First PLEDGE

Hey yesterday marks my first of a thousand pledges. Saying that I did not cheat or help someone else cheat nor have I seen anyone else cheat. Except they may use a phrase instead of cheat but yea thats the gist of it. I have to write that on the back of all my papers and possible homework and defintely tests from now on.
Ok so today was fun classes are still pretty easy and umm. . I decided to get gas and a cell phone charger today which those who have talked to me know I pretty badly need one of those. Anyhow someone told me to go Radio shack cuz there's are cheaper than the brand name and work with any cell. So ok take maple, points at a wall of the building, from there make a right on 7th street go 2 maybe 3 stops signs make a left on Austin Avenue and then on Williamson or Williams or somthing basically just go all the way down till you hit the light and caddyshack of the light will be a (I don't remember the places) and go in and *I had to finish his sent that in that shopping center will be Radio shack* yea yea
Ok so I go and can't tell what street I'm on but I was like I thought this was University Blvd so I go down and there's Austin Avenue well I skipped some middle streets but hey this is like how I got lost going to diedre's just go straight and end up finding the 3rd turn ahead of you ok so turn down it and can't find it but remember where the cheapest gas was so go back get some 2.49 gas you pay first when I do some guys out using it and he sees my funny look and he's like it won't reach oh you payed for it how much? "20 bucks" ok I"ll go in and put 20 buks on that pump. so that works out nice but I got the gas people to redirect me, they tell me basically I drove by it when by again still see the Mcdonalds that they told me to look for and went back it was impossible to find a parking spot in student spots went to the other side and there are 5 student spots but there not allowed to be used except from 5pm-7am (some debate between faculty and student counsel so that was the compromise) and it was 3:45, so I go back one last time before I don't know, and then there's this car followin me, and as were going these 2 girls walk out and so I keep being like yes and then they go to the next row, and finally I figure out where there going and go one to far to give them a chance to pull out and the gal behind me takes that and I'm like she better not take that spot I've been going back and forth like 15 min it's awesome she just goes by it, maybe looking for a spot not all the way in the back anyhow, I take that and by the time I can walk to the front of the parking lot she has this spot 2 in from the door, I was just like why do I try and am here now wishing I had enough wall space to bang my head against it.
Oh and then some light blinks any time I get over 30 miles an hour so I think I need an oil change and am like ahh how am I gonna get home. I'm gonna die. No cell, for more than like 20 min, low oil and don't know where to change it having an ungodly hard time finding people to help out and just go with me so if I get lost I can get back or to have a guide or somthing. Rawr

1st Weekend

OK so lets see I've been here over a week, and classes are about to start this feels like home now and once classes start it will be really. . .weird, cuz that Imeans I realy will be living at school it feels like I've been here forever, though and am ready to be like ok camps over lets go home now. Just taking a guess though thats not gonna happen. I really want to and feel like saying somthing to someone anyone, who I knew before I got here, but I really just don't know what to say
I like people I really do, but college kids are. . .college kids I mean there not bad there just not I don't know I have better friends than people I met a week ago. I don't want to spend 60 hours a week between classes and homework then on top of that band, while not having a room I can really call mine, with out uhhh just kind of frustrated, sorry I'm kind of useless at the moment and am kind of just a big pity party, but yea so please talk to me post a comment, tell someone else to tell me hi for you anything but please I'm just kind of . . . isolated, on my own little island, and the people I'm hanging around continually use the acronym TAZ(Temporary Autonomous Zone) and throw in rhizome(not the biology term) everyonce in awhile sounds kind of neat at first but it gets old they got it because they're in the FYS called Secret History of the 20th Century. My quad has kind of seemed to disappear on me except when I'm on my laptop at which point they always seem to be in the common room making me feel dumb for not hanging with them but . . . oh well.
Anyways here I am waiting for yall to say somthing and thanks to those who have.

Classes?

