2-28-01

My sister was late to her morning detention this morning, so she got another two days of it. I still feel like crap. I just want to sleep, that's all. Nothing really happened at school. Late in the evening, I tuned in to KXRJ FM to listen to Matt Farrar and Jared Magee do their little show. I called in several times since nobody else in town would. I finished up Frankenstein. Now I feel like I'm about to die.

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2-27-01

I could barely breathe this morning when I woke up. My head's been stopped up all day. It doesn't look like I'll be through with this crap any time soon. I brought another case of Bawls with me, plus some cups for our yearbook party. I looked like I was going to set up shop somewhere in the halls and start giving free samples of Bawls or something. A portable refrigeration unit would be nice. I went to visit Mr. Lonon's class for a bit. Rachel Trusty finally tried a sip of my Bawls, and made a funny little face. It didn't help any that the stuff was fairly warm. I really need a way to keep the stuff cold when I sell it. After that I went to Mr. Payton's class and sold a couple bottles. Cassie Hilgerson said the one I gave her yesterday got her bouncing off the walls. After school I went to work for a short while just for a meeting. Sarah Hindsman and I are on contract work now, so instead of going in to work on stuff every day, we get assigned a project to take home and work on for a certain amount of money. When I got home, I didn't really feel well enough to do anything. I eventually brought myself to do a quick little project for work, but that was about it. I feel like crap.

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2-26-01

I got up this morning, got ready for school, and headed out the door with my backpack and a case of Bawls. Not much sold in the morning, but I got rid of them all after lunch. Right after lunch, I went to see Cassie Hilgerson to see how she was feeling. She'll at least talk to me now, so that's a good sign. I still don't know what's been bothering her though. After that I spent an hour or so in the darkroom cleaning up some stuff. Then I wandered around for a while, stopping in on Mr. Payton's class for a bit, and then into Mr. Lonon's class for a short while. After school I went to work for a few hours and worked on a site I've been working on for them. I worked on the new version of this site for a little while when I got home, but for the most part I just rested. I'm still not feeling so great. Hopefully I'll be finished with whatever I've got by the end of this week, but somehow that feels unlikely.

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2-25-01

Not too much happened today either. For the most part, I spent the day wandering aimlessly around the house. I started massive work on a new layout for this site. After that I actually started working on homework. A part of me is ready for school tomorrow. That part of me has 3 cases of Bawls to sell. The other part of me (yes, the part that has no Bawls) desperately wants another day of rest to restore from the nasty effects of having the fever, flu, or whatever the heck I had. Is it too early in the year to ask for a snow day?

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2-24-01

I wasn't feeling well at all this morning, but I've gotten a little better throughout the day. Nothing happened today, either. I didn't really feel like doing anything, so I pretty much laid around in my room and watched movies all day. Hopefully I'll feel good enough tomorrow to get some work done.

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2-23-01

I woke up with a bit of a cough this morning. I got out of English during first period so I could go to the EAST Lab and help out a couple people that were trying to learn how to use LightWave. Nothing much happened the rest of the day. Luckily I was able to take it pretty easy. I'm glad the weekend's finally here. I desperately needed some time to rest and make up some work. After school, I went straight to work and finished up what I was working on yesterday. I was feeling a bit feverish, so I got my paycheck and came right home. I got on the computer for a little while and then took a nap. After that I was feeling a bit better, so I decided to finally go up to Thomas's house to pick up my 3 cases of Bawls. My fourth case is being shipped directly to my house. We talked for a while, and then I left to go to Sarah Conley's house. She was having a little movie party thing. We all piled up on the floor or on the bed and watched a couple movies. It was pretty fun, but I got pretty tired and decided to head on home. After I got home, I went straight to bed.

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2-22-01

I've been pretty tired most of today. I had quite a bit of makeup work to do, but I finished a bunch of it. One thing that really bothered me today was that Cassie Hilgerson was avoiding me all day. I finally caught up with her one time just to say, "Hi," but she brushed me right away. I'm not sure what happened, but all I can figure to do is just leave her alone until she wants to talk to me again. I spent a couple hours in the darkroom just to chill for a while. We're done with the yearbook for the most part, but I just needed to take some time out from the rest of the world. After school I went to work for a few hours, and then came home and did some homework and stuff. I don't really feel like going to school tomorrow, but I'm not just going to stay home just because I don't feel well.

