Frustrations and Memories

Grr…my OD renewal still hasn’t kicked in yet argh…I sent the thing last Tuesday. Oh well.

The weather here is interesting. It was pleasant over the weekends until yesterday. Yesterday, it started to rain and the weather was a little chilly. Today, it’s supposed to be in the 70’s.

I just came from my Journalism class. My friend Stephanie told me yesterday we were supposed to have a test on Thursday, but the professor said that the test will be pushed back a week ^_^.

In a minute, I’m going to work on my French Composition which is due tomorrow.

I slept really good last night. In fact, I kind of woke up earlier than I thought–around 6:51–but I slept for about another hour. Oh yeah, traffic on 75/85 south and north bound were locked for awhile. I saw a truck that looked like it struck the median.

Anyway, I’m going to go and work on my composition. Have a good day.

Oh yeah one more thing…I was looking through my old entries when I found this entry written on the 20th of March 2002:

One of my good friends, Cally Carter, passed away last night. I didn’t know about it because I wasn’t on at all yesterday. Lizzie e-mailed me the news that Cally passed away. She also told me that Christipher (music~n~christipher) had written an entry in her memory.

Cally was diagnosed with detrimonial cancer (I think that’s the one) a few weeks ago. She was given 6-7 months to live but the doctors told her that she could undergo chemo because they thought they had found the cancer early enough for treatment. The last I talked to Cally was…Wednesday. Actually, I didn’t even talk to her because most of the time she was talking to her b/f Cody (who is Lizzie’s adopted brother).

She was just 18 years old…she enjoys helping out with people and being a good friend. I knew she was a fighter and tried her best to fight through this but cancer prevailed. This is something that is said far too much but I didn’t get the chance to say anything like bye or the like. We weren’t like, close or anything but I had a lot of fun talking to her and getting to know her with each passing day. There were times that she would get so involved with helping out, you couldn’t tell she had cancer. I had known her only about a few months but I hope that Chris, Kelly, Lyndsey (her siblings), and all of her friends will be able to get through this tragic time. It’s crazy to think that when death has no prejudice towards race, youth, sex, who you are or whatever. She was just 18! Death doesn’t care who you are, what you are, what’d you’ve done or whatever…However, I believe that we should all say our “goodbyes” or “I love yous” each time someone we care about sign off the net or leave to go another place. I think that we would look crazy for doing so but why not start saying your “I Love yous” whenever you get the chance? We never know when it’s our time next. Don’t take anyone for granted…remember to say “I love you”.

Yeah, last March was an interesting month for me. A lot went on that started fights with Liz and deaths of twin sisters.

On a more positive note, here’s a themed entry written about a week later:

The most beautiful thing I’ve seen huh? I believe the most beautiful thing I have seen is when our band went to the Niagara Falls during the Canada trip. Picture this: you’re with a busload full of people and you’ve been riding ever since the night before. It’s night time and you just passed Buffalo, NY and you’re about to leave the United States into Canada. You see a long bridge you have to cross; to your left, you see the most beautiful site of them all-Niagara Falls. It’s not just the falls that were spectacular, but the rainbow colors that iluminated. In short, we had just seen “The Illumination of the Falls”.

In actuality, Niagara Falls is really two falls: Canadian Horseshoe and the American Falls. If I remember correctly, there was a contest held to see if there was a person who could construct a kite to fly from the American side to the Canadian side. Also of interest, Niagara Falls has eroded about 7 miles from it’s original point.

Anywho, the falls are massive but majestic during the Illumination. I took some pictures but instead of beauty, I get black >_<. Grr eight pics lost. In the famous quote by Homer Simpson, "Doh!".

The very next day, our band got to journey “Behind the Falls”. I have pics of those:

Behind the Falls 1

Here’s the other:

Behind the Falls 2.

Not everything has to be negative.