4-30-01

Most of today kind of sucked, but it did have a couple high points. I got called out of the end of first period for a Quill and Scroll awards ceremony. I got an award for something or other. The awards weren't even there, so I was given a piece of paper that was printed out earlier in the morning, saying congratulations on my achievement. When I got to the EAST Lab during third period, I got on one of the computers and changed the "Start" button to say "Stop." So far I don't know of anybody that's noticed it. Later after school I asked Rachel Trusty, who works on that computer, if she noticed it, and she said she didn't. During fourth period, I was working along diligently until the FemiNazi, Jessica Sardashti, came and smeared some horrid smelling hand lotion all over the front of my binder. Of course I got mad, but Lemley did nothing. Around lunch time, I realized I didn't have my sunglasses with me. I know I lost them somewhere between first and second period. I don't remember if they were even there when I got back to first period from the Quill and Scroll thing. Whatever happened, I don't remember picking them up, so either someone took them first period, or someone in the next class grabbed them. After lunch, somehow Mike Kelley, Janine Randles, and I got to talking about relationships. Somewhere along the way, Janine said if I wanted a girl then maybe I should lower my standards. Just before that she said she didn't mean it to be offensive, but I still should have turned right around and said something like, "I went to prom with *YOU,* didn't I?" I didn't actually say it, but I told her I could have smacked her with that comeback. She gave me that look she gives when she knows she's just been beaten, but it was all in fun. I don't hold anything against her. Later on, Thomas Hollingsworth came down to the journalism room and helped sort senior class pictures. After that I went to talk to Rachel Trusty for a bit, but she wasn't feeling too well. I stuck around until the end of that period to talk to Michelle Young. After school I wandered on home in the bright sun without my nice little sunglasses. I did some little stuff for work, and then just played around on the computer for a while. My dad and sister went to Wal-Mart to drop off a car for my mom, returning from Tunica tonight. They were to call me later to go pick them up and bring them home since they would be leaving the van for my mom. While I was sitting around the house, I decided to try and call Susi LeMaire. I got her this time, so we sat and talked for a little while. Eventually my sister called, so I went to pick them up, and then came home for the night.

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4-29-01

I had a fairly slow day today. I got up, showered, and played on the computer for most of the day. I took a couple little naps because I was still tired from everything yesterday. In the early evening, I was talking to Angie Jennings about a little puppy, Booboo, she had just gotten. Both of us were pretty bored sitting around the house all day, so she invited me over to see the new pup and to talk for a while. We discussed the meaning of life while trying to get shy, little Booboo to open up to us. After a while he seemed to like us both a lot more. After that, I dropped by Sonic to see who was working, and to get something to munch on. Michelle Young was there, so I talked to her for a few seconds as she brought out my food. She asked me to come back around closing time so we could talk more, but I had too much other stuff to work on from missing two days of school last week. I headed on home and worked on stuff there for the rest of the night.

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4-28-01

Today was pretty fun. I woke up and talked to Thomas Hollingsworth for a bit. He wanted to go to Little Rock for a LAN party by the guys that came to the Mental Degauss party last time. I thought about going, but my dad wasn't crazy about the idea, and I was still pretty exhausted from 5th grade camp. Mr. Murdock called me needing some help with his web site, so I went to the high school to help him out. Chris Sanderock met me there, so we talked for a little while. When we finished up there, Chris and I went to see Rachel Trusty at the little junk shop she was working at. There were some pretty interesting things in there. After a short while, Chris and I decided to head on over to the Mental Degauss LAN party in town. I stayed for a short while before deciding to go and get my computer. I didn't even stick around for too long to play. I ran around and did other stuff most of the time. I went with Jon Robison to order and pick up food from Whatta-Burger. Later I went to see Rachel at home, so we went out to her back porch to sit and talk for a while. I decided to leave when Jimmy Bowie showed up to help her with her geometry homework. I went to pick up my computer, and then stopped by Angie Jennings's house on the way back to the party. She had left me a message on MSN while I was gone, so I figured I'd go see what she was up to and if she wanted to go to the party with me. She did, so she hopped in the car and we headed on over. I came home again one time to eat dinner. Later in the night, Nikki and Robin Barr popped in because Eric Moore was there. Nikki and Eric got together and talked for a while, so Robin came over to talk to me. I hadn't talked to her in quite a while, so it was good to see her. When Nikki and Eric were ready to leave, they said they had to head on home, but had to stop by Hastings for a quick second first. Nikki and Eric each drove their own cars out there, and Robin rode with me in my car. We drove on out to Hastings and had a nice long talk while we waited for them to get there. When they finally did, Robin went with them and I headed on back to the LAN party. When I got there, people were already packing up to leave, so I did the same, and then helped the guys clean the place up. From there, I headed on home to catch up on past daily logs on GC. I'm finally done.

