That.

Really. Really pisses me off.

ZCF.

One More

When I should be doing homework.

All Along the Watchtower

I'm going to learn violin god dammit. I don't care if I want to smash it every time I pick it up. I'm going to learn violin.

Screwing Around.

Damn...

Been A While

All I've done this "break" is homework, track, housework, hang out with Andy once, and play guitar. Lots of homework mind you. Whatever. If I keep working at a steady pace I should be done on Saturdayish. Jessica comes home Sunday so I know after 3 I probably won't get any work done. Aw shit. Track meet on Saturday. I'll make sure to have the papers done Friday night, and check them Saturday after the meet.

Hmm...ran a 5:36 by the way. Slowest since...Gym in 06. No one was there so I came in 4th.

I hope Loughran doesn't put me in the Saturday meet. Then again, it doesn't look like there's going to be anyone here, so I'll probably get double entered or something. At least he'll put me in like...the 4x8 and maybe 4x4. Open 8? Fuck no. I hate the open 8. Who is going to be here that's faster than me in the 400....Smead, Jake....Is that really it? Oh Dan. But that's just based on practice today.

If the lights weren't out in the basement I'd go play guitar right now....but the lights are out in the basement.

http://youtube.com/user/ZachThePillager

There's some cool stuff on there. And some not so cool stuff.

Shower time. Meant to take one after practice, but I was doing homework.

Post Script:

Check out the Raconteurs new album. I think it's better than their first. With a few exceptions like Level, Steady as She Goes, and Store Bought Bones.

Yeah.

It has been a while. We did 400 meter time trials yesterday in track, and a tied for first with Brett and Keith with a 58.8. That's a two second PR for me and while I was trying, I didn't actually think I'd do good. All the band/choir people are going away tonight. It sucks. But Andy and Anthony will still be around. I'll just hang out with them when I'm not doing homework. I've done so muchy writing in the past like 30 hours. I wrote that damn long AP essay, and then the English test was 12 discussion questions. I also need to do my picture analysis and short story for english. So tired of writing. Notes for Amsco 16-19. I also need to put together the last notebook we'll ever do for that class. It'll be fun to go back and find some of that stuff. Ugggh

No chemistry. That'll be nice. If I feel like it I could do some latin vocab, but that's all.

I'm not sure what track is going to be like today. 1600m time trials? Hopefully not. 400's are easy. But I'm not sure I'm in shape enough to run a mile race.

I'm going to go to lunch now. Bye.

Forensics

HHS got first. Byah.

Maria and I got 3rd, and I have a shiny bronze medal.

We're going to states. Not byah.

Woo.

-Tueting talking about penis'- have you seen David!?(greek guy)
Someone-yeah He's right there. (pointing to d jordan)

Hmm

AP lock in was amazing. Stayed up all night with Andy, John, Tim, Parker, Jake, Chris and Matt.

Shrug, Shrug, Block. half second pause. 3 hands fly to eye brows, Chris gets up and begins to pull his pants off and run.


Hahahaha one of the best games of silent football ever.

Nothing to really say about it, except some REALLY funny stuff happened. Like Jake cracking his crotch on those chairs. Or Joy thinking Jake had herpes.

Ahahahah great night. Just thought I'd blog.

Messed with my amp today trying to get cream tone. Class A power, everything on 10 including volume, tone on 3. Sounds just like Clapton.

Let's Start a RIOT!

mr. White went crazy today.... he took away like ALL of our classroom "Privileges." This is not a democracy! It's a Dictatorship! And it's no longer a benevolent one!

So as of now:
No more extra credit videos
No more test corrections
No more 2 try quizzes

The room is now a lab, no food or drink may be in the room, or you go to jail.

We will no longer have demonstrations, but we still must write.

No one may talk during Mr. White's time.


Fantastic.
He also kept saying there are a few people in this class and it's all
their fault. Wink Wink Nudge Nudge Jake and Zach. He looked at meeverytime
he said that. What the hell did I do? I acted like a smart ass when I
answered I guess. But I haven't answered any questions in like 2 weeks
because he was like Aww Everyone, is Zach self conscious? I'll make sure to help him with that or something. Fuck you. I am self conscious. So I just don't answer any more. The classroom is a lot more quiet now. Whatever.

Hmmm. I wonder if I'm going to get Deezer blocked by the school if I keep using her at school.

