it doesn't really matter if it gets me through the night
South Carolina was great. it was rainy and at one point i got really bad sunburn, (when it was actually sunny. not when it was rainy) and we practically finished picking out all of the furniture for our house, which should hopefully be furnished by june.
but the best day/night/morning of the year came after the trip.. it was mock trial state finals '05. I drove up with sarah, tierney, and laura, and we listened to laura's mix called "The Best Songs that you forgot". we stopped at a rest stop in bumblefuck, pennsylvania, and me and eva went up to a hick working at the cinnabon and started asking him annoying questions about his life as a farmer. he told us his name was jeremy, and that he dropped out of college to become a glassblower. which we thought was amazing so i got a picture of him and eva together. we got back in the car, and when we got to the hotel, we parked in the parking garage, but couldn't find anyone else from any other cars.. so what do you do in that case? Have a dance party in the parking garage! Laura blasted "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus, and "Cherry Cola" by Savage Garden (the official song of the trip), and we sang on the top of our lungs and danced as random people parking stared at us and tried to avoid hitting us in the middle of the garage. It was an awesome start to a great day. But the fun part wasn't the trials.. (in which mount played a hick school named "New Brighton" and holy ghost prep, and prep played scranton prep and some other school).after the first trial we went to a food court near the courthouse where me, laura and sarah convinced this black guy who worked at arby's that sarah was a gangsta rapper named "skee poll". he said that was the best name for a rap star, and he started to pretend to ski around the back of arby's. then after the second trial we went to the banquet and found out that mount and prep had both lost and weren't moving on the next morning.. which meant only one thing- it was party time. now let me describe the hotel room coordinator's two tragic flaws - 1) They put my room in a hall with the mount rooms, prep rooms, and the franklin learning center's rooms. 2) Mr. Conners from prep was the only chaperone in our entire floor. So after the banquet and watching Kathleen try to rap as skee poll, and Brendan Curtin wussing out and not doing it at all, the dance started. It started with a bunch of hick songs with only the hicks dancing in circles on the dancefloor. at one point me and eva got up and tried to dance to the redneck song "Save a horse, ride a cowboy", but we failed miserably. We sat down and decided to run up to our rooms and change into our bathing suits. well, most of us didnt have bathing suits so i just wore my boxers and basketball shorts (which i was supposed to sleep in), and the other prep guys went in in pajama pants, while the mount girls went in in tank tops and underwear. then we came onto another problem.. no one could find the towels (which were hidden in the showers in each room), so we all took handtowels to dry ourselves off with. we ran down to the pool and pushed eachother in, running around like idiots, and trying to save each other with the lifeguard gear that was left in the pool. (i ran in with a life preserver, screaming in a seductive voice, "Who needs to be saved?" then ang tried to save a 'drowning' me, and she was horrible at it cuz she couldnt even lift me out of the water) we played around and then some random hick school joined us. at 11, the janitor came in and waved his hands, saying "get out you guys, the pool's closed" we all bitched, but then the mount girls started screaming "Party in 612!" we all went upstairs and got changed into dryer clothes, and me and tierney went to get soda. all of the floors' vending machines were broken, so we ended up on the fourth floor where we see.. Scranton Prep's Team! We first started talking with Layla and another girl on the floor outside of the elevators, then slowly their entire team came and were hanging out with us. the Holy Ghost Prep's Team passed us a few time and kept telling us to come to a party in 711, but we just sat there and talked until a drunk old guy came and sat with us. he sat under an endtable next to the elevator and bumped his head, then babbled on about how he was from the school of life. an angry hotel customer came out and yelled at us, furious that we were talking because his family was trying to sleep. he told us to take our party to the lobby, and i, being the smug jackass that i am, told him "sure! i guess that would work, cuz after the party is the hotel lobby." so me and tierney took the scranton prep team up to 612, where prep, mount, and the hick school "Montoursville Area High School" already were. we talked, tried to play games, and then Mr. Conners came to the door to see if any prep kids were in the room. We all ran into mount's adjoining room (about 20 kids!) and hid behind plants and under beds. i hid in a closet