day before easter

today we were supposed to go on a bike trip on the New River Trail with the scouts, but it didn't work out because.... drum roll please... it was snowing! yeah. halfway through April, it's snowing. so that was disappointing. but now i get to stay home and do nothing, which is good! i think...

tomorrow's easter! this is the first year we haven't dyed eggs. i'm not sure if that's symbolic of something or just because we didn't feel like it. the dye didn't smell good, and your hands weren't the same for a week. I like easter, because it's not about the presents and is therefore less commercialized than christmas. holidays should be about what they represent, not about how much money the CEOs make during them.

can't you see i'm trying
i don't even like it
i'd just like to get to your apartment
now i'm staying
there just for a while
i can't think 'cause
i'm just way too tired.
<--the strokes (is this it>

first day of spring break!

so, yeah. today was our early release for the first day of high-school break. it was really fun, at least at first. above is a picture of jessica about to fall on leah's face out of a big tree on the duck pond.

So it was fun. until we went to squires. Leah was drawing on my shoes, with her gigantic bag of sharpees, when a policeman walks over and begins to tell us about how graffiti destroys the university. He said they were cracking down on taggers and that he would need all of our info. we had done nothing remotely destructive to property today, or any other day for that matter. so yeah, after that, we were free to leave. but it still freaked me out that because we "fit a profile," we were accountable for our age-group's sins. he came up to us and his first words were "are you all the kind of kids who ride skateboards and tag buildings?" like they went hand in hand. they don't. and we aren't.

"listen, son
said the man with a gun
there's room for you inside

yet again, it's been a while since my last post. i think i'm finally getting rid of my computer habit. whether that's good or bad, i don't know. I did get a new camera because my old one, which i had for 2 1/2 years, broke. it's april fools day, but i didn't come up with any stupid pranks to play on people, mainly because it's a sunday, and therefore i won't see anyone today. I don't know why i felt like posting today, because i really don't have much to say.

Well, my new camera is very cool. it has 6x optical zoom, 24x digital, which is like 3 times better than my last one. it has the best macro function EVER, and you can set the focal distance, aperture, shutter speed, iso, and anything else you could possibly want. it takes VGA quality video, but on my 512 mb card it can only take 4.5 mins. anyway, i love it soo much, and will be frequently posting new photos on flickr, if not here.

"Who says a funk band can't play rock?" --Funkadelic