Senior Skip Day

So I was cautious getting into the idea of Senior Skip Day at first. Not really because I have moral issue with the idea of every senior skipping on one particular day, but more because I have now racked up enough absences to achieve suspension. In the words of Ferris Bueller, "If I go for 9, I'll probably have to cough up a lung."

So going into this day, I knew that I had to make it worth it. Because it is one of the last days I'll have out of school. And throughout this year, I can really pinpoint 3 days that have been overly worth the class they missed.

1) Field Day.
Field Day was worth skipping because as a team building effort, our school organized a day to run around and be sweaty. So Andrea and I decided to take this as a personal day since we were technically not missing any class. So we started off the morning by going to the Austin Children's Museum and learning about the lightrail that the city is putting in. And just generally bothering the children on field trips. But we went and dressed up and made a music video in the Austin City Limits sound stage they have. It was fun. Then we went to my house to grab a movie, thinking that nobody was there. My mom ended up scaring the shit out of us as we were unlocking the door. After explaining about Field Day, we left and went out to eat. We went to Olive Garden, which as a high schooler, felt fancy. I ordered lasagna and chocolate cake. Very worthy of missing school.

2) Puppet Movie Day.
This day was much more fun than it should have been. Basically I showed up at Andrea's house one morning to pick her up to go to school. She had been thinking that she didnt really want to go to school. So when I got there and curled up in her bed saying, "Ughhh, I dont want to go to school today!" we decided not to. Instead, we sat around in her living room decidin what to do. We finally put our creative energy into making a movie. A very bad movie with a horrible plot. With puppets. Aside from the epic failure of this movie, we had so much fun. I dont think I have laughed that hard since then. But we only finished, like, half of the movie. So once we finish it we will give a link to it. But until then, you are spared.

3) Senior Skip Day.
So I originally thought that we were going to use this day to finish our movie. But instead, we did cooler things. We went to school in the morning before school started to sort some stuff out. But we promptly left. We had to stop by the Municipal Court to figure out some stuff about this speeding ticket I got a while back. But after the court, we went to go see Watchmen. Then we went to Barnes & Nobles, where I bought the graphic novel and Andrea bought something more mature. Then we met up with some friends at Sandy's (mmm, icecream) and went swimming at a friends house. This day was completely worth the school we missed because it felt like summer. And because I finally got to see Watchmen. But mostly because it was the first swim of the year, setting the mood of spring. Ahhh.

*Note: Do not follow our influence. Most times when people skip, it is not worth it. I'm just clarifying the point that IF you are going to skip, make it worth it.*

BonBonBio by SugarSnap

oh, btw, BonBon = Andrea

She is a minority. Her mom is black and her dad is Cuban. Her family as a collective is kind of a badass. She recently got into blogs and currently subscribes to 92 blogs. But I figured that she wouldn’t have enough motivation to keep up her own blog, so we started one together. She wants to major in Art History when she goes off to college next year. She is kind of a web comic junkie, appreciating the fine art it entails. She puts the Young in Angry, Young and Poor. She is 13 months younger than me, even though she acts like my legal guardian the majority of the time. Although when she gets angry, you are really able to see the Cuban Mama within. And poor, well, she never really bothered to get a job so she is kind of consistently low on funds. Although I am definitely the poorer of the two. She tends to be my Sugar Mama. The BonBon nickname came from her being chocolate and roundish. Just kidding. She just has a creamy filling.

BonBon talks about SugarSnap

I am going to talk about SugarSnap aka Megan

Megan is the epitome of Angry, Young, and Poor. She is easily frustrated, often violent, and makes a lot of angry noises. She is approximately 6685 days old as of March 5th, 2009 (which translates to a bit more than 18 years). She has returned to a very rudimentary bartering system in which she trades giving me rides to school in exchange for food and sometimes money.

- Megan is kind of lazy.
- She likes LOLCats (unfortunately).
- She loves disco and Jewish men.
- You put them together and she is ready for a good time.
- She sleeps. A lot. She rivals a sloth in the amount of sleep she needs in order to function normally.
- She loves the Love Calculator.
- She hates sandwiches, hot fruit, fake people, and girly men.
- Seriously, she sleeps a lot.
- She watches YouTube videos all the time, and no one has any fucking clue how she found them. Not even her. She just knows that she found it. And she will send me video after video on IM and expect to watch and remember every detail about every single one.
- She is always losing her cell phone.
- Her response to whether or not she likes eating or sleeping better: “Ummmm, do I really have to choose?...Maybe I could dream about eating...?”
- She really hates shopping. A lot.
- But she really needs to go shopping. A lot.
- She loves macaroni (or like Yankee Doodle).
- She has a clock collection that is pretty baller. And that is a big deal for me to say, because not only is “baller” a term I reserve only for the most baller-ific things, but because I also have trouble telling time and used to really hate clocks.
- In Soviet Russia, sleep loves Megan!
- She loves CollegeHumor, both the website and the TV show (but not as much as I do)
- She is the Amir to my Jake.
- She likes tall men. Anyone know a tall, tech-y Jew in the Austin area for her?