So I've got all my classes set, I made the band I'm in the class for another 170 bucks I get lessons for a semester theres about 14 of them. Umm, I'm in bio now and for those who want my schedule it vaguely looks like
Monday Tuesady Wednesday Thursday Friday
8:00 Chemistry Sociology Chem Sociology Chem
9:00 Calculus FYS=15min Calculus FYS=15min Calculus
10:00 BioDiversity BioD BioD
11:00 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
12:00 Band Band Band
1:00- Calc lab Chem Lab
2:00- BioD Lab Chem Lab
3;00 BioD Lab Chem Lab
4:00 BioDLab till 5 Chem Lab till 4:30
Umm Bio D starts half way through the first semester FYS stands for first year seminar for me thats History a fun class especially if your aetheist otherwise you might become one, umm. . .it ends half way through the first semester, umm. . .yea lets ways I've made friends
WAY #1 is not finding somthing and finding someone else who can't find them my first buds JIm and Jordan, and then later Joanna and Meagan Jim and Jordan were looking for the mixer the first night and the other 2 were looking where they were playing a movie when that failed we just watched a movie and there room I felt weird though realizing when the movie was over it was one, and I was in a girls room, totally unsupervised and no one cared. Umm. . . lets see
WAY #2 say hola I saw one of the 3 girls from my FYS walking to lunch so said hola since then she's been the only person to actually search me out to sit by me during lunch, yay??, and then
WAY #3 be a quad mate cuz it's really hard not to be the friends of someone you live with
Way #4 just be friendly that should be obvious
OK so lets see I'm supposed to be working on this group project for tommorrow cuz like 5 hours ago I was told meet back here in a couple mins so I did like 5 min later and I've only seen one of the other 4 back here and he was asleep, so ahhh and man do you ever just kind of worry about things that shouldn't matter, cuz yea' I tend to be doing that I have all these classes and what not and they don't even bother me my mind is entirely elsewhere and our common room now has cable tv PS2 supernintendo, 6 chairs for 8 of us one of them's a box and another's a beanbag the box seems to be a slowly spreading favorite, we have 2 lamps cuz one of the guys is like a fashion designer and decided the regular lights were icky, umm. . . yea I guess thats a pretty good update on me ok so please keep me posted on ya'lls lives
oh and my new email is :

manusovs@southwestern.edu

the guy with an email is getting off and the greatest of luck to all of you hopefully ya'll won't need it but maybe you will.

LEAVING

That will prolly be my last caps lock title in awhile yea I realized I left awhile ago, but I didn't have internet access for awhile. There's no wireless in the dorms, so yea, I have slow speed there and high speed everywhere else. Anyways leaving was a bit difficult but the college is amazing and man stereotypes of colleges are kind of fun if you want a list go here and Southwestern is like debt plus Fwood which in short is me. . .http://voorn.tripod.com/schools.html
Anyways I'm here I'm still alive and may have commented on your Xanga or talked to you on IM tonight I guess technically all this was yesterday. I've been staying up late doing pirate training making friends, the biggest difference between hs friends and college friends is you live with college friends so like when I hang with ya'll I have to try and find time, but with them I have to try not to see them so it's hard not to pick up a couple friends. But then again look at my quad mates ok first an explanation I live in a room and outside my room is a common room like a mini hallways and there are 4 dormrooms, they used to each hold one upperclassmen but this year for the first timep partly because they were overrun with freshman, they put two fish in each room, so I have quad mates and a room mate. Anyways a couple mins ago there were some . . . different conversations going on, well for them normal, but like one guys decided story of where sheep skin condoms came from and my quote of the day
"Right out side the RA's room theres a basket of condoms, yea they got candy too," "Candy and condoms, sweet deal" yea and ya'll wonder why I prefer ya'll as friends that came up cuz there were talking with some sophmores that showed up and were explaining that were the first fish ever on campus to be coed and they were like living and learning community more like living and intercourse yea so thats my awesome quad-mates there fun when I'm on the same page which isn't to often cuz I still like to pretend I'm totally innocent, cuz yea anyways till later
the college guy

