suplexmasta

today

2007-01-11T07:41:00.000-05:00

Today, I am no longer a whiny teenager.

Today, I am a whiny twenty-something.

quiz

2006-11-26T17:24:00.000-05:00

You scored as Christianity. Your views are most similar to those of Christianity. Do more research on Christianity and possibly consider being baptized and accepting Jesus, if you aren't already Christian.

Christianity is the second of the Abrahamic faiths; it follows Judaism and is followed by Islam. It differs in its belief of Jesus, as not a prophet nor historical figure, but as God in human form. The Holy Trinity is the concept that God takes three forms: the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Ghost (sometimes called Holy Spirit). Jesus taught the idea of instead of seeking revenge, one should love his or her neighbors and enemies. Christians believe that Jesus died on the cross to save humankind and forgive people's sins.

Which religion is the right one for you? (new version)
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proust questionnaire

2006-11-18T14:08:00.000-05:00

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Boredom

Where would you like to live?
Edinburgh, or a tiny little island in the South Pacific

What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Companionship, a full stomach, and high speed DSL.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Selfishness, greed, and being anti-social

Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Yossarian, Billy Pilgrim, and Dream

Who are your favorite characters in history?
Martin Luther, Aristotle, and St. Maximilian Kolbe

Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Jeanne d'Arc, Marie Curie, Sandra Day O'Connor

Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Alyssa Jones, Scarlett (G.I. Joe), Jean Grey

Your favorite painter?
Degas

Your favorite musician?
Totally unfair question

The quality you most admire in a man?
Honesty

The quality you most admire in a woman?
Again, honesty

Your favorite virtue?
Patience

Your favorite occupation?
Teacher

Who would you have liked to be?
Newton

Your most marked characteristic?
Intelligence, humor, sarcasm

What do you most value in your friends?
Honesty, self-awareness, fat wallets

What is your principle defect?
Selfishness

What is your dream of happiness?
No bills, no responsibilities, no pressure

What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Dying too soon

What would you like to be?
Teacher

In what country would you like to live?
Scotland

What is your favorite color?
Silver

What is your favorite flower?
Cherry-blossom

What is your favorite bird?
Parakeet

Who are your favorite prose writers?
Vonnegut, Heller, Miller (Arthur and Frank), Salinger

Who are your favorite poets?
Frost, Blake, Shakespeare, Bukowski, Chaucer, Shakur

Who are your heroes in real life?
Police officers, firefighters, ER doctors

What are your favorite names?
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

What is it you most dislike?
Bears. Specifically, the North American Grizzly.

What historical figures do you most despise?
Hitler, Idi Amin, Pol Pot

What event in military history do you most admire?
The Battle of Thermopylae

What reform do you most admire?
The Protestant Reformation

What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Telekinesis

How would you like to die?
Peacefully, in my sleep

What is your present state of mind?
Boredom

What is your motto?
"I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse."

quizzes, for a change

2006-11-10T21:42:00.000-05:00

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My score on The who the hell am I, really? Test:

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The Mother
(70% ability, 84% stability, 42% determination)

You're a protector, a provider, a nurturer. You'd be a good mother or father. You're intelligent, and have a well rounded and insightful outlook on life and yourself. You lack ambition, but that's a good thing in your case. It allows you the freedom to care for and teach the generations to come. Ideal professions for you would be a nurse, a social worker, a volunteer, or a teacher, if you're not already.

The 18 personality types are: The Slave, The Rat, The Evil Rat, The Faceless Crowd, The Knight, The Warrior, The Snob, The Drifter, The Child, The Mother, The Worker, The Intellectual, The Human Waste, The Trouble Maker, The Devil, The Advisor, The King and The Chosen One.

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My score on The Do *YOU* Remember The 90's Test:

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Child Of The 90's
(You scored 90 %)

I'll bet you have a pair of Doc Martens and a hypercolour t-shirt or (god forbid) a pair of Hammer pants wedged in the back of your wardrobe. You probably also watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a kid and can remember a time when all Jim Carrey was famous for was Ace Ventura (wow, that was a long time back...). You live and breathe the 90's and have risen above the dagginess to proudly proclaim to all who will listen that, Yes! I Am A Child Of The 90's!

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My score on The What's Your Signature Weapon Test:

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Halberd
(You preferred a weapon with 41% power over speed and 47% range over melee.)

You use a Halberd. Possibly the most versatile polearm ever made, the Halberd is an elegant mix of spear and staff, remaining relatively light while having an effective cutting edge and stabbing point. Your enemies will never get near you; your personal space will be as unreachable as a faraway land.

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yet again, tests

2006-11-03T22:21:00.000-05:00

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My score on The Personality Defect Test:

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Robot
(You are 57% Rational, 14% Extroverted, 42% Brutal, and 42% Arrogant.)

"You are the Robot! You are characterized by your rationality. In fact, this is really ALL you are characterized by. Like a cold, heartless machine, you are so logical and unemotional that you scarcely seem human. For instance, you are very humble and don't bother thinking of your own interests, you are very gentle and lack emotion, and you are also very introverted and introspective. You may have noticed that these traits are just as applicable to your laptop as they are to a human being. You are not like the robots they show in the movies. Movie robots are make-believe, because they always get all personable and likeable after being struck by lightning, or they are cold, cruel killing machines. In all reality, though, you are much more boring than all that. Real robots just sit there, doing their stupid jobs, and doing little else. If you get struck by lightning, you won't develop a winning personality and heart of gold. (Robots don't have hearts, silly, and if they did, they would probably be made of steel, not gold.) You also won't be likely to terrorize humanity by becoming an ultra-violent killing machine sent into the past to kill the mother of a child who will lead a rebellion against machines, because that movie was dumb as hell, and because real robots don't kill--they horribly maim at best, and they don't even do that on purpose. Real robots are boringly kind and all too rarely try to kill people. In all my years, my laptop has only attacked me once, and that was only because my brother threw it at me. In short, your personality defect is that you don't really HAVE a personality. You are one of those annoying, super-logical people that never gets upset or flustered. Unless, of course, you short circuit. Or if someone throws a pie at you. Pies sure are delicious.

To put it less negatively:
1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.
2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted.
3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.
4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant.

Compatibility:
Your exact opposite is the Class Clown.

Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hand-Raiser, the Emo Kid, and the Haughty Intellectual.

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If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits.

The other personality types:
The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

Be sure to take my Sublime Philosophical Crap Test if you are interested in taking a slightly more intellectual test that has just as many insane ramblings as this one does!"

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My score on The What is your REAL age Test:

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You are 37 years old!!

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even more tests

2006-10-26T22:01:00.000-04:00

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My score on The You think you've got a high IQ Test:

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Gifted
(You scored 128 Intelligence!)

"Aww...you're basically a genius. 132 is the IQ where Mensa accepts you. How about giving it a try? You were the probably the kid who got all A's in high school..or you could be like me, a brilliant slacker...too smart for your own good. It goes both ways. You are ver gifted."

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My score on The Cartoon Alter-Ego Test:

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Hermes
(You scored 70 Intelligence, 17 Goofyness, 44 Confidence, and 30 Emotional!)

"Lovable Hermes! Let me guess: You like to go to museums, read books, you probably have a PH.D or are working on it. If not well your life is all about learning and being smart. It is what you do best. You may lack self-confidence but you dont really care because for you it is over-rated. Just remember to have fun and when you get that Nobel Prize give me a call:P"

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My score on The Relationship Problem-Solving Test:

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Aggressively Right
(You scored 69% Confrontational and 70% Logical!)

"You're right and you're going to fight for it-- just make sure you don't fight too hard if your partner is timid. You'll work great with someone else of the same type, since you'll both fight hard for the most logical solution to every problem.

Your matches: Aggressively Right, Assertive and Right"

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the return of tests

2006-10-19T22:08:00.000-04:00

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My score on The What Simpson Are You? Test:

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Carl/Lenny
(You scored 46% beliefs, 52% background, and 34% situation!)

You are Carl/Lenny! In other words, you're pretty average. Okay. If you're black, you're Carl... if you're white you're Lenny. Make sure you don't get pudding in your eye!

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My score on The Greek Mythology Personality Test:

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Prometheus
(33% Extroversion, 100% Intuition, 44% Emotiveness, 47% Perceptiveness)

You are most like Prometheus, and you probably knew that before you even took this test. You probably aren't deliberately altruistic, but you still tend to do things that benefit everyone, even at great expense to your health and personal relationships. You aren't ruled by your emotions, but you still have a strong sense of justice. You make good decisions, but they can sometimes backfire (and this isn't due to a flaw in your reasoning, but due to faulty premises instead).

You are very reasonable, you understand systems, you can quickly pinpoint flaws and you know how to correct them. You pride understanding and knowledge above everything else, and your greatest fear is to appear to be incompetent. You tend to be contemptuous of authority, but you don't accept leadership roles yourself until everyone else has demonstrated their own incompetence.

You've built a very specific skill set. You know exactly where your strengths and weaknesses are, and you pride yourself on this kind of self-knowledge. You distrust tradition, which you see as arbitrary, and you rely instead on your own judgements. You also pride yourself on your pragmatism. You're also a very private person.

