I'm Not Tired, I'm Not Tired

I took care of the library fine today. Since I returned the book it only cost seven dollars. No big deal, I guess. I'm still a little bummed about the GEVA thing, but whatareyougoingtodo? Today, I "volunteered" at the blood drive at school. I say "volunteered" all quote-like because I didn't exactly ask to help out, but when no one else volunteered Dan, Joe Morelle, and I sort of had to step up to the plate. I ended up missing almost all of school (except for Biology, which I refuse to miss between now and AP week). My statistics teacher is pretty mad at me for missing class today, but I don't care very much. I'll do fine and I learn almost nothing from that class as is.

This guy Ted, a permanent volunteer for the Red Cross, worked with me today. He was pretty awesome actually. At first I was pretty creeped out by him (he wore fringed leather chaps, a leather vest, a motorcylcle jacket, and a bandana) but after getting to know him he turned out pretty okay. Apparently he's retired (really young) because of a work injury and he spends all his time volunteering. He's part of a study of malaria at Strong too, I guess. He was really good at what we had to do volunteering to the point where I didn't really need to be there, but, meh, I wasn't in the mood for school anyway.

So, this whole work thing is not going very well. In the last two weeks everytime I've tried to call in I've been given the day off except for like once or twice. I have about 150 dollars for the Florida trip, but that won't cover it. I might be able to get another day of work in this week, but I'm not holding my breath. When we get back I'm gonna start trying to find another job. Unless my having steady availability affects how often I work at Delta Sonic. It might have a pretty big effect now that I think about it.

Anyway, here are the promised pictures:

That's K-Mahl in front of the first bus while we were still at school. The second bus looked remarkebly like the first one, except with one key difference: it started.

One of the first places we went was this aquarium. This picture has nothing to do with the aquarium except that when I took the picture my back was to it.


Right by the lake the wind was so intense that it lifted you up in the air if you jumped into it. Eric used his jacket like a sail and glided through the air practically.


Wind. Kevin.


More.


Ahem. Yea...


I like how Mr. Facklam is standing in the background.


Kevin, waiting for the super awesome dolphin show to start inside the aquarium. If Rick was my muse for the New York City trip than Kevin must've been my muse for this one. Odd.


Here's Frank waiting for the dolphin show to start.


That reminds me! I need to Netflix March of the Penguins.


"I'm the Sears tower! Rawr!" It made me laugh to find out that Sears spent all that money and time making the tower to house their offices and then had to sell it when business went bad.


View from the top of the tower. Eric and I were talking about how awesome it would've been if something akin to the Chicago fire occured and you could watch it from the observation deck. Then we realized that the steel construction would provide much less fuel than wood buildings.


I've always liked how highways look from above.


View of Lake Michigan from the tower.

Anyway, yea, not very many pictures. My camera ran out of juice in the afternoon of the second day and I didn't even have it for the cool pizza place on Friday night because I left it in the room. Oh well. If I can score some more pictures from other people I might post them here.