Number four on the all-time top five best moments in High School: The last day of Print Journalism my junior year. There's something magical about those few weeks before summer begins. Print Journalism last year was a blow-off class that was taken mostly by seniors in need of an easy A. It was such a blow-off class in fact, that guidance let me ( Read more... )

With it being the first day back from break, I assumed today would suck. This was just simply not the case. As a matter of fact, I laughed a lot today. I laughed so hard I got kicked out of Superwrite. Mrs. Kelley started class by telling us about her nephew J.D. who died in a motorcycle accident on this date a few years ago. So I feel sorry ( Read more... )

Spring Break is almost over. As it is with most vacations, the end of spring break heralds the desire to put a bullet in one's head. Gone are the days of 3 AM Denny's, sleeping in until late afternoon, and running half-naked through the woods. The very thought of the impending week of school is making me miserable. High School is, after all, a ( Read more... )

Tuesday morning I woke up on the floor of Steffan's basement. I was half-naked, wearing face-paint like an indian, and covered in scrapes that seemed to have come from tree branches. As I laid there alone in the basement, I asked myself, "how did I get here?" and "why am I wearing warpaint?" Then slowly but surely I began to remember the events ( Read more... )

Thus far Spring Break has been a boatload of fun. I rarely use the term "boatload" in life, so you know that the last few days have kicked ass. I would mostly like to thank Steffan, who has supplied laughs-a-plenty during the nightly gatherings at his parent-free home. I would also like to thank the good men and women of the Denny's on ( Read more... )

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This was definitely an interesting weekend. Thursday night my mom tells me that she and Eric are leaving for the ENTIRE weekend to go racing in god know's where. Immediately I was thrilled because I would have the whole damn house to myself. So I was thinking PAAAAAAAARTY but then I thought NAAAAAAAAAH. After they left I went with Faye to buy ( Read more... )

Today I learned that Carlos Garcia, the Mexican foreign exchange student, is a delightful little man. A few weeks ago I was informed that no one wanted to be a host family for Carlos. Apparently every few months the kid gets a new family to live with. Unfortunately, the poor guy has failed to find his next home. So we decided to do a special ( Read more... )

Today capped off my extremely uneventful week. School was pretty much a blur. Mrs. Kelly showed old episodes of Eye On Metamora without even consulting Mike or I first. With ten minutes left of first hour, she goes, "Okay now we're going to watch classic episodes of Eye On Metamora!" Mike and I were both kind of like "Huh???" Totally came out ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty slow week at the house of Fandel. I learned that the senior trip is going to be a lock-in at Landmark. Earlier this year we were all asked to vote on whether we wanted to go to Six Flags or have a lock-in at the Riverplex or Landmark. It was during this time that I learned that the entire senior class hates Six Flags. Now I ( Read more... )