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i knew it would happen, it was bound to. i have writers block. cleverly renamed bloggers block because i'm a blogger not a writer. and i have run out of things to say. this could pose to be an issue for me. good thing these aren't graded on content, they're more of a completion grade. i really am stuck. i looked at the blogs of others in my class and it didn't really help. i still don't know what to blog about.

i'm really going to try to stay away from reviewing a song or book or movie. i personally don't like to read those so i'm not going to make you few readers suffer through it too.

i wish weekends were longer. or that we had less homework over the weekends. i go to school five days a week and i think i deserve these two days off that we get. too bad i have homework. and because teachers seem to think that we have ample time over the weekends they give us a larger than normal sized assignment. i really don't want to do any homework over the weekends. these two days are supposed to be my break from school.

my physics teacher told the class to never complain, not even to yourself because it gives you bad karma. i guess i'm going to have bad karma then because i'm complaining. i'm going to complain if i want to and i'll find some other way to fix my karma. sounds good to me.

i am getting a headache. but i don't have time to take a nap. i like naps. i'm not even to 300 words yet. stupid block. i wish i could think of something to write.

sometimes i get sick and tired of people. especially when i've been subject to them while at work. and because i'm at work i am not allowed to do anything but smile and answer all their stupid questions. here's an example of my favorite question; while i'm folding shirts or doing something that only workers do, and i have a visible name tag on, customers will come up to me and ask if i work here. when people ask me this i just want to say no i don't. i only wear the name tag for fun. another frequent question; how much does this cost? so i look at the price tag and tell them what it says. they ask if it's on sale. i ask if there was a sign by it saying it was on sale. they say yes. i ask what did the sign say. they give a price. i say that price back to them. last night it was day care, or at least that's what it seemed. little children were running around everywhere with no parents in sight. i'm sorry but i'm not going to watch your kid and make sure he or she doesn't run into anything and hurt him/herself. that is not my job. as the parent that is your job. but all in all, no matter how much i complain about my job, i love it.

kicks and giggles

please excuse this interruption; richard please call jim at 341.

oh my god, i forgot my mustache!

quiero tener una coca cola contigo.


let's just tell everyone we blew the circut because we had four microwaves and the vacuum plugged in.

can we just lock the doors and go home early?

the color blue

note: title has nothing to do with the post, i'm just not good with titles.
the second note: i'm really quite proud of myself for keeping up with this all week

i know that the purpose of these blogs isn't to be a here's what happened to me today story but i'm going to break that rule today and tell all maybe five of you about my day. so this morning i was running kinda behind just a bit. but that's okay because i give myself about 10 minutes of extra time so that when i do run late i make it to school on time still. i don't like arriving late, it bugs me. but that's not important. i pull into the south lot and park my car in the usual row and then wait to exit my car while a car pulls in next to me. of course i glance up to see who it is and i don't recognize him. i gather all my stuff and then brace myself for the chilly walk to the school. we both leave our cars and then speed walk to the school. he either gets cold easily or just walks super fast and was soon a little ahead of me. i'm thinking this is nothing out of the ordinary, just because i go to school with this guy doesn't mean i'm going to talk to him as we walk to the school. i don't even know who he was. but when i get up to the school i see him walk up to the door and then hold it open for me. and it wasn't one of those hold it open from the inside until i grab the door things it was the all out he stood outside and held the door open for me. i said smiled and said thank you. he replied with a you're welcome and a smile as well. we went our separate ways and i still have no idea who he is. for the purpose of this i'm going to call him...jim.

today jim kinda renewed my faith in humanity. he showed me that not everyone is wrapped up in their own lives and that people out there still are willing to lend a helping hand, even if it's to a perfect stranger. so what did i do? i paid it forward and lent a helping hand today. the wind symphony traveled to one of the area middle schools today to play a recruiting concert. while walking to the car of the band mommy i was riding with i see the string base player trying to get his monstrously big instrument into the back of his truck. it was one of those trucks with the cover things making it not really a truck and, wow i'm not good at explaining cars so bear with me here, the window that is actually like a door didn't want to stay open and was causing troubles with the whole getting the big string bass into the bed of his truck that isn't actually a truck. so i held it open for him. he got the string bass in, smiled and said thanks. i played the part of jim, smiled back and said you're welcome.

life as i see it

it's your life, do what you want to do.

forget regrets or life is yours to miss --RENT

siiick

i don't like being sick. i feel like my stomach has grown its own brain and it has now decided that it doesn't like food. water is acceptable and that's about it. i am now confined to my bed all day. the only upside is that i can sleep all that i want to.

i try not to miss school for being sick because two days worth of homework and then having to make up any tests or quizzes only puts more strain on me. it's kind of a sad story. but hey, maybe i'll think of something else to blog about and then i'll have two of my three posts for the week done. let's not get too far ahead of myself now. i probably shouldn't even count this as one seeing as how it's not even going to be half of the required amount.

