day off today, what did i do. went to hard rock lol. my mom wanted to go get a shirt, so we went down there. day off wednesday, what am i going to do? go to hard rock for lunch with adr and carolyn lol. i’ll try to stay away tomorrow haha.

anyway, it’s so friggen humid. it feels like new orleans did. ug. now i have nothing else to do today. prolly do something later with adr and eric. maybe something with AC. it’s supposed to storm real bad soon. it said, severe storms developing in the afternoon blah blah blah. afternoon is almost over so..

 

i forgot to post this before.

background: in 3rd grade i was picked to be in MPP – Major Progress Program. MPP was a 2 year program for smart kids. it had a different kind of curriculum, supposedly excellerated, etc. we had 2 teachers – Mr Schoell and Mrs Sealover. my parents thought it was a good idea, so i switched elementary schools and was put into the class. halfway through 4th grade Mrs Sealover broke her leg and was out the rest of the year. the first part of 5th grade, she got the strep virus in her leg, and was out for another half a year. She was probably in her 50s when i was in the class. She taught the english/social studies part of the program. Mr Schoell taught the math/science part of the program. I have no idea how old he was…he said he was 200 years old, born on Maypril 25th (or something like that).

a few years ago Mrs Sealover retired because she was getting alzheimers disease. she died a few years ago. she was not that old.

i just found out today that Mr Schoell never retired. he taught MPP until he died. apparently he’s dead. i don’t know when this happened, but my parents found out at the wedding they went to on saturday. my mom told me today. my dad was the one who found out, and you know how men are – never ask the important questions like when and how. he sent birthday cards out to all his students until we turned 16. i saw him at the high school play in 98 believe. so sometime in the last 4 years he died, and i think it was more recently…

it’s strange…so many of my teachers have died. mr schoell (4th & 5th grade), mrs sealover (4th & 5th grade), mr warnike (who i never had, but was in the middle school when he died), mrs benson (7th grade), mrs forton (7th & 9th grade), mr skibinski (never had, but he taught french in high school), mr frank (never had, taught physics in high school), high school principal (forget his name, he never knew who i was anyway), mr guido (9th grade biology)….9…9 teachers of mine have died. 5 from the high school. it’s just bizzare. and of course, those are only the deaths i know about. who knows what happened to mrs dulak, my kindergarten teacher. or mrs malchow…2nd grade…i think my 3rd grade teacher might have died….some of my other middle school teachers might have…

maybe i can find an obit on mr schoell.

 

*2015 edit* Turns out he wasn’t dead at the time of this post, because he actually died years later, and I intended to go to the funeral however I could not wake up in time.

 

also. bill and leah gave me computer speakers from leah’s parents computer, cuz they didn’t want them. i gave them my old hamster cage. LOL not really a fair trade. but omg these speakers rock so hard. altec lansing brand, came with their dell computer. after i figured out why sound only came out of 1 speaker, they sound great. 2 speakers and a subwoofer. now i only wish my cd drive was connected to my sound card so i could play real cds in it. *drools over the possibilities*

 

*blogging alot of nothing today*

i desperately want to go to europe. i want to go travel europe for a month or so. i’d just go by myself too. that’d be fine. get me some maps, find some destinations…just go. go where the wind took me. that’d be so great. i feel as if i really need that. i need to get away from here for a while.

reasons why i’m not going to go to europe:
– no money
– no job to get money
– 500$+ in bills per month starting in november
– no money to pay for the bills, let alone pay for a month long trip in europe.
– no more money in the stock market anymore
– i’d probably lose whatever job i had if i was going to request a month off to go “find myself” in europe.

i feel like getting in my car and just driving. not running away, i think i’m a bit old for that. just leaving and not coming back for a while. julie did that. randomly drove to ARIZONA one night. i wish i had the guts. she lived there for a few months to a year, and then drove back. jackie sorta did that too. she’s been a bohemian for years now. i wonder what she’s up to now, or even where she is. she checks in with the old #mjfans gang every now and then. she visited em in salt lake city last year, and then hopped a train to cali and that’s the last anyone heard from her. my cousin elizabeth went to italy after high school and then didn’t want to come home. her parents flew to italy to drag her back to detroit. i wish i had the guts. damn my sense of responsibility.

 

gaaaaah!! carolyn informed me that there is going to be a Hedwig screening in toronto on august 24th. (day before tool) you get to MEET john cameron mitchell!!!!! and there are performances and stuff. must goooo!!! totally not driving to tool the next day then. hedwig thing is at 9pm, i’ll have to stay over nite, go home early on sunday. then eric can drive to tool lol. oh i have a dentist appt the 24th too…going to have to request off for work now. before i just said if you schedule me in the morning, i might be late.