Aaron Gillespie

Motto: Life is Like a Box of Chocolates (or Having Sex with a Slut) 
 
 > This Update Comes Straight from the Home of One Christine Fraker. She’s at Basketball Practice Right Now, and I had My Civic Duties to Update the Column to Uphold.
 >  Basketball. Regionals. My Basketball Career Ended with the Two Worst Games of the Season. We Played Marias Des Cygens- We Weren’t Hitting (me especially) and they Were. They Played Very Well. We Played Pretty Bad. We Were Missing Our Starting Point Guard. They Seemingly Had 8 Players on the Floor at All Times. A Lot Could be Said, But What It All Boils Down to Is This: Basketball was Not Supposed to End that Way. We were Not Supposed to Come to Our Final Halt Until We Were Ready to Do So. I Can’t Believe It’s Over Now. I’m Not Happy We Lost. I am Happy to Have Some Time- But that is Something I’d Trade Quickly for a Chance to Play to Get into State for One Last Time. I’m Never Going to Get that Opportunity. It’s Kind of a Tough Pill to Swallow. I Feel Bad for My Teammates as Well. I Only Scored 7 Points that Last Game. I was Having the Most Off Game I Probably Ever Had. If I had Been Able to Pull Out ½ of My Shots, My Easy Make them 90% of the Time Shots, We Would be Playing Again Next Week. I’m Grateful for the Experience, Not for the Running, or the Tension that Comes from Playing. But the Chance to Really Feel like Part of a Team with the Guys from Lebo. I’ve Realized I Don’t Hate Lebo, at Least Not All of It. I’ll Miss the Team Feeling I Got. I Guess I’ll Just Have to Start hanging Out with those Dudes Outside the Realm of Basketball. To Make a Long Story Even Longer by Adding a Small Portion Summing it Up, Basketball was Not Ended the Way it was Supposed to, The Gods likened with the other Team, and the Planets Were Aligned in a Way that Lay-ups Became Half-Courters. I’m Taken with a  Strange Feeling of Sorrow- for the Community, for Myself, and Most Importantly, for My Team. I Wish I Had the Opportunity to Play with You Guys Just One More Time.
 > Life, Unlike Basketball, Must Go On. All is Not Lost. I Can Still Play Pick-up Games at Burlington Rec. I Can Still Pull Together Games with My Friends. Now, I Can Live My Life.

 > I Played Pool in Burlington Recreational Center Today. Their Table was Gynormous. I Beat Christine Like a Red-Headed Step-Child. Plus we Played a Nice Game of HORSE. My Basketball Skill Carried Over from the Games and She Beat Me HORSE to HORS. We Played a Little One-on-One After That. I Realized Not All was Lost as I Made Every Retarded Shot I Put Up Until Christine Intentionally and Completely 100% On Purpose Pulled Out a Gun and Poked My Eye. She Called it “Defense,” I Call it “Abusive Relationship.”

 > I Went to Watch Christine Sing at All-State Choir Yesterday. What did You Do? Play Videogames? You Wuss. There was an Orchestra There. The Orchestra and the Choir were Both Amazing. The Regular Band was Just a Band, or So I Thought. Anyways, I Got to Know Christine’s Mom a Little Better, and She Got to Know Me. All-in-All it was a Pretty Decent Day. (it had bad shadow cast on it from the night before’s loss)
 > I Don’t Really Have Much to Say Other Than That.
 > This Sentence Will Conclude a Long Update. Or Maybe This One? No, I Fooled You, It’s This One.

Top 5: Memories from Basketball

5. Dunking the Ball – 13 Times
4. State, Both Times (Mostly the First One)
3. Brad Winn and MD’s Hardcore Ballin’ Skillz
2. The Bus Rides Home
1. The Teams Reaction to Every Barrett Joke

Quotopolis:

” Zeus is the Baddest Mofo “
         - Mr. Harp -

” Say  Somebody is Like a Slinky, They are Totally Worthless, but Kind of Fun to Push Down the Stairs “
         - Mr. Torrence –

” Because God Told Us We Had to Have a Leap Year, That’s Why “
         - Taylor Barker -
” My Ballsack Makes Me Laugh “
         - Anonymous -

” Hey, My Uncle is a Book “
         - Josh Weltha, after Somebody Said ‘books suck’ -

Motto: IDA Stands for “It’s Dominated by Aaron” (tyler donoho is understood, and therefore needs not to be mentioned)

> This Column = Many Mathematical Sentences

> It’s Been a Long Time, But It’s Cool Cause Not Much has Happened.

