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Every End Forges A New Beginning

2007-05-27T07:49:24Z

My life for the past four years is over. I came to St Johns not knowing what to expect, and ended getting exactly what I wanted which was a great group of friends, quality education, and sense of belonging. I met a ton of people that I won't forget, whether its because I don't want to, or I just wouldn't be able to. Thursday was bittersweet, its the only word that can really be used. Everyone was celebrating at the end of the day running around the parking lot, through the hallways, but in my head I was just thinking about how I'm not going to see a lot of my friends anymore and its the last time I'll really see them on a day to day basis. I know I'll stay friends with "the bros" and try to with a select few other people, but things like seeing the people at my lunch table who I've gotten used to talking to this year (Cara+Jackee shoutout) its less than likely that I'm going to bump into on a regular basis.

I'm already missing lacrosse, I don't know what to do with myself knowing its all over; I have a meeting to clean out my locker tuesday afternoon and I'll have to say goodbye to my coach. Whether he realizes or not he's taught me a lot, and not just about lacrosse. Every once in awhile you get someone that pushes you to your edge and he has been that guy for me at St Johns. Sophomore year he pulled me up to varsity but I didn't get to play and was frustrated and injured. Junior year I lost my starting job because of interferences with other stuff, not knowing when to keep my mouth shut and just listen, and being consistently unreliable. This aggravated the hell out of me, but it drove me to improve. I learned not to talk back, or make excuses, but listen. It gave me an extreme motivation to improve; I started working out almost immediately after my junior year, became highly motivated to play hard all through the summer. Then in the fall I had to go to a tournament and I threw up for the first time I'd ever done in lacrosse, and my coach thought "here we go again". I played the next game, and the entire day was "lights out" and ended up getting scouted by a few college coaches. I pushed myself the entire time, throughout the entire season, and I'm proud of what I managed to do. Now my coach is trying to get me to tryout for the team at Loyola, and even though I don't want to maybe its just another way he's pushing me to improve myself to more than I already have.

I'm going to miss some of my teachers. Ms Clarke is the greatest thing to ever happen to education. Before her class I had my opinions about things, but was shell shocked by freshman year history. Ms Clarke allowed me to think and speak freely and really allowed me to grow intellectually. She was without a doubt my favorite teacher, and I know a lot of others. Mr Clancy, he's the man, although he seems like he doesn't know what he's doing, he still does. Bosco and I have had fun teasing him about politics, and he's always been interesting with mock trial and his watch. Mr Deak, I can't say enough for Mr Deak, for someone who is a gym teacher you wouldn't expect to learn a lot from him. After having him for gym and health, you don't learn a lot of knowledge based things but you learn about life. Mr Deak just lives his to have fun but to help others and be respectful, he's just a really high character guy, and funny too. I don't know if its possible to forgot his famous jokes, or his ceremonial presentation of the 3 C's.

Already it feels like summer has kicked off, and I'm sad that SJB is done, but its nice to have free time. Thursday night after school I went to IHOP with the bros and ran into 9000 other people and then we played frisbee in the patchouge move theater parking until Pirates of the Caribean was showing. The movie wasnt so great, but honestly anytime you have almost the entire extreme team together (just missing tscho) and you are at an event involving either pirates or ninjas then you know you are going to have fun. Then friday I hung out with Emily all day for her sisters birthday party. We were on the go karts and I was in first place pretty handidly and was trying to lap this 8 year old. So I take the inside lane and am trying to pass him when the kid decides he's going to cut me off. I rear ended him and he spun out on the track. Meanwhile as this is going on Emilys parents are right there like watching me make an ass out of myself by hitting an 8 year old just so I can lap him. It was a good day overall.

Then today I woke up took a shower, watched the lacrosse final 4 on espn 2 for a little and then headed over to flaims. I went to flaims to help him shovel dirt out of his driveway along with larry. We ended up going out to lunch at quiznos which hit the spot, and I drank 2 sobes which are very good but expensive. Then we went back to his house and I got paid for doing the work which was nice. After that I went home to shower and we ended up heading to Robert Moses to play frisbee with the addition of tscho. We are on the beach throwing it around and decide its too windy, and as we are leaving Flaim gets hit on by some drunk girl on the beach who was decent looking. She seems to have thought he was older, but he told her he was 17 and she was like oh I'm 21, which didn't stop her from asking for his number anyway. It was pretty funny. Then we went to Massapequa to continue our frisbee under the lights at this park. We throw it around for awhile and it was pretty fun, besides tscho ramming into me. After that we went to all american which was quality, they have amazing shakes, I was trying to down it but you really can't it takes time. After that we headed on our way home. After dropping Flaim off and on my way to drop Tscho off we get stuck behind this mercedes convertible which is going 30 mph in a 40 mph zone on montauk hwy. So I tell tscho its pretty annoying and he is like "oh hey look at the guys license plate" so I take a gander to see that it reads "buds 4 u" which is a reference to a budweiser commerical. Then we notice the car is swerving all over the road but still aren't positive that its a drunk driver. We then reach a stoplight which was red way ahead of time, and the guy had such a slow reaction time that his back wheels were on the white line where you are suppose to have stopped by. It was really funny to see a drunk driver with that license plate, its like asking to get owned by a cop. I dropped Tscho off then called Emily up just to see what she was doing and she told me to come over and watch Kill Bill with her, her friend Sarah and Sarah's boyfriend Dylan. I end up going over there and watching Kill Bill volume 1 and 2 because they were both on TBS. As I'm leaving her house it was really funny because some random guys were on the street and saw me leaving and were like "woohooo somebody just got some" meanwhile we were just trying to be really quiet so we didn't wake anyone up.

Even though I'm sad there is no more St Johns as I know it, the end of school has kicked off the beginning to what is looking to be a great summer.