Most of all, people think you're arrogant, but screw them! They're the ones who benefit from your ideas and discoveries, and if they took the time to understand why it is that you say and think the things you do, they'd realize that you only appear arrogant because you are exactingly precise when it comes to your area of specification, and most of all because, when you don't know something, you don't have an opinion about it (unlike most of the loudmouths that you have to deal with on a day-to-day basis).

Relationships are your kryptonite. It isn't that you don't want them -- in fact, you would very much like a very close relationship with someone who understands you. They're just the one thing in the world that you're naturally bad at.

Famous people like you: Niels Bohr, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Werner Heisenberg, Issac Newton, John Maynard Keynes, Erwin Schrodinger
Stay Clear of: Apollo, Icarus, Hermes, Aphrodite
Seek out: Atlas, The Oracle, Daedalus

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My score on The Director Who Films Your Life Test:

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Edward D. Wood, Jr.
(Your film will be 47% romantic, 25% comedy, 36% complex plot, and a $ 24 million budget.)

Ed Wood will get your film done waaaaay under budget, and will likely make it into a classic film of all time -- for all the wrong reasons. Let's face it, your life isn't terribly exciting to begin with, and it needs some camping up. His resume includes classics such as Plan Nine From Outer Space and Glen or Glenda? He's not afraid to tackle controversial topics, and may insist on portraying a transvestite in your film -- even if you've never seen a transvestite before. He was immortalized in the Academy Award winning Tim Burton film, Ed Wood -- go see it.

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My score on The Southern-ness Test:

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Dixie Royal
(You are 95% true Southern!)

You are pure belle or gentleman! You know your Jones Soda, Nehi and RC colas, your Moon Pies and sweet potato pie; you'd absolutely die without air conditioners in the summer, and you've seen Steel Magnolias and Fried Green Tomatoes (or read the book!). Your grandmother lives in an antebellum home and has a cook who makes the best fried chicken and asparagus casserole and summer squash and everything else in the world. And you know the taste of honeysuckle and the feel of grass between your toes.
You are blessed.

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listen to your heart

2006-10-12T21:49:00.000-04:00

Roxette - Listen to Your Heart (pops)

So... yeah.

Let's do a quick rundown.

I'm out of school for the next three days (counting weekend days, which I do). I wish I could have more days off, but I'll take whatever I can get.

I got a new phone last week. It's one of these. Nothing fancy, but cheap and effective. My old one wasn't horrible or anything, although it wasn't, you know, made in this century. The battery was starting to lose it's charge, and plus, the Oystr was only $20.

Today I went to the dentist. I hate going to the dentist, like any sane person who's ever had braces does, so I didn't enjoy myself.

I went clothes shopping, and I'm to the point where, in order to find clothes that are actually comfortable, it's easier to shop in stores catering to a demographic I'm not exactly a part of. (I don't know exactly how to say this so I stay on the side of political correctness, so I'll come out and say it.) I bought two pairs of pants at a store called "Hip Hop Fashions Plus". If you've ever seen a picture of me, you may notice that if you were to sprinkle me with salt, I would be indistinguishable from a saltine. You can bet that I got some funny looks going in there.

I went to the illustrious Statham Library today, because they're clearing out the old books to make the move to a new building easier. They made the mistake of advertising this fact in the newspaper. In my family, clearing out library sales may be the biggest thrill we get for a month, so we attack like some sort of ferocious jungle animal. I think we limited ourselves to less than three dozen books. It was hard, though.

So that's about it. Write, call, e-mail, or drop by.

paranoid

2006-10-05T21:24:00.000-04:00

Still tired, still not wanting to write anything.

More online quizzes? Yes, please!

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My score on The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test:

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Modern, Cool Nerd
(82 % Nerd, 65% Geek, 47% Dork)

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.

Nerds didn't use to be cool, but in the 90's that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn't quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and "geek is chic." The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!

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My score on The Genghis Khan Genetic Fitness Test:

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95,720 descendants
(- you're more genetically fit than 45% of the current population -)

"95,720. Not bad. You're no Mongol warlord, but to have that many copies of your genetic code running around 800 years from now is pretty impressive.

You're at the lower end of the scoring spectrum, but, honestly, when you consider that the cheaters, swindlers, and football players of this world are statistically best-equipped to create children, scoring low is something to be proud of. As you'll see below, some of your lines will die out, but nonetheless your genetic material will thrive here on earth for a long time to come.

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My score on The Would You Have Been a Nazi Test:

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The Expatriate
(Achtung! You are 30% brainwashworthy, 18% antitolerant, and 19% blindly patriotic)

"Congratulations! You are not susceptible to brainwashing, your values and cares extend beyond the borders of your own country, and your Blind Patriotism does not reach unhealthy levels. If you had been German in the 30s, you would've left the country. One bad scenario -- as I hypothetically project you back in time -- is that you just wouldn't have cared one way or the other about Nazism. Maybe politics don't interest you enough. But the fact that you took this test means they probably do. I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt. Did you know that many of the smartest Germans departed prior to the beginning of World War II, because they knew some evil shit was brewing? Brain Drain. Many of them were scientists. It is very possible you could have been one of them.

Conclusion: born and raised in Germany in the early 1930's, you would not have been a Nazi.

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edits

2006-09-28T22:14:00.000-04:00

I got bored today and made a few kind-of-major adjustments to the template again, for the first time in almost a year.

Like I said, I got bored.

So anyway, if there's something that doesn't look right or doesn't work for you, do two things:

Get Firefox, which will not only fix most of your formatting problems, but also lets you get a bunch of cool extensions and avoid a lot of I.E. exclusive problems.
Email me and tell me what's going on and any suggetsions.

So that's about it. I'm tired, cranky, and craving feedback. Maybe things will be better after midterms.

tests

2006-09-20T22:01:00.000-04:00

I'm tired, so I'm afraid this will have to do. You know, you could always email me or call me, too.

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My score on The Trekkie Test:

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Trekkie Nerd
(Survey Says... You scored 81 %)

Congratulations - your designation as a Trekkie Nerd means that you are statistically more likely to be a virgin, socially inept, live at home in your mother's basement and have no chance of scoring a chick like Seven. Still, if knowledge of temporal paradoxes, the repercussions of the Janeway effect and an intimate knowledge of Klingon history made big bucks, you'd be a millionaire. Ah, tis the sweet irony of life.

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My score on The Intellectual Sexiness Test:

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Hot Tamale
(You have an intellectual sexiness factor of 75!)

You're hot! You've read a lot. You've done a lot, and there's a lot you'd like to try in the future. You've got a sharp, sexy mind, and few inhibitions to restrain you from exploring all the pleasure you can get. You have few hang-ups, and there's not much you don't know about sex. You're open-minded and able to enjoy things that would make a lesser person squeamish.

You're an exceptional treat as a lover, appreciated greatly by those who know the differnce. You were probably bored with a few of the people you've been with in your past, feeling like you had to drag them along with you in the sexual adventures you want to have, and probably dumping them for the same reason. It takes a lot to stimulate you; you realize it's not just about bumping uglies. In the end there's gotta be a lot more to it.

Still, there is always room for improvement. Before you can graduate into a true sexual genius, there are a few things you've got to learn, to explore, to think through, talk through, and f*ck through. A good place to start is in taking a look at the few things you're still a little hesitant to try. Break down you're last few barriers and discover the outer sexual frontiers, and you'll become a master.

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My score on The Your Type of Girl Test:

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The Favorite Friend
(62% Sexy-Cute, 83% Dark-Light, 40% Artsy-Stylish)

Cute, Light, and neither Artsy nor Stylish, she's that friend we've all had. The great girl. The one we've been friends with since the third grade. The one who laughs at our jokes and sends funny text messages. The one with whom we secretly, desperately want to crawl under the covers and spend the next eighteen hours naked.

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comedy style

2006-09-13T12:55:00.000-04:00

Yeah, pretty accurate.

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My score on The 3 Variable Funny Test:

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the Provacateur
(61% dark, 34% spontaneous, 47% vulgar)

your humor style: VULGAR | COMPLEX | DARK

You'll crack on anything, and you're often witty, even caustic, about it.Therefore, your sense of humor is polarizing. You're transgressive, and you've got a seriously sharp 'edge'--maybe too much for some folks. If they get you, people think you're one of the funniest (and smartest) people in the world. If they don't, they think you're an ass. Whatever, right? While some might question your judgement, your comic intellect is unquestionably respected.

PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Chris Rock - Lenny Bruce - George Carlin

The 3-Variable Funny Test!
- it rules -

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cigarette state

2006-09-05T22:01:00.000-04:00

Robbie Fulks - Cigarette State (pops)

Uh, yeah.

So I have to make myself do one of these posts at least once a week or I get all disappointed in myself. So here you go.

I did my first day of field observations today. Nothing too interesting happened. I mostly sat around and watched the kids do vocabulary words and goof off.

Honestly, that's about it.

I've been putting off my Spanish homework for a while (it's not actually do until October 10th or so, but still). I've got my first test in there on Friday and I have a feeling I should be doing a little more work outside of class than I'm currently doing. Yet, the overwhelming urge to slack consumes me, and I'll probably rush and do all of it the week before it's due.

Have I mentioned I have stopped caring about grades so much? It's kind of refreshing to not put that kind of pressure on yourself. On the other hand, I'll probably start feeling all guilty and wind up running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to keep my 4.0. Stupid guilt. Damn my traditional Southern upbringing. (For the uninitiated, it's almost exactly like Jewish-mother guilt, but with fried chicken instead of chicken soup, and spitting everytime someone mentions Yankees instead of Germans.)

