Stupid Blogger... Rar

Well, I apologise for the delay in posting. Apparently instead of posting my last few posts, Blogger has been saving them as drafts. When I try to post those, it deletes them. Soo... here's a bit I managed to recover from one of them:

This week was a complete waste (does that make four in a row?) Chemistry has been reduced to card-playing, our sub on Friday seemed worried that we should be doing work, but we told him we had been playing cards all week.

The weekend was pretty decent... Friday and Saturday nights were spent at Goose's house, watching movies including Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Kill Bill Vol. I, and some political commedy that started with a B or a D.

That takes you up through last weekend, with a few major gaps. Dad left for Vietnam with my aunt for three weeks last Thursday, it sounds like he's been having a fun trip. Someone in their group was attacked by a monkey and had to go to the hospital... wouldn't that be interesting? "Hey... how'd you get that scar?" "I got bit by a monkey back in 'Nam..." Neither he nor my aunt were bitten, and I guess the person is fine, so thats always a plus.

Anyway... thats about it for "interesting" (only slightly) stuff last week. This week has been decent so far. Still going out to lunch every day at Fred Meyer, its only about $1 more than the school food, and SOOO much better. Seriously, you can get a real sandwich, or some fries with actual potato in them, fried chicken, mountain dew (with a buy-one-get-one-free cap)... all kinds of stuff that is better than grease saturated pizza or a hamburger with unknown meat.

Yesterday was the SMT fieldtrip to Mt. St. Helens. Since very few of my readers went, I'll say a few things about it. Met at school at 7:30, I was assigned to the mostly-senior bus with a group of other juniors... nice. There was another bus of juniors and a few sophomores in our group, the three busses of freshmen and sophomores went to the places in a different order. We stopped at a bunch of different visitor centers (the one near the freeway, the one a bit closer, and the one almost directly in front of the crater). We also stopped at the sediment retention dam (long name, sounds boring. A hike through the woods with a hundred teenagers is never boring.) I have a few pictures from there (thanks to Kyrie and her awesome picture-taking-skills.) Just a warning: I was too lazy to resize them before putting them online, so for any of you with slow connections, they might take a while. If you all complain enough, I might make it a bit smaller... but hey, these are wallpaper sized! (If you are using me as a wallpaper on your computer, I think I should be creeped out!) Here's Forrest... in the forest! and the playground at the visitors center where we stopped at lunctime.

Oh yea... and to top it all off, one of the freshman busses broke down on the way home, so we had to wait for them to call a new bus. FORTY MINUTES! I have no clue why we had to wait on the "Dike Access Road" for forty minutes while all the other busses kept going, it wasn't like we were doing anything to help. Got home around 7:00, but it was still better than going to school. Plus, I actually got some sun!

Today was a day... like almost every other day at school, nothing much happened. Skoog managed to do something entertaining in chemistry today! We sat around and ate while playing cards as usual, but we were in the physics room, watching him light off large water bottles (you know, those giant, kinda blue-ish things that they have in offices and places like that) full of alcohol. Some of the alcohols burned really fast, but some of them would make great one-shot flame throwers!

Hattan caught a bunch of people who had been using her answer key for quizzes. There was a question that wasn't in the book, and 6 people managed to answer it correctly. Wasn't me, but she wasn't too happy with a lot of people today.

Along the lines of unhappy teachers, band has been sucking lately. Jazz band has been the worst, we're playing retarded music and stopping after every few measures. People don't show up on time (there were three of us there at 6:30 this morning, that's not unusual.) Oh well. Less than a month to go!

Well... I think thats about it. I'll try to post more, now that it seems Blogger isn't being dumber than a pothead in... well, actually, a pothead pretty much anywhere. My jokes are getting stupider than normal, which is a good sign this post is over.

Another one bites the dust

Another weekend down. This week was pretty much a waste, I think I've actually had almost 10 minutes of homework in the past three weeks. Looks like a lot of the AP classes are really winding down now that we're past the tests.

Friday night was poker and Family Guy at Goose's with me, Goose, Jesse and Kevin. Amy showed up after a bit, it was a good time overall. Note to self: Diet squirt - not so good. Cup of liquid cancer, anyone?

Woke up on Saturday to some unpleasant surprises. First, I had mysterously developed a great chest cold and cough overnight, wearing out my throat and voice. Second, the sun had disappeared and it was raining. Crap. Hazel Dell Parade.

The parade wasn't that bad. Met J-dub and Kevin at the DMV (end of the parade) and rode with Jesse to Safeway (beginning of the parade.) It was somewhere between misting and raining for most of the parade, so I got to carry 2 pounds of wet wool in addition to 6 pounds of cold steel for a few miles. Good workout! After the parade, I helped drive people back to the beginning of the parade, wouldn't have been a fun walk in the rain, with a band uniform and such.

Most of the afternoon was spent laying on the bed with the laptop, drifting between alertness and sleep. Around 5, plans started forming for a movie night at my house. (Remember... Hockinson is farther east than it seems!) Ashlie managed not to get me lost going to Kelsey's house, and considering you can see the curvature of the earth from there, that's impressive. We met up with some friends from Centennial (Kaela, Katie and Rick) and Goose and Cabalfin showed up too. Watched Zoolander and just hung out, it was quite fun for several reasons, and im not going there. Here's a picture of the SHS band people, thanks Kaela!

