pimp her ride

(window is taped on...if you can't see it).

everything is tape.

i think that's enough to say her car is shit on wheels.

whoop whoop

listen to some music.

Time for a New High School

Skyline High School, expected to open in fall 2008, is a new public school being built in Ann Arbor in order to decrease the large number of students within Ann Arbor's Pioneer and Huron High School. Some people feel that building this new high school will decrease the amount of talent inside Pioneer and Huron, but for others as well as myself feel that having a new high school is definitly for the better.

Too many students within one building is a lot of work for a high school to handle. For example, almost each year Pioneer High School is changing and adding on to its campus in order to make more room for students. A few years ago, Pioneer High School had an issue of not having enough teachers for all of their students, which lead to having too many students in one classroom. As a result to this issue, the school had added on more 'portables' (they look like trailers) on top of what used to be a staff parking lot. Problems like this will only increase in time, because each incoming freshman class grows in numbers. The best way to attack a situation like this IS to add a new high school in the Ann Arbor public school family.

This parking lot is now where E portable sits, and Pioneer added this onto their campus a few years ago in order to have more classrooms.

A tennis court was turned into a place to have more trailer like classrooms A.K.A portables

More trailers for students to learn in.

Some students get stuck with the smaller lockers (even worse, the bottom locker) because there aren't enough normal sized ones to go around at Pioneer. Not only that, but the senior class DOES NOT get a locker.

This is another extension of Pioneer, known as E hall.

the outside of E hall.

This is known as the 'new C hall/wing'. They're little hallways that branch off a main hall, and there are 3 levels to the C wing. Also, this is where most of the lockers cut in half are.

Say hello to Sky High during construction.

There's going to be a couple of floors to this school, which is nice because Ann Arbor needs more space for students.

Another side shot of Skyline High School.

If you look beyond the trees, you can see the back (or maybe the front) of Sky High.

I'm excited to see how Skyline High School turns out and I hope everyone will appreciate this new change as much as I do.

i think i'm going to write about pfizer shutting down in ann arbor. it's putting a couple thousand people out of jobs, and forcing people to relocate to another pfizer or search for another job. even if someone was to relocate to another pfizer, their job might not last too long in their new location because pfizer is always shutting down departments and sending people home jobless. My dad is a part of the pfizer community so this change in ann arbor isn't just affecting the town, it's also affecting me on a more personal level.
the only problem is that i'm having trouble finding accurate and acceptable sources for this paper, and if i can't find anything good enough i might have to change my paper topic.

i think i'm going to write about pfizer shutting down in ann arbor. it's putting a couple thousand people out of jobs, and forcing people to relocate to another pfizer or search for another job. even if someone was to relocate to another pfizer, their job might not last too long in their new location because pfizer is always shutting down departments and sending people home jobless. My dad is a part of the pfizer community so this change in ann arbor isn't just affecting the town, it's also affecting me on a more personal level.
the only problem is that i'm having trouble finding accurate and acceptable sources for this paper, and if i can't find anything good enough i might have to change my paper topic.

rough draft

The idea of building another high school in Ann Arbor sounds horrific for some Ann Arborites while others are taking in the new high school with open arms. As for me, I'm sitting on the sideline rooting for the new high school to open its doors with success. 'Why?' do you ask? The answer is simple; there were and still are too many kids jam packed inside of Ann Arbor's public high schools.
I was a student of Pioneer Highschool and somehow walking through the halls felt like walking through the crowded streets of New York City. The moment the bell rings and kids shuffle out of their classrooms to head for their next class, the halls would become a sea of students with a current slower than my grandmother on her walker. Everyday I was unwillingly sandwiched in between bodies while walking down the halls, and it really wasn't fun. My graduating class (painfully long graduation) consisted of about 800 students, and each new class that comes into Pioneer is only getting larger. There was about 3,000 students walking cluttering the halls, and I can only imagining the number increasing for each new school year.
Seeing the construction of Skyline High School, the new high school, being built is truly a blessing for future students. This new school will help decrease the ludacrious number of students in Pioneer and Huron. Skyline Highschool is planning to be up and running by the fall of 2007, which is not too far away. Obviously, Skyline High won't change my crowded highschool experiance, but it will save the younger generations from being mauled by bodies in the halls, waiting in long lines to use the bathroom, and wasting half their lunch hour to get their hands on some food. This is a change for the better, and I hope that students will appreciate Skyline High School.




i know i don't have pictures, sooooorry. This is a rough draft, so the only thing that can happen is making this better. I'm planning on posting photo's of Pioneer and Skyline High, so no worries.

lame

I knew what i wanted to write about for our next assignment, but something random came up and i got screwed over. So now i need to whip something up in one day and write a rough draft. This paper is a hassle and I am not too excited to do this at all.
I'm not a fan.

