{"id":334,"date":"2002-05-19T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-19T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2002\/05\/19\/334\/"},"modified":"2002-05-19T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-19T18:21:00","slug":"334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2002\/05\/334\/","title":{"rendered":"Untitled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend has had its share of sucking and rocking.<\/p>\n<p>Periodic Table of How Things Are:<\/p>\n<table BORDER=\"1\" WIDTH=\"100\">\n<tr>\n<td WIDTH=\"50%\" ALIGN=\"Center\">Suck<br \/><big><big>Su<\/big><\/big><br \/>4.006<\/td>\n<td WIDTH=\"50%\" ALIGN=\"Center\">Rock<br \/><big><big>Ro<\/big><\/big><br \/>16.033<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Su<sub>2<\/sub>Ro<\/b> &#8211; <i>Disuck Roxide<\/i><br \/>1g <b>Su<sub>2<\/sub>Ro<\/b> = 8.012 amu <b>Su<\/b>, 16.033 amu <b>Ro<\/b><br \/>% <b>Su<\/b> = <u><b><big>33%<\/b><\/big><\/u><br \/>% <b>Ro<\/b> = <u><b><big>66%<\/b><\/big><\/u><br \/>Thank you, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>I started off the week by buying earrings for my mom, since it was her birthday. I liked them &#8211; they were sterling silver with 5 different colored stones &#8211; and they were half off at Macy&#8217;s, so they were only $25. I met her at Fresh Choice, a west-coast salad bar, and had a small birthday party with some of her other friends. <b>Rock.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Then we were off to Terra Linda High School, where my good ol&#8217; drama friends were putting on the last production of the year &#8211; Bon Bons From the Bard. It&#8217;s an original play written by this supergenius student, Jesse Brownstein, in which an English acting company is forced to put on the worst &#8220;Shakespeare&#8217;s Comedy of Errors&#8221; EVER under the direction of an American, uh, director. It was hilarious, and the funniest part is that my sister actually laughed more than I did. Oh wait, maybe that means it&#8217;s childish. Or it could just mean that I have no sense of humor. Yeah, that&#8217;s it. <b>Rock.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>After the play, I met some of <a HREF=\"http:\/\/serpent231.tripod.com\/cw_winky.jpg\">Steve<\/a>&#8216;s friends. They all planned to go watch a movie, and I volunteered to drive some people. They ended up deciding not to go see a movie at the last minute, and I was stuck driving out of my way to drop people off at home. <b>Suck.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>But I got home, and the internet was cut off by my dad, as usual. Isn&#8217;t that barbaric? He sees that as the only way for me to succeed in life, or something. But fortunately, I had downloaded Clerks a while ago, and got to watching it. And I&#8217;ll tell you, it freaking <b>Rocked.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The next day came my Japanese final, and I did much better than last year (in which I took a look at the damn thing and forfeited the class). It was really an in-and-out procedure &#8211; I took the test and that was the last I&#8217;ll ever see of my Japanese class again. Farewell, I guess. <b>3Ro<sub>6<\/sub>Su<sub>5<\/sub>?? Can&#8217;t balance equation!! YOU GET AN F BLAUGHLAUGH<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I stopped off at TL again where Pride Day was going on. Pride Day is where kids get community service hours (and work off detention if applicable) by renovating the school&#8217;s courtyard and repairing other random stuff around the place. I was only able to stay for an hour, because Japanese class has overlapped all the Pride Days for the entire year. <b>Suck.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>So I went to my mom&#8217;s house and helped her paint some window sills. I then went back to TL where <a HREF=\"http:\/\/midgarswamp.tripod.com\">James<\/a> was waiting for me. We in turn would wait over an hour for Steve and <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.oralse.cx\">Felix<\/a>, who said they&#8217;d been waiting for us somewhere else, or something. <b>Suck.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>But our plan was to drive over to the nearby city of Larkspur, where we&#8217;d eat at the upscale French restaurant Left Bank. We&#8217;d speak French the whole way through, though, and we&#8217;d film ourselves. This was for a project in James and Steve&#8217;s French class. Some sort of extra credit thing. But unfortunately, Steve&#8217;s tape he brought was defective, so we had to drive over to the nearest Good Guys to get another one. <b>Suck.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>But when we finally got the tape and went to the restaurant, God DAMN was the food good. We all ended up having Onion Soup au Gratin (&#8220;wit de grated cheese y0&#8221;), and I had this weird but GOOD bowl of shredded crab with cheese and breadcrumbs. And we got to shout &#8220;Vote Wang&#8221; into the camera (I&#8217;ll talk about that later). <b>Rock.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>But were our adventures in film over? No! We filmed this amazing chase scene on the freeway where I passed Felix&#8217;s car, and in turn, I smashed into the wall and died. Very much fun. We arrived in Downtown San Rafael and danced our asses off on DDR. I have footage of Steve dancing &#8211; and seeing that he&#8217;s Steve, the Max Payne lookalike who looks down on anything coated in a shade over 50% luminosity, it&#8217;s a big step for him. Steve and Felix showed James and me this new place that I&#8217;d never seen on 4th Street &#8211; this LAN game center that charges only $5\/hour. Maybe I&#8217;ll try it out if I get the hang of Counter-Strike.  <b>Rick.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>And then my dad called and wondered why I didn&#8217;t come home at 1:00 like I promised. I got home and wasn&#8217;t allowed to go to my friend Jeff&#8217;s birthday party the next day. <b>Sock.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>And today, I woke up bright and early to take a tour of the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.expression.edu\">Ex&#8217;pression Center for New Media<\/a> in Emeryville. WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW. It was as amazing as I thought it would be &#8211; if not more. It has its own 3-D motion capture studio, state-of-the-art computers completely owned by the president of the school, and simply amazing professors that know, like, EVERYTHING about what I&#8217;ve been doing for the past 5 years. I showed a few of them my website and they liked it (although they were probably just being nice). The only problems are: 1) it&#8217;s not a real college and 2) it&#8217;s DAMN expensive. $32,900 for a 14-month program in which you may or may not get a Bachelor&#8217;s degree depending on whether you&#8217;ve had general education or not. So I&#8217;ll probably just go to a regular college and major in digital graphic design there. Alas, poor Ex&#8217;pression Center&#8230; But anyway, <b>ROCK. SCISSOR. PAPER.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>And then I went home and &#8220;studied Chemistry&#8221; for the rest of the day. <b>Suck.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Anyone tired of the one-word analysis after each paragraph? Well, good news. This blog&#8217;s over. <b>Rock.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Just kidding. <b>Suck.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend has had its share of sucking and rocking. Periodic Table of How Things Are: SuckSu4.006 RockRo16.033 Su2Ro &#8211; Disuck Roxide1g Su2Ro = 8.012 amu Su, 16.033 amu Ro% Su = 33%% Ro = 66%Thank you, thank you. 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