Days 16 and Diez y Siete (17)

Hello Fellow Bloggers & Readers! It's Abel and it's my second week with the journal :) We've succesfully managed to get the journal to all three of us and now it's time to start back with me. I apologize to those very few who DO happen to take the time to read [[mainly Nick & Jess]] for not bloggin' yesterday as I was busy helping my dad instal our
new dishwasher [[and thank God! I was getting tired of washing all the dishes by hand]].

Anyways today was ok, I would say the only think fun was in my graphic arts class today where we furthered our discussion on nominees for SkillsUSA. I'm running for president for the orginization :D I really hope I get elected, I have to give a speech tommorrow. I only have one other person going against me but I'm not too sure what the outcome will be.

Other than that the day went on, I missed my bus home and had to wait an hour for my mom to get off work to pick me up. And when I got home I read my usual 20pgs I have to read for my english class. I'm reading the book "The Lovely Bones." It's really good so far and pretty sad.

Ok so onto the tasks:P


Mondays task:



DRAW LINES WHILE IN MOTION, ON THE BUS, ON A TRAIN, WHILE WALKING.

I only did it while walking and on the bus. Heres what my lines look like:



So that was monday. Today's task:

Here are my circles :)

Idk why, but i put a lil pompom on there cause it's also a circle.
Well til tommorrow, Bye everyone.
-Abel

Day 15 (really late) ~ Nick

Wow I must be the worst blogger in the world. No worries though, today I successfully passed the journal on to Abel. May he do a much better job then I. So anyways today on the Sunday August the thirtieth me and my friend Shalee went job-hunting everywhere around the Tucson Spectrum shopping center and also applied at the McDonald's on Cardinal and Valencia. Well it seems that no one was hiring at the moment. We constantly heard "We're not hiring now, but we are accepting applications, would you like to fill one out?" So we did even with low hopes :(

Well before I handed over the journal to Abel I completed and documented my final task of the week:

"Glue, staple or tape these pages together."
I chose to use the first of these options. I found some glue that was about 10 years old, so I wasn't sure how well it would work. But I also found some spray adhesive that my brother bought in the last year.

So using these tools I glued on the strips from the previous task onto today's page, even glueing back on the missing piece ^_^
So finally after all was said and done the pages were glued together. It would take some tearing to separate them.


Well my week with the journal is over. I guess ya'lls won't hear from me for the next few weeks. =/ But I ask you to wish my luck in my search for a job ;). Untill next time,
~ Nick

Day 14 (a little late) ~ Nick

Well my camera died =/
I decided to improvise using my buddies camera phone in Physics to document the journal's progress.

Well the journal's task read:

"Tear strips Rip it up!"
SO I did that here:

and here:

and here:

Mwahahaha I ripped and shredded the crap out of those pages. =]
I actually accidentally tore a little piece out >.<

Well I must find fresh batteries so that I can document my next task ;). Untill then,
~Nick

Day 13 ~ Nick

Hello there! Today I had a funking great day! Went downtown and to fourth avenue with Yashmine, Shalee, and Leah. Then we met up with Alex and somehow Lenaie was there too!? Yeah we found her in the Hippie Gypsie =]].

So to muh journal task
"Scribble wildly, violently, with reckless abandon."

These damn pages always look soooo plain just before I get to them ;). My next thought was "What to use? What to use?" Well I used whatever I found in my backpack.

I had quite a variety of items to use in my assault on the plain white page.

It looks so much better then I thought that it would. Well I've had a long day, and I'm tired. It's almost 10:00 pm so I'm going to bed. Untill tomorrow =],
~ Nick

Day 12 ~ Nick

I would like to start this entry expressing my belief that Mr. Garcia (American Government) and I are going to have to try a bit harder in order to get along this year. I mean the man moved me to the back of the class when I did nothing. My new permanant seat is in the back of the fourth row. =/ Never have I been moved to the back of the class, I'm a good noodle...

But I digress...
Today I opened the journal and the task that awaited me was this:

"Do SOme Rubbings With a Pencil."
So for the briefest instance I forgot what rubbings with a pencil was. But I eventually picked up on it. I used various coins and my house key as the subject of my art shown here:

and the subjects here:


Now isn't that nice? Well I actually thought it was a little boring. And what's funny was that I actually intended on doing some "pencil rubbings" on my yearbook before I opened the journal on this day. But since the journal's pages are much smaller than the yearbook's cover I used computer paper...

