| Stupid Me..... |
| 12:48:47AM Sunday, September 30, 2001 I just got back from Kristen's Sweet 16 a little while ago. It was actually fun, despite me being anti-social... urgh, I hate when I do that. I met a few kids who also knew no one there, so we kind of stuck together... but then I had the opportunity to go and meet so many other people... there were a lot of people there, yet I was anti social and didn't and just sat with those kids at the table looking like an idiot. Urgh...Why do I do that? It pisses me off, since I'm such an incredibly social and not shy and quiet person usually. Stupid me... I'm going into the city tomorrow after Sunday School to work on a movie with a Columbia student. That should be fun, it'll be my second movie working behind the camera... always good experience. Then I was in that one movie in front of the camera, acting, back in 5th grade. I don't really have anything else to say, just wanted to vent about me being antisocial and an idiot..... urgh... I guess that's it... |
Posted by DannyLange |
| NEWS FLASH |
| 6:57:17PM Friday, September 28, 2001 **NEWS FLASH** I made it through the day without eating. That's right, I fasted all day! **END NEWS FLASH** In other news, it's finally Friday. And it's been a long, long week that feels like it should have ended much earlier than today. I was supposed to have two tests today; Chemistry and Spanish, but ended up only having Chemistry because too many people had early dismissals for sports during Spanish, so she pushed it off to Monday... woo. Now, instead I have two tests on Monday; Spanish and Math. So hopefully that'll go well. Spent 4 hours in Temple on Thursday... first the little kids service, then went to the main service. It actually wasn't that bad. And I'm going to be working on another movie. Woo... this Sunday in the city. It's a Columbia University student's movie... should be interesting. Still looking for new ideas for the site.... I guess that's it..... |
Posted by DannyLange |
| New and Exciting |
| 9:28:00PM Monday, September 24, 2001 I need something new and exciting on this page... I'm getting really bored with it. Any ideas? (Please have ideas!) Send them to danny@locodanny.com. Any ideas are welcome.... I just need something new on here... this just isn't doing it for me anymore. Something fun is good. Something cool is good. ANYTHING NEW is good. So just send me your ideas - danny@locodanny.com I guess that's it... |
Posted by DannyLange |
| 4 Days! |
| 5:44:38PM Monday, September 24, 2001 4 days without writing? Wow.. that's unusual for me. I'm really bored.... there's nothing to do. This weekend I saw Philippa on Saturday, and went to FestiFall with Lauren, Kelly, Anna, etc. on Sunday. Both were fun... I saw Hardball... really good movie. Now it's Monday... school again, urgh. It's actually not that bad. Thursday we have the day off for Yom Kippur :-) Wow, it's the first time in a while that I have nothing to say... I guess that's it.... |
Posted by DannyLange |
| 10:46 Bit Of Convo... |
| 10:47:48PM Thursday, September 20, 2001 Locodanny: apparently I'm hoT? OldBlue81785: unfourtunatley............ Locodanny: that comes as a surprise to me! Locodanny: (unfortunately I'm hot?) |
Posted by DannyLange |
| Rain.... urgh! |
| 4:47:01PM Thursday, September 20, 2001 Rain.... urgh. I hate rain..... at home that is. It's great up at camp, but at home rain just plain old sucks. It means walking home wet, tired, dreary... rain means bad days. And today WAS pretty bad. No details needed.... We had a fire drill.... in the rain.... wow, that was a smart idea. I got all wet.... yay! I'm so glad they did that. (Obvious sarcasm.... I'm laying it down pretty thick.) Then during CHS News, we went to interview I'm taking the Practice PSAT tonight from 6 to 9... I took it last year and did well, I'm sure I'll do well again.... it can only help, I guess.... Oh yeah, I'm obsessed with the song "Would You Light My Candle" from Rent.... well, I'm really obsessed with all of Rent... it's kind of scary... just a sidenote. I guess that's it.... |
Posted by DannyLange |
| Shana Tovah (Is that spelled right?) |
| 10:38:40PM Tuesday, September 18, 2001 Happy New Year! I went to Temple today, it actually went pretty well. I helped out at the 2nd and 3rd grade service. It was a good way to "go to Temple" and not sit in the sanctuary kind of dozing off doing the main service. Rather, we did little crafts projects, food stuff, etc. and a mini service. I had a lot of fun :-) No school tommorrow either.... it'll be my "Sleep In Day"... should be nice. School again on Thursday... urgh. I guess that's it.... |
Posted by DannyLange |
| Back To Normal.... Hopefully |