Trogdor

2007-04-08T17:27:08Z

I haven't updated this thing in awhile. Anyway I think I've decided that I'm going to go to Loyola, which I sort of knew all along but the cost thing really does suck. I just have to figure out a way to break it to my dad now, even though he completely messed up sending out the CSS profile so he can go suck it. Besides that I've been addicted to Guitar Hero since I got it. Its just so good, and a nice mix up from the shooter games I've been playing lately. The achievements for it are nearly impossible though, well at least a good amount of them. I have most of the easy ones. Other than that I got to see Emily a lot this week, which was a nice change since I don't get to see her that often, and next week I am gonna be chillen with the bros a lot and maybe hang out with Lauren for the first time in awhile.

Does anyone else find it funny that there is a facebook group of SJB students against Darfur now? Can people ever make up their minds for themselves or do they need to be spoon fed issues that they should be against. Darfur isn't really something you can help with besides military intervention, which the speaker from NYU failed to realize. Tscho was about to smoke him when he said "Well we need to push for international pressure from countries like China etc" and say "well you do realize thats failed in Iraq, Iran, North Korea and basically anyone else you can think of" but then he took another one of Angelo's questions. I can't stand the political activism that goes on in SJB, if you want to let things like "lets save darfur" go on, then you should let the students present the counter arguement instead of shoving a presentation down our throats. Not that I support rebuilding New Orleans because its a huge waste of money, but how about the arguement that we should be spending money on our own people instead of some random Africans. Everyone wants to be the hero and promote some sort of action for something, but what they fail to realize is how futile their attempts are most of the time. Darfur being the perfect example, where aid workers are leaving because of the extreme danger of the job; the only way to stop the violence there is military intervention. Unfortunately people don't like war to fix genocide, or persecution; just look at how opposed everyone is to Iraq.

Mono

2007-03-11T22:35:23Z

For the past three weeks or so I've been self contained with mono. I haven't been able to really see anyone, or do anything until quite recently since I've been feeling better. Yesterday Emily stopped by and gave me a care package full of all sorts of random stuff. It was really nice and made me laugh, I don't know how your not suppose to laugh when you get one of those windmill type things you blow on that spins and it says "happy easter" on it. I was really happy I got to see her and it made me feel a lot better because I finally got some outside contact after three weeks. I also got to see some of the bros because they were shooting a video for English class. I don't want to ruin too much, but I make a syphilis cameo in the film. I think I'm going to be back in school sometime this week, probably Wednesday or something. Now begins the great race to catch up in my work, and then get back into lacrosse full swing. W00T. Now lets hope I don't crash and burn and make things worse.

The Other Side of the Crash

2007-02-03T20:56:20Z

Well after complaining about the halfway through the year thing, things have been going well. Things with Emily are really good, today I got accepted to Salisbury (Now I have to go visit), tonight I'm chillen with the bros, monday I won't have sports medicine anymore. I'm in one of those moods today where you just listen to TBS-Tell All Your Friends and Brand New-Your Favorite Weapon. Which is a solid mood. Oh did I mention the super bowl is tomorrow? I'll get to meet a certain persons two moms for the first time.

Anyway I'm really glad I got accepted into Salisbury because it was my backup, and if I didn't get in there I would've been pretty screwed. Their acceptance letter came in a small envelope, but I wasn't really shocked I kinda figured I must be getting in. Now I don't have to worry about ever going to suffolk community college, especially considering Salisbury is pretty inexpensive. February break is going to be pretty packed with road trips checking out Salisbury, Geneseo, and Binghamton. Apparently Binghamton is like Stony Brook upstate, which might make me shoot myself.

Kyle's on his way here to pick me up to go get some Pretzels, so I'm gonna peace it.

BTW SJB owned St A's in basketball.

Half the Year is Over

2007-01-30T20:57:12Z

Half of my senior year is over now. It's pretty odd to think that soon enough I'll know where I'm going to school next year, be in possibly my final year of playing lacrosse ever, and graduating. Senior year is a lot more stressful than its made out to be, I had this impression that teachers would be like "oh you're seniors, we're not gonna give out homework" in my classes that weren't honors or AP, but that didn't really happen at all. Teachers run their classes how they want to, which sucks sometimes because they ignore the needs of the students.

My second semester is looking on the upside with my new classes. The only thing that is kind of a downer is that I decided Mock Trial was a bit too much at the moment, so I'm not gonna take a part in it this year, I think I'm still gonna try to help out and go to meetings and stuff, but competing is out. Its a bit of a relief I don't have to memorize anything. Another downer is my new lunch, there isn't anybody in it. I mean I like my table with Jackee, Cara, Riley etc and its interesting to say the least (Jackee being on acid, and Cara talking to people halfway across the cafeteria) but it seems Extreme Team members are in every other lunch period besides mine.

I have one more application to do which I'm getting done tonight, then I just play the waiting game. Apparently I'll hear from Geneseo by March 1st which is good, out of the NY State schools thats the only one I'd probably seriously think about. I really want to go to Loyola, but I don't know about loans, it seems like a huge responsibility. I still need to go look at Salisbury, Geneseo, and Binghamton.

Tomorrow is a Wednesday, worst day of the week. Argh. I can't wait for the weekend.

Boom Headshot

2007-01-19T21:12:08Z

I haven't really written in this thing all that much as of late, but I'm finally kinda in the mood to do a recap. Today I had off from school because I didn't have a midterm, so last night me and some of the bros went and finally got All American. I have to say it was a pretty solid experience. The car ride was pretty funny as all we did was make Flaim's sister feel uncomfortable and crack other inappropriate jokes. Then we went back to Flaim's and watched some Futurama. I got home watched "Papa Bear" O'Riley on Colbert, which could've been funnier. After that I went and played some Gears of War; I'm getting pretty good at that now.

As for the rest of the weekend schoolwork wise I need to get my Bentley Application done and over with, also my sociology midterm essay should be at least started. Tonight I think the bros are coming over here to play some Badminton, Saturday I'm hanging out with Emily (4 months as of tomorrow), and then Sunday my plans are up in the air, but it'll probably involve some playoff football watching and some of that HW I should be doing. I probably won't do the HW part though.

