From the Age of the Dinosaurs cars have run on Gasoline

I chose the topic because i liked it, only to realize that it is also nicely appropriate. Tonight my parents are driving down to the coast, taking both cars, and leaving me very thoroughly without transportation for a couple days.

Today i wish happy birthday to my sister Cami. She's my favorite sister between the ages of 25 and 27. I think once long ago i said in my little mini journal that cami was my favorite sister, but at one point i've said that about amy and katie too, now i think i've moved passed trying to decide which sister is my favorite, they're just all so cool.

Life of late has been crazy as usual. I've been working of course. The last two nights i pretty much closed by my self. that was something awful. Work volleyball tomorrow. that'll be fun.

Lets see, what else have i been up to? apparently nothing, that's disappointing. Well, that's all for me.

Let the hours roll by doing nothing for the fun

So, i'm back to living by myself, and now, without decent computer or video games, i'm finding it hard to fill the time. This has some benefits in that i end up being more productive, but mostly i just spend a bit of time bored, contemplating things.

I have a really cool dream last night. It was a harry Potter dream, which, in a world with no harry potter book coming, is about the best i'm going to get. I think i was harry potter, or else i was me and i was in Harry Potter's position. We were running from a basilisk that had materialized out of the grass. It's kinda hard to explain, but i'm sure i've seen it before, i think it must have been a different dream. Anyway, we ran from that, and found the sword of gryffindor, and for some reason at that moment (when the snake was either within sight or i could perceive it getting closer) it seemed very important to sop up the remnents of basilisk venom into a rag. I'm just going to tell you right now that that never came up in the dream, although to be fair i woke up before the end. After that we (who included me, Ron, perhaps dumbledore, or lupin) started running up the corridors of Hogwarts, which were somewhat reminiscent of parts of carslbad cavers. Anyway, eventually we got to this big room where a bunch of hogwarts students were hanging out. The run to this room was actually very long and very scary, but i don't remember it as much. Oh, but on the way we got to this room that had a bunch of doors, and i know one said "Geography Bee". A couple of them were too small (made for house elves) and so we chose a big one with blue lettering. This took us to the hogwarts student room. In this room we were kinda trapped, and i remember that i needed to somehow get to someplace. I climbed up on these rafters and then made my way over to some ropes that were hanging down. :I swung over to this little secret door that i knew was there, and would take me to where i need to be. It took me a while to get the door open, all the while mrs. van uden was below saying she'd catch me if i fell (which i hardly saw possible). Eventually i opened it up to the passage way, but found that it was far too small (which is a part of a dream that i've had many times since i was 9, there's this passageway in the jackson street house that's about as wide as an air vent, and i somehow have to get into it). Some goblins come in (not harry potter goblins, Lord of the Rings goblins) itching for a fight, and i'm having trouble remembering spell names, so i get someone to give me my sword, and petrify the goblins and then stab them, which kinda makes them fall apart. I go over to corned to stay for a while, and this little kid next to me is really thirsty, so i go to find some cups, and use aquamenti to fill them with water. Shortly afterwards Snape came in, and i remember thinking that he was good, and that he was just pretending to be evil, but then he came over and started acting very evil, he poked me with his wand and i remember this searing pain in my side (which i now realize is where i bruised my ribs on a volleyball pole yesterday) And i couldn't remember the spell for shielding, and i couldn't really see straight, and the more i tried the harder it was, it was like i couldn't open my eyes, and then my mom called and i woke up to answer the phone.

Yesterday i played volleyball with some people from work, which was fun. I've realized how extremely competitive i am, or rather, that not everyone is extremely competitive. Some people are perfectly ok playing games to have fun, and i don't quite understand that. I mean i would rather have fun than win, but winning is usually fun, and so i don't often have to make the choice. Anyway, i think i proved myself alright at volleyball, which made me happy. It's not easy to gain respect working in the ice cream shop, i dunno, it just seems juvenile compared to the other side of the restaurant, which i think is part of the reason i want to do expo again. Also that you're part of something bigger there, as opposed to the scoop shop, which is pretty enclosed.