And here is just the "pencil rubbing" art:


So I have this nice graffite copy of my yearbooks cover but it needs to be in the journal. so I taped it in there :)

And since I had already numbered the pages before, I labled this new page by thirds =].
Well I'm not very good and ending these things, I'm off to read Jane Eyre for English. Untill tomorrow,
~ Nick

Day 11 now? lemme check... yes ~ Nick

Well hey there, I'm Nick. This is my first week with the journal. Well I enjoyed my day. I buckled down and decided to get rid of my old faithful, black jansport backpack. Well I actually had to trow it away on Friday when some freshman spewed his waffles all over it. >.<

But anyways today has been nice I plan to change the color of my black and white, checkered, and nicely designed backpack with a colored sharpie, considering how I've seen at least five kids with the same backpack today.

So to the task the journal left me. =]

"Scratch using a sharp object."
So I searched and searched and my brother mentioned that there was an Exacto knife on his dresser.

And there it is, the Exacto knife that I used to destroy that page, and mess up the page underneath it a little. =/

And here is what I've done,
I can proudly delclare that today I, Nicholas James Pinon, have succeded in scratching the journal with a sharp object (and played catch with the journal, and used it as a weapon against the evils of Yashmine Anderson.)
Well untill tomorrow my obediant blog readers.

~Nick

Day 10 ~ Jess

Today is the last day I have to spend with the journal. Wanna know what I did with it?? I forgot it at home. That's what I did with it . . . . Nothing!

Nothing much to report today. I'm very tired and am writing this right before I go hop in bed. No school tomorrow . . . YAY

OH! A bit of exciting news: Tomorrow I will be attending a Green Day concert in Phoenix with my parental unit, her friend, my sister and her friend and my boyfriend :D WOOOO!!! I'm sooo stoked!! :D

Journal task for day 10 of the experiment-----PRESS LEAVES AND OTHER FOUND THINGS----Here's the pic:


The items found were a leaf, flower petal, a fortune cookie fortune, a piece of an envelope and some of my dogs hair that was laying on the floor.

Next week Nick will be with the Journal. Have fun reading about his week. I know I will. Until next time bloggers . . . .

Later Days!
~Jess

Day 9 ~ Jess

The video didn't show up >.< Here it is. (Sorry! I told you I suck at blogging)

Day 9 and still no sign of life anywhere . . .

:) Today is Thursday. Nothing special about a Thursday. School was fine but the bus ride home was torture due to the bus drivers lack of a brain. Poor woman. I don't know why she chose to be a bus driver but it was the stupidest thing she has and will ever do in her entire life.

Earlier, when I got home, I did ALL my homework! Which is a big deal for me because I always put off half of it. Be proud whoever you are.

Any who! On to the journal task of the day! WOO! Today the Journal instructed me to THROW SOMETHING, A PENCIL, A BALL DIPPED IN PAINT. I didn't have a ball and didn't want to risk killing my friend by throwing a pencil so I threw a cap of some sort. Here's the video:



and heres a pic of the after shock:

Day 8 ~ Jess

Another day with the journal, another task, another blog.

Hi everyone, its Jess again. I apologize for the last blog because it came out VERY weird looking. There are way to many spaces between paragraphs and some misspelled words. Obviously I suck at blogging, haha, but Im doing it anyways because it is Nick's, Abel's and my senior year project.

Today was an ok day. I got to school and did my work. I took my Jane Eyre quiz (Jane Eyre is a good book, I suggest you read it if you haven't) and worked on my History IA and I also got the privilage of taking a math quiz today. It was on the subject of Linear Regression and Standard Deviation?? Does anyone know what that is, because I don't. I tried my hardest but unfortunately I think I bombed it . . .

After school I took a trip to the orthodontist so Mr. Sausage fingers could take a look at my chompers and decide if he would like to take them out of my mouth sometime this century or if he'd like to torture me for a while longer and just tell me to switch up the rubber band placement. He told me to switch up rubber band placement >.<>

I got home (before the bus got to the bus stop an hour after school was out!) and did my german homework. I spoke a little german to myself while working on the fill-in-the-blank questions and then I opened the Journal and flipped to my next task. Today the journal told me to

COLOR THIS ENTIRE PAGE

Here is my wonderful coloring job:

Later Days

~Jess

Day 6 and 7

Guys! Its Jess finally. I was supposed to be on here yesterday writing about my adventured with out journal but we had slight complications while trying to pass it along. But all is good now and FINALLY I can start my week with out dear journal of wreckingness.