Anyway, laterz

By Popular Request

2007-01-13T04:53:56Z

Here is the essay on "Why Women Should Not Have the Right to Vote":

There are many noticeable differences between men and women. Some of these differences are psychological and emotional. Women tend to be more sensitive, using their impulses, intuitions, and emotional biases to make decisions. Men on the other hand, are more pragmatic in their decision making process; using rational thought and logic, not emotions. In order to have a smoothly running society with the best interest of the nation as a whole in mind, it is a necessity to have only those capable of making calm rational decisions running the country; women have been proven to have more emotional attachments. One such microcosm of this can be seen during the days after Pearl Harbor. The only senator to vote against the war was a woman, Jeannette Rankin who still held her pacifist views instead of focusing on the defense of the country. Women not only act differently, but think differently in comparison to men. Men have greater abilities with spatial reasoning. While women find strength in language, they are unable to contend with men in the fields of logical thinking. These are just some of the reasons women should not have the right to vote.
When the founding fathers, some of the brightest minds in our nations great history, drafted the constitution they wrote “all men are created equal” with a purpose; not the “all men and women are created equal” mentality that is in American society today. This is not to say they didn’t respect and understand women such as their wives, but they knew they were incapable of the same achievement as men. What is meant by achievement? Women were not at the same economic, scientific, or intellectual level as men of the time. Although some may contend otherwise, this has still not changed today.
Two recent studies have suggested that women in both the United States and Great Britain are on average 5 IQ points lower than their counterparts, men. The studies also show that at levels associated with genius at 155 IQ points that there were are up to 5.5 men per women. The suggested intelligence difference has been in part the reason women are unable to move up the corporate ladder, leading them to have a small economic role, and even less economic importance. The “glass ceiling” effect as it has been dubbed is not a result of bias, but of women’s personal parameters which most cannot overcome.
It is important for those who vote to be economically significant. Lenin once said “Politically institutions are a super structure built on an economic foundation.” Without having those most heavily involved in the dealings of the economy running the government, there is no basis for the government to even exist. Things such as social welfare programs and other emotionally based government institutions raise taxes and add to debt; threatening the economic infrastructure of the United States. Such institutions did not exist before woman’s suffrage. Economically since the introduction of women’s suffrage the United States has had a great depression, massive inflation during the Carter administration, and the highest national deficit ever. These economic problems are symptomatic of an unhealthy economy and indicate the need to change women having the right to vote, for the good of the country.
There is good reason that in the phrase “Behind every good man, there is a good woman” that the woman is not in front. There are obvious nuances between the sexes, although considered cruel by some; women come out on the short end of the stick when it comes to politics. Not only due to the fact of their lack of economic importance, but that on the whole women are less intelligent, and incapable of rational not emotional thinking. These faults of women present a clear and present danger to the institution of government, and demand that women not have the right to vote any longer.

Its Okay Im A Ninja

2006-12-24T07:01:32Z

Yesterday was amazing, but today was no good. Why you ask? Because Bono was granted knighthood. What kind of sacrilege is this? To put Bono on the level of Sean Connery is preposterous.

"The British Embassy in Dublin takes great pleasure in announcing that Her Majesty The Queen has appointed Bono to be an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to the music industry and for his humanitarian work," according to an embassy news release.

The British ambassador to Ireland, David Reddaway, is to give Bono -- a member of the rock group U2 -- an "insignia of this honorary award" after New Year's in a ceremony in the Irish capital.

The embassy pointed out that titles such as "Sir" or "Dame" do not come with such honorary awards, "conferred on citizens of countries of which The Queen is not Head of State."

Bono does not deserve anything less than a public tar and feathering. He chooses to champion horrific causes, and does not bring money but "awareness". Like the unneeded awareness for the G8 summit on forgiving African debt by having a concert; meanwhile the world leaders had already reached an arrangement months before the actual meeting and concert that agreed to those exact terms. This is a travesty to the institution of knighthood. Further proof that women should not be in charge of any crucial decision making, as the queen of england obviously does not know what shes doing.

Belligerent

2006-12-15T06:45:59Z

I haven't been this angry since sophomore year. Nobody is allowed to make my any of my friends feel like crap. If someone gives you their heart, you don't step on it, even if you don't want it. There are more mature ways of going about things than that. I think I'm going to write my definition essay on what it means to be a coward. Thats the one word that is sticking out in my mind right now. Take responsibility for your own actions, don't belittle others. As much as I hate the bible, the morning prayer the other day was pretty insightful "don't be so quick to point out the tiny splinter in another's eye, while you can not see the plank of wood that is in your own". You managed to say exactly the wrong things, to the wrong person, at the wrong time, and in the wrong manner. I hope tomorrow goes smoothly, I'm ready to flip out.

Love is the Province of the Brave

2006-11-25T20:07:42Z

Things have been going awesome lately. The only thing I have any annoyance or stress involved with is college applications and homework. The day before Thanksgiving the extreme team came over and played some FIFA World Cup, then we went to IHOP. Tried to go see the new Bond movie but that didn't work out. Thanksgiving I ended up at my aunt's house like I always do. As always it was boring, there isn't much to do at my aunt's house because it's in the middle of nowhere and the layout of the house kinda sucks. Then yesterday I went to the Sayville football game with Emily, Christina, Sarah, and some random kid whose name I don't remember and I feel bad about it now. Sayville won big vs Bethpage who wasn't that good. Then we went to Christina's and watched the Derrick Comedy videos, cruised for a few, and Emily came over. I've been half writing this entry for hours now so I'm just gonna submit it.

Lights Out

2006-11-20T00:32:31Z

Thats how I played today apparently. I haven't played so well in forever, I had a couple of people scouting me and some guy even came over to talk to my coach about me but I don't know what school. Apparently he was "loving my shit" and was asking what grade I'm in etc. I know I'm good but I always seemed to get overlooked I guess and today that just didn't happen. Its the first time I know for sure I've had a coach interested in me, as opposed to the other way around. It was pretty cool, my coach talked to me after the whole thing was over and was like "I needed to see something from you today, and you completely exceeded my expectations. You played unconscious." If you've ever seen the movie old school where Will Ferrel owns in the debate, it was like that.

