Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Jun. 11th, 2006 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pacificpikachuOkay, time to go through the last three days in a procedural manner, just so I don't forget them.
Friday, also known as...the last day of school. Drumroll please. So, I arrived at school at 7:20 AM or so as usual. Because I had missed the two days before it, I never heard that I was supposed to show up at 8:30 AM instead, so I ended up spending almost a half hour doing nothing. Namely, I sat in the cafeteria by myself listening to the Arjuna music I ripped. This would have been less thrilling if it didn't involve Yoko Kanno. I also watched the cafeteria people bring out all the volumes of food for Senior Breakfast.
At around 7:50 AM, the cafeteria people told us (meaning myself and a few other people who showed up early) to go around to one of the other entrances and line up for food. We assumed this meant we'd get food right away. Or, y'know, at least soon. However, we ended up in that congested, boring-as-hell line for at least fifty minutes. I talked to Erik and a few other people, but this didn't really kill my boredom all that much. Finally they let us in and we got to eat. The food was pretty good, really. I had a donut, a bagel with cream cheese, and SO much fruit. Because I love fruit. ^^;
I sat with Zoe, Cody, ummm...dammit, my memory fails me. @_@ Lots of people, anyhow. They kept having to pull up chairs and I met up with the girl I met at Senior Picnic who loves yaoi, too, and we babbled for a very long time. XD;; We're talking about going to YaoiCon together, and possibly AX, too. So that'd be lots of fun. It was all kind of a flurry of silly discussion and such. KK stopped by at one point to say hello, but left when Mr. Cartan summoned her (I think?). It was fun, though not phenomenal or anything.
Next was graduation practice. x.x On the way to the field, the yaoi girl and I (her name escapes me at the moment... I think it's Katie or Kate or something like that, but I don't want to mess it up XD) talked more and more seeing as I had lost everyone else at this point and we were having fun talking we continued to do so. When we reached the field, I went friend-hunting, though, and eventually located people. Our group of really close friends was fourteen people, and seeing as we had to split into four, Zoe and I ended up being the odd two out. So, we found two semi-random people to couple up with. I say semi-random because we kind of knew them from art, but not really.
Graduation practice essentially consisted of sitting around for a long time in the sun and moving a little bit. Zoe and I were so bored we took our water bottles, tore off the wrappers in artistic ways, and argued about whose bottle was more beautiful, pedigreed, a show-winner, etc. Then we tried to sabotage the beauty of the other person's bottle. For at least an hour, probably more. It was cracked. We were doing it entirely seriously, but at the end it occurred to us how silly we were being and we broke down into giggles.
After graduation practice wrapped up (finally!), we were all supposed to head to the Baggett Theater for the Senior Slideshow, but Zoe and I and a lot of other people concluded this was lame and ditched to the art room. There, I took a bunch of pictures of it, and Zoe and I got out some paint and paintbrushes and painted several "Freek a Leek"s and "528"s in various places while listening to Yoko Kanno music. As I was considering bombarding the art room with the cryptic messages of love, the fire alarm went off. For a long while, we ignored it, but eventually Mr. Baxter told us we needed to go out of the art room because it was procedure. What a lame Senior prank...pulling the fire alarm. Geez, that's so unoriginal...
We went up to the parking lot and stood there. I considered attacking some random person, or leaving people with cryptic messages seeing as I knew I'd never see most of them again, but I refrained because I couldn't think of anything cracktacular enough to say. When the alarm stopped I almost considered going back to the art room for more 528s and Freek a Leeks, but then it started going off again. When that finished, it went off AGAIN. It got old really fast. In fact, it wasn't funny to begin with. Zoe and I stood around and talked about stuff (mainly anime stuff, as per usual) until she was picked up, then I waited around for Mom.
We were really busy for the rest of Friday, helping build the chicken coop, picking the birds up at Jacqui's, doing errands, carting Ryan's friends around, etc. Ryan proved himself a horrible friend yet again by locking Tanner out of the house and getting in arguments with both Jake and Tanner. Once I put the birds to sleep, we drove Tanner home, which was downright maddening as he wouldn't SHUT UP and I was trying to listen to Yoko Kanno. My head hurt so much and I just wanted to smack him. The ride back was nice, though. It was a gorgeous night--perfectly clear, with an almost-full moon and the perfect temperature, though. Very still. I also saw the big bird that hangs around our house and makes noises at night. I think it's an owl, because if it isn't the only other thing it could be is a very confused hawk.
