Andrew Speaks/Types

Being very close to my grounding of my iPod, Wii, computer, and camera being over, you’re wouldn’t think that the thing that has affected me most would be not having my camera, but that’s probably the case. I’m able to listen to music by using my CD player (which is a drag, but it works), play Star Fox at night without anyone knowing, and blog on the weekdays at school. But, when you don’t have a camera and see a great photo opporitunity, like a billboard advertising “The Gun Show,” or a high class “Hobo Company Purses” store, you get really frustrated.

It’s the 21st of February, and I get ungrounded on the 29th. Not a whole lot has been going on since I got grounded. Lately I’ve been spending my nights playing Star Fox 64 until the late hours of the night, since my mom hasn’t realized that I still have my Nintendo 64. The guy that I bought the game from had a brother that was really really good at it, and I can’t beat any of his high scores.

Another thing is that I finally got a turntable yesterday, which is awesome. I asked for a record player for Christmas and didn’t get it, so now I can finally play all my parents’ record collection. I have a feeling that the turntable will be a big center of attention for my photography, so after the 29th, be expecting a lot of cool pictures of that.

I’ll probably be pretty addicted to my camera once I get it back. I also have a lot of videos that I took a long time ago I was planning on uploading before I got grounded. I’ll try and get those up soon. Some are humor and some are videos of my friends band.

Man I can’t wait for the 29th.

So he lied about bringing it. After numerous attempts at begging and getting him to bring the paper, he finally agreed, but he thought that he could get one last laugh in before he gave it back.

He went home and, having a copier at his house, he photocopied my paper, and brought both copies to school the next day. So, I was relieved he kept his word when I saw him take the paper out of his binder. Little did I know that the paper he was giving me was the copy. He handed it to me, and when I reached to take it, he ripped it up in my face.

I thought it was the real one, and I just lost it. I intended to kind of hit him over the head in kind of a “what the heck did you do that for?” kind of deal, but I didn’t know what was going on until after it happened, and I had punched him in the nose, and he started bleeding all over. Me and Keith were friends, so I actually felt bad about what I did, and I went with him to the bathroom to help him clean up the blood. I apologized more times than I can count, and I told him that I didn’t mean to hurt him and said “no hard feelings,” to which he replied, “yeah.”

I told my geometry teacher what happened, to be fair, and I told the truth about everything, and he acted like he was letting it slide. Everything was fine. I went home and everything was normal for a few hours, until the phone rang.

It was Keith’s mom. This was bad. Apparently Keith has a lot of nose problems and when he got in the car, he was sniffing a lot and his mom asked what was wrong. He told her everything, EXCEPT the stuff that he did to provoke me. So his mom must still think that I just hit him for no reason. She called my mom and told her what *happened*.

My parents went ballistic, even after I told them my side of things. So I got grounded for the rest of the month of February. They took my camera, my Wiimotes (so I can’t even turn my Wii on), my laptop (and banned all computer privelleges), and my iPod. The same day that three of my new CDs came in the mail.

I eventually got suspended, because my teacher had to file a report, or he might lose his job. I was out for two days, but because of snow days and Presidents’ Day, I was out for a total of 7. Now I’m back in school, and I’ll be able to blog every weekday, as long as these Macs aren’t bugging out on me. I’m really glad to be back at school, because this is my only medium of escape now, thanks to good ol’ grounding. See you tomorrow.

But I didn’t mean to. All of the days that I wasn’t suspended we got out of school for snow, so I haven’t been able to write blogs from Homeroom class. So I’m secretly blogging right now. Anyway, this whole grounding/suspension thing really bites. I have to go.

I’m suspended from school today and tomorrow, and I got my Wii taken away, so I will probably have to miss a blog tomorrow, and I’ll have to finish my story about why I’m in trouble on Thursday.