with a tiny scranton prep girl and this huge scranton prep guy who hit his head on the bar in it. apparently brandon powell broke something when he tried to hide behind it (hes a huge kid), and we all came out of our hiding spots when we were given the all clear. tom quinn was the only kid caught by conners, because he was hiding in the shower in the room that he checked. hahahahahaha. we waited til conners went back to bed, got tom, then decided to run around the hotel. we used the three machines in the crappy fitness room, skipped outside in the rain, tried to get the hicks from Montoursville to go away (which we successfully got one to leave), then decided what would be more perfect than going swimming at 3 AM? we went to the pool, AND THE JANITOR FORGOT TO LOCK THE DOOR! this was after we had changed, so no one would go in, but me, sarah, and ang who stripped down and jumped in. we splashed around for a bit, and the other kids just sat and watched, and then someone screamed that the janitor was coming. me, sarah, and ang jumped out of the pool, grabbed our clothes off of the chair, and ran behind a palm tree in the lobby to get dressed as fast as we could. it was greattttt. then we went back to mount's room and were wondering where eva was, so we decided to call Holy Ghost Prep's room (which they had told me and tierney was 711) to find out where she was, because she had last been seen with their teammember who calls himself 'sideburns' on the stairwell. we obviously woke them up because it was late and they went to bed early because they had another round in the morning. we took turns calling them and they got soooo pissed off. so we stopped, wandered around the hotel summore, and then me, sarah, tom, joe, ang, laura, bradley, brandon powell, and random hick #1 ended up in prep's room and just talked. i left the room and went back to 612, where i talked to kar and eva, and sarah and laura later joined us. (after laura passed out in the prep room and brandon powell kept poking her body with a pen until she woke up. hahahahaha). i went back to my room, joined with warren and sarah, and we all passed out pretty soon after we got into the room. it was 5 in the morning. i slept for a bit, but at 6 in the morning, the ghetto Franklin Learning Center kids began running up and down the hall, blasting Eminem's "Mockingbird". They woke me up and i got really pissed off and stumbled out in the hall yelling at them. They left, and i took a shower and wandered around the hotel, until i came upon the restaurant. i went up to the host and asked him if i could just pay for a plate and go to the buffet and get food to bring upstairs for my "sick roomate". He said yes, and let me go to the buffet and fill a carton with all the food i could fit, and then when i went back to the cash register, he told me i didn't have to pay. scoreeee. and one of the holy ghost kids standing behind me was like "wow, you guys are THAT cheap?!?!" assholeeeeeee. so i went back up to my room and ate all the french toast and sausage i could, then i decided to wake sarah and warren up. they got up, and we went over to 612 and knocked on the door, saying "room service!" and they let us in. i let everyone eat from my free buffet carton, and other random mounties and prep kids wandered in. we went out to the hallway when we heard franklin learning center blasting rap (with their door propped open) and they were all dancing to this game that was on the TV. we went to prep's room that was still asleep, and woke them up and were talking to them in the hallway, when franklin's coach came out and yelled at us for waking him up with "drama in the hallways" and he told us that we'd better get back in our rooms. jerk. we all decided to go to breakfast out in harrisburg, and the mount girls, and me, tom, joe, brendan, and the other mike went to this place called "Eat'n'Park". It was an OK breakfast, but it took forever. We went back to the hotel and dropped off the other prep kids because they were going to stay for the championships. Laura drove me, sarah, and tierney back home and everyone but laura (hahaha thank god) fell asleep. we went to a rest stop on the way because laura's car said that we only had 10 miles left on her gas gauge (hahahahaha score) and we stocked up on burger king. we got home like.. 30 minutes later, and after about 5 minutes of hugging and picture taking, we all parted ways. then i went home and slept from about 6:00PM to 9:00AM. that was one of the best days/nights/mornings ive ever experienced in my life. it was just crazy and hillarious and my prep/mount mock crew are soooo awesome, as are my new friends from scranton prep who im going to call later to find out if they won. like sarah said, i wouldnt trade this night for anything- it was a great time with great people, and i decided that even if we dont win next year, we're going back again. yesssss.
that was rediculously long. and im ending with a quote from the official song of the trip.
You'll never know what hit you when i get to you...