I went to bed immediately when we got home because I was exhausted from being in Tanner's presence.
I woke up at 7 AM the next morning to squawking (as usual), briefly considered foggily not going to graduation (not seriously, for the record--just in that, "Ughhh, I don't wanna go! ;_;" way). I loaded my birds up with food, seeing as Jacqui and I decided not to bring them to her house for graduation, thus leaving them alone for over four hours, when they're normally fed every hour. I was a bit traumatized to leave them by themselves, but I realized this was a rather irrational fear. I changed into my cap and gown, got in the car, and we took off (listening to Yoko Kanno, naturally).
Mom dropped me off near the library, and I proceeded to flurry about uncertainly, because I had no idea where I was supposed to be. I ran into Makayla and...someone, I forget who, on my way to the West Gym, and we headed back to the Ali Gym and met up with friends. We all sat in a clump on the floor in the middle of the chaotic gym and...just acted weird, talked, laughed, had fun. We had to grab the cards that had our names on them, considered changing out names on the cards, but decided against it (apparently, someone last year graduated and then came back with a card that said "Sausage Malone", and the announcer actually read it). XD;; Then we crowded into the stands indoors, were briefly lectured on something, and we ventured out. Zoe and I were towards the back of the line. We said hello to teachers like Mr. Baxter and Mrs. Mclean and were congratulated by people we didn't know and such. Then we seated ourselves. Well, actually we stood up for a while before we actually sat down, but whatever.
We then had to sit for quite a while. James Borsky gave a suprisingly cookie-cutter speech (seeing as his speeches are normally vivid and very funny), followed by a funny and brilliant speech by Sarov. Some other guy who was supposed to be an inspirational speaker spoke, but I thought he pretty much sucked. :P For one, he insulted chickenkind, which is an unforgivable sin in my book, and for two, it was obvious how he had recited this speech a bazillion times because he kept saying "this evening" when it was morning. O_o; Then he'd correct himself with "this afternoon--wait, it's not quite afternoon..." It was lame. XD;;
During this whole thing, Zoe and I were watching...get this... There was a bug on the guy in front of us's butt. Just some random beetle, sitting there. On his butt. So Zoe and I watched it the whole time and tried to figure out what to do, and once or twice he sat back on it and we were like "Nooo! He's going to kill it! ;_;" but it lived every time and somehow escaped uninjured even when he sat directly on it. Eventually Zoe poked the guy on the shoulder and told him he had a bug on his butt, and he brushed it away. What an awkward thing for us to do during graduation, though. XD;;
After a long time of them calling names, we got up there, waved at Densha (who is in the band), I waved at a whole group of my college friends who started cheering and waving at me when I went up, and we got our diploma case thing, but not the actual diploma. ._.; In fact, I didn't get my diploma at all because I never found my Biology book and we have to reimburse them for it before I get my diploma. It's pretty stupid. Then Zoe and I high-fived and returned to our seats for a short while. We were supposed to sing "Our Alma Mater" (or whatever the hell that song's called), but seeing as NO ONE knew it, we all hummed it rather obnoxiously. If you can call it humming.
We threw our hats in the air, I didn't want to lose mine so I didn't throw it very high up, and that was pretty much it. I went and found friends, had a killerdeath!hug from Roya, talked to/hugged/etc. various other friends, then we got in line for our diplomas in the Ali Gym. Except I didn't get mine, as I already explained. Teh st00pid. >.> I found/said hello to/hugged more friends, said hello to and got my picture taken by my aunt and cousin who came, and I wanted to hang around longer but I was really worried about the birds at that point, so we left after about fifteen minutes of socializing.
At home, I discovered the birds had eaten everything I fed them, so I fed them again, and then...I didn't do much for the rest of the day. Took long naps, wrote in my LJ, fed the birds repeatedly, talked on the phone to Makayla (but it kept dying and having to be charged), and then got in a beautiful, hilarious IM conversation with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_tehriah. We created a new OTP involving L x his red ribbon (doodle IM convo, you see) and then we turned it into a religion called Lribbonism, and the salute to it is like this: 8:B It cannot be explained in mere words. It was glorious. Truly glorious. I excused myself only because I needed to sleep. ._.;
Today, the birds had mercy on my poor soul and let me sleep in until 7:40 AM. This is pretty good for them. I tried to call Kathryn many times because she was supposed to come to the bird class today with me, but she never answered so I assumed she had been partying. Darn. I read a wonderful Sasuke-centric fanfic and left a review on it, which "made the author's day", so that made me really happy in turn. :D It was really a lovely fanfic. Mom made me mop the floor and vacuum before I left for the bird class.