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2-21-01

I had an alright time today. I didn't have to go to any classes. The art club went on a trip to the Little Rock Art Museum. I pretty much stayed with Beth Post, Sarah Wade, Laura, Cassie Hilgerson, and Clayton Paty. We got to go on a little tour around the place, and then we got to wander around ourselves. A guard there was kind enough to follow us around and make sure we did little more than breathe. He jumped on us for just about anything we did, but in the end we got him to pose with the gang so I could take a picture of them. After that we went to Arby's for lunch. There was a guy sitting right next to where the bus parked, so after we ate, the other guys wanted to get something to bring to him. Unfortunately, he wasn't there when we got back. We stopped by the gas station where everyone seemed to be meeting to get ready to load back on the bus. A couple of them got some candy, and they all had some fun with it on the way back home. After school, I went to work for a little while. Then, yet again, Sarah Hindsman was kind enough to give me a ride home. Tomorrow I actually get my car back.

Later in the evening, I tuned in to the local radio station KXRJ FM 91.9 where Matt Farrar and Jared Magee were doing their weekly radio show. A little while into listening to them, they started whining about nobody ever calling them, so I called and talked for a few seconds. I didn't have a request, so I just asked them to pick something nice out for me. If anybody ever needs an ego boost, call these guys. After the song, they got back on and completely blasted me with good comments. It was great fun. I don't know what the heck it was that they played for me, but it was definitely interesting. After that song, Matt made a comment on our trip to the art museum today, which of course made me drop my head flat onto my desk. I couldn't believe he brought it up right out of the blue like that. Right after that, they played a remake of "I Think We're Alone Now" for me. I encourage everyone to tune in to these guys every Wednesday night from 10 to midnight on FM 91.9 or online on KXRJ-FM's web site.

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2-20-01

Today's been somewhat of an interesting day. Before class started, I went with Cassie Hilgerson to her locker and just sat there to read a page or two of Frankenstein for English while she started reading a little book of her own. Then we went to class, and classes were pretty average. During 5th period, I went to the EAST Lab to talk to Thomas Hollingsworth for a bit, and then went to Mr. Payton's class 6th period since I had nothing else to do, and sat there with Cassie and Bryan Connerly. A few people gathered around to form a little group, and we sat and talked some, as they didn't have much planned for the day either. After school, I went to work for a little while. I didn't have my car, and my parents had gone grocery shopping when it was time for me to leave, so Sarah Hindsman was kind enough to give me a ride home. After we both got to our computers, we played around on NetMeeting for several hours. We got video and audio to work pretty well, so we had fun making faces at each other. Later in the evening, Sarah Conley got on to talk to me for a bit. She and the rest of the gang down in Little Rock for the EAST Lab conference thing seem to be having a great time. I wish I could have gone to something like that. I just remembered that I have an art field trip all day tomorrow, so I guess I won't have to worry about my homework for now. I'm getting 3 cases of Bawls tomorrow, and I was hoping I could get a few to bring along on the art trip. I guess Scooter and all you other Galloping Cow visitors will just have to check back tomorrow to see how things went!

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2-19-01

This week, on "As the Cow Gallops," our hero, Michael, finds himself caught in a trap by the evil queen of darkness. He is dragged into the darkest depths of the dungeons before the sun ever begins to rise, and is forced to produce massive numbers of prints for the high schoo..er..evil empire's yearboo..er..dungeon logs. Not long after, he is saved by the heaven-sent toll of bells from above. To be continued, next time on "As the Cow Gallops."

This must be the first soap opera you've ever seen that nobody has cheated on anyone and no guys have fled the country because they've impregnated their second cousin. I had to go to school early to make some prints for the yearbook. I didn't actually get anything done in the morning, but that was alright. Brandon Vaughn and I printed what felt like a million pictures during 5th and 6th periods. During lunch, I wandered around with Cassie Hilgerson for a bit before going through the line for some food. Jared Fitzgibbon's usual group had all dispersed elsewhere, so he, Cassie, and I sat down at a table to eat. We were soon joined by a couple of Cassie's friends. After school I met up with Cassie again, and she had written me a little note. That was fun, because nobody ever writes me notes, even if I write them first.

