The largest buzzkill EVER!

I wrote this on a popcorn bag and and paper towel. This was copied as I wrote it down, except for spell checks. Scroll down for the pictures.

Let me start out by saying I'm not home sick. I have spent probably 1/4 my conscious like away from my parents. What I'm experiencing, is summer sickness.

Let me explain my situation; it has been probably 3 or less weeks since school got out, I've barely spent time with my friends, haven't been able to work my summer job, and all around be a teen free from school. But what happens right as I'm about to start enjoying myself? I go tho college orientation where they act as if summer is already over and classes begin tomorrow. Be sure to show this writing because my people deserve to see my pain.

So my parents and I drive up on (check phone because I'm so out of it)...Sunday and stay over night at the same hotel we did last time we came up. Yes I've visited the college before, 3 times actually. I get here not knowing what to expect from this orientation. But hopefully something new and exciting right? Wrong. We start out my hearing about the honors college. Why? Because I'm a braniac and did well in high school. I heard the same things as I did from previous visits, while not being crammed like sardines like I did this time. After that boring review, next came college of engineering, my intended major. Second verse, same as the first. Then comes the big welcome. 3rd verse, same as the first, just slightly worse. Then we get separated from parents, and this is where the fun begins.

We then go on this 3 hour campus tour, very similar to the one I already took last summer, but far hotter. These were the thoughts in my mind. "Yes I know what that is." "Seen it." "I will forget where that is in 5 seconds, but I'll have a map next fall." One thing that wasn't covered in previous tours was the Rapunzel tower. Apparently every time a virgin graduates a brick falls from the top, and it's the oldest building here. Come graduation I will be looking for my brick, cause in the words of my mad as a hatter friend, "I'm a virgin and damn proud of it." Speaking of my tour guide (not really but she just came up and asked what I was doing) her school pride depressed me some. All of them were trying to get us pumped for school and teach us school songs. I find it hard to find school spirit when I haven't even been able to enjoy summer. I don't blame her, because I've had to try try to motivate unmotivated people, it's her job. But really, every chant was another Nial in my summer fun coffin. She tried to get us to come up with a creative chant based on our group #, BTW, it was 28. We tried "don't hate, appreciate and we're great." But through a misunderstanding, we came up with "28, cut the shit." It stuck.

Well nothing compares to the next event in terms of spirit crushing. After the tour, we went to see a student show, and while the writing, music, acting, and everything else was quite clever and funny, it broke my summer spirits COMPLETELY! The entire thing was about "how great college is, how you will meet new friends, and everything will change, especially you." Me change, ha. I don't change, I just amplify. Really, over the years I just got weirder and geekier. But what it seems like they were saying was "summer's over and school is back in. If you didn't enjoy your summer after high school, tough luck. Now forget your friends back home because when you back nothing will be the same and you guys will have nothing in common. But enjoy skype." I get that college socialization is meeting new friends, but I haven't been able to spend my summer with my friends and girlfriend. I can't wait to get back home to fun and friends. But I can't stress it enough, this isn't missing my loved ones, it's missing the fun of senior summer. Oh, I'm writing on a paper towel and popcorn bag because of lack of paper, and if I don't write this now, I will selectively forget by the time I'm home.
To be continued....
Day 2
Well it was really hot last night, even without a shirt and socks on. That cold shower when I first got back felt incredible. The fan didn't help much because the outlet is on the opposite side of the room and the cord is only so long. My idea for a cold washcloth helped in the beginning, but then became a hassle. Eventually I realized the windows could be opened and that helped bring the temperature down to a sleepable temp. I had to get packed up early because I had to go to the engineering complex for course sign up, and that's off main campus. Well being a guy, I didn't have a lot to pack up. Packed up, ate breakfast and got out to the buss stop. I then went over to the engineering complex, and got more speeches, but this time it was new stuff. Woohoo.

