A straight forward day

Today I woke up to the blasting of Yoshima Battles the Pink Robots by the Flaming lips from my iPod alarm I had hooked up with my speakers. This defiantly woke me up but also woke my family up as well. In my defense waking up at 7 is a good time to wake up.

After waking up I did the morning stuff and blasted Shpongle until I had to leave for school (if you want to listen to some Shpongle I have a small clip from their song Divine Moments of Truth at the bottom of this post). For first and second period we had this massively bitchy substitute teacher who basically told us all that she was smarter and better than all of us because she was older. Somehow her old age wasn’t very conductive to classroom control.

Second period was elections and JT decided to run them for our class. They were true American democracy style elections. This of course means I voted 3 times along with the rest of my class. Our sub was flipping out all class which made it all the more fun.

At lunch JT broke JiWon’s Nalgene bottle and got shouted at by the almost legendary fat security guard Boone. JiWon was rather upbeat about it all and didn’t really complain that JT broke her Nalgene bottle.

After school I went downtown with Christa. I got some coffee for me and peppermint tea for Christa. The lady at Gimmie was very nice and gave me the peppermint tea for free but still stamped my card for two drinks.

After Christa was picked up by her dad the clouds burst on me. Instead of being all depressed by rain I decided to listen to the song Dancing For Rain by Rise Against very loudly and that made being in the rain a lot of fun. I was actually having so much fun and was saddened when it stopped raining.

In the car home I decided to mess with my mom a little bit. I did the partially closed eyelids thing and attempted to slur my speech. By the end of the ride she was flipping out asking me if I was okay and the like. I think the scariest part for her was when I stopped doing it and seemed to miraculously sober up.

At home my dad started bitching at me about my decision not to take the SAT II for bio seriously. In an attempt to show him I would do badly on it I did a practice test. I ended up getting a 710 which is a really good grade so I am going to spend memorial weekend having fun AND practicing for the SAT.

I must end my post a little short today because I am off to go walk my dog Tavi and do some quality sleeping.

Peace and love and Shpongle Below.

A typical friday

Today im not feeling as militantly environmental but I will try to keep the militant feeling around. My day went by in a haze like all Fridays. I was inviting my friends to a “social gathering of responsible peers and Trevor in celebration of the 15th anniversary of my birth” for tomorrow but I worry that I invited to many people (like 15 off the top of my head and that is relying on the fact that no one invites anyone else). I can kind of imagine a bunch of cars showing up tomorrow and ending up having everyone in Ithaca and the surrounding area arrive. The book a good forest to die in was initially really exciting but as far as I can tell it became slightly overly historical and explaining the situations leading up to the Protestor getting killed (although there isn’t anything wrong with this). Right now im kind of pissed off at my mom (a regular occurrence) because when I told her that I invited a bunch of people she flipped out and immediately asked me if I had invited a certain kid. This kid in question I didn’t invite but he is a nice kid even if he walks the line in regards to the law and is always getting in trouble for drugs. I think she is a massive hypocrite because when she was younger she obviously did drugs and unless I am very much mistaken inviting her to a party wouldn’t have been the worst thing that could happen. My English teacher was really annoying today. He has very good intentions and does cool stuff with us (like take us to the falls or invite Rising tide to come visit our class) but he still manages to do some really annoying things. Today he started the class reading from this book about Cambodian history because we are about to read a book about the Cambodian genocide. In it the book defiantly said something along the lines of “Cambodia is so fucked up because westerners can’t see the difference between Cambodia and other countries”. But near the end of the class my teacher mentioned how a character in the book showed the Confucian value of filial piety. To me this seemed like comparing Celtic ideas to Christianity because they are both in the same relative area. If you have read this far you get a gold star. Also if you have read this far you may be wondering why I have no form at all of formatting. This is because I have completely given up on trying to format my ramblings. I am hoping that my writing will improve just by me writing a page a day.
My dad has is kindof amusing today. He has bought me the Gimme! Barista guide for my birthday (or something from gimme!) and has been really sneaky about it. This would have worked except I heard the people at gimme talking about and he got it from them infront of me.
Just as I have been writing I have been hit by a wave of tiredness. I point this on “coming down” from my mini caffeine buzz from the mocha loving supreme I got at gimme today. I think I spend about 30 dollars there a week and its kindof depressing when I think about it.
This morning I meet Christa before school at College town bagels and then we walked to school, which was very nice. There is this one guy at CTB who seems really talkative and always jokes with me. I cant decide whether it is creepy or nice.
My mom is insisting that I get a job this summer. This bothers me because I would like to do something but I would like it to be meaningful. In the perfect world I would have a hippie socialist social action protest group I could join and work with this summer but unfortunately we don’t have that even in Ithaca (actually it wouldn’t be a perfect world if there were groups trying to solve problems). This summer I will probably just end up playing wow and hanging out with friends but im sure that it will beat school. Goodbye until tomorrow.