Steven Moody's Blog Collection
There was a man named Peter Grimms, who was 18 years old,
and went to Shermer High School in Illinois. He was an average student, who got
good grades, but not straight As. He played the trumpet in band, and was
consistently yelled at for not using enough air, so one day he got so fed up
with it, he decided he'd use as much air possible. This caused him to play with
the worst trumpet tone his band teacher had ever heard in his life. He got
yelled at, and was given detention as a consequence of this action.
That next Saturday morning, Peter went to detention, extremely angry, and highly
discouraged, because he had no idea what to do to improve his tone. Perhaps he
would quit, because it was becoming such a pain.
He took a seat, and decided to fill his time by coming up with several scenarios
he can take in regards to his anger towards band. He looked around to see who
else was in detention. He saw this girl sitting in the other row, with her head
buried in a book called "Runaway Jury". He thought she was attractive, and for
some odd reason couldn't keep his eyes off of her. Suddenly his anger for being
given detention disappeared, and he honestly did not want to be anywhere else.
In the 8 hours of detention, he got to know everybody in there, including Nicole
Clark, the one he thought was attractive. Then detention ended, and Peter was
hopeful that they could become friends. He went home, and his parents, having
been in California, came home two hours later. Peter explained to them what
happened, and they agreed with him that it was ridiculous for his band teacher
to give him detention just for using awful tone.
On Monday, he kept looking around in the halls for Nicole, but his friends kept
distracting him, and he was always having to run all over the building to get to
his next class. When he was walking from his 6th class to his 7th class, he saw
Nicole. He said hi, and she said hi back, and smiled. It made his day. It was
all he could think about for the remainder of the day.
High School was almost over. There was only about 2 weeks left before they
graduated. Peter was worried that he would never see Nicole again. He would talk
to her every chance he could, and she always seemed happy to talk to him.
After graduation, he still thought about her a lot, and wished that they were
better friends. Then one day he went to a friend's house, in behalf of his 18th
birthday. She came to the party, and it made his day. They talked for a bit,
then he went to the bathroom. When he came out, he saw her talking to this other
guy. It looked to him like they were flirting, and it made him feel extremely
uncomfortable. He stayed at the party though, but still felt these awful
uncomfortable feelings. He was jealous, big time.
He went to a hamburger place the next day by himself, as he wanted to be alone
to process his thinking. It all felt very strange, and he was very much in a
state of obession. He couldn't get her out of his mind. That image of her and
the other guy flirting kept lingering in his mind, and it was leaving him in a
very awkward state.
It was this day, in which he went to Burgers Supreme, 12-28-05, and the party
was yesterday. The ending of this story cannot yet be determined, but it will be
updated frequently.
For privacy's sake, we'll call the other person Jane.
*Hi Jane* - Me
*hi* - Jane
*So, how was your Christmas Eve?* - Me
*good* - Jane
*I went up to the Utah County Prison, and had hamburgers and fries with the
boys, it was delicious* - Me
--no reply--
*What did you ask for Christmas?* - Me
*Clothes* - Jane
*Clothes huh, no car, satellite TV, pill poppers or Breakfast Club DVDs huh?* -
Me
*What?* - Jane
*Just random thoughts as usual* - Me
--no reply--
*Have you seen St. Elmo's Fire?* - Me
*no* - Jane
*It is really good. I strongly recommend it.* - Me
*okay* - Jane
*Do you think it would be funny if a company that was doing really well went out
of business just to be funny?* - Me
*um...not really* - Jane
*I think it would* - Me
*interesting* - Jane
*How's this for a name? King. "Hey King! Dinner's ready!* - Me
*interesting* - Jane
--At this point, I have the impression she is only talking to me out of being
nice, even though she doesn't like me at all. She shows no enthusiasm
whatsoever, and she has before.--
*Are you excited for Christmas?* - Me
*yeah* - Jane
*I asked for one of those devices that go bump in the night at random. Cool
huh?* - Me
*I guess* - Jane
*Wow, I'm hungry.* - Me
--no reply--
*Are you hungry?* - Me
*no* - Jane
*I'm thinking of fixing a turkey pot pie, like from the Breakfast Club* - Me
--no reply--
*Do you have any Led Zeppelin CDs?* - Me
*no* - Jane
*How sad, they are seriously insane, that's how good they are* - Me
*okay* - Jane
*I'm sure you've heard the song Immigrant Song* - Me
*yeah* - Jane
*Do you like it?* - Me
*I guess* - Jane
--Things are feeling pretty awkward at this point--
*I ordered Starfox 64 and Zelda NES for Gameboy Advance over Christmas break* -
Me
--no reply--
*Technology is soooo advanced these days. I remember when all we had was an NES.
You know what would be funny? Is if they made a game about a boy who wanted
more, yet his mother wouldn't give him more. Whenever he says, "Gimme gimme!"
she says, "Back in my day, all we had was checkers and chess!" Wouldn't that be
funny?* - Me
*I guess so* - Jane
*I would die laughing if they made a game about a day at the office. It's like
people are working without pay!* - Me
--no reply--
*You know what was so funny though? At the senior all night party they played
Styx's "Come Sail Away". You know what pops into my mind when I hear that song?
People who's senioritis basically killed them, yet they bawl their heads off at
the idea of never seeing their friends ever again. Just keep in touch! What a
genious idea, so simple, yet nobody thinks of it!* - Me
--no reply--
*Time has gone by so fast since we graduated. I didn't actually bawl my head off
that night. You know, high school was pretty out of hand.*
--sets her status to away--
--conversation ends--
There are five senior citizens. Two are female, and three
are male. The females are Dorothy Jacobs, and Melinda Rochester. The males are
George Richards, Ned Parker, and Henry Andrews. They live in the Senior Citizen
Health Community by the Orem Public Library. The therapist set up an 8 hour
program where they sit in a room and discuss how what they did was wrong. The
therapists name is Daniel Skinner, and he is in his 40s.
Daniel - "It is now 9 o'clock AM. You have until 5 o'clock PM to think about
what you've done, and try to discuss possible ways to prevent further
troublemaking. I strongly suggest you put an effort into doing so, or else this
8 hours will seem like an eternity."
Ned - "Hey Danny boy! Does Dolly Parton know your wife raids her make-up kit?"
Daniel - "Don't push my limits Ned, you're gonna come next week. No more
screwing around, any of you!"
George - "Why are you here Ned?"
Ned - "I screamed as loud as I could at the 40 year flower exhibit, you know,
the kind that dies if it is exposed to loud noise?"
George - "I'd think they'd punish you harsher than this if that's what you did"
Ned - "What did you do, forget to drink your prune juice?"
George - "No, I replaced Ted's reading glasses with mobster wacko glasses. They
gave him a headache for a week."
Dorothy - "Will both of you shut up! We're supposed to think about what we did"
Ned - "You're just thinking about how many years of your life you wasted not
being married to a guy like me"
Dorothy - "You're nausiating".
Ned - "What do you say we find another 40 year old plant, and kill it!"
Henry - "Shut up! I have a golf tournament, and I'm not about to miss it on
account of you old gummers!"
Ned - "So Henry, are you and Dorothy like interested in each other? Do you
often comment on how her fuzzy slippers keep her feet warm at night?"
Henry - "I've had just about enough of you!"
Ned - "Hey Dorothy! Do you fancy yourself a giant bowl of noodles?"
Henry and Dorothy in unison - "Knock it off!"
Ned - "What do you say we sneak out of here, and replace everybody's prune juice
with Dr. Pepper?"
Henry - "How about you just shut up. There's 4 other people in here you know."
Ned - "See I knew you had to be smart to be a golfer. I could be just like you,
I figure all I need are some leather gloves and checkered overalls"
George - "You guys wear checkered overalls?"
Henry - "No we don't wear checkered overalls, we wear the required golf uniform"
George - "Checkered overalls"
Henry - "Shut up!"
Ned - "So Dorothy, I like your sweats. They seem so cottony. They must keep your
legs warm at night! You know, God knows that you are special, that's why he
created you. Howdy do ma'am!"
Henry - "Leave her alone!"
Ned - "You gunna make me?"
Henry - "Yeah"
Ned - "Oh yeah? You and what army?"