Ooh I want you,
i don't know if i need you,
but, ooh i'd die to find out
ooh i want you,
i don't know if i need you,
but, ooh i'd die to find out
what a great song that i forgot. and i bet you all did too.
mike
but the best day/night/morning of the year came after the trip.. it was mock trial state finals '05. I drove up with sarah, tierney, and laura, and we listened to laura's mix called "The Best Songs that you forgot". we stopped at a rest stop in bumblefuck, pennsylvania, and me and eva went up to a hick working at the cinnabon and started asking him annoying questions about his life as a farmer. he told us his name was jeremy, and that he dropped out of college to become a glassblower. which we thought was amazing so i got a picture of him and eva together. we got back in the car, and when we got to the hotel, we parked in the parking garage, but couldn't find anyone else from any other cars.. so what do you do in that case? Have a dance party in the parking garage! Laura blasted "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus, and "Cherry Cola" by Savage Garden (the official song of the trip), and we sang on the top of our lungs and danced as random people parking stared at us and tried to avoid hitting us in the middle of the garage. It was an awesome start to a great day. But the fun part wasn't the trials.. (in which mount played a hick school named "New Brighton" and holy ghost prep, and prep played scranton prep and some other school).after the first trial we went to a food court near the courthouse where me, laura and sarah convinced this black guy who worked at arby's that sarah was a gangsta rapper named "skee poll". he said that was the best name for a rap star, and he started to pretend to ski around the back of arby's. then after the second trial we went to the banquet and found out that mount and prep had both lost and weren't moving on the next morning.. which meant only one thing- it was party time. now let me describe the hotel room coordinator's two tragic flaws - 1) They put my room in a hall with the mount rooms, prep rooms, and the franklin learning center's rooms. 2) Mr. Conners from prep was the only chaperone in our entire floor. So after the banquet and watching Kathleen try to rap as skee poll, and Brendan Curtin wussing out and not doing it at all, the dance started. It started with a bunch of hick songs with only the hicks dancing in circles on the dancefloor. at one point me and eva got up and tried to dance to the redneck song "Save a horse, ride a cowboy", but we failed miserably. We sat down and decided to run up to our rooms and change into our bathing suits. well, most of us didnt have bathing suits so i just wore my boxers and basketball shorts (which i was supposed to sleep in), and the other prep guys went in in pajama pants, while the mount girls went in in tank tops and underwear. then we came onto another problem.. no one could find the towels (which were hidden in the showers in each room), so we all took handtowels to dry ourselves off with. we ran down to the pool and pushed eachother in, running around like idiots, and trying to save each other with the lifeguard gear that was left in the pool. (i ran in with a life preserver, screaming in a seductive voice, "Who needs to be saved?" then ang tried to save a 'drowning' me, and she was horrible at it cuz she couldnt even lift me out of the water) we played around and then some random hick school joined us. at 11, the janitor came in and waved his hands, saying "get out you guys, the pool's closed" we all bitched, but then the mount girls started screaming "Party in 612!" we all went upstairs and got changed into dryer clothes, and me and tierney went to get soda. all of the floors' vending machines were broken, so we ended up on the fourth floor where we see.. Scranton Prep's Team! We first started talking with Layla and another girl on the floor outside of the elevators, then slowly their entire team came and were hanging out with us. the Holy Ghost Prep's Team passed us a few time and kept telling us to come to a party in 711, but we just sat there and talked until a drunk old guy came and sat with us. he sat under an endtable next to the elevator and bumped his head, then babbled on about how he was from the school of life. an angry hotel customer came out and yelled at us, furious that we were talking because his family was trying to sleep. he told us to take our party to the lobby, and i, being the smug jackass that i am, told him "sure! i guess that would work, cuz after the party is the hotel lobby." so me and tierney took the scranton prep team up to 612, where prep, mount, and the hick school "Montoursville Area High School" already were. we talked, tried to play games, and then Mr. Conners came to the door to see if any prep kids were in the room. We all ran into mount's adjoining room (about 20 kids!) and hid behind plants and under beds. i hid in a closet with a tiny scranton prep girl and this huge scranton prep guy who hit his head on the bar in it. apparently brandon powell broke something when he tried