This weekend has been pretty good overall. Friday Sayville football won 28-24 in a close game, and I almost got killed by Christina who is a terrible driver but I survived. Then Saturday I went to the arboretum with Emily which was interesting. Some of it is pretty cool, I didn't like the house though. I wasn't aware it was actually a park, I was under the impression it was just a ton of trees. Ate over her house which was good. After that I went home got dressed real fast and headed over to Chelsea's sweet 16. It wasn't necessarily my type of scene, but it was alright. Got to see some Flaim fat pictures which he was quite embarrassed about. Went home, went to bed, went to lax which brings me back to the beginning of this blog entry.

Rabble

2006-11-14T21:04:56Z

I went on a college visit this past weekend. First up was Loyola which was amazing. The campus is awesome, the dorms are awesome, the business school is brand new, and the tour guide was funny. The whole college seems very comfortable. Catholic was hell on earth. I left before taking the tour thats how bad it was. They whole presentation was very contrived, and the administration was terrible. James Madison was nice, clean, but nothing really stuck out about it besides it has an amazingly large campus. Good business school though. Anyway I'm not updating this thing enough so I'll try to make a conscience effort to do so.

Oh and I gots mad pibb from the dirty south. Pibb>Dr Pepper

Stop Stalling Me

2006-11-03T03:32:57Z

Haven't updated this thing genuinely in quite some time. Recap of tonights events and a preview of my weekend. Tonight I went to go see Emily's play "You Can't Take It With You" which was much much better than the prior Sayville production I saw "Arsenic and Old Lace". Basically the cast did a pretty decent job and at least made the not super amazing script workable. That and I was busy trying to find little funny jokes within the play itself that you don't necessarily pick up on without paying close attention. I only found two though. Then I got to see Emily after the play for a little which was good, and meet a bunch of random kids.

For the weekend friday night is Borat finally. That movie is going to be amazing. Saturday I'm going out with Emily all day, doing I don't know what yet. At night I'm gonna go see Rocky Horror with Flaim, unless our car breaks down on the border of Mexico. In which case Samm will kill us most likely. Then Sunday I have drivers ed in the morning, and Lacrosse practice in the afternoon. Mixed with some football game watching hopefully.

By the way Jackee I have no clue what you are talking about. If you're gonna name drop me, at least make it obvious why.

Did I mention my girlfriend is amazing?

Descriptive Essay

2006-10-26T01:49:18Z

You walk into a room full of people all mingling and associating with each other. Someone catches your eye, and it’s not the tall in shape person you might be imagining. Standing at 5’5 130 pounds with dark curly hair is a guy hunched over on his crutches with a gaping smile; and you know right away that this is someone who you won’t forget.
Sean despite his size is the biggest person I know. Sean Hughes was born on May 1st, 1985. Right from the start he was faced with daunting challenges, and faced them with incredible derring do. Sean was born with cerebral palsy. The brain disease has set parameters on Sean throughout his life in both his physical, social, and intellectual abilities.
During the first few weeks of his life several doctors kept telling my parents Sean would die. Taken to see neurological specialists in the city, he was given a second chance. He was diagnosed with a special type of cerebral palsy, and is currently in medical books today as a special case study for the way in which his brain was affected, and needed to be operated on. Coming close to death on numerous occasions during his brain surgeries or in the early days right after birth; even given last rights by a priest at one point Sean never gave up. With the circumstances he was born into, and overcame Sean established himself as unique as his brain dysfunction, and an unrelenting fighter.
During his elementary school years Sean attended Sunrise Drive Elementary School in Sayville. During this time period he further developed a personality best characterized by determination, empathy, loyalty, and humor. Knowing he was different, he always sought to be treated the same. While most kids were on little league teams at the time, or like some of his friends were roller hockey players; he could not physically participate with them. Henry Viscardi once said “there are no disabilities, just people with varying abilities”. What Sean could not do he made up for. He became a team manager on both sports and would sit on the bench at every game trying to help motivate his teammates, and coach them if he could. Sean grew socially telling his infamously bad jokes to everyone he could, and becoming involved in such activities as boy scouts. When Sean was picked on he wouldn’t stand for it. One of the kids on the playground was teasing him: he grabbed the kid, latched onto him, and dragged him to the ground before three playground supervisors were able to tear him off. Sean didn’t get made fun of by that kid anymore.
After surviving an increasingly difficult academic environment for him to handle given his varying abilities; Sean moved on from elementary school and opted to attend middle through high school at The Henry Viscardi School. Here he was attending school for the first time in an environment dealing with others who had physical or mental dysfunctions. He became best friends with a boy named Dennis. Sean was always there for Dennis when he needed it, and Dennis for Sean. Sean grew up in a more normal situation then you would think with this school. He experienced his first girlfriend, went out to the mall on weekends with his friends, and played sports in gym class. Along though way, like at any other time in his life he faced challenges. Sean was in his third year of high school when Dennis died due to complications involving his cerebral palsy. This did not deter him any from reaching his ultimate goal of graduation, if anything it brought out the special qualities he possesses. Sean visits Dennis’ family regularly, and has become friends with his younger brother Davis since then; offering empathy and comfort after the loss of the person they both held close. Sean was again confronted by the challenge of passing the global regents. Out of all his testing requirements this one took him the longest, after over three attempts he finally passed. In his fourth year of high school he learned that he would not be able to graduate, and would come back for another year. This was not to any fault of his own, but the academic track he was put on when he came into the school. Sean once again persevered through dealing with the idea that he would not get to graduate with his friends, determined as always he graduated high school a year later.
You walk out of a room full of people all disbanding and saying goodbye to each other. Standing at 5’5 130 pounds with dark curly hair is a guy hunched over on his crutches with a gaping smile; and you know that you just met someone who you won’t soon forget.