Henry - "Just me. Two hits, me hitting your back, and you hitting your hips in
pain"
Ned attempts to hit Henry. Henry whacks him in the back. Ned - "Yeeaauuuccchhh!
I don't want to get involved in this man"
Henry - "Why not?"
Ned - "Because I'd hospitalize you! I'd hospitalize you, and your entire family
would sue me, and it would be a disaster"
Henry - "You chicken"
Ned pulls out a can of Dr. Pepper, as if to threaten forcing it down his throat.
He puts it on the table where Melinda is sitting.
Ned walks back to his seat. Melinda takes the Dr. Pepper, and puts it in her
carry-on.
Ned - "You know Dorothy, I could hospitalize you too"
Dorothy - "How?"
Ned - "Just turn on the news channel, you'd be hooked, and you'd pass out. Who
knows? Maybe your walker would fly too!"
Henry - "Look man! You don't talk to her, you don't look at her, and you don't
even think about her!"
Melinda - "I once got mugged outside of Wal*Mart. Then again outside of Shopko".
Dorothy - "Why didn't you tell the cops about this?"
Melinda - "I did. Then they mugged me too!"
Dorothy - "That is soooo illegal!"
Melinda - "Not really, because I let them do it."
Dorothy - "You are sooo weird"
Melinda - "Not really. I've never been mugged."
Dorothy - "You are sooo annoying! Shut up!"
Ned - "I'm turning on the movie Cocoon!"
Dorothy - "Go right ahead, I'm not stopping you!"
It was at this point, in which these senior citizens were unintentionally
re-enacting the 1985 movie "The Breakfast Club", in which they were completely
unaware that each would meet their fate. It is at this moment, in which their
Breakfast Clubish actions ceaze, and a strange turn of events comes into play.
Melinda (Whom Henry cannot stop thinking about) announces - "I'm going to go
step out for a while and play cards with my luncheon group!"
Henry, who feels Melinda is not making much of an effort to talk to him, feels
crushed by this. He just sits down and stays.
The four of them stay and watch Cocoon.
Henry peeks out into the Arts and Crafts room where a game of Go Fish is going
on. He sees her with a group of old women and old men. He goes back, and if
compared to Emilio Estevez, looks like he does when he sees Dale Bieberman with
her boyfriend in St. Elmo's Fire. He is breathing heavily. Cocoon is over. He
sees Melinda flirting with a man named Fred Ward. He is breathing heavily. He
passes out, and has to go to the emergency room.
Meanwhile George is working on his new project, electronic spiders that fix
eyesight. He thinks he finally has it. He turns them on, and puts them up to his
eyes. A bright light shines in his eye, and that is all. Nothing is fixed. He
throws them to the ground, and in the corner of his eye, he sees a peer of his,
Matthew Douglas in the room across the hall with his granddaughter. He sees an
electronic spider similar to the one he made. The spider goes up to his eyes,
and afterwards he hugs his granddaughter, as if to imply that it worked for him.
George then starts to cry. His sadness is so awful, he has to go to his room. It
took a month for him to come to his senses, and even then, he was still
depressed.
Dorothy, being the only one in the room with a cell phone, had arranged to have
a face lift the next week. Suddenly she gets a call. "Hello, is this Dorothy?"
"Yes, this is Dorothy" "I'm sorry to inform you, that Dr. Newbury will not be
available for another week. His mother died, and will be attending her funeral.
We apologize for any inconvenience". Dorothy slammed the phone on the table, and
started bawling her head off. "It's not fair!" She stormed out of the room, and
started throwing things around. She was referred to the Senior Care Center up in
Salt Lake City, which is more therapy intensive.
Ned got up after Cocoon ended. He turned on the TV to a news station. There was
an intense weather report in San Francisco. He looked over to Melinda, and she
stared at the screen, with eyes wide open. He would hear Melinda say frequently,
"Oh no! Oh that's terrible! Oh dear!" Suddenly Randall Flagg, from Stephen
King's The Stand appeared. He said, "Rub a Dub Dub!" Melinda's four legged
walker flew out the window, shattering the window, and damaging the basic
structure, and smashing the tennis balls. Melinda screamed, and engaged into a
state of shock. Then Randall finished his sentence. "Thanks for the grub!" He
then started to eat her walker. She fainted, and had to go to the emergency
room. Then Randall disappeared.
Ned was alone in the room now. He thought they were utterly looned. It was just
as he thought that, when he saw two bread bakers dressed in white enter the
room. They had very stern faces, and wide open mouths, and were moving very
fast. They were wheeling in a large tub of flour, and had boxes of PAM attached
to the wheeler. One bread baker came up to Ned, slammed a cake in his face,
causing him to lay on the floor without moving, yet fully conscious. They then
ripped out several bottles of pam, and kept spraying him. Ned did all he could
to keep his eyes shut, and was screaming. The bread bakers kept laughing and
maintained a very serious, pressurized face. They kept rolling him around, and
sprayed pam on him. As soon as he was soaking in pam, the tossed him in the
flour. He was sneezing and coughing, and his eyes were stinging. They took out
two large wooden spoons, and stirred him around consistently, while laughing
their heads off. They did this to the song "Comfortably Numb". Every time David
Gilmour sang, "I have become, comfortably numb", one of the bread bakers would
pressurize his face, have his mouth wide open, and make a strange noise, like he
was choking.
This concludes our session of Senior Citizen Detention. Join us next time, when
Alfred, Bruce, Kent, Jean, and Becky sort out their differences. But beware,
there may be skiing involved. Until then, Merry Christmas, and hopefully none of
these things happen to you.
I have provided an accurate transcription of the noises
that were present during the Flower Viewing at the Senior Community Health
Center by the Orem Public Library, on Wednesday night at 9:00 PM. Here it is:
The old people sat in the ballroom, in a circle, where the flower was.
"Shhh!!" - Old man 1
"Shhh!!" - Old woman 1
"Shhhh..." - Old man 2
"Shhhhh!!" - Old man 1
"Shhhh!" - Old woman 2
Shhhhhhhh!" - Old woman 1
"Shhhhhhhhhh!" - Old man 3
"Shh!" - Old man 2
"Shhhhhhhhhhh!" - Old woman 1
"Shhhhh!" - Old man 1
"Shhhhhhh!" - Old man 2
"Shhhh!" - Old woman 2
"Shhhhhh!" - Old man 3
"Shhh!" - Old woman 3
"Shhhhhhh!" - Old man 2
"Shhhh!" - Old man 3
"Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?" - Old man 2
"Oh Ned!" - Old woman 3
"You've got nice legs there" - Old woman 1
"I'd bet those pants keep you warm in the cold" - Old man 2
"Shhhhhhhh!" - Old man 4
"Shhhhh!" - Old woman 2
"Let's face it, you are a neo-maxi zoom dweebie" - Old man 4
"Shut up!" - Old man 2
"Nice job on the maid" - Old woman 1
"Shut up!" - Old man 3
"Nobody here is interested" - Old woman 4
"Hey Ahab, can I have all my doobage?" - Old man 3
"You know Edna, you're pretty sexy when you get angry" - Old man 2
"Shhhhhhhh!" - Old man 5
"Was the water smooth?" - Old man 3
"You're nausiating" - Old woman 3
"Hey! Cherry! What do lawyers where when they are at work? Lawsuits!" - Old man
3
"If you don't shut up, Vernon will come right in here!" - Old woman 3
"Shhhh!!" - Old man 1
"Speak for yourself" - Old man 2
"You think I'd speak for you? I don't even know your language!" - Old man 3
"Hey Sporto! Do you belong to the physics club?"
"Knock it off!" - Old man 1, old woman 1, old man 2, and old woman 3 in unison.
"What do you say we scream in the plant's ear, then it'll shrivle up and old man
Vernon will have spent 40 years growing that plant for nothing!" - Old man 3
"How about you shut up!" - Old man 2
"Hey fellas, I really think you oughtta stop this ruckus" - Old man 1
"Shut up!" - Old man 4
"What's with her?" - Old man 2 pointing to old woman 5
"She doesn't talk man" - Old man 3
"Well she would have, but she was always running away" - Old man 4
"Shhhh!" - Old woman 2
"What are we having?" - Old man 3
"Just your regular standard dinner I guess" - Old man 1
"Spaghetti?" - Old man 3
"No, fettuchini" - Old man 1
"That's prune juice" - Old man 1
"I can read" - Old man 3
"Two chicken legs with the skin cut off. Well George, this is a very nutritious
dinner. All the food groups are represented. Did your son marry Martha Stewart?"