So now i'm trying to decide what to do until i have to work, which is complicated by the fact that i'm not sure when i have to work. I think i'll probably swing by work and then go to the gym. So until i succumb to boredom and write again, farewell.

Fin

I finished harry potter, and since certain friends have an inexplicable knack for figuring out the endings from otherwise unrevealing things, i will say nothing.

It is a very good book though. I took a nap at about 7am this morning so that i would be somewhat sentient for the ending. So work today, and then i have to face something i've been able to put off for way to long, actually a bunch of things, but yeah. It's back to living alone in jackson for a while, which is ok, i kinda enjoy the independence, it makes me more responsible in a lot of ways, except for dishes. Anyhow, i have work in an hour and a bit, and i have stuff to do, like eating, and showering, so i'm gonna get on that. But yeah Harry Potter, good stuff.

So that i can feel the rain

Yesterday and today have been pretty busy. Night before last i watched a twilight zone marathon until 4am (a grave mistake, but a fun one), and so all day thursday i was a little off. I got up at around 11 and filled nail holes for a while. My mom told me i had to bury a dead osprey in the neighbor's yard (it was in the neighbors yard already, that's not just where i buried it). Apparently the afformentioned osprey were sick, ergo the odd habitation, or else some loathsome neighbor decided that osprey make too much noise and shot them, either way, it fell to me to bury the bird, which smelled quite awful by then. So i did that, and then rested for a while, then i sanded and filled a couple more nail holes, then our neighbor came over and said that there was another bird that i had missed. So i buried another osprey, originally i'd planned to use the post hole digger, since that would have gone way faster, but that broke, so i had to fall back on the shovel. So i finished that, and i covered up the two graves with some bamboo do discourage them from being dug up. After that my mom gave me the choice between painting and running errends and i chose the latter, so i went to Indian cycle and they said that it would cost 255 dollars to fix up my dad's bike, so that was a rip off, i think we can probably fix it ourselves for about 30. Oh, and i got lost on the way because i forgot how the ridgeland exit works. But yeah, after that i went to Circuit City to put a new radio into our car, and i had to wait an hour and a half while they did that so i read some books at barnes and noble and ate a sandwich. The car eventually got done, and i drove over to johnny's work and got some food there. That was great, but i set it on top of the car when i left and it disappeared, i suspect chicken hawks. After that i got a bit lost again, but eventually found my way to lakeland and went to lowe's. Lowe's, i found out, is like Home Depot, only the selection is crap, and the service is awful. so that was nice, and then i went home. I watched Rope, which is a great movie, huzzhah for Hitchcock, and then i went to sleep.

Today i worked in the attic, which is always an awful experience, but then i got Mac and Cheese. Now i'm waiting until it's time to work, and eagerly anticipating Harry Potter. I'm going to buy it at midnight and read it straight through again, partially because i want to, but also because my mom is leaving tomorrow at 12, and wants to take the book with her (since she's the rightful owner)

Right now isaac is trying to play Shadows over Camelot with the neighbor kids, which is funny since he doesn't actually have any idea how to play. I'm hiding in my room, because small children not related to me generally get on my nerves. That's all for me.

~Mr. Vertigo on the Flying Trapeze

so these osprey have taken up residence outside my house, and now all day it sounds like i'm on national geographic, except for the chainsaw across the street, which sounds nothing like national geographic.

Now that i'm back from my road trippin', life goes on as normally as could be expected. I saw harry potter, which was pretty good, i think it's my favorite movie so far, even though it's one of my least favorite books (not by quality, just by plot line. It's so frustrating and harry is so moody). I also finally watched my two netflix movies that've been living at my house for the last few weeks, The Saint and U.S. Marshalls. I wasn't disapointed, which isn't suprising since i wasn't expecting much. Pretty standard movies, nothing groundbreaking, but i enjoyed them and they passed the time.

