expect as far as make up work, it usually turns out I have a lot when i figure I wouldn't and right now thats what i am thinking.
Jake left today and like most people he left stuff, important stuff. All of his toiletries in fact, so no more Sonicare until the 15th, no more contacts, and no more medicine, the rest can be replaced no problem. I am looking forward to getting back to school tomorrow, I have written down a daily agenda and I hope to keep it. Maybe I will finally learn to manage my time.

Treasure

Yesterday was the day after thanksgiving, a lazy day, I didn't do much. I did work out, and boy that is hard. I couldn't stay focused on a single exercise so I would do a few reps of one, move to another, and never go back. Needless to say, I will not be looking any bigger or buffer any time soon. Oh well, I have running, I can actually do that.
Today was my last day of working at AGA. Its nice to be done with that. While I do want a job, I didn't enjoy working there a large amount. It was alright, but I'd like to try some other types of work. Like restaurant or something. Then I went out with my family to the new mall at Tanasbourne, its alright, I need a lot more money for what i want, yet I quit my job, eh, oh well. Then I went to help Jeff rake leaves at his house. I domintated those leaves, he was going at his nice and easy pace, then i came in there and raked super fast and got a lot done in the hour I was there. Then I came home and it seemed as though the night was through, but wait! I get a phone call from Christine, waking me from a nap/'could have slept until 11 in the morning' at around 9. We talked for a bit and then she asked me what i was doing tonight and mentioned she had nothing to do. So, I asked her if she would like to see a movie, and this is where the Title comes in. We saw National Treasure. It was really good. I liked it a lot. I don't normally care for Nicholas Cage movies, minus gone in 60 seconds, but this one was good. I recomend you see it, its worth the 5 dollars or whatever the cost of movies are when you go. That made the night much more fun. I enjoyed seeing her, it has been since the middlish part of summer since i have and so I enjoyed it. My night gave the rest of the pretty good day a boost to a rating of a good day. Goodnight.

Thanksgiving is Delicious

I will start by telling the events of yesteday in a brief summary. I came home from UW with my brother via his car. It took forever because of all the freaking traffic from thanksgiving day break fools. But before that I got a haircut, so now I have much shorter hair. We got home, I played halo 2 until 3 in the morning, then today started.
I got up late, chilled for a bit until I went to the uptons to wish them a Happy Thanksgiving. Then I came home, ate at out house. Man oh man, I love thanksgiving food. Turkey, Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, dressing, all the great stuff. I gorged until I felt I could gorge no longer, with the idea of dessert in mind of course. I had some delicious pumpkin pie my dad made, it was really good, then we all sat down to watch The Terminal. Its a good movie, I really liked it. Then I came home and played Halo again and beat it. The ending is less than marginal, i really didn't like it. And now I will be going to bed, goodnight.

Tax

Here in Washington there is the lovely sales tax. This is a good way for the state to get some extra money, but unfortunately they don't advertise it, so when people like myself see a price of 1.99 for a toothbrush, we get out the two dollar bills and assume we are okay, but then we are thrown for a surprise when we find that we actually need to come up with an extra 15 cents for tax. As we scramble through our pockets looking for this change, we see other people looking at us funny and feel slow or something. We finally get out the change and end up getting more since we only have quarters. So moral of the story, whenever in Washington CARRY CHANGE! Its huge, with the tax you get all these funky totals you need to come up with.
Today has been pretty productive I went to Jakes World Politics class at which is his Indian Prof. who I think is pretty cool probably because of his Apu-like accent, then I studied for over three hours in the William H. Gates Law Buildings library, probably one of the nicest libraries around. It was sweet. They had all this great technology, for obvious reasons. It was more of taking notes and reading AP Gov. but studied is basically the same thing. After that study session I ate, it was 10 pm. Way late, but I actually wasn't too hungry. So we went to this pizza place thats good and then headed up to see Amy, a friend of jakes. She is seems pretty cool, I heard about some parties and stuff, got a tour of what a nice place on campus looks like. It turns out they aren't all like Jakes 'apartment' which is reassuring, but you also get into much higher rent when you get those types of houses. After that we went and looked at his old house he lived in. It too was nice, but again rent is killer, and while he is in New freaking Zealand he doesn't want to be responsible for paying the steep prices.
Then we came back to his place, which is growing on me, its convenient and everything. He showed me his "Pow'r Deliciousness," a bowl of oatmeal on crack. Its Oatmeal, Yogurt, Peanut Butter, Milk, Orange Juice, and Protein Powder; probably one of the most disgusting things I have seen, but he likes it.
The big deal of today: After Jake got back from his 'quick' dinner with the girl he is dating (I was in the law library studying, he got a call from some random sorority chick of whom he doesn't know, inviting him to a Jr. Cocktail in which he has a pre-set date with another sorority girl, of which he has briefly met, and they dance and stuff. He doesn't really know these people, yet they know of him, and want him to come. He thinks its funny and will go to see what their deal is. His friend Amy said that he just needs to get super drunk to enjoy it. Yep, she's pretty cool. Big deal for me? Did I mention I studied for three hours? Probably the longest time I have ever spent focusing on school. Yes, today was good.

