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hmm. what to say? well first off (tracing back in time a bit) id like to thank everyone who made my birthday special. i had written a post previous to this thanking everyone individually but sadly i forgot to publish it before turning off my computer.
anyway- Surprisingly i dont find this summer to be as hardcore as i thought it would be. It hardly even feels like i've graduated. i mean i walked up there, went to parties, and now have no obligations to north rockland high school, but it doesnt feel any different. Graduation, wasnt that big of a deal.
My favorite event of this past month would have to be prom. Our senior prom was AWESOME. If anyone out there went and didnt enjoy themselves, they need to get hit with the encyclopedia brittanica. THe music was loud and tres dancable and the floor was packed, full of people having a good time. I found that this was much better than our junior prom.

whoa i really havent blogged in a while

On Sat. i shall depart for a trip across the atlantic to Ireland for 7 days and then to my heritage in Scotland for 3. Sadly, Liz left on sunday for her C.O.P. and i most likely wont see her on sat. b4 i leave. so i will not have seen her for 16 days, which totally sucks. a lot.
It sorta weird that im actually looking forward to COMING BACK then i am to leaving. i mean i know im going to have a good time on the trip, but, i dunno, it will be nice when i come home.

im sad. oh well. time for mark to go sulk in his room. goodnight everyone.

This time I'm telling you what's up. I'm not exactly sure when, but sometime tonight my room was raided. Though all they did was rearrange some of my clothes and put some things were they don't belong, there is a certain sense of security you lose when you come back to your room and things are not where you left them. You also subsequently lose things that may not mean much to whoever did this, but mean a lot to me. Tonight I lost a brother. At some point during matt's stay at my house tonight another individual was let into the house, whom he believed was also to be trusted. Apparently this was not so, and this person thought it would be amusing to rob the family of its feeling of security right under mat's nose. Of course this looked bad for Matt, especially in my fathers eyes. My dad no longer felt Matt could be trusted, and although I feel differently there is nothing I can do but respect his wishes. He is no longer allowed here alone as he once was, the code was changed and remains a secret within the immediate family. Perhaps it was over reaction that caused this. Perhaps it was stupidity on someone's part. Perhaps both. All I know is that trust was lost tonight, and there is blame to be shared. My family has lost a member because someone felt it would be amusing to take security away. All I can do is apologize to Matt. This is not his fault. He is always welcome. That's all I have to say. I'm sorry.

Its a nice day for a white wedding
yo yo...so i just got back from my FIRST wedding! it was mary elisabeth's volleyball coach's wedding. it was exciting at first cuz there was a possibility coach dwyer would be there, but she asked and he wasnt coming. But it was still pretty cool. a lil different than i pictured from movies, mainly the vow part. They never said the "____, do you take_____ to be ur, etc" the reception was cool, lots of good food, be4 it we drove around singing rent, and she had her disc 1 , yay! its cool singing it with someone else when its a song with a male and female part.

As i'm writing this i just realized something....for this wedding, and the last wedding i was supposed to accompany someone else to, BOTH times i was the SECOND choice for a guest......forshadowing anyone?

What up. Shall I blog?

MusicaLvLcy61311: please do!

The request of Nici Paggs leads me to write some amusing anecdote and witty rhetoric to entertain the electronic masses. A few updates for the restless fans of Joefi's every changing life (If they exist, or care). School is out, summer is on, everything is cool. I've just achieved a job as a janitor as Thiells this summer, making a decent amount of money a week, so I'm quite pleased. The hours are a tad killer though (6:30 AM to 3 PM) but I'll certainly manage. Today was my moms birthday, so to celebrate all the members of my immediete (Al, dad and mom) and extended (Matty K, Morg) went out for a little chinese/japanese mix. Apparently unknowingly I was being verbally abused by some people at Nici Paggs place. No hard feelings of course, I think. Or was I? Meh, I stopped caring already. Sushi was really tasty tonight. Afterwords spent some quality time with Morgan, blogging now, and will spend some quality Conan time with my brother. Alright too much writing. I promise I will blog more. Seriously. Don't laugh at me. Stop it. Ok, fine. Be that way.

[UPDATE 12 AM] Nici Paggs, nor any member of her get together verbally abused me in anyway.

yo yo....so its almsot 6am and i am up. why? oreo. i was couging a bunch and woke up...i loked at clock and thought it said 5:30 pm, i just wondered why no one called me and let me sleep this late, i grabbed my fone and found out it was 5:30 AM. weird. i gotta get to bed...

yo yo...i prolly shoulda talked bout this before, but last day of skool was other day. Sayin goodbye to friends is hard but its nto real goodbyes, that comes in august/september. I think the hardest goodbye i gave was honestly to Coach Dwyer. After the signed my yearbook i shook his hand and told him how much i loved his class and how he encouraged us. He said he wish he had more kids like me. Durin all this the words barely came out, i was getting all choked up. I love that man....

yo yo....gee willickers batman, i did so much today. First i woke up and tagged along with jofi as eh dropped his car off at dealership and drove him home. Immediately after had the senior meeeting, sucked, tho i didnt get kicked outta any honor societies. Then immediately after that went to court. fun stuff. During it a huge fat old guy in a wheelchair and with an oxygen tank came in...and guess what his violation was?? child porn! hahaha....so afetr that i strolled the streets of hackensack for about 30 minutes trying to find where i parked my car. I went home and went to eat with cent, then me him kayven and mark went fishing at bear mountain. Vincent caught 2! one was pretty big. After that i went home only to go to danny coleman's hosue(steve's child hood friend), steve wanted me to meet his friend liz from Mississippi, danny had some people over, it was cool, they're an interesting bunch. for those of u that might know him u'll know wat i mean. And now i jsut finished Snapple Apple...so that tops offa nite!

