Stuffed!

Well I meant to make this post on Thanksgiving night... but was really busy and kept being busy with stuff. Thanksgiving was fun. We went to the church that my mom works at, ate dinner with like 100 other people... it was a blast to say the least. It would have been fun to do a story on the event. Maybe I will next year.

So finals are coming up... I do not have a ton of final tests but I have a few project things to turn in... And I have been putting them off. I see a lot of work this week, but that is ok with me. I have been doing well in most of my classes and I know the stuff so I think I will do well.

Off to bed now.

Coney Island

I finished my Coney Island report for my writing class today. It really is a truly amazing place and I cannot express the joy I feel because I had a chance to go. Even though Astroland is no long operating and no amusement parks are running in the Coney Island area I think something will come to it. Another amusement park in the spirit of Coney Island and all the parks that came before it I hope. We will see what happens. You should all check out some history of Coney Island, it really is an amazing place. I found this video which I found to be sad but very well done.

Well it is way past my bedtime ...

Where the hell did I go?!

I have not posted for over a week now, oops.

What is new? I am trying to work on my profile story, but it is not working out well. I have a new idea for it which I will be working hard on tomorrow and Thursday, because it is due next Wednesday and I want extra time to make sure it is good. I had a big exam in History which pretty much made me focus on that for last Friday. I think I did well though.

One of my mom's cats died on Saturday night, it was "my" cat back when I lived there. Very sad but he was getting old.

Well I have to get writing for my ... writing class haha.

Decent Layout

Once again I am up far too late, so I bring to you a new layout!

I honestly like this. Well right now I like it, but we will see how long that lasts. The picture is from my trip to New York City. I took it while we were headed to a Italian festival in Brooklyn.

It took me a while to come up with a title for the blog. One other then "Max's Blog." I don't know how strong I am on sticking with this one, but time will tell if it grows on me.

A friend of mine just left last night to move back to New York. It is sad to see people go, but I just hope that my friend sees it as a opportunity to live a different exciting life.

Well I need to go to sleep. I have lots of homework tomorrow that I need to do... Bleh. Tell me if you like the blog layout. Not that I did much coding on it or anything, but it took some fiddling with the system. :P

America the proud

People around the country were flooding the streets and singing the national anthem on Tuesday night.

Barack Obama won the election and people in America were celebrating. I have seen quite a few videos of people singing in the streets soon after it was announced that Obama had won.

I must say it makes me so happy to see people responding with such glee. Here is a video like that from Portland's Pioneer Square:


I was at an election night party, drinking and cheering as it was announced that Obama had won the election. We even got to see the holograms on CNN. We all thought this was pretty funny. It just shows advances in technology I guess.

The world reacted the too. Rooms full of people in other countries cheering and holding up cut-outs of Obama. I feel like we can travel without having to wear shirts that say "I'm Canadian"

Now we look toward the future. Come January 20 I will be going to more parties to celebrate inauguration day, I wonder if I will be in one of those crowds singing the national anthem.

Layout changes

I am messing with the layout of this blog... So far I am displeased. I still have a lot of fiddling to do though, so we will see what I can get it to.

The last few days have been weird. I just am still in disbelief that Obama actually won. Very happy about it, but still in shock. I am actually collecting some newspaper stuff from the day after and I am getting copies of Newsweek and Time. I feel weird about it, but I think it will be worth it.

Well I am off to do a chapter summary for writing and to read about cod for history. Oh and btw I got 106% on my history midterm, thank you students who did badly so he used a curve! :P

GOBAMA

Picture taken from Flickr

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I am proud to be an American. That is all.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ok I had to post this because I loved Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Don't Vote Part 2

They made another one. I thought it was important to post it and get it out there. I know I have covered this before... but we live in Oregon. They send you the ballot! Vote by the 4th K THX BAI!