Signs That You Are In Yeshiva #1

You sit down to a bowl of cereal for supper Wednseday night, and all you can think is, "Nice! Two nights in a row!"

Been a while.....again....

Stop looking at the title like that. Ok, so it's been more than a month since my last post. This just means I was busy being me. Doesn't leave me much free time. Besides, I've got lots of other stuff I need to do in my free time anyway. Eating, sleeping, getting a Hertz Appliance removed and lower braces put in on the same day(shiver), skipping a grade...eating...
It has been a long time since I seriously put in real information that you need to know up here ("If I were a plankton"), so I'm gonna backtrack a little.
After we got back from Isreal I skipped eighth grade and went into Yeshiva.
woohoo.
Then yesterday I got my Hertz appliance removed and the rest of my braces put in on the same day again (shiver).

I think I'm going to have to work on my backtracking skills. But then again, I am pretty busy eating and sleeping and getting appliances removed and braces put in and etc. I probably won't have time.
oh well.

New Avatar

If you've seen 30.cals blog, you noticed he got a new avatar with a guy in a talis davening on top of a tank. No, I'm afraid my new avatar is not like that. It's just a bunch of tanks. And there's no guy with a talis on top of it. Ok. That just makes special.


Also, hello from Israel! Yes, it's very hot over here! Almost as hot as Milwuakee! And it's all mountians. which dives my mother crazy. My mothers cousins live here, and we've been going on trips with one of her cousins and his family. He has very fun kids. We've got to go to a lot of places, too. There wsa this grotto on the coast that was very beautiful and was right up against the Lebanese border.

It's been a very fun trip so far. I'm really glad I got to come to Israel.

Israel

This is a good start, me thinks. With the big trip little more than a week away, It's probably about time I mentioned this. Oh yeah. This is gonna be a good post.
So. Israel. That's a cool place. My mother's really excited about this Jewish fortress in the desert (think it was Masada) from a revolt against the Romans. She keeps telling me, "Curly, we're gonna be standing in the exact spots where people fought and died two thousand years ago. We're gonna be in places where they kept their sacrafices, where they lived, where they worked and prayed." And she'll go on about the Crusades and the World Wars and tons more.
I think it's really hard to understand what that means, to be standing on the ground where people lived their lives two thousand years ago. It's such a long time, but for some places, the city hasn't changed at all. It really is unique about Israel (well, Jerusalem in particualar), how you can see the exact spots where people prayed without having an office building built on top of it, or the land plowed up, or tons of other stuff. It's still there, same as it always has been. I think I'm in for a really exciting trip.

Been a while

I haven't blogged in like a week...or maybe it was more than that. But whatever. I really can't think of anything worth blogging about. Fudge has practically monopolized the PT, so I can't do PT qoutes. Rafiki makes movies, and 30 cal justs hangs out and raps Linkin Park on his blog.

Basically, I need a hobby. I need some kind of gimmi(c?)k to bring the customers back. Uh...

er....

eh...
...any ideas?

The PT's Riddle

"Curly"she says," I'm gonna tell you a riddle, okay?"
"okay." I agree.
"But first, I have to ask you a question."
"yeah?"
"Um, who made the United States building?"
"The United states building? Maybe youre thinking about the Empire State building."
"No, I'm really sure it's the United States Building. Okay, fine, Empire State. But who built it?"
" I dont really know."
"Well let's just say it was George Washington, okay?"
"okay."
"Now who built the United States building?"
"George Washington."
"Nope-George Statesington."

And you were expecting a knock-knock states joke.

The Stupid, the Armed and the Stupidly Armed

October 20, 2006, 9:03 AM
This 6th grader comes up to me and tells me the 6th grade play is in a week. He wants to know if he can borrow a toy gun for the play. I tell him sure, and give him 30cal's old AK-47. I don't see it for another eight months.
May 1, 2007, 5:10 PM
The same 6th grader shows up at the door and asks if he can borrow a movie. I tell him, only if you bring that gun back here tommorow. He agrees and goes home.
Now I was fully expecting him to bring it to my house. After all, our school has a rule: anyone cuaght with a gun gets suspended on sight. You'd have to be crazy to bring a gun there.
The next day, the guy comes to school. A teacher quickly sees that he is carrying an AK-47 in his hand. The teacher asked him why he had a gun, to which he responded:
"What, this? This isn't mine. This is Curly's."
This was not too good for business. I had a teacher pull me out of class and show me the gun. He was about to suspend me, too. So I explained to him it's for a play that was on in October, I didn't bring it in, it's not my fualt, etc.
I did avoid getting suspended. The principle was furious with me, and most of the teachers weren't too happy to see me either. I managed to get the AK-47 into my locker pretty quickly, but it was the begining of school, and a lot of people going to their classrooms saw me.
This is why you should not give stupid people guns.