CAR

I just got a car today ok this is actually yesterday, but I moved the date back a day. Yeq it's a gold 97 Saturn LS2 if anyone knows what that is. It has hail damage not that I care it also has cruise control yeaaa it's my baby hehe, it also has window controls in the middle and only the right mirror is electric, my lights aren't automatic but atleast the car is, sorry Robert not a manuel fan. and . . .o yea sorry for saying it was ugly it's actually the same color as your car but it's pretty now that its been buffed up. According to my dad it has great wheels, and its 4 cylinder engine. OOO and my brother loves this toggle switch that allows me to switch the car into performance mode basically means faster acceleration cuz it shifts later, which means less efficient and bumpier ride. Oh and Icalled my grandma cuz she gave me the money I used to buy the car, and was telling her about it and she was like so what its name, and I didn't have one so my car needs a name please offer up suggestions. So I guess thats it, oh yea 117,600 miles on it. so it's been used but never had repairs done or atleast not that carfax got meaning never in any official mechanics. Passed a bunch of inspections though, so yea I'll prolly take up to the school tomorrow to pick up Brandon, so if u want to see it look for me. hehe or just call me hmm. . .I'm skeptical of putting my cell up here but yea you can get it just call me whenever 7:30 I won't guarantee I'll answer but I won't complain u woke me up. Alrighty so I miss all of ya'll and I think I've decided I have an addiction to friends and am suffering withdrawal.
alright so the me is signing out c yall later

LAST WEEKEND

This has been my greatest weekend ever, I just wish it wasn't because I was leaving I figure I need to watch for the next time I graduate go away and have an 18th birthday again, cuz it tends to attract great weekends. I mean from Friday night to now it's been spectacular. It was also chronological I mean Friday night was Kevin, Robert, and me, the trio who I've known for a pretty long time, then my party adding well everyone and then today was Diedre's day her being one of my newest close friends, among other things. I mean everything seems ready to go, and I'm like oh just one more year I just want a full lifetime with yall is that to much. Apparently it is.
and Kristin thanks. . . I promise everyone I'll visit, unless the earth comes and eats me up or somthing cuz that will make it very difficult and I don't think I want to spend that much time and energy I mean first i have to come back to life, then I have to crawl out of the earth, and then I probably won't have a car and have to walk back to FWood so yea.
ok so from this weekend onward everyday is the last one of them I'll spend here till college. Today's my last Sunday, tomorrow's my last Monday, I leave the 19th . . .I think maybe the 18th hmmm .

PARTY

For all those who have ever asked me what i would want as my perfect day, this was it.
Today was . . . unbelievable . . . I mean . . .ok i prolly shouldn't say that but I got to hang with almost all my close friends, no one seemed left out or bored, the weather was amazing even purple clouds, there was water, no stress, plenty of free time, no crowds, everyone there knew i existed and won't forget me any time soon, yall just made it spectacular, thats better than the feeling i have after a USY convention not that anyone other than my brother could really describe that.
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I will miss all of you, thank you all for everything, A hug to all even Daniel hehe, mann I'm gonna leave, it seems kind of surreal but almost everything was seems right the only the thing off is. . . well ask me one on one if you must know.
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Amanda: I've known her forever from Tom Boy to beauty pageant (which was like, huh but o right she is a girl) no but seriously she has been one of my oldest and best friends, and seeing her again, makes me wish I would have visited her more often when I had the chance. she was my friend all through my time in League City, and probably the only friend I still have from then.

Brian: Since I moved here, I've known him we both came from League City I just didn't know him then, we've been best buds for quite awhile even if it was by force hehe, just me and him tend to hang in very different crowds. For all you band people, blame him I knew I couldn't draw but I certainly couldn't act so why not follow him the counselor said not to but what other talent do I have, otherwise I prolly would have gone to art, cuz acting takes. . . energy, art then seemed like practice and basics might get you some where. From video games, to trampolines, to who knows what. . . my best friend. . .

Chelle: Ok so I haven't known her that long I'ld say last year but since the new school year started the year before that too, she is the single greatest people I know by my defintion probably not a great one (the definition), Chelle has got to be the friendliest, warmest person I know, her only flaw is unlike other people who get stuck up when they are awesome, she somehow seems to have less self confidence than i do, girl your awesome live with it.

