GUESS WHAT?
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No, guess again
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Keep guessin'
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ok I'll just tell you

We got a new kitten!

Got him  few days ago. He doesn't have a name yet. My mom is working on a list but we can't decide. We're really bad with choosing names. It took us a very long time to come up with our second cat's name (Pud).

Some of the names we got:
Fivel - My mom or dad. I dislike this one but they seem to like it...
Colby - I think this might be after Stephen Colbert, but somehow I still don't like it.
Leland - ???
Reese - Not sure if it's supposed to be the candy or the Malcolm in the Middle character
Dewey - This suggests that Reese is supposed to be the character.
Snickers - This suggests that my dad had a train of thought going that led from TV to candy.
Duke - No.
Dup - Never.
Slate - ???????
George-Michael - Not the singer-songwriter. The other George-Michael. This was my suggestion for what we name Pud. I don't think my parents like it.
Tobias - My suggestion too. After Doctor Funke.
STEVE HOLT - The best name.

Of course, the names I suggested are gold. But my parents don't necessarily agree. I personally would like if he was named Steve Holt. He's very affectionateand unlike our other cats doesn't mind being held. I don't think they're too fond of him. He is competition for our attention. Pud runs from him usually when he sees him.

Woah! Look!

That means new subject.

Christmas is next week. I have mixed feelings about it. For one thing, I love getting off school and getting presents is nice. But on the other I'm absolutely terrible at figuring out what to get people and deciding what I want. Although...I would like a segway (not segue, like the one pictured above). That's not happening though. I could sit and think all day what to get someone but I probably wouldn't be abe to come up with anything...Oh well

Woops. Time to wrap it up.

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Bye.

My last blog was unnecessarily depressing for no reason. So hopefully this one isn't.

Yesterday me and a few friends went to see American Gangster. I enjoyed it. If I had to compare it with another movie, I'd have to say it's very similar to Mrs. Doubtfire, if you replaced Robin Williams with Denzel Washington, and Pierce Brosnan with Russell Crowe. Also, insead of trying spend time with his children and proving to his wife that he's a good actor, Mr. Hillard starts a heroin empire and becomes the biggest drug lord in Harlem¹, and instead of trying to marry Mr. Hillard's ex-wife, Stuart is one of the few honest cops in the city and is trying to bring Mr. Hillard down. Finally, like Mrs. Doubtfire, American Gangster was based on a true story.

I suggest this movie to anyone who is looking for a fun movie they can watch with their family and just forget all their troubles (It is extremely violent).

 

Our school has a small TV studio thing and every day we do the announcements and stuff. It's a class too, and we make intros and stuff for it. This is my first opening.

I can't figure out how to embed it. This is a link.

I hope that worked. I am quite happy with it.

I can't think of anything else to say...

Well, Christmas is coming up. I'm terrible at determining what people would want. What do you guys want so I can buy things for you?

¹He still dresses like an old british lady though

It all started Thursday, February 22nd, 3 weeks ago. I don't remember much about what actually happened, but I remember checking myspace and seeing that I had a message, which made me happy because I don't get many messages. So I was especially surprised when I saw that the message was from Gene Stupnitsky, a writer for the show The Office (His Page), and even more surprised that the subject line was "An Offer". I was kind of excited. Gene's message introduced himself and said that they had an episode coming up where they'd need a drawing of Dwight, and he added "I think your Toby sketch is uncanny and we were wondering if you'd be interested in doing a drawing of Dwight for an upcoming episode." He described what the picture should look like and said they'd need it ASAP as the episode would be filmed the next week. I responded immediately and said I'd be interested and had a bunch of questions to ask him.

So a little while later I saw I had another message from him in response to my questions. This was his answer to my questions in it's entirety:

"call me at [phone number]
-gene"

So I just sat around for a while not knowing what to do.

