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Hey! This is Jamie and Meghan! Fear the cows, or they will push you into the deep end!
ehhh...stoof
So I didn't make it into B-Flats. Oh well. Good job Eva!!! Ms. Shulte said I was a tough second, so that's good. The only thing that gets me is that when I asked her what to do to improve, she told me to work on my sightreading. Okay. Then she said how in April (the real auditions) they do real sightreading, they do it without the piano. Okay, well apparently she had played the piano for everyone's sightreading portion of the auditions. And by everyone I mean everyone except me. And a lot of people got things to sing that were all whole steps up or down with no sharps or flats, but I got a page that jumped around with sharps and flats. Right-o. Moving on....
So InterAcs went pretty well. I messed up my front dive with a half twist (I lost it in warmup), which was kind of frustrating, and my inward 1 and 1/2 was pretty awful. I just got really stuck so I had to cheat it in. Wait, don't I always?? But I still got fifth. However, they messed up on part of my sheet, and my score should be three points higher, so that might have put me in fourth.
Easterns was pretty good too. It had tough requirements, so being able to compete was pretty cool. Yeah, I definitely had not done reverse flip since I was like 12, so I just kinda had to wing it (I got to practice one or two in the warmup after the cut). My DD (degree of difficulty) was wrong on one of my dives (my coach changed the dive from straight (DD 1.9) to free (DD 1.7) which he didn't need to do--I was doing it in straight anyway) which was kind of annoying, because I could have been in the top ten with the higher DD (DD doesn't really go over about 2.5 on one-meter, at least not realistically for girls). And my goal was top ten so it was really frustrating. But I had to learn 1 new dive and re-learn 5 dives, so that was pretty fun (not)!!! So yea 11th place stinks!! It's like that awful grade of 89!! But oh well. I was tenth after the cut, I just screwed up my back flip because I was thinking about my back twister (my next dive, 1 flip and 1/2 twist, the one with the DD problem noted above (it was going to be 1 flip 1 twist but my coach wouldn't let me)) so my scores were too low to keep me in the top ten. Well Adrienne got sixth (top six got medals) so that was cool. Oh btw she got third at InterAcs. I felt bad for Julie Porter (she's really good from EA--long time family friend). She got 4th as a freshman, 3rd as a sophmore, 2nd as a junior. And this year there was this really good girl from Baltimore who was super nice and not conceited at all, and she won. And then there was this loud, obnoxious, disrespectful to others, full of herself girl from Dallas who got second and shouldn't have. And Julie got third as a senior. Actually I dont feel bad. I would, but Julie was really nasty about it. Okay I gtg--family movie time (About A Boy)!!
Jamie said sayonara while Meghan ate more ice cream at 08:22 p.m. on Friday, February 21, 2003ummm...megs?
So, does anyone know if Meghan, like, forgot the english language again or something? Because I know that this has happened before, but in my old age I have forgotten what we did to reverse the effects of the oblivion.....maybe we should get together in a posse (those are so fun!) and then we can all say the same thing in different languages! I'll do Latin, Zobo, you should do French, Rosie can do Spanish, and we'll have to find people for German, Mandarin, Portugese, and Swedish. Hey maybe we can get someone from Ikea to do Swedish. And I can introduce Megs to Sarah Wood (see my AIM profile) and Sarah can do British American. Then if we're all really coordinated and say the same exact thing at the same time, maybe she'll get so confused that she is forced to return to her mother tongue!! Such a good plan!
Well anyway exams are finally over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woo okay so I had History and then Spanish on Friday. Yea that was a party. I had like no time to finish my essays in History because I write sooooooooo slowly. I used to have really good, speedy handwriting, but that was just compared to other kids my age. And I was like eight years old. And then all their handwriting (handwritings?) got better, and mine just didn't. But I'm really ambidextrous now! My handwriting is that bad! So I was rushing and had a really bad conclusion on the second one because they announced the five minute warning and I still had like 1 page more to write in the blue book and I was just like, "shit!" and of course I was so screwed that I actually said this outloud without even noticing it. Yes. Thankfully, it must have still been in a whisper (that or the acoustics in the entirely SILENT dining room are horrible) because every head at my table just looked up at me with the same expression, as opposed to all 200 heads in the room turning to look at me. It was actually quite funny looking.
