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yo yo....ive just seen one of the best movies of my life, i suggest EVERYONE go see it....."Crash"

yo yo....if anyone wants to play roller hockey with me at pecks pond lemme know, i decided i am going to play there as much as i can from now on

What up. Another action packd night here in Rockland led me to wake up to the sound of my parents leaving. They are going to Lake George for a wedding leaving me and my sister alone and in charge. Slightly scary. I feel like I should be walking around with alcohol in hand or run a brothel a la Risky Business. But, I have no desire to do any of these things, I feel more like eating something and going back to bed. Later I'm tutoring kid number 3, who's father owns Romolo's on 303. Hes a pretty inteligent kid, which is nice, and I enjoy tutoring him, but then there is the perk of his dad running a very nice restaurant....Today he is going to provide me with a free meal to take home. That's gonna be sweet. You know what else is sweet? I have no obligations for the night. Except tutoring, I am free of things to do which is absolutely excellent because I can just chill, something I feel like I havn't done in a long time. I'm always running around.... so before I do nothing all night, a checklist for the week:

1. Take Ricky and Adam to get Tuxes
2. Get a haircut (open to suggestions for what to do on this one)
3. Do my research paper (not as important)
4. Music Awards on Thursday (who will get what??)
5. Money is due for something I'm sure.

And thus I can relax, if not for one night, before I have not so much to do all week.

P.S. Who is the Amazing Kreskin?

yo yo....on the way home from dr/modells today with my mom i had a weird thought....i had to poop bad and i was thinkin how if we got into a car accident, and i got hurt and we had to wait for an ambulence, i would probably crap my pants at some point, whether while waiting for them, or on the way to hospital

p.s.-another trip to see star wars again saturdayish

yo yo....i am in pain. For past 2 days my left hand has been insanely itchy/burny...i have no idea why. It gets worse and worse. There is no visible difference in my hands, although terrible itchiness, i even awoke from sleep havign to scratch. I wish i could be on ER and let them take care of me, i wanna go to the ER but mother says i gotta pay a big deductable. So i hope somethin happens to me that i gotta to to ER (will eb fien of course) and then after they fix me i can say "hey, my hand is itchy too, can u take a look at that?"

What up. I tried to post today in Math, but to my shock Blogger has been blocked. So I emailed myself a short post, for everyone to enjoy.

Liz hates Daves pizza. I think I'm going to blog in this e-mail and then post it later. Actually I don't have much to say except nicole is so cool and i love her and i'm gonna do her math report for her because she so deserves it--and she can't type. Note: That was Nicole writing, as revealed by the use of 'and' every two seconds, and the "---". Speaking of math reports, score one for me. I picked Math and Music, and since I know everything already I wrote an outline in five seconds. I still have no desire to do it though. And I also don't have a desire to do my English paper, although its going to be an excercise in egotism since its 10 pages on yourself and your life. Good one Schneidy. Ok I'm done with this. This is Joefi saying.......[blank stare, shaking head no].

So there is my post within a post for the day. Lovely. Back to pretzels and dip and a stressful half week.

yo yo....it was truly amazing. i was speechless for a good 10 minutes after the movies, and i'm never speechless after movies. I laughed, i cried, and i enjoyed every minute of it.

yo yo....tomorrow the world will be a different place, just wait and see.

What up. Seems like a long week ahead, although its actually only two more days until Star Wars. "How delightful" (A la Stewie). Now, where was I....oh yeah, eating some delicious baked ziti, and watching some Family Guy, good times. I watched Big Fish today with Nic, very good movie I thought. Tim Burton was completely out of his own mind when he made it, its the oposite of his style, but I thought the end result was visually impressive and a very good story as well. Very enjoyable. Jazz Band was fun as usual, and a host of college kids are returning (including the Ask Madden staff) which means more fun times. Now if only my cheesecake wasn't gone.

yo yo...so i applied for job at the puppy store and got it, trainign woudl eb thursday morning, i also applied at the gap but i was referred to the hiring manager to meet with him at 3 on friday, which i also have a pretty good chance at getting, what should i do with the overlapping days?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIZABETH!!!!

Only one week remains until Revenge of the Sith. Very exciting. VERY VERY exciting.

What up. Back from Cornell, and life is very good, despite some minor things keeping me busy. The tutoring industry this time of year is booming, since finals/regents mean parents are scrambling to get their kids to look good. Personally I hate accepting responsibility for a child's performance by getting paid to force knowledge where it won't stay, but hey, its good money and it gives me a chance to have my sarcasm appreciated. Speaking of sarcasm, I love Mr. Schneider! His final project is awesome! No seriously, wtf mate. Well, it could be worse. We could have to research some dead guy and read his books; instead we get to bs an entire project based on someone we should all know pretty well (and be able to put at least a good spin on): ourselves. Another chance for sarcasm appreciation I guess. Speaking of appreciation, thanks to Vincent and his roommates for letting us (Adam, Matty K and myself) come over and spend some quality time in Cornell. The dining hall was, as usual, the most amazing food experience ever. Though I heard NYU may be putting up a good fight....Stay tuned!

yo yo....it is now less than 10 days until star wars, everyone should be deciding for themselves what snacks and outfits to wear. Me and mark decided today that we will eat at Red Lobster before the movie, and to arrive at the theater no later than 10pm to secure seats. Now, where do we want to sit? The middle provides probably the best view although people will be around us all over....the very last row provides optimal privacy but probably not as best vewing, same thing with the sides. Any thoughts?

