2/29/04, 8:30PM
Song: John Lennon - Cold Turkey
This month is almost over, and nothing that excited has happended at all. I even remember the first entry of the month almost as if it were yesterday. Last night we watched a movie, it was weird, but I think we all expected it to be. After I got home I decided to stay up kinda late, which was a kinda bad idea. I attmeped some homework, I didn't really get very much done. Missing school days is just too hard anymore, [i've said this before] back in elementary school it was good to miss days, not much went on, but to miss a day you really had to be sick; but noadays you don't have to be sick to get yourself out of school, but if you do you miss out on too much and might even go to school with a small cold. Anyway...
Last night I had a really weird/eye-opening dream. It was kinda scary in a way... I need to do something about that.
Also lately some people in general have been annoying to me, not one particular person, but pretty much everyone in general has to some degree. This isn't the first time this has happened either, it'll pass in time, or at least it did last time. Not much else to say other than I updated the Blogs section of the right link bar thingy.
2/28/04, 8:40PM
Song: Dream Theater - Overture 1928
This should be my last entry for the day, hopefully anyway. On my ensambles we did pretty well, the trio got a 2 and the chior got a 1, I was just wanting to share that with you, bye.
2/28/04, 7:55PM
Song: Audioslave - Like a Stone
I'm sitting here and Jessica is playing with my hair. She has already done it once and is now doing it again, I really don't know why I'm letting her do this to me. She is hurting me every now and then, but it's ok I suppose. I added a new "Check these out" links to Mozilla Firefox it is a really neat browser thingy. I've been using it for the past few weeks and I really like it, if you don't, that's fine.
2/27/04, 9:40PM
Song: Mike Keneally and BFD - Selfish Otter
New poll, please vote.
2/27/04, 9:10PM
Song: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
I'm bored. But it's my fault, and I'm ok with it, I'm kinda enjoying it since tomorrow I'm going to be pretty busy. I have 2 ensambles tomorrow which should go pretty well, and we are even getting back pretty early, noonish. After that I'm going to work some more on my paper, I have just over 2 pages done, but would like a few more. I also have homework in just about every other class, so I'll be keeping busy.
I've begun to hate the statement, "It's the thought that counts." Because it doesn't really matter. If it was all that mattered I would be a much happier person I believe. Oh well...
I got a new background as you can see, it should be easier to read some of the stuff now. The picture is from DeviantART and they have tons of cool wallpapers and other things. Not much else is worth saying right now, bye.
2/27/04, 1:30AM
Song: OSI - New Mama
Today was a good day for me overall I would say. Started off rather crappy, but everyday would if you had to wake up at 5:45 in the morning, because of orchestra too. The trip there and back wasn't that great, but definatley not bad. We got 1's in concert and sight reading so that's good.
After that was overwith we ate at On the Border. It was good, I got really full because I had to help someone with theirs. Nothing too exciting.
Eventually got home, played a few games, then went to a friend's house. We attempted to watch a movie, but too much was going on. Then we sat around and just did whatever, so people left, others stayed behind, all in all i think everyone had a pretty good time.
This weekend is going to be pretty busy. Solo and Ensamble Saturday, good thing it'll only take the first part of the day. Today/tomorrow (depends on how you look at the day) I have to pay my car tag, register to vote, and practice the trombone trio with Shelly at 3. On top of that is the homework for a few days. Of course I also have to mix in a few games, and a few other things that need to get done, but who knows how much I will actually get done. Ok, I'm done, I had something to talk about, but I think I'll save it for tomorrow.
2/25/04, 9:50PM
Song: John Lennon - Stand By Me
Eeeh, too bad about the calc shirts, but hey, I'll get 10 more points on the test so that's good. I hate orchestra. It's not very fun, and we have contest tomorrow that we have to leave the high school at 7 for. Which means I get to miss calc, always a bad thing to do, and miss several assignments in other classes, just to play one song and to sight read in Edmond. I guess it could be worse, it could be test test day in several classes, we also get back at a pretty decent time, 3-4 (I don't remember exactly). Time for a few random thoughts:
I don't like band... at all
I wonder if I'll get out of the house this weekend
I need to work on English
I need a job
I need sleep
Frank Zappa is weird
The Beatles were more than just The Beatles
I need a new background picture
I wish I could play guitar decently
I'm an addict
I hate reading
I can't wait til summer
College scares me
My life is sooooooo boring
I have no talents
I dislike myself usually
I don't trust many people
These are getting gradually more depressing, so I'll stop now. That's all for tonight.
