Ok, don't have time to actually post, but I just found the three most hilarious movies in the world. here they are (watch them in this order, the first one has a different taste than the rest)

http://70.85.12.163/albino_flash02/end(www.albinoblacksheep.com).swf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5TswjQDLf8&eurl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaFm47lsL2g&eurl

okey dokey, time to go



cheers!

My grandparents' house

soo cool

and soo confusing

So I'm off to a youth group trip on Monday. That shall be quite cool...off to Staten Island...pretty coolio. Not totally sure what to expect, since the details are a little fuzzy, but whatever happens, it'll be a good experience.

In other news, I decided to go biking today. When I say biking, I mean BIKING. I spent the whole day biking into Boston, then around Boston, had some lunch, explored, then finally back home. Pretty much about 25 miles in total....COOLIO. My legs were a bit fatigued afterward. I like collapsed on my couch, but then went out to play a little volleyball later. What can I say? I just have endless energy. In any case, I try to never admit that I'm tired (even if I am).

So, yes, my right toe has officially worn through the bottom of my shoe. Very odd happening, seeing that I like just got these shoes, and the left one seems just fine. Hmmmmm....maybe I walk crooked.(?)

Just finished Rent. Such a good movie. Closest I've come to crying in a while (yes, I do [sometimes] cry from movies). It's those movies when you feel like you have some connection to that make them seem so good.

Songs are much coooooler, though. To be able to move somebody through lyrics and notes takes more skills than inveloping someone in the plot of a movie. Now I'm like obsessed with the song "Crazy", by Gnarls Barkley. Such good use of instruments, plus some interesting lyrics.

But, yeah, that pretty much wraps it up here. Such a boring (and amazingly unplanned) week to come. Maybe I can fill it with the things I've always waited to do. We'll see.

bye.

time to post

What is it? It's...something cool.

But, yeah, nothing new here. Just went to my LAST DAY OF SCHOOL. Got all my final scores. Crashed and burned. You know, the norm.

Heading off to go camping in a few days. (wow, actually, like, tomorrow!!!). Shall be interesting. Hope I don't get eaten by a bear.

OH YEAH, and I'm obsessed with this new song by Five for Fighting, called "The Riddle". It's mad crazy awesome, and everyone should get it.

Then it's off to Alaska. Spain would be much more cooler (and hotter), but my parents refuse to go, even though my graduating sister requested it.

Ah well, life is tough sometimes. The only thing that makes it tougher is thinking about it.

I shall be a Junior. Crazy, crazy.

more to come...

back to the pictures

(this one's pretty straight-foreward)


It's finally here. You know, I'll be posting about this for the next three months. It's finally summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm still in shock.
I have like...all the time in the world to do....everything (but I'll end up doing nothing)

I went after my last final (yay) to develop some photos, and it turns out I was doing it for like two hours. It was soooo fun. I managed to come up with four prints in those two hours (wow, I'm soooooo sloooowww), but I'm most definetly going to go tomorrow too (even though I'm not even going to be in school at all).

Today, went to the cemetary to give my frog friend in my backyard pond a few friends. I got a few awkward looks from the security guard, but it was all good. Three brand new (huge) tadpoles in my little backyard pond now. Coooooolll...

Then I came home and had the most awkward conversation on the phone...but then I went to Volleyball at the Y and BEASTED. It was crazy awesome (not to mention fun...yes, volleyball [finally] is fun)

listening to "Beautiful Love". Such an amazing song. Cool music video tooo...

Mwahhhh soo annoying... I've been looking foreward to this moment for soooo long, but now I know it'll be gone before I have time to really enjoy it. This Summer hurries to next year. High School hurries to College, 20's hurry to 40's. There's nothing you can do to stop it. When I was about 12, I began thinking, no matter what, we all are going to end up in the same place. Sort of scary, no matter how hard you try, no matter how strong you are, you can't escape that fate. So, why are we so scared of it if we can't avoid it? I guess it's the fear of not knowing what's around the corner. Ah well...

So, that's my philisophic thinking for the day.

I'm pretty tired, but seeing that I don't have school tomorrow, I can SLEEP IN!!!! Sweet. Can't think of anything else to write...so

bye

Sooooo...

It's finally SUMMMMMEEEERRRR

I've been waiting the whole year for this day (even though I still have a history final to take).