Well anyway then I had Spanish in the Assembly Room. That sucked. First let me set the scene for you. See, there was this fire in the boiler room in the Residence (see Zoe's blog) on Wednesday. That cut out all the power, all the heat, and all the hot water in the Residence (where all the exams are taken). The apartments in the Residence were 40 degrees. I felt sooo bad for them. Then Friday came. A school in Overbrook was closed for a broken heater. A broken heater. A school in Lancaster was closed for frozen water pipes. Just for frozen water pipes. But we still had exams. Shipley (across the street from Baldwin) was the coldest location that NBC10 news could find using their WeatherNet readings. Baldwin does not report WeatherNet readings. However, the Baldwin School Residence blocks the wind from sweeping through Shipley. Therefore the wind chill is worse at the Residence. The Residence is very old. The Residence is also very drafty. Especially if you are forced to sit next to the door/window things (floor-ceiling windows that open to outside) that don't close all the way. That's always fun. By Friday, the Residence still had no heat or hot water. However, they were using their emergency generator for power. Did I mention that the Residence is old? That the elevator in the Residence is old? That it is NOT one of the newer, energy-saving ones, but an old, energy-wasting one? Well, it is. And whenever anyone used the elevator, the lights in the Assembly Room (now called the Ass Room) would flicker out, flicker on, and repeat until the elevator stopped. Then they would resume their low setting (not a real setting, but the generator could not supply enough power to light them enough for us to actually SEE our exams). And our Spanish teacher decided to put stuff on the exam that the honors class went over and we didn't. And stuff she told us outright would NOT be on the exam. That was a fuuuuuun exam.
So then Monday I had English and Physics. Definitely my two favorite classes. So here's what's unfair: there are three IX English sections (there's no honors or anything this year). Two of them are taught by Teacher X, and one is taught by Teacher Z, who is also the Dean of Students. So I'm in the class taught by Teacher Z. Who refused to tell us anything about the format of the exam. Or at least I was never told. BUT! Teacher X told her class that there was a passage from Lord of the Flies, a poem that was not Shakepeare, and an essay. We knew there would be a poem, but not whether it was Shakespeare or not. We also knew that there would be stuff about LotF and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and that ""Master Harold"...and the boys" would not be on it. Teacher Z told us that we should know all the poetry terms by heart (we only needed to know connotation) and we should focus on themes from the books. There really weren't themes on the exam. She also told us never to give her plot summary. The essay was pretty much "summarize and describe three tests of knighthood and how Gawain reacts to them". If that's not plot summary, I don't know what is. Again, I was racing at the end and didn't really even have a conclusion on the essay because I write so damn slowly. And then there's Physics. The Regulars exam took Cheese about an hour to do. The Honors exam took Cheese about three hours to do. The exam time limit for students is two hours, no matter what exam they are taking. It was great when she told us that right before we took the exam. So I didn't finish that one. X (see the entry a little ways below about squash; this is the same Person X) got all cocky and annoying about it after. Well, I shouldn't say she got cocky and annoying. She's always like that. And obnoxious. And an overall bitch. That about sums it up. So, X started saying (in a really obnoxious I'm-better-than-everyone-here voice): Oh well I must be smarter than Cheese then, because I finished with loads of time to spare. Oh you didn't? That's sad. You must be pretty thick, then." I spent so long on the Short (ha) Written Answers and Problems because I write soooo slow!!!!!
Today was Math. Which I was so prepared for....? We had this huge packet of blank copies of the tests we took from chapters 1-6. In it I had taken notes on all the problems I didn't understand. And the probability of every single question (like if it was definitely going to be on the exam, it had a big 100% next to it with a circle around it, all the way down to 0% if it definitely wasn't going to be on the exam). And I talked to Dr. O'Connor (my teacher) after the Physics exam on Monday with a handful of other girls and took more notes in my packet. And left it sitting in the middle of his desk. He even ran after me with my folder of English study stuff as I was leaving down another hall. But Stephanie Grossman (this is entirely not her fault at all) had put her name on the front of it. I don't know why but she did. So he thought it was hers and left it at the front desk in the main office. My mom went back to school at like 9:30 pm that night when I realized I really didn't have it (I hadn't studied at all the weekend before) and couldn't find it on his desk. But she found it this morning, about 5 minutes before I went in to take the exam. There was one 100% problem that I completely didn't understand, but, amazingly enough, Danielle Behar (love ya) explained it all to me super fast because she apparently "has no patience for people who are not as smart as her". And it was on the exam. Thank you, Danielle. Math wound up being pretty easy (thank you Dr. O'Connor). He said it would be boring and an insult to our genius. And we were just like sure, it might bore YOU and be an insult to YOUR genius, but w/e. Really awesome that it actually was really easy.
