My Life In A Nut Shell

This weekend has been a pretty good one. Last night I went to the movies with some friends, which I admit I have not done for a very long time. We went and saw Hitch which was actually a pretty good movie. Yeah, it is a chick flick, but we actually went with some girls to see the movie. There were also a lot of good things for guys to remember when they are trying to communicate with females. Oh yeah, the crazy thing about the movies last night was that there was a huge glass case inside the theater that had some Acadamey Awards in it. It was really cool. There was one for Jaws, Cleopatra, and some other old school movies. A lot of the Awards were kinda dull though, but it was still cool just to see the awards there.
Today was a really good day also. We went to the high school for the campus beautification thing and there was a really good turn out. Over all, about 160 people showed up just to clean up our school. The work wasn't hard at all and our school looks a lot better now. We have the best looking campus around, and I would like to try and keep it that way. I've been to a lot of high schools, most of which look like crap and I don't want ours to turn out like those ones. The people that I was working with happen to be my really good friends, so that made this experience really awesome.

I really love music. The reason why I think that I do is because I always am able to relate a song to my life. Whether it be past experiences, present happenings, but mainly I relate songs to girls. I have decided that sometimes if I don't really know what to say on my blog, but for some weird reason I want to update it, I will just type in the lyrics to a certain song, and I will leave it up to you to figure out how I am feeling at the time. I may actually write a paragraph or so afterwards explaining my feelings, but then again I may not. I start out today by typing in one of my new favorites by Sum-41. The song is called "Pieces" and it is one hell of a good song.

I tried to be perfect
But nothing was worth it
I don’t believe it makes me real
I thought it’d be easy
But no one believes me
I meant all the things I said
If you believe it’s in my soul
I’d say all the words that I know
Just to see if it would show
That I’m trying to let you know
That I’m better off on my own
This place is so empty
My thoughts are so tempting
I don’t know how it got so bad
Sometimes it’s so crazy
That nothing can save me
But it’s the only thing that I have
If you believe it’s in my soul
I’d say all the words that I know
Just to see if it would show
That I’m trying to let you know
That I’m better off on my own
On my ownI tried to be perfect
It just wasn’t worth it
Nothing could ever be so wrong
It’s hard to believe me
It never gets easy
I guess I knew that all along
If you believe it’s in my soul
I’d say all the words that I know
Just to see if it would show
That I’m trying to let you know
That I’m better off on my own

A little hint at this one. I am just having girl problems, again, and right now this is how I feel. I know it will change when I actually speak to her again, and we'll act like we have been talking for the past week, but we haven't and right now this is how I feel.

Man, I seriously wish that I wasn't a loser and could drive right now! The reason being is that I got an e-mail yesterday from SOMA, which is a place in San Diego where bands go and play, and last night Matchbook Romance was playing there. It gets worse, Sugarcult is playing there tonight. I got an e-mail a long time ago telling me that both bands were going to be there, but I just thought that I had a while until their show. Then the e-mail comes yesterday and lo and behold they are there this weekend. This would have been the best weekend to go to since not only would I have seen two great bands, but Jess is supposed to be down in San Diego this weekend and I could have seen her. All I can say is dangit! Mark, I wish you didn't have CIF this weekend so we could have spent the weekend in San Diego, and I really wish that I would have actually regarded that e-mail from a long time ago and found people to go with me. Oh well, life will go on.
Other then the bands in San D. thing, nothing else is really going on in my life. Volleyball has started though, and it is a blast. All we do is joke around and just have fun throughout practice. The crappy thing is that the bleachers are getting taken out of the gym and the new shower curtains that we have in the gym are covering up quite a bit of the court. I'm not happy about the shower curtains because they are seriously white trash and you have to pull them in order to close it. At least with the coil wall we used to have we didn't have to pull it shut. Again, oh well, I'm graduating in like four months.

