I Am Sorry

Forgive me, my rather loyal followers (if any exist). I have forgotten all about blogging.

I blame Facebook, really, what else? That's one of the reasons I hate that social site. But I can blog on that later!

I've been trying to become famous, haha. How? No idea. I, along many thousand others, got a Twitter account and decided to ramble on random stuff (don't we all?). I even started designing and making myself different twitter backgrounds. I even tried to design some for friends so that people would ask them where they got it from and they'd come to me. Business, you see. I'm just another college student trying to make a living off this land. But I don't live in a desert. . .

But I forgot my Twitter account also. I mainly use it to follow artists, mainly Shakira and Lady Gaga. And of course, I want to take a short moment to applaud Lady Gaga for hating SB 1070, along with many others. She did it during her concert in Arizona! Isn't that great!? Anyway, back to my abandonment. So next I heard of was Tumblr. I went and got that too. I actually like it, it's just like a mixture of Twitter and a blog. You can "reblog" someone. It's just great and easy to work with. They also have many different Tumblr layouts that you can either get for free or pay for.

I guess I also haven't been writing anything because I simply have nothing to write about. Where do I live? Indiana, also known as Naptown. That's right. We nap up in this mofo. Well, I rather not. I think napping is a waste of time. Seriously. I even think sleeping is a waste of time! If only my eyes could stay open for more than 23 hours! I live a normal life, for lack of a better description. I wake up, eat, work (every other day because I guess I'm not that needed), eat again, and go back to sleep. Again and again. Boring, huh? I'm also trying not to go out as much because I can't afford to be spending money. I need it all for college expenses. I've already spent over $560 on rent, some tuition, and five books (my cheapest book was $2! I spent more on S&H!). I have to pay a little over a thousand before August 10th as well. Thankfully along came SADCO.

Sociedad Amigos de Colombia (Friends of Colombia Society, in English) granted me a $1,600 scholarship. I got my first half this July during a picnic at which they celebrated Colombia's independence. I will obtain my second installment during my second semester after I prove I've kept above a 3.5. I'll do just that.

I think I'll stop here for now, I'll continue tomorrow! Yay for self-promises!

101th Post!!!

I hadn't realized that I had made my 100th post so let's just celebrate my 101th post!!!

WOOOHOOO!!!

Anyway, right now if you were to look at me walking down the street I would probably remind you of Niurka. That's right bitches!!! I am bald!!! Haha, just until it grows back again because I plan on spiking it up and probably bleaching it to look cute again. You know how I do. ;)

I guess I was just updating because I always use my blog. Not to update, as you can probably see but to read other people's blogs. I've recently been more and more interested on the crafty blogs. I follow probably more than six crafty blogs. All of them cute. I am just merely trying to get ideas for how my roommates and I are going to decorate our apartment next year when we all move out of the dorms.

Let me introduce my roommates. Dalia, Cynthia, and my brother. Dalia is originally from Colombia but she's lived in Miami most of her life. Cynthia's family is from Mexico but she's lived in Indiana most of her life as well. And my bro, well, you should know him. My twin brother. Not identical, but still twins. I think it will be such a great house. And hopefully we will keep it for all three of our undergraduate years remaining. Awww.

For the people who I am following: update your blogs more often!!! I looove to read what you have to say!!!

-Erick Gama

Super Tired

All these shows and school work is really tiring. I know I have a final probably tomorrow in English. We don't do any real work in there so the final will probably be something easy that I can ace.

Today I was awakened by a text message. Which was awesome because I had overslept and so had my parents. So when I woke them up I was pretty much yelled at for waking them up late. How lame is that? It's just another excuse to make me mad. But making me mad worked for me because I was stronger to go to school and face all the problems, which, mind you, seem to be somehow fixed now.

So I went to school and whatnot. I tried to finish my illustration for my illegal immigration story but I couldn't because my presence was required for the cover picture of the newspaper. I don't really think I should have been in the picture but no other boy was available. I hope people know who their paper's Editor-in-Chief is now!

So then came time to leave! To the museum, the Ed center, and City Market. I loved City Market! Mainly because Jose actually asked me if I could buy him lunch today because he had forgotten his wallet. I definitely said yes! I saw this as a chance to make up for what I had done the day before and bought him lunch. He told me he was going to pay me back, but I told him it wasn't necessary.
Oh yeah, the guys who worked at the place we bought our food were Hispanic! They were speaking to everyone in Spanish! It was cool! Somehow. Jose and I were going to sit together but we ended up sitting with Shawnee, Yajaira, and Shereese. I just want him to be happy. At some point in time we hugged. I can't remember why, but I think he said "I love you" and then I said it back and we hugged. He's a great friend.

I also bought Gelato and shared with friends. I especially love sharing with boys, I don't really know why. I guess it's because I'm gay? -shrugs- Cranberry! Hey!

Oh, at the museum, I tried to teach some girls how to dance Duranguense. I explained it carefully and then I went crazy and I cranked it up. They were laughing at and with me. Ehl-oh-ehl. I just really want to go to a party! Aaargh!

The Ed Center was just so funny! Ask me about it if you don't already know. (Self:Fruitcake)

I stayed after school for a Yearbook meeting and I finished my illegal immigration illustration. If you don't get The Cannon, you can read it online. Just go to Tech's website and find the link that says "The Cannon"

Then I came home. Ate. Took mom to work. And left for the Zooooo. We saw Emily Bolick's mom on our way to the Zoo. She asked about ourselves and where we were performing. We told her and she ended up showing up! With Emily! That was fun.

The Zoo was just awesome. I keep capitalizing zoo because it was that important and fun, by the way. We performed without coats! It was freezing but singing helped, I think. We also got free Starbucks! Weee.

