31.8.04
First day of school today. Wow.
Matt and Hayley are in my lunch period and Steph's in my gym class, but other than that, no friend-type people in my classes (that I can recall).
And dude...in my bio class...because I switched from AP, I'm the only sophomore in a class full of freshmen. It SUCKS!
But still...my schedule is kickass, and most of my teachers are awesome.
More on school later, I'm getting tired and bored.
Mr. Furlong: MY GOD I'M HOT AND DISGUSTING, how are you?
Matt and Hayley are in my lunch period and Steph's in my gym class, but other than that, no friend-type people in my classes (that I can recall).
And dude...in my bio class...because I switched from AP, I'm the only sophomore in a class full of freshmen. It SUCKS!
But still...my schedule is kickass, and most of my teachers are awesome.
More on school later, I'm getting tired and bored.
Mr. Furlong: MY GOD I'M HOT AND DISGUSTING, how are you?
30.8.04
School starts tomorrow...aaaaah! Wow, this vacation went by fast. And already I can't wait until next summer. But hey, I have a cool schedule this year, I'll get to see all my friends again, I'm gonna make the most of this year. (For as much of it as I'm staying for.)
Josh, call me, I've got you a job. (Assuming you were serious.)
Appreciate the good times
But don't take the worst for granted
'Cause you only get so many second chances
Josh, call me, I've got you a job. (Assuming you were serious.)
Appreciate the good times
But don't take the worst for granted
'Cause you only get so many second chances
29.8.04
Josh: If I was going out with Brian or Matt, my mother would think I was gay.
Yay, I have an actual title now! I am...
Publicity Manager
Go me!
Publicity Manager
Go me!
First Youth Group meeting of the year. w00t! Board members only...now, see, technically I'm not a board member, but Josh said I should come anyway. So I came, and now I am a board member! I am the person in charge of publicity and enforcement, also known as the SS or the Gazpacho. I get to harass people until they agree to come to the meetings. : D
Brad: No, we're not fascists, we don't have secret police who go around shooting people who don't do what we tell them to. But if we did, that would be Sarah's job.
Me: Sweet! Can I have a taser?
later...
Brad: So all we have to do is give Sarah a taser and have her go around shocking anyone who talks if they haven't raised their hand.
Josh: Or even better, give her a glock. She'll sit way over in that corner *pointing* and then everyone else will sit over here, facing away from her, just knowing that there's a gun aimed at their backs. And she can pick off anyone who talks.
Brad: No, we don't want to kill the people.
Josh: No, see, Sarah will be very highly trained, and if need be, she can just shoot off an arm or something.
Leigh: I want to jump out of a cake!
Leigh: I can't read Brad's ice cream. Wait...I mean...I can't read his writing...
Josh: Your mucus tastes good.
I have a feeling that Youth Group will get a lot more done this year than last year...after all, now we have the Gazpacho. : D
Brad: No, we're not fascists, we don't have secret police who go around shooting people who don't do what we tell them to. But if we did, that would be Sarah's job.
Me: Sweet! Can I have a taser?
later...
Brad: So all we have to do is give Sarah a taser and have her go around shocking anyone who talks if they haven't raised their hand.
Josh: Or even better, give her a glock. She'll sit way over in that corner *pointing* and then everyone else will sit over here, facing away from her, just knowing that there's a gun aimed at their backs. And she can pick off anyone who talks.
Brad: No, we don't want to kill the people.
Josh: No, see, Sarah will be very highly trained, and if need be, she can just shoot off an arm or something.
Leigh: I want to jump out of a cake!
Leigh: I can't read Brad's ice cream. Wait...I mean...I can't read his writing...
Josh: Your mucus tastes good.
I have a feeling that Youth Group will get a lot more done this year than last year...after all, now we have the Gazpacho. : D
School starts in two days. Cripes.
28.8.04
And life says, "Welcome home...here's your reality check, loser."
Thanks to the food channel, I now know all about the secret life of pie.
Are puppies better than cable?
Leaving for the bus station within the hour. Stupid bus. I'll be home later today.
I'm gonna miss that darkroom.
Are puppies better than cable?
Leaving for the bus station within the hour. Stupid bus. I'll be home later today.
I'm gonna miss that darkroom.
27.8.04
It's alright
to tell me
what you think
about me
I won't try
to argue
or hold it
against you
I know that
you're leaving
you must have
your reasons
The season
is calling
and your pictures
are falling down
to tell me
what you think
about me
I won't try
to argue
or hold it
against you
I know that
you're leaving
you must have
your reasons
The season
is calling
and your pictures
are falling down
: D
Darkroom is working. : D
Turns out I was messing up the chemicals...problem fixed. : D
I've developed a few photos in the last couple hours, there's one I really like that I've been trying to perfect, one of Molly and Brooke and two little people on the hike during the weekend after my first week at camp.
Can't wait til I can set up my own darkroom...
Darkroom is working. : D
Turns out I was messing up the chemicals...problem fixed. : D
I've developed a few photos in the last couple hours, there's one I really like that I've been trying to perfect, one of Molly and Brooke and two little people on the hike during the weekend after my first week at camp.
Can't wait til I can set up my own darkroom...
Gaaah stupid darkroom isn't working! First we thought it was bad chemicals, then we thought the "safe" red light was exposing the paper, and now google isn't being helpful and I can't figure out if I messed up the dilution ratios for the chemicals or something.
Help...
Anyone here know anything about darkroom chemicals?
Help...
Anyone here know anything about darkroom chemicals?
26.8.04
"This is New York, of course we'd have 7 naked people on 8th Avenue."