- Old man 3
"No, Abigail Smith" - Old man 1
"Here's my impression, of life, at big Georgy's house. 'Dad?' 'Yes son!' 'How
was your day dad?' 'Great son, how was yours?' 'Super' 'Say dad, how would you
like to go golfing this weekend?' 'Great son, but I've got prune juice to
drink!' 'That's okay dad, you can drink it on the golf course!' 'Gee!' 'Honey,
isn't my father swell' 'Yes dear, isn't life swell?' 'Ohhh, *kiss*, ohhh,
*kiss*'" (Punch) Old man 3
"Okay, what about you?" - Old man 2
"Oh me? Well it's real easy!" - Old man 3
"'Stupid, no good, old aging, slow gummer! Worthless, driving menace, limping
old bag!' 'You forgot saggy, diaper-wetting, and faint-hearted' 'Shut up! Go fix
me my turkey pot pie!' 'What about you son?' 'Screw you!' 'What about you son?'
'Screw you!' 'No! Son! What about you!' 'Screw! You!'"
My Pet Peeves:
People that don't signal when they turn, and then tailgate you.
People that run red lights, and then tailgate you.
People that cut you off.
People that are crooked at a traffic light.
People that don't get over left enough, causing a block in traffic.
When kids walk right in front of you
When kids are right in front of a public door and you need to go through
When you are about to enter a restroom, and somebody of the same gender is
walking fewer than five feet of you, and they follow you closely into the
restroom, as if they grew up in a culture where personal space is the devil.
When you are at a concert, and the people in front of you are standing up during
the encore, yet your row is sitting down, and somebody of the same gender that
is really ugly is blocking your vision.
When you order something online, and they decide not to ship it until two or
three weeks after the order took place, blaming it on the fact that they need
original copies, and they haven't come yet.
Well, I'm pretty much done with school, except finals.
Finals aren't what's bad, my conscience is. My first final, excluding the
english paper, is on Tuesday. Then trigonometry is on Wednedsay, and Psychology
on Thursday. I wish they were all on Monday, because then I would be able to
start doing fun things, as in checking out a ton of awesome DVDs from the
library, as opposed to not, due to my conscience saying, "You have finals! Do it
after finals!". This results in me groaning. Yeah, it's going to be a long week.
If I'm not studying, I'm being lectured by my conscience on how I should. This
is all figuratively speaking of course. I just feel a great barrier not allowing
me to start fun things. I am excited for tomorrow, because I am going to go to
the UVSC library, which has soft seats, and study for finals. I seriously do not
need this much time to study, even though I could use it. I am sooo anxious to
get the ball rolling on Christmas Vacation.
Anyways, in a later blog, I will post the movies I plan on watching during
Christmas Break. I went to the library tonight, and checked out Clue and a
Planets documentary narrated by Patrick Stewart. You know him from Star Trek and
X-Men. I'm going to watch Clue tonight, since I checked it out before, but never
got around to watching it. Here are some movies I was unbelieveably tempted to
check out, but due to finals, couldn't bring myself to: Time Bandits, The
Adventures of Baron Muncheassen and War Games. It was not easy. I also need to
see X-Men II. I loved the first one, and have no clue why I haven't seen it.
Whenever I think of my math teacher putting her book, folders, and lesson plan
down on the table in front of the class, and she looks down at them, I start
laughing pretty hard. I have no idea why this is so funny.
Whenever I think about the fact I am in trigonometry, I remember the Mr. Bean
episode where they are taking an exam. "I focused on trigonometry" - Mr. Bean.
"I focused on Calculus" - other guy. "I believe the did Calculus last year!" -
Mr. Bean. (Sooo funny)
Whenever I managed my shared folder security settings, and I saw the option for
"everyone", I imagined this one guy in my class drinking in a hot-tub while
smiling.
- Nothing too out of the ordinary for psychology or English, so that's why the
list was so short. By the way, I whole-heartedly intend to watch every episode
of Mr. Bean during Christmas Break. You can expect to see that on my list of
things to do over Christmas Break.
Anyways, I had a series of dreams last night. I will only mention one, as the
others were pretty pointless. I had a dream that I started BYU in the winter.
ASL 102 was really strange. I wasn't sure if I liked it. Then after class was
over, I decided to follow a group of people touring BYU's campus. It was pretty
interesting.
I seriously am losing my patience for the end of this semester. If I get a C+ on
my final paper, which I got on my second to last paper, I will rejoice mightily,
and jump for joy. This is the sad thing, I will react no differently to an A
than I would to a C+. I just simply want english done with. Tomorrow for me is
pretty much the end of the semester. English has taken up a significant amount
of stress. I really suck at analysis critique. I do great at "your own views",
but when it comes to analyzing articles, I bite. Oh well.
I may have mentioned this earlier, but even though it seems like this semester
has gone by kind of slow, at the same time it seems like it has gone by
lightning fast. Summer 2005 seems just like yesterday, yet the length of the
UVSC semester seems slightly long, if that makes any sense at all. I drove by
BYU today, just for the heck of it. It was somewhat depressing.
Anyways, today is not being a very good day. I accidentally parked into an
illegal parking area, unable to see the lines very well, because duh, icy
conditions. My toes are cold too, and that is such a mature thing to complain
about.
I don't know when BYU starts, but I remember last year it was the 4th, the day
just before UVSC started, the 5th. I remember thinking, "HAHAHAHA!" about how
they started earlier. It was pretty funny. Basically I've got 30 days before ASL
102 starts, which is obviously what I am looking forward to the most. I remember
in the summer we had 16 days in between the end of summer semester at BYU, and
the beginning of Fall semester of UVSC. This is double that.
Don't park anywhere illegal like I did.
So... It is now the weekend. The WEEKEND! No surprise there
I'm assuming. Nothinig out of the ordinary, I mean, weekends happen every five
days. That's how it has been our entire lives. I've only got like 2 weeks of
school, and only 4 days of classes left at UVSC. That doesn't happen as often at
all. Still, not too surprising, as it does happen once a year for K-12 students,
and 2-4 times a year for college students. It is my last semester at UVSC
though. That only happens once. I'm pretty excited for the end. Once it ends, I
can relax, and not have to worry about the possibility that something might make
it so I don't get to go to BYU next semester. Pathetic thinking.
I'm at the point right now, where I would have to make a deliberate effort to
fail the semester. I basically only have finals left, and I'm sure even if I
didn't study for them, I'd still pass, not to brag or anything. I'm going to
study though, because I'm a *master student*. I'm going to force myself to
become thrilled about writing my exploratory research paper in English, because
basically, that is the only thing that is going to give me trouble. And let's
face it, it is going to be A HECK of a lot easier to write than any of my other
papers. All it is is the process in which I took to form my opinion on dream
content. My opinion. HA! (Allison Reynolds after Claire says her parents use her
to get back at each other in the Breakfast Club, HAHAHAHA! I know, I'm obsessed
with it.)
Anyways, many loads have been taken off my shoulders these past two weeks. Two
weeks ago, excluding Thanksgiving break, I nearly cried because I was so tired
of UVSC. I had similar feelings I had my senior year when I had senioritis. It
sucked. But now, it's gone. Kind of like Amazing Grace, "I once was lost, but
now, I'm found". In my case it would be, "I once had senioritis, but now, it's
gone". HAHAHAHAHA!!! What a funny guy! Aren't I a genious?! I'm listening to a
song called "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd. When David sings "I have become
comfortably numb", I imagine a bread baker making a serious pressurized face. It
is funny, and sexy. Speaking of "becoming", in the Breakfast Club, John Bender
asks the janitor, "I was wondering how one becomes a janitor". I thought it was
funny, because if you change the quote, you can get, "I was wondering how one
becomes a bread baker". Or, just as funny, "I was wondering how one becomes
comfortably numb". Anyways, I have no idea what the point of mentioning all of
this is, but I just think it is funny.