Eventually I went upstairs and told my mom about it. She asked if it was real and I told her it was. She had me call the number, still not entirely sure it was real. I don't remember much about that conversation, except that Gene seemed really nice and that he said he really like my drawing of Toby (Paul Lieberstein, His page) and had printed it out and hung it up on the wall of the writer's room.

(Paul Lieberstein left me a comment thanking me for making this picture)

 

This was confirmed much later by Kath of Give Me My Remote when she visited the set a week or so ago. Gene said for the specifics of the drawing I should call Kent Zbornak, the Co-Executive Producer (My mom wasn't sure who that was and did an IMDB search of him). Gene gave me a phone number an office of some sort where stuff happens, and also Kent's cell number and email address. He told me to tell Kent that he (Gene) told me to call and get a FedEx number so I could mail the picture to them afterwords.

I don't remember anything about talking to Kent, but according to the stuff I wrote down as he was talking, Kent gave me the size of paper I should use. He also told me I should call James Kerry, who according to IMDB is various combinations of the words "Production", "Coordinator", "Office", and "Assistant". He gave me a phone number for the office, and said that he'd call James and tell him I'm calling or something.

I called James and he said he'd go get the specific requirements and then call me back. It was very exciting when the phone rang and the caller ID said the call was coming from California. He gave me extremely specific information on what exact kind of paper the drawing should be on. My mom ran out and bought three of that kind of sketchbook. He gave me the FedEx number and an address for the office. He also gave me a phone number for an office.

Note: This number is the same number that Kent gave me, which is the same number that Gene gave me. James also asked for my email address and mailed me a bunch (2) of clearence forms stating that they own the picture and are free to use it in any way they please throughout the universe. Note: I'm not joking. It said universe.

So I found a picture of Dwight that looked kind of like what they seemed to be asking for. I worked on it for many hours, and my mom said I could take off school the next day if it wasn't done. The picture didn't seem to be working out so I ripped it out of the book and threw it away. This would prove disasterous. So I found another picture of Dwight to draw. Many hours into the next day I finished it and my parents took it to some place to mail it (About a week or so later I found out my mom also mailed a drawing I did of Jenna along with the sketchbook).

A week later, having heard nothing back, I emailed James and asked if they got the drawing. He said:

"We got the picture. It looks great!! We are waiting to see what the
Producer thinks. I'll let you know"

So, fast forward to last night (2 weeks later). After waiting for so long, and realizing that this week or next would be the last week of shooting for this season, I decided to just ask someone. So I sent a very apologetic sounding email to Kent asking whatever happened to that. I got a response quite early today:

"Your picture was wonderful (it is pinned to the bulletin board of our Executive Producer's office) but unfortunately it was not used for the episode.  We ended up using a drawing of Dwight that looked more like a police mug shot that worked better for the story.

Thanks for all of your extremely hard work as well as being a fan of the show.  Hopefully we will have an opportunity down the road to use your art in a future episode.

Best-

Kent Zbornak
Co-Executive Producer
THE OFFICE"

So there's that. I'm guessing if I had stuck to my original drawing (Which was more what they were looking for), they might have used it. Many people told me that while I was drawing it but I didn't listen to them. Sorry those of you!

But, this means I have two drawings hanging up somewhere around The Office set, and that they'll be keeping me in mind for the future.

Also, I'm 99% sure I know what drawing they are talking about that they did use as I've seen pictures from other people's set visits.

And that's all I have to say about that.

 

PS: Don't ask for any of the email addresses or phone numbers.

Today we went to the Steamtown Mall in Scranton to meet Rainn Wilson. It was a 2 - 2 1/2 hour ride, so we got up at six o'clock to get ready to leave at 6:30. The ride over was quite fun, once we were actually in Scranton.