Why is it that guys are easily entertained? For example, this weekend for the first time, I watched Ultimate Fighting Championship tapes. I never watched it before because honestly I thought that it would be quite lame. Man was I wrong! It actually turned out to be flippen sweet. Some of the guys went over to Marks house this weekend, watched those tapes, ate pizza, and just had a great time. All UFC is though is just straight up fighting. There are people who have different techniques like wrestling, karate, street fighting, and other types of crazy Asian stuff. I swear though, we were watching this and just like screaming at the TV. It was great, but when it comes down to it kinda sad, since people are getting the crap beaten out of them for our entertainment. I still like it though and plus it could have been worse, we could have watched WWF.
Other then that, today is Valentines Day. It kinda sucks when the only girl you want to be with lives 6 hours away. Yes Dan, I am talking about Jess. I've said this before, and I know that she lives a long ways away, but I am just amazed at how I am still able to have such strong feelings for her when the last time I saw her was in July, and I don't even talk to her everyday. Welp everybody, Happy Valentines Day.

I've been on an emotional high tonight. At the beginning I was really excited since it was our last basketball game of the season and for the most part I wanted it to be over since we have had a really bad year. However, after the game, I wasn't happy, I was just the opposite. I'm not afraid to admit that tonight I cried. After we shook hands with the opposing team, which happens to have all the people that I played travel basketball with, it just hit me. That was my last basketball game of my high school career. I'm a senior this year and that's it for high school. In a couple of months I am done. I'm happy, but frightened at the same time. High school is all that I have known for the past four years. That has been my life and soon it won't be anymore. I'm excited to be leaving soon to go to Hawaii, but I am going in blind. I have no idea what to expect, what's going to happen, and also if I will ever play a competative sport after this year is done. I guess now I really need to make the rest of this year the best that it can possibly be. For those of you who are also seniors, hear this advice. No regrets. Especially this year because this is the last time you will be with the people you have known for your whole life. I know that I am going to try my hardest to take heed to those two words; No regrets.

Might as well start off with the most recent news; New England wins the Super Bowl! I personally am pretty exctied for them since they overcame a ton this year, especially in the playoffs. They were "supposed" to get blown out by Indy, yet they held Indy to no touchdowns. Next they spanked the Steelers, and they finished it off with beating Philly. Owens had a huge game though for the Eagles, so he deserves props. We are witnessing a dynasty here though people, and hopefully from now on New England will get some well deserved respect.
Other then the Super Bowl this weekend, we had the ever famous Winter Ball at our school. It wasn't the best dance ever, but it was a pretty good way to spend a Saturday night. Mark, Joel, and I were the three stooges for the night. We went around the dance, picking on Carp quite a bit, scaring some friends by surrounding them and "freaking" them. The highlight though was us freaking out Carp. Didn't really dance with that many people, just the usual really. All in all, it turned out to be a pretty good night since I didn't witness anybody have sex on the dance floor.

So today I got to leave school early to go to Park View Middle School and talk to the 7th and 8th graders. The reason for this visit is because some of these kids are having trouble in their classes, attendance issues, and issues outside of school. Student Council was asked by Park View to go and talk to these kids since they would listen better to us then to grown ups. For the most part this was really true. These kids really did open up to us, told us why they didn't like school, and we were able to help them out and get them excited to go to school. We told them how much fun it is at high school, all the mighty fine ladies there are, our cool classes, and just overall the good environment that we have. The little group of kids that I had related to me through sports, and I just told them that they need to have certain grades in order to play, so that worked out really good. We are actually going to go back there soon and have a pizza party with the ones who have less then two absences, so I am looking forward to that.
I have a story to go along with how well these kids opened up to us. One of the girls in Student Council was talking to a girl who was in her group just causual at first, and then this little girl just started crying. So the girl in SC asked what the matter was, and this little 8th grade girl said that she feels horrible because she had sex the previous week. She had sex! This girl is in 8th grade, and she has already done that. I'm not being judgemental about this or anything but things have seriously changed a lot since I was back in 8th grade. Back then it was a huge deal to kiss a girl, and now they have to deal with stuff that high school kids deal with. I feel sorry for these kids and what they have to deal with during this day and age.