I then signed up for classes. That didn't take very long. Well after that we went to the train station, where I waited for the train for 3 hours. We got there 3 hours early for some reason, then the train was running 30 minutes late. Oh well. I took the train for the first time. It was like an airplane, only slower, no security check, more leg room, and I could use my phone. I didn't bring anything to do from home, so I got a head start on the summer reading assignment for the honors college. I was not expecting a reading assignment over the summer. I thought those were over with with once I got out of k-12 schooling. Oh well, the book is interesting enough. The book is All Other Nights by Dara Horn. Like I said, interesting enough to get through. The waiting for the train for 3 hours without having to worry about doing anything put me back into summer mode, because you can only hang out in a train station without having to worry about work during the summer.


Back Home
Well I've gotten back to my fun life of out of school. Why just today darkenedoptimist and I worked on the pinata for my graduation party and watched Ren n Stimpy and Flintstones while we waited for the paint to dry. There was a situation where the TV gave out. I spent about 15 minutes connecting and disconnecting all the cords that connect through the cable. I have 4 video game consoles connected through the cable on my TV, so I was trying to find the short in one of them, since when connected, I got zigzag snow and when disconnected I got random snow. DO found it funny to watch me fiddle around with it. Oh well, whatever makes her happy. Somehow having the powerstrip on caused the problem. Oh well.

Garage saling

Hey everyone. Today was a good day even though it was increadibly hot. It was my comunity wide garage sale. And while not as good as previous, and increadibly hot, it was still kind of good. Previous years had most of the comunity selling great junk, like movies and video games. But this year, there was about half the participation in sellers, most of which were just selling knick knacks, furiture stuff, baby toys, and other junk I'm not interested in. There were 2 people selling clasic Play Stations, unlike previous years where I counted 10 in one day, and only some videogames that were lame, mainly v-teck and the other educational games. Everyone sells their old vhs, but only a few were, and I like vhs because they're so much cheaper than dvd and I get the same movie without the useless bonus features I will probably not watch. I did get some stuff. Here's a picture of what I baught.

Pokemon tcg tin with many assorted cards and meet the parents on vhs. I don't have many of the cards I baught so it was a good deal being included with the tcg tin. Most of the cards are more recent pokemon or more recent pictures for them and most of my cards are vintige 90s cards.
Here is a picture of what my brother got me as a late grad gift.

It's comercials fron the 50s, 60s, and 70s and a sony walkman portable cassette tape player. The comercials are computer cds that were meant for windows 3.1, 95, and macintosh 7. I put one into my vista laptop, opened it as a data cd, and found all the comercials in a folder marked movies, and all the videos are avi files. I'm glad they aren't some dead file format requireing me to get some sort or driver so I could run them. I'm a comercial fan so great gift for me. I also got my dad a gift for the next gift giving holiday for him. It's a dvd set of star treck deep space nine since he's a trecky. Well thats all for now. Later.

Graduation and the all night party

I should be sleeping now, but my free running circadian cycle is compleatly screwed up due to social entrainment. For those of you who don't know psycology, that means that I'm tired but because it's day when I'm normally awake, I can't sleep. So now I'll get to the fun part, my graduation ceromony and the senior all night party.

Lets start with the first, getting ready for the graduation ceromony. Because my brother is in the band, he has to play at graduation and gets in free. That means I didn't have to get extra tickets for my family since they give us 4 free tickets and the only ones that needed tickets were my parents and gradnparents. I did buy extra tickets for my friends because at ticket pick up you were only able to get 4 extra at the time then have to come back for the rest. Look back a couple of blogs, you can read more about that at the graduation practice post. My parents to save money are going to try to get my brother to wear my cap and gown his graduation. He'll just have to swap out the tassles so they're 2013 and not 2011. He'd be fine with it if they are able, and joking around they said I could wear mine and get in free if the material is verry divverent or it doesn't fit. Tickets are $3 and we aren't that stingy, just funny.

So now we're looking at the graduation its self. I get showered, and mom told me NOT to put my hat on afterwards. Why, so I don't get hat hair for my ceromony. But I wear the mortarboard hat with the tassles so I'm going to get hat hair anyways, and no pictures are taken without the hat, so I fail to see the logic. Whatever, it happened and my mom doesn't ask for much so I humored her. So I get dresses, in my black slacks, white shirt, pokemon tie, and safetyvest. Yes I wore the safety vest under the gown. Don't believe me check out this picture.

People that knew me well were wondering if I would, and I did. So being in a family of picture happy people, we spent probably 45 minutes or so taking pictures at my house. Here's just one, I don't really feel like showing all them here.

