i am currently obsessed with zombies

so we have this concert hall at my school where operas and symphonies perform.

guess what's happening there on feb. 3rd.

yep, the next logical step. Three 6 Mafia is playing a show there. i'll be there, being excessively white. yessssss...

"they say beauty's in the eye of the beholder. that's why i look in the mirror every morning and realize how fly i am."

in response to the Pres. Bush authorizing spying on American citizens, I'm posting the following statement in protest. copy/paste and continue the protest, if you wish. the first paragraph is pretty self-explanatory, the second paragraph is a list of keywords used in searching for "terrorist chatter" in emails/online. hopefully, if enough people post this, it will clog up the intelligence wing that gathers information on the citizens of this country.

I am an American citizen. I am not an advocate for terrorism. If called upon by my country, I would gladly defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Inclusion of the following list of terms in this personal web log represents my opposition to the President's domestic spy program as well as my belief in the Bill of Rights and my 1st Amendment rights of free speech.

Al Qaeda, Taliban, Iraq, assassinate, 9/11, bomb, plutonium, George W. Bush, POTUS, uranium, target, airplane, train, bridge, tunnel, ship, building, kidnap, Afghanistan, explosives, C4, nuclear, infidel, Allah, Satan, suicide bomber, echelon, New York, Washington DC, White House, Congress, Senate, satellite, Army, Navy, soldier, insurgent, Osama bin Laden, jihad, police, Secret Service, FBI, National Security Agency, wiretap, surveillance, and Carnivore…

first...
First break-up: technically jessica in 9th grade. technically as in that middle school way.
First screen name: itsme1010101
First self purchased album: umm. Cake- Fashion Nugget i think. i can't remember if my brother or i purchased it, but i'm going to claim it because i'm sweet.
First pets: a dog! it got hit by a car. wah wahhh
First piercing/tattoo: none.
First credit card: just gift cards, no real credit cards.
First true love: EDIT: i can now let the world know. my first true love is jessica lindsay burris.
First enemy: garland, this punk ass 3 year old that punched me in the mouth when i was 8. that kid blew.
First musician you remember hearing in your house: i'm gonna go with a safe bet and say santana.

Last...
Last car ride: i drove home from school today.
Last kiss: today.
Last good cry: i am a robot.
Last library book checked out: errrr, some books for my research paper by Elizabeth Loftus.
Movie seen: Undercover Brother, the other night, kind of.
Last food consumed: chocolate chip ice cream!
Last crush: uh, jessica right now? does that count?
Last phone call: from jessica this morning.
Last time showered: last night.
Last shoes worn: brown leather flip flops
Last item bought: cheeseburger, fries, and a drink, at carytown burger and fries
Last disappointment: this morning, when i woke up and realized i still had to go to school for 2 more days.
Last time wanted to die: a long, long time ago.
Last time you swore: today, at some point, i'm sure.
Last shirt worn: this red t-shirt.
Last website visited: elise's LJ.
Last thing you said: yay-uh.
Last song you sang: "3 Kings" by Slim Thug, Bun B, and TI
What is in your cd player?: Rachel's, "Systems/Layers"
What color socks are you wearing?: no sizzocks.
What Color of underwear are you wearing? blue and light blue patterned boxers. pretty hot, fo' sho.
What's under your bed?: a bunch of busted folders/school papers.
What time did you wake up?: 7:15!

Future...
Where do you want to go?: drive across country.
What is your career going to be?: writing a book about driving across country/something in the field of IR.
Where are you going to live?: depends on how much money i made off the book. if it's a lot, some quiet beach, maybe the Outer Banks. otherwise, Washington or New York or something. Overseas, maybe?
How many kids do you want?: not sure if i even want kids yet. i'll say between 0 and 2.
What kind of car(s): '95 Chevy Impala, black, tinted glass, 22s. yeah, i'll be pimpin' hard.