Finally, in closing, rest in peace, Crocodile Hunter. An ostentatious outward appearance hid a dedicated conservationist and family man. I hope you're wrestling crocs in heaven.

free bird

2006-08-29T22:25:00.000-04:00

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird (pops)

This post is a love/hate edition, mainly because I don't feel like actually explaining anything this week.

LOVE: Columbus, GA's Little League World Champions.

HATE: Kawaguchi City's team was just as good, but for whatever reason, didn't play as well on the given day.

LOVE: The kittens are finally old enough to get flea collars. No more scratching.

HATE: They also wreck everything they can get their little paws on.

LOVE: Chinese food.

HATE: Arthur magazine. Suck it up, hippies. I'm fairly liberal (socially) and I think you've got your heads up your asses.

LOVE: Short lab sessions.

HATE: Going around Athens the long way because my ride wants to go by his house and pick up his phone.

LOVE: Getting to go back to the high school to do my field observation.

HATE: Forgetting to do my homework in my education class until I walked in the door.

LOVE: Throwing something together in the five minutes between me getting in there and her collecting it.

HATE: Science classes in general. Has anyone actually had a good science class? I can't think of one I've had. Biology sucked, Chemistry sucked even worse, and Physics was extremely hard but tolerable because of the people I was in there with.

LOVE: Film and Culture class.

HATE: the Spanish language. If English is the international language of commerce, why do we have to learn anything else? Esperanto I could understand from a theoretical point of view (no one has the advantage of being a native speaker), but why the same old Romance languages?

LOVE: That special someone.

LOVE: That other special someone.

HATE: Being the cowardly lion when it comes to the two above.

HATE: Most of society.

I'll be around

2006-08-22T22:15:00.000-04:00

Cee-Lo - I'll Be Around (pops)

Cee-Lo, everybody.

Remember kids, Atlanta and Athens are weird places, and strange stuff happens there. Outkast, Goodie Mob, Danger Mouse, and AdultSwim all came out of the same general area. I truly think there's something in the water. How else could such defiantly anti-mainstream art be produced in what is otherwise a stifling, conservative area?

Anyway, I started back to school. It's going well enough, I guess. there's only a few people left at the school that I know, much less in my classes. With such a relatively high turnover rate for the school, I shouldn't be surprised.

My ESCI class is already a little too tree-huggy for me. Now, I'm as concerned as the next guy about the environment (unless the next guy is Al Gore), but I'm also a confirmed free-market capitalist, and I also have come to embrace civilization in all its forms. If it's down to saving human lives or saving an acre of rainforest, let me get my chainsaw and I'll help cut down the timber myself, biodiversity be damned. Darn it, we clawed our way to the top of the food chain, we're the alpha species, we make the rules.

Spanish is, so far, surprisingly painless. I get to mark another space on my College Bingo Card, namely "Unintelligible Foreign Accent", but I can get the gist of what she says most of the time.

Film and Culture seems to be easy. We watch movies, we write about them, we get out with our two credit hours and are done with it. Plus, there's a nice balance between foreign/indie movies (Monsoon Wedding, Fierce Grace) and more mainstream/"big studio" movies (The Matrix, Brokeback Mountain). Four papers to write, and that's the class.

Intro to Teaching will be either great or horrible. I expect a lot of Dana White-style "Do you wanna be a f*ckin' ~~fighter~~ teacher?!?" speeches, mainly because we've already gotten one in there. But there is an upside to it:

I get to go back to WBHS and torment the little ones again. And I get class credit, too! Essentially, I spend four days with Coach Perry and bothering my cousin (who happens to be in one of his classes).

That's my schedule in a nutshell, plus the Science lab which involves a lot of driving to eco-sites and filling out charts. Whee.

So how were your first few days of school, my loyal college-age readers?

london bridge

2006-08-15T22:53:00.000-04:00

Fergie - London Bridge (alternate video) (pops)

What's up, my loyal readers?

Today I haven't really done anything.

I woke up at 7:00AM to get ready for getting up that early the rest of the semester, and did my internet business (email, news sites, etc.).

Then I played Scrabble for a while. I've been playing regularly for a couple of weeks and I've gotten to about 300-350 on average. I hereby throw down the gauntlet for anyone who wants to challenge me. Name the time, name the place.

I also finally broke down and ordered a trial subscription of the Wrestling Observer through email, but I haven't gotten anything back from Dave yet saying he got the information. I love what Dave does, but he's a bit scatterbrained sometimes. I know if I had as much to do on a daily basis as he does, plus put out the weekly newsletter, I'd be much worse than he is about being scatterbrained.

Tomorrow I've got to go get my scholarship money and buy my books (hopefully they're not cleaned out at the campus bookstore). Thursday I'll go deposit the check and maybe make a wild, unexplainable purchase that I'll regret shortly. Friday I drag myself into class and try not to freak out that my summer is already over and I did almost nothing the entire time.

Monday is going to be a long day. but at least I get Tuesday off to recover.

I just hope no one gets cute and tries to actually assign work the first week or so. I hate the "let's jump right in!" teachers. If I'm ever one of those, please take me down clean. I plan to just mellow out for at least a few days before hitting my students with the inevitable mountain of work. Hey, I can lie on a lesson plan just as well as anyone can.

Well, that about does it. See you next week, if I'm still alive, for another rousing rendition of "A Day in the Life".

saving grace

2006-08-08T22:28:00.000-04:00

Tom Petty - Saving Grace (pops)

Where shall I begin?

Well, (former, not-quite) Airman Jon-Boy came to visit Friday night. Seeing as he's back in the Land of Cotton for the time being, I expect to raise more than my share of hell with him for a while. We mostly played guitar, talked video games, and criticized each other's choices in music. (And You Will Know Us... suck. Bottom line.)

What was funny was the kittens loved him. One curled up on his lap and went to sleep, having never met him before.

Oh yeah, we're down to just two kittens. Maybe, just maybe, I can convince the family to keep them both. Two of the kittens went to Kayla Roberts' mom. The mama cat is now exiled to the outside permanently, since she's been cavorting with the kittens' father again. We'll be having none of that in this house again. We'll throw food and water out there, of course, but she can't be inside again. She'll bring in fleas, ticks, and most importantly, new kittens. None of those three are desirable.

The old sense of dread is returning. I've got ten days before I go back to the salt mines, and I'm in that state of "looking forward to it"/"not looking forward to it". On one hand, I would like to get out and maybe see some people I haven't seen since school ended, but on the other I want to keep sleeping late and staying up late.

Either way, I can't wait until nine days from now, when I get my scholarship money. Most of it is going straight to the bank (bills, bills, bills), but maybe I can hold out a few hundred for something new and nice, like an instrument or a new gadget.

Who that reads this has an iPod? I'd like to hear an unbiased summary of the pros and cons of getting a 60GB video, from someone I can relate to. I currently have about 30 to 40 gigs of music on my computer, and it would be nice to actually listen to it somewhere other than my computer.

Of course, all that music was purchased by legal means and electronic storage of such media is merely an extension of the rights guaranteed to consumers by the Berne Convention of 1955. Of course.

Anyway, I guess I'll see you around next week, if not earlier. Later.

prototype

2006-08-01T22:22:00.000-04:00

OutKast - Prototype (pops)

Hey, it's August!

Wait a minute, you mean it's already August?

Dammit.

You know it's almost time to get back to the coal mines when you start preparing the looseleaf and binders for the next semester. I did that today and it was depressing as hell.

Also, when I emptied out my old folders, I realized something: for a person with negligible artistic talent, I sure doodle a lot. I have one folder (World Civ) that is almost entirely doodling.

Then again, I have one (Communications) where you can see the exact point in the class where I realized that I was wasting time taking notes, because I stopped mid-sentence and left the rest of the notebook entirely blank.

We've made a hard and fast decision on the kittens. If they're not gone in two weeks (they'll be nine weeks old), we're going the Wal-Mart route and putting them in a big cardboard box, camping out in the parking lot, and getting the attention of a lot of little kids. Hopefully it won't come to that.

The big cat's already got a new owner lined up. She's going to be a mouser in my cousin's new house in McCaysville. I have a feeling she'll do just fine, seeing as she has no qualms about getting her paws dirty with hunting and such.

I want to buy a new musical instrument, but I also feel like I should be saving my money. (I want to be able to put a sizable down payment on a house as soon as I can, hopefully a only year or two into my first real job.) I can't decide whether I want to get a banjo or a twelve-string guitar. I already know how to play a normal guitar, which is no different in playing method, and I like the sound of a twelve string. I also want to branch out and maybe learn some new techniques, which would coincide nicely with the banjo. I'm not completely clueless about banjo technique, but is a definite adjustment between that and a regular guitar.

I'd love to get an autoharp, but there's no way I could justify the expense of one (hint, hint, for Christmas gifts). I also have a bizarre urge to buy a cheap violin and learn how to play the fiddle. It'd at least be funny to see me try. I know the fingerings (same as a mandolin), but I have no experience whatsoever with a bow.

Well, that'll about do it for now. Bye.

