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Man. This was a very laid back week. I didn't do much at all this week. But, from what i can remember, i can say this was very lame and boring.

Monday : Just did stuff in school. Talked with people online during 6th period, had lunch from the deli. That was about it.

Tuesday - Late opening, i went to school around 8:45 so i could do some math homework, after that i just sat outside the door to CST for about half an hour. Later on, had some lunch, then went to Flemmings. Mr Green, the campus security, came in and Flemming ratted me out, along with my friends Charlie and Eric. So we were sent to the office to be put into a study hall. "Even though i'm actually in study hall, i just never go. You don't have to either, doesn't count against your grades". The secretary asked us to fill out an incident report, but Mr Green made some cover for us, so we didn't have to do that, because Mr Green is awesome. So for the remainder of 6th period, Me, Charlie and Eric were sent to Thorseness's room for study hall. "Thorseness just recently got treated for Cancer and now he's finaly back, yay :)". That's mainly it

Wednesday : Nothing much happened. Mr Melton sent me on an assignment to go around the VICA classrooms during 6th period for our "Brag sheet". AKA: Awards and acheivements that benson has received over the years. Since 6th period is the time when most Shop teachers aren't around, I was having some trouble finding people to talk to. The only person i could find was Mr Wong. So i told him what I was doing and he was happy to tell me some of the things we have done over the years. In 1983, one of our benson students placed 3rd Nationaly for a drafting compitition. Around the early 90's, someone placed 1st in state or something like that, maybe it was nationals. I'd have to check that damn notepad i was writing things down in. After that, they showed me this new piece of equipment they got that takes drawings from AutoCad, and produces actual models out of them. Mr Wong kept reffering it as "The Electric Microwave", even though one of the Female Architecture teachers was like "IT'S NOT A MICROWAVE". Heh it was funny, they always got in an arguement when ever Wong said "Microwave". Other than that, nothing interesting happened.

Thursday - Nothing interesting happened at all, except the deli. Man that food tastes good.

Friday - Nothing really happened today that was worthy of note, except for the fact i got 3 free Pops for the price of 1. Put a buck into the machine, out came 3 20oz's of Pop. That was cool. Other than that, I got my grades in. I passed CST with a C, :/. At least i passed :)

Man such a dull week. I wish it was interesting like the previous two weeks before it.

Sigh this week was depressing for the fact that I had finals all the days that I had school. But whatever. Here's what went down

Monday - MLK day. Got to stay home, played some Desert combat and D2 and that's about it.

Tuesday - I had my CST, English and Spanish Finals. CST was a fucking bitch, I didn't even finish it before the time was up, and I couldn't make this one up. To make it even worse, we had two more finals to do in that class the next day. What the hell is this!?!? 3 Finals for one class? Excuse me but that's just bullshit. Anyways, my English final was so easy, I got word today that I got 100% on it. w00t, so I get like 103% in that class. hehe. My Spanish final was a bitch though, although I needed to get a 30% on that test to get a B, "I was slacking off a lot before Winter break, stupid me". I got a 70% without even studying. So I got my B in that class, could have used an A :(.

After school I went to meet Aja and Amanda down at Pioneer place. Man I haven't been there in about 3 years, since they added on that new complex to it, which included the new Theatre. I had some pizza down there that tasted like ass, I'll never go there again :P. After we ate, we just decided to cruise around the place for a bit and go into some of the shops, like sam goody and electronics boutique. We didn't buy anything, just looked around at stuff there. That basically covers Tuesday.

Wednesday - I had to do my 2 damn CST tests. One of them, we had to design an Alarm system. This included 5 parts. Writing a truth table, finding the equation, reducing the equation, making a circuit out of it, then making a more complicated circuit out of it.

.........
I failed that one miserably

The other final was just some binary adition/subtraction/multiplication/divison, converting numbers between hex to binary, decimal to binary, binary to hex, etc... That one was a lot easier :). Except i didnt get to finish both of those Finals. So i had to come in during make up period the next day

After that was my math final. God i hate math. I suck at math. Good bye buisness career :(. At least it was multiple choice so that's always good, made thing's a little easier.

