the not so average life of an average joe

Ok i know its been another month or so but i swear i remember that i have a blog. ok lets start with NCYC. NCYC was like the greatest thing ever. there were kids there from i think every single state, except oregon. None of us could find a single person from oregon. Anyway it was awsome, there was a huge concert opening thing on thursday night, and then the next morning there was this awsome talk by this guy who's daughter was in the oklahoma city bombing. That day we went to two sessions (or talks) which were both very good, and that night there was a huge concert with all these bands there. Then on saturday, we went "boothing" there were so very many booths there and it was good. there was another session that day and then another concert and talk that night. Sunday there was mass and then home. It was awsome. Two weekends later it was thanksgiving and i gotta say that there is no greater day than the day you get together with 20-25 people and eat all of the wonderful food that you want. That night we went to our cousins and had dessert, and then (which this could only happen in our family) we started talking at 7:00. Thats pretty normal, a family talk, and we even started on a normal subject, love & relationships. Well if you know my family, you know that we dont have a good talk unless we're debating a topic. So we started on abortion, and on the death penalty, and then on killing out of self defense, and then on the war. I mean we really went at it, and the funny thing is that we agree on just about every topic as it is, but somehow we still manage to make it a debate. Anyway we used so many analogies to describe what we're saying, and the part thats funny is that i'm the one that they always used for example. "Ok, so say joe's priest, and he wants to leave the order, what does he do," or "Ok so a guy's got a gun to joe's head and you have a gun with one shot, do you shoot the guy or do you let him shoot joe," and then my favorite, "ok so joe is hooked up by tubes to this famous violinist, and he has to not leave his bed for 9 months, is it immoral to unplug," yes those were all actually said. anyway we finally left at 11:00 that night with the conversation still going on. I later found out that the same conversation continued until 5:30 that morning. anyway thats just about all thats happend to me. Oh yeah my brother had the greatest day of his life yesterday. When we went to the mall, he got a brand new leather jacket, that same night his girlfriend got home from college, and heres the topper, he got a 2002 Ford F-150 Lariot (truck). yeah his day was awsome. my day, i got to take a chemistry final, oh yeah that really compares. anyway i had two jokes of finals today, Th. arts (yeah thats hard) and english which was a little more challenging but still easy. tomorrow i have Latin and World History and then Friday i have Algebra. well anyway i have to go study for my finals ill try to write more often,
Joe