Zoe, do you know what the emergency Class Meeting is about on Friday? I assume it's either about the Pledge of Allegiance thing or Page's brother. I feel so bad. He had been suffering for a while. Apparently, he was always really sickly. By the time he went in to the hospital this time he was blind in one eye. I don't know what it was. Weak immune system or something I guess.
So then there's this Pledge of Allegiance thing. Okay. There's this new law that forces all schools, public or private to require their students to say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. Only Friends and Menonite schools are excused. I didn't really know this before, so I said the Pledge at WSSD from 4th-7th grades, but I'm really not supposed to say the Pledge. Okay, I hope you all know the Friends situation on war. We don't approve of killing people, so we are concientious objectors, meaning we can't be drafted. However, the American Friends Society (AFS) will help out in other ways, such as donating blankets, clothing, food, etc to people in the affected war area. They have been doing this FOR EVER. (I'm about to branch off here)
There was a letter sent home to the lower schoolers on January 7th about The Baldwin School's plan to send care packages of things like soap and toothbrushes to Iraqi children through AFS. All of a sudden an angry parent called in to Michael Smirconish (our friend from the Seth story....click here to read about it so you don't have to ask me.....) and things just ballooned from there. Click here to see the commentary by Smerconish that spurred the debate. Baldwin ended up giving the stuff to a homeless shelter in Upper Darby. Crumpets. Well, that's not what really makes me angry. It's what was said on the radio show. I can't find a transcript, but if I do I'll post it here. So all these stingy Jewish people (I am not racist, just the people that called in happened to be of the biased, stingy Main Line variety) called in. They are the kind that are always mad at the Religious Society of Friends for not taking a side on the issue of who Israel belongs to. So one of them called the Baldwin School "a dump full of rednecks, Quakers, and lesbians". I'm just not even going to say anymore about that. So anyway back to the Pledge of Allegiance. Friends don't support war, and they don't support binding oneself (or pledging one's allegiance for that matter) to someone or something that could potentially kill other someones or somethings. So it really is against my religion to say the Pledge of Allegiance. I'll be excused on that basis (Friends are excused by law, but must be also excused by each individual school), but I'll have to like stand up and look at the flag or whatever. Gaaaa.
Well I was watching the State of the Union but that ended like an hour ago so I guess I should be going. And it is actually 11 pm, not 9:12. Like my tome of an entry?? ;)
merry christmas!!
Hey I hope you all had a good Christmas....and Hannukah (spelling?)....and all those....oh and for those of you multi-holiday-ers, I hope you had a good Christmannukah!!! XD XD XD XD I'm sooooooooo clever!!!! Anyway, here is where I get to brag, and if you want to brag, use your own blog, or email me and I'll put your brag up here. Okay here's me bragging:
I got my sister underwear from Urban Outfitters that says "Fermez La Bouche"!!!! (that's "Shut Your Mouth" for you non-Frenchies...) way to go.......
