Why am I late? Well I was just driving down MLK when... [An original monologe by Alexander Cole]

"Oh! I'm so sorry Proffesor. Yes I know I'm late. What? Why am I late? Oh. Well you see I live in southeast portland, a good 20 minutes away, and I have to commute each day. What? Yes I know this doesn't explain why I am late. So what happened was, I was driving down MLK and I left ten minutes earlier then I usually do because I wanted to meet with you about the assignment that's due next monday. Well you see, I was just driving down MLK when I saw smoke bellowing up from a building a block off the street. So naturally, hopeing that nobody was hurt I pulled over to see if I could help. Well the building on fire ended up being the Portland Orphanage that I had just volluntered at only a few weeks ago.

Well the fire department had not shown up yet, and so I assisted the nuns that run the Orphanage to carry the smaller orphans out of the burning building. Well after a few minutes the Firetrucks did show up, and we had already got most of the orphans out. The ambulance came and picked up the injured ones, but they could not fit all the injured into the back of the ambulance, and the other ambulance was stuck in trafic on I5. So I volentiered to take two of the orphans in my car and follow the ambulance up to OHSU for treatment. So I got the car, shuffled the two children in and took off following the ambulance accross the river and up the hill. Yeah, I know.

Robbie is the boy, he had some bad burns on his legs but was being real tough about it--he's only about 12 or so. The girl Vanessa, she's about 8 and very quiet. She had broken her leg when the stairwell collapsed as she was trying to escape. The only thing she said was "I hope Emily is alright." Robbie told me Emily is Vanessa's best friend and that she was one of the girls who was put in the ambulance infront of us. Well we made it to OHSU pretty quickly and I helped unload the orphans. I carried Vanessa in, and we got them all admited. Unfortunatly because of their orphan statis, they had nobody to sign off on the liability forms. I ended up signing for them because the proper care would not be administered unless someone signed the form. There was really nothing else I could do, so I told the nurse that I had to get to class and that I would come back after it was over. So I drove here as fast as the speed limit would allow and here I am. So the reason why I am late is: I was helping orphans escape from a burning building. Yes sir. Thank you proffesor, it won't happen again."

III, DL 240's, and Cadavers

So here I am in the Pilot house at the University of Portland, sitting here with three hours of nothingness. So apparently my Anatomy class was canceled today without my knowledge. Supposedly my prof send out two emails that she was sick, but because she labeled the email Ill which when it is ariel font looks like the roman numeral III I did not recognise it and skiped over it in my inbox because I was rushed to study for my Microbiology and Statistics tests. Oh well.

The verdict on the Volvo is good, the problem was a relay for the fuel pump thus the fuel pump was not getting the voltage required to run and therefor start the engine. So it was replaced and now the little darling is runing like a cat on rollarskates. This happend like a few weeks ago but I forgot to inform my oh so loyal reader base *cough, cough.* Sorry I am a little sick and have been coughing sneezing and yuck for a few days. And of course my Acting proffesor will not be happy with me because the first two rules of acting is "never get sick." and "never get sick." Oh yeah, and the definition is "To do truthfully under imaginary circumstances."

Yesterday was the first day that we got to work with cadavers in my anatomy lab. one male, one female. The female is going on two years here at UP, (the preservitives keep them preserved forever--I'm not joking, seriously forever!) and the male we just got in this summer and so he is not fully disected yet. The female is down to strictly bone, muscle and organs. but the man--well, he's more intact. It was really cool and a great opportunity to do this, and I am looking forward to working with them, however not so much about the mermoization of all the muscles--which is probably what I should be doing now. Okay well for now, Seacrest out.

So here I am, not as happy as I should be...

So what prompted that title? A nice little chat with Shawn online. But that is for later. So the thrid week of school is comming to a close, and it has been shitty. It doesnt help that my sister is playing sad music downstairs and its raining outside. I want to listen to good happy music to try to cheer me up, but the stupid new iTunes has completely fucked with my songs but that is for later too. So what is for now? I don't know. This is post is supposed to be like an internal monologe, like the ones weve been talking about in my acting class. So lets start there...the only bright part of my life right now--my acting class. Some of our assignments have been: What would you do with a million dollars?, stalk a person, stalk and try to mimic three other people's walks, and Find a happy place.

So what are my other classes? Anatomy, Microbiology, Statistics, Anatomy Lab, Micro Lab (and of course the acting). Anatomy is fun but very difficult and i just got the first quiz back with a nice fat F on the front. Anatomy Lab is probably my hardest class...and only one credit--so that blows--but it is sooo cool, and i really like it, i just hope i did better on the exam we took on wendsday then on the anatomy quiz. Micro can be dull sometimes, but amazing at other times--the Lab is fun but hard to follow what we are supposed to be doing. And I hate math, so you can guess how i feel about Statistics. But being that I am loaded down with all these sciences, that means i can't be involved in the plays this semester hardly at all. I am working fridays and saturdays, leaving my weekends to work and studing with minimal friend time. So thats school.

Not to much to say about anything else--cause i have no life. damn it. So here i am musicless and only listening to my sister's downstairs that like i said is kind of depressing. and its raining...but i already said that. Yeah so Shawn told me that i just had to download the new iTunes, saying that it is soo much better. My vote: blahhh. I have a few beefs with it, but the main one is; I CANT PLAY MY FUC*ING MUSIC! I try to play a song and it skips and is all staticy. at first i thought it was only the new stuff that shawn put on it, but no, its all the music. plus it takes forever to activate, because of the dumb album cover pictures that it downloads--I dont care about the pictures--I have the songs to listen to the songs, not to look at the pretty pictures of cd cases (and it looks like they just stole the rotating affect strait out of a video game) but whatever, i could care less--other then the fact that I CANT PLAY MY FUC*ING MUSIC because its so painful to listen too.

So i tell shawn all of this, and try to explain what is wrong with the iTunes, and he accuses me of a hateing all change, i say and i quote, "I don't hate change. I hade bad change." and this iTunes is bad change. So i guess hes had a bad day and so i was the lucky one that got to listen to all the reasons why he hates Alex; or more specificly, me. Well some of the stuff just pissed me off...A lot, because it is completely false,, and if he actually believes all that crap then i guess we didnt know eachother like i thought we did. But it looks like its time for me to go find something to eat again. So here i am, not as happy as i should be.