Current...
Current mood: laidback/happy about the end of school.
Current music: "In-A-Ga-Da-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly on the Simpsons (?).
Current hair: walker-esque.
Current clothes: red t-shirt, brown cargo shorts.
Current annoyance(s): this Bus. Calc. turn-in problem, and the Bus. Calc. and Japanese exams tomorrow.
Current longing: to hang out with this girl named Jessica i know.
Current desktop picture: a picture of trees whizzing by.
Current book(s): none.
Current time: 5:34

In other news, I have to go to school and take 2 exams tomorrow. Then I graduate on Friday! then graduation parties on saturday, then beach week from sunday-friday (i hope i have a good time!), then my uncle's wedding, then GMU orientation, then work/hanging out with people/living it up in the summer! GOOD GOOD TIMES.

so it's going to be George Mason University, i've decided. looking at everything, even the things i shouldn't have (i can't lie to myself and say they don't matter), it was the best choice for the position i'm in and what i want to do. it's not the ideal place i would like to go, but quite frankly, i have no idea where the "ideal" place is. so this will work. i'll be happy there, i know it.

so now you all know.

i should do that genetics now. school needs to end. now. i can't skip many, if any, more days or else i'll have to take those 3 exams i otherwise wouldn't, but it's going to be difficult to do that.

so that's it, there you go.

and so am i.

what have i been up to?

i visited st. mary's on friday of last week. it was pretty awesome. then on sunday i visited gmu. i was hoping i would hate it, but, alas, i didn't. so now i have to actually choose between the two. ehhhh. oh yeah, i visited roanoke on wednesday. they suck.

wednesday night i went to the hella/out hud show. hella was supposed to perform as a 4 piece, but one of the members had to fly out because his dad had a heart attack, and another member went with him. so just the bassist and the drummer performed an "improv/freakout" show. it was crazy, the drummer played a nonstop solo-ish thing, and the bassist occassionally jumped in with weird, skronking noises. out hud was AMAZING. crazy beats and effects, and the dancing. THE DANCING. yes, i danced by myself in place in the middle of like 200 people like an idiot. you should have seen it.

this week was pretty decent, but today was kind of weird. i dunno even know why, maybe it was because it seems like i barely saw jessica, and stuff. but i can't even explain it. there was just something not right about it. oh, i also got my job back and apparently am starting next week. whoops. i really wasn't expecting that and i feel really bad about it, and i don't want to go back so soon. i need to work it out with them somehow.

why must i only find things out about you from your blog? it makes me feel like i'm not being all i should be in our relationship. yes, i worry about you, because i worry about everything, but i'd rather know at least what you might be worrying about than having to guess, or find it out from something you write after like, hanging out with me. okay? i guess i'm being pretty hypocritical by writing this to you in my blog, but i'll talk to you about if you see this, too. i can see how you'd be majorly stressing out right now but please, please, please don't make yourself sick over it, literally and figuratively.

ok, i got that out of my system. i feel a bit better. i'm going to sleep to wake up to a better day tomorrow.

yeah, well, i guess some people might have made me update. pshhh.

whateverrrr.tr.

drama sucks. i don't really look like napoleon dynamite.


yeah, i guess it's just pimpin' as usual.


oh dag i'm in trouble
i'm gonna be kicked out my family tree.



uhh school's okay i guess.
jess came over for five seconds once.

confession time: I really like blink 182. Their value as a musical band was always vastly underrated.


aight that's it. Here's your freakin update, shane.

at 5pm, without knowing that they would do so, i signed onto my email, and found out GMU sent me an email notifying me of my acceptance.

so, for those keeping track, here's the final tally:

ACCEPTED TO:
-Roanoke College
-Transylvania University
-University of Montana
-St. Mary's College of Maryland
-George Mason University

REJECTED FROM:
-College of William and Mary
-James Madison University
-McGill University

5 out of 8 ain't bad...

i'm still not firm on where i'll go next year, but i think it'll come down to St. Mary's or GMU. both have their pros and cons. and, also, i'm still not 100% sure St. Mary's will honor my acceptance, after telling them i'm not puerto rican(?), but that probably won't happen. i'm gonna talk it over with my parents, and will probably have an answer within the week. it'll be swee as shi.

"Admission: Refused- Below Acad. Standard"

thanks.

rejected from McGill. i just found out people that apply there usually also apply to Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and Duke, so i'm not as surprised as i would have been a couple of weeks ago. but still, i'm not enthused.

it's all good though.

