The Regulars: May 2006

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

To the last days of May

To the last days of May

A wind that is calm against my curls,
an air that is soft as it brushes my cheek
An unmasked sun that carries my shadow far away,
filtering down to the forest ground in rays of dappled honey.
The sword ferns are sharp and lushious,
far away I hear a blue jay give its shrill call
I and my friends sit on the old rotted log and wait
for the sharp smack of flip flops as they run past.

The grass prickles my legs as I sit atop the hay sea,
I and my friends in a circle feasting on blackberry towers
Clouds now form shapes to spend my time gazing at,
the clovers all sprout four-leafed petals for me to bet my luck on.
The dandelion afros I shake until their heads lay bare,
and with each I give a toast to the last days of May,
which gives to me my perfect summers of
flying frisbees, flowered coronets, and my Regulars.

05-30-06
Arianna

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At 11:23 PM, Unknown said...: These pretzels are making me thirsty!
At 5:02 PM, Nikki said...: well i dont know about those pretzels but the poem was very good

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Rachael the Regular and Other Stories

Instead of writing about raisins, let's talk about something almost equally important; making Rachael a regular.

There's obviously two sides to this, hopefully we can create the creamy filling in the middle and make a great Oreo of comprimise.

I have nothing against her being a regular anymore.

Thoughts?

Andrew and Chris are out of the state for the next few days, so we can stockpile ammo.

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At 7:03 PM, Arianna said...: Ivan's endorsement has given us a 4/6 agreement that we should induct Rachel as a Regular. And I of course believe we should wait until that number in unanimous, although I hope the two remaining votes come in soon, haha. Spencer gets back from Outdoor School tomorrow and Ivan said he would broach the subject to him, which leaves only Dictator Andrew to acquiese to our request (that's from Pirates of the Caribbean, in case that sounded familiar). Personally I think we could do nothing finer than letting her join our ranks. She'd be a worthy addition. Plus, we'd be going international!
At 7:10 PM, Arianna said...: I just realized that if we made her a regular, she could become a member of the blog! Who needs continents to divide us when seven best friends are all tied up in cyber space? (Wow, that sounds weird to say seven and not six, but at the exact same time it feels wildly exciting too). It will be just like the good ol' days of Anatomy when we'd all huddle our desks together to pour over the worksheets -- or rather, Ivan and Chris and Rachel would pour over the worksheets and I'd copy the answers. Haha. Wow, now that Anatomy is over the class seems so much cooler. Is that bizarro or what?
At 5:23 PM, Unknown said...: The thought of saying seven and not six frightens me, haha.
At 4:41 PM, Nikki said...: I SAID I WOULD THINK ABOUT IT AND MAYBE IT WAS A GOOD IDEA AS A GOING AWAY PRESANT NOT NOW!!!!!! I AM STILL THINKING ABOUT IT YOU DO NOT HAVE MY VOTE. i am considering
At 6:16 PM, Arianna said...: Spencer's in so we still have a 4/6 agreement. Nikki, I hope you come around soon because Ivan already let the cat out of the bag. So we really can't turn around now anyway.

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Sunday, May 14, 2006

The Regulars

Arianna and I have discussed this and we think there should be a regular only game tomorrow after school. We need to spend soem quality tome together. We are like a family. we will never leave each other but we still have to work at our relationships. I miss you guys so much and i just want to hang out. I hate to say this but no girlfriends please. i love denise and jessica both but it would be nice to spend sometime together just us. i might have to leave early but i think i could then come back. i dont know i iwll have to seee. but right after school there is definatly going to be a game on my part. see you then. no meeting by the locker or the band room. most if not all of you know why. me and arianna thought spencers house for a meeting spot but we will have to clear that with him.

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At 6:11 PM, Arianna said...: I think all of us know why. And the meeting spot has been moved to the far frisbee (aka baseball) field. I think it would be smart not to loiter near the band room at all and to not go in clumps. You-know-who could latch on and I really agree with Nikki and I want it to be just the Regulars and I don't want to have to be mean and tell you-know-who to stop tagging along.
At 10:24 PM, Unknown said...: Who, voldermort?
At 2:32 PM, Arianna said...: Haha, yes Ivan. Voldemort. Exactly.
At 10:43 PM, Unknown said...: Man, sweet new code name, from now on, You-Know-You (Ben) = Voldemort
At 3:05 PM, Arianna said...: Just to make it clear, his codename isn't Voldemort because he's evil or mean in any sense. It's just one name led to another, so it's like a nickname twice removed, lol. A perfect example is Andrew with his mom -- AndREW leads to RU which leads to RUpert. I'm just clarifying this because calling someone Voldemort is generally not a very nice thing to do.
At 9:23 PM, Unknown said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
At 9:39 PM, Unknown said...: Neither is avoiding some one, haha. Just a thought. What's so bad about Voldermort as a nickname anyways?

