The Classic Rule of Three

I'm referring to literature and pop culture, you know, how almost everything is in threes.

3 days of school
3 days on the weekend to prepare for 3 days of school
3 days of senior goodbye stuff (picnic, brunch, graduation)
3 nominees for the best/most lists (i know the results...i may accidently mention them if I find a c-note in my hand)
3 senior friends I'm really, really going to miss
3 junior choir members we have to leave a legacy to
3 fingers on my left hand

What, you never noticed?

So, this is a busy weekend for me...I guess my last busy weekend of my...oh my god...this is the last weekend of my high school career where I have to return to school...next weekend, I'll never be back in class again...i'm so depressed...will someone give me the number of a good psychologist?

I can't comprehend that this is happening to us...can you out there? It's just too surreal...I remember my first day, my first events, my first year, everything of the past, always knowing I'll be able to do something else tomorrow. Well, on June 3, there is no tomorrow. The life I've adapted to, the life I love and bask in, has to go away...far away.

But, I get to drink root beer water after graduation.

You see, I loved the rootbeer water that the cafeteria served our freshmen year. "Rocky Mountain" was the brand. They also had black cherry and lemon-lime. Then, sophomore year, they changed brands the that "crystal crap" they have now. The water you get today is sour or bitter, but the water of yesteryear was sweet and soothing, at least rootbeer and black cherry...so, anyway, thinking ahead and being the typical sentimental slob that I am, I bought a bottle of root beer water for $1.25 (is that how much it still costs?). That bottle has been in my refrigerator for 3 years...I even remember perfectly walking through the halls the day i bought it, showing it to people, and saying that I'd be saving it to graduation...we could all celebrate with the forgotten rootbeer water I said.

That was always supposed to be the event that would come at some time...in 9 days, that rootbeer water is being consumed, the official sign that our high school careers are done.

Marc's bringing cups (champaign classes for he and I, because we're special)

5/28 = worst day of the year for the Cubs. Two LOSSES on one day, all thanks to Rob Macowiak. Game 1 of double header, Barrett hits a PHGS(8) to give the Cubbies a 1 run lead...then Borowski blows his first save and serves up a WOGS(9) to Macowiak in the 9th. Game 2, Patterson hits a 2runHR(6) and we get some insurance, but Hawkins blows the save, to guess who, Macowiak on a 2run GTHR(10)...the Pirates won in the 10th, I'm not sure how

Random Factoid: NU offers a freshman seminar analyzing whether Arabic tales are pornograhic and innappropriate.

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What state is round at both ends and high in the middle?

That's an easy one...but what about this one...Ohio is the only state, if written in all caps, will read the same if turned 270 degrees.

OHIO

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Any way, that's just a random thought...no reason Ohio would have any significance to my post.

So, this weekend was like most others...I ate and slept and sang...what I always do.

Listened to music, watched TV, road on 6 roller coasters, checked the Cubs scores...nothing unusual.


Oh, I forgot...I drank Mountain Dew...that was unusual...I haven't had Mountain Dew in quite a while...never really liked it...but I liked it enough to have it 3 times this weekend...so that was kinda unusual.

In unrelated news, the choir finished in first place at the Music Showcase festival in Sandusky...I hear that was amazing

If you were expecting more detail from me, HAH!...I tricked you all...I'm usually a detailed and history oriented person...but I threw a curve ball at all of you and I'm not going into detail...so take that! Ryan "Unpredictable" Morton...that's what they call me...of course, the randomness of this is pretty predictable.

5/23 = Winning 4-3 last I heard...Clement has had two awesome starts in a row that he lost because of NO run support...he got 4 runs in first...hopefully it's enough

Random Factoid: Prince was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year

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You like me, you really like me!

Or, at the very least, your lives are as pitiful as mine...just kidding

Let me start by saying, I have a confession...My english project was due today, and I haven't started it yet...I rationalize that it's only 15 minutes, and I can't use powerpoint since I don't have it at home, so winging it is the best thing for me...plus, I've been working on this since I was 8...10 years, I think I've got it under control.

Translation: I think I'm sliding people...I know, I know, I said it wouldn't happen, but I think it may have.

I still want to do well, but I've lost the zest for doing well. I have a ridiculous cat practical thursday, and i haven't even thought to study...I haven't started my stats project...i have no time this weekend since i'll be in Ohio...but that hasn't changed things for me...still unenthused.

I am a disgrace...I apologize.

Well, that's really all I have to say...I must leave you with a random comment however.

What's the point of the hour hand on school clocks? I mean really, do we really look at the hour hand during our periods...no, we all know the minutes we get to leave...we could care less about the hour...so why don't we gather up all the hour hands and recycle them...you know how much we could do with all those hour hands...we could build a miniature eiffel tower...or a bridge for ferrets to use to cross the sidewalk...or we could use them as stilts for little chickadees...just a suggestion...let's start a campaign to get rid of the hour hand.