graffiti

Graffiti can be damaging art or interesting art. In Ann Arbor there's graffiti that's more pleasing to the eye or disregarded, I have never seen anything that's cruel or painful to look at (from what I have seen here). There are political things like "make love not war", or things about feminism, or the symbol for Anarchy because there's kids who think it's cool to do that. I don't really want to repost all the walls i took pictures of, but if you look below at my older posts you can see what I'm talking about.
In Ann Arbor as a senior prank someone graffitied the front entrance. I went to Pioneer and the school colors were purple and white. The entrance doors have a large sign that says " Purple Pride", and someone thought it would be funny to write "gay" over the "purple". To write something like that in such a liberal town was pretty offensive and I remember a lot of students, especially the senior class, didn't find it funny. Also growing up in Jersey, the town next door to mine had a large population of Armenians and I remember seeing really disturbing graffiti on the backs of dumpsters near apartment complexes.

a night in ann arbor

my friend and i walked around saturday night and took pictures. so here, enjoy.






there's random heads stenciled on the sidewalks. never really knew who started that.


someone was trying to be unique and used the head as an "o".





they're faces of important people....incase you couldn't tell from my great photography.



pssssh 42 degrees... i see the hidden message you're sending.


super delicious pizza, aaaand it's not cheap. 3 bucks for one slice with a topping! 3!!!!


so ferocious.


we got this for free from a girl who couldn't cook a pizza at cottage inn. thank you cottage inn.






i don't know who he is, but i guess seeing one portrait of him isn't enough.


the most generic art sits behind that window....and that's not a compliment.


cool name huh?


he claims he can run 29 mph in those.


whereeee he at?


how cute.


who's thirsty?





a wall dedicated to chewed gum.yum.

more news

The murder of Tara Grant and Comerica peacing out of Detroit are the ones that have the most coverage since these issues are under the "continously updated" section.

The coverage on Tara Grant wasn't needed. They quickly recapped everything that has happened...again, and then the writer focused on what the husband did his lawyer and more pointless information. Just reading what his punishment is for messing up is enough. I don't care about his past life and I don't really care if his lawyer left him and now he has a new one. The article gave out the facts, but it was facts that were not important in my eyes.

There wasn't a link for Ann Arbor, so I went to Canton's local news. So there is an article about someone's cat that survived a heat stroke...how the hell is that important? I don't give a flying rat's ass about a damn cat who has been spayed and is an old ball of walking fur. There is another article about a Kevin Boyle, author for the book "Arc of Justice: a Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age". The book is about race during the 1920's , and Boyle is going to be speaking at the Canton public library to help bring the story's subject come to life. I guess that's pretty neat to go and check out, but not cool enough to make me want to drive to Canton.

To be honest, there is NOTHING on this page that REALLY pulls me in enough to make me want to look it up more. I don't want to sit here and bullshit about a topic that I could care less about, because I will not put enough effort into making a good paper. I know something has happened in Ann Arbor, that all of Pfizer is shutting down and relocating (i think it's relocating). I found out about it from my dad, because he works with Pfizer and now he's out of a job along with A LOT of other people. I moved here a couple of years ago because pfizer bought out my dad's old pharmacy company which forced everyone to move here, and now that this has happened my dad is going to have to hunt for another job somewhere else. It's really not cool that it's happened, and i don't know the full story as to why Pfizer is doing something so extreme and I want to do some reasearch on that. If I don't follow through with this, I'll eventually figure it out.

news

I'm not really into the news to begin with, but looking through freep.com was pretty interesting. What really caught my eye was the murder case of Tara and her husband, I heard about it by ear, but I never bothered to look it up. Personally, just hearing that someone was murdered by their husband is enough for me, I don't need the candied up version of the story.
I also saw a headline about Comerica Bank moving its headquarters down to Texas. My greatest worry would be if people are going to lose their jobs eventually.

my plan

My goal for this paper is to dominate it with vivid words. I'm not a fan of boring and monotone papers, and the last thing I want is to be guilty of that. I know there are some parts in my paper where i am caught in a pickle and I don't know how to avoid the "it's", but there is always a way to improve. I plan to do just that, and I hope that I'm not sizing myself up too much. the end.

bathroom?

You would think all of this grafitti would be on the side of a building, but these checkered walls filled with writing can be found in the upstairs bathroom of Randevouz Cafe. It's pretty random if you think about it. I'm there at least once a week smoking my night away with a friend or two, and when I walk into that bathroom I get smacked in the face with color. You get sucked into the colors of white and black along with the various shades of blue and those checkers. On the walls are your typical "Susan&Matt 4ever!!" markings, but there are also some pretty sweet things to feast your eyes on.
Walking into Randevouz's bathroom is like walking into another dimension, and every direction you turn you will find something interesting to look at. What's funny is that you can enjoy this when mother nature is calling.