I-Pods rock

Today was pretty cool. I got to sleep in, that was really nice. I then got ready and went to Jakes Ideas and Art class where they held a discussion about some poems and things they read. It wasn't too bad except for the few people who tried to sound smart by bringing up tangents, but in fact these tangents were not very related at all and as my brother said, "Some of the people need to be silenced."
Then we left for 'The Daily' - his work, and the schools newspaper. It seems pretty laid back there, everyone basically fends for themselves and just recognizes that the deadlines are approaching. Jake seems to basically own that place, he comes in, people recognize and he gets to work without bother. I kind of liked the mac's they had, kind of neat and sleek. Some were better than others, the editors had the higher end ones and the lowly writers had the crappy ones. I got to surf the web, play games, and listen to Jakes forty GB I-Pod. Man that thing is sweet! I got to listen to all these bands people had told me about, but I had never gotten the chance to listen to, like Secret Machines. Yes Brian Davidson, I did listen to them and I agree they are good.
After we finished there we went to eat at Tokyo Garden, a little Teriyake restaurant on the Ave, the main street of UW. After that delicious meal we went home, made some phone calls, chilled for a bit until we decided to go on a run to Gas Works. This place is an old Gas works with these large gas boilers right next to the water. Between the large tanks and Lake Washington are some benches and pathways running down the waters edge. It's a gorgeous panorama of the entire City. Since we were there at night you could see all the lights and it was a truly beautiful site. According to my brother its make-out central, and I can see why, you could fashion a nice little picnic on the grassy noll and sit your girlfriend down and have quite the afternoon, or evening.
After we finished looking around there we went back, but instead of going the same way home, my brother wanted to make an adventure out of our run, and so we climbed the hills of Seattle's streets making an extremely round about path home. We dominated those hills, all that Cross Country running really paid off for me. And now here I am, sitting in his confined room, typing in my blog. And in a few short minutes I will be off to sleep. Goodnight.

Trains

Today I left to visit my brother at UW and ceck out the school. I went by train so as to avoid the traffic and not have to drive all the way up there by myself. So my Train was set to leave the station at 4:05, I got there at 3:40ish. When I got there I found that my train was delayed by an hour and a half. I thought it sucked but figured its bound to happen. I sat down, read Catch 22, more like reread, I had read it before but not quite understood it, so I figured this second time around I could. I did, and got pretty far in the time alloted for it, about 60 pages or so. About the time we were supposed to be departing after the delay I went to check the schedule and found that it had been delayed another 45 minutes. By this time I am getting sick of waiting, this would total my wait time to over two hours. Complete Crap. But I waited and this time the train did come. So I boarded the biatch and prepared for the four hour trip that was ahead of me. I got seated by this guy from Calgary, a very flamboyant guy in his early 20's. I noticed in the first five minutes that the people that surrounded my had been together on this train since Los Angeles leaving plenty of time for them to become friends, and they had. It was really interesting to see the frienship these people had formed, almost their own cliche, and my arrival was like that of the new kid who enters school mid semester. I was the intruder into their little group and therefor sat quitetly reading, listening to music and their conversations.
The train ride was suppposed to take four hours, but this little train 14 was not going to have that. It was already two hours behind, why not push that to three? Shortly after my boarding, maybe forty minutes or so, this lady in the train behind mine had some sort of breathing problem and so the train had to stop and she had to be attended to. Apparently the train doesn't carry oxygen so she had to be shipped off to the nearest hospital and we continued our journey. More time went on, I continued to read and listen to my music. Much later we have another problem, it appeared that another lady had accidently bought a ticket for the Tacoma train when instead she wanted the Centralia one, which is where her son was to pick her up. After we passed Centralia, only by a bit, she realized this and had to get off, so we actually backed up, yes, went backwards down the train track. After this delay my fellow train riders were getting frustrated seeing as how they had been on for over 30 hours. I too was getting upset, I just wanted to get to Seattle. Finally at 11:06 we arrived in Seattle, only 2 and a half hours behind schedule.
When I got to Seattle my brother was there to pick me up and we headed to his basement residence. That place is freaking crap. his room is maybe 40 square feet. VERY SMALL, and his dining area consists of an incredibly crappy kitchen with a fridge, a sink, a small broken dish washer, and a tiny shelf area for the food. Then we have the bathroom. Probably the worst part of the whole place. That sucka is only 20 square feet max. It consists or a toilet that has a step-up thing because for some reason its elavated, a shower with as much mildew as there are in those bathroom cleaner comercials, the ones you think don't ever exist, and a sink. Probably the worst living conditions considering he's paying 300 bones a month for that. includiing utilities.
I ended up sleeping on this POS sofa right next to their 'front door'.