I've got to run

2006-07-24T22:41:00.000-04:00

Tommy Gunn and the Lineup - I've Got to Run (pops)

Hey, a band even Google knows next to nothing about! Seriously, all I can figure out is that they were a local Detroit band and they had at least two singles that they made videos for. This page is all I can find on them. They're not horrible, but something must have happened for them to not have at least some presence on the internet.

By the way, professional wrestling's version of the Anti-Christ was born a few hours ago, in the form of Aurora Rose McMahon-Levesque. Pray for the soul of wrestling, folks. In ten years time, it very well may be relegated back to the carnivals and fairs from whence it came. This will be one of the reasons.

Hulk Hogan can only come back from semi-retirement so many times before his comeback pop fades away permanently. His reality show may have bought him a few years extra, but it's borrowed time to be sure.

The Diva Search is the epitome of staleness in wrestling. In the boom years, they could afford extravagant salaries to non-wrestlers (Sable, Chyna, etc.). Now, all they're doing is wasting money, because they're scared to either (1) try something completely radical or (2) go back to the absolute basics of promotion, worried that either will offend the few mainstream fans that they've managed to keep. So, they keep rehashing ideas that worked in the boom periods (D-X, edgy tweeners, ECW), not realizing the once-in-a-lifetime confluences of events that allowed those maverick ideas to work. The only problem is that by doing this, they alienate the die-hards (i.e., me and people like me) who keep them alive during the bust periods.

UFC, for all their claims that they're going after boxing's audience instead of wrestlings, is doing a hell of a job using back-to-basics wrestling promotion. GIve two people a reason to fight, and let them fight (Tito/Ken). Introduce newer contenders slowly by building their rep, beating lower-level opposition and graduating to former top-level stars, so that they actually mean something when they go to the upper card (Rich Franklin). Build feuds over a belt to bring value to both the fighters and the title (Couture/Liddell, Sylvia/Arlovski).

UFC is a relative new dog in "sports-entertainment". (God, I hate that term. "Promoting fights" is so much more to-the-point.) Maybe it's time for the old dog to re-learn a few of its old tricks? There's a reason basics work, and the WWE needs to examine why.

Anyway, rant over. See you sometime soon, unless we're all blown to bits in a nuclear holocaust. It's more likely than you think!

random

2006-07-16T22:20:00.000-04:00

Lady Sovereign - Random (pops)

Well, it's been a week.

It's about time for another post, innit?

I've been watching the Georgia primary debates, and once again I've come to the conclusion that all politicians suck, especially the old white male versions. I've been arguing with myself over which primary ballot to pick, and I think that I'm going with the Dems just because there's more "third-party style" people to pick from, those who don't really stick to the Approved Party Platform. I like the weird ones, what can I say?

And yes, if I lived in Texas, I'd vote Kinky. How can you not like Kinky Friedman? He's pro-teachers, pro-gay marriage, anti-death penalty, and has supporters like Willie Nelson and Mojo Nixon.

I've been trying to get the kittens transitioned over to solid food for the past few days. They'll nibble at the soft cat food, but only if I hold it in my hand for them.

No, they're not spoiled. Of course not.

I think every chewable item in the living room has been chewed, and every spare piece of cloth or fabric has been scratched on. Now if we could just get someone to claim three of them, we'd be in business. Two are spoken for, so if we can get that last order in, we'll be done.

Also, they signed Griffin/Bonnar for August 26th, so I'm happy. Hopefully that combined with Liddell/Babalu will make for a good card, and not the relative stinker that the last PPV turned out to be.

So, yeah, that's it, I think. Vote early, vote often, and vote weird.

steady as she goes

2006-07-10T15:57:00.000-04:00

The Raconteurs - Steady as She Goes (pops)

It's the Pixies doing a cover of "Hey Bulldog". What's not to like?

Or at least that's what I hear. Your mileage may vary.

So how's everybody been?

I've actually done stuff in the past few days (explaining my absence).

I've been messing with my GBA all week long, because leveling up is long and tedious.

I've been trying to wrangle kittens for most of the week, because they've reached the point where they like climbing on things, and have the energy to do so nearly non-stop. I don't have the energy to chase them non-stop, so there you go.

On Saturday, I went over to my metaphorical big sister's house and watched UFC 61. Disappointing overall. I hoped I'd get more than 1:18 of action out of that feud, and I sort of hope it's not over. I'm one of the few that agrees with Herb's decision to stop it there, though, since I'd rather the fight end a few strikes before permanent damage is incurred than a few after. Arlovski/Sylvia was just text-book UFC heavyweight plodding, and the reason American promotions get slammed about the quality of their big guys. The Axe-Murderer announcement was nice, but I'm afraid that Dana may have killed off a sizable portion of the audience with the two non-events on that card. In other news, Yves/Joe was okay for what it was, Frank Mir is officially washed up, and the Joshes put on a nice show, and too bad neither could finish the other off.

I slept over there Saturday night. It's really hard for me to sleep in an unfamiliar room to begin with, but without a TV or radio in the room it's even harder. At home, I go to sleep with my TV on, at low volume, and a fan on for white noise. So pitch black and silent is hard for me to adjust to, much less with a different bed and a weird room layout.

I also have tried to start playing bass again, since I really do enjoy it, but it seems like I never make the time to do it. My bass is comparatively hard to get to, in contrast to my mando or my acoustic, which are right in front of me.

So that's my week, sort of. Leave comments, hate-mail , and death threats at the usual address.

the long cut

2006-06-30T22:47:00.000-04:00

Uncle Tupelo - The Long Cut (pops)

I'm done for the next six weeks or so.

I got done Thursday, where I half-assed a presentation and exempted from the final anyway. I love it when teachers don't really want to be there either.

This morning I went to get a haircut. I also went out and bought a Game Boy Advance, because, darn it, I deserve a treat every now and then. I've been messing with it for most of the day.

I got the Risk/Clue/Battleship cartridge, and I like the Risk most of all. Too bad I can beat the AI in four turns using the Izzard method. (Start in Australia, build up in Indonesia, steamroll through the Middle East into Africa, then go around to the Americas and keep steamrolling. You'll get the continent bonuses from Africa and South America, so you'll be more efficient than just sprawling everywhere.

I also got Pokemon Sapphire.

Done laughing yet?

No?

Okay, quit.

Hey, they're good little strategy games. I suck out loud at Final Fantasy, so this is the only RPG-ish game series I'm decent at. Well, besides an obscure, buggy PC D&D game, but that doesn't really count.

The kittens are being kicked out of their hidey-hole by the mother, so they're now in the middle of the floor and not fast enough to get out of the way. They're still as cute as ever, though, so we put up with it and move them into safe spots.

I think that's about it for the week, really. Again, not that interesting of a life. I guess I'll be back sometime next week, maybe?

fortune faded

2006-06-24T23:10:00.000-04:00

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Fortune Faded (pops)

This week has been busy.

Ergo, the first update of the week is on the last day (American calendar).

I've had homework, I've been taking care of kittens, and when I've gone to post something for the past two days, the power's gone out. Fun.

How about we call this week a mulligan, and start again after I get out of school on Friday of next week?

Although that's depressing, because it just hit me that I've only got six weeks after this one before school starts back in the fall. Ouch.

Anyway, bye for now.

hate me

2006-06-16T11:31:00.000-04:00

Blue October - Hate Me (pops)

I'm tired. Here, have a cartoon.

living proof

2006-06-13T22:36:00.000-04:00

Cat Power - Living Proof (pops)

I now have ~~three~~ EDIT: four kittens.

They are the cutest things ever.

But in about six weeks, they will have to go somewhere else.

I need someone (or someones) to take these cats off of my hands.

Locals only, and a good home is necessary. I realize this excludes a great deal of my skeezy friends, but hey, them's the breaks.

One is tortoiseshell black with gold accents (like the mother), one is tuxedo orange and white, and ~~one is~~ EDIT: two are tuxedo black and white.

I have no clue on the sexes, but I'm guessing two females and one male.

There may be another kitten on the way, but I doubt it. I have no way of checking this, since Tom Cruise got the ultrasound machine banned from home use, so blame him.

Anyway, want a kitten?

over the hills and far away

2006-06-09T23:28:00.000-04:00

Led Zeppelin - Over The Hills and Far Away (pops)

I'm fairly tired, so let's keep this brief.

The class sucks, but at least it's going to be short.

I already hate going to the gym, and I've only been once.

The class wouldn't be so bad if we could just get through the book work and be done, but no, we have to do workout labs. Stupid.

I went to the grocery store today, but only because I had to go by the bookstore and buy the new edition of the textbook, not because the book I have is outdated, but because it didn't come with the workbook.

I hate college books.

Anyway, I went to the grocery store and I started to feel my workout from yesterday. I spent forty minutes on the treadmill for lack of anything better to do, plus a few curls and lifts.

Also, the cat hasn't had kittens yet, and if I hadn't personally felt them moving around in there, I'd think that she was faking it to get attention.

So how was your week?

I feel love

2006-06-06T22:28:00.000-04:00

Blue Man Group featuring Annette Strean - I Feel Love (pops)

Short version of the day:

School was okay. I know a couple of people in there, and it seems to be a fairly decent class.

The cat is going to have those damn kittens any hour now. Probably tomorrow while I'm at school and the 'rents are at the cardiologist's office.

"The Woodsman", which I watched yesterday, is a really good movie. It may be the most uncomfortable movie ever, just for the way it makes you feel, but a really good movie nonetheless.

