Creeper Dude, Pianist, and "the Finger Thing"

QUICK NOTE: When you see a *, just go to the bottom of the post. (It's in the second paragraph, 'Pianist'.)
Okay, so the title of this post is a little wacky for some of you. Explanations are coming up.

Here's an explanation of the first part, "Creeper Dude".....
- I've told some people--but I'm not sure EXACTLY who--about this dude who, last month, followed me home from the bus stop in his car. I named him "Creeper" (or "Creeper Dude"). Guess what? He came back today. Even though I got a new bus stop, closer to my house, since last time, it's still a little ways (5 yards or so). And his car was waiting in the culdisac, just sitting there like my mom's does in the morning, except WE'RE waiting for the bus to come. So I get of the bus and (sort of nervously) walk home, and--of course--his car is creeping along right next to me. He's got tinted windows, but he's definitely a man. And his license plate is totally covered up, so I can't take his number. Exactly like last time. I keep walking, and I go into my house via the garage as usual. Then he leaves. I know it's not all that exciting to you guys, but you guys are reading about it, not walking home with a freaking car driving along at 4mph right next to you. SO freaky.

And NOW, get ready for a change of tone.
This story is really funny (if a little had-to-be-there).........
- So I'm in reading class earlier today. We do normal stuff, like turning in our Reading Charts, doing a Journal, whatever. Same-old, same-old. But then my teacher (who is the best reading teacher in the WORLD), Mrs. Gillis, stands up in front of the class and says "Since it's the last reading day before spring break, I thought we'd play a game for part of the class; about 20 minutes or so. It's called the 'Hostage Game'"* And she explained the game, and passed out these sheets. There were 8 'hostages' and there was a little bio about all of them. One was a 19-year-old who was a piano prodigy or something. The other people in the class were reading the bios out loud--and the people in my reading class (mostly) 4th-grade readers. So this one kid is reading, and goes, "Alana Brecken is 19 years old. She is a successful pee-ANN-oh-ihst..." And Mrs. Gillis looked up and corrected them (and it was REALLY fast. Like, a split second. So it was hard to understand). She said, "PEE-ann-ihst."
And then this kid named Carter (who is literally like 4'2") looks at her really funny and goes, "She's a WHAT?!"
D'you get it?
If you don't-- too bad. If you do-- Isn't it a knee-slapper? Ahahaha... *slight sarcasm*
Told you it was a had-to-be-there.

OKAY! And now for the Finger Thing...
- There's this kid on my bus named Alex, and he's like Austin's personality clone, just without the whole physical-ness. (If you haven't heard my Austin schpeal, then never mind. Alex is cool, anyway.) Yesterday we were just sitting around and Alex all of a sudden went, "Wanna see something really cool?" I shrugged and he held up his finger and did this really awesome thing, where the top knuckle was totally like... liquid-y. "Wanna touch it?" he asked, and -- of course -- I touched it. That was just... SO COOL. The knuckle slides down like a whole centimeter or something, and the tip of your actual finger replaces it, so you can flick your finger around. It's SO COOL. And then he does this weird thing where he makes his finger all tense, and the skin in the back puckers up in this dent and it was literally in the shape of a Z, and it was wicked awesome. And then he told me that EVERYONE can do the jell-o finger thing (the first thing), and -- of COURSE -- I asked how. And then he told me. And it's even more fun when you're the one doing it! :D Except I'm really bad, and he's REALLY good, but whatever. It's still fun.

Some extra notes
- I'm going on a cruise on Saturday! That's 2 or 3 days, depending!!!!!!!!!!
- Happy birthday to Kali today! (:

That's all, folks!
Remember to check below my signature for the *!
And to check the post right below this for more about "The Hostage Game"!

Peace, Love, and Llamas!
-Emiliano
* = At this point I muttered, in a slightly annoyed tone, "I lost the Game," which resulted in a few "What? We haven't started playing yet!"s and 2 or 3 loud groans. It was really evil that Mrs. Gillis said it, but it was more-than-a-little hilarious that no one lost but me, and then I made 2 people lose. Like no one plays the Game in my school.
Oh, by the way, I lost again, by explaining this to you.
ALSO: More about this in another post, which I posted a little while ago.

The Hostage Game

If you read my LATEST post, you'll know the beginning. If not, go read it.

Here goes nothin'...