We didn't do any sightseeing, though I wish we had on the way home, but we did get to see lots of advertisements for things like Froggy 101, Montage Mountain, and such. We went under a bridge and saw a huge moral dedicated to The Electric City. We passed the Raddison, which looks nothing like I thought it would. It was really close to the mall.
We went into an underground parking garage, wich strangly contained a Boscovs. It was an extremely small room with walls entirely made up of windows. The people who came:
My parents,
My sister,
My friend, Sam,
Her parents,
My other friend, Alex,
A friend of his whose name escapes me,
And Alex's mom.

My parents chose now to reveal that we'd be recieving some presents early. They gave me and my friend both Dwight bobbleheads to get signed. Then we went up the escalators and walked out of Boscovs into the main mall. One of the first things we saw were two easels set up with large advertisements telling that:
a.) Rainn Wilson would be appearing today at the center court
b.) The hair cutting place will be offering commemorative Dwight Schrute haircuts for $6.00, and for a limited time.

Naturally, we had to pose in front of it.

There were some escalators going down near here, so for some reason we went down one, then back up to where we started.
Farther down the path, we saw the main court. It was an amazing sight. The whole thing was set up for an appearence by Santa Claus, which made the whole thing that much better. There was a big stage with a gigantic Christmas tree that reached way into the air. In front of the tree was an archway with "Santa" written on it in big golden letters. There was a railing around the stage, and it had stairs on the left and a ramp on the right. Fake snow adorned it around the edges. It was quite festive.
The most striking feature of all though, was the large sign hanging above the tree. I'd say it was at least 3/4 the size of the tree itself, and it had a picture of Rainn's headshot on it.


We got there around 8:30-9, and hopped right in line. There were about 15-20 people in front of us. I'll say now that I stayed in that line until way past twelve o'clock.
To keep from going entirely insane in line, we amused our selves by watching The Office. We set up a creepy little shrine-looking thing with my friend's laptop, 2 season 2 DVDs, 2 season 1 DVDs, and my friend and I's bobbleheads. We watched The Client, Email Survaillance, and Performance Reviews. Then we watced the Arrested Development episode "Good Grief".
While we were waiting in line, Santa actually came for a while. It was quite funny, because he kept getting up, looking like he was going to leave, then another group of little kids would come and he'd plop back into his chair for some pictures.
In the line we started noticing the people with those tickets that let them go ahead of you start appearing. Now I had heard about these things, but I did not know just how numerous they were. By the time Rainn showed up, the number of people who got to see him ahead of us, despite the fact they had only been waiting for a few minutes, was well over a hundred. Not that I'm bitter.
Before Rainn signed things, he had a very short question and answer period. The people in line were asked to raise their hand, and if they were chosen, a microphone was handed to them and they could answer a question.





Alex was about the third or fourth person to get to ask a question. He asked something like "Did you try to distinguish yourself from the Gareth character in the British version?" Rainn, in a nutshell, said yes.

Some of the other questions:

Q: What is your favorite episode?

A: The Injury. He talked a bit about throwing up on the car.

Q: Is Angela similar to her character?

A: Yes. Then no, she's a very nice person.

Q: What happens to Jim and Pam?

A: They break up.

Q: Will Michael ever get married?

A: If you want him to. Everyone will get married. Jim and Pam, Dwight and Angela, Michael and......[Man behind me yells "RYAN!"]....Phyllis

For the first hundred or so people, the signing was very structured. A large, gray haired lady was constantly reminding people they could only get one thing signed. Alex took the haircut people up on their offer for a Dwight style haircut, but it didn't work out completely.

