A Journal

possibly my last entry?

Sun, 15 May 2005 06:27:18 GMT

Hey, I’m glad to see you’re reading my journal, which means ur prolly my friend. It’s been a longwhile since I wrote in this thing. And chances are, if the typical pattern means anything, I probably won’t write in this thing for another long while. In fact I think I’m one of the few ones still using this thing. Oh well, on to better things. So school is winding down, it’s slightly scary. 4 years in grade school seemed like centuries, yet these past 4 years of high school went by unimaginably fast. I know everyone always says this, but it’s true. Watching Ms. Claire nearly slice her finger off in freshman art class while zak, eric and I laughed at her seems like yesterday. Hmm. Yea I suppose I’ll stop talking all, as some of you would call, “emo” but I’m not gonna lie, I’m pretty disappointed that high school years are over. The rest of my life I’ll be wishing I could come back to this point. So, with that, next year I’ll be going to UC, which you probably already know. Mike (Miiiichelle) and I are rooming together up at Stratford Heights up on UC’s campus next year. I’m very excited about that. We have a 12 month lease and therefore will have a place to chill all next summer if we wish. The place is brand new and definitely a lot nicer than Daniels hall. That will make going to college much more exciting and hopefully it was a good choice. Anywho, more on that later when more info comes out about it. In other news, Mike, Zak, Johnny, and I went to the club (metropolis) like 2 weeks ago. The club is retarded, don’t waste your $7. Maybe it was just a bad night, but yea Mike and I definitely just sat there like wow, then went to the techno room and watched people break dance which was somewhat entertaining. I think it’d be more fun if all our friends went together, including girls. I honestly think we’d have more fun chillin together. We should maybe try that this summer, we’ll see. Last weekend was the X prom. We had a few problems with meeting up before hand because zak’s date or whoever it was running late but in the end I think it all went pretty well. We got downtown like 30 minutes early so Ellen and I just kinda cruised around the Nati for a while till everyone met up. The Maisonette was one of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had at a restaurant. Captain Dan was a player. Amouse Bouchse (I don’t know French) or whatever the shot glass experiment thing they give everyone is quite possible the nastiest thing on Earth. Even holding my nose didn’t work. I had the best filet mignon ever made and it was supplemented with this ridiculously good potato gratin thing. About half the time we were there we were just laughing. “I’m not really a big salad kinda guy”; “I was getting worried, I almost reached the halfway mark” and a buncha other things like how Eric and I were astonished by the quality of the bathroom towels “napkins” haha. I’m glad I went before they move, so I can say I went to the old true Maisonette. I wanna go back. Anyway, we got to Prom mass early which kinda sucked as we had to wait for things to kinda pick up. Plus the DJ wasn’t very good…..didn’t play piano man??? What’s with that? Jerkstore. Overall, I think we all had a good time, so I suppose the nearly 2 months of trying to figure out who’s going with our group and who’s with who all payed off. Thanks to all who made it a good time, and obviously thanks to Ellen for going with me. Oh yea I forgot to say…the Maisonette caught on fire when we were there too. They have these little carts that they push in front of each table to do tableside cooking and some guy must have hit a bump and it flipped over and the carpet was goin up in flames. I couldn’t really see it cause I was jammed back in the nook but evidently it was decently big and they were tossing water and stomping on it. Ha, not very often do u see 5 star restaurants screw up that bad. That drops em to a 3. But anyway… On to current stuff…this week sucked, all the teachers wanted to get in their final tests/labs/papers/projects. Plus my lack of motivation isn’t too encouraging. This weekend was a let down as well. Friday night I got off work and called just about everybody in my phonebook and only got a hold of Zak and Mikey C. I just decided to stay home and watched some movie on tv. Tonight was lame as well, I helped install cabinets at my grandma’s new house for like 5 hours and it was truly a bitch. Then I come home to work on this damn english essay and went to the sports mall where we did absolutely nothing. This week is senior week which will be fun as hell. Winter clothing on Monday, dunno what I’m gonna do there yet. Thursday is my last day of classes which is crazy. Friday = senior exit group interviews followed by Musicfest. I’m pretty excited because this week will just be really fun, the next week I only have one exam and it’ll be summer followed by lots of graduation parties…Then the best graduation party…Panama. I cannot believe we’re this close to Panama, I remember planning it like way back in October and thinking about how far away it was but how fun it would be. Ahh the long wait is over. My graduation party is Saturday May28th. If you read all the way down this far then clearly you are invited. Let’s just say I’ll be disappointed if you don’t stop by. So make an effort, cause If I’m invited to urs I will too. Okay seriously, it’s like 2:15am. I need some sleep because I have a shit load of homework to do this week (note sarcasm). But I’d like to take this moment to thank all my friends for all the good times we’ve had in high school together. If you’ve read all this, then you’re definitely a good friend. It’s not over yet, this summer will be baller. Alright, Goodnight and thanks for reading my novel I wrote here. Peace

……I dunno If I’m gonna continue writing this thing in the future, good chance this was the last. Hope you liked this sweet journal idea. But I promise I will do a much needed update to the website I used to do. I feel like resurrecting it soon.