I think I almost blew out my speakers last night. I was trying to use the effects loop to bypass the power amp and just use the pre-amp.
It was great, until I tried to unplug the pedal from the loop. POP!
Since it bypassed the power amp, all the volume was based on the pedal
volume, so it wasbasiaclly the clean channel maxed out when I unplugged it so it made a very loud bassy click. Whoops.

Not much to say today. Going now.

I tried

to edit the Termites blog. But I failed. Andy! You must continue the story. I have no inspiration.

JESU! She is so annoying! One more full day of school....

Mr. White flipped out on us this morning. He was like I'M BREAKING MY BACK FOR ALL OF YOU AND ALL YOU DO IS WHINE!!! In college your professor will hate you! You will be in a class of 500 students, they won't know your name, and they will do the absolute least to teach you that they possibly can!

Okay Mr. White, not all of us are going to UVA. I wonder if Bridgewater even has 500 people in one dept. Probably not. But then again, I'm not going to Bridgewater.

Blah, I have a little bit more homework than I usually have. Blah.

I don't know what to write about.

I took the first vocab test this semester that I haven't gotten 100 on. I know I didn't get 100 because I left one blank. But this is the FIRST one I won't get 100 on. Fantastic. The intern student gets to see all my now bad grades because I don't care as much. At least we only have her for 8 weeks.

Harrumph. Almost time for the lock in which is going to rock. I'm reaaaally reallly bored. If you couldn't tell. No guitar for me tonight. Maybe I'll play some Acoustic while I'm...doing something that doesn't involve my hands. Reading! I can do it while I'm reading. Very Nice.

I like my strings. Elixir mediums with a heavy top end. They are....2 weeks old? and still sound brand new. Then again, they also cost 13$. I actually think my Martin phospher bronze sound better, but they sound better for about 3 days. The 80/20 elixirs aren't as....I don't know. I guess I just like phospher bronze, and not 80/20. I wonder if I can find phospher elixirs. I shall go look. Actually...maybe mine aren't even bronze. Maybe they are nickel or something. They wouldn't tell me what the core material is, but it's a silver color, not a bronze color. Well I prefer bronze to nickel! Hmmm I want to get a set of 80/20's now. Supposedly they sound great, but they won't last very long. Martin sells an 80/20 pack for like $5. That might be worth checking out.

Almost time to go. Buh Bye,

600th post.

I just finished my English writing SOL. It kind of sucked. The prompt was...really boring, and I had to work to get something out of it. It took me about an hour and 15 minutes to plan, and write two drafts, which isn't bad. I got to skip Chem today thanks to the SOL. Mr. White is probably going to be mad at me. Like I had a choice.

I'm really hungry again. I ate everything in my lunch except the strawberries, and I don't feel the least bit filled. Hmmm I just checked Nipe's site. Apparently I went to their last show as the Karl Rove. That's kind of cool. I really wish iPods were allowed in school right now. I'd be listening to some Book of Kills. It's really nice stuff to jam with because the music is relatively simple, and it has a good beat to solo over. I can generally figure out how to play one of the songs after listening to it and playing along once or twice.

I'm really sore. But still in the wrong places. My arms were sore yesterday, and then we hit the weight room, and I got really sore. My quads ached a little when I got up this morning; enough to hinder my walking, but not really that bad. Lunch is going to end in about ten minutes. I wonder what we're going to do in track today...It's a pretty nice day outside, I wouldn't mind going for another distance run. We're probably going to do stuff on the track though. Well, that's not too bad. I don't mind working on the track. It's really nice that I don't have to run faster than I want to keep up with the pack. It's the other way around. I can run however I want, and the pack is right behind me. I won't be so happy in a week when all my friends who went to states come back, because then I'll have to run fast again, but it's nice to be able to relax now.

My hands are raw from the warm ups we do on the track. They were actually bleeding yesterday, so I'm not sure how it'll be today. I'll probably wrap a bandanna around them so it doesn't hurt as bad. I like being the oldest runner runner around, although it does entitle doing some extra work. "Fichter, take them 12 minutes out, and then you can run back at your own pace, but keep a pack for the first 12 minutes." or "Hey Fich, take them to the weight room and show them the basic stuff." It's kinda nice. I'll have to give up my Captain type stuff at the end of the week. But at least it means I won't have to lead stretches anymore.

Just a few more minutes. I'm still really hungry. Let's see what Penton has for sale....

Get down....do you think I'm kidding? GET DOWN!