I just heard that from the other room, on the news program my grandmother is watching.
I don't want to know.
I just heard that from the other room, on the news program my grandmother is watching.
I don't want to know.
I have come to the conclusion that using 20 year old chemicals in a darkroom just doesn't work. Curses. Tonight I shall try using the new ones.
I like my reference on Brian's blog:
"Right now I'm basically just updating this because the Schaffer child yells at me a lot..."
Went to Brighton today (Little Russia!), it was really cool. Walked around a bit, got some Russian chocolates, then went on the boardwalk and took black and white photos of old men playing chess.
I like my reference on Brian's blog:
"Right now I'm basically just updating this because the Schaffer child yells at me a lot..."
Went to Brighton today (Little Russia!), it was really cool. Walked around a bit, got some Russian chocolates, then went on the boardwalk and took black and white photos of old men playing chess.
25.8.04
Curse it, this computer no longer has Tetris.
Why doesn't this computer show all of Shreya's blog? I won't be able to read it until Saturday.
It's 8:44, I'm buzzing on Lucky Charms, and I'm going to play tetris.
It's 8:44, I'm buzzing on Lucky Charms, and I'm going to play tetris.
24.8.04
Hello everyone. I'm in NJ! w00t. Survived the dreaded bus ride to NY, traffic was horrible so I was an hour late to the station...my grandmother was getting all freaked out. Bus to NJ was less than an hour, so that's not so bad.
I was getting all excited because I thought my grandmother knew all this stuff about photography, unfortunately, that was 30 years ago..."I don't remember anything." At the store to get the chemicals and paper, I knew more than she did...
Dragged her old enlarger up from the basement, hopefully we'll figure out how to use it. Hopefully it works.
Converting the bathroom into a darkroom tomorrow. : D
Cursed foot.
Sara spelled without an "h" was getting bored
On a Peavea amp in 1984
While Zak without a "c" tried out some new guitars
Playing Sara-with-no-h's favorite song
I was getting all excited because I thought my grandmother knew all this stuff about photography, unfortunately, that was 30 years ago..."I don't remember anything." At the store to get the chemicals and paper, I knew more than she did...
Dragged her old enlarger up from the basement, hopefully we'll figure out how to use it. Hopefully it works.
Converting the bathroom into a darkroom tomorrow. : D
Cursed foot.
Sara spelled without an "h" was getting bored
On a Peavea amp in 1984
While Zak without a "c" tried out some new guitars
Playing Sara-with-no-h's favorite song
23.8.04
I have recently discovered that grilled cheese sandwiches are in fact fried.
Going to New Jersey tomorrow. I get to ride a bus to New York and then another bus to New Jersey. I don't like buses. I wanted to take a train, but the bus is apparently cheaper. Silly transportation systems.
Going to Little Russia a couple days later...always fun.
Mom tells my that my grandmother know a lot about photography, so I'll probably end up doing photography stuff too. : D
Be back on Saturday. On another bus.
Are you hanging on for hope?
The clock strikes past the hour
Is the pain enough to choke the life out?
Going to New Jersey tomorrow. I get to ride a bus to New York and then another bus to New Jersey. I don't like buses. I wanted to take a train, but the bus is apparently cheaper. Silly transportation systems.
Going to Little Russia a couple days later...always fun.
Mom tells my that my grandmother know a lot about photography, so I'll probably end up doing photography stuff too. : D
Be back on Saturday. On another bus.
Are you hanging on for hope?
The clock strikes past the hour
Is the pain enough to choke the life out?
22.8.04
Why are songs about moving always about moving to California? Why not, say, Arizona?
Uncommon amount of the time at home
Hardly a word on the telephone
Finally find the time to get to know you
Still mapping it out like a master plan
Something to do with my idle hands
Write you a letter addressed from California
It's vivid and strong in my memory
An absence that smacks of abandoning
It led to the battle that ultimately destroyed us
I'm nothing if I don't know your mistakes
The pill is as bitter as I can take
It twists like a blade when I leave for California
I hope that you know this is killing me
It's all in the name of the family
We only can play the cards the dealer dealt us
The end of the cycle is closing in
With you I see new hope begin again
There suddenly seems to be promise in California
As heavy as all this is weighing me
believe in the words I am promising
I'm still here for her
The distance is only an obstacle
Hardly a match for a miracle
I'm finally ready to go to California
Uncommon amount of the time at home
Hardly a word on the telephone
Finally find the time to get to know you
Still mapping it out like a master plan
Something to do with my idle hands
Write you a letter addressed from California
It's vivid and strong in my memory
An absence that smacks of abandoning
It led to the battle that ultimately destroyed us
I'm nothing if I don't know your mistakes
The pill is as bitter as I can take
It twists like a blade when I leave for California
I hope that you know this is killing me
It's all in the name of the family
We only can play the cards the dealer dealt us
The end of the cycle is closing in
With you I see new hope begin again
There suddenly seems to be promise in California
As heavy as all this is weighing me
believe in the words I am promising
I'm still here for her
The distance is only an obstacle
Hardly a match for a miracle
I'm finally ready to go to California
21.8.04
Back from a week of camping in Maine. The campsite was kinda crappy and the weather was crappier. I lost my star necklace swimming in the lake, so I'm a bit upset about that. I'll tell you more about camping later...I have entered the realm of confusion and contradicting emotions. Hopefully I shall escape soon.