neway......now I get to play squash!! I finally saw becker (she's never in her office where she's supposed to be, and apparently none of the people I left messages with relayed them to her) and she said that since they had just filled up the tenth spot I could only go tuesdays and thursdays. And I don't get to play in matches. And I'm at the bottom of the ladder. This is all b/c of the 10th person. Now I know her intent was not to cut me off, but she did. We'll just call her X. So, X says to me, Y, and Z, "I don't know what sport to do!" Z says: "Why don't you do squash?" I say: "Ugggg!! I keep trying to talk to Becker about squash and she's NEVER there!!! Arggg!!" X: "Hmmm....that would be good...it's close to home...and I won't have to do gym....but I've never played...oh well, that's fine." soccer update
My thoughts exactly, Zoe. Apparently, Becker is the only one who will let any teams order shorts and sweats with anything on the butt because she views it as an excuse for her to stare lustfully after our butts all day..... Camp Green Lane.....or should I say Camp Lake-Up-Your-Ass
Anyway, the two major activities we did were archery and canoeing. I was praying I had archery first, so if I fell in while canoeing, I would be able to change right away. Not so. My cabin and another one had boating first. As it went, I didn't fall in. But was just that wet. You see, our boat (me, Courtney Sheetz, Rachel Gale, and Christina Thomas) had a little problem. I will let you read the following short conversation I had with my sister about it:
The next morning, we played a "game" called All Jake's Children (Jake is one of the counselors). Don't ask me why they call it All Jake's Children, or why they call it a game for that matter. We had to split up into two teams and sit one the sidelines of the basketball court facing away from the court. We then had to take off our shoes and put them behind us. The adults proceeded to take our shoes and chuck them wherever. Then we had to find our shoes, put them on, and line up. Then repeat. One girl (I don't know who) was like, "Those are shoes! Please don't get them dirty. My mom will kill me!" and John (the other counselor) repeated her in a mock-y, whine-y voice, "Those shoes cost me ! Don't ruin them!" and then followed it all with a very evil laugh. fcuk soccer team party!!! sorry... REHOBOTH!! the first day we got there and it stopped raining just in time for us to put up our tent (we were camping in this place called "big oaks" haha). rose, zoe and i got the new tent which i am REALLY thankful for (more about that later)! After we set up our tent, we went to this really kool restaurant that supposedly selled tapas, and since rose and i are weird like that, we were like "ooo! tapas! we learned about them in spanish class! lets go eat tapas!". So we decided to go to this restaurant, and lo and behold it is this fancy french/meditteranean restaurant called "Celsius" where they do everything for you, and there we were in our regular t-shirts and pants feeling quite underdressed for this restaurant! haha! the food was reallllllyyyy good though...then after the restaurant, we went back to our tent! yea...we had a refreshing talk that was much needed. Why did you have to be created? You make peoples life's hard, and then they make your life hard, and it's not a good cycle. How can you be so proud. Grrrr....why can't you just vanish from the face of this earth?!?! But at the exact same time i don't want you to vanish at all! But you know what? It doesn't matter anymore, because I finally put you on my shelf, and it's no longer going to bother me because i have a nice little tactic that rose and i made up...MUHWAPAPAPAPAPAPA!! and it'll work for me day after day, and you'll never know why, or how it's working, but it will work. haha!! it's fun to kind of put yourself on a pedestal for once!! By the time we were done our little talking, it was pouring rain...but we didn't really think much of it, because we were pretty sure it would disapate by tomorrow....WE WERE TOTALLY WRONG!!!!!!!haha! Not only did we have to deal with the *tut, tut, tut* sound the rain made on the tarp over the tent so that we were forced to get no sleep, a lake was created right next to our tent over night which was making the sides wet and sort of seeping in. But everything was good! We went out to breakfast at this place called the royal treat, and then we went to all the outlets! J. Crew and Gap and stuff! yeahs! then we went out to lunch at Gus n' Gus and we all got corn dogs! *yum!