Ship on the High Seas

Hey

2006-07-11T12:43:00.000-07:00

It's been awhile since I've been on here. I'm going to post on here, but I just haven't posted recently. I will, so whatever. I also have a myspace account. It is http://www.myspace.com/ghostcaptain2006. Of you're like a killer or w/e, don't bother getting personal info, there's none here or there. Thanks, BYE!!!!

Pretty or Ugly????

2006-05-14T13:14:00.000-07:00

Most people feel sorry for ugly people because they don't have many friends, but no one feels sorry for a beutiful person surrounded by friends. Honestly, if I had to pick to be super ugly or super handsome, I would pick ugly. That's because, while the ugly person has to worry about getting friends, the really beutiful people have to put up with people's constant remarks and constant stares and they always have to wonder whether or not the people who hang around them actually are their friends and not just people who want to be around the someone who looks good.
I remember one day not too long ago. A girl had put on a dress and was going to a concert, so she walked into the bus to go there. As she walked down the aisle, this guy said, "Hey (person's name), you look good in that dress, but you'd look even better without it." I was like 'Oh my gosh! You pervert!'. See???? They have to put up with comments like that every day!

Ghost Captain's Commenter

FEDERAL WARNING

2006-04-19T10:59:00.000-07:00

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Quack!!!!

2006-04-17T20:47:00.000-07:00

Oh my gosh, I've had a cough for awhile now, so I went to the local clinic to get it checked out. The guy that we were scheduled to see wasn't there, so instead of him, we got the local quack. She was framing questions to push allergies, a diagnosis which is common to all of her victims. When she finally decided that it wasn't allergies, she reccomended a regimen appropriate for a drowning hydrophobic. She said, "the regimen that I reccomend would be a cortizon injection, a provant inhaler, and an albeuteral inhaler until the cough goes away". I literally said, "No, I'm not shoving steroids down the hatch every time I cough". That statement was followed by a very hateful glance from the physician's assistant who asks to be called doctor, and an equally hateful reply: "Well, it's either that or disguisting cough medicine every 4 hours." "Disguisting cough medicine", I replied. My mom thought that, because of an earlier infection, parts of my throat were inflamed and the cough was self-perpetuating, so she thought that the cortizon shot was a good idea. I didn't think it was, but I relented (after being by the doctor assured that what the cortizon puts into my system is produced by my kidneys [therefore not elsewhere {my manliness}]). I don't think that I'm going to even take the cough medicine, though. If they're right that it's just inflamed, then perhaps I can just ignore that ever-present tickling in my trachea by force of will, and not by force of quack.

Ghost Captain's Scribe

SOLO

2006-03-31T14:37:00.000-08:00

I have to cut out half of my solo for regional solo/ensemble. My solo is 10 mins. long played up to tempo, and we're not playin' that fast. The time limit is 5 minutes. WOW, we have to cut out a lot.

hey

2006-03-30T19:41:00.000-08:00

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-Ghost Captain's Scribe

P.S. I'm not mad or n e thing, just had some extra energy

Fender Bender

2006-03-30T16:20:00.000-08:00

Crap. First Crash. I stopped at the stop sign, and I looked right. There was one car. I looked left, there were none, and the one that there was passed while I was lookin' left. So I accelerated, then there's this truck beside me. I slammed on the brakes. Too late. I have a suspicion that the person must have been speeding, because I don't see how they could get there that soon otherwise, but whatever, I was still the one with the stop sign. Darn!

Ghost Captain's Driver Emeritus

Eagle Scout

2006-03-20T18:47:00.000-08:00

Well, I'm an Eagle Scout now. About time. People all were tellin' me how hard they grill you at the Eagle Board of Review, but really it was more conversational then interrogational. Well, I got Eagle, and I made my mom do the time-honored tradition of gettin' us stuff at sonic. I saw Minastauriel there (for those of you who know who that is). I didn't know that she worked there, so that was interesting. I've already said stuff about our new ethernet cable, so thas' about it. Cya. BYE!!!!

----Ghost Captain Scribe----

WOW

2006-03-20T14:29:00.000-08:00

We finally got ehternet, and our connection speed just got upgraded from 44 kbps to 100 mbps. wow.

