Fun Fun Lake Fun!

Again I went to the lake today. Big news! I quit my job at Scrubway (Subway) and my last day was on TUESDAY! I'm completely done with that NAZI PRISON CAMP! YAHOOO! Anyway, my back has been killing me. I guess I hurt it swimming/jumping into my aunts pool a coupla weeks ago. Oh well! School starts on Monday. What a drag. Oh well, I guess I can't stop the inevitable. I did go to the lake again...the previous time was last Sunday when I called in "sick" for work. At that time, I really didn't care. Like my favorite song writer says,

"...endings are never ever happy, it's the happy moments along the way, that in the end make it, okay."

so in that moment. I decided that my friends were more important that catching a couple of bucks from a place I hated. I maybe didn't make the "moral" decision, and maybe I did get grounded, but I did make the decision, and I most definitely wouldn't trade it back to do the other thing. FRIENDS ARE MORE IMPORTANT.... because in twenty years, I don't want to look back in my life and say "I wish I would have done that when I could have". For all I know, in twenty years air may not be passing through my body. What what is LIFE, if you don't live it? Ya see, life is so precious and you don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

I will finish this post on THAT note!

Mischief Managed!

Well, summer is nearing it end and school is about to swing back into motion. The days seem to be getting shorter. I had a really amazing random thing come up. Mrs. Baker invited me to go to Missouri with a couple other people for a trip to scope out Branson Missouri for a potential choir trip. I leave on Sunday (my birthday) and won't be back until Wednesday night. The trip is packed full of shows and entertainment. The best thing of it all is that it's basically free! I'm really excited.

Also, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince comes out tomorrow night! I'm really really excited about that too! Anywho, I'm just checking in and actually posting something! Time for bed!

The War Begins....

Well today was quite a challenge. First off, the Seniors pulled a prank by using zip-cords to lock a lot of people's locker....meaning that it would take a pair of scissors to cut through the plastic to get into your locker. It was actually halirous, however the administration wasn't overly happy. This again was one example of how things are starting to get out of hand at Rossville. People using drugs was always there, however it was never really confronted. Now we've had more dog searches in the school than I can recall. They've caught many kids with drugs and a lot of the Senior class has been thrown out. The overall morale at school is really odd. The food fight was one thing, however it was basically a question of authority. (We have a new principal this year). I actually feel for the guy for all that he's had to put up with. Naturally, there was the inncodent of the stealing in the Ag barn the other day which has been a problem lately. Overall, the amount of 'bad' that people do at Rossville is truly outshining the good people. It was a problem in the past, however it was usually overlooked.

The War has Begun. I think the battle of good and bad is going to start happening either at the end of this year when the Seniors leave or at the beginning of next year. The main problem is that the good people kinda just sit back and let bad things happen. Someone is going to have to stand up and pull some leadership together. I know next year I'm going to push for certain reform and change. I really hope I'm elected Student Council president because that will give me a leadership position. I really wanna push to "up" our student body.

A personal battle has begun with a certain person who works at school.....(to be continued; tonight)

A shout out!

Hey beusch!

Long time no post!

Welp, here I am! About 2 months TOO late! I'm finally doing a new post!

I've kinda been in a depressing mood. I'm really sad about graduation coming up. I really look up to a lot of the people who are going to be gone. I know I'm going to be lost with a lot of leadership that's going to be gone. I dunno what my class will do!

Anywho, NYC was GREAT! WICKED WAS AWESOME! DUNNO HOW TO EXPLAIN HOW IT WAS BESIDES AWESOME!

Right now we've got the Starlight Serenade tomorrow night. Its a concert that my school does outside every other year. Well the weather sucks and it stormed really bad tonight and today, so the plan of doing that outside has been tossed and it will be inside. So I'm singing and playing Percussion and everything tomorrow night.

Other than that, I got a raise at the SCRUB. YAY 25 cents!

Dunno wut else to say! I was hoping for a Tornado, so I could take pictures of it while I drove to town! However, I had no luck!

NYC here I come!

Here we come!
Sunday! I CANT WAIT! I don't even care that it's a 13 hour bus ride! I've been busy, as usual, but I just need to get through the rest of this week and then I can relax! FUN FUN!!! I'll post pictures as soon as I can!