13.8.04
Mmk, color pictures are scanned and are HERE, black and white ones are coming later, let me know if you want copies of anything and I'll see what I can do. : D
I changed the sand in the Mallow and Uber Ralph's tank before I brought them to Shreya today. It was infested with fruit flies and smelled funky. So now they have some nice, new, clean, not smelling funky sand.
Shreya my love, there's a couple things I forgot to tell you about the hermit crabs...
Uber Ralph likes to climb up the walls of the tank. He'll get up to the lid and then have no clue what to do next, so he'll have to be rescued. And if you're holding either of them, don't hold them over, say, a tile floor, because if they fall, that would be very not good. And I'll pick them up sometime next Sunday, not sure exactly when, I'll give you a call.
You can get a 40 lb bag of sand for 3.99+ tax at Katz's. w00t. But now I still have about 2/3 of a 40 lb bag of sand sitting in the shed.
Smiling in the bright lights
Coming through in stereo
When everybody loves you
You can never be lonely
I will paint my picture
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful
Gray is my favorite color
I felt so symbolic yesterday
If I knew Picasso
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play
Shreya my love, there's a couple things I forgot to tell you about the hermit crabs...
Uber Ralph likes to climb up the walls of the tank. He'll get up to the lid and then have no clue what to do next, so he'll have to be rescued. And if you're holding either of them, don't hold them over, say, a tile floor, because if they fall, that would be very not good. And I'll pick them up sometime next Sunday, not sure exactly when, I'll give you a call.
You can get a 40 lb bag of sand for 3.99+ tax at Katz's. w00t. But now I still have about 2/3 of a 40 lb bag of sand sitting in the shed.
Smiling in the bright lights
Coming through in stereo
When everybody loves you
You can never be lonely
I will paint my picture
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful
Gray is my favorite color
I felt so symbolic yesterday
If I knew Picasso
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play
12.8.04
There was honor among the thieves
The only truth I could believe
But when the lies apply to me and mine
It's better left unsaid
We could write the hit parade
Outside the Masquerade
The headache comes in tidal waves
The spoils of the spoiled
The only truth I could believe
But when the lies apply to me and mine
It's better left unsaid
We could write the hit parade
Outside the Masquerade
The headache comes in tidal waves
The spoils of the spoiled
Picked up most of my camp photos from CVS today. : D Haven't gotten the black and white negatives developed yet, I'm waiting until Frankie sends me the strip I'm hoping she got from Rachel...
I'm gonna see if I can scan some of the better/funnier pictures tonight and post them.
Just so you have something to look foward to. : D
I'm gonna see if I can scan some of the better/funnier pictures tonight and post them.
Just so you have something to look foward to. : D
11.8.04
Hey all.
Any of you guys (preferably someone who lives near me) going to be home August 14-21? I'm going camping and I need someone to take Mallow and Uber Ralph for the week. I'll give you 5 bucks.
All you have to do is fill their water dish twice a day and give them a bit of cucumber or something every few days. And make sure Uber Ralph doesn't eat Mallow, but I don't think he will.
Give me a call if you can.
I had a weird dream last night...some random guy gave me a puppy. The puppy was a chocolate lab and I named him Ezra. I put him in my old hermit crab tank and then put him in my closet. (Not that I'd do that in real life.) A few days later, I was like, "Oh yeah, I have a puppy" so I took him out of the tank and he ran around on my bedroom floor. Then I got Sydney's leash and took Ezra outside and we ran around in the backyard. We ran halfway up the hill up to the woods, and I tripped and fell down, and then suddenly the guy who gave me Ezra was there with his daughter. His daughter was talking to me, but I couldn't hear what she was saying, and I couldn't get up, and when I tried to look at her my eyes wouldn't focus. That often happens just before I wake up...
Some may say it's overrated
Staring at their shoes
You're arrow don't have poison
But they bruise
I can't make peace with you
All my heart is on these pages
Open to abuse
I should try to be dishonest
But I lose
Any of you guys (preferably someone who lives near me) going to be home August 14-21? I'm going camping and I need someone to take Mallow and Uber Ralph for the week. I'll give you 5 bucks.
All you have to do is fill their water dish twice a day and give them a bit of cucumber or something every few days. And make sure Uber Ralph doesn't eat Mallow, but I don't think he will.
Give me a call if you can.
I had a weird dream last night...some random guy gave me a puppy. The puppy was a chocolate lab and I named him Ezra. I put him in my old hermit crab tank and then put him in my closet. (Not that I'd do that in real life.) A few days later, I was like, "Oh yeah, I have a puppy" so I took him out of the tank and he ran around on my bedroom floor. Then I got Sydney's leash and took Ezra outside and we ran around in the backyard. We ran halfway up the hill up to the woods, and I tripped and fell down, and then suddenly the guy who gave me Ezra was there with his daughter. His daughter was talking to me, but I couldn't hear what she was saying, and I couldn't get up, and when I tried to look at her my eyes wouldn't focus. That often happens just before I wake up...
Some may say it's overrated
Staring at their shoes
You're arrow don't have poison
But they bruise
I can't make peace with you
All my heart is on these pages
Open to abuse
I should try to be dishonest
But I lose
It's so fun stealing things like this from Shre's blog...