Alright, to explain why I’m now grounded even longer, I’m going to need to introduce the characters of this story. There’s me, there’s my friend Travis who’s not very bright, and there Keerthagaan, who we’re gonna call Keith, because he has a really long name. Need I say more? There’s also Mr. White, my geometry teacher, who’s class is the setting for everything that happens here. (I may not be able to finish this today, there might be a part 3 tomorrow)

Mmk. So, here’s what happened. I sit behind Keith, and Travis sits to his left. We’re all friends, and we’re in a class together, so we’re goofing around, and while Keith is looking the other way, Travis leans over and draws a heart on his paper to see if he’d notice. Keith goes back doing his work and then sees the heart and has to erase it and then go back to working. We figure out that this is a fun game, so now, every time Keith looks away, there’s a fresh heart on his paper.

After a couple of days and a lot of laughs, Keith finally tells me after class that the heart joke isn’t funny, it’s really bothering him. So I apologize and promise not to do it again, and Travis did too. A few days later, we all get our geometry tests back, and almost everyone failed. I got a 69, and I’m a pretty good student, so that gives you a good idea of how the tests were. Keith, however, is a  freaking genius and he made a 98, the only A in the class and the highest grade. Mr. White says that we’re can retake the test if we want because of how low the scores were. So he goes around the room asking everyone if they want to keep their grade or retake the test. When he gets to Keith, he wants to retake the test because he wants a 100. I got pretty upset. I asked him, “If everyone in the class failed, and you got a 98, and you don’t think that’s good enough for you, do you not see how that be the slightest bit rude, or looking down on everyone else?” Of course he doesn’t. So when Keith left for the bathroom, I took his calculator, turned it over, and drew a heart in pen on the back of it, making it permanent. He didn’t notice until a few days later, but when he did, he got really upset. But realize, this is a guy who values his calculator probably more than most of the stuff he owns.

For the past few weeks, I had been working on this awesome drawing. it’s all I did in a lot of my classes, and I had finally finished it. It started in the middle of the page, and has all of these twisted lines that came off of it, and all the lines were really close together, and it covered the entire paper, making a giant fingerprint. It went off the paper, never-ending looking. This was really a prized possession of mine, and I was really proud of myself for making it. It took such a long time, and I actually hurt my hand a little making it because you had to squeeze all those lines so close together for such a long time.

Keith took it from me, and he took it home. He was fine telling me he took it, and he wasn’t giving it back. I was pretty mad. I begged for him to bring it back, I said sorry for everything more times than I can count, but even though we’re friends,

WRITING ON HIS CALCULATOR WAS UNFORGIVABLE.

So, basically, he was able to mess with me really bad, having this paper. Every day he would tell me about how it *might* be ripped or messed up in some way. Finally, after about a week, he finally forgave me for what I had done, and we shook hands and told me he would bring the paper back tomorrow. I was so relieved. It’s all I had worried about for days. The next day I met up with him at his locker and thanked him for bringing the paper and asked if I could have it now. He said:

“I was going to bring it, but then I remembered you lied to me. Remember? You said you wouldn’t draw any more hearts on my stuff, then you drew it on my calculator. I’m not bringing it.”

(Part 3 coming tomorrow..*.)

It seems like at least once a year I get in trouble really bad for something minor but blows up into something major. I am now in a lot worse trouble than I have been for the last few days and now I’ll robably be a crappy bloggert for a good while. I don’t really have time to write tonight seeing as I’m at a friends house and he’s leaning over my shoulder reading out loud every word I type as I type it, but I’ll be sure to give you the whole story behind my grounding tomorrow. It’s kind of a long story. But as of now I am grounded indefinitely from my iPod, camera, laptop, and hopefully not but possibly soon, Wii, and my best bet at when I’ll get all that back will be at the end of February. Which will make weekend blogging very difficult and will drive me insane. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. The only thing I’m sincerely worried about is if I’ll be able to go to The Mars Volta show. Well, got to go. Bye.

As I said before yesterday, I am very grounded. Is there a good reason. No sir. No there is not. What happened is this:

So, I’m grounded. Which is why I didn’t blog yesterday. And probably won’t for a lot of this week. I’m actually writing this in my homeroom class in school. I’ll be able to do one tomorrow too because I’ll be in this class for a good while. But for the most part this week I’ll be dead. I got grounded from my iPod too, which sucks a lot more than no computer because my CDs came in the mail yesterday, and I have 73 new songs on my iPod that haven’t all been listened to.:(