THIS IS SUMMER!

Intro: Plug for 300!!! The DVD comes out on the 31st of July, definitely expect a party at the Healy Residence to celebrate this monumental occation. The MDew will be a-flowin' and I expect this to be a clutch gathering.

Anyways! Hi, it's me, Josh Healy. Most of you have not heard very much from me this summer, and I can explain! All I do is work and sleep so I have energy for work. When I'm not engaging in these stimulating and fun activities, I'm playing Rome: Total War or World of Warcraft (i know, i succumbed to the evil yet again.) Every Tuesday and Thursday I enjoy a nice bout of tennis at the Southgate Lyons Park with the Miz and a great mix of merry folk.

Okay, since there was a massive break between my last two posts and the last post was on a different topic, let's review. Since June 17th, I've basically been working every day, and not doing a whole lot. I've been enjoying the fireworks season, I think I went to Trenton, Wyandotte and Taylor, then I also went to the Elizabeth Park ones last weekend with John.

I haven't taken any vacations or anything, I went to Irish Hills awhile back for two days for a little merriment. A few lagers were drank, a little swimming was done, and a lot of respect was lost. Sounds like a pretty typical Irish Hills run to me! I have to take a second here to thank Jillian for hosting this fantastic time and the folks who came for making it a decent time.

Random tennis interjection: Susie Zammit and I played mixed doubles in the GR alumni tournament and sucked. Well I sucked, she was sweet. Anyways, that was another thing that I did in the mean time and in between time.

Life has been pretty typical since I started my job. By the hand of fate I ended up with a full time job cooking breakfast for executives of the AAA Headquarters. The job is not too bad now that I am in the full swing of it, and pretty good at it to boot. Some customers are beyond ridiculous with their requests, but for the most part my job is enjoyable if not sometimes a bit complicated.

I will go off on a tangent here about black women, specifically the ones I work with: they are some of the best and worst customers a person could have. The bad part for me was that my predecessor was a late-20's black man who loved to flirt with them, so that was a negative for me. The good part is that they love a polite young white boy so it balances out. Let me tell you though, if you ever get a job cooking for the same people every day, get the black women on your side. Even though they might make you want to kill someone when they hold up a line of 10 people with their nagging about the crispness of their bacon, if you have them on your side you will be in a pretty good position for most of your time there. I split them about 50% on the first day and have since worked back into their good graces for the most part, but those first few days were rough. But like I said, they are also often the best customers you have. I get more ridiculous compliments for random shit for black women I cook good for than you could believe.

This week I did Senior pictures, I already have them and they actually didn't turn out too bad.

Okay, so there is the recap on my life between the 17th of June and the 25th of July, so I will now turn to the present and future.

Work will continue for me until I think the week before school, so I will be occupied with that every Monday-Friday for the rest of summer.

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Student Government had it's July meeting last Friday, and I have some updates for you. Student Government plans on making this school year unique and enjoyable, and we have actually started to take steps so our school isn't so fucking boring this year!

Homecoming:
Our theme this year is Casino Royale.

The confirmed location for HC is the GR gym, joy I know but the faculty and Junior moderator pretty much screwed our Juniors and finding a place became impossible.

Our t-shirt/hallway/board theme is Favorite European Country.

• Seniors: Italy
• Juniors: The British Isles
• Sophomores: France
• and the Freshman got defaulted Spain

Fall Sports Assembly:
Hopefully we will be able to hold it outside

We plan on doing some ridiculous Conestoga Wagon thing, more details on that when I understand wtf is going on.

The Month of October:
We will be hallway decorating for the month of October, so plan on pigs running around with hay stacks all around Senior hall.

We plan on having a dance and a "Scary Movie Night", which is kind of fulfilling the function of TGIF for the month of October, hopefully it will be fun.

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Alright, that is all for now, I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I liked writing it. Congrats to all of you blog subscribers, you get insider scoops on Student Government straight from your President himself, so good work reading my blog, and see you later!

