There’s a list in my Religion and Politics folder full of things that I remember. I don’t really know why I started it; I guess I just felt like it one day after the twelfth day of school. And now I don’t know what to do with it really, but I feel like I should do something. I think I’d like to write about everything in some detail, but I think the list itself is also just sort of fun. So I think, for now, I’m just going to write it:
- Stepping on a cactus
- Someone getting their nail cut by a crab
- Watching home videos of Ryan dropping his Slimer ice cream and losing his shoe on a Ferris wheel
- A video of Ryan pushing me into the snow and then kicking me
- Crying on my bed in Avalon because I felt bad that Dad never caught huge fish
- The ice cream man at the beach; “Fudgie Wudgie!” and “Ice cream, soda, rip off!”
- Choco Taco vs. Chipwich, and the time I dropped my Chipwich in the sand.
- The time I almost drowned from that huge wave, and the time I almost drowned by falling in the bay
- Always wanting a waverunner and never getting one
- The huge hornet thing that Jess and I swear was real underneath the deck at the old house
- Eating all of Ryan’s gummi worms with Kevin D while watching The Price is Right in kindergarten
- Flipping Kevin D over my head trying to be like Vega from Street Fighter
- Discovering This American Life on the first car ride back from going to Wildwood TIA
- Cocoa escaping from Bobby and I on the way down to Avalon
- The cigarette hole in my khaki shorts that we never figured out how it was made
- The three girls we met at the beach that asked to use our house but I never liked them
- Christian doing the left hand dance
- When the cats chewed on our fingers
- When Erin and I watched Law and Order: SVU every night
- When I should have kissed Beth in Gina’s pool
- The first time I kissed Viv and she asked, “Can I help you?”
- The last time I tried to kiss Viv and she wouldn’t let me
- Watching Supersize Me and then giving up soda and McDonald’s
- The time I wrote like 4 songs in 8 weeks
- Kelly and I celebrating Fake Valentine’s Day, getting pizza and a blue jacket and flowers
- Wesley Willis and making a video for Rock & Roll McDonald’s
- Playing piano on my desk in class in ninth grade behind Ezra Han
- Practicing my drumline parts on my desk in class
- The night in Schlichter’s basement with Synthesis when they put on the hardhats
- Joekat being funny/awkward to try to get Mrs. Mattei to like him
- Ticking Danny Boselli until he wanted to kill us all
- That Kevin and I stopped being friends
- Letting down John Alfuth from Mexico by never sending him Dane Cook or Crank Yankers
- Hating Junior Prom more than anything in the world
- Me, Gina, Chloe and Molly were friends at Wildwood once
- When Kim and I talked every single night
- When I thought about holding people when I went to sleep
- The time Mr. Ricci yelled at Alex for almost no reason
- Chis Hopper showing me to fold strips of paper when I was bored at Hi-Q practice
- Corky hitting his head on the microphone on stage
- Talking to Dr. Arensberg while skipping French
- Outlining at the computer with textbook in lap
- The Infinity Q45 and the belt exploding with Jen Lue in the car
- Exploring the Church of Our Savior while singing Fallout Boy and Steve was filming
- Making mustard gas(?) and the girl getting drenched in the emergency shower while wearing a white t-shirt
- My graduation speech going over way better than I thought it would
- Eating at the diner in Allentown before DCI, and at the West Chester Diner twice
- Making brownies with Sonali
- Tarik coming to me at the piano to learn Mr. Brightside, and seeing him again during Ramadan
- Ariel telling the dolphin story at camp and then breaking my hand
- John Kuderka getting three strikes for nothing with Dr. C
- Make A Difference Day with Bobby
- Ashley vB, the Difference of Squares and seeing her on a plane
- Playing chess and losing to Lauren McLaughlin
- Teacher Gnorene, the club about not liking a girl, and having lunch at her house
- Lightning from Elam Love & Learn. Sticking my tongue out at David
- Praying before snack with Mrs. Montella, and seeing her later in Genuardi’s
- Getting sick the night of the sixth grade lock-in
- CN Skate Palace roller hockey and Dave O
- Playing hockey in the street every day with Somers and Dhruv
- The time the neighborhoods kids tried to ditch Ryan and me but he found the Hewlitt kid
- Being left at CCD forever that one time
- Mr. Doyla “donating his liver” for the expansion
- John K being stabbed by Dennis W with a pencil
- Double D gymnastics
- Eating lunch without our thumbs in seventh grade
- Trying to make Bobby laugh so hard he spit out his drink
- Joining the soccer team for Dorney Park
- Timmy L getting shot right in the balls by Jim F
- MathCounts
- Getting a B in science AND social studies
- The stupid projects in Mr. Wright’s class that I absolutely hated
- My car crash
- Puking in Las Vegas and Ryan getting salmonella
- The Big Red Boat
- Jess getting chicken pox, Lyme Disease, and appendicitis
- When I cut my hair short and wore flannel jackets in fifth grade
- Forgetting the football on the last day of recess
- Jasmine, Somers, Olivia and Priya
- My first homerun in softball
- Shutting my finger in the window in 6th grade
- Club Rush with Jess and O’Neil
- Someone getting their nail cut by a crab
- Watching home videos of Ryan dropping his Slimer ice cream and losing his shoe on a Ferris wheel
- A video of Ryan pushing me into the snow and then kicking me
- Crying on my bed in Avalon because I felt bad that Dad never caught huge fish
- The ice cream man at the beach; “Fudgie Wudgie!” and “Ice cream, soda, rip off!”