Nay from Mija.nu had yet another brand new layout done, so I sent her a little message as usual. This time she actually replied! I'm going to assume that, if she ever decided to take a look at my site, she got bored and didn't read to the end of any of my logs, thus making it obvious that she won't read this little blurb about her at the bottom of today's log. I don't care though, this chick ROCKS!

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4-27-01 (Written 4-28-01 : 5th Grade Camp)

I woke up shivering because it had gotten so cold over the course of the night. It didn't take too long to warm back up, though. It seems it was always either too hot or too cold. It was finally our day to do all the fun things, like horseback riding, hawk eye BB gun shooting, and canoeing. The previous day was pretty much a bunch of quiet stuff of little entertainment value. I'm afraid I can't consider ironing beads into little shapes to be "arts and crafts." It was fun, however, and I made a little GC logo for Galloping Cow. The whole thing is green, but when the light catches it just right, the letters "GC" glow brightly in the middle. Ben Nordin and I tried to go canoeing, but it turns out the thing had been sitting on too steep of a rise out of the water, so the thing tipped right as we were being shoved into the water. Ben was in back, so he got completely soaked, while only the right half of my body got soaked. I stayed with the kids while Ben went to shower and change clothes. At one point in the day, Jason Huynh came up to me and said that not only my cabin had been cheering "Galloping Cow! Galloping Cow! Moo! Moo! Moo!" Apparently the chant had spread throughout the entire camp, and a bunch of the kids were saying it. At our last chance for roll call and a chant, one cabin got together and yelled "JasonHuynh.com!" Of course, Jason stood up and rooted for himself. He had no idea the other cabin was going to do anything like that. At the end of the day, we had our last meal, and then packed up to get ready to leave. Then we finished everything up, climbed back up the hill where we first met our kids, and sat around for a while until the busses got there. One was already waiting, so after waiting for quite a while, Mr. Richie, the 5th grade principal, sent the boys home early. Quite a while later, the other two busses arrived to take the girls and the counselors home. We all grabbed our things and loaded the bus. I was the last one on, after helping shove everyone's things into the bus. When I climbed on, nobody wanted to let me have a place to sit, so I found a seat people had put a bunch of luggage into, stacked the stuff up against the wall, and just sat there for the trip home. When we finally got home, I drove by Rachel Trusty's house to see if she was home. Not seeing her car, I came on home, got on the computer for a while, and then went to sleep.

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4-26-01 (Written 4-28-01 : 5th Grade Camp)

I got up early to pack for my trip to 5th grade camp. I was supposed to meet some guys for breakfast at Stoby's, but I didn't have enough time to go have a nice meal. Instead, my mom stopped by Hardee's so I could grab a quick bite there. The counselors all got on the bus and headed to Camp Ozark. The trip up there was alright. I got a nice big seat to myself, listened to my music, and just sat back and relaxed. We had a short while to settle in, and then we all wandered up one of many hills where we were to meet our 5th grade campers. Ben Nordin, my bunk mate, and I had 8 guys in our cabin. We walked up and down hills to different activities all day. We were cabin 5, or the Quapaw Native American tribe. We tried to make a few small chants so we could go to eat first, but before every meal Mr. Pointer got up and drew cabin names for who got to go first. It wasn't a competition like it was when I went to camp. Our simple chant soon settled down to be, "Galloping Cow! Galloping Cow! Moo! Moo! Moo!" I thought it was kind of neat having a little herd of calves, or cowlets, or whatever they should be known as. Jason Huynh had to explain to people that Galloping Cow was the name of my web site, and Mr. Pointer teasingly said we should be punished for shameless exploitation of small children to promote my site. The kids seemed to like it, though. At the end of the day, we all went back to our cabin and went to sleep. It was nice and warm at first, but later in the night, I woke up shivering. I still don't think it's fair that the girls have heated and cooled cabins with bathrooms in each room, as opposed to the open air cabins and big bathhouse that the guys have.

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4-25-01

Today's been peachy for the most part. Everything was pretty slow until lunch time when Mrs. Little took everyone out to New China to eat. We had quite a bit of fun. I hitched a ride with Ryan Bills and Janine Randles. After that we went back to school. Carrie Harris went to get Rachel Trusty from Mr. Lonon's class so she could draw us a little MTV logo for something or other. I think she needed a smaller version of the junior follies logo they had with the MTV theme. After school I stopped by work for a short while, and then went home. Thomas Hollingsworth and I talked for a little while about tournament things, and then Chris Sanderock called before we went to go hang out. We sat and talked on the phone for quite a while before we actually went out, but when we did, we went all over town. We stopped by the coffee shop, Wal-Mart, and Hastings. When I finally got home, I finished up some stuff for work, tuned into KXRJ at ATU to listen to Matt Farrar and Jared Magee's radio show. I got an E-Mail from Erika with a "K" informing me of my spelling mistake in yesterday's log, so random apologetic words may be inserted here at the reader's discretion. I won't be around until Friday night, because I'm a counselor at 5th grade camp. Apparently they still don't have internet out there, so I couldn't just bring a laptop and work on my site from there. Things should be fun.