10 SONGS YOU LOVE:
01. Guster "So Long"
02. Weezer "Butterfly"
03. Radiohead "Stupid Car"
04. Barenaked Ladies "Thanks, That Was Fun"
05. Hot Hot Heat "Oh Goddamnit"
06. Counting Crows "Accidentally in Love"
07. Better Than Ezra "A Lifetime"
08. Weezer "Only in Dreams"
09. Guster "Happier"
10. Gin Blossoms "Jealousy"
9 THINGS THAT ANNOY YOU:
01. older brothers
02. snow
03. many people
04. small, shrieking children
05. exploding pens
06. AOL
07. rap music
08. the fact that I now have to listen for things such as the UPS truck and Aaron's (piano teacher) car
09. cold weather
8 THINGS THAT MAKE YOU SMILE:
01. older brothers
02. Alena's emails : D
03. reading the stuff written on my wall
04. inside jokes
05. memories of camp
06. memories from last school year
07. getting mail
08. Mallow and Uber Ralph
7 THINGS THAT YOU`RE SCARED OF:
01. clowns
02. not knowing what's going on
03. having no control of bad stuff that could happen
04. spiders
05. being outside alone at night
06. elevators
07. ferris wheels
6 THINGS YOU`RE LOOKIN` FORWARD TO:
01. next summer
02. photography class next year
03. videography class next year
04. setting up a darkroom
05. Arizona (in a resigned sort of way)
06. finally finishing writing this @#&*!% book...
5 THINGS YOU WEAR DAILY:
01. star necklace
02. glasses or contacts
03. hair
04. underwear
05. nose
4 PEOPLE YOU TALK TO DAILY:
01. myself
02. Ezra
03. Mallow and Uber Ralph
04. whatever inanimate object happens to be annoying me that day
3 FOODS YOU COULD LIVE OFF:
01. lasagna (vegetarian)
02. mac and cheese
03. plums
2 UNFORGETTABLE MOMENTS:
01. Brooke hugging tents
02. the Rockathon
1 PERSON YOU COULD SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE WITH:
01. Undecided...
10 SONGS YOU LOVE:
01. Guster "So Long"
02. Weezer "Butterfly"
03. Radiohead "Stupid Car"
04. Barenaked Ladies "Thanks, That Was Fun"
05. Hot Hot Heat "Oh Goddamnit"
06. Counting Crows "Accidentally in Love"
07. Better Than Ezra "A Lifetime"
08. Weezer "Only in Dreams"
09. Guster "Happier"
10. Gin Blossoms "Jealousy"
9 THINGS THAT ANNOY YOU:
01. older brothers
02. snow
03. many people
04. small, shrieking children
05. exploding pens
06. AOL
07. rap music
08. the fact that I now have to listen for things such as the UPS truck and Aaron's (piano teacher) car
09. cold weather
8 THINGS THAT MAKE YOU SMILE:
01. older brothers
02. Alena's emails : D
03. reading the stuff written on my wall
04. inside jokes
05. memories of camp
06. memories from last school year
07. getting mail
08. Mallow and Uber Ralph
7 THINGS THAT YOU`RE SCARED OF:
01. clowns
02. not knowing what's going on
03. having no control of bad stuff that could happen
04. spiders
05. being outside alone at night
06. elevators
07. ferris wheels
6 THINGS YOU`RE LOOKIN` FORWARD TO:
01. next summer
02. photography class next year
03. videography class next year
04. setting up a darkroom
05. Arizona (in a resigned sort of way)
06. finally finishing writing this @#&*!% book...
5 THINGS YOU WEAR DAILY:
01. star necklace
02. glasses or contacts
03. hair
04. underwear
05. nose
4 PEOPLE YOU TALK TO DAILY:
01. myself
02. Ezra
03. Mallow and Uber Ralph
04. whatever inanimate object happens to be annoying me that day
3 FOODS YOU COULD LIVE OFF:
01. lasagna (vegetarian)
02. mac and cheese
03. plums
2 UNFORGETTABLE MOMENTS:
01. Brooke hugging tents
02. the Rockathon
1 PERSON YOU COULD SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE WITH:
01. Undecided...
Sam: Yeah, I just needed to send a monkey up there.
Joe: ...Am I the monkey?
Sam: Yeah.
Joe: Good. I thought a monkey was taking my credit.
Mom: That was a very Homer Simpsonish thing to say.
Joe: ...Am I the monkey?
Sam: Yeah.
Joe: Good. I thought a monkey was taking my credit.
Mom: That was a very Homer Simpsonish thing to say.
So tell me. Have you ever seen a penguin come to tea?
10.8.04
From Frog's email to me about when she was at TT...
"During one night we (the girls in my cabin) heard this really freaky noise and we all screamed for Becky, who was by the washstands and our cabin was the farthest away. She came and we were all freaking out. It turns out the noise was an owl, but we were all afraid that it was going to come in the cabin and get us. (It was late. Don't ask.) I guess Becky got mad, cause she said, 'If that owl opens the door you come and get me 'cause that's one goddamn smart owl.'"
"During one night we (the girls in my cabin) heard this really freaky noise and we all screamed for Becky, who was by the washstands and our cabin was the farthest away. She came and we were all freaking out. It turns out the noise was an owl, but we were all afraid that it was going to come in the cabin and get us. (It was late. Don't ask.) I guess Becky got mad, cause she said, 'If that owl opens the door you come and get me 'cause that's one goddamn smart owl.'"
OH MY GOD I'M SO PSYCHED!
My grandmother found out I'm into photography, and that I want to set up a darkroom, and turns out she has all this darkroom equipment in her basement that she hasn't used in years, and she says I can have it! AAAAH! She said she has an enlarger, chemical trays, special boxes for the paper, red lights...she used to have a darkroom in the extra bathroom in her house!
Man, I'm so happy. I'm gonna have a darkroom in Arizona! HAHAHA!
w00t.
