anyone?

hello?

well, here i am. it's around 6:40 or so and i am still here in oly. no one got back to me about going out this weekend, so i'm just gonna stay home and get some stuff done around here. that's probably good. i need to get organized, and i have a TON of tests to grade!

i found out that i actually DO have school on monday. only, i don't have to teach. it's an inservice day. i'll just attend meetings. it also starts at 8:00am instead of 7:30 for me. that'll be nice a whole half hour later. great.

anyways, i'm tired. my neck kind of hurts. i got hit pretty hard on top of my head at football practice today. a play went wrong and i got knocked sideways and someone elses' foot came down on top of my head as i was falling and kind of rung my bell a little. it took me a second or two to get back up and on my feet. people thought i got knocked out, but i was just taking a second to make sure everything was still functioning. i'm fine now, but like i said, i'm a little sore from it all. BUT, i only stayed out for like two plays and i was back in. i'm not gonna sit out this season. i'm gonna play.

anyways, well. i'm not sure what everyone else is up to. if any of you are bored give me a call. i'll be here. hey, i might even be up for a making a night of tonight, but i'm not sure. we'll see. pretty girls make grave will be playing tomorrow in seattle, they were a great show last time i saw them. but, i'm not sure if i'll be coming up tomorrow. i havn't got any kind of confirmation or plan for tomorrow night. i might still try to marathon it if it's a go. but, i'll be here till know for sure.

talk to ya'll later...

keep it real...

-weatherboy

butt fuck nowhere...

but, at least your friends are along for the ride...

sitting here. drinking the latest seasonal from New Belgium, the good people who supply we the drinking public with Fat Tire, it's called Biere De Mars. it's fantastic. literally translated as, beer of march, it is so nice and easy to drink. i'm working on becoming a beer reviewer. i need to get more descriptive.
anyways...

it's horrible, but today i was listening to tom lykis and he made a good point. to get an idea of who we are all we need to do is add up the parts of our friends. your friends reflect you. now, this could be good and bad. but, let's focus on the good. my friends LOVE to dance. i love to dance. my friends are quite fond of talking about politics. i've grown very fond of talking about politics. my friends like good beer, for the most part. i LOVE good beer. my friends are very intelligent and all have college degrees, for the most part. i'm working on finishing up my masters, the jury is still out on my intelligence. my friends all love music. i wouldn't even speak to you if you didn't like music. (i still have a hard time with bobanna not liking the smashing pumpkins...not even ONE SONG of theirs bobanna!!!???...(sigh)) my friends are very thoughtful and have great views on life and appriciate the arts. that's pretty much all of me. i'm always reflecting on life and i only wish i could dedicate MORE time to my love of the arts. i guess the whole point of this is to let you all know that i'm very grateful that i have such wonderful friends. all of the things that i likened you to myslef are not only ways that i think you are my friends, but ways that i like to see myslef. it's all a very postive thing. we are the final gasp of generation X, the generation that is supposed to save the world. and i believe that it's people like us that will make a difference when it's our turn to take over running the nation. we had a lot of the hate from earlier generations beaten out of us, but we also had some of the ultra-hippiness reasoned out of us as well. we are a good balance now. i'm just glad the\at my friends are people that make me feel good about where the world is going...however delusional that feeling might be. if the world goes down in flames i'll be in good company when it happens, and we'll all be laughing at the idiots that made it happen...

so, the student teaching continues to go well. i'm going to be all by myself tomorrow. my cooperating teacher has a workshop to attend and i'm not invited this time. i'll have a sub with me, but i've been told i can tell her to go do other stuff. my cooperating teacher said that i can handle the kids better than she can anyway. my confidence is growing little by little.

well, i might be heading back to the emerald city this weekend. i don't know if i have plans on sunday night yet (i have no school on monday and i hear that another b-day party is about to happen), but i do know that i'll probably come up sometime on saturday to just "be" in seattle. we, our little internet family, should get together this weekend. of course, i say this when bobanna says she might head up to canadia for the weekend. damn. well, i'd still like to assemble as many troops as possible for an outing on saturday night. so, clear your schedules everyone! let's kick the jet city's ass! gay dance club anyone?

