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Thursday, May 22, 2003

many, many things to discuss. i'll start with the minor topics:

first of all, i finished reading Black Boy by Richard Wright. amazing book. really inspiring, very touchig. he does an amazing
job of communicating his experiences. i think he accomplished the goals he set for himself.

secondly, (maybe it shouldn't be classified as "minor" per se, but it's minor in the scheme of things aka my life) shannon
broke up with her boyfriend so he won't be able to kick our asses in b-ball.

on to the moderately important annoyances:

first, i'm going to go out on a limb and talk about something whose details escape my immediate knowledge: the whole tax cut issue. ok, it seems to me (don't shoot me for being ignorant) that the democrats and all the "common people" that they supposedly represent are against the new tax bill because it gives more money back to the rich people than
"common people". republicans are arguing that it will stimulate the economy and it will give money back to everyone. the democrats seem to argue the first point, but agree with the second point, except with a negative connotation. it seems to me that the democrats and all the other "common people" that they've hitched onto their bandwagon are rejecting the bill
out of spite. who gives a shit about how much the rich people get back? doesn't bother me at all. all i care about is that families like mine may get even something back. good enough for me.
(of course there's always the issue if there should be any cuts at all, seeing how our government is supposedly involved in a "war on terror" which could probably benefit from our tax dollars. but that's another argument for another time.)

secondly and thirdly: we're not going to keen lake this weekend cause i've been sick. i've had a 102/103 fever for the past three days and i missed school on tuesday, wednesday, and today. this morning, it got so bad that i passed out and hit my head, making my already-existing headache even worse. obviously it's nice to be home, but i would've rather not have
missed school since finals are very soon.

but these circumstances have brought about a very interesting conversation that i just had. i was talking with Alexei Yegerov (not one of my favorite communists) and he mentioned something about a "punishment" (as in a harsh practical joke) that my english teacher, Mr. Binkowski, is going to exact upon me for missing three days of his class. (I feel that it
is important to mention that Mr. Bink hates me with a passion.) i don't have bink's class tomorrow because we our schedule is on a cycle so that we miss each class once a week. but Alexei told me to go to bink's room where he, johnathon yochum, joe regine, carlos rodriguez, and a few others will be waiting with a camera to, i assume, eternally capture my high point of embarrassment. now, i may not be the happiest person in the world, but i'm no masochist, and
i'm completely against any effort to embarrass me in a public situation, especially if it'll photographed. i'm in a pickle.......

ok, on to the final, and rather significant occurance:

the other day there was a massive earthquake in Algeria in which about 1100 people were killed. of course, most of the people in Algeria, since it's a north african country, are muslim. my dad, and i have expressed this a few times in the past, is a bigot and a crazy ex-marine. he hates muslims. he despises them to the point where he would probably harm a muslim person if he/she got within arm's reach. (for the record, the apple has fallen far from the tree. i'm not saying that i'm some kind of peace-nick or hippie, i just think that my dad is a little too extreme. obviously i'm pissed at certain extremist muslims, but i don't hate every muslim man, woman and child, even if each of them is raised to hate my American guts.) to speed this up: i was deeply disturbed when my father was happy when he heard the amount of
casualties. that's just sick.

feel free to be ashamed of the human race.

Saturday, May 17, 2003

wow. i went with jim and matt to see X2 finally. amazing movie. it was amazing how they stuck Phoenix in there. hot shit.
too bad the next movie isn't comin out until 2006. oh well. next week i'll go see the new Matrix. heard it was good. we'll
see...

ever notice how you don't always realize how good a song is until you hear a month later? i was just listenin to jets to brazil
and their song empty picture frame is really, really good. i was impressed: it's really deep and moving. all you softies and
emo fans out there should download it.

well, summer's almost here. only a couple weeks left....we went to keen lake last week and i saw a bunch of my friends:
jeremy, shannon, and bobby. next weekend should be good. sean'll be there and danielle is gonna bring her hot
friend....*drools* i think shannon's gonna bring her b/f so he can destroy us all in b-ball, lol. we'll see shannon, we'll see.
i'm still not sure how i feel about keri not comin this year. i couldn't care less about her slutty sister, but i still wanna
believe that keri a good person. jeremy assures me that she's not, and he's a pretty reliable friend, but i still don't know.

