One of my neighbors has a sign in his yard that says ‘Stop Obama’. This same guy had a ‘I support the second Wal-Mart’ sign in his yard a couple months ago. Then he put up a ‘McCain 2008′ sign. That has now been removed in order to put the ‘Stop Obama’ sign up.
I personally am an Obama fan and so is my entire family. I’ve decided that we need to put a ‘Go Obama’ sign in our yard to counteract his sign. Perhaps a ‘Stop McCain’ sign as well.
In preparation for the carpet project (see previous post), I have decided to thoroughly clean out my room. I figure the more stuff I get rid of now the less I’ll have to move when we get the new carpet. As I was rifling through the various detritus from the past few years it became obvious how long it had been since I performed such a task.
Buried in a pile of various electronics chargers was my GameBoy Color. I haven’t played this in ages. Inside of it was my Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets game.
Along the same lines, I also found my Bop It Extreme. I remember when they came out with the first Bop It when I was in elementary school. Someone brought one to recess and we all played it. My parents didn’t want me to get one since they can become very annoying to listen to. Then they came out with the Bop It Extreme and I asked my aunt for it for Christmas. She got it for me.
Even more interesting was the various junk from school. I found a few binders full of various papers from junior and senior year of high school. That was 2 and 3 years ago, which shows how long it’s been since I cleaned my closet. I found a report card from junior year, my SAT admissions ticket, cards from my 16th birthday (junior year), my temporary learner’s permit, film negatives from photography class, my entire math binder from senior year (which got dumped in the recycling shortly after I found it), my senior research paper, and my first ever piece of fan fiction. This was actually a school assignment. In junior year I had to write a fan fic about Of Mice and Men. I looked at the grade and I got a 95 on it and my teacher wrote ‘This is great! Wonderful job.’ I am sure that is the only assignment that I got that written on it. Most of the assignments that year were essays about boring books that I never got above a 90 on.
Another relic I found that got unceremoniously dumped in the recycling was my chemistry review book. This was from junior year.
Along with my Chemistry reference tables.
And last but not least my US History review book from senior year.
Believe it or not these were not the most interesting items I found. I also found my journal from Creative Writing in senior year. I really liked that class because I enjoy writing as long as it’s something I want to write about. I rifled through it and found multiple story ideas and various poems. I’ll highlight a few here, but am going to save most for future posts. My favorite one by far was from May 1, 2006. It’s a list of stuff I didn’t like on that particular day.
-George Bush -Homework -Traffic Jams
-Getting up early -Regents Exams -This assignment
-Gas prices (this made me -Freshmen boys (my bro -Slow people in the halls
laugh, gas was just under was a freshman that year) -Middle schoolers
$3 at that point) -Slow Computers -People who walk on the wrong side of the hall
-Double physics -School laptops -Gym class
I am not sure what the purpose of that assignment was. I didn’t even know what it was a list of until I read it.
Another favorite is this-
‘I would love to see George Bush put in jail. I think he is one of the worst presidents. He has done illegal stuff like domestic spying and the CIA leak, but he hasn’t been impeached.’
That’s all for now. I’ll post more of my journal at some point. Stay tuned for further updates on the room cleaning as well.
Today, our lovely president was talking about high gas prices. Being someone who lives in an area where gas prices are above average, I am very sick of paying so much to drive my car. I got gas on Sunday and paid $3.65 per gallon, which was a sale price. There are a few stations near me that have gas sales on a certain day of the week. I try to buy my gas whenever there is a sale. It cost me $44 to fill up on Sunday and it wasn’t even a full tank. My tank is 18.5 gallons and I did the math today and found out with the current prices, it would cost me about $67 to fill up my whole tank! Most stations near me are at $3.70 for regular and a few stations have supreme for over $4. I’m so glad there’s only 3 more weeks left in the semester. Once school is over I won’t have to drive as much. And next year I’ll be living on campus so I’ll hardly be driving at all.
Anyway, back to Bush. Today he said, while talking about gas prices, “I firmly believe that, you know, if there was a magic wand to wave, I’d be waving it, of course.” I just started laughing. Of all the things to say about gas prices, that’s what he said? Of course he’d be waving a magic wand. If we could just wave a wand to decrease gas prices, I wouldn’t even be driving anywhere. I’d be Apparating to school and work and I wouldn’t even need a car to begin with. I do believe that this has become my new favorite Bush quote. It has surpassed my other favorite, “It’s getting harder and harder for gynecologists to practice their love for women in this country.”
All I can say is, I can’t wait until January 20, 2009.
Yesterday was the PA primaries, if you didn’t know. Clinton won for the Democrats. I like both of them, but I’m more of an Obama person. What I’d really like is both of them on the same ticket, but I don’t think either of them will suck it up and be satisfied being the running mate.
Anyway, my dad was reading the results online and they listed all the candidates and the percent of people who voted for them. They also had the candidates who have already dropped out listed. 12% of PA Republicans voted for Huckabee. I just started laughing when I read that. Huckabee dropped out months ago. What a waste of a vote. I don’t even see the point in the Republicans having anymore primaries because they’ve all dropped out except McCain. But 12% is a pretty big number of people to be voting for a candidate who’s already dropped out. People are strange.
You can buy the domain name www.clientnine.com in honor of Eliot Sptizer who was Client Number 9 in his prostitution thing. It was in the paper this morning. Someone is selling that domain name for $250,000. You can also buy the email address clientnine@nyc.com
The crazy thing is, I bet someone will buy it. Anyone want it?
