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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Autobiography Paper ]
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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [ ]
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[ ]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 10/94 # of Words:1338 School: ? State: ?
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Autobiography of ____________
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RING! RING! RING! The familiar sound of that damned alarm clock set me
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suddenly upright in my bed. I reached over to turn it off. I was retired
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now, but I still liked to get up early. I always have you know. Ever
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since day one, I was up early. Today, I recalled, was my 84th birthday.
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Brad, my grandson and all the rest of the family would be here later to
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celebrate. Brad reminded me a lot of myself as a kid. I dragged myself
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tiredly over to the desk where I knew I would find my old diary from my
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high school years. As I blew the dust off the stained leather cover and
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started reading some of the entries, many memories came back as my mind
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faded into the past...
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Saturday, Aug. 26/89
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Today may have been the most exciting day yet this summer. Mom and Dad
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came to pick us up rather early from a sleep over at my friends house. You
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see Daddy got these four great tickets to the baseball game from a friend
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at his work. Mom had decided to come along. Once we got inside we found
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that there wasn't' too much of a crowd and so we found our seats fairly
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easily. We got there in time to see the last two innings of the Old
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Timer's game. We had to wait half an hour for the regular ball game to
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start! This was, I believe my fourth time in the Sky Dome. I guess it
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doesn't matter how many times you come here, every time it is just as big
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and impressive and fascinating as the last! Anyways, the Milwaukee Brewers
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were to play the Toronto Blue Jays. My Mom doesn't follow baseball at all
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so she spent most of her time looking at all the stuff in the Dome. She
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tried to clap at the right times but she usually forgot. Those were the
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best seats I ever had! They were the cushio seats right on top of 1st
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base! Most important the Blue Jays won 7-0! What a perfect day.
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As I finished the entry I remembered how quickly I lost interest in
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baseball as new things moved into my life. Mostly computers became a big
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passion and eventually my life's work. I skimmed over the next few diary
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entries about the purchase of our first computer. I remember it, we finally
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decided to purchase the Tandy 1000 SL. At the time it was just supposed to
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be for school work. I gradually became very advanced in my programming
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skills and mastery of the computer. By the end of high school we had
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bought a 80286 and finally an 80486. I truly was a lucky kid. Most
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parents wouldn't have done that, but mine did. The 80486 was at the time
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the fastest computer on the market. It was the latest in technology, I was
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truly THRILLED to receive it. Oh yes, that also reminds me of Super
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S.O.N.I.C. BBS. SONIC as it was called for short, was my bulletin board
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that I had put up on June 15/91. I remember now, yes, we had over 550
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users calling us from across the world within 5 months its inception. It
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was a much bigger success than we expected. Most other boards did not
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receive as much publicity or users so quickly as we did. We were the
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distribution site for the ever popular Sound Blaster Digest Online Magazine
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and a whole bunch of other stuff that slips my aging memory. SONIC stood
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for Sound and Optics Network for IBM Computers. It was really a neat name
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which summed up the purpose of our public service. I flipped on through
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the next few pages. I stopped at the entry I identified as the one I wrote
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on my first day of high school. This one brought back many memories...
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Tues. Sept. 5/91
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Sorry I haven't written for so long but a lot has been happening. Today
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was my first day at Brebeuf. Nana and Grandpa let me off in front of the
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school. I had no idea where to go so I just stood on the front lawn
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waiting for some divine hand to direct me. Finally I came around enough to
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go into the school where a notice stuck to the front door told me to go to
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my homeroom. After finding out that my homeroom was not where the notice
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had said, I finally ended up in portable 311. My new homeroom teacher, Mr.
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Paonessa had movie pictures plastered all around the room, but he is making
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me feel at home in this strange, new environment. High school looks like
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it is going to be tough. I have a locker partner, Jerome. I hope he is a
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decent guy...
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I finished the page. As it turned out, Jerome turned out to be quite a
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nice guy I remember. I guess I was lucky in that sense. But Mr. Paonessa
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brought back memories too, I assume he is dead now. In grade 9 I saw more
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than enough of Mr. Paonessa as I had him for three periods every other day.
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I guess during grade 9 he got to know me for the next year he asked me to
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join yearbook. He made it sound like so much fun! Little did I know that I
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was to become editor of the yearbook and end up spending many long hours
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after school working on it. All in all Mr. Paonessa, Mrs. Tulini and I got
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along pretty well. One thing I remember is that you could usually depend
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on Mr. P. to get things done. I turned yet another page of my diary...
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Fri. Jan. 26/90
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I've just finished writing all my exams. During the examination period
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Ian cam over 5 or 6 times. Last September I finally got my job at the
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North York Central Library. I started at $5.00 an hour but over Christmas
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I got a $0.35 raise. I've made quite a bit of money since then. Probably
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the best thing about the job is that I can mess with the library computers
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and get any material I want for school. Another thing is that I have made
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many friends there. Although all the pages (which is my job title) are
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friends I get along exceptionally well with Edward, Rob and Pawel....
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I paused reading, I couldn't read too much anymore without my contacts.
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Those three names however brought back a flood of memories, those were the
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days. I really wonder where those three went in life. Edward, I imagine
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went into computer sciences as he always dreamed of. Edward really was a
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whiz at computers. Rob probably got that job as a translator for CSIS. I
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lost contact with Rob after he went on a one year exchange program to
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Vienna, sure we wrote a few times, but that was it. I don't know really
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where Pawel would have gone. He was pretty much an all round guy. I
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remember in the year of 1991 we worked on a game called "Black Powder"
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together. Black Powder was a great new type of online game. It was based
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in the year 1660, the players chose to be either Spanish, English, French
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or Dutch Buccaneers and went around pillaging and plundering against other
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players. The game was even semi-historically accurate! Like, we did some
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research and everything but we had to make me changes to make it more
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playable. We had made provisions for 100 players. It was quite an
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interactive game. We made pretty good money on that game if I remember
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correctly. As a matter of fact... oh no! They're here already! Boy, I
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guess time goes past quickly when the brain fades into your past. I'll put
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on my housecoat and get the door. Today should be a lot of fun, one more
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memory to add to my collection. I wonder how many more memories I have
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left...
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