PSU 2006 Young Artist Clarinet Competition

2006-02-22T12:44:00.000-08:00

I saw, I fought, and I was slaughtered. I can honestly say that that was the worst time that I have ever played that song. I played it in front of the head of the music department, the professor of clarinet and saxaphone, and the professor of music theory and competition. I did horrible, and I felt so unskilled playing next to those that I played next to; and I was unsklled. I didn't plan to win, I knew that the other guy would, and besides, I couldn't play wih the woodwind orchestra (which was a prize), I'm not nearly that good. Really, I just showed up with the intention of doing a less-then-embarassing job, and I failed entirely. Oh well, at least they seemed to know that I've played better. See ya later, Ghost Captain's Public-Relations Editor.

Band Stuffs

2005-12-13T17:30:00.000-08:00

Omg, I have so much to do. I found out last Friday that I can try out for state band, and I got my piece then, I also have another piece to play for a competition at PSU. These aren't easy songs either. For the one that I have to play for state band auditions, we have to play part of a chromatic scale in 64th notes and part of it in 128th notes. I have so much music to practice that it's crazy. I'm gonna drive my parents nuts by playing it. Oh well, as much as I complain about songs I have to play, I wouldn't have it any other way. I guess I just like to complain about that, lol.

Skolar's Bowel

2005-12-05T18:04:00.000-08:00

Scholars bowl was odd to say the least. We had about one good player on our team. That person wasn't me, and that person wasn't the other guy on our 3-person team. We actually ended up winning all but one round, which I had botched up by answering before being recognized. (The other guy on the team was supposed to answer n e who, lol) That bothered me until we got to the finals. From there it realy didn't matter anyway. But yeah, we ended up getting first place. OH YEAH!!!! AND I KICK BUTT!!!! I KNOW THAT CIRCUMFERENCE = PIE * DIAMETER. That got me three questions. I had to multiply by two on two of them, and I had to divide by two on the third. Also, I told Mr. Flechneristimer that a certain poem off of Star Spleck named Odee To Spot would help me. I knew what Taxonomic Nomenclature was. So I answered a question by saying 'taxonomy'. (except with a bit of stuttering and mis-pronounciation.)

District Band/Orchestra/Choir

2005-12-03T19:43:00.000-08:00

First, of all, I'd like to say that going to District Band was very fun. The music was great, except for one piece that I didn't like (It just sounded kind of dumb). We did pretty well, and it sounded really cool, at least from where I was sitting. Choir sounded really cool and I especially liked their last two or three songs. Orchestra.....Well.....They needed some work.....To say the least. They went up there and played great hits such as 'Happy Birthday' and 'Yankee Doodle'. AND THEY DIDN'T EVEN A PLAY COMPLEX VERSION. This was just the skeleton pickings. AND THEY PRACTICED IT FOR 6.5 HOURS!!!! Don't get me wrong, I'm not insulting those players who were in the orchestra. I have seen those people who are in the orchestra play before, and they are really awesome at it. I think that it was the clinician. She spent so much time on such easy songs. And when they got out to play, she counted out loud for them THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE SONG. FOR EVERY STINKING SONG. She counted so loud, actually, that I, who was sitting in the back row (of my section, which equivocated to the second or third row from the back of the room) heard her counting. Now Asymptote, as I have come to name her, was sitting even more closely, and I will write down what she heard. 1...2...3...4.5..1...2...3...4.5.6. That's roughly what she told me that it sounded like. She wasn't even keeping the beat right, NO WONDER IT TOOK THEM SO LONG TO GET IT. THEIR CLINICIAN COULDEN'T COUNT!!!! Ick. But I think that the District Band and the Choir did a great job. The Orchestra also did a good job, given the clinician that they were put under. Perhaps I shouldn't insult her like this, but the Orchestra's material was terrible. They could have played something much better and more Fantasmic! (-:

Names

2005-12-02T17:05:00.000-08:00

Here are a few of the names that I have aquired throughout my life so far. I will update the list as I aquire new ones and as I remember old ones.

Name - Contributor (if I remember)
Shawn - Mom & Dad
Ittle Wittle Shawnykins - Molly
Shawnzie - Lauren
Shawnypoo - Mom
Shipley - Dad and his Ancestors
Shippers - none
Shipples - Erin
Shippels - Kind of naturally came with the above
Shipwreck - none
Ghost Captain - me
Ghost - Some Kid At Teen Quizzing [a church function]
Captain - Kinda came naturally with the above
Squintin' - Ejish
Shipster - none
Cheaply - Carlos, when he was first trying to pronounce my last name
Ships - Jeff

Ick

2005-11-28T07:31:00.000-08:00

The past two days, I have eaten one meal, a chalupa, and some crackers. I have also had very little sleep. This is due to the fact that I have recently completed 19.5 hours of helping people move. One time we had to lower a washer down a relatively large flight of stairs whose steps were only 6 inches long. Also, we had to move a giant refrigerator down a ramp and up really steep steps into a room that was about an inch larger than the refrigerator on all sides. I was pulling the dolly. I am thin, and I can pull myself thinner, but I cannot fit into an inch. I was squashed between the wall and the refridgerator. Anyway, we ended up getting it in there. The whole experience has been over-all fun. It's also going to be more fun when we get paid. They've already paid me for a bit of it, and that was $63.00. So that's cool, too. But there is some really good news here: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to the gecko dude!!!!

