(6:38 pm)

i will now make a highly abridged list version of my weekend:

-friday, gspa banquet
-j and i finished video at 6
-worked from 2-6
-had to pay fine after school.  drove car to mac machine, car breaks down as i roll into school parking lot.
-long story short, car broken.  again.
-supposed to be at banquet at 5:45
-arrive for dinner at 6:20
-dinner was ok.  chicken sucked, should've just gone vegetarian
-video was good.  great reaction.  our best ever.
-won the faculty award (co-won with amber), the michael sanger technical/on-stage award, and best supporting actor.
-gave a speech which people thought was funny even though i intended to be serious.
-my favorite banquet thus far.
-came home, went to sleep.

-saturday, family left for beach early.
-linds and i decided to go too.
-left around 1.
-get as far as new holland, linds runs over concrete thing along side of road.
-one tire blown, one rim bent pushing air out of tire.
-call her dad on cell, he puts on spare, hammers rim back into place.
-we call my dad, ask if he can take us to the beach when he leaves.
-at lindsay's at three, she packs more clothing.
-my dad picks us up at four.
-drive down to beach, listening to weezer and metallica.
-get to beach around 7
-see my mom in town, says work is mad.  if i don't show up for work on sunday, i'm fired.  also says i'm the most unreliable worker at bob's.
-i call rick, tell him we had car trouble.  i'll drive family's car home, be there for work, how unreliable is that?
-he doesn't know what to say, just sort of mutters "okay."
-i hang up, consider, call v and s, ask them to start earlier than planned.
-they said that they're try to get something worked out so i could start earlier.
- call rick back.  "rick, i won't be in tomorrow, and i don't think i'll be into work ever again."
-lose job, laugh it off, hug lindsay.
-we hang out in bethany for a while, eat a funnel cake and fries, talk for a long time in my dad's truck.
-go back to trailer, pass out on uncomfortable sofa bed.

-sunday, wake up, do some work around trailer exterior, leave for beach.
-weather is unspeakably nice.
-sat with patty, who told dirty jokes all day long.
-lindsay really seemed to click with her, as she does with most of my family and friends.
-stay at beach till around 5, go home, shower up.
-take a little nap whilst lindsay talks outside with my mom.
-leave for dinner around 7 or so.
-eat at pizza palace, one of my parents favorite places.
-had chicken fingers and fries.  i'm horrible.
-go home, pass out on sofa bed.

-monday, sleep around ten hours, still tired.
-wake up as linds and my mom are painting shed.
-leave campground for beach around 11:30.
-today, michelle, logan, blake (her new baby), and patty were all in the the beach.
-again, linds just fit in with these people.  she took logan out into the water, joked with patty.
-i am so happy.
-we hung around the beach till around 4ish.
-went home, got packed up, left around 6.
-ate dinner along the way, get home at about 10:30.
-lindsay and i picked up her dad's car she's using while her's is out of commission.
-came home, slept.

so, now, here i am, back in bowmansville, wishing i was anywhere but.

the weekend was interesting and eventful to say the least.  i'm tired out despite all the sleep i've gotten; so tired out, in fact, that i passed out for another three hours after school.  lindsay's cell phone alarm went off somewhere in the middle, and she left to look at another apartment.  hopefully, she'll get this one.

yesterday was nerve-wracking.  i had to give a journalism presentation with hannah which went rather well.  i thought i'd have to perform in acting, but levi did all the parts today.  we won't get to my half tomorrow.  i hate the elephant man.  graphics, i spent listening to jimmy eat world and preparing my journalism presentation.  stufy hall was spent signing my final checks (knock on wood) for the class of 2002.  i'm ready to graduate and get on with my life already.

today i cold-lamped my way through.  things were easy.  fias was not in school, so acting and journalism were a breeze.  i forgot the plant and it was even the last day to keep the damn thing on my person.  oh well.  i guess michelle and i will give it in tomorrow.

i'm packing up my memories from school.  soon, i'll reflect on the previous year.  now, though, is not that time.