Incredible

This morning was pretty bland. I woke up, went to work for the 3 and a half hours I teach guitar lessons, and then came home. Upon arriving at home I sat around, contemplating what I would do with the rest of my day; work on homework or play video games. Its not hard to decide between the two so I went upstairs, plopped down on my bed, and starting playing Halo.
Jeff arrived unexpectedly at about 3 and notified me that he was going to be applying to a coffee shop down at the tanasbourne mall, and that later tonight, he was free to do something. I said I'd like to see a movie, more specificly "The Incredibles." I thought he, Becky, Anneliese, and I could go have a pleasant evening at the Movies thanks to my birthday gift certificates to Cornelius 9 cinemas. While he was over Anneliese called and said we ought to hang out tonight, I said cool, and she said she'd call me. So Jeff left at 4 so he could get to the coffee shop and turn in his application and talk to the owner.
Meanwhile, I played Halo 2. I played, waited for the phone call, waited, talked on IM, waited for the phone call. Continued playing Halo, all the while accomplishing a lot by beating numerous levels, and waited for a phone call, checking my phone every little while to see if my phone had just not picked up. I ate dinner, it was pizza, I really like pizza a lot, and went back upstairs to play Halo. Still waiting for the phone call, by this time its like 8, and its getting to be too late to actually do anything so I figure i wasted another good Saturday night playing video games instead of having fun with some friends.
Then at about 8:30ish, Jeff comes over and asks if I want to do math. I think this is a funny question seeing as how its late to start doing math, but being the easy going guy I am, I go along with it. He says he wants to go over to Anneliese's and do it. I tell him I've been expecting a call but she hasn't so I figured she was gone to a party she said she was going to later tonight. I try calling and low and behold, she is there, I ask if she wants to do math and she says okay. So Jeff and I head over to her house and we are there not more than five minutes when Jeff says, "Oh, I need to go get my math stuff, I left it at home. Want to come with?" I say okay, and Anneliese says alright as well. So we get in the car and he turns the wrong way and starts heading towards main street instead of Jackson. I tell him he is going the wrong way but he says whatever he will get us there, and continues to drive. I tell him he needs to be going right, but he turns left, and I figure he is being funny and so I go along with it. We get onto Baseline and head towards Cornelius and Forest Grove. I tell him we need to turn right onto first but he goes straight through the light. All this time I am desperately saying, "JEFF! you are going the wrong way! Come on, you have to go RIGHT!" He says he is just taking us on an adventure and so I let it go and say that we just need to be sure to take the backway to get back onto Hornecker so we can do some math. He says that he thinks its the one right by cornelius 9 so I say NO! its not, but he turns in anyways and says there must be a through street, or he will just turn around in the parking lot. I think he is crazy but figure what the heck this kid is crazy, oh well. So we go around in a circle and just as we are about to leave he parks, and says okay. I finally realize he meant to go the wrong way and we were going to see the Movie.
He had planned it with Anneliese, who is ridiculous, she had thousands of chances to mess it up, and had things not gone perfectly she would have. Turns out that phone call was supposed to be her kidnapping me, but she fell asleep. So jeff pulled through, came over and told my parents and stole my gift certificates. He then faked the math thing, but since Anneliese had just woken up, she believed it, forgot about the plans to go to the movie. She even asked if he wanted to just borrow her things since she had all the supplies! Its wild how everything went together.
THIS IS VERY LONG I KNOW, but I am almost done. So we got to the movie, I am dumbfounded on how they pulled this off, and then the movie starts. ITS SOOOO GOOD! I was totally smiling the whole entire time. I absolutely loved it. And Highly recommend it to everyone in the world. I would even go see it again. Those artists are super talented, they have a scene where the characters hair are supposed to be wet, and its phenomenal, they did a fantastic job!

Curious

Today was a good day despite the fact i got my quarter grades back and I have two C's. But keep in mind they are very high C's. To the point they ought to be considered B's but the teachers choose to keep me down. In math I got the problems I did by myself all wrong. I freaking suck at that class now. I don't know what the deal is, I never tried so it can't be that. In English I gave a speech about morality and how my conscience holds me back from stealing and such. I thought I did well, until Powell told me he thought I was going to be over way early on and thought I should have ended it when he thought. He made some comments about other peoples speech's who referred to him and said that all they needed to do was quote him. He is full of himself.
After school was the big show, I made a sweet ace poster for Winter Formal, it has three lightning bolts in gold spray paint. Then I went over to the Uptons and "worked" on math homework. It actually turned out being sitting by the fire with becky and hanging out. That was enjoyable. After that I went to Glencoe's own fall play, The Curious Savage and let me tell you! It was really good! I liked it a lot. We've got super good actors here, I enjoyed it even more than Forest Groves. Way to go our school! Taylor was really funny in it. He played a pretty quiet statistician who now plays the violin. He has a few witty remarks and swings his bow around while saying them; like "FIGHT THE NIGHT!" pretty good stuff, you'd have to see it to know what i am talking about. Tomorrow is work, and with that comes one step closer to being unemployed, which I want. I am done with AGA it has served me well, but its time to move elsewhere, like GI JOES! I applied there, who knows if i will get hired, most likely not, oh well. Good night!-

