Thursday, September 9, 2004

   'Alright! Lets rob this thing!'

Some interesting news today. At around 1:00 PM today, the bank in my town, was robbed. I don't know too many details, all that I know was that the man wore a teal shirt and had a goatee. In response to this, we, the students, were escorted to our lockers after getting out of our 3rd block classes, then, those of who had to go across the street and over into the High School for whatever class we had over there, were escorted over and told to go directly to our next class. Once inside the class and after the bell had rung and everyone was there, teacher's locked the doors and started their lessons. Then, later, the Middle School Principal, Mrs. Shimunek, came into our classroom, explained a few things that were going on, before an announcement came over the loud speakers, saying that everything was fine and that the man who had robbed the bank had not headed towards the school, but had headed off into the woods in the direction of the neighboring town of Alma. Exciting, right? It was definitely the highlight of the day for me. After learning a lot about it, and after having about ten minutes or so to talk while people who walked home were making phone calls and the teacher was busy, I had quite an enlightening conversation with some people over the whole fiasco. Levi, a boy in my class, his mother works at the same bank that was robbed, so, even though his mother was working there, he, another boy named Jon, and I, began joking about it a bit, saying that, it'd be hilarious if Levi called up the bank to speak to his mother and the FBI answered or something. Then the entire conversation of bank robbers and whatnot spawned into some other interesting things that were equally funny. Well, after that the day was pretty normal, and by this time it was about 2:30 so we kind of did a review on some things, discussed the video we had watched earlier during class and then got ready to leave. Other matters... I've had an outstanding turn out of sign-ups for Cliche. As of today, 11 people have signed-up and the recruitment has only been up in the Inn since Sunday or Monday! It makes me quite proud that my RPG has had so much support and has turned out so many people. I figure I'll keep it open for a little while longer and close it sometime next week(probably on Monday or Tuesday) so I can go over sign-ups and choose who's going to get in. Choosing people to get into in an RPG has always seemed like a hard thing to do in my opinion. This will be the first RPG I've done it for, so I'm going to try to make wise choices. I've been going over what kinds of things I should be looking for in sign-ups and its proving difficult. The sign-ups I've gotten are just so good and I think that all of the people who have signed up would do a great job in the RPG, but, I know that with the number of sign-ups I've got now and the number I'll probably have by the time I close it, its going to be tough to choose. ^_^ My birthday is four days away! I'm so excited! I wrote down the things I would like to get on my birthday, not neccessarily all of the things I would like but some of the things. When I give it to my mom I'm going to have to tell her that she doesn't have to get me everything on it, but only a few things. I'm also going to have to tell her, that I want Pokemon FireRed or Pokemon LeafGreen the most, so to try to get me those over everything else. Xio says she already got me my gift, and when I asked her what it was, she wouldn't tell me. >:O Well, I guess she had good reason seeing as gifts are supposed to be surprises... I hate the day my birthday's on this year, though. Its on a friggin' Tuesday which totally sucks. But, I guess a Tuesday is probably a bit better than a Wednesday... but it still sucks. >=( I plan on asking my mom what we're going to be doing for my birthday tonight. I have no idea what she has planned, so I'd like the know before the day of my birthday. Frogs, everywhere, frogs! Now, I know I never mentioned this here before, so I'm doing it now: I have tree frogs. Lots of tree frogs. I just got them recently, and there are seven of the cute little things. I got the first six a few days ago, on Monday I believe it was and I got the seventh one today. Now, the original six I had are dwarfed in comparison to the one I got today. But, the one I got today is much cuter than the other one's. ^_^ Its lime green and really cool. I haven't thought of name's for all of them yet...but I plan on doing it soon. Lets just say, though, that one name that's crossed through my mind for naming the big one, is... *dramatic pause and then drum roll* Snake! Yes, very unfitting for a frog, but very fitting for my obsession. *grins* I also have a plastic fish that I painted when I was camping. Its a window decoration that I got out of this kit my mom bought for Xio and I. I painted it green and black with red eyes and called it 'my little snake fish'. Now it is officially called: Snake Fish. Xio painted a bee that looked like it was high on something if you wanted to know, lol. I should never major in Rocket Science Today, in Science class, to demonstrate Newton's Third Law of Motion, we built paper rockets. Newtons Third Law of Motion, for those of you who didn't know, is that for every action there is an exact and opposite reaction. But, to demonstrate this, we built paper rockets and then took them outside. We filled up small film canisters that we had put inside the rockets, tossed an Alcheselsor(or, however the hell that's spelled) tab in the canisters, shoved the cap on and put them on the ground. We watched as the cap of the canister popped off and the rocket flew a few feet(or in my group's case, a few inches) off the ground. We then, recorded our observation and explained how this experiment demonstrated Newton's Third Law of Motion. That was pretty fun. We all really enjoyed the experiment. The experiments we've been doing over the past few days have really convinced a lot of the people who were sort of wary of our new science teacher, wondering if he would be fun or if he would be a hardass. Now we know that he's a really cool guy. He lets us do some really awesome things. I think Science has become a class that a lot of people enjoy now. Homework sucks! Yeah, I have homework I need to finish. Math homework I think it was. I also need to ask my mom where she put that rules form that she was supposed to sign for Discovery Language Arts because that's due tomorrow, too... Alright. I'm done now. ^_^ -DDG

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