today was nice. my friends seem to be taking more pictures with my camera than i do. i should learn how to use the manual settings to adjust the apeture and focus and colors and such myself, because that's REAL photography, not this "auto mode" bullshit. too bad renton doesn't have a photography class. i'm feel deprived of the necessary camera know-how to put me past an amateur... into a hobbyist (what am i bitching and moaning about? i only took two of the 10 pictures in the gallery at the end of this blog entry). we had two fire drills today... we have to find the official muckerheide count of fire drills this year. i believe it's in the 40's now? 40 firedrills? that's like... whoa. track practice was cool, i'm happy with where i am at as far as my running abilities go, but i shouldn't get complacent. this season should be all about improvement, as well as an endless barrage of shit-talk towards devin. FUCK, i missed everwood yesterday, and more than half of smallville today. tomorrow we're all skipping school to watch our basketball team play in a state level game at the tacoma dome... it should be great.



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"how special is ray allen" - kevin callabro, seattle supersonic's sports commentator.