I'm slightly horrified at the lack of proper grammar and spelling that's flying around these days, even in Honors English classes. Seriously, folks, don't you ever read a work of literature?? Yes, there is a difference between "there", "their", and "they're". No, "illicit" is not the same as "elicit". In fact, they are different parts of speech. You can whine about how it doesn't make sense, but it won't change the rules. Sorry to shatter your little bubble of blogdom. Actually, I'm not. I rather enjoy it. Mwaha.

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∞ Jesse, teh bestest uf tham aul.

Check it out. I'm not unique. !!! omw i just us3d teh emoticon!!!!1111!1one!!1eleven...

"My name is Luck, this is my song/I happened by while you were gone/Oh well, I apologize that I could not stay/But I hope good things come your way/I know they will, here's your horseshoe/So best of luck to you." My legs hurt. Ouch. I like music. Anways, school is fun but exhausting. I've been forced to think about things a lot more thoroughly this year, re-evaluating my friendships and places where I need friendships. It's been hard, but very helpful. The chapels have so far been spectacular, really providing excellent worship and innovative, relevant teaching. I think God has taught me many, many new things in and through chapel. Cross-country has been deadly but exhilarating. I set a major personal record at our Marymoor Park meet, beating my previous time by almost two minutes. The results haven't been posted on the website, though. Yearbook is a crazy-cool class, providing me with a nice dose of frenzied rushing and stress right before lunch. I can't really complain, however, seeing as how I've only gotten minor jobs so far. Yay for layouts. We jumped beyond exercises in Drama, into the exciting world of Theater Scene Work Week, in which we perform a scene from a play, rehearsing for a week beforehand. After this, it's only a week of exercises, and then we plunge directly into One-Acts. World History has provided me with a constant stream of information, most of it interesting. Lately, I've been reading Don't Know Much About The Universe: Everything You Need To Know About Outer Space But Never Learned, which is pretty elementary, but it's interesting because it tells the human perspective of the universe, so it goes into the history of astronomy for the whole first chapter. I've also been reading State of Fear, another book by Michael Crichton. So yeah, life's been hectic. Speedily fast-paced, if that makes any sense. My glasses got broken today, and not by me. I was walking up the stairs at school, when the person in front of me suddenly backed up and jammed their backpack into my face. Yowch. In other news, I'm done typing. Go read some political commentary or something. It's not like there's an absence of it.

∞ Jesse

Salutations. Right now my legs hurt because I ran six miles at XC practice today. Ouch. I just got back from HS Retreat yesterday, which was incredible. I've never seen anyone play chords on a bass guitar before. Yay for Ricky Shimono. The speaker was Jeremy Johnson, a funny and engaging speaker who had some great ideas. Mix that up with the monumental talent show and plenty of wandering around the campus, and you get 24 hours of sweetness that is unrivalled throughout the school year. Lately I've been listening to the albums Echo Echo by Carbon Leaf and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb by U2, both wonderful. I've run out of things to say, so maybe I'll just start ranting. I wonder what dogs think about. Maybe they're planning to take over the world with their subversive devotion. Maybe they just like our food, so they can't afford to dispose of us yet. Frightening theories going on here, people. Lock your doors! Hide your food! Block that doggy door! The hounds are coming! Bleh, er, say, no, uh, yeah...

∞ Jesse

Howdy, strangers. Life is busy, death is painful. I choose busy. Now that I've depressed you, allow me to tell you about a fantastic book. Taliesin by Stephen R. Lawhead is the story of a man. A man with blond hair. But seriously, it's a sweet book, and one of the only books that I have actually come close to crying while reading. That's right. Me, crying. It's a sad book. I'm sorry. Still, it's a crazy good book, and you must read it. Now. Now I will quote the opening poem:

Greetings, chaps and chapettes. It's been a while. Maybe. Life is good, and so is sleep. School starts tomorrow. Bah homework! Music is nice when it's good, but bad when it's bad. I'm just full of exciting and profound statements today. Anyways, I'm currently listening to "Might Have Ben Hur" by Switchfoot from "The Legend of Chin". Happy stuff. Not much goin' on, except that school is still starting tomorrow, no matter how much I try to ignore it. And how do I spend my last day of freedom? Reading mythology. Yay. Charlemagne. I hope you guys all helped save the internet. If you didn't, I'm ever so disappointed. By the way, I switched classes, so now I'm in Yearbook class. Double yay. It'll be a nice little outlet to get out some extra creativity and energy and stress and hectic frenzy. I've decided I need to convince my dad to get iLife so I can put up some new pictures. Yes, I am a Macintosh user. Cry about it. I'm also not wasting money on virus protection software. Die, Norton! Ha! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go boil my head in a Windows BSOD (blue screen of death).

Gloatingly not yours,
∞ Jesse

Just a quick update for some public announcements. Now that I'm here, I can't think of anything to say. OH WAIT! I was in the Shoreline parade yesterday! I held a sign to promote the library. So yeah, I'm famous now. Bow to me. Oh, wait.

Just thought I'd let everyone out there know about this: savetheinternet.com

And that concludes our brief session.

Thank you.

Winnie the Pooh says Hi.

∞ Jesse

Whew! I'm back from vacation. We went down to Bandon, Oregon, for a fun-filled week of sand and bands, man! Um... okay. I don't know where that came from. Oh wait, my brain. Right. Well, nice talkin' to y'all. Even though I'm typing. I got to see my cousins and my other relatives, and I learned to play Russian rummy. Yay! Bandon was just as good as it has been in previous years, and I have plenty of pictures that I will put as soon as my computer stops being dumb and my dad buys iLife. Maybe I should help him. Maybe ducks are aliens who are performing elaborate experiments on us. Saaaaaaaay..... nah. Well, I'm gonna go eat.

Oh, school's coming.

∞ Jesse

Grargh. Just an opening sound to get your attention, nothing more. To start, I'd like to apologize for the obvious lack of pictures. I know you all like to look at me. Anyways, life's been hectic. I've been sleeping in like crazy, and I've read two books in the past two days: Congo and The Terminal Man, both by Michael Crichton (rhymes with "frighten"). I also discovered I have a strong aversion to work of any kind during the summer. Why can't it ever be Christmas? Meh. (heehee.) I can't think of anything else to tell you guys. Not that anyone ever reads this. I suppose I should write something just in case the President happens to skip onto my page, but what? I could just be cynical about something. Maybe he'd hire me. Whoa, that was kinda cynical in itself. Oh well. I'm gonna go do something that's not a waste of time, like throw pencils against the wall. OoOoOoOhhhh...

Sincerely,
Jesse, Administrator, Department of Cynicism, Federal Bureau of Investigation

'til I read your lips on the TV screen

Howdy all, it's been a while. I've been busy. Get over it. You just wish you had a life like mine. Meh. Anyways, I have returned from CILT/summer camp, and I have to say... BOY, AM I TIRED!!! I accidentally stayed up too late last night. And all last week. Tomorrow I leave to go canoeing on Ross Lake. I got new sunglasses. Now you REALLY wish you had my life. And my sunglasses. Haha. Ennyhoo, the canoeing trip should be fun, but just think... I'll be completely seperated from society for a whole week! I don't think my toes can handle all the tedium. Ah, they'll get over it. I got a new T-shirt that says "geekier than thou" on it for an early birthday present. Oh yeah, my birthday is on Tuesday in two days!! Oooh, semantics!! I expect presents when I get back. That means you, Mr. Procrastinator. I don't know who that is, but he's out there somewhere. Tune in next week for an exciting new episode entitled "The Quest for Mr. Procrastinator and his Magic Bowl of Haggis"!!

Indefatigably (yeah right),
∞ Jesse

HEY! I just got back from a sweet, sweet weekend at Lake Chelan with the boys. Nothing but airsoft, steak, and swimming. I'm like, hecka tired. I only got two hours of sleep the first night, and nine or ten the second night. I can't really think right now, so please pardon if I start drifting like a small raft of no sleep on the ocean of life. Um, yeah.... Not much else is happening in life right now. I got a new airsoft rifle that shoots like a real gun and hurts twice as bad. Not really, but it's super sweet. I started playing piano again. I hope to get good enough to be in a band, but it's a long shot. I just hope that if I do get in a band, the songwriter's better than me at rhyme 'n' rhythm. It's kinda sad how I can fill a trash can in five minutes. Anyways, I should probably go. Adios.