EDIT: by the way, St. Mary's thinks I'm Puerto Rican, for some reason. I need to call them up and straighten that out with them. I hope they don't revoke my admission because I was either A) admitted (falsely) under affirmative action, or B) because they think I intentionally falsified my records or something. i doubt it, but that would suck hard if they did.

did AIM and AOL just crash for anyone else? because it did for me and dipen, and i'm totally going through withdrawal right now. ugh, it's AWFUL.


crap night at poker, too. but i'm still like 5 bucks ahead from the previous night.

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

After JMU screwed me over, I was feeling awful about my chances with the last three colleges I was waiting to hear from. But you helped me feel better about myself by accepting me to your school (only 20% of their students were out of state last year), telling me that I'm part of the strongest academic class to ever attend your school (est. 1840), AND give me a 2,000 dollar scholarship. In fact, I love you so much I just might try to go to your school. So thanks!

Your Pal,

Walker

thanks for rejecting me. really, it means a lot. thanks, especially, for telling me i would have made it in past years, but due to the fact you had 16,500 applicants, WAY more than you anticipated, and only left the freshman class with 3,400 spots, you ended up accepted less than 20% of the applicants, whereas last year you accepted 56% of the applicants. thanks for being more competitive than uva. if i wanted to get rejected from a good school, i would have applied there.

sincerely,
walker, that kid you fucked over.

well, i haven't updated in a while.

i still didn't receive any mail from colleges.
that's a lie. i got some scholarship forms to fill out from montana, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnddddddd....a rejection letter from william and mary. c'est la vie. i wasn't expecting to get in there, and even if i did, i didn't really want to go there. so woot.

my favorite blondie is leaving me for 11 days, too. tonight was the last time i see her before she goes around the earth and becomes chinafied. so that sucked. a little.

so, those things are kind of downers (wahhh wahhh), but on the upside....

our little language bowl team has made it to the semifinals! which is pretty amazing, considering our team (originally) started out with me, ballard, nate, and jackson williams. we had 17 years of spanish between us (though only one could speak it), 6 years of chinese, 2 years of japanese, and 3 years of russian. that's right, 4 languages. however, we have played with different lineups each day.
monday- me, ballard, nate, herb
tuesday- me, ballard, bailey, burks
wednesday- me, nate, bailey, burks
and now that we've made it to the semifinals, my entire team will not be here: jackson and nate are going to china tomorrow, and ballard is off to peru. therefore i've been forced to create a new lineup of unspeakable size and strength: me, bailey, burks, and tina. we will destroy tomorrow, just you watch.

and so i now wish all the kids going abroad a wonderful, safe time, and come back to me soon.

later, radiator.

even though i was one of the first people to be accepted into college in our grade, i'm getting increasing jealous of people that are getting college applications all the time now. especially people who are getting them from schools i've applied to. it makes me think i've been rejected from them. which i might have been, but i don't want to find this out through my supreme powers of deduction. i want to find this out in a tiny letter telling me thank you, but you're just not good enough for our school. it wouldn't be that bad. i just sort of want this process to be over with now. like the onslaught of homework i face tonight.

colleges: send me my letters! i want to know!

mm, weird French rap.

yesterday, today, and tonight were great. plan 9 is amazing. jessica is more amazing. combining the two makes for a devastatingly awesome time.

proof was great. 3rd st. diner was ridiculous, due to high levels of tiredness.

tonight was fun because i got to hang out with some old friends i haven't really talked to much in a while. i was probably really annoying, but i had a really good time. so, sorry.

by the way, if i didn't show you all earlier, i've recently been obsessed with this site: https://www.beige.f2s.com/lj.php. it automatically uploads the last 50 or so pics updated into livejournal. it's sometimes weird, sometimes hilarious, sometimes graphic, but always interested. i recommend it.

oooh, my favorite time of year is coming up...march madness. i love it, the franticness of the selection sunday, the upsets that always happen, the unknown players that come from nowhere to be tourney stars. it's the best thing in sports, and people should watch it. i will.

you know, thinking back today, i had to absolutely laugh at myself as little as 3 months ago. i don't know what happened, but about a month or two ago the overall narrative in my life went from distinctly negative to positive. well, actually, i know one pretty big factor in the change. yesss.

bye.

seriously, thanks to the faculty of the maggie walker governor's school for waiting till the second semester of my senior year to assign me the worst workload i've ever encountered since coming here. seriously, fuck you guys, fuck you all.