I think most of us also stayed to see the rest of the zoo. It was fun. It was great. I especially loved the dolphins and randomly singing in front of some Christmas trees. It was great.

Back home again, in Indiana...

Hot Cheetos con Limon

Are effing awesome! I got some Saturday night after ice-skating. They are great!

So I stayed up until 12:30 last night talking to Edric on the phone. I wasn't talking very much because I didn't want to get in trouble. I was really sleepy, but after we were done, I stayed up until 2 doing nothing. Thinking. Watching time pass.
I was fine this morning though. My eyes were a little baggy, but just a little.

The Cannon arrived today! I didn't expect it to! It's not as great as the second one was. Oh well. It's something, at least we have a newspaper.
So we spent the period folding them. Eventually, Henry got tired of folding them and gave me his like a minute before the bell rang for second period. Go me: I folded all of them and still had time to put them up.

As I was walking to my second period class, U.S. Effing History, I saw Steven. I don't know, but it seemed like he was waiting for me to catch up to him. He kept looking back too and slowing down. I really didn't want to talk to him because it was too early and I figured Music would have been a better time to do it. So, thankfully, my friend Jessi showed up and I started talking to her. From then on I stopped paying attention to Steven and I just walked to class. I wonder if her was waiting on me or someone else.

We finished Raisin in the Sun today in English. It's a pretty good movie, and I want to read the book now.
Immature children are so annoying. You'd think them being Super-Seniors for the third time would knock some sense into their smallish brains. Not.

I went to my counselor fourth period to have her sign the Counselor part of my IU application. She didn't do it. I don't blame her though; she was real busy and there were more students in her office. She'll do it eventually.

Music was okay. Apparently Angel was in desperate need of me. Yeah, I thought the same thing. Turns out he needed me to sing so he could follow. Dream weaver.

Japanese was okay today. We got some new Kanji and we are making up our own conversation. Yay! I'm writing mine with Liz. She's real good at this Japanese stuff.
Sensei gave us candy and popcorn just because she felt like it. Yay Sensei!

We had IUPUI people over from the SMOGEE program. We talked about what we are doing tomorrow and the following days. What the kids are learning. And how much we hate the teacher there. She drives everyone nuts!
Whatev.
All that time Lerron sat by me. I kept trying to mess with me. I want him to pay more attention to me so he won't fall for Steven. I don't want them to go out, if he's even thinking about it. Ugh.

I stayed after to talk to Mrs. DeWitt. I asked her if the Key Club could stay after tomorrow to clean up the campus for PIT day. She told Mrs. Bogard about this and they were both thrilled of the idea. They asked me what I needed and I said I only needed a "yes." Yes is what they both gave me. They are nice, after a minute though, they both started talking to each other about their problems and I was patiently waiting to be dismissed by either of them. After I was actually about to take part in their conversation, they apologized from keeping me there and told me I could leave. Yesh! I swear Mrs. Bogard is ADD or something.

So after that, I pretty much ran to Ms. Jesse's classroom for a Yearbook meeting. It didn't happen, because or Editor in Chief couldn't stay after. Oh well. I don't think there's anything going on at the moment anyway.

Today was super cold. I wonder what it will be like tomorrow for Band.

Heh Gurls.

I don't know, I'm feeling real ghetto today. My name's Shmaquanda.

I don't feel like typing as they do though.

OMG! I bought a sweater yesterday, and it was the same style as the gray striped one I always wear. I brought it home and checked the brand! They were the same brand! I was like "Yesh!" for some reason. It's pretty cool, I'll wear it to school.

Ummm, church kind of sucked today because no one in the choir showed up but my brother and a cute little girl. Then another guy showed up five minutes before the service started. I was supposed to have a solo, but I got nervous so everyone sang with me. We still effed it up a little. The rest of the songs were fine though, I got confident along the way.
One problem though: the congregation singing two measures behind the choir really throws me off! So the guitars usually speed up and the congregation doesn't hear because they are too busy singing what they think are the right notes. It's kind of funny, but then it gets old and frustrating.

Later on, after much shopping and eating, we went to a gas station down in Beech Grove. It was cheap! $2.29!!!
So, I don't think there are many hispanics around there, because this white girl got all excited by seeing me. She yelled out "Bye Papi!" as she was leaving. I thought that was funny, so did my mom. Silly girls who thinks all the guys out there are straight. ^^

My Apologies

For not updating in like forever. It's mainly because I don't have as much free time as I'd love to.

Let's start with Friday.
I had a field trip that day with my journalism class to Franklin College's workshops. I went to a Leadership meeting that took two hours. If you ask what I learned, the answer is simple: nothing. Everyone pretty much thought that this field trip was a waste of time. Not completely, but pretty much so. I could've taken advantage of Advanced Photoshop. But oh well. We had a good discussion on the bus about schools and stuff. Some of us are planning on starting a petition for more strict rules and more severe consequences on problematic students. It's a great idea, I think.

Friday was also our Homecoming. We lost. But it was pretty fun, I think. Kandice won Homecoming Queen! Yay!

Color Guard effed up majorly on the field. We were probably the only ones who noticed too because no else said anything. I was pretty pissed though, because we had practiced it so many times and it was our last time to shine in front of the school. I was most worried about one person.

I ended up giving Steven a nice hug. I was on the floor and he was standing on a bleacher so my head came up to his belly and he had to bend down to hug me. -sigh-


Saturday. I think that was the best day ever. Mainly because Techoir was right there with top choirs. And we showed everyone that Tech isn't mediocre, as some New Palestine students expected of us; they were the ones who sucked.

