and then there were three

hopefully will get to updating daily this next week.

wow, Sexual Healing was on the radio today. found a florida 2004 quarter!! got excited it was new i hadn't seen one. be a good person SIGN THE GUESTBOOK! it's all by itself it's lonely look at it!

elkhart's finest...

randall spotted a paragraph describing elkhart's very own mayor miller in a political article in the oct 6 2003 issue of the New Yorker, ha: "A hundred dollars got you a seat in a banquet hall where the mayor of the nearby town of Elkhart, who was dressed in what appeared to be a bowling shirt, gave an exuberant prayer of thanks to God for Chris Chocola, beseeching Him to grant Chocola "supernatural powers" in Washington and thanking Him for all the campaign contributors present in the room." HAHAH!!!!!!!!!!! i don't know if it's as funny as it is goofy...

Ant's cemetery days: week 2, wed-fri

I’ve got a big recap to do; we’ll see how this goes. Days at the cemetery kind of run together when they aren’t kept up on and refreshed on a daily basis. These are some highlights of the past three days. Ryan made up a song about the two old people that ride three wheeled bicycles around the cemetery. It was something to the effect of “Three wheeled bikes/adults on trikes/riding through town/and all around. There was more to it than that but I can’t remember how it all went. It’s been raining a lot at the cemetery lately, but never when we’re working usually. Big storm on Friday which turns an average cemetery into an ominous graveyard. Picked up sticks all morning on Friday, the storm came, and then we picked up more sticks which had just fallen. Stamped around in the back of the pickup squashing the sticks down to “maximize our truck bed volume”. Hot dog day on Thursday went great, Gowdy ended up bringing 48 hotdogs and halfway through Friday all 48 were gone. Dave was commenting that Lonnie ate six hotdogs on Thursday alone. It was funny watching him just eat the hotdog, no bun, dipping it in mustard while reading something on the bulletin bored. Joked with Louie and Randall in the break room during the storm about bodies rising from their graves during the storm and having a Dawn of the Deadesque atmosphere, lights flickering, tree limbs coming down and bodies clawing at the doors and windows. One particular scene involves us listening at the door to clawing and thrashing sounds, thinking it’s a corpse trying to get in, the sound stops and we open the door to see Jim’s mutilated body at our feet. Just as I’m outlining the premise of this movie the pop machine light starts flickering and then all the lights go out. Our only source of light is from the small window on the south side of the break room. A truck from outside turns on its headlights to shine through the window to give us more light, but the power came back on shortly after. Best scene of Friday was watching Lonnie eat his orange at the garage door while the storm was all around him. Second best scene of Friday was looking out at Jim, Lonnie, and Gowdy as they watched the storm, Gowdy tucked in between the two full timers, representing the part-timers interest in the storm and our place in things at the cemetery. Gowdy told me a good story about spinning by the cop that pulled him over a year ago (Gowdy remembered his face!) and spinning grass particles at him through the police car's window [the car was pulled over at the front of the cemetery behind a truck that was being impounded]. Had ghetto burgers for lunch from Big Mama’s place during the storm on Friday and they were pretty ghetto. Gowdy just kept eating his and repeating “This is really ghetto.” I think he was replacing the word gross with ghetto. It was soul food to say the least. I got my first check (for three days of work) and it was $171. Not bad at all. Speaking of money, Weil’s leaving Memorial for Valparaiso High School. He’s going for a yearly salary of $103,000. Not bad. We watched a lady bid $71,000 for her showcase on The Price is Right. She overbid by at least $35,000. And my last cemetery moment for the past three days is Ryan giving me this tip, “If a girl plucks her eyebrows then she takes good care of her bush. Also, if a girl smokes, she has sex.” Yep, we’ll see what next week brings.

what ant didn't include...

3rd hotdog joke: "i tried to get the hotdog to rollover but you can't teach a hotdog new tricks!" a different one helen wrote down ( onfriday night) while we were high because she liked it so much at the time i guess lol: "what's the difference between a good hotdog and a bad hotdog? the good one doesn't have a record." ... stubbs quote on rambow's girlfriend, but he doesn't know she's his girlfriend: "damn, i can't help it if you look good." and sometime we've gotta get jim to say the name of that chinese restaurant he butchers but you can't laugh.

jack's IMs: hunter has made an impression on him

dutchsoccer09 (jack): maybe they will let you race too
Auto response from runnastud03: sisters track meet!
dutchsoccer09: get it
dutchsoccer09: i just called you a girl
dutchsoccer09: what now asshole

the last few days & nights, italicized parts written by Ant...