Today wasn't bad, I mowed part of the bank down by the lake (looks like I'll be getting a good deal of cash from that, its taking a long time since its so thick and wet... umm... that sounded dirty!) Xar had his Eagle ceremony today, so that occupied most of my afternoon, the remainder of which was spent in front of some sort of screen.

Looking forward to another pointless (please?) week.

Sloooow day, this Tuesday

AP Chemistry test today... failed that. Seriously, I'll be lucky to get a 2, although I was really shooting for a 3. There wasn't much on there that I actually knew, there was a lot of stuff I've never seen before. Guess that says something about the teaching in the class, since I was not alone with my opinion on the test. Anyway, we went to Muchas afterwards, got some real, greasy mexican food. Yummy. I showed up for the band playing test in 6th period, then we had parade practice for an hour. Mom got home from Vegas (she spent Mothers Day down there with my grandma) so it looks like I'm back to driving the tank and eating real food again. (Although, the Sequoia has its advantages... it may not be able to do a U-turn, but it can make it through all that stupid Fruit Valley construction a lot better than the Audi.)

Some messed up stuff in the news today. First, avoid speeding for a while. Apparently the state is paying $25,000 in overtime to increase patrols for speeding, especially on the freeways and main roads. On the bright side, maybe they'll clean up the Skyview school zone. SCHOOL ZONE. 20 MPH.

Also in the news, Teen Attacks Boy with Screwdriver. This seems like the kind of thing that would happen in somewhere seriously messed up, like Yakama or California, but no... Vancouver. Greaaat. What's really scary is how I drive by that house a few times a week, including once just over an hour before the whole thing happened. Also scary how many friends I have nearby. I thought my neighborhood was the only one with the violent and crazy people who did stuff like that.

On a lighter note, I added more links to the sidebar, and I shifted a bunch down to the "Inactive" section. If I ever get bored enough (maybe tomorrow, or even later tonight) I may do some work on the colors and stuff, its time for a change. Too much work to customize a new profile, so I'll probably just fix up this one.

Well... I'm out of things to say, but I have plenty of time to say more. Looks like we're down to just projects for the rest of the year, we've learned pretty much all we're going to learn. Some of my classes have almost degreaded to the point of "film appreciation." Oh well. Hazel Dell Parade this Saturday, other than that, I'll have to make some plans for the weekend. By the way, anyone have suggestions on how to keep someone from going home and going to bed at 3:00? I'd appreciate some help there.

Hmm... they redesigned blogger. Not sure I like it, but I guess I'll adapt.

So anyway... what a week! 3 AP tests (English, Statistics, and US History.)

And then yesterday, prom.

Spent the morning and most of the afternoon setting up the screen, getting flowers, stuff like that. Picked Ashlie up at 5:45, went to pictures at Union Station. Dinner was pretty good, we met with Kevin and Kate, Cabalfin and Kelsey, Jesse and Sara, and Goose and Meg. Food was good, not too expensive either. (The $8 for parking was half of a meal.)

After dinner, we went to the dance. Parking around Union Station sucked, so we used Ashlie's dad's post office ID to park in the employee lot next door, then we took the long way and walked up and around on Broadway. Still managed to beat Goose, who took his fair share of wrong turns on the maze of one-way streets. The dance was pretty decent, the music wasn't so great. Actually, the DJ was pretty terrible, he crossfaded everything for a few minutes, so we'd have Michael Jackson with Eminem. Not good. Still, 'twas fun.

When the dance wound up around 11:15, we went and got the car and went back to my house. There was a difference in opinion (between most of the girls and most of the guys) about whether we should do one couple per car, or combine. (Probably don't even need to guess who took what side in that argument.) In the end, I brought out the Sequoia so we could have a few couples together. We started the movie around 12:45, and the movie itself was terrible, something with "calm" in the title, one of the worst movies since Walking Tall... something about 3 people out on the ocean. We turned down the sound a little way in (we used an FM transmitter to get it through the car stereos) and made fun of it.

By the time we finished the movie, it was 2:25. Everyone was tired, and we spent a little while figuring out who was driving where with who and who was driving what where. Meg had to drive Kevin home, because he didn't want to drive without his license at that time, so Goose was following them out. I drove Ashlie home, had to take Kara home too on the way. Technically, my license isn't good between 1 AM and 5 AM, but I didn't get pulled over by the one cop I saw. (Probably because I was going 5 under the limit, had my lights on, and was staying in my lane. Go figure.) Got home around 3:30 this morning, slept well considering it got light out 2 hours after I went to bed.

Last week was WASL schedule, so nothing really happened during school. At all. Friday was fun, spent the evening with friends, as usual. Saturday was even better, we set up the screen in the afternoon and got ready for an evening trial run. Then we had a BBQ at Kate's house, then we came back and watched "Seven" on the big screen. How big is this screen? 10x16 screen during the day, 10x16 screen at night, from across the yard. We all lay on blankets or in lawn chairs and watched the movie, then we just sat there and talked for a while. I think it was close to 1:00 by the time everyone left.

That's about all I have to say... AP English test tomorrow. Yay... fun. Then comes Stats, then US History, then Chem.

I'll post a bit about the last week tomorrow... or maybe that's later this morning. Oh well.

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