jefferson: please stop trying

dear jefferson high school:

hello. i have a big problem with you. namely, you suck. at absolutely everything. sports, the arts, academics... you're awful. you think you're good, but you're really not. every school in cedar rapids has a reason for its existence. prairie is for the farmers. wash is the original school so it's legit. kennedy of course needs to be there for the northsiders. gotta have linn-mar and marion of course as well, i mean marion has high schoolers too. and the catholics need a place to go to which means xavier is necessary.

but that leaves that one ugly, dirty, disgusting joke of a school that they call Thomas Jefferson High School. the main reason that it sucks is its location. if there is a definitive center of the "white trash zone" in cedar rapids, it is jefferson. it is also impossible to get to. but this is for a good reason. when they first built it, the architects realized that they had made a terrible mistake in even first building it. they begged the school district to let them tear it down, but the district said "no, we have to have at least one school that just really, really, really sucks." so to prevent anyone from the horrors of actually having to go there, they tucked it away in one of the least accessible spots in the whole city. then put it on some hill. then made it into 2 different buildings so you could escape more easily! but it wasnt enough. today, hundreds of high schoolers are forced to suffer in the dungeon-like conditions on a daily basis.

another reason why jeff sucks an obscene amount is the smugness of their students as well as their parents. for example, jeff beat xavier in football this season. now this is also legit. i mean xavier is a fantastic football team. [to make things clear, oliver jorge doesn't actually agree with this. oliver jorge still believes in the kennedy football team even if they got beat by xavier] but you would have thought that this meant jeff won state. they won 4 games the whole year! finishing the year 4-6. but it was still a success for jeff. for the record xavier finished 8-4. moral of this story is: jefferson is the best if by best you mean worst possible ever of all time in history.

also show choir. now im just ranting but bear with me. jeff beat xavier last saturday. by one point. and you would have thought again that jefferson had returned to their glory days when they were the best show choir in the country. but no they still got 7th place. AKA they still do suck even when they get lucky. not to mention that last year, jeff beat xavier at Benton and talked a ridiculous amount of trash about it for two weeks, only to get dominated by xavier at the Kennedy competition later on. then they shut up. at least they can still do that. their parents are much worse though. see, i think this can mostly be attributed to the fact that jeff used to be good at stuff. i mentioned show choir already... band too right? i think so... basketball to a certain extent. now they blow at absolutely everything.

i honestly consider myself to be a lesser person because i have simply set foot inside of jefferson high school. if there is an opposite to a Chuck Norris joke, it is a Jefferson High School joke. travesties such as global warming, the economic slowdown, and mandatory pep band can all be attributed directly to jefferson.

so like the title says, quit now and save yourself. actually its too late. but still, quit now. youre embarassing us.

sincerely,

-the whole world

this has no point what so ever.

for the maybe five of you that actually read this, don't expect too much out of this. i'm just doing my assignment of three posts a week. so this is a random third post of the week. nothing more, nothing less. that's it. fourty four words down just three hundred and fifty six left. see that neat little trick? i spelled out the numbers so that i would have more words. i know, i'm slacking but i can't think of anything to post so what else can i do?

i tried to put a picture into that last post. as you can tell, it didn't work. i forgot how to. but it was supposed to be of the green m&m lady. yes, i know, green m&m lady and valentine's day don't really correspond but if you ate lunch at my table in eighth grade you would understand.

secret secret, i got a secret. mr. roboto anyone? did you get it? it's okay if you didn't. but anyways, a secret is a secret and they should probably be kept. especially if you say you're not going to tell anyone. your friends won't like you very much if you fail at keeping secrets. but whatever, you do what you want because it's your life.

elf! i love, love, love elf. because we have it in the break room at work i'm working on memorizing it, but not line for line because i don't work that much. [nor do i want to] but i am getting pretty good at quoting some of the major parts of the movie. like this one for example "SANTA'S COMING?!? I KNOW HIM!!!!!!!!" and my personal favorite "you're not santa, you stink. you smell like beef and cheese. pulls off fake beard and a fight then ensues." i love elf.

obama is officially president. i do kinda feel bad for him though, everyone is expecting him to fix everything. that's a lot of cleaning to do, it's kinda a big mess out there. so, good luck mr. president, i'm rooting for you.

lookey there, i figured out how to change the font size. yay me. too bad i'm still fifty words away from the assigned number. boo expectations.

so to make it to the expected number i'll leave you with a list of things

1. i don't like monday mornings.
2. or sunday nights for that matter either.
3. school and homework take up far too much of my time.
4. pep band ruins my friday nights, but i would rather go on a friday night than a tuesday
5. i think i might go crazy next year
6. i'm running out of things to say
7. my car always needs gas and i never want to get it.
8. only some of these things have periods others are left without punctuation
9. i still have some uncompleted assignments that are due tomorrow.
10. i don't plan on doing most of them.
11. don't worry mr. ayers, i'll write my final draft.
12. i'm not a big fan of other people's feet.
13. i get cold really easily.
14. i like making this list.
15. i love all my friends and i'll love them forever
16. next week is winter spirit week.
17. i don't like winter, so i don't plan on participating.
18. monday's theme is career day, i spun the spinner one of my friends made and i'm supposed to dress up like a mail lady. not going to.
19. i guess i'm no fun. but i don't like winter so i'm not participating.

i'm done spewing randomness now.