Dusty T-Rexes

    We were all in the van heading towards our destination that would turn out to be the best night of my life... so far. As we pulled into our parking spot, I noticed a lot of stripes, black, gray, and red clothing everywhere while there was a whole handful of emo hair.
    "Oh boy," I thought. "Here we go with the crazy fans."
    We got out of the car and went to the front of the line. Everyone was all emo while I was bright with my orange and teal clothing. I counted down the seconds until the doors would open, until I'd be closer to him. Way closer.
    "Open the doors," I heard a guy say.
    Thump, thump, thump. My heart was pounding in my chest, adrenaline running through my body. All I wanted to do was get in there and rock out.
    Finally, the doors were open. We were inside. Our ticket stubs were given back to us. I start running towards the front. It was glowing, the horrible barricade keeping me away from him, that is.
    "Stop running!!!" was all I heard.

    "Crap!" I thought. "Where is she?"
    I turn around and see her walking SO slow.
    "Come on Colleen!!!" I yell. I grabbed her by the arm and drug her up to the front.
    People were filing in now. It became clearer that I was really up front, against the barricade. It was clear that I was going to have to push against that barricade with over 1,000 pounds on top of me. But it would all be worth it. I was able to see My Chem closer than ever before.
    The first band, Drive By, came on. All I could think of was how close I was. I was so amazed that I didn't even realize that the second band, Taking Back Sunday, came on. The whole place erupted as soon as they threw their white masks into the audience. Whoever caught those masks must have felt pretty special. What they don't know is that I was way more special than them. Reason being is that the singer, Adam Lazzara, noticed me. When I say he noticed me, I mean he NOTICED me.
    Throughout the show, all I noticed was how Adam kept looking in my general direction. At one point that I realized he was looking directly at me. It wasn't until later that I fully noticed that he was mentally having sex with me on stage and fully enjoying it.
    Finally, Taking Back Sunday gets off the stage. This little girl next to me is super excited. I warn her that she isn't going to last throughout the show because she's a wimpy little girl and the crowd is super tough when it comes to Gerard. She didn't listen to me. As soon as the sound check for My Chem was finished, she was being tortured. I only saw her arm hanging onto the fence. Finally, right before My Chem came on, she was gone. Poor girl.
    There was a giant force that came from the back and the side, ending directly in the middle. It felt like the shoving didn't even touch me. The adrenaline over came my body. I morphed into a completely different person, the true me. I have any worries. I didn't care that my boobs were being crushed or that I couldn't feel my knees. I didn't care that my head was bent back in an awkward position, that my hair was being pulled out, or that I was super hot. All of that didn't matter. He was there in front of me.
    Halfway through the show I decided to stop looking at Gerard as much because I felt I was neglecting the other guys. I look at Ray and his long, poofy hair is bouncing everywhere. I look at Bob and..."Omigosh!!! He has longer hair!!" was all I could think. Frank was rocking out, as usual. Finally, I see Mikey.  He got super attractive. He had  a massive amount of eyeliner on and he was wearing a shirt that said "Mikey f***ing Way" on it. I decide to watch him for a little bit. I switch back over to Gerard for about five minutes. When I decide to look at Mikey again, I notice he was looking at me.
    "Maybe he's not really looking at me. There are others around me," I thought. That's when I decided to smile at him. I am 99% sure that he gave me a smurk in return and then looked away.
    You would think that the only highlight of the night was how amazingly awesome the show was. Nope. I cannot even remember all of the times the security guard had to stand up on the platform in front of me to grab the body surfers. That meant I got his man stuff in my face a lot!!!
    After the show, I couldn't feel my legs. My knees were stiff, my hair was a hot mess, and I was uberly thirsty. That all didn't matter to me. That was the best day of my life. It was the best day in the time period of my birth until May 6th at 11:30 p.m.

The school science fair is coming up on Thursday, April 17th. Last year I chose not to enter so technically, this is my first time ever doing some crazy science experiment for class to earn a 100 in labs. Cool, right? Well, guess what my science fair project theme is. My friends and I are doing a theme based on why the sky is blue. That's a nifty topic. How many students do you know that entered "Why is the Sky Blue?" into the science fair? I find it to be pretty original.

Anyways, so far our project has turned out really well. We have this big thing of cardboard, like the presentation posters, and we wrote ALL over it. In the middle section, it is split in half. On the left side it is about why the sky is blue and then on the right side it has a theme that ties into why the sky is blue. It is "Why is the Sunset Red?" Pretty cool. We have all of these cool little diagrams and stuff in the middle.

