This was possibly the most beautiful day we've had this year. Despite the somewhat-near-frigid temperature (by spring standards) and the three hours of sleep that resulted from a night with Eveline, oh, and not being able to finish either my great breakfast or my greater dinner, it was a great regular day as far as regular days go. If you bothered to look outside, well, the colors were, and still are as of 7:58 PM, as bright and as saturated as they could get. I wish I could've just stared outside all of English class, it was that sweet. Or are they just the usual colors, and I've gotten some sort of I-like-everything effect from my lack of sleep over the past two or four nights?
Everything's blooming. No time to stop and smell the roses (or whatever the cliché is)? Doesn't matter, since just looking at the flowers is satisfying enough. It's not profound; nah, yes it is. I can’t believe how amazing everything looked today.
And tomorrow, we have the last Zimmerman class ever. (Party time!) And then I'll have to rush some senior celebration forms or something, or something, or something, and the weekend, and then we start all over. Intramural tennis with Mr. Richards on Tuesday and Freewrite Club on Wednesday, and this time both of these things will actually happen.
This was possibly the most beautiful day we've had this year.
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Okay (I Promise)
Welcome to the year 2006. This is the time that the Red Sox have one of the more entertaining lineups in recent years, compared to the whoa-my-god 2003 lineup and the ugh-Renteria 2005 lineup. Yeah, "whoa-my-god 2003" was too good to be entertaining. Here are my opinions on some of our new arrivals (yes, this is late):
1. Dustan Mohr - When he hits a home run to left field it's really fun to watch. Otherwise he hits around like .238 so he's annoying, he probably can't run much either though he's an outfielder. Should return to Minnesota where he hit decently I think.
2. Willie Harris - No. Pinch running, maybe.
3. Mark Loretta - This guy is an amazing hitter, er, I guess not right now but he really is an amazing hitter. You might want to thank the Brewers for that, because I'm a member of the Mantell political party and I support such an agenda and I must disclose this to you by an act of Congress.
4. Coco Crisp - Will be a good replacement for Johnny Damon. Not as good of a hitter (Damon's hitting got better when he collided with Damian Jackson in the 2003 ALCS and messed up his vision, which logically works because he sees the ball better when it's closer to him now) but it was a really good move by Theo. Or whoever's up there making decisions now.
5. Mike Lowell - Right now he's really swinging amazingly well; maybe we'll get lucky and he'll continue to be that good. He doesn't look like that kind of a power hitter that he was for 5 years until last year when he stands at the plate... great defense
6. Alex Gonzalez - Great defense, good luck expecting him to get hits for you. Good replacement for Renteria
7. WHOA OUR ENTIRE INFIELD HAS CHANGED
8. Josh Bard - Why him? Just another backup catcher, except he's tall.
It'd be nice for Loretta to hit .100 higher but if that .230 or whatever continues I'd certainly welcome a trade with San Diego for a replacement whose name isn't Barfield...
Also, Roger Clemens won't pitch until June. Hopefully that's enough time for David Wells to decide for good that he should go away.
btw Typing in this window sucks because it lags for some reason.
I'll be more interesting some other day.
1. Dustan Mohr - When he hits a home run to left field it's really fun to watch. Otherwise he hits around like .238 so he's annoying, he probably can't run much either though he's an outfielder. Should return to Minnesota where he hit decently I think.
2. Willie Harris - No. Pinch running, maybe.
3. Mark Loretta - This guy is an amazing hitter, er, I guess not right now but he really is an amazing hitter. You might want to thank the Brewers for that, because I'm a member of the Mantell political party and I support such an agenda and I must disclose this to you by an act of Congress.
4. Coco Crisp - Will be a good replacement for Johnny Damon. Not as good of a hitter (Damon's hitting got better when he collided with Damian Jackson in the 2003 ALCS and messed up his vision, which logically works because he sees the ball better when it's closer to him now) but it was a really good move by Theo. Or whoever's up there making decisions now.
5. Mike Lowell - Right now he's really swinging amazingly well; maybe we'll get lucky and he'll continue to be that good. He doesn't look like that kind of a power hitter that he was for 5 years until last year when he stands at the plate... great defense
6. Alex Gonzalez - Great defense, good luck expecting him to get hits for you. Good replacement for Renteria
7. WHOA OUR ENTIRE INFIELD HAS CHANGED
8. Josh Bard - Why him? Just another backup catcher, except he's tall.
It'd be nice for Loretta to hit .100 higher but if that .230 or whatever continues I'd certainly welcome a trade with San Diego for a replacement whose name isn't Barfield...