	Here's to my friend Ketchup - a joke that will remain meaningless to those of you that are not Jared Fitzgibbon, Cassie Hilgerson, Rachel, or me. Meanwhile, enjoy the drawing.
	After school I went to Staples and got a new web cam and a package of CDRs. After that I went to work for a few hours and got another little paycheck. I'm enjoying this whole "I have money" thing.

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2-18-01

I woke up late today, and have been too tired to do much for most of the day. I guess I was still tired from the LAN party last night. I looked at a Staples circular and saw a bunch of nifty stuff, so I may pay them a visit tomorrow. Other than that, nothing big has happened today. Just a lot of computer, TV, and laying around. I needed a rest day anyway.

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2-17-01

Today's been an extremely long day. I didn't really care about the tournament when I woke up, so I just lazily sat around for a while. Mitch said they had some Bawls, so I finally decided to go ahead and go, but when I got there he said he lied about the Bawls. I wound up having a pretty good time for the most part. There weren't any prizes or anything, but I got to hang out and have a decent time. Jared and I went to McDonalds so he could get something to eat, and we saw Lynn Wink and Christi Bauer working there. After the LAN party was over, a few of us went to the Waffle House. I don't care what anybody says, that's a freaking scary place to go. Now I'm dead tired, so I think I'll actually get some sleep tonight.

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2-16-01

I'm glad that the weekend is finally here. I didn't have to do much in school, so it was a pretty nice day. I got there late again because my sister was slow getting out of the house. Things would be so much easier without her. I spent a couple hours in the darkroom making prints. After school, I walked around a bit with Rachel Trusty so she could give me a summary of her week. We walked out to her car in what felt like tiny shards of glass falling from the sky. After that, I gave Bryan Connerly a ride home and watched the tiny shards of glass turn slowly into mushy blobs of white crap splattering all over the place. I was supposed to go cover the basketball game because it was senior night, but I guess Brandon Vaughn decided to cover it, so I didn't have to go in after all. On into the wee hours of the morning, I went to school to pick up my sister from her forensics trip or whatever. I drove slowly past Cassie Hilgerson bouncing and shivering in the cold, and poked kind fun at all of the people that were still waiting for their rides to show. My sister was whining, so I had to take her home instead of getting to stay and talk for a bit. Now that I've been deprived of my friendly human contact, I'm going to go to bed.

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2-15-01

Today's been a long day. I got a bunch of prints done for the yearbook, and after school I went to work. I worked on a page there and had some fun. After work was when the real excitement began though. When I tried to pull out, my car sank into the ground. I tried several times to go back and forth, but I kept digging myself further and further down each time. I finally went back to see if I could get a little help, so my bosses and two of their kids came out to try and help push me around. We all got quite muddy and wet, so it was quite an interesting situation. I've caused way too much trouble now. Of course, I was grateful for them coming out and getting all muddy to help me. Next time, I'm either going to install jet thrusters so I can take off vertically, or perhaps just park on solid ground. After stuffing everything but the pet cat under my tires, I got free and was able to come home. I showered and cleaned up the car, so now I'm tired enough that I think I'll go to bed early. Tomorrow's Friday, so I get to go take pictures of the basketball game, and then I get to go to the LAN party on Saturday. That's enough to keep me busy for quite a while.

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2-14-01

Happy Valentine's day, everyone! Today was an overall good day. Classes went on as usual, and I didn't have an overwhelming amount of work to do. Ashley Hardin made my day when she gave me a Valentine card and sucker at lunch. I spent some time in the darkroom working on some pretty nifty things. I got a little bored, so I made Cassie Hilgerson a little Valentine print while I was in the darkroom. I made a heart stencil and printed a picture of her on the inside of it, and then wrote a note around the edges. It didn't come out quite as well as I had wanted, but I still got a big hug when I gave it to her. She and Sarah Wade were eating large amounts of canned whipped cream that someone had, until Sarah spewed a mouthful of the stuff all over the place. It wasn't too messy, but you could see a tiny clean spot on the lockers where Cassie was sitting. They got into a little whipped cream fight and got all messy. Sarah had a face full of the stuff. After that, I went on home to get ready for work. I didn't see my sister anywhere, so I figured she had gotten a ride, but when I got home my mom said she had called. I rushed back to pick her up, take her home, and then went to work. I only stayed for about an hour working on something, and then my dad called to say we were going out to work. Not having anything else to do at the moment, I went on home so we could go to New China to eat. When I got home, I played around with the Cow Cam some, so now the image is quite a bit larger and more colorful. Check it out!

