Song of the Something:

Paper Planes by MIA.

Download it. Freaking catchy.

That is all.

Aqua Rescue

My friends and I popped by the beach today to hang out a bit before we headed our separate ways. We went to our usual spot, a large mass of rocks that overlooked the sea. The wind was cold and strong and the waters beautiful, as was not unexpected. Jama found a tiny dead crab that we poked at until its back popped off, and after that we admired its guts before it was thrown back into the sea. (Or, really, Jay tried to throw it back, but the wind ended up slamming it into a wall of rock. Not a pleasant way to deal with a carcass, but there wasn’t much we could do. No one was about to suggest a proper burial). Fais kept his distance from the crab though he did curiously poke at it with his car key a few times. Not that he was disgusted, but he has general sea-creature allergies and was adamant about not suffering from them that day.  And who could blame him?

So, after the crab sorta-dissection and hanging out more, I discovered a long line of something that I first thought was clothesline string. It was simply hanging off one of the rocks and it was really long, and the rest of it was down in the water. I ignored it at first, but then curiosity got the best of me (I take after cats that way, I guess) and I jumped onto the rock and picked the line up and gave it a tug, not expecting anything but…well…the rest of the line.

The Scribe Issue #2!!!!1!!!!11

It’s out! And it’s been distributed! To everyone! Students! Staff! Even other high schools (soon)! And it looks great! And we got awesome feedback! Everyone’s impressed! And everything’s really cool!

‘Cept, of course, for the fact they didn’t include my goddamn ‘Letter from the Editor’ page!

I’m seriously ticked off about that. I put in an introduction and everything and asked for student feedback and stuff. It’s practically the only thing I wrote myself, not counting an interview with me. (Jay wrote up some questions and actually tape recorded my answers but later I just typed up the answers myself, since it was easier than transcribing my verbal version). I’m glad that interview was made or else there’d be no mention of me in The Scribe save for my name in the credits list. Frickit, I don’t understand why it wasn’t included! When I saw the layout before it got sent to printing I saw it there and it was the first page, just like it should have been. I know I saw it…at least I hope I know I saw it. How it got to be the only missing page in the whole damn newsletter is perplexing and, quite frankly, making me agitated just thinking about it. (I didn’t yell at anyone in school though. I was actually fairly calm about it, seeing as it was too late to correct it anyways).

Other than that, and a few random typos and missing photographs, the end result was pretty freaking cool! And much better than our first issue. (I will be sending copies out to y’all faithful readers. All three of you.)

Almost Done…Almost

Well, needless to say, finals are coming up soon. My ecstasy over this particular fact is eternally boundless, so the soothsayer hath said.

Actually I kinda am looking forward to the finals. I’m happy that I’m not taking any math or accounting courses this semester, so that makes things a little easier. What sucks is that I have five finals to study for, which is definitely a little crazy but not intolerable. I start on the 30th and end December 3rd…can hardly wait! Woot! And woot again! *Woots around*

Besides that, not a heck of a lot’s been going on besides the usual. Basically: Go to school, hang out, go to class, hang out, stay ’til 6:00 (or even later) ’cause I finish late every day anyways and then go home. Lather, rinse and repeat until eyeballs say ‘uncle’.

On a random note, I could really devour the entire cafeteria right about now, but am too lazy to go buy something to eat. In any case, I’m heading home in a few minutes. (That, and I have my doubts that the cafeteria is still open). We should really stock the SRC with food next semester so we can pig out in the room we happen to pretty much live in and save ourselves trips to the often over-crowded cafeteria.

I’m feeling pretty good though, now that I finished three assignments in one day. That’s a record–I have never utilized my six-hour weekly break this efficiently before. Maybe I’m learning? (Now watch me procrastinate myself to Hell next semester. Or why wait ’til next semester? An entry or two from now you’ll no doubt hear my wailing as I cry over not having enough time to study for my exams because I was too busy succumbing to the clutches of the evil Internets. Sometimes I wonder if the Amish are onto something.)

Well, I’ve done my bit of rambling for today. Just felt sorry for this place ’cause I haven’t updated in a while.

Ciao, fellas.

Frickity HELL!

There is a fly in this room. A BIG one by the sound of it. It’s buzzing…and I don’t know where the hell it is!

Every time I hear it, I turn around and it’s quiet and I see nothing. I turn back to the monitor and it buzzes again. This fly will feel my fatal wrath if it lets me see it, this I promise you.

Quote(s) of the Day:

I should make these a regular feature, I hear the weirdest things at school a lot. These two are compliments of Mikey:

Exhibit One:

My fingers are collapsing!

This was his sudden statement when he and I were playing Speed (the card game, not the drugs!) after we had gone jogging around the soccer pitch. He was tired and was trying to give an excuse as to why he wasn’t being as fast as he usually was during the game. He cracked me up so badly I almost cried.