* Then we went to the movie theater to see Simone at 1:40...but unfortunatly all the first shows were sold out. So we got tickets to see it at 4:05 or something like that and we just hung out at the movie theater from 1:30 till 4:00. That was ammusing...we did so much stuff to pass time...and we got a banana split from TCBY!!! YUMS!! So finally we saw the movie. Simone wasn't a completely great movie, but it wasn't a bummer either. It was just cute! haha! After the movie we went back to our campgrounds to see what happened to our tent during the day...and you know what we did? WE BUILT TRENCHES TO DRAIN THE LAKE THAT HAD FORMED RIGHT NEXT TO OUR TENT! then we built pine needles dams just incase the water decided to return! the rain came and we defeated it! Unfortunatly, the only thing we didn't defeat was our sleeping bags and most of our clothes getting wet, and we couldn't exactly dry them because we didn't exactly have a dryer in the middle of camp grounds. So then we voted shower! This was an interesting process. We decided one person would take a shower while the two other people would use the hair dryer that was in the bathroom to dry our clothes somewhat, and then we just traded off! haha! So then we got dinner at around 8:30 and came back after that to our camp ground. And in the process of eating dinner...THE RAIN STOPPED!!!!!! YEAHS!!!!!!!!! haha! Then we went back to our camp ground and slept in our wet sleeping bags while i layed on a pillow that smelled somewhat like crackers (i have no clue how it got that way) and we all went to sleep! Of course, we would have had a really good nights sleep if there wasn't a man on the other side of the camp ground who decided to yell and curse at his wife in the middle of the night!!!!!!! AHHh!! GRRR!!!! he was so annoying!!! and then in the morning he decided to shoot geese just off the campground with a bb gun just so that everybody on the camp ground could wake up!!!!!! ahhh!!!! haha!! after that occurence, we got up and packed up our stuff and attempted to roll up our wet tent. Although, i was happy we got the new tent, or else we would have had A LOT of water in our tent. haha! After we were all packed up, we decided since it wasn't raining, we would stay a little bit longer than expected and go to the BOARDWALK AND BEACH!!!! yeahs!!!!! The boardwalk was really great! we went in one of these toy stores and got one of those poopy cows! (if you have no clue what I'm talking about, they're the exact same thing as the poopy hippo that Matt had in 7th grade). So then we decided we would go in the ocean!! that was fun!! we boogy boarded and tried to dodge the waves...the waves were huge....they were pretty scary for short little zoe and me. haha! We saw peeps surfing which was fun, and we also saw dolphins swimming semi close to the beach! I wanted to pet ze dolphins!! After we got dry, we decided we would go to "funland" which is this mini ammusment park that has rides! it was fun!! the swingy pirate ship was a little scary though, because it basically went all the way verticle....but it was still fun! THEN WE WENT TO BEN AND JERRY'S!! we got yummy ice cream!!!!!!!!!!! Then we went to this place called "dolles" which has really good fudge and salt water taffy. Haha...i persuaded zoe that she should get me fudge and saltwater taffy as a late birthday present..haha! I love you zoe!! hehe! We decided then to go home! Then i stayed at Rose's until MY family got home and we ate lima beans and yum yum corn chowder and watched the beginning of lord of the rings!! That was basically the jist of our trip!! ahh!! so much fun! -Megs carbon leaf.....
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
1. Rio S50 mp3 player
2. Personal Humidifier from Sharper Image (shut up I'm sick)
3. Flat wall-mountable stereo from Sharper Image
4. Two paintable glass bowls (craft kit)
5. Sequel to Jumanji signed by author
6. Frank Lloyd Wright month-by-month calendar (family calendar)
7. Winnie the Pooh month-by-month calendar (for my room)
8. Green shirt that says "Everyone Loves An Irish Girl" from Urban Outfitters
9. Baldwin Blue shirt (long story....)
10. Underwear (ummm yea another reallllly long story...)
11. Wild Thornberrys Movie Soundtrack
12. Meet the Parents Soundtrack
13. Love, Santa book (funny...the author spoke at an assembly at our school)
14. Stuffed puppy dog (very cute)
15. Assorted chocolates and candies
And the best part is, my birthday is in a week!! So I get the whole present thing over again!!!
Anyway, my sister's Jewish friend Sarah (she was featured in the Makeover Story with here mom, Mimi) is coming over for Christmas Dinner.....so I gtg...ttyl!!
way to go megsie....I commend you on your post the other day........oh wait, I'm not thinking of the other day.......I'm thinking of NEVER!!!!! its k :)
-LATER-
(I was not there for this part, but I can just imagine...) X: "HiMs.BeckerIthinkIamgoingtodosquashnowokaybye!"
-LATER-
Me: "Hi Ms. Becker. I was just wondering if I could possibly play squash?"
Becker: "What, you don't like swimming?"
Me: "Um, diving, um, yes, I like it, but we only practice Mondays and Wednesday from 7:30-9pm. So I could practice squash too [squash practices from 4-5:15]"
Becker: "Here's the deal. The squash team is pretty full, with ten players. But, A takes a lesson on Tuesday, and B takes a lesson on Thursday. So you can go those days when there are fewer players. But maybe we can work on getting you there more days. And you won't play in matches, unless we play a really big team or something. Think of it more as a learning experience for next year. And then really get a jump on things for next season. Okay?"
Me: "Okay, thank you so much!"
