What you kids doing on my lawn? I'm talking to YOU!

Give him the stick! Don't give him the stick! Do you know my father? OHHHHHHH!!

So, how's everyone doing? I'm doing alright.

I just got back from my Washington DC trip on Sunday. And may I be the first to say that it was fucking awesome!

We saw the Arlington National Cemetary, Old Post Office Pavillion, Capitol Building, International Spy Museum, Georgetown, most of the major monuments, Embassy Row, Great Cathedral, a famous quintet (which the name fails me currently), Union Station, the Hard Rock Cafe, Mount Vernon, some Smithsonian Institutes on the Mall, and the NSO with the Smothers Brothers at the Kennedy Center. I took a lot of pictures and videos.

The 13 hour bus drive there was hilarious. We all pretty much slept all over each other. Or at least tried to sleep. One of the most interesting things being when I woke up to see Grant spread out on a seat with Murray sitting on the floor between the seats and his head near Grant's crotch. Eventually the whole bus ended up singing Roxanne and Don't Fear the Reaper (with I accompanied with a cowbell) while it was playing over the radio.

The weather was really nice. It was very warm. I ended up getting about 3 different Obama shirts for people back here and a James Bond poster which I am still waiting to put up on my wall.

The clinic with Anthony Maiello was fun. He was a really nice, energetic man. He was also heavily Italian with his big hands and eyebrows that moved sideways. At the end of the clinic he made some random drug reference that was incredibly difficult not to snicker at.

We ran into a bum saxophonist who was pretty good. He hit the jackpot and we all dished out some money to him.

The food was pretty good. I went swimming once and got a nasty foot cramp.

Bartow walked in on the group tour guide in the bathroom. That was hysterical. We also got some strange looks due to the fact that we walked about the Mall in short sleeves eating ice cream.

50 degree weather is nothing for us Windy City folks.

Our bus driver, Dennis, is a God. He discovered fire, light, can divide by zero, make people explode by looking at them, can fly, and Chuck Norris was cloned from him. He also happens to be an auctioneer.

Dennis got out the wireless mic and just casually mentioned that sometimes it bleeds through to the other bus. So we spent a lot of time making weird noises over the mic. Unfortunately, the only thing the other bus heard was Mr. Collins saying, "Grant, come up here. We're gonna try to mess with Bus 1."

The Smothers Brothers were hilarious. Especially with the Republican joke they made.

I got the whole bus to sing Rock Lobster among others. We stayed at a Hilton hotel. It was really nice. There was an anime convention going on at the same time. There was a shitload of furfaggetry going on. We shit ourselves laughing. Kudos, though, for the one guy who dressed up like The Doctor, the Beer Pope, and the giddy shark dude.

David Murray and Zach Dealy were our main forms of amusement. I'd like to give them a special thanks. Also to Jeremy for his nonstop paranoia.

The trip back was considerably easier (although someone put on Hairspray and August Rush [which is still better than Kung Fu Panda and the Bee Movie]). I slept for a majority of it.

I can say that I didn't want to come back at all. I liked it there. It was rather depressing coming home to the same old boring nonsense that goes on here.

Of course when I got home, I slept until 7:30 the next morning. Unfortunately, I caught a cold of some sort. I was dizzy all day Monday. Yesterday I coughed enough to have hacked up at least three lungs. Today, I coughed just as much, but with a bit of deliria and a nasty headache.

However, I have too much work to do to have any diseases now. Besides, we couldn't afford a check up at the clinic after the trip expense and the new laptop (Harumph!). So, I'm just gonna suffer though. [Currently, my temperature is 99 degress. But that's not gonna slow me down.]

I'm taking Calculus, AP English and World Lit, and Consumer Ed. Needless to say, I'm overworked. But, I'm not trying too hard, so it doesn't really matter anyways.

I went to Meijer today. I'm going to the NIU library tomorrow for lit.

In my opinion, Bon Jovi can shove it.

Still haven't cleaned my room. Still haven't gotten a job. Still haven't gotten a haircut. Still haven't gotten a car.

But hey, the snow melted. Now I'm going to seriously apply around for a job.

Hope you are all doing better than I am. But I'm still too overjoyed to be sulking about nothing.

Let's get a harumph all around now!

HARUMPH!