ok. i'm gonna peace on out of here. i hope that this week is treating everyone well. for those of you who have the time (at work or otherwise) keep posting. we need to get more regular about this whole thing. we go in phases. we'll all be really good about it for a long time, then most of us will drop off a little. lets keep it goin'! bobanna and i are the last two to post, let's all get caught up!

i remain as always,

hopelessly devoted,

-weatherboy

what can i say...?

i'm the man.

and world is working its' way back into its' usual rotation...

wow. people are posting (for the most part). i have homework and i'm procrastinating as usual. but, we are all busy little hampsters making our respective wheels spin at our semi-normal pace. things are getting back to whatever form of normal we are used to. it's strange. the holidays seemed to knock me off my usual course more than they usually do. it's taken a couple of weeks to actually feel like i'm back in the swing of school...and school. going (but not really since i'm student teaching) and teaching. always an adventure. that's the nice part of teaching, my days are NEVER the same. something new always happens. there are not many jobs anymore that can offer that. most take a whole lot of f-ing school to get to, the others involve death...i.e.-firefighting...etc...

student teaching this week kicked my buttocks all over the place! every day i've been exhausted at the end. of course, being sick with a cough didn't help much. thank you very much bug, coughing all over my ass last weekend...

how's the world going for all of you out there in cyberspace? i hope that work is treating those of you that work well, and that school is running along smoothly for those of you still in school...i think that's just you schwee. i hope the classes are going by fast, but that the times are going nice and slow. i'm sure you understand. who went to college and doesn't? i don't really remember much of my french history class, but i sure as shit remember drinking a six pack of spire cider WHILE i was doing my radio show on KUGS up in b-ham! THOSE are the times you remember...the classes will all slowly fade. that's good and bad i guess.

i'm actually at the point in my life where i think that i'll want to keep taking classes, just for the sake of learning. just to know more stuff. i'd LOVE to be able to take classes just cause i felt like i wanted to learn what it offered. i know, that seems lame and kind of new age hippie loser talk...sure we'd all like to keep learning, weatherboy. you're not unique. nor do i claim to be. that's just where i'm at right now. thankfully i'm in a profession where learning is required for the duration.

anyways, so as i've said before, i hope all is well with everyone. i miss jen. i'm gonna be in oly this weekend. i have a party to go to after football with my cohort here in oly. after that we might venture on downtown, all are welcome. give my ass a call sometime, it's been longer than a fortnight since i've talked with most of you! yes, i said fortnight.

that's over two weeks bitches!!!

CHARLIE MURPHY!!! (*!PUNCH!*)

-out

i could have danced all night...

and partied ev-a-ree-day...

hey kids. well, another good weekend. nothing major, but it was good. friday i went bowling with HEW, eric, and tonya. the young couple had to hit it early cause they can't stay awake much past ten, so HEW and i stayed and bowled for a while longer. we went home and slept not long after that. morning came and i woke up early as usual. i watched troy then headed on south to get home in time for football practice. after that i came home and got showered and got a call from bug confirming an invite to a birthday party that was to be held that night (saturday for those of you trying to keep score). i got dressed and headed back on up to the emerald city and met up with bug to go out and get some dancing done at this birthday party being held at the last supper club. bug and i were on the guest list and we got special wristbands that allowed us cheap drinks all night. bug and i were kind of the odd ones out for a little while, she didn't know many people there, other than the b-day girl. so i got to really just sit and talk with her for a while, it was really good. i have not had a long talk with bug in a really long time, even though we were in AK together this christmas. she was kind of pissy when she was there, but oh well... i also got the opportunity to meet bug's new man. he passed just about all approval tests, other than the fact that he settled for budwiser cause it was cheap. never settle. it was a good night. since the alcohol was cheap i made my peace with gin and we are now friends again. i drank a great deal, it was extra cool cause bug was coming along and with me drink for drink, we also had a couple of shots. it was a really good time. with the inebriation taken care of, dancing became the new order of the night. since i had NO dance partner at all, i was the solo freak out there on the floor. bug did a lot of egging me on, so i went out and danced and had a really great time. bug, stayed with her man and they looked equally happy with the evening. all in all it was a great night, as i've mentioned. the night came to a close hours later and we headed off in seperate cars and i drove my happy ass home. i still had a lot of energy, so it was an easy trip to make.