My grandmother found out I'm into photography, and that I want to set up a darkroom, and turns out she has all this darkroom equipment in her basement that she hasn't used in years, and she says I can have it! AAAAH! She said she has an enlarger, chemical trays, special boxes for the paper, red lights...she used to have a darkroom in the extra bathroom in her house!
Man, I'm so happy. I'm gonna have a darkroom in Arizona! HAHAHA!
w00t.
I'll trust you as far as I can spit
You can read deep into it
New York nightlife isn't shit
Without a storyboard
I don't think much impresses me
Like a drunk celebrity
You just fall down and fall asleep
Like the rest of us
I'm gonna go eat some ice cream now. Be back later, punks.
You can read deep into it
New York nightlife isn't shit
Without a storyboard
I don't think much impresses me
Like a drunk celebrity
You just fall down and fall asleep
Like the rest of us
I'm gonna go eat some ice cream now. Be back later, punks.
9.8.04
It's already tomorrow in Australia. Freaky. Are you Australians awake yet? Assuming I have the ability to read a time zone map, it is somewhere between 10:27 AM and 12:27 PM now.
I think it's tomorrow in England too. Very very early tomorrow.
ooo, I've discovered a World Time Clock website! It is now 11:28 AM in Sydney and 2:28 AM in London. So I do have the ability to read a time zone map. Go me!
Wow, I'm bored.
I've had the Ben Folds song stuck in my head for a while. Good thing it's a cool song. A little depressing, but cool.
Everybody knows
It hurts to grow up
But everybody does
It's so weird to be back here
Let me tell you what
The years go on and
We're still fighting it
We're still fighting it
I think it's tomorrow in England too. Very very early tomorrow.
ooo, I've discovered a World Time Clock website! It is now 11:28 AM in Sydney and 2:28 AM in London. So I do have the ability to read a time zone map. Go me!
Wow, I'm bored.
I've had the Ben Folds song stuck in my head for a while. Good thing it's a cool song. A little depressing, but cool.
Everybody knows
It hurts to grow up
But everybody does
It's so weird to be back here
Let me tell you what
The years go on and
We're still fighting it
We're still fighting it
Mom: Fred K. is on the phone.
Dad: Can you tell him I died?
Dad: Can you tell him I died?
8.8.04
Family reunion yesterday. Hung out with cousins Adam and Jesse, who I only get to see once a year. (At this reunion.) It was at Alice and Hilly's house again because they live next to a lake and Hilly took people out on the jetski. It was fun. I got to drive it. While in the "no wake zone", I had issues with steering so that the jetski went straight, but hey, I got airborne after hitting the 2-foot wake from some stupid motor boat in the not "no wake zone".
Every year, I rediscover that my dad's side of the family is insane and likes to take pictures too much. (That explains a lot.)
Still having random laughing fits while remembering funny stuff from camp.
Like the Luau (spelling?) Friday afternoon. Counselors got dumped in the lake. So did Frankie, but she was already wet from the waist down from running into the water after the volleyball. I don't remember who started it or who got dragged into the lake first, but a group of counselors surrounded someone and picked them up and threw them in. Alexia was next...she was wearing her new "The Used" shirt so she was a little pissed. "First day I wear this shirt, and it gets soaked in disgusting lake water." Most of the counselors at the beach were thrown in. Heh...a huge group of people chased Sarah off the beach and around the grassy area, but then she ran down to the water and threw herself in. A bit more dignified than being dragged across the sand and dumped in by laughing campers. Maybe. Brooke tried to pick Maggie (who is like, a foot taller than her) up and throw her in the water, but Maggie lifted Brooke over the fence dividing the beach and the grass and stood her up on one of the benches. The look on her face was hilarious. I tried to help get Becky in the lake, but for some reason Maggie made us stop then.
Ahh, memories.
Every year, I rediscover that my dad's side of the family is insane and likes to take pictures too much. (That explains a lot.)
Still having random laughing fits while remembering funny stuff from camp.
Like the Luau (spelling?) Friday afternoon. Counselors got dumped in the lake. So did Frankie, but she was already wet from the waist down from running into the water after the volleyball. I don't remember who started it or who got dragged into the lake first, but a group of counselors surrounded someone and picked them up and threw them in. Alexia was next...she was wearing her new "The Used" shirt so she was a little pissed. "First day I wear this shirt, and it gets soaked in disgusting lake water." Most of the counselors at the beach were thrown in. Heh...a huge group of people chased Sarah off the beach and around the grassy area, but then she ran down to the water and threw herself in. A bit more dignified than being dragged across the sand and dumped in by laughing campers. Maybe. Brooke tried to pick Maggie (who is like, a foot taller than her) up and throw her in the water, but Maggie lifted Brooke over the fence dividing the beach and the grass and stood her up on one of the benches. The look on her face was hilarious. I tried to help get Becky in the lake, but for some reason Maggie made us stop then.
Ahh, memories.
6.8.04
SAM STILL OWES 20 PUSH-UPS!!!!
muahaha...
Before I forget, for those of you who know about my hermit crabs, Dex died. Still got Mallow and Uber Ralph though.
A continuation of the funny quotes:
I'm attempting to have them in the order that they were said, I've probably failed miserably. Sorry about any misquotes.
Rachel: Don't leave just yet. Eww, oh my god, did you just hear what I said? That's so gross! *storms off to cabin*
Becky H: Hey Rachel!
Rachel: What?!
Becky: Don't you love living with a British person?
Me: Crazy Americans.
Nicole: Or as Alexia would say, freaky ass Americans.
Alexia: I wish my mom sent me cool things like comics. She sends me family photos.
