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It is somewhere in the hour of 9 in the morning. If I try to go back to sleep, I will probably cough up my two lungs. If I stay sitting up and doing something, the coughing is not as bad. I've been wanting to update my blog, but whenever I went to log in, I felt too lazy. Today, that changes, and I will go back to frequent posts. :]
I'm not going to go through the past two months and give every little detail in every single event that happened in my life, but I will definitely summarize. The last entry I wrote was in April, after the indoor guard gymnasium review. A few weeks later, I went to visit the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown for the first time.
I gathered a lot of information on different activities there, took my placement exams for math and chemistry, and wandered around campus. I like it there; it's peaceful. The buildings are kind of close together, so it won't be too hard to get from class to class. The dorm rooms are a little small, which I don't like, but I'll adapt.
Sunday, May 3rd, was day three of The Bamboozle 2009, which I attended in East Rutherford, New Jersey with Hanna and Arianna! Now this day I must tell in full detail. Bamboozle was my first show everrr! The first band we saw was Thee Armada, who sound a lot better live than on MySpace. Just saying. It was a wonderful experience, they were so lively, I loved it. We met lead singer Josh Caddy and guitarist Bryan. Later on, I also met guitarist Mike. They're a fun bunch. After that, Hanna and Arianna went to see Family Force 5, and I separated to find two of the At Fives, Marissa and Cat.
I met them over by the Fearless Records tent, where I bought Every Avenue, Mayday Parade, and The Maine shirts. I also got a TWLOHA shirt. I walked around with Marissa for a while and we found GUNZ! Marissa smacked my arm going "GUNZ, GUNZ." At the time, he was listening to a band, but when he saw me, his jaw dropped. I went over to him and he could not stop hugging me.
We were talking about what bands each of us were seeing and:
Gunz: "Yeah, but what time is it?"
Me: "Right now?"
Gunz: "Yeah you fuckk!"
Me: -death stare-
Gunz: -silent snicker-
It was great. It absolutely made my life, meeting him. When I got back together with Hanna and Arianna, we watch Owl City, The White Tie Affair, roamed around to find Chris Crocker (which failed), met Sean P. from TWTA, tapped on a guys's shoulder to see if him and his friends were in a band (they ended up being a couple of guys from Honor Bright), saw The Maine (<33333333333333333; I really wanted to meet Garrett, but that didn't happen), watched 3OH!3(whose crowd was a fckn beast! Arianna and I had to go towards the back, because Arianna almost died and we lost Hanna), and Sum 41. We split up again when Hanna and Arianna went to see Hollywood Undead and I went to meet up with Gunz again. They came with me to meet Gunz and then went off. During that little get together, I met another At Five, Carolyn!
I also met another girl from The Gunz Show chat room, Marissa (a different one from the five). Marissa and I stuck around and followed Gunz, getting new The Gunz Show shirts (I haven't worn mine yettt, bahaha). This was when I fucked with Gunz a lot. First, when we were at FTSK's tent (where I also met Ziggy! :D), I knocked Gunz's hat off, but I didn't realize that there was a puddle behind him. He didn't care at first, and he made jokes about his hair. Marissa and I chilled with him for a while, then went to watch Every Avenue. While we were waiting, I took another picture with Gunz and sprayed him with perfume. He was like "HOW AM I GOING TO TALK TO PEOPLE NOW?!" rofll. About five minutes before Every Avenue started, Gunz got on a concession stand line and Marissa and I went up front by the barricade. Gunz walked past us to go backstage and threw a piece of pretzel that clonked Marissa in the head. Hanna and Arianna met back up with us to watch Every Avenue. I think I was most hyped during their performance. It was so amazing. After them, Hanna and Arianna went to watch The Used, who I was planning to see, but I decided to wait on line and attempt to meet The Maine. I really wanted to meet Garrett. I wanted to ask him about the letter I had sent out when Hanna and I decided to write to band members. I wonder if he ever got it. Sighh. When Marissa and I were about twenty feet from the stand, they stopped and Jared and Garret must've tuck and roll'd, because I saw (not met, saw) John Ohhmazing, Pat, and Kennedy. Boo hiss. They had to carry John Ohh away, because he wouldn't leave, it was kind of funny. The next band on my list to see was Taking Back Sunday, but we had some time before they started, so Marissa and I wandered around the merch stands for a while and stopped at Victory Records, meeting Shane from The Scenic. Marissa bought me a shirt and CD. When the time came, we departed and I went to watch Taking Back Sunday by myself. I took a lot of videos and it was simply the best. I always liked Taking Back Sunday, but only knew the album Where You Want To Be and a few songs from other CDs. Now I have all of the old CDs downloaded (I need to buy the album New Again). I absolutely lovelovelove themmm. Adam Lazzara was so funny at Bamboozle; he's a really great guy. I wish I could have met himmmm. I actually just read an interview in this month's AP magazine and posted one of his quotes on Facebook.