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2-13-01

Today's been fairly exhausting for me. Classes weren't too bad, but I was just tired all day. I spent an hour or so in the darkroom making contact sheets for basketball pictures. I found one of my sheets with my computer nerds negatives in it, and fixer had leaked all over it. The silver on the negatives had dissolved off, so now the negatives have splotches and blank spots everywhere. It's a good thing I had already made the prints I needed for my spread, but it still would have been nice to keep the negatives. Jessica Brown was kind enough to stay and keep me company while I worked in the darkroom. I found out she just recently got internet, so I talked to her on AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ later that evening. After I finished in the darkroom, I went to Mr. Lonon's class for a bit to see what they were up to. After school, I walked around with Cassie Hilgerson for a while. When she decided to go back to her after school drama thing, I went outside to wait for my mom to pick me up. Janine Randles was standing out there as well, so I went to talk to her for a bit. Some little kid was annoying her, so we walked together out to the middle of the parking lot trying to lose him, and then we walked back. Then my mom got there to pick my sister and me up, and we went to Kroger. I decided to stop by the dollar shop next door just to see what they had. It was a pretty big place. Then I went to Kroger to meet up with my mom and sister. Checking out, I saw Chris Sanderock over in another line, so I went to talk to him for a few seconds before we left. A little while after we got home, my sister had her friend Lyadonna and Sam over to watch a movie. I just stayed in my room for the most part. Kerryn Johns was on "That One Show" again, so I watched that to see what crazy thing she did this time. Mallory McKinney called and we sat on the phone silently for a while before I decided it was time for me to go do my homework. I'm sure when daily logs get this long, nobody wants to read them any more, but you're stuck with this format until I decide to rebuild the site. The next site will be much better, I assure you.

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2-12-01

I had a pretty good day today. I got up early and got to school on time. Nothing greatly unusual happened. My satire went over well in English, and then we watched a video that Dustin Summey and his group had made. They were very resourceful in the making of the video, and I was impressed as usual. I left my normal lunch group for a little while because I saw Jared Fitzgibbon sitting over by himself at his normal table. I went to talk to him until he decided it was time to go to class. Then I went back to my group for a little while, and then over to talk to Kerryn Johns for a bit before class. I spent a bit of time in the darkroom developing a roll of film, and then wandered around the school until 7th period rolled around. We didn't really do anything in there either, but it was a lot of fun. Mr. Bradley had a computer set up with a TV display on a big cart, so I opened up paint and drew some nice pictures for the class. After school, I helped Rebecca Brown carry a few plants out to her car, hung around the school for a little while, and then went to work. It was an alright time there, but what I was doing got a bit boring at times. After work, I came home to an empty house. Not in the mood to dig out leftovers, or just sitting around the house by myself, I decided to go to Sonic for a spicy chicken dinner, and then stopped by Jared's house to hang out for a while. After that, I came home and talked to quite a few people online. I don't have to work tomorrow, so I get to come home and sleep, which I should probably be doing now as well. This Saturday is the next Quake III Arena tournament. I encourage everyone to come. Sign up at www.damagegaming.com/q3.

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2-11-01

I woke up a little before noon today, which gave me quite a bit of time to sleep. My whole family was getting ready to go to Fort Smith for a surprise wedding reception for one of the top members of the Fort Smith magic club. We all piled into the van and drove up there, stopping by a deli in Fort Smith to get a couple party trays that were ordered for the party. It was actually a lot of fun sitting around and chatting. We had cake, deli sandwiches, pineapple punch stuff, and cookies and snacks. Several people got up to perform some magic for the crowd of people that had come. We spent the whole day up there. On the way home, I was tired enough to doze off for a while. When we got home, I went straight to my room and started on my homework. My main project was writing a satire for English. I decided to bash the high school, and the school board and district since I couldn't think of anything better to satirize. I think this is going to be one of my last extremely busy weeks, as we finish up with the yearbook. We've still got the spring supplement to work on, but that shouldn't be too much of a problem. After school, Sarah Hindsman and I have work at Merimage. I'm not expecting anything out of the ordinary.