- Choco Taco vs. Chipwich, and the time I dropped my Chipwich in the sand.
- The time I almost drowned from that huge wave, and the time I almost drowned by falling in the bay
- Always wanting a waverunner and never getting one
- The huge hornet thing that Jess and I swear was real underneath the deck at the old house
- Eating all of Ryan’s gummi worms with Kevin D while watching The Price is Right in kindergarten
- Flipping Kevin D over my head trying to be like Vega from Street Fighter
- Discovering This American Life on the first car ride back from going to Wildwood TIA
- Cocoa escaping from Bobby and I on the way down to Avalon
- The cigarette hole in my khaki shorts that we never figured out how it was made
- The three girls we met at the beach that asked to use our house but I never liked them
- Christian doing the left hand dance
- When the cats chewed on our fingers
- When Erin and I watched Law and Order: SVU every night
- When I should have kissed Beth in Gina’s pool
- The first time I kissed Viv and she asked, “Can I help you?”
- The last time I tried to kiss Viv and she wouldn’t let me
- Watching Supersize Me and then giving up soda and McDonald’s
- The time I wrote like 4 songs in 8 weeks
- Kelly and I celebrating Fake Valentine’s Day, getting pizza and a blue jacket and flowers
- Wesley Willis and making a video for Rock & Roll McDonald’s
- Playing piano on my desk in class in ninth grade behind Ezra Han
- Practicing my drumline parts on my desk in class
- The night in Schlichter’s basement with Synthesis when they put on the hardhats
- Joekat being funny/awkward to try to get Mrs. Mattei to like him
- Ticking Danny Boselli until he wanted to kill us all
- That Kevin and I stopped being friends
- Letting down John Alfuth from Mexico by never sending him Dane Cook or Crank Yankers
- Hating Junior Prom more than anything in the world
- Me, Gina, Chloe and Molly were friends at Wildwood once
- When Kim and I talked every single night
- When I thought about holding people when I went to sleep
- The time Mr. Ricci yelled at Alex for almost no reason
- Chis Hopper showing me to fold strips of paper when I was bored at Hi-Q practice
- Corky hitting his head on the microphone on stage
- Talking to Dr. Arensberg while skipping French
- Outlining at the computer with textbook in lap
- The Infinity Q45 and the belt exploding with Jen Lue in the car
- Exploring the Church of Our Savior while singing Fallout Boy and Steve was filming
- Making mustard gas(?) and the girl getting drenched in the emergency shower while wearing a white t-shirt
- My graduation speech going over way better than I thought it would
- Eating at the diner in Allentown before DCI, and at the West Chester Diner twice
- Making brownies with Sonali
- Tarik coming to me at the piano to learn Mr. Brightside, and seeing him again during Ramadan
- Ariel telling the dolphin story at camp and then breaking my hand
- John Kuderka getting three strikes for nothing with Dr. C
- Make A Difference Day with Bobby
- Ashley vB, the Difference of Squares and seeing her on a plane
- Playing chess and losing to Lauren McLaughlin
- Teacher Gnorene, the club about not liking a girl, and having lunch at her house
- Lightning from Elam Love & Learn. Sticking my tongue out at David
- Praying before snack with Mrs. Montella, and seeing her later in Genuardi’s
- Getting sick the night of the sixth grade lock-in
- CN Skate Palace roller hockey and Dave O
- Playing hockey in the street every day with Somers and Dhruv
- The time the neighborhoods kids tried to ditch Ryan and me but he found the Hewlitt kid
- Being left at CCD forever that one time
- Mr. Doyla “donating his liver” for the expansion
- John K being stabbed by Dennis W with a pencil
- Double D gymnastics
- Eating lunch without our thumbs in seventh grade
- Trying to make Bobby laugh so hard he spit out his drink
- Joining the soccer team for Dorney Park
- Timmy L getting shot right in the balls by Jim F
- MathCounts
- Getting a B in science AND social studies
- The stupid projects in Mr. Wright’s class that I absolutely hated
- My car crash
- Puking in Las Vegas and Ryan getting salmonella
- The Big Red Boat
- Jess getting chicken pox, Lyme Disease, and appendicitis
- When I cut my hair short and wore flannel jackets in fifth grade
- Forgetting the football on the last day of recess
- Jasmine, Somers, Olivia and Priya
- My first homerun in softball
- Shutting my finger in the window in 6th grade
- Club Rush with Jess and O’Neil
Actually, on this list I have on entry that reads “The first time I heard” and then there’s nothing. I forget what I was writing, even though whatever it was, I was writing it today.
Peace out.