How to Rescue a Dead Princess

2005-11-24T15:10:00.000-08:00

AN AWESOME BOOK!!!! It's coming out next january!!!! EVERYONE NEEDS TO BUY IT. Here's an excerpt:

Excerpt:How to Rescue a Dead Princess:Chapter One

Thanksgiving

2005-11-24T14:39:00.000-08:00

Just something that I though was funny. Stephen invited Carla to our thanksgiving meal, and we were starting to eat. Then Stephen reached over and took some turkey with his hands instead of with his fork. Carla exclaimed, "Stephen, quit that! You're not a barbarian" Then I informed Carla that by descent, we actually were barbarians. This was followed by a few moments of akward silence. Finally the silence ended as Carla said, "Well, I just meant that you should act more like a gentleman."

I thought that that was funny, but it might be a 'you had to be there' thing. Oh well.

2005-11-23T20:35:00.000-08:00

Hey

2005-11-23T20:02:00.000-08:00

PSHHHHT....*whispers* Don't tell anyone..........but I plan on skipping school tomorrow. *end whispers*

I REMEMBERED!!!!

2005-11-23T16:46:00.000-08:00

I remembered what I was going to post yesterday!!!! Unfortunately for you, however, I will not disclose what the post was to be about, simply to torture your minds well into eternity. HAHA.

Gibberish

2005-11-22T19:23:00.000-08:00

I went to this site to make my newest post, and I actually (believe it or not) had a relatively good thing to post about. However, on my way to posting it, I decided to listen to music. So I opened the following folders (in this order, too): Shawn's Stuff................and things/Non-Zipped Junk/Music/Music/By Soundtrack/Phantom of the Opera/Single Songs. After all of that I opened the song. Meanwhile, I was on messenger, talking to a lot of people. Well, to make a long story short, I forgot what I was going to post about. But I went to all of the trouble to get to this site. So I'm going to post this anyway.

Why????

2005-11-18T19:46:00.000-08:00

Earlier today I was wondering why it was that everyone from other countries are like really smart and also know like 50 bajillion languages, and yet the U.S., which is filled with idiots like me, is the most technologically advanced nation in the world (To my knowledge [some farmer in Kazakastan could've stumbled across teleportation]).

For the answer to this question, I turned to my Brazillian friend Daniel, and here is what he had to say:

Ghost Captain says:
why is it that everyone from foreign countries are like 5,000% smarter than everyone from america
Eu sou o Daniel. E você? says:
hohohoho
Ghost Captain says:
and yet we're the most technologically advanced nation in the world
Eu sou o Daniel. E você? says:
i dunno...
Ghost Captain says:
????
Ghost Captain says:

Eu sou o Daniel. E você? says:
well, u know... a big part of people who work for microsoft are brazilian...
Ghost Captain says:
oh, so it's that we've got money????
Ghost Captain says:
what about the national debt????
Eu sou o Daniel. E você? says:
now, let me tell ye a truth
Ghost Captain says:
okay
Eu sou o Daniel. E você? says:
u just tok to smart people...
Eu sou o Daniel. E você? says:
the ones u don tok r not so smart...
Eu sou o Daniel. E você? says:
dats true: sum of them can't even turn a pc on!!

Well, having had that question answered, I gave it a rest.

Don't you hate it????

2005-11-17T13:24:00.000-08:00

Don't you hate it when someone posts a digusting comment for no other reason than to feel socially accepted by 'friends' who are only around you because they find it humorous to watch you act like an idiot and think that you're cool for it???? That really annoys me. I think that when a student does that, a teacher should be allowed to hit him in the head with a wooden plank. (With nails protruding from it)

In Mr. W----'s class (Math Teacher)