To see more, go to my myspace HERE.

We get in our van and procede to the place where the ceromony is. Since I was with my parents and especially my grandparents, it was a bit of a crazy ride up there; with my grandparents asking so many questions with few questions actually being answered. Oh well. So we get there 30 minutes early because we accounted for trafic, which there wasn't much. Because my grandma has such bad arthritis, she has a handycap sticker so we were able to park in the vip/handycap area. I saw a few of my friends while we were waiting for them to open the gates. More pictures, but this time I had my motarboard tilted to the right in similar fassion as when I wear my hat. My hat is alwayse tilted to the right. Here's one with tilted.

It's a little hard to really see, but it is tilted. For more pictures, myspace HERE. We get in and I meet up with my friends for some group shots, all of which are up on my myspace. I line up and get ready to go in. Let me just say this first, the tassles liked to get in my mouth and once they got in my eye, ouch.

We walk in and take our seets. Being a first row isle seat was great. As my friends who were in choir, orchestra, or symphonic band were going onto the stage so they could play with them, I would hold my hand out for a high 5 or what they dicided to give. I got many hand shakes, bro shakes, and high 5s. We hear speaches, the band, the orchestra and the choir. All of them were really good. My friend who won the senior speach contest did a great job. I entered but I didn't win, probably because I did nothing but reminis on past times and my own experiences, and wasn't serious at all. I'll probably film mine and make it a video. After all that it was time for diploma presentation. Instead of trying to tell you everything, a pictures worth a thousand words, and a video is 24 pictures a second.

First person perspective of getting a diploma - The best home videos are here

My digital camera doesn't record sound so there's nothing wrong with your speakers or conection. I was the only student to give the president of the school board a hug after recieving my diploma. I did that because we were told to not draw a lot of attention to ourselves when getting our diplomas. But I am most unforgettable and love to be a ham, hugging instead of handshake was the perfect sollution. And aparently the president is leaving so I was the only one to give a hug to our outgoing president. On my way across the stage I accedently dropped my diploma, again only one to do that, but that atention draw was unintended. After the diploma presentation we did the ceremonial moving of the tassles from the right to the left. I was one of the kids that threw his hat up afterwards, but I was smart and lucky. Being first row I had a big empty space infront of me, so I threw in that general direction. I also didn't throw very high, so I was able to keep track easily and get mine right afterwards. We then proceded out, where I got more pictures with friends and teachers afterwards. I met up with my family and my girlfriend's family where we took some more photos. We then went home where I changed and got ready for the all night party.

Now I know what you might be thinking, but the all night party isn't like most parties. This one is shool sponcored, helled in the school athetic wing, and isn't full of drugs and achohol. It was still increadibly fun. I'll go in order of happening. First my friends and I did the bounce house things. The first one was the bungie races. Again, I got a first person perspective of me doing it.

Bungie Races First person perspective - The best home videos are here
Really fun. After that I did this thing where it was like soccer, dogeball, and basketball, all in a bounce house. No video from that because I didn't want to damage my camera. It was cool. We even had to wear these soft helmet things. They were similar to the helmet things wreselers wear. After that my girlfriend, best friend, and I made this video thing where we dance on a green screen to a song we choose using a digital background we choose. Afterwards we get a copy on dvd. Due to copyright, I may or may not upload it. It all depends if it will get through the censors on my ccpandhgviolatecopyright on dailymotion or if it is alowed on youtube with ads and stuff. It was cool because my safety vest made me vanish. I then made the others vanish as well. I swam with my girlfriend and some of her friends shortly after that. I did that for about 30 minutes, then got bord and went back out to the party. They had these casino games set up and we got a bag of chips. I played rulet, beet the dealer dice, and back jack. I did ok I guess. I didn't play much though. I did the cupid shuffle and the cha cha slide shortly afterwards. I got caricatures, one of just me and one of my girlfriend and I. I need to wait on the other but here's the just me one.