I'm eagerly awaiting the mail man with 3 weeks of mail for me, including my ap scores, so hopefully that'll happen pretty soon. I got back home to a shocking amount of gossip that i'm not entirely sure how it happened. But since none of it is bad, per se, and since none of it is entirely untrue, i'll survive, it just surprises me how quickly word can spread. More on that later i guess, probably not. Oohh! a mail man drove by. that means he's going to start spreading is postal goodness across my street. I'm in a weird mood, and i'm typing really fast. Probably going to see transformers today, so that should be an adventure and a half.

Apparently it's raining in salt lake, so says my little weather reporter thing, which is good, since it hasn't rained in salt lake in a long time. Silly desert. Mississippi is very green, our grass is better looking that it's looked in years. which is still pretty bad looking, but it's progress.

I wish movies could be good in the same way books are. I want an 8 hour movie, with as much depth, details, and intelligence as a book, plus all the exciting visual effects that books lack in. but i suppose making an 8 hour movie would be unreasonably expensive, and so movies would triple in price, which would be unfortunate.

Only 4 days till harry potter, that'll be pretty awesome, it has to be. apparently hast is a word. I wish the mail would hurry up and get here so i could stop rambling.

so, ap scores finally came.

Eng lang - 4
Eng lit - 4
Euro - 3
Gov - 4
Calc - 3
Stats - 4

I was a little disapointed with calculus, and not getting a 5 in english, but i'll live. Anyway, now i'm off to lunch and a movie, so au revoir.

Notes from the Underground

I find myself in the basement of the student union with no way out and the torturous smell of unobtainable food drifting on the wind. Luckily there's a rockin' iMac to keep me company. My parents are in a movie until 4:45, and i don't feel like braving public transportation just to wait outside the planetarium while they watch IMAX. So, in the mean time, i thought i'd post a bit of an update on my vacation.

So, as is my custom, i'm going to work backwards, because that's how i am. Today i had orientation, or half of orientation, i came to late to get the beginning, and so ii'm going to get that tomorrow. Orientation was fun, i found myself reminded of how shy i can be at times, but that's alright. I got a free t-shirt and a frisbee, which i'm sure i'll give away (the frisbee, the t-shirt is too lame to give away, but ii'll probably work out or somthing in it) We had some very typically utah lunch, which was ok. i registered for a few of my classes, and i got into the honors program, although i probably won't be in the honors dorm, which is too bad, we'll see though, she said there may be a bed open for one guy, that'd be cool.

I was the only person in my orientation group that was majoring in math. go me.

Yesterday was the last day of the reunion. The reunion was good, but not the best, and quite possibly the worst, although that's still pretty good. The food was awful for the most part, and the activities were good at best. there was really no where for us to meet, or play games, except some of the time, but those times were great. I got to ride a horse, the second time in my life, although this horse was really rebellious, she would stop whenever possible to eat grass, and there was very little i could do to stop it, but that was ok, it made my ride a lot more fun than anybody else's, since everybody else was just sitting on the horse riding in a line. The rodeo could have been fun, but the only cool event, the barrel racing, was cancelled. weak.

Before the reunion we went backpacking with a couple of my uncles and a few of my cousins. That was great. We went on a hike way way up in the mountains, and we saw amazing views and hung out with mountain goats. They were literally less than 10 feet away, and not at all afraid of us. To get back down we had to climb down this nearly vertical slope. There were big areas where there was still snow, so we skied down those (well, there were no skis, so i guess technically we shoed.) that was really fun. We dropped 1000 feet in less than an hour and in about 200 horizontal feet. Then we swam in a lake, it was very cold (there was snow melting into it) but it was great.

On the drive out we went to a few cool places, possum kingdom lake, where we saw deer, and an owl, and we were almost struck by lightning. We also went to Guadeloupe National park, carlsbad caverns, roswell (which was really dissapointing, but i'm glad i went) and sitting bull falls which is a waterfall in the middle of the deserts of new mexico. It's been a pretty fun vacation all in all. tomorrow i stat the drive back, and i'll be 'home' (i really don't know where home is right now) on monday probably. That's about all from me. Peace.