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 walk in Sapsucker Woods

Today I went to school and did that whole thing. For some strange reason both yesterday and today at lunch I didn’t eat anything. It wasn’t anorexia or anything, it was more just forgetting about it. Maybe it was because the weather was so nice (85-90 degrees and sunny!).

In Global I had a test that I finished really fast and then listened to some Shpongle. While I was listening to it I got incredibly into it and started rocking back and fourth to the beat (or at least what I thought the beat was, me and rhythm are kind of opposites unfortunately). Someone in the class noticed I was doing it and they started to make fun of me by doing it to. It was incredibly funny. Shpongle has an ability to transport me to an entirely different world while I listen to it with headphones on.

After school I walked downtown with Christa and we watched the birds in Dewitt Park and I supported the evil institution of capitalism and free market economy by buying with my gift certificate a Alkaline Trio CD at Volume Records. On the upside I was supporting the local economy so I guess it really isn’t that bad.

I got picked up by my mom and driven home. It was such a nice day out that I decided to take JiWon’s bike back to her house and go for a walk. As I biked over there I listened to Eight Episodes, a science fiction short story and Hugo nominee, on my science fiction podcast Escape Pod.

The story was about a small TV show in the future about an Alien invasion that gets cancelled. But after it is cancelled many of the things that were shown in the TV show as science fiction turn out to be factual. This leads people to the realization that the TV show is actually a communication from Aliens to planet earth. The episode was very escapist and provoked some thoughts. I would be sure to check it out either on iTunes or at the bottom of this page in the little flash player I stole from the Escape Pod Website.

As I listened to the story I walked through an area by JiWon’s house that is the part of sapsucker woods that will be cut down if Briarwood II goes in. It surprised me how expansive it was and at one point I almost got lost. Being in woods makes me incredibly happy and makes me want to fight for them even more.

To get rid of them would be one of the biggest mistakes Ithaca could make. It is part of the woods that are famous for ornithology and the drainage problems created by destroying the woods would be an expense to the town that wont go away. Also, Ithaca is a leftist town, we pass resolutions that say we will save the environment. If we don’t act on what we say we are the biggest hypocrites. I believe that Ithaca will roll over to the big developer Lucentee instead of listening to the people who elected them. There is however a group of people who are trying to Save Sapsucker Woods.

After I left the woods I walked home listening to Shpongle very loudly. I laid on my bridge listening to them for a while and then came in and started this post.

Goodnight to both of you who read this far and be sure to listen to the story Eight Episodes by Robert Reed from Escape Pod below.