Then Into the Woods. Ms. D told me that it was not the best musical for someone's first live musical. Me! Yeah, just a small observation: pretty much all the guys were gay!

Ms. D took me home after the musical. And I finally got to meet both of her high school daughters. They are pretty funny, I think. I'd like to get to know them more. Apparently Ms. D tells them about me. That's nice :)

Sunday: Church.
Whatever. Same stuff. We watched The Happening. It was a pretty cool movie, I think. Watch it, don't buy it though, because it's not that great. Do get it for a dollar at one of those RedBox things at McDonald's.


I woke up cold this morning. So I put on my fake-fur. It was so warm!
I apparently had an essay due today in U.S. History. About what? I don't know. Random, unnecessary shit. Stupid Ms. Frank.

I have MLK's speech due tomorrow. I still don't know it. Oh well.

Japanese is still fun.

I don't know what else to say today, except that I'm still confused about Steven, I just want to ask him. In my head I do, and it all comes out the way I want it. I fear rejection, that's the thing. I want to tell him "If you like me say so. If you don't, stop acting like you do."
He grabbed my ass on Saturday, after the whole choir thing. So I don't know whether to take those as signs or not. And he winked at me today and I found him staring at me and he tried to pick me up while I was picking Joey up. I'm so confused. And I'm lousy, and scared. I don't know.
I wonder if he does like Lerron. Someone told me that Steven had said that they were just friends. Lerron knows I like Steven, and Lerron still talks to me like I don't see them both hanging around. I hope they are just friends, otherwise I will feel miserable. IDK.

New Look

Spirit Beads arrived today! We are selling them three for $2. All three school colors: red, green, and silver (white). Pretty cool, huh? Ms. Jesse let us wear them around for advertising purposes. Tomorrow is the day! I've been waiting for it, I hope we don't eff up in the middle of the show. That would just suck.

Did I mention Ms. Frank is back again? And she's still wearing them heels that she still hasn't learned to walk on? It's annoying. She also snatched my newspaper out of my friend's hands just so she could make a copy of an election article. What the eff!? She tries to be cute I guess. Stupid is more like it.
She had us reading a poem today about W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Stupid. I read the section and it's so much better than her shit. I want our sub back.

In English we watched Raisin in the Sun. It's a pretty good movie, and now I want to read the book. I get tired of hearing about slavery a lot. I don't know. But I do know one thing: Martin Luther King didn't fight to have all these African Americans ruining their image. I just hate ghetto people. And seeing how most ghetto people are black. I just hate it. I don't know. It's not necessary.

Nothing much during fourth period, my peer tutor period. Kids keep messing with me, but it's fun. A cute dude calls me George. Another cute, Mexican, calls me Immigrant. It's so funny. He also calls me "she" and girl stuff. He was the one who wanted to ask me if I was gay or not, but he chickened out. No huggie from Josh in class. He's too busy reading his little Insane Clown Posse book. It's fine with me.

Then music, I walked in just in time to start singing Number 7. I pretty much sucked at that one. The others ones I was fine. I think the other basses are relying on me, and I rely on Isaac and Peter. I really shouldn't. So today I took it as a test. I managed. I did mess up though, and the other basses were right behind me too. Oh well, I know how to fix them.

Then I went down to see Ms. Jesse in the cafeteria so I could start selling the beads. I don't know how much money we made, but I saw her envelope, and it was fat! Yay for cool fundraisers!
Then Links and Penny Wars appeared too so I got stuck working both of them. Fine with me. Good thing I avoided Elijah today; he follows me everywhere. Not cool. I don't really like him much either.

Since Ms. H needed people to count money for the Pep Rally, April and I decided not to go to Japanese. I didn't realize until later that Sensei wasn't at school today and we were only going to watch Japanese anime. ^^ Pretty much Seniors won in both links and money. As they should.

Luckily, for SMOGEE people, the Pep Rally was postponed for Friday due to immaturity from stupid high school kids. Means I'll be there for my last Pep Rally!

I thought our third day at Shortridge sucked. Mainly because Ms. Sharp, the teacher, has issues, and she always wants things to be done her way. Stupid, she took ten minutes out of our lesson just to fix people around. No one likes her, and when she talks to you, she really isn't. She is looking behind you, not your eyes. It annoys me. I kind of want to go "I'm right here!" And get all up in her face.
I did see an eighth-grader that I met last year during my Junior SMOGEE. He's cool. His name is Dylan, and he's hella cute too. I wish he was in high school. He's adding me on Myspace. Again.

So on our way back to school, we SMOGEE kids talked about Ms. Sharp like it was our job! Yeah, fun!
I finally got my clothes out of my locker and wore my tennis shoes for band. My feet were still hurting, but the pain was less than with dress shoes on. Band is awesome. I think.

We had an audience during rehearsal because the Bonfire was going on almost at the same time. I saw peeps! ^^ I think I am a little in love with Emily Lucas. I realized that my Sophomore year. I love her. She's awesome and smart.

I came home and worked on Japanese homework. Yay for Japanese!

Love Ya Tomorrow

I was going to talk about yesterday, since I didn't really get to; I spent time talking with Joey instead. She's so cute. I love her.

Let's see (I made a list! Yeah, I know v.v). I was going to talk about the Fall Concert. My last Fall Concert, excuse me. It was pretty okay, until we got to Tech's gospel choir. The first song was okay, but then the second one, when they tried to go into parts, it just wasn't working. I did like the dancers though. They looked flowy.
All the barbershops were awesome. And Concert Band sounded amazing too. Audrey and I were doing color guard at our seats. It was pretty fun.
I thought Technicians were great too. I think I heard that Joey and Matt got the pins. Yay.
Techoir, of course, was amazing.
And Techniques were so adorable! Amber's and Shayla's solos were awesome too.
I saw Robin, Josh's older brother. He gave me a hug! He's so silly and funny.

