Last Flightless Moments

So long!

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:19:41 GMT

Since the days until high school's end can now be counted on my fingers, I'm gonna end this journal. I've had it since March of 2004, the middle of my sophomore year. I haven't been updating regularly in recent months, but on a whole I am extremely proud of this journal. To me it will always remain a kind of artwork, a first-hand account of my experiences during ages 15 through 17; some wonderful, some awful, but all worth remembrance. Shortly, I'll begin working on the privatization of all the entries but this one, and the private journal will serve as a photo gallery, in prose, of my adolescent life. New chapters in my life are beginning, and this one must end. Years later, when I'm a rich, famous, successful citizen of the universe, I will undoubtedly provide excerpts from livejournal in my autobiography. And I trust you'll buy it, of course. :p Bye!

P.S. I'm starting a new one.
[edit] P.P.S. Comment if you want to be added. This makes my life easier because I know you actually read my entries.

Pictures

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 01:00:05 GMT

I'm pretty much the only guy in these pictures, so it won't be hard to tell who I am. Haha.
We went to Jones Beach (on Long Island) for a day. Yay atlantic ocean.

Colleges

Sun, 07 May 2006 16:45:34 GMT

It's weird how we're all moving away, and how it's official.

University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California

Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Hampshire College
Amherst, Massachusetts

Columbia University
New York, New York

Bowdoin College
Brunswick, Maine

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire

U.S. Military Academy
West Point, New York

York University
Toronto, Ontario

etc.

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 04:54:43 GMT

Since it's been a while and I'm bored...

me
Greenwich, Connecticut
4.22.06

me
Yorktown Heights, New York
4.15.06

liana, me
Greenwich, Connecticut
4.22.06

Last public entry

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 04:00:32 GMT

Yeah... no more public entries. So if you're on my friends list, hooray for you.

Also, when I go to college this fall I'll probably start a new journal.

You can always im me at novus63 if you want.

Bye!

Yes, I exist

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 01:34:45 GMT

rocks.

I went to the information session today in New York City, and I was very impressed.

This weekend wasn't particularly amazing otherwise. I was very depressed on Friday and Saturday, and chose to essentially avoid all human contact, including AIM and LJ. Then Saturday night I saw a movie with Laure and felt a little better. And right now I just have so much work to do that there's no room for emotion. I'm essentially a robot right now. All you non-seniors, you don't know how lucky you are. *shakes fist*

Only one comment on my last entry? What is this? I'm ashamed of you.

Ms. Hazebrouck (AP English teacher) is taking over my life. Everything I do revolves around her. Aaaah. It's like a horrible nightmare.

I'm vaguely hungry but there's no food I want to eat. Isn't that annoying?

A letter for you

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:52:48 GMT

Some rants

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:20:29 GMT

Duude. Austin's coming to New York in December. I haven't seen him since April. And he said he could spend one day with me in the burbs and one day in the city. That's like... my dream come true, haha. So yay about that. :D

I went to Kristen's house today, again, and we did WORK. I worked on my college essay a lot. I think it's a lot longer than it's supposed to be, but I still haven't typed it and I have a lot of revising to do. Parts of it I think are really good, and parts of it suck. It's so much work and so much revolves around it. :/

Oh em gee... Story Of The Year, one of my favorite bands, wrote a gay-themed song! It's an angry song yelling at homophobes like Bush. It makes me so fucking happy... I'm so proud of them. I think they're my favorite band now. I mean, I've always loved them though... I saw them play at Warped and was totally blown away. And I seriously think their song "Anthem Of Our Dying Day" is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. So anyway, you should check out

"Is This My Fate?" He Asked Them, by Story Of The Year

Do you really fucking think
That it's a choice, a way of life
Played by discrimination
You're narrow-minded, quick to judge
With Bible Belt tunnel vision

(chorus)
This is ignorance
Failure to evolve
Is failure to us all
When will you learn
That this is where we fall
Failure to evolve
Is failure to us all
When will you learn
That this is where we fall
Where we fall

"Is this my fate?" he asked them
They answered, condemning him to burn
Rejected, forsaken, for being fucking born
I can't believe that this is still a question
That needs an answer

(chorus)

etc.

:D

Ta-da

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 04:15:16 GMT

Today I went to the Palisades with Kristen, where we hung out with Laure cause she and her family were there to buy Luc something for his birthday. It was a lot of fun. We went to Hot Topic (three times actually); Hollister, to buy me things because I haven't bought clothes in way too long; and Abercrombie, to gape at all the hot posters and enjoy the amazing smell that Abercrombie seems to have. Oh, I also went to Pac Sun to buy this cologne that smells like hot sex. I wish I could put a sample on LJ, but unfortunately that technology hasn't been invented yet. But trust me, it smells like hot sex.