As for the next one, I’ll give the context first:

Moodey, one of our friends, has a rather pleasant habit of always having some kind of chocolate or candy on her that she passes around to us. Yesterday she bought some small chocolates that looked like mini-chocolate eggs that were wrapped like bon bons. (Those wrappers that look like bow ties, you know?) I didn’t have any, but apparently they were so awesomely good that it made the ever-quotable Mikey saunter up to me, stick the chocolate in my direction and proclaim:

If it rained in Heaven, the drops would be these!

Chocolate: God’s Gift to Mankind. And apparently what divine rain is made of.

O Fortuna!

This happens to be music I’m dead in love with. And then someone had to go and put ‘lyrics’ to it.

And it’s so damned funny that I just had to post it–even though now I hear something about ‘cookies’ when I’m not supposed to.

Honestly, though, it’s soooo good for a laugh–check it out!

Three Darts is TOO MUCH!!!

I will never. Never. Never. Never. Procrastinate again.

That’s a lie. I probably would. I know I would. It’s one of those things I refuse to learn from my history in my own life.

Still. Right now, honestly, I really think I’ll never do it again.

GAH!

So, how have you all been?

How About this Heat?

Well, quite a bit has happened since my last update.

My friends have adopted a new way of greeting one another. (And it’s not just greeting really…it’s more like something they’ve picked up and do whenever they can’t think of anything else to do).

It involves humping the air suggestively and going “ooooookaaaay!!!”. They picked it up from some (I think) Japanese dude who calls himself Hard Gay. He wears a leather gay outfit that shows off a lot of his legs and he goes around trying to help people. And his signature move is…well…humping the air and going “ooooookaaaaay!!!”. So, more often than not, if you’re strolling innocently into the SRC you will be greeted this way. Only, thankfully, my friends have not adopted Hard Gay’s outfit. Because that’s just disturbing.

We have also finished the SRC elections. Our new president is a Qatari dude named Sulaiti—-big surprise there I’m sure. Our new VP is a Pakistani girl named Asma. I voted for neither but knew they’d win anyways. Hopefully, they’ll be better leaders than our last P/VP duo. Not that last year’s VP was bad—-she was great really. Our former president left much to be desired though. We’re pinning our hopes on Sulaiti being a much more efficient leader. There’s that and there’s also the fact that we now have seven (that’s including me) out of fifteen SRC members who are close friends, so that should also help a ton.

The Scribe hasn’t been sent to the Marketing department yet due to some editing that still needs to be done on the part of one of my graphic designers. So they should hopefully have everything in to me by Sunday and the issue should be out by the end of next week or the beginning of the week after. *Crosses fingers*

Well, I’ve got a huge report to write up and I’ve got my uncle’s family coming to visit really soon…and I wish they weren’t because I really have a lot to do and no time to entertain. This is what happens when you procrastinate–see? Guh.

Happy Halloween!

I had a great Halloween yesterday. It was the first time in a long time I actually celebrated it. I reserved the clubhouse at my compound a week ago and yesterday my friends came by at around 5:00 or 5:30 (though they said they’d be there by 4:00, but they’re never on time).

My uncle, his wife and his two little kids also came to visit us yesterday, and it was good to see them all together again Batoul and Hadi are the essence of cute. Even Batoul dressed up a little—-my mom put some makeup on her after she saw me having my own face done. (I have to give mucho amazing props to my mom for the awesome makeup job as well as the fact she lent me her custom abaya-with-a-hood to wear over my black clothes).  I even took Batoul to see my friends and they even took pictures next to her! Heh. She’s so cute.

Here are a couple of pictures of what I looked like, albeit maybe a bit blurry:

Isn’t it awesome? I didn’t really know what kind of look I was really going for, but I guess you could say it was quite Mortisha Addams inspired. (And Marilyn Manson inspired too, really, heh!) I was wearing a black sleeveless shirt, black pants and black boots underneath the abaya as well as a couple of black bracelets, a long necklace and dark blue nail polish. I was also supposed to be wearing a ring but I took it off when I was washing my hands at home and forgot to put it on again, so I went for the day without it.

We had a really good time. I got my laptop and we watched Russell Peters’ new comedy routine. (Red White and Brown). It was pretty good—-but damn if the guy doesn’t curse too much. What was funny was that there was a kid in the audience that he noticed and he poked fun at the dad for bringing him. (Honestly, what was that dad thinking?) But Russell Peters is a good way to kill some time when you’re hungry and the pizza’s taking more than an hour to make it to your house. We didn’t even order enough of it–we were fourteen people in all and only three large pizzas, some drinks and a couple of salads made it to the table. The only extra food was some chocolate cake and some finger food (pigs-in-blankets, fatayer and spring rolls) I got from my house. Honestly, next time I should take care of the refreshments…my friends are notorious skinflints and don’t like spending a lot of money so they end up under-buying sometimes.