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4-24-01

I wound up having a fairly decent day today. Not a whole lot happened, but everything seemed peachy for most of the day. I went to the darkroom for a couple hours to develop some more film and make more prints. At first it was just Brandon Vaughn and me. Then a little while into 6th period I tried to get Rachel Trusty to come to the darkroom to see all the stuff we have to do in the dark. Mr. Lonon didn't like how it would look for a guy and girl to go into the darkroom, although it had never been a problem before. She decided to go to the EAST Lab, but Jeff Green came down to the darkroom to check it out. Thomas Hollingsworth was also down there, as usual. I went to see what Rachel was up to 7th period in the EAST Lab, walked her to her car when school was over, and then came home myself with Thomas and Erica. Thomas filled the rest of my gas tank up on the way home, I dropped Erika off at Shadow Lake Apartments, dropped my sister off at home, dropped Thomas off at his dad's office, and then went to work for a couple hours. When I got home, I talked for Rachel a bit online before she decided she wanted to talk on the phone, so I called her up. We talked about everything from the meaning of life, to mastication, to little bunnies, to programming in QBasic. Now I feel like it's really late because I'm so exhausted.

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4-23-01

Today wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. Staying awake Saturday and Sunday, and then sleeping Sunday night before school actually worked for me. I didn't have much of a problem getting up or staying awake during those most boring moments in history. Nothing really happened during most of the day. I spent a couple hours in the darkroom developing film and making prints. Brandon Vaughn was down there for one period, I took a break between periods and went to talk to Rachel Trusty in Mr. Lonon's class, and then I went back to the darkroom for another hour with Thomas Hollingsworth to make some more prints. After school I talked with Janine Randles for a bit as she waited for her mom to come pick her up from school. Then I took my sister home, gave Thomas a ride to his dad's office, and then went to work to pick up a check and see if I had anything new to do. When I got home from there, my dad and I went to drop off my tux, stopped by Kroger for some milk, and then came home. I didn't have anything to do for work, so I just took it easy and watched TV for most of the night.

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4-22-01

I didn't go straight home when after prom was over. My date had left me for some friends earlier, so I got to go alone. I thought about stopping by the park just to chill for a while and relax from all the activities, but I really didn't just want to go by myself. I decided to go on over to Rachel Trusty's house to see if by any chance she would still be awake. She wasn't, but since it was so early in the morning I decided to wait around to see if I could catch her when she woke up. Quite a while later, her parents woke up and milled around the kitchen for a while. I kept waiting outside, but I couldn't see any sign of her being up, so I eventually decided to go home. When I got home, I left her a message asking her to call me when she woke up. I just laid around for a while, not wanting to go to sleep and screw up my sleep schedule. Thomas Hollingsworth called me just as I had started to dose off a little, so we talked for a short while. Then later on, Rachel called and we talked for a while. She said Chris Sanderock had left a note on her car and that they were going to go to the park to talk for a while later. I didn't really do anything all day, but later in the evening I got hungry and bored. Rachel and I went driving around for a while to talk about things, and then we stopped by Sonic for a quick bite. By then, we didn't have much longer before she had to be back home, so I took her home and went back to Sonic to talk to Michelle Young for a while. I was going to wait around until she got off of work, but I saw the manager on duty say something about me needing to leave, so I left before anyone actually came out to say anything to me. When I got home, my dad told me Thomas had called again, so I called him back and we talked for a while, and then played some Tribes 2 with several celebrity names, such as Bob Dole and Bill Gates. I couldn't believe we had so many of those famous names registered and playing on the same server. Now, after staying awake for most of two days, I'm ready for a nap before I have to go to school again tomorrow.

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4-21-01

I woke up this morning and played around for a bit. Then I went to pick up the corsage I had ordered for Janine Randles, my prom date. I took it home and then went to Wal-Mart because my dad and sister needed some stuff. My sister didn't want to go home right after that, so they took the van which was already at the Wal-Mart parking lot, and I started heading on home. I thought about stopping by Rachel Trusty's house instead of going straight home, because I had been talking to her earlier in the day. Instead, I saw her pull out into the street and drove up next to her. We pulled over to talk for a bit, as it's hard to yell from window to window going down Main Street. It turns out she was thinking about stopping by my house, which would have been funny when we both arrived at the other's house at the same time. We went to her house, dropped off her car, and then drove around while we talked for a while. Then we came back to my house to hang out for a little while. After a bit her mom called her cell and told her to come home to get ready for prom. I took her home and then came back home for a while. The time finally rolled around for me to get ready for prom, so I showered, got dressed, got my picture taken, and then went to pick up Janine. She loved the corsage, thought I looked spiffy, and thought the glasses really set off the whole outfit. Her mom took a few pictures of us, and then we came back to my house to get our pictures taken there. Then we were off to Nikki Holbrook's house for a little pizza party with some others. Then we all went to the dance together. I had forgotten to grab some more money, so I didn't have enough to have our pictures taken there. We danced around for a bit, but for the most part I just kind of wandered around from friend to friend as they arrived. Two particular people actually came up to me to dance for a bit, besides Janine. First it was Rachel Trusty. We boogied a little, and then a while later Jeana Rogers came by for a dance. I lost Janine for quite a while, and she eventually came and found me when she was ready to go. On the way home we stopped by Sequoyah Park to talk for a bit and just relax in the quiet. Then it was on back to my house to change clothes and get ready for after-prom. We went back to Nikki's house, and met everyone there. Nikki's boyfriend, Bryan, had gotten them a limo, so they took that home and then took everyone out for a ride. Janine and I just drove back ourselves. After a short while, she left me to go hang out with her friends, and eventually I guess she decided to go leave with some friends and not tell me about it, so I came home alone. I won a microwave in a drawing, and the guy that won the PlayStation 2 sold it on the spot for $200. I wasn't in the mood for such uselessness as a microwave, or such stupidity as underpricing a PlayStation 2 by 100 bucks. That should be enough reading to keep you busy for a while.