But today was such a miserable failure. I hate "scantron" tests, and I think I like failed my chem test. The Latin wasn't that hard, though. The hardest part was sitting through Ms. Carp lecturing/yelling at us. It was all fun, though. So, I think I did pretty well on that.

Today was super-hot. low 80's today, mid-to-high 80's tomorrow, and 90's on Sunday. So freaking seasonal. I love it.

Goin to the beach (hopefully) tomorrow. Then, next thing to look foreward to is goin back to school Thursday to see all my friends again. Then off to Summer it is.



I cant wait.


~Mike

really buisy

I gotta make this short, as I have two really tough finals tomorrow, one of which I haven't started studying for. So, yeah, like the past week has been so stressfull. This week, I've been saying to myself "you did the best you could" a lot. I usually promise myself that I'll do better next time, but I always end up doing worse. So, long story short, I think I didn't do too well on a few of my finals. Actually, I don't think I did great on any of them. I guess it shows my attitude that I've had this year... "I'll do better next time". Soooo....Chem and Latin tomorrow. I've gotta do well on them.

More to come later

...and it was all down-hill from there...

Graduation really sucks. Prom and hummer-limos are wicked awesome.

It evens out.

Ok, so not any pictures this time, but I should be makin some on Thursday, so that'll be gooood...

In other news, I've had an exciting weekend. Ok, so if sister graduating/grandparents coming up isn't enough, I went to the boys, regional semi-final volleyball game on Saturday. We weren't supposed to win this game, since we won like half our games and lost like half our games, and the other team had been like undefeated the whole season... but somehow we managed to pull it off. Wow, just thinking about how angry the other team must have been at themselve makes me laugh. So, now, we're on to regional finals... (another team who is about the same ranking as the one we just beat)... and it shall be exciting, except for the fact that I can't go because it's like 2 hours away and I'm having dinner w/ the grandparents (wow ranting...)

Sooo....that'll be exciting.

I went on a very long run today, the longest since I ended indoor track. Running is so relaxing. Seven mile runs are like wicked easy if you just have a positive attitude. Running just gets me in such a good mood too. Idk, running can be very painful at times, but it's well worth the pain that you have to go through. Words can’t describe it. It’s just so peaceful and fun/relaxing.


I can't wait until the Summmmmmer..... only 2 weeks left.

wow, the moon's out...

bye

and another...
I have to admit, I did use a bit of computer editing/cropping for this one. The picture's a little dark and hard to understand, but it was one that I took at night with a really long exposure on my tripod. It's pretty cool, but a little hard to see. The actual picture (vs. what it looks like scanned in) is a lot cooler than what it looks like. I'm running low on pictures, as this is my last semi-good one that I have developed so far. I've gotta go in and develop some more.

I think I'm stuck in one of those moments when I can't stop thinking every song is describing my life. You know, that warmth that you feel when you can connect a song..or poem...or something when it parallels your life. It's pretty sad, because maybe these songs are making me feel this way. Maybe I listen to these songs so much that I get stuck basing my life around them. I don't know. Whatever.

Can't think of what else to write.....
My day:
6:30-wake up
7:30-off to school
8:30-Finishing and failing (more like acing) a math test
9:30-Forced torture with in-class English paper
10:30-Chemistry class- thinking about how I'm gonna fail the SAT II's tomorrow
11:30-Refuel for the rest of the day (lunch)
12:30-Zoning out in Spanish... "Mike...que significa exito para ti?" *stares*
1:30-Latin...in the INTERNATIONAL CAFE... the best (or at least coldest) place in our school
2:30-5:30...Stupid SAT II prep test w/ my chem teacher
5:30-9:15...worryin...thinkin...beggining a stuuupid movie...then here

wow....not like anyone needed to know that...

but the question remains... “¿que significa éxito para ti?”

bye

I am who *you* want me to be (I try too hard to be that person)

Here's another...

(of a tree)

Ok, so SAT II's on Saturday (I'm gonna die), but then it's all down-hill from there. What will happen will happen, and I can't change that. A wicked small amount of homework this week, but I've been procrastinating soo much. So it all evens out. now gotta go work on my homework.

(btw, the title has been like my life for the past 3 years)
(if anyone can understand it)

Ok, so this one's just frustrating. I thought it would be a good picture, and everyone told me it was going to be a good picture (including the teacher) when they saw the "contact sheet" (aka, little tiny print) of it. But it's just frustrating, and didn't come out the way I wanted it to. Whatevs.