Tuesday, May 13, 2003

joe regina should fuck himself up the ass.
that's all i have to say about that.

i wanna see x-men 2 dammit. i keep missin it. matt is supposed to visit this weekend, maybe we'll all go see it. damn
yochum and ray spoiled the end for me. i'm such a dork. i know all this comic book stuff about the x-men and i get pissed
off when stuff in the movie isn't right. oh well. i'll right some more tomorrow, i'm not feelin so hot right now.

Monday, May 5, 2003

just sittin around, munchin on some cinammon toast crunch and doin a piss-poor job on my history and english homework
while watchin Boston Public. partaaay

well, nothin much to report over the last few days. it's 11 o'clock at night and i'm just sitting here, letting those weird
thoughts of mine run through my head. i've been feeling really scattered lately. i finally realized what a waste of time keri
is, thanks to jeremy. apparently i'm affected by feelings for someone just as much as the next person. it seems that keri
was just flirting with every guy possible and i was one of her "pity dates." i feel like such a fuckin loser. maybe it's actually
good that keri and her sister aren't gonna be hangin around this summer. it's gonna be sad, but i think i'm gonna start to
slowly stop all contact i have with her and tara. *sigh* at least that's finally behind me.

school's really weird now. mr. mcmahon just decided to start giving us real homework. don't get the wrong idea, his reading
assignments are bitches, but now we actually have written homework to go along with them.

i don't think i'm taking mr. binkowski's class seriously anymore. i don't know. i enjoy the discussions we have, even if he
basically shoots down every one of my observations. he's obviously anit-andrew. if bashing me was an olympic sport, he
would definitely win the gold medal. but anyway, i've been procrastinating massively. we had about two weeks to do a
couple of these mini essays, and i just did them yesterday and today. that's not like me. i can't explain it: it's almost as if
i've lost the will to learn. that's kind of upsetting because i've always seen my thirst for knowledge as one of my qualities
that separated me from a lot of the other kids. now i'm just another jackass high school student. i really have to make
some changes in my work ethic.

oh yeah, i saw Miyasaki's Spirited Away the other day. even though it was kinda odd, it was really enjoyable, not to mention the little hamster was fuckin cute. the whole premise wasn't too bad, it's just some of the characters were just weird. but enjoyable none the less

well, ima bounce, as my homies down in the hood like to say. actually, that brings up another subject, but i'm too tired to write anything else right now. adios.

Sunday, May 4, 2003

fuck, i wanna see X-men 2. i went to Clifton Commons last night with jim but there was no parking. so we went over to
secaucus to try and make the 7:45 pm show, but it was sold out. so we were gonna go to the 11:45 am show today, but we
couldn't. god dammit. now i have to do my homework.

well, buffy's finally goin off the air. it's gotten a lot worse as the seasons have progressed. all i know is that before the
show's done, they have to bring seth green back one last time. his character, oz, was so damn cool. it was kool when he
and willow were together before willow became a lesbo. those were the good old days of buffy. before angel and spike. just
high school kids killin vampires. *sigh*

Saturday, May 3, 2003

i gotta go see X-men 2. i'm psyched.

i just downloaded Kazaa Lite. so far it seems to be as good as everyone said. soul seek hasn't been working as well as
usual and latley it won't even connect. i guess it was about time i hopped on the band wagon and got Kazaa.

Wednesday, April 30, 2003

interesting discussion in history about marxism and dialectic idealism and georg hegel. it was kool cause i busted out
some of the shit that mr. tully taught us and some of the topics i brought were pretty impressive. i'm feelin pretty good
about myself. i'll write more later. homework time.

Monday, April 28, 2003

wow. i don't think jim and jen like me anymore. not that i can blame them. i'm kinda annoying and i hang out there way to
much. sucks for me. i should try to not be so assholish. time for english work.