I got up at 11
I sat outside on the deck and read … I got sunburnt
I ate weetbix, and cheese, and star burst
I drank pineapple juice and iced tea
I talked to my mom about her friend from school who died yesterday
I waited for my dad to take me for a driving lesson
I talked to my friend Alex who’s going to England in August for a wedding
I studied for a test I have to take for work tomorow
I watched Heat, and Jon & Kate Plus 8
I chatted on aim, I surfed the net
I downloaded 3 albums (Forever Sickest Kids, David Bowie, La Roux)
I listened to some podcasts (Adam Carolla, Rachel Maddow, diggnation)
* I want to camping with my friends for a week, in the woods in tents and no proper bathroom. I haven’t been camping since I was like 10, but it’s heaps of fun.
* Ride a horse … I’m going to Texas for a week in August, that’d be a good place to ride a horse
* I’m going to try and learn guitar again, but this time I;m going to make myself stick with it for at least 2 weeks before I quit
* Get my license, and a car, and then go on a road trip ….. hmmm i want to go to Connecticut!
* Read a bunch of books …. I want to read East of Eden by Steinbeck, On the Road by Kerouc, Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut, and Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell
60 minutes did a story this week about what makes a person gay or straight.
I was not an overly girly kid, I played lots of sport and loved climbing trees, but when i was 5 my best friend was a girl who had lots of barbies so I asked my mom for a Barbie for my birthday. Mom compromised by getting me a Ken doll instead … it seems funny to me now that my mom probably didn’t want me to play with Barbies in case they made me gay, so she got me a macho sexy guy doll instead.
It’s interesting how they can makes rats ‘act like a female’ by castrating them and giving them hormones. But I think scientists should focus on making the rats dominant, we need more tops in the gay world.
Watching this report made me think of an idea for a movie or a book. What if scientists found the ’cause for gayness’ and they developed a cure so essentially there were no more gay people. 50 years later everybody is straight but people start to notice how music and art has become really crap, basically the cure for gay has erased the creative part of peoples brains. There are no more Oscar Wilde’s or Leonardo DaVinci’s or Katy Perry’s. Then there is one gay, he is immune to the cure for some reason, and he is really fascinating to all the straight people because of how he dresses, and how he can dance and his wicked sense of humor …. basically he’s a hybrid of David Bowie and Hugh Jackman. So everyone decides the world actually does need gay people, and they stop giving babies the gay cure, and everyone lives happily ever after.
I was thinking about getting a job this summer so on Monday when i was in Pacsun buying a shirt the assistant was this really friendly girl so I asked her if they were hiring. She told me they’d be hiring for the summer soon, and i could fill in an application form. So I filled it in right there and handed it in. My dear friend Ben told me that whenever you’re applying for a job you should make any work experience you have seem really important, so I wrote down how i work at the restaurant and I used lots of big fancy words like ‘customer service’ and ‘work ethic’ on my application.
Well this afternoon my mom called me at lunch to say Pacsun called and said I could go down this afternoon to meet the manager, which i did. He was really cool, asked me about when I lived in Australia, and if I ever surfed. He asked me why I wanted to work for Pacsun and i said because it was my favorite store, and cos the people who worked there seemed nice and easy to work with. Then he asked me if I buy many clothes from Pacsun and I said ‘yes i have a few shirts and a couple of pairs of boardies’. He asked me if I ever use other Australian lingo, and i said ‘oh yah heaps, like I say pluggers, and sunnies, and singos’ … and he bascially said right then ‘dude, we have to get you working here’. So I’m doing a couple of trial shifts starting in June, and if that goes well I’ll be working this summer. Pretty sweet hey?
I had the weirdest dream last night …. my friend Ryan got cancer, and we went to visit him in hospital. I made him a tshirt that said ‘DON’T BE EMO, IT’S ONLY CHEMO’ on it. He laughed at it, so we decided to make a bunch of the shirts and sell them at school for charity. Our principal tried to ban us, but by the end of the dream he came around to us.
It’s weird I thought of that in my dream, cos I actually did use the ‘emo / chemo’ line in class the other, when this girl was going on about how we’ve been messed about in math this semester (our teacher quit, and we’ve been getting a different sub each week). It sucks, and we’re going to be screwed next semester, but on the plus side we basically just sit in class and don’t do any work. Well this girl, Mia, kept going on about how it’s going to screw up her credits for next year, so finally I spoke up & said ‘jeez, I know people on chemo who aren’t as emo as you’. it doesn’t make sense, but pretty much everyone laughed. I probably heard it from somewhere else. When we were going to our next class Jordan told me Mia’s mom had chemo, but he was just kidding, the sick cunt.
