license

I was so happy last friday when the dmv said I past the driving test. The whole week I spent worrying about failing it. I was so nervous before and during the test. I almost failed by bearly making a yellow light and turning in to the wrong lane, but thankfully the lady passed me. Now I have my license and I'm stoked. All I need is a car now. It's going to be so weird driving to school.

cops

My friend was driving about 90 one night, weaving in between cars, on our way to sonic. A cop pulled him over and asked how fast we thought we were going.My friend played really dumb. He said he was going like 47. The cop looked at his license and saw it was provisional and he wasn't allowed to drive people under 20 years old. My friend told the cop he didn't know he couldn't and said the DMV never told him. I was on the edge of bursting up laughing. Then the cop just said to take everyone home and didn't give us a ticket. He was so lucky.

Home

Everyday I have been gone from home. I haven't relaxed all break. I wake up and get picked up right away. Then I come home late at night to sleep and do the same the next day. I wish I could do this forever, because I am having fun with all of my friends everyday. School makes it so I can't do all this, but I guess other people are saying I need school because jobs want people who had lots of school. I feel like I know most of things that I need to know. School just feels so pointless. I'm glad I'm home right now.

vacation!

This vacation is so fun. I wish it would never end. It's going to be so lame next monday when school starts again. I am going to be so tired and used to my vacation schedule. But at least I don't have to take my finals like I did last year. Winter break is awesome.

christmas

Christmas eve night is filled with so much wonder. Wonder of what is wrapped in the Christmas paper under the tree. When I was a little kid the mystery felt greater. Now I don't feel the great excitement and urge to see what is in the wrapping. I guess I have more patience now.

im very excite!

I ordered an ipod touch online the other day and ever since I have been so anxious. It is supposed to come in like 2 or 3 days. It's going to be torture in these days. The minute I get it, I'm gonna fill it up with songs, movies and games. I have spent all day organizing stuff on my computer and getting it ready for my ipod. I'm so excited!

cool skate video

This is such a good skate video. Everything in it is so sick.

wow

This week is going by so fast. It feels like 1 day went by when it was really 3. Time never used to seem to go this fast. I wish weekends felt longer than school days, it goes by way to fast.I wish time would slow down and take it's own time.

sacramento

This week end was so 'cool'. I went to sacramento with a whole bunch of good friends and skated two really good skateparks, Mather Field Skatepark and Granite/Power Inn Skatepark. It was my first time skating Sacramento and it was so fun. The only bad thing is that it was freezing there. It was so hard to warm up when I was shivering numb. I felt like if I fell I wouldn't feel it, cause I was numb, but it would hurt really bad. Besides all the coldness I had so much fun. I think it made me keep skating because if I would stop, I would freeze.

time

I was looking on the calendar on my phone for which days of the week my birthday will be on in future years, and I thought of me being in my twenty's looking back at my life. I could see all the things I could have done back then and then I realized I am here now. It makes me feel like I should go do something. I love being my age and I wish I could stay here forever. Time goes by way to fast.

thanks

My xbox recently broke, so I took it back to Costco and got more than I had. I had a 20 gb hard drive and it came with the game Call of Duty 4. I returned It and got a 60 gb hard drive and Call of Duty 5. It also came with 2 new games that I am probably not going to ever play. And on top of all the extra stuff I still have 30 dollars left over from retuning my xbox for the full price I paid for. Aren't I lucky, my xbox brakes so I get 30 dollars and new things for my new xbox all for free.

problem

 It seems that whenever I deal with stores, something goes wrong that makes it way more difficult than it needs to be. There's always something that I'm missing or supposed to have, or I'm unable to pay. It is the worst feeling. It's happened to me all my life, I get my hopes up cause I'm getting something, then a problem occurs making it so I can't get it or I have to come back later. It's so annoying to me. I try not to get any hopes on getting stuff anymore, but it is hard when your so close to getting it.

tired

Im so tired from thanksgiving break. I went to my grandma's house, making a 4 hour long drive there, then another hour long drive back tracking to my uncles. We ate our dinner there and had another hour of driving back to my grandma's. On friday we had another 4 hour drive home. After 30 minutes of being home I got picked up to hang out with my friends. We stayed up till 6 in the morning playing hide n' go seek and Guitar Hero. Waking up 5 hours later we went to skate and now I am finally home. Im so exhausted.