I figured out I have a slight case of "venous hum", where I can hear my own heartbeat through my ears. Volume comes and goes, but it's always there. I'm mostly able to ignore it. I've always had it, but now I know there's a name for it. Huzzah!

Long version of the day:

You're not getting a long version. You're lucky you're getting this little bit. You try to appease a pregnant, inconsolable cat for most of the day, plus work in school and making dinner, and still have time to tell stories on the internet.

See you sometime this week, hopefully.

Also, want a kitten?

take me away

2006-06-02T22:25:00.000-04:00

Fefe Dobson - Take Me Away (pops)

How is everybody?

Good? Good.

Nothing much to report. I'm simply not that interesting of a person, for the most part.

Today I woke up late, ate a bowl of cereal, and watched four and a half hours of TiVo'd stuff. Granted, two hours of that was the Office mini-marathon from last night, but still.

Then I worked a little on the LuchaWiki, and then I ate lunch.

Finally, I watched a little regular TV and made dinner. Cornflake chicken, if you really want to know.

So I may be the most boring person on the planet. I'm okay with that, I think.

Well, I think that's about it. I may get really busy next week and not have time to write anything. Bear with me. Yes, you, one of my maybe four regular readers.

Actually, I may be pushing it with four. Make yourself known. Stand up and be counted. Let me know if you are a regular reader. I may change how I do things on here soon, and I need feedback.

I won't give away any plans, but think "virtual foosball". Or maybe it was "interactive donkey show". one of those two, probably.

the adventure

2006-05-31T23:08:00.000-04:00

Angels and Airwaves - The Adventure (pops)

Note to Tom DeLonge: If you're going to do the whole "emo anthem rock" thing, get a decent singer. The snotty "punk" (term used loosely) accent works for, well, snotty "punk", but not for what you're trying to do here. There's nothing wrong with getting other people to sing your songs, and sometimes it really makes a difference.

Also, you'd get rid of the Blink 182 weight hanging around your neck, but I kind of figure you're banking on the lost, wandering, confused fans of Blink to make up your fanbase too.

Normally, right about here I'd throw in something about "selling out", but hey, you can't sell out twice.

Then again, I'd love to even have the opportunity to sell out. I figure I could be completely bought for $10,000 and a half-decent deli tray.

Anyway, rant mode over. I never really liked Blink 182 in the first place, but I figure I need to fill up space somehow.

Nothing much is happening here. Summer after June is going to be fun, what with three people and a pregnant cat all cooped up in a singlewide. We're already getting on each other's nerves. Lucky that there'll only be about a month of that before school starts back.

Speaking of which, the cat's probably going to drop those kittens within a week or two, so get your orders ready. I know you want a kitten or two or three.

I'll try to put up pictures of them so I can more easily entice you to get one. Free to good home, plus shiping and handling. C.O.D.'s accepted with two forms of I.D.

(Does anyone actualy accept C.O.D. anymore? All I ever see is "Sorry, no C.O.D.'s.")

(I'm enough of an English nerd to wonder about the proper order a parenthesis, quotation mark, and a period should go in. It's sickening.)

So for the rest of the week, I'll be porn-proofing a laptop for a relative (to keep her hubby in line), grocery shopping, and working on the LuchaWiki.

Won't you go take a look on the LuchaWiki, and marvel at how I now know all 31 Mexican states by heart?

Yeah, that'll get me laid.

back in the mud

2006-05-25T22:49:00.000-04:00

Bubba Sparxxx - Back in the Mud (pops)

Hey! I know people who know that guy! Well, if you live anywhere near Athens, I can just about guarantee you know someone who knows Andy. Small town mentality stays even though there's 175,000 people.

So I get the mail yesterday and there's something in there from DirecTV. I'm thinking "What are they trying to pull now?" I open the flyer up and it says, basically, call this number and tell them this code and you'll get six months free of Showtime and all of the Showtime channels (TMC, Flix, Sundance, plus all the east/west and sequentials). I (with my pessimistic mind) automatically assume there's a catch.

Well, there's no catch. Free Showtime for six months, and we didn't even do anything.

Now I'll definitely be getting another DVR for my room. "Ho-Time" doesn't tape itself, you know.

Unless it's raining or looks like it will rain soon, I'll be at graduation tomorrow. If anyone's planning a major prank, let me know so I'll be prepared.

Suggestions include spreading lime on the football field, shaving cream bombs, and hard-wiring a noisemaker into the sound system.

All of the above are essentially harmless, although that first one will mean long hours of hard labor re-sodding the field under the watchful eye of Beggs. Not exactly a pleasant way to spend a summer.

I think that's it. Drop me a line if you want to get in touch.

disarm

2006-05-23T23:14:00.000-04:00

Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm (pops)

Wasn't the season finale of House a mindfuck?

I mean, you could see the ending coming a mile away, but still, a mindfuck. I was glad to see Casey Jones in a supporting role, though I would have liked to see him use the hockey stick and/or baseball bat instead of the gun.

For the past few days, I've been playing Gin on Yahoo Games. I'm decent, but if you want to try and beat me, let me know and I'll give you the screenname to contact me at. Longtime readers may actually know the screenname offhand, but I doubt it.

I start class in two weeks. That sucks. Though it's not so bad when you factor in that there will most likely be no homework or anything like that. At most I expect a couple of pages of a paper.

I always remember the principle rule of student griping: the teacher likes work just as much you do, i.e. not at all, so they'll do as little as possible.

Plus, everything you do they have to grade, times twenty. Not fun.

Then again, there are the few sadists out there who enjoy assigning work for seemingly no reason (paging Shadie Thompson to the White Courtesy phone...), but they're luckily few and far between.

Anyway, I'm going to go savor these last two weeks, so I'll see you all on the flipside.

crazy

2006-05-19T22:17:00.000-04:00

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (pops)

Well, my cousin's test results came back yesterday. Negative across the board, which is quite the relief for the entire family.

I spent most of today and yesterday doing a title history for the NWA Americas Tag Team Championship, an obscure Los Angeles championship that I, at first, didn't realize had 150 different reigns. Yikes. A lot of typing. I must really love wrestling.

But I'm actually proud of that page. Now I just have to go back and put in all the locations.

I'm kind of tired of typing at this point, so here's a quick survey. OK, maybe not so quick.

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1. EVER BEEN GIVEN AN ENGAGEMENT RING?
No

2. LONGEST RELATIONSHIP?
You're funny. Maybe a week. Maybe. If you're counting elementary school, that is.

3. LAST GIFT YOU RECEIVED?
The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge, from a nice guy on the Internet. It's an 1100 page desk reference covering basically everything on the planet. Right up my alley.

4. EVER DROPPED A CELLPHONE?
Not badly. No more than a couple feet.

5. WHEN'S THE LAST TIME YOU WORKED OUT?
Let's see. I fulfilled my high school P.E. requirement five years ago, so... then.

6. THING(S) YOU SPEND A LOT OF MONEY ON?
Gas and insurance, mostly. I don't really cost much to keep happy.

7. LAST FOOD YOU ATE?
Homemade burritos. Awesome.

8. FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX?
Face.

9. ONE FAVORITE SONG?
"Another First Kiss" by TMBG

10. WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
Scenic Barrow COunty

11. HIGH SCHOOL YOU ATTENDED:
Winder Barrow

12. CELL PHONE SERVICE PROVIDER:
Virgin

13. FAVORITE MALL STORE
Whatever Funcoland/EB/Gamestop/Babbage's derivative is closest.

14. LONGEST JOB YOU HAD:
A few months during last summer setting up websites.

15. DO YOU OWN A PAIR OF DICE?
Yes.

16. DO YOU PRANK CALL PEOPLE?
No

17. LAST WEDDING YOU ATTENDED:
My cousin Tandi's four years ago

18. FIRST FRIEND YOU'D CALL IF YOU WON THE LOTTERY:
Kate

19. LAST TIME YOU ATTENDED CHURCH:
"Senator, I don't recall"

20. FAVORITE FAST FOOD RESTAURANT:
Checkers, Wendy's, Krystal

21. BIGGEST LIE YOU HAVE HEARD?
"They're real"

23. WHERE'S YOUR FAVORITE PLACE TO EAT WITH FRIENDS?
Home

24. CAN YOU COOK?
Yes. See the burritos above.

27. LAST TIME YOU CRIED?:
I can't remember

28. MOST DISLIKED FOOD:
Okra. Ick.

29. THING YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT YOURSELF:
Fabulous physique.

30. THING YOU DISLIKE MOST ABOUT YOURSELF:
Sometimes I'm just too sexy.

32. LONGEST SHIFT YOU HAVE WORKED AT A JOB?:
I'm not a "shift" guy. More a "paid by the job" kind of guy.

33. FAVORITE MOVIE?:
Busty Cops

34. CAN YOU SING?
Only back up harmonies, and only if I'm medicated.

35. LAST CONCERT ATTENDED?:
Veblen. I need to get out more.

36. LAST KISS?
Funny story...

37. LAST MOVIE Watched:
Hotel Rwanda, maybe?

38. THING YOU NEVER LEAVE HOME WITHOUT?
My wallet.

39. FAVORITE VACATION SPOT?:
Myrtle Beach, SC. (So, so redneck...)

40. DO YOU LIKE CHINESE FOOD?
Sure

42. IS YOUR ROOM CLEAN?:
That'd be a no.

43. LAPTOP OR DESKTOP COMPUTER?
Desktop

44. FAVORITE COMEDIAN?:
Steven Wright, Ron White, Jeff Garlin, Eddie Izzard, and that's just from today. Don't make me choose a favorite.