> My First Ever Forensics Meet was Held Last Thursday, Tyler Donoho and I Placed 12^th, Which wasn’t as High as I was Hoping for, but Not Bad for a First Time Group. We “Showed Good Potential.” We had also the “Funniest Skit I’ve Seen.” (Both of those Quotes Were by Our Coach, Mr. Brian “Badass on Wheels” Harp.

> We Played SCC. Worst Game of the Season for Me. Hopefully We’ll See them Again on Friday.

> Next Loss in Basketball = Finished Season.

> Half Our School is Sick. I Think Something Might Be Going Around. It’s Too Bad It’s Not Awesomeness. That would Rule if Awesomeness was Contagious. If It Were Everybody Would Be Drinking After Me, Right? (Just Kidding, I’m Really Not that Self- Centered) I Was Sick Earlier Today, Enough to Where I Left School. Although I feel a LOT Better after a Muscinex, an Excedrin, and 4 Hours of Sleep. Plus I Used an Inhaler for the First Time Since I can Remember. I Can Totally Breath Right Now, It’s Crazy.

> King of Courts = Me

> Speaking of Math, I Realized Something Yesterday About the Area of a Circle and Pi and All that Goodness. I Can’t Really Explain it On Here, Which is Good Because Nobody Cares.

> Josh Took a Picture While He was Talking the Other Day…….

> KU Vs. KSU is Starting BYE

Top 5: Ways to Be Cool in High School

5. Drink
4. Do Drugs

3. Smoke
2. Have a Bunch of Affairs

1. Be the Captain of the Scholar’s Bowl Team (I’ll go with this one)

Quotes:

” Spank You for Bringing My Knife, I Felt Naked without It; Not because I Missed it, but because it is Often the Only Thing I Wear “
- Josh Weltha -

” It’s Clean Dirt “
- Josh Weltha, about why it was Okay to Extend the 5 Second Rule –

” Your Not Afraid to Speak Your Mind or Hear Your Farts “
- Tyler Donoho, about Why I’m Good for an IDA Partner -

Motto: One Month – 31 Days – 744 Hours – 1/12^th a year – 44640 Hours - 2678400 Seconds ….. The Moment of the Gods

> Well, My Quiz Bowl Career is Officially Over. I’m going to Miss Being a Nerd. We Went to State Two Years in a Row. We Actually had a Winning Record this Past Year. We Improved from 13^th My Junior Year to 5^th My Senior Year. Using My Logic, I’ve Decided that Potentially Makes Me the 17^th Smartest Person in the State. I’m Going to Miss Being Awesome with the Scholar’s Ballers. I’m Also Going to Miss the Geeky Calculations We Always Seemed to Figure Out on those Trips… But Like Somebody Famous Once Said- You Can Take the Nerd Out of the Quiz Bowl but You Can’t Take the Quiz Bowl Out of the Nerd.

> Dude, These are Isotopes.

> Mandatory Basketball Paragraph (I’ll Make it Short): We Played Burlingame again, last Time was a Triple Overtime Nail Biter, This Time, We Won by 19 or So. I had, to My Knowledge, My First Ever Double-Double (of which Taylor Barker Average’s One), With 19 Points and Somewhere from 14 to 16 Rebounds. Cameron had 23 Points for His Career High Night. Taylor Had 12 and Probably Another Double Double to Add to His Thousand.

> Christine’s Busy. She Will be Busy Tomorrow, and Nothing Looks Like It’s Going to Change. Wednesday is Valentines Day- We’ll See Each Other Then. But Tuesday is Two Months… and We Won’t Be able to Then (Once Again, Thanks to Basketball for Ruining Something for Me)

> I’ve Actually Done a Scholarship. Although I Still Haven’t Sent it in Yet. It’s Finished.

> I’m Gunna Go Play Pool. Bye Bye.

Top 5: Memories of Quiz Bowl

5. Whenever You Answer a Question and People Ask “How did You Know That?”

4. All the Cookies I’ve Eaten

3. The Car Rides to State
2. Whenever I Got a Math Question that Teeter Didn’t

1. Kicking Everybody’s Ass

Quotes: note- There has been a lot of quotes that have went Un-quoted lately…… I was preoccupied with state.

” She has a Shotgun, She Won’t Have an Emergency “
- John Torrence, about Why It’s Okay for Him to Not have His Cell Phone On -

” Dude, That Train Should Really Turn It’s Brights Off “
- Me -