Wednesday night I went to Gowdy's to watch Smallville season finale and Seevers, Beccy and Erin were there. Hillary and Katie came later from a hacienda birthday. Katie and Gowdy wrestled like twelve year olds and there was hair gel squirted at one point and it ended up getting rubbed in my hair.

thursday after work went to the NIC track meet with ant, who was there who won? whelp, we sat with mr habegger and brent's parents and gparents and they're all fun adults. my old 4th grade buddy and memorial senior aaron jordan broke a longstanding 43-yr-old record in the 200. julius smith and paul fearnow placed 1-2 in discus for the chargers. jarris suggs ran a 1:55 in the 800. so yeah memorial won the meet and i found myself rooting them on a bit. brent ran a 2:01 in his leg of the 4-by-8 but was slower in the actual 800 race so that was too bad.

Left sectionals and thought we saw lightning but it was really fireworks from the Bike Rally downtown. Gowdy and I followed the lights and he ended up seeing step-family there as well as an exhausted Mikey Thomas who couldn't stay to talk becuase he was some girl's bitch. We stopped at Tony's Uncle Paul's where Stubbs, Tony, Hunter and Seth were drinking beer and eating pizza and Gowdy and I took the last two slices and we visited with Hunter for his one night in town before heading to Minnesota then Seattle. Subbs and I ran back to Tony's in the rain singing some ridiculous rain theme song, bouncing around avoiding puddles until reaching the quagmire between Tony's house and garage which was a muddy mess, soaking Matt's shoes and my flip flops. Tony and Gowdy drove and went in the house looking for us and I clawed at the windows being obnoxious. Gowdy drove me back to my car at his house and we were tired so we said our goodbyes and I went home.

friday afternoon ellen im'd to check the away message, yo - she was "chili'in" at work! hah a time before talked about how her wrist hurt but not her waitressing wrist luckily...anyways anyways anyways beyond the IM world friday, shit went down. what's that mean? well it was good until it was very very bad. really? how? what? well, for example, graber got arrested. oh no! what happened? it was nick, graber, kurz, seevs, jason f, and don and the posse, they were at helen's drinking and it was pretty fun - kurz pranked us with mt fugu and we had a pot of rice together high ("jesus rice!") and had seevs singing andre's song Roses as "roses smell like poo poo poo". taking a kid named johnny home to cap off the night, graber said he was going to throw up in kurz's car so we stopped for him. i said bad idea because we were downtown near the cop station; a cop passed us and breathalized us. oh no. it was a very good thing nick kurz and i didn't drink. kurz and i were high though. that's why i feel pot is better and safer, you are in a better frame of mind and they don't test for it. being high made me passive when i should've said something. when the police no doubt could smell the alcohol, graber still lied and said he hadn't drank. always be honest. but even then it's a zero-tolerance policy for underage drinking so yeah. nick tried hinting to get him to say he had been drinking but that we were taking him home safely. graber said it was food poisoning, i kept my mouth shut. we had no idea what they were going to test us for or anything. nick was driving kurz's car, thought they'd get them for that. no, i'm pretty sure that's allowed. oh well and pot was in the trunk, a felony right there, and we didn't know where graber had stashed it, thought maye it was under the seat. anyways, it wasn't smart to let him out to puke and nick felt pretty bad about that. better to explain to your mom why there's puke in your car than you know. it was dan's car. dan had wanted to get him the helmet from the trunk for him to puke in. but what's bad for graber is his aunt and uncle and gparents are in town from florida; parents weren't even home. man, poor graber. and...we had a flat tire in grabes' car earlier in the night in the rain, and all but seevs had tried 2CI when we were with mike jamien and shawn, too, who got high someplace else and we split up - seevs was "team leader." what's 2CI? it's a pill that makes you trip, but it definitely didn't work for anyone but it barely worked for kurz for some reason - grabes nick kurz and i. i mean i was playing basketball at kevin's house where we changed the tire with no lights because of the power-outage, nick was driving later after two pills - didn't work. wow, that all sounds like a big ball of not worth it. what's not worth it? graber drinking and getting arrested. yep, it was awful, but we had fun before the cops part, for as lame as it was. in elkhart, grabes will probably get a ticket, have to take classes. and for lying, if anything it will just be more money tacked on i think. i was pretty sure the breathalizer read .34. the cop was toying with kurz making him repeat - after he'd breathalized him - repeat his sure answer of not drinking, and kurz had had a shot. he was .00. johnny, the other kid in the back who helen had insisted we take home, he lied persistently i couldn't believe it, you're getting arrested regardless might as well fess up, the cop made a joke after that, "kid, looks like you have a drinking problem." i stayed in the back and kept quiet, of course i wish i would've put words in graber's mouth, didn't know what the cops were capable of. they can only get you for pot if they have suspicion, like a joint or a bong or something, or smell? but you can't really prove that you smelled something, people usually only get arrested for posession - not smoking itself. anyways none of us in the car were very aware i don't think of how this works, and pot was in the car. so you think to yourself, if i'm out of the car, they're closer to me, they smell it, they search for it...suspicion is cause for a search. i'm glad i have this complex where i have had bad experiences mixing drinking and getting high adn because of that, wasn't tempted to have a shot or anything, because i get "over." and kurz was nervous enough for all of us, his car, pot in his car, nick driving his car, he was high, he'd had a shot... but as you can tell, night didn't go as planned. graber counted 10 laws we had broken in the car on the way to helen's so i guess it was better to, if at any time, to get stopped on the way from...i guess. earlier in the evening i'd missed going to andrea's for a pool party with krisi stubbs and her. i overslept girls in bathing suits!