power

The power went out in my house and the video on my xbox 360 broke. I don't understand how this could have happened, the power shouldn't have anything to do with the video. It's weird how things work that way; brake from something that is irrelevant to it. It's like the thing you wouldn't expect to do something, does something.

put in headphones and shut your eyes

This is so cool. I did it two times and I actually felt like my hair was being cut. 

ahh

I can't wait till Thanksgiving. Traditional turkey dinner is so good. I love getting with all my family and having a beautiful dinner with all of them. I hardly see my relatives nor eat turkey, so I am double excited for both. 

what to do

I have no idea what I want to do in the future. Whenever someone asks me what I want to do, my thoughts go completely blank. I can't decide just one thing I want to do the rest of my life. I don't want to choose a job that I like now, but would hate when I'm older. Things change; if i want to be a teacher now, I might not like when I am teaching. I would hate having regret for choosing an unbearable job. Hopefully, in time, I will find things I like to do and can find a job where I do what i like.

flawless

Today in english, we discussed how Atticus, in To Kill A Mockingbird, had flaws that were hard to find. It is so easy to read the book and see Atticus as flawless and the epitome of how a dad should be. The whole story is in Scout's view as a grown up, telling a story of her childhood. So of coarse Scout would portray her father, who probably has passed away and is missed so much, as perfect. All of Atticus's perfection is what scout sees and that is why it is so hard to find a flaw that Atticus has.

alksdfj

Doesn't science seem like you can't touch it. When ever I'm in my science class and they are talking about atoms and moles, I feel like it is something unreal. It's not like math where I add numbers and get the exact answer. For me to fully understand science, I would have to do the research the scientists who found theories did.

old

It's so weird going by my old neighborhood. I went to hang out with my old friend , who I haven't seen for a long, long time, and every scene in my eyes were memories projecting out. I would see my school where my friends all hung out. Then it would fade into my friends now. All of us have changed and grew so much. When I was a kid, I never thought what it would be like to become grown up, but I did think of how being a grown up would be. I am just glad to still have old friends and memories. Wow that made me sound like I was 80.

grades

This year I am trying hard to keep good grades. Last year I was careless in not having A's. All my life I always had good grades. This year I really want to try, because I want to go to a good college. I've been noticing that my teachers have giving wrong grades for the work I have done. I have done all my work in my classes, but one of my teachers made my grade a D, by putting 0's on all the work we've been doing in class. I had to talk to the teacher and turn in the work again. Last year, I wouldn't have said anything to the teacher and my grade would stay low. I wouldn't even noticed if I had a wrong grade, because I wouldn't care. I wonder what grades I really deserved last year.

random

I love random. It always makes me laugh. If I get mad and something really random happens I will automatically laugh and feel better. My friends and I always do random stuff and laugh so hard at it. And when we are laughing and doing random stuff, I always wonder what other people that can see us think. We must be really weird to them. Most people wouldn't get our jokes and that makes me feel unique.

cali

California is "hella" cool. It is the best state in the U.S. The weather is perfect, not too hot or cold. There is a million things to do. From sunny beaches to snowy mountains, it is perfect. There are no tornados, but there are earthquakes. Other states have terrible weather and don't have any diversity. California is ahead of everyone else by having great diversity. It is strange to have diversity in other states where there is mainly white people. We are used to it and it can help in some areas. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else than California.

Halloween

This year wasn't the best halloween. I thought I would have a lot to do, but I ended up doing so little. I tried not to make plans with anyone, because I didn't want to flake on them, but I ended up just hanging out with one friend. We just went out for a little and watched like two movies. If it didn't start to rain, we would have went night skating or something, but for some odd reason it rains every halloween. I wonder why. Halloween was just okay this year. I look forward to Thanksgiving now.

Obama

It seems to me that everyone wants Obama to win the election. Everyone I asked who they wanted to win answered in favor of Obama. I even want him to win. I don't think anyone I met wants McCain to win. I think people are looking for change and having an old white man for president wouldn't be different. All the presidents in the past were all old and white. It's about time for someone new.

