a year in review.
I say this every year but seriously, what the fuck 2007. Roller coaster of death and destruction and euphoria and amazing.
January- Lots of Rachel fun. Skally Cap Mafia plays its first show and doesn't suck horribly. My dad disowns me for not wanting to go to UML anymore.
February- I started teaching myself how to drive, and I really wasn't half bad at it! Mandy weekend (two backpacks full of outfits!),
March- I beg Rachel to take me to prom so I can pretend my own junior and senior proms (and related drama) never happened, PINK DS TIME, and apparently an Ozma chatroom where a bunch of us forum members talked to the band and got real geeky
April- SKA WALLET!!, a Battle of the Bands at Middlesex CC where we tied for 1st, and I started to realize that the skaniverse wasn't all there was to life.
May- The new Ozma hit and I was on cloud 9 for seriously a week. I think this is the point where I officially stopped caring entirely about classes at MCC. It was beautiful. I got my copy of Risk and started wargaming up a storm as well!
June- OH MY GOD OZMA. I went on a minitour, seeing them in NYC and in Boston with Mandy (which ended up in her leaving early due to cat allergies). I start feeling this weird disconnect with Rachel since she's doing the whole college thing. I also meet her mom, who within 2 hours of meeting me is fully aware i'm fucking her daughter and totally doesn't care. Skally Cap Mafia scores a show at the Middle East only for us to realize how much we were getting fucked over.
July- My friends refuse to believe there's certain squares that are more common in Monopoly. I read the last Harry Potter in 9 hours. Rachel and I kind of become more distant (although I don't particularly realize this until much later on)
August- Heartache and Heartbreak. She breaks up with me on the eve of one of Skally Cap's shows and I spend an entire month coping by smoking weed EVERY goddamn night with a friend from Shaw's. Its pretty disgusting. HOWEVER this hardship makes me a better person in the end because
September- I quit Shaw's to work at Starbucks AND I get my license. I spend a month fantasizing about getting back together with her. The day after she broke up with me, actually I snuck into her house at like 2am with a gigantic bouquet of flowers. I think I spent this entire month going insane about her. Not going to school doesn't help (I take two courses online, since my father isn't paying for school anymore) so I kind of stew in my misery and grief for an entire month. My British family comes over and hangs out with us and I realize that everybody but my uncle from there are boring BORING people who have nothing in common with me. I also get shitfaced drunk in Harvard Square and end up at my friend Betty's house in the South End. Walking.
October- I plan a Zombie party, which trainwrecks hardcore. I decided to get a haircut, which was pretty cool and I start to clear out Rachel stuff from around my room and I start to realize that living life by trying to constantly alienate people with how zany I am isn't a good way to go about things. I take a trip to NYC to film Ozma opening for the Blue October and Shiny Toy Guns, which never ends up happening and I fuck around New York, somehow picking up a chick and having sex with her in the same night, leaving her place at like 4am to take a bus back to Boston. Epic.
November- I kind of get into Carrie, Betty's roommate, who is a huuuge ska fan only to have her pwn me the next week by going to a ska show and hooking up with another dude. PWNERSHIP CROWN towards finding somebody else, so it was ok. Gerard has this situation with a friend of mine who later becomes a coworker and it gets more and more hilarious.
December- Lisa Marie blows me off but then relents and finally sees me for the first time in two years and things aren't nearly as bad as they seem. I meet Sarah through Nate and it is lulz. I went to Christmas with my Italian family for the first time and its pretty much the most awkward experience of my life. I go to the Bosstones on my birthday.
I can sum this up VERY easily. 50% Rachel, 25% other girls 10% personal identity and achievements and 10% apathy about school. Seriously. I truly fell in love with a girl for the second time and subsequently got my heart broken. My dad is still pissed about me not wanting to be an engineer and I feel awesome about working at Starbucks.
I can't even conceptualize what 2009 is going to be with me turning 21.
January- Lots of Rachel fun. Skally Cap Mafia plays its first show and doesn't suck horribly. My dad disowns me for not wanting to go to UML anymore.
February- I started teaching myself how to drive, and I really wasn't half bad at it! Mandy weekend (two backpacks full of outfits!),
March- I beg Rachel to take me to prom so I can pretend my own junior and senior proms (and related drama) never happened, PINK DS TIME, and apparently an Ozma chatroom where a bunch of us forum members talked to the band and got real geeky
April- SKA WALLET!!, a Battle of the Bands at Middlesex CC where we tied for 1st, and I started to realize that the skaniverse wasn't all there was to life.
May- The new Ozma hit and I was on cloud 9 for seriously a week. I think this is the point where I officially stopped caring entirely about classes at MCC. It was beautiful. I got my copy of Risk and started wargaming up a storm as well!
June- OH MY GOD OZMA. I went on a minitour, seeing them in NYC and in Boston with Mandy (which ended up in her leaving early due to cat allergies). I start feeling this weird disconnect with Rachel since she's doing the whole college thing. I also meet her mom, who within 2 hours of meeting me is fully aware i'm fucking her daughter and totally doesn't care. Skally Cap Mafia scores a show at the Middle East only for us to realize how much we were getting fucked over.
July- My friends refuse to believe there's certain squares that are more common in Monopoly. I read the last Harry Potter in 9 hours. Rachel and I kind of become more distant (although I don't particularly realize this until much later on)
August- Heartache and Heartbreak. She breaks up with me on the eve of one of Skally Cap's shows and I spend an entire month coping by smoking weed EVERY goddamn night with a friend from Shaw's. Its pretty disgusting. HOWEVER this hardship makes me a better person in the end because
September- I quit Shaw's to work at Starbucks AND I get my license. I spend a month fantasizing about getting back together with her. The day after she broke up with me, actually I snuck into her house at like 2am with a gigantic bouquet of flowers. I think I spent this entire month going insane about her. Not going to school doesn't help (I take two courses online, since my father isn't paying for school anymore) so I kind of stew in my misery and grief for an entire month. My British family comes over and hangs out with us and I realize that everybody but my uncle from there are boring BORING people who have nothing in common with me. I also get shitfaced drunk in Harvard Square and end up at my friend Betty's house in the South End. Walking.
October- I plan a Zombie party, which trainwrecks hardcore. I decided to get a haircut, which was pretty cool and I start to clear out Rachel stuff from around my room and I start to realize that living life by trying to constantly alienate people with how zany I am isn't a good way to go about things. I take a trip to NYC to film Ozma opening for the Blue October and Shiny Toy Guns, which never ends up happening and I fuck around New York, somehow picking up a chick and having sex with her in the same night, leaving her place at like 4am to take a bus back to Boston. Epic.
November- I kind of get into Carrie, Betty's roommate, who is a huuuge ska fan only to have her pwn me the next week by going to a ska show and hooking up with another dude. PWNERSHIP CROWN towards finding somebody else, so it was ok. Gerard has this situation with a friend of mine who later becomes a coworker and it gets more and more hilarious.
December- Lisa Marie blows me off but then relents and finally sees me for the first time in two years and things aren't nearly as bad as they seem. I meet Sarah through Nate and it is lulz. I went to Christmas with my Italian family for the first time and its pretty much the most awkward experience of my life. I go to the Bosstones on my birthday.
I can sum this up VERY easily. 50% Rachel, 25% other girls 10% personal identity and achievements and 10% apathy about school. Seriously. I truly fell in love with a girl for the second time and subsequently got my heart broken. My dad is still pissed about me not wanting to be an engineer and I feel awesome about working at Starbucks.
I can't even conceptualize what 2009 is going to be with me turning 21.