I just typed out a long entry on how I feel about marriage and pregnancy and all that.
Then I decided to erase it and not post it because my opinions on said subjects aren't what anyone wants to hear.
However, I will say this, I am so sick of hearing about people from belding getting pregnant.
There's better things to do.
Carley, I barely have service at my apartment, so if I call you from my house don't ignore it.. It'll be a 989 number.. I'll call either tonight or tomorrow. I love you.
Hey, I'm still alive. Imagine that.
I don't update much anymore because I keep my mushy details of my life inside.
But I miss Carley.
And I really miss my sister.
I really don't know what else to say.
Other than Brianna hasn't updated in awhile, and I want to see new pictures of her baby.
so yeah, i get back from AJ's dorm, and plug the computer in going to watch interstate 60 again, i love that movie, and for shits and grins i decide to turn the wireless card on and throw up net stumbler, bam 65% signal unencrypted...
i've decided that i'm bpreddt gahaha i'mff, hood at beer p[ong anddniht ah
if i eve xalled you guys toyou guys are the greatest friends ai've evrry caFF use i was pfretty a i'm soer had and stuff... yei'm definatally good heheheh i'm sorty that i cAlled y mightuou aND STUFUFF CAUSE I WAS i am the drunkest i have vever beneeeen. he dherah
I cal;led like t3 people tnoight
like mindy
and rache
and amy
man i think i eve called jayh, somone calle me at like noon tomorrow to wake me iup cause i got classs at 1 tghanjks man i appericate it .
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CEDAR SPRINGS -- Ryan Gorter thought he had put the whole incident behind him when he agreed to pay $2,000 in restitution for the large-scale cleanup that ensued after he brought mercury into Cedar Springs High School.
Then he got a certified letter saying he owed another $47,000.
"I'd just like to see this all go away," the 19-year-old said Friday. Gorter made news in May 2005 after he brought a vial of the heavy metal to school to show some friends. Some spilled on the ledge of a whiteboard and onto the carpeting. A handful of students reportedly touched it.
Coming into contact with small doses of mercury can cause breathing difficulty, chest pain and headaches. Large concentrations can damage the brain, kidneys and lungs.
When school officials found out, the building was shut down for two days. Students had to be decontaminated, and Young's Environmental Cleanup spent a weekend using tracking devices to see where the mercury had been.
Within a few days, the carpeting was replaced and walls were scrubbed down.
Expenses totaling $47,045.89 were sent to the school's Indian Insurance Co.
A short time later, Gorter was charged with malicious destruction of property and unlawful possession of a harmful device, but those felony charges were dropped when he agreed to pay the district's $2,000 insurance deductible -- something that took the teen a year and a half to do.
"They told us it was all over when we paid that deductible," said Gorter, who works as a CAD operator for a monument company and has a 5-month-old daughter to support. He still lives at his parents' home and has been recovering from surgery following a work injury.
Gorter, who plans to fight the demand for payment, is not getting a lot of sympathy from Cedar Springs Superintendent Andrew Booth.
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"It doesn't include any of the pain and agony of all the families that had to find care for their children when the schools were closed," Booth said. "It's thousands and thousands of families that are affected."
Booth said Gorter has shown little remorse and was slow to pay the $2,000. He claims Gorter has changed his story about the mercury numerous times.
Gorter's attorney, Edward McNeely, said his client found the mercury while he was a lab assistant for a middle school teacher who was moving into the high school. While disposing of items from the teacher's old desk, he found a jar with the mercury in it, and was unaware of its toxicity.
"Ryan was doing what the teacher told him to do," McNeely said. "Where else would he have gotten the mercury?"
The attorney said it was up to the district to know about the mercury and its potential for leaking. He said if the case goes to court, the district will be brought into the proceedings to defend its actions.
Booth said he has no idea where Gorter could have found the mercury but says it was not from one of his schools. He said years ago the district did a sweep of all buildings and eliminated hazardous chemicals.
He said the cleanup investigation found mercury at Gorter's house and the high school, but none at the middle school.
McNeely said he has written the Chicago law firm representing the insurance company, saying the school district, not Gorter, "bears responsibility for the event in question."
Chicago-based Meachum and Spahr Attorneys at Law did not respond to calls seeking comment.
