JACKMAN

Yesterday was Friday. This is always a good thing. Always. School was blah as usual and was the final last day for any senior. No more Aerin. No more "Harry". Ever. Moving on, that night Hillary and I had a joyous time viewing VanHelsing for $3 at the Palace Cinema. Afterward we took Molly out on break to Taco Bell, then Hills and I traveled back to her house so she could use her breathing machine. What fun. Today is Saturday. This morning I woke up quite early to prepare for my niece Becca's graduation from Rhodes. It was a lovely ceremony, and I sped Eastward to change and grab my guitar. I am pulling out of the driveway and I suddenly get a call from Aerin requesting tuna fish. After strategically picking up Molly from her busy White Station house, we made our way to Kroger. Tuna: check. We were at Aerin's for the end of the year Speech and Drama party. For the first hour or so not many people were there. Eventually more came and I got to say a well earned goodbye to some of my favorite seniors including Jenny Fitts and Kristen Herrada. I was forced to leave early to go to a guitar lesson. It was a good one though. I introduced Eddie to the Foo Fighters and he was quite impressed. Currently I am waiting for Blake to pick me up and take me a' ad selling. He is on Yearbook staff for next year and must have a certain number presold by Monday. Oh! I almost forgot. In Aerin's yearbook I signed a sincere sweet little note commenting on how much I loved her, and how high school would never be the same again. I ended it with a P.S. jizmopper. This truly Freak Engine phrase sums up our friendship and so I will leave you with this, in tribute to our new Tiger High freshman.

More and More Rain

Coming home from school today down Poplar was pure and utter hell. It was pouring so fiercely that I could barely see out of the window, even with the wipers going full speed. I some how made it home safely though. Only an hour later I was off again to Rachel Edleman's house for a good old fashion indoor Facing History cookout. It was supposedly a goodbye get-together for senior, although only one showed (Miss Olivia Hine). Mostly freshman were there, a few juniors, and I was the only sophomore for over an hour, until Alison Newman graced us with her presence. Karolina and I chatted about the announcements which was good to have out of the way. Rachel's father cooked us burgers on the grill, and after the rain stopped we went outside on the deck. I forgot to mention that Rachel lives directly next door to my sister Lynny. I explained the always fun story of how Laylee is my niece, and then we moved on to more interesting topics (i.e. Greg Burhnam and Jackie Douglas: Rachel claims Jackie does like him, while Karolina, Jackie's best friend isn't as sure.) Although I was having fun, I decided to leave a good 15 minutes early to make sure I was home long enough to give myself time not to do my homework. Today was positively the worst school day ever. It was long, boring, hard, and worst of all, I was unprepared for almost every class. I did get some quality locker cleaning in during Biology though. It's right next to Ms. Tate's door, so she was cool with it all. Last night I took Jason home again and didn't really get lost. I was very proud of myself. I saw Molly's prom pictures today. She looked SO beautiful! Kevin Rodgers and Lindsey Caldwell looked short and sweaty, and Emily Spangler looked perfect as usually next to an ecstatic looking Joseph Williams. Davis and Lindy looked warm (and probably drunk) but happy. Hopefully next year I will be there with a handsome date dancing the night away with all my peers. I refuse to go alone though. I would feel like such a loser. I would go with a group of friends though. Speaking of friends, Blake is still convinced Ms. Reagan hates him. I am beginning to think he is right. She might hate me too! I still haven't told her that I have chosen to be a Thespian officer though. Dreading it, but waiting until the inductions this Saturday at the party, probably won't make her any more happy. Oh well. Tata for now -S

Rain

It is raining outside as I sit and type this. Jason is in my back yard doing yard work for my mother in the rain. We now have seven days of school left. ARGH!!! I am ooh so ready, as I know all of you are. Today we had an awards program. I won an excellence in performing arts award, or something to that effect. It was photo copied! Not even a real certificate, but I don't really mind. Russell was sad that none of the techies got any. He and Hannah skipped school yesterday apparently. They went to some ghetto girls house and smoked out. I am much much to chicken to skip school. I am definitely the type of person who gets caught. Hannah also called Leslie Little a slut today, which she might be, but it struck me as harsh and uncalled for. They weren't even near each other, as in Hannah went out of her way to insult her. Oh well. I woke up late this morning which really got things started on a bad foot. 6:40! I couldn't believe it. I had no time to take a shower, so I felt (and probably looked) disgusting all day. During the announcements Aerin told me her Saab blew up! Apparently the battery exploded. I'm thankful no one got hurt but it is kind of cool that now she gets to drive her mom's convertible. This wasn't her last day (she has to take some exams) however I'd like to take this moment to "tip my hat" to Rachael Strickland for being an amazing actress and producer, and never really seeming to like me that much. But no matter what troupe 1581 will miss her, seeing as how today was her last at WSHS. In Whitehead we watched Mr. Bean movies and I wanted to puke. Eventually I found myself mildly amused though. I tried to write in my little book that is black and has lyrics and poems and thoughts in it, but I was completely blank. I have been for a while. I haven't written a song in over two months. Things just haven't been very inspiring. I have to give myself some credit though. The last song I did write is an absolute masterpiece. My best musically yet, and not to shabby with the lyrics either. I am hearing rumors about Jackie Douglas and Greg Burhnam possibly hooking up. I think that it would be sweet, especially cause Greg is such a nice guy, but Jackie's little sister Katie (a freshman in my biology class) doesn't think this is likely. She claims her sister leads him on and is slightly annoyed by him. I saw them together with Whitney Camp and Evan Williams at Edo last Friday night though. I was there with Blake and Matt. Not much else to say. -S (P.S. Special thanks to Brett Hanover for the use of his photo of Hannah from his merchandise store "Brett and The Collective Boards of Education", which you can visit at http://www.cafeshops.com/bandthecbsofe. I highly recommend this humorous, yet pricey site.)

Welkommen!

Wow. It has been a long time sense I have had a blog. Two years to be exact. I just read over my old one, and it was really nice to have something to preserve memories from. I hope I will stay up to date with this. Tomorrow is the last day of school for seniors not taking exams. Unfortunately I am only a sophomore so this won't effect me much. However, my crush this semester (we call him Harry) will depart forever at 2:15 and hopefully never venture into my obsessive little mind again. Also, once the seniors are gone I will officially be an announcement staff producer! How cool is that? Very much so I think. Next year I will basically have to take orders from Karolina cause she is the boss, eldest, and been there longest; But my senior year I will be in control and can make things really cool and entertaining. I am more ready for summer than I am for next year though. I am trying to get through these last 10 days or so without failing and then I will be free! Today is May 11th. May 21 is our last day of school. It isn't that I plan on doing anything very fun this summer, but I still won't be in school. I got my drivers license almost three weeks ago so I will have plenty of freedom and opportunities this summer when I am not being forced to take drivers ed, get my wisdom teeth removed, or do volunteer work by my mother. I will also have to be doing AP work but maybe it won't be too bad. I haven't even read the assignment. Tonight I have discovered that I am a very needy and irritable, yet observant person. I guess it is good to understand yourself, but I just wish things in my life could being going differently. Maybe going somewhere instead of no where. There is literally nothing about my current reality that is really improving. I take that back. My music collection has an important addition as of yesterday. I bought The Foo Fighter's Color and the Shape. It is simply amazing. For any of you interested in the last months of my 8th grade year visit my old blog at http://wtfkenneth.blogspot.com.