When it was time to go, i decided to head down to Lloyd center to meet Amanda and Aja at the Tilt to play some DDR. "Yeah i made some new friends thanks to Kirk :)". Of course i got out of school at 11:45, and i told them to meet me at 12:45, so i had about an Hour to blow down there before they showed up. I decided to head to the tilt real quick to see what's going on. Of course all the kids i know were playing DDR and playing songs like Legend of Max, which is fucking insane. After they were finished, me and David montgomery played a quick game. We played some easy song, then some hard ass song which i could...... Ahh forget it, i'm starting to nerd on about DDR again. Let's just say i sucked that day and i need to get back in shape.

When the duo got there, we played a few games. Mainly i played some DDR, easy songs of course. I wanted to play some Marvel Vs SNK, but all these asian kids were playing the whole time with just Marvel characters. THEY NEVER USE KICK ASS SNK CHARACTERS. Like Terry. Man, Terry could stomp Ryu any day of the week. So instead of Marvel vs Snk, i played some virtual fighter 4 "Ew", got my ass handed to me by Aja and yeah. That does it for games
..."I AM NOT A FAILIURE :("....

Afterwards, we got some food to eat. I went to this one Indian Cuisine place that's right next to Subway on the food court. Of course, me being an Indian food junkie, i ordered their chicken masalla. Personaly, it was pretty good, but not as good as Swagat downtown makes theirs. But hey, it's a food place in a mall, what can you expect. Aja and Amanda went to Arbys. Personaly, i don't like Arbys, but i haven't gone there for about 5 years so hey, maybe things have changed there.

When we were done eating, we just cruised around the mall for a bit. We went to places like the magic shop downstairs, Spencers "always a classic place", the pet store and Sears. We walked by the one stand that sells Cell phones and Aja always wanted to get a Cell phone. So we hung around there for a while. She wanted to get a flip phone like mine, but we'll have to see what happens next week, she's supposed to go back there and get a deal on a phone with service. That's all that happened that day.

Thursday - My last finals, well i should say "Final". I screwed up on my history final and got a 78%. Damn early 30's. Since i had to wait till make up period to finish my CST finals, i had nothing to do for lunch, except walk around the damn school for 55 minutes. To make it interesting, i walked through every hallway, every corridor, every area inside and outside of the school. Why not eat lunch? I didn't have time to go to Lloyd and back, besides i was broke. After Lunch, i had to finish those damn finals. I got the 3rd CST test done, but on my 2nd one, i didn't trust my circuit, so i had to go with my gut feeling and turn it in.

After school i just came home, watched some TV and then went to ryders house for a bit. We played some Castlevania on his PS2, ate some of his mom's cooking "Not too bad, pretty tasty" and watched Hard boiled, a John woo, Chow yun fat movie with lots of ass kicking and blood being sprayed everywhere. Man that movie was cool. After that i... well.. i basicaly just came home so there you have it

Well the second week after winter break is over. Nothing exciting happened during the weekdays but what the hell why not say what happened.

Monday - I can't remember worth a damn what i did. Probably nothing important

Tuesday - Same thing, nothing important happened.

Wednesday, Thursday - Nothing important happened that i can remember

Friday - All i can remember was that Mr Melton got us some Big Town Hero sub sandwiches..

Ok. Since i dont know what the hell happened this week. I can make up for it by saying what i know what happened this weekend.

Saturday ------ Well lets see.... NOTHING HAPPENED!!!

No i'm just kidding. A shit load happened saturday
At 10:00 i woke up, Had some breakfast and played some games till about 2:00 when i had some lunch. Then i watched some TV for a bit and played games till about 5:00 when i went over to ryders for a bit until me and him had to go to Lloyd center.