Dinosaur

In the movie "Step Brothers", Robert was talking about losing his "dinosaur". It was his kid in him and he said it is good to always keep your dinosaur. When I thought of what my dinosaur was, I discovered my dinosaur was skating. I can't do it all my life. When I'm old I won't be able to. And then I realized I see a lot of old guys skating. I wonder if I will continue to skate as I get older. I hope I don't lose my "dinosaur". What is your dinosaur?

music

The music people listen to these days all have no point. A lot of meanings to songs are stupid. I noticed people just try to listen to what other people like. I can see how hearing a song other people listen to a lot, can sort of become something you like to listen to. It might just be my opinion, but all the hyphy music doesn't take talent to make. They say in the song exactly what it is, "retarded". Do they think it's cool to be stupid? I like other rap, it's just a couple songs that are not good ones.

daylight

It is becoming darker, earlier. It is becoming winter. Soon the clocks will go back and I'll have an hour more of sleep, before I go to school. I felt like I needed an hour more last week. I had such a lassitude, last week, waking up. I am happy that I have another hour of sleep, but at the same time angry that it will be dark around five 0-clock. I will only have a couple hours to go out in the daylight, after school. I go through this every year.

lag

uhh. I'm so lazy to do my homework. I keep finding other things to do, even though I know I have to do it. Homework is so boring. Why must we get homework, we go to school to learn. It just takes away students' time outside of school. I would love school if it had no homework. I should do it though, so Im gonna drag myself to do that now.

weekends

They go by so fast, it's amazing. On Fridays, I'm so excited for the weekend and suddenly BAM! It's already sunday. I feel as though I have no break. The weekends seem to be as long as the time school ends till it starts again. I wish school was on saturday and sunday, and there were no school on weekdays. That would be so awesome. I just can't wait until next Friday to come, so I can prepare to go back to school.

new

Having new things feels good. Whenever I have new clothes I feel great. I have a lot of confidence in whatever I'm doing and I don't have to worry or think about my appearance when I have a fresh pair of clothes on. I hate when I have hackneyed clothes. All I think about is my appearance. New is always better.

want

I want to leave: go outside, throw down my skateboard, and skate. Not alone. My friends are far; I can't go far. We can't all meet; we're all separated. If only there was a way. There is a way, by car. We can all get picked up and go skate. Unfortunately, there is no car. I'm stuck home.

Wait

I hate waiting for things. I get so impatient waiting for something. I was supposed to get an ipod and I have to wait longer to get it. I got my driving permit in june and I have to wait six months to get my license. After I get my license, I will have to wait another year to actually drive people legally. Once I get my license I will want a car and I for sure won't get it anytime soon. I just hate having to wait for things. I don't think it is possible to have everything you want the instant you want it. I am glad that I can feel like I want something. If there was nothing to want, there wouldn't be anything to look forward to and life would be very boring. I have something to look forward to, so I can just enjoy the things I have until then.

Shotgun?

Why is the front seat of a car called shotgun? That has nothing to do with the passenger seat. I always call it shotgun and don't even know why. I hear people say shotgun all the time. Was it made up by people who were about to do a drive-by? Did the shotgun always stay in the front? I don't get why people and even myself call it shotgun. Maybe because cops keep a shotgun in the front of their car. How did the expression start?

Family traditions

passing down family traditions can be very important to make a family unique. My family doesn't really have any big family traditions. There is one thing my family does and that is every newborn in the family sleeps in this carriage. I am not sure how it started or who started it, but I think my grandma started it. I don't really know.

Nick and Norah's Infinite playlist

I just got back from watching this movie and the character Nick reminded me of Mr. Thompson. Nick was a scrawny tall guy who played the bass. In the scene where he meets Norah at the restaurant, he is thinking of how to present himself as he walks in. His hands are fidgeting in and out of his pockets. It reminded me of Mr. Thompson talking about how people present themselves. As Nick walked over, his boney shoulders hovered over him as if he had no stomach. You could just wipe your hand right through the center of him. Seeing this, it immediately reminded me of Mr. Thompson. They are similar in looks and that they play an instrument. The movie was great, I would recommend you to see it.

free

Have you ever noticed that things that are free are always better? I have. I got a free skateboard from my friend and I liked it better than my old one that I paid for. I think because it was given to me, I felt I could use it to it's full potential. I didn't have to be careful about damaging it because it was free. It isn't as valuable as the one I bought because I had to earn the money and accomplish getting the board. When the skateboard was just given to me, it little value. There are plenty of other good examples of free things being better too. 