I'm thinking...not much else to say.

Ah well, goodbye (+goodnight) for now

~Mike

Yet again...

I actually just made a print of this one. It's pretty cool, but barely worth it for the like 45 minutes of labor it took me to get it just right. But the product is pretty cool. If you can't tell what it is, it's a few pennys sitting in snow. It took me like way too long to set this one up, too. I think the pennies are still sitting outside on the table on my deck. Wow.

Wayyy too tired. Goin to the beach tomorra... shall be fun... it'll be really warm, too, which will be awesome.

~Mike

and again...

This one was taken a few months ago (right before christmas)

Wow, my pictures come out horribly when you scan them in. It's soooo annoying.

Well, anyways, just decided to post pics. Way too tired/lazy to write much more. Well, maybe just a little more.

It's quite funny how everyone else in the Sophmore class reacts to the graduating Seniors, vs. how I react. Everyone else is sooo mad at them 'cause they get to gooooo....and like have an extra long summer. I'm just sitting quietly in the corner, chuckling to myself, thinking how terrifying it will be for them once they're graduating seniors. I'll laugh when they realize the bulk of their lives isn't in the future, but instead it is now. In a few years there will be no more safety net. No one looking out for you like your parents did. I don't really care what the others think. I admit it. I'm scared of going to college.

~Mike

As promised...

(my sister)

I'm rapidly improving from my sickness that I attained a few days ago. I can actually think now. Had MCAS today. Mad easy. They made it like so the lowest curriculum level had a really good chance at passing, so for me, in curriculum I, it was really easy. Like order of operations easy. Then I had way too much time afterwards. Everyone else brought a book except for me. And, yeah, while killing time, I made up this quote and now am determined to write it on every desk that I sit at.

"The mind is a book worth a million pages"

I'm such a loser. Oh well, at least I'm an intelligent loser.

But, yeah, my stupid chem (SAT II prep) class was so freaking boring. Sat around thinking about how much I'm gonna fail this test. Whatevs. I am only limited by the invisible barriers my mind sets. But still, I'm screwed. "520" was my score on one of the "practice" tests. Whatever. Someone drew a really crazy good picture of Einstein on the board, and that was pretty much the highlight of the last five hours of my life.

Soooo... more MCAS tomorrow...sister graduating in like a few days...summer in like a few weeks...sister goes to college in like a few months...I'm headed off there in a few years.

Wow, how time flies.

~Mike

Ok, it's been a long day. I'm so freaking sick. I can barely talk. Soooo... Volleyball season is coming to a close, and i'm sorta happy, sorta sad, 'cause there's many things I'll miss about volleyball, but there's also the down-side of volleyball.

So, yeah, this year has gone by sooo fast. Yeah, above is one of the pictures that I took in like the beginning of the year, but it seems like i took it like soo recently. I bet you can't guess what the picture is of, though. I've been meaning to post a few of them, so now I have. There shall be more to come, but I'm just too lazy to scan them all in right now.

Soo, in other news, I just finished watching the movie "Ice Harvest". Twas very interesting. It was like one of those movies where you had to pay attention, or else you would get like totally lost. And I didn't pay attention. It was still awesome though.

So, yeah, I've been watching a lot of movies and reading a lot of books recently that have like a ton of little metaphors that only the really close readers catch on to. I love finding all these little things, but sometimes I can't help but think that the author didn't mean to put them there, and I'm just finding random details that just happen to collaborate with each other to create a larger picture. I don't know. It sometimes happens in real life too.

But, yeah... uhm.... my throat is really killing me right now, so I better get some sleep.

I DONT WANT TO BE SICK FOR THE MCAS (like I was last time)

~Mike

what I feel like doing right now

First of all (before I forget) Just wanted to let y'all know, I'm officially on myspace-
http://www.myspace.com/whitefrog898

but, yeah, I've decided the movie "Animal House" is awesome. Saw it the other day, and Kent Dorfman is not a very good representative of me. The movie was so freakin old, though. I hate old movies for some reason.

But, yeah, I've just spent like an hour signing up for myspace, and now I'm one of those losers that like relies on myspace for like all their social interactions. Whatevs, I could have spent that hour doing some of my endless homework, but what's the point if I know I'm going to get the same grade no matter whether I work hard or not.