2/24/04, 9:45PM
Song: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter
If you paid attention to the listed song you would notice that it is Page and Plant doing a Led Zeppelin song, not Led Zeppelin. Though both are part of Led Zep, this is pretty much a cover of their own song, which is pretty cool. On this CD there are also other covers and origianl songs by them, so far I like it.
Today was pretty boring other than english and calc. In english Ms. Rob blew up over our calc/jbs shirts. I don't see it as that big of a deal, the people chose to take calc, and then decided to droped it, it was their choice and they have consequences, if you would even call it that. Another point is people could have asked to have their names taken off, all they had to do was cross their name off the list, and poof, it wouldn't be put on the shirt. And my last point applies to some, and probably most, that people brag about dropping it. They drop a hard class with a lot of homework and transfer an easier class with less homework, now they have more time to do other things, they don't have to study as much as us calc students, and most will even end up with a better GPA because of it. Oh, and I dropped out of sophmore honor english, and I don't care who knows it, it was hard, I couldn't handle it, Sean, Danny, and Moser still give me a hard time about, but oh well, it's a high school class, it doesn't count for much. Ok enough about that.
In calculus we had a test (which is why several people were sporting their new, offensive, blue shirts) and I think I did pretty well on it. I just kept trying things, and eventually pulled out an answer, I guess I'll find out tomorrow. I guess that do for my rant for tonight, it looks like I'm done here.
2/23/04, 9:15PM
Song: Yes - Don't Kill the Whale
Ahh, today was a pretty good, not too productive, but nonetheless decent. I went over to LChris' again and got another "job" yay [edited to fix typo no one told me about time: 10:05, 2-25]. Also went to JBS which I think really helped, seeing it over and over again helps. I might even say it helps more than me doing it myself, now sure, seeing it over and over as well as doing would help even more, but seeing it is so much easier. Blah, I can't think of anything else to write about.
2/22/04, 10:35PM
Song: John Vanderslice - Foothills of my Mind
Yay, I actually some quite a bit of homework done today. I'm starting the third page of my english reseach paper, and I'm now on 8.6 in calc. Other than that I haven't really done much today. I hung up my new Yes poster that came with the 35th Anniversary CDs, I also downloaded some more John Vanderslice songs, you must listen to Foothills of my Mind, the music is just sooooo cool.
My mind has been doing some kinda weird things to me the past few days, I keep imagining things and it makes me double-take. I'm not sure what it is, but I guess it's not really bad thing, just odd. Also my winamp playlist has been updated, but there are still more things that need to be added, and I need to ID3 tag my George Harrison stuff.
2/21/04, 10:15PM
Song: Iron Maiden - Paschndale
DFSJLKJLKGFLKJFLJKFDSALKJ!!!!!!!!!!!!! repeat. I went to Hair tonight. I wasn't too impressed, I guess it isn't my type of thing. I was late and it was packed, so for the first act I sat alone beside the aisle and a broken seat. Earlier today I went to go help LChirs with his computer, it took a lot longer than I thought, some of the stuff just didn't want to work, but regradless it was kinda fun. I also looked up some more stuff for english, overall I didn't do much today. *sigh*
2/20/04, 10:45PM
Song: Yes - Siberian Khatru
I'm pathetic. Today will go down as a sad day. One kinda good thing though about today is I got some new CDs. Yes, I'm an addict, I need an intervention. The CDs were a 3-CD set of Yes. It's their 35th Anniversary, and so far Yes is even better than I thought. As of now I'm on the 2nd song of the 2nd CD. The CDs also came with a poster. But I'm not sure if I want to use it as a poster, or for the insert in my CD case. I'll probably go with the poster. I think I'll go to bed "early" tonigh, so I can get a good start on either calc or english before I go to Hair. I'm sad, good bye...
2/19/04, 9:20PM
Song: Coldplay - Amsterdam
The very first that happened to me that is interesting is I was almost in a wreck. I was driving down Shawnee and someone was pulling out of their driveway, and didn't see me, I almost went up on the curb to dodge them. They just kept on going, I was probably speeding a little, but not too much I hadn't started going down any of the hills around there. Hmm, other things... did kinda bad on the calc quiz, and tonight I got a rather big ego boost, yay. Oh, I also got a picture of myself that Rachel took, not too exciting I suppose, but it's something at least.
I need a roommate for OSU, if you are going or know of someone that's going to OSU and needs a roommate let me know. No random thoughts today, maybe tomorrow.
2/18/04, 10:25PM
Song: Symphony X - Accolade II
This is going to be a short entry. Today was rather uneventfull, I made my band tape, found another book at the library, and did some physics. Ok that's it, I'm distracted.
