No Mac G4 Friday, Twenty-Two Days Down

Damn straight my butt (explained below).

It was funny what my brother did this morning. Half way to our bus stop he tells me he needed to run back to the house cause he needed to get his wallet and I was telling him he had about four minutes to run both ways and he starting zooming off. He came back pretty fast with some time to spare.


I finally got to see the iPod nano up close!


Looks like our substitute in AP English was just as bored as we were.


Being silly because we were bored.


That baby would be mine!


Yessir it's Friday which means Mac G4 day! Right? Right?

Wrong! I was let out of my 7th period early cause we had all our work done and I pretty much skipped my way to Ms. I's class to pick up the G4 (see above for picture). When I got into her room I headed straight to the back room to pick it up and wait for Jose (the guy who was selling it to me) to come by so we could put it up in his car and take it home. But Ms. I gets in front of me and I remember trying to get around her but she starts rambling on about how I couldn't get the computer yet and I'm like "WHA!?" And she was like "Yeah ... he forgot to put Final Cut 5 on there and there's a few more things he has to do with it before he can give it to you. Plus, I want to find you that monitor so you'll have one." Then I guess I made a really foul expression or something because she said, "Oh stop that! You should be appreciative of this! He's doing you a favor." And then I felt a little bad because she was right. I asked her when I could expect it and she shook her head sadly and said she didn't know. So I left her room and started to pout.

I didn't mind so much that I would have to wait to get it but what really got me was how they put me on cloud nine for a whole day and then at the end of day when they could have told me that whole day that I couldn't get it that day made me annoyed. I think I had to see Ms. I twice that day before after school and I called Jose once.

So I went down by the football field because Jose said he was going to be filming to football came on the roof of the boy's gym. But I can't get anywhere near cause it was on lock-down to the max. But on my way to the gym I saw Brittany (you can see her in a few blogs previous on her birthday). I started talking to her and we headed to the gas station to get stuff to drink. When I went to pay for my drink I set my text book down on the counter and left without it without realizing.


Me sad because I didn't have my Mac with me. Arghflagems!

Then halfway through the bus I realized I didn't have my book with me! I was trying to think back to everything I did. Did I leave it in the auditorium in tech class? No because I remember holding it when I went up to Ms. I's. Did I leave it by the basketball courts when I was talking to Brittany? No because I had it when I went to the gas station with her? Did I leave it by the -- wait! I left the effin' book on the counter at the gas station to free up my hands to buy stuff!

Immediately I went for my cell and I called my grandmother at home to ask her to take me back to school after we got off the bus.


Me and my brother getting off the bus and heading to my grandmother.


Trusty old grandma!!


Me sad and annoyed at myself for leaving my book! Would it even bee there? What if someone took it? What if they thought they could take it to school? To the book lady? Was my name even in it? No! Because it was new book that I had just got because I was absent (see a few blogs back) at a doctor's appointment and I had to get my book on my own time and I wasn't reminded to put my name in my book by my teacher! Damn! This day was turning out to not a very good one.


Closer ...

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Closer ................................................

There!

I went into the Chevron and I didn't see my book where I had left it! I went up to the owner and asked him if he saw a book with a green book cover on it and he pointed to this place where he put all lost books and my eyes widen. A lot of kids left their books in that place. I went to look for my bright green book cover but it wasn't there! But then my heart subsided as I saw the cover of my Pre-Cal book and realized he must have taken off the book cover to identify it.


Whew!


I was happy for the moment.


But I still had no Mac.


Then I thought. Darn! I won't be able a few projects that I wanted to do over the weekend with the new Mac. Like the opening titles for the Drama and a new videoblog with some new things on it.


Then I fell asleep in the car. I know! How the heck would I be able to take a picture of myself if I fell asleep!? Well I can always tell when I am about to fall asleep so I took a picture of myself before I fell asleep. Sure enough, about thirty seconds after this picture I was genuinely sleeping. And when I got home I slept some more and didn't wake up until the next morning. I got a full 12 hours of sleep (from 6:00 pm - 6:00 am)



The new age of college? Lectures on YouTube?



This also looks pretty cool. To bad I have no PS3, eh?



Making of "The Good Life"



Peace.

The Opening, Twenty-One Days Down

My group's section, Lifestyles, is so ahead of the pack. We have three spreads (that's six pages) done for the yearbook, save for pictures for events that haven't happened yet, such as Homecoming and Halloween.

Below you'll see images from the second shooting for Whoopi vs SilentBat II. We wrapped up last week's flashback scene which ends in Ms. I's room.



