June 2010
3 posts
Speak No Evil: Day Three, and First Words
By this point I was dying to talk. I had already had a few inadvertent slip ups, and I was tempted to just give up and say that I was “close enough” to my goal. But that wouldn’t be right, so I decided to stick with it throughout the last day. After my brief bout of insanity yesterday, I was much more calm. I never did really figure out how to communicate through hand signs, but...
Speak No Evil: Day Two
I go through the same morning routine as the day before. Get up, get dressed, get on the bus. As I get to school and head towards my locker, I find that it’s a little easier to get around my inability to talk. When people who don’t know about my project come up to me and try to start a quick little passing-by conversation, I manage to get through with a series of shrugs and nods, or...
Speak No Evil: Day One
For my Into the Wild Project, I decided that I was going to be mute for three days. I didn’t really know what to expect going in, but before I started I thought that trying to communicate without talking would actually be sort of fun.
Nope, I was wrong. Completely, ten thousand percent wrong.
I didn’t really notice anything at first. My morning was basically the same: wake up, get...
April 2010
6 posts
The Holey Backpack(s)
I’m not sure why, but I seem to have a bit of a problem with backpacks. Something always seems to go wrong with them. This trend started back in seventh grade. It was the last day of school, and I had to jam all the extra crap from my locker into my backpack to take home. I thought everything was going to be okay, since my backpack zipped shut and everything.
I was wrong.
As I got off the...
zzzzzzzzzz
Anybody who has had a class with me from 6th grade onwards has most likely seen me sleeping on more than one occasion. If it was a math or science class, it was probably much much more than once occasion. I never really got over the switch between school start times after elementary school. Park Avenue had the perfect system; if I remember correctly school didn’t start until around nine....
Chronic Laziness
They say the first step is acceptance, so here it goes. I suffer from a case of chronic laziness, or CL for short. I have the classic symptoms: I am not motivated to do things that don’t sound like fun, I avoid strenuous activity at all costs (besides sports, which is an anomaly when talking about this disease), and I spend large amounts of time sitting on various couch-like objects in a...
Both Sides
Fun fact about me: I am half white and half black. My dad is white and married my mom, who is black. Thus, David Fox was born!
Over the years people have asked me about the challenges, struggles, confusion, etc. that come with being both black and white. And whenever I’m asked this question I laugh a little bit. I laugh because honestly, I have never really noticed any sort of problem of...
Giant
I am usually the tallest person in the room, unless I’m at a basketball game. I’ve been tall for as long as I can remember, and I’m sure my coach is hoping that I have a few more inches left in me. Personally I think that I’m at my maximum height, which is about 6 ft. 4 (and a half) on a good day. Although I’m not exactly sure about that, since if I don’t see a...
Lunches
Lunch is the most important meal of the school day. A tasty meal makes the day seem so much easier to deal with compared to an empty stomach. Having said this, I probably don’t remember to either bring or make a lunch at least 3 days a week. It’s not that I don’t care about eating (in fact, eating is one of my favorite activities), I’m just extremely forgetful. But when I...
March 2010
4 posts
BS
No, I’m not talking about a Bachelor’s Science degree. I’m talking about bullshit. I spend a large portion of my day engaging in it. I have the unfortunate combo of being smart and lazy. This results with me wanting to do as little work as possible in school, and also believing that the work given is either unnecessary or unworthy of my attention. But obviously, I can’t do...
Empty Wallet
Right now, and for what feels like the majority of my life, I am faced with a cash shortage. As long as I do my chores, I get allowance every week. Yet somehow, whenever I open up my wallet it’s woefully devoid of any friendly dead presidents. There seems to be a step missing in the chain of events leading up to this sad state of affairs, because I remember getting my allowance and putting...
A Thousand Books
If I was asked what my favorite hobby was, I would most definitely say reading. I love reading almost any book (except for romance and mystery books). Ever since I read Harry Potter in first grade, I have always had a great love of reading. Anybody who knows me has probably seen me reading a book one day, and will come back the next day to find that I have already finished that book and have...
Dreadlocks
Besides my height, my dreadlocks are probably my most memorable physical attribute. There are only a couple of kids in DHS with dreadlocks, so I guess that makes us a bit of an enigma. I am always asked various questions about my hair; if I can wash it, if it comes out, if i plan on cutting it, etc. It seems that the longer my hair gets the more attention it brings me. And, being a pretty outgoing...