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4-20-01

Most of my classes took it easy today because this weekend is prom, and everyone will be tired when we have to go back to school on Monday. I got out of the end of calculus, and part of the beginning of third period EAST Lab to go out in front of the building and have my picture taken with the other people that got awards from the journalism convention last week. I got an excellent rating on something or other, so I got a little slip of paper with my name on it. Janine Randles was back at school again, feeling a bit better from her sickness this week. I was rather mad though, because someone stole her after-prom T-shirt yesterday while I was in the darkroom. I spent another hour in there today doing some work, and then went and wandered around for a bit. I went to Mr. Lonon's class for a bit, and then wandered on back through the science halls. I saw Cassie Hilgerson in a back room working on some chemistry, so I stayed with her for the rest of the period and we talked about random little things. After school I came home and checked the mail. I got my sunglasses in that I had ordered. They could be a bit darker, but I still think they rock. The delivery was quick, and the product is spiffy. After I did some stuff for work, I went with my dad to get a corsage for Janine tomorrow night. The flower shop we stopped by was closed, so we stopped by Kroger really quickly to see what they had, and then came home. My dad called another place, and I ordered one right over the phone. Eventually my sister decided to tell me that Janine had called, but each time I tried to call her back, she was gone. I got some graduation notices ready to be mailed off tomorrow, and spent most of the rest of the night just sitting around. Now I need some sleep before my "oh-so-special, big day" tomorrow. I can feel the excitement building up inside, or maybe I'm just hungry.

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4-19-01

I'm exhausted all day today. I even got a fair amount of sleep last night. Nothing too exciting happened. Classes dragged on all morning until lunch. After that I went and did a lot more work in the darkroom. I got a couple after-prom T-shirts, and set them on top of my backpack before I went back to the darkroom one time, and when I came back one was on the floor and the other was missing. I'll have to find it tomorrow, or I'll be somewhat angry. The missing one was the one I got for Janine. I went to Mr. Lonon's for a little while, but spent most of the time in the darkroom. After school I went on home for a little while, took my sister out to eat and then to her band contest thing, and then came back home again. My mom, dad, and I left immediately to go pick up my prom tux for a fitting and all that wonderful crap. The whole outfit came with more hangers than I have all throughout my entire closet. After I got everything squared away there, I came home to work on a bunch of homework. I'm quite annoyed with school at the moment, but it's almost over. I called Janine Randles to talk for a short while. She hasn't been to school since Monday, and we let out on Monday because the power was out, so I hadn't seen or spoken to her since last week during the journalism convention. I don't feel like I should be tired, but my body keeps trying to shut down on me. I guess that means it's time for bed.

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4-18-01

It seems I've been quite confused. I thought fifth grade camp was going to be this week, so I've been telling everyone that I was going to be gone on Thursday and Friday of this week. It turns out that my camp really goes next week, so I was a week off. I had a meeting about it during lunch. After lunch I had to go to the darkroom to make some prints, so I spent a couple hours down there. Thomas Hollingsworth came down 6th period to talk while I made more prints. After school I gave him a ride to his dad's office, and then went home for a little while before heading out to take pictures of a baseball game. Later in the evening, I went out to celebrate my old friend Susi LeMaire's birthday. I didn't spend too much time out there before coming back home to rest. Now I need sleep.