| 10:45:02PM Sunday, September 16, 2001 I went to a town wide silent walk/mini service thing today. It was really moving, it was nice. I met Alex there, Chris was supposed to meet us there, but there were too many people, I couldn't find him. On an unrelated note, I'm back in school tomorrow. I'm hoping that things will be back to normal, and there won't be more disruptions. Then, after tomorrow, it's Rosh Hashana (LShanah Tovah, by the way) (That's Happy New Year in Hebrew)... two days off, so it's a short week.. only 3 days. I guess that's it.... |
Posted by DannyLange |
| #3 and counting... |
| 2:55:40PM Friday, September 14, 2001 I've gone through three bomb threats during my career at Columbia High School thus far. Today, the third one, was by far the worst. It all started around 10:45 this morning. As I was walking into my 5th period class, Pre Calc, ready to take a quiz, I heard a guy walking by me say "Somethings about to go down." I blew it off, thinking it was nothing, and walked into class. As I sat down and took out my graphic calculator to take the quiz, Dr. Robbins, our principal, got on the PA system and yelled "GET OUT OF THE BUILDING!" For a second, we were all confused. "What's going on?" I thought to myself. She got back on immediately after and said "We need everyone to evacuate the building immediately!" That was enough for us. We all got up, grabbed our stuff, and ran out of the school. We ran, through groups of other people, down three flights of stairs and out. Once outside, we realized it was raining... and not just drizzling... but RAINING. "Great," I thought. We walk down the street a little to stay away from the school. About half an hour later, while still standing in the rain, we are told that we're going to begin walking to Maplewood Middle School, as described in the Emergency Action Plan of Columbia High School. After walking for a few minutes, we came upon three NJ Transit busses. Students immediately rushed the busses, pushing to get on and out of the rain. A few of us decided that there wasn't a chance in hell that we were getting on the busses, so we decided to walk the rest of the way. A little while later, wetter than we would have liked to have been, we got to Maplewood Middle School.We entered into the gymnasium, and boy was there a scene in front of us. We walked through a little path of teachers, each one telling us to watch our steps, it's slippery, and to go sit in the bleachers. 3 of the 4 bleachers were filled to capacity, so we entered the 4th, which was almost full. Soon after we sat down, they started seating people on the floor. The floor of the gym was soon about half covered with people sitting down. One of our Vice Principals came on the microphone and told us that there was a bomb threat at Columbia, something that many of us already figured out. He told us to stayed seated, and be attentive anytime anyone came up to speak. People, being the idiots that they are, didn't listen, of course. We sat... and we sat. About 3 hours after arriving at Maplewood Middle School, our bleacher was ready to leave. About an hour earlier they had begun to buss people back to Columbia. We were, of course, one of the last sections to go. Right around 2:00, about 3 hours and 15 minutes after evacuating from the school, the bus we were on pulled away from Maplewood Middle School to go back to Columbia. We arrived soon after, and entered the gym. Dr. Robbins was there, with a megaphone, and all the bleachers and part of the floor were filled. We sat on the floor and listened to her. She told us that the state police had recieved a phone call with a bomb threat against Columbia High School. The State Police then phoned Columbia and we evacuated, etc. She then told us that at 12:00, while we were finding our way to Maplewood Middle School in the rain, President Bush had held a country wide service. She then asked us to bow our heads in respect and she spoke for a minute about the current situation in our country. She also told us that the bomb threat was a hoax. From there, she said we had a choice. We could either stay and eat lunch in the school cafeteria, or go home. We hadn't had the chance to eat any lunch, as right at the beginning of the first lunch period of three, we evacuated. Now that I've got the story out of the way, I'd like to share my feelings. Did the school do the right thing? Absolutely. Did they do the best they could to keep things organized? Absolutely. Should the Emergency Action Plan be re-looked at? Definitely. What I saw while walking to Maplewood Middle School was horrible. Kids were running across crowded, busy streets, walking all along people's lawns, and generally being incredibly unsafe. I don't blame anyone for this (except maybe the kids?), as the school was not prepared for such an event to occur and did their best to remedy the situation. I understand that the school is responsible