Bored in lunch again. I have first lunch today because we have some stupid SOL. JOY! Will it really take us the entire class? My only homework tonight is going to be studying for Latin, reading some chemistry, finishing...what's it called...the awakening, and reading a chapter of the Great Gadsby. Oh and whatever AP homework we happen to have. Like a chapter of Amsco or something. Speaking....I should check Tuetings blog. Blaaah nothing. Still nothing. I wonder if he's here today?

Okay, so Loughran ran us through core, sammies, and all this other crap in an attempt to make our core sore. Guess where I'm sore. My biceps, triceps, shoulders, and calves. Way to go Coach. It sucks because I can't lift my bag up. I have to like throw it on to a table and then pull it on to my shoulder.

I want Loughran to let us run distance today. None of that sammie shit. I wanna run DISTANCE. I wonder if he'll put me in charge again today. That was kinda fun. It'll only last for a week. But it was fun. I raised the action of my strat last night. It sounds a lot...It sounds more like classic strat bell tone now. I had it set to be a shredding guitar that I could sweep on easily. Now it's pretty hard to sweep, but it sounds great for blues and jazz. My PRS is pretty sweet for jazz too. Neck pup with the tone rolled off.

I've been looking into a JCM-800. I really like the tone out of them. Then someone had to go and recommend an Orange rocker30. Fanfuckingtastic. That amp is BEAUTIFUL. Well. It looks awful. I hate the orange tolex, but it sounds like GOD. The marshalll is sweet too, but the Orange beats the Marshall at it's own game. The gain is a little sharper on the marshall, which is what I want. The Orange has a really nice clean channel, but the Marshall has a decent one. I don't know. Worth saving an extra like 500 for an Orange and cab? Or getting the really nice Marshall. I'm sure I'd be happy with the Marshall. I like Eric's JCM-900 a lot. The 800's are supposedly a little nicer too. I'd need to get a...reverb tank though, because I don't think the 800's have em. They came out in the 80's! Come on! But they have a master volume which is sweet. I'll never use the gain channel. Well I might, but a cranked Marshall just sounds so much better.

Not Working

I don't really have the energy to work. I don't care enough right now. It's going to suck when I get home, but it doesn't right now. Actually...if I judt don't get online then I'll be okay. I'm trading writing vocab words for blogging. I'm going to get like 3 more done in the next 15 minutes. SHE IS SO ANNOYING!! She almost uses IM talk when she's talking in person, and she's so ignorant, and IT DRIVES ME CRAZY. Anyway. She's not talking now, so it's okay. My pen busted this morning. It's really annoying.

Woo I already got 3 more words done. Score. He's really annoying to, but I can put up with him. Just not her. Track is going to suck today because Loughran is going to run me through the basics which I hear every year, and apparently he's going to be a jerk for the first week of practice or so. Wonderful.

laaaa....8 more minutes or so. Mmmk did like 3 more. I know most of these words, it's just finding a useful definiton. But dictionary.com rocks. There's another one that's better because it gives the original root if it's from Latin, but I can't find it again. Oh well. Now I have them all written down so I can give Ashley her sheet. I wonder if I'll be able to read my writing... probably not.

Lala.... I want to go run. Now. I don't want to go to events. Well I do. But I want to go run more. I'm actually in the mood to really run again. Verrry Nice. hmmm he really annoys me. He acts like he knows everything, and like he's everyones best friend, and knows everything about them Hm. Kind of like me. If I'm like that, kick me in the face please? It's so annoying.

That's what she said Jokes are also getting really really annoying. I still used them for a while, but now that people say them to EVERYTHING, it's a pain in the ass. Like seriously. Some of them are completely stupid. Dan makes occasional good ones, and a couple other people do. But everyone else makes them sound RETARDED.

Got to go.

Are You Going To Scarborough Fair?

Hung out with Jessica last night. She wanted to watch League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Ahahah Sean Connery. "Sometimes a woman needs a SMACK"

Tueting's blog is like...down? I haven't been able to get to it all morning. Looks like I finally got it though. I've been playing around with my amp a lot today, trying to get good tone.

I really don't know what do say. I have a headache, and I've had one all morning and afternoon. Computer probably doesn't help. I'm going to finish my Huck Finn portfolio in a little while, like at 7 or something.


I'm still obsessed with the song Scarborough Fair, and it's still very hard to play on guitar because I refuse to use a capo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYHDQHQDS-4

He better be using light strings. They sure look like it.

I really don't know what to write so I'm rambling. Ah he does use light strings. Extra light he said. Ahah! I can almost play it with mediums! Just not as well. Work on it for 20 minutes a day maybe? That should help a lot. If I can put 20 minute to it.

I am going to go do some Huck Finn now though.