An Odd Series of Events
Well, first of all, I must admit that things have gotten remotely and progressively better since the week of last. I visited The University of Akron on Monday with my dad, which was a change. It was okay, I wasn't in much of a college mood, but I got to go visit with my cousins/aunt/uncle in Wadsworth. We spent the night there so that the drive was only about twenty minutes in the morning. I also had yucky Sweet and Sour soup, yummy Chewey Chocolate flavor icecream, and watched a two-hour-long documentary about the JFK assassination. Magic bullet theroy and all.
So Akron itself was okay. Really nice campus, no traffic weaving within and whatnot. Also, they had the nicest rec center I've seen of any college I've visited as of now. A really cool swimming pool with a lazy river and an actual whirlpool thing (I wanted to try it a lot :-D), and TVs corresponding to different exercise machines, and you could plug your headphones in and listen to it. I think if I exercised more (which I wish I did) I would definetly need something to keep my mind off of stopping. Oh well. Also, we met with a bunch of music people, and the experience was very personalized, and overall, very nice indeed.
Lessee... Monday night consisted of Honors Band tryouts. 11 trombones (I think). Two scales. Two selections. Two bands. Who makes the cut? Only the finest... I did okay, figured out the scales after the first guy went in, 'cause they give the same scales to everyone. (I'm a dirty rotten cheater) And not that anyone reading this cares, but I couldn't hit some high notes on the first song, and missed a few accidentals the first time around on the second. Oh, and I got to see some old aquantences (friends of my friends) and Sagan from that NYC trip Scott and I went on... I wonder if I'll be seeing her at any of the practices and stuff... oh well. But more on that later, I'm trying to tell things as they happened.
Next, Tuesday. We have an Academic Challenge meet. I do better than usual, and I'm pleased with myself. But we still only win 3/5, while the Varsity wins 5/5. Woo Hoo! Go Varsity! I'm quite pleased with them. I also saw Mrs. Boone's son, and I haven't seen him for a while. He's great. He seemed very hyper.
The next day, I hear that I got first chair in Honors Band. I'm stunned. Not expecting that at all, but I'm still quite pleased.
Umm... anyway, to get to the point of why I wanted to write a blog... Friday night, Katherine and Marissa Lunt, Seth Young, and Sarah Dye (and David for a bit) all got together to watch Elf, which is a quite humorous movie, by the way. Anyway, they were working at the Ohio Theatre, so we didn't start watching the movie at my house 'till 11. So when it was finished, it was somewhere around one. Marissa took Seth, and Sarah, Katherine and I all piled into my truck. Sarah called her mom, and her mom warned us about deer. Now, one of my greater fears is that I will someday hit a deer, so this was more than enough to keep me being cautious. Plus, the roads were rather slick, and the air rather foggy.
Anyway, we get Sarah home no problem, and we make it back to Loudonville no problem, and when we get to the Marathon, I say aloud "Well, I suppose a left here would be faster", and then Katherine says, "Yup. Straight it is." I decide to go straight, thinking of the elongated time I get to spend with Katherine. Good plan so far. But I'm still nervous and watching for deer, since I've come remotely close to one around this area before. Then, right after passing Pizza Hut, I notice these headlights glaring in my mirrors. Considering I was the only one driving on the roads, I had been going 35 so as to be safe, and look down at the speedometer, confirming so. But, seeing another motorist on my tail, I speed up while being confused as to why they aren't passing me in the other lane. Then, it happened. The blue and red lights begin to flash, I freak out, and Katherine calmly guides me as to what I should do. Calmly, that is, until I tell her I don't have my liscence. I figure this is okay, since my social security number is fairly simple, and embedded into my brain. Anyway, this officer comes up, and asks me if I know why I was pulled over. I nervously explain that I suppose it's because I was going slow, even though I wouldn't think that would be a very good reason to get pulled over on a night as such. He tells me that actually, I was clocked in at not 60, but 70 MPH while passing him at Pizza Hut. 70! Can you beleive that? I don't. I know for a fact that I was NOT going that fast, because Katherine would have freaked out, for one thing, and so would I. Also, I am still a frequent speedometer checker, even though I've been driving for quite some time, just to prevent such an occasion. Anyway, I keep telling him calmly there's no way I was going that fast, he checks both Katherine and I's SSNs, sets me with a warning, and I'm off, feeling very confused and worried, but wide awake. So I took Katherine home and was just kinda releived that I just got a warning for doing absolutely nothing. Oh well.
