Sup? still recovering from the band trip, lol... that was a great time... out of the four band trips ive been on, that has got to be second best... nothing can beat toronto.( but that's another story) So yea... we left school for cleveland around 5 am, and didn't get to our hotel until 6 b/c the bus drivers kept  getting lost in friggin nowheresville, pennsylvannia. Saturday rolls in and we do what we are on the trip for in the first place; get judged by professional musicians and judges and get scored... we did pretty damn good... on a scale of fair-good-excellent-superior, the band, wind ensemble, and chamber choir got an excellent... concert choir got a good... jazz band got a SUPERIOR... I was sooo excited to hear that. the rest of the weekend we ended up doing fun things. We went to a cleveland indians game, where we threw our own party in our section, we went to the hard rock cafe after that (and the party continues)... once we got in there, the staff put on the music. People were dancing, singing, it was crazy. Some were even dancing on tables, including myself (hey you only live once, right?) That night, we went to a show called cookin' at the cookery. The play was based on Alberta Hunter. That show was excellent, i loved it. i think i wrote it.... my aunt played the lead role, we have connections... jus keeding :-)... On that sunday, we were supposed to go to six flags, but it was wet and cold, so we went to the rock and roll hall of fame, and museum. They had so many trinkets, outfits, and other historical things that are priceless on display. Too bad we couldn't take pictures of anything... that night was the banquet/awards ceremony/dance. we got our trophies, and such... i think we did the best out of the other two schools that were there. Then we danced the night away, three hours in all. The band was SERIOUS. they kept our feet movin', the vibes were def. strong and positive. Then monday morn' rolled around. I was pissed that morning b/c we had to check out b4 9, and b/c one of the house cleaning chicks stole my change. IT WASN'T A TIP, AND IT WAS SEVEN DOLLARS IN ALL. so I was like :: you are going to have to work for that seven dollars then chick. My room mates and i tore that room apart. we balled up the comforters and sheets and threw them in the dresser drawers, we put the iron in the middle of the floor, we put the one seater chair on one bed, and the matching ottoman on the other bed, we took the deordorant spray and wrote 'SHS' on the mirrors. five minutes didn't even pass before the hotel called us back up to our room to clean the mess up, lol. Then the band hit the road one last time for connecticut. the trip would have been quicker and smoother if bus 2 didn't keep BREAKING!! first time, it was the winshield wiper. second time it was the belt the runs the engine. third time it was the alternator, and that was a wrap for that bus. we had to wait on the side of the road for practically an hour for the other bus to come. eventually we make it to fuddruckers, the best fast food restaurant i think ive ever eaten at. i think we ran into rod and leo's family in the kitchen that day... jus' keeding. After piggin out on the food, we had to wait yet again b/c  bus 3's winshield wiper decided to break. In the midst of waiting, somehow we ( me kels marc manda and others) got into a racism debate. it was actually a pretty good debate, no one was killed or injured, lol. But seriously, it was really informative and ppl learned a lot. then we head for home and on the way, kels and manda, decided to say some stupid shit. ALLEGEDLY, our friendship is on hiatus. but i don't curr. it really wasn't that serious what happened that night or on tuesday, or on wednesday at that matter. everyone just needs to relax, SERIOUSLY.  I DON'T HATE ANYONE, I JUST DIDN'T AGREE WITH WHAT YOU SAID.

hurr it is...sup? today is unfortunatley the last day of april vacation... it really sucked. I kinda made up for it tho by having the house to myself 4 the past 2 days... but what can ya do?

Saturday was fun... the parentals went to N.Y. for the weekend and told me to tend to my sisters... i tossed them to a babysitter, b/c i really didn't have time for the 48 hours of shit they were going to give me if i watched them myself. After dropping of the kin, i called up a few friends and we went to play some putt putt golf down by the beach. I got whooped by the three of them and i ended up paying for ice cream down at DQ....fun. I really didn't mind tho, b/c i was in the mood for some ice cream, and i made them get something that was under 3 dollars... im not made of money. That lead up into work time. Things are really picking up again. business must be good, b/c there was a new girl and lone and behold it was my friend 'cella from SHS. she's a really coo girl, and i don't mind working with her. It was great too, b/c she actually knew what she was doing, so i really didn't have to show her anything, RELIEF. after werk, I called around to see if anyone wanted to come over and chill but no one was willing :-(... oh's well cuz when i walked in the door, it was a matter of minutes b4 i fell asleep.