Due Thursday
-Bus. Calc. HW
-Annotated Bibliography/Notes for Losen
-Late McGuire Essay
-Late Genetics Lab

Due Friday
-Another Genetics Lab
-McGuire Test
-5-7 Page IR Paper
-Japanese Quiz
-2 Page Law Seminar Opinion

Due Next Week
-Genetics HW
-Another Genetics Lab
-Rough Draft of Losen Research Paper (minimum 5 pages)
-Japanese Quiz
-Make Up Bus. Calc Quiz


Even Furthur In the Future
-13 Pages of Law Paper (April 6th)
-ANOTHER FUCKING LAB (also April 6th)
-Final Draft of Losen Paper (week before spring break)
-McGuire Court Case and Brief (week before spring break)
-other shit i can't remember because i'm about to go nuts.

i'm probably not coming to school tomorrow.

today, i woke up at around 10:15 or so. i had overslept, because i didn't set my alarm, and no one had woken me up. the surprising thing was i woke up naked, on the floor of my bedroom, in a pile of clothes. i have no idea how i got there. i don't think i rolled out of bed, because i was facing the opposite way. i also don't actually remember getting into bed, or getting undressed for bed (i sleep naked). it's a baffling story. i'm betting either i was sleepwalking, or i just passed out and slept on the floor of my bedroom and don't remember it, because i was pretty tired last night. i dunno, that was crazy.

so, i've been asked to update, but i haven't really had much to talk about, so meh.

on thursday, i turned 18. that was pretty cool i guess. lots of congrats and whatnot, so that was fun. and now i'm a legal adult. woopwoop. that afternoon i drove around in my car with eric, luke, and herb, looking for something to do. didn't find anything. spent about 3 hours doing this. it was cool though.

friday, we had school and junk, and then afterwards jessica and i hung out a bit, went to the parking lot to discover i had left my car idling in the lot for the ENTIRE SCHOOL DAY. with my doors unlocked. sitting right next to lombardy. i'm so glad no one stole my car. and that it still runs. stuff like this has been happening to my car a lot lately. i wonder why? ;) then we drove to short pump to investigate fixing her iPod. which we did. then we went and rented Them! and Creature From the Black Lagoon in preparation for our good dinner/bad movie night. Which was majorly awesome and fun. those movies were so bad, ahaha.

yesterday i went to school to help schuler with the Middle School Language Festival or something there. I was in charge of helping the kids with origami. talk about irony. every thing of origami i've ever made has been defective. but whatever, i got extra credit for it. after that ended i went out to eat with jess, katie kelly, jake, sara el-shall, and ballard at kuba kuba. that was a lot of fun. then i walked back to my car to find i'd left the lights on my car on while we ate. see, i told you. :P
anyways, then i came home, hung around for a bit, then a few of us decided to go to jackie's. i went beforehand to hunt for another bad movie. the worst movie ever made. PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, which i now own. oh my god, it's amazing. anyways, i came back and hung around the house for a while longer, then finally made it to jackie's at 9 or so, all worried because jessica, who i was supposed to pick up, never called me or picked up her phone. finally we called her house and found out she'd fallen asleep. hahaha, it's all good though, because she finally showed up, and we watched animal house. and got trapped by chelsea/tatum/jake in a very comprising position as jackie's dad came downstairs. i think we win for awkwardest moment ever. anyways, then we all got kicked out at 11, and i went home, watched PLAN 9, then slept.

today is hw, hw, hw. I've got to have 25 PAGES of notes for Losen by Tuesday. I'm glad she decided to assign this to us on Thursday of last week. argh, i hate this project, just because she gave us NO TIME to do it. then i have this electrophoresis lab i need to do by monday, and an IR paper to start thinking about. if either of us get time, jessica and i are going to get together and bear witness to the glory of PLAN 9 together today. other than that, it's hw all day long. wooooooooo.

there's a reason jessica appears in my life so much now. it's a good good thang :)

it's my birthday tomorrow.

that's right, 18, biotch.

just to let everyone know.