h.o. issue 2
yes kiddos, that's right. it's once again time for another episode of the
already-established-but-only-recently-titled 'H.O. (Hillsboro Occasionally)'.
so, basically, I think I'll give you a rundown of what's been happening in my
life, which is obviously exciting enough to warrant an email like this. I'll
keep the same format as before, in which I run down my classes and then touch
on everything else that I can think of that's happening in my life.
so, if you have forgotten from last time, first period is forensic science.
we've transitioned out of arthropods and dead cats and moved on to talking about
more human cases. we went through the phases of death (yeah, that was great for
my anxiety). we're now talking about blood spatters and how to find out which
direction the impact came from. a more interesting unit, to be sure. the other
great thing about this class is that we always finish everything with half-hour/
45 minutes left in the period. that means that I have that extra time to hang
out with the cool kids in that class, talk, sleep, or whatever. all in all, I'm
enjoying the class but I'm also glad that it's ending in a few weeks.
second period, I've got college prep english with mr. powell. I can't even
describe to you how awesome this is. it seems like every day, mr. powell does
something awesome. so we all basically sit and watch in awe for the powell-esque
moment of the day. and he doesn't disappoint. it's almost like you're in a movie
about high school and they picked an actor to be the teacher who really really
wants his big break to come soon, so he plays every character possible every day.
oh, and I still sit with ian, kyle, ashley, and travis lane, so that's pretty
awesome as well. good kids to start off the day with... every other day.
third period is team sports. we play basketball.
fourth period is student council. it's still pretty much the most awesome
thing that I've ever done in high school. we set up all the canned food drive
stuff (asb's in charge of that, so I've been doing a lot). this year, instead of
just doing teachers and watching ms weidkamp clean up with it, we introduced a
new angle: club competition. yes, this does mean key club, green club, deca, and
christian club are beating up on each other and trying to get the most cans. green
club especially are knocking themselves out - they brought in 407 cans in four
days. 407 cans. in FOUR DAYS. christian club is second with 100. the winning club
recieves a check for $400 from asb. yeah. not even kidding. also, we've been spending
a ton of time getting ready for winter formal (more on that later). we had deco
day today... our theme is 'a night on the town.' yeah, I know. it's not bad, but
it's not exactly celestian in quality. it's fun, though. so we've been knocking
ourselves out decorating, selling tickets, making plans, etc.
fifth period is still seal 2. we're running mock presidential campaigns... and
so, of course, I was selected to be the candidate for my group. we took a political
issues test and broke into groups based on that. I was one point more conservative
than the exact center, so I was placed into 'republicans.' I'm running against kyle
kemper (democrat), doug kim (radical liberal), and nyc hayden (radical conservative).
I think I have a pretty good chance. I'm only really worried about doug, but I think
his views on the issues are going to be too radical for him to really win the race.
sixth period is advanced bio. in other words, this is the class where I go outside
with mark, scotty, and molly to break sticks off of trees and throw them into the
river. we're going to be reassembling bird skeletons soon, though, so it's going to
turn into a real class here pretty soon. I don't really know what else to say about
that one.
umm... okay. let's see. that does it as far as school goes.
extracurriculars. or, everything else in my life.
the fall play is running this week and next week. it's 'noises off.' it's hands
down the best fall play in my four years at glencoe. and the best part about it is
that talent-wise, it's probably the weakest. that says more about the people who have
left than the people who are left... if that makes sense. it ended up being kids who
haven't had a chance because other talented kids have taken the lead parts... but let
me tell you, they shined (shone? shined?). if there's any possible way you can get down
here, you need to see it. but I know that it's probably tough for you to get here. but
whatever.
speaking of drama stuff, I'm going to be directing a one-act this year. I'm going
to be running a production of 'take five.' if you recall, this is the one that kate and
eric were in when I was a freshman. so, I've seen it before, but I don't remember the
production very well. I'm pretty excited about it. we're doing auditions/casting on
monday, so I'll find out then how my cast turns out.
