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2006-08-31T00:18:00.000-04:00

Chappelle is a genius

Fuck yo couch!

Moving in on tomorrow(thurs) and friday. Anybody is welcome to help lol. Just show up on thurs afternoon at like 2-3. If im not there, im getting boxes from my apartment into a van and shipping them to the house.

been doing some autoCAD work. I drew my guitar and its stand. Here are the renderings

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2006-08-24T14:58:00.000-04:00

yep. not much has been happening

i went up to pennsylvania to get my teeth cleaned. if ur wondering why i go up to pennsylvania, ask my mom, cause i really dont get it either. Something about the dentist being her childhood dentist. Anyway. wasnt that bad, just took a while.

This history assignment is craaaaaaaaaazy. I just finished the first chapter.

did some naruto and live yesterday

hmm. hungry

oh, i move in on next thursday, finally.

Biking

2006-08-21T23:03:00.001-04:00

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Im posting from this cool firefox extention that graham showed me called performancing
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so yea. Yesterday me cbass andrew and cbass' dad went biking on various bike paths for about 28 miles. Took the W&OD to the Custis Trail all the way to the very front of the Kennedy Center. Then we turned around and biked along the George Washington Memorial Parkway past the airport (National Airport). Theres a really pretty view over the potomac of all the memorials and stuff. When you get near the airport, the path goes perpendicular to the end of the main runway, and the planes pass right over you. From there we continued on to a marina where andrew keeps his sailboat, that were thinking about taking out sometime. FInally, we took the Four Mile Run trial all the way back to where it meets the W&OD again.

So we went back to andrews house and played this board game called Masterpiece which was pretty fun.

Today i had a cello lesson, with a teacher who is perpetually PMSing. Normally I can deal with her, but I was in Delaware all last week so i couldnt practice, but I practiced enuf when I got back to know the new piece well enuf. So i get there, and I say, Im running into some problems here. So shes like, ok, here lemme play that part for you. She then proceeds to play all the movements of that piece twice. 45 min of her repeating way too long sections of the piece, watevs, not my money thats paying for it.

THE END

2006-08-19T18:46:00.000-04:00

Yep. A new post. Fancy that.

Hm.

Went to Rehoboth Beach, DE for a week with family. Awesome fun. Got totally wrecked body/boogey surfing.

Confucious say: Go into wave and crash on sand many time, come out with sore nipple.

Cousins were kinda annoying. (I have three first cousins ages 11, 8, and 7) But not too terribly annoying. Luckily I wasnt stuck with babysitting. I was thinking that mebe we could get together some ppl, and rent a house/ stay at a hotel next summer, cause that would be infinitely more fun than a family vacation. Itd prolly be upwards of $200 a piece tho for food and gas plus renting fees.

Visited Washington University in St. Louis before going to the beach. Had an awesome time. I talked to the dean of the mechanical engineering department. He seemed like a cool guy, and the university sounded much more research (as opposed to vocationally) oriented. Which was refreshing. The campus is really consolidated with uniform modern-gothic style architechture, which I found appealing. St. Louis itself, is eh. Kinda a spread out city. The suburb where Wash U is, tho, is very nice, with all sorts of interesting restaurants and venues. All in all, it has definitely been the place that has spoken to me most, and allows for both what I want as well what my parents are encouraging academically.

Finished Scarlet Letter. Liked it much more than Night. The language was kinda thick, but I got used to it after a while. Starting on the history assignment, which is a drag.

Thats about it.

2006-07-23T14:53:00.000-04:00

Gotta Love Jay and Silent Bob

2006-07-03T23:10:00.000-04:00

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
im back from minnesota
had an amazing time. I wish I could have stayed for the four weeks.
odds are against it, but I hope I get to see those peeps again. i might be able to go on the trip next year, or I might be a counselor, but prolly at Lac Du Bois or something.

Voyageur National Park is amazing. I have pictures and stories, but you definitely have to go and see it for yourself. its an experience.

My pictures are getting developed at CVS but here are the highlights:
-Cliff Jumping
-Sunburn and then boiling water = 2nd degree burns on my hands
-Saw a double rainbow
-Did a 2 hour solo = sitting in the forest on a random island by yourself and doing whatever for how long. I meditated. It was a very hippy/spiritual experience.
-Voyageur National park
-Sunrise on the Namakan narrows right after viewing centuries-old petroglyphs
-meeting awesome ppl. zoe, charline, chalifour, gavroche, etc.
-meeting awesome counselors that are slightly older than i am
-seeing this awesome guy named dahveed. He might not be able to count the times hes almost died on his hands.
-etc
-etc
-etc

no one is around, which sucks. I feel kinda trapped in this apartment with my parents. ugh. i need something new to do.

pictures later.
-eliot.

2006-06-18T20:09:00.000-04:00

yeaaaaa
posting on psp from minnesota.

soooo yeah wont be around for two weeks.

ill post pics of my amazing canoe adventures when i get back.

laterrrr ppl
~ eliot

2006-06-14T19:50:00.000-04:00

Getting to school on time---- walking on the metro at 7:35
History and English exams---- 4 essays, 3247 words
Need to pass english -------- Some papers, eh.
Getting out of going to graduation

Priceless

Im not a tool of MasterCard I swear!!!!

