It’s Fun To Annoy The People Selling Merch

Listening to: Give 'Em Hell, Kid
What I Should Be Doing: Showering and/or doing homework

Okay, I saw The Academy Is... live last night. They were AMAZING. Which wasn't surprising, 'cause the other two times I've seen them live, they were crazy awesome. =) I think they're my favorite band to see live. Anyway. They were really awesome and we were really close to the stage and I had an awesome time. I think that was my favorite concert. Then Panic! at the Disco, then My Chemical Romance, then Fall Out Boy. It might’ve been because it was my first concert not in an arena, though.

Yeah. And my friend, Anna, and I were like determined to meet the band. So we waited outside their tour bus for like thirty minutes. xD There was a huge crowd of people and then this random girl came out and said they weren’t signing autographs, so we were upset, but we stayed anyway with about twenty other people... Like ten people actually went inside the tour bus and they got to take pictures with the band. That made me SO mad. x( I saw Mike [my favorite guy in the band. xP] taking a picture with some kid through the window of the tour bus and I tried to get a picture of him through the glass but he moved and my camera’s old and mean. (He was on the other side of the stage from us so all the pictures I took of him sucked, ‘cause my camera like didn’t pick up any of the light.) Anyway, Jack the camera guy [who I actually saw before any of the bands even started, but I was too shocked to stop him to ask for a pic. =( I wish I had...] came out of the bus and I asked him if I could hug him, but he just told the crowd that he’d be right back and left. And didn’t come back. At least not while we were there. Then I started doing cartwheels in front of the bus, mostly because I was bored. =D I hugged the tour bus and then The Butcher came out and we were all just like “BUTCHER!” But he left. Like he walked away. I got a pic of him walking away, but that was it, and it’s just really dark and you can’t see anything but something that may have been his foot. xP So now my babysitter/chaperone/friend is starting to get impatient and comes over to tell us we have five more minutes. Our ride was already there and we’d already been waiting outside the bus for like twenty five minutes... She kept trying to convince us that they weren’t going to come out... But we waited for another five minutes and then BILL [William Beckett] comes out. My friends and I are just like “... BILL!” He also said he’d be right back and we were just like “RAWR. Everyone’s ignoring us.”

But this time, he actually did come back. =) He said he couldn’t sign stuff for all the people and take pictures with everybody, but he was really nice about it. He looked exhausted, but he signed my shoe, signed Anna’s poster, signed Whitney’s ticket receipt, took pictures with all three of us, and signed everybody else’s things. And took pictures with a ton of people. It was actually really amazing. I asked him to tell Mike that he was my hero. I doubt he will, but I don’t mind. =D It was most definitely one of the most awesome experiences of my life. We left after we took pictures with him, ‘cause our ride was waiting, but my friends and I wanted to wait to see if the rest of the band would come out... I hope they didn’t. Ah well, if they come back here, I’m SERIOUSLY gonna go and be like “Bill, you signed my shoe last time, can I get everybody else’s autograph please?” xD

I love all the guys [as much as you can when you don’t really know them. xP], but Bill’s actually one of my least favorite. Or tied in third. I think tied. With Sisky... Anyway. I like him a lot more now, because of how nice he was... My friend was trying to take a picture of me and him with my camera and didn’t know how to work it and it was taking forever so she kept apologizing and we’re all just standing there like “Sorry!” and he was all “It’s okay, it’s okay. Don’t worry about it.” And he asked everybody for gum and nobody had any except for one girl that had had a piece in her pocket during the concert. She gave it to him, but it was all melty-ish and stuck to the wrapper. He tried to open it and she apologized for it being kinda disgusting. He just like smiled and was all “It’s okay. I’m going to keep it anyway just to remember how nice that was.” He put it in his pocket. My friends and I were just like “You’re my hero.” :)