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4-17-01

I'm physically and mentally exhausted today, and the school week has only just begun. I wandered around a bit at lunch, but only for a little while after eating at the table with my friends as usual. I went to the darkroom for a little while to keep myself a bit busy for the period. I spent a few minutes at the beginning of 6th period in Mr. Lonon's class talking to Rachel Trusty a bit, and then went back to the journalism room to hang out with Brandon Vaughn, Thomas Hollingsworth, and Ali Lampert. After school, my mom took me to the bank to get a free gift from when I opened my account and they didn't give me anything. I got a cool little folding chair thing. It should come in handy the next time I'm walking down the halls of the high school and just decide I want to stop dead in my tracks, sit down, and relax a bit like everyone else does. Then I went to work for our staff meeting. I got a new little project to work on, and hopefully I'll have time to work on it and finish it up within the next day or so. When I got home, I had to lay back for a bit to rest. My dad bought a new lawnmower, and I ordered a pair of sunglasses. I guess now I'll be able to mow the lawn in style. Then I tried to sit back and do some studying, but all I could accomplish was sleep. I think my body is trying to tell me something, but it's nothing a nice dose of Bawls can't cure. I can't wait until they come out with the concentrated stuff to take intravenously.

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4-16-01

Today was somewhat exciting, yet boring at the same time. When I got to school, half of the lights were out or flickering. I half expected a tongue hanging down from the ceiling like in Half-Life. The atmosphere was great. The classrooms seemed alright, but we didn't seem to have any power to the intercom or bell system. Most of the way through first period, the teachers got a memo saying that in order to try and get the power back up, it would have to temporarily be completely shut off. They herded everyone in the school out to the bleachers by the football field for another hour or so. At 9:45, Mr. Lemley came by right where I was sitting and announced that at 10:00, if we had a car, we could leave. It was a pain getting out though, because you couldn't take passengers, and you had to actually show someone your car keys before you could go. I waited around for Rachel Trusty because she had left her bag and keys in her classroom. When Mrs. Freeman finally returned with them, we all walked out to the parking lot. She didn't want to hang out with me, so I wandered across the school to my car, took my sister to her friend's house, and then went home. After a few hours, I went to Thomas Hollingsworth's house to hang out for a bit. Then I came back into town to stop by work for a bit, and not needing to do anything there, came back home again. I sat around for a bit longer until I got hungry, and then went to Sonic and talked to Chris Sanderock for quite a while. We flew by K-Mart really quick to see if they had any PlayStation 2s left, and they actually had quite a few under the counter. I talked him into getting one, so we all walked out happy, one with considerably less cash than before. I came home and decided I don't like banks that close at 4:00 on normal weekdays. When I have money, I'm going to either stuff it into a big mattress, or stick it into an online bank or somewhere that I can get to it any time I want. I finally went to get my graduation crap. Now I sleep.

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4-15-01

Happy Easter everyone! I got up this morning and immediately had to get ready to go to my grandparents' house. My grandma's been sick with bronchitis for a while, so my dad decided to go up there and surprise her with a big Easter dinner. I think my dad got called out to work early in the morning, or something like that, so we were a bit late. We had a good dinner up there with my grandparents, aunt, and uncle. On the way home, we came through some thick traffic on the interstate. For no apparent reason, everyone had decided to drive in the left lane only, so traffic had slowed down to a crawl as people attempted to merge into the one lane. It was a few miles before the road actually got blocked off for construction. We stopped by K-Mart to get some things, and while I was waiting for my parents to check out, I noticed several PlayStation 2 boxes behind the counter. I don't know if they were for sale or had finally arrived from some previous order, but I saw Michael Jennings working another line. I'll be able to ask him about them tomorrow. After that, we stopped by Price Chopper, and we went through Bryan Bramlett's checkout counter. His new computer is arriving, piece by piece, so hopefully he'll be up and online really soon. After that, we came home and I got to work on my calculus. It wasn't too difficult, so I got it done pretty quickly. Having to go back to school tomorrow is going to suck.

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4-14-01

I actually got a couple things done today. My dad and I went to get my tux ordered for prom. Later in the day, I finally got the stupid leprechaun off of this page. It's about bloody time I had something up there for Easter this month. This time, our beloved cow in the corner has taken the liberty of hiding us some Easter eggs to hunt. I always knew rabbits didn't lay eggs. The cows do all the work, but the rabbits get all the credit! Later in the evening, my dad, sister, and I went out to eat, did a little Wal-Mart shopping, and then stopped by Hastings to rent a movie. We got Blazing Saddles since I had never seen it before. I found it quite entertaining, and would recommend this movie to any Amish people, if it weren't for that whole "purified society" they're shooting for. Thomas Hollingsworth called to say hi, and to talk for a bit. That was the extent of my day, how about yours?