TKAM, good ole TKAM

Tonight I went and saw Forrest Grove high school perform To Kill a Mockingbird. It was good, they left out a lot of things, which of course is necessary when making it a play, but it made me appreciate the book more and reminisce about the good old days of sophomore english. I really enjoyed that book and probably ought to read more often. My time spent reading since freshman year has severally dwindled into nothing. Unfortunate, but I have been keeping busy with many other things.
Today was an alright day considering I had two tests; an easy on for Human Bio, and a hard one for AP Gov. Despite the difficulty of the latter I feel I did pretty well on it and I am looking forward to see my score. The rest of school was alright. We got to see the teaser for our fall play and I want to see that too. Its only running this weekend, but I think I will manage to get some time to see it.
I learned some news in Yearbook that disturbed me. I have for the past two yearbooks. I keep hearing about parties kids have and they are pretty crappy. Lots of illegalness and other stuff, limousine parties sound pretty freaking nasty. I don't know why I have to hear about all this crap that goes on amongst our troubled youth, but I would like very much to be out of the loop on this one. Its really late, I am screwed, no way will I wake up tomorrow on time.

P.S. Its my mom's birthday, so Happy birthday to her!

Jobs

I have recently discovered the fact that money makes the world go round. I had thought, even with the small job I had, that I didn't really want a job, it was just for fun and a few extra spending dollars, but if I wanted to quit no biggy. Well with the end of that job fast approaching, I have realized I need money to get cool things. I want to a buy a lot more things than the money I have is allowing, so I am looking for jobs at The Gap Inc. and GI Joes, more to come I am sure. The thing is with being a student and having a social life working during the week will be a bit of a hard thing to pull off. Anywho, if I can get money, I can buy sweet things, like awesome clothes and possibly some winter sporting stuff. It would also be nice so I can afford to buy my family nice gifts for the holidays.
I am having a better day today, I guess I got into a bad a yesterday, maybe its the sleep, in which case tomorrow will be bad. Life is going pretty well, I have two C's but they are almost b's meaning I can pump them up to high B's by semester which is what counts. Tomorrow I have a few tests and as usually I hardly studied, we'll see how they go. Thats all I've got, if you want to pay me for something like driving you around which I probably have done, you can.

I shake

I don't think its normal for a 17 year old kid to shake. At least one who is basically in perfect health. I don't know if I should be worried about that.
So once again I have been thinking about myself and not in a conceded way, but trying to figure some things out. I don't like my consistent lack of care behind things. I need to be more motivated to succeed in life, its not something I want to go through as a passive person. I want to make the most of it, and if I continue to be like I am, it won't get very exciting. I also don't like my shirking of duties and procrastination. I set up numerous lists throughout the day that are supposed to help me complete the tasks of that day, but it always seems at though other things come up that really shouldn't be held as more important than what i already had. I keep short changing myself and it just leads to disappointment, which compounds. And its not like I am depressed or anything, I just want to make life more enjoyable and better. This could just be a moody pattern where I am hitting a low through the week or whatever the pattern is, but I want to change some things.

Lame

That is today's theme, not because today was lame but rather that I have noticed some rather lame characteristics about myself. I check my email like twice a day, like someone is going to be sitting on their computer emailing me super often. When I do get mail its always crap; you'd think I'd learn. Secondly I sit on the computer with Instant Messanger for most of my night, checking people's away messages, seeing who is there and not. Thirdly I get on the internet and do jack crap. To sum it up, I spend WAY too much time on the computer, I need to get a life. But wait, I do play video games and watch tv instead sometimes. Man, I need to get out and do stuff, hang out with people, come up with creative things to do other than be on the computer. If this doesn't change my life will have a considerable amount less value and importance that it could be. So make sure you are checking up on my. Another necessary reason for me to stop spending so much time on the computer is it hurts my eyes and makes me feel sick when I have been on for a long time.
Another thing I do is check my phone, as if someone tries to call me every hour. Like I am that popular that everyone wants to get a hold of me. I need to cut down on the lameness factor and increase on the meaningful activities list.
Other than these realizations today was uneventful, I did get a C in Math, thats really exciting. Its kind of hard to convey my sarcasm on the internet, but I am not happy with the grade. Then end.