Sun, 20 Mar 2005 07:07:19 GMT

okay okay quick update.... im kinda sort of in a bad mood at the moment cause X lost tonight for the state championship in basketball. I'm not gonna lie, i honestly did not think we'd match up at all with Canton McKinley but yea we deffinitely played well the first half and decent the second. Johnny Wolf is my hero with 24 points 17 of which were in the first half, unbelievable. But anyway, i don't wanna talk more about the game but will talk mroe about the fun points of the short lil weekend road trip. Let's see, we left right after school got out and Mr. Eby needed a ride up to the game so he joined in and he talked about funny stories and things about why Mr. Becker still is allowed to teach at St. X, HA. It was fun ride. Our room was pretty small, a double bed and a reclining chair, but we played some poker and later went bumpin down High St. After we got some drinks we partied a lil more in the small room till about 5am. Oh yea i forgot to say the highlight of the night, we beat moeller! The next day we went to like 3 different malls around columbus until game time. overall it was mass fun.

yea, once again we were not once out-witted with cheers...
- chanting 700... since the hardguy, i believe it was #15 but dont remember the name, on moellers team kept shovin us around thinkin he's sweet and we cheered 700 to remind him of the 700 that he scored on his SAT. kinda mean, oh well.
- canton cheers NBA (saying the future of their players) and we respond chanting Wall Street.

anywho, exams are this week & thats not cool, but I don't ahve any exams on wednesday therefore it's a 3 day week, then spring break, rock on. k it's 2am and i just drove for liek 2.5 hours so yea sleepiness. peace

It's March

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 02:46:54 GMT

Hey journal readers I suppose I'll write a lil in this thing since I have nothing better to be doing. Well let's see here...last week was Kairos which was really awesome. I can now understand how many people found it to be such a cool experience. I won't go into too much detail regarding it in order to not ruin it for others who still may be goin. Basicly my favorite thing was getting away from school and homework, from circuit city, and from all the distractions like this damned internet. I got to know a lot of the guys in the group a lot closer. More importantly i deffinitely realized some things i need to change about myself and my relationships with friends, parents, God, and all that stuff. It was deffinitely an awakening. K-109 group 2 (our name changed each time). Let's hope we continue to live the 4th. Overall i had a great time. I was surprised to see how many guys were also going to panama for senior trip since i figured a lot of them would be going during spring break instead. Ha and yes Willie T. we're deffinitely reestablishing the fun zone at the alumni race next summer, especially since the original "wompitors" or however it used to be spelled freshman year will be present... big J. Ruw and Molnar. Yea i'm deffinitely lookin forward to the alumnai run next year already.

Anywho, on to something new. I've realized for quite some time now that our weekends are progressivley getting worse regarding ideas or things to do. First off, i recognize that we're getting older and things that previously entertained us no longer suffice, but I think one problem might be that no one likes to all hang out together anymore. We have a bunch of groups of 3 or 4 people doing their own things and always trying to find something fun to do. Things are always more entertaining when more people are present. The more the merrier. So uhh how do we fix this? Hmm good question cause i dunno. Maybe if people started talking to more people online other than their select few people that thy feel most comfortable talking too and start including more people in their plans for the night. Just a thought. I'm not the best at it either but I just wanna try and have a lil more fun during the remaining 3 months of senior year. I feel like only a select few people actually call me on weekends with their plans as well as I typically call a select few with my plans as well. I dunno maybe i'll try including more people with where I'm going or where people are going for the night in hopes they'll do the same for me. Anyways I hope weekends start getting better as spring weather comes in.

Some other quick thoughts.. lets see.... St. X basketball beat Springfield South this past weekend and will play Troy this thursday night. Hopefully if we can pull off a win thursday and saturday night then we're going to party in Columbus to follow the team up-state for the final-four and hopefully championship game. That'd be an awesome weekend, butttt gotta focus on getting there first. We're also off school friday so i believe a few of us are going to the club somewhere. Duno which one yet, maybe metropolis haha we dunno but since we're sweet and 18 we can hit up the club for a party. On another note, we should have a hotel party sometime soon, i think that'd be fun. Spring break starts at 3:05 March 24th. I'm pumped. I'm not gonna tell my boss im on break so i can have a rest from school. I plan to get my ass outa the house every morning and run. If weater permits I hope to spend a majority of the time outdoors, thats how sick I am of this shitty weather. I'm hoping some concert comes near Cinci on break so we can road trip it for a night or two. I really wanna do like a 2 night road trip to somewhere not too far during break. Elder guys u can use ur thigns where you can take a day off school or whatever, or skip cause its not like we'll be trying that late in the year. I think the girls have a sprink break similar to ours but i could be wrong. K enough about spring break. I applied for honors at UC tonight, hopefully that works out. I don't exactly know what I'm gonna be doing for housing et since it depends largely on whether I'm accepted into honors. If accepted i might possibly get a nice dorm with Brian with our own shower and all that stuff, but I also still prefer dormin with my partner in crime, meeechelle allgeyer. I'll figure that out as soon as i get a response back which is hopefully soon. Oh yea, by the way...yay for March Madness beginning, it gives me something to do at night other than sitting on here. Ok i'm mass tired of writing in this. If you read through all this then I love you, cause you're a true friend, or something allong the lines of that. K, im done. cheers!

....if you're free the same time as me for or have any possible ideas for spring break leave a message on here

Cherry Yum Diddly

Thu, 03 Feb 2005 03:59:08 GMT

yea, i guess i'll give a brief update cause I have nothing better to do. Lets see, this past weekend sucked if you didn't know, nothing went on and i actually stayed home on a saturday night...totally unplayerific. I hate how snow loves to come on weekends these days keeping me confined to this little room in my basement where i sit on the internet worthlessly. I hate that. Senior year shouldn't be spent sitting at home on saturday nights. I won't let this happen again. Anyway last night I went to the X basketball game against roger bacon. It was a good escape from home work on a weekday night, despite the fact that it was a blowout. Fun times nonetheless. UC lost tonight the second time to louisville, that dissapoints me greatly. My thoughts: 1)Make more shots in the first half 2)Kirkland needs to make his free throws 3)Bench Jihad Muhammad! Oh well, supposedly UC will be getting some good recruits next year so thats a start. Aside from that, lets see..... my work schedule for this weekend is as follows..thursday 4-9, friday 5-10, sunday 1-7. So schedule any ideas or plans you might have around that ;) haha. (as if we ever plan anything ahead, with exception to the hotel..that was solid) I started thinking about the remainder of senior year and I realized how fast it will go by. Now that I look at it from what I know of we've got something allong the lines of this:

Febuary - hopefully the party on the 26th occurs, that would rock. We also have the superbowl and crosstown shootout and valentines day....woo woo.