5/18 = Cubs lost 1-0...Clement pithced wonderfully...not as well as Jason Schmidt of the Giants...or as well as my favorite pitcher, Randy Johnson, who, at the age of 40, became the oldest man ever to pitch a perfect game, the 17th in history. Do you know how hard it is to pitch a perfect game? All 27 batters must be retired, no exceptions, no walks, no errors, no nothings...all retired...and he did it...it's an amazing feat...possibly the hardest individual game feat in baseball.

Random Factoid: Let's switch the tables and test your knowledge of random facts. Who at the Academy Awards delivered the famous line I used in my title?

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Three Weeks To The Day

That's right...at this time in three weeks, I'll no longer be a senior...no longer live in the environment I've furnished for four years...it was my home away from home, my life for typically 11 hours a day...the students, the teachers, the architecture, the classrooms...I loved it all...and soon, I will leave it all...I'll only visit SHS maybe 3 times next year, and then once the year after that (not counting the things I go to see my sis in)...By this time next year, I'll only be iming with 3 people probably, and only spending time maybe with one...and by this time in 2 years, I'll have lost all of you, replaced by new college people...i hate change...i can't deal with it

This thought process is being pushed along by the fact that I need to make 4 million decisions for NU by the end of the month, including housing, freshman seminars, and a probably schedule.

So enough of the complaints

Back to my symantics post of whenever...I also say "ahmen" not "aymen"

Hey, conducting a little poll...let me know if you still read this...I'm just wondering...I have a number in my head, wondering if I'm wrong...just use the ol' tagboard and let me know.

Ooh, today, I had a barrel of fun...I got to ride in parade...the "Norwegian Heritage League" Parade in Park Ridge...I won a scholarship from them, so I got to be in a wagon pulled by fjord horses waving to a whole bunch of people (surprised me) on the sides of the streets..it was a fun time...got to shake the hand of a former Norwegian Prime Minister (my essay for the scholarship was of course historically based, so I loved meeting a piece of history...of course)

How do y'all feel about this end of the year project stuff...I've got 4 going on...and I can't say I hate any of them, but I hate doing them...Most, I probably hate government = debating affirmative action and creating a board game, boring...Bio is fun = disecting a cat and taking a cat practical I gurantee I will get a 5% on...English = i get to do a report on campaign button collecting...and Stats = a big project on baseball statistics...a lot of fun, but a lot of work...but I'M NOT SLIDING!!!

Well, that's all for today ladies and gentlemen...

5/16 = Cubs finish off a SWEEP of the San Diego Padres, 4-2. Here's an interesting stat: Cubs hit 7HR in new PetCo Park (don't get me started on naming it "PetCo Park"...maybe my next rant) in 3 games...Padres hit 11HR at PetCo Park in 21 games...how bout that?

Random Factoid: Following Gagan's advice, doing exclusively president stuff...let me know if you hate it...Abe's son Robert was present for three President's deaths/shootings: his father's, Garfield's (at the train station, member of cabinet), and McKinley's (being honored as Abe's son)

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What's That I Smell?

It smells like change.

It also smells like soggy chewed sunflower seeds, but I don't think you can smell that on your side of the computer.

So, I was bored and decided I don't really care for the color orange, so I changed the template. Here's the thing, though...since I'm an AOL Teen, I can't see the previews for the templates...I based my decision solely on the name...let me know if you like it, cuz I certainly don't know if I do...it's named "Mr. Moto"...appropriate since that's mentioned in the Choraliers rousing final number of my life...MY LIFE...

So, Bio was supposedly easy...I should have taken it, but I'm a timid, wimp with no self confidence...c'est la vie.

Everythings wrapping up...the end is upon us...I can't wait to open my Rocky Mountain Rootbeer Water...we'll see if it's stale, like y'all expect it to be.

Another random symantics comment...I like symantics, I'm not sure why...I just like to analyze words...like symantics...what a funny word...anyway, I was thinking how I really hate it when people say "neether" or especially "eether"...occasionally, I can tolerate at "neether" as in "me neether," but it really gets on my nerves when people say "eether"...I say "eyether" and usually "neyether"...try it...it's about time the youth of america sounded a little more formal.

I like elipses too, but you already knew that.

Random Factoid: Rutherford B. Hayes's wife was nicknamed "Lemonade Lucy"

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Oh What A Beautiful Morning

How would I know...I didn't see much of it, or any of it...unless you call 1-4 the morning...you see, I slept till 2...that was fun.