Back to UVSC. I'm not going to miss English, though I will feel kind of guilty
about all the self-complaining and grudges I held against it. I'm not going to
miss trigonometry at all. I am going to miss my Network Management class a
tinge, because it was soooo funny, and I'm the only one in there with a
Christmas background on my virtual PC. My instructor is like, "The only one with
the Christmas spirit is Steven Moody!" I liked it. I'm not going to miss my
psychology class itself, but I do find the information and material very
fascinating. A part of me is really interested in it, and wants to pursue it as
a career.
There is something that Drew Pickles, a character in
Rugrats said to Angelica in an episode, in which I have not quite gotten over.
It is horrifying, and lingers in my head often.
"Soon you will have a whole ocean to swim in!" - Drew from Rugrats to Angelica
(EGADS). (I'm not making this up either, horrifyingly enough). - "Soon you will
have an oceanful of complaints when your daughter loses her Cynthia in the
ocean!"
"Soon you will have a whole ocean to swim in!" - Yeah, if Angelica really had a
whole ocean to swim in, why not place her in the dead center of one, and watch
Drew panic as he realizes what he did to his daughter.
Why not have an episode where Angelica steals her father's credit card? Then
he'd have a "Whole ocean of bills to pay!" Ooh! HA!
Why not turn the house upside down, giving him a "Whole ocean of housework to
do!"
Yeah, two can play this sick and twisted game.
"Hey Drew! I hope you had a good day at work, because, well, you have a whole
ocean of traffic to travel through on your way home!"
Yeah, isn't so pleasant now is it?
"Drew! You are fired! And good luck trying to get an interview! I had to go
through a whole ocean of interviews after I got fired from my first job!"
Whole ocean, HA!
"Drew is involuntarily going to participate in the ultimate swimathon. He is the
only contestent, and will not be rescued if he drowns! Here's his rule! Swim
through a whole ocean of water, and then get his prize, a whole ocean of gold!
Can he do it?!"
Imagine that. Swimming a whole ocean of water. Isn't so funny now is it Drew?!
That's what you get for traumatizing me at ten years old!
Things I am thankful for -
Robin William's living environment in Mrs. Doubtfire
Bread Bakers, for without them, we'd have no bread
The discovery of plutonium
The error in the calculations to go to Mars
My uncle's ex-wife's wisdom teeth experience
Dinosaurs, although they are obsolete, and marriage is still around
Turkey mixed with Thanksgiving gravy, mmmm is it good
The old lady at the very beginning of Mrs. Doubtfire who says, "Shoe! Shoe!",
then calls Miranda Hillard at her office, saying "Miranda Hillard please!" - (I
thought she was Mrs. Doubtfire when I first saw it, hahaha)
Peter Gabriel and his geneous work, especially The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
Without that album, I would never have tossed my used kleenex over my right
shoulder in 10th grade biology. Thank you Peter!
Again, Peter Gabriel, for giving me material to toy around at the Taco Bell
drive through with. What a geneous!
The Panda Express, for being the perfect place to eat at when you want to go out
and "get a bite to eat".
Sesame Street, for providing me with all those moments of laughter during those
number and letter songs. I used to laugh so hard during those!
Cynthia my old babysitter, for existing so I could imagine she is running with a
cane during the number songs in Sesame Street.
Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey", for allowing me to imagine a man and a
monkey walking into Peter Gabriel's house holding hands, as the "pre-shock"
experience.
Pirates, and pirate stories. They are seriously the coolest.
The song "Counting Out Time" by Genesis, to allow me to be reminded of my 10th
grade biology teacher, and my career exploration teacher.
My 10th grade biology teacher's assistant, named Mrs. Shepard. She was truly a
"You can't live with them, and you can't live without them" lady. Not to be
confused with the other line, "Can't live with them, can't shoot them".
Statues that bob slowly from side to side.
Dream Theater, for keeping my summer of 2003 complete, and not overly anxious to
begin my senior year of high school.
BYU, for not only accepting me, but for admitting that the University wouldn't
function without people like me.
My ASL class, for keeping my summer of 2005 complete, and then some.
The idea that bread bakers were never meant to bump into strangers, and when
they were about to, they had to be overly-dramatic about it.
The large yellow creature that ascended on a large building.
The brat pack.
The belief that x really does equal y, if their integers are equal. (Wait, I'm
not thankful for that, sorry).
Senior citizens. They truly are so funny.
Car honking in movies, they make the movie so much funnier.
Film producers, and directors, for bringing hours of entertainment into my life.
Miserable one way interpretations of what would appear to the public as a
failing relationship between a man and a woman.
The freedom of replacing the word "thankful" with "grateful".
Dr. Pepper, the drink that has always been kind to me even in the most
mouth-rotting situations.
The fact that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
The idea that Dilbert comic books were never meant to touch chairs.
The fact that I'm interested in a career for the money. What a funny cause!
The movie "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles", for being available for me to watch
after I post this long list of things I am grateful / thankful for.
Judd Nelson, for inspiring me to not take life so seriously, and Ally Sheedy,
for inspiring me to balance out my laid back behavior with productivity.
The color pink, to provide life to the quote "I've seen enough pink today".
Driver's Ed, for providing me with an excuse to sit through lectures about road
rules, which I thoroughly enjoy.
The idea that long lists have to end eventually, so you might as well end them
now.
Why do doctors schedule wisdom tooth removal surgeries all
on the same day?
Why do doctors sit in their office for an hour before seeing a patient?
Why do people even care about health care? It is sooo 20th century!
Why do health care systems put rich people in rags?
Why is Bush allowing health care to charge every family a million dollars for
tax purposes?
Why can't people just recover on their own?
Why does everybody have to complain to a doctor?
Why do doctors charge fifty bucks per minute?
Why do you only get ten dollars when you win a million dollars?
Why do doctors cough on their patients when they are sick?
Why do your great grandparents fly whenever they get squashed?
Why can't your mother cook a decent turkey pot pie?
Why can't the idea of a hospital be put through a shredder?
Why did George Harrison still remain friends with Eric Clapton after he slept
with his wife?
Why does Pete Townshend goof off on stage with "The Who"?
Why are people so paranoid when referring to "Stairway to Heaven"?
Why do people pretend that Pink Floyd doesn't exist?
Why do all male members of a college symphony or symphonic band have short
blonde hair, wear glasses, and dress in church clothes?
Why do all therapists put their finger on their cheek when the think?
Why do all psychiatrists have bad handwriting?
The following is an improvisation, tributed to one of my
all time favorite bands. (Some may be dumb, but some are funny).
Having a hunch - I've Got A Feeling
Unsure about the meaning of something - Your Mother Should Know
Appreciating the merry-go-round at Disneyland sitting on ponies - Dig A Pony
Having eaten oysters - I Am the Walrus (Watch Alice In Wonderland)
Doing something during a guitar's depressed state - While My Guitar Gently
Weeps.
A female burglar - She Came In Through the Bathroom Window
Waking Life - A Day in the Life
Saying hello to your friend named Judy - Hey Jude
The ninth spinning wheel in an auto shop - Revolution 9
Looking in a ghost's direction - I'm Looking Through You
Being stalked by our nearest star - Here Comes the Sun
Being asked if you are causing trouble in your bedroom - I'm Only Sleeping
Drawing all over a novel - Paperback Writer
The person who is desirous of others to obtain the "disease to please" - Please
Please Me.
Wrapping up a present for no reason - For No One
Stalkers - Here There and Everywhere
Jumping into a city of money - Penny Lane
Travelling from Norway to India - Flying
A road named after a bird - Blue Jay Way
Chick flick talk - She Said She Said
Porcellin tear-jerker - Glass Onion
Your love in the form of a dessert - Honey Pie
The next day after an all-nighter - I'm So Tired
Accepting a request - I Will
Sister or daughter moving into BYU housing - She's Leaving Home
Anticipation to be a senior citizen - When I'm 64
The consistent thought of a person walking home regarding vehicles - Don't Pass
Me By
Finishing a sentence regarding your friend's pet - And Your Bird Can Sing
Prescriber of pills - Dr. Robert
Being taken to a pricy restaurant by one's boyfriend - Baby Your A Rich Man
Finding out your friend's crush likes them too, and tells them - She Loves You
Being asked if you alright, and you don't want to talk about it - I Feel Fine
How long an indescribable drudgery of an experience feels like - Eight Days a
Week
Being fed up with being stalked by our nearest star, and seeking revenge - I'll
Follow the Sun
Seeing the positive aspects of Hurricane Rita - Lovely Rita
An optimists way of thinking the next day won't be so bad - Tomorrow Never Knows
Trying to find somebody, but can never find them - Nowhere Man
Kirby explaining to Kevin where it was that Andie MacDowell's character in St.
