Sorry I haven't been around lately..

[Andrew Gilmore]

Just like the thread title says, I apologize for not being around lately. I notice I unfortunately missed Mr. Hunter's birthday. :o Oh well. Anyway, I've been extremely busy with school, overdue homework, chores, and spending a lot of my free time talking to my friends on AOL, and it just hasn't occured to me to drop by..Well, here I am now and I'll try to stop by now and then. So, for the sake of making a general statement, how've you guys been lately?

[Nelson]

Welcome back Andrew :)

Glad to have ya back!

[Matthew Hunter]

We're doing just fine here! Glad to have you back, Andrew, I wondered what happened to you!
-Matthew

[Do-Do]

Hey, remember me? Well of course you don't! I wasn't a member when you last posted! (Actually, I was but I didn't know that you had to log on, so I kinda didn't post for three weeks after my user name was created. It was then that I noticed that "LOG IN" thing on the main page... :o ). Aaanyway, welcome back.

[Andrew Gilmore]

I'm not sure I mentioned it, but I'm in a new school this year, Wyncote Academy. It's very nice and a lot more liberal than other schools I've attended (that is, they're more likely to talk things out than kick you out). Only real problems I have with it are some of the teachers are annoying, though I guess there's one in every school, there's a dangerously low intellect among my so-called peers, which, again, is a problem to be expected..and there's this one kid I really hate who is not only stupid, but conceited, mean, and even racist and sexist, and uncontrollably foul-mouthed (and yet somehow popular)! I really hate that #%^*!, but I won't bother expressing my wrath much further. If there's anything else you're curios about regarding the state of my life these days, I'll be glad to oblige, but I best not babble on unnecesarily, as I have in the past. ("Ain't I the talkin'est little guy?")

By the way, I have no homework tonight and no real responsibilities, plus I have a four-day President's Day weekend coming up, as I assume most minors here do, so my schedule should be exceedingly freed up over the next few days to allow me to keep up my attendence record.

[Jack]

I'm glad your new school is going better than your last one, and welcome back!

I once had a class with a guy who was really racist in a Archie Bunker-ish sort of way. It only got annoying when he'd constantly ask me if I was Jewish.



Jack :rolleyes:

[Matthew Hunter]

Oh, we had a racist in our class too. He was kicked out of the school...twice. His sophomore year he was asked to leave after calling a Jewish guy a racist name (it was all in fun, but it ticked the guy off enough for him to jump over a table and punch him.) but since he was a champion golfer (and had a fair amount of money, that helped) they gave him a second chance. Then he got caught by the cops with drugs, and so the end of last year, they ousted him for good. He was actually a popular guy, which was beyond me...he was a real headcase, and genuinely bad person. Kind of felt sorry for him.
-Matthew

[Andrew Gilmore]

"A headache and a genuinely bad person"? That's a good description of this kid at my school. I may as well give examples of things he has said. When we were discussing the September 11th tragedy and what to do about Arab-Americans, he said we should blow them up, "Yeah, that'd be good. Ya see 40 or 50 f***in' turbans flyin' up.." Fortuneatley, the co-principal was there and said something like "Do you know how ignorant that sounds?!" He didn't get punished, just scolded like that.
Also, several times, my English teacher, Jenn (whom, I might as well add, as it's been on my mind lately, is a very pretty 24-year-old..I have a crrush on her, though unfortuneatley, she has a boyfriend :( ), has misplaced some of our assignments or similar things and he has shouted out things like "You forgot to bring it 'cause you're blonde, Jenn!" I defended her, perhaps partially out of my, er, disposition, but also she IS actually an intelligent person, which earned me a thanks, but hasn't changed the kid's attitude worth a d--n. Why this jackass hasn't been thrown out on his keester is a mystery to me.

[Brandon Pierce]

Welcome back! Oh, waitaminut! The TTTP mat says, "UN-welcome"! We're gonna hafta do somethin about that! ;)

P.S. as you can see, I still have a sad, unfortunate sesne of humor. :rolleyes:

[Andrew Gilmore]

Hey, don't be so hard on yourself. It wasn't THAT bad.