The weather was really beautiful today. I could just be reacting to the lack of rain though, since it's been raining for like two weeks. But it was cool and breezy, the trees were all golden cause the leaves are just starting to fall, and after sunset there was a full moon. In the backyard of my house, there's this little field-ish thing with huge trees kind of scattered and a really nice house in the distance, and it was just really amazing with the full moon out, spreading the moonlight over the grass... with the breeze and everything... it was just really nice. And romantic. I wish I was with a guy here. :p Any volunteers?

And now I'm all alone cause my dad just left to go drinking or something (haha... yeah) so I'm here feeling all emo and wanting a boy to cuddle with. But it's all good.

Anywho, I should sleep, but I'm maybe gonna watch tv, and then talk to Mike on the phone. &hearts

A self-centered poll but do it anyway

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:21:47 GMT

View Poll: David's soulmate

Poll-y poll!

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:48:09 GMT

View Poll: Another one

Poll results?

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:45:01 GMT

Wow, people actually do my polls. Okay then.

I just got back from seeing Serenity, which was extremely weird. It couldn't decide if it was sci fi, comedy, horror, or... a western. That movie needs a therapist. I've also decided, from the previews (always my favorite part of movie-seeing) that Jake Gyllenhaal is extremely hot. I mean, I totally knew that beforehand, but he's PLAYING GAY in an upcoming movie. OMG!!!!11 That's like, WHOA. I mean... OMG. *sigh*

Poll results:
-More males do my polls than females.
-The ages of people who do my polls are all over the map. No frosh though :(
-An overwhelming majority of people prefer the east coast. Wooooooo!
-Thankfully, most of you hate Bush. *GLARE* if you don't.
-Maryland doesn't make people happy, at all.
-Californians like it there. But they like everything. :p
-People who read my LJ know where Chappaqua is! What a surprise!
-Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi are all quite scary.
-Most people who read my LJ like guys. (Good choice.)
-People prefer Paris and New York to London. (Also, good choice.)
-Most of you are single. Mandie, you suck. :p

A stupid poll cause I'm bored

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:40:02 GMT

View Poll: A few random questions

Poll

Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:38:17 GMT

View Poll: College towns

Pics from today

Sat, 08 Oct 2005 03:31:04 GMT

I don't really feel like writing, so today you'll have a visual experience:

My lovely Liana

What happens to hot chocolate when I make it:

Hmm?

Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:19:31 GMT

Liana and I are awesome, like totally

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 04:36:49 GMT

France Pictures I

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:17:39 GMT

I know it took me long enough... :p. I'm doing three entries of pictures. There are links at the bottom of each cut, for easy access. I hope you like! :)

The Eiffel Tower is hiding from you

A typical Parisian residential area

It's not hiding anymore!

Skulls and bones at the Catacombs

That's you in a few hundred years

Just a sample of the poetry that was on the walls in the Catacombs

Taken from the Arc de Triomphe

Once again, taken from the Arc de Triomphe

The Champs-Elysees, a famous avenue in Paris, and La Defense (the financial district) in the background

A pretty picture of Laure

L'Arc de Triomphe

How splendid

The Louvre

A thing with Greek letters in the Louvre

How sexy those Romans were

Lining up to see the Mona Lisa

Cathedral of Notre Dame

A metro sign and a gay flag

Gay pride parade poster

A lock in the canal

Notre Dame seen from the Seine

Romantic Parisian bridges

On the second floor of the Eiffel Tower - make that fat guy go away

The rest of the Eiffel Tower, seen from the second floor

Paris from the tower

From the tower again

I love you, Eiffel

A street in Paris near the Louvre

Laure's so pretty :p

A typical Parisian street

Eiffel Tower at night

It's hiding again

One of my favorite pictures from the trip

The light show they do every night - you can't see it, but the lights are blinking crazily

Up close

Amboise: http://www.livejournal.com/users/aninvisiblestar/144920.html#cutid1

Argentat: http://www.livejournal.com/users/aninvisiblestar/144672.html#cutid1

France Pictures II

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:07:31 GMT

Pretty bridge

Pretty town (Amboise)

More Amboise

Chateaux are nice, I could live in one

Pretty cool

I <3 this picture

Chateau again

The town seen from the castle

The Loire river

Me, haha

Laure holding her orb - kind of an inside joke, but still funny

Cliff houses, or whatever they're called

At the mini-chateaux park

Argentat: http://www.livejournal.com/users/aninvisiblestar/144672.html#cutid1

Paris: http://www.livejournal.com/users/aninvisiblestar/145282.html#cutid1

France Pictures III

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:01:06 GMT

Laure's brother tending to the fire, how nice

Our house

In Collonges-la-Rouge, a town where all the buildings are red

Pretty

Pretty French countryside

HAHA, we all look horrible

How lovely

Aren't I pretty when sitting next to flowers?