March - March is gonna be freaking awesome. kicking off march 1st-4th with kairos. on top of all this we have march madness going on which will prevent me from doing any homework, although i'm doubtful coach hugg's team will go far this year, it's still fun none-the-less. I have exams one week followed by a week of spring break. exams before spinrg break rocks cause then no homework. Plus i actually like exams better than regualr classes because i get outa school early and usually don't have to study too much more than a typical day. To top this off the season of spring starts i believe march 20th which is awesome because Jon hates this blasted snow.

April - Ahh sup....I believe there's a rather large party around that time of year for I believe Mike, Mike, and Johnny's birthdays. Last year's as fun, hope to repeat to some extent haha. following spring break will be the beginning of a huge decline in effort on my part in school most likely, it's inevitable. there was something else in this month that i can't remember but i'm sure it's hella cool.

May - what can I say? warm weather, high school is over, weeks will fly by even tho these will be the weeks that I don't want to go by quickly. These weeks will be fun no doubt. I'm pumped. oh yea i forgot to mention that school will end sometime at the end if this month leading to summer time.

June - Panama....enough said.

that's my forecast of the remainder of senior year. I'm pretty excited. I'm sure a few more parties, events, concerts will occurr here and then as well. overall, on a scale of 1-10....i'd say it's pimp. hopefully it turns out to be as cool as i see it now. if it isn't, there's a simple solution to fix that......Flusshle! yea you know what i mean.

Peace. Bye. Cya. Come back later.

brief update

Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:36:45 GMT

hey, sup. Here's a brief update. Things are getting a lot better in life which makes me happy. Second semester is finally here which means my schedule is greatly relaxed compared to the previous plus the fact that spring is on the way with graduation soon after. This past weekend was excellent. Saturday night was an excellent indicator of what senior trip might be possibly like for one night. Mikey C and I demonstrated how to party... um, flusshle! But anyway i had fun and i think everyone else did as well.

hmm in other news, i was able to switch from freshman engineering directly into electrical engineering, because i believe thats what i want to go into. I figure the freshman and sophomore year courses for all the engineering subjects are very similar if not the same, so might as well just apply to the area i think i want, and can change it later. Oh yea, i got accepted into Ohio State's engineering school as well and Dayton's with a $6500 scholarship. As to where I'm gonna go.....right now im still deffinitely leading towards UC for numerous reasons.

anyways. i'll update it again soon and more often. but the UC vs UNC charlotte game is back on so i gotta go

Last Journal Entry of 2004

Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:32:55 GMT

I decided it's time this journal needed a little new design so i kinda quickly threw something together and there ya have it. I wish it would allow me to make some parts transparent but it doesn't wanna let me. Anywho, today is new years eve, hot! I'm glad to see 2005 is finally here. I remember thinking when I was a freshman that '05 seemed incredibly far away, yet it went so fast. It's kinda dissapointing but at the same time I'm looking forward to deffinitely kicking it into a low gear and coasting through the rest of the year and enjoying the time I have left as a kid and all my friends in the same city. A year from now it'll be very different, a lot of us friends probably just coming home from college and just seeing one another for the first time since summer. Oh well, growing up will bring awesome freedoms but harder responsibilities at the same time. I'm just looking forward to this summer. Senior trip will rock. No more running cross country, although I deffinitely hope to keep running every so often over the summer to stay in some kinda shape. Oh yea, another thing this summer is that I get to go to Europe. Woo woo. I'm pumped. It's for liek friggin 15 days and I believe I'm goin to London, stonehenge, Caen (normandy beaches and stuff) ,Paris, Stutgart (place where they make mercedes, porsche, and volkswagen), Munich (Haufbrahaus to drink beer and to Dachau which is like a nazi concentration camp), and finally Berlin. Yea it'll be fun and deffinitely a great experience getting to visit the main cities in england, france and germany. I have to pay like $1000 of it but hey, going to europe for 15 days for $1000 is like a once in a lifetime opportunity. Anyway... yea this summer will rock.

In other news, Christmas was last saturday. I got an iPod which is awesome and a surprise. In addition I also got a bunch of needed clothes, electric shaver thing, and small other things which are cool. So far this Christmas break has sucked pretty badly though I must admit. Snow and freezing temperatures ruined all last week and so far I've really only gone out with my friends 2 nights of the entire break. That's pathetic :( . Hopefully this newyears weekend will cheer things up a bit, but i find it hard to cheer things up when you have a full week of school chillin 'round the corner with exams on top of that. Anyways I've been writing in here for too long. It's 2:30 am... I think I shall go to sleep now and stop this writing. Anyways, so long 2004. Happy New Years. Hopefully 2005 will get better.

addition to previous entry

Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:39:14 GMT

ha how could i forget to talk about thanksgiving in my last entry. I knew i forgot something. tonight is big turkey night. I'm most likely gonna gain some pounds from eatin like a quadrabillion plates of turkey. quadrabillion probably means like 5 plates but yea it will be sweet. The best dinner of the year, specially when my g'ma makes it. Hope everyone has a great thanksgiving and eat a crap load. The rest of my journal entry is below ;)

