[Author’s Note: This entry has three parts. This is Part 2.]
Goodbye …
How sad. The majority of the people I’ve come to know within the past three (and for some, six or more) years will be people that I will never see again. Generally: To those of you that I love, goodbye and God Bless. You will always have your own special places in my heart. For the rest of you, well …
I can’t be general here. There have been way way too many over the years. So here’s my attempt to break things down, so to speak. (BTW, this entry is immune to the [name omitted] rule. Sue away.)
Without further adieu, the List, in no particular order …
Thank You to my Mentors and Teachers …
Mr. Stanko: for being utterly, completely insane
Mrs. Lueck: for believing in me
Mr. Johnson: for your passion, your trust, and for stapling your hand
Mrs. DeVries & Annie: for giving me the gift of song
Mr. DeVries: for busting my ass … over, and over, and over, and over again
Mr. Bamford & Mrs. Owen: for caring about me
Mr. Lindner: for being, um … you
[edit: deletion — i’m changing my mind about this one (10.05.01)]
Mrs. Willard: for teaching me Shakespeare
Mr. Balchak: for your guidance and for giving me power!
Mrs. Olander: for appreciating me, even when no one else did
Mrs. Mathews: for your counseling
Mr. Fackleman: for treating me as an equal, and for calling me “brotherman”!
Mr. Richmond: for going off on your rants
Mr. Romero: Holy Macaroni!
Mrs. Twogood: for talking to me
Daveen Dominguez: for being a real person
Mrs. Adams: for making English fun
Mr. Knierim: for making History stick, and for giving me SPAM
Frau Walsh: for teaching me different meanings of the word “sex”
Mrs. Downing and Everyone in the Media Center
Mrs. Jones: for not giving up on me
Mr. Cropp: for saying “Good Evening” in the middle of the day
Mrs. Kilness: for giving me an award!
Mr. Pfeifer: for teaching me Math and the Beastie Boys anthology at the same time
Mr. Shaw: for making it okay to ditch P.E.
Mrs. Boulter: for making me love CU
Mr. Walz: for being the first person to call me “Mr. Lanphear”
Mr. Clark: for being a person
Mrs. Takahashi: for being there
Dr. Radcliff: for never passing judgment
Thank You to My Friends (and Enemies) …
Erik Curiel: for being a friend, whether you knew it or not; and a jackass, which you can do better than you know
Dan Richling: you are such an awesome friend … i’m truly blessed (yipes! just yipes!)
Chas Robles: for always standing by me and letting me know that I wasn’t alone
Mike Briggs: for being my conscience
Jake Theisen: for looking out for everyone but yourself
Buffy Kempf: for listening when no one else would
Matt Bohn: for doing bad Monty Python, and for forgiving me
Amanda Nebelsick: for being a great confidant and pillow
Karla Fremaint: for teaching me that things are not always as they seem; for always being a friend
Corrie Kramer: for always making me laugh
Chres Schmidt: for being a jackass
Kiwi Ebersole: for having a loving soul
Cali Peterson: for being a great conversationalist
Steve Armstrong: for being a compassionate, caring person
Cathy Wright: for teaching me that I, too could be loved
Ryan Keller, Andrew Davis, and Matt Hahn: for being immature
Dan Brake: for allowing me to help you, and for helping me
Jason Michaud: for being a good guy to hang with
Kevin Couch: for being a “squash”
Mary Trautwein: well, you know what you did
Nick Ishimaru: for calming me down
Rachael D.: for being a great friend, at least for a while
Kasey Bloomfield: for being the actor that I knew you could be
John Puma: for your kick-ass birthday party
Jarod Snell: for showing me how not to be
Jessi Reed: for letting me *steal* that first kiss
Josh Higby: for being my punching bag
Sharon Gee: for your kindness
Chris Norris: for exposing me to reality
Ben Steichen: for being as perverted as I am
Katie Steichen: for being the hottest 9th grader I’ve ever known
Stephanie Demaree: for teaching me the difference between love and infatuation
Dana Hutcheson: for the days at your place after school
Jamie Dufloth: for showing me that I could bounce back
Aaron Godbey: for being my parther-in-crime
Nicole Hunt: for being a free spirit
Andrea Christensen: for helping me set a record
Amy Torres: for being sweet, and for teaching me about consequences
Ashley Webber: someday you’ll relax and forgive
Matt Callahan: we makes a good team …
Jesse Perkins, Jim Peterson, Eric Harvey, and Josh Weiser: for cool experiments
Michelle Gebhardt: for teaching me the value of honesty
Leslie, Greg, Kris, Kim, Kathy, and everyone else: for making me feel like I belonged
Carly Garner: for “Carpy”
Josh Gallatin: for being the “Juice”
Kelsey McKelfresh: for your talent
C. Evan Camomile: for the fishhooks
Brendan Condit: for being annoying
Tiffany Donahoe: for being a ditz
Terra Brown: for your knowledge
Jeff Fialko & Mike Ortega: for having imaginations
Natalie Bagley: for all the inside information
Lindsey Pettit: for teaching me the power of regret
Aimee Perogoy: for, well, you know
Holly Stollsteimer: for slapping me in the face
Becky Stollsteimer: for caring
Pat Webb: for being the butt of everyone’s jokes
Jamal Murphy: for having a kick-ass bass voice
Ben Shepard: for “The Ben Show”
Brandon Silar & Doug Usher: for passing along your know-how
Nicky Williams: for being my first director
David Sanchez: for laughing at me when I didn’t know why
Jenn VanOrt: for the ego-boost, and for not hating me
Chris Zickrick: for the hide-out in your car
Laura Risheill: for the sessions after school
Paige Pittman: for being H O T !
Joel Lewis: for being more fucked up than me
Rocky Mountain Singers & The RMHS Theater Dept.: for allowing me to be a part
Anyone I forgot: my apologies, take care: all
And, Last But Not Least, Megan Trimble: for going against the grain.
Interesting, how is it that you get elation and joy from trashing other people online and leaving them defenseless. Obviously this shows your true self and how little of a spine you truly have. It takes one to say something about another, however it really takes a strong and adept person in order to say something directly to them. However, you have given yourself such a wonderful image by doing the opposite. Interesting, that’s all!!!! ~;-)
How’s Center Partners working out there, fucko? 😀
What I find excruciatingly pathetic is that you take the time to come here just to bash on something that’s many years old. Thank you for proving my point.