Faux-gangstas, unexpectedly woolly restaurant-goer

Another photo post. From the end of eighth grade. Graduation party (Minolta 400si)–

Me, my awkward portrait stance and I.

The house smelt like moldy potato chips but – a more-than-redeeming factor – was one block from the Obamas’.

We are now chai connoisseurs

I rode my bike to the neighborhood Walgreens to drop off some film today. One roll from Spain, one from the end of last school year and another one from sometime earlier this year. Here are a ~SELECT~ four, somewhat related by subject, taken with an Olympus OM-1–

Hallelujah! That’s three rolls down, four more to [develop]. More to come later.

Does this milk carton smell like fart because I’m pretty sure it does

Aaand we’re down to day.. 9 in the Last Few Days of Summer.

From the “Flickr archives”

OH LORDIE, why have I gotten like ten squillion headaches during the past five days? Is it because I start high school in a week and two days (and have to read literally about fourteen-thousand pages of Greek mythology before)? Because Danny, Leah, Kendall and Charlie all went back to L.A.?>!>?!@>!!?!

Speaking of which.. Aside from my posts about the aquarium trip and being accompanied by Danny and Leah on the way back from camp, I don’t think I’ve talked hardly at all about that whole bunch and how they stayed with us for something close to or at least in the ballpark of TWO WHOLE WEEKS this past.. two weeks. What a BLAST!

For the most-part, we really did just the ussh while they were in town. That is: eat at Manny’s, eat at Superdawg, eat at Lou Malnati’s, eat at L. Wood’s, eat Garrett’s popcorn, repeat. And now, Charlie. (Enough said.) I would post pictures of that guy but they’re mostly film, which haven’t been developed, which I have to drop off at Walgreens, along with three other rolls, which are only have of my whole “film queue.” (stupid Walgreens discontinued like 99% of their film service, along with like every other photo shop in the country.) But then! I will post those pictures.

After all that eating (we are a Jewish family, after all) we did find some time to go see Tavi in a play. She played an eight-year-old boy. We were amused.

Even then, though, we found ourselves eating incredibly ridiculously delicious cakeballs made by some parent at her theater (sorry, theatre) company. We were full.

Then Danny & Fam had to go on some STUPID ROAD TRIP to go see some supposedly “close friends” that had moved away to North Carolina some years ago. Just kidding, we were really happy that they got to see them (and probably had an agonizing, but fun, time in the car). But it was one smelly bummer that they had to go. Luckily, they came back after their cross-country trek for one more night before flying home to L.A., just enough time to have a heartwarming family sing-along (hosted by Jeff and Charlie).

a mix.

Today I watched half of I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, now on Netflix Instant Watch. It was the first time I’d seen it (or half of it, at least) since I was probably about six. Later I tried – as part of my monthly “hey, I’m gonna try to record a song!”s – layin’ down some tracks of Bob/The Band’s This Wheel’s On Fire, but mostly just ended up playing with a distortion pedal in my room. EDGY, right?! Teen rebellion! Anti-establishment! Rock and roll~~~.

Now to go read about some people with really weird names and gods that live in the stars and stuff. Goodnight!

p.s. Electronic Monkey has a new face.

Bloop bloop saxophone funky face

High school orientation!!!1!1!

I sat at the same table as Bill Haverchuck.

Also known as: the first pre-elevendy-squillion o’clock wakeup time of the summer. It was really fun, though; definitely worth the earliness. I got me books, me locker details, me schedule, me planner, me forms, but NOT me student ID. They’re on backorder (something about out-of-stock paper or something or something). Darn! What with private school and such I’ve never had an ID before. It sounds so exciting! Officialness! I’ll just have to wait.

This summer has been really full of high school preparation stuff. I also attended one out of three weeks of “freshman connection,” (missed two for Spain and camp) at which I was run through classes and consequentially met possibly definitely the single most passive aggressive person maybe in the history of public school educators. [The mystery paggro person's paggro-ness] was actually pretty funny, except for when it was against you in your FACE. Not fun (or funny). But other than that, I am so. Pumped. For this school year.

watchitwatchitwatchit

Fralskhsdgkl. Got back from Michigan yesterday. It would have been an even awesome-r little trip if I hadn’t caught a disgusting fever/cold bug. We watched Babies to make up for it, which was ridiculously cute and made me feel really sentimental. I also watched my very first episode of Mad Men and while I sort of had no idea what was going on (what’s it, season 4 now? never seen an episode before) it seems like the coolest freaking show ever. I also also watched my very first episode of Jersey Shore. But we don’t need to talk about that*.

We went to a store and there were nipples.

Oy.. Have to go absorb the last few… one week (and a half) of summer. Later jellyfish.

* Danny and I are Pauly D. and The Situation whut whuuuut.

It’s ironic because Goldfish dissolve in water

Danny, Kendall, Leah and Charlie left today. Booo! It was really awesome having them here. Sammy and I went to the Shedd Aquarium with them last week. (More about their whole stay latuh.) Canon T1i–