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  1. Titus Andronicus-"A More Perfect Union"

    ''From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some transatlantic giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe and Asia could not, by force, take a drink from the Ohio River or set a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. If destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we will live forever, or die by suicide.''

    There'll be no more counting the cars on the garden state parkway

    Nor waiting for the Fung Wah bus to carry me to who-knows-where

    And when I stand tonight, 'neath the lights of the Fenway

    Will I not yell like hell for the glory of the Newark Bears?

    Because where I'm going to now, no one can ever hurt me

    Where the well of human hatred is shallow and dry

    No, I never wanted to change the world, but I'm looking for a new New Jersey

    Because tramps like us, baby, we were born to die

    I'm doing 70 on 17, 80 over 84

    And I never let the Meritt Parkway magnetize me no more

    Give me a brutal Somerville summer,

    Give me a cruel New England winter

    Give me the great Pine Barrens

    So I can see them turned into splinters

    And if I come in on a donkey, let me go out on a gurney

    I want to realize too late I never should have left New Jersey

    I sense the enemy, they're rustling around in the trees

    I thought I had gotten away but the followed me to 02143

    Woe, oh woe is me, no one knows the trouble I see

    When they hang Jeff Davis from a sourapple tree, I'll sit beneath the leaves and weep

    None of us shall be saved, every man will be a slave

    For John Brown's body lies a'mouldring in the grave and there's rumbling down in the caves

    So if it's time for choosing sides, and to show this dirty city how we do the Jersey Slide

    And if it deserves a better class of criminal,

    Then I'm'a give it to them tonight

    So we'll rally around the flag, rally around the flag

    Rally around the flag, boys, rally once again,

    Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom

    Rally around the flag, rally around the flag

    Glory, glory, Hallelujah, His truth is marching on

  2. Good luck to you, a tough year but if you do well you'll be so far ahead of the game!

    Thanks. As of the end of my sophomore year, I'm currently ranked first in my class with a weighted percentage GPA of 104.7713. I only had one AP class in the last two years, so that should jump up if I do well this year.

    I am still worried about AP Chem though. Honors Chem was my lowest grade throughout all of last year...But only because we didn't have many grades and I got B's on most of the exams.

  3. Tough, tough schedule. Gonna be nose to the grindstone for JonnyBoy.

    Definitely. A lot of my time will probably be spent studying. Especially for AP Chem. I had the same teacher for Honors Chem last year and know how difficult he is...

    And Advanced Placement classes are equivalent to taking the course in college. If you do well enough on the end-of-the year AP Exams, you can get college credits without having to take the class again.

  4. The class schedules for my junior year went online yesterday. I actually like my schedule for the first time of my three years in high school. No stupid filler classes; I got basically everything I wanted at the end of last year.

    1. AP Psychology

    2. AP World History

    3. AP English Language and Composition

    4. Biology

    5. AP Chemistry

    6. AP US History II

    7. Band

    8. Trigonometry

    5 AP classes, though. *shudder*

  5. It quite agitates me that a lot of great modern albums will only be pressed on vinyl in the UK and I'll have to play shipping out the wazoo if I want to import them.

    Case in point:

    Admiral Fallow's "Boots Met My Face"

    Ed Sheeran's "+"

    just to name 2 I can think of off the top of my head.

  6. The last 3 days in Pittsburgh was fun...it was nice seeing our daughter graduate...both girls now with college degrees, awesome!....never knew Pittsburg was so hilly and all these winding narrow roads and bridges and tunnels!...we only got lost once...everyone we met was sooooo nice though...we had fun even if it rained the whole time...

    I love Pittsburgh. Being only a 90-ish minutes away, I get there somewhat often. I always get a kick out of getting out of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel on 22 and in a little while seeing the huge mess of overpasses, underpasses, exits, and bridges that is downtown Pittsburgh. :)

  7. Abandoned Pools - Start Over

    What a mess our lives turned out to be

    It was at its best when you and I were only 3

    We can start with all the things that turn us out

    And we can go right down the list and throw them out

    Can we start, start over?

    Can we start, start over?

    It's all over

    It's all over

    Here you are and there's where you wanna be

    But don't think you don't have company

    Think of all the lonely people in the world

    And if it's God who made us why we so damn cruel

    Can we start, start over?

    Can we start, start over?

    It's all over

    It's all over

    We can never lie

    And you can never steal the time

    And we can only watch them die

    And we can never find out why

    We can start with all the things that turn us out

    And we can go right down the list and throw them out

    Can we start, start over?...

    It's all over...

    You may be wondering why I bolded the third and fourth lines of the bridge. They have a certain meaning to me, although for a stupid reason.

    This was used as the ending theme of season 1 of Clone High (have I talked about this show enough? It's just so damn good...) and is quite an emotional moment of the show. Spoliers

    So, at the end of the 13th episode, Abe FINALLY realizes his feelings for Joan are more than just platonic. As he runs around the prom looking for her, he finds Joan in the freezer in bed with JFK. (All while "Start Over" is playing) Then, the conga line led my Principal Scudworth, who was about to get the clones taken from him by the Secret Board of Shadowy Figures, got into the freezer and that is when John Stamos pulls the lever and freezes everyone. The final words out of Abe's mouth were, "But Joan, I love---" and that is when the series ended. So, we watched them "die" and we will never find out why or what happens.

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