Questioning

My principle is not a very lenient guy. So whenever school property is vandalized or whatever, he takes any means neccasary to find out the culprit.
The first step was 'Pesach cleaning'. That's how he explained what he was doing when I went down to my locker and found him seaching through my backpack and pockets.
The next step was getting the students to find out for him. He tried asking a student to ask his prime suspect if he did it. It didn't work out, though, cuz the guy wasn't supposed to say that the principle sent him.
Then he put tons of tough and outragous rules on us, and offered to lift them if we turned the guy in. But no one knew who had done it.
The last thing he did, was he started, one by one, taking students away for 'questioning', or more likely interrogation. He just asks, can I borrow fhgiwagads for a second?, and then he brings the guy back an hour or two later. I myself haven't been questioned yet, but I hear it is really not fun.

This would almost be funny if it weren't true.

Scooby Superhero

"So, Pt, remember on Shabbos, that game you were playing with Iguana?"
"Scooby superhero?"
"Yeah. What was it about?"
" Well, Scooby superhero's evil twin invented a cloning machine and made a whole world of evil twins and called it 'evil twin clones land'."
" Yeah, I watched that part."
" You WATCHED us!? Oh no!"
" What, Pt?"
" Then now you know Scooby supehero's secret identity!"
"Who's that?"
" Scooby doo."
"Oh."
That is one crazy kid.

"It's Time To Free Jonathan Pollock"

The principle says,"So, as part of a conitenent wide program, our school, along with hundreds of others, are going to say tehillim every day after davening. Also, I have sent a letter to President Bush urging him to free Jonathon Pollock."
The principle looks around." Who here knows who Jonathon Pollock is? Well, to tell you the truth, it doesn't really matter, becuase he is a fellow Jew who is in jail for not such a good reason, and has been in jail for a long time because of the anti-semites in the goverment. He needs our teffilos so he can finally be freed."
My question is, all opinions on Jonathon Pollack aside, is that isn't it more political than anything else? Why are we saying tehillim for politics?

Purim Shtick

Or lack thereof.
You probably think I'm gonna tell you about some ellaborate shtick me and my friends did. Well, we didn't do any shtick. We're actually not allowed to do shtick
My school is divided into 2 halfs: the boys half and the girls half. A few days ago, we were supposed to get out at 11:30 cuz of meetings, And the girls half only had school till 9 o'clock. After that, they had the rest of the day to set up purim shtick.
We on the boys half had a normal day of school.
At 11:25, the principal came over the intercom to the entire school," Okay, girls, finish up your activities!" The few people who weren't girls just had to bear that. At 11:30, we went out to see the school wide shtick the girls had been doing since 9 o'clock.
The had hung up a bunch of sheets of colored paper on the wall.
Not enough to cover the walls, just a few blank sheets scattered here and there. Then the school staff came out and luaghed their brains out.

Costumes and the Haunted Bathroom

Rafiki put this costume together after Shabbos. I couldnt stop laughing the entire time.

Anyway, this morning at school, I was looking for an open bathroom, and I found one right next to the janitors room. Pretty much no one goes down by that room, so I didn't even know the bathroom was there. And it actually looked clean too, so it must not have been used for a little bit.

So I figure, wow, I've struck gold! A CLEAN bathroom! As soon as I walkn in, though, I hear theses little sounds like something small moving, like paws or something like that. Thats when I remebered the teachers mentioning something about mice being in the building a little while ago.

I look around for where the sound is coming from, and when I looked up I saw a peice of wood covering a hole in the ceiling with a little hole bitten through the middle. Just big enough for a mouse to fit through.

That was one CREEPY bathroom.

New Template

Its good I'm here to tell you these things, isn't it? As you may have noticed, I switched the background of the the blog. I like the new one better than the old one. Beleive it or not, thats actually why I switched.
Plus, I switched to the new blogger, withc Iguana has been nagging me to do for at least a week, cuz she wanted her avatar to appear on my blog. So Iguana, I hope you're happy!

NO SCHOOL!

Just kidding. It's canceled alright. For the GIRLS only. Boys, they still have shool.
The girls have no school becuz its 15 degrees below 0 outside. Its too COLD for them. But we can go jump in a lake, for the school administration cares. I don't understand how a school could cancel half of the school and still have for the other half. I think it's just crazy.

The Evil Lair

My sister Iguana recorded this from a Japanese translated game:
EVIL MINION: They've invaded the base!
EVIL EMPEROR: Very well. Activate the Interior Infrastructre Automated Tactical Defense Stratigical System!
EVIL MINION: What?
EVIL EMPEROR: I said get ready to launch! Do you have a problem?
EVIL MINION: But that's still being tested! It could blow up the base!
EVIL EMPEROR: I dont care!
EVIL MINION: Aaaah.