Hohum Halloween

Today was probally the dullest Halloween to date. I watched the Halloween specials for some cartoons then decided to go to the movies to see Serenity. Unfortunately it was no longer in theaters and the closest showing was all the way in Kansas City.

October 30th

Today was pretty uneventful. I did a half-assed job on my math homework and the highlight of my day was watching The Simpsons Tree House of Horror while eating a caramel apple covered in sprinkles.

I it when people don't eat the apple too. If it's one of those gross sour ones I might understand; but you should at least try to follow up consumption of that much sugar with something slightly healthy.

Yes, I'm Still Alive

I think this is the longest I've gone without a blog entry since I began this nearly three years ago. So I have a lot to make up for; but rather than going back and filling in the blanks as I sometimes do I'll just say a few quick things in a quick list.

Bad Things:
Washed my cool modern cell phone in the washing machine by accident and had to move service over to the old "glowing-brick" I used in high school.
Got locked out of my dorm again.
My car is having trouble starting. The Astros lost, I'm not a big sports fan but Jake is and when you live in close quarters with someone you want them to be in a good mood.

Good Things:
I finally got my refund back from the mall
I answered an exam question correctly that even the TAs didn't get right (won't get in an A in the class but hey find pride where you can)
I'm finally getting my laundry washed after nearly three weeks of growing smelly piles.

Which brings me to the present . . . . . I'm back in T-Town, at Mom's but tomorrow I'll probably head back to campus. I saw Wedding Crashers (FANTASTIC!) at the cheap theater last night. It's amazing how much this city has changed since I left. I remember when 8 was the newest biggest, nicest cinema in town and now it's, well, it's where the cheap movies are. Construction of all the new restaurants on the west side of town has completed including one of my favorites: Old Chicago. It must be really freaky for my parents, when they moved here we didn't even have a mall. I've been so busy lately that I haven't had much time to watch movies, hang out, blog or anything really besides work. It's great to finally have some down time, even if it will be short lived.

I also have some pictures that I will eventually post once I find my USB cable. That's all for now, hopefully this marks the beginning of a new habit: my return to blogging. Maybe I can exchange it for one of my many bad ones.

10:31 UPDATE- Okay, found my USB cable. As you can see dirty laundry has been piling up for.....um I lost count.

"Wow. You must be even lazier than I am." - Jake

Not true, just cheaper. I'm not paying 15 bucks to wash all this when I can do it for free at home. It also saves gas money if Mom picks me up.

GLEE!

It's been a very busy day, but I'd just like to say: I'm happy. A very rare thing.

I'm finishing up the last of my midterms, and there is a new season of South Park and Drawn Together coming up on Comedy Central, as well as new episodes of Lost. Move over Friday, Wednesday is my new TV night! God I love TV it fills the void in my soul with joy and a magic blue glow.

tonight's' Daily Show was one of the funniest I've seen in a while. I felt embarrassed FOR Bush. You know someone has done something stupid when you feel embarrassed for them. Scripting the conversation with soldiers just was not a good idea.

"Why did the chicken cross the road? To cause a global pandemic." - The Colbert Report

Fourth & Final Day

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

What's The Deal With Shoeless People?

You know what I hate? Those people who walk around on campus barefoot. It just seems idiotic, shoes were invented for a reason you know? What if you stepped on broken glass or something? It's even worse than those people who where "flip-flops" in late autumn. If it's under 40 degrees outside you should never have anything less than shoes on. This is common sense. A girl in my engineering group slipped off her sandals and touched sat on my bed barefooted. I was disgusted. Not even my barefeet touch my bed, I wear socks.

Oh god and they were black. The bottoms of her feet were blackened with grit. I can only imagine what foul nether regions she'd trekked across without the proper footwear

General Well Being

: )

Crime & Punishment

Sure is a lot of crime in this town. Well, there might have been more at home but this week has been especially crimey.

In addition to the many bicycles stolen on campus, today someone burnt down an apartment complex. At first I thought it was kinda cool, I mean who hasn't wanted to set fire to a building? Then I heard about the charred bodies they found inside and, that wasn't so great. It's always sad when people lose their lives but it's especially awful when the victims are young and just about to graduate. What a waste.....The fatty arsonist responsible will go on trial for both arson and murder. It's kinda funny because he looks exactly like the kind of guy that set a fire. Looks just like one of those pyros from middle school.

