My Post for the Month
OK, Blogger needs to die, with its stupid JavaScript-powered interface. I just spent the past 10 minutes writing an entry here while the page was still loading, and when it finally decided to stop, all my writing was erased. Anyway....

To sum up what I have already typed, that of which I will not type again, I've developed 3 or 4 pictures from that roll of negatives. The quarter ended today, so we'll see how well they came out. OK, done.

Anyway, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, there has been another school social event that I attended. Then I made some stupid joke about how I'm kinda-sorta getting more social or something. Then I mentioned that it was the Homecoming Dance (slash party) on October 29th. I also mentioned how I still had the flyer laying around here. I was then in the process of telling you it was from 6:30 to 9:30 in the evening, which, in my opinion, was not enough. I mean, I didn't even get into it until the final hour.... Also, if I weren't angry about having to rewrite all of that, I would've made another stupid joke about how the flyer misspells the word "spirit", citing that Friday as sprit day. (In a related note, a whole nother is a correct sentence. I'm glad I looked that up.)

And for those of you who think you know who I like, you're probably right. Just make sure that if you decide to tell me you know you come up with another excuse about how you found out, because I never wrote it on here.

On the next day, which was Saturday, there was another party, I guess you could call it. [Dinner eaten here. Time has elapsed. Other things done. Over 5 hours have elapsed.] My sister had two friends over, and they were down here where our computers are. I forget how it started, but eventually I got them recorded singing. 'Twas kinda scary, but I can make it into an MP3 if anyone wants to hear it. Personal requests only, I don't feel like doing any more work than I have to. Anyway, after the singing, they decided to make a gingerbread house. Mind you, this is October 30th, and we're talking about a Christmas gingerbread house.... So, in order to put it together, you need to make the glue/frosting. Frankly, it tasted more like glue than frosting, but whatever. It was very sticky, and it crusted when it dried. That's not really that important, but I just felt like writing it. So, I assisted in constructing the house (and, let me tell you, I wouldn't want them building my house), as well as decorating it with all the different candies that came with the kit. The real fun started somewhere between decorating it and eating it, though. It started out as just smearing the icing stuff on each other, but then elavated into throwing the paper towels that we were using to clean ourselves off with at each other. Some of the paper towels were wet, to help with the crustiness of the dried icing, and eventually all of the ones thrown were wet ones. After they had finished eating the house—most of it, anyway—we actually broke into teams and threw wet paper towels at each other. (It may help you to know that my sister's two friends were wearing white shirts.) Needless to say, the kitchen became soaking wet. The whole floor was covered in water, as well as the walls, ceiling, cabinets, refrigerator, newspapers, pretty much everything. Personally, I wasn't too wet; I'm not sure any of us were. I think the girls were moreso than me, though. Regardless of what you might thing, we had fun.

Oddly enough, the two days before Halloween were much more eventful (and fun) than the day itself. Like last year, I didn't go out anywhere. There were some big groups of trick-or-treaters every now and then, but I think it was a pretty quiet day. I can't remember much of it.

The next thing of news would be the Presidential Election. Somehow, and this really boggles my mind, Bush won. I really don't understand it. He's an idiot, he sent us to war, and in the wrong place, no less. "Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time." I was always against Bush, from the beginning. I was for Gore in 2000. But in 2004, I was Anyone But Bush. Kerry was the most likely candidate to win, so I was for him, but I think I agreed more with the Libertarian candidate, Michael something (a Russian guy).

After that, a bunch of school, most of which was uneventful as far as I can remember. I did get the breast cancer version of the LiveStrong bracelet that week, though. It's the pink one. The yellow ones are supposed to be coming soon....

On Tuesday of this past week, I stayed home sick from school. And before you ask of what, I can't tell you, because it's hard to explain. Kind of like a fevery type feeling, even though I didn't really have a fever. (I'm always below normal, anyway.) However, the doctor said I was alright, so, I had to go to school the next day.

Another pretty uneventful day, more or less. I just realized that I had two subs that day though. Thankfully, Ms. Palacio/Quinn/Idiot wasn't there, so that was a good period. Then Hartmann wasn't there, which has its ups and downs. Ms. Maltese subbed for him. She's the other 10H English teacher, and they're pretty much attached at the hip. It was a fun period, as working English periods go. I had to take two quizzes that period, though. One from the day I was absent, and one that was scheduled for that day. I got a 90 and a 100, respectively, I found out today.

Then there was Thursday. Veterans' Day. A day off from school. But, basically, from the time I got up to the time I had dinner, I was at Jimmy's house. We had to make chocolate chip pancakes for our Spanish class (which we presented today). So we did that, and wrote up the recipe. But we also jammed on the piano and guitars, hooked up to the amp and microphone that Jimmy's brother has. We also played a quick game of pool. (None of that was in order, by the way.) So that took up my whole day.

And today was Friday. Not a whole lot went on. During some of that time that I was gone earlier (as noted above), the family played a game of Pictionary. We didn't finish, but me and my dad were in the lead when we stopped.

I think that's a bit up. My memory's a bit foggy before October 29th, but I don't think anything else happened before that.

I just remembered, though, one other thing. Chris DeFilippo died last week after a long battle with lung cancer. He was member of the Long Beach Fire Department since 1997, and had been Chief in Charge of Fire Officers (or something to that effect) when he died. I went with my mom to his wake because my dad had to work. Peter Meyer, and another kid which I forget his name were there, along with DJ Chris (though I think it may have been for someone else's death). The funeral was the next day, but I didn't attend it. Chris was 43, I think.

So, really, I think that's about it.

Time Now: 11:38 PM
Posted by Gordon P. Hemsley @ 11/12/2004 05:23:00 PM [ 5 comments ]