Wouldn't it be great if Ben found this site?
At 11:08 PM, Arianna said...: Of course not. It would be awful. I would feel extremely terible.

And what was on that comment you deleted, Ivan?
At 9:54 PM, Nikki said...: Yeah ivan. you cant hide a deleted comment form us. tell us and if you dont want it on here e-mail it to us. seriously thats so rude to delete a comment.
At 10:33 PM, Unknown said...: Sorry about that, I knew it would come back to bite me. It was just the same thing as the post after it but it sounded a bit more harsh and I felt like a jerk after I posted it.

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Green Eggs, But No Ham

I'm sitting here and I'm already tempted. I mean, I just had an awesome barbequeue today, pork kabobs, chicken, the works. We have tons of leftovers, enough for a few days worth of dinners. But I can't eat any of it.

That's right folks, half of the regulars are vegetarians this week. Me, Andrew, and Spencer are embarking on a seven-day journey of the soul, if for nothing else then for a bit of extra credit in Anthropology. Denise is doing it too, but she's becoming vegan. Poor thing.

The assignment? Because of the videos that Anna is showing about slaughterhouses and the like, we are trying to see what it's like to be vegetarian for a week. We have to journal each day about it, our meal-plan, the works. While I think that a week is no big deal, and that we wouldn't notice many changes, Denise and Jessica (Kennen) had no restraint in trying to scare us. Supposedly, even in such a short amount of time, if you don't get your complete proteins then your immune system is shot. That means beans and rice, for some reason.

For me this was a silly excuse to have Vi Thai at least once this week, but I'm pretty sure that Pad Thai has at least fish sauce in it. But there's always tempura. I love carrots!

Thoughts? Recipes? Opinions?

Oh, and I'm getting extra credit in Art and possibly English for doing this too.

-Little Mushroom

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At 5:37 PM, Nikki said...: i lasted three days when i did this. i didnt do it for a class. i did it to see if i could and nope. sorry but i just dont feel quilty killing furry things. shoot me. i would rather eat meat.
At 9:48 PM, Unknown said...: Journey of the soul, that sounds about right. I don't really have a problem with eating meat, so, for me it's about the credit. I have a B in anthro right now, if I need to reel in my meat intake to get an easy A, that sounds like a trade that's more than fair.

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Monday, May 08, 2006

Real Fear

I got an e-mail from my grandfather yesturaday and attached to it were five pictures or a B-17 bomer the kind that he flew in WW2. Aparently there are only about 10 or 12 left in the United States that are flyable and one of them just got sent to Corpus Christi where my granfolks live. My grandfather was able to fo to the air feild were it wa being held and give a tour to my grandmother. In his letter he told me of the flashbacks that he had. to the feelings of utter fear and loneliness that the shadow of this great machine drew from his memory. It got me thinking that none of us have ever been in a situation were we feel such total fear that we forget about those that we love and find ourselves alone in the middle of a battle feild. When i went back to Texas over the spring break i drove my g'paw to the pharmacy and on the way he asked me what i was afriad of and on a scale on one to ten how much courage did i think that i had. I didnt know how to awnser him and now i wish i would have said something along the lines of " i would have to say that out of the things that i have been tested the fears and the scares that i have had i would rate my self a 6. I didnt abandon ship but sometimes i thought about it and i wanted to. but compared to what my grandfather and countless others went through during a war any war be it between nations or individuals i have the courage of a mouse. My gandpa said two things in his e-mail that caught me off gaurd the first being " I odd it feels to be a living fossil already". and the second being what this blog is written on is "I was reminded at how lonely it could be when things got hot and heavy. I did have a few flash backs, mainly what real fear feels like". Anyway i just thought i would share that with you guys. i am done now.

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At 9:02 PM, Arianna said...: Wow, that's such a good question to ask someone. I don't know what my courage ranking is, or the time that I was most afraid. I'll have to think about it. I think you're higher than a six though. I mean no one is a ten but you're up there I think. I've always found you very brave. And on a lighter note, your grandpa said hot and heavy which is an awesome terminology from Seinfeld. Speaking of, on the WB they had a call in contest about Seinfeld and the question was so lame: it was what is Kramer's first name. I was tempted to call.
At 9:10 PM, Nikki said...: you so should have. i thought that it was very amusing that my g'paw had said hot and heavy. he makes me laugh. so to folloow up to ariannas comment. what does veryone think there level of courage is??
At 10:15 PM, Unknown said...: I think in the face of fear I handle myself just fine but afterwards I'm a blubbering mess. A breakdown takes an hour or two to come on.
At 4:55 PM, Arianna said...: Hmm... I'll give myself a 4 I guess. I certainly hope its higher than that but I'm not taking any chances. Besides, 4 is my favorite number.