Daniel: ok so trombone power to start, and more skills than I can count from . . .I'm not even gonna start, I trust my life with you, not somthing I say often, as of the moment you tend to be my wiling or not go to man for advice. You're almost my model for who I want to be . . . when I grow up or get younger or somthing another, I don't even know what to put but our just a Spectacular friend

Ex hehe Krisitn: teehee I cheat, ok I've known her just this last year, I don't really know what to say I mean I fell in love with her. . . or so I thought it wsa and still think it . . . was, so I mean obviously I thought and still do that she's amazing, but beyond that she's really talented in. . . well everything but I was aiming at medical field good luck, and well don't knock them dead cuz your supposed to make them live have fun and be successful otherwise I'll have to like hunt you down and make you have fun and be successful and we all know I only make things worse. hehe thats a joke I won't actually do that . . . I think. . .

F Diedre:I know cheating some more; my anything here would be so incredibly biast it's not worth writing so she's my gf for almost 6 months now and next

Jason: part of the trombone trio(quartet), kind of umm. . .odd at times, but hey what better fits me, a great friend apparently a better a trombone player than me, and no longer controlled by his mom heheh.

Kevin: ok another part of the trombone trio(quartet), so yea buddies since 7th grade, he's my super catholic to the rescue hehe the jew gets him, anyways he's just a great friend to have around and he's only an hour away I think he's suggested as many games as Daniel has skills, which are way higher than I can count.

Libbi wow the other side of religion man do I want to watch her and Kevin in one room on a religious debate that would be hilarious, yes she is the rabbi's daughter not exactly what I would expect from one, but then again her dad's the awesomest rabbi in the world. Well that I've met. Just an awesome friend and a reminder that you can still have a life and be jewish even with out being around only jews.

Micah: an awesome character yea that about sums him up

O Robert: the last of the quartet not a trombone, but a . . .trumpet how pitiful just kidding, and man does he plus Kevin in me create an odd religious conversation, anyhow, he is more devoted to work than anyone I know he's very much tries to make everyone happy even when thats really impossible, and is an amazingl loyal friend, I mean he tried so hard to get me to that band lockin and then after getting kicked out while on the way to Galveston called and was like I can come back for you, Just an awesome friend most of ya'll prolly missed out on

Perri: the others rabbi 's daughter first girl who ever asked me to dance she is probably the sole reason I talk have any confidence attempt to dance at dances, and a thousand other things I owe so much to her, not to much like her sister can't really say either side is bad, bt I really owe her a lot such as an email cuz I never did email her after she went to college, and if I have the same problem with yall I will fix it well good luck in whatever you do prolly relgious studies

Rodrigo:An awesome friend met him at synagouge he was knew I was quiet the rest of the class or most of them had been friends forever, so he buddied up with me big giant mexican out of a movie type guy bullylooking, and I mean so easy to stereotype, but he was really friendly had some serious problems though with everything from being jewish, to family, and although he had some fun beat the crap out of people stories, yea not good he ended up with some friends over else where and lately I haven't seen to much of him but he still gives me advice and is still a great friend, I just won't take his advice on girls not that he doesn't do well with them cuz he becomes like super gentlemen and make me feel ashamed, but yea oh and it's really funny when fast food people use to ask if we were brothers cuz he's this giant mexican and I'm this skinny white boy.

Talya and Julia: haha hilarious ok I have cousins in NJ who were friends with Julia so she moves to Texas and guess what she's right here where I live how awesome is that so of course my cousin forces me to be friends and julia's awesome but Talya is this loud mouth who won't stop bragging, yea she's annoying, anyways over time especially after her sister left I became her friend to, and now most the time I don't even notice she's anoying lol just playing she's fun good luck in guard they'll need it since the band likes to blame the guard for everything.

Stef: Ok last not the least of my friends though, I didn't noticed you existed till last year sorry, I don't notice the guard just that they've grown from 4 eligable on a good week to wait how many are there of you, and yall are pretty good to just the band can't stand not being first and so if awhdofudof not getting into it, but yea you do seem like a great friend wish I would have gotten to know you better and I plan to when I visit and through technology so have a blast and good luck in all that you do.