Friday in Review! (In strenuous detail)

So, I wake up this morning about 7AM. I get ready and go to school. Today we had in in-service so that means we get out at 1:00PM. I go through my day and get out at 1PM. Being the nice person I am, I offered to come into work as soon as I could because I thought that Scubway would be swamped with high school students. Naturally they were, and I got there at 1:05PM. We were busy the entire time. A certain employee annoyed the heck out of me today. She's older. She seemed like she didn't want to get her hands dirty with anything. First off, she got the Seafood out (still frozen) and tried to break it up so we could make our sandwich meat. Since it was frozen, she started using scissors to cut up the meat (which isn't an odd thing to do, however I just use my hands. Now since I'm the fool, I didn't realize what she was starting. So being nice, I offered to do it for her since she seemed to be having trouble. So I finished the Crab meat(freezing my hands). Then, she pulls another lazy procedure. She goes to make Teriyaki chicken, and procedes to just poor the sauce on and mix it around on the meat. If you do it properly, all of the meat should be covered (it wasnt), she just stirred it (and didn't use her hands). We also have to weigh the meat. I saw she was doing a half-assed job with that too. They are suppose to have a weight of 3.2 and I see that she's got the meat portions around 3. Now, I'm not trying to go into deep detail about things, but it just bothers me when we are suppose to doing something correctly and then I'm the one who gets chewed for the problem when its IDIOT over there messing things up.
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So I then decide to help her do dishes. I'm much taller than her and I can reach the shelves that we use to dry the trays and things. So I'm helping her, I can she that shes leaving gunk on the trays and passing them on to me to spray and sanitize. (remember, this entire time I'm trying to be nice). On one occasion, I pointed out to her a spot that needed rewashed. Then, she randomly stops to go do something else that wasn't necessacary leaving me with the dishes. WHAT DO YA KNOW? She leaves me the Teriyaki bowl and the Seafood bowl (which have chunks and mayo in it) as well as mayo bottles that needed cleaned (chunks and all). Now the thing that angers me the most, is that she puts these IN the clean dish water. MY WATER IS FOGGY NOW. There is hardly anything that bothers me more than that while working. So I hastily change the water and clean all of her items that she was too lazy to finish. I also came across the cutter that we use to cut Onions, Green Peppers, and Cucumbers. Inside of it, it had pepper chunks as well as onion chunks. So I'm assuming what happened was that DIRTY &^%&$ neglected to clean the cutter inbetween doing onions and peppers. TALK ABOUT CROSS CONTAMINATION! YUK!
Overall, I wasn't impressed, and luckily I dont have to work with her that often. However, I have to work with that Nazi tomorrow.

After I got off work, I went in and got the "take out" from the Music Boosters BBQ dinner. I bought 2 meals for my parents and brought them home for them just after work. I then went to the Varsity Basketball game at 7PM. I picked up Bryce and his brother. Bryce and I hung out at the game. We somewhat screwed around, but we actually played almost every song. We ended up leaving during the half.

There were three picture perfect moments that I wish I had my camera. One of the three was when the national anthem was being played, ALL THAT JAZZ sang and while they sang, the flag had a gentle breeze of air the moved the tip. The second, was during one moment when I looked over at ADAM playing the drums. He was sitting on the chair with his legs up in the seat in front of him and drumsticks on his lap. For some odd reason, it looked like a good picture. The final picture that I wish I would have been able to take was when I stood behind Coach H. during the end of the JV game. He was directly in front of me near the doorway by the gym furnace vent. He was leaned up against it, and a younger boy (Adam B.) game up to him and tugged him on the brim of his shirt, and looked up and asked, "Coach are we going to win?". Now, the likeliness of Rossville actually winning the Varsity game was very slim (which as it turns out, they didn't win), however Coach looked down on the boy and said "Yes we will". This was coaches final home game of his career, it was his last. It was also Senior Night. The irony of the entire thing was bittersweet. The team we played was our main rival, and we lost. However, as I look back in my time in school, Coach took us to State and WON! That was the first time in 93 years! The great thing about that moment that I experienced, was that Coach looked down (during the game and took time to talk to him when his mind was elsewere.