-Josh

That lovely thing called I.

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This is my preface and disclaimer: If you don't like egregious use of the noun "I", "me", or hearing me blab on about myself and my feelings for the next several paragraphs of text, just scroll down to the bottom and I have a convenient summary for you. If you want to hear me rant and use your fangs to suck on every piece of succulent meat this blog post provides, continue on normally

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As my title implies, I have been doing a lot of reflection and I guess philosophizing and most of it has to do with me. Now as most of you know, I have been (technically) 100% single throughout my high school career, and until just recently it hasn't necessarily bothered me, but there was always that side-quest of kind of getting a real relationship or "finding" that little Holy Grail known as love. Well, I have been doing a whole lot of reflection and have come to several conclusions, which I will title "That lovely thing called I." This title is exceedingly ironic, lololol.

My first conclusion deals with the opposite gender, tea-- oh I mean females. After really thinking and really paying attention, I think that the fact that girls are ultimately teases has finally repulsed me past a certain point. As my friend John Travolta, or Vincent Vega once said, "I'm a race car in the red. And all I'm saying is that it's dangerous to have a race car in the red." Now I'm not saying I'm some sort of Ricky Bobby asshole, but the point is-- I hope-- received. Somewhere in the past two months I have gotten past really wanting a girlfriend, or really to hook up with girls at all. Now this is not to say I'm about to start hitting on dudes, or am gay. I have just been pushed to the point where the risk versus reward with the female chase is not worth it. I can have just as much fun anywhere being by myself or in a group of people, and when I picture both of these scenarios I no longer see a girl, I just see, well, me.

I would like to expound further on my feelings on females. You people are great, and I love you. But your gender has managed to in fact douse my romantic fire. Now I'm not going to go and call a Crusade, alls I'm saying is that the teaseyness ingrained into your system has just really butchered my feelings for you. The fact that I went through three years of just being like "Wtf?" about girls I like, and now having realized why, is sad to me. I won't claim to have you all figured out, but let's be honest here, you tease guys and you love it when they chase after you. For some of you I'm pretty fucking sure it's what drives you to wake up in the morning, but for others you likely do it innocently or inadvertently. For me, it's just no longer worth bothering to find out whether or not you are affectionate, whether you are mature enough to handle some of my habits, and whether you are the type of girl I am looking for. Not like it really mattered anyways, you were probably just out to tease me in the first place so you probably weren't planning on a relationship.

I will add a disclaimer onto this also: This does not mean I will refuse to go at a girl, but let's be honest here, if she's not throwing herself at me and personally stating it to me, I'm not going to bother noticing the shit you do any more. Like I said, if you'd like to reduce my risk and increase my reward, then you go right on ahead.

My next conclusion is that I think I am going to accept the title of bachelor and just roll with the punches, see where it gets me. Relationships are too arduous these days to really even make me want to deal with them. Unfortunately, I am not the kind of person who enjoys.. like.. doing things. If something gets fucked up in a relationship, my apathy takes over and I like to let the problem fix itself rather than fix it myself. This has already been demonstrated, and it ended up not working out. Well, if all my energy wasn't dedicated towards a single thing (school, work) then maybe I would feel up to the task. Honestly though, I won't get into my feelings about fighting in relationships (tomorrow is not promised to anybody, lol.) but people do love drama, and some of us who have bad luck with relationships in the first place really don't love it.

Okay, that's all for now. Thanks for tuning in folks, hate to make you wait so long for these but really, Grignon's is actually interesting, mine is just kind of discourses and shit. I feel like a professor or something, and that's not a compliment towards myself.

Adios.

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Paragraph 1: this is about me
Paragraph 2: Rawr girls suck
Paragraph 3: Rawr girls suck (pt. 2)
Paragraph 4: Lol, if you want it come and take it
Paragraph 5: Bachelor and loving it.

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