Sunday Bloody Sunday

I failed to mention in the last blog that I kicked the crap out of Jeff Upton. He and I have liked Anneliese and she recently has decided she likes him. This is after her and I talked. So I went to Jeff's congratulated him, then wrestled him into the cement and scratched him up really good without getting hurt. Or at least thats what we plan to tell everyone. The real way he got to be in the state he is is a funny story. We were on our way to the dance competition and I jumped on his back, he gave me a piggy-back ride and started to run, all of a sudden his legs gave out and he fell to the ground, he was holding me up so he didn't have his arms to catch his fall. He biffed it right into the cement with me on his back. I wasn't scratched one bit for I had my hands free, but that kid ate it hard. He is all beat up and thats why we made up that far more interesting story to tell all the kids at school.
So yes, Anneliese did, today, make known the fact she likes Jeff. It is a good thing for him, not so great for me, but I am a nice guy so I will be happy for my friend. Other than that nothing big happened today, I mowed my grandparents lawn and it turns out that they have a lot of leaves. I picked them up and filled an entire yard debris bin with it. While filling it I noticed a bee had made its way into the pile I put into the bin, it scared me to think I might have almost touched it, but i continued to fill the bin and I felt kind of bad because I could hear it beating its wings really hard trying to get out, but I was scared that if I let it out it'd sting me, so I closed the lid.
After yardwork I came home and had an uneventful day doing homework, not playing Halo 2 which has been in Scott Heters posession for the last 5 days, I am getting it back tomorrow. I have no deep thoughts for I am not in the deep thinking mood. I will end this blog with me saying, "All you need is love," and, "in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make..."

Finally Back

So after a three day Hiatus I am returning to write in my blog. This will be a very long one since I have the three days to catch up. Eugene was a cool place. I was surprised by the number of people I interacted with that didn't know their way around. We got lost at least 5 times around there because people didn't know where we were supposed to be going; in the end it was I who found our way, pretty crazy.
So on Thursday I woke up at 8 so we could make it to our college tour, we got lost en route- no surprise. Once we did get there this lady talked for an hour about crap I could have found on the web, then we got to go on the tour which was alright, it gave me a general view of what campus was like, it seems pretty nice. Then after the tour we went back to Kate's apartment and I cooked myself my delicious Spagehtio's for lunch and then Jeff and I headed off to play tennis. I thoroughly enjoyed our tennis match, I have lost lots of my skills and stuff, but I am really excited to get back into playing really soon. I want to start playing a lot. After the tennis we went back to the appartment Jeff and I cooked the girls dinner; a freaking humongous steak thingy, beef roast or something, mashed up some potatoes and cooked some green beans, we freaking rocked that out at about 7:45-8ish since it ended up taking two hours for the roast to cook. We stayed up late watching "Bowling for Columbine" a wild movie that definitely makes you think twice about America. Then bed.
Friday was pretty late day, Kara Wendell, one of kates roomates took us to her English and Mass Media classes, I enjoyed the Engish. It was about Medival Poetry and I thought it was interesting to learn that there were deeply religious meaning in many of the poems when at first glance you'd imagine them to be simply about the Knight and snakes. Mass Media I found to be boring, I thought it would be neat but I didn't feel like I gained anything from it. After that we went to Kates Geology class. You can't imagine it'd be much fun with it being about rocks, but oddly enough I payed attention and learned some things. After class we met up with about every single UO student who previously attended glencoe, it was wild. We were at the bowl or dish or some saucerlike name they have for this area of the campus and we say like 10 kids from Glencoe as we waited for our college hook-ups to take us to their appartment. We watched Oceans eleven and ate takeout from Red Robins while a fantastic blaze of fire arose from the fireplace thanks to me. Then after that, we watched Dr. Strangelove or something something. It was a really weird supposed 'dark comedy' that I didn't believe was funny but rather sad. It was about this Nuclear War and stuff, you'd have to see it to know, I can't even explain. Then we went to bed, again, late.
Finally Saturday rolls around, I wake up before the other fools, get stuff packed and ready, we leave by 10 something and head to Wilsonville to watch Becky dance. We find it WITHOUT GETTING LOST!!! this is new to the Upton family children and its a nice thing. The competition was good, Glencoe got first in its section and all the other schools were really good.
So now I shall reflect over the weekend. I have noticed that at College, outside of dorms, its incredibly difficult to eat well. You have a minimal selection of food and you can't eat it all at once. And the food you have is mainly for meals, no real room for snacking. Secondly, its completely self-reliant. These guys have to make sure they study or else they fail, they don't have people telling them to do this work to learn, they decide, obviously this isn't new, but it hit me while there. Thirdly, movies are a great way to spend time. There is a lot more I am sure of, but right now I am tired and want to get to bed, so goodnight.