I'm putting the finishing touches on my youth mission team leader application this
weekend, so I'm excited about that. I think it'll be a good time. speaking of applying,
I sent my early-action application to whitworth college. I'll know later this month if
I got in or what. so that's another big thing in my life.
did I mention that winter formal is next saturday? one week from right now, I'll
be there. I'm super excited about it. and as you all know, super excited is equal to
excited times twelve. I'm going with anneliese koehler. she's a jr this year, so that
means that she's a year younger than me. needless to say, I'm pretty excited about that.
we're going with this huge group of cool kids to dinner at kennedy school. it's an old
elementary school in portland that mcmenamins took over and converted into a restaurant
(you can see more about that here http://www.mcmenamins.com/Kennedy/index.html). it's
going to be me and anneliese, kyle staggs and katie reardon, travis schaal and kim
proefrock, adam burton and allison wilcox, michael lucas and jill phetteplace, and holly
romjue and her mysterious date whose name I have forgotten but didn't recognize when I
heard it. afterwards, everyone's going to my place for hot tub and movie and then we're
all staying the night at kyle's house. so..... yeah. it's going to be pretty much the
most kickin' thing ever. and anneliese's on jr class, so that means free pictures.
I went over to jeff bond's house a couple weeks ago and recorded a song. that was
sweet. I'm starting a solo project called 'flyweight.' I wrote another one that I haven't
recorded yet, but I'm going to be doing that probably next weekend. my vision is that
I'll have three or four songs that I can put onto a little ep and send out to any cool
kids who want one. and yes, that means that if you aren't cool, you can't have one. my
first song is a pop-punk number called 'hey anneliese!'. the second, and as-of-yet
unrecorded song is called 'strike three' and it's going to be an emocore sort of song.
think taking back sunday, the used, stuff like that. then I'll have an acoustic song that
I've started to put together called 'I fought football and football won' and one other
song that hasn't even been written yet. hopefully I can get this out by valentine's day.
writing music is hard.
I can't even really think of anything else awesome to talk about... so that's it for
this edition of Hillsboro Occasionally. if you've got any questions or anything, fire away
by email or on aim (hotdogboy25). I'll probably answer them. until then: love, luck, and
lollipops.
already-established-but-only-recently-titled 'H.O. (Hillsboro Occasionally)'.
so, basically, I think I'll give you a rundown of what's been happening in my
life, which is obviously exciting enough to warrant an email like this. I'll
keep the same format as before, in which I run down my classes and then touch
on everything else that I can think of that's happening in my life.
so, if you have forgotten from last time, first period is forensic science.
we've transitioned out of arthropods and dead cats and moved on to talking about
more human cases. we went through the phases of death (yeah, that was great for
my anxiety). we're now talking about blood spatters and how to find out which
direction the impact came from. a more interesting unit, to be sure. the other
great thing about this class is that we always finish everything with half-hour/
45 minutes left in the period. that means that I have that extra time to hang
out with the cool kids in that class, talk, sleep, or whatever. all in all, I'm
enjoying the class but I'm also glad that it's ending in a few weeks.
second period, I've got college prep english with mr. powell. I can't even
describe to you how awesome this is. it seems like every day, mr. powell does
something awesome. so we all basically sit and watch in awe for the powell-esque
moment of the day. and he doesn't disappoint. it's almost like you're in a movie
about high school and they picked an actor to be the teacher who really really
wants his big break to come soon, so he plays every character possible every day.
oh, and I still sit with ian, kyle, ashley, and travis lane, so that's pretty
awesome as well. good kids to start off the day with... every other day.
third period is team sports. we play basketball.
fourth period is student council. it's still pretty much the most awesome
thing that I've ever done in high school. we set up all the canned food drive
stuff (asb's in charge of that, so I've been doing a lot). this year, instead of
just doing teachers and watching ms weidkamp clean up with it, we introduced a
new angle: club competition. yes, this does mean key club, green club, deca, and
christian club are beating up on each other and trying to get the most cans. green
club especially are knocking themselves out - they brought in 407 cans in four
days. 407 cans. in FOUR DAYS. christian club is second with 100. the winning club
recieves a check for $400 from asb. yeah. not even kidding. also, we've been spending
a ton of time getting ready for winter formal (more on that later). we had deco
day today... our theme is 'a night on the town.' yeah, I know. it's not bad, but
it's not exactly celestian in quality. it's fun, though. so we've been knocking
ourselves out decorating, selling tickets, making plans, etc.
fifth period is still seal 2. we're running mock presidential campaigns... and
so, of course, I was selected to be the candidate for my group. we took a political
issues test and broke into groups based on that. I was one point more conservative
than the exact center, so I was placed into 'republicans.' I'm running against kyle
kemper (democrat), doug kim (radical liberal), and nyc hayden (radical conservative).
