Paper Cups Spell Disaster

i know i have thought about writing this, but i cant remember if i ever did… anyway here you go, two parts even!

 

part 1: Things a 12 year old should never say:

1.  Meet me in the shower at 5.

2.  Take me.  We can go in back to be alone.

3.  I bet I can strip better than you can.

4.  Looks like he sleeps with guys.

5.  I’m really flexible, especially without any pants on.  Want to see?

(no 12 year olds were further harmed in the compiling of this list.  some of the more vulgar lines have been omitted.   these lines have not been sought out, nor have those who said them been pressured or bribed to say them.)

 

part 2:  I run on the sidewalk, but walk in the street.

this is the part i think i may have written before, but you should read it again because of how amazing it is.  there are traffic lights.  red ones, yellow ones and green ones.  the red one means stop.  the green one means go.  nobody knows what the hell the yellow one is for exactly, but i guess it looks pretty (and people cant say they are christmas lights).  by the same token, pedestrians have their own lights.  a little white man in full stride and a big red hand or flashing DON”T WALK.  when the man is seen walking, you can cross the street.  when the DONT WALK is flashing, you might want to wait it out.  when the DONT WALK is lit up, many cars are going across the walk path and would kill anyone attempting to cross.

but they are a ways away from the street and the DONT WALK starts flashing, OH NO!!!  the thought of waiting is SO DAMN PAINFUL.  run! run!  make this light!  its still flashing, their shoes move from concrete to tar, congratulations!  they made it to the street!  they are now in front of cars that want to go.  hunks of metal that can go really fast.  LETS STOP RUNNING AND WALK!!!!  dear lord.  it is simply unbelievable.  safe on the sidewalk and they run, but as soon as they are in the street, in front of cars, they slow down and walk.  thats like running to a minefield, putting on snowshoes and calling all your friends up for a nice stroll across the meadow OF DEATH.

as of Friday, the fall, 2006 semester at RCTC is over and I sold my books back to the bookstore for a whopping $90 cash.

then at work i heard the boss talking about a bunch of money (about $90).  At first I thought nothing of it, then i remembered the $90 i had from my books.  *insert terror*  i like my job.  i dont always completely enjoy it, but it is much better than many other jobs i could have.  luckily, somebody accidentally put $20’s and $10’s under the $1’s and nobody had to be searched.

ok, this is an extremely lame story, but it is the most exciting thing that has happened to me in a really long time.

after my chem final i had about an hour till work, and i had been meaning to get a new power strip, so i stopped at K-Mart to pick one up.  I found a really nifty black one that was $16 and a crappy white one that was $14.  i went for the nifty one, because nifty is always worth $2.  then the thing rang up as $20.  i said ‘erm, no way!’ and she said ‘oh, my bad’ and called for a price check.  

now, i never shop there and i found the power strips in about 2 seconds.  the guy from the electronics department only found a tag (meaning empty shelf, and there were 15 more where i got mine) for the $14 one, and that took almost 7 minutes (i timed it).

oh well, i got a $20/$16 power strip for $14.  I know i could have just said that one sentence and been done, but then i would have had to have been cleaning my room during the time i was writing out the whole story, SO READ IT ALL…. AGAIN! 

i made some hot cocoa a bit ago.  it came in this special tin and smelled really nice and everything.  but it looks disgusting.  and tastes horrible.

this week is the last week of the fall 2006 semester at RCTC.  friday marks the absolute end of the semester and the beginning of a 21 day break.  whoot to the max.

X-ACTO knives are sharp.

the wood kiln is so much fun. so so much fun.

being there throught the firing for a cumulative 24 hours is interesting. not only in the logistical issues (sleeping) but just seeing the kiln in the different stages of the firing.

now we have to wait until tuesday to see if everything turned out alright or got completely messed. but waiting wont be too hard, especially being that only 5 of the last 60 hours of my life have been spent horizontal.

i was just at the wood kiln all night (from around 6:30 pm thursday to 7-ish friday morning).  its cold.  really cold.  at least tonight will be warmer…. or at least very slightly less cold.