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2-10-01

I woke up around noon today. I was tired, but I eventually got up out of bed to do some work on my computer. I moved the site over to my new server, and hopefully by Monday or Tuesday I can have a guest book set up. It won't be much, but it's my first attempt. I installed some programs to learn so I can use them at work. My day consisted pretty much of playing with those programs and watching TV. Jared Fitzgibbon dropped my CDs by that I had loaned him the other day. My sister went out running around with her friend Lyadonna. They brought Sam Bishop here once or twice I think, but I stayed in my room for the most part. Later in the evening, Brandon Vaughn came by to pick up a camera flash so he could take pictures of the dance. After that I watched some TV and napped because I was so tired. I started to wake up a little and looked over to see Mallory McKinney peeking around my door. Of course, my initial reaction was to wonder what the heck she was doing here. Then I heard all about how her night went and stuff. We just sat there for a while until Sam had to take her home. Then I got on the computer to talk with Jared about how his date went. I have a big day ahead of me tomorrow, and I think I'm going to wish I had some Bawls. God help me.

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2-9-01

I had a pretty good day today. I had a million and one things to do, but I got it all done by the end of the day. Things worked out pretty well. At lunch I wandered around for a bit instead of just sitting down in one place. Then I spent 3 hours working on the yearbook. I even stayed after school for quite a while to finish up. After that I went into work about half an hour late. They didn't have me do anything, because they just wanted to go over some things about how we've done so far. I'm slow and I know it, but I'll get the hang of things very quickly. They went ahead and wrote us up our checks just so we'd have a little money in our pockets for now. The excitement didn't last long, because after I was finished there, I had to go take pictures of the basketball game at the high school. I didn't get home until maybe 8:15 or so, and when I first turned on my computer it did a nice little memory dump. It started up fine after it did that, but it's still annoying to see it go through that. Something's not right. I installed a couple programs to play around with for work, and I'm having quite a bit of fun with it all. Maybe tomorrow I'll get a chance to play with some stuff to put on this site.

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2-8-01

I woke up really late this morning. I accidentally left a disk in my computer, so instead of starting up and playing my Winamp alarm, it sat there waiting for me to remove the disk and press any key. I jumped out of bed, got dressed, and ran out the door with my sister. I got to my class just a few seconds late. My day was fairly busy, especially yearbook. I've got a lot of work to do tomorrow in there as well. After school I went to work from like 4 to 7. They gave me some space on their server, so hopefully this weekend I'll have some time to play around with CGI and some other nifty stuff for the site. After work, I came home to work on a bunch of homework I had. Now I'm not feeling all that well, and I'm really tired. I think I'm going to go to make sure I didn't leave a disk in the computer, and then go to bed.

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2-7-01

Today's been an exciting day. I got up early to get ready to go to school to work on the yearbook. Before I could go, I had to take my mom to the Wal-Mart parking lot to go to Tunica. After I dropped her off there, I went to Stoby's to meet Eric Duerr for breakfast. It was my first time to ever eat there, and it was quite good. After that I went to school and spent several hours in the darkroom with Mallory McKinney and Brandon Vaughn. We got a huge row of prints done in there, but unfortunately quite a few are duplicates that we can't use. A bunch of the negatives weren't really good enough to make prints from. On the way home from that, I saw Sarah Hindsman driving to work. A little while after I got home, she got on MSN and said they wanted me to come in to work, so I went in and had quite a bit of fun. I really think working there is going to be a lot of fun. Sarah and I will make a great team, and I like the couple we're working for. They started me up with working on a page that needed several revisions done. I decided it would be faster for me to just redo the entire site, so that's what I'll be doing for my first project. When we finished up there for the night, I came home to an empty house and fished myself out some leftovers for dinner. Now I'm just listening to a bunch of goons on Tech's radio station (91.9 FM in Russellville, AR). Matt Farrar is on, so I thought I'd listen in on the fun they're having there. They have an online broadcast as well from their web site. Everyone go listen to them having fun making fools of themselves.