Also, there was a diamond theft. That's right, someone made off with a suitcase full of diamonds. I don't know why but that just seems like an anachronism. Who the hell steals diamonds now days? You're supposed to hack into people's bank accounts etc. The crook probably had one of those mustaches, you know the ones that people always twirl around their finger, and I bet he got away in a comical fashion with ragtime music playing in the background.

Okay enough about crime, The Terminator is on TV and it's getting to the part where Sarah crushes that metal menace in the.....Industrial-thingy. Factory Compacter whatever.

It's not my favorite part of the movie, but I missed that one already. Later, oh and criminals "You're terminated!"

NMAU

Just another typical day. Looking foreword to fall break on the 13th and 14. I learned a mildy interesting reverse factoring method today and talked about Olduvai Gorge. . . . . again.

Crap, that Indian girl with the sunglasses is so fucking hot. I have a ridiculously huge boner.

Oh yeah and enjoy this ---> http://www.jeff-stryker.com/pooper3.html
It's supposedly the worst MP3 you can download. Though I know some stuff by MCR that probably comes close.

This Just In

Watched Homestarrunner in Journalism 303
Video clips are alwyas fun.
radio parody

Hooray!

Found my bus pass!

Looking foreward to season two of Drawn Together. I thought they had canceled that show.

Highs & Lows

It's been a day of ups and downs. Things started off right, I actually woke up on time and when I went to the union I found out they had stopped serving breakfast. BUT, they had only stopped 5 minutes ago, the guys behind the counter were just about to throw everything out when I got there. However they allowed me to have some pancakes, and FREE BACON! The bacon was okay, the pancakes were some of the best I'd ever had.

My joy was short lived though because I had an math exam today. I studied really hard and I think I covered all the material. The exam took me almost three hours to complete and was a complete pain in the ass.

To make matters worse after taking the exam I was already exhausted but still had to walk a mile in the cold to get back to my dorm because I lost my bus pass. I have to have it replaced soon or else I will not be able to get to any of my classes on time. Our campus is just too goddman hilly and spread out to get around without feeling like you're going on some type of treacherous hike.

And of course, this being college the transit authority will probably charge me 500 bucks for a replacement bus pas. Be nice if I could drive my car, but we're prohibited from driving on campus earlier than 5:00.

Good News: A Doom Movie is in the works. It's based on a video game so I'm not sure how good it will be.....But I'm hoping for the best, it has potential if the writers don't fuck around with it.

The Google Game!

I envented it and it's awesome. I also envented a new way to spell "invented"

Hurts Like The Dickens

Didn't do too much today. Just the usual Sunday activities: homework, TV, sleep, newspaper.

During some downtime, I decided to shave my pubic area. Just for the hell of it. I've never done this before, so before getting the razor I started off barber style, with scissors. I went well, for a time. I was almost completely done when my phone rang. I looked up, and at the same time squezzed the handle on the scissors. BIG MISTAKE.

BIG. MIS. TAKE!

I sliced off some skin on my testicles.

I screamed and slipped backwards in the shower.

It wasn't the most painful injury I've ever had, but it is definately the most annoying. It's in a very sensitive location.

So as I sit here typing, I currently have Neosporin and a large Band-Aid with dinosuars on it wrapped around my balls.

Aw man I am not looking foreward to changing this in the morning after I sh-OWWW-oops. moved.

Shower.

Grizzly Guy

Mom and I just saw a movie at the theater that shows independent films. It was called Grizzly Man. And it was about exactly what it sounded like. A man, who has grizzly qualities. At first I was reluctant to see this movie. I thought it was just going to be another dull documentary with your typical intellectual sounding narrator. The only reason I agreed to go is because I heard that the guy shooting the grizzly bears in Alaska got mauled by the animals. I'm not usually entertained by gratuitous violence, but my interest was piqued. Don't get me wrong, I love documentaries, it's just I usually watch them on TV so I can channel surf if they become monotonous.

Grizzly Man was not at all what I expected. First of all they did not show the photographer, Timothy Treadwell, get eaten alive. For that, I am actually thankful because as the movie progressed I started to like the guy more and more and even recognize some of myself in him.

Treadwell was wacky, and entertaining, and he interacted with the animals in a very unorthodox way. I could understand befriending the foxes, but the giant ferocious gizzlies is another story...

The film was made by a German guy named Werner Herzog. I didn't know who made it initially when I went to see it but about halfway through I recognised his voice from a video we had watched in English called Lessons of Darkness (RE: Desert Storm).

I liked Grizzly Man considerably more though, bottom line? Go see it. I highly recommend this movie.