Elmo's Fire was when she smiled at him - I Saw Her Standing There
Finally having the courage at the end of a letter to tell someone how you really
feel about them - P.S. I Love You
Trying to talk to somebody on MSN Messenger when their status is set to away -
No Reply
Your girlfriend's worst nightmare in a relationship - Another Girl
Nicole Kidman's favorite words to hear from a man in the movie Bewitched - I
Need You
Telling somebody that you feel they are obsessed with you - You Like Me Too Much
Mr. Krab's favorite thing to tell Spongebob when he is being carried - Don't Let
Me Down
A rear wheel driver's worst nightmare in icy conditions - The Long and Winding
Road
Deciding to buy a hot-dog in the process of stalking someone - You're Gonna Lose
That Girl
Getting a Disneyland Pass - Ticket to Ride
What you can never do in the presence of your crush - Act Naturally
Gossip - Do You Want To Know A Secret
A mailman's most hated words when someone's love letter didn't come - Please Mr.
Postman
Whew!
And congratulatory, because I have not posted one odd blog
in my state of hyperness. I'm like a monkey who likes bananas, sort of if you
think about it. That's more like how I am with Dr. Pepper.
I'm like Gatsby, in the Great Gatsby (book version, avoid movie at all costs, it
sucks horribly), when he reaches his arms towards the green light. In bed, I
reach my arms upwards thinking of Dr. Pepper. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Cheekers the monkey! 
I'm pretty funny. It's no matter really, and no distance.
Anyways, I'm doing my introspected research study in english on Dreams. Much
like I did my junior year of, well, high school. High school was out of hand,
really. In St. Elmo's Fire, Billy says, "College was out of hand". Now I say the
same thing, but for high school. I miss how everyone was a "status seeker", and
always tried to fit in, or be the center of attention if they did. Good times
really.
I'll tell you though, Mr. Nozawa's chemistry class my senior year was out of
hand, and I loved every minute of it. It was good times. Now that I'm at UVSC,
things don't seem as funny. I guess you could say ASL was out of hand, in a
structured way, if that makes any sense. ASL was the coolest class EVER! Even
cooler than Nozawa's chemistry class. 
I'm loving the emoticons, they are funny, especially this one. .
It is funny.
I've had so much candy today. I have a ton of candy corn, and a plethora of
reeses pieces, which I haven't even got to. Crazy stuff. You know what Friday
December 9th is? SURPRISE STUDY DAY!!! Actually, it's not a surprise at all, but
it is a study day. You know what I intend to do on that day? Imagine I am
Richard Kimball from "The Fugitive", and have breakfast at UVSC in the
cafeteria.
(Currently doing the sign for HAHAHAHAHA, and laughing hard).
Well, it is now November. I'm glad, because October went by
somewhat slow, in comparison to other months. Yesterday was great though. I saw
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for the first time, and it was AMAZING!! It
was my favorite performance of Johnny Depp, whom I have gained even more respect
for, even though he has been one of my favorite actors for a while.
I know many of you will argue that the first one is classic, and cannot be
compared with. To be honest, the new version is so much better than the
original. I honestly do not care for the actors in the first one, especially
Gene Wilder. The actors in the new one were just so good, and the actor for
Charlie was better. Plus, the first one was much more musical oriented, which I
try to avoid for the most part.
I have my Windows XP class today. I don't really feel like going, but I think
I'll go anyway, maybe just be late. Then I have to wake up early tomorrow, so I
probably won't get to watch a movie until the weekend. Oh well.
Anyways, I got a bag of Mr. Goodbar fun sizes, and I'm eating some right now. I
just barely finished the rest of my candy corn, time for more.
Tomorrow is November 1st. I love November, because it means it is one month
closer to Winter semester of 2006 at BYU, plus there is Thanksgiving. I remember
last Thanksgiving, I drove to 7-11 for a Dr. Pepper, and my sisters were like,
"but it's Thanksgiving!" I said, "It's not breaking the sabbath day, so I can do
it". If Christmas day was on a non-Sunday, I'd be willing to do it. There's my
holiday spirit for you all, even though I do enjoy holidays. 5 minutes in 7-11
won't make my holiday spirit go away.
After Thanksgiving there's only 2 weeks of school left, YIPPEE!. Of course
there's finals the next week after the two weeks, but those go by fast. If I can
make it until Thanksgiving, I'll be in good shape.
Should I go trick or treating tonight? NO! I'm too old, and too tall. They would
reject me in a flash.
Happy Halloween! Don't do anything lethal!
Here is a list of the recycled vocabulary words from my senior year of high school. I will post all, but this is term 3's.
Verbs
Fetter To hamper Sam felt very distraught when Julie fettered him in Media Play
Persevere To persist Those who persevere at chemistry, will most likely get an A
Embellish To beautify Juan was very impressed by the embellished poem
Saturate To permeate The room was saturated with a nasty smell
Concoct Fabricate, create Sam concocted a brilliant, yet evil plan
Crave To desire Many people crave money more than once in their life
Romp Frolic Little Suzy loved to romp around the house to annoy Tim
Balk Recoil Jeremy was annoyed by the way the guards balked about the castle
Dismantle To take apart I felt the need to dismantle the robot yesterday
Ponder To consider carefully I pondered my chemistry review today, and understood
Nurture To nourish A baby who is not nurtured, will surely suffer emotionally
Cope To be a match for, to deal with Tim had to cope with salmon for dinner tonight
Fabricate Concoct, to lie Sam fabricated an excuse to get out of helping set up chairs
Delude To fool Sam deluded his boss by forging documents
Acknowledge To admit Jared had to acknowledge that his studying habits are terrible
Juxtapose To place side by side, contrast John juxtaposed his homework on the table
Nouns
Liquidation Destruction of The liquidation of Tommys N64 was very disturbing
Paragon A model Tim won a paragon for his success in soccer
Antithesis Complete opposite The antithesis of happy is sad
Cache Secret hiding place The criminals cache was in a ravine in New York City
Enigma Puzzle, riddle Nobody was ever able to solve the enigma in yesterdays paper
Hoax A trick The Paul Is Dead hoax frightened many Beatle maniacs
Labyrinth Maze It took Tom an hour to escape the labyrinth
Veneer Surface, covering The veneer on last nights dinner broke
Myriad Abundance, legion There were a myriad of stars seen in the desert last night
Buff A fan I am a true History Buff
Nirvana Heavenly place, paradise I consider my bedroom a nirvana
Materialism Greed Sam was so into materialism, he ignored the hungry woman
Indifference Lack of Sympathy Sam felt indifference for the driver without a blinker
Coup Revolution The world went into another coup last weekend
Amnesty A general pardon - The cop gave amnesty to the speeder
Nostalgia Homesickness Sam felt nostalgia when he heard his favorite song in Paris
Levity Humor, lightness Sean felt levity in spite of his sorrow
Edifice Structure The large edifice blocked the Sun on 47th Street
Decadence Corruption The decadence of Sams computer disturbed many people
Metamorphosis Change Sean went through a metamorphosis in his smoking habits
Adjectives
Extrinsic Thorough Sam was impressed with Seans extrinsic research paper
Landmark Turning point The landmark in Toms life was his first date
Nomadic Wandering The nomadic shoppers annoyed the Maceys manager
Altruistic Unselfish Big Bird was never, and will never be altruistic
Frugal Thrifty The frugal shoppers impressed the cashiers
Gregarious Sociable Sally is the most gregarious person I know
Prolific Productive The prolific activities were very satisfying
Gullible Easy to fool Tom was so gullible, he looked up gullible in the dictionary
Murky Dark, clammy The murky waters made Sam puke
Impeccable Faultless Tims impeccable grade report impressed Stanford University
Tortuous Scorching The tortuous Sun was very harmful to those unprotected
Urbane Well civilized The urbane citizens of California have impeccable etiquette
Spontaneous Spur of the moment Tom spontaneously ran out of the classroom today
Fraught Filled Tyler was fraught with fear when observing the evil clown
Sumptuous Lavish, luxurious The sumptuous food gave Sam a migraine
Maudlin Mushy, sappy The maudlin student annoyed Sam
Blunt Frank, direct Tom was very blunt when quitting his job
Legion Myriad The legion of soldiers intimidated Sam
Nebulous Vague, unclear The nebulous images on Sams computer made him sick
Sultry Hot Sam the Fish felt sultry in the tortuous Sun
Derogatory Belittling The derogatory statements by Fred got him expelled
Pesky Annoying The pesky fly entered our home yesterday
Disparate Different Apples are extremely disparate to oranges
Unabated Unstopping The unabated heat made me very lethargic
Bona fide Genuine, true The bona fide statements by Tim earned him extra credit
Lush Sumptuous The lush hotel room was too expensive for Fred
Obsequious Seeking favor Tom was extremely obsequious in Chemistry today
Potential Possible Tom was concerned about Sams potential alcohol addiction
Covert Secret The covert hiding place for Utah criminals is underground, below I-15
Incapacitated Injured, handicapped The incapacitated softball player was angry
Cumulative Increasing The cumulative progress of Sam made him happy
In my computer networking class, whenever I am assigning
folder permissions, and I see the option "everyone" in there, I imagine this one
guy in my class drinking in a hot tub smiling.