How you feelin' heroes?

2006-10-19T02:41:36Z

Let me start off blunt, Stephen Colbert is God. I went into the city to see the Colbert Report. Got there around 2 hours early and was one of the first people on line. Sat around there for awhile, listened to my ipod, texted with Emily, harrassed Meghan. Then we went inside the waiting room and sat there for an hour or so, and it was really cold. Finally we got to go into the show. Meghan and I got seated in the first row right behind the center camera. This guy came out to warm the crowd up and it was really funny. Then Colbert came out and answered a few questions. He was talking about his experiences on the Dana Carvey show and cracking some jokes about the 1 episode that never aired; then the next lady started talking about her husband who was a soldier in Iraq and thanked him for bringing light to the way politicians are wasting money when it comes to veterans medical attention. It really killed the whole warm up.

The show started and it was really funny, I don't want to ruin it for people who are gonna watch it tonight. But on commercial breaks they would play music and it was like all stuff I love. They played Weezer-Buddy Holly and Colbert was singing along to it. Just when I thought the man could not get any greater. It was an awesome time even though the wait was forever.

xD

You Could Hook That One In There

2006-10-11T20:24:00Z

Puns are awesome. So was my weekend, and giving an oral presentation of my essay on why women shouldn't have the right to vote. Having 3 people practically stand up and clap, and the rest of the class with crickets was quite interesting. Its very apparent certain people hate me, its funny to think people actually take me seriously and not think I'm joking around.

During the weekend Saturday night the Extreme Team came over after going to IHOP. We couldn't get a slippery when wet sign because the mall security guard was watching us. Twas' a shame. At my house we played some GC, and bro'ed it up listening to some music as always. It was a good time. Sunday was drivers ed in the morning, and some douche double parked on montauk highway in nassau. That was a pain in the neck, but the instructor dude told me I did an impressive job on a left hand turn into an intersection later on. I'm awesome like that. Then there was homecoming. Nobody was there at first so I hung around with Kim and Ballato telling them both they had no friends. Eventually peeps started showing up, and we won the game 7-6. Emily came over at night, we watched Thank You for Smoking, and she got to see the Bro video as well. Monday I didn't really do anything worth noting but sleep.

Cant Hide That Cougar Pride

2006-10-07T13:55:38Z

Yesterday was pep rally, as many of you already know. I ended up participating in tug of war, and trivia. Trivia I completely destroyed in, only 1 other team got to answer a question right the entire first round. They started coming back in the 2nd round but that was because they were all buzzing in really early and the teacher wasn't doing anything about it. The freshman finally got caught cheating when they thought the question was over and buzzed in midway through. I had a couple of people come up to me later in the day saying "I heard you owned in trivia" including 1 or 2 sophomores. Apparently having me do trivia is an "unfair advantage". After that I ended up doing tug of war vs Flaim+Jeff. My team wasn't really stacked with good people, but Flaim and Jeff were the only guys so we ended up winning. I beat another team, then ended up getting knocked out cause somebody flagged Wayne twice during the match, and we ended up slipping when we were pulling to take the lead. I couldn't see what actually went on, but I found out about it afterwards.

The actually rally portion of it kinda sucked besides the national anthem (when our little section of 10 people or so got the entire crowd to start singing when the mic cut out) or when we got the Olay chant going as well. The senior banner sucked, but they never let the seniors lose the banner contest. With the performances the band has done a better job than in the past, but thats still not saying much. Kickline was the same routine as last year almost but they added the arm over thing and took out the split, the music was also worse (sorry lauren). The cheerleaders looked like they had more injuries than the football team did, and they messed up quite a few times. Normally they do a really good job. The freshman cheerleaders doing that thing where they threw each other of their shoulders was crazy. Other than that the new shirts were okay, I never thought an XL that was preshrunk would be the size of a jumbo jet though. It was really annnoying that the juniors had red as well IMO, I heard it was an order mess up but I don't think thats necesarily true. Overall I'd say the spirit from the senior class was pretty lacking, besides that we won almost every competition we were in.

Then at night Jeff, Larry, Flaim, Tscho, and I went to the SJB Hockey game. Unfortunatly the team isn't as good as it has been. Rotanz is the only player really left and tries to do everything. I don't think he came off the ice the entire game. The game was kinda close early but midway through the 2nd period St A's just started pulling away. Everyone was like "lets leave" so I step outside to call and thats when all the good stuff happens of course. 2 players from each team got ejected for fighting or something, either way it blows I missed it. The final score was 8-1 and the game got called 3 mins early by the refs because fights were starting to break out all over. We went back to my house and cubed it up for alittle. I wasn't really feeling the SSBM but I got used to it after a bit. Colin made us pizza, we ate, then everyone left.

Tonight I think I'm going to Tscho's and chillen with the team. Then tommorow is drivers ed in the morning, then homecoming right after, and Emily at night. That is set up to be a pretty good day. Monday I don't have any plans but its probably just gonna be me working on my Euro DBQ. Today I'll probably read some of the Roald Dahl short story book I bought. He's pretty creative, and cynical; so its my type of reading. Maybe work on my persuasive essay a bit more as well, can never have too much of women not getting the right to vote. Intial reactions to the paper were good, even from some of the girls who thought I at least did a good job. I need to impress Hines though, or else she's gonna crush it. I'm gonna go bro out, peace.

Block Party Disappointment

2006-10-01T22:28:36Z

Thursday night I went to the Sayville football game with Emily, and Kerri. That was pretty fun, even if the game sucked. Its interesting having people you didn't like, who barely remember you try to start a conversation and ask why you go to a private school now. Sayville won pretty big, so the game was boring. Wasn't the reason I went anyway. Friday night I had Flaim, Tscho, and Bosco come over and we had Meghan drive us to IHOP. Let me just say IHOP pwns, and so does taking a coffee cup and dispensor. Meghan couldn't handle how extreme we are.