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2-6-01

School was alright today. Not too much happened, but I managed to keep busy through most of the day. After school I walked around a bit with Cassie Hilgerson until she left. Then I went back inside and saw Rachel Trusty showing off her new glasses. She couldn't decide which of two pairs she liked more, so she was trying to get everyone's opinions. After that I walked her out to her car and talked with her there until my mom came to pick me up. When I got home I was really tired. Mallory called and we talked for a while trying to decide what we wanted to do. Eventually I went to pick her up around 7:00 and we came back to my house to watch a couple movies until I had to take her back home for her 12:00 curfew. We watched Young Frankenstein and then some random stuff on TV. Jason Huynh kept calling asking for computer help. Apparently a friend of his had bought a used laptop and was having problems getting an operating system installed. Then Mrs. Little called to say we have to make about 75 prints tomorrow for the yearbook, so I cried and Mallory offered to come help in the darkroom. I'll be at school for a full day tomorrow, so I can forget about sleeping in. I started to take Mallory home around 11:30, but I stopped to get some gas before we went all the way back to her house. While we were there, Sarah Hindsman and Eric Duerr pulled up to see me. Eric had a communication failure earlier in the day, so he needed a place to crash for the night. I took Mallory home and then met them at the coffee shop on the way back home so he could follow me home. Now I need sleep before I have to wake up early tomorrow to go to school on what should be a day off.

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2-5-01

Today was a nice and slow, yet busy day. I got a lot of work done, but there's still a lot left to do. A bunch of people came up to me asking if I was selling Bawls, and unfortunately I had to tell them I wouldn't have any until later in the week. We got out of school like an hour or so early I think, but I still had to wait for my sister to finish at band practice before I could go home. While I was waiting, I went outside to hang out with Carlos Meredeth and Cassie Hilgerson for a bit. When they left, I went back inside to wait. Right after I got home, my aunt called to ask me to take her to GoodYear to pick up her van. When I came home, my dad said that I got a call from Merimage, the place I went for a job interview, so I called back and found out that Sarah Hindsman and I were the two that got the jobs. My first day is Thursday, and I'll be working from 4:00 to 6:00. I guess for now it's just going to be training to get me used to what I'll be doing. After a while I had to go take pictures of the basketball game, but before I went to the game I went to Sonic to grab a bite to eat. I like having Bawls money to spend. I finished off my roll of film and then came home to find that Mallory McKinney had called. I called her back and talked with her for quite a while before she had to leave. I worked on TutSky's page for a couple hours, and now I'm too tired to do anything else.

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2-4-01

I had a bit of fun today. Most of the afternoon was pretty boring because I didn't have anything to do. I got mad at my computer because it kept going through these nice little memory dumps every time I did anything to the system. I've finally gotten it to run fairly smoothly for the time being. Mallory McKinney called to talk for a little while, but then she had to go and never called back. Then Sarah Hindsman called to say her computer died again, so she wanted to come by to pick up a CD. Later in the evening, Rachel Trusty told me about a little Mercy Me concert at the First Baptist Church here in town, so Jared Fitzgibbon and I went to see that. We headed out in somewhat of a rush, so I forgot to tell my parents which CD to give Sarah when she came by. I guess they figured it out though, and she got what she needed. The concert was kind of fun because we got to go out and mingle amongst masses of people. I kept wishing I had brought some Bawls, because I was hot and thirsty through most of the concert. I probably would have even pepped up a bit to start dancing a little. When I got home, I called to apologize to Sarah, did my homework, and relaxed for a bit before I had to come to the realization of the reality of the necessity of my presence at school tomorrow. Perhaps I could quit school and become a full-time Bawls salesman.