Just thought I should confess that.
I learned how to speak Hmong! I will tell a story in itl!
Here we go -
Pov pov posh posh pov pov posh posh pot pot pot pok pok pov pov pok pok posible
pos pos posible pos pos pov pov pok pok pos pos posible pop pop posible pop pop.
Same story in a language called "laughing pretty hard" -
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Same story in a language called "excuse my foul, most terrible language" -
I talked filth today. I voluntarily washed my mouth out with soap, and it tasted
terrible. I then went to everybody who heard my terrible, dirty language, and
said, "Please excuse my foul, most corrupt and despicable language".
Same story in a language called "Realsound Audio" -
When I went to a Kansas concert in 1986, during the Power tour, I realized how
truly hard rocking a concert could be. I had seen Kansas before, but this time
was so crazy. They rocked harder than I had ever heard anyone before. They were
all drinking heavy amounts of whiskey, and played their instruments really
heavily. Phil Ehart was banging on the drums so hard, I thought either the drums
would break, or his arms would fall of. Steve Walsh was pounding on the
keyboards, and Steve Morse was playing faster riffs than ever before. He turned
up his volume and bass incredibly high, and screamed like a zombie occasionally.
Billy Greer was playing the bass the same way Steve Morse was playing his
guitar, really hard, nearly breaking the strings.Rich Williams was playing
similar to the other two, except he was also in charge of the stage steam, and
lights. The stage lights were consistently flashing like strobe lights. The
audience was going crazy, dancing heavily, drinking intensely, and banging their
heads back and forth. Each song sounded intensely heavy, and it was the hardest
rocking concert with the most whiskey up to that point. They did not play "Dust
In The Wind", because of its mellow nature.
Same story in a language called "Steve Morse playing with John Elefante in
"Young and Innocent" -
At an 80s rock festival, John Elefante was asked to perform "Young and
Innocent", and Steve Morse volunteered to play guitar. As soon as Steve Morse
got on stage, he had the strongest urge to play as hard as he possibly could.
He tensed his body quite a bit, and strummed each string with more power than he
had ever done at a concert. His guitar riffs were double what they normally
were, and his face was extra tense. He was bobbing upwards and down
consistently. He even added power chords in the second half, which was not
planned, and John Elefante nearly lost his concentration when singing. As soon
as they stopped playing, Steve Morse had put so much energy into it, he was more
worn out than he had ever been after a concert. He barely had enough energy to
walk off stage. He had only been playing for about 5 minutes, whereas he had
played for hours at a time, and was far more worn out now.
Here's a funny thought. If the word Camping was the name of
a person, that would be funny. People would say, "Hi Camping!" That strikes me
as sooooo funny! "Hi Camping!" HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Anyways, I may have mentioned this earlier, but before my math class, there is a
statistics class. The teacher is soooo funny! I'd hate to say this, but it is
because he is chinese, and I've never known a chinese man to teach statistics,
or any math for that matter.
Anyways, I looked on the board, where the lecture board notes are, and they make
no sense to me at all. They look impossible, and really hard. The strangest part
is that I am considering majoring in statistics just because of my
pre-trigonometry daily experiences! I'm no kidding either!
Anyways, I can't get off of Debry! It is just so funny! What a man! He is aware
that he looks like one of those bank tellers in Harry Potter 1 the movie. He
really does though, and it's funny!
On the first day of class, he used an exclamation mark! HAHAHAHAHA! Had I not
been depressed because I missed BYU, I would laugh myself to tears because of
it! It was soooo funny!
By now, if you read any of these, you are well aware that I am a strange person.
It's true, but sometimes the strange can be the funniest.
If strange things started flying towards my head, what would I imagine them to
be? Maybe a pocket sized suit-case with angels wings, or a tiny violin with a
sandwich attached to the string attached to it. You know when people attach
dollar bills to strings, and attach them to ducks? Yep. That's what I mean. What
else would be funny to be flying towards my head? A pocket size 44 oz. of Dr.
Pepper! HAHAHAHAHA! Congratulations to me!
There was a question I was going to ask someone just barely, but I forgot, and
now I forgot what it really is I was going to ask.
Before I forget, there is a house I am looking for. I used to know where it is,
but it moved, and I can't find it anywhere! It is the coolest house ever! It has
a downstairs living room with couches, a sofa, and four pillars. It is fancy!
It's a pretty big house, so if any of you are driving in a Maceys parking lot,
and happen to see a house around, let me know.
Bread bakers kill me, really. They are the funniest things in the world! Imagine
a bread baker carrying a tray of food in a restaurant, and a strange object,
like a bite sized dishwasher with human arms, flies towards his head, causing
him to lose balance, and throw the tray in the air. Well, the host or hostess
next to him catches everything miraculously, but the bread baker is still in a
state of lost balance, and he is making a very serious, pressurized face with a
wide open mouth, and he runs into the host / hostess, causing them to drop
everything! HAHAHAHA! Totally bread bakerish!
In the movie Short Circuit 2, the old guy, that tries to decieve Johnny 5, is
bread bakerish, and that's funny.
Anyways, here's a story for ya'all:
There's a man named Jacob Christensen, who is applying for this one college. He
lives on a planet far far away. The way they say the name of this college, is
they go home, sleep for 6 hours, and come back. So he gets accepted. He goes to
the orientation. The president of the college speaks. He says, "Welcome to", and
then immediately, everyone in the auditorium goes home and sleeps for 6 hours,
then comes back. Every single time that college is referred to, everyone goes
home and sleeps for 6 hours and then returns.
I've heard complaints like, "Doesn't that ever get annoying? Do they avoid
referring to it?"
Let me ask you this. Do you enjoy saing the word "the"? No, you don't dislike
it, and you don't like it. You are whole-heartedly neutral towards it. You have
done it to the point where you don't give any thought to it. That is how things
run on Jacob's planet. Whenever they refer to the college he applied to, the go
home, and sleep for 6 hours, then return. It's just the way it is.
Not really a true story, but enough to get you the gist of how things run on
that planet.
Roger Debry is the HARDEST teacher I've ever known! There
are so many reasons why, I could probably go on forever! Here I go!
It all started on day one, when I went to Object Oriented Programming. He went
over class expectations, and I found myself snickering most of the time. He
requires for assignments that we create a program, print out our code, and
attach a contract saying that it is our own work, and we did not cheat or copy
from the internet. Anyways, he said that if we printed code, and we did the
assignment perfectly, yet didn't bring the signed contract, he would give us a
zero. Here's where it starts getting strange, as if it wasn't strange enough
already -
He gives us full credit if we turn our assignments in early. Otherwise, if on
time, it is a B, assuming we did the homework perfectly. If I tried turning in
an assignment without the contract, even before the due date, it would be a flat
out zero. I wouldn't be able to try turning it in again WITH the signed
contract.