Funny stuff. Darkened optimist, aka my girlfriend, and I did this flipnote thing. I wish I could show it to you but I don't really know how to upload it. We actually spent a lot of time together at the all night party. There was this wishes wall where family and friends could write you one befor hand and it would get posted. We got to keep them afterwards. There were raffles for some good things, and entry was coming to the party. I unfortunately didn't win anything, but darkenedoptimist won an ipod shuffle. Now you may be wondering, with all this stuff, where do we put it? Well to keep from having to carry it around all night, we all got these duffle bags where we checked all our stuff and they were kept by the door. I went there many times. There was this wall where we got to see each other from elementary school year books. I saw a bunch of my friends from kindergarten to 5th grade. I changed a lot, mainly due to my beird.

Now the hypnotist deserves his own paragraph. Now hypnotism is a real science, but the extent to which some people believe is just superstition. This was sciencey. It was cool, while the vast majority was 11 lucky people doing most of the funny things, he was able to get the entire group to do some cool little things, but it didn't work well for me, to which I blame my ADHD. Hypnotism is just accesing the subconcious while quieting the concious, but my suconcious is weird. We looked at a hypno disk and the hypnotist told us to focus on it while thinking about a balloon inflating. After the hypnodisk and hearing and imaginig the balloon, we were then instructed to look at his head. His head was supposed to inflate, but for me it was kind of flunctuating by getting bigger then smaller. Weird. Then there was the mind reading, of which I say it's a magic trick and reading body language. I'm not a believer in mind reading, so there. Then there was more group hypnotism, where we like imagined our fingers being tied together by twist ties and rubber bands. Now for most that worked, because we were supposed to try to separate them but then we couldn't sort of thing. But my subconious put a splint or separater and they stayed separated. Then there was a ting where we were supposed to invision having our left wrist tied to many helium balloons and our right hand holding many books. I did that, and many people had their left arm up in the air and their right arm on the ground, but for some reason my books were increadibly light and high up and my left was heavy, tired, and on the ground. I think my subconcious was compensating for the lack of needing to hold up but then my left arm got really heavy because there weren't any balloons in actuallity and my right arm got really light because I was holding up the books, but with no books I raised my arm because it was so light. There was another relaxing thing where we were supposed to invision a candle, but one lone candle is to calm for my ADHD mind, so I kept invisioning many firework fuses. I tried the candle, but with the concious off, the subconcious has the power, and the subconcious wanted fuses. We were then supposed to invision stress melting away, but the only thing melting away was the color from my body and clotes making me balck and white. Our mind was supposed to go blank after the melting, but my subconcious wanted to play donkey kong, and thus I did, on an arcade cabenet as well. We were told when we come out of it we will be fully allert and not tired at all. I was that befor hand, and if anything I felt tirder. Something screwy going on. Well the last thing to decide if we were able to be funny up on the main stage area, was to imaginary super glue our hands toghether and we weren't able to pull apart until released. It kind of worked, but my subconcious said "no, you are hulk, you can pull them apart." I felt the togetherness, but I was able to pull them apart. I then checked my shirt to make sure I didn't rip it while hulking out. I really thought I ripped it. Darkenedoptimist was stuck, and she got hypnotised infront of everyone. She wasn't the funniest, but still prety funny. She bacame 4 years old and thought her bellybutton was stollen and other stuff. Nothing like believing that you are 4 agian I guess, but true age regression is a myth as I learned in psycology. She didn't remember anything, like many fully hypnotised people, so it was up to us, meening her friends and I, to tell her the funny things she did.

Well after the hypnotist show, it was time to say bye to everyone. I did, and got my bag. Fun time. Stupid internal clocks, I want to sleep. But later.

notes while typing: wow I'm tired, mmmmm ramen, my eye is still hearting from the tassle in my eye,

smoke alarms, grauation pictures, shopping the mall, and band banquet

Wow, more stories in such a short time. Let me start with a funny story that happened very early in the day. At about 1 am, the smoke alarms in my house went off. My brother wakes up screaming. It's not a high pitch girl scream, but more of a loud, long caveman grunt. He's our of bed, and by then I'm out of bed, and I give the same scream. We both have rather large shaggy beards, so the 2 of us grunt screaming at each other in the dark looked funny. A few seconds later, these are the exact words that went through my mind, "what that noise!? It's the circle box! That mean fire stupid! GET OUT!" I open the door, and my parents just open their door. I here my mom say "uhhh calm down boys," but I was at the other end of the hall getting ready to go down the stairs.