At Scout's Own
Small Child: Brooke, you're too tall!
Brooke: Did you hear that? I'm too tall!
Maggie: Yeah, that's a first.
Tara: Save the crest for last!
Rowboats!
Me: Okay, let's see if I can remember how to do this..."
Brooke: 'Let's see if I remember this'...that's reassuring.
Brooke: Don't worry, Sarah can show you, she's an expert at rowboats. She did this all last year.
Me: We never did rowboats in Float Your Boat.
Brooke: Shh!
After Maggie called our parents about the fire
Maggie: "Hello, this is Maggie from Timber Trails. Your daughter is on fire. We need your permission to exinguish her, so please call back ASAP." It's my dream to leave that message for a parent.
Maggie being a goof Sunday night:
Maggie: What's with the bathrobe? My dad wears a bathrobe.
Maggie: When I was little, I used to wonder what would happen if you shaved an owl. Like, would the feathers grow back, or would the other owls make fun of him, and call him, I don't know, like, Curly.
Maggie: I wanted to be a fire engine when I was little. Sirens, ladders, and everything. And then when I was 7 I realized my mom was lying and I couldn't be anything I wanted. I didn't talk to her for two weeks. She laughed at me. Then she realized I was serious. Then she laughed again. That's why I didn't talk to her for the next two weeks. I was pissed."
Why me?
Maggie (camper): Sarah, we need your older brain!
Maggie (camper): Sarah, we need your older self. Forget your older brain, we need you.
Alexia and Sarah (not me) being immature with the pudding
Alexia: What? I'm saving it for later! Don't dare touch me or I'll kill you.
HYPER!
Me: Don't worry! I'm almost perfectly exactly not harmless.
Frankie: Take all your energy, crush it into a little tiny ball, and eat it!
Frankie: We'regoing Brooke and we haven't had any marshmallows yet!
Me: The porta-potty smells like poo!
Karen: Well, I expect there's poo in it.
Oh yeah, anyone in the Rockies (you're near the sports field, right?) did you hear us Tuesday night? Everyone in my cabin was all hyper so we were out there running and screaming like morons. It was fun.
w00t for photography...Rachel turned the lights out in the darkroom
Small Child: I can't see!
Alexia: That's because the lights are out and it's all dark.
My cabin's weird.
Me: Why are you holding your underwear?
Frankie: I'm too punk rock for tacky day.
Me: Good elfy!
Me: Sam the duck...
Essence: That doesn look like Sam though.
Me: ...What?
Essence: Oh, we're on the floor?
?: Because I'm crazy. And I've had too much crack.
Random stuff
Sam: Okay, we're just going to do that hip-thrusting dance to warm up.
Maggie: Bending Trees! Little people, get out!
Brooke: They're taking photos of me!
Maggie: What can I say...I left my cape in my cabin.
Brooke: I've been violated!
Barb: They can't be sisters! They live in completely different parts of the world!
Sam: My dad likes to travel a lot.
Maggie: What, are you having a block party in my car? Get out of my car!
Camper people: *singing* So I got myself a wife...
Brooke: Oh no.
Alexia (I think): Is that a singing torch?
Just remember...
-marshmallows=diamonds
-the letter "h" is not pronounced "haych" (crazy Bri'ish)
-shh...Bending Trees
-Sam still owes push-ups
-Molly said to bug you
-no logs the size of small children
-don't talk to the maintenance boys
-when in doubt, make a fool of yourself.
Cheers.
muahaha...
Before I forget, for those of you who know about my hermit crabs, Dex died. Still got Mallow and Uber Ralph though.
A continuation of the funny quotes:
I'm attempting to have them in the order that they were said, I've probably failed miserably. Sorry about any misquotes.
Rachel: Don't leave just yet. Eww, oh my god, did you just hear what I said? That's so gross! *storms off to cabin*
Becky H: Hey Rachel!
Rachel: What?!
Becky: Don't you love living with a British person?
Me: Crazy Americans.
Nicole: Or as Alexia would say, freaky ass Americans.
Alexia: I wish my mom sent me cool things like comics. She sends me family photos.
At Scout's Own
Small Child: Brooke, you're too tall!
Brooke: Did you hear that? I'm too tall!
Maggie: Yeah, that's a first.
Tara: Save the crest for last!
Rowboats!
Me: Okay, let's see if I can remember how to do this..."
Brooke: 'Let's see if I remember this'...that's reassuring.
Brooke: Don't worry, Sarah can show you, she's an expert at rowboats. She did this all last year.
Me: We never did rowboats in Float Your Boat.
Brooke: Shh!
After Maggie called our parents about the fire
Maggie: "Hello, this is Maggie from Timber Trails. Your daughter is on fire. We need your permission to exinguish her, so please call back ASAP." It's my dream to leave that message for a parent.
Maggie being a goof Sunday night:
Maggie: What's with the bathrobe? My dad wears a bathrobe.
Maggie: When I was little, I used to wonder what would happen if you shaved an owl. Like, would the feathers grow back, or would the other owls make fun of him, and call him, I don't know, like, Curly.
Maggie: I wanted to be a fire engine when I was little. Sirens, ladders, and everything. And then when I was 7 I realized my mom was lying and I couldn't be anything I wanted. I didn't talk to her for two weeks. She laughed at me. Then she realized I was serious. Then she laughed again. That's why I didn't talk to her for the next two weeks. I was pissed."
Why me?
Maggie (camper): Sarah, we need your older brain!
Maggie (camper): Sarah, we need your older self. Forget your older brain, we need you.
