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@RealSlimCAvery

Well, now it's just starting to sound creepy.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

Starting?

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@RealSlimCAvery

...Touche.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

Yeah, I'm pretty snappy

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@RealSlimCAvery

This is an ambush photo taken by one of my friends in my senior year of high school who just uploaded it to facebook.



I kind of wish that my right arm wasn't raised so I didn't look so much like a mannequin.

And yeah, I tended to carry a lot of books.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

I stopped carrying books after one particular day when I was in the ninth grade, an older student walked by and knocked my binder out of my hand. After that I carried all my stuff in my backpack.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

Foome reason or another we weren't allowed to carry back packs at my school so I would only carry one binder, my pencil case, and the text book for that class. Not much to knock out of my hands, so no temptation

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@RealSlimCAvery

I went to a different type of high school than most, so carrying a backpack became kind of a necessity. Basically my high school was set up so that we only had classes on Mondays. Every other day you had to make your own schedule, and you worked at your own pace. Teachers were on the floor only at certain times of the day, and were there to answer any questions you had. If I needed to work on English, I went to the English department, which was big enough to hold about a hundred students. If that was full, I had to go to another classroom and work on some other subject. You could stay in an area for as long as you want or short as you want, until the afternoon when you had to stay in an area for a full hour or two. So since you were always on the move, you needed a backpack.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

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Mexicano Al Grito De Guerra

I was always on the move too. My school had 13 blocks of classes including lunch at alternating 40 minute intervals. I was kind of a neat freak, though, so I always carried all of my books. I didn't want them to get scrunched or something. I carried my backpack all of the time too, but the only thing that it ever carried was my lunch pal.

And fortunately, my books were never intentionally knocked out of my hands.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

How long would a typical block last? It's hard for me to imagine since there were no blocks at my high school. A typical day would have me walking to one department, bumping into someone, then doing hall laps, talking, etc. Then going to a lower level and doing hall laps. Basically walking around the whole school. We'd decide to go to English, but it would be full. Then Math which would also be full. Finally we'd bump into a friend who was able to secure the keys to the video studio, an unsupervised area where you could basically goof off and do nothing for the rest of the day.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

Each block was forty minutes. Except for every other day when I had a Science lab. Then it was 80 minutes.

But yeah, I guess you walked around more. Your high school sounds awesome, by the way. Just do whatever the hell you want? Intriguing.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

Yeah, it was pretty sweat. I couldn't imagine going to another school at that age. I could hang out with friends whenever I wanted, could basically do nothing all day, take myr time on assignments. The thing is you still had to complete your courses, still had to write tests (at the schools test centre) and attend seminars. But it was so easy to slack off, and I ended up going to summer school almost every year I was there.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

i wish i coulda gone to that school. all my school had was 9 periods a day, 38 minutes a period of easy boredom.

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Now that you say that, I remember that my school didn't have exact 40 minute blocks. They had to trim minutes here and there for them all to fit. That was only my senior year, though. It was better because I could fit more classes, but the other three years it was arranged so that there were a fewer amount per day and all exactly 40 minutes.

They changed it again after I left. I'm glad that was my last year because the new schedule allows for very few classes. They'll probably change it another twenty times anyway, though.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

...You...lucky bastard!

I would love to go to such a school. But, as dorky as this is, I would love to actually have class....Well, probably not math or foreign language (I'd have to make myself go), but English, Art, or Psych? I'd be there all day.

And I would attack that video lab....were you allowed access to video cameras? Our school rents them out, but I never had time to take a video class, so I've never actually used them.

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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

--Hunter S. Thompson

If my school had been like that, I probably would have goofed around and ended up with something like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viI ... ure=search

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

Yes, we were allowed to use video cameras. The video studio was basically a big room with a black curtain, lights, a bunch of cabinets, tripods, and a table and chairs. It was sometimes set up by my art teacher for life drawing sessions. I went to a Catholic School, but it was so different from depictions of Catholic schools on tv, as the teachers were pretty cool and progressive. It also had a pretty big editing suit with monitors and editing equipment and a microphone. It had a television, a vcr and a projector. People often watched movies, usually hooking the projector up to the vcr. A cd player could be hooked up to the speakers so music could be played out of the editing suite. I remember some guys watched Gundam once using the projector. Southpark was also pretty common. I know a few guys signed up for for a film class just so they could have access to the studio. They hooked up an N64 and played Goldeneye. According to a friend they also rolled some weed. The video room itself had two sets of doors so it was possible to lock people out, and the room itself was rarely supervised since the teacher in charge would normally be in the communications department.



Dude, totally! Me and a friend filmed the most ghetto Star Wars parody in there. The Phantom Menace had just come out that year and so we were all kind of geeking out over it. We called it "The Phantom Menage to Society". Years later when we heard about that kid I turned to my friend and said "I really hope we got rid of that original tape".

Honestly, the place became sort of a black hole. I would begin the day thinking I would focus on work and then I'd bump into my friend who would jangle the video keys, and that was it. People ate in there, slept in there, listened to music and on one occasion even played handball in there. Once we had about 20 or 30 people up in there, a few people editing movies, watching some videos, and some cheerleaders working on a routine. Eventually the teacher came in and kicked everyone out. I know one guy was warned by his teacher advisor to stay away from the area since he was behind on his studies. I stopped going to the video room since I too was falling behind, and because there were rarely any girls in there and I felt like we were becoming isolated from our peers.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."