tonight i was entranced by guitar hero to the point that i drooled on myself and cried.

in other news,

Stats: A- 5
Chem: A 5
Bio: B 5
Aiding: A
English: B- 4
Journalism: A
Gov: A 5

my only B's in high school. i really didnt give a fuck about this year. oh well--i got a 4 and 4 5's so fuck it.

total: 8 5's, one 4 and one 3

Services for Gil ( Read more... )

weird...

i've known it's been coming for over 15 months

knowing doesn't seem to make it any less ...powerful i guess is the word i'm looking for

Gil Israel Gafni
April 1, 1952-June 23, 2007

EDIT: in hindsight, that looks really detached. don't worry, i'm not.

got cut down to a few days to a week as of yesterday. And now, I'm gonna let out what I've been holding in for the last year ( Read more... )

never sounded like such a short amount of time.

i found out i'm salutatorian and that i'm a national merit scholarship winner. not bad for a week's work, eh?

Here's my long essay for UChicago ( Read more... )

i had to make up a gov test at lunch today. that kinda bugged me, but whatever. it took like 20 minutes, so i figured i'd rush to lunch and mb get back a little bit late.

on the way to lunch i got a ticket.

after school i had to make up a chem lab, that kinda bugged me, but whatever. at the end of the lab i burned myself.

I just saw an ad from some Republican guy claiming his opponent was "an admitted member of the ACLU and Amnesty International." When did those two organizations become something that people have to hide?

EDIT: The commercial actually said "...of the ACLU, Amnesty International, and the Sierra Club."

Things I did today that were probably bad ideas:

-60ish on Kings Row (but that's every day)
-70 on Robb right after school
-85 on McCarran
-90-95 on the freeway
-had a Mike's hard lemonade at dinner
-posted on LJ/checked my myspace when I should be doing hw