I don't think his hair was long enough to begin with. Alex and his friend also picked us all up some Froggy 101 bumper stickers, and Sam got herself some coffee from Jitterz. I'll try to list all the things I remember being signed later, because I don't really know the order. Also things of note will be later.
Eventually the line for people with tickets was closed, so that made us all happy. Once the first lowly, non ticketholding person was allowed to see Rainn, everybody cheered. That person was given a free bobblehead, and it was announced they had been there since 7.
This picture will help me describe the process (You can actually see me in this picture. I'm in the second line from the left, vertically in almost the exact center, holding a laptop):

When you reached the front of the line, a man in a brown suit who slightly resembled Ed Helms would usher a number of people towards the stairs. Only a certain number of people went at a time. Then a lady would tell you "one autograph per person", "have your cameras turned on and ready", and, "don't place anything on the table, just hand it to him." You'd walk up the stairs and stop next to one of the pillars holding up the Santa arch. The manager of the mall was there, and he'd send you, one at a time (at first), to meet with Rainn. The manager was extremely happy the whole time. The manager would take your camera so he could take a picture of you and Rainn.
Okay, then it was our turn to go up. It was great, because in a few seconds we went to the stairs, we were suddenly within 15 feet of Rainn. The stages was great, because it was still Christmassy, and there was a Crystal Soda machine off to the side when you walked up the stairs.
Alex and his mom were the first ones from our group to go. I don't know anything that went on with Alex's mom.
Rainn and Alex discussed his haircut though, and Rainn said something to the effect that he was missing the long hairs that curl around the front or something.

Then it was my turn! I had brought my picture I drew of Dwight to get signed. I was holding it on top of my sketchbook and it caught the manager's eye, who stood near the entrance of the stage so he could control people. He said something like "That's fantastic" or great or something, and then I handed it to him to look at. He was very close to flipping through my sketchbook, but I'm glad he didn't, since I was holding it backwards, and in the back are some very weird doodle type things. He asked if I was going to give it to him, but I told him I was just going to get it signed. Then I was allowed to go up to him. I don't really remember what he said, because I was quite nervous. He said something like picture was great and signed it.

He then took one of the small head shots he had next to him and said "Have one of these" and signed that too. Then we got our picture, which I do not like at all. I was ready to walk away, and then he asked my name. I told him, we high fived, and as I was walking away, he said something like "Keep up with the art work!"

Smilie face

Then my friend Sam went up. She was actually giving her picture to him. I was walking away, so I didn't hear what he said. She tells me she said "This is for you", and he said "Holey moley" or something, and then said "Angela will like this, I was just texting her".

Then she got her bobblehead signed and a picture taken, which she dislikes because it's perfect except that her eyes are closed. As she walked away, he told her to stay in school. Then he yelled "Stay in school!" to the people in the crowd in front of him.
My sister, who's not a big Office fan, but still likes it. Went up to get my bobblehead signed. She goes to college at Millersville and was wearing a sweatshirt of it. Rainn asked what Millersville was.

Then we went up to the food court to eat.
Elmo was dancing around in the middle of the food court, but was then replaced by a lady reading one page from numerous Christmas stories, to no one in particular.
Things really picked up after we got off the stage. For a very long time, we just sat at the balcony and watched

Rainn sign things. Some highlights from the balcony:
They decided that Rainn hadn't answered enough questions, so people were encouraged to write questions and hand them up to his minions on the stage.
The second question was "Is Steve Carell nice in real life?" Rainn simply answered, "This one sucks," and pushed it aside.
He would randomly answer questions throughout the signing process, but he slowed down towards the end.
The manager of the mall looked up at us and motioned for Sam to come down. She went down and asked why he called her, and she was given a free bobblehead in a signed box.

I think he called a couple of random people down for that. She was confused, but happy.
Someone asked him to recite the speech from Dwight's Speech. He couldn't remember it all, but he did turn to the crowd and say "WE ARE WARRIORS!"
He was also asked to sing Lazy Scranton. He only did a few parts, like the parking lot and including the audience in "Scranton" "What?" "The electric city"

After a while we decided to go down and watch from the crowed in front of the stage. We wanted to give him a note that said "Kath from givememyremote.com says hi", and talks about how Kath wanted an interview. It got up to the stage, but he never recieved it. We saw some of the best stuff down there.
We got really lucky here. We got to stand as close to the stage as we could, because no one else wanted to stand with a giant speaker obstructing your view. We eventually shifted over enough to see him though.
Someone asked him to sing Ryan Started The Fire, and he did, to an extent.
Two girls brought him neon green recorders. On the first one he played some song I didn't recognize. On the second he played "Mambo Number Five"