Turkey Day

Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:30:31 GMT

I have not written in this thing in months and I'm trying to put off writing my college essays so i'll just write in here. Cross Country season is over, which makes me sad. Besides that nothing too significant has happened. The cold weather is starting to settle in which makes me sad. Cold means no more driving with the windows dropped and wearing mass clothes... ahh i want it to be spring again. oh yea christmas is coming up, there's one good thing about winter. I'm not gonna wait till the last few days before christmas to get my gifts like last year. The bad thing about christmas time though is I'm gonna have to work like every night that i'm free :(. This weekend i gotta work friday, saturday and sunday which sucks. But hey all this working will give me plenty of money for Christmas break and for all the gifts i gotta get. hmm i dunno what else i wanna talk about right now. oh yea, anyone who wants to go skiing sometime lemme know cause I've been wanting to for the past 2 years. Besides that I think i'm finished. I'll write some more later, but i gotta write college apps now :( peace

yay

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:20:25 GMT

ok here's another little brief update. today is wednesday...it needs to be friday. next week are exams which will not be fun but will at least make the week go faster. Tomorrow is the district open race which is always fun stuff. Me and correa brady's team, basicly picked all the minorities on the team plus a few others, are gonna battle it out against willie t's team. Willie picked all blonde haired blue eyed people to form the aryan team. haha stupid nazi's. Anyways tomorrow's race will be fun, and my last race for st. xavier :( it'll be fun tho. Since no one really cares too much about the district open, this week is like the funnest week that we seniors have have been waiting 4 years for. Yesterday we kinda started a new tradition and instead of running a workout we had the Senior Bowl I. We tied 21 to 21. I had 2 touchdowns but we sucked at defense and they tied it up. The game will continue at cross country banquet. Today was the tunnel run. we couldnt do it on monday cause the tunnel was completely full of water. For those of you who don't know the tunnel run, basicly it's a traditiong forcing the freshman into a tunnel allong a creek thats about 3 feet tall with about 4 inches of water rushing through it. When they get to the end where the water falls into the little pond thing, they have to scail a stone wall to the side without falling off into the water. Only 2 freshman made it this year. Ahh goodtimes... haha and yet somehow the coaches didn't know about it. In case you were wondering... i deffinitely fell in when i was a freshman as well. only 4 of us made it.

otehr news.... i really don't like all this college application pressure. It's annoying and I already don't have much time for school, CC, and work as is. godd i cannot wait till christmas break and second semester begins...also the beginning of mass senioritis. k im off. peace

brief update

Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:38:37 GMT

Today was GCL's which was fun. we swept the league on every race which was amazing. freshman ran intelligently and didn't go out too fast like other races. JV ran terribly but luckily it was a 3 way tie and it came down to the 6th man which our 6th was the best. yea wayyyy too close. i was impressed with varsity finally. we finally ran like we should be which was a relief. open guys, ha hell yea what an effort. i think times went up a lot today i guess cause of the cold or whatever. I felt a lot better this week and beet several guys on my team that i am supposed to be running with. they usually run 18:30's but times sucked today and they came in around 19:15. I felt for sure that i ran a ton better than last week and my stamina felt great yet somehow i only dropped 8 seconds to 19:01. :( Yea i was pretty pissed since the entire race i thought i was doing well since i was beating brandstetter and utah. oh well i'm gonna take the district open race seriously for the first time. I've only run 5 races this year because of my injury so I'm gonna run hard at any opportunity available. I really hate VOA though but we'll see how it goes. good job today guys.

in other news, umm i don't know much other news. I was accepted into purdue engineering college which is cool but i don't know if i'll go there or not since it costs a lotta $. I applied to UC the other day as well and hopefully i'll be accepted into the college of my choice. UC seems a lot more practical but i still don't know. I'd prefer not to stay in town but UC has a good engineering school as well. o well. My brother and i are thinking about possibly training for the flying pig next spring which would be fun. We'll see if it actually happens. If anyone else wants to run it then you should. We can run together every once in a while. who knows. just an idea. anyways im done. cya

mhmm

Sun, 10 Oct 2004 04:17:17 GMT

so it's saturday night and i'm stuck here at home with nothing to do. i hate wasting my saturday nights. Unfortunately everyone seems to be at paul's cc party which i don't wanna invite myself to and would feel kinda awkward. so anyway im sitting here hoping people will call when they leave paul's but i doubt it will happen. so anyways, on to better things....

friday was the walk for X, fun times. we definitely destroyed the school record for money collected (goal was $83,000, brought in $109,000). us cc runners led the walk in our super-cool running short-shorts and shirtless. haha it was hilarious at all the people that we got to honk as they drove by and we even got yelled at by a cop for running shirtless. since when is that illegal? oh well screw him. goodtimes. i got home around 11 and did not a whole lot until i had work at 4 until 10. after work dwyer and I hit up steak n' shake and mike called and met us there. then we chilled in the parking lot for a while and listened to music. that was my friday night.

this morning was fr. rudy invitational. it was cool i guess. i was dissapointed that of course our top 10 varsity was in cleveland so we didnt get to see them run, and we rested our top 5 frosh. im pretty pumped for gcl's next weekend. I still didn't run as well as i should be. My stamina has been getting a lot better week by week. my sitting out of running for a few weeks during my stress reaction set me back a lot and now i gotta play catch up :(. but it sucks because of course now that im gettin a lil better, my season is almost over. I gotta prepare all i can this week for gcl's. My legs are really pissing me off lately, after my stress reaction healed, of course i get shin splints. At least shin splints i can still keep running it's just that during practices i can't push myself as hard as i normally would cause they tighten up a lot and such. not cool. oh well at least i get to keep running even though im not where i should be at this point. bleh i felt amazing today until about 2.5 miles into it my stamina just went away and i fell back. i plan to eat well and get lots of sleep this week and hopefully pull myself to around where i need to be timewise. i think im gonna try this year at districts unlike previous years. since i've only had 4 races this year and it will be my last high school race forever, i need as many races as possible. ahhh i cannot believe my senior year of cross country is almost over. doesn't seem long ago since i was running as a freshman in races with my brother. oh well these next few weeks are the best of the year with the tunnel run scheduled for next monday.