If that rule wasn't strange enough, it just got stranger! His stand on cheating
is so bad, that he will fail both you AND the person cheating from you, even if
you are unaware they are cheating from you! Holy kazooks! He said that if we
cheat, he will not accept us as students EVER. That means, were I to be cheated
from, I wouldn't be able to take a class from him ever again. I say me being
cheated from, because I simply don't cheat. Cheating is stupid, and I won't even
get into that.
Wait! There's more! And yes, even stranger. Our final project in the class was
to recreate the internet ourselves. How in the name of the demented devil is
this possible?! I asked him why this was rational, and he said, "Well, somebody
created the internet". My mind was set to disbelief. Recreate the internet?! How
can he expect us to do this?! With as little experience as we have!
I'm afraid there's even more. Like I said, I could go on forever. He bends for
NOBODY! He doesn't accept late work at all. If you turn in an assignment late,
he just rips it up in front of you, contract or no contract. Some assignments he
requires you email to him. What if you didn't have access to the internet? ZERO!
That's right, he bends for no man!
I dropped the class, it just seemed way to ridiculous. And I have heard some
wild stories, in the form of complaints in my Windows XP class. Apparently,
everyone in my Windows XP either is or was in the Debry class I dropped. Here is
something that I overheard. Someone in my class had to work a certain day, and
didn't contact Debry in advance, and Debry was in a bad mood, so Debry flunked
him! Debry said, "You'll just have to re-take it". ONE DAY! I was laughing
pretty hard.
One kid dropped the class after Debry ripped up his code in front of him, just
because he was in a bad mood! HOLY KANAK! I've never heard of anything so wild
in my life!
This is just crazy! Such a hard teacher! I may come back and edit this blog if I
can think of anything else wild about the class.
Use caution in your computer classes!
I guess you could compare my maid humor to my bread baker humor, although I
can't impersonate a maid at all, and I can a bread baker. I probably wouldn't be
able to write a very funny story about a maid, but the idea of a maid is just
ultimately satisfying.
Anyways, enough of that. I cleaned my room today. On a scale from 1 to 10, 1
being the cleanest room you can find, and 10 being the worst, messiest room you
can find, I'd give it an 8.5 or so. I cleaned it to a 2, which is incredible. My
closet isn't clean, but oh well. I am proud of myself.
After the priesthood session of general conference, which I attended by myself,
I had dinner at Burgers Supreme. The french fries tasted very strange, almost
like peanut butter. It was kind of nasty. The burger and Dr. Pepper were fine
though. From now on, I call that place "Peanut Butter Supreme".
I suppose this has been long, so I will end it here. Right now, I'm going to
make myself a glass of chocolate milk, with hershey's syrup.
Like I mentioned, my confidence in English is not as good as it could be. I should be fine in trigonometry (test Wednesday by the way), if I thoroughly go over all problems, and clear up any potential misunderstandings, like I had on my last test. The material is not hard, it is just easy to scramble important informations.
I'll do fine, I don't doubt that. I am just worried that I won't get all I could get, just because of misunderstandings that aren't our fault, but the teachers'. Oh well, at least I know exactly what the dude wants for our next paper. We have a draft due Friday, and it is supposed to be on a local problem, where we describe many possible solutions, and narrow it down to one definitive solution that we feel would solve the issue. We'll see what happens.
Anyways, tomorrow is Sunday. I should have some good reading time, which I certainly could have done today, but didn't. I did read the Restaurant Universe, but I could have read for Psychology and Windows XP. Restaurant Universe is what I am reading for English, so I took care of that. Wow, I feel a burning desire to dive into the books by talking about it. Strange, but cool.
I sound like a complete loony I know, but life is good right now. I quote Batman (Tim Burton).
"Why are you always smiling?"
Joker - "Life's been good to me"
I laughed pretty hard at that scene, because the Joker just barely turned into the Joker, and smiled consistently. This was his first appearance back in the office. It was funny.
I honestly don't know what I'm talking about, but life's been good to me lately. I still love my English teacher by the way, I just am disheartened by my results. He did what he could I'm sure, and did give me helpful feedback. I honestly do deserve a 35/50, which was my score. I don't blame him, I blame myself. Wow, journal writing is effective. I feel a lot happier now than I did when I started this blog! Woopdeedoo!
Life's been good to me! HAHAHAHAHA! Get it? Life's been good to me? Joker smiling?! HAHAHA! I need to find a picture of the Joker smiling, and have it on my pictures, and say "Life's been good to me!" So funny!
Yes, I still have the stupid cold, but I think I'm getting better. I hope I'm getting better.
Anyways, I went to the Orem Public Library today and checked out a book called "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", the sequel to the HG2G. I haven't started yet, but I will pronto. I also checked out the BBC TV series, and "She's Having A Baby".
I've been listening to the Soundtrack to St. Elmo's Fire a lot lately. It is horrifyingly good. Two great singers, John Elefante of Kansas, and Jon Anderson of Yes, are on it. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes 80s music a lot.
Apperently yesterday was the first day of Fall, officially. I can see it in the mountains, but I'm having a hard time feeling it. It is still pretty hot outside, though there have been a couple cooler days. I'm actually looking forward to cooler weather.
That pretty much sums it up for now, unless I can think of something else for later.
Well it had to happen. I got a pretty bad cold. I could barely sleep last night. My throat is irritating me, and my nose is raw from blowing. What's interesting about last night, is I was unconscious mostly after 3 AM, but I didn't dream. I don't think I made it past a certain stage in the sleep cycle.
So yesterday in my Windows XP class, I was terribly fatigued, and could not concentrate. As soon as I got home, I took a nap. My mom called me for dinner, and I said I'd be up. That's the last thing I remember, before waking up about an hour later. I seriously hate being sick, because I can't function normally (duh).
Well, other than being sick, I guess things are good. Afterall, I did get accepted to BYU. I will most certainly NOT go into any detail to why I like it so much, because I could go on for an excruciatingly long time.
Well, I guess I should go upstairs soon and have lunch. I think I'll have Top Roman noodles, and maybe chocolate milk. Salmon probably, even though that's pushing it a bit.
So anyways, I woke up kind of late today, but not late like I have before. I think it was 1:45 I woke up. I've been really into downloading music from iTunes, even though it costs money. I'm almost positive I mentioned this earlier.
Anyway, I went to 2 Blockbuster videos tonight, looking for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I had never seen it before, and was really disappointed, because they were all sold out. I was mad.
I hate it when people clog the arteries, and just stand there. I hate it so bad, that I am at the point where I forcefully force myself through now, because I have tolerated it for too long. I really can't take it anymore. It is one of the most major things I hate. Today in Blockbuster, I needed to get through, and two ugly men stood, leaving no room for anyone. I was so ticked off, I just squeezed inside of them. I think one of them started to move, but I didn't have the patience to really notice.
I'm still happy though, because I got into BYU, and still really mad, that I got a 77/100 on my trig test. (Refer to previous blog for more details).
I had two pieces of salmon for dinner tonight, and boy those things keep you full! I actually thawed one of my pieces, and noticed after thawing it was soft, so I took a bite of it. Dang, I don't know if that will make me sick, but I'll admit it was impulsive. I also cooked Pastaroni for later tonight, that I haven't eaten yet. Pastaroni is sooo much better for leftovers than the actual dish. Garlic Alfredo is the kind I like. I've been drinking a lot of chocolate milk too. My anxiety meal, that I eat whenever I feel anxious is this: Top Roman shrimp flavored noodles, and chocolate milk. Good stuff too.
I am extremely satisfied with Steve Morse "The Introduction". It is really good. The Steve Morse Band is an instrumental band, with a lot of guitar solos, riffs, and other crazy stuff. They are very unique, but I love them. (Back to music again).