Also, Roger Clemens won't pitch until June. Hopefully that's enough time for David Wells to decide for good that he should go away.
btw Typing in this window sucks because it lags for some reason.
I'll be more interesting some other day.
Friday, April 14, 2006
Step by step, there's nothing to it!
5 6 7 times!
Another sweet day. I noticed that the nights just plain suck in comparison to the days now. The best thing to do is just go to sleep at 10 so you'll be up to see as much daylight as you can.
Unless you want the midnight special to shine its light on you.
Haha, that's an ABBA reference. Bet you wouldn't have ever picked that up in your life. ABBA did a medley of traditional American songs and it really kicks ass. Now whenever someone starts singing Pick a Bale of Cotton, On Top of Old Smokey, or Midnight Special, you can tell them "Hey, you're singing ABBA!!!"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007M001A/qid=1145030346/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2303664-1192005?v=glance&n=468646 Here's Cursive's The Recluse. Download it. (indie) Judging by the other two free Cursive songs on Amazon, they don't usually make songs like this, which is a shame.
Enjoy your day
Another sweet day. I noticed that the nights just plain suck in comparison to the days now. The best thing to do is just go to sleep at 10 so you'll be up to see as much daylight as you can.
Unless you want the midnight special to shine its light on you.
Haha, that's an ABBA reference. Bet you wouldn't have ever picked that up in your life. ABBA did a medley of traditional American songs and it really kicks ass. Now whenever someone starts singing Pick a Bale of Cotton, On Top of Old Smokey, or Midnight Special, you can tell them "Hey, you're singing ABBA!!!"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007M001A/qid=1145030346/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2303664-1192005?v=glance&n=468646 Here's Cursive's The Recluse. Download it. (indie) Judging by the other two free Cursive songs on Amazon, they don't usually make songs like this, which is a shame.
Enjoy your day
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Awake, alone
It's probably not a good thing to be raised among so many objects,
because then it's so much easier to not pay attention to them. What's the tendency you pick up from that? Losing/pushing away/ignoring not only things but people.
And then making excuses and blaming other people or the way you were raised for this happening.
^That's what you call a circle. If you picked up what I mean, I'm impressed.
Be who you are.
because then it's so much easier to not pay attention to them. What's the tendency you pick up from that? Losing/pushing away/ignoring not only things but people.
And then making excuses and blaming other people or the way you were raised for this happening.
^That's what you call a circle. If you picked up what I mean, I'm impressed.
Be who you are.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Bowling finale!
There comes a time when great men converge on a single spot to battle one another in a feast of champions. This feast was cake, and the champions (great men) were the '06 Intramural Bowling crew.
More later?
More later?
Saturday, April 08, 2006
mark your calendars
April 28 --- cupcakes with the Zimmerman Group 2006!!!!! I think that's the date anyway.
Friday, April 07, 2006
Which of the two phrases is gramatically correct?
"ABBA were a group"
or
"ABBA was a group"?
If this is difficult, that's sad.
or
"ABBA was a group"?
If this is difficult, that's sad.
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Hello, hello.... ¿hola?
The great thing about being in a foreign language class is that you can never and will never get tired of greeting people.
See, the thing is, French (or Spanish, for les élèves poo-poos) is a class where you get to spend extensive time greeting each other and talking about yourselves in an effort to demonstrate or to work on your capability to communicate. We don't seem to care much about this in ADDP English! In fact, how many other classes do you have where you say hi or good-morning or good-mourning or ah-we-meet-again to the teacher upon walking in? On days when you're tired (e.g. 100% of the week for me) you'll eventually omit the ahoy that you should emit upon seeing another pirate. In French, this is not possible. The urge to say something like "bonjour!" or "STOP" or "ah, benoit, quel temps fait-il aujourd'hui?" is irresistible. If we weren't so tired of the English language right now, imagine that kind of world.
Ah, yes, greetings, humans.
(Yes, this entry is meant to be as strange as you think it is.)