Yesterday was our first SMOGEE day too. It pretty much sucked. I think so. We are not very organized. And it doesn't help that we have two teachers constantly taking notes on what the high schoolers are doing.

So we got to Tech, and I went to my journalism meeting. Ms. Jesse thought it was very productive; I, again, didn't think so. I need more. And I'm still not done with my story. Whatever.

After that, I walked to the Tennis courts to fetch my brother so we could both go together to Subway. He decided he wanted to play more so I was going to get both of us food. Then Angie asked me if I wanted to go to McDonald's with her. Of course! So we went. It was dress up day and we were both matching! So I escorted her to the counter. It was cute. I can't remember what I did to my money though. Oh well.
I don't know if you've noticed, but if you go down 16th street towards Tech, from downtown, you will pass over a really fun hill. We did. While listening to Hawk Nelson. The song finished just as we landed from "the big jump." It was so fun, Angie was kind of speeding too so it was better. We did that same hill twice last year. Great times.

It was April's big 18th. Happy Bee-Day April!


Today was lame. Stupid PSAT.
My classes were so lame! I had only five in my first class, Tesia and Angie were there, three my second, and I was alone third. I have English 11 third period, so that sucked even more for me. I didn't know where to go, so I roamed Treadwell's hall for about 20 minutes and then decided to go into Ms. Solchik's classroom.
Shanez showed up, and we talked most of the period. Mainly about our lives. I can relate to her, kind of. And she is crazy too. We talked a lot.

Second day at Shortridge. It was much better. Better organized, and less noise. Midde schoolers are just so darn hyper all the time.
There was a fight after school, in a bus. We were making fun of people and how ugly they were. They were just so disgusting!

Today was my first day in the media center this year. I've been done with A Lesson Before Dying so I read Don't Die Dragonfly, I finished it today. So today I checked out The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Ms. Laker wants me to make her a report about it because she hasn't read it yet, but she ordered four copies of this book. That's great.

Shanez thinks Steven wouldn't reject me. And I will only know if I ask. She does have a point. But then again...-sigh- I don't know. I'm tired.

Don't Feel Like It

I really don't feel like saying anything, mainly because there really isn't much to say. Except that Japanese speak really fast. o.o

I think this week is Tech Alumni week. Or something. Casey, Edric, Keegan and Danielle all showed up. Some at different times, of course. It's nice to see them again.

Tomorrow is April's big 18th birthday! I made her, another, birthday card. I was going to write an entire note in Japanese, then realized that I am really not that fluent. So I'm sticking with English. At least I can write "Happy Birthday" in Japanese.

Weee, Fall Concert tomorrow. And Dress Up day. I am definitely wearing green just because Angie is also wearing a green dress. I'll have Technician stuff, probably band clothes too. Yay for Dress Up day. I wish every Friday was Dress Up day.

I was happy to see random students with random socks on today. It really cheered me up, and the first thing I thought of was Ms. H.

The Cannon's publication deadline has been set back another week. If people can't do stuff, they really shouldn't! Ms. Jesse, seemed real upset about it too. And she saw me after school today and told me about it, she also offered me a ride home. I already had one coming though. She's real nice. I love her.

Ms. Frank isn't back yet. Yay.

Joshie gave me the coolest hug ever! I loved him for that, but I couldn't really hug him back; I was in some type of headlock I guess, while my hands were holding a book.

Homecoming this Friday! Can't wait! We get to show off! Color Guard, I mean.

I Sell Bibles

My parents were mocking me because I dressed up today to go to church. And I apparently looked like I was selling bibles or promoting Jesus Christ with fellow Jehovah Witnesses/Mormons. I liked my outfit though. And I'm wearing it on Tuesday (Homecoming Week: Dress Up Day) with a black tie. I'll look spiffy, I think. It's either that or the gray outfit I wore to Techoir with a gray scarf on top.

I had pancakes this morning. Squee. And yogurt. I made sure to save my "cure" lid to send over so Yoplait can donate money for further research on breast cancer.

Church was pretty cool today. The choir sounded amazing. We've improved a lot, and many in the congregation agree. We learned a new song today too. And we performed it. It used to take us three weeks to learn one song, now we just need 20 minutes. And we can divide into voices! Squee. I love us.

After that, some of the boys had a Boy Scout meeting. Me included. We planned for this month and the following. We are camping the weekend of Fall Break. Fine with me. We are also starting a Venture Group so that way girls in our congregation can be involved too. My scoutmaster says we can invite kids from high school too, and they cam be up to 21 in college. Audrey, April, Angie? Wanna have some wild fun? We do outdoor activities. Hit me up if interested.

After that we went to a birthday party. It was a girl's 4-year-old party. She's so cute. We got her The Little Mermaid. And oh-my-god the food was great! They had shrimp cocktails, awesome pico de gallo, shredded chicken, and much more. Oh yeah, cactus leaves (?). They are awesome. I was full!
Oh yeah, a bunch of Mexicans showed up at the same place and started rehearsing for a Quince. It was so tacky. White people were there too, and I was all "this is so embarrassing!"

Then we came home and left again for Wal-Mart. We bought The Mist and random household necessities.

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. When? Sunday. Bring Your Book.

My feet and head are still hurting.

Today was ISSMA Marching Band Festival (?).

Color Guard showed up exactly at 8:30 a.m. and no one had to run laps. We warmed up good too.

The practice went pretty well, I think. And we did okay at the show too. Not as good as we all would've liked, but hey. We did get silver.