Ummmmmmm... I'm tired, and that's bout it, anyway, so I'll deliver more later.
So Akron itself was okay. Really nice campus, no traffic weaving within and whatnot. Also, they had the nicest rec center I've seen of any college I've visited as of now. A really cool swimming pool with a lazy river and an actual whirlpool thing (I wanted to try it a lot :-D), and TVs corresponding to different exercise machines, and you could plug your headphones in and listen to it. I think if I exercised more (which I wish I did) I would definetly need something to keep my mind off of stopping. Oh well. Also, we met with a bunch of music people, and the experience was very personalized, and overall, very nice indeed.
Lessee... Monday night consisted of Honors Band tryouts. 11 trombones (I think). Two scales. Two selections. Two bands. Who makes the cut? Only the finest... I did okay, figured out the scales after the first guy went in, 'cause they give the same scales to everyone. (I'm a dirty rotten cheater) And not that anyone reading this cares, but I couldn't hit some high notes on the first song, and missed a few accidentals the first time around on the second. Oh, and I got to see some old aquantences (friends of my friends) and Sagan from that NYC trip Scott and I went on... I wonder if I'll be seeing her at any of the practices and stuff... oh well. But more on that later, I'm trying to tell things as they happened.
Next, Tuesday. We have an Academic Challenge meet. I do better than usual, and I'm pleased with myself. But we still only win 3/5, while the Varsity wins 5/5. Woo Hoo! Go Varsity! I'm quite pleased with them. I also saw Mrs. Boone's son, and I haven't seen him for a while. He's great. He seemed very hyper.
The next day, I hear that I got first chair in Honors Band. I'm stunned. Not expecting that at all, but I'm still quite pleased.
Umm... anyway, to get to the point of why I wanted to write a blog... Friday night, Katherine and Marissa Lunt, Seth Young, and Sarah Dye (and David for a bit) all got together to watch Elf, which is a quite humorous movie, by the way. Anyway, they were working at the Ohio Theatre, so we didn't start watching the movie at my house 'till 11. So when it was finished, it was somewhere around one. Marissa took Seth, and Sarah, Katherine and I all piled into my truck. Sarah called her mom, and her mom warned us about deer. Now, one of my greater fears is that I will someday hit a deer, so this was more than enough to keep me being cautious. Plus, the roads were rather slick, and the air rather foggy.
Anyway, we get Sarah home no problem, and we make it back to Loudonville no problem, and when we get to the Marathon, I say aloud "Well, I suppose a left here would be faster", and then Katherine says, "Yup. Straight it is." I decide to go straight, thinking of the elongated time I get to spend with Katherine. Good plan so far. But I'm still nervous and watching for deer, since I've come remotely close to one around this area before. Then, right after passing Pizza Hut, I notice these headlights glaring in my mirrors. Considering I was the only one driving on the roads, I had been going 35 so as to be safe, and look down at the speedometer, confirming so. But, seeing another motorist on my tail, I speed up while being confused as to why they aren't passing me in the other lane. Then, it happened. The blue and red lights begin to flash, I freak out, and Katherine calmly guides me as to what I should do. Calmly, that is, until I tell her I don't have my liscence. I figure this is okay, since my social security number is fairly simple, and embedded into my brain. Anyway, this officer comes up, and asks me if I know why I was pulled over. I nervously explain that I suppose it's because I was going slow, even though I wouldn't think that would be a very good reason to get pulled over on a night as such. He tells me that actually, I was clocked in at not 60, but 70 MPH while passing him at Pizza Hut. 70! Can you beleive that? I don't. I know for a fact that I was NOT going that fast, because Katherine would have freaked out, for one thing, and so would I. Also, I am still a frequent speedometer checker, even though I've been driving for quite some time, just to prevent such an occasion. Anyway, I keep telling him calmly there's no way I was going that fast, he checks both Katherine and I's SSNs, sets me with a warning, and I'm off, feeling very confused and worried, but wide awake. So I took Katherine home and was just kinda releived that I just got a warning for doing absolutely nothing. Oh well.
Ummmmmmm... I'm tired, and that's bout it, anyway, so I'll deliver more later.
posted by Jimmy at 1:46 AM
3 Comments:
lol, yeah that was rather humorous.
oh i get it...now i know why you were in such a fricken awesome mood!!! have a good one :OD
Looking back on previous posts, what happened to the "Link-O-The-Post"?
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