Why go to lloyd center at 5:00? Well let me explain

On monday, kirk told me that he was coming down to see some of his friends to take them to see Rocky Horror picture show. I've only seen it once which was back in November, but it was a week after Halloween. This time he wanted to bring me and ryder with him, along with his friends Amanda and Aja, his girlfriend. So he wanted me to meet him and his friends at spencers around 6:30 in lloyd center. He wanted to get ryder to come along too, but knowing ryders Lazy ass, He wouldn't be motivated to really go unless he had a reason. Thankfully i had a $20 i could blow to get me and him tickets to the show and to get us food at lloyd. So i used the old technique of bribing. I got him off his ass and we were off.

So we got there exactly at 6:30.. Thanks to my skillfull bus route skills. "Hooah". Me and ryder met kirk at spencers and he introduced me to his friends. Since it was 6:30 and i hadn't ate since around 2:00, i was pretty damn hungry. So all of us went up to the food court and got ourselves filled. I had some subway and ryder got some Gyros. Kirk and his friends went to that Fiftys diner place which i forget the name of. I currently have a subway addiction so i couldnt resist the temptation >:o. After that, amanda challanged me to a game of DDR. If you know me i couldnt resist so we played a game at the tilt. For someone who was completly new at DDR. Amanda was pimping at the songs we played. I was impressed. Of course, she was playing on beginner, but most people who try DDR on the easiest difficulty usualy end up failing the songs. She never failed a single song.

After we played a game, we decided to head down to aja's apartment, which is somewhere downtown, i don't really recall where. But anywys, we were getting a little roudy, and knowing kirk "From past experiences", he was about to start something that a typical homeless person might do :P. Start singing songs randomly. Thankfully i brought my iPod and beefy headphones. This of course is when everyone notices what i have "Except ryder, he wanted it so he could listen to godsmack instead of Kirk :P", and wants to play with it. Since kirk wanted to make sure that Aja and Amanda's first time at Rocky should be fun, he wanted to get them dressed up. "Cause he's that kind of guy", so we all went to Aja's apartment for a while and Aja got it her outfit for rocky, along with kirk who wore a cloak and a kilt. "I'm not kidding, He wore a cloak and a kilt, nothing else, not even a damn shirt, this being freezing weather" Then agian, ryder was just in pants and a t-shirt and Aja's outfit was basicaly a skirt. I was the only person dressed in warm clothing :P. Such as pants and a t-shirt. "BUT WITH A FLEACE!!!!!". Since everyone was facinated with my iPod, we were listining to random songs on Aja's computer speakers. Most if it was stuff like System of a down and Linkin park. There were a few techno songs but not some of the good ones "In my opinion". After they got their costumes together, i decided i wanted to do something. Amanda wanted to put me in a skirt but i'm not into Drag :P. They begged and begged but i resisted!!! They then asked if they could just dye my hair or something. Since I felt like doing something with my hair, i let her. They dyed my hair purple and for once, my hair looked good.

After we hung out there till about 9:00 PM, we went over to amandas apartment for a while so she could get her costume ready. We sat there, still listeing to the music on my iPod "Only headphones this time ;P" and just basicaly, hung out for a bit. To make everythng cooler, amanda wanted to give us some temp' tattoos. Me and kirk got random viking runes on the backs of our necks and they looked bad ass, until they faded away. When amanda got her costume on, we all headed to the bus to catch the 70 down to transfer to the 4. Now remember, this is at about 11;20 at night, so the busses weren't really running around then. So guess what we did?? We walked about 5 miles total from the 70 bus stop. "If you go to benson, its the one stop where you go to transfer to the 15", down to where you catch the 4 "If you ride the 70 a long ways, it's the one near brick building next to the traintracks", All the way from there to the Theatre where rocky was being shown. Man my feet hurt like hell after that.

When we got inside, it was like a damn Middle School reunion there. THERE WERE 7 PEOPLE FROM MY MIDDLE SCHOOL THERE THAT DAY TOTAL. It scared the shit out of me. They were the following. "Me, Ryder, Kirk --us--, Amanda "Not the one that i met at lloyd", Claire, Matt and Hannah". Just before i entered the theatre, while i was walking to get to my seat i heard a loud "MAX!?". I looked and saw amanda there. Of course my immediate reaction was "WTF!?!?!? Why are you guys here!?". I have never seen so many people i knew at one place, at the same time, at an event that i was going to that day. "Maybe with the exception of seeing Michael Moore, I saw claire there". We all played the "How's it been" game for a while until the movie started which was around 12:00 at night. If you want to know what happens when you see rocky horror, just check out my November post.