See, the thing is, French (or Spanish, for les élèves poo-poos) is a class where you get to spend extensive time greeting each other and talking about yourselves in an effort to demonstrate or to work on your capability to communicate. We don't seem to care much about this in ADDP English! In fact, how many other classes do you have where you say hi or good-morning or good-mourning or ah-we-meet-again to the teacher upon walking in? On days when you're tired (e.g. 100% of the week for me) you'll eventually omit the ahoy that you should emit upon seeing another pirate. In French, this is not possible. The urge to say something like "bonjour!" or "STOP" or "ah, benoit, quel temps fait-il aujourd'hui?" is irresistible. If we weren't so tired of the English language right now, imagine that kind of world.
Ah, yes, greetings, humans.
(Yes, this entry is meant to be as strange as you think it is.)
Reminder to self
Go to Quiznos tonight for dinner.
PS what. The time on this journal entry is wrong; it's 1:26 AM Thursday.
PS what. The time on this journal entry is wrong; it's 1:26 AM Thursday.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
From the top to the bottom (BOTTOM TO TOP I STOP)
Hey, welcome to a new day!
You know what sucks is that I think my inexplicably happy state has kinda diminished. Thanks, mister 1.5 hour sleep night two nights ago. I wrote my Freewrite Club freewrite in a, well, interesting sentence style. It didn't really get me anywhere and kind of made it uninteresting. More details'd be available if you came and wrote.
ugh, after those too-many days recovering from the cold, I think I need more days to recover from that enormous sleep fuckup. Boo.
James Joyce sucks. Honestly, Dublin must have been the most uninteresting city ever.
Can't write creatively! That's what happens when you've recently relied too much on caffeine to keep you all sprightly. Ah, well, so it goes. Peace out.
... by the way, my comment number has drastically dropped off.
You know what sucks is that I think my inexplicably happy state has kinda diminished. Thanks, mister 1.5 hour sleep night two nights ago. I wrote my Freewrite Club freewrite in a, well, interesting sentence style. It didn't really get me anywhere and kind of made it uninteresting. More details'd be available if you came and wrote.
ugh, after those too-many days recovering from the cold, I think I need more days to recover from that enormous sleep fuckup. Boo.
James Joyce sucks. Honestly, Dublin must have been the most uninteresting city ever.
Can't write creatively! That's what happens when you've recently relied too much on caffeine to keep you all sprightly. Ah, well, so it goes. Peace out.
... by the way, my comment number has drastically dropped off.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Chemulytical thought
Viens me rejoindre au V.I.P
This is going to be particularly difficult to explain... but I have gained something from Chemistry even though the subject particularly blows. m-ford is the man, but man--Chemistry is just inherently an awful subject. He's done an excellent job to make it a fast and easy and understandable process, and I commend him to the greatest extent for that. So what've I gained? The philosophical/logical part of it.
I'm really tired and I don't feel like explaining. Discuss.
Oh, and hints: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics, dimensional/unit "analysis," the dichotomy of the natural liberalism and conservatism of existence. Enjoy!!!
This is going to be particularly difficult to explain... but I have gained something from Chemistry even though the subject particularly blows. m-ford is the man, but man--Chemistry is just inherently an awful subject. He's done an excellent job to make it a fast and easy and understandable process, and I commend him to the greatest extent for that. So what've I gained? The philosophical/logical part of it.
I'm really tired and I don't feel like explaining. Discuss.
Oh, and hints: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics, dimensional/unit "analysis," the dichotomy of the natural liberalism and conservatism of existence. Enjoy!!!
Monday, April 03, 2006
Never felt I was alone... 'til you changed my mind!
Someone I know brings up the point that there tends to be a lot of pressure on me to get into a bigger school and maybe that's the biggest reason that I'm pushing to get off the waiting list and into Harvard. No, this wasn't a rude suggestion.
But you see, Donna Summer already thought about this. Her amazing song "Love's About To Change My Heart (7" Mix)" --- take the 7" part of it as you wish --- talks about just this sort of conflict. What, exactly, is the influence of other people you know closely on how you do things and on what you go after?
I mean, that's basically all that the conflict is. Some other people overcomplicate it. The Queen of Disco, though, in her infallibility, knew not to overcomplicate it. Allow me to paste you some lyrics of hers. From that song.