But in all seriousness, Prom was great...you have no idea how much I enjoyed it...and I'm not a dancer...but I gladly spent my Senior Prom dancing the night away with the lovely Hayley Strege. Guess what song I'm humming to myself right now...(Christy, I know you know)

That wonderful night kinda makes me feel depressed, though. Like, why did I never get myself into a relationship...4 years and I'm one of the only people without and relationship, and boy would have I liked to have one.

But I digress.

Mother's Day was very nice. Had a little dinner at le olde Olive Garden before the big Survivor finale. Rob was the best player EVER and he lost to his fiance...but many of you probably don't watch, so I'll shut up.

Trying to think of a random comment...

Not coming to me...

Blogger changed their format.

That wasn't very random...

Or funny...

Well, maybe better luck next time

4/9 = After 13 grueling innings, the Cubs finally pull through with a 5-4 WIN off the bat of Corey Patterson. Aramis Ramirez, with 2outs in the tenth, hit a bomb of Shawn Chacon (6-6 lifetime) to tie the game.

Random Opinionoid: "Hey Ya" is definately my favorite song to dance to. I go crazy. And of course, as things typically work for me, that was the one song Hayley missed because she had to go to the ladies' room. What bitter irony. My one good dancing song, and she missed it.

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3 Down, 2 To Go

That's right, I'm done with my first week of AP testing...and I'm positive I got 3s on all of them, far off from the 5s I needed

The days are zooming away people...zooming...I've started planning my goodbyes...I hate it...

But Prom is Saturday, and I'm looking forward to that...hoping I'm not embarassing or boring...somewhere in between would be good...i'm sure I'll be boring cuz I'm serious, shy, and easily intimidated in social situations.

In other news, all choir people must read joe's blog. Just click the "Masca" link on my side panel. He wrote a very sentimental, meaningful post you must read.

You know what I'm munching on...guess...bet you won't...let's make this a game...tag it up people if you have a guess on what I'm munching on...I'll let you all know tomorrow night...just to let you know, this is the only food allowed in the computer room because it's not sloppy and the rest of the family loves to snack on it as well...another clue, very small and salty...this will be fun...if anyone reads this anymore...

5/6 = Cubs win 11-3...Clement is 5-1...good day for the Cubby Blue

Random Factoid: Grutter v. Bollinger is a Supreme Court Case involving Affirmative Action

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Geez, quite the hiatus

Anyone who actually reads my blog, I apologize for not giving you anything new for over a week...as I'm sure is the case with you, I've had things left and right.

So much has happened since then, that I can't possibly tell all of it. So, I'll tell what I think of in the next 5 minutes.

Went to the Top 25...Mrs. Loh was awesome...I'm really, really glad I invited her and got her to come.

On that note, I forced Mrs. Atchison into a mid-life crisis. I mistakenly asked her about the dinner, which she was not attending. She then started crying in class about how much work she does and how much she gives us and no one thought to invite her. Today, she said she had an "epiphany" and realized her old world of english is being phased out by the fast-moving technological world...she said she doesn't want to do any of this anymore, she doesn't care, and she just wants to retire...it's terrible...she's no longer mrs. atchison.

The April (now May) edition is out. Well, it will be tomorrow...then senior edition...then I never lay out another page...it's very sad.

Choir, on the other hand, is also coming to end, and I couldn't be happier. This was supposed to be my senior year, the year that all previous seniors enjoyed so much. Their last chance at everything they love. McGlynn's a lazy bast*$@. First he ruined my favorite concert by being too lazy to do capers, so instead we do 4 stupid songs...he didn't have us compete in an actual competition...he doesn't teach Choraliers songs...he gave Andy Nicely-Nicely, an obvious faux-pas...he loves and kowtows to Andy, the fat annoying bisexual numbskull who can't sing well, on pitch, or with any decent quality...he's having Choraliers sing one stinkin number at the LAST concert, and it's a stupid jazz piece...he promised me something big for my senior concert and he "didn't get around to it."...I am so sick and bloody tired of him and his crony, I huff, puff and blow the school down.

I ran a scholastic bowl tournament for jr. highs on Saturday. It went incredibly well. I achieved my goal, because District 54 is going to start a scholastic bowl season next year.

I've taken 2 AP tests, both have been very difficult...3 more to go...I know many of you have many more than little ol' me, so best of luck

That's all I can think about. In short, yay to Sextant, Scholastic Bowl, classmates taking AP tests, Mrs. Atchison and the last Top 25 Dinner. Boo to Choir, McGlynn, Andy, and the AP tests themselves.

5/4 = Cubs scored 1R in 2 games versus the D-Backs last week. When I fell asleep tonight, it was 6-0 in favor of Arizona. The Cubs need Prior to get rid of Mitre, and they also should be able to hit a knuckleballer throwing 60mph grapefruits over the plate with the wind blowing out.

Random Factoid: APIC stands for the American Political Items Collectors

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