Thursday = chemistry
me = done
friday = no exam.

wat r ppl doing tomorrow?
hm, i need to change the layout of this thing.

im out

2006-06-13T21:59:00.000-04:00

yeahhhhhhhhh.

TOK was fine. Got my extended essay and summer classes straightened out.
played too much live. whatevs.

Nowwwwwwwwwww. On to history and english. mebe a bit of studying for chem tonite
so
ppl
what are we doing friday? Besides cops and robbers of course? it awt to rawk.

ok, im gone

2006-06-11T18:24:00.000-04:00

I....can....see....the...light..ofuckit
at the end of the tunnel.

4 exams and a day of school to go. TOK, History, English, Chemistry. No exam on friday. Sucks to have english block four haha.

I wish i didnt have to go to Minnesota on Sunday. I mean, i like it there and all, but its a bit soon in the summer.
hm. so i updated.
i cant think of anything else.

later skaters or something

2006-06-05T17:46:00.001-04:00

--edit-- Tomorrow is 6/6/06. Satan woohoo! I was actually reading about satanism on wikipedia, and its a pretty interesting philosophy, and most sects dont really involve devil worship at all. Its basically the recognition of the individual through mental physical and spiritual gratification and other means, which is basically the opposite of christianity and other right side path religions.
im no satanist, just thot it was interesting.
--/edit--

Monday
so begins the week of death. Im not gonna list what crazy stuff i have to do, suffice it to say its pretty crazy. Mostly cause ive been procrastinating to the extreme.

Had an orchestra concert at school during the peruvian election. Apparently there was a fire at that new apartment complex thats about finished, and then there was a crash near school. These two things happened at the same time, and combined with the thousands of peruvians pouring in from all over, and secret service everywhere, it was really hard to get in.

So, who else doesnt have an exam on next friday? We should do something, cause im leaving on sunday.
I think i lost my history book.
shit.

2006-06-03T00:00:00.000-04:00

Just finished The Weatherman with Nicholas Cage. From all the previews, it seemed to me that the plot would have been that of a light comedy. It still was good, but it was not light at all. Cage plays the role of Dave Spritz, a selfish, clueless, divorced weatherman who is the son of a famous novelist. His dad recently finds out he has terminal lymphoma, and Dave wants to pull things together in his relationship with his children and ex-wife in order to prove himself to his dad. However, it seems Spritz is doomed to fail, as embodied in awkward scenes of trying miserably to connect with his family. At each try, the viewer wants for the weatherman to succeed, and each time the viewer is dissappointed.

All in all, its a pretty dark comedy, and although it ends on an uplifting note, the coarseness of the route to get there is not really that funny. Its definitely not a summer movie.

Hows that for a movie review. lol. Ebert's got nothing on me.

Gahhhhhhhhh. School. blah. soooooo mannny papersssss.
one more week.....
gnite ppl

2006-05-29T17:30:00.000-04:00

Officially seventeen. sweet.
Had some good mint chocolate chip ice cream cake.
I was going to try to inaugurate my R rating freedom with a nice pleasant blood and/or sexfest, but there arent any movies of that genre out. :'( So i saw xmen3 instead haha. It was ok, kinda predictable, and it most definitely set up for yet another sequel at the end, but whatever, movies are fun.

Havent gotten to open all my presents yet, but got some interesting stuff in barnes and noble packaging. :) cbass got me a headset, which is awesome.

Missed out on all the memorial day festivities today: sleep is good, hw is not so good.
hmm. i wonder how im going to get to the pool from DC.

laterrrrrrrr

2006-05-27T23:18:00.000-04:00

I drove my family up to my grandparents today. Yay!
Stayed pretttttttttty much all day.

I tried to watch the movie i had to watch for French, but it got kinda boring and i fell asleep.
For two hours. lol
Idk. Its kinda sad to see my grandpa lose his memory to the point where my mom has to play this loud (because of his hearing) game of scharades in order to get him to remember things. Today he had trouble remembering the type of car that he has. And this thing isnt easy to forget cause its a type of modified limosine taxi, and they drove it all across america one summer.

But other than that, i got some good stawberry shortcake and a nap.
so yea

im out

2006-05-25T23:34:00.000-04:00

Hm. 3 day weekend coming up.

Listening to some good summer music. lol.

Whos ur favorite mexican revolutionary?
Mines def Emiliano Zapata. Its all about Morelos. duh.

im out

2006-05-23T20:12:00.000-04:00

summer is so close. but yet so far.
Gah, who's gonna be around? Im startin it out with two weeks in Minnesota, so i wont be around. After that, im hanging out around here, doing some classes for school, studying for SAT/IIs and possibly going somewhere in August i think mebe Delaware. The builders say that we can start living in our house b4 school starts again.

school
o rite, that.

damn, almost forgot.

CSI Miami finale was pretty crazy. Took them three weeks. Kinda unrealistic ending tho. Why would they deport a guy that they just stopped from launching a missile at a passenger plane?