Never ever thought the sky was so blue
Never ever thought I'd feel so new
Always thought I'd know what to do
But I guess I wasn't counting on you!
By the way, the Insert key is awful. mais de toute façon. The upper paragraph describes (yes, Donna Summer predicted in 1989 that these events would happen to me in 2006) my mood, and the lower one describes my influence.
Except that I don't always think I know what to do. Damn, I guess she didn't get all her predictions right.
But now that we've meditated on Donna Summer without a conclusion (no meditation should have a concrete conclusion. that's like, nirvana, and will not be tolerated)...
But you see, Donna Summer already thought about this. Her amazing song "Love's About To Change My Heart (7" Mix)" --- take the 7" part of it as you wish --- talks about just this sort of conflict. What, exactly, is the influence of other people you know closely on how you do things and on what you go after?
I mean, that's basically all that the conflict is. Some other people overcomplicate it. The Queen of Disco, though, in her infallibility, knew not to overcomplicate it. Allow me to paste you some lyrics of hers. From that song.
Never ever thought the sky was so blue
Never ever thought I'd feel so new
Always thought I'd know what to do
But I guess I wasn't counting on you!
By the way, the Insert key is awful. mais de toute façon. The upper paragraph describes (yes, Donna Summer predicted in 1989 that these events would happen to me in 2006) my mood, and the lower one describes my influence.
Except that I don't always think I know what to do. Damn, I guess she didn't get all her predictions right.
But now that we've meditated on Donna Summer without a conclusion (no meditation should have a concrete conclusion. that's like, nirvana, and will not be tolerated)...
Knowing me, knowing you, it's the best I can do. PS frisbee drama is stupid
If you think the title of this update has affirmative symbolic meaning, you're either a really good ABBA fan or incorrect. And yes, the last part is clearly a subliminal message in ABBA's "Arrival" album.
Oh, the night is my world; city lights, painted girls. That's a line from the late 80's singer Laura Branigan's "Self Control," and I obviously only got half of it correct. I think the time on this blog is wrong for some reason. Well, it's 1:08 AM Monday morning, and I'm up fresh and early in order to have a 5-hour nap for school. I need a miracle; please let me be your girl; one day you'll see! it can happen to me, it can happen to me. ...Cascada is already the best new artist of the year.
Is that phrased correctly?
I wonder if Ford likes Nickelback. He told me that he mostly likes silence and doesn't really listen to music. Then about 2 months later he was saying that "yeah I dunno my music taste is kinda like classic rock stuff?I don't know" or something. Dude, classic rock/silence = not 1.
I can't write this stupid french essay right now. night
Oh, the night is my world; city lights, painted girls. That's a line from the late 80's singer Laura Branigan's "Self Control," and I obviously only got half of it correct. I think the time on this blog is wrong for some reason. Well, it's 1:08 AM Monday morning, and I'm up fresh and early in order to have a 5-hour nap for school. I need a miracle; please let me be your girl; one day you'll see! it can happen to me, it can happen to me. ...Cascada is already the best new artist of the year.
Is that phrased correctly?
I wonder if Ford likes Nickelback. He told me that he mostly likes silence and doesn't really listen to music. Then about 2 months later he was saying that "yeah I dunno my music taste is kinda like classic rock stuff?I don't know" or something. Dude, classic rock/silence = not 1.
I can't write this stupid french essay right now. night
Sunday, April 02, 2006
greg, these hips don't lie
If April 1 is April Fool's Day, would April 2 be April Tool's Day?
Welcome to the first post of my new blog. I don't know what happened to the font on the other one and I'm too scared to go back and fix it. Now you may ask why I started another blog. Well, it occurs to me that everybody is depressed right now for, as Jeff says, "safety schools '10," and I'm not, even though I happen to be a member of this club. Not exactly the 100's Club, which I was a proud member of Sophomore year, back when it was really good.
So basically I need to happy this place up.
You know how I went to school on Friday when I knew what'd
ok this blog text window is lagging
time to write the rest of this in word
ok no, word makes those different apostrophes
You know how I decided to go to school on Friday when I knew that all I'd have on my mind was not getting into Yale Columbia etc and how pointless school was in light of that? That's right. As I said to Greg (yes, you're not reading something that's being instantly thought of; get over it) that Friday morning, "Topsfield got to experience Donna Summer like it ain't never experienced her before." That's right. Windows down, volume knob rotated 'round, She Works Hard for the Money working its magic on the town.
