I just got back from camp on Friday, and it was a wicked good time! Because I'm lazy, and don't feel like describing everything that happened, you get the...

SUPER BULLETTED VERSION (yay!)

-The first thing you need to know was that this place was insanity. Half of the counselors were going to be freshmen in college, so they were about the same age as us. So, basically, next to none of the rules were enforced.

-Poker-Some kids brought chips (the good, heavy kind, not the crappy plastic ones) and played many games of Texas Hold-Em...for real money. So, I got my initiation to real gambling through a poker game in a dorm room at Endicott college. I actually didn't do to badly-I lost $5 in one game, then won back $2 later- considering I had never (ok, maybe once) played Texas Hold-Em before. I'm proud of myself, because I'm not only somewhat of a goody-two-shoes, but I'm also the stingiest person on the planet.

-Brown water-One of the nights, the fire department flushed the nearby hydrants, and all the water in the bathrooms was consequently brown. It was actually kinda funny, cuz you'd take a crap, then flush the toilet, and the water would get browner. lol. rather amusing.

Sex-No, I didn't have sex. But im prertty sure a bunch of other people did! For one thing, my roommate was talking on his cellphone in our room (I asked if he wanted me to leave and he told me to stay), and had a long discussion with his (girl?)friend about how they regularly had group sex. One part of the conversation I remember was when he was telling his gf to, "Make sure Brad stays away from you. He's been trying to get with you for weeks!" I was reading AP chem at the time, but found it slightly hard to concentrate on it. lol In addition to all of that, the people in one of the regions, southeast, were the most sexual group of people ever. They were like pinching each other's asses and lying on each other every other second. It was pretty damn funny to watch. It was especially clear to me how inexperienced I am when it comes to life when someone asked who was a virgin, and out of 8 or 9 people, 3 raised their hands. I also caught a couple looking through the Cosmo "Best Sex Tips" issue.

-Workshops- Yes, I'm a nerd. But the workshops were interesting! We learned all of this stuff about student rights and No Child Left Behind and special ed... it was pretty cool. I'm in a workgroup thats gonna try to get a bill passed making it mandatory for schools to put student rights in the handbook. I get to write laws!!! Yay!! :-)

So yea, camp was cool. It made me realize some things about myself that depressed me somewhat, but oh well. "I am what I am, and thats all that I am." (That was Popeye, right?) Yesterday, I worked on Colin's Eagle project, which was hot work, but it was cool. We walked around the cemetary on Waverly Road for about 6 hours marking down which graves belonged to veterans.

And this morning, we learned that my dad has a severe bee allergy. My dad walked out on the balcony and was trying to clean the gutters when he got stung twice. He immediately started swelling up and turning red, so they jumped in the car and went to lawrence general (I was still asleep). He has been having minor allergic reactions when he got stung in the past, but this time, he couldn't even stand up by the time he reached the hospital. He was fine after a few hours, at which point my parents came home. Then, my mom went into the bedroom (the balcony is off of my parents bedroom) to look for more bees, when she looked out on the balcony and discovered... a big-ass yellowjackt nest!! The thing was friggin huge- it must have been 8-10 inches across-and was hanging from the bottom of a deck chair. My mom moved the other deck chair away, so she would have a clear shot when she sprayed it. We were going to spray it from the door, which we only wanted to open a lilte bit, in case they swarmed. It's a good thing we did that too, because just by moving the other deck chair, my mom pissed off the bees, and about a hundred of them started swarming around the nest!!! My mom was fine, because we had planned for it to happen, and she had shut the screen door fast, but it was crazy to see all of those bees going crazy and banging into the screen. That night, we sprayed the nest, and they didn't swarm nearly as much (probably because they were bing killed like crazy). I felt sorta bad for the little guys, writhing around on the deck floor, but at least my dad is somewhat safer.

So, that basically wraps things up for now. Oh, if you see Andy, tell him to start writing in his blog again, because he hasn't written in a month, and that thing was funny!

Random Link: Subliminal Messages - This site has some songs that, when played backwards, have hidden messages. It has the audio clips of the the songs forward and backward, as well as the lyrics. Some are very obviously put there (like the message in Empty Spaces), where as some others are probably random coincidences (Another One Bites the Dust and Kiss Kiss Kiss). Regardless, cool...and kinda freaky. My recommendation is that you listen to the song backwards first before looking at the backwards lyrics, just so you can see if what they're saying is evident without the power of suggestion.