Saturday night we went to Flaims for his block party; and I'll get it right out of the way. Tscho and Kyle messed Me and Bobby up in Super Smash Brothers in the first game of the night. I have no clue what went wrong, our confidence level is completely shot from that. We shall be avenged at some point. Maybe its time to hang pikachu and jigglypuff up on the shelf and find some new characters. Other than that the night wasn't as extreme as it could've been. We went to Byron Lake after dark and jumped the fence to the pool and played soccer in there for alittle, then moved the game to the front by the parking lot cause the ball kept falling in the pool. We ended in a tie (we spotted them a goal cause they had 1 less player) and then Bobby proceeded to jump into the stream by the parking lot so he could look black. We got back to Flaims house and his mom flipped on flaim and bobby for that. Then I got told I was the only one who has yet to do something stupid (golden child with parents, what can I say I've got skills). We then went outside and sat around, so I turned my ipod on. It was a perfect acoustic playlist moment. After that we sat around a fire with everyone there and I ripped on Bosco and Turbo. First someone made a "thats what she said joke" to the comment "she told me not to put it in her mouth" and I was like "to bosco". Then things got really quite after someone said "remember the time" and I was like "Remember the time turbo hooked up with his cousin?". All the girls there were like "ewww turbo you're gross" even though turbo never actually did that. Played alittle more SSBM after that, then packed everything up and went home.

This morning I woke up early, had drivers ed for which lecture is completely useless. Driving wasn't so useful either, at least yet. My drivers ed teacher is this fat guy who takes up a ton of leg room in his small car. He didn't do anything today except tell me to get smoother on the pedal, like I couldn't figure that out by myself (I'm alittle heavy on it because of my long legs probably). Anyway I'd be better off just driving with my sister, but you don't get money off your insurance for that. At least I don't feel like I'll get killed by the other people in my car being bad. Went to Borders picked up Tuesdays with Morrie cause I need that for english, and I also got a book of Roald Dahl short stories cause he's the man. I didn't really want to go to the bookstore though and keeks took an hour finding a biography. Finally I went home, ate, slept, and now I'm here avoiding doing AP Euro. The weekend could've gone better I guess, but its spirit week so should be fun.

Breaking Things Up A Bit

2006-09-30T14:17:44Z

1. Story behind your myspace song:
I found the band on itunes, previewed some of their crap and thought it was good. Downloaded it not on itunes :P, and then proceeded to make it my myspace song.

2. What month were you born in?
September

3. Where do you live?
Long Island/Dirty South Sayville

D E S C R I B E Y O U R . .

4. Wallet:
Brown quicksilver wallet, plan but I really like it.

5. Dream car:
totally refurbished VW Minibus so the team could ride around in it.

6. Toothbrush:
Blue and White

7. Jewelry worn daily:
Maybe my class ring, thats about it

8. Pillow Case:
Plain white

9. Eyes:
Hazel? I have no clue

10. House color:
Bage

11. Love life?
Going pretty well

12. Cologne/Perfume:
"Its not my fault if I like to smell like an axe"

13. CD in stereo:
Currently either Weezer-Blue Album, Foo Fighters-In Your Honor, The Darkness-Permission to Land

14. Piercings:
none

W H A T A R E Y O U . . .

15. Wearing:
Lights Out Dodgeball Tshirt, Jeans

16. Wanting:
To bro it up tonight

17. What does your headline mean:
Its my name, it means Badass in 40 different languages including zoolu and english.

18. The last thing you ate?
Pancakes

19. Something you are afraid of?
Getting into a not so great college, instead of the one I want.

20. Do you like candles?
They are alright

21. Do you like the taste of blood?
Neg

22. Do you believe in love?
Im in the process of reconsidering my intial beliefs of neg.

23. Do you believe in soul mates?
See 22

24. Do you sleep naked?
Nope

25. Do you like seafood?:
Some of it, you cant have it all the time though

26. Do you remember your dreams?
Almost never, the only ones I really remember are the ones that make me wake up.

27. Do you consider yourself a study freak?
Not at all, I consider myself a dumb procratinating bastard.

28. What's your favorite thing to do in the place where you live?
Chillen' with the bros, playing some gamecube, going to town

29. Do you like tattoos?
Not really

31. Do you burn easily in the sun?
Yes, Irish heritage=bad for sun

32. Do you speak another language other than English?
Well my name does mean badass in 40 languages... But I speak spanish okay, not enough to go to spain and fit right in.

33. What's something you wish you could understand better?:
Everything, specifcally math though.

34. Are you shy around a crush?
For the most part, I'm getting better though.

38. Got any plans for the weekend?
Tonight I'm going to Flaims block party, then tommorow I have drivers ed, then probably doing hw/watching football.

39.Who do you miss?
Emily, I got to see her the other night for alittle though

40. Your name spelled backwards:
Kcirtap

41. Last incoming call on your cell phone?
Jeff

42. What is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer?
McAfee anti virus.

43. What's your favorite restaurant?
Subway and IHOP are pretty BA

44. Last time you swam in a pool?
No clue, really really long time ago.

45. Britney Spears is a skank. Agree or disagree?
K-Fed, thats all I have to say...

46. What was the last thing you bought?
IHOP

47. Does someone have a crush on you?
Yes :)

48. Ever made a prank phone call?
Yea, its not an everyday occurance though.

49. Where did Waldo go?
Vegas to pick up some drugs.

50. Do you really know all the words to your national anthem?
yes, i'd need the music though to be playing

51. What did your last text message say?
"Ha you just passed me"

52. Have you ever been in a beauty pageant?
no...

55. Have you ever won a trophy?
probably, but just when I'm little and its like "oh you played soccer this season good job"

56. Are you a good cook?
Not especially, I'm not bad though.

57. Do you know how to pump your own gas?
If I needed to

58. Think fast, who do you hate right now?
nobody really

59. Who was the last person you visited in the hospital?
My mom a couple of years ago

60. What do you think about most?
"Are you thinking of me when your putting on your makeup darling?
Dying your hair like you do?
Well you're wasting your time if your trying to impress me
I waste all my time just thinking of you"