45. Sing in the shower?
No

46. SLEEP WITH OR WITHOUT CLOTHES?
With

47. WHO SLEEPS WITH YOU EVERY NIGHT?
No one. (*sniff*)

48. DO LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS WORK?:
Probably not.

49. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU BEEN PULLED OVER BY THE POLICE?:
None. Watch it, I just jinxed myself.

50. PANCAKES OR FRENCH TOAST?
Pancakes

51. DO YOU LIKE COFFEE?
Yes, but not to the extent I'll drink it every day. And normal coffee only.

52. HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR EGGS?
Omelette or scrambled

53. DO YOU BELIEVE IN ASTROLOGY?
Not really. I think everything's connected, though. I really refer to Dogbert in these situations, though.

54. LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?:
A wrong number. (How pathetic.)

55. LAST PERSON ON YOUR MISSED CALL LIST?:
Devin S.

56. WHAT WAS THE LAST TEXT MESSAGE YOU RECEIVED?
That my text message rates are going up, and that was probably three months ago. I don't like text messages, so it doesn't affect me.

57. MCDONALDS OR BURGER KING?
Either/or.

58. NUMBER OF PILLOWS?:
Only one actually under my head, but others around my head.

59. WHAT ARE YOU WEARING RIGHT NOW?
A Wuxtry Records shirt and a pair of shorts

60. PICK A LYRIC, ANY LYRIC OR Song?
"And I am a snake head eating/The head on the opposite side"

61. WHAT KIND OF JELLY DO YOU LIKE ON YOUR PB & J?
Apple.

62. CAN YOU PLAY POOL?:
I should be able to, with my ability in physics and geometry, but I suck greatly at it.

63. CAN YOU SWIM?
I can not drown as long as I don't panic. That's about as close as I get to swimming.

64. FAVORITE KIND OF ICE CREAM?
Birthday cake flavored, but only certain brands

65. DO YOU LIKE MAPS?:
No.

66. TELL ME A RANDOM FACT ABOUT YOURSELF:
I open-mouth kissed a horse once.

68. EVER ATTEND A THEME PARTY?:
No

69. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SEASON?:
Sweeps.

70. LAST TIME YOU LAUGHED AT SOMETHING STUPID?
Tonight

71. WHAT TIME DID YOU WAKE UP THIS MORNING?
7:00, and then again at 9:00

72. BEST THING ABOUT WINTER?
Winter break

73. LAST TIME A COP GAVE YOU A TICKET?:
Never. Streak's still alive!

75. NAME OF YOUR FIRST PET?:
Gizmo

76. DO YOU THINK PIRATES ARE COOL OR OVERRATED?
I wouldn't know.

77. WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS WEEKEND?
Shopping for groceries.

78. BIRTHDATE:
1987.01.11

79. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE?
Decadently wealthy.

85. ARE YOU ON A LAPTOP?
No.

87. ARE YOU SMILING?
No.

88. DO YOU HAVE ON EYELINER?
No.

89. DO YOU MISS SOMEONE RIGHT NOW?
I certainly do.

90. IF YOU COULD GO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD WHERE WOULD YOU GO?
Scarlet Johanson's bedroom, armed with a camera crew.

91. DO YOU HAVE A MYSPACE?
Technically. I do, but I don't use it.

92. ARE YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL?
No.

93. DO YOU HAVE A CRUSH?
Sure.

94. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NAME?
Bender Bending Rodriguez

95. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BATHING SUIT?
Black

96. DOES YOUR SCHOOL START IN AUGUST?
Yes

97. DID YOU GO ON VACATION LAST MONTH?
No

98. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ON A CRUISE?
No

99. DO YOU HAVE A SISTER?
No

100. DO YOU HAVE A BROTHER?
Only Thalyn, my brother from another mother.

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There, wasn't that fun?

caught in a mosh

2006-05-16T22:55:00.000-04:00

Anthrax - Caught In A Mosh (pops)

Well, how've y'all been?

I've been good. I haven't done all that much, but that's not new.

I spent the majority of the day either looking for the cat or updating the LuchaWiki.

Speaking of which, you should totally go over there and look around. It's cool if you're even the least bit interested in lucha libre. More importantly, it's a testament to nerd-dom at a dangererously high level.

I spent half the day trying to research the Samoan wrestling family tree, which consists of four main branches (Afa, Sika, Junior, and Vera) and about a half-dozen scattered groups. Fun, fun, fun.

The great thing about doing so much research and coding is that I can do wiki coding without thinking about it now. I now need to think about doing HTML, whereas previously it was the other way around. I had to stop myself from putting double brackets around every key word in this post.

I haven't decided whether or not to go to WBHS' graduation next week. I think if it's nice weather, I'll probably go.

It'll be nice to see some people I haven't seen in a long time, plus I'll get to actually interact with people other than my cat. Kate said something about being more social, and I think that this qualifies. Also, once a year is enough, right?

Well, that's about it. I figure I'll be right here all this week. The week after next (I think) I go back to school for a month for P.E., so I should probably get ready for all that sometime soon.

Bye.

white lines

2006-05-11T23:02:00.000-04:00

Duran Duran - White Lines (Don't Do It) (remix) (pops)

Well, the satellite's back running. Turns out it was a bad coaxial cable running from the splitter to my box. I don't have to buy a new box, which is nice, but I'm still out $70.00 for the technician visit yesterday.

But you see, now if something goes wrong, I can say the tech did it and everything's covered. If I replaced the coax cable myself (which I could have done, it's not brain surgery), I wouldn't have any recourse if something went horribly wrong.

Anyway, the TV's back on in my room and I can sleep again.

In other news, we're 90% sure the cat's pregnant, so around the middle of August, I'll probably be trying to get rid of kittens. Free to a good home, first come, first serve, paid reservations accepted and encouraged. They'll either be mottled brown, tuxedo, silver, or a mixture of the two of the three, which, any way you look at it, will look really weird.

Tomorrow I'm going to finish painting the natural gas tank (in a beautiful "machinery gray"), then I'm going to climb under the house and cable tie the new coax to the phone cord, trying to keep it out of the way of any stray animals (i.e., my cat).

If anyone wants to come help, or needs to perform any state-mandated community service, come by and I'll sign your time-sheet.

I guess Saturday I'm going grocery shopping and probably taking Mom out to eat somewhere for Mother's Day. If I were a better son, I would have bought something for her, but I know I could never find anything she'd like and it's easier to just take her to a semi-nice restaurant (i.e. non fast food).

Well, I think thats it. Now I'm going to make fun of Mayorga for testing positive and losing a chunk of the biggest PPV revenue of the year, then I'm going to rewind and watch Hideki Matsui break his arm over and over. Doesn't look good for the Yankees, now, does it? I hate it for Matsui (longest consecutive game streak to start a mjor league career broken), not so much for the team as a whole.

Bye.

better way

2006-05-09T22:32:00.000-04:00

Ben Harper - Better Way (pops)

Well, my DirecTV receiver's been broken since yesterday, and it's pissing me off.

It's just my personal receiver, in my room. The other two are fine.

So I'm having to pay $70.00 to get someone to come out and say "Yeah, it's broken, better buy another one". Last time I checked, $70.00 didn't grow on trees, so that kind of sucks.

What's more, is I can't sleep without the TV on (neither can my mom, where I got it from), so I'm having to leave my Last.FM station on all night and keep my monitor on to try to simulate it. It doesn't work, but it's at least letting me get a little bit of sleep.

Also, I spent most of the afternoon yesterday clearing the yard and cutting weeds out from under the back of the house. Lots of fun. I spent this afternoon repainting the natural gas tank. As you know, me and manual labor don't get along, so I'm definitely enjoying all of this stuff.

Since my TV doesn't work, and StumbleUpon is as slow as molasses going uphill in December thanks to their botched hardware upgrade, I'm resorting to "soaking the sponge", as it were, by reading online encyclopedias, at least in between bouts of manual labor. I do this thing every once in awhile, where I search for something random, then follow whatever links are on the page, and I end up knowing way too much about completely useless stuff, like the entire discography of Scatman John, including his hard-to-find Japanese-only singles.

Yes, I know I could be doing something useful, but where's the fun in that?

Well, I'm going to try to go to sleep. Good night, world.

over my head

2006-05-05T19:50:00.000-04:00

The Fray - Over My Head (pops)

Sorry for the second post, but I have a favor to ask. (Hey, I went to all the trouble of a second video, what more do you want from me?)

Click here and follow the directions.

Simple enough, no?

If you set up your own Johari window, tell me and I'll do the same for you.

I think this could be fun. We get to see how our own perceptions match up with people around us.

Remember, children: introspection is fun and profitable!

closer

2006-05-05T19:36:00.000-04:00

Nine Inch Nails - Closer (live at Coachella) (pops)

I officially finished this school year today, and I can now say I'm a college sophomore with a 4.0 GPA. But more on that later. We've got more imporant things to do, like...