for us until 2:46, the end of the school day, so I'm not saying that they should have let us go home at any point. I DO, on the other hand, think that they should have done something other than just left us sitting in the Maplewood Middle School gym. We sat there for over an hour (maybe over two?), all of us wet from the rain, and all of us worried for the situation. I don't know what else they could have done, but maybe this needs to be explored in case this situation ever happens again. Hopefully, it won't ever happen again. Thank god the bomb threat was a hoax. I don't think I could have handled a bomb after all that's happened this week. I'm so saddened by the World Trade Center travesty, and this just adds to it. I don't understand SICKOS who can actually call and make a threat, praying on everyone who is jittery and worried after Tuesday's events. How could someone be so cruel, so evil? I just don't understand, and I don't think I ever will... I'm going to see Rent in NYC tonight... I guess that's it.... |
Posted by DannyLange |
| My current thoughts on the situation |
| 6:12:03PM Thursday, September 13, 2001 Since the attack, I've felt very patriotic, which is kind of out of the ordinary for me. Not that I don't like the country, but I've had this feeling of national pride lately. In a quite "out of character" thing of me to do, I emailed Lee Greenwood, the man who wrote the song "Proud To Be An American", which has been playing on repeat on my Winamp playlist since yesterday afternoon. The email reads as follows: Lee, I never really payed attention to your song, "Proud To Be An American". I mean sure, we heard it in school occasionally, played on the radio, but never anything as significant as what I saw on TV Tuesday and into yesterday and today. I hadn't even thought of your song until yesterday morning when I woke up to it on WPLJ, a New York Radio Station. Since then, I've downloaded it onto my computer and I have it playing in repeat nonstop whenever I'm on my computer. Since Tuesday's events, I've had a sudden burst of nationalism and patriotism and I can't even begin to express what your song means. It encompasses all of my feelings regarding America, and it never hit home quite like it did when I first heard it yesterday morning. I wanted to thank you for writing such a beautiful song and wish you the best in the future. I hope all of your family and friends are okay after the horrible attack on America on Tuesday. Thanks, Danny Lange I don't know, I've just suddenly felt proud to be American, like the song suggests. I've been in contact with my friends from England who also said that they are feeling very patriotic towards America. I think it's just the atmosphere in and around New York (I've heard that out of this area people are in the "anger" mode). Everyone in New York and surrounding areas is praying that more people will be found alive, that their loved ones will be found, that there will be some kind of closure to this terrifying event. So far, none of these have come, to any large extent at least. Bush is apparently working on retaliation, which, I hope, is done soon, and with incredible force, wiping out terrorism throughout the world. Regardless, the Metropolitan Area is in a state of shock, almost, just trying to come to terms with the terrible events of the past few days, frantically calling friends and family, making sure they're okay. Today alone, I recieved two phone calls from friend's of my father, calling to make sure he was okay. He's actually driving my brother and my brother's friend out to Chicago to college now... neither of them felt comfortable flying. And how could you? After such a horrid thing was done with these tools of incredible transportation, how could ANYONE want to fly? I was surprised when they had reports on the news from the airports around here (Newark... just a few miles away from me, LaGuardia, and JFK) and when I saw hundreds of people waiting to get on flights. Even some of my friends from England, who I mentioned earlier, are scrambling to get out of the country, out of fear. I'd have more fear on an airplane at this point. I feel incredibly safe where I am right now. When asked if I feel that my safety has been compromised by the attacks, I responded by saying that I don't feel that my PERSONAL safety has been compromised, but rather, I was afraid that the safety of others around me (notably in New York) and general National safety is in danger. I'm going to stop ranting, this post is long enough for now, maybe I'll post again more with my thoughts later. I guess that's it.... A friend of mine, Andrew Zamer, writes.... As an American and a human, I feel I have experienced a great loss. The city of New York, the Pentagon, and other sites have suffered along with thousands