Haha, I froze up when I saw Bill standing in a room backstage when we were walking back from the bathroom, but when I took a picture with him, I was just like “Oh, hi, normal person...” xP And then today in my English class, it hit me. WE MET WILLIAM BECKETT. HE SIGNED MY SHOE AND TOOK A PICTURE WITH ME. AND I WAS WITHIN 15 FEET OF THE REST OF THE ACADEMY IS...! I was taking a test, and I started thinking about it and I just sat there with a stupid grin on my face for like ten minutes. I smiled for like three more classes, too. =) Last night seriously made my life. We got there around 6:30 so we’d get close to the stage and TAI didn’t go on until 10. xD Sherwood played first, then The Rocket Summer, then Armor for Sleep, and finally TAI. Sherwood’s cool and so is Armor for Sleep, but I seriously dislike The Rocket Summer... He sounds like a twelve year old. Or a girl. xD Anyway, when they were setting up for The Academy Is... to go on, Tony walked out on stage and my friend and I were just like “TONY!” I took like ten pictures of him, three or four of James/Jimmy [I can’t remember his name!], and one of Mikey [Butcher’s assistant/tech guy. xD]. Anna and I kept yelling Tony’s name, ‘cause we were all “DUDEYOU’REONTAITVANDIKNOWWHOYOUAREANDILOVEYOU.” The girl next to us looked REALLY annoyed and said something about us being idiots to her friend, but her friend took like ALL the guitar picks Chislett threw into the crowd, a towel one of the bands used, and two half full water bottles one of the bands had been drinking out of, so I really didn’t care.

My ears are still ringing from last night. We were like three feet from the HUGE speakers. xD I loved it so much. I’m SO glad we went. *dances* I complained for like twenty – thirty minutes afterward and then I was like “WHYAMICOMPLAINING!? I freaking LOVED it!” We got home about 12:40 AM and I hadn’t finished storyboarding for Digital Video so I did that while my friends fell asleep. x( But I got to bed around 1:15, so it wasn’t that bad. I got 5 hours of sleep, my ears are ringing, I haven’t showered in two days, I smell from the “pit”, and I haven’t taken the wristband from the club off yet. =D I can’t believe how amazing it was. At least three times during the show, I felt like I was going to pass out from the screaming and the heat and the jumping up and down and how badly my neck hurt. Like, I was seriously so lightheaded that I couldn’t remember the words to the last two songs and my knees were weak when I left the place. But it was SO MUCH FUN. I would totally do it again. xD

Only bad thing = I have nothing to look forward to now. Like nothing.

The end of the school year?

Yeah, I wrote this on Wednesday, October 4. But it's going up on Wednesday, October 10, because our internet connection SUCKS.

Storyboards Stinks

Listening to: the rain and my step-sister's cousin talking to my step-mom in the room above me
What I Should Be Doing: Packing to go home

This weekend's been crazy. Felt longer and shorter than it's been... Nothing's really happened recently, so, to tell you the truth, I don't know what to write here. I'm tired, since Anthony and I stayed up till like 3:30 AM last night and I woke up at 10. It's enough sleep, but it didn't feel long enough. xD [He woke up at 7. Seriously. And he says he went to bed more towards 4.] Anyway. I'm heading to the airport in like... twenty minutes but I don't wanna go. I don't wanna get on an airplane and do all my stupid homework and then get home and do more homework and then stay up too late and then go to bed and wake up and go to school.

I really need to brainstorm/storyboard for my visual essay for Digital Video. I'm thinking about doing somebody setting the table for dinner and pouring drinks and stuff. I'm not sure though. I need to think about it.

Okay, yeah, it's now like 2:52 PM and I wrote the above stuff at like 11:50 AM. Anyway. I'm on the plane at the moment and while I don't have internet, I forgot to publish the post, 'cause Anthony came into my room to talk to me and yeah. :P So I still have this open. Yeah. Um. Not much else to say 'cept I feel like I have a ton of homework but I don't at the same time. =D

See you laaater.

My backpack weighs like 80 pounds. *dull look*

I'm LAZY. Times like A MILLION.

Listening to: Hey Brittany by Forever the Sickest Kids
What I Should Be Doing: Latin Homeworkkk.

My headphones broke. Like, the right ear bud's cover came off, and it's just the inside. Sucks, man. =(

Yeah, I'm at school right now. xD I should do Latin, but I'm LAZY. And he doesn't really care anyway, or he didn't use to, and we're having a party anyway. I brought pretzels. *beam*

My Psychostick CD makes my LIFE. xP Yeah.

Have to brainstorm for a visual essay for Dig. Vid, but oh well.