The gorgeous town of Argentat

Laure's father (who's awesome)

Me looking a little manic

At the Tours de Merle, which are the ruins of a castle

Argentat from the top of a hill

Ah, France, with their fashion

I think this looks like a postcard

Pretty

The sky looked cool

Paris: http://www.livejournal.com/users/aninvisiblestar/145282.html#cutid1

Amboise: http://www.livejournal.com/users/aninvisiblestar/144920.html#cutid1

New teeth

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:18:09 GMT

So yesterday I left school early to go to the *dentist*, to get the gap in my teeth filled in. It feels really weird because I've had the gap essentially my whole life. Anyway, I think there's a positive consensus among everyone about it. So that's a good thing.

Before:

After:

Still laughing...

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:34:17 GMT

My little sister just called me a prep. Hahahahahaha.

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:57:06 GMT

So here's a poll. How cool is that? I'll write about my day later, when I'm in the mood.

View Poll: My first poll

Hiiii

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 02:54:18 GMT

Because I haven't posted a picture in a while...

Voila!

Yeah

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:43:14 GMT

There's definitely a crapload of things to write about, and it has indeed been forever.

I'll start with France. Throughout the whole two weeks I contemplated what exactly to say in the LJ about Paris, and suffice it to say that it is simply the food and shopping capital of the world. It's an expensive city, but it's worth it. It's huge, sexy, stylish and fun. The "countryside" of the Limousin region, where I stayed for almost a week, was picture-perfect rural-ness. Rolling fields of farms and adorable countryside towns. We did so many things that I'd have to write a large novel to cover it all.

Being myself, I must of course dedicate a paragraph to the hot guys of France. My New York-raised gaydar failed miserably in France, because all the guys dressed beautifully (lots of tight clothes too), had great hair, and were generally polite and nice. In America, they'd be labeled gay in an instant, but in France they're straight. Hence, the gay French guys distinguish themselves by being shameless flamers. They catwalk around Paris in bright orange tank tops bulging flawlessly tanned muscles. In conclusion, French boys are beautiful and I want one. Even if he's straight. He'd still be very nice to look at.

I started SCHOOL yesterday. I couldn't have been less excited. I was definitely the most unamused and unprepared student (mentally. I did have my notebooks and shit.) in the entire mass of the now 1,333 students who encompass Horace Greeley High School. Somehow I landed in 5 APs, but none of them seem remotely as hard or annoying as AP Physics was last year.

I'm a senior now, in case you didn't know... exciting stuff... my twelfth and last year in Chappaqua.

My soon-to-be-added-to schedule:

ABC: AP French - Mme. Michel
DEF: AP Statistics - Mr. Wong
HIJ: free
KLM: AP English - Ms. Hazebrouck
NOP: AP Psychology - Ms. DiGuglielmo
QRS: Latin 3 - Ms. Diamente
TUV: AP Music Theory - Dr. Lucia
WXY: free

I have friends in almost all of my classes. I've got Rocky and Mandie in French; Liz in math; Mandie and Shaina and Katharine and Rocky and Sam in English; and Ben and Katharine in music theory. Also, Mia and Natasha are taking psych with the same teacher I am, just not at the same time. In addition, I still need to add on a social studies class, because Guidance was retarded as usual and didn't put one in. Regardless of how I specifically signed up for Nationalism and Economics...

I get to hang out with people a lot, cause many of my friends are free when I am. And I get a shitload of extra time after school cause I'm walking home this year (a weird decision I made so I could *get more exercise*), which takes half an hour, and I have until like 7pm to do it. Today I hung out with Lauren and Jennifer after school, and I saw all of Jennifer's summer pictures from France (she was in the south, unlike me) and the French Mediterranean coast looks amazing. Mhmm. And there was a REALLY hot Mexican guy on the trip with her. SHAZAM.

I can tell the discussions about school are getting boring and tedious, so I'll stop now. Tomorrow I'm going into Chappaqua with Liana to hang out, and that should be fun. I saw her on Sunday also, and then Kristen on Monday, which was awesome as well. I got both of them a bunch of presents in France, and they loved them. (yay!)

Yesterday after school I called Jason back (guy from myspace) cause he had left a message on my voicemail the night before. We talked for like, hours, and he seems awesome. I didn't even feel guilty about spending the minutes, because I went two weeks without using my phone at all (w00t). Anyway, we wanna meet and hang out in the city really soon. I'm really excited, cause he seems like one of those rare people who's sexy, smart, and not a total slut. I could be completely wrong, like I was last time, but my intuition usually doesn't fail me and every day's an adventure...

I missed LJ. I haven't written a real entry like this since before France. Dude. Anyway, Kristen's calling me so I gotta bounce! Seeya...