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4-13-01

Today was just as tiring as yesterday. I got up around 8:00 or so to get ready for some work group things. I wandered the halls of the hotel for a bit, and then headed on over to the Excelsior for the lectures. The first lecture was about using comedy in broadcasting media. The guy showed some pretty funny skits and things that some of his students had made before. The next lecture I attended was supposedly about the show Survivor. The lady tricked us into going in there, tripped over someone sitting on the floor, and then went on for a while about how she didn't like her job. After that, we had an award ceremony for something or other. After that, we all left to get our bags from our rooms, check out, and then pack everything back onto the bus. Nobody wanted to sit with me on the ride home, so I got the whole seat to myself. Cassie Hilgerson sat silently by me for a minute or so until her other friends further back in the bus called her and said they had found a place for her to sit. When I got home, I decided to hang around the school until my sister got out so I could take her home, but my parents met us there anyway. We all went to go order a tux for my prom, but I didn't feel like looking through the stupid magazine at the time. I grabbed the magazine and headed home. When I was back in school, Rachel Williams invited me to a little gathering at her house. Thomas Hollingsworth called me at home and invited me to go hang out at his house, but sadly I felt too tired to drive way out through no-man's land to get to his place up on the mountain. Rachel happened to live fairly close by, so I wound up going to her place to hang out for a while. I had quite a bit of fun there, and then came home and dropped dead for a while. This must be what a Bawls hangover feels like.

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4-12-01

Today was the start of the journalism convention in Little Rock. The trip there was alright. When we got there, a group of us took a tour through channel 7 KATV's studios. It was fairly interesting, and then we swapped with the other group and went on to the River Market to eat. When the actual convention started, I had to go with a bunch of other "beginning photographers" for an on-site competition. They sent us all out into the hot sun to take pictures of the construction on the Excelsior's hotel and convention center. Later in the evening, we went to a fancy dinner banquet. I actually had good clothes to wear, the food was good, and I knew which of the 32 different forks to start eating with first. It was fairly fun. After that there was a dance, but not many people were there when I got there. Everyone went to change, and then came back later. I didn't stick around there too long before heading back to the hotel though. We stayed in the Double Tree hotel just a block away. I spent most of the time wandering around by myself, but every now and then I latched onto a friend or two like a bloodsucking leech, and followed them around for a while. Rachel Trusty was up later than she had ever been up before. She and Jared Fitzgibbon were hanging out in his room with some other friends to watch TV and stuff, and she eventually came down to her room around midnight. She finally went to bed around 1 in the morning when Mrs. Raines and Mrs. Cooper came by to tell us all to get to our rooms because it was our curfew. I went back to my room for a while before I got bored again, so I wandered over to another room where Olin Rankin and Matt Duffield were still awake. I hung out with them for half an hour or so before I got too cold in their room and decided to head back to mine. I eventually wound up going to bed around 3:00 because there wasn't anything better to do.

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4-11-01

I had a bit of fun today. I had to take my sister to school at 7:15 today for some honor society meeting she had to go to. I should have left the house around 10 minutes late like she's made us do for the past two days. I saw Dustin Olson there, so we talked for a while until all the sane people showed up for school around 15 minutes later. I thought up a nice little scheme against the sophomores this year. It will be fun for us all, I think. More details will follow. We had an assembly for after-prom, put on by the parents of students, in the morning. A bunch of guys were dressed up like the Blue Man group featured in the recent Pentium commercials on TV. A bunch of parents got out there and had a blast mocking us and the school system we've been forced to conform to. The dark cloud was lifted from the senior class as the spirit stick was returned to the principal. I was rather hoping the thing had actually been destroyed, as it was rumored. I went to another 5th grade camp meeting during lunch. After that I went and spent an hour or so in the darkroom developing some film. When 6th period rolled around, Ali Lampert and Thomas Hollingsworth came down to the darkroom to visit with Brandon Vaughn and me for a while. After school I went by work to pick up a check, and then headed home. I was doing some work for them when Janine Randles called. We decided to go hang out for a bit since it's a school night and we don't have to go to school tomorrow. I went to her house for a while, and then we went to her dad's house to pick up something for yearbook. All of the journalism classes are going to a convention in Little Rock tomorrow morning, and won't return until Friday afternoon. I'm somewhat excited. School trips are fun, and this time there's an added bonus. The handrails on the stairs in the Excelsior's convention center are fun to slide down. I tried my best to get a laptop to bring along with me, but that fell through. One can now assume that, unless someone gives or loans me a laptop within the next 6 hours, this page won't be updated until Friday afternoon or evening. Yes, my faithful followers, you must go on for a whole 24 hours without an update to this site. I will, however, leave you with this wonderful parting gift.

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4-10-01

Today was alright, but somehow exhausting. It was my mom's birthday today, so a nice big "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" to you mom! We left for school around 10 minutes late again thanks to my sister. Nothing exciting happened all morning, but after lunch I ran around the school being stupid. I climbed up on top of a Coke machine and sat up there a few times, wandered through the halls, stopped by Mr. Lonon and Mr. Payton's classes to see people, and went to the EAST Lab with Rachel Trusty to see her latest render of the mushroom's life cycle, or something like that. It was pretty cool. After school I stopped by work for a bit with Sarah Hindsman and Dustin Summey for a little staff meeting. When I got home from that, my dad had to go back to work for something, so we didn't go out to eat for my mom's birthday as we usually wind up doing. Janine Randles called me, being a rather excited about prom and whatnot. She got a haircut, and she thinks she's found a dress. I don't know if I'm going to rent a tux or what, but I guess I need to decide fairly quickly, seeing as how prom is next week. Janine said not to get a tux with tails because she thinks they look dumb. After I got off the phone with her, I played on my computer a bit and then tried to watch a movie, but I wound up sleeping though most of it. I was so exhausted, as I am now, so I suppose now would be a good time to sleep.