....But then my teacher (who is the bestest reading teacher in the WORLD), Mrs. Gillis, stands up in front of the class and says "Since it's the last reading day before spring break, I thought we'd play a game for part of the class; about 20 minutes or so. It's called the 'Hostage Game'"* She pauses, then adds, "Everything from this second forward is completely pretend... I scared a few kids yesterday." We all snicker, because 'yesterday' means 7-2. Haha. Anyway, we all nod while we snicker and she explains the game.
Basically she chose 8 of us randomly -- I was one of the 8 -- and gave us these weird name slip thingies to put around our necks. They were laminated, and mine said "Senator Jan Snyder" or something. Then she told us to go out in the hallway, which we did. Then I sat in the hallway for a while, before coming in and watching other stuff happen. Lucky me. The rest is as recorded by Genesis, who is my awesome friend from school......
when the 8 people went out in the halway mrs gillis passed out these sheets with all the names on them and then there was little discriptions of the people on them. they were like characters i guess or something but emily's was like some senator who was really well liked and probably was going to be the first women president and she was like helping pay her parents morgage and stuff. she was 37 i think maybe 36. any way so mrs gillis read the sheet to us and she was like "the 8 people in the hall way are-- wait i'll explain that later. so a plane has been high jacked. on the plane is a pilot 3 high jackers and 8 hostages." then we all got who the 8 people were in the hall way. "and the high jackers say that they will let 4 of the hostages go for free if they could land and refeul for free at a goverment place and then take the plane with the other 4 people. the other 4 people we must assume are going to be left for dead. your job is to write down the order of the people you want saved acording to the information on your sheet." so i did and i cant remember what people i put but it was like this preist dude then emily's lady (NOTE FROM EM: No one knew who was who. Like, Genesis had no idea that my nametag was the senator; all the class people knew was that each person in the hallway was someone from the sheet.) and then this modil lady and then a teenager piano player person. (EM: Haha... pianist. Haha...) any way then we all put our results on the marker board and then we took the most populer people and we chose them to be saved so it went like this:
(Everything from now on is Em. Thanks, Genesis!!!!)
- Father John Gollas (The Priest)
- Senator Jan What's-Her-Face (That'd me moi.)
- That teenager peni-- I MEAN pianist.
- Becka Bert (or something. The model lady.)
So then Mrs. Gillis came out in the hallway and goes, "I need the following people; look at your nametag to see if you're the person. Father John Gollas, Jan [insert last name here], [teen pianist], and Becka Bert. You four can come inside, in that order. So Father John--Chris Gerhardson, come on in. I'll tell you when, Emily." So Chris went in first, and Mrs. Gillis said some stuff, and then she waved at the door, and I went in.
Then she went, "This is Senator Jan [last name]. She has been saved from the hijackers, because she came in second place." Meanwhile I stood there, feeling really dumb because I had no clue what she was talking about. "You can sit down, Em- Ah, Jan." Then I sat down and Genesis grinned at me.
And then more people came in. It was really dumb, but fun anyway. Beeker was complaining about not getting blindfolded or anything. She thinks being held captive would be kind of fun. I dunno, it would be pretty freaky, but I guess it could be exciting too..........

THE END. BYE. ADIOS.

Peace, Love, and Llamas!
-Emiliano

Okay, folks.

Okay, folks.
It's official.
I am officially really happy.
Really, really happy.
Because.............
- I'm going to Kaliyan's birthday party after all, AND we're celebrating our 11th anniversary in September!!! I know! It's major, peepz! (We missed our decade anniversary, so we're gonna have the best partay ever for our 11th. Mhm. You wish you could be there.)
- I finished MAX in 2 days, which is admittedly the longest time it's ever taken me to read a Maximum Ride book (the first time, when it's all like "OMG WHAT IS GONNA HAPPEN???" and stuff, that is). It was good. Still global warming-y, but good. And then my friend Shelby stole my library book of it and is now reading it. But the library won't care, because she'll probably finish it in like 3 days too. So whoopee!
- I. Am. Wearing. Capris. My very favorite capris EVER, from last summer. And they still fit me perfectly. And they still don't feel like I'm wearing pants (in the good way. Like, I can feel them but they don't make me any warmer. Which is good for me, since I'm Jacob Black's temperature, all the time. ALL THE TIME. Darned Colorado, making its citizens be boiling-blooded. ><) But ANYWAY, they're the bestest capris ever and they still fit.
- Hel-LO?? It's officially spring!!!!!!!!!
- I. Am. Wearing. My. Favorite. Capris.
- I rediscovered an awesome song. :)
- We went on this wicked awesome field trip today, and had lots o' fun, and I made lots o' friends.
- It's FRIDAY!!!!!!!
- I only have 15 effin' days (including today, which is basically over) until I go to effin' Miami. And then, after one half of a day in Miami, I shall go to the EFFIN' CAYMANS!!! After which I shall go to the effin' Bahamas. Then guess what? I'm goin' to Jamaica, mon. And then, *tear*, I'm coming back to good ol' MN. Which isn't actually all that *tear*ful any more, because it's 60 out right now, and I <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3 it when it's 60 and so windy that it'll knock me off my feet. Which it is. So YAY!
- Um.. It's Friday! :D

And that's pretty much all! Thanks for reading my self-centered post! :D

Peace, Love, and Llamas!
-Emiliano

Spring Has Sprung in MN!