2/17/04, 10:50PM
Song: Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
Stupid/ignorant people can be fun to be around. I went to the soccer scrimmage and after a while these two guys that got kicked out of the basketball game came over and started making comments. They said it was their first time to watch a soccer game, but just about everyone knows the basic rules but they started making some of the stupid remarks. I sometimes wish I could just become like them, not care what other people think of me, I guess it might be because people will remember it and never let go. Tomorrow I bet they won't remember what they did, nor will the other people around us, it's just a weird concept for me to have I guess. I want to be like them sometimes.
Last night I coudn't get to sleep, my mind just kept wandering, and I think it might happen again tonight. I hate not being able to sleep, but I guess it didn't really affect me today, but if I keep it up I probably will start to feel it.
Another random thought, this might be last one, but is it bad that I can "sing" to the Disney commericals that they have to sell the greatest Disney songs? Not only along with them, but also change song right when the commercial does and know the one that is coming up next. I think it's pretty bad, but oh well, after seeing/hearing enough I guess that just happens to people.
On to school, overall a pretty good day. There was a little bit of this, and a little bit of that. Hmm.... anything exciting?... the only thing I can think of is finishing the chapter in com-sci, that class is so fun.
I saw this and couldn't resist posting it after my entry the other day.
2/16/04, 8:45PM; President's Day
Song: Coldplay - The Scientist
It's Monday, and that was quite apparent today. I overslept 20 minutes to begin with. I took a 3-5minute shower, rushed to get ready, was a like 1 minute late to sections, I just missed warming up. Sections sucked, they always do. We also got out of them late, which started to make the day even worse. Then during band it got worse and worse. Lewis just kept saying we should be good and practice because if we do that it'll be fun, which I think is crap when we don't play fun music. Sure it might be good to be able to play high level music, but I don't like it. The music has to be fun for me to enjoy it. At first Pas was fun, we didn't have to do anything incredibly hard, and it was enjoyable to play (I thought so anyway). But now it's a chore to sit there and play it. Blue Lake isn't going much better either. The song sounds prety cool on the recording, but that's also because it is a group of people that want to play harder music. In our band there are just too many people that don't care at all, and I'm turning into one of them. Band sucks, I hate it, I don't really care if we goet a 1 at contest, but other people do, so I try, I'm in band to play my trombone the best I can, and that is what I try to do. He expects too much out of people. Anyway.
.English was much better than band, just worked on our essay, I feel our's is coming along rather well. The topic is pretty easy with plenty of support. And it just keeps getting better, the day that is. In calculus we had a sub so no new assignment which allows me to catch up on what we do have already assigned. And inc com-sci more programming, which was fun today. Then in physics took notes nothing exciting, and then in spanish we watched a movie. On the drive home though I encountered a few stupid drivers. One driving under the speed limit with a car tail-gaiting them (which probably made them want to slow down even more). And another car driving on Adams on the overpass above 75 stops in the left lane. He wants to change lanes so that he can take the exit. If you ask me he should have thought of that before getting to the exit and then he wouldn't have stopped traffic on a major road, what an idiot. If a cop would have been around he probably would have gotten a ticket and he should have then, but cops are never around unless you are the one "bending" the rules. Oh well, such is life, it sucks, but it must go on. That's a long enough entry for today.
Time to bring these lyrics back, they used to be in profile, but I took them out:
In just a moment your life can slip away
Wasting time by wasting chances
- Explorer's Club - Fading Fast
2/15/04, 10:40PM
Song: John Arch - Relentless
That's two people I've seen run the same red light. The two I've seen have been just casually driving, and seemingly paying attention drive right through a red light that had been red before they even got there.
Today I did do some homeowork, but not as much as I said I was, but I have almost all the sources I need for english. There is still plenty of time to work on it. After finding sources I went out driving, that's it, driving. I drove around for about an hour and a half, it was fun. Then I went out to my dad's and watched TV and later helped my step-sister with her college homework. So yeah... I'm getting bored here, bye.
2/15/04, 12:50AM
Song: King Crimson - Moonchild
Yesterday wasn't too interesting. I didn't do any homework or anything, just played games. That means today, I have quite a bit I need to do. I hope I don't get too distraced. I've played a lot of Halo recently, online slayer is very fun. "If something can go wrong it will go wrong" - Murphy. The End.
2/13/04, 9:55PM; Friday the 13th
Song: Radiohead - Karma Police
*Sigh* today has been pretty decent I suppose. Started an English essay which is MUCH better than having a pop essay. In calc the quiz was eeeeh, alright I guess, I tried stuff (the wrong stuff) and I think I'll get partial credit on them. In com-sci we had a test which I feel I did pretty well on, we are starting if/else statements, so far no troubles. Physics notes, and in spanish I did hardly any work as usual. That's pretty much it for school.