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4-9-01

I nearly had to kick my sister out the door this morning before school. We left the house around 10 or 15 minutes late, but I made it to school in plenty of time. My calculus test was death all wrapped up in a nice packet of papers all stapled together. I went back later to finish it. I think I at least passed it. After school I stopped by work for a few minutes to get my latest projects. Right after I finished up there, I went to the softball game to take pictures for yearbook. When I got home, I played Black and White for quite a while, just having a blast. Pretending to be a god sure does wear a person out!

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4-8-01

I got up today after about five and a half hours of sleep, and got ready to go to Fort Smith for my dad's magic club meeting. He went to drop the van off at my aunt's house, and then my sister and I went to pick him up and head on out to Fort Smith. The meeting was in the new library there, which seemed more like a huge convention center or something. After that we went to the mall to do a bit of shopping, and then went to The Olive Garden to eat with some of the others that were at the magic club meeting. I had never eaten there before, so it was pretty interesting. They didn't really have anything to my taste though, and what I got didn't really impress me that much. It was food, but I got tired of it after a while. The breadsticks were alright, but I still think I like the ones from pizza places better. I guess I've just got a taste for cheap, fast food. I slept a short while on the way home, despite my bottle of Bawls. We got home and I got to work on homework and studying, which really sucked. I hate school. Surely there's some sort of scheme I could come up with to live richly without having to work another day in my life. I think the United States Congress is full; what about the Senate?

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4-7-01

Not a whole lot happened today. I got up late and tried to finish up the rest of a Flash animation I had to do for work. I eventually got it all figured out and sent it off to my boss. In the early evening, my dad, sister, and I went to JCPenney and Wal-Mart for a while, and then came home. I took my sister to go pick up her friend Andrea, and then I dropped them off at the coffee shop. On the way home I stopped by Sonic to see if Janine Randles was working. I didn't figure she would be, and I was right. I saw Jared Fitzgibbon parked there though, so I went up to see he and Rachel Trusty sitting back in his car relaxing. I bounced on up to the building to see who all was there, and generally ran around making a fool of myself. It felt good to be out of the house. After I got home, my mom called and said she missed the bus home from Tunica, so she's going to spend the night. My dad and I went to get the van from the Wal-Mart parking lot. After I got home, I finished the Flash animation I mentioned above, relaxed for a bit, and eventually got ready for bed around 6:00 in the morning. Sleep is for girls.

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4-6-01

I'm so exhausted from today. I woke up tired, and then spent all day working instead of getting time to rest. I went out of my way during lunch to help sell yearbook supplements because nobody else seemed to care. After lunch, I went to the darkroom to make some prints for people. Brandon Vaughn wasn't feeling well, and he kept giving me the attitude that he wasn't going to do any work after school, so I had to go take pictures of a huge track meet by myself with two rolls of film. Thomas Hollingsworth came down to the darkroom for a while to talk while I had to work. During 7th period, Mr. Bradley took the class outside, and we just relaxed for a bit there. Rebecca Brown picked up several four-leafed clovers somehow. Some people just have all the luck. After school, I didn't get to go home. I went straight to the track meet to get some pictures, and didn't get to leave until long into the evening. I was supposed to go to work right after school, but I didn't get to stop by until I finished taking pictures. I saw Rachel Trusty and James Bowie hanging out around at the track thing, so I stopped by to hang out for a bit as well. My family left me for Little Rock, so after I finished taking pictures of the game, I cleaned up a bit and went to the coffee shop. I saw Sarah Hindsman and Jennifer Hawkins there, so we sat and talked for a while. Mitch Graham came by later, and the two of us went to Sonic to grab a bite to eat. A bunch of tiny, screaming girls came up and ordered before us. I actually recognized a couple of them from riding my old bus several years ago. After I got my food at Sonic, we headed back to the coffee shop for a while. It was pretty quiet around there, so I just sat and talked with Matt Saunders for a while. Eventually I decided it was time to come home. Bill Mackay messaged me on ICQ for the first time in a while, so we talked for a bit and then played a couple games of Tribes 2. Now it's sleep time.