Sleepzzzzzz

I hate sleep, but love it so much. Getting ready for bed, knowing you have to get up early the next day, makes me despise going sleep. It's such a drag to go to bed early and wake up early. It can't be healthy. I wish school started two hours later and the night was five hours longer. Every morning I peek open my eye and look at my alarm clock just before it goes off and just feel the agony of moving and getting up. The time I have left to sleep is ticking away like a bomb going to explode. When the alarm goes off it is a death sentence to my dreams. I must get up only to go to school where I must obey all the stringent rules and get yelled at for sleeping in class. Maybe if I had a couple more hours to sleep, I wouldn't be sleepy or too lazy to do work. 

along the influence

If someone is under the influence of something, they are lower than their expectations. And to be above the influence would mean to be higher than expected. So what would be along the influence? Can you be above and under the influence of something? I think you could. Say you tried a drug and liked it. You try it again, but you don't go out of your way to do it. You are still above the influence if you know you can't gain anything out of the drug and it can only worsen things. But still, doing the drug is under the influence. I think this situation would be balanced along the influence. I heard my friends debating about being above and under the influence and one of my friends said you can also be along the influence. That gave me something to think about and I thought I should blog it and see other peoples thoughts of being along the influence. Do you think there is a state of being along the influence?

skatboard

I skate to have a tremendous amount of fun. Whenever I skate, I get in to a mode where nothing matters except skateboarding. All my thoughts are gone and my attention is on my skateboard. There is so much thought of how to do the trick, that it takes all of your other thoughts away. This may not make sense, but when I think about what to do, too much, I can't do it. I have to not think about it at all. Skating keeps me doing good. With out it, I would be amazingly bored. 

Ismene

Ismene normally agrees with her sister Antigone, but when Antigone says that she wants to go and bury her dead brother, Ismene is absolutely against it. I can conclude that Antigone usually comes up with bad ideas when Ismene says, "What dangerous thing have you got in mind now?". And Ismene can be seen as a helpful person when she says, "How can I possibly help?" to her sisters dangerous idea. She would help her sister in most situations, but not in this one. Creon had sentenced everyone to leave Polyneices (her brother who wanted to burn down the country) alone, dead, and unburied. Ismene did not want to go against the kings commands. She is a coward when it comes to disobeying the king. She is horrified of the men that would punish them. She tells Antigone, "...we are mere women, we can't fight against men!". The men would do horrible things to them if they were caught breaking the king's commands. Ismene knows the consequences and decides to not be with her sister on this one. She is independent, she can go on with out her sister.

Oedipus

In the book Oedipus they say an interesting quote, "time alone reveals the just man-the unjust you can recognize in one short day". I think it is saying that it takes an extended period of time to see how a person really is, but it only takes a day to see some things about someone that aren't characteristics that they really have. They could be shy or having a bad day. What you would see in someone in just one short day isn't the same as you would see in one long month. People aren't their full self when they just meet someone. It takes a while to know how a person really acts and thinks. When I first met my friend Justin, I didn't know how he acted. After a while knowing him I can tell that he gets mad a lot and I can tell when he's going to get mad. If someone says the wrong thing to him he gets really angry. I see why he gets mad, but I think he takes it too far. What I also saw in him is that whenever he lands a trick he is trying to do on a skateboard, it completely withdraws all of his anger. Now that I know him so well, I kind of think similar to him and can tell what he thinks most of the time. I wouldn't know any of these things about him if i had only knew him for one short day.

My So-Called Life

We're watching this T.V. series in my english class. It's pretty interesting. The teenage girl is going through changes and is seeing the world for what it really is. Things aren't as they use to be. She leaves her best friend behind and hangs out with a girl that she admired. She dies her hair crimson red and quits her yearbook class. When her teacher talks to her about quitting, she says that all the high school stories are a lie and the real high school stories are horrible. 

1st blog

I just made a blog in my English Class.