MDW (memorial day weekend)

This is a weekend to remember those who have died for our country. Also, it is for those who were injured or even fought for our freedom. It is a weekend in which people celebrate the freedoms they take advantage of everyday. This is also an awesome weekend. This weekend was especially awesome for me because it is my first weekend with my license. I'm having so much more fun now that I can do basically anything I want. The freedom is overwhelming. On friday I went to hang out with friends in Meadow Creek for a while. Then I went to hang out with some more friends on Alexandria by the library. Then I drove to Colts neck to hang out with some more of my friends. Oh and I also went to Five Guys right after school and Mondello's for dinner. I am so independent now. Saturday was awesome too! I went to my cousins house in Marlboro. We went in his pool and off roading. It is crazy, but thats why I love having a truck. I like to have some crazy fun everyonce in a while. On sunday I went paintballing until four. I went with a big group of people so it was tons of fun. Paintballing is great because I get such a huge adrenaline rush. I'm actually really good. In order to be good at paintball you have to be fearless. Soetimes to help my team get a quick lead I will commit "suicide". No, I don't actually die. What I do is just run right off the start right at the other team and try to surprise as many people as I can and get out as many people as I can. I usually get between 3 and 5 people before I get shot out myself. I also went to a party later that night. It was a barbecque at my friend Brandon's house. We played basketball and grilled and played other game. I went home around 12 o'clock and passed out. Moday was awesome end to my MDW. I woke up around ten and drove down to pier village in Long Branch. Its really nice down there. I met my friends at the beach and then we went jet skiing. It was really cool because they put me on the back of the jet ski and tried to throw me off. I came really close to falling off several times, but thankfully I held on, just barely! Then I came home and grilled with my mom. Some of my friends were supposed to come over, but then a monsoon hit out of nowhere. It was nuts!!! I could'nt see out my window. This weekend is also a sign that school is coming to an end. Finals are beginnig and the work is stopping. I cannot wait for summer. This was like a preview of how amzing my summer is going to be. God Bless America and memorial day weekend lol.

The Train Keeps Rollin', Even Without All It's Steam

Although the Yankees are off to a great start finishing the month of April with a 16-8 record and only second to the Devil Rays, they are not yet at full potential. Yesterday they scored their highest run total so far, 12. This is a shocker to most sports annalists due to the Yankees impenetrable lineup, starting with Jeter and ending with Gardner with people like Texeira, Rodriguez, and Cano in the middle. Some of the star players such as Nick Johnson, Mark Texeira and Curtis Granderson are not produceing. However the team has certainly picked them upo. A few surprises have sparked this year. I am very impressed with Brett Gardner. This is his first year starting almost everyday and he has been nothing short of phenominal. His homer in yesterdays game was his first, however, he is not a power hitter, he hits for average. And with his above .300 batting average he is definately doing his job.I am speechless when it come to Robinson Cano. He is leading the team in batting average, home runs, rbi's and he even has the highest batting average in all of baseball. Cano has always been a solid hitter just coming in second to Joe Mauer of the Minnesota Twins two years straight for the batting title. However, this years performance is the best hes every done; he is definately fitting into that five spot in the lineup. Pitching, starting pitching is phenominal for the yankees this year. Phil Hughes is shining as the Yankees hoped he eventually would. CC is consistently winning and putting up great numbers as he always does. And Andy Pettite is having one of the best years of his entire career. A.J. Burnett has turned it up a notch as well. Last year he was up around 100 pitches in a game around the 6th inning. However now he is throwing a ton more strikes ans is lasting 8 inning with the same pitch total. There' only one problem lurking in the Yankees rotation, Javier Vasquez. He is despicable. He has only one win this season and has an ERA of over 9.00. He just can not find the rythym he had last season as a cy young contender. I hope to God that he poicks up. He has just been moved behind Hughes in the rotation. I think this will give him some more time and less stress so he can work on his delivery. Now to the bullpen. Despite Mariano's 0.00 ERA the bullpen is trash. They are blowing some games. Damaso Marte has not been getting out the lefties he usually makes fools out of and David Robertson is not coming up clutch like he did in the playoffs last year. I think the Yankees need more depth in their bullpen. I think they should acquire at least two more pitchers, maybe one hard throwing righty and a good strike out pitching lefty. However despite the dissapointments on the Yankees, who seem to be recooperating they are still performing better than the rest.