Saryn Cried Because of the Plastic Lemons

Listening to: Say This Sooner by The Almost
What I Should Be Doing: My Self-Evaluation for Digital Video

This song is my brother's ring tone. x) Whenever his phone rings, I go "ILOVETHATSONG,HUNTER!" and he just looks at me funny. =)

School's boring and awful and I wish it was the weekend or next Tuesday or at least Friday. Fortunately, it's almost Thursday, which means the week's just about over. :D

Okay, like two years ago, while I was just really getting into music, I was obsessed with country music. It was ALL I listened to. Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Brooks and Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Pat Green, Rascal Flatts, Sugarland, George Straight, and Jimmy Buffett. Yup. And then around Christmas, I started reading band fanfiction and from a few Simple Plan stories, I checked out random videos of them. Not their music, but just random stuff like this or this. And then I started listening to the music and I was like "ILOVETHISSOMUCH." And eventually, I started listening to other bands... I started listening to MCR, because my sister told me they were playing in our city and I was like "I only like one song by them and they swear." And yeah, I went home, looked up their music and basically fell in love with 'em. I ended up going to that concert. xD Awesome, man. CRAZY AWESOME. Anyway. I never listen to country or Simple Plan anymore, and I definitely don't listen to My Chemical Romance as much as I used to.

Wow! I just wasted a bunch of time! *parties*

Uh. I have to go pick up my Psychostick CD tomorrow. And pick my friend's CD up for her. =) All Time Low, man. I'm so lazy though... I don't wanna walk down there. :D It takes like 30 minutes to go and get back, but still...

I wish it was next Tuesday.

I should go do homework. =) ADIOS!

I Know Who Pete Wentz Is. *beam*

Listening to: Dear Maria by All Time Low
What I Should Be Doing: Homework. x(

Okay. Today was bad and good at the same time. I forgot to bring my camera to Digital Video this morning, which was okay, since we didn't need to film anything else, but I had to move a ton of stuff, which was really boring. And then in English class, I realized I didn't know any of the stuff that we were s'posed to look over. 'Cause I didn't. 'Cause I wasted time instead. Anyway. My next like three classes were boring, including free period. Lunch was good but my stomach hurt afterward. And then chemistry was boring. But history was better, 'cause I didn't do anything but look over my test and goof off with my friend. xD Then I had to go retake a chemistry test. [I got an 85 on the first one, but I felt like I coulda done better.] I think I did better the first time. But oh well. xP

Uh. Yeah. I had to borrow my friend's cell phone 'cause I forgot mine at home [because I dropped it in the dogs' water bowl yesterday and had to air it out]. Turns out my mom's already at school so I open my locker to grab my books to go home and there's this envelope with my parents' names on it. I took it and gave it to my mom right then... And it turns out I have detention. Because my parents get me to school late. Like, I'm ready at 7:20 and they don't leave until 7:40 and I get to my first class at 8:01. *dull look* 2 minutes late 2 days in one week and they give you detention. At 7 AM. I'm not even usually awake then.

So. I have a TON of homework to do, especially for history since I blew that class off today.

Yeah.

MIKE, GET A HAIRCUT!

Listening to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c10hyBKqpo4
What I Should Be Doing: SLEEPING.

Uh. I have problems. I've been watching TAI videos for like forever. Seriously, it's been like three hours. The Butcher is my hero. Anyway, I get to see them live in like two weeks. Should be amazingly awesome. I hope. Maybe. I love them and I've already seen 'em live twice when they opened for other bands, but now that they're headlining, I'm hoping it'll be even better.

Anyway. We had a ton of homework but like none of it is due tomorrow. So I left off almost all of it, which was STUPID. But oh well. I have an AP World History test tomorrow. I said there was gonna be one like last week, but I lied. xD [The teacher moved the test.]

I dunno. There's all kind of stupid stuff happening with my friends and my parents and my sisters right now, so today kinda stunk. But yesterday was awesome. xD I dressed up like an "emo" and M.E. and I scootered down to the music store. We scared people on the street and ordered some CDs and scared the guy [I think] and then we went to Smoothie King and they had better stickers than the music store... And then we went to McDonald's 'cause I didn't want a smoothie [I tasted M.E.'s and it was GROSS.] and I got a McFlurry and then we went home. =)

I have to go pick up both our CDs next Thursday and order one for my friend, who's going to the concert with me next week. We're gonna walk down to the music store before the concert.

By the way. Mike Carden now reminds me of a kid in my Latin class and egg ho's. Don't ask. xD

I'm in love with Santi at the moment.

Explanation about Powerspaaace Concert

Listening to: Beer by Reel Big Fish
What I Should Be Doing: SLEEEPING!

I just realized I didn't rant about the concert to the point of explaining what happened. I almost went to Powerspace because it turned out to be on the Sunday I get back from my dad's, but my mom thinks we'll get raped or mugged or killed or something. My step-dad said I could go though. xD Too bad I still don't know if it's an all ages event. =(

I seriously doubt my mom would lemme go anyway, even though Steve said I could.

I'm seriously going to bed now.