post-friday night: nick has since talked to graber - he was in jail for 2 hours and talked to his parents last night and they were mad but nor furious about it. he thinks it is going to be all right. johnny and him talked about it in jail and he was taking it really well. they both agreed that it was a good learning experience. said breathalizer read .06 which amazes us. good thing police don't have potolizers on them, too. i'm just relieved he's okay.

all of saturday i was bummed and thinking about what had happened to graber and johnny and how they were fairing. couldn't do much, worked at kramer's from 9-12 chainsawing and putting a fan belt on his tractor's mower, and then napped much of the day feeling crumby.

Saturday night was Erin's birthday party at Beccy's and everyone had a pretty nice time. The people in attendance were Charlotte, Erin, Shannon, Katie, Me, Gowdy, Stubbs, Andrea, Nick, Kurz, Beccy, Ellen, Cat, Mac, Nate Clark, Ramsey, Caleb [mr gove's son from purdue!], and Zack Castedo (was in Elkhart Boys Choir with him hah). We watched Super Troopers and Bend It Like Beckham while people drank MGD, Cap'n Morgan's and Absolut Citron...[the part i elipses over, ant talked about being the sobriety police but that's really chartlotte's role for the most part; i was quoting ellen's profile saying, "the only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool" and drinking charlotte ruled me incapable of driving because uncoolness isn't currency; i wanted her to go around the room have each of us say something and then she be the judge of our mental state haha it would've been fun.]...I think Erin had a great birthday, she seemd to be having a good time, and you could tell who was driving home and who wasn't haha. You could also tell who liked who woo. Katie and Gowdy had another brief twelf year old bout which they like to do and Mac Zeimet asked if they were a thing. I said to him, "Well, she's my girlfriend and he's a mutual friend, it's a different thing altogether." Katie and I were first to leave but we started the trend and as we walked out Shannon, Erin, Charlotte, Matt, and Andrea followed.

on the way home saturday night driving kurz and nick back, nick was in a much better mood than he'd been in all day and he went on and on about how stubbs "deserves" a girl and about how kurz is a frat boy waiting to happen lol, and we talked about the never-ending wedgie that came thru for me in the clutch! and at the party we all drank to graber and johnny. once home talked with ant and stubbs online for the longest about the art of dating it was interesting..."ARE YOU STILL NOT SURE!?" ~ahhh inside joke

gotta get my break pads replaced on the honda, 10% left. erin has three of my little 50 pot shirts. monday is my first day as a part-timer full-time mower at the cemetery woo. german julia is in town for two weeks should get with her. phil is in town this week, too. i'd had a better entry in mind but ant wrote it up fine and there's not enough time in the world. it's 10:00 and tony's trying to figure out how you fit two shoes in a shoe box. he woke me up this morning they were like "hey let's wake up gowdy" after tring to get stubbs a camauflouge (sp?) bandana at the army store. and it was the 3rd time tony's woke me up in 2 days. yesterday he tried because his cousin betsy's moving-to-goshen party was last night but i missed out. him stubbs and me climbed into his car his neon i climbed thru the window because stubbs couldn't against the curb and he wasn't going to let me have shotgun otherwise. on the way we passed a mexican-crossing woo. we spent the day there with betsy and bj and had home-brewed beers chicken legs burgers brownies and chips and now we're tired and tired of food. andrea and kristi were about to come over and help with basement cleaning tonight it was going to be fun but they naysayed that just now. it's the plan for tomorrow i guess hah. seevs was on his way over i guess to find action - all he would've found is stubbs and tony lying / laying on the bed.

3 mottos - don't force things. do what feels good. don't drink diet coke just for the cooool-ass slogan.

night night don't let the bed bugs bite you THERE.

--nate

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