Obama's Bracket

Every year around this time college basketball hosts the national championship tournament. It is called March Madness. So far there have been a lot of surprising upsets thus far. Especially the game in which the overall number one seed lost to a "cinderella" team. And, surprisingly, Cornell, the first Ivy League school to make it this far since princeton in I believe 1988 its progressing strongly. A cool thing about this tournament is that President Obama is participating in a bracket. A bracket is a prediction of which teams will advance ultimately to the championship game. Obama has consistently participated in such events for quite some time. It is not that surprising due to the fact that he played basketball in school. It is however getting a lot of attention. He played it safe for the most part picking 1 and 2 seeds advancing to the elite eight, what can you expect he has to play it safe, he is the president! He is doing pretty well with his choices thus far, however with the many upsets that have occurred im sure he wont win his competition.

Spring Break

I cant wait, spring break is sooooooo close. It's going to be a blast. And this year it is 17 days long!!!!! I cant believe it. The first week of my break is going to be spent partying in DR (Dominican Republic). I'm going with a bunch of friends this time for a change. For the most part I only go on vacation with my family. I know I am going to have a great time there. I cant wait to get rid of this terrible weather, besides this weekend, that we have had. I want to sit on the beach with a nice drink in my hand just chilling, relaxing, and maybe sleeping. Then when I get home I want to go paintballing "and maybe, god willing, meet some cute girls. And they can meet my motha. And hopefully they will get along because no one fights with my motha." LOL u have to watch that video or you wont understand that. However the only bad thing is this week coming up is going to be the longest week of my entire life.

2012

Personally, I think it is ridiculous that people actually belive that the world is coming to an end. There has been an increased amount of paranoid people around me. I hear it all the time now. In physics we were learning about planetary motion and the rest of the galaxies. I am aware of all of the disasters occuring like the recent earthquake in Haiti, but the world is not coming to an end for millions of years! The earth is attracted to the sun and moves closer and closer to it every second. However this movement is so slight that it can barely even be measured yearly. The only way that the world will really come to an end is when the Sun becomes a black hole. A black hole forms when a star (like the sun) becomes so massive by attracting to much mass that it collapses due to its own immense gravity. Till then, which is sooooooooo long from now i am not worried about the world's sudden end. So what if there are alot of disasters occuring? I bet that the people of Italy thought the worl was coming to an end when Mt. Vesuvius erupted. Even recently the Tsunami and earthquake and everything else, they all occur in different times during history. There is no reason for a hysteria.

Ineresting Psychology Project

This past week in psychology we were learning about drugs. You know like the abuse and affects and all that bologna. Then we started watching these episodes of the show Intervention. These shows are about addicts and how the drug has affected them and others surroundiong them. Also getting the drug abuser to stop. The assignment linked to these movies, yes we did not get off free of course, was a 5-10 minute skit of an intervention. My group chose to choose our addict to be an alchoholic. And of course I had to be the addict. The thing is I actually had fun! Basically our group just made like a big improv with no scripts and It came out to be really good. I was the funniest because I would stumble over things and slur my words and everyone laughed. The best part was when I refused to participate in the make believe intervention. I stormed away (other side of room) and got into my car (rolling chair) and as I backed away i smashed into a pole (the wall). After that I decided to intervene and our skit was over. Achoholim is serious however and shouldnt be taken lightly, only sometimes :).

SAT, Junior Year, Now College?

Well as any other student in the 11th grade they are juggling alot of responibilities. These responibilities for me are the SAT's on March 13, the hardest school year of my life, and extra curricular activities. Now my mom decided to go back to college. Basically this means I have to handle my moms college courses as well. Talk about a busy life! I am swamped with homework every night whether it be for the SAT or regular schoolwork and now on top of that I have a business project for my moms business class. How fun! Oh and on top of that I have to begin to study for my History AP exam and HSPAs. So basically I have no life.