Survey Time! But this one's a little different. There are two rules:

1. You can only say YES or NO
2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone specifically asks.

Taken a picture naked? No
Made out with a member of the same sex? No
Danced in front of your mirror? No
Told a lie? Yes
Gotten in a car with people you just met? No
Been in a fist fight? Yes
Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back? Yes
Been arrested? No
Left your house without telling your parents? No
Ditched school to do something more fun? No
Slept in a bed with a member of the same sex? Yes
Seen someone die? Yes
Kissed a picture? No
Slept in until 3? Yes
Laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by? Yes
Played dress up? No
Fallen asleep at work/school? Yes
Felt an earthquake? Yes
Touched a snake? Yes
Ran a red light? No
Had detention? No
Been in a car accident? Yes
Pole danced? No
Been lost? Yes
Sang karaoke? No
Done something you told yourself you wouldn't? Yes
Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? No
Caught a snowflake on your tongue? Yes
Kissed in the rain? No
Sang in the shower? No
Got your tongue stuck to a pole? No
Ever gone to school partially naked? No
Sat on a roof top? No
Played chicken? No
Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on? Yes
Been told you're hot by a complete stranger? No
Broken a bone? No
Mooned/flashed someone? No
Forgotten someone's name? Yes
Slept naked? No
Blacked out from drinking? No
Played a prank on someone? Yes
Felt like killing someone? Yes
Made a parent cry? Yes
Cried over someone? Yes
Had sex more than 5 times in one day? No
Had/Have a dog? Yes
Been in a band? Yes
Drank 25 sodas in a day? No
Shot a gun? Yes

Fill this one out. Keep it going by making other unsuspecting people do it, too. Then, we embed a hidden message into it. Next, we trigger the effect of the message through a world-wide signal. We'll rule the world!

Or something like that.

girls, girls, girls

2006-05-04T10:50:00.000-04:00

Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls (uncensored) (pops)

Here we go with another blog meme. Reply or perish.

Reply With Your Name and...
1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll challenge you to try something.
3. I'll pick a color that I associate with you.
4. I'll tell you something I like about you.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on yours.

Now make with the responding!

look what you've done

2006-05-03T19:45:00.000-04:00

Asante - Look What You've Done (pops)

Last night I got home late due to my Spanish exam.

So I didn't post.

Now, I'm throwing this up here to notify the world that I'm done tomorrow at around 4:00PM, and a round is on me if you want to go do something later.

I'm free until June 6th, when my June P.E. class starts, and then I'm free again on June 30th. Not a bad deal.

So come and see me. I'm pretty much available all the time.

Now I'm going to go watch the second part of this House M.D. episode. (Are we supposed to feel bad for Forman after he's acted like a jerk for half this past season, just because he's got this weird neurological disease? I'm kind of mixed on this.)

Bye.

all falls down

2006-04-27T21:56:00.000-04:00

Kanye West - All Falls Down (Live) (pops)

It's almost over.

One more day of regular classes, then four (hopefully three) tests, and I'm done for a month.

I figured out my grades for the final. I need at least a 72 to get an A in Spanish, and I need to get at least a 68 to get an A in World Civ.

Communication shouldn't be a problem, but Psych will kill me if I have to take the final. I should exempt out, but if I don't, I'll at least have all week to study for it, because it's on Friday.

I need to listen to more music. I've been so busy these past few weeks that I haven't even listened to my Last.FM station in two weeks. I feel bad, because I really like music, and being too busy for it is kind of depressing.

My cat has transitioned from "all outdoor" to "outdoor when we don't feel like messing with her". So she's outside for most of the day, but she usually gets let in in the evening after dinner. She's explored the entire house (except my room, because there are too many exposed electrical playthings). We blocked off the few places she can't go, and now we just let her roam and hope she comes when she gets called.

Which is weird. She is the only cat I've ever known that comes when you call her and follows vocal commands. Most cats are too independent for that. She basically sleeps and eats all day, so maybe she figures she's got a good thing going.

Well, that's it. Tune in next week when I'm in the middle of Exams Week and I will have even less time to put anything down here than I do now.

anything but down

2006-04-25T22:10:00.000-04:00

Sheryl Crow - Anything but Down (pops)

You know, if you were to "Tom Petty"-fy this song, it could really kick ass. You know, male vocal, more guitar, harder rhythm section, more Southern accent. Then again, those last three apply to pretty much every song ever.

Anyway, here's a survey.

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1. Honestly, what color is your underwear? White

2. Honestly, whats on your mind right now? Ricky Williams getting suspended again. (ESPNews is on in the background.)

3. Honestly, what are you doing right now? Typing this. (Whoa. Meta.)

4. Honestly what did you do today? Went to class. That's about it.

5. Honestly, do you think you are attractive? Maybe on a good day. Usually, no.

6. Honestly, have you done something bad today? Define "bad". Killed someone? No. Almost cut someone off in traffic? Yes.

7. Honestly, do you watch disney channel? Only Toon Disney, and only when they show The Tick or X-Men. (Such a nerd.)

8. Honestly, are you jealous of someone right now? Not really. I'm envious of some of their possessions or their relationships or their social standing, something like that, but not of the entire person, because everybody's got their something that's really messed up.

9. Honestly, what makes you happy most of the time? Lucha, no work to do, and maybe a really good cheeseburger every once in a while.

10. Honestly, do you bite your nails? Nope. Trim them with a set of clippers.

11. Honestly, what is your mood right now? Tired.

12. Honestly, have you had an eating disorder? Nope. I actually eat a normal, fairly healthy diet. I have a horrible metabolism, compounded by my general apathy towards movement.

13. Honestly, do you want to see someone this very minute? Yes.

14. Honestly, do you have a deep dark secret? I open-mouth kissed a horse once.

15. Honestly, do you hate someone right now? Yes. And they most likely have no idea. It's better that way.

16. Honestly, who/what do you want to hug right now? That would be the person who I got this survey from, because I didn't do anything for her birthday besides the obligatory lame e-card.

17. Honestly, are you loyal? To a fault. You turn on me, though, and I'm taking everybody with me.

18. Honestly, are you in denial? Not really. Though, if you're in real denial, wouldn't you deny being in denial?

19. Honestly, have you recently thought of something forbidden? Yes. The Lambada.

20. Honestly, who is/are your best friend(s)? Several people who I never see anymore. So, technically, no one.

21. Honestly, do you like someone? Yes. Always. Not always the same person, but I always am deeply in like.

22. Honestly does anyone like you? Not that I know of. If I'm wrong, please correct me.

23. Honestly, is it going anywhere with them? N/A

24. Honestly, do you smoke weed? Nope.

25. Honestly, do you smoke cigarettes? Nope.

26. Honestly, do you do drugs? Just the ones my doctor gives me.

27. Honestly, have you ever drank alcohol? Only in cough syrup form.

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There, was that so hard?

down with the sickness

2006-04-22T23:25:00.000-04:00

Disturbed - Down With The Sickness (pops)

I've been sick. That's why I haven't posted. Wednesday night my throat started to get sore, and by Thursday it was so sore I could barely talk. Luckily, on Friday my classes got cancelled/deemed unimportant, so I stayed home and slept/lounged.

I'm just now to the point where I'm feeling better. And just in time, too, because I have a ton of homework for an upcoming Spanish test. Plus, I've got a Psych test Monday and a poster presentation due Wednesday.

Then, next week, the fun really starts because it's Finals week. Awesome. Hopefully, I should only have three to take, and only two are anything to worry about. The Spanish is going to be an absolute killer, and World Civ is going to suck about as much.

On the plus side, we get to see how well I can BS about Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism in contrast to my last test where I BS'ed on Christianity.

I'm going to go to sleep now and wake up early so I can make a bunch of graphs out of my twelve page paper. Then I get to listen to incomprehensible Spanish accents tell me how to say "I have died".

Remember kids: "He muerto."

beat of my heart

2006-04-18T22:40:00.000-04:00

Hilary Duff - Beat of My Heart (pops)

The past few days have been a bit mixed. I'll explain.

First, I got my World Civ test back, and I somehow made a 92. I guess the power of coinflip test-taking is still alive and well.

My Spanish test has been pushed back to Tuesday, giving me five extra days to do my lab work.

My major porjects all got pushed back a day, whihc is nice.

My Psych class is canceled Friday because one of my classmates got accepted into a major regional conference for her research project, which is good because, obviously I get out of class, but also because I genuinely like her. She's a 49 year old mother of three who decided to go back to school solely because she wanted to enrich her life, and I like people like that. People who can't stand not learning are people I get along with.

I had a chance today to outline my political philosophy in one sentence. I think it's pretty nice: "I despise idiocy in all its forms." Quick, succinct, to the point.

Speaking of which, we're probably going to turn Iran into a glass parking lot before this thing's all over with, aren't we? "Exploring all options" isn't exactly comforting.

You've gotten to this point, and you're wondering, "He said it was a mixed few days. So far, I've only seen good stuff. WTF?"

Well, when you have a lot of good things happen to you at once, you know a hell of a bad thing's right around the corner. This one's a humdinger.

My cousin's cancer is probably back. He's my father's sister's second child. He had large cell lymphoma when he was eight or so, but it went away fairly quickly with chemo, and he hasn't really had any problems since. Now he's 22, and he'd been having abdominal pains for a couple days. He went to the doctor, thinking it might be his asthma, or maybe (at worst) appendicitis. Turns out, his platelet count was extremely low, and he needed to be sent to Grady as soon as possible. But thanks to the wonderful American insurance system, he's been having to wait all weekend to get in to see anyone at Grady. He was specifically told not to shave, go out, or do anything that could potentially cause him to get cut, because he could bleed out in minutes. Yet they couldn't get him to a hospital where he could see what exactly was wrong.