Every once and a while he would acknowledge the crowd. He looked in my direction and I gave him a thumbs up. The he started giving everyone in the crowd a thumbs up.
Some people where handed an Abercrombie and Fitch bag. A guy and girl were on it, and on the guy Rainn drew horns, a Hitler mustache, glasses, and a pointy beard. He wrote "This is me" under it. He drew a swastika on the girl's forhead.
Some near us asked Rainn to pose or something, so he lowered his jacket off his shoulders and made poses.

Four people asked Rainn if they could have the enormous banner hanging above the tree, or if that couldn't be done, go with one of their friends to the spring formal. He said he definately couldn't go to the formal, and he couldn't give away the banner since it wasn't his. The manager decided they could have it. I wonder how that went.

Somone on the balcony yelled down the question "What is your favorite character on Lost?" Rainn said Lock. Also, all the characters he didn't like had been killed off, thought the hobbit could die, as well as the short Australian lady. None of this means anything to me, since I don't watch Lost.
People near us (He addressed the people near us a lot) got him to take a picture of them with someone else's camera. Alex got a picture of him taking a picture of them while they took a picture of him.
A little kid who happened to be named Rain held a banner from the food court saying this. Rainn pointed him out.

I started wanting one of those posters advertising the haircuts, but we never got to ask the manager. What made me unhappy was that on the way out, those first ones we posed with towards the entrance had been taken.
The manager announced that Rainn could only see 30 more people. One of those people happened to be the little kid named Rain. Who apparently got to skip the line. They got a number of pictures taken.
Then Rainn had to leave. We were told he would be leaving in our direction. A huge group of people flooded into our area, and were all over him. We didn't get to wave or something to him, since the crowd was huge. We were still only 5 feet away from him though.
Some things I saw signed:
Bobbleheads
Calendars
DVDs
The British version of The Office
Two people got their shoes signed
A girl put her hand up to high five Rainn, and he signed it.
Pictures people printed off the internet

A picture of Dwight throwing up on his car

Rainn also recieved many gifts:
A shirt from a radio station that's not Froggy 101
A shirt someone threw at him
A Dwight Schrute nutcracker. It was very small. Rainn announced it was "A nutcracker for very small nuts. Sunflower seeds"

A hat with a crab on it
Some random hat
Sam's picture

Great thing:

Someone gave Rainn their baby and told him it was named Dwight. He held it up like in Lion King to show everybody and yelled something like "It's Dwight!" or something.

If I remember more things, I will add them, and post a bulliten alerting you, because I know you care. I'll also alert you when I get more pictures.

Some pictures that I don't know exactly what's going on:

I don't know where this was.



This sign was behind Rainn, so I never saw it in person.



Rainn had lots of water bottles.



This is the line when viewed from the stairs when we were about to meet him. You can see it snake around and come back.



The general crowd around him. I'm in this picture.



He got up a lot to randomly sign things for people in the crowd. If you look closely, you can see that someone is holding up a pretzel.





Probably taking a picture

Tomorrow will be the best day ever if things go right. If you haven't heard, Rainn Wilson will be appearing at the Steamtown Mall in Scranton (It's been mentioned on the show before). We plan to get there right when the mall opens at 8 AM, which means we have to get up around four. Which will be interesting, since we're going to a Christmas party today. At least I think I'm going. That's never been really said.

Rainn will be at the mall for a couple of hours. He will have a question and answer session for half an hour, then the rest will time for autographs and pictures. If anyone has a question you want me to ask, post it here, 'cause I've got nothing. I plan/hope to get my picture of Dwight I drew signed, as I have no Office merchandise.

It should be a rich, full day.

