First off, school started again. I'm a senior now, but that wasn't the big deal. The Big deal was my freakin' schedule. I don't remember how many times it changed. The first time it was like this:

1--Art------PIKE
2--POD------BENNETT
3--Eng------CRUICKSHANK
4--Jrn------DESROCHERS
5--APGer----PAHNER
6--Pcalc----CAN'T REMEMBER!!!

Anyway, so this was my schedule. Art, Principles of Democracy, British Literature (English), Journalism, AP German, and Precalculus. Doesn't seem too bad. I had a dilemma, however. I wanted a home period, and last year (Junior year), my counselor told me that I couldn't have one. Anyway, I guess he forgot, because when I went back to change it he let me. I had to get rid of one of my classes, though. So now my schedule was:

1--Art------PIKE
2--POD------BENNETT
3--Eng------CRUICKSHANK
4--Jrn------DESROCHERS
5--Pcalc----RICHARDSON
6--Home-----MY HOUSE ('Cuz my house loves me, it told me so...)

So, yeah, I changed my schedule at expense of AP German. So I spend a few days like this and I realized that I don't like journalism. It just wasn't for me. I also wanted to switch my Precalculus with my Art (because when I go home, it's really hot and crowded up by art classes). So I try to get out of there (on a friday) and my counselor wasn't there. I asked my mom to go down and talk to him instead, and here's what they came up with:

1--Pcalc----FINN
2--POD------BENNETT
3--Eng------CRUICKSHANK
4--ROP------PARAMO
5--Art------PIKE
6--Home-----MY HOUSE (See above)

So yeah, these were pretty good classes. In fact, if not for one little flaw, it would have been perfect. For some odd reason my 4th period ROP class (Law Enforcement etc.) took the wrong lunch. So my buddies, homies, niggas, dawgs were in the other lunch. This sucked walnuts. So once again I asked my mom to go talk to Mr. O'neil (whenever I go, he isn't there). So I asked my mom for a specific class and it happened:

1--Pcalc----FINN
2--POD------BENNETT
3--Eng------CRUICKSHANK
4--WrP------WALKER
5--Art------PIKE
6--Home-----MY HOUSE (Mmm... house lovin')

So yeah, that's my new schedule... quite boring, but hey.

Another thing that happened is that I got a new game! FFTA (or Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced), which is the reason I got a GBA in the first place. It's great, and Luis has it, too. It's both wicked awesome and awesomely awesome. That's awesome in my book... which is 3 pages long...

Actually, I don't think anybody does. I mean, AOL is number 1 for their craptacular service. To me, AOL is just another ISP. Except a whole lot crappier. I mean, almost every day I come online, and here's my step-by-step experience:

1. Turn on craputer (not a typo)
2. Wait for craputer to boot up
3. Enter my password
4. Wait for craputer to finish loading
5. Open AOL
6. Enter my password
7. Stop trying to connect due to freezing of steps (it uses steps to get online, but you knew that) or just plain inability to connect.
8. Finally get signed on
9. Open Buddy List
10. Get disconnected
11. Sign on again (repeat steps 6, 7, and hopefully 8)
12. Open Buddy List again
13. Check e-mail
14. Surf da net
15. This step doesn't apply about 20% of the time, but it's: Gets signed off again

Anyway, this is AOL. It's $24 for less-than-average (if you consider "average" to mean "crap") service. I know I'm not the only person that knows this, but AOL isn't worth that much. AOL Time Warner thinks that if they make it look pretty, then they can charge more for it. Well, AOL, I have news for you, you can't. AOL, I have advice for you on what to include in your service. Here's another list:

1. GOOD INTERNET CONNECTION - I don't have to remind you, but I will anyway! Instead of thinking about how much money your pretty ads will take in, how about making sure the subscribers get a connection that can last?!? You do realize that most people stay with your "service" because they're too lazy to change, don't you? Or do you just ignore it like you do your subscribers?
2. NO MORE USELESS SPACE - AOL 8.0 took me a long time to download off the internet. I have dial-up, mind you. First off, it took up more space than any one program deserves by itself. Secondly, it sucks anyway! Oh, wow, they added Google to their search. That's impressive. What's that? I can easily go to Google.com (Google rocks) and get a better search experience? Listen, AOL, all I want is an internet connection, e-mail, maybe the chats. Don't bother putting in Buddy Lists and Instant Messaging. Your AIM (which you should never charge money for, because you'll lose a lot of users) service does that and a whole lot more. Keep in mind, you'll be bringing in less money, but it'll also be cheaper to do.
3. NO MORE COMMERCIALS - I've seen a lot of stupid commercials, but AOL takes the cake. I mean, come on! These commercials make me lose all respect I once had for AOL.

Well, that isn't all I dislike about AOL, but it's a good lot of it (while I was typing this the first time, AOL disconnected, froze it's window, and froze the computer. I had to write this down on paper and copy it. fun fun). Anyway, my buddies started having these "get-togethers" all of a sudden. Maybe they finally realize that vacation is almost over? Anyway, they always do it on a Monday. This isn't going to make Garfield hate 'em any less. I mean, the pies. Think of all the pies. Let's talk about Pokemon. The show, not the game. I used to think the games weren't that bad, until I realized that I was paying money for an upgraded version of the last game. Which is kinda like how the show is. If you've seen one, you've seen 'em all. Here's how it goes (I like lists):

1. Ash and Co. are somewhere for some stupid reason
2. There's trouble that Ash and Co. have no business being in, but they must save the day
3. Team Rocket comes from somewhere for some reason (stalkers...)
4. Pokemon battle
5. Team Rocket blasts off (again)
6. Ash and Co. learn just a little bit more about friendship

I know what you're saying, it's amazing. I mean, I'm all for whoring a story for 6 years, but I'd probably watch it more if they killed off Ash. Or at least age him and change his clothes. I mean, Cher must be his mother.

Anyway, now that I've written a few paragraphs about nothing, I'll talk about how my life has been going. Fine. Well... until next time.

No, I wouldn't do that to you. Well, I would, but I don't wanna. I drink Sunny Delight. It's delightful... and quite sunny... in a drink sort of way. My past month has been exciting. I... did a lot of things. Things that you can't know of. Yeah, those kinds of things. Oh, I know! This is exciting. I've fallen in love over the summer. With who, you ask? More like with what! That's right, I love Tropical Sprite Remix. It's Faaantastic (like Sam Jackson with basketball). Well... that's all.

This month... I got Silent Line: Armored Core! Yes, this game finally came out around me! Of course, it came out late because Bloomington isn't as important as, say... anything! Anyway, yes I got it, and at Best Buy of all places! When we got there, I looked over the game display for the PS2, and I couldn't find it there. I told my mom, and the guys that work there never heard of it. My mom said that when she called them earlier that week they said they'd get it that day (the 19th). Well guess what, they did (Thanks mom!), they just didn't stock them yet, so they didn't know about it! Anyway, they typed it up on their computer and they realized that they got it in that day after all. So one of the guys went and got me a copy, and I finally got my copy! There's a lot of new improvements, but I'll let you figure those out by yourself (by clicking the picture up there). I can, however, tell you the price of the game. $39.99 but of course you'll have to pay tax. Oh, and with this game, don't expect a cake walk, whatever that is. Wait... does "cake walk" make any sense at all?!?

In other news, I went over to a site called Hollywood Halfwits and found something I find very funny. There are only a few people I find funny including George Carlin and Dennis Miller. Anyway, this is from Dennis Miller:

"Well, Jerry Springer is mulling over a run for the Senate and John Adams is no doubt turning in his grave so furiously that if we could just hook up a turbine power cable to his headstone we would probably solve all our energy woes."

Well, just thought I'd share that with you. Everybody deserves to laugh every once in awhile. Especially at the expense of Jerry Springer.