Here We Go Again

2006-09-24T04:22:17Z

Tonight the Extreme Team went to see Jackass 2. Really funny/mildly disturbing. Definatly worth going to see though. I totally beasted in Shotgun after the movie, I blitzed larry, got in a 3 way race between bobby larry and me and won. Everyone for some reason thinks I'm slow. Being underestimated isn't necesarily a bad thing. Beat out two track runners. So after that we load up in flaims van, make a brief pit stop at my place, then head over to the BK Lounge. We proceed to have salt packet wars and blow them into each others eyes. We load up the cars again with half of us in flaims van, and half in kyles car. Larry thinks it'd be funny when we are on the service road to throw a bk water from kyles car at flaims van (the one im in). We retaliate viciously and without remorse. We used a assorted soda cocktail and throw it through their open window getting it all over Larry, and Kyles car. Totally pwned. For some reason Flaim also had a "Slippery when Wet" sign in his car. So we proceeded to wave that out the window at them. We get to Flaims house, play some hardcore super smash brothers with the entirety of the team there. If you read my blog at all you'd know that me and bobby are undefeated at the game as a team. We proceeded to extend our record, and embarrass everyone in our path. Not 1 even remotely close match for us. My friends rock, and we had everyone there tonight. Senior year has been great so far.

I Am Ready, I Am Fine

2006-09-23T05:15:05Z

Today was quite a way to end the week. Started the day off with a bang by bringing a news article about how women have lower IQs than men on average based on a recent study. I used this is justify the whole "glass ceiling effect" and so called "equal work for equal pay" problems that women experience in the workplace by saying they in fact don't provide the same quality of work because intellectually they are not capable. Needless to say this did not draw happy reactions from the female crowd in my economics class which is the overwhelming majority. I then proceeded to talk about how explotation of workers isn't a bad thing because somebody has to do the menial labor for low wages and its part of the trade off of living in America. Once again, not too happy reactions from people saying I support the hiring of people for below minimum wage. I finished first period off by talking about how the rich deserve the biggest tax cuts because of the supply side economics theory. Basically I just dropped a bombshell on the class for what to expect for the next half year.

Second period was sociology class, and John thought it would be interesting to try to come up with sociological theories for why people commit suicide. My group came up with a ton, including geographic location; citing the Bayport incidents as examples of how such things work out. Religion was also another of our factors. Third period I went on a conservative rant about Perks of Being A Wallflower and how I just couldn't buy into how his best friend was gay, his parents encourage him to have sex, and his sister getting an abortion. I also discussed that it was a Catcher in the Rye ripoff. The seniors in that class are good, although the majority of people is juniors; the seniors are the ones running the class so to speak.

Just like the beginning of the day started off with women, so did the end. First Mr. Clancy was hunting me down to hand me another one of his liberal propaganda articles about Bush. He still hasn't found something to top the Al Gore article Me and Bosco sent him over the summer. Then I proceeded to walk into AP Euro with Mrs. Rohling. We start discussing the DBQ and she says "dont turn this into a men vs women thing" and I look at Casey (sophomore in mock trial) and laugh cause I gave her the IQ article yesterday. Rohling sees this and wants to know whats up. I proceed to explain to her the article and how it shows how men are more intelligent than women. Rohling is curious so Casey takes out the article and gives it to her. By this point I've got just about every girl in the room staring at me (like they weren't before psh) being like "did he honestly just do that?". Rohling an avid feminist points to one of the articles comments on women possibly valueing IQ tests less as showing intelligence in comparison to men and not trying as hard because of that. My response is simple and logical "Sounds like an excuse to me". Rohling has nothing to say to this, and around half a minute later addresses the class saying this just means there was a slow news day at the BBC. Once again being my quick witty self rebuddle with "I think it just proves that women are slow." I don't think I've ever made so many jaws drop in disbelief at once in my lifetime. Just think this is only the second week of school.

Plans for the weekend: Tommorow Jackass 2 with the Extreme Team, Sunday possibly chilling with Emily? If not, lots of football on TV.

Final Reminder: MY BIRTHDAY IS SEPTEMBER 27TH AKA WEDNESDAY

That'll be all for tonight folks.

listen to your friends, because they may be right when you don't want them to

2006-09-20T04:03:59Z

Title pretty much says it all. Certain people need to stop being hypocritical, and stubborn about admitting they are wrong (even I can do that occasionally). The word "sorry" does exist in the dictionary.

Now as for what I'm up to, school work and what not. Colbert is sooo funny tonight. I need to do alot of economics hw and what not. I love when I'm thinking of something and it comes up on Colberts show. I'm reading this book The Gospel According to Larry in contemporary fiction, it sucks. The whole book is about this kid who sets up a website that is basically a blog where he puts "sermons" up talking about anticommercialism. So right off the bat you know the main character isn't intelligent. Then you learn that he is obsesed about this girl who is basically his only friend, but he doesn't make a move ever. Then you continue to learn he listens to U2, won't go to prom, won't go to graduation, and is a mommas boy (although his mom is dead). Basically I hate everything about this character, and on top of it the author doesn't know how teenagers speak or act. I'm lowering my intelligence to read the novel. I like the course though, and the teacher so things should brighten up with a new book.

I'm gonna go "do" homework now.

"You're Gonna Need Plastic Surgery to Pull That Off"

2006-09-17T04:46:30Z

Long time no update. The title for those of you who know what it is was a pretty funny burn. Last night the Sayville game got canceled so I didn't end up hanging out with Emily. Spent the night doing nothing, eventually watched The Patriot. On the whole the night was uneventful and boring. The Patriot in hindsight has really terrible dialogue, some of the imagery in the way the movie was shot is amazing though.