I got my cool M.C. Escher poster framed and on my wall now, it's soooo cool. It's called "Day and Night" and it's nearly 3 feet long, I love it. I was also going to be getting another poster of Porcupine Tree, but the stupid seller broke the rules of ebay and got suspened. It was really cool looking too, not to mention cheap. This weekend I have a few goals that I really want to keep, including doing some english and calc.
I tried...
Some people
Think they have none
They might as well stay down
-Transatlantic
2/11/04, 9:20PM
Song: BT - Circles
Short entry for today. I have quite a bit of homeowork I should have been doing for the past few hours (rouh estimate). Tomorrow is really early day which sucks, and is also band concert day which means even less time to procrastinte homework. My question for the moment right now is if I should be tacky or not, I'm pretty sure I'm going to be a little, but not much. Time to attempt some calc, yipppeeeeee, not.
2/10/04, 7:55PM
Song: Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Sleep is good. I took about an hour nap today, it was good, but way too short. I have plenty of homework, I know I won't get it all done, I usually don't. But I don't know what to do of what I have. It would probably be good to study some physics... what am I saying, it would be good to do all of it. I'm falling way behind in calculus, I hate sequences and series.
Something to talk about and just rant on and on about: People that pick their nose. Now you might be thinking eew, why do you want to talk about that? I don't know why I do, but I'm going to. I would say that most do it, pick our nose that is, rather some call it scratching, but there is some penetration. But if you ever get bored while a teacher is lecturing or something, or the class it watching a movie, have a look around every now and then. Chances are you will see someone going at it. A few days ago I saw someone doing just that. And yesterday while driving home, at a stoplight there was an older (40s-50s) guy behind me, picking. I mean come on, can't you hide it a little better than that? When I need to I usually try to do it when I'm in the back of the room or I think most people are looking else where and sometimes try to disguise it even more by fading into a rub, so people know you aren't picking. Another thing, why do you do when you catch someone in the act. I usually try to turn away from it and ignore it, forgetting about it in a few minutes (usually). It would probably be good to tell someone you caught them so they can try to hide it better the next time, I don't know. Enough about that now.
Today is a bad day. It seems like just about everyone disappointed, but I'm no different at the moment. Nothing good has come from today. The English research paper is getting closer to be due every day, calculus is constantly getting more aggrivating, and Valentine's Day is coming up. Though for some that is a good thing, for others it is bad, such as me, unless I feel like being tacky, which I may. As of now Valentine's is going to consist of me sitting here one my computer, listening to music, maybe working on english, or the plethora [I wanted to use that word today] of other assignments I'll have due to not doing any calculus during the week. I'm doing this as others are out spending the day with other people, but that's ok, it won't be the first time.
Why is money so important? There are so many things I want to buy, but I don't have a job. There are several CDs I want (of course), another stick of 256 RAM for my computer, a poster or two would be nice, and my car tag payment is due this month. Driving my car is important to me, which is $65, RAM would be $30ish, and the CDs I have picked out for now are $64 (with shipping), so add that up and you get about $160 which is a lot for someone without a job, and probably someone with a job. This is plently long for tonight, bye.
2/09/04, 10:40PM
Song: Liquid Tension Experiment - Three Minute Warning
A little bit of this, a little bit of that, a little more of this... than that. That pretty much sums up the day. Dull, yay, dull, more dull, and one more thing of dull. I guess they "yay" of the day would have to be either getting an 8 on the english essay or I don't know... nothing really. I got home and did some homework after a while, but it wasn't much. I thought of a random topic to talk about, but it's kinda late to start talking about it. Any way I'm sleepy and orchestra is tomorrow... no me gusta. I also want a new background, I'm not sure I'm going to go with another picture or now.
2/08/04, 12:25AM
Song: Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky
Today (yesterday rather) has been pretty interesting. After sleeping in a while I went the library hoping to find a few sorces so I can get started on English. I was successful, finding 2 books and a poem online. (Side note: Porcupine Tree - Shesmovedon just came up on random). I spent an hour or so there talking with Kim and Amy, not sure why, but oh well. I left and went home, then at 5:30 went to Brittany's to go to the Soccer Chili Dinner. Chili is a very good food. Stayed there for long enough, talked with Mike, Leslie, Storm, and Jenny (P). Then wee left and went to McDonald's then to Scott's. Then it got even more interesting. Jayme and Brittany brought along Krissy (Chrissy, I don't know how she spells it) who was also with them at the Chili Dinner, to Scott's. Let's just say there was a lot of talking on cell phones, and leave it at that.