Today was just time to lay back and CHILL. that's all i did, CHILLED OUT, to the point where i really didn't do any school work that i was planning to do today (LOL guess what im gonna be doing after i type this...). After laundry and picking up around the house a little, it was time to pick up my tyrant sisters from where i left 'em....DEATH TO SILENCE. when i came back, i walk in the door to estatic parents (mom in general). mom's told me that after the show (raisin in the sun) they went to the side of the theater where the stars exit... she got autographs from p-diddy, and sanaa lathan, and i think the mom that played ms. huxatable on the cosby show. She was extra excited. she kills me tho... she wants to laminate the program that the autographs that are on the program she has. i told her to RELAX, IT AINT THAT SERIOUS.

hurr it is, sup? today was a great day!! Finally the weather is gettin nice and you could actually enjoy it for once... So i decided (well coerced) to do errands for mom. I had to do her saturday ritual:

hurr it is, sup? Today went by okay, it could have been better if it didn't rain... I don't know why, but weather makes everyone's attitude's... well shitty. I fucked up big time in particular when health class rolled 'round. we were starting a new unit on self-mutilation or 'cutting.' She kinda (the teacher) gave us a chance to voice our opinnion on the topic. everyone took a stab at it, and it got out of control. Then i chose to voice my opinnion on it, by saying that it was stupid to do such a thing, and why would someone do something so damn dumb? Then i agreed with someone when they said if 'they were going to cut themselves, they might as well take it all the way and kill themselves. Lone and behold, there was someone in the class that allegedly 'cuts.' she got offended and upset, and left the room. That pissed the teacher off beyond belief. She yelled her ass off at us (me in particular) GREAT. I knew that the topic was sensitive and all, but i didn't know that it would cause such an uproar like that. Obviously im still ignorant to shit like that... I'll be keepin' my mouth shut in health for in on out that's for sure...hehe. I think i'll apologize to her tommorow seeing that i know her, and we're tight i guess.

HA!! i almost got hit by one of my lovely friends. She was yip-yappin away on her cell phone, and almost hit my car in the process...luckily i saw her coming so i had time to manuver... i floored it. that really didn't help seeing that the roads were slick as hell, but we didn't crash so.... she called me while we were driving... i told her to control her cracka wagon!! she told me to handle my minority-mobile...lolol...it's all coo tho

on a much lighter note...

tonite was guilty pleasure television, aka (the O.C.). Yeah i know, black man watching the O.C.... i don't give a damn, that show is fucking addicting for some ludicrous reason or another. I can thank kels for that one..... well everything is getting messed up on that show, and all i can do is laugh and scream at the tv saying things like 'you're fucking dumb,' or  you had it comin... it gets bad to the point where my mom tells me to shut the hell up...hehehe, i don't care tho. 

Sup? well my friday was like a really bad clichè of a teen health movie. let's just break it down like this...

sup? today was pretty interesting... it was pretty stupid actually. i got to sleep in late and didn't have to go to school early thanks to CAPT testing. you never know how lovely a day could be until you watch some daytime television...MAN, that made my morning. Jerry Springer's a real shytter. Maury and his babies dadies paternity classics. The Price is right, Im lovin it. when i finally get to school at 1145, I barely do anything. In physics, there were only like 5 out of the 25 kids that are in there today. we didn't do anything. The rest of the day we listened to the ritchie hart trio, that was a good time... they are good players...excellent work.

tonight, we had a district jazz concert. There, the elementary, middle school, and high school jazz ensembles played in front of a live audience. All of the bands tonight were very very good. OH but here comes our high school jazz band... we had to play 2 songs, which we had down, everything was ready. Everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong that night. First, the bass player didn't even show, so the bassist from the ritchie hart trio played. or director/conductor then gave his score to the bassist, so he didn't know what to do. the band was all over the place, it was soooo slopy. I was so embarassed, CLASSIC SHIT. now im more worried for us because this friday we are performing in a jazz competition. we will have to perform in front of the other bands and other judges. If we did what we just did tonight in front of the judges, and people, we will be laughed off the stage.

i think i got everything.. oh well if i didn't.