What up. Cornell is good, woke up coughing like crazy because I slept in the same room as Matty K, and apparently his festivities went on after I fell asleep. We were watching Blade before I decided underground vampire rave parties, and Wesley Snipes induced bloodbaths couldn't hold my interest for very long. So I woke up in a daze, coughing, staring out the window into College town. I showered, put on some clothes and went to get a bagel. Not sure what is was I came back with, but it certainly had no right to be called a bagel. Good thing I am bound to the city of pizza and bagels, because they suck here. So I'm in Vincent room, where Adam moved from Vincents floor to his bed because he is still asleep, and will be for many hours to come. Even as I type away he is completely out. Yesterday we saw The Game and Snoop Dogg on the slope, rap concerts are interesting. A lot of fighting, but I think that was mostly because the concert was a billion intoxicated college students put on a slippery incline, falling on top of each other. Hey, who knows anyway. This weekend has been fun so far. And me and Kevin made amends, sort of, which is definitely a plus. So in honor of the armistice, I will make my final statement in RC language: Zach misses Summer, and hopes she is having a good time back home. Joefi out.

P.S. RC names are copyrighted by Life in the RC. "...you must accept however, that these are merely generalizations."

yo yo....quote of nite

me: "vincent, didnt you ever play with colorforms when you were little?"

vincent: "no, i didnt play with things when i was little. Honestly, you know what i played with? pots....i had a pot drum set....and i had a vacuum cleaner with the little beads that made a noise ::makes impression of noise:: and i had a broom....i was obsessed with cleaning"

yo yo...at cornell with jofi and matty k

yo yo....so i'm home from school for good (yay!) but more importantly i had probably the CREEPIEST dream ever last nite...i am gonna recount it, so turn back now if you wish.



I was in this room with no windows with jenny, eric brenner, ms Bianco, Gong, vincent, steve and 1 other mystery person. For some reason someone had to be killed, and 1 person was picked to be "safe" a la american idol. I was picked safe. However, that mysrerty person started to convince everyone that i really was the one who had to die. I pleaded with everyone to understand that this person was only gonna double cross them all later. I was telling jenny that this girl was tryign to get it down to them two cuz she knew she could defeat her. They didn't listen and decided i had to die, cuz of this person's influence. A bunch of them went to separate rooms will i decided how i was gonna kill myself, and i started to cry at the thought of having to do it and realized i coudlnt. I dont know where i got it from, but i got a several sticks of C4 explsovies and strapped it to myself and called everyone back in and told them if i go they're all comign with me. Everyone preapared and eric mixed the chemicals for me cuz i was scared(my dream c4 involved intricate chemical mixing) and then boom.

yo yo...so i am just about finished packing, my mom is coming tommorrow afternoon so i can put crap in her car and then i am driving myself home( i have my car here). no more school ever again!....until september

p.s. i find that everytime i see a star wars commercial i stare and at the end always say something aloud without realizing it...like "oh my god" or "holy shit" or "i wanna make sweet sweet love to a lightsaber" etc

What up. Family Guy was awesome and funny and I was cracking up. Truly the greatest show. Just had to say that. Four days until I'm 18.

yo yo....just got back from probably my bestest city adventure EVER! long day, lots of events and new relationships, lemme elaborate
So me steve jenny brittany went down to the bronx at like 12:30 where before we left my dad had to tell a few crazy stories since we had our crazy story contest the nite before, the funny thing is when i asked him to tell a story it started with "well, the other day..." so then my dad dropped us off at the A train station and we went down to time square. Right when we got out of the station some guy said to brittany, "nah, ur REAL pretty." so that was the quote of the nite. We walked to all different shows to see wat tickets are available and we settled on 12 Angry Men when we saw it cuz me and steve are big 12 Angry Men fans.
12 Angry Men was AMAZING. i loved it very much. Very good show, i was so focused on it beginning to end, i think i like straight plays better than musicals. Plus a few actors i knew from other stuff so that always makes it surreal, like the judge from rounders, the dad from blank check, and the main hack from OZ (kevin knows who i talkin bout). AND the set was absoluteely amazing, probably the most realistic set ive ever seen. Also it did this cool thing where the whole set moved likee 15 feet to the right when it had to make room for an extra room that came into play, very cool. Next i want to see The Pillowman. anyways, on with the day
So after we settled on getting rush tix to 12 angry men we took the train down to china town and walked around trying to find this particular restaurant. We ate there, got tons and food and its awesome cuz brittany is one of the best eaters, girls or boys, she loves everything except pretzels and will try anything. So after that we shopped at a bunch of little chinese shops and i bought a gold chinese getup, pretty cool I think. there was also a martial arts store! Then we went down and saw the show(see earlier). Afterwards we were walking down the street and saw kebob(sp?) stand for ONE DOLLAR! we were freakin out, we spent like 10 dollars theree at least. as they were cooking all our food we were doin free advertisement for them cuz we were that pumped up. So we ate our food and then decided to be silly....we would stand in front of a store all holdign each other and smiling as if we were taking a picture, except there wasnt anyonee taking a pic, it was preetty funny watchign people look for the cameraman or watching people wait to walk in front of us. then thee WIERDEST thing happend....brittany put her umbrella down and this guy was walking down and put a piece of paper down right in front of it that said "garbage". we were SO freaked out....then we moved to a new location doin the picture thing and these guys passed and they looked confused and one said "OOOH, its a joke!" and then we started talkin to them and we became friends! their names were zev and josh, wee got their numbers and we're gonna hang with them next time we'ree in the city, so they acompanied us while wee just did weird things for a while. After they had to leave we were about to leave but then brittany realized she lost her camera, we retraced all our steps and somehow found it! So then we took the subway to the car and went home and concluded the best city trip ever.