of families. Although I am of no relation to a victim at this point, I am deeply distraught by the thought that we live in a world that gives life to beings that would commit, harbor, or in any way support an act of terrorism. The destruction of a United States government building is in itself is cause for extreme unrest, but the homicides of completely innocent lives is unbearable. Through all this chaos, what has disgusted me the most is the image of Jerusalem. Shortly after the attacks were made, Palestinians filled the streets of the Holy city. These beings brought dancing and cheering and laughing at the loss of untold amounts of life. I am scarred for life, as all peace-loving humans should be, with images of others relentlessly celebrating at the desruction of families, world-famous and important buildings, and businesses. I believe these events are attacks on every American (as well as democracy and capitalism), not only those directly involved. We have all suffered from the actions of a few who wish to destroy stability and freedom. |
Posted by DannyLange |
| Another ....... subject |
| 5:58:32PM Wednesday, September 12, 2001 It doesn't even seem like I went to school today. I don't know, not THTA much has happened, comparitively, since yesterday. Since I've been home: 1) The last 7 or so stories of WTC South collapsed 2) "These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve." They just announced that 1 Liberty Plaza collapsed...that's the US Steel Building. 3) World Trade Center #5, I believe, is expected to collapse soon. I don't even know how I feel anymore.... Catch the goddamn people responsible! |
Posted by DannyLange |
| Update on everything... |
| 10:22:16PM Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Just an update... John, my British friend who was missing, has been contacted and found. He apparently was right near the World Trade Center all day, saw both plane crashes, both towers fall.... must have been VERY scary. My dad's home... he's safe. My other British friends are fine, were asleep when the first plane hit. One of them is trying to leave the country ASAP... he's scared. He probably won't get anywhere too quickly... School's still on for tomorrow (as of now). I want it to be cancelled, and not just because of the typical "I don't want to go to school" thing. I want it to be cancelled because of the concentration factor. Today, for example, I, and many others, were not able to concentrate on anything other than what was going on, and that was all rumors since the school shut off the cable on the TV's. I think tomorrow, and possibly the next day and days after that, depending on what happens within our country and the world, will be just as bad if not worse. School should definitely be cancelled... I guess that's it...... I hope they catch the mother fu**er who did this.... |
Posted by DannyLange |
| ........ |
| 3:23:16PM Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Jesus Christ.... what a tragedy. So far, everyone I know is fine. My foreign friends who have been staying in the city emailed me and told me that they're fine, but one of them is still missing.... I hope he's okay. My dad's fine, and everyone else I know (I think) is fine. So that's good. I hope they catch the person (or people) who is responsible for this.... he deserves to die.... |
Posted by DannyLange |
| Eeek... hopefully not for long |
| 5:47:29PM Monday, September 10, 2001 Spanish... eek. That's the one class I'm not completely comfortable with yet. It's the one class that I'm still quiet in, not quite ready to raise my hand and answer any questions yet. It's the one class that I can't wait to end, not because I don't like the class, but because I'm a little worried about it. I'm not quite sure how I'm going to do in the class. I mean, I hope I do fine, and I'm sure in the end I will, but I'm just a little worried. It's the first time that I've taken Spanish that the teacher has actually stuck to her word of talking all (primarily) Spanish... so far at least. And since it's an AP class I'm sure it'll continue that way. I don't know, hopefully I'll get more comfortable with it soon. Anyway, another day, another night. Nothing interesting goes on in my life. Went out to lunch with Alex, Chris, and Matt again... seems like that'll become the usual from now on. Had a little "stare down" with someone, no words were spoken between us, but it was like a mental telepathy kinda thing... hard to explain, and you probably don't care anyway... I guess that's it...... |
Posted by DannyLange |
| Not Much New On The Locodanny Front.... |