I think I have a pretty good chance. I'm only really worried about doug, but I think
his views on the issues are going to be too radical for him to really win the race.
sixth period is advanced bio. in other words, this is the class where I go outside
with mark, scotty, and molly to break sticks off of trees and throw them into the
river. we're going to be reassembling bird skeletons soon, though, so it's going to
turn into a real class here pretty soon. I don't really know what else to say about
that one.
umm... okay. let's see. that does it as far as school goes.
extracurriculars. or, everything else in my life.
the fall play is running this week and next week. it's 'noises off.' it's hands
down the best fall play in my four years at glencoe. and the best part about it is
that talent-wise, it's probably the weakest. that says more about the people who have
left than the people who are left... if that makes sense. it ended up being kids who
haven't had a chance because other talented kids have taken the lead parts... but let
me tell you, they shined (shone? shined?). if there's any possible way you can get down
here, you need to see it. but I know that it's probably tough for you to get here. but
whatever.
speaking of drama stuff, I'm going to be directing a one-act this year. I'm going
to be running a production of 'take five.' if you recall, this is the one that kate and
eric were in when I was a freshman. so, I've seen it before, but I don't remember the
production very well. I'm pretty excited about it. we're doing auditions/casting on
monday, so I'll find out then how my cast turns out.
I'm putting the finishing touches on my youth mission team leader application this
weekend, so I'm excited about that. I think it'll be a good time. speaking of applying,
I sent my early-action application to whitworth college. I'll know later this month if
I got in or what. so that's another big thing in my life.
did I mention that winter formal is next saturday? one week from right now, I'll
be there. I'm super excited about it. and as you all know, super excited is equal to
excited times twelve. I'm going with anneliese koehler. she's a jr this year, so that
means that she's a year younger than me. needless to say, I'm pretty excited about that.
we're going with this huge group of cool kids to dinner at kennedy school. it's an old
elementary school in portland that mcmenamins took over and converted into a restaurant
(you can see more about that here http://www.mcmenamins.com/Kennedy/index.html). it's
going to be me and anneliese, kyle staggs and katie reardon, travis schaal and kim
proefrock, adam burton and allison wilcox, michael lucas and jill phetteplace, and holly
romjue and her mysterious date whose name I have forgotten but didn't recognize when I
heard it. afterwards, everyone's going to my place for hot tub and movie and then we're
all staying the night at kyle's house. so..... yeah. it's going to be pretty much the
most kickin' thing ever. and anneliese's on jr class, so that means free pictures.
I went over to jeff bond's house a couple weeks ago and recorded a song. that was
sweet. I'm starting a solo project called 'flyweight.' I wrote another one that I haven't
recorded yet, but I'm going to be doing that probably next weekend. my vision is that
I'll have three or four songs that I can put onto a little ep and send out to any cool
kids who want one. and yes, that means that if you aren't cool, you can't have one. my
first song is a pop-punk number called 'hey anneliese!'. the second, and as-of-yet
unrecorded song is called 'strike three' and it's going to be an emocore sort of song.
think taking back sunday, the used, stuff like that. then I'll have an acoustic song that
I've started to put together called 'I fought football and football won' and one other
song that hasn't even been written yet. hopefully I can get this out by valentine's day.
writing music is hard.
I can't even really think of anything else awesome to talk about... so that's it for
this edition of Hillsboro Occasionally. if you've got any questions or anything, fire away
by email or on aim (hotdogboy25). I'll probably answer them. until then: love, luck, and
lollipops.