super-witness...to the rescue?

I have come to the realization that I am beginning to be present when and where things happen. I have yet to decide if this is a good or a bad thing, but what it IS is a true thing.
Because of the five family members that inhabit my house, minus my brother who's away at college, four, we have a decently to very eventful life at any given moment. My youngest sibling is in high school, so everything tends to be a pretty important ...for lack of a better word, thing. And my parents are divorced, which is a primary reason as to why I am so interested in law (because I spent half my high school years in a courtroom...another story, another day).

Like last week, I am pretty sure I witnessed a shooting, and no, not of a movie. Add a car flipping over right in front of me, a stabbing, a robbery next door to my job (while I was there), and a lady in front of me in line at the gas station, freaking out because her friends picture appeared on the front of a newspaper, and "foul play" was suspected, I would think that I happen to be in the right place at the right time... or the wrong place at the wrong time. Either way, at a time when it happens, I am starting to be there more and more.

Like I said, this may prove to be a streak of good luck...or aligned stars....or numerology something or another taking place...or the Chinese zodiac shifting...but I hope it's all for the better. Though, I am not one that likes to witness any types of pain afflicted or inflicted upon others. Maybe I will help someone soon in one of theses right place/time/wrong place/time situations??? hopefully so.

Well....I am at school so I guess I should get back to work.

snippets.

snippet of my current existence...

They say I came through the back door
but they're wrong.
I'm not in yet.

They just see my shadows moving towards the keyhole...
and they fear that they'll regret trying to stop me before.

And, oh, they will.
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Yes. a short poem, by me. Woohee. The rhyming comes nat-urally. See? What I mean? It's serene. It's the air of the scene. It's....I'll stop now. Sorry....carried away with the whole Dr. Suess mood.

What tickles your fancy? Writing tickles my fancy. Writing and reading and theres more where that came from. And music. I can't even function sometimes if theres no music. Guess it would be wise to invest in an ipod that isn't lost. (My bro LOST my shuffle that I got from my job for winning a contest...so it was free! {*cries*} aw...shucks....now I will have to spend actual George Washington's on a new one. Well...I will mos def upgrade from the whole shuffle approach. Why am I still in parenthesis? This is like...an inside thought, GONE WILD {volume one}- ORDER NOW>>>>>OR NOW.!!! ok...I guess I'll stop that too....and this.) There. Inside thought mostly completed.

I was on boondockstv.com reading an old BOONDOCKS strip and remembered a funny jokey joke they had. It was a flash app so I couldn't paste the strip's image file...but here's the text idea. IT talked about the previous election like: "And Bush...well there's no way Bush can lead the country. "

"Are you kidding? Bush couldn't lead NUNs to church."

"I bet Bush couldn't lead Puffy to a bottle of champagne."

"MANNNN, Bush couldn't lead a big butt to a rap video."

That last one pretty much owned. Most Definately.

Heres another for your viewing pleasure. I guess it would work better if the talk bubbles were in 20/20. TOO BAD!!! Welcome, to my WORLD (the world of contacts and glasses!!!)!

Class tonight was ...fun....but slightly tiring. I need book monies. Send me book monies!!!!!

scoodby doo voice: roodles.

SGA.

part of the SGA crew at the cheesecake factory....

SGA stands for Student Government Association.

I went to our first meeting today and realized how much work this will really be...AND last year's VP, was going to be this year's president...but she decided not to. Like, I remember her saying that she may have classes at two campuses this semester: you gotta do what you gotta do. So I guess that also meant that she'd be too overwhelmed with that to participate in SGA.

She texted that she wouldn't be participating a few days ago, so yes, considering we've been working on a leadership conference all summer together- it did come as a surprise.

But not to worry, we can find someone else...RIGHT?

Well, SGA is a pretty big committment within itself, then, after you factor in all the events that we need to undergo plans for like yesterday, it's a HUGE committment.

Yeah, we need to hire two more people at my job, because I can't manage full-time this school year. I did it all since I was a junior in highschool (full time school and job plus extra cirricular activities) but I REFUSE to kill myself ANY longer. I am too young for this and am wearing myself out...and I have honors projects to participate in.

This will not work.

I may be exiting the poetry club soon....I have little energy left to motivate a group of peers that could care less.

Hmm...I wonder how this semester will turn out....

choices...

My brother is in Chicago....which is a good five or six hours from here. He just graduated in May (08!), and he's starting at the Art Institute of Chi-Illinois. IT all sounds dandy until you've heard the whole thing. Basically, he has to take out a shit ton of student loans, because he refuses to accept the fact that he may be too broke for out-of-state tuition. Partially because he started at a diff. University in Chicago two weeks ago, didn't like it, and applied for A-I a few days later...and partially because he has no scholarship $$$ because he did everything last minute.

I mean, getting out of-town is cool and all, I even plan to be in New York or Cali somewhere when I transfer (next year)...but saving money is important. Even more important, is realizing the time and place for everything. He has the place.....but is this the right time?

Maybe he should've applied A LOT earlier (like....months earlier), but now, the costs are so high...and he's STILL waiting for all his financial aid to go thru.
AI is around 26,000 a year with partial housing arrangements (my bro said partial...) and he still doesn't have a pantry worth of food, a closet worth of clothes, a case worth of gatorade, or a laptop and a good pair of shoes to his name. We're not that broke, my brother just enjoys hanging out more then he enjoys saving.


Sometimes I feel like I'm the responsible one. Staying here, working and going to school, both full time, making sure the house is in order and my sisters and mom are okay.

Now that I'm making a little more money, I'll be helping pay off the extra monthly bills so that they'll be completely eliminated before I move out (this time next year); and my younger sister will have a dependable car. (She'll be 17 in Jan.) I just cant get up and leave, when we are still in the process of getting back to living regular debt-free lives. There has to be a small emergency fund, or at least a breaking even of money....

i don't know.....

but i definately AM more responsible.....or at least more confronted by the situation...


And he wants to work.

Freshmeat!

I created this blog today.
Let's see how it goes.

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So far, so good.