To Thy Country Be True, My Pet

“Philip, what’s it mean to be a citizen?”

The last droplets of rain plopped down onto the roof with an audible splatter. Phillip and Max sat on their back porch, looking out over the wet lawn. “I don’t know, Max.”

“Do you think I’m a good citizen, Phil?” Max looked up at Phil, and Philip looked down at Max. “I don’t think much at all about you,” said Philip, shaking his head and resting it on the porch railing, “I don’t see the use in it.” Max looked down at his feet, small and grey, wondering what his companion meant. “I think good citizens look out for each other, and try to be nice, and follow the rules, and do something called ‘taxes.’” His angular face now stared out at the lawn, glistening in the morning sun. “I think good citizens do those things. I do those things.” Philip scoffed, as was his way, and said “You don’t do taxes, you don’t even know what they are.” The larger, surlier companion rolled over onto his other side. Max turned around to look at him. “What are taxes, then, Phil?”

“They’re sort of like tricks. Very annoying tricks, and if you don’t do them everyone gets mad.” Max’s large green eyes widened. “Would they arrest me, for being a bad citizen? Or—or would they do something worse? Send me somewhere else? What’s that word called…”

“Deportation. But don’t worry, the government would never deport you,” said Philip, “you’re a cat.”

Guess who is managing the Tennis team...

And playing on it, and choreographing for Musicals, Hosting a Halloween show, dying in AP Calc and Physics, and coloring in her government class, all the while applying for COLLEGE!? Me! Woot!
I am doing SO much this year it is insane. Crazy. Treasurer for NHS and VP for Thespians and some officer or another for Environmental Club.....crazy. Its fun though. :)
What is everyone else up to?

Awesome weekend...

So Friday we had rehearsal with the set, which was long but fun to see the show finally coming together. During lunch I found the lighting board hiding in a classroom and triumphantly returned with it to the cafeteria. I had gotten the "Most" award for two days and so had gotten to see 2 parts of my costume before anyone else which was....pretty cool.

But ANYWAY, that night I got the casting call for Spook and Walk on Broadway. Mikaela and I will be hosting Spook, choreographing the opening, and performing the finale. For Broadway we are choreographing "Hard Knock Life" and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" as well as performing in the Opening Number (Seasons of Love) and Closing Number (One). In addition, I am performing the part of Elphaba in "What is this Feeling" and singing in "Cell Block Tango" and "I Can Cook". I have TONS to do, but I am exited.

The next day was "Princess and the Pea" showday! We got to the school, got our costumes, ran through the show, put makeup on while Kyle and I alternately lead the game of "Find the Leader" then it was showtime. We did the show, took pictures, redid makeup, played Egyptians Something or Other, played BS, and then got back in our costumes (that we took off because we were SO HOT) and did the show again. Then we took pictures and turned our stuff in. Jeremiah took my information down so I could be nominated for the Summer Camp Missoula Runs in Montana, so who knows, maybe I will do that next summer. Then I got home and packed really fast to go to Meghan's house.

At Meghan's house we ate pizza bianca on the roof while the sun went down before setting up mosquito nets and roasting marshmallows and then sleeping. We talked in between :)
We fell asleep on the roof and woke up when the sun got too bright. After we decided to get up we watched "Recess" and then proceeded to make waffles with syrup, bananas, and whipped cream (yum). Later we made some eggs. Everything was awesome, then we talk-talk-talked some more and I went home.

At home we got ready for the Quad Party, when it started though the sky opened up and the wind started blowing and the hail came down. It was pretty bad. But it all went away eventually and we had our party. We traveled over to the ruins to aid a scavenger hunt, retrieving Mikaela on the way. Then I ended up digging a note out of a flooded tomb before heading over to the pool.

When we got to the pool Mikaela and I went in, Steph and Brittany were ahead, and dove off the diving board with Dilsa, Caitlyn, and Kyle and then played volleyball and swam. 'Twas awesome. Then we had cake, took pictures and walked home to a winding down quad party (with kids running in the non-potable sprinklers) with only a few complications. It was a good weekend.

This is quite epic

Please, watch and enjoy:



So, how was it?

Hello Blarg,
It's been quite a while, hasn't it? I'm sorry about that. I've been gone all summer with limited internet connection, and last spring was absolutely insane. Anyway, now that I'm a Senior, I'm going to try to take a lot more time to blarg. I hope I can make things a little more interesting, and I'll be documenting the college application process as well as the craziness that is Senior year of High School. That said, let's begin:

It's the first week of school. I've gotten my schedule fairly squared out. I was supposed to have free period at the end of the day, but I'm not allowed to get it until I'm actually employed, so I'm TAing for now. I'm only in three APs this year, so that shouldn't be that bad. But I'm already lacking on sleep. Being tired after only three days is not a good thing. But I'll work on it. I got my first scholarship application today! I gotta get started on that ASAP. I also have to register for SAT II, ACT, and possible SAT I. I've already taken the second two, but I want to see if I can improve my score. Anyway, that's it for now. 
Jake out.

They're kidding, really.

I said to myself, SNish, there's got to be a group of Nidoking-worshipers around here.
Nidoking is a pretty cool guy, he's one of the original 151 Pokemon, and he doesn't afraid of anything.*

And lo, did Facebook deliver:


And to think, I had begun to lose faith.











*"Pretty Cool Guy" is a meme. The format goes:
"i think [noun] is a pretty cool guy. eh [verbs] [nouns] and doesnt afraid of anything."
Bad spelling and usage of incorrect nouns adds to the hilarity, as in the original:
"i think halo is a pretty cool guy. eh fights aleins and doesnt afraid of anything."
The more you know.

Guess that quote!

New game, Blarg.

I post a quote, you guess where it's from.

NO GOOGLEING. Google is for cheating cheaters.

Quote 1:
"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."

Re: Harry Potter

I now realize the Harry Potter movies are not movies at all...
They are chapters of the book strung together and put on the screen...which is all good with me...it means that things are usually done right, but that was just a thought.
I enjoy watching the Harry Potter movies...it's like visiting friends....
I am slightly saddened they arent going to end the year I graduate though....I was kinda looking forward to that....

Harry Pptter Quickie

So, I know I haven't posted on here in an embarrasingly long time, but
I felt that I should say this:

I'm seeing Harry Potter 6!!!!!

Jacob out.

P.S.
Sent from my iPhone :P

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey.

So, I'm the first to post in...a month or two (or three?)

Today is 7-8-09 day, which is neat.
My mom is leaving to go on a trip, and I'm playing the "I'm not paying any attention to you" game with my homework.

Here, have some American ego, courtesy of Passive Aggressive Notes Dot Com, who got it from some anonymous college student.

Oh, room 013, you're always good for a laugh.