Day 6 happened to be the first day of school (yesterday) and before I arrived on school grounds I was trying to use 'the Force" in some idiot kid who decided he wanted to put the window down on the bus and not put it up with I asked him, in a polite way, to put it up. He wouldn't . . . I was angry. The rest of the day went by kinda slowish fast. I went to classes, hung out with Nick and my sis at lunch, got a ride from my mom home, ate dinner, watched pregnant girl show, went to bed. OH! Nick played a dirty trick on me yesterday too! I was sitting on the couch journaless and he texted saying "guess what I got". I asked if it was the journal. "No, coffee =/" I responded with Aww >.< Nick texted back saying "Just kidding! I have the journal!" UGH! What a mean mean thing to do Nickolas!







Today, on day 7, I was passes our journal. :D YAY! I'm not even going to talk about my day because it's really not important and is much like Day 6 was (even the bus incident) Any who! I got the journal, looked through the pages Abel filled out the week he had our journal and then at lunch I completed my first task (Day 6 task)


TASK: Draw fat lines and thin pushing really hard with the pencil.
Here's the picture of my lines (I pressed hard, you just can't see it with the pic)












Later when I got home I took a shower and then went to the kitchen and showed my mom the year book I just got today even though I was supposed to get it last year >.< Leave it to our high school to order their year books all super duper late! (Oh, by the by, I look stupid in my year book pic! I'm all hardcore smiley.) After year book time I stuffed my face with my mummy's lemon chicken and in the words of Rachael Ray "YUM-O" Right as we speak (or as I type) I am working on Day 7 (todays) task.

TASK: This page if for hand prints or finger prints. Get them dirty then press down
(I was going to put my hands in some stuff other then ink but couldn't find anything else) Here's the pic of todays task--My hand is nice and inky now, it won't wash off!

Later Days!

~Jess

Day 3, 4 & 5 all together

Ok, Sorry everyone!!! I've been busy these last couple of days. So I did the last few tasks for the week today.

Wednesday I was at the Cobra Starship concert [[which was amaaaazing]] and thusday I was soooooo tired that I napped the whole day. But today I had the time and did the last three things:)

Ok so the task that was for thursday was to:

BURN THIS PAGE!!!

here's the task in a video [[I did this last minute like at 8:30pm]]

[[just so ya know I'm not usually that wierd and all high pitched screamyish]]


Anyways, The 4th task was:

So yeah, I didn't have coffee at the time, so I decided to spill orange juice on it. That didn't show up too well, so then I decided to spill Dr. Pepper [[which worked a lil bit better]]

And my last task was:

So I did that, but then I decided it looked to boring. So I made the holes look like baloons:P

Yupp. So those were all my tasks for the week, next up is my very good friend Jess.
Have fun reading about her week with the journal & please tell your friends about our experiment. Thanks and see you in two weeks!!!!!

Later,
-Abel.

Day Numero Dos - Abel

Well today was better :) My mom didn't have to wake me up, as soon as I got up I showered and got ready. After that it was off to school again so my sister can register this time. I couldn't believe how shy she was being, seriously! My sister, the one who got in trouble for talking too much in class was hiding behind me and hardly talking to her friends.

Anyways when we got home it was pretty boring. The power went out around eight something and my sister napped the whole time it was out. As for me I just lazed around listening to music on my phone and tweeted here and there.

After it came back on, we did our chores and all that crap. Basically another normal boring day til I decided it was time to fill in the next page of the journal.

I'm mad cause I got the most boring task you could ever possibly get.

What was today's request that the journal had for me?????

Yupp, NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Leave page BLANK on purpose." Now if you remember how I didn't number a three on one of the pages???
Well this is why, page three I had to leave blank. Oh well, what can you do?

Sorry to waste your time everyone [[I think I sorta wasted my time even blogging about this]].

Well tommorow's should be better and more interesting hopefully :)

Come back tommorrow & let others know about our experiment thingee/ /blog
tweet about it & or post bullitens on myspace plus do whatever your supposed to do on facebook:P

Later,
-Abel

The First Day - Abel

"WARNING: During the procces of this book you will get dirty. You may find yourself covered in paint, or any other number of foreign substances. You will get wet. You may be asked to do things you question. You may greive for the perfect state that you found the book in. You may begin to see creative destruction everywhere. You may begin to live more recklessly."


