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The last few days have been exhaustive, depressive, and less altruistic than I had hoped. Not that everything has been gloomy and such, but rather just disappointing. First, our phones die, all of them. But the plus would be that it happened on the same day I got my cell phone, so I can just leave that on all the time. But my cellular provider isn’t quite outspoken at our house so it’s tough to get a good signal.

Let’s see, Monday I started work again. It’s not bad; just as difficult to get through a day of scanning as it was last year, but hey it’s a job right? Then Monday night was the “Chamber Music Concert.” At least it went by fast.

Hmm, I find this interesting. Lately I’ve been having more time to listen to the radio, obviously since I’m sitting around much more often at work I mean, so I’ve been cruising the waves, so to speak. Somehow I’m enjoying certain country songs I’ve heard. Like Randy Travis’ “Three Wooden Crosses” and some Rascal Flats song I heard. Oh well, hopefully this interest will die…soon. I still can enjoy all music, but I’d rather not get Dixie in my veins.

Perhaps the past few days haven’t been so bad. Hard to tell. It’s most likely the pessimistic view I get after having endured CRT rays all day. Ah, I guess I can still look forward to VT. Or perhaps the beach, and perhaps very soon. Perhaps.

Arrg. It feels like I’m rambling. But I just want to write my thoughts down since there running around with vengeance. I think I’ll go play some basketball before it rains.

Ok, you win. I’ve tried for the longest time and I think it stops here. For so long I’ve tried to not be very sentimental or overly reminiscent, but I simply caved in this weekend. Of course, it’s the whole graduation experience that hit me. As I was writing my ‘Thank You’ cards tonight I thought back on some memories of long ago, like those first few things I remember about my life. Woah, going back 18 years is rough, especially when you’ve been trying to keep focused on the present and future. I envisioned myself in kindergarten at recess with Drew Wade (Drew if you’re reading this, then email me) and Candace Viar playing on the merry-go-round and the various gadgets that innocence found fascinating. I saw myself reclining without stress on a hammock at Sister Wooldridge’s house eating the ever-famous diagonally cut PBJ and watching Little Rascals re-runs on VHS. And then it happened. Yes, I had a tear. Perhaps more than one, but I can’t quite remember. I simply gave up this facade of wanting to forget people and not minding losing contact with friends I made throughout this schooling of mine. Life changes in an instant folks. Soon-to-be seniors, please don’t let your last year in high school, or college for that matter, go by wasted on yourself; love, care, excel, and exceed yourself allowing truth and soul to flourish in this paced and automatic world. Live.

Friday I went to Brookville’s graduation. Congrats to Kelly Stone, my unbiological yet blood-related sister. The BHS graduation was very nice and I had a whif of high school grad anticipation afterwards.

Saturday was my graduation. In the midst of the many who mock and torment JF for faculty issues, county issues, and misguided contacts, I simply refuse to let foolish complaints affect my pride for my high school. While I may not have much showing ’school spirit’ I am very glad to have graduated from my high school which boasts the near best academic record in the area and, in my omnipotent opinion, the best musical programs and direction ever. My graduation was awesome. I got to find most of the people I wanted to get snapshots with and I got all the email addresses I hadn’t gotten before school ended. And sooo thanks to the family, friends, and acquaintances who made this day full of pristine greatness.

After a long evening of family traditions, parties, and food, I ended the night at Barnes and Noble with Kristine and Erica talking about the random things of life. And I had my first coffee-related drink: a Chocolate Brownie Frappucino. It was ok, I’m definitely not into the hard-core coffee though, however, give me a watered-down Frappucino any day, they aren’t bad. Wow, I definitely just used a sentence full of augmented fragments. Anyways, my day was good.

I had some topics I wanted to comment about, but they will wait.

While the littluns scamper about around the premises of JF, I now enjoy the privileges of every preempting adult, assuming every adult spends their day laying in the sun and “shooting some hoops.” Anyways, my last day of school was yesterday and today was just the senior breakfast and graduation practice. On the last day, Thursday, we came to school to notice an old Volkswagen Rabbit wrapped around the tree outside the lunch-area patio with much black, silver, and red paint on it, also toting the words “03 Seniors”. A nice touch. So being the shady character I am, I popped one of the hubcaps off as a suvenior (also a dorm decorative). So that was a great way to start off the day.

Then I had two quizzes and one test. But I did use an entire disposable camera, so maybe the memories will justify the work. I also got the email addresses of many of my fellow classmates/friends so I will be able to keep in touch. I tended to just tell people to go to RyanHarne.com instead of actually giving them my email address; although it may have seemed vain and pluggish, I gave my website address because it’s easier to remember and much more convenient than an email, especially when my site contains my email/IM/etc.