Author's note:
If someone was to ask me, "I've heard that there's only 1 season in Minnesota: Winter. Is that right?", I always reply, "There are actually 4 seasons in Minnesota, as you'll be surprised to hear." Before they answer, I quickly continue. "They are called "Almost Winter", "Winter", "Still Winter", and "Road Construction"." Now is the season that we seasoned Minnesotans usually call "Road Construction", because it's the one time of year when the roads aren't frozen solid, so nearly every major road is torn up at about this time. But guess what? People are actually using the word "Spring" for the current time! I'm surprised, I must say, but I've also used such a word. It's foreign, yes, but has now been tainted with Minnesotan accents for the first time in years....
-Emily McGivern; 7th grade awesome person.

Okay, weird title. But here's what I was going to do...

OH MY EFFIN GOD!!!!! I JUST WENT OUTSIDE IN A T-SHIRT AND JEANS, AND GUESS WHAT?????? I DIDN'T TURN INTO A STATUE OF ICE! INSTEAD, I JUST STOOD THERE!!! IN A T-SHIRT!!! AND WAS FINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
Boys and girls, ladies and gents: It's a Minnesota spring!!! (Aka: It'll either blizzard again by tomorrow, or it'll be 100 degrees by next week.) Ya never know - I was born in May, and I've had birthdays where I went sledding, and birthdays where I coulda gone to the beach, or an outside pool.
Of course, I've also had actual spring birthdays... but out of my 11, only 2 resembled anything like spring. You know, the 60 degree weather, wind, little bit of rain? My very favorite. I love it when it's 60 degrees - not one more, nor one less - and the wind could tear your hair right out of your scalp. I love those days.
And one of those days was on Sunday. That exact type of day. 60 degrees, on the dot, not 1/10 of a degree off. VERY windy. It was such a nice change from 10 degrees and blizzarding. I literally went sprinting up and down the road, yelling "IT'S WARM!!!! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?! FOR IT TO BE WARM!!!!" Yup. It was quite a sight to see, I bet.
I wasn't on MY street, though... I was running up and down a street that really, really rich people live on: I was touring mansions. And it was really fun... I even found one with a high-up tower to fit my very needs! ;) Anyway, yeah, it was called the Parade of Homes. It was fun. It was also the first in 5 years where it wasn't either pouring rain or hail or snow. Amazing.
So... yeah. I don't really have ALL that much to say. The entire few paragraphs above are basically just "It was 60 out on Sunday, it got to freakin' 72 yesterday, and it's exactly 58.8 degrees out today. Heaven has made its way to Bloomington, Minnesota, folks.

And that's my post. Now, Armin, it's your turn. (Long story. Inside joke. If you were Brynn, Paige, Genesis, or anyone else in my Tech Ed class [only Brynn was in my Tech class, but the rest know about it], you would get it.)

Peace, Love, and Llamas!
-A VERY happy Emiliano

Random Pic

Sorry -- I have to have a URL for this site that I want to post my pic on, and the URL with the pic that it has doesn't work because the pic is too wide. So I'm just gonna post the pic. Sorry for the false alarm of me posting (as if).

Peace, Love, and Llamas!
-Emiliano

The Play, the Potluck, and the Cast Party

Here's the exciting story of the play, the 'potluck', and the cast party.