Me playing flute

Damn. Its really all ending. It weird, I like everyone else im sure has been waiting for so long to finally get out of this high school, town, house for four long years. But the other morning it really all dawned on me. Ive spent my whole damn life in this town. I grew up here, and no matter what itll always be my home. While im totally excited and happy to go to college and start the next part of my life, im actually really sad. Our senior class started out with like 600 kids in it and now we have 480, of which i maybve only am really friends with 20. Prctically of all the people I see everyday i will never see, talk to, or even sit next to ever again. An most of these people i grew up with. Thats a really scary prospect. Leaving some of my best friends so that ill only see them for a week every couple months is crazy. I know ill never lose touch with some, but most i will never, ever say anything to ever again. No matter how much people like to bitch about NoRock and how its so gay, this is our hometown and its really made us into the people we are today. And maybe that doesnt matter for most people cuz theyre getting the hell out of here, but i doubt this place will ever leave me. Make this summer great.

What up. Sadness is beginning to creep in as I realize my friends will all be gone come September. When I conducted this morning I felt this surge of power, like things were changing all around me. I know I'm going to go into music, its what I have to do, and I felt a little bit of my future as I led Wind Ensemble in playing. It was a good feeling, powerful, but at the same time I saw my friends leaving and going off in different directions (after most of them go to Albany of course....Ha), having lives, being happy. I know I can't hold on to them forever, its just not feasible, but sometimes I wish they could always be around. Maybe its selfish, maybe its just normal, but as I conducted I saw my life unfolding with the music, like a symphony, with different movements and different emotions in each part. I hope you guys know how much you mean to me. I hope you all have great success wherever you go in life. I hope that this isn't the last time we can all be together and have a good laugh. There is always a time to say goodbye, I just don't know how. Maybe there is no right way.

yo yo....did u ever notice how the signatures in your middle school yearbook are so short when compared to when your a senior in high school? its 4 years or more of memories buoyl into one page or less of writing...

BUD LIGHT: You're laid back and low maintenance - a
people-person, who wants everyone else to be
having as much fun as you are. You make
friends and jokes easily, and though you're
definitely a smart ass, you're good-natured.
Every man's beer for everyone's friend.


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MILLER LITE: You're not pretentious, but you have
certain expectations of the people you spend
time with. You're a fun person, though, and an
unconscious flirt. People enjoy being around
you, even if you don't treat them kindly. A
beer which is an only choice for some, but
liked all around, for a person who is picky
themselves but well regarded.


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yo yo....katie...if u readin this, i am extremely jealous about the card dwyer gave you...i offer a large cash reward for it

What up. Oh my god where have you been Joefi? Why no blogging?? What kind of sandwich is appropriate for this occassion? These are just a few of the many questions I've been hearing, so I move to make my triumphant return to blogger after a totally useless absence. Where shall I start....well for starters Hoyers has decided to lay me off by ignoring me. Sigh. On the upside I may be getting a new job as a janitor for the district at Thiells, making 10 an hour. Word. I've just realized I don't have much else to say, so I'll be updating when I do. Holla back.

yo yo...jsut gotta share something incredibly funny nici pags told me. SHe was tellin me how for like the past week her dad has been fallin asleep on the couch with a metal baseball bat in his hands. He always sleeps on the couch, but the bat thing is new. She asked him where he got the bat from, he said"i found it in my bag", she asked why does he always hold it, he just shrugged. She said when he leaves he keeps it between the cushions so its there when he gets back! o man, thats so great!

yo yo...funny joke i heard a comedian say. He was talkin about how scary it is when you are waiting for the results of the AIDS test, so he describrd his own "roundabout test"..."i called my friend bill, and said 'bill, do you know anyone with AIDS?', bill said no, i said 'cool, cuz i know you'

yo yo....today was madd confusing. after 3rd i had an agrument with mark and kevin cuz we have gym on opposite days but i was convicned i had gym today. Now 1 day i have fisics period 6, lab 7, gym 8th. the next day i have fisics 6th, then nothing rest of day. So i thought it was a long day today. But after fisics i was jsut chillin outside the class and i saw julia walkin way with her books, i asked where she was goin, she said gym. i was liek huh? she said we had gym(or i ahev eary dismissal). BK, who alternates his fisics with my non fisics cuz he in AP confirmed that i in fact didnt have fisics anymore. vinny said somethign bout sleeping through 2 periods yesterday. When i thought bout it i rememrb sleepign a lot yesterday and the period seemign loner(could it be i slept through 2 periods?!). and also i had no idea wat we were goin over today, somethign we apparently learned yesterday. SO, i either slept through the second period yesterday, or jsut went hoem after the first period and mr leung didnt notice. lol. eitehr way i cut dwyer's class by accident...i'll hafta apologize

yo yo....today rocked! we had touring choir tonite and jon roth was there cuz there was a board of ed meeting and mr roth brought jonathan...so jon sang bass with me! we slapped a white shirt on him and he rocked ass!