"Instructions:
1. Carry this with you everywhere you go.
2. Follow the instructions on every page.
3. Order is not important.
4. Instructions are open to interpretaion.
5. Experiment (work against you better judgement)."


This is what the book states on the first few pages, fairly easy right???

Anyways, hey everyone it's Abel here. It's the first day with the journal [[finally, it was killing me all night!!!]]. I want to start off with how my day went, just to emphasize how boring it was and how anitcipated I was to start.

It started of TERRIBLEY!! My mom woke me and my sister up at 5:30 this morning because shcool starts next week for us and we usually wake up at that time, so she decided to start us off a week early. Of course I was cranky and didn't want to wake up, but I had no choice really. So I got up, sat up for like I don't know how long, heard my mom leave, and headed straight for the computer. If you see what time the first post was published, you'll know what I did this morning:P So blah blah blah the morning went on as usual an so did the afternoon, boring as usuall. Now I'm gonna skip forward to the book [[I'm getting bored already & I bet you are too so lets get to the good stuff]].


The first page I got to said in BIG letters: ADD YOUR OWN PAGE NUMBERS.
It also had an arrow pointing where to begin, which was the lower right hand corner.


I personally don't think this page counts considering how boring & easy that is. So I took it upon myself to number all the pages that I'd be doing this week [[and again I'm not counting this task as filling out a page just so everyone knows.]]

Here's the how I numbered them:


I just printed out random numbers and glued them to the pages:P Nothing special really.
[[if you noticed, there's no number three. You'll find out why tommorrow]].

Now on too the REAL task, which is on page 2.

The page says "Crack the Spine."
simple isn't it??? Remember how one of the instructions says "open to interpretation? Well here's I interpreted
the task:

See? I cracked a spine without breaking the book's spine >.<

Thanks for taking the time to check out the blog.

Btw, I'm suggesting a new rule. I think we should take a picture of the page we fill out every day and post it on the blog just as I did. That way everyone can see the task

Ok, that's it for today. Comeback tommorrow to see what the next task the journal has in store for me.

Bye, -Abel.

How It Began

It was a regular day at the mall. We walked around [[had no idea what to do or where to go]], laughed [[and snoted a bit:P ]], and all really had no money to spend. Jess had the hardest time considering she asked to be hit & pushed down if she were to buy something [[of course nick had no problem with it haha and nither did I]]. She had a hard time parting with some $34 gauges,
I had my hand ready to smack her. Luckily Nick talked her out of it and she walked away.

After all the fun was had and it was almost time to leave we just happened to walk back into "Borders" book store, again. We walked around and Nick came across a journal. The title was pretty wierd, I think that's what caught his eye. As he started reading "Wreck This Journal," he started laughing and showing us the wierd requests a the pages had on them such as "burn this page," "tie a string to the journal and drag it around," and "find a way to wear the journal." It seemed pretty cool, and then Nick came up with an idea. We were going to get the book, fill out the pages with the commands it had on each page and pass the book around between the three of us. Me and Jess were on board so we all pitched in the little money we had left and bought it [[we had a hard time finding a pen, we managed to "find" one, but it ended up not working. So thankfully Jess' sister lent us one]].

As soon as we baught it, we left and ran for the first vaccant couch we saw and began writing the rules for the book.

"This belongs to
Jessica Malloy,
Abel Gallegos,
& Nicholas Pinon.

It will be passes on over the weekends. Mon - Friday we take turns working on tasks that this book specifies. The book will be passed in alphabetical order starting with Abel. We will work on exchanging the book on the weekends with every task completed a page will be numbered."

And there you have it, our whole Senior year is going to be about some random journal we found that we found oddly ammusing.

If you haven't already figured this out, its Abel who's talking right now.
Next week though it'll be Jess though.

We'll be blogging about the journal everyday as we are to fill out a page a day and swith off with the next person on the weekend.

So later today [[considering it's Monday]] I'll post a blog about the first page I had to fill out in the book. I think this'll be pretty intresting :)


Thanks for taking the time to read about our little experiment thingy, we really have no lives
what-so-ever if you can't tell yet lolol.

anyways thanks and happy blogging or whatever,
-Abel