Quotes of the Day:"the icing didnt taste good but actually he did"
"Thank you for everything" me to everyone I could come up with a list of what I owe each of yall but yea that list shoud be enough"

Bar Mitzvah

Wow, it's really been 5 years, 5 years ago today was my bar mitzvah it doesn't seem like it was all that long ago it feels like it was just a couple months ago, well 5 years ago on the regular calender, which was a Saturday, (the main part of the service)
On the lunar calender 5 years ago, will be in a week next Saturday or Sunday which ironically is going to be my grad/18th bday/going away party that I'm still trying to get details on so I can invite all of you. Hey and if you don't get invited then like ask me, cuz most likely between school and everything I'm forgetting a lot, and yea, so please don't be insulted if I forget you, cuz I'll prolly forget a lot of people
feeling a bit dumb at people almost forgotten already. . .
Alright, well c ya'll later

customer?

ok so much has happenned since my last post but to keep easy I'll stick with today
Alright, so it's pretty much empty and there's this one customer that comes like a billion times, and he always jokes to see if we remember what he gets A large diet coke with no butter, a whoppers (not milk duds) with no butter, and a Large popcorn with no butter, anyhow asking weird questions like Scott how many great Scotts can you name, yea I failed, anyways today the third time he's been my customer, he was like Scott you give your girlfriend everything she wants, I was kind of taken a back and thought why, and then how does he know I have a gf half the people I meet can't even tell I"m straight. So anyhow, after that he orders extra stuff cuz he has a little girl with him, and after thinking about I was like yea, but she does ask for much or somthing like that, and he was like somthing about don't ever marry a girl who doesn't like kids and dogs, cuz otherwise she's useless, or somthing like that and I was like what??? This is like an old guy role model type dude, later he comes back, and was at some one else's register and was like say no to drugs, and yes to girls, and the kid next to me Zack was like hey that's like my life values, I was laughing cuz he's the guy that was complaing because since Mr. Casity left the new people haven't remembered yet that he doesn't work Sundays for religious reasons. I just laughed in my head cuz thats our religious section's morales . . . yea
Oh yea and then sometime this next week I have to talk with Ms. Molina about being seasonal and she the ultra super boss he even ruled over Cassity, so I be like scared stiff and not sure how to do that.
ANyhow this is my last week working my schedule is
Friday:4-close
Sat2-close
Mon:8-5
Tue8-5
WEn8-5 LAST DAY
And then quote of the day
NO to drugs yes to girls. lol

wow

A lot has happenned since my last post and work has been making me get home after 6 each day now, and I still start at 8 yea I know band starts earlier, but ya'll had part of your summer I get two days a week and usually at least one of them if not both goes to college prep. So anyhow the week yall's school starts is the week I get off work so that week if I suddenly start trying to hang with ya'll don't be surprised and I might have a going away/18th birthday/graduation party that Saturday or Sunday. Anyhow hehe no I won't be cruel to religion on this one. . . but according to this one sight hehe

What's Your Religious Philosophy?

You are Agonistic

You're not sure if God exists, and you don't care. For you, there's no true way to figure out the divine. You rather focus on what you can control - your own life. And you tend to resent when others "sell" religion to you.

hehe yea more or less, I mean I kind of lean that he does, but mostly I don't really care to much because what does matter is what you can control not who you can kill to make sure you or they are right . . . ok so anyhow life's been exhuasting a bit fun pretty much only cuz of Diedre haven't been able to hang to much with anyone else, a little with Kevin and robert, awesomeness, and lastly a bunch of thanks to Daniel for being my computer advisor whether he wanted to be or not. Oh and my laptop works it really does I'm working on it and it's been named me the second cuz the first one died. It runs Guild Wars with sound and the right graphics among other things that work, such as Firefox, and GAIM lets see I've put in my 2 weeks notice to quit work, and college is right around the bend, I'm saddenned man this is the last time I'm gonna see everyone like this, after this I'll be a college person, and it's kind of weird to realize youre done building yourself and off to making your life. I mean technicaly I'm stil building myself, but I didn't pick this school because it's who I want to be, it was because it was who I already am.
OK and one last quote to finish off,

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Jackson Brown Jr.
That's why I'll never know how to be successful but I'm usually happy cuz I have ya'll for friends, why wouldn't I like what I get.