Then we went outside to shoot the opening of the film which picks up immediately where the last one stopped (that is, if you watched the clip after the credits).


White-Balancing....


More white-balancing....



The Script.


This scene look familiar?



Whoopi's back with vengeance!





Getting a worm's eye angle. I even added a dutch angle to give the feeling of disorientation with Whoopi's character. It turned out really nice and I can't wait to see it all edited together.







This is me doing a shot for the main titles at the beginning of the film.


Discussion of the shot.


Me explaining to Whoopi how the title cards would work out in Post-Production.


And the swap. Filming was done so I gave Whoopi the miniDV and now he is editing it happily and I'm waiting to get it back to do the effects on my new Mac G4 tomorrow!


We both got on the bus and then when I got off I got some Carl's Jr. while I waited for my grandmother to pick me up and take me home. Very good day. Very productive. Now to take a shower and the little bit of homework I have.

Right before my shower I found this. The first part of the first clip is lame to me. I don't like this guy much. In fact, now that I think back on Claire's old friend I didn't like him much either but I certainly liked him a lot more than this West character. How cheesy can this guy get with Claire?


Peace.

October Third Tennis, Twenty Days Down

I titled the subject as thus because today in Tennis class guess what we did? We played tennis! A shocker, I know! After a full month of school being in session and a full three weeks of us dressing we have finally started to play tennis instead of doing Yoga and running.

But the class wasn't left without a flaw of course. So the other day, Monday or Tuesday I believe, my bus came late and since my school is on a block schedule my third period was actually my first period which is my Physical Education period and my bus was late so I could not dress. On this same day the class had to do a mile-run for the only grade he would have recorded for the first five weeks (which are due by Friday). Today, after we played tennis he shouted out names and he noticed that I missed my run. He asked me if I would do the run and I was like sure. And then he kept looking at me and I was like "now!?" And he was like "you want to run right?" And then I asked someone how much time we had and they told me there was five minutes left and one of my friends suggested to me that I tell him no so I turn around and tell him no and then he was like "do you want to fail?" And I argued that there wouldn't be enough time to do a ten-minute mile run in five minutes and he's like "the fail the run!" So I went all the way from the tennis courts down to the track and ran my four laps into the shower bell under 8:00 minutes time. What a douche my super substitute "tennis" teacher is. Can't wait for our real teacher to come back in December.

Anyway, October 3 shall go down in Hamilton High School Tennis Class History.

In other news, the PSP was sold to this very lovely young lady (Candace) for a fair sum of $75 dollars with a game. Thus, the bidding for the PSP has ended but there are still more options to buy from. Please still contribute! I will be updated my blog titled "And The Selling Begins" with the new results. The Katana and Tanto are on their way out the doors.

Below are the couples of Hamilton. Pictures were taken for Yearbook (hopefully these couples will stick it out until the end of the year).



Awww, they're so in love! Look at the love strangle Whoopi is giving her! So sweet.


Peace! Lupe Fiasco critique will happen. I've just have been uber busy. Sorry!

Senior Ranking, Nineteen Days Down

The valedictorian sleeping in class! Oh my!


And me, wide awake with a 116 rank :( . . . I wanted something much higher. At least top 100. Oh well, this puts me at the top 16.86% of the school. I calculated on my TI-84! Lol

Peace.

And the Selling Begins, Eighteen Days Down

Come Friday this machine (not this exact machine) will be mine!

But I still need those donations! Today! The biddings officially start. Below are a series of pictures of the things I'm selling with their price tags.


(PSP) Playstation Portable - Sold to Candace for $75.


Katana & Tanto - $35 together ($20 for Katana, $15 for Tanto)
Bidders: Amber


XBOX Games - $25 ($5 dollars separate)
Bidders: None


(PS2) Playstation 2 Games - $15 together ($5 each)
Bidders: None


(PSone) Playstation (with Spider-Man): $50 dollars ($1-5 dollars on separate games)
Bidders: None


Sega Genesis (with Sonic 2) - $50 dollars ($1-5 dollars on separate games)
Bidders: None


Gameboy Advance SP (with games): $20 ($5 dollars extra for Pokemon Crystal)
Bidders: None


Windows 95 Packard Bell computer
Specs: 32 MB of RAM: $30
Bidders: None


Heroes was a much better episode tonight 10/10.

I think I understand now why it's been taking me so long to do the next Lupe Fiasco critique. It's because "Just Might Be Okay" is really hard to decipher. So I'm going to put that on the back burner and try and do "Kick, Push" tomorrow.








Peace.