I'm in Eugene

Today was an even day meaning I have Calculus, Leadership, and English if you haven't quite picked up on that one yet. Calculus is not my favorite class, thats for sure. I used to like math but not anymore, its too complicated and everything. Leadership is super cool, hanging out with neat people I like, having a competition with Jeff to see who can make the best poster. He won, while mine did have a lovely powderpuff girl picture on it, he had a three dimensional neato writing thing. English was alright, we watched Hamlet once again, getting closer and closer to the exciting fencing match and all the hysteria of every member of the royal family croaking. Prety neat stuff.
So... on to the exciting stuff, after school I ran to my house to get ready for the big trip to my current location. After I finished packing I went with jeff to get some of the necessary food items for our journey. Then I went to a doctors appointment and had my blood drawn. Jeff had taken my car to finish some errands so I was left to fend for myself as far as getting home; so I walked. I walked all the way to Jackson school from the hospital, thats a far way, then Jeff finally picked me up, and we left for UO. Then, and this is the good part, we drove and drove. Four hours of driving infact. They say its supposed to be a 2 hour drive. Thats a good good thing. So why did it take so long? I might ask Jeff that, perhaps the fact that we drove through Eugene, around it, and then just then did we get there, pretty long trip. Well we got to Eugene safe and sound, watched moulin rouge, a crazy crazy movie, lots of strange stuff going on in it. But I liked it.

My eyes are green

This morning was neat, I was told by Mrs Harrington i didn't have to do any of the busy work assignments in her class anymore seeing as how I am a tag student. That will be nice for those long packets that she gives out. Then today in Third period I played a game of keep away with Lukes keys. I stole them and ran around the school away from him. He couldn't catch me; its the Cross Country. AP Gov was okay, I should be more worried than I am, I haven't done some homework assignments and they could severly hurt my grade but right now I don't care.
Afterschool was key to todays sucess. Right after school I zoomed over to Game Stop to pick up my Halo 2 Silver Edition. After doing that I zoomed to the bank, then to lukes house to drop off the remainder of my money owed to him. Then to the gas station to fill up for tomorrows journey to U of O, which means I may not have access to a computer and therefore cant right these for the next few days. But after gas I went to drop off my mom's prescription at the bank. Then I headed over to Thomas and Collins house to check out the Halo Party. All in all, it took me 45 minutes from when I left my house to get to when i got to the Halo party, how you might ask did I do it so quickly? I will tell you, 100 mph on Shute, and speeding on every other road, with severe acceleration after every stop. I averaged I'd say, 50 mph the entire journey. That was pretty sickening actually, I felt queezy from the all the quick accelerations. Anywho, I then came back home, ate dinner, and then! went to Scott Heters house to play Halo 2. We freaking whooped it up until I got a call from Anneliese, which I had been expecting -I left her a note saying we ought to talk soon- and so I went to her house and we talked.
What did we talk about? Well, about my liking her. She took it very well. I had planned for a long conversation, trying to convince her it doesn't have to be awkward, but I didn't even think it was awkward. For the second time this year I got a response I am happy with, "I wish I liked you like you like me" So life is good and our frienship will still be in tact and good. Then I went to the Uptons. Enjoyed the time there, established that Becky and my frienship is very good and that we like hanging out, I would like it if all my girl friends were as close with me as she is. And now I am sad that I don't have my Xbox to play Halo into the wee hours. I bid you all a goodnight!

Iam Perfect

No, I did not forget to space, that is a name that Becky and I came up with, Iam Perfect, because thats what it sounded like when she said "I am Perfect," in responce to me asking her how she is. Anyways.
Today was what i like to call a passive day. I just let things happen; I sort of flow through the day. No particular good things, no bad things. I slept in for 45 minutes today missing most of first period but I got there just in time to ace my skull test. Good job me for studying. Math I actually paid attention and got through the whole class without getting distracted with drawing or passing notes to people. Third period I talked about movies with Luke and Elyse, it appears I have been missing out on tons of movies. Its something I ought to do more; watch classic movies that is. Leadership was alright, nothing spectacular. AP Gov was okay, I still need to finish that one essay from a week or two ago, but its soo tempting not to. But alas, if I am going to be a good student I need to get it done. English was okay, we watched Hamlet again, not bad, getting more interesting now that all the action is happening.
After school I talked with the Mom about my going to see my brother Jake at UW. I am planning on going not this wednesday, but the next, so that means a three weeks straight of three day school weeks. I am pretty stoaked about that whole deally, and spending time with Jake should be fun.
The rest of today went alright, talked to Jeff about last night, got a new perspective; I am going to root for him. We are both in it together, so if he gets her, good job Jeff. Tomorrow is sure to bring an excellent time since I will have HALO 2 SILVER EDITION! I am sooooooo pumped to play it. I will be playing for the next few days nonstop after school. WHOOT! And now for bed!