....snakesssssssss.....
∞ Jesse

I am the greatest ThunderCat of them all: I'm Lion-O.
I only have time for a brief update, so here goes. School's out! Stocks are up! Disco is down! Yay! Anyways, yeah. Yeah. Yup. I've been sleeping. Lots. Yup. I got Xbox Live, which rocks my socks. I bet YOU don't have Xbox Live. Haha. Noob. Well, I'm done.

∞ Jesse

Making mushroom brew, I am. Lots of stuff happened this week. I performed in my one-act as Grumpy the dwarf, which went pretty good. Earlier today I went to the Freshman Toga Party and ate lots of pizza. Also, I accepted Academic Awards for three classes: Physical Science, Bible, and Geography. Yay! Happy me! Arr! Anyways, I'm in a good mood, mostly because of sugar and other stimulants, like computers. I got my first look at a tablet today, which was sweet. Yeah. Life is sweet. Like tablet computers and orange togas. And DUCKLINGS!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!! ducklings...

∞ Jesse B.

I'm back. Did you miss me? No. Oh well. Not much happening right now. Finals are coming up (), and I've been getting involved in some confidential business, so DON'T ASK ABOUT IT!!! The Knowledge Bowl is tomorrow, and I am partially representing my class. I got re-hooked on Relient K (thanks to JW), and I am fresh out of reading material. If anyone out there in the great cosmos of the Internet has a book, give, GIVE! Er... ahem. I finished Silent Warrior, which was sa-weet and ka-ool. Anywha-ays, have a nice time leaving comments to make me happy! ...

Sad...

Jesse

Current music: "Soul Meets Body" by Death Cab For Cutie
Wow. I saw my school's spring play, An Enemy of the People, on Friday. It was very powerful and moving. Shattered glass, color symbolism, and stunning acting blended together into a giant glob of low-fat artificial butter. Somehow. Anyhow, it was really good. I'm not sure what else I can say. I got a really good idea for a short story last night, which makes me mad, 'cause we already wrote our short stories for school, and this would be way better than my lame story about a house. School happened again today. Which is to be expected, but not necessarily looked forward to. No, seriously, I don't mind school. It just cuts into my sleeping time. Not that I slept a ton before school. I think I'm in "rant" mode right now. Now I'm in "get off the internet and play something that is a big waste of time or else I might explode" mode. Explode mode. Hmph. Bye.
Signed,
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Well everyone, or rather, only one, I now begin the great waste of time that is blogging. Ah well, everything is or isn't a waste of time in the end, so I guess that makes sense to someone. So, I just finished Ender's Game, a great political/moral/social thriller with a little SPARTAN II thrown in. I also read the Bible aloud in an empty room for an hour as part of my church's Creekside 24. That was fun. On a different note, sometimes I wonder why people do things that are so amazingly odd and weird. Do humans have some sort of insanity that randomly takes over and then leaves no traces? Or are we just weird? I don't know. Stop asking these silly questions. Go away. No, wait, come back, I'm bored. You have now been forced to read the rest of my thoroughly pointless blog. Ahahaha, this is the end, heehee.

Jesse

Well, not much is going on in my life right now. I've been listening to too much music, eating too much food, and in general just being myself. My NSB(nerdiness status bar) has gone way up lately. I recently spent a couple hours on one website, even though it was almost midnight. Spring Break must be affecting me. My sister suggested to me starting a math club, and that gave me a couple nerd points, as well as minor depression. Anyways, Easter was fun, as I(obviously) got more candy than anyone else. I will eventually expand the pictures and stuff here, but nobody has told me to yet, so I'm stalling. Wow, I can type for a long time about nothing at all. I'm going to go get a life. Nah, never mind.
Bye,
Jesse