I'm nearly at the bottom, well more like halfway down, and my brother knocks something off the side of the top of the stairs causing it to fall to the base. It was like clothing or something, but I had to jump over it when I got to the base. I go outside to the tree in front of our house where we decided to meet up many years ago if there was a fire. I see that no one is coming out, and the hose is still standing, so then I go back inside. I was shell shocked afterwards, so I'm laughing for 5 minutes afterwards. As it turns out, the battery in the hall detector died and that set off all the detectors since they're all wired together.

Well I go back to sleep, and I have to get my brother to school again. When will I be able to sleep in like a normal senior? Probably next week. Anyways I get him there, and get ready for my picture at sears. Yesterday I got my cap and gown, and it was wrapped up and wrinkly. To try to pull the wrinkles out, I weighted down problem areas since neither my mom nor I trust each other with an iron with this unknown material. Check out these funny pictures.

I used my key chain to weigh it down. It worked a little.

So I gather everything together ready to go to sears. My grand parents have been taking me to sears for pictures since I was a new born. A couple of years ago, I learned from my cousins that it isn't normal to go to get pictures at sears portrait studio every 3 weeks from age new born to age 7 and then going at least 5 times a year since. It was annoying, especially since to save money, my grandma gets a package that requires you to take a bazillion poses, but then after all them, she only gets 2 or so. I guess it's more economic, but super annoying.

Well sears is attached to a mall, like most, so before I spent about an hour and a half going around the mall. I spent most time in the Game Stop and FYE. I didn't find anything at either, but was still fun to look around. After the pictures, I had lunch with my grandparents at the Logan's that is right close. After lunch, I went to ABC Warehouse. I've wanted to go there since I started seeing all the commercials for it. The sales guy asked me if there was anything specific I was looking for, but I told him "nothing specific, I just saw so many commercials about 'closest thing to wholesale' and I'd figured I'd look around." He thought that was a good enough answer and said please do. I looked around, and on the $5.99 DVD rack, I found some DVD collections of 4 movies together and lesser TV show seasons. Then I found Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Two-Disc Special Edition) on the rack. That and Deathly Hollows Part 1 are the only ones I am missing in my collection. Now it's just Deathly Hallows Part 1 that I'm missing.

Then at dinner time, I had the band banquet. I sat with my friends, and I got some awards fro being in concert band, jazz band, and pit orchestra. Not a lot happened. Sorry, no elaborate story. I just cheered for my friends and such. So this has been this day. Tomorrow is graduation and all night party.

Graduation rehersal and such

Hey world, back again for some stories. Vacation hasn't truly started as I see it. Today I had to wake up at 7 am to take my brother to school. He's a sophomore, and as such, he isn't out like senior me. Mom and dad had to go to work so they weren't able to take him to school, so I had to. Well at least I didn't have to go back to school right? Wrong.

But before I get to that, I have something really strange that happened. After dropping my brother off, I was really hungry so time to eat breakfast. But some how, I was like so hungry that my mouth and throat and stomach wouldn't let me eat anything. I take a bite of muffin, and my mouth refused to chew it, then some crumbs were swallowed, and my gag reflex started overworking. I was afraid I was sick, because I seriously felt like I was going to puke. Running over to the sink, I get a drink of water. Realizing I would take it, I started drinking a lot instill the so hungry I can't eat turned into just hungry. After that I went and ate my muffin.

Today was graduation practice in the east gym. Every senior wants to spend his or hers first official day off while everyone else still has to go to school sitting in the schools smaller gym while it is 93 degrees outside and probably 95 degrees in the school sitting and going over graduation service. Oh paleese. I saw a few of my friends but it was still boring.

Well at least afterwards I got to spend time with my girlfriend darkenedoptimist. We went to the restaurant that is right next to our school for lunch. It was nice spending some time with her. Then her friends joined us. It wasn't invasive since it wasn't a real real date. But it was a little weird because they started having girl talk in front of me. Just a little weird because I'm a strait guy and they were talking about boys.

It was also cap and gown pick-up, and because 2 of us, myself being one of them, was last name A-G. We went to pick up our stuff and had to wait outside in the heat before we were able to go in and pick up. It took 35 minutes for us to get through the line. Oh well, we kept each other company.

