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For the past two weeks, I’ve done parts of the morning announcements and the response has been good. From what I’ve heard. I don’t know. I mean, it’s fun, but it has it’s drawbacks. Apparently, I’m too “ribald” and I offend people. However, the offended (offendees? offendi?) have told the teacher in charge rather than myself that they don’t like what I’m saying, that I present things in a strange way, that I should be doing more of a professional job. It’s a high school morning announcement show. No one listens to it, its bland, dull, and lifeless. The regulars have nothing amazing about them, and the two that did were promptly kicked off. This is not NPR, we’re catering to an audience that laughs at dick jokes and Dane Cook. The Daily Show is too highbrow for these savages.
I’ve been recommended to not insult the “audience”. But when the audience is Generation Myspace, frankly they deserve it.
*bitter*
This is Radio Clash-The Clash
I’d rather use this song as the opener, not some prerecorded fake Wildcat growl.
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Today I spent 5th period with Mr. Gandt, this really nice (Well not “nice” per se, but a cool guy). The high school is adjacent to the public library and in Mr. Gandt’s room you get a fairly good view of the parking lot and the library. This senior citizen collapsed outside on the parking lot. Just fell down. We thought it was some sort of a hip problem and she’d go to Stony Brook or Peconic Bay and it’d be ok. The ambulances took a really long time getting to the library/HS campus, and there were two of them, which I really didn’t understand WHY it was necessary for two vehicles for ONE lady. But the period ended and the lady was on the stretcher, Mr. Gandt had his class to teach and I had gym to get to, we parted ways and that was it.
Turns out, the poor lady was 92 and she didn’t break her hip. She cracked her head open on the pavement. She died on the way to the hospital.
It’s really weird, being a bystander to her last moments. That the last thing she thought of, or she knew of, was whether she was going to return her books on time. And I saw it. She probably had a husband, or children, and a family. Maybe they were long gone and she was living off the last moments of her life. Maybe she had no one. Maybe this was a release, maybe she was finally happy. Maybe she was suffering and this was the end.
The weather this afternoon has been awfully weird. Its been sunny yet overcast and fiendishly windy. There’s been flurries on and off, but always when the sun is out. I don’t mind this, I love the snow, but the weather has never so accurately described my mood. Cold and bitter but at peace.
Here is to the unknown lady, to hope she’s in a better place than cold pavement.
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I’ve decided to make a new blog. I was listening to Country Death Song by Violent Femmes and the idea sprang upon me. No reason why, I just felt like it. I have no qualms as to who finds this, if its the school, my parents (HEY MOM!), my friends, potential employers (Ha!) or Santa Claus. Especially Santa Claus. That sneaky bastard.
I think this will be a music blog and a whiny emo blog. But I have a feeling that the music part of it will be cooler than the emo part. In fact, I’m sure of it.
So, for the name sake of my account, here enclosed with my first entry is a song I believe you will enjoy. Might as well, eh.
Country Death Song-Violent Femmes