tonight i had to work 5-10 which sucked. not only did it suck but also about 2 people actually came in and even looked at computers, therefore my sales when down the toilet. :( As of friday i was in second place in the district regarding sales/hour and now a crappy night like tonight prolly made me drop way back. now i gotta sell mass to catch back up and claim the lead of my store tomorrow which wont be fun trying to do. gotta beat my sunday record of $5,600 of sales. oh yea, other hott news is that i realized i've now been working there for 6 months which means i'll prolly get another quarter added on my pay which is always good. ok enough circuit city news. the only thing is people should stop by more often. ha mike is my usual sunday afternoon visitor. k enough.

hey you just read like wayy too much about me, that was a huge journal entry. what were you thinking? you were probably were thinking jon is super cool and I should read his journal. if soo.... you're cool too! ok im gonna go work on my unupdated website a lil more. peace playas

orange mocha frappachino!

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:10:05 GMT

hey i don't feel like starting my economics paper so i'll write this instead. basicly i've been overwhelmed with mass homework this past week and this week looks even worse. im def not looking forward to it. this weekend was decent. friday i went to work right after cc like always. it was a slow night so we did just about nothing other then listen to music and toss a little baseball we found around the store. afterwards me and a few guys from work hit up steak n' shake for a while. after that i headed home since i had to run in the morning. The race was at harrison high school so that was cool. it's like 15 minutes away from my house and it's completely flat. I didn't run as well as i would've liked but it's only my second race and i dont exactly have the stamina yet that i would have if i had been running the entire time (stupid leg injuries). Oh well im not too worried i know i'll get better as long as my legs dont start hurting too much. coach wendling is a worthless moron like always and didn't place any seniors on the friggin varsity b team cause he's a fuckstick (ha stole that word from my brother) He gave the freshman and sophomores a chance to run a varsity b race for once which is stupid cause they have liek 3 more years to do that, for seniors this was our last varsity b opportunity since from here on out our whole team will be running together and unfortunately i don't run 16:04 5k times to be on the main varsity. After we talked to our other non-worthless coaches about it, coach dehring agreed with us but it was too late. not cool. oh well i guess we can live with it. oh well i wont be to harsh on gill, still a good guy.

um lets see, saturday i went to quinns for his lil cc party thing. pretty many people their, it was pretty cool. sunday i worked all day and basicly watched the bengals game. me and begley went to mcdonalds and chilled for an hour and talked about some funny stuff of which cannnot talk about. bleh the rest of this week will suck homework wise. friday night is x vs elder which is awesome. cionni is gonna run all over the pit, so be prepared for the loss haha. it should be a good game but im pretty confident this year. we'll see.

this weekend is the st. x invite which is always fun for us. godd this is the first time our entire team has run together at one place, about time. our team is pretty pumped up. Ha dehring gave one of his unreal motivational speeches today, it was rediculous haha. i'll quote a lil part: "so yes, centerville, strongsville, wooster, hell a good majority of the best teams in the state will be here this weeekend. I want you guys to be kind and helpful around the course to the teams, but when it comes to race time...Fuck them, i want you guys to completely dominate. I want you to beat them so bad that you rip them a new asshole, and goddamnit tear their testicles off!" haha jesus thats part one one of the craziest speeches i've ever heard from him. wow. anyways the race should be cool but of course we're on the new south course again, blehh i dont like it as much. oh well. im done for now. leave a message, cause no one ever does. you will be very much respected if you do :) peace

long time no see

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:48:45 GMT

hey people i decided i was bored enough to write in this thing once again. i don't really feel like recapping all i've missed since the last time i've writtin so i'll start off with today.

today was an x day so i only had 3 classes which is cool. during my 2 hour long free period i got bored and decided i'd go cruise around in my car for a while since there's practicaly no cool people in my free period until next semester :\ While cruisin i relaized galvin wasn't in school so i called him up and met him at hit place in clifton. After drivin around clifton in search of food we decided rolly polly was too long of a wait and went to one of uc's dining halls. Mike was cool and let me use his meal plan so i didnt have to pay. (i'll pay for ur wendys or something next time we get food) So yea all you can eat style which is awesome cause food at my school is so expensive for like 2 fries. galvins roomates were there as well and we just talked about random stuff and they told stories about senior trip. haha. then i drove back to school for boring calculus. then cc. then home.

soo about senior trip.... i'm pretty pumped up. flight 5881 and 5882 are gonna be party planes. ha makes me wanna watch the movie soul plane except for that it most likely is the shittiest movie created. but yea should be hella fun. Days Inn panama city beach. I hear there is a taco bell next door which will be my usual place of dining.

other random news: i have a lot of homework tonight. i broke my g string on my affinity haha. who dey!

yeah

Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:42:41 GMT

well people today is my last day in cinci for like the next nine days. I get back on the 21st which is next wednesday i believe. I'll miss all my buds but then again my bro and i will be chillin on the pacific which will be mass fun. You know me, i'll prolly call you guys a bunch of times on vacation like last year since my dad has free long distance on his cell. So anyways, we leave tomorrow in the morning and have to drive to indianapolis to take a plan back to cincinnati, then fly from cinci to the LAX out in los angeles. Yes it's stupid that we're flying back to cinci but it was like several hundred dollars cheaper which doesnt make much sense but o well. I'm pumped about the flight, from what i remember it's a 5 hour flight and you get to fly over the grand canyon. We're staying 3 nights in la and i believe 5 nights in san diego. Tendré que hablar mucho español. Muchos mexicanos viven allí. (for non spanish people, i will have to speak a crap load of spanish because there are a lot of mexicans there) It will be quite interesting.