Ok, so like I said, today was the official last day, basically just so the seniors can come back to school with a finale-worth breakfast thing. Whatever. Anyways, so we get to school and the senior wall (an enormously important tradition at JF) has been horribly vandalized with all kinds of crap painted on it, not to mention many of the mobiles were sprayed and the band truck got hit hard too. So there were many hard feelings about this during the breakfast. I assume it was an actual JF student, instead of the normal Brookville rivalry thing, and also some people said they recognized the tag writing and whatnot from a particular JF student. Oh well, regardless of who it is, someone will soon be the victim of massive ochlocracy. So then the graduation practice was fine.

And the weather is great. Just below 80F and enough breeze to keep the bugs off you, if you swing at them. A great great day.

Oh yeah, and I completely changed my site. Like? Talk back, use my email.

Rather normal past couple of days. I finally got something out of Espanol I; someone mistakenly said “skippy dipping” instead of skinny dipping, so that amused me.

Graduation is nearly here, only a few more days away. Then the graduation parties that will consume my days. Then I have work. Life is such a cycle.

Looks like VT is making some news by requiring certain art and that type of thing majors have Apple computers. Not to mention their bookstores offer Powerbooks at low prices; if only engineering majors didn’t have to have XP.

Well I don’t have much to say, so I’ll make this a short blog.

Let’s see. Here are some random comments I wanted to mention. First: away messages. Ok, people, whenever you use an away message please make it original; default is not cool. And don’t make just one or two original away messages and then use them for all-around use, that’s not nice. Away messages leave a reminder that you too are cunning and clever in this world, use them very wisely. Also, as a part of my plan to undermine the American automotive industry, I’ve noticed that Ford owners, and very specifically Ford owners in particular, don’t use their turn signals as often as other model owners. It is even more prevalent among Ford truck and SUV owners ::ultimate gag::. It’s a dangerous thing to not use turn signals due to the already given confusion in modern driving, so make life better and safer for us all and first use your turn signals and secondly buy German.

Last Friday night and early early early Saturday morning was Relay For Life. I had a great time. I got to talk to some people I hadn’t previously known very well, so that was some good times. I also had my first true game of ultimate frisbee; incredibly fun. The best part of the entire thing was that the football field was pure mud, so we all had our marks leaving the area. I also took some kick-boxing lessons that night and participated in the greatest boxcar relay race of all time (although they weren’t boxcars but just large entities that people created to hold while they raced). I was in the dragon that fell apart not only during the race but also on the way to the starting line. A great evening.

I ended up having to stop my high-importance homework assignment early Saturday night to go see Gangs Of New York with Jessalyn and Erica. The movie has its ups and downs. I do understand why Daniel Day Lewis was nominated for an Academy for his acting as the bad guy because he was sincerely astounding. But the movie isn’t that great. Some strange twists at the end, odd sequences of events. Overall I suppose it’s worth seeing. This is one movie where I simply wasn’t impressed with DiCaprio, unlike his amazing performance in Catch Me If You Can. Gangs Of New York gets a 5.1 out of 10. Oh yeah, this movie is defintely anti-war but more so in the form of anti-needless-violence, which is simple termed anti-war by most modernity. Anyways, it has some overall liberal views on social reform etc etc.

Then Sunday morning was Baccalaureate. It went great. The performances were very very good. My voice didn’t quite hold well, especially at minimal volumes, but I still received many compliments surprisingly enough. Oh well. I thought the service went great; the power point presentation very wonderful and memory-ful. Then Sunday night was the Senior Night dinner at Billy Joe’s. Some good food, although not impressive. The class officers announced the superlatives. I’m glad Karl and Emilia got cutest couple, somehow I thought I’d mention that. I got “Best, Worst, and Only Chain Jumper” alluding to my sophomore attempt at hurdling over a chain and having it not work, that equalled a long painful hospital stay. Some notable superlatives were: “Cleanest Carpet” for Michael Kurbejweit, great story behind that one; “Most Likely to get Caught” for Todd Ramsey (Hot Rodd Tamsey), another hilarious story behind that one; and “Best Last Name” for Chris Cocke. Then Savory and NAV played and that was great. I left before the karaoke though because I had major work to do on my CollEng project for Monday.

Thus I did the project this morning, the very first one, and got that over with. So now I have nothing left to do in that evil class. Ben and Rossman’s project was hilarious. Congrats to those two on some fine acting and screenwriting. I await with eagerness to see the Karl, Grachman, Hot Rodd, and Johnson skit. Looks to be good.

Oooh ooh. JF has yet another scandal!!! Do tell. Well ::in my most gossip-y tone of voice:: the certain individual who wrote a poem for Baccalaureate is actually found out to not have written it at all. A senior attending the service heard the poem and recognized it as one of her favorite poems of all time, so she looked it up on the internet to see if it had been plagiarized and… In fact, JF has another kid on the run. The original poem is entitled, “After A While” by Veronica A. Shoffstall; the stolen version simply has “As a graduating senior” tacked on to the beginning of each line. Shame Shame.