I'm so freakin dead 'cause I have to read this scripture thing in church tomorrow, and I haven't even gone through it once so far. I'll probably like fall asleep halfway through reading it. Ah well. I'm a good reader.

I'm like half asleep as it is, so I guess I probably should either practice my reading thing or go to sleep...(or do my homework)...

...I hope I make it through this year in one part...

~Mike

Ok, so the last few days (or rather the last week) have been stressful. Sooo much with sports, school, and chem sat 2.

So, yeah, pretty much, I'm headed to JV (as opposed to JV2), and I may be starting. But, yeah, today it really was annoying that the coach told me that I was going to play, but it really turned out that he didn't have room to have me play. So, they didn't have a JV2, so I basically sat on the bench the whole time, waiting nervously for my time to play. But, the coach never put me in, and I ended up wasting my Friday afternoon in some high school in Needham. I know it sounds pretty pathetic to barely be starting on JV, but w/e. Large schools and small teams really suck. And it doesn't help that I'm only mediocre at volleyball. I really would rather do track (or, rather, I'm much better at track).

But, school's been stressfullissssimo too. I've had an unimaginable amount of homework the past week. Been up studying till like 12:30 each night, and right now (at 10:20) my eyelids are already beginning to droop.

And so, goin on the walk for hunger on Sunday. Haven't raised any money or gotten any sponsers so far. Oh well, my parents will give a good 50 dollars, so I don't have to worry about it.

But, yeah. I'm just fine, and beginning to think I'm actually gonna survive this year. wow. Once I finish this year, I'm halfway to college. Once I'm in college, I'm on my own, self-sustaining, self-motivating. I'm really screwed, but I'll get better in 2 years.

Soo... my eyelids are closing now.
Byebye
~Mike

I've been thinking. The truth is I can’t remember her that much anymore. Those summer days at my house, when it was such a treat to have them over here from California. I can even remember the time when we visited them on our welcome back visit once they came back from Japan. The loud noises of a naval port still ring in my ears which my Uncle worked at. The bustling environment never distracting from the fun I was having with my rarely-seen cousins.

Everything I can remember about her seems like foggy movie I can only partially visualize. I can see us lying on the floor, laughing for at least ten minutes straight. We sure did have fun that day. I remember taking turns jumping off her bunk bed, giggling at the grumpy neighbor downstairs yelling at us to be quiet. She was like a silent giant. She wasn’t an adult, and she wasn’t a kid, but she sure was someone to look up to. I remember a day when I could see this teenager clearly. I could remember all the time I spent with her. I remember the day that both my parents came to pick me up from school. That day my parents took me and my sister into the living room after school to talk with us. That day, I learned from my teary-eyed parents that I will have to hold onto those memories tightly. That day, I learned that the fragile life of my beloved cousin had been cut short by a thick tree next to a windy road.
Even the memories that I find most important have slipped away over time.

~Mike

Good news. I passed my driver's test. Just a hint of advice for anyone who is planning on taking their test any time in the future. Never ask the policeman how to put the car in drive.

So I got up at like 6:18 in the morning, after my alarm clock failed to go off. I figured I had plenty of time before I would actually be taking my test, so I wasn't really worried at that point. Then, all the sudden (it seemed like five minutes after I got up), I was standing outside in the cold with a group of shivering, nervous teenagers. Ok, so maybe I was the only one who was nervous. Cams auto school is a scam. They charge you to wake up at six fifteen on a Saturday morning, and they make you stand outside in the freezing cold and wait for several hours to for the stupid test when I could have just taken it after school some day like everyone else at the RMV. But anyways, there I was, standing next to a bunch of people I dont know. I was expecting to have to wait another hour or so before I was actually taking my test, so I sort of relaxed and zoned out.

Then, all the sudden, they were yelling my name, and I jumped in the car before I could get nervous. I started the car, adjusted the mirrors, and all the little things you have to do before you start driving, but then I couldn't figure it out. I didn't know how to put the car in drive because I was used to having the shifter in the center, whereas this car had it next to the driving wheel. So I asked the policeman, "how do you put it in dri..."

She gave me this look. I won't ever forget that look. If taking a drivers test was skating on thin ice, I heard the ice crack beneath my skates. She could have failed me there, but no. I didn't finish the sentence. I gave it another try and made it. From then on, I knew I was going to pass the test. How stupider could I get than not putting the car in drive. So I passed it. Now I'm an adult. Or at least more of an adult than I was before.


~Mike