well anyways, i dont feel like packing and i work from 4-9 so we better do something cool tonight for my last night haha. Don't do tooo may cool things while i'm gone cause i don't wanna miss out. I can see it now, the week i am gone will be like the funnest week you guys ever have this summer :( .

let's see, oh eya i'll do a fill in on the past few days. Friday night we saw Anchorman after chillin at pizza hut for a while, that movie is excellant. Definitely a movie i gotta see again, it has many funny quotes like zoolander. After the movie, everyone ese went home but mike zak and I decided to go do some d&d. We were throwin firecrackers and bottle rockets out the window and stuff. Once again we had to mess with the house on Woodhaven so zak and quinn frickin blow up 7 packs of firecrackers on their front porch at 1 in the morning, funny as hell. umm lets see, oh yea then zak lit a bottle rocket and it blew up in the car, we were all deaf for a while, ahh that hurt. then some dude on harrison's car was broken so we helped himmove his car off the curb and mike psuhed his car with the buick till it got goin again, hah goodtimes. then mike's tire started leakin air and we had to fill her up. Umm Saturday was dumb, i ran 6 miles at cc practice then came home and went to work alll day. Dwyer and i hit up p.hill chill for lunch which was yummy. After work I came home and left imediately to join my cool friends for some goodtimes. It wasn't as much goodtimes for me tho, i missed out on all the cool stuff cause im not cool enough, actually it's cause i never told my parents i was stayin out all night so i realized i had to go. I heard they had goodtimes tho which makes me sad, lol i hate missing things. Sunday was sunday, i had to freackin go to church, then go to work till 7 which also wasn't fun. After work i came home and ate diner and stuff and talked for a while then went over mike's to watch butterfly effect. I like that movie, kinda wierd tho. It was definitely a short night, efter the movie everyone left and zak, miek and i went to steak and shake and talked of goodtimes. haha zak talkin about being black hahaha. At S&S we saw our old friend from toys r us and wendys that we randomly met and started talkin to. Havn't seen him in him in like almost a year. We've had some goodtimes with him, not many but the ones we had were fun. I came home and burned some cd's to listen to on my vacation, After sleep i came here. So yay.

Thanks for readin my journal, i'll see you all on the 21st, but till then, i'll keep it classy in San Diego (german for Elephant's Vagina). Peace friends ;)

boredom....

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 16:13:55 GMT

hey, i don't really feel like writing in here but i have nothing else to do. Well anyways today is friday and we need to make it a fun day. For once i have no work or running, im pumped. Wednesday night we wend to mikey c's and chilled the pool. It was fun, with a few chicken fights where zak and I were unstopable. After swimming we all dried off and talked and decided a visit to dunkin donuts was needed. It wsa fun as well, except the jerk indian workin there told us he wasn't makin any more donuts soon so we had a limited selection. Yea as we were walkin out he just put up a whole new rack of donuts which wasn't cool. Yesterday sucked. I had to work from 9:30-5 and got home for about 10 minutes before i left to go to VOA park for practice. I hate that place cause now my leg is sore from all the uneven ground we had to run on. I felt pretty good at the time though and ran faster than i normally do. When i got home i realized all my friends were seein 2 different movies. I realized i was pretty dead and heard an offer from my dad to order pizza if i stayed home so i took that deal and saved myself 8.50 from the movies. I also rented the last samurai which is an awesome movie and recommend it to all of you. Now i sit here today with nothing to do like always but we better do something cool today or im gonna be mad. k im bored of this now too, if i care to write more later i will. cya mates

:)

Wed, 07 Jul 2004 06:01:21 GMT

Okay well i prommised i'd write in this again today so here it is. Today I had cross country up at Rapid Run for the first time this summer. I was happy cause i only had to drive 5 minutes to practice unlike the usual 30 minutes. The lightning and thunder started right when we got there which wasn't cool. I felt really good today and ran with the Kings. We did the freshman course to show the new freshman what the course was like there, then we split up and we went down sunset to queen city then back up. Then it really started raining and a bunch of the team hid under the shelter as en excuse to stop running even though they were running like half the distance as us. Then i did another 3 miles on the course and decided that was enough. I dunno exactly how far that is but im gonna predict about 7 miles. The few seniors and I that did the whole route gave our senior speech (haha speach) to those who came to practice and sat on their ass. I just didn't understand why people would drive from their eastside houses to rapid run park just to sit and do nothing.... you can do that at home. If ur gonna come to practice at least get off your ass and run like you're supposed to.

Tongiht i saw Kill Bill 2. It was alright, wasn't very impressed by it. The first one had a ton more action and a lot mroe interesting. Th second one basicly filled the gaps left out of the first one. I was dissapointed i suppose.

ok well im pretty tired so im gonna hit the sheets... cya later fellas

bored......

Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:04:10 GMT

Yea i just realized something that isn't cool. Most of my friends have cc in the morning and then a few also work in the morning as well. Blehh no one ever wants to do stuff in the morning but the problem is that the only time I have to do stuff is in the afternoon and at around 10 at night because of course my cc and work is at night :( . O well as long as we keep doing cool stuff i'll be happy. At the end of summer cc will be a lot better because i'll be able to choose if i want to go to morning or ngiht practice and I'll be forced to run everyday which is good for me.

ok enough about that, on to other things. I realized i want to do some more bike riding after i saw some of the tour de france. We only ended up goin to miami whitewater once. o well. my pizza is ready i'll write more in here later. peace out.

tired....

