Memories

Your 8th grade year in Middle School is supposed to be "the worst year of your life." So let's take a trip down memory lane, shall we?


IN 8TH GRADE:

1. Who were your best friends?
I had quite a few, there was the studious ones like Kristin and Laura, and then the crazy ones like Kara and Larry. Then the oddballs like Kari and Jen.

2. What sports did you play?
ROFL! me play sports after grade school, not if i could help it

3. Did you buy your lunch?
sometimes from the beach snack bar, but usually no (we didn't have a cafeteria)

4. It's Friday night, where were you?
beach

6. Were you in the "In Crowd"?
not in the traditional sense

7. Ever skip school?
Nope

8. Ever smoke?
Yes

10. Did you get suspended/expelled?
Nope

11. Can you sing the alma mater?
I don't think there was one.

12. Who was your favorite teacher?
I was going to say Schultz, but I really enjoyed Mr. B's math classes, he was such a doofus.

13. Favorite class?
I'm gonna go with band!! Our school band rocked. At least I enjoyed it at the time and miss playing the oboe.

14. What was your schools full name?
Kwajalein Jr./Sr. High School

15. School mascot?
Spartans

16.Did you ever go to the dances?
I want to say yes, but I can't remember any of them.

17. If you could go back and do it over, would you?
Nah, the past is the past. Today is now.

18. What do you remember most about Middle School?
ummm... I dont remember all that much, I guess what I remember most are the people.

19. Favorite memory of your 8th grade year?
learning to scuba dive

20. Were you ever posted up on the 8th graders wall?
I'm not sure what this means.

21. Did you have a job your 8th grade year?
not that i remember

22. Where did you go most often for lunch?
beach

23. Have you gained weight since then?
yes, and several inches to boot

24. What did you do after graduation?
What graduation?

25. Did you like your eighth grade year?
Yes

the last one

 

Thorns

 

Yep here we go again

 

Here's Another

 

Berkeley's Rose Garden

 

Another deserted stuffed animal

 

Images of places in Paris I want to visit in October

There are of course plenty others but at the moment this was all I was willing to post, and while I really want to see Versailles, we probably won't get a chance to visit. Any suggestions?

Nan Madol

My first choice of places anywhere on the planet to go.

Hodgepodge

To catch up.

The parking situation:

I was beginning to think that we would have to remain parking next to our funtwad of a neighbor, but to my delight last night we had a visit from our landlord. His solution was to have the funtwad move spaces with another tenant who doesn't use his car (it isn't running at the moment). This was supposed to happen some time ago, but for some reason (I'm not entirely sure what that may be) it hadn't happened. So, apparently the funtwad was home, but noone could figure out how to get a hold of her (she's deaf so knocking on the door and ringing the bell wasn't really working). So our landlord wanted us to temporarily switch places with the tenant who is switching spaces with the funtwad (I get some kind of gratification out of repeatedly referring to her as that). Basically, we don't park next to her anymore!! And I feel like celebrating baby!! Woo fucking hoo!

National News:

To be honest I was surprised and astounded by last week's ruling by New York's highest court regarding the same-sex marriage ban passed by the state legislature. If you hadn't heard, they ruled in favor of the state. Being that it is one of the more liberal courts in the nation, I was disappointed but not overly surprised by the ruling. However, I was dumbfounded by the legal reasoning behind the decision. What rationale do you think would leave me speechless for about ten minutes before my brain was even able to muster the most basic of ideas and thought processes? Apparently, the court found that straight couples may be less stable parents than their gay counterparts and consequently require the benefits of marriage to assist them. Just so you don't think I made some sort of typo let me reiterate that with italics this time, straight couples may be less stable parents than their gay counterparts and consequently require the benefits of marriage to assist them. Now let that seep into your consciousness.

Referred to by some as the "reckless procreation" rationale, this argument has been used successfully once before in Indiana in a similar case last year. "Heterosexual intercourse," the plurality opinion stated, "has a natural tendency to lead to the birth of children; homosexual intercourse does not." Gays become parents, the opinion said, in a variety of ways, including adoption and artificial insemination, "but they do not become parents as a result of accident or impulse." Consequently, "the Legislature could find that unstable relationships between people of the opposite sex present a greater danger that children will be born into or grow up in unstable homes than is the case with same-sex couples." To shore up those rickety heterosexual arrangements, "the Legislature could rationally offer the benefits of marriage to opposite-sex couples only." Lest we miss the inversion of stereotypes about gay relationships here, the opinion lamented that straight relationships are "all too often casual or temporary."

Yes you read that right. First homosexual relationships were too transitory. Now they are too stable. I just have one word for this: absurd.

And Finally some random shit from nature: a mutant lobster.

One side is the usual mottled dark green. The other side is the orange-red shade of a lobster that's already spent some time in the hot pot.The odds of this kind of mutation occurring are very rare - something like one in 50 million to 100 million. The chance of finding a blue lobster is far more common, at one in a million. (I'll post the pic once I get home as my computer at work won't let me upload pics to blogger.)

I bet you didn't know

That there are more cell phone users in developing countries than in the developed world. That ubiquitous modern day accessory is dramatically changing behavior in countries like Congo. Which is a good thing for his peoples where travel is long and possibly dangerous. Worldwide, there are more than 2.4 billion cellphone users, with more than 1,000 new customers added every minute, according to industry analysts. About 59 percent of users are in developing countries, making cellphones the first telecommunications technology in history to have more users there than in the developed world.

Another one

Can you tell I enjoyed myself? 

I can't wait to go back.

 

The California Coast just north of Stinson Beach

A great place to spend the weekend. 

This makes me a little uncomfortable