We did have transportation problems, but then again, it's IPS. Apparently the bus had showed up at 12:30 and waited there for about five minutes and then left. Baldwin said we were scheduled to load the bus at 1:15. So, of course, he was pissed. I was just worried he was going to call it off and send us all home. But then again, we all worked our asses off this morning, and it wouldn't have been fair.

The other bands were awesome. And I loved Southport's Color Guard.

Baton twirlers are effing hot too.

April and Peter went and got the Band's Silver Trophy. Yay.

So, we came back. My dad picked us up, and two cars away from him was Casey. He waved at me and motioned for me to go to him as he was walking towards me. Pretty much, we walked towards each other. And he gave me a hug. ^^ He apologized for Ms. Brown being mean to me (the Mexican joke).
I don't know, Casey's hug cheered me up a little. I don't know why. Maybe because I do truly respect him. He's still looking good too, Audrey. ^^

Then we went to a chinese place. It was cool. I was so hungry and both my feet and head were hurting. But we still had to go to Toys R Us to buy a gift and go do some grocery shopping. We needed milk.

My day was tiring, but overall, I think the whole band did okay. I don't know what happened though. Were people nervous?

Color Guard did end up putting vaseline in our teeth to keep us smiling. Yeah, it wasn't tasty.

OMG it's Friday

I skipped yesterday's entry, mainly because my dad was in one of his usual let's-do-something moods. He's always like that, always wanting to do something, fix something, change something, clean something. It's kind of annoying, because he drags everyone along.
So yesterday, after he had picked us up from school, we had dinner and then did some homework. It was 8:30 at night and he decided to clean the house. I was so tired, but I can't argue because he'd get mad at me and privileges would get revoked.
I ended up dusting my room though, and now, I can actually breathe in there. It's not that it was dirty, but I never go in there unless it's time to sleep so I never move anything around but my book and glasses. So everything gathers dust.

I can't remember much of yesterday either. I do know the Technicians are performing at the zoo for Christmas at the Zoo. It will be awesome, I think. I can't wait.

And I fully understand Ms. H and her Spirit Week speech. I truly believe it.

Let's see, ummm, my U.S. History teacher, Ms. Frank, is still not here. Wow, those were a lot of commas. Anyway, if she doesn't show up on Monday, our sub will be back. And I hope our sub comes back because I learn more with her than with Frank.

Our Japanese test today was pretty difficult. I got a 9.8. Apies got a 9. I think we need more time learning the vocabulary she is giving us.

Ms. Brown wasn't here today, so we didn't have Techoir at all. Two students took advantage of this and still stayed after and talked. At least that's what I saw. And that's what I want it to be. I'm giving up. I don't know what to do. I wasted time by not telling him. Now he's making his move. I think I'm a fool.

Band is looking effing awesome though. I hope we do well tomorrow. I'm going to try and take lots of pictures for my scrapbook/facebook.

I love my friends. Thanks for keeping me going. I haven't cried today, yet. I'll try to be strong. But I feel depression a-comin'.

OMG

I just got done watching Number 6 on YouTube. It's uh-mazing. I glad I'm finishing high school with this.

Today was definitely fun. I can't complain much. But that food from the luncheon did get to me. It was excellent though. I loved it. And etiquette rules were followed. The only bad thing about it was that it was cold.
I did love the background music that Broadripple played. It was awesome. I think they should be invited to our Spring Concert.

Band did suck a little though, mainly because it was raining while we were practicing and spinning flags was kind of hard due to the slippery poles and agressive silks. We did learn a lot though. I just hope we can retain all we learned until Thursday. I don't to make Jess mad at us.

After band my parents picked us up and we went out to eat chinese food. It was great. Halfway through, though, I had to take my contacts out because they were killing me. I think I had the same ones for around five months. Yeah.

I got a perfect score on my U.S. History test. The one about which I was freaking out. I was probably the only one who got a perfect score. I'll ask the sub tomorrow. This really shows that I learn more when the actual teacher isn't here. Isn't that awesome?

Last third Technician show. Last first Technician show with outfits.

New shoes!

I just kind of got back from Wal-Mart having bought a new pair of dress shoes. They are pretty nice and I love them.
I really do love to dress up. I love black dress pants and long-sleeved shirts. I love to roll my sleeves though. I also love scarves. But it sucks that I only have two. I need more. That should be my Christmas and birthday wishlist. Really. Scarves.
Anyways, the shoes were almost $30. And they are for Technician shoes. If I take good care of them, I might wear them to school every other day.

I was surprised when I checked peoples' blogs and found them with old entries. I wanted to read interesting stuff. Oh well.

Right now I am pretty upset at myself for not updating my blog as much as I wanted to. I was doing so good this month, and then it got to the weekend, which was fun. Let me tell you about that.

Saturday, of course, was Techoir workday. I woke up at like 6:30 to pick my outfit out and do my hair. I decided between three hair styles and picked a faux-hawk. Everyone loved it! I feel good about it. I just want to know Steven's opinion on it.
Techoir turned out pretty good. I loved Kaleem's "Human Xylophone" It was sooo funny.
It was also my last Techoir workday. And I don't think I took enough pictures. Actually, I didn't take any pictures. I blame that on Ms. Brown for working us so hard.

I still remember last year when Isaac came crying into the room. His doggie. It's been a year.