So I come home and a lot of time passes. I call in for my scholarships, and lets just cut to the dinner table conversation of that. I call my college for this scholarship they're giving me and they ask me "when are you coming to orientation?" My parents have been talking about this for a long time, but I drew a blank. My exact words were "uhhhhhhh. I know I have it written down some where but off the top of my head, I can't remember." A couple of posts ago I mentioned that my family likes to make fun or each other. There was some making fun of me on my parents end. My dad kept asking if I took stupid pills and saying "it's a good thing you got senioritis now as apposed to during finals." Later he started quoting back to the future saying "think McFly think." It was funny.

So that was my day. Boring and funny.

happy mamorial day

Hey everyone. It's mamorial day, and like any patriotic American, I did something to remeberour soliers. As a boy scout, I paticipated in a flag ceromony led by the local VFW. We has the VFW, American Legion, city police, boy scout troop, and other caring citezens. It was a hot day so we had our water. It was a really nice ceromony, with a 21 gun salute.

After that my mom made me clean out my school stuff. 2 galon zip lock bag of stuff I want to keep, and 1/3 a paper grocery bag of stuff to recycle.

My grand parents came over shortly after I finished so I could open graduation presents. Here's what they got me.

After eating lunch with them, they left.

Mom then asked if someone wanted to go with her to pick up carry out at Logans. Wanting to do something, I said I'll go. Befor going to get it, we went to the dollar store to get some fun lawn toys for the kids that will be at my graduation party. We got some sidewalk chalk and hula hoops. After that we went to Logans and placed our order. I ate probably over 30 free peanuts.

After dinner I read the first chapter of this novel my girlfriend is writing. She wanted me to read it and tell her what I thought. It's good so far.

I now got a crazy week ahead of me. Hopefully there will be time to blog. Untill then, later.

water park fun and more

Hey everyone, what a day yesterday. It started out like most Sundays, wake up, go to church, come home home, then do nothing. Well there were some big differences that made it cool.

For starters, I stopped by a garage sale on my way home from church. I love those basement garbage sales, especially when I find something. This time, I found this amazing Luke Skywalker Plate for $10. Even if I wasn't a star wars fan I would have bought it. At bottom collectors price, I'd say I could get at least $30 online.

(click to buy on amazon)

So after that, I sit on my couch ready for a day of nothing. I ate mac n cheese for lunch, and got the remote ready for a day of channel surfing. But then my girlfriend called me up and asked if I wanted to go to the water park. Enjoying the water park and time with her,I jumped at the idea.

Her mom had to baby sit, and not wanting to have a 2 1/2 year old in her not baby proof house, she decided to take the 3 of them, and me, to our local enough water park. That was fun. The water park isn't really large, since all it has is a 3 slide water slide, wave pool, lazy river, and a kiddie area where in order to get in you need to be shorter than 43 inches. But it is still fun, and because it was opening day, admission was half price. Woohoo.

We went on the lazy river, went on the slides, and went in the wave pool. The wave pool was really cold, but the river was nice. Slide no complaining since the cold exit pool just gave extra incentive to get out quicker. It was really cool running into my friend who's a life guard there and graduated last year. He was monitoring the lazy river so we had a conversation that lasted a couple of sentences. He also gave me advice on how to go really fast on the water slide when he was guarding the exit pool. The was a few issues with my girlfriend and I but we resolved them.

There were some issues with the wave pool. There weren't any waves. We floated around for awhile. Then they fixed the waves so that was fun. But then some one was drowning. That was interesting. They stopped the waves with the emergency shut off and all the life guards gathered. 2 dived in to rescue the person. Then the waves started up again. By the end of the day I got my first sunburn of the season.

Then we come home and they drop me off. My mom comes out to say hi and asked if they kicked us out because of the weather. Apparently there were tornado warnings. Right after she asked that, the sirens start going. They run home and I go inside. My brother starts making a bunker basically in our basement. He's pulling all his emergency stuff down there, and other things he wants to keep safe. I remember we both did that one storm and we did have a would be bunker in the basement. At most we got rain, no big deal. He now has to bring everything back up.

Quite an eventful day.