All my senior friends are graduating. It majorly bummed me out today when I went to lunch and there was my table…empty. Oh sure, there are a couple sophomores and a freshman who usually sit there, too, but all the seniors were gone. I was struck by a massive sense of nostalgia. All the good memories. All the funny jokes. The banana on the roof, the spoon fights, the cram sessions for math and/or Vietnam…I ended up sitting somewhere else so I wouldn’t be overwhelmed by sadness at the sight of empty seats. Plus empty tables remind me of my freshman year. Not a pleasant thing to be remembering.
Today was officially their last day. There was this big assembly (that I got to skip because the band takes that time to practice for our graduation performance) and then the seniors went around to all their classes and got signed out so they could leave. Graduation is Friday. I have no doubt that I’ll get a little misty-eyed knowing I won’t be seeing the great majority of the seniors again. At least not every day. But on the bright side, I get to go to a graduation party on the 18th and they’ll probably all be there. That should be a fun party. Even if I’ll be dead tired because of an all-night lock-in the night before. Yeah. It’ll be even cooler if we play spoons with me in that condition. But I doubt I’ll be that tired. I mean, how bad can a lock-in with a bunch of hyper teenagers be? <–*famous last words*
You know you have too much country music on your computer when your “random” playlist of rock/jazz/ska/metal/country/pop music plays ten country songs in a row. I still can’t believe it did that. I didn’t think there was that much country on there. I mean, the list is four and a half hours long. How much country can there possibly be on there to play ten in a row? My computer has problems like that.
I also found out about another free webmail service, open to people who use AIM. I rarely do use it, but I have a screen name, so that was how I got in. Apparently Gmail made a big impression because AIM Mail gives you 2 GB free. Twice as much as Gmail (although Gmail is constantly increasing, I’ve had Gmail long enough to have 2 GB on it). I don’t foresee myself ever using AIM Mail, but it’s nice to have a mail service to use when I sign up for things so it gets all the spam. Like my Yahoo mail account…and my Mail.com account…and to a lesser extent my Hotmail account. But I get a lot of legit mail in Hotmail. But by far I also get the most “F.R.EE C.IA.LIS T.AB.S” and “M AK E H E R HA P PY” spam. I swear…
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Agh! I’m soooo tired. Yesterday was the all-day SJMEA rehearsal and concert (there was another rehearsal last Wednesday but only for two hours). Everything totaled up: I was away from home for 16 hours yesterday, and playing my clarinet for 10 of them. No wonder my lips are so chapped. The concert went very well though. As an added bonus, I had to get to school at 7:00 (a half-hour earlier than usual) for an AP Chemistry lab which was moved to Wednesday but I didn’t know because they decided it while I was at SJMEA. So I have to wake up early to get to school early tomorrow. Man, I’m so wasted now. Plus I have monster amounts of homework that I missed Monday. On the up side, I got me some more country CDs. But what really bums me out is that at the latest count, Bush had 34 electoral votes, and Kerry had 3. Not good. Of course that’s only MSNBC’s projection. And Kerry only has so few votes because the only state he’s won so far is Vermont. I sure hope he wins. Bush had his chance. Normally, I’d go on a liberal rant about the evils of the right-wing and how Bush is evil, blah blah blah, but I won’t because I don’t think the right is evil. Only semi-demonic.
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Wow. It’s sure been a while since my last post/rant/rave whatever. Eh, you guys survived without me for a few days. Right? Guys? Hello?! I’m all alone!!!! Okay, back to the real world. Anybody reading this (yes, that means you sitting at the keyboard) should go visit Omega Syndrome (future Cody’s note: this site is, unfortunately, no longer in existence). Awesome site. Hilarious webcomic. The dude does all the drawings. You have to admit, once you’ve seen them, that they’re pretty awesome. In other news, I created yet another website. It’s still in the design stage, but I decided to publish it prematurely. So now I have a Star Wars site with a cheesy “welcome” GIF and a weird pic of people holding hands. Gotta work on that later. That is, when Tripod starts acting nice…but in case you wanted to see the site now (funny stuff on it) visit http://grandmoff01.tripod.com. And now for something completely different. Yesterday a Navy rock band (yes, there is such a thing, 11 such things actually) visited my high school and played some Top 40 stuff. They played everything from Hoobastank’s “The Reason” to “Redneck Woman.” Fun times. Today I took the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. It’s this test to see what areas of expertise you’re good in and then (I presume) they give you a list of military and civilian careers you’d be good at. They’d better not tell me to be a medical technician like the last time I did something like this…
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