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Thursday, May 04, 2006

Deep Roots and Other Stories

Well, Deep Roots is as good as out. And it's amazing. It's definitely my proudest moment as a high school student to be releasing this CD. We've been working on all of this for the majority of the year, it's amazing. I hope you all buy a CD, and I don't mean one of you buy it and then burn a copy for Chris. I can't even see the humor in that, and I'm not gonna be happy if that happens. I hate that I'm sounding like Metallica right now, but this money is all going torwards Ms. McCarl not going bankrupt, and the project as a whole continuing. It's expanding, there's a workshop in the summer for teachers who are going to do the project.

Personal Favorites on the CD
Radio Waves by Sami Walker (She is the best and most devoted writer in the class bar none)
Routine by Jessica LaChausse (I know I'm biased, but it's so relaxed and amazing)
I got a Chinchilla by Marcus Gilham (It's really unique sounding, and there's an acordian)
She Falls by Katie Luther (Really romantic and cute, but in a tasteful way)

Grizzly and the Man by me. I love my song to death, it's not the best by far compared to the above but it came out how I put it in, and I'm most proud of it for that. The process summed me up nicely. I turned in the lyrics extremely late, they weren't picked up for the longest time, and the whole song was done in a few hours a day before the CD was to be finished.

Even though I can't do the CD again, I want to help it along as much I can, by sharking my friends and family into funding it, but more than that in a creative way.

Well, I'll see some of you tomorrow at the concert.

I hope you like it, haha.

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At 3:50 PM, Arianna said...: I'm proud of you Ivan. I can't wait to go tonight.
At 10:31 PM, Unknown said...: Thank you guys for coming to support it tonight! It meant the world to me that people I cared about were there. I hope you like the CD and all that jazz. I love you all! Thank you so much!

And grow up you guys! Honestly!
At 2:08 PM, Arianna said...: If you're referring to Ben, Nikki, and I finding you and Jessica coming out of someone's car (if that wasn't Jessica's parent's car thats even more disturbing) it really isn't fair to tell us to grow up because honestly we didn't even see you until you two climbed out and said hi to us. I mean, what were we supposed to think you guys were doing? Haha, besides it was true.
At 10:20 PM, Nikki said...: Ivan i do not think less of you. i just saw you in lets say a different light that night. hey that rhymed. Your song is great. i love it. i find it ironic . sorry if it is not sopposed to be ironic. And i pray to god that i never grow up. how sad it iwll be the day that i do. i can only say i will have lost something that day and no longer will i be able to see peter pan. i will have left the never land and entered into the gray world of adult hood.
At 8:57 PM, Arianna said...: Sounds like a song in the making.
At 10:10 PM, Unknown said...: No using other people's ideas to write a song Arianna!

But I'm just kidding around.

Nikki, I know you're a great writer, and I'm wondering if you've done anything lately that I could read? Same goes for you Arianna!

I'm frustrated with Spencer, he has all these awesome story ideas and he never wants to write them down. What can I do?
At 4:53 PM, Arianna said...: I haven't written anything magnificent (and I think anything in general) this whole year. School has completely zapped me of my will to write creatively.
At 11:43 PM, Unknown said...: Well if I may suggest a little creative thinking excersize...

Before you go to sleep, and I don't know how fast any of you fall asleep, but before you do, you are usually not doing anything else besides thinking to yourself. Well, use that time to come up with ideas for writing. You don't have to commit to actually putting anything down on paper, you might not even bother trying to remember anything, but if you do it enough you'll want to at least jot down ideas. I've been doing it for the last few weeks and I have pages of short snippets and phrases that just beg for a story to be put in. Try that at least once, it's a relaxing way to end your day. (C-A-R-O-T-I-D, that's Carotid Artery!)

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Wednesday, May 03, 2006

If MySpace Ran The Circus

Well, I was thinking about starting a MySpace Group called "The Regulars" seeing as most of the regulars have a MySpace account.

Well. Except one of us.

And you know who you are.

Anyways, I'm having trouble deciding who to replace on my Top 8 with Nikki. The choices are Fat Tony, Mito, Mitch, and Rachael. If I can't make a choice (and Chris won't send me the link for making Top 12's) then I'm getting rid of my Top 8. Any imput?

And on lighter news, how is Cam doing with Lauren/Amber?

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At 3:48 PM, Arianna said...: You couldn't have asked about Cam's love life at a more dramatic time.
At 10:18 PM, Unknown said...: That doesn't answer my question Arianna....
At 2:02 PM, Arianna said...: Chris is the one in the loop, he could give you the whole story. And when you find out, then tell me, haha.
At 10:22 PM, Nikki said...: i dont want you to replace anyone for me ivan. i understand. ill just not be one your top eight. *sniff sniff* if you see me some time at school and are not caught up int he whol amber can lauren thing ask me and i will tell.

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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

To the last days of May

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Rachael the Regular and Other Stories

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Sunday, May 14, 2006

The Regulars

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Green Eggs, But No Ham

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Monday, May 08, 2006

Real Fear

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Thursday, May 04, 2006

Deep Roots and Other Stories

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Wednesday, May 03, 2006

If MySpace Ran The Circus

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