Sat, 03 Jul 2004 06:48:33 GMT

ok well i just wreote tons of stuff in here and accidently closed it before i posted so now it's getting shortened cause i dont wanna retype it all :(

Thursday, mike baer and I decided to go golfing for the first time in a long time which was really interesting. We actually played pretty well and discovered that golf carts are incredibly fun. After hittin up some lunch we came home and I chilled. Everyone was getting ready to go to the concert but i couldnt cause of cc practice and it was expensive. Then my brother came home and told me he saw Catch 22 (the band in concert) at the red's game and gave them 4 free beers in exchange for beeing on the band's vip list. Therefor he 6 of his freinds in for free cause we're VIP'S and you're not HA. That was awesome especially because it saved us from paying $20 tickets. During the show Catch 22 gave 2 shout outs to my brother (the beer guy) about how they saw him at the game. The concert was awesome, C22 and Reel Big Fish were stellar as usual. Afterwards we hit up clifton skyline where zak took way too much hott sauce and bout destroyed his mouth. After i took doug home i came home and chilled till about 4 am and decided it was bedtime.

Friday (today) i woke up 'round 12:00 and went for a nice 5-6 mile run. When i got back i decided el coche (car for non-spanish people) was pretty dirty and could use a cleaning. So I got my sun for the day and washed the car then hit the shower. I ate some lunch and found out i was supposed to be at work 2 hours ago, not good jon :(. But it's ok cause i sell Circuit City protection plans like it's my job... well it kinda is my job isn't it? k im done. After work i met the crew at mellisa's to watch Blood Work, which was a pretty interesting movie, i liked it. After that Mike and I went cruising for like 45 minutes and had some of the funniest times ever haha, we took like 40 random pictures with mike's camera. goodtimes. Now I'm sitting here bored again... maybe i'll try sleeping. Anywho im done with this journal stuff for now. Peace fellas.

bored

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:25:09 GMT

k im bored so im gonna throw a little somethin down here. So far this week has sucked. As every night of summer goes by we continue to run out of ideas of things to do at night. Our band is having trouble finding time to practice because doug and mike work the mornings, i work day and night, and quinn works night i believe. Plus the fact that like half of our friends decided to go on vacation so there are less people to hang out with. O well at least zak attack gets back tomorrow. There's one more person to spend our boring summer nights with. Oh well ,there have been some fun things goin on as well such as Mikey C's house which was pretty fun as well as goin to guitar center a few times with mike and doug. Yesterday mike baer and I had the sudden urge to go to the driving range which was hilarious. Haha we tried to hit it and it would bounce liek 2 feet in front of us. By the end we were hitting them past the 200 sign and a few at the 250 sign which was surprising. Didn't know i could hit that far. I came how and jammed on the guitar for a little bit then got all dressed up to go to Longhorn steakhouse with my family and grandparents for my grandpa's 82nd birthday. Ahh that place is soo good. After that i went over to Jaclyn's house for the night where we played cards and reminisced about goodtimes we had in gradeschool and all the stupid things we did and who liked who. Goodtimes. Today i was forced to get my hairs cut by my mom so that kinda sucked but it doesn't look too bad i guess, personally i dont care. After that i was getting stufff out to make some lunch and my brother came home so my mom decided we'd go get lunch together. Yea i eat out way too much but it's soo friggin good, plus im aloud to since i run cc :). After lunch my brother and I went to my grandparent's again to cut their grass and we put some mulch down. Now i'm here bored and doing nothing.... I have cc tonight and it's gonna suck. I'm really not in the running mood.

I think im gonna make a list of some of the things that I wish to do over my summer:
~ drink less pop so i feel better when runnning
~ go on a roadtrip with my friends.
~ go to a park somewhere in cincinnati and stay up all night and watch the sun set and rise (i've never done that, sounds dumb but i wanna try)
~ campout with friends
~ go fishing (i believe cerchio was in on this too)
~ conquer the scary place
~ go to the beach waterpark
~ play paintball

thats all i got for now... if you got any more ideas then post them on here, cause i'll prolly agree and add that too my list

hey

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:21:50 GMT

well i suppose i'll write a brief entry in this thing... well last friday was todd's wedding which was pretty fun. Afterwards we went back to mike's house and pretty much everyone was drinkin. We played a few games and laughed at all the stupid thigns people did. the next day i had to work all day but when i got home around 10 mike meg and ellen picked me up to go to charlies which was damn fun. Haha mike and johnny had a vodka challenge and destroyed a whole bottle themselves. So yea they were out pretty fast. Oh well we all know all the fun stuff from that night so i dont have to write it out. Sunday i once again had to go to work which wasnt too fun. sunday night was pretty gay but it got a little better when i met up with mike at about 10:30 on the road and we got wendys. At wendys brian and claire happened to find us and joined the fun. Then as we were all cruisin we see zak friggin flying down glenway racing some hatchback. Haha that was soo funy so after we call him we all met up and went cruisin some more...so yea it went from being me cruisin by myself, to cruisin with mike zak brian and claire. Yesterday was alright, we pretty much sat at home for most of the day. I did cut my grandpa's grass which was better than sitting on a couch. Me and miek cruised out to guitar center and rocked on the JCM 2000 DSL50 amp and goddd it was awesome. I want it now. Mike was playin with an awesome used double cut gibson goldtop. Everytime we go there we want something and it sux. Then we went to coconut joes and chilled till we decided to come back to my house to decide on plans. Meghan came over for a lil and watch some talking lion show on tv haha. She had to leave early cause her curfew was 11:30 or somethin and we went to go do some d&d action and picked up zak and ellen. The street taping didnt work as well this time but o well it was fun. Then we went cruising for a long while till we eventually met up with mike galvin and hit up wendys. After wendys we had to take everyone home and that was all. I think thats about all. This week is gonna suck because like half of our few friends are gone on vacation, and the other half all have work. Oh well we'll get over it. thats all for now folks im tired of writing. peace out

hey! whats up?