Then to Angie's get-together. Pretty cool. Fazoli's. I got the Chicken Fruit Salad. It was awesome. It was also my first time in that restaurant.
Jesi had to leave for work, and April had to take Jake home. So only Isaac, Hilary, Austin, Angie, Audrey and I went to Wal-Mart. Pretty cool. Not Isaac's tires though. They were pretty much dead.
So we let it, the tire-problem, go and decided to go into Wal-Mart. We looked around the Halloween costume section, craft section, ladies underwear section, and more. Only Audrey bought stuff: two things of bubbles and Fiddler on the Roof. I just bought a pack of gum. I love gum. It's for singing purposes.

After that, we had decided to go to the Movies. The cheapy ones. But the movie we wanted to watch started at 1o p.m. And not everyone wanted to stay until 11:30 out in the middle of the night. So we came to my house. We watched Simpsons. I hope I made a good impression with my house. I'm just kind of sad that Audrey didn't come with us; she had to leave because she was tired. It's understandable. And she also wanted to talk to Casey.

I made two things of Boy Scout popcorn.

Then Sunday. I can't remember much of Sunday, except that our choir director didn't go so we were stuck with ourselves. Luckily, our guitarist, who doesn't speak very much Spanish, became our leader. Since, also, the soloist didn't go, my brother and I sang the Psalm. It turned out okay.
The whole choir wasn't that bad actually. And after mass, the congregation shared a meal in the Parish Hall.

This is when my mind goes fuzzy. Because I can't remember much else. Except that we went to Cici's for lunch/dinner.

Today was okay. I wore my hair in a faux-hawk again because Josh told me to in my agenda. I got more compliments.

People were supposed to stay after to make a banner for The Cannon. Turns out only KiKi and I stayed. She drew it out and I helped color it. It's not done. But it's getting there. Angie is pitching in by making letters so we can glue them on the banner. I like it.

Then Band. We kind of got yelled at. I think it was mainly color guard who didn't know their stuff. I know I didn't. But then again, Baldwin only called out the brass. Hey!

My feet still hurt a little.

Technicians show tomorrow! I'll take pictures with peeps.

I can't remember

"Will you go out with me?" I asked him.
"Yes," he said. He then kissed me.
Then I woke up. Deduce your own conclusions on who it was. It's not that hard. Think: who have I been talking about for ages?

Today was Angie's birthday. She's legal now! I called her 6:21 a.m. to wish her a Happy Birthday. I knew she was awake. And I just couldn't wait to wish her a happy birthday. Happy Birthday Angie!

Allright. I'm just going to highlight some special moments of the day. Actually, pretty much everything.
Don't get bored. It isn't boring.

Journalism. I spent time looking up phone numbers and e-mail addresses for colleges so I can inquire about their acceptance to undocumented students. I made sure to include the ones I personally want to apply to.

U.S. History. Nothing much. Today, slackers finished their 47 question test. I was the first one to finish yesterday and I did well. I think.

English. Whoops. Didn't go. I went to that Jerry Rice meeting. Someone had to explain to me who he was. He was funny. But he didn't talk for much time. I was going to take notes on him and quote him for a newspaper story, but it wasn't worth it.
I was supposed to have met April outside of the Forum so we could both go in together and talk or whatever. But she never showed up, it wasn't until later when I found out the shocking truth. Badass.

ICP/Peer Tutor. The class watched a movie so I spent some quality time talking to my friend Summer about random stuff and reading A Lesson Before Dying. It's actually pretty good.

Music. I was greeted with hugs. And then Steven went and hugged me and Joey together. I freaking love the guy. Then Joey and I spent some quality time talking. It was quite fun. I freaking love the girl. Everyone else was watching The Wedding Planner. I've seen it before.
Then we worked on some Christmas songs.
Then during those extra minutes I spend up in the music hall, Ms. D. told me about April being suspended. It really was quite shocking. At first I didn't understand why, but then she said she got caught in a Hall Sweep.
Stupid. Not April. But rather the fact of suspending people early in the morning after having probably just arrived at school.
Stupid.

Lunch. I was pretty miserable because April wasn't there. So I distracted myself by watching other tables being dumb and immature.

Japanese. I walked there alone. But I cheered myself up by holding the door open for Brockelle and Liz.
The quiz was a bit hard. The translation part was. I didn't even write cat right. I feel dumb. I got a 9.8 though (out of 10).
I had totally forgotten about that quiz. It wasn't until I was walking towards Japanese that I remembered. Everyone thought they could've done better.

Adv. Env. Science/SMOGEE. One of the IUPUI teachers went there; Jenny. She's so cute and nice. We talked about our plans on how we are teaching our subjects to the seventh-graders. Now the problem will be getting to and forth. IPS is stupid.
They want us to wait at Shortridge an hour after school ends to come back to Tech. What are we supposed to do that full hour? I have after-school activities to attend to.

After-school-much. I wanted to stay for Ms. Meyer's Orchestra class but she told me to go ahead and go to Techoir and she was going to talk to Ms. Brown about it to let me go to her class every other day during 5th. I want to play violin and bass. I think I mentioned this in my last entry.
Techoir was okay.

Came home. Did some homework. And we left off for haircuts. Yay!

I loved this part of my day.
The guy who cut my hair really took care of me and made me look good.
At first I told him I had gel on since this morning so he decided to rinse it out. It felt so good. Warm water. Him washing my hair. It felt great.
Then he put a towel on my head and led me back to my seat.
Asked me what I wanted. I told him I wanted the Number 2 on the sides and scissors on top. And if he could leave half of the bangs alone and enough hair on top to do a fo-hawk. And he did. He did a great job too. He kept messing with my hair too.
Then he asked me if I wanted him to shave in between my eyebrows (my uni brow). I said sure. And he did. Then, without asking me, he lifted my head up and started going away at my mustache. It looks better now.
"It's more defined," he said.
So I feel great now.
I feel bad that I didn't leave a tip, but then again, it wasn't my money.
I loved him for taking good care of me and fixing me up.