On the left flap we have one crazy experiment where you need a big bowl of water, a mirror, and a piece of paper. The sun rays are supposed to reflect off of the mirror and project itself onto the paper. Well, it did and it was amazing. There were all of these really cool colors in this certain pattern. Now, on the right flap it's just a boring lab where you have this colored wheel and you spin it really fast until you see white. That's not as cool.

Well, I thought I would share my exciting science fair news with you since I have not been on vox in ages!!!! It's quite sad. I miss people or as I would say to you in real life....pedoples. Yep. It's pronounced pee-dope-ouls. I like it. Well, love ya! Bye!

So...I made it into one of the biggest things. I made it into National Junior Honor Society. That means that I have enough community service, academic achievements, after-school activities, additional responsibilities, and good leadership to be considered one the best examples in our school to follow. Yep. I'm an influence to other people in my school. How cool is that? Then! that increases my chances of getting into the National Honor Society. That's an even bigger deal because that looks really good on college applications and I want to go to Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, or Duke. Pretty good schools, huh? I'm aiming for them. And I'm gonna get in. Just because I'm awesome like that.

I thought you should know my awesome news. And now you can be astonished at my awesome achievements. Just read about how smart I am. READ!!!! And be proud. Even if you don't know me.

Show us what you dreamed of last night.

What was the last concert you attended?

Well, you see, me and Aunti went to go see the Dresden Dolls. Yay! That was a fun show. There was a Grim Stripper and I was terrified of him at first. I backed away. Far away, too. Ask Aunti. He came out on stilts and I was quite terrified. Then, he started swinging his thing with the pointy blade on the end. Then he threatened to stab someone in the crowd behind me. Maybe it was me. I don't know. All I know is that I got scared and ducked. Yep. But then a whistle thingy blew and I was relieved. I said," Woo! I'm not gonna get hit in the head with a plastic thing. Go me!" That was a fun show.

Yeah. So, after the Grim Stripper, the Luminescent Orchestra (I wanted to stab my ear drums out) played. Before them was the insanely crazy Meow Meow. She scared me but Aunti loved her. There was a cute little gay guy up there that had to unhook or hook her bra and he had no idea what to do. That was cute. But! When it came to the dress he said he knew everything. How cute? I loved him.

So...the Dresden Dolls come out. It's fun. We, meaning Aunti, met Brian and Amanda after. They were nice. Amanda said not to do pictures but Brian ran away and did pictures with Aunti. He loved her. That was nice and thoughtful of him. He like, smashed her into him. That was cute. And fun. But mostly cute. Yep. That was our night. Fun. It really was.

What was the #1 song on the radio when you were born?

I think it was Bruce Springsteen and his little song was Streets of Philadelphia. I don't know because Wiki can be mentally challenged sometimes. Also, on April 8th, 1994, just 2 days after my birth, Kurt Cobain's body was found. Oh yeah. Just a little less than a month before my birthday, Nine Inch Nails released The Downward Spiral which, and I quote, "a groundbreaking album that stands as one of the most acclaimed from that era." Now, isn't that nifty? 

It all started when Aunt Christine told me about people going around, taking a survey about whether people fold or scrunch their toilet paper. The purpose: to see whether they are nerdy and they like things organized and well put together or if they were jocky and didn't care at all about how their surrounding was.

Today I realized that I both scrunch and fold my toilet paper. I noticed that sometimes when I pee and (all of the time) when I'm in a hurry, I scrunch my toilet paper. The strange thing is: whenever I poop, I always, ALWAYS fold my toilet paper, no matter what. Isn't that strange? I told that to Aunt Christine and she asked me," Why?" My awesome response:

Show us a photograph that best represents you.

If you could create your own National Holiday, what would it be and when? 
Submitted by John M.

My national holiday would be for all of the nerdy people that get shoved around by horrible popular people. My holiday would be the one day the nerds could rebel and the popular kids couldn't do anything about it. They can't even get their revenge the next day because they'll get locked up or killed. My poor little nerds are getting shoved into lockers, picked on, and they get wedgies. They need to stand up for themselves. The holiday will be on April 10th. It'll be spring break so the nerds can go out and slash the jocks' tires and get away with it. They can't get sued and they don't have to pay for the damage.

Power to the nerds! I love them.

What are five words you really like? 
Submitted by purplesque.

1: Awesometasticness
2: Pooperfish
3: Shunnnnnnah!
4: Liopleurodon
5: Fungi

Cool words, right? I love them.