jen, i'm thinking of you. call me whenever you can. i'm praying.

here i am now, on tuesday after getting a lot of stuff done on monday. i got a lot done today too. hopefully everything will work out well for everyone for the rest of this week. to some, there's more stress than others. i'm here for you.

i hope everyone is doing okay. i still have not seen some of you in quite a while. someday we'll remedy that. just let me know when, i'm a busy boy...

take care all, and until next time,

"don't be jealous cause i've been chatting with hot babes all day..."

-weatherboy

i can't believe that i'm filling this out...

god help us all...

1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4, Write down what it says:
...seeking favor. It eventually passed along to... (from the book, "1,000 places to see before you die.")
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?:
air...i'm in an office.
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?:
LOST
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what time it is: 9:25 pm
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?: HOLY SHIT! 9:25 pm!!! i'm awesome, what can i say?
6:With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
107.7 the end's people's choice countdown. and my mom talking.
7: When did you last step outside? what were you doing?: Like an hour and a half ago. I walked back into my house, i had just got back from the gym.
8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?: bobanna's LJ
9: What are you wearing?: white tee-shirt and blue jeans...yep, that's it. really.
10: Did you dream last night?: i think i was saving the world again...
11: When did you last laugh?: wow, i really can't remember...that's sad...
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?: Calendar, whiteboard, paintings, stained glass, rack to hang keys on.
13: Seen anything weird lately?: i teach fifth graders...i see weird stuff all the time.
14: What do you think of this quiz?: i'm with bobanna,Woo!
15: What is the last film you saw?: Lionheart (VanDame baby!!!)
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?: a baby, strait up cash.
17: Tell me something about you that I don't know: i love to go to interesting bars and read books and drink beer all by myself. and i always try to read by daylight. i'll go to the brightest window and i'll just open a book, order a beer and read for hours. when the sun goes away, that's when i'm done. i'm a sunchild i guess.
18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?: kill whitey.
19: Do you like to dance?: Some people might think that i do, but it's all an act...
20: George Bush: good, strong leader. couldn't think of a better C student to run the nation, oh wait...i probably can...
21: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?:
She-ra
22: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?: Ashton, or Kenton.
23: Would you consider living abroad?: Yes
23: Fruitcake or Chocolate cake?: WHITE cake with that rainbow frosting that has those little chewy balls! (that sounded a lot worse than i expected)
24: Who was the last person to call you?: my dad
25: What is your favorite time of the year?:
Late Summer/Fall
26: Beach or lake?: depends, both have their place. but, i would have to lean towards beach
27: Would you rather drown to death or burn to death?: neither.
28: Dog or Cat?: (another way to phrase that:friend or asshole?) Dog. cats can choke on it.
29: Book you are reading now?: our band could be your life: scenes from the american indie underground 1981-1991. it kicks ass.
30: What was your last hand gesture you made?:
i shook my fist at some asshole driver who, like many dumb assholes in washington, didn't know how to merge. and didn't use a turn signal.

there you go, that's the post for today.

-OUT

absence...

doing it's job...

i miss you guys. there's a couple of you out there who i have not seen since last year. it's been months, in fact. so, i propose that, at some point...perhaps this weekend, we can all get together again. i know that things are busy for many of us, but i think back on the fun times that we had this year and i get sad that we have not hung out in a while! too long. so, i'll come up north if i can get some positive feedback from you long lost friends. or, hey, you can come down here, but that's a little harder to get done, HOWEVER some of you might want to come to oly for some reason or another...i'm not sure...

anyways...let me know.

switching gears. my life and times are going along just fine. looking forward to a visit here soon from jen, don't know when yet, but i'm so happy that she might come! school is going fine. i'm slowly taking on more and more subjects and my cooperating teacher is leaving me in charge of the whole class more and more. i even have my own weekly lesson planner, i'm all grows up. (yes, grows...i grows up, and i grows up, and i grows up) anyone?

so, yeah. there's me for now. i come home, eat, go to the gym, come home, grade papers, then mill around and watch tv until i wake up and do the whole thing over. oh, and i'm still going to football practice on saturdays, which is fun. i think i need to go and see some more shows or something. there are some good ones going on these next few weeks.

k, so start posting again soon everyone...i'll be here, as always...