Went to Flaim's tonight with Tscho, Larry, and Kyle. Lots and lots of Gamecube cause we're chill like that. We were babysitting Flaim's little brothers and Tscho during one of our Super Smash Brothers matches was talking about the game and got caught in alittle conversation with one of Christian's brothers friends.

"Game&Watch is a balla"
"Whats a balla?"
"Its a pimp"
"Isnt that someone who sells hoes?"
"Truer words were never spoken"

For the record, I'm fucking PIMP (aka I sell hoes) with Pikachu in SSBM. Me and Bobby as a team of Pikachu and Jigglypuff are even more ridiculous. We sell high class hoes as a team. Undefeated as a team so far, we take any challengers who think they can handle it.

I downloaded alot of music today. New Sugarcult album from what I listened to isn't amazing, but I don't like them as much as I used to. Minus the Bear discography; still playing around with them some, not terrible. Also downloaded Blue October which is now my myspace song if you want to go check them out. It's something fresh to listen to, I get sick of rotating the same old lineup. I now have 14 gigs of music which is a ton though. Hopefully getting an ipod for my birthday.

In other news I'm going to THE COLBERT REPORT with my sister on October 18th. Its going to be fucking awesome. I hope he finishes his 5 part series on better nail a NY Times columnist. Or even better the threat down, or better know a district. It's going to be on a Wednesday though so not sure if I'll get to see anything. Jackie is moving into Holbrook, this now makes her accessible to egg on Halloween among other things. I'm sure she'll be around in Sayville because of this. Maybe I'll get a sandwich out of it. And last but not least Bosco thinks I'm bad at making bets but I'm going to beat him in our little 2 year running one.

SENIORS 07' W()()T

Back to school to prove to my father I'm not a fool

2006-09-12T02:05:56Z

School is back in full swing now. I'm pretty pleased with my classes so far with judgement to be placed on AP Euro sometime in the near future. First period I have economics, and although its not with Ms. Clarke the teacher Ms. Bohr doesn't seem half bad. She'll have her hands full this year. Then second period is SJU Sociology with Mr. Lace, there is a good group of people in the class including Tscho and Kyle. Mr Lace with his cheesy jokes make it entertaining. Third period I have contemporary fiction with Mrs. Navarra. Besides being one of 4 guys in the class its not bad, we read a short story from Roald Dahl today which was awesome. He was my favorite author as a kid and I never read some of his adult oreintated stuff. I think I'm gonna really like the class. English looks to be alright, Mrs. Hines is nice but her voice is always quivering which kinda annoys me. Health I have Mr. Deak, enough said. Anatomy I have Eickelberg and the jury is out on her, I like the course though.

Finally I have Rohling for AP Euro, who the other day started by saying "when I was in school all we used to learn about was dead white men". I don't think she is going to enjoy the one question I answered during the summer work:

"The noblewomen’s view of three things that might drive a man from his home is fairly accurate. No man seeks to be in constant battles with his wife, or to have his roof leak, or house on fire. There are more things that may drive a man from his home though. In modern day to keep a man at home a woman should consistently take care of the “womanly duties” such as cooking, cleaning, and laundry. After a long day of work men do not wish to come home to a mess and have to do even more work. Another thing to keep a man at home would be sex, if he so desires. This may be beneficial to both partners and serve to create a pleasant atmosphere in the home. While a third thing to keep a man happy would be to take care of the kids; especially at younger ages where diaper changes are necessary. Once again after a long hard day of work, a man does not want to come home to a place where he has more duties to fulfill. If a woman wishes to successfully keep a man at home, these tips should create an atmosphere of welcoming and not hostility."

I'm the only senior in the class which doesn't help any either, I'm surrounded by overacheiving sophomores who want to do 100 pages of notes. I'll survive though.

SJB Student 24/7

2006-09-01T05:18:03Z

In the past two days I've been pretty busy. Yesterday night Flaim got home from England so we decided we'd get the Extreme Team together to chill. Flaim got the minivan and headed over to my house with Poo Pac. We then proceeded to load everyone else of Jeff, Kyle, Bobby, Garth and I into the van and headed to Hooters for dinner. I must say the restaurant is pretty good, but we were kinda annoyed by the ridiculous tip (18% included tip... Its not that its really super high, its that we were forced to do it) and there isn't a ton on the menu besides Wings but whats there is good I guess. We then took the van back to my place and played some hardcore super smash brothers melee. I need to get better in that game, it annoys me being the worst one in something considering I rock at Halo so much.

Then today I was at SJB from 10:30 to 7:00 oclock which was good I guess. It just took alot out of me since I had only slept for like 5 hours the night before. Got to talk to the freshman again which really isn't that bad, I'm good at talking about myself and my experiences. It pays having an ego occasionally. Then afterwards I chilled with a bunch of people who had been volunteering. I got ice cream all over Kim Falzones shirt and pants, didn't realize the ice cream was on the chair I was lifting her on. The drop was intentional so either way it wouldn't have been the favorite situation to be in for her. After 2 hours of chilling around SJB, including checking out Father Mikes airliner chairs the transfer student oreintation started. That was pretty boring until the end, Tscho got to meet a few people which was kind of funny. Its gonna be a good year.

Now as for a mini rant, I was watching the VMA awards on MTV tonight. There was promises of K-Fed but no delivery. That and MTV is so ridiculous, I didn't even know Madonna came out with a single in the past year until she was nominated for 9000 awards which she didn't deserve to get on. MTV isn't even worth going on a whole rant about cause there is just soo much to piss someone off when it comes to their influence on the music industry. Also this prevented 2 a days from being on TV. Did I mention Al Gore bitching about Global Warming too? To paraphrase my brother when he was talking about the ESPYs "I thought this was the VMAs, not the preachy bullshit hour". I really cannot stand the whole attention that the global warming theory gets for something so illegitamately backed up. MTV needs to stick to what they do best, objectifying high school and college students on shows like Laguna Beach, 2 A Days, and Next. BTW the Laguna girls this season don't live up to the standards set on the prior seasons.

I'm really tired