The Potluck
- Okay, so there was this "potluck". I was told about it when we were in the changing room getting into our costumes before the actual show, before green room, before everything. It was going to be during intermission in the girls' dressing room. From the way people talked about it (nonchalantly), I figured that it was fine with the directors and stuff. I also was told to stay in my spot after the bows and stuff, because everyone was going to present the co-directors, the costume ladies, and the student director with flowers in front of the audience.
- Well, come to find out in the middle of the first half that it was TOTALLY not okay with the directors, because everyone was whispering and talking about how much trouble they (NOT me. Not a chance.) would be in if they got caught. Come intermission, everyone rushed to the dressing room except for the smart people (including me, Brynn, Katie V., and Allison B.), who stayed in the backstage holding room.
- A few minutes through, I went into the dressing room later, because I'd forgotten my hair clip (and noticed during the last song of first act. I know, I'm so observant.) and had to get it from my bag. There was a circle of girls, mostly popular ones but some not-so-popular ones, each with a HUGE bag of chips, cookies, candy, and even a few people with actual JARS of frosting. I almost barfed right there. So I got my hair clip and went back to the H.R., where I told Katie about what I saw. She gagged just hearing about it.
- Then Katie and I went down to the costume room to get one of her buttons fixed. Yay, super-important. Then we went back to the H.R. to told everyone else, and Robyn (this REALLY annoying girl) was like "Oh em gee! I am telling MaryJane about this." And then she walked out of the room, and I came with. Turns out that she ran into Stephanie (the other costume lady) first, and she spilled the beans, with me adding details every few words. Then Stephanie went down the hallway, we went back to the H.R. to wait it out, and the "lookout" for the dressing room totally freaked out and ran into the room.
- Well, they hid all the food (really badly) and said that they were "practicing the songs" when they were asked why they were all in there. Stephanie didn't buy it, but no one got in all that much trouble. Later on, I heard that MaryJane thought that they were doing drugs! xD
- Anyway, then Kelsey (another really annoying girl, who's practically glued to my side most of the time) comes into the H.R. and goes, "Oh gosh, I hope I don't get in trouble for the potluck. I had like one chip." She looked really worried. I almost fell down laughing. When I'd walked in to get my clip, her mouth had been absolutely exploding with a variety of things, and she'd been reaching into a huge bag of Oreos as she munched. So I told her what I saw, she denied it (of course), and we finished the second half. All was normal.
The Cast Party
- After the bows and the flower-giving and stuff, we all ran to the dressing room, changed at the speed of light so that we could get to the cast party. The idiots who started the potluck were still gourging themselves. When everyone FINALLY cleaned up (including a trio of really dumb sixth graders who decided to go get a 20 minute-long drink right when the directors were coming in to check that we were cleaned up), we went to the lunchroom to get started.
- We all ate 2 pieces of this REALLY good pizza, drank about 4 cans of Mtn Dew each, then got up to dance. We danced for a while, did "trivia questions" (I got a $10 DQ gift card for answering "How many holes does a 10-pin bowling pin have?" I mean, no DUH!!), and finally -- FINALLY!! - did mock awards.
The Mock Awards
Mock Awards are basically these little tiny pieces of colored paper with a random thing about you on them. (A few examples: Robyn was "Hyper Honey", Kelsey was "Tag-along" [HECK YES!!!!], and Brynn was "Look-alike Lady" [because of her older bro, Bryce, who was the lead last year.]) I got "One-Hat Wonder", because I wore my hat to almost every practice. I knew it was going to be about that hat... I knew it!! xD No, literally, right when they started the Mock Awards I whispered to Katie, "Watch mine be like "Hat Girl" or something." Anyway, they were really fun.

And that's pretty much it... I stayed at the party until about 2am or so, when they all but kicked us out the door. Katie went home at midnight, Kelsey (thank goodness) went home at 12:30, and Brynn stayed the whole time. Paige and Genesis didn't try out, even though Genesis has a rockin' voice. :(

ADIOSES!

Peace, Love, and Llamas!
-Emiliano

The Play!!!

Here's a post dedicated to "the play" (aka: My school's musical, Little Shop of Horrors.)

- My costume, as I've probably said before, is a light blue striped dress, a bright red belt, a sparkly red headband (to match the belt), pantihose/nylons/whatever, and these weird, too-big black shoes. We also have to wear this "stage makeup", which isn't really stage makeup. It's just normal makeup put on in really huge quantities. What's really weird about the whole makeup thing is that you get so used to it, having seen it every day for hours on end, that people with no makeup on at all look like they've got like albinism. (No offense to albinos, who are just as human as everyone else. I'm just saying, they all look really pale and plain.)
- Only one play left, and Kali's coming to it!!!! :) A bunch of my friends came yesterday, but practically no one came on opening night. The seniors' performance was kinda like another dress rehearsal, just ALL the way through. Then the one on Thursday night (opening night) was like "Well, it's a performance, but still sort of practice." And then yesterday's was somehow the first real deal, and the whole cast went to DQ afterwards. No one went to DQ or anywhere else on Thursday. Tonight is going to be the REALLY real deal, cuz almost everyone's friends are coming tonight. A bunch of kids came yesterday, but most of them were from Oak Grove (our 'rival' school).
- I AM SO HYPER.
- I have every single song simultaneously stuck in my head. I didn't know that that was possible, really, to have like 9 songs playing in your head at the same time. Seriously.
- Cast party tonight!!!! I'm psyched, cuz apparently they're really awesome. I can't wait!
- I'm bored...
- IF YOU HAVE A FACEBOOK:: I'm going to be posting pictures from the play in an album titled - *gasp* - Little Shop of Horrors. Go look at 'em!!!

And... that's it, I think. Bye!

Peace, Love, and Llamas!
-Emiliano