I fed the stellar's jays and left them home, then gathered the scrub jays in a basket and brought them along.
Oh, the class was so much fun! I didn't learn too much because the majority of the class was beginners, but I had so many great experiences while I was there. :D And I did learn how to give lactated ringer solution extracutaneously, which was very helpful. I tested it on a dead pigeon, and I was the first one to really figure it out. ^^ I also got to share my experiences, and I felt like such an expert and proud mother birdy showing off my jays.
In the back of the schoolhouse we were using, everyone put their birds, and there sure were a lot of them! That was one of the best parts of the class--getting to see all the birds that are being cared for right now. There were six nuthatches, two swallows, two grosbreaks, two tohees, a bluebird, an injured adult pigeon (who had been attacked by a hawk), and...several others I can't remember. During the class, some random, concerned civilians also dropped off an injured adult robin, and my Mom's friend Maryanne unexpectedly showed up with a baby starling. Starlings are unprotected birds, so the organization couldn't technically take it in, but one of the really sweet ladies there volunteered to take him, raise him, and release him on her property. I was going to take him if she didn't, so that was a relief.
I really really wanted to take the nuthatches... They were so sooo cute and I have the facilities for them (a woodpecker set up in a cat carrier), but the problem is they have a different diet than my jays and also they can't be in the same room as my jays, and I don't have enough rooms to put everyone in separately. T_T Maybe when my jays are released I can get some in... The grosbeaks were also extremely cute and made some charming noises. They had pretty markings. ♥
I was at the class until about 5 PM, when Maryanne took me home (seeing as she had come to bring the starling anyway, she figured she might as well bring me home instead of having Mom pick me up).
From there, not a lot happened. We went to Dad's, and...that's about it.
Is it bad that I kind of want to marry Stellar's Jay #1? He was the little sickly baby I had where I kept havint to pop his air sacs, but now he's so handsome that he makes me squee when he looks at me, and he's so smart and charming and lovely. He always learns everything before everyone else, and he just looks at me so dignified and understanding and *sigh*. ♥ I wish he was a person so I really could marry him.
...Dude, I think I'm losing it. XD;;
Friday, also known as...the last day of school. Drumroll please. So, I arrived at school at 7:20 AM or so as usual. Because I had missed the two days before it, I never heard that I was supposed to show up at 8:30 AM instead, so I ended up spending almost a half hour doing nothing. Namely, I sat in the cafeteria by myself listening to the Arjuna music I ripped. This would have been less thrilling if it didn't involve Yoko Kanno. I also watched the cafeteria people bring out all the volumes of food for Senior Breakfast.
At around 7:50 AM, the cafeteria people told us (meaning myself and a few other people who showed up early) to go around to one of the other entrances and line up for food. We assumed this meant we'd get food right away. Or, y'know, at least soon. However, we ended up in that congested, boring-as-hell line for at least fifty minutes. I talked to Erik and a few other people, but this didn't really kill my boredom all that much. Finally they let us in and we got to eat. The food was pretty good, really. I had a donut, a bagel with cream cheese, and SO much fruit. Because I love fruit. ^^;
I sat with Zoe, Cody, ummm...dammit, my memory fails me. @_@ Lots of people, anyhow. They kept having to pull up chairs and I met up with the girl I met at Senior Picnic who loves yaoi, too, and we babbled for a very long time. XD;; We're talking about going to YaoiCon together, and possibly AX, too. So that'd be lots of fun. It was all kind of a flurry of silly discussion and such. KK stopped by at one point to say hello, but left when Mr. Cartan summoned her (I think?). It was fun, though not phenomenal or anything.
Next was graduation practice. x.x On the way to the field, the yaoi girl and I (her name escapes me at the moment... I think it's Katie or Kate or something like that, but I don't want to mess it up XD) talked more and more seeing as I had lost everyone else at this point and we were having fun talking we continued to do so. When we reached the field, I went friend-hunting, though, and eventually located people. Our group of really close friends was fourteen people, and seeing as we had to split into four, Zoe and I ended up being the odd two out. So, we found two semi-random people to couple up with. I say semi-random because we kind of knew them from art, but not really.