When the movie got out around 3:20 AM, my dad told me he would stay up all night to be sure that i got a ride home. Since me and ryder live about 2 blocks away from eachother, and kirk and amanda were staying at Aja's place for the night, me and ryder said our goodbye's to everyone before we left the theater on that very active night.

Man.... Wasn't that an awesome day???

Oh yeah

Sunday - Nothing happened except church :(

Monday - Nothing happened

Very productive wouldn't you say?

First week after winter break is finaly over. Man this week owned so much. Let's say what happened

Monday - For us in the PPS school district, we had school :(. It was good to get back into some of my classes for a bit. CST was fun because i was ahead of everyone. I got a 87% on my big ass CST quarter 2 test. In english i didnt really do anything. Math, we went over our class test. Lunch, mr melton wasnt there so we didnth have a meeting. Spanish we had new seats and did some class work, History we just sat around and read out of the book. That was it

Tuesday - Someone answered my prayers and brought the PPS district a snow day!!!! That was awesome. I mainly just sat around and home and played games

Wednesday- Someone answered my prayers again and brought us ANOTHER snow day. This time my friend Ryder came over and we did some stuff at my house.

Thursday - SOMEONE ANSWERED MY PRAYERS AGAIN!!!!! ANOTHER SNOW DAY!!!! Man this was cool. This time i went over to ryders house, listened to some Queen "Best band ever", and i helped him with SC. Then we walked all the way from his house up to Subway and had some sandwiches. Man, subway = WIN. Then we went back to my house and played some Diablo 2.

Friday - Holy shit, could it get any better? ANOTHER SNOW DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Basicaly today i went to kaiser to get some medication for this damn skin condition i have. Grrrr, then we went to the PC club to check on my RAM to see if i can use it yet. They still dont have the mother board to test it with!!! Damnit i need that RAM. So far that's all that's happened during this first week of 2004. I hope there's more kick ass weeks to come, this year owns so far.

Happy Friggin New-Year

I'm writing this at 1:13 in the morning. Welcome 2004, good riddence 2003.
The real reason i haven't updated since i got out of school is this. I didn't want to and..... well, i didn't want to. Mostly because all i did was stay at home and do nothing, save going to places to get people gifts. Lets say what i got for my parents. For my mom, i got her a hot wheels mini-cooper, because she wants a mini cooper, but since i cant afford one, i gave her the best one that i could afford. For my dad i gave him the chocolat Dvd. Yeah im cheep so what.

Anyways. For christmas, i got 2 new sticks of RAM and a new HD. After putting those in, i got myself a new motherboard for christmas, if you can guess where i just went with that :P. I also got a cell phone, which in these times, is something you really need. Other then that i got the Pirates Of The Carabean DVD "I probably mispelled that", some clothes and a $50 gift card to EB, where with some christmas money, i bought Max Payne 1 and 2 for PC. After that i went to dinner at my uncles house with my dad and grandparents. We had some dry turkey but hey, food is food

After christmas, me and my dad went down to my Cousin Sallys house in Kingston, which is a town 7 Miles off the coast of seattle if you travel from seattle to kingston VIA the ferry. She had a nice place, the town was pretty small and i got to go see the Lord of the rings, return of the king. That movie was pretty kick ass. Also got to play with my phone down there for a while.

For the rest of the week, it's been pretty dull, except for the fact that we've had some major snow for the past few days. Some of the best snow i've seen in a long time. I was amazed when i first saw how much of it there was. I was rebuilding my PC around 7:00 PM yesterday and there was hardly any snow on the ground, but when an hour passed by, the ground was covered in so much snow, it shocked me and made me happy because i haven't seen that much snow in portland since 1996.

So as winter break winds down to a close, i guess i'd have to say that this years winter break was a pretty enjoyable one. We actualy had snow!!!! Anyways, i'd better get some sleep. Happy new year everyone!