to hide behind it (hes a huge kid), and we all came out of our hiding spots when we were given the all clear. tom quinn was the only kid caught by conners, because he was hiding in the shower in the room that he checked. hahahahahaha. we waited til conners went back to bed, got tom, then decided to run around the hotel. we used the three machines in the crappy fitness room, skipped outside in the rain, tried to get the hicks from Montoursville to go away (which we successfully got one to leave), then decided what would be more perfect than going swimming at 3 AM? we went to the pool, AND THE JANITOR FORGOT TO LOCK THE DOOR! this was after we had changed, so no one would go in, but me, sarah, and ang who stripped down and jumped in. we splashed around for a bit, and the other kids just sat and watched, and then someone screamed that the janitor was coming. me, sarah, and ang jumped out of the pool, grabbed our clothes off of the chair, and ran behind a palm tree in the lobby to get dressed as fast as we could. it was greattttt. then we went back to mount's room and were wondering where eva was, so we decided to call Holy Ghost Prep's room (which they had told me and tierney was 711) to find out where she was, because she had last been seen with their teammember who calls himself 'sideburns' on the stairwell. we obviously woke them up because it was late and they went to bed early because they had another round in the morning. we took turns calling them and they got soooo pissed off. so we stopped, wandered around the hotel summore, and then me, sarah, tom, joe, ang, laura, bradley, brandon powell, and random hick #1 ended up in prep's room and just talked. i left the room and went back to 612, where i talked to kar and eva, and sarah and laura later joined us. (after laura passed out in the prep room and brandon powell kept poking her body with a pen until she woke up. hahahahaha). i went back to my room, joined with warren and sarah, and we all passed out pretty soon after we got into the room. it was 5 in the morning. i slept for a bit, but at 6 in the morning, the ghetto Franklin Learning Center kids began running up and down the hall, blasting Eminem's "Mockingbird". They woke me up and i got really pissed off and stumbled out in the hall yelling at them. They left, and i took a shower and wandered around the hotel, until i came upon the restaurant. i went up to the host and asked him if i could just pay for a plate and go to the buffet and get food to bring upstairs for my "sick roomate". He said yes, and let me go to the buffet and fill a carton with all the food i could fit, and then when i went back to the cash register, he told me i didn't have to pay. scoreeee. and one of the holy ghost kids standing behind me was like "wow, you guys are THAT cheap?!?!" assholeeeeeee. so i went back up to my room and ate all the french toast and sausage i could, then i decided to wake sarah and warren up. they got up, and we went over to 612 and knocked on the door, saying "room service!" and they let us in. i let everyone eat from my free buffet carton, and other random mounties and prep kids wandered in. we went out to the hallway when we heard franklin learning center blasting rap (with their door propped open) and they were all dancing to this game that was on the TV. we went to prep's room that was still asleep, and woke them up and were talking to them in the hallway, when franklin's coach came out and yelled at us for waking him up with "drama in the hallways" and he told us that we'd better get back in our rooms. jerk. we all decided to go to breakfast out in harrisburg, and the mount girls, and me, tom, joe, brendan, and the other mike went to this place called "Eat'n'Park". It was an OK breakfast, but it took forever. We went back to the hotel and dropped off the other prep kids because they were going to stay for the championships. Laura drove me, sarah, and tierney back home and everyone but laura (hahaha thank god) fell asleep. we went to a rest stop on the way because laura's car said that we only had 10 miles left on her gas gauge (hahahahaha score) and we stocked up on burger king. we got home like.. 30 minutes later, and after about 5 minutes of hugging and picture taking, we all parted ways. then i went home and slept from about 6:00PM to 9:00AM. that was one of the best days/nights/mornings ive ever experienced in my life. it was just crazy and hillarious and my prep/mount mock crew are soooo awesome, as are my new friends from scranton prep who im going to call later to find out if they won. like sarah said, i wouldnt trade this night for anything- it was a great time with great people, and i decided that even if we dont win next year, we're going back again. yesssss.
that was rediculously long. and im ending with a quote from the official song of the trip.
You'll never know what hit you when i get to you...
Ooh I want you,
i don't know if i need you,
but, ooh i'd die to find out
ooh i want you,
i don't know if i need you,
but, ooh i'd die to find out
what a great song that i forgot. and i bet you all did too.
mike