[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 9^th 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.