Alexia and Sarah (not me) being immature with the pudding
Alexia: What? I'm saving it for later! Don't dare touch me or I'll kill you.
HYPER!
Me: Don't worry! I'm almost perfectly exactly not harmless.
Frankie: Take all your energy, crush it into a little tiny ball, and eat it!
Frankie: We'regoing Brooke and we haven't had any marshmallows yet!
Me: The porta-potty smells like poo!
Karen: Well, I expect there's poo in it.
Oh yeah, anyone in the Rockies (you're near the sports field, right?) did you hear us Tuesday night? Everyone in my cabin was all hyper so we were out there running and screaming like morons. It was fun.
w00t for photography...Rachel turned the lights out in the darkroom
Small Child: I can't see!
Alexia: That's because the lights are out and it's all dark.
My cabin's weird.
Me: Why are you holding your underwear?
Frankie: I'm too punk rock for tacky day.
Me: Good elfy!
Me: Sam the duck...
Essence: That doesn look like Sam though.
Me: ...What?
Essence: Oh, we're on the floor?
?: Because I'm crazy. And I've had too much crack.
Random stuff
Sam: Okay, we're just going to do that hip-thrusting dance to warm up.
Maggie: Bending Trees! Little people, get out!
Brooke: They're taking photos of me!
Maggie: What can I say...I left my cape in my cabin.
Brooke: I've been violated!
Barb: They can't be sisters! They live in completely different parts of the world!
Sam: My dad likes to travel a lot.
Maggie: What, are you having a block party in my car? Get out of my car!
Camper people: *singing* So I got myself a wife...
Brooke: Oh no.
Alexia (I think): Is that a singing torch?
Just remember...
-marshmallows=diamonds
-the letter "h" is not pronounced "haych" (crazy Bri'ish)
-shh...Bending Trees
-Sam still owes push-ups
-Molly said to bug you
-no logs the size of small children
-don't talk to the maintenance boys
-when in doubt, make a fool of yourself.
Cheers.
Wow, back from camp, it's been two weeks and I had such a great time. I swear, it gets more fun every year. Seriously, I'm going to go back next year as a CIT, fly up from Arizona and I'll crash at a friends house for the week or two between GHS graduation and TT precamp if I have to...
So much to tell you all. I'll categorize it and start with the crap days first (all the bad stuff happened between Friday and Sunday last week) and then tell you all the fun stuff that I can remember. (I wrote down funny quotes!)
First and foremost...
Sydney:
Sydney's gone. It sucks. This covers crap days #'s 2, 3, and 4.
Saturday, most of the campers were gone for the weekend, so Brooke took the ones of us who were left on a hike. Before the hike, Rachel (CIT) told me that Maggie (camp director) said I had to go to admin. and call my mom. I figured it was about the fire (more on that later) and said "I already called her" but Rachel said "I dunno, you have to call her again." So after the hike, I called my mom, and she said, "You know how before you left, Sydney was starting to get sick...she got worse." Shit. Mom had called me just to let me know, because there was a good chance that Syd was going to die before I got home. That was crap day #2.
All of Sunday, I was all nervous and looking around for Maggie, hoping she wouldn't come near me, because I was afraid that she would and that she would tell me I had to go to admin again to call mom, I knew what that would mean. But Sunday night, Maggie stopped by my unit and asked to talk to me, and said, "Your mom called me earlier today..." I said, "Sydney's dead, isn't she" and Maggie just said "Yeah." Crap day #3.
Monday was crap day #4, it wasn't as bad as it could've been, because of my unit's schedule I was pretty busy most of the day, but every now and then when I wasn't thinking about what we were doing, I was all depressed.
It's going to take me a while go get used to this, like, when I came home today, before I went upstairs, I was just thinking that Sydney would be lying on the stairs and I would say hi to her before I went to my room, and then I was like, "Wait a second, she's not there."
Fire at the Jaycee:
This was crap day #1. Friday. My unit was at the arts and crafts building (the Jaycee building) making candles. Only two girls were up at the stove at a time, Jess and Celine were melting and stirring the wax. I was sitting at one of the other buildings, looking at the cactus I had made for my unit's little "show and tell" for Scout's Own that night, and the front of the room suddenly burst in to flame. Worst moment of my life...I don't even remember getting up and running, but I saw the fire and felt the heat of it on my face and arms, hearing everyone around me screaming, I don't even remember if I screamed or not. Running out the back door, everyone was pushing, I tripped and fell and shouted "fuck!" really loud, thinking that the fire was coming out the door right behind us all, and the next second someone was grabbing the back of my arms and somehow pulled me to my feet again. (I didn't find out until hours later that it was Becky who pulled me up, and the way I was thinking then, "saved my life".) Running out on the grass, hearing Jen screaming, "Lianne! Lianne! Where's my sister?" , and thinking that Lianne had been one of the ones near the stove...everyone got out okay, but we were all crying and we were all just in shock. As it turned out, nothing in the room was actually burned but the ceiling, and maitenance fixed that later that day. Two of the girls sprained their ankles, and 3 of the counselors got burned by the wax and had to go to the hospital, but they were back by the end of the day and they were all fine. We were all lucky. We were all thinking, what would have happened if it was a group of little kids in there, instead of us, the oldest group? What if there had been people in the photography room at the time? We got lucky.
What had happened with the fire (it didn't spring out of nowhere) was, the wax was too hot, so someone added cold water to it and the pot of wax decided to explode.