I got the bus home from school with Josh today, & this little Chinese lady sat in front of us. She was having a good old conversation with her self, & she took out this little bottle of rum & took a few swigs. I thought it was pretty funny, but Josh was shaking his head & telling me its not funny. He can be a bit patronising sometimes. Then the Chinese lady dropped her bottle of Tide on the floor & it rolled all the way down to the front of the bus. so I picked it up for her. Five minutes later she turns around & says ‘were you the boy who picked up my laundry detergent’? I said yhe, she said here & held out her hand, I said no, she said ‘yes, here’, so I took it. It was $10!! at first Josh said I was an asshole for taking the money, then he said he should get half. i didn’t give him any money though, I’m not silly.
I can honestly remember hating reading until I came across this book. It really is a great book, the style is a lot different to any other book I’ve read. It’s basically about Grover telling you how there’s a monster at the end of the book, and hes begging you not to keep turning the pages, cos hes scared of the monster. Everytime you turn the page Grover yells ‘WTF are you doing, I’m telling you theres a monster at the end!’. He starts building brick walls & using ropes to try and stop you from turning the pages, I thought it was hilarious that I would turn the page and Grover would be buried under a rubble of bricks. And lets face it, Grover is the coolest dude ever, I was a huge Sesame Street fan, and Grover is my favorite character.
I was babysitting my neighbors kid a couple weeks ago and i saw he had ‘the monster at the end of this book’ so i read it to him I can do a pretty good Grover impersonation I have to say. the kid loved it, and now he comes up to me & puts the book in my lap for me to read it to him.
I think it’s rich of Perez Hilton to make out that he’s a big gay right’s activist. He is always outing young gay celebrities on his blog, which is a pretty horrible thing to do. That’s not just hurtful for the celebrities that he targets, but it makes things a million times worse for young closeted teens who read his blog and think ‘holy shit, that is my worst nightmare, coming out is scary’. Making the decision to come out is a personal one, and no one has the right to force someone else out of the closet.
I wonder what Miss California means by ‘in America we can choose same sex marriage or opposite marriage’ … umm cos I can’t choose gay marriage. Maybe she means individual states can choose. Apart from that, I don’t think her answer was too offensive, that’s just her opinion. I’m sure that 50% of Americans agree with Miss California, and we’re not going to sway those people to the right side of the argument by calling those people bitches and cunts.
I’d still like to know why Miss California is against gay marriage, she said she beliefs are based on what she was ‘biblically taught about gay marriage’, but there is NOTHING in bible about gay marriage, the sacrament of marriage didn’t even exist in biblical times. So when Christians say ‘I’m not against gays, I’m against gay marriage’, that’s complete bull shit. By the way, Miss California was also asked on MSNBC if taxes should be used to pay for welfare (ie. the sick and the needy) and she said she was against that, so she really sounds like she’s an awesome Christian.
I’m going to Australia in a couple of weeks, so i’ve started compiling a list of food i want to buy there and bring back to Maryland with me (I’ll probably keep adding to the list)
When I was about 7 I decided I want to be a chef. I always thought that when I finish school I would just go to work in my grandma’s restaurant, and eventually run it myself. That is still basically my plan, I want to go to culinary school for one year in Maryland, and then I’d like to move to New York or San Francisco for a year to work as a commis or a line cook in a fine dining restaurant. I don’t really want to run a five-star restaurant, I just want to learn some of those traditional techniques you can only learn from working at a fine dining restaurant. Then after a couple of years I’ll move back to Maryland and work with/for my grandma.
So that is basically my plan, I think it’s a pretty solid plan compared to a lot of my friends, they’re just going to go to college and take a few courses, eventually choosing a major.
Quite a few people have recommended that before I go to culinary school I should go to college and get a degree in business first. ‘You have to know business to run a restaurant. That doesn’t sound very good to me at all. Maybe after culinary school, I could go to college part time during the day, and work as a chef at night. I’m know even sure what a business degree entails, I’ll have to go to a few colleges and find out.
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