It seems like only a day or two since I last did this, but that's because it was, which is because I forgot to do it last Friday.

I don't have much written about yesterday though, so it's not too much.

Started the day off with more improv speeches. The first person to go is the kid who gave the "What is Love" speech. Expectations were high. He picked his topic and said "I'm going to be serious this time". His topic was his favorite book, which apparently is Holes.

» His 3 reasons why he likes it: It's awesome and it's about a boy named Stanley Yelnats who digs holes.

» Halfway through a sentence the 1 minute signal was put up, so he ends up interrupting himself and saying "In conclusion...."

There was a huge amount of boring "My favorite class/teacher" or "My best friend" things that made me sick.

» Two people actually gave up after 2 or 3 tries and took a zero.

None of the speeches must have been memorable, since I can't remember them.

Physics class is now.

» You Put One Foot In Front of The Other ISIMH (The teacher mentioned it)

» Class stares at a ball of tape for a while.

» Mickey Rooney plaed Santa multiple times if I recall.

» "Jimminy jillickers, jimminy jillickers, jimminy jillickers"

» A couple of people in our class say they can do the alphabet backwards.

» I hate flies so incredibly much.

» Science is fruity, according to the teacher.

Gym class is next. It's the class where I'm stuck with people I wouldn't normally have to associate with.

In spanish we had the greatest substitute ever. I'm not sure how to describe him, but I'd say "He doesn't care". In a great way, of course. He reminded me of some celebrity, but I can't think who. Not in the way he acted, but the way he talked. He didn't speak Spanish, but he tried, which was awesome.

» "Parko el butto" = sit down.

His pronunciation of Spanish words was the best. We took notes all period.

Math test.

Uninteresting lab in science.

Art

Learning in history.

So the school day wasn't that interesting, but at six o'clock I went to a friend's house for some kind of party for no reason. It was interesting. We watched "The Break-Up". It's one of those movies I'd never watch unless someone else was watching it. We talked during the whole movie, but it wouldn't have mattered, since the only memorable part of th emovie was the fact that (And you can re-watch it to confirm this) Vince Vaughn's character's hair line changed from ever scene, and occasionally between shots. Sometimes his hair was pointy, other times it was straight, sometimes he had a forhead the size of major football players, and other times his hairline was actually below his eyes. Also the movie ended weird.

Apparently this movie needs to be added to my ever growing list of "Movies Advertised as Comedies But Weren't":

» Bicentennial Man

» Buce Almighty

» The Weatherman (We watched the person's last party, thinking it would be hilarious good fun)

» Stranger Than Fiction

And another one I can't remember.

And now to address the "I Hate YouTube" thing.

Apparently I am not allowed to use youtube anymore because NBC hates me. The last straw seems to be my uploading a clip of Ed Helms on Late Night With Conan O'Brian. Why are other people allowed to upload clips from their shows, but not me? The clip of Andy singing The Rainbow Connection to Pam is still up. I need to find a new place to upload clips. I was thinking

But I've already uploaded too many big things there.

It's a great place though, I suggest all yous start using it.

Now I also need to find a way to compress my videos so they will be less than 1 GB....