Graduation practice essentially consisted of sitting around for a long time in the sun and moving a little bit. Zoe and I were so bored we took our water bottles, tore off the wrappers in artistic ways, and argued about whose bottle was more beautiful, pedigreed, a show-winner, etc. Then we tried to sabotage the beauty of the other person's bottle. For at least an hour, probably more. It was cracked. We were doing it entirely seriously, but at the end it occurred to us how silly we were being and we broke down into giggles.
After graduation practice wrapped up (finally!), we were all supposed to head to the Baggett Theater for the Senior Slideshow, but Zoe and I and a lot of other people concluded this was lame and ditched to the art room. There, I took a bunch of pictures of it, and Zoe and I got out some paint and paintbrushes and painted several "Freek a Leek"s and "528"s in various places while listening to Yoko Kanno music. As I was considering bombarding the art room with the cryptic messages of love, the fire alarm went off. For a long while, we ignored it, but eventually Mr. Baxter told us we needed to go out of the art room because it was procedure. What a lame Senior prank...pulling the fire alarm. Geez, that's so unoriginal...
We went up to the parking lot and stood there. I considered attacking some random person, or leaving people with cryptic messages seeing as I knew I'd never see most of them again, but I refrained because I couldn't think of anything cracktacular enough to say. When the alarm stopped I almost considered going back to the art room for more 528s and Freek a Leeks, but then it started going off again. When that finished, it went off AGAIN. It got old really fast. In fact, it wasn't funny to begin with. Zoe and I stood around and talked about stuff (mainly anime stuff, as per usual) until she was picked up, then I waited around for Mom.
We were really busy for the rest of Friday, helping build the chicken coop, picking the birds up at Jacqui's, doing errands, carting Ryan's friends around, etc. Ryan proved himself a horrible friend yet again by locking Tanner out of the house and getting in arguments with both Jake and Tanner. Once I put the birds to sleep, we drove Tanner home, which was downright maddening as he wouldn't SHUT UP and I was trying to listen to Yoko Kanno. My head hurt so much and I just wanted to smack him. The ride back was nice, though. It was a gorgeous night--perfectly clear, with an almost-full moon and the perfect temperature, though. Very still. I also saw the big bird that hangs around our house and makes noises at night. I think it's an owl, because if it isn't the only other thing it could be is a very confused hawk.
I went to bed immediately when we got home because I was exhausted from being in Tanner's presence.
I woke up at 7 AM the next morning to squawking (as usual), briefly considered foggily not going to graduation (not seriously, for the record--just in that, "Ughhh, I don't wanna go! ;_;" way). I loaded my birds up with food, seeing as Jacqui and I decided not to bring them to her house for graduation, thus leaving them alone for over four hours, when they're normally fed every hour. I was a bit traumatized to leave them by themselves, but I realized this was a rather irrational fear. I changed into my cap and gown, got in the car, and we took off (listening to Yoko Kanno, naturally).
Mom dropped me off near the library, and I proceeded to flurry about uncertainly, because I had no idea where I was supposed to be. I ran into Makayla and...someone, I forget who, on my way to the West Gym, and we headed back to the Ali Gym and met up with friends. We all sat in a clump on the floor in the middle of the chaotic gym and...just acted weird, talked, laughed, had fun. We had to grab the cards that had our names on them, considered changing out names on the cards, but decided against it (apparently, someone last year graduated and then came back with a card that said "Sausage Malone", and the announcer actually read it). XD;; Then we crowded into the stands indoors, were briefly lectured on something, and we ventured out. Zoe and I were towards the back of the line. We said hello to teachers like Mr. Baxter and Mrs. Mclean and were congratulated by people we didn't know and such. Then we seated ourselves. Well, actually we stood up for a while before we actually sat down, but whatever.
We then had to sit for quite a while. James Borsky gave a suprisingly cookie-cutter speech (seeing as his speeches are normally vivid and very funny), followed by a funny and brilliant speech by Sarov. Some other guy who was supposed to be an inspirational speaker spoke, but I thought he pretty much sucked. :P For one, he insulted chickenkind, which is an unforgivable sin in my book, and for two, it was obvious how he had recited this speech a bazillion times because he kept saying "this evening" when it was morning. O_o; Then he'd correct himself with "this afternoon--wait, it's not quite afternoon..." It was lame. XD;;
During this whole thing, Zoe and I were watching...get this... There was a bug on the guy in front of us's butt. Just some random beetle, sitting there. On his butt. So Zoe and I watched it the whole time and tried to figure out what to do, and once or twice he sat back on it and we were like "Nooo! He's going to kill it! ;_;" but it lived every time and somehow escaped uninjured even when he sat directly on it. Eventually Zoe poked the guy on the shoulder and told him he had a bug on his butt, and he brushed it away. What an awkward thing for us to do during graduation, though. XD;;
After a long time of them calling names, we got up there, waved at Densha (who is in the band), I waved at a whole group of my college friends who started cheering and waving at me when I went up, and we got our diploma case thing, but not the actual diploma. ._.; In fact, I didn't get my diploma at all because I never found my Biology book and we have to reimburse them for it before I get my diploma. It's pretty stupid. Then Zoe and I high-fived and returned to our seats for a short while. We were supposed to sing "Our Alma Mater" (or whatever the hell that song's called), but seeing as NO ONE knew it, we all hummed it rather obnoxiously. If you can call it humming.