Maggie called all our parents later that day, we were all laughing during the conversations, it was pretty funny the way she worded it. She called it a "slight fire". Granted, it wasn't as bad as it looked, but still...and she said "all the girls were evacuated" as if we didn't have the sense to run away from a fire. That was rather amusing.
The funny quotes:
I'll even be nice and tell you all what was going on and who these people are.
Maggie (camp director) complaining about how it's "never happy news" when she gets paged...
"It's always, 'Maggie, the Ranger wants to talk to you', or, 'Maggie, there's an angry parent on the phone', or, 'Maggie, the Jaycee building is on fire.' It's never, 'Maggie, you've won the lottery', or, 'Maggie, you've won a new car', or, 'Maggie, your brother's wife just gave birth.' It's never happy news."
Maggie: "Beating up Sam is always good. Always makes me feel better."
Sam=kickboxing instructor
Maggie (c.d) trying to cheer me up after crap day #2:
"Want be to throw Brooke in the lake? Would that cheer you up? 'Cause I can hook you up."
They gave us green eggs for breakfast one morning. They bounced.
Brooke: "EGG FIGHT!"
Yeah, okay, I'm tired now and there's still 4 notebook pages of quotes, I'll post it all in another big post later today.
So much to tell you all. I'll categorize it and start with the crap days first (all the bad stuff happened between Friday and Sunday last week) and then tell you all the fun stuff that I can remember. (I wrote down funny quotes!)
First and foremost...
Sydney:
Sydney's gone. It sucks. This covers crap days #'s 2, 3, and 4.
Saturday, most of the campers were gone for the weekend, so Brooke took the ones of us who were left on a hike. Before the hike, Rachel (CIT) told me that Maggie (camp director) said I had to go to admin. and call my mom. I figured it was about the fire (more on that later) and said "I already called her" but Rachel said "I dunno, you have to call her again." So after the hike, I called my mom, and she said, "You know how before you left, Sydney was starting to get sick...she got worse." Shit. Mom had called me just to let me know, because there was a good chance that Syd was going to die before I got home. That was crap day #2.
All of Sunday, I was all nervous and looking around for Maggie, hoping she wouldn't come near me, because I was afraid that she would and that she would tell me I had to go to admin again to call mom, I knew what that would mean. But Sunday night, Maggie stopped by my unit and asked to talk to me, and said, "Your mom called me earlier today..." I said, "Sydney's dead, isn't she" and Maggie just said "Yeah." Crap day #3.
Monday was crap day #4, it wasn't as bad as it could've been, because of my unit's schedule I was pretty busy most of the day, but every now and then when I wasn't thinking about what we were doing, I was all depressed.
It's going to take me a while go get used to this, like, when I came home today, before I went upstairs, I was just thinking that Sydney would be lying on the stairs and I would say hi to her before I went to my room, and then I was like, "Wait a second, she's not there."
Fire at the Jaycee:
This was crap day #1. Friday. My unit was at the arts and crafts building (the Jaycee building) making candles. Only two girls were up at the stove at a time, Jess and Celine were melting and stirring the wax. I was sitting at one of the other buildings, looking at the cactus I had made for my unit's little "show and tell" for Scout's Own that night, and the front of the room suddenly burst in to flame. Worst moment of my life...I don't even remember getting up and running, but I saw the fire and felt the heat of it on my face and arms, hearing everyone around me screaming, I don't even remember if I screamed or not. Running out the back door, everyone was pushing, I tripped and fell and shouted "fuck!" really loud, thinking that the fire was coming out the door right behind us all, and the next second someone was grabbing the back of my arms and somehow pulled me to my feet again. (I didn't find out until hours later that it was Becky who pulled me up, and the way I was thinking then, "saved my life".) Running out on the grass, hearing Jen screaming, "Lianne! Lianne! Where's my sister?" , and thinking that Lianne had been one of the ones near the stove...everyone got out okay, but we were all crying and we were all just in shock. As it turned out, nothing in the room was actually burned but the ceiling, and maitenance fixed that later that day. Two of the girls sprained their ankles, and 3 of the counselors got burned by the wax and had to go to the hospital, but they were back by the end of the day and they were all fine. We were all lucky. We were all thinking, what would have happened if it was a group of little kids in there, instead of us, the oldest group? What if there had been people in the photography room at the time? We got lucky.
What had happened with the fire (it didn't spring out of nowhere) was, the wax was too hot, so someone added cold water to it and the pot of wax decided to explode.
Maggie called all our parents later that day, we were all laughing during the conversations, it was pretty funny the way she worded it. She called it a "slight fire". Granted, it wasn't as bad as it looked, but still...and she said "all the girls were evacuated" as if we didn't have the sense to run away from a fire. That was rather amusing.
The funny quotes:
I'll even be nice and tell you all what was going on and who these people are.
Maggie (camp director) complaining about how it's "never happy news" when she gets paged...
"It's always, 'Maggie, the Ranger wants to talk to you', or, 'Maggie, there's an angry parent on the phone', or, 'Maggie, the Jaycee building is on fire.' It's never, 'Maggie, you've won the lottery', or, 'Maggie, you've won a new car', or, 'Maggie, your brother's wife just gave birth.' It's never happy news."
Maggie: "Beating up Sam is always good. Always makes me feel better."
Sam=kickboxing instructor
Maggie (c.d) trying to cheer me up after crap day #2:
"Want be to throw Brooke in the lake? Would that cheer you up? 'Cause I can hook you up."
They gave us green eggs for breakfast one morning. They bounced.
Brooke: "EGG FIGHT!"
Yeah, okay, I'm tired now and there's still 4 notebook pages of quotes, I'll post it all in another big post later today.