Fri, 18 Jun 2004 05:14:53 GMT

yea so today was kinda not cool. to start things off i had to wake up and got to work at 9:30-5:00 which for one sux, but i also didn't get to go to the reds game which i've been wanting to go to one for a while now, especially now with the possiblity of junior's 500th. So anyway i came home and chilled on the computer for a little and ate some lunch, then got ready for cc at winton woods. the run was kinda short but it was really humid and steamy so it sucked. i was really sore today tho cause i ran at too fast of a pace on tuesday. at the end of practice i realized that the freshman i drive to practice wasnt there and therefor got lost on the run. i had to drive around with the coaches for at least 30 minutes searching and found out he called his dad to pick him up from wherever he ws cause he was soo lost. o well... i came home and showered and again ate some food and got online for a little, after realizing my house was just as boring i left and joined up with rob zak and mike. we went to meijer and bought some tape for a lil d&d destruction. mike had to go home early but zak rob and i had quite a good time running from people and a few other classified things, (ha if u really wanna hear just ask)we even made a quic stop for some mcdonalds food once again.. damn its soo good. so anyway then i came hom and now im here. yea im already getting tired of typing this so im gonna stop boring you even more. leave a comment about somethin, dont care if it's stupid just be cool and leave one for the team ;)

journal update

Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:38:43 GMT

well i havn't written in here in a while. last night was our first cc practice which was cool. it was fun bein back with the guys again. unfortunately practice was way out at french park which is too far from here :/ well we only ran 6 miles but i felt like shit cause i hadn't eatin anything since 12 that afternoon plus the fact that im not in perfect shape. o well in a few days i'll be in better shape and runnin strong. i'm pumped that more of my friends decided to run this year which gives us something to talk about and some more people for me to race next fall. when i came home last night i did the typical arguement with my mom for like 30 minutes then went over mike's house and chilled for a little. this friday is todd's wedding which should be pretty cool, mainly because it will be something to do, whereas we normally just stand in parking lots.

hmmm what else... oh yea my bro is probably comin to uc now for college which is gonna be sweet. he'll most likely get an apartment or house up in clifton somewhere so we can definitely hit that up a lot.

ummm well i dont know really what else to talk about at the moment. thanks for reading my boring story, and you best leave a message. peace

Awesome Day

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:25:11 GMT

Yesterday was how every summer day should be. I got up early to go for a 5 mile run with ellen and jaclyn since everyone else already started their daily practices. It was an interesting run but it was really early, so maybe every summer day should be like that ,maybe if it was liek 2 hours later. anyways i drove home and ate a small breakfast and showered. I decided to nap for a lil then watch price is right cause that show is just awesome. then i met mike doug quinn zak rob and mikey c for lunch. ha we ended up leaving burger king after we finished and picked up mikey c then went back to the other buger king cause he wanted food haha. we then decided to go tennising at kuluga where we realized we all sucked at tennis. def goodtimes, we gotta do it again. we then took a dip at mikey c's pool for a lil then came home. i then went to miek a's for band practice where we rocked it. i think we sounded pretty sweet but we'll see. after a while we went back to mikey c's for some more swimming where a lot more people showed up. we played king of the raft and we all about died. mike and zak have many battle wounds. Then we got wendys for a little and decided to go to the scary place. no details will be given other than damnnn it's 10 times scarier at night. ellen came with us this time and was freakin out but so were we all so it's all good. we gotta go aback sometime soon with flashlights and camera at least. thats all for now, i g2g to work lata playas

first taste of summer

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 21:11:52 GMT

well summer is here and so far so good. my last exam was last friday. after i got home, me and miek baer went to willies sports cafe and chilled, then hung out for a while. friday night we went to the jude festival which was pretty boring. we left after like 1 hour and went to brians where we chilled for a tid bit and talked. I had to go home early cause of SAT saturday morning. I think i did better on this sat which makes me feel better. I finished all the sections this time and didnt the last time so thats good. hopefully all my fellow test-taking friends did well also. I had to work all day saturday pretty much and met up with my amigos at larosas afterwards. That night was reall cool, i mean hanging in a parking lot for 2 hours and all. Then zak and i did some awesome cruisin in our cars for a while which was goodtimes. Sunday i went to church then went to work, fun fun. after dinner with all th relatives i met people at drews where we sat around and watched tv and cards and stuff. then on the way home my car decided to be crappy and have problems so i cant drive it till it's fixed :( today was cool so far. me zak ellen and jaclyn went to miami whitewater for the 8 mile bike trail. i had fun since i hadn't been biking in quite some time. yep well i'll make another post on here tonight or otmorrow thats more in depth instead of just reviewing my day, srr ythis ones boring. but im gonna go over mikes to play guitar now so thats y i dont feel like writing more. later fellas

Final Week Update

Wed, 02 Jun 2004 16:50:21 GMT

ok well i have 1 out of 3 exams out of the way. I have to take the trig, history, and english exams :(. All juniors coulnd't get exempt from trig which pisses me off since this is the first year i could have easily obtained it (96 average :)!) I got exempt from biology, morality and justice, and spanish which definitely frees up my week. tomorrow is american history which will be extremely hard. today, after i destroyed the trig exam, i stupidly left my bookbag at school with my books in it and unfortunately had to drive all the way back to st x once i got home to get it. hehe o well mike came with and i gave him the brief tour of our "eastside" school then proceded to the very non-eastside taco bell for lunch. after dodging cicadas on the drive home i decided i should come home and start studying for history. blehhh. but anywho that's all i got for now soldiers, i'll update yo face tomorrow... peace