A mixture of awful and nice

This morning went pretty well, I slept in, cleaned a bit around the house, organized my room and got rid of some clutter then started on some homework. I got a phone call from Anneliese asking when Jeff would be home, I said I didn't know and thus ended that conversation. So then I worked on math for a bit finished the entire assignment except for three problems I wasn't quite sure of how to do. So I called Jeff's house, knowing he was on his way back from Eugene and asked him to call when he got back so he could help me out. I continued working on homework; Read the final act of Hamlet, brainstormed for an essay about it, worked on some AP Gov. and couldn't concentrate so I cleaned my room up some more, got on AIM talked for a bit. Then early evening arrives and with it arrives Jeff at my house asking if I wanted to do math. I welcome him home and bring my math stuff down to get to work. Just as I get to the top of the stairs the phone rings and its Anneliese. She asks for Jeff and they converse, meanwhile I get my math stuff together and sit down until they finish. Jeff then informs me she invited him to go dancing tonight with her family because they have an available spot at the fundraiser. Upon hearing this I feel like crying. Not only had she talked to me before, and on friday for that matter asking for his cell phone number, but she called my house for him. I be sure to play it cool and say, thats cool jeff, have fun you'd better get home and clean up for it. He tells me he feels bad for leaving and that she asked him instead of me, but it doesn't make it any better. In fact I might have rather have not known, I just felt like crap. I went up to my room, tried to get back to work and get my mind off of it, but I couldn't. Its one thing to want to have him go, its another to call my house looking for him and talking to me without mentioning it or saying 'I told jeff we could go together, sorry, maybe next time you and I can.' But that was not the matter, it was news to him, and II was very upset.
On the other hand it makes it a bit easier to stop liking her, due to the obviousness that she likes Jeff more than me. But again maybe i am just saying this because i am upset, maybe she didn't realize it would be a big deal to me. Whatever, I am going to live, everything is fine.
SO! I couldn't concentrate on homework, and so I talked to Christine about it, she said she was sorry and felt bad, it helped to have her say that. Then I went and ate dinner, after which I then went to my good buddy and confidant, Becky Upton. We talked for a while about it, she apologized as well, and then we got into some homework, snuggled for a bit, did more homework, and then I came home and here I am. I have completed about fifty percent of my homework which is an improvement, but I still need to work more. So thats my night, pretty rough, but as usual, it got better.

Getting Better

The sickness that infested my body yesterday is finally leaving. I am feeling much better, I assume its to the 13 hours of sleep I got last night, not to mention the three hour nap I took this afternoon.
I have looked into UO some more, figuring it might be nice to stay close to home. There are plenty of people I will miss if I go far away and by staying somewhat close I won't have to. Its just a three hour drive, or two, something like that. I looked into their Arts and Science College as well as their Architecture and Allied Arts. The latter really caught my attention. I like the idea of doing artsy classes where I don't have to constantly be thinking about number theorems and stylistic writing. I have always enjoyed art classes and I wish that I had taken more in school. I might add a seventh period next semester and try to take advance art or something. During Yearbook I have gone into the crafts class and I have been working on mosaic which is pretty neat.
I am seriously looking forward to the three day week thats just ahead and my visit to UO with Jeff, it will be a really fun time. On Saturday we will be going to Becky's dance competition which I hear will be very entertaining. I think that this weekend has been the start of a realization period where i hope to get more on track and work harder. I've even done math homework tonight, whoot! Now its time to get back to work and or sleep.

Ugh, feeling less than 100% is not fun

I woke up this morning with a big stuffy nose and felt sick. I decided I could make it through school so I went and had another awful day in math. We got our labs back, another name for practice AP problems, and I sucked those up big time, I got a C, which I am pretty sure will lower my grade even more and I am upset. I freaking hate not knowing how to do math anymore. I used to be so good, now I suck at it.
Student Council was less than marginal, maybe its me feeling sick, but the assembly was not great, and I didn't get elected for Winter Court, which isn't really a big deal, but I do community service a lot; probably more than others. Oh well, its not that big of a deal.
English was okay, we just watched Hamlet which I find to be pretty interesting, the dialogue is really hard to understand but thats to be expected. I went home after school and got talked to by my mom, she says I haven't been myself, I agree. I think its partly because I've been really tired and not feeling great, not to mention my crappy grades in school and my not wanting to be there, but I have been a little down. I talked to the Upton kiddos about this, they said maybe its because i haven't been getting exercise like I was during Cross Country season. That sounds good to me, I will start working out and or running soon, not today, I don't feel good. I am tired and not going to the game, so I am going to bed.

OC premeirs

Today I had Human Bio, Yearbook, and AP Government, probably my easier of the two days. Human bio is not especially great because I am not with any good friends or anybody I care to hang out with, but bones are neat, and I get by. In Yearbook I talked with Elyse Gambino about what I thought I would do next year if I go to college. I have been thinking about taking a year off, or a leap year as it is reffered to, and visiting perhaps Africa and volunteering. I think it would help me a lot; I'd gain so much experience in just that one year that I would be ahead of everyone at College. if I did go to college though I think I want to do art. I am getting tired of math and sciences, which I thought could be a main factor in a major I would choose, but now I am thinking I like art and I like computers, so perhaps, if i mix the two, I would get something like Graphic design which would be fun, I like Photoshop alot. I have also considered going into Architecture, which would give me a little bit of art, a little bit of math, and a little bit of science.
I went to the Uptons house again but only stayed for a bit, my family needed me to come home and take care of some things. So I did that and did homework so I could watch OC.
It didn't turn out quite like I had imagined. It seemed to me that lots of things were supposed to have happened over the summer, and so it tried to fill you in on all of them, but it became confusing and a little bit over the top. I have realized I don't like Marissa, she is a stupid biatch, and I don't like Ryan's old girlfriend with whom he had the baby. I think that now that they have caught things up to speed the rest of the season should be better and more entertaining. Now that I have finished this up, I will be going to bed.