Blah, onto chemical kinetics

2006-05-21T18:04:00.000-04:00

Wow

What an amazingly crazy weekend.
CF Walk was fun, and I have to admit that Basmati has got some catchy tunes. Although everyone left, and tiff and i had to deflate this giant rubber football game thing. It took like 20 min lol.
Had a cello recital, eh.

Prom: Im really glad that the whole restaurant thing panned out, even tho it took a bit of weird carpooling and certain persons getting lost. haha. Didnt die on the 395 bridge to the hotel, and then proceeded to almost walk into the wrong prom lol. Inside, danced a whole lot and had an awesome time. Jason, good party man. The hot tub was rockin yet again. Dropped Melissa off at her sketchy/exotic hotel :). And then had to parallel park at 4 am. I didnt scratch the other car too bad. lol.

I feel dumb that i didnt take more pictures, if anybody has some more to contribute email me plz

2006-05-16T22:00:00.000-04:00

Hmmmmmmmmm
Blog, right, that thing.

Gahhhhhhhhh. i do not like it in the can, I do not like it in a van, I do not like it with a wench, i do not like it on a bench, I do not like it, no goddamn, I do not like french Sam I am.

We have to do a pointless oral on monday. Im doing it on the french reaction to the Da Vinci Code. I told her that the movie was out friday, and that there might be more stories about it during the weekend. Altho, im pretty sure that friday isnt the international release date. lol. o well.

Major chem test on thursday that im really worried about. I really have to study hard for this one, cause i pretty much have to get an A.

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd. Prom on friday. Im glad everything is finally arranged. phew.

Immmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm out.

2006-05-07T11:38:00.000-04:00

yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

so. Physics and French IB's this week. Its gonna be a party.
Crap, i just realized that I didnt send myself the LabPro document for my chem lab of death, and the lab report is due tomorrow.

Oh wellllllllllllllllll.
Saw Mission Impossible III yesterday. It was insane, like crazy amazing, non stop intensity. Despite the mediocre ratings it got, I thought that this was probably the best MI, mostly because it included a personal element to the plot.

Annnnnnnd. Idk. Prom is coming up. Yay! We kinda need to finalize the plans, or else there arent gonna be any. lol.

yah. so. the end
im out.

2006-05-02T23:48:00.000-04:00

blahhhhhhhhh
yay for ms gantz and BC calc!

i really wish jason and i didnt have to spend like 3 hours figuring out taylor polynomials

mebe if she had taught it to us.....

gl wit APs ppls
im out

2006-05-01T20:53:00.000-04:00

HISTORY SUCKS MONKEY TESTICLES

sry, just had to get that out. but seriously folks, i dont want to hear Guatemala for at least another five years. Gah. I like how i got my pass signed at 8:05 and got to class at 8:17. Hopefully she wont notice hehe, cause im such a badass and was smoking all the drugs. Actually, i was just printing my damn paper. 11 pages of yay.

Stats for yesterday
Books of research: 4.5
Notecards: Not enough
Time Finished Paper: 8:14
Hours of Sleep: 1.5
norse goat? priceless

Time for being to study the AP Calc.
im out.

2006-04-29T20:45:00.000-04:00

Crazy House Progress:

2006-04-28T22:34:00.000-04:00

So. Some fun stuff happened recently.

Thursday: Won against Manassas Park 5-0. Played about 40 min which was awesome. I megged a guy, it was pretty awesome. The real star of the show was malik tho, cause he burned like 4 defenders after being the last guy on the field off the bench.

Friday: Spring Variety Show. Probably messed up something but it was fun as hell to play on the stage. Something about playing music lets u blow off steam, it rocks.

My house is crazy looking now. All the second story roof trusses are up, along with most of the exterior walls. But the chimney hasnt been extended yet, so it comes halfway up the second story, lol. So lots of progress, which is suprising. Living in the city has been kinda hectic, and has been taking a big chunk outta my sleeping time. But watever. its all good.

Ok Im off to do some more history
laters

2006-04-26T23:22:00.000-04:00

Well, Im making progress on this history. Have four books done, but i think im going to slightly alter my hypothesis.
Soccer game against Manassas Park tomorrow, should be a welcome rest from Clarke County, who actually had some skill. Fridayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. The real writing starts then. But before that:

SPRING VARIETY SHOW. Everyone should come. Hopefully, Addison will be performing live art behind. us as we perform, but we still need clearance from Mr. Ballou.
Do we have clearance Clarence?
Yah. We’re only playing one song, but that’s remarkable cause we haven’t had any practice time whatsoever.

2006-04-25T23:24:00.000-04:00

George Mason Boys Soccer comes back from a 1-0 deficit to defeat rivals Clarke County Eagles 2-1!
Yeahyeaaaaaaaaaaaa

Most amazing game everrrrrrrrrrr. Also a good sign that were gonna go all the way.

My french teacher is a beach. The type with the "I" in it. heh

So how is everyone in their various stages of royally screwed with the history paper?

On to thatttttttt