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2-3-01

I woke up around noon today. It must have been sucky movie day, because all day I saw nothing but really corny shows and movies. Later in the evening, I went to see the band Refuge play at Heart and Soul. I brought along my case of Bawls to sell. I only sold a couple there, but afterwards we went around town for a bit. First we stopped by Shakey's, and then went over to Higher Grounds. Everyone left me, so I just stayed at the coffee shop for a while. I hung around there for quite a while before I got bored of just standing around. Nobody seemed to want to talk to me, so I just came home. Through the course of the night, I sold all but 3 bottles of Bawls, so I'm hoping to get a new case sometime soon. I should really buy a pallet of the stuff. If I had the money, I definitely would. I could sell all 60 packs of it easily. I just don't have the money for the initial cost of buying the pallet. Hopefully I get the web design job that I applied for here in town, and then I can buy a pallet of Bawls. I would be one happy camper.

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2-2-01

Today's been a long and interesting day. It started out like any other. I went to school and went through classes in what was otherwise an ordinary day. At lunch I went out to Jon Robison's car to get a big case of Bawls I had bought. I had the box out for less than an hour before I was completely sold out. I gave a few out to some of my best friends, and gave a few out to some people I know really well that promised to pay me back on Monday. I took about half of the case of 24 bottles down to the journalism room after lunch, and on the way I got mobbed by people wanting to buy some. After I made it to the journalism room, I only had about seven or eight bottles left, so I sold a bunch to the people on yearbook staff. A couple minutes later, Josh Higgins came down wanting to buy one from me, so I was out. Fifth and sixth periods were cut short, and seventh period was completely removed today for a pep rally. I went for a little while, but then went back down to the journalism room because I didn't feel like sticking around for the whole thing. After school I took my empty case of bawls out to the car where my dad was waiting to take me home. When I got home, I chilled for a little while before heading over to Thomas Hollingsworth's place to buy another two cases of Bawls. He offered me two cases for $30 since I helped him out with some stuff one time. After that I headed over to Higher Grounds to see who was there, sold four bottles of Bawls. I felt kind of bad stealing the coffee shop's caffeine business, but I don't think anybody was actually going to open their bottles until later anyway. I saw Rachel Bewley, Kelli Henderson, and Jennifer Hawkins sitting around a table, so I went to talk to them for a bit before going over to the high school to catch the last of the game and then go to the dance. I met Mallory McKinney over there, and we both wandered around for a bit taking pictures. Mrs. Hefflin, my calculus teacher, saw me bouncing around a bit, so she pulled down a little mask they had up for decoration and put it on me. I was goofy fun with my Bawls, but they wouldn't let anyone go back to their cars. I was quite upset about that, because several people came up to me wanting to buy some Bawls. When Mallory and I finally finished with taking pictures, we bounced around for a little while before we got too extremely bored, and then came on back to my house where we watched a part of a movie before I had to take her home. Overall it was a pretty fun night, just going around and hanging out.

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2-1-01

I didn't get the car today, but I didn't have too much of a problem with it really. It was a bit inconvenient, but I survived. Classes weren't too bad, but I still got a bunch of work done. I got pulled out of first period a couple times to take pictures of the choir for the yearbook. I was running around doing things all day. Yesterday, Mrs. Hill wrote a note on the board about a lady in town that was going to hire a couple web designers, so I finally called today and went to a nice little interview at 3:30, right after school. I didn't even get to tell my parents until my mom actually came to pick me up. We didn't have too much of a problem getting there though, and I had a pretty good time talking to the couple about what they do and what I would get to do if I were to get a job there. Working there would be great fun since I'd be doing more of the stuff I do anyway. I hope I get the job for a couple reasons. One is that I'd like more money to buy more Bawls. Two is that it'll give me a little experience with actually doing something instead of just playing around on a silly site like this. Three I haven't quite figured out yet, but I'm sure it has to do with buying more Bawls. Mallory McKinney called me after I got home, so we talked for a little while until my family decided to go out to eat at New China. After we got back from that I called Mal up again and we talked for a couple hours or so. Jared Fitzgibbon had failures in just about every component of his room, so he came over to use my awesome working computer, scanner, and printer for a bit. It was quite fun just sitting there chilling. He was on the computer doing work and chatting, I was laying in bed reading my history chapter, and Mallory was talking to us over my speakerphone. I'm excited now. Bawls, going to the colors day dance with Mallory, Bawls, possible employment in the near future, and Bawls. Despite my constant obsession with Bawls, I'm going to sleep now.