It's Sunday night AGAIN

and, per usual, I should be sleeping to get ride or this pesky cold, or RESEARCHING COLLEGES or studying or something of the like. But I just had to report on this most excellent highlight of my week.

This week in AP English we got a fatty binder on the AP Test. We also looked at some essays and focused on grading them. Matthew's favorite response as a reader was "Fuck you and the horse you rode in on." But this tops all answers by far. I want to meet this kid.(This is an essay on the poem "An Author to her Book by Anne Bradstreet).

"Her bastard child, born of sin and poverty, born imperfect and made yet imperfecter by the editing hand. A fitful child that grows up beyond the will of his mother-the very reason why God intends one day to destroy the earth.
Unbelievable, this poem is so full of the pain of creation, it makes me want to cut of my hands and get a vasectomy. But, it is so full of a guised(carefully suppressed) pride, that it makes me glad I haven't and shan't.
Let us begin the dissection...."


I'll put the rest of later. But that kid is seriously awesome.

I took about five colleges off my list this week only to add about ten. How counter productive. DREADING Pat Moore on Wednesday.

I'm obsessed with Dawn Mitschele. And "Golden Train" is a great song, Jess. Gracias!

It's Sunday night...

And I should be doing a bazillion other things. But blogging was on my to do list too and that's what I'm in the mood for, though it will not be quite the joyful blog I envisioned.

I WAS really excited for a project that came up for core team. The Salesian Leadership has adult conferences and at their latest one, they decided to promote dialogue and fraternity between Salesian schools. So for the first time ever, there will be a Salesian Youth Summit. The pretty cool thing is that it will be the first ever event in Northern California because Richmond and us always end up going down to LA. So part of it will be on our campus. Which is pretty cool in my opinion because I love our campus and this is a pretty big event. The sucky thing is that it's on Valentine's Day :/

Back to why it's awesome. So the Salesian communities are going to get together and present on social justices issue, specifically one that affect their area. For us that mean immigration and migrant workers. I knew immediately I wanted in. This is not your typical presentation. This is for youth, by youth. I really want to make a cool documentary and really be able to understand more fully what I drive by every single morning and to show that to other people. I feel that this is one of my first chances to really affect change. If we do a good job, this could bet bigger than the Youth Summit.

Another reason I got really excited was that this fit perfectly into my service project plans for this year. Last year Project Backpack went fairly well, and this year I want it to do even better. I feel that this year we can better target the needs of the people we're serving and elicit a more wide-spread response. However, the person that I was counting on for both an inside look into migrant life and for information on how to better meet their need is Brooke Johnson of Loaves and Fishes. She's super nice, I believe she went to Notre Dame, was in the Peace Core, and it young and relatable. She was just an awesome person. She provided us with specific and useful information last year for Project Backpack and was extremely grateful for the work we put in.

Too bad I found out this morning that she's leaving Loaves and Fishes in October. :( Project Backpack was going to be in December and The Youth Summit is in February. There go my awesome connections...

I've just got to figure out some other ways, I guess. I think I can handle it. It just put a bit of a damper on my excitement because we're kind of back to where we started last year, having to forge contacts all over again.

Anyway, tonight I was looking for quotes for the year book and I started with Jason Mraz. Duh. He is so fucking amazing.

the comfort of your strangeness

those are awesome.

if you don't have time to look here are a few of the highlights:

"I'm a vital organism, an accident put into motion to serve a purpose, to choose my own direction, to fulfill my own fantasies, my own dreams, to remember my own accomplishments, all in which will determine who I am."

"Eleanor Roosevelt said,
"Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people."
I want to have a great mind. But here I am discussing Eleanor Roosevelt already. "

Because he is so fscking awesome, he's mentioned several people or things I already love, love love(and then I'm just like ;aksjhdf;ashdfha NO WAY! and then I feel that physic vibe Marhieneke was talking about. I think Mr. A-Z and I have that for sure): Sufjan Stevens, Dawn Mitschele(who I found indirectly because of him through Bushwalla but it felt crazy amazing until I figured that out because she's not that well known.), Ingrid Michaelson, Regina Spektor, SIGG water bottles(!!!!! extra kismet on this one), and Brett Dennen.

It kind of makes my life that he can read my mind.

Ohhh and we ripped out my hideous bathroom floor today. I got a blister but it was so satifying that it was worth it.

Well now I haven't done any homework this weekend and it's already past my bed time. Whoopsies. I hope I didn't have anything...

I'll finish with this:


i wish we were falling nose to nose.

Videos

These are some of my favorite memories from school. As you can tell, I wasn't really meant for acting, I'm pretty much a freak but that's part of why they're funny. I make up for it on the technical side though I hope.