The second part of my last blog. Starting where I left off.
That last speech was pretty unbeatable, as shown by the next speech: "Cheese"
I do not remember a single thing from this speech. But I think my note on it says it all:
» Meh.
My one friend was up next. His topic was "yourself". It wasn't very memorable besides the fact he messed up a lot.
He chose me to go next. My worst fears had been realized: The paper had stupid topics written on it.
» Favorite Vacation Spot
I decided to go with Miami/Disney World/Orlando. I spent my whole 30 seconds to think about my topic scribbling on the provided piece of paper and drawing a little monster eating the words my friend wrote for his speech, and making an arrow pointing to it saying "Look at that!"
Most of my topic was stuff I remember Dave Barry saying about Miami.
The only things I remember saying was "There are lots of drugs in Miami, but you can avoid them if you don't go to people's houses while they are using drugs", and "I got my picture taken with the princess. It was a great weekend."
» Smash Mouth's "The Fonz" ISIMH*
Physics was so boring I almost died.
Gym was as exciting as walking on a treadmill for 30 minutes sounds.
Spanish was boring too. I slept.
» 10 minutes into Chemistry, we start to take notes.
» A song I cannot identify from The Nutcracker ISIMH.
» The teacher makes a joke about Beryllium. Seriously.
» Quote: "Anyone here into rocks and minerals?"
» One kid is, and takes out a book on rocks and minerals.
» 15 minutes into the notes, we have written down 7 things.
» Quote: "Be aware of hydronium."
Lunch, then art class, and I remember nothing from either.
In history, we finish "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington."
» Everyone in the 30s had an awesome voice.
» Jimmy Stewart has a healthy hourglass figure when he is leaning on his desk.
» I'm waiting for Smith to say "All those who oppose, say 'die,'" and pull out a gun.
» Simpson's quote: "It appears the senator has yeilded the floor."
» I also want the president to come in and say "I'm the president of the United States and I demand to know what's going on!"
» That's it?....That's the ending?
» "Mr. Smith's vote for a boy's camp was lost in the House of Representatives by an overwhelming 90% majority against."
I don't remember the rest of the day.
» *ISIMH = Is stuck in my head.

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That's it for Monday.
Now for "In General"
I'm currently working on a picture of Dwight to take to Scranton with my on the 17th and get signed. If I would have to describe the picture I chose, I'd say this:

There are so many pictures I want to draw once I'm finished with this. I need to make a picture of Captain Jack Sparrow, though I can't find the right one. I also need to make one of Kevin Mallone to mail to Brian and get signed. And a picture of Pam.
Speaking of drawings, here is one I finished a while ago for a teacher at the elementary school I went to:


Finally, I "snuck" onto my parents computer and procured the following pictures:











The grayish one is GOB, and the little kitten is The P?d.

That is all.

I meant to do this Friday, but I forgot, and this actually about yesterday. They are more boring notes from my day.

My first class was "advanced speech", where we make speeches.

We were supposed to start doing improv speeches today, which were the only things I have ever looked forward to in school. Basically, everyone in the class wrote three topics on a slip of paper and they were put in a tin can. You picked a piece out of the can and had ten seconds to choose one of the topics to talk about. Then you had 30 seconds of planning time. After 30 seconds you stood up in front of the class and had to give a 1-2 minute speech about your topic. If you said "um", "uh", "like", paused for too long, or your speech was under a minite (even by one second), you had to start your speech over.

Unfortunately, some people still weren't done with their "special occasion" speeches. Here's notes from that:

»According to the speaker, we work in an office.

Okay, apparently I only had one note. It must not have been that memorable.

Improv speech notes:

»First person's topic they picked out of the can: "Your best friend"

»Ew.

About this time I started realizing I could be forced to discuss a dull topic.

»Girl mentions Flavor Flav in her speech.

»She says um a bunch, enough that this is her fourth try on the speech.

»MTV = Bad

»Is that Flavor of Love commercial with the old man in the viking helmet saying "FLAAAVOR FLAV!!" available on the internet anywhere?

»More boring topics. I forget them though

»Next topic: Sports

This speech was pretty good, because the person couldn't get through his first sentence without say "Uh" or "Um". At one point he started his speech with the word "Uh".

»Uh's remind me of this "Mayor Quimby is my er uh..fatha'"

»The kid used up his ten chances to complete the speech.

The next speech was the best one of the day. The topic chosen was "What Is Love?"

I can't convey it's greatness with words, but fortunately my one friend captured it on his phone:

I don't feel like writing the rest because I already did and then myspace shut off and didn't save the info.

I ended up the whole body and almost all of the hair.

There ya go. It's kind of right.