Yeah, I definitely DID mind that I wouldn't be in any matches, but I do care that I do get to play. I only want to play. There really aren't any other opportunities besides school, now that SRA fizzled out and Andy (Healthplex, had trouble with his visa so he couldn't work) is who knows where. The funny thing is, I nearly fainted when she said to get a jump on things next season. I had gone to every squash interest meeting. I had asked her if I could do squash and diving (Buzby started out doing squash and swimming and diving but now only does diving) and she said there was no way in hell I could do both (I'm paraphrasing here). And I asked again and she said no. And I asked again and she said no. And I waited two weeks and asked again and she said yes. When I had visited, she had told me absolutely I could do both. But whatever. Now I can. The only problem is most of squash's matches are on the same days as diving meets, which won't really conflict this year but will next year.....Oh well. Anyway, back to X. She really was telling the truth when she said she had never played. She doesn't know the rules. She doesn't know the boundaries on the court. She doesn't know how to serve. When I tried out last year, knowing I wasn't going to make it, I at least had a lesson to know how to serve. And she's rich, so she has a nice Head racquet and nice goggles and I have the cheap stuff because I knew I was only going to play for two weeks competitively last year. And now I have a lot of convincing to do to get a new racquet and prescription goggles bc I can't see a damn thing when I get on the court. But I know how to do it..... :) And I know X didn't mean to do what she did and didn't intend to cut me off or anything, but she knew there was only one spot and that I wanted it to play and not to get out of gym (I didn't have gym bc I'm diving). But it's like those people who apply to Harvard and only want to go to Harvard, but apply to Yale and MIT and Brown etc and don't want to go, but just want to see if they get in. Well let me tell ya something. If you get into those schools, you are taking someone else's spot. Someone who might only have the chance to go to Yale and nowhere else and who could have gotten a scholarship there but nowhere else and now can't afford to go to college anywhere else. Way to go. Sorry to make you think about college when we are mostly freshies here, but don't worry. I'll bring this up again when the time comes.
P.S. If anyone knows who X is (I know someone who does) please don't tell anyone else who it is. And if X reads this, I want to be your friend, I'm not trying to hurt your feelings or anything, I just needed to vent (you don't know that about me yet). Please keep it secret everyone. I don't want anyone to get hurt because of this. And I don't want people taking sides or anything. This is just a vent. I repeat, THIS IS JUST A VENT!!!
I just found out that the signs that said JV was included in the screwed up practice were a joke............even the one in Becker's handwriting...........
Soooo......back from camp. You could say it was fun, or you could say it sucked....they kind of walk hand in hand. I was in a good bunk, but when we get there, we discover that there are just enough beds. Most of the beds are wooden bunk beds with two safety planks around the top bunks. Except for one set. There is one teeny metal set of bunk beds, but instead of safety sides all the way around, the top bunk has one skinny metal bar that stretches a third of the way across in the middle. Of course, me and Danielle end up with that one, and I end up on top. This bunk is also on the other end of the cabin from the space heater, pretty much out the door, and right next to an open window with no way to close it. Whatever, I'll bundle up with my sleeping bag, two blankets, sweater, sweatshirt, three pairs of socks, two long sleeve shirts, leggings, sweatpants, and pajama pants. I'll be fine. Not. Frozen toes, here we come.
fluffleupagus88: and i was in a canoe with three holes..that was sinking....
megara683: hahaha did you get wet?
fluffleupagus88: umm...you could say that....i just had the whole lake up my ass....does that count?
'Nuff said.
That's Camp Green Lane for ya. I vote that next time, we go to Canadensis.
Fcuk. Fcuk fcuk fcuk fcuk fcuk. Damain (soccer coach) just got fired. Effective immediately.
And it's our fault. He was a really good coach. We didn't like him in the beginning of the year, but he was like Mr. Chicoskie: once we warm up to him, he gets himself fired. Sure, we didn't like the five-milers in the driving rain, but it was definitely fun in the end. This is how it went:
Whenever we lose, we run. When we win, we have practices with fun games and drills, like everyone against Damian, or we skip practice the next day. We haven't won since the very beginning of the season. So then we go and win against Penn Charter. And the varsity team, who has lost maybe twice, lost against Penn Charter. This made Ms. Becker (athletic director) very mad, because we, supposedly the crap team, won a game, and varsity, her pride and joy, lost. The next day, a sign was posted on the messageboard that varsity had a campus run followed by a pool workout for practice. Later, All Teams and +JV were added to the sign. Even later in the day, another sign, in Ms. Becker's handwriting, was posted that read: "JV Soccer: Practice today is with Varsity. Be ready to run." Tara (head coach) had called Damian and told him not to come. So when we saw all these signs, we called him, and told him to come. He got here and said that he wanted us all to go home, but that he was going to talk to Tara and Ms. Becker first. He did talk to them in a very gentlemanly way, unlike his usual toddler-like atty-tood. Unfortunately, it was not enough. He came back, did not give us a definite answer on whether we had practice or not, but did say this: He expected that he was fired, but he was not coming back to coach next year whether or not he still had the job. He agreed that it was stupid to punish us for their loss when they are never punished for our losses. They just rub it in our faces until the next game. So Damian pretty much told us to go home, so we did. Then Ms. Becker spazzed and said we might not have a jv team next year, and Tara got so mad that we had all gone home (not that we could have had a very productive practice with 3 defenders, 2 cripples, and 1 midfielder. Now we are going to recieve some major ass-kicking on Monday. And we will either have a new coach or have to work with Tara, who shows no mercy to us. What I don't get is why they couldn't fire Damian but let him finish out the season. It's two more frickin weeks!! I also don't understand their reasoning. They think Damian is a bad coach, and that is why we lost all those games in the middle of the season. Okay, I get it, they get mad if we lose, which is understandable. Now wait, when we win, they blow their tops because we are supposed to be crappy and never have any shining moments? This I don't understand. Just pick one already.