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4-5-01

Things went alright for most of the day today. I had to try and sell spring supplements for the yearbook during lunch. Ryan Bills and I set up a table by the cafeteria and sold all of one supplement. We didn't quite hit our quota, but nobody seemed interested. I went to the darkroom during 5th period to develop some film, and had a slight mishap. I had a roll of film from junior follies in my camera, and I thought I had it wound all up, but apparently I didn't. I popped the back and exposed all the film to the wonderful hallway lights. I kicked myself a few times, and then went back to the dungeons to try and develop the roll. To everyone's surprise, all the pictures turned out fine. I think I've used up all of my good luck for the rest of this year. After that, I went back to the journalism room and played cards with Thomas Hollingsworth. After school I wandered around for a bit before my sister came out to tell me she was going with some friends, so I didn't have to take her home. I gave Quentin Rezin a ride home, and then went to work for a little while to see what they had for me. When I got home, I picked up my new IBM DeskStar 75gxp 75 gig hard drive and took it inside to install it. After a bit of decision making as to how I wanted to split my drives up, I finally decided to just add the whole 75 gig hunk as one big storage pit where I can throw everything. So far I've managed to fill up approximately 12 gigs of it - Dang I'm good. Chris Lomax called for some help with his web site while I kept setting things up the way I wanted them. Now I just wish I could get a nice image editing program to get rid of that stupid leprechaun at the top of this site by the cow in the corner.

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4-4-01

I had a pretty good day for the most part. I had to go to a meeting for the 5th grade camp counselors during lunch. Ben Nordin and I get to stay with a cabin full of little brats for a couple days while they run around in the forest. I went to the art room for quite a while 5th period to watch Rachel Trusty and Jared Fitzgibbon spin their wheels of creativity. After that, Thomas Hollingsworth and I went to the darkroom during 6th period to develop some film. After school I walked Rachel out to her car, went to take a couple pictures of a tennis game, and then went home to drop my sister off before heading to work. My boss gave me a nifty little brief case bag thingie to carry all my stuff back and forth in, and I got some new stuff to work on. As soon as I got home, my mom started griping at me for no good reason. Apparently the van was in the shop for something, and I had to take her to go pick it up. Then I came home, rested for a while, and played some Tribes 2. Matt Farrar came online to gripe at me about something or other. I love friends like that. A while later, Chris Lomax called for some more computer help, and we talked for a while about all sorts of geeky stuff. Later in the evening, I tuned in to KXRJ 91.9 FM to listen to Matt and Jared Magee's radio show. For some reason my image editing program stopped working, so we're stuck with the leprechaun up in the corner of my page for a few more days. I'm exhausted from being yelled at all day and capturing the flag so many times in Tribes. I need sleep.

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4-3-01

Most of the school day was fairly slow. I wasn't too busy with work in class. Beth Post got lonely at lunch sitting by herself, so she called me over to sit with her. After that I spent a couple hours in the darkroom developing some film. During 6th period, Thomas Hollingsworth and Kerryn Johns came down to visit me. The three of us hung out in the darkroom for most of the period. After school I ran a couple errands and stopped by work for a couple minutes. After I got home, Jared Fitzgibbon came over for a bit to see Tribes 2 in action. After a bit of rest, I had to go take pictures of the Junior Follies. Most of them gave a good show, so it was pretty fun. I wish I didn't have any homework to do after the show though, because I had to run home as soon as I finished taking pictures. I got home, wrote my English paper, and then went off to get ready for bed. Just before getting into the shower, I heard our cat outside, so I went to investigate. She and another cat had apparently been arguing about something, so I called her off of the fence and brought her inside for a while. I wish I could have a couple more hours to play Tribes before bed time.

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4-2-01

I kept myself busy for most of today. School was alright, considering it was a Monday. Most of my classes were just taking it easy. I had a bit of work to do, but no unbearable amounts of any subject. After school I wandered around for a bit until my sister came out, and then we came home. I immediately got on my computer to get some Tribes 2 in before I had to start my homework. I just played the single player missions for some practice. My system's not quite fast enough to run the game smoothly, but I'm sure if I drop some of the graphics settings some it will be fine. I can't wait for a weekend when I'll get some real time to play. After a while, Chris Lomax called needing some help with his web site, so he came over for a little while. After he left, I played some more Tribes until I had to go take pictures of the soccer game. After I finished the roll of film for the girls' team, I looked up into the stands to see Angie Jennings and Matt Farrar. I went up to see them for a bit, and to wait for the guys' game to start. They left when the girls finished, so I went back down to the field, took my pictures, and left. On the way home I stopped by Kroger to pick up some food, and then came home. I squeezed in a bit more Tribes, and then worked on my homework. I hope I dream about capturing the enemy flag tonight. God bless Dynamix.

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4-1-01

I didn't get to play any tricks on anyone for April Fool's Day, but I had a bit of fun anyway. I woke up late, but I got some stuff done for work. I called Hastings to see if they had Tribes 2, which they had available for $49.99, so I went and picked up a copy. On my way home I stopped by Sonic to see Janine Randles for a bit to see how she was doing. Then I came home to play Tribes. It's a great game, but I didn't have much time to play it. My sister got my parents to force me to help her with her homework. She wanted to do a bunch of clipart crap, so I had to do that instead of playing Tribes 2. Tomorrow I have to go back to school, so it's unlikely I'll have many chances to play throughout the course of the week. I'm mad.