"I don't feel vulnerable anymore as far as that goes, really. No. I mean, it's who I am, you know? It's what I do."
I really like that quote, a lot. Anywho. After Taking Back Sunday, I saw a little bit of No Doubt and met up with Hanna and Arianna again. I was going to try to find them in the crowd, but haha, that wasn't going to work. We totally forgot what entrance we came in at, so it took us forever to find her stepdad's car and she got in trouble. ]: It was a fun filled day, nevertheless.
May 9th, a week later, was prom, which was a lot of fun as well, even though I didn't have a date. My dress was like $371, plus $150 for alterations. I love my dress though and received a lot of compliments. Everyone looked absolutely gorgeousssss, oh my! On the bus rides, I sat with Brenton Vales, because he didn't have a date either and since we kinda knew each other, we figured it wouldn't be too awkward. Zac Contopidis and I had multiple plates of the caesar salad, bahaha! The dinner was good and the cheesecake was deliccc, along with the mocktails. I had at least 5 shirley temples. Baha. When the dance music started and everyone got on the floor, Greg Gueiss was like "BOODOO, COME HERE. I need a dance partner! :D"
He had lost his date sometime after dinner and couldn't find her. How that happens is beyond me. Anyway, we were kind of like unofficial dates. We had a lot of fun togetherr, I<33 himmm! At some point, Greg, Sean, Amy and I danced together and were like CHEM CR3WWW! BAHAHAHA. Oh boyy, that night was so much fun! I danced with Alyssa Evans, Topher, Joe, Bishop, Dag& Rafal, and Kyle as well. There's actually this one picture where Kyle and I are dancing and people are staring at us!
ROFL. At least we weren't having sex on the dancefloor as some people were practically doing. We got Lucky Bamboo to take home from prom! I still have mine, actually. :]
One day in May, I think, the guard reunited in Mr. Hughes's classroom to get our sweatshirts. He also gave us a copy of that slideshow he made and we got to take judges tapes and scoring sheets, signs, etc. I haven't watched the slideshow yet, because I know I will bawl just as hard as I did when we watched it as a group. During the meeting, I gave Mr. Hughes my interpretive self-portrait that I completed in art class.
I made myself look like the Keelber Elf :D
Then the rest of May and first half of June was just trying to make it through high school. Actually, May was quite an eventful month. I had two hookups with different people. I know that sounds so ridiculously trashyyy. The first one was with Nate, but there was actually some emotion involved there.://
The second one is disclosed and was really stupid on my part and as much as the guy doesn't want me talking about it on here, I don't want to talk about it either. Gaahh. Any which way, the last day of school was chill. I took heeeeellllaaaa pictures! Then there was the Senior Dinner for marching band which was good as well. I got to see Mr. Hughes again and all the younginssss, like Collin!
On the 14th was Lauren and Greg's graduation party at Blanche Price Park, which was pretty awesome. We took walks, chilled at the basketball courts with a table in the center, pigged out, sat on the swings, played volleyball (which I am deff too short for), kickball, badminton, played in the jungle gym, talked, signed yearbooks; it was just an all around good time.