I think I'll wear a fo-hawk tomorrow for Techoir.

Den wir haben

I don't even know what that means, but the whole beginning of the song has been stuck in my head for ever! It doesn't help that I just got done listening to five and six while taking a shower. Six sounds amazing on the CD. I love the little fast part.

I borrowed a Media pass to go interview a teacher for my story and I was supposed to have given it back by the end of they day. I forgot. Whoops.
She called me Editor-in-Chief again! OMG! I freaking love that title!
I'm the Editor-in-Chief, therefore, I should have a permanent pass, don't you think?

I'm having a U.S. History test tomorrow. I'm pretty sure I'll do fine since we are allowed to use a sheet of notes and past quizzes. I'm actually learning more with Ms. Frank gone.

I still haven't memorized all of MLK's speech. I have the first page pretty much done, I just need to finish the back. It's due this Friday, but I'll be going on a field trip so I hope he can let it go and let me do it on Monday. If I do manage to learn it by then.

Since I am a peer tutor 4th period, I took the liberty to go interview a teacher. She was really helpful but there were a lot of people coming in and out of her office so we were both easily distracted. I have to show my notes to Ms. Jesse tomorrow morning so I can interview her more if needed; turns out her last day is this Friday.

I finished a little before the period ended so I just went to ICP, the class room in which I help. As soon as I had put my stuff down I was asked for help to explain the work needed to be done. It wasn't that hard, but it just annoys me that people don't get ICP. It's so useless! They should be able to fly through the course!

Anyways, Music. Yes. Ms. told us the musical! Cinderella! I'm excited. I just want to be chorus though because I want to see all the action. And besides, let's face it, I'm not the greatest singer so yeah. I remember last year I did real bad. I don't even know how I still ended up being in Beauty and the Beast.
I'm still scared. I get criticized a lot so I would just rather not be in some one's mouth.
Since a couple of kids and I are stuck up in the music hall for another 15 minutes we are always doing something. Today, Ms. D. had left to drop Ms. H off at the airport. I found it funny that Ms. D had left a sign on the table that read "IA- staple papers" Which meant she wanted us to staple music. It was Patapan. The one we did my sophomore year. Yay! The note was just funny though.

Yay, lunch. F it.

Japanese. F it too. Sensei is inundating us with new vocabulary every day. Our quiz, not a test, will be of one hundred new vocabulary. Yeah! We can do Kanji too, but I haven't even been able to review my notes so I don't even know how well I'll do on it.

Then Env. Science. That class is always fun because we talk and do our work at the same time. The conversations are usually always off-the-wall and random. Or about people. Everyone in the class contribute their own opinion and random comments. I know I do.

After school. Yay. I got to hang out with Kaleem, Audrey and Johnny. Kandice was there too but she wasn't very talkative.
I don't know, but I definitely feel like a bitch this year. Especially when I talk about people. I've been called an asshole too, but that was just messing around. Well, mainly because I was gluing together people's Number 6. Angel's. I tried Johnny, but he was too quick.

Band was kind of fun. We set up to 40! Yay. We do need to practice though.
I love how people get creative and when they run out of chips, they find random objects to mark spots. I'm included.
Ehl-oh-ehl at Audrey's cough drop.

Raise your right hand 12 p.m - 1 p.m.

I have failed to tell my faithful readers that Josh has written, in my agenda, little assignments for me to do. I've done a few of them, but not all of them. I definitely didn't smoke crack or get herpes that Friday afternoon. Today was "Raise your hand 12 p.m. -1 p.m." He expected me to do it, be he never saw it; I was in a meeting.

Journalism was pretty meh today. We read a chapter on Feature Writing, same thing for which I went to IU for a week. Yeah. I don't need another review. But the chapter did give me some ideas for next issues.
Because I felt this reading wasn't very productive for me, I decided to work on questions and sources for my next story: Illegal Immigration at Tech.
Pretty big story, huh? And hard too. I talked to Ms. Jesse of having another name for this story as well: Andrew Rod

U.S. History was pretty meh-ish today too. We worked on easy stuff, like always, and we are taking a quiz tomorrow and reviewing for the chapter test.

English 11 was kind of funny today. Our teacher was making sexual comments on a student's Poster Project; it had horns and a semi-nude chick with a house and a car. Yeah, I drew the same conclusions.

Peer Tutor-much! I pretty much mess around with people during this period. Or they mess with me.
The girls, as I will call them from now on, accidentally dropped a few items on the floor. I hadn't noticed this because I was helping my ENL students. So when they called me, and I saw the mess, I was all "Really?" The Girl even took her belt off and dropped it on the floor for me to pick up. I just went ahead and did it. Whatever.
Then Joshie was messing with me too, kinda. He was popping my fingers, as I say it. It was kind of funny until he got to the used-to-be-broken index finger which didn't do anything but it still hurt like hell. I think I got a total of three huggies from him. He smelled good too. I love Joshie.
People are noticing about me too.
They all laughed when he got up and gave me a hug, because of his tallness, my face was buried almost underneath his armpit. Quite funny. And I had to leave because of that meeting.
Nothing important, just to apply to UofI. I don't want to go there, but they did give us pizza and drinks.
I missed music though, and seeing friends, and a specific person. -sigh-

I did get out in time to go to Japanese! We studied, as we always do. April made me a box. It looks more like a tray, but she called it a box, so hey, it's a box!

Then Adv. Env. Science. It was kind of fun but hectic. Everybody is always talking and we have 73 college-level-thinking questions due in two days! They are hard! But I'm stuck in it.