2005-11-16T14:52:00.000-08:00

In Mr. W----'s (who we'll call Chadaranazooey from now on)class, Chadaranazooey asked me what I was going to major in in college. I told him that I was going to major in undeclared. He told me that I should declare to be with one department, so that perhaps some of the professors would pull some strings for me to get into some classes, and they'd probably be interested in me getting the degree I want, etc. So I thought for a few minutes, and now I know what I'm going to major in. I'm going to major in Mathmatical Nuclear Clarinet. You see, the idea is that you play notes from mathmatical calculations instead of written notes. And you play these notes on a nuclear powered death-metal clarinet. You see, you play the notes as usual, except that there is an electrical mechanism attached to the bell that amplifies and modifies the sound to become death-metal. Also, this electrical device is powered by a nuclear reactor. Therefore, I will have a Mathematical Nuclear Death-Metal Clarinet. Of course, this doesn't fit easily into any of the existing departments at the college which I plan to attend, so they'll probably just make me head of my own department, with everyone in the other departments (Music, Math, and Science) working under me, since all of their departments are just subdivisions of my department. This is a new degree, and I know that soon there will be an absolutely huge demand for Mathematical Nuclear Death-Metal Clarinet players. I will certainly be rich for having come up with this idea. See all of you people NEVER AGAIN!!!! HAHA, I'M GONNA BE RICH!!!! AND WHEN I'M RICH I'LL BUST OUT OF HERE AND GO TO KAZAKASTAN OR SOMETHING!!!! BYE!!!!

Question

2005-11-13T14:06:00.000-08:00

Am I the only one on Earth who thinks that it's wrong to be going out with one person and also be flirting with a lot of other people while you're still going out with the one person????

I mean, I told one person that and now they hate me. That person told a friend that I had said that and now the friend of that person dislikes me. And, finally, I asked another person for advice about how I can get the first friend to talk to me, but the third person says that s/he doesn't see why you shouldn't be able to flirt with other people while going out with one person, either. And now they're all like really mad at me.

(And no I won't tell anyone who the three people are or give any clues whatsoever, so don't even try.)
(Also, one person read my blog and thought that I was implying that I was going out with someone, and I'm not. I probably just phrased this post weirdly.)

Mr . (NAME STARTS WITH E, SCIENCE TEACHER)'s Theory

2005-11-09T16:11:00.000-08:00

During a certain science class by the above stated teacher, I was told by the teacher that some scientists had theorized that when absolute zero is reached, the atom that experiences it will collapse, and so will all of the matter around it, and a black hole might possibly form. So heres my question: Why are some scientists still trying to reach absolute zero without more data to back up the idea that they aren't simply going to kill themselves and everyone else???? Also, does it really make sense that NASA makes absolutely sure that there is virtually no risk in an astronaut dying, while other scientists are trying to do something that risks killing us all???? This doesn't make much sense to me, someone please enlighten me....

Is The World Unfair????

2005-11-07T18:09:00.000-08:00

As I browse through the many blogs on the internet, I see a common theme in most of them. THat theme is the statement that the world is unfair. Well, today I speak in the world's defence. Frankly, I think that if I woke up one bright sunny day to find little creatures (let's call them rhuwhoshumeans)shoving pressurized carbon dioxide under my skin, I don't think that I would be too happy. Also, the fact that the rhuwhoshumeans were digging under my skin to extract nutrients for their use by means of a process that gives off an overpowering odor probably wouldn't help to alleviate my anger. Nor would the rhuwhoshumeans cutting off all of the hair (trees) on my body be a plus. Also, little firecrackers (bombs) going off all over my body because the rhuwhoshumeans are mad at each other might raise my frustration level a bit. Okay, I would be very mad to wake up one day and find this happening to me. So is the world unfair???? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!! It deserves to have the privaledge of kicking a few of our butts every now and again. Let's just hope that it's not my turn next....

Workin' on it

2005-11-06T20:52:00.000-08:00

I think that I'm gonna actually start doin' stuff on my blog, believe it or not. I'm gonna add links to other ppl's blogs and I'm gonna start my own daily blog, though realistically at best it will probably end up being a semi-weekly or a weekly blog, I'm just lazy like that, lol. See ya all later.

Hey

2005-10-06T11:08:00.000-07:00

This is Ghost Captain, commander of this vessel. Feel free to post on this blog. Now I know that some of you are having delusions and think that we are not sailing the high seas, but please discard these childish delusions and come to reality for a moment. Any posts that make reference to me are to call me 'Ghost Captain', though I know that sometimes it is quite tempting to call me 'his majesty'. Nothing school-inappropriate is to be posted on this site, if it is, you will be thrown overboard. If you have any doubts as to whether something is school-inappropriate or not, it is better just not to post it. Once again, we are on the S.S.S. Ghost. If you post as if you were not on this ship, we will think you crazy and throw you overboard. Post away!!!!