Although somehow I missed the cutting of the cake? I don't know. The next week was graduation practice and it was rainy& I started getting sickk! Monday, the 15th, I skipped grad practice and went to UPJ to get some more information and my schedule! Here's how that goes:
10-10:50 American Political Process (m/w/f)
11-12:20 College Algebra (tu/th)
12-12:50 Composition 1 (m/w/f)
1-1:50 General Chemistry 1 (m/w/th/f)
2-4:50 General Chemistry Laboratory (tu)
3-3:50 University Scholarship (m)
4:30-5:50 Concert Band (m/w)
Sixteen credits. Ew@ me being placed in College Algebra, I knowww. I didn't do too well on the math placement exams, so I'm going to retake those at orientation. I totally rocked the chem test thoughh! :D I don't know why, but I just couldn't focus on the math test, it was really bad. I think it was because I really needed to use the bathroom. BAHA. But yeah, I'm pretty content with my schedule. No early classes and the only "late"ish class is band on Mondays and Wedesndays, but I don't mind that. I'm super excited. I came back Monday night to attend grad practice the rest of the week. It was rainy, and I got sick (hence the coughing up my lungs comment from the beginning of the entry). Friday, I got my hair cut and my brother came upp! I got choppy layers just past my shoulders, and side bangsss.
Oh lala. Because of this stupid rain we were having all week, graduation was moved from Saturday the 20th, to Sunday the 21st! That wasn't too bad, but everyone was pretty pissed; we wanted to graduate! It was still a little rainy on Sunday, but in the middle of the ceremony, the sun came out and it was warm and niceeee. The speeches were good, and most were short and simple. Winston Gordon's speech was the best. It had so much character and was so funny! He's the bessstttt! I'mma miss him!
Yeahyuh french horns/mellophoness(Topher, Brandon and I)! Tell me how Mr. Searfoss wasn't even at graduation? Mr. Dikeman ran the band, which was fine, but the band didn't sound too great during Pomp and Circumstance. Mr. Dikeman put one of the mics right over the clarinets--not a bright idea. Either way, the ceremony was nice. Afterwards, my brother, dad, Alyssa Mancini and I went to eat at Marita's II, a Mexican restaurant. It really wasn't as good as I expected. :X
So now here I am, sick, wanting to get better by the end of tomorrow. I went to the doctor's on Monday and got medicine, but I don't think it's helping much with the cough. The congestion has cleared up almost completely and my fever comes and goes, but this cough won't let up! The reason I need to be better by the end of Thursday, is because Alyssa Evans and Jacqui Hatch are supposed to be sleeping over Friday (Alyssa is staying through Sunday). We're gonna have a girls's night/weekend. Watch movies, makeup, talk, etcetc. Then Alyssa and I are going to Dan's& Kyle's grad parties Saturday, and Topher's on Sunday.
SPEAKING OF TOPHER AND KYLE. Oh my god. Where do I even start with them? Topher, Kyle, Alyssa, Alicia, and Rachael had a little Truth or Dare makeout session after prom and then Topher, Kyle, Alyssa, and Alicia had this BFWB thing going on. Then it was knocked down to Topher, Kyle, and Alyssa, whom I refer to as the Almighty Trio. All of a sudden, next thing I know, the boys are experimenting?! Say whaaat?! Then Topher has the nerve to yell@ me for judging him, meanwhile this is complete hypocrisy on his part. After, he tells me that he's straight and he's not turned on by guys and he tried it once and didn't like it. Yeah, he puhretty much lied to me. At least that's what Alyssa is telling me. It's absolutely ridic. I wish they'd just come out with it. UGH.
Next and final topic. Boys. They're...ridiculous& I give up on them until college. That's puhretty much all I have to say about that for now, because I really think I need to end this entry sometime today.
Anywho, I can't wait for Alyssa and Jacq to sleep over!
I need to hang out a lot this summer. Mhmhmhmhm!<33
P.S. I can't forget to mention the one time I hung out with Hanna and her family at The Crossings. She asked her stepdad (against my will :P) if I could borrow money, because I only had $20 dollars, and I ended up owing him $186.37 ROFL, NEVER TAKE ME SHOPPING. I paid it all back in likeeee...two months? I had to space it out that way my dad didn't realize the money was missing.
P.P.S. I feel the need to throw in a picture of Nate and I where I mention him, so I'mma do that now. :] The picture is from the senior dinner.
And I've been thinking that I almost feel okay, 'cause I've been dreaming through my wasted summer days. | | | Posted 6/24/2009 12:40 PM - 19 Views - 0 eProps - 0 comments
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