Onetta, there, in the corner, stands, and she WONDERS where she is! And it's STRANGE to her!--- Some people seem to have everything!
For some reason I love, love, love this part of the song. Actually, what's more relevant is that for some reason you don't.
But anyway--- I have to get to the main point here. I'm writing this victory address, short for valedictory address (I'm on top of the cleverness, one might say adroitness game), and overall the Prep didn't do a good job with our class. I am a member of no organized party--I am a speaker for the Prep. (That wasn't so clever.) "Roses are red, some diamonds are blue; chivalry is dead, but you're still kinda cute." It's true. I plan to work that line (by the way, who said that? that's right, the queen of lyrics... Nelly Furtado) into my speech. I mean address. Which is the better word? or who cares
So I have the mission of being really happy for people who really aren't that happy.
Or is it just the honors students relegated to their safety schools and am I messing up?
Whatever.
All I know is that what I'm seeing is not good. I can only name one of my teachers who gets respect from the majority of his or her seniors. Okay, I forgot Ford. But seriously, I, too, wonder not just sometimes but frequently whether there's anyone up there in the administration really giving a fuck. And I'd suggest that we not eat up our time bitching about it if we are, because bitching about things tends to split us. The people who actually did get into their preferred colleges might have second thoughts about when people say that Guidance didn't do shit, the people who okay I don't feel like completing this tricolon. But you get my point.
Which is that I'm still happy and I don't know why. Okay, maybe I do but it's not like I can be certain on that and my theory isn't worth talking about.
MOVIE FANS MOVIE FANS
Hey, post your comments; you have fingers too.
Welcome to the first post of my new blog. I don't know what happened to the font on the other one and I'm too scared to go back and fix it. Now you may ask why I started another blog. Well, it occurs to me that everybody is depressed right now for, as Jeff says, "safety schools '10," and I'm not, even though I happen to be a member of this club. Not exactly the 100's Club, which I was a proud member of Sophomore year, back when it was really good.
So basically I need to happy this place up.
You know how I went to school on Friday when I knew what'd
ok this blog text window is lagging
time to write the rest of this in word
ok no, word makes those different apostrophes
You know how I decided to go to school on Friday when I knew that all I'd have on my mind was not getting into Yale Columbia etc and how pointless school was in light of that? That's right. As I said to Greg (yes, you're not reading something that's being instantly thought of; get over it) that Friday morning, "Topsfield got to experience Donna Summer like it ain't never experienced her before." That's right. Windows down, volume knob rotated 'round, She Works Hard for the Money working its magic on the town.
Onetta, there, in the corner, stands, and she WONDERS where she is! And it's STRANGE to her!--- Some people seem to have everything!
For some reason I love, love, love this part of the song. Actually, what's more relevant is that for some reason you don't.
But anyway--- I have to get to the main point here. I'm writing this victory address, short for valedictory address (I'm on top of the cleverness, one might say adroitness game), and overall the Prep didn't do a good job with our class. I am a member of no organized party--I am a speaker for the Prep. (That wasn't so clever.) "Roses are red, some diamonds are blue; chivalry is dead, but you're still kinda cute." It's true. I plan to work that line (by the way, who said that? that's right, the queen of lyrics... Nelly Furtado) into my speech. I mean address. Which is the better word? or who cares
So I have the mission of being really happy for people who really aren't that happy.
Or is it just the honors students relegated to their safety schools and am I messing up?
Whatever.
All I know is that what I'm seeing is not good. I can only name one of my teachers who gets respect from the majority of his or her seniors. Okay, I forgot Ford. But seriously, I, too, wonder not just sometimes but frequently whether there's anyone up there in the administration really giving a fuck. And I'd suggest that we not eat up our time bitching about it if we are, because bitching about things tends to split us. The people who actually did get into their preferred colleges might have second thoughts about when people say that Guidance didn't do shit, the people who okay I don't feel like completing this tricolon. But you get my point.
Which is that I'm still happy and I don't know why. Okay, maybe I do but it's not like I can be certain on that and my theory isn't worth talking about.
MOVIE FANS MOVIE FANS
Hey, post your comments; you have fingers too.
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