local h - bound for the floor

okay, so the usual people who read this have already heard the story, but my ass is bruised and i feel like sharing the reason.
it was a bright and early saturday morning, i was up and at it by 8 am. there was a lovely inservice at work, about 5 or 6 hours long, but of course we didn't leave when it was over. hell no! half the staff stuck around to play in the water, which was fun. i got my two-week requirements all done, and we jumped off all the platforms. this is where my bruised butt comes in. i jumped off the 10 meter (which is what, 30 feet? something like that.) it was scary as all hell! it took me forever to work up the nerve to go, and i think i landed a little wrong, because my ass has been hurting all day since. i'm not going to be doing that again for a while. i can handle the 7 meter, and the 5 meter, but 10 meters is pushing it... anyway, it was fun. and then after i went to brenda's, and we played with paint balls! curtis was down in the yard and we stood up on the deck, getting the paintballs wet and squishing the paint into the grass below, while he picked up the ones we dropped and chucked them at us. it was so fun, although of course i splattered paint all over myself.

alice in chains - no excuses

ohhh, okay man that was cool. i took a nice little three-hour nap and just woke up a little while ago, and now i'm thinking that friday was yesterday and today is a completely different day. which it's not.
it's weird... today was the last day of school (fuck monday, no one's going to that.) but it didn't feel like it. it feels like i'll just be going back on monday, for another long-haul week, looking forward only to the weekends. which would not be cool. i am so thankful for this. summer is here! the sun is here for me to take advantage of! the only obligations i have to keep are ones that i want to keep!
i'm hungry man. i need to go find some food, then off to work i go!

phantom planet - california

you'd think everyone in my house was angry with each other, with all the doors slamming shut all the time. but no. it's just the wind, sending every door left open crashing shut with enough force that you imagine the house shaking.
the vines won't be on tour with incubus in august... instead, we get sparta, which i guess is okay. but i did want to see the vines.

swingin' utters - soldier boy

Good solid build, this ripe young kid has sharpened up for killing men.
Polished new shoes and uniform not a bad sort "just came here on a whim"
And now our soldier boy is missing home and now our little boy dead as a stone.
Big toothy grin,
peach fuzz on cheeks,
snow-white combed hair,
lanky physique.
Mobile, but awkwardly made-up like some ol' wannabe debutante.
And now our soldier boy is leaving his own and this old rag-tag neighborhood has folded up and gone.

ryan told me that jamie left to disneyland today - i'd forgotten about that! she's coming back on saturday, so i won't be able to ask her about chris's party until then... it's sad.. i probably won't be going, my mom made some big ol' father's day plans with the whole "extended" family. but i'll ask, see what comes up.
i got a jones juice bottle cap with a skull and crossbones. it made my day.
my mother is so silly. she comes barging into my room to make me watch an old gilmore girls episode, "the one where dean invites rory to his wedding!" and so we watched it, and during the commercials we raced to the kitchen and made ice cream and i hid the choco sauce from her and she got angry. it was amusing. then she made me get out my yearbook and show her the pictures of all the people she knows. "wow, grace got really pretty!" yes, mother, that's what i've been telling you all year.
now i'm tired, but there's still much to be done tonight... so sad... there just aren't enough hours, yeah?

gin blossoms - hey jealousy

yeahhh, so there was that whole work thing, and then the book thing, and then the pool thing.
i keep falling asleep smelling like cigarettes. yeah, summer.

soul coughing - circles (acoustic)

whoa, hey, so the last few days have been pretty awesome. friday was all tommy's party and stuff, watched reese witherspoon get raped and tommy's little brother beat the shit out of a pirate. (damn, i just realized how thirsty i am..) anyway, then i came home and guess who's back from college!!! yeah, that's right, brent is! so i ran off with him, tra-la, and we drove all around and talked and caught up with each other and made plans for this summer. and i looked at the new nifty things in his room and listened to his stories and, well, i only wish i were going to college now instead of next year.
then yesterday i was working again, and we were all talking and stuff, and anna was telling me about the band guys that live above her apartment. she was like "oh yeah and they're having a concert tonight, you should come." turns out she lives underneath shane and kyle from the divorce. so me and this girl from hawaii that just started working yesterday went to the concert, and we hung out at anna's apartment for a long while after the concert talking and chatting and all that good stuff. around 2 am the guys upstairs came home, stuff was falling over and anna and i decided to invite ourselves to the party. everyone was drunk off their asses, and no one actually knew the people living there. jimmy, the bassist, moved out a while ago but he was the only one there concerned about all the people. so he was walking around being party control. jimmy is the freakin' coolest, by the way. so he goes up to us and says "okay, just ignore everything i say for the next ten minutes." and walks around making the announcement that the party's over, everyone out. so the apartment went from cramped to about 10 or 15 people. anna and i left around 3:30, and as we were spreading blankets out on her floor, we saw the cops pull up outside and start talking to the guys out smoking on the balcony above. party was over =( but jimmy's a smart guy, i was real impressed with the way he handled things. the cops never even went upstairs - people just cleared out. woke up around 9 this morning and came home, it was all around a very awesome night. but i reek of cigarettes and i feel gross.