| 9:22:43PM Sunday, September 9, 2001 Nothing too new going on. Just hung out all weekend, slept, watched TV, didn't do anything too special. My first weekend of school.... again, nothing special. I guess I don't have much to say, just wanted to put SOMETHING up. I took the new Flash Intro down.... reasons I don't need to explain right here. Something should be taking it's place when I get the chance to make something. I guess that's it...... Oh yeah: Apparently the site now looks "very country club"... whatever that means. |
Posted by DannyLange |
| New Opener |
| 3:36:32PM Friday, September 7, 2001 Hola a la casa de Chris. Sorry, just practicing my Spanish.... don't want to fail the Spanish AP Class. Just another day at school........ New Opener on Locodanny.com... only me, Chris, and Alex probably understand it though, oh well, it's funny to us. Sucker... I guess that's it........ |
Posted by DannyLange |
| School.........not so urgh |
| 5:02:24PM Thursday, September 6, 2001 The first day of school actually went surprisingly well. It started off with a 2 hour, that's right - 2 hour homeroom, in which half an hour was spent in an all class meeting, the rest spent just sitting in homeroom. Pretty boring, but I got through it. Then it was on to Period 2... Filmmaking... nothing too big here, just watched a few previously made films. Period 3... US AP.... Mr. Cotter's.... well, Mr Cotter's energetic? I definitely like him... he's ecstatic, eccentric, I don't know how to describe him. It'll be a fun class. Period 5 (skipped 4 until later.... weird schedule)... Pre Calc ... Small class, should be good. Ms. Ayres seems like a good teacher, from what I can tell. Hopefully I'll do well in the class. Period 6... lunch..... out to lunch at the pizzeria with Alex and Matt... almost went to Ritz Deli, but someone else went there who I didn't really feel like seeing, so we didn't. We really need to find something to do during lunch until December (I get my license... woo)because we just kind of sat in the cafeteria after we got back for like half an hour... not fun. Period 7... Journalism... bigger class than I expected. Really full class, probably like 20 people, maybe more? Also should be a fun class. I enjoy that kinda stuff (as can be seen by my 8th grade school newspaper editorship). So yeah, I'm looking forward to this class. Period 4...(I told you...weird schedule)... Adv. Honors Chem - Should be a decent class. I never liked sciences too much anyway, but I'll get through it. Period 9... CHS News... Surprisingly no problem with Mr. Mullin. Expected some sort of problem because my schedule said CHS News II and I'm only in CHS News I, but it worked out fine, not a problem. After school I stopped by Mrs. Petralia's room to let her know I still wanted to be involved with Student Council and still do Club Council. She was happy that I still wanted to do it (with Carly and Meredith of course). I'm glad that what happened last year didn't effect me this year... it was stupid of me to do and I'm just happy that's all over with. (If you don't know what happened, sucks...) I guess that's it...... On an off note... I ended my first writing assignment in Journalism with, "I hope this year proves to be quite a Journalistic experiance!" Corny, no? |
Posted by DannyLange |
| Activities Fair, etc... |
| 1:52:14PM Wednesday, September 5, 2001 Wow... school starts tomorrow. That came quickly. It seems like just yesterday that school ended and I headed up to camp. I'm looking forward to school, but I'm also not. I don't know, I have conflicting feelings. I'd much rather be back at camp, doing what I did all summer, but if it's between going to school and just sitting at home, like I've been doing since camp, I'd rather go to school. Sitting at home is really boring to me. I guess that's why I always went away for the summer - I don't think I could handle just sitting at home all summer. Anyway, I'm almost (almost!) done with all of my summer work. Yeah, it's all due tomorrow... it'll get done. I have a little bit of Chemistry left and a little bit of Spanish left. That's it! No more History!!! I finished it... wooo! Freshmen had orientation today and, included in that, is the Activities Fair. I went for Quiz Bowl, it ended up just being a pointless thing that we sat at for two hours... nothing special. It was fun though, saw lots of people that I haven't seen since before the summer. I was trying to redesign the site a little bit because I didn't like this news section being underneath all of the pictures. I came up with the idea of archiving all news except the most recent. That way, I can have news AND pictures relatively close to the top. So if you want to see any past news, click on "News Archives". I tried to 'jazz up' the News Archives page a little bit, but that just screwed things up and it got overwritten right away anyway, so you'll have to deal with staring at a boring index of past news page. Sorry I guess that's it. |
Posted by DannyLange |