"the defect in this milk is bleach..."

-weatherboy

in-out, in-out, in-out....

and i never called...

(the in-out, refers to the show situation below, and the not calling is also explained)

yes, my punk rock new years was messed up. nothing really bad happened, but nothing really awesome happened either (other than the final band of the night). the first part of the night went more or less how i expected. dinner started late and there was much talking going on between me, HEW and blackmamba...and much drinking on blackmamba's part (HEW wasn't doing too bad either, but nowhere near mamba). we left for the show a little before 8pm, just as i planned. we got there, got in, and were kicked out less than a half an hour later. after sobering up the drunk of the party (who will remain unidentified for now, save that it wasn't me), we went back into the show and we had COMPLETLY MISSED the second act. THEN we got kicked out again, same culpret again after the third act, who sucked by the way, ( the same bouncer got us again, he had it out for us). thankfully the guy at the door let us go out and walk and get some water and come back for the final act, jello biafra and the melvins. they kicked ass and half way through the drunk member of our party decided to "go to the bathroom", but never show their face again. the final band started at midnight and did a really cool countdown. they also played an absolutly AWESOME set! after the show we couldn't find the missing party anywhere and so we ended up walking around cap hill for like an hour trying to find the person. goodtimes... actually, i didn't really mind at all. i thought it was a perfect night as far as summing up the year. good things and bad things happened all year, but the feeling of the night was right. the feeling was that of being in the middle. not mad, not happy, not bored, but content at just...being. enjoying life and missing the girl i love to share it with. i saw a great band and brought in the new year that way. we might have lost someone in the process, but,in the end, it was just me feeling like i had done what i wanted. nothing wrong with that.

after finding our missing party, we decided to hit beth's. by the time we got there, the drunken party was already asleep again. so, we went home, watched a little bit of a movie, made some food, and went to bed around 4:30 or so.

that's how i brought in my new year. and i managed to not point out who got drunk and caused the headaches for the night! sweet! oh, bobanna, i'm so sorry that i didn't call you to let you know my plans...however, i did post them. so you probably knew.

no reflection on 2004 in this post i think. that last year went by so fast that it's hard to feel like it's even over yet! let's just say that at this time last year i was substitute teaching, working at pizza hut and hanging out in upstate new york with jen...a year later, i'm back in washington, doing my student teaching which is the last part of my Master in Teaching program that i started last spring. a lot has happened in a year. 2004 was probably one of the most active years i've ever had! hopefully 2005 will be just as active without all of the moving away from loved ones. moving toward loved ones, now that i can live with...

this last week was my first week of student teaching and i had a great week getting back into the swing of things with my fifth graders! next week i start taking over the class little by little and i will soon be the full time boss...i mean teacher. it's a little daunting, but at the same time i'm really looking forward to it, it's a new adventure...to say the least.

alright, i'm done for now. i've written a TON. not bad for the first post of the year. i've noticed that the only posts that have been put out there lately have been political. to this i will say, let's just f-ing revote! washington is already looking like a joke, we need to save some face. voting in this country is becoming the joke of the world. oh, yeah, LOOK! We're getting Iraq to vote, but we can't even choose our own president without charges being brought up on tampering or whatever. WE CAN'T EVEN VOTE IN A NEW GOVENOR WITHOUT A PROBLEM NOW!!! i'm done. i've almost lost all faith in our system. so, once again, i'm going to observe our government from a distance, but i'm not gonna get emotional about it.

k, so i hope everyone is doing alright and i hope that you all had a great new years!

till next time, i'll have a strawberry smoothy...

"AND A BANANA COGNAC BITCH!"

-weatherboy