I'll tell ya one thing, that Ms. Becker is one crumbled cookie....
~J
Okay, soccer team party yesterday was, in the words of paula abdul on American Idol, "fu--nominal". It was soooooo funny!! First off, we had another very muddy practice. We were going to watch The Ladybugs, that movie with the boy who puts on a wig to play on a girl's soccer team. But Blockbuster didn't carry it, so we watched Legally Blonde and Monsters Inc. instead. I watched about 1/2 hour of Legally Blonde, but then it got kind of boring (i'm sorry! i've seen it waaaay too many times!). So I played pool with Danielle. I've never really played pool before. I mean, I played when I was about six at my grandfather's house, but I just stood on the table and rolled the balls around. Danielle has played quite a bit, so she thought it would be fun to play beat and beat my ass into the ground. I broke and the balls were bouncing all over the table because I shot very lower english, but somehow I managed to get a ball into one of the pockets. Danielle thought the fact that one of the balls went in, and that one of the balls nearly went off the table, was very funny. So she said, "That would be soooooo funny if you beat me!!" So I did. I managed to beat her in my first game of pool. And not one of the balls actually made it off the table. Obviously, once I actually beat her, Danielle did not find this so funny anymore. Herein lies the challenge: anyone who thinks they can win to an almost undefeated pool player of 3 games is welcome. You can try, but you will not be successful. btw, the only game I lost was to our soccer coach who somehow also has: a grand mastership in pool when he was thirteen, a junior national title, a record label, and a stalker....
I know I haven't blogged in like forever. But like Zoe said, I've had soccer and homework!! I've also been spending a while setting up my songs page. Everyone go there (ummm...don't click on the 'test' link, its just a test) and click on the links song titles and you will find the lyrics to the songs featured at the bottom of this page. Go or I'll hurt you!!
So zoe, rose and i just got back from Rehoboth!! YEAHS!!! it was really fun!!
I know you suggested Counting Crows (megr) but I couldn't find good lyrics online. I thought you and everyone else would be satisfied with The Boxer by Carbon Leaf. Btw, all song lyrics I put up here are property of their respective owners and are copyrighted and I am only 'borrowing' them for personal use, not for commercial use. Just wanted to do that so no one can accuse me of anything. lata!
XDXDXDXDXD 'lata' megr ur soooo funny! ~J
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i once met a man with a sense of adventure
he was dressed to thrill wherever he went he said
let's make love on a mountain top
under the stars on a big hard rock
i said in these shoes
i don't think so
what are you afraid of
i said honey
let's do it here
so i'm sitting at a bar in guadalajara
in walks a man with a faraway look in his eyes
he said i've got a powerful horse outside
climb on the back i'll take you for a ride
i know a little place we can get there for the break of day
i said in these shoes
no way jose
i said honey
lets stay right here
no le gusta caminar
no puede montar la caballo
como se puede bailar
es una scandolo
then i met an englishman
oh he said
what are you afriad of
wont you walk up and down my spine
it makes me feel strangely alive
i said in these shoes
i doubt you'd survive
i said honey
lets do it
lets stay right here
no le gusta caminar
no puede montar la caballo
como se puede bailar
es una scandolo
no le gusta caminar
no puede montar la caballo
como se puede bailar
es una scandolo
no le gusta caminar
no puede montar la caballo
como se puede bailar
es una scandolo
lets stay right here
no le gusta caminar
no puede montar la caballo
como se puede bailar
~In These Shoes, Kirsty MacColl