We threw our hats in the air, I didn't want to lose mine so I didn't throw it very high up, and that was pretty much it. I went and found friends, had a killerdeath!hug from Roya, talked to/hugged/etc. various other friends, then we got in line for our diplomas in the Ali Gym. Except I didn't get mine, as I already explained. Teh st00pid. >.> I found/said hello to/hugged more friends, said hello to and got my picture taken by my aunt and cousin who came, and I wanted to hang around longer but I was really worried about the birds at that point, so we left after about fifteen minutes of socializing.
At home, I discovered the birds had eaten everything I fed them, so I fed them again, and then...I didn't do much for the rest of the day. Took long naps, wrote in my LJ, fed the birds repeatedly, talked on the phone to Makayla (but it kept dying and having to be charged), and then got in a beautiful, hilarious IM conversation with
_tehriah. We created a new OTP involving L x his red ribbon (doodle IM convo, you see) and then we turned it into a religion called Lribbonism, and the salute to it is like this: 8:B It cannot be explained in mere words. It was glorious. Truly glorious. I excused myself only because I needed to sleep. ._.;Today, the birds had mercy on my poor soul and let me sleep in until 7:40 AM. This is pretty good for them. I tried to call Kathryn many times because she was supposed to come to the bird class today with me, but she never answered so I assumed she had been partying. Darn. I read a wonderful Sasuke-centric fanfic and left a review on it, which "made the author's day", so that made me really happy in turn. :D It was really a lovely fanfic. Mom made me mop the floor and vacuum before I left for the bird class.
I fed the stellar's jays and left them home, then gathered the scrub jays in a basket and brought them along.
Oh, the class was so much fun! I didn't learn too much because the majority of the class was beginners, but I had so many great experiences while I was there. :D And I did learn how to give lactated ringer solution extracutaneously, which was very helpful. I tested it on a dead pigeon, and I was the first one to really figure it out. ^^ I also got to share my experiences, and I felt like such an expert and proud mother birdy showing off my jays.
In the back of the schoolhouse we were using, everyone put their birds, and there sure were a lot of them! That was one of the best parts of the class--getting to see all the birds that are being cared for right now. There were six nuthatches, two swallows, two grosbreaks, two tohees, a bluebird, an injured adult pigeon (who had been attacked by a hawk), and...several others I can't remember. During the class, some random, concerned civilians also dropped off an injured adult robin, and my Mom's friend Maryanne unexpectedly showed up with a baby starling. Starlings are unprotected birds, so the organization couldn't technically take it in, but one of the really sweet ladies there volunteered to take him, raise him, and release him on her property. I was going to take him if she didn't, so that was a relief.
I really really wanted to take the nuthatches... They were so sooo cute and I have the facilities for them (a woodpecker set up in a cat carrier), but the problem is they have a different diet than my jays and also they can't be in the same room as my jays, and I don't have enough rooms to put everyone in separately. T_T Maybe when my jays are released I can get some in... The grosbeaks were also extremely cute and made some charming noises. They had pretty markings. ♥
I was at the class until about 5 PM, when Maryanne took me home (seeing as she had come to bring the starling anyway, she figured she might as well bring me home instead of having Mom pick me up).
From there, not a lot happened. We went to Dad's, and...that's about it.
Is it bad that I kind of want to marry Stellar's Jay #1? He was the little sickly baby I had where I kept havint to pop his air sacs, but now he's so handsome that he makes me squee when he looks at me, and he's so smart and charming and lovely. He always learns everything before everyone else, and he just looks at me so dignified and understanding and *sigh*. ♥ I wish he was a person so I really could marry him.
...Dude, I think I'm losing it. XD;;
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Date: 2006-06-12 03:51 pm (UTC)