hurr it is, sup? This weekend was crazy and wild... I know i say that every weekend, but all weekends are crazy n' wild... But anyway Friday rolled around and i went to the local modell's (modells is like ghetto bob's sport stores) to get some shoes and stuff. Then i went to the bank to cash a check my english teacher had given to me, and he wrote the thing wrong. the check was supposed to be for $18.95, but he wrote it for $1,895. lol, i really could have cleaned out his account but i wasn't feeling like getting arrested, so i told the tellerperson about the situation. the tellerperson, who couldn't have been 5 years older than me told me you should've cleaned out his account. lol, that person was lookin pretty hot... ::papi chulo lips:: Anyways i called up kels to see what she was doing and she said that she was cookin for manda, marc, and mels so i tagged along. it turns out we had a snack-fest instead. lol i didn't mind either, i was hungry like a mutha anyway. So somewhere in that evening we start talkin about our 'human anatomies' if you will. I answered their questions, they answered mine, and they ('cept marcie... lol) wanted to see what my penis looked like... lol i thought they were kidding so i played along with it cuz i thought i would catch their bluff. so i played along with it, did a little dance, and just b4 i whipped it out i learned that they weren't kidding. DAMN, i was shakin in my boots... but after a little will-power, and a i-don't-give-a-damn attitude i did a spin, and they saw what was hanging... :-o I hope the laughs and giggles were positive one's. Im not worried about it tho... my 'hardware' is liek bacardi and cola, it gets the job done...lol im a dork...So Saturday comes, i didn't feel like playing football, i wanted to sleep in. it's not like i could anyways, b/c the fam was playing 'extreme makeover' with the bathroom upstairs...GREAT, no shower today. so i was the assistant and stuff, helping them out. I was kinda happy to go to work. I made some money too... nothing special happened at work, but i was busy as hell. business is picking back up to it's normal pace again, thank god. After work, i caught up with my driving friends at the pool house/arcade in Bridgeport and we played a couple rounds of pool... I got my ass WHOOPED by the other opponent. That's alright tho, cuz i know im rusty at pool, a couple more rounds and im set. After a night cap of pool and pizzeria dining, we said our goodbye's and i called it a nite around 130. today i got up thinking i was going to take a shower, but oh how i was wrong... The upstairs bathroom was obviously out of commission from yesterday so i went downstairs, to find a big ass hole in the ceiling. Turns out my father fell through the floor as they were ripping it out, thank goodness he didnt' fall to the first floor. Well, at least the downstairs bathroom has a skyline, lol...hey im trying to think positive... i was bumming today, didn't move from the couch for anybody or anything, till 5 cuz that's when i have to go to werkie jerkie AGAIN. as usual, it wasn't busy, but i got to play waiter, so im not complaining... that leads the story to now.... Im actually kinda looking foward to monday cuz I go in late... all thanks to CAPT testing, the dumbest test in the world. Oh well, no alarm setting for me. 

             going now... got to clean this shithole i call my room. nite...

sup? today was a wild n cra-z day... out of all days a thursday, who wudda thought? so anyways today we figured out the schedule for sophmore testing next week. b/c of the test they take the normal shedule is all screwed up... YAY!!! sleeping in is definently a priority.... so anyway as the day carried on, we were in chorus today and someone didn't shower, cuz they were smelling like ASS!!! i mean it was so raw and nasty, it was like someone opened their ass and put a fan on high on it, NAST. lol. i couldn't even sing because of the nasty assed fumes. so i had to investage... like an idiot, i traveled through the ppl on the risers and randomly did extremely huge inhales around ppl. Finally i found the spot... i suspect that it was this kid that had the napfro, but i couldn't but a finger on it and frankly didn't care, i just wanted to leave the scene. Lunch period came and there was a fight that HBO boxing could envy. it was so intense... it carried out into the hallway, where one of the girls eventually slipped from the grasp of the administrator and got at least 2 good blows on the other girl causing her to fall on the flo. blood was everywhurr... so after the mess was cleaned, and the big unruly crowd left, i left lunch to go print my english papa... my silly ass left the disk at home the other day making the paper late...oh well. so i go to print out the paper and gave it to my english teacher who was having a hussy fit today...

FAST FOWARDING to this afternoon, i had to go see about getting my sunroof fixed so i headed to the car dealer... when i was getting ready to leave, there was this accident that occured right in front of my car, the accident missed the car by liek a foot, thank good. so after the two drivers stopped their screaming match and calmed down, the cops arrive. they ask the crowd for witnesses, and of course i stick out like a sore thumb... so the take captive of my liscense and ask me what happened... and i end up staying at the scene way more longer than i wanted to...friggin 45 minutes later, they give me my liscense and im free to go, THANKS.

but that was my day... i think i covered everything...