School was over, and I was struck with surprise because I was able to go home early! That is like the second time so far in the year! Wow! It did take me a while to find my bus though. But I got home safe!

So far so good!
I'm going to have fun tomorrow "Speaking in Rhyme"

Lip Still A Little Broken

I think today was pretty okay for me. There are a few things I'd like to talk more about though, such as why I'm not a "bad" student.
I realized this while I was sitting in US History waiting for my teacher to pass out the section quiz. One of the girls in the back started talking loudly and so the teacher called on her and asked her to be quiet. She just smiled and hushed.
I asked myself what I would've done in her place: cry. I'm one of the persons who doesn't like to disappoint people who expect great things of one. Which is pretty much why I think I'm not a "bad" boy.
That was just a random note that I decided was good to write about.

After that I can't remember much, but I do remember fifth period. Applied Music (Ha!).

Then the after school Technician rehearsal. We went to the foyer in Stuart Hall. It sounded amazing! I wanted to cry when we were singing Ave Maria. Some teacher even stopped by to listen and gave us a thumbs up telling us we sounded great. Thanks, we know. It was pretty hot in there though, and for some reason I kept being molested by both girls and guys. Just thought I'd add that here. Because it did happen.
Can't wait for All City Rehearsal! (T.T -.- v.v;;)

update - much needed

Let's start with Friday, shall we?

Journalism teacher decided the J1 students had to start on their editing careers so she passed out my story (both un- and edited) for the students to make comments. It was pretty productive until she got to Dany effing-IUPUI. He wanted to argue about how one of my senteces was confusing and a newspaper should be easy to read. Excuse me! That was called an interruption. But oh well. He's not the Senior Editor of The Cannon, is he?

I can't remember much after that but after-school hours. Kaleem and Steven were talking about me and Lerron. Steven said we looked alike. I think Steven likes Lerron. That's why.
Songs we did were pretty good. I do like the Christmas ones.

Then Band rehearsal. Ummm yeah. A little (MAJOER!!!) accident with my lip; it got busted. It looked bad at first, and it burned like a b! It's okay now.

Then the game! Actually, Senior Band Awards first. I was given one! Yay! Kinda yay. Not to happy I'm leaving.
Then Senior Nite. It was cool. Much cheering for the Seniors and bag of goodies (candy and a kazoo) from the Marching Band.
Then the game! I got a free (crappy-looking) hat from the PTSA table. And a green "T" on my left cheek to show my school spirit.
The performance wasn't so great; the Color Guard was early for many things. I did like the opening though; me lifting Kimberly.
Tech won. And at the end, a fight was about to happen.

I got home at about 10 that night. I took a shower and went to bed. I even forgot to tell my parents about my busted lip.

Saturday.

Good Will! We only went to one store because we overslept a little. I did buy some polos and pants. And, what I've always wanted: a vest! Finally! I'm such a dork. But I love vests. And this one is IPS-dress-code-approved. I think. It's black with a horizontal line of white and gray diamonds running through the chest. Pretty cool huh?
I got some books too! 39 cents each! Woot! Stephen King and Dean Koontz.

I can't really remember how much it was total.

Then I can't remember what else happened that day.

Sunday.

Church! I love going to church because it helps my singing skills. We are pretty good and we are doing some really pretty music.
April called me too! I felt special. I think it's actually her second call; first one was to apologize for someone accidentally calling me. This one was asking where Borders was. Baldwin will hear about this. Tee-hee.

Then much shopping was done. We went to Wal-Mart and I finanlly got the punch out letters Angie has. I'm going to use them for my English project and Senior Scrapbook.

I'm going to finish up my home-made christmas cards too.

Oh em gee - Hectic Days

That's also my status on Facebook.

I meant to add an entry yesterday but I got involved in something else so I didn't do it.
Pretty much I was called a heartbreaker by a girl who thought I liked her. She is nice and she also seems smart, but she did kind of hurt my feelings when she said that; mainly because it really wasn't the first time I've been called that.
I don't think highly of myself so when she started preaching about my sexyness and handsomeness I pretty much turned red. Even though you couldn't have possibly seen it.

The only funny things I remember from yesterday are me taking pictures of April being cute and Dixie writing random bullshit on her Environmental Science questionaire.

Today was pretty hectic, I thought. After school mainly. But I'll get to that in a second.
Mentoring is quite okay. I don't have problems with my freshmen; I pretty much only have one so it's fine. He wants to join the school soccer team and I promised him I would talk to Mr. Arnold about it. Whoops. I forgot.
Journalism was filled with journalistic writing and me finishing up my stories. They seem pretty decent and they have a good flow. Not too bad.
We took a test today in U.S. History. I think I did pretty good. Some of the questions were repeated throughout the test though, so there really isn't much to worry about. Benje fell asleep.
In English we are talking about Puritans and Revolutionaries and Transcendentalists. Pretty much God-crazy people back in the 17-18 hundreds.
Peer tutoriness. I need to translate some worksheets for the two students I help. How can they take a test when they can't read the stuff in English? I don't remember what I used to do back in 6th grade.
Music was meh. I don't understand why we are doing a College-fight-song-medley. Whatever. "The milk is sqwishin' me!"
Lunch was usual. Fun stuff.
Japanese is pretty okay too. I want to learn new stuff though. Shoo.
Environmental Science. Yay. Didn't do anything. We went over the questions. Test on Friday.

After school! Wanted in three places. Well, maybe two, not sure Techoir wanted me that much!
But Key Club and The Cannon did. Two stories due today and a list of clubs. Gosh.
Then band. I didn't even get to change. Which was cool.
I'm going to start wearing hoodies to practice. Effing sun.