My favorite band right now is still Led Zeppelin, and will probably be for a while. I actually didn't really get into them until Winter of 2005, when I started listening to them consistently. But then after I bought Physical Graffiti, I REALLY got into them. I now have every single album of theirs on iTunes. They are soooo good! My favorite song by them is "For Your Life". Mostly because it brings back memories of going to BYU in the summer, which I like to think about, because it gets me pumped for Winter 2006.
It's ironic though, because I usually dread winter, snow and all. But the colder the weather gets, the happier I am, because it means it is closer for the time to go to BYU. For whoever is reading this, in addition to my previous blogs, probably thinks I'm obsessed with the idea of BYU. You truly cannot understand my summer semester experience. It was just soooo cool! Best summer of my life, and best school experience of my life! It was just soooo cool!
Anyways, things are good, and posting this blog has put me in a better mood, even though I was in a good mood.
Yesterday when I went to the mailbox, I saw a letter addressed to me from the BYU Admissions office. I got accepted to BYU! WAHOO! I'm pretty excited, and pumped. I had such a good time in the summer, this should be just as cool! I was always excited to go to class, and there wasn't a day I wasn't pumped. It was the coolest! Either my class selection in the summer was perfect, or it was random, and all classes are pretty much as cool. That's what I'm hoping.
I got the results back from my trigonometry test today. I got 77/100. I was really disappointed, because I thought I would do a lot better. It turns out I screwed up on this one graph, and that alone cost me 6 points. 77/100 isn't that bad I suppose, but compared to last semester at UVSC, it is quite low indeed, as my lowest test score was 79/100. She'll drop the lowest test score, but this may not be it. Blah.
Right now, I am just anxious to get to BYU. I had made plans to shoot for a 4.0, which I haven't ever done before, but considering the math results, it may not happen. I just want to keep my grades above a B. I will try my best, but I shouldn't be disappointed by imperfection.
I got an account with iTunes, and I use it a lot lately. I downloaded a Steve Morse album "The Introduction", which was a pretty good deal, considering I wouldn't ever be able to find the album in stores anywhere. Possibly not even on Amazon! I also downloaded other random stuff, as well as stuff that I will not mention, due to the fact that it is high in "guilty pleasure" material.
Well, there is a band called "The Odds", which are priced very low, due to the unpopularity. I haven't really heard any of their material, but by the name, they sound cool. I may go to Big Daddys, a used CD store, and see if they have any of their stuff. If they are in the bargain bin, I'll buy without listening. If they aren't, and are about 7.99, I'll listen to them. "The Odds" is such a funny name!
So whoever reads these things, I have no clue. Anyways, it's been a long time since I wrote a blog entry. Here is my blog:
I realized that I bought the majority of Led Zeppelin's entire catalogue over the summer: Led Zeppelin I, II, III, IV, Physical Graffiti, Houses of the Holy, Presence, Live at BBC Sessions, and How The West Was Won, as well as Latter Days. That is a lot. I'm learning "The Wanton Song" on the guitar right now, and finished learning "Stairway to Heaven".
School is now officially in session. I am taking Psychology, English, Trigonometry, and Windows XP. I think they will be enjoyable for the most part. Last year I took college algebra, and failed it, and retook it. It sucked, but then I realised I was not memorizing formulas, I was just doing homework problems over and over for my studying. That is the number one step to failure right there! Other than that it was good.
Anyways, it's been long, so I think I'll end it here.
Today was a quite long day. I woke up at 7:15 AM, so I could get ready to job shadow my uncle for my career class, and he's involved with computer science, the profession I'm interested. I observed him doing his work for 3 hours, it went by rather quickly. Basically he just sat at his computer, and did a demonstration on how to use a program over the internet. (I won't explain it all). Then I came home for a while. My book came, "The Walrus Was Paul", which is a book about the Paul Is Dead rumors. It is very well written indeed. I was due for an allergy shot, so I went and did that, getting a Dr. Pepper of course. Then I came home, and decided I should go look at CDs at Media Play, as I usually do. I went to Media Play, and was mighty tempted to buy some stuff, but I didn't. I came home after that, and burned a CD for myself. My Dad and I met the rest of our family up at my Grandma's house in Salt Lake. The ride there was quite interesting indeed.
We were on 800 North in Orem, and there was a long line of cars stopped at a red light. To the right of us, a little bit ahead, was a car trying to turn left. He decided he should SQUEEZE in between some cars, so he wouldn't have to wait. It was quite interesting. The whole drive took about an hour and a half, because of all the traffic, and we couldn't get on the freeway until we were in Draper. Before we got on the freeway, there was a plethora of cars doing unbelievably stupid, irritating things. Much similar to the first one.
Then we got to my Grandma's house, and had chinese food. It was a pleasant evening up there, for me anyway. I just hung out in my Granddad's office and watched my Uncle load music on his IPOD, from our Macintosh. So then we left and came home, and got here roughly 11:15 PM.
Quite the day if you ask me. Far busier than any school day. And I'm glad, because I'm ready to write my 3 page job shadowing paper, and get it over with, so I don't have to write it on the night of August 7th.
I slept in until about 12:15 PM, and went to class at 1:00 PM. (Career Exploration). We discussed majors, and I already know what my major is (computer science). Then I went to Burgers Supreme afterwards for lunch, getting a cheeseburger combo-meal. After that, I went to 7-11 to get a Dr. Pepper. If I'm not mistaken I came home in between, and then left for my next class at 4:00 PM (ASL). After ASL, I drove home, and now I'm here. I am going to go to the Orem Public Library shortly, to get some CDs. I don't need to get any DVDs, because I already have some. (Rookie of the Year, Wayne's World, and Salem's Lot). I need to read something too. Maybe I'll get the Stephen King book about Medieval times and a dragon, it looks quite interesting.
I would say what I did today, but all I really did was go to church, sleep, and play Roller Coaster Tycoon (which I have running on the computer, and I'm typing on my laptop which is right by it. I feel so official.)
Okay, I woke up yesterday about 1:00 PM. I had 2 ham sandwiches for lunch, then I vacuumed for my chore. I then went to the Orem Public Library to get some movies and CDs. I got Clueless on DVD, as well as Rookie of the Year. I got a Led Zeppelin CD called Presence, and a Robert Plant CD called Pictures At Eleven. I came home, and took a nap. We had lazagna for dinner. Then I went to 7/11 for a Dr. Pepper. Came back and played The Sims. Then I watched Clueless, and went to bed.
I currently have $16,200 bucks right now on my Roller Coaster Tycoon Game, with 664 guests, and a park rating of 712.
I am either going to watch Rookie of the Year tonight, or Big Phish. Haven't quite decided.
I went to Media Play to pick up a copy of Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains the Same" DVD. Only roughly 11 bucks, killer deal. I watched part of it today, and was very impressed mostly with the performance of "No Quarter", and duh, "Black Dog". I haven't watched all of it yet, ya know, but it is still amazing.
Halfway through the summer semester at BYU. I'm one of those weird people that like school in the summer, it gives me something to do.
Whenever I walk outside, I am shocked, like walking into an oven. Over one hundred degrees! I sweat like a mad-man whenever I walk to class and back.
Do NOT ever see Mad City is the 70s version of King Kong. I have never seen such pathetic endings! I sat there thinking, "What happened, did the budget run out, and they had to end it right there?!" I mean, come on, anybody with 1 percent of a half-way decent functioning brain could come up with more sensible endings. Save the hassle, and do NOT see them. They are awful!
Beware of pathetic movie endings.
Today I woke up late. I got up, and had leftover lazagna. I then went to 7-11 for a Dr. Pepper. I went to the Allergists afterwards, for an allergy shot. I'm beginning to find it difficult to go get an allergy shot, but I can now go once every 2 weeks instead of 1 week. Afterwards, I went to Media Play to see if they had any good CDs on sale. I didn't find anything too thrilling. I went home, and played SNES for a while. Then I came upstairs for dinner. Afterwards I went to the Orem Public Library to see what they had. I got a Cream Greatest Hits CD, and some other stuff that my parents wanted me to get while I was there. I went to Borders, and looked around. I found some comic books on bargain, so I looked at those for a while. One, that I thought was funny in particular was "The Far Side Gallery 5". There were a lot of cartoons in there I hadn't seen before, so it was cool.