The Day after Election Day

I woke up a little early this morning to check the interenet to see how things were looking. Well, the first headline I read is on CNN and it says "Bush confident in victory", then I go to MSNBC's website, which during the whole thing had said bush was winning, said, "Bush Wins, Kerry Concedes" Needless to say that made me upset. Then learning that the Oregon Public have banned gay marriage desturbed me. Overall this morning pretty much turned my day sour. So I get to school, looking forward to seeing my friends and we get our math test grades back from the test we took last week. Well, I had thought I did pretty well, turns out I suck at Calculus, I got a C on that sucka and that brought my solid A down to a low B since it was weighted so heavily. That dampened my spirits tremedously and further convinced me that I wanted to get away and not deal with the crap of daily life for a bit. I am just feeling pretty tired of every class and daily requirements. I am never going to use Calculus, why I am learning it. I am interested in things that I believe will be usefull, otherwise it seems like a waste of time.
Then I get to go home early so I can make it to my doctors appointment and the rest of the day went pretty well.

I spent the evening at the Uptons again; they are basically my second family and its great, they are really great. So Becky and I hung out for a while until Jeff got home, then she worked on more homework. Its pretty neat when you can just cuddle with someone in complete silence without having the silence seem awkward. Then I hung out with Jeff and we played pinball until he could beat my amazing score of 1.6 million points. Then we all hung out until I left for the night.

Life can get pretty confusing and today was one of those days. During the afternoon I wasn't sure what i wanted from anything, I have known in the past and have made decisions failry easily, but today I just had no clue. I had no clue about relationships, about the future, pretty crazy, I felt like a blob just flowing through life, and I want to enjoy it, and have it contain purposeful meaning and excitement.

Election Day!!!

Most important thing about today is it is the day I will get a general idea of who our next president will be. They say its all projections and there will be re-counts across the board, but I will still be excited to see the results. I would like Kerry to win, I think he would do some good things. The important thing is that if you are unhappy with what is going on now, you change it, and so I would elect to change it, and thats where Mr. Kerry comes in. Its pretty interesting talking to kids about this whole election deal. I know I am not one hundred percent informed and have some biased opinions which stem from my parents and grandparents thoughts and opinions and so its interesting to see where kids stand, and why. Some give good reasons and I respect them, others give stupid replies that make me want to shun them and just punch them in the face.
Other neat events that have occured lately: Sunday was Halloween and I had the best costume around. I dressed as Napolean Dynamite and Scott Heter was Pedro, so that was freaking sweet. I had the perfect glasses, the perfect moon boots, the "Vote for Pedro" shirt, the acid wash jeans, and the red curly hair. It was good. Everyone seemed to enjoy it at the party I went to at the Uptons Church, Old Scotch Church. That was pretty neat; we played games in the graveyard and a neat pictionary game thats like pictionary meets the phone game.
I have also talked to Allison Wilcox about my mentallity as far as school work comes. I really need to step it up and start working on homework right away and not procrastinate. Because procrastination kills. I have started to get homework done, which oddly enough has been in the presence of my friends which for most people would be a distraction. I like feeling accomplished by finishing all of my homework and studying. Hopefully I can keep it up and pull the 4 point again.

Today is the First of November

Today marks a special day in the History of David Zavertnik. I actually did my homework, and a fine job of it too. I had Human Bio and so I studied for a test by drawing a skull and labelling all of the bones that comprise it. It looks really good. I bet I could scan it and have it on here. You all would be impressed.
I also witnessed one of the most hilarious and shocking moments in English Class. Gary Powell, the AP English 2 Lit teacher, is sitting on his high stool, its at least three feet off the ground, and he leans onto his makeshift podium. Well the podium slips and CRASH! he is on the ground. I being the diligent worker that i am did not notice this until I heard the crash and looked to find Mr. Powell on the floor covered in papers from his podium. All the students were in shock and were simply befuddled as to what had just happened. Needless to say, it will be ingrained in my head for days upon days.
The rest of the day cannot live up to that last story. But Jeff did walk my dog for me, thats a pretty neat thing to have happen, and I spent almost all of afterschool today working on homework at the Uptons even though it was not anything that either Upton child was also doing.
Thus Concludes my Blog for this fine day of November the First. Now I am off to bed!