Now for something to make this interesting to read... hmm...I can't think of anything right now, other than the obvious, which I don't want to write about tonight. Bye.
2/05/04, 10:20PM
Song: The Flower Kings - The Truth Will Set You Free
Today was mostly uneventful. I think I almost got pulled over though. But I didn't, I change my path and took some side streets, not even sure if I would have pulled over. Oh well, I know for sure I didn't. I also played some Halo online, I think i'm getting better. I got 5th place in a 15 person free for all. Not much else has really gone on.
2/04/04, 8:10PM
Song: Emerson Lake and Palmer - Karn Evil 9
It's about time I had a decent day. Nothing really went bad for me today. The English essay wasn't too bad for me, I used the quotation "Nothing to be done," I think I explained it pretty well even though I only wrote 3 pages. In Calculus it feels oddly comforting to be back in the book. Com-Sci is getting more complicated, but that's a good thing for now. Overall school is going pretty well. Life out of school is also the same as it has been since probably the beginning of the school year. I come home and sit in front my computer doing various things, hardly leaving my room, let alone the house.
It looks like we might have another snow day, but I think we will have school. Unless we get more, and the roads get a lot worse, there is no hope.
2/03/04, 9:40PM; Final Day of Hell
Song: Liquid Tension Experiment - Kindred Spirits
Hell Week is over and I averaged an 86% on the five tests. I'm really happy about that, especially after getting a 3 on the pop english essay.
Today was a little better than yesterday I suppose, not really a whole lot happened, wait... yeah there was. I was incredibly stupid at lunch, I regret what I did, but everyone makes mistakes that they regret, that is one of mine. And after school after doing a few things online I decided I would think about what college I would go to. I have finally decided, but it can still change, on OSU. I still have yet to decide on a major, but freshamn year is pretty much standard classes anyway so I've got time. I also tried to think of other things, but I fell asleep for about 45 minutes, which was very welcomed.
I also asked a very odd question of someone today, nothing exicting enough for you that I should write up, but I needed.
2/02/04, 8:10PM; 4th Day of Hell
Song: Porctupine Tree - The Creator has a Mastertape
What the heck, that picture I like isn't the same one anymore, that site has some weird stuff going on with it I guess. Oh well, I guess I'll take it off now.
2/02/04, 8:10PM; 4th Day of Hell
Song: Syd Barrett - Effervesing Elephant
Today started off crappy and didn't get much better. I was still awake, laying in bed at midnight, trying to get to sleep, but didn't til about 12:30 which really sucked. I woke up at 6:43 for early morning sectionals, then I went back to bed for about 10 minutes. I rushed getting ready only to find my car lock was frozen. I tried to open it with my key, turning both ways, didn't work. Then I run inside grabe the de-icer, spray the lock, didn't help any. I kick at the lock a few times still no. Then being smart and on tast I think, "hmm, I wonder if the other door is frozen too..." and sure enough it is! Then I want to take my backpack off, it is getting a little heavy, and sine the ground is all wet i try the trunk and of course that opens without a problem. I run back inside to get the de-icer again. I spray the lock again as well as the windows, just to get it out of the way, then I kick some more, hit some more, all the time trying the key. After 15 of this ordeal I finally get it unlocked, only to find the door itself is frozen, but getting that open was a small task compared to the lock. Now I'm late to band, oh well I don't really care at this point. Once band is over I go to Mr. Baird's room, stay til normal class starts and am late to band, which in my mind was very worth it. A grade on a quiz is much more important than a tardy in band. Then in English my group had to present which went pretty well I guess, then the calc quiz which I saw hime work one of the problems that morning so one was easy and the other was ln so I did pretty well. The rest of the day after that was blah. I got home did my Physics and I don't fell like doing calc right now.
I had something else to write about I thought, but I guess after all that ranting and raving this is both long and boring enough to read. Bye.
Don't just sit there wasting your time on the phone
Don't be with that skank 'cause it hurts to be alone
-Transatlantic
2/01/04, 2:10PM; Superbowl
Song: Symphony X - Fallen
This weekend I've been at my dad's, I haven't been there for a few weeks. I had fun. Friday we went out to eat and watched part of a movie. Then yesterday sat around some more, watched TV, watched my step-sisters play FFX-2, messed around on the computer some, and eventually went to sleep. Today I watched most of Death to Smoochy, which is a very odd movie but that's ok, and watched more of FFX-2. I decided I should come home and do some calc before going to the Superbowl party thing. Oh! I also had to help my older step-sister with her college Phsycology homework. This weekend has been very different from my normal sit in front of the computer ones. I better get started on calc now, bye.