So the entire family's stressed out. My immediate family and my grandmother are supposed to be the only ones that know, but that lasted about a day and a half (wasn't me that leaked). Now everyone in the extended family above the age of 10 knows what's going on, and freak-outs of epic proportions are due any day.

I just hope the results for his initial tests are back soon. Not knowing is millions of times worse than knowing.

Fun times for everybody. So how was your weekend? Better than mine, I hope.

copperhead road

2006-04-13T22:36:00.000-04:00

Steve Earle - Copperhead Road (pops)

300th Post! Yay!

In honor of such a storied occasion, I'm going to keep this one short.

Well, not so much that it's the 300th post, but that I'm super busy. I've got a little work left on everything, plus some lab work for Spanish (due Thursday).

I'll try to do better once school gets out, okay? May 4th is my last day (I think), so get ready to lock up your women and your liquor. Okay, just your women.

Have fun between now and Tuesday (my projected next post).

bang and blame

2006-04-11T22:04:00.000-04:00

R.E.M. - Bang and Blame (pops)

Today kind of sucked.

I took the massive test in World Civ, over material which, you know, she didn't teach.

It would be different if I were the only one who thought that, but I'm definitely not. An informal poll of the class says she's gone from being merely ineffectual to being actively harmful.

According to the Dilbert division of management styles, this is not a good sign. Of the four types of bosses, active evil is by far the worst. Active good is best, then inactive evil and inactive good are tied for second. So far, the Dilbert management principles haven't steered me wrong, so I continue to believe in them.

As an aside, if anyone wants to buy me the Dilbert DVD set, go right ahead. You can go through my Amazon wishlist and have it sent directly to me. The link's on the sidebar.

On the good side of today, I actually understood everything in Spanish class, and I'm to the point where I can watch the news on Univision and understand 90% of it. Don't ask me to speak Spanish, though. That, I suck at.

More importantly today, I also got my HGD paper done. Barring any final revisions the prof makes me make, I'm done except for the posterboard presentation. Since that's on the 26th, I get to kind of sail free for a while in there.

I need to work on my group presentation for Communications. I got assigned the "Art" group, and since I'm such a natural leader (*ahem*), I got to subdivide everything out so that I get to cover music. Awesome. I kind of have a background in music, so that's pretty nice. Every once in a while, it pays to take charge. Also, the other groups are kind of imploding all on their own, so my group looks a lot better in comparison. Schadenfreude for the win.

My cat (who desperately needs a new name) seems to be back to stay. She's a scrapper, and seems to win every fight with the other, not-so-friendly neighborhood cats. Hey, the other cats had their chance, but Here was the only one who came up to us to let us pet her. Therefore, she gets the food and the attention. Seems only fair. Plus, Here is by far the most scrawny of the neighborhood cats.

I think that's it. Be sure to keep reading the new-and-continually-improving LuchaWiki (link on sidebar). It's growing every day, and I'm doing my part by filling out info for the Japanese and non-Mexican North Americans. If you have any expertise, or can just copy information from Wikipedia, please help.

See you Thursday (hopefully).

not pretty enough

2006-04-06T21:46:00.000-04:00

Kasey Chambers - Not Pretty Enough (live) (opens in Windows Media Player)

I have a psycho teacher.

Well, one psycho teacher, one teacher who means well but is misguided, and one who is really nice but gives a ton of work that probably isn't all necessary.

All three have conspired together (I assume) to form a dark cabal bent on making my life suck for a couple of weeks.

Three major, grade-altering projects, all due in a span of two days. Plus at least two Spanish tests, two World Civ tests, one Speech test and one HGD test within the next three weeks.

Have I mentioned that this time of year sucks. It's called a pacing guide, and it's there to ensure this kind of stuff doesn't happen. Follow it, and all will be well. Write some extra time into the guide, so maybe the students can have a break a couple of times during the year.

So in essence, grrr.

Also, my family has adopted a cat, or rather it adopted us. It showed up last week, and so far it's here most of every day. The twisted sense of humor in our house has led to her name: "Here".

As in, "Here, kitty, kitty".

We were going to name her "Bucky", after Bucky D. Katt of Get Fuzzy fame, but she turned out to be a she, and "Bucky" doesn't work for a female cat.

Again, twisted sense of humor.

She is like a dog in that she comes running off the porch and greets me when I get out of my car. And I don't even smell like cat food. I have never had a cat do this. Ever. Maybe a weird cat for a weird family.

Anyway, that's it for this week. Tune in next week, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel.

do you realize?

2006-04-04T22:11:00.000-04:00

The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize? (pops)

How's it hanging?

I tried to actually do something in the time between my last post and this one. I'm not sure I succeeded, but here's what happened.

Showtime had a free preview weekend. This is the only time I usually get to watch semi-recent movies, because theatres usually suck and I never have time to go to the rental place. I watched a few movies, to say the least.

Number one was Saw. I'm not usually a horror guy, so this was a little out of my element. Still, it was a good movie if you ignore a couple of plot points. One, why didn't Larry, a doctor, notice the guy in the room was breathing? Two, why did he tie off his leg at the ankle when he should have tied it off at the femoral artery? Much less blood loss that way. Anyway, Saw was a good psychological-style thriller, but the Rashomon deal is kind of played out. The kills, which were the reason most people saw the movie, were suitably gory so mission accomplished overall.

I watched Walking Tall. A nice, simple action movie. It doesn't try to really be anything it's not, so in my mind it works. Dwayne is perfectly servicable as an action star. The plot is simple, and if you overthink it, is full of holes, but this is the kind of movie where thinking is bad. Overall, thumbs up.

I also saw Soul Plane. The less said about that, the better. One thing, though: Sofia Vergara, if you're reading this, please feel free to write, call, or email me. Pure hotness.

Finally, I watched Fahrenheit 9/11. Yeah, it's biased, counter-jingoistic, anti-authoritarian propaganda, but the source material wasn't fabricated out of thin air. Michael Moore's probably blowing a lot of little things way out of proportion, but I don't believe in coincidences that big. Independent investigations were absolutely necessary, and the lack of such investigations was unprecedented and conspicuous. Something's rotten in Denmark. The movie is okay for a documentary, but Moore knows when to heighten drama and add levity. He knmows his stuff. Thumbs up.

So that's it. You've got your three and a half movie reviews. Now I'm going to go do homework for a couple of days. Three presentations, due all on the same day. Awesome.

let me see you bounce

2006-03-30T21:42:00.000-05:00

Biz Markie - Let Me See You Bounce (pops)

Not really much to say today.

I didn't do much of anything today, now that I think about it. I woke up, did homework, went to school, came home, and ate dinner. Not much more than that. Nothing interesting.

As such, consider this a "still alive' post. I'm still alive, but not much else is happening.

I promise to lead a more interesting life in the future.

Well, that's it. Bye.

live and learn

2006-03-28T22:35:00.000-05:00

The Cardigans - Live and Learn (pops)

Country-flavored pop-rock from a Swedish female-fronted band?

The mind boggles.

Speaking of country, on my little shopping excursion Saturday, I got an "Encyclopedia of Country Music, 1920-1997". Sometimes I think that I have an actual addiction to outdated reference books. I've got several editions "Leonard Maltin's Big Book of Movies" from all throughout the 1990's, a few editions of "The People's Almanac" from the 1970's, and gobs and gobs of music encyclopedias, like the Guiness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, which dates to roughly 1995, which I purchased sometime in 2000 for three bucks.

Okay, I also really like cheap stuff, and outdated reference materials are even cheaper than sports video games from more than two years ago. (I have every edition of Madden Football from the first one to 2004, and I spent maybe fifteen bucks for all of them. Madden '95 is still the best sports game ever, with NHL '95 right behind it. I miss the Sega Genesis.)

So as far as my schedule for next semester goes, it sucks. Really, really sucks. On Mondays, I'll be at the school from 10AM to 7PM, with only a one hour break at noon. Wednesdays, I'll be there from 10AM to noon and then come back at 4PM until 7PM. Fridays are comparatively easy, with just 10AM to noon.

Needless to say, I'm not looking forward to Mondays. I'm trying to get a little bit of a reprieve, and get into the same class as the late class, but on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11AM, but it's tough going.

Since I'll be free (or at least not in class) on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I'll probably take the substitute teaching class at the Barrow County Board of Education this summer, if I can get in, and sub at the high school a little bit during the year.

Scary thought, huh?

Well, let's end on that note. Write, call, or e-mail with complaints, comments, or marriage proposals.

thinking about you

2006-03-26T09:45:00.000-05:00

Ivy - Thinking About You (pops)

Life sucks right now, except for my new bowling shirt. Everything else is pretty bad. My schedule for school is so screwed up I'll be there at least an extra semester, I've got entirely too much homework, and Buck Owens died.

So in honor of my relatively bad mood, let's do a pointless time-waster of a survey. Thanks to Kate, because she's the ginchiest.

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More than 99 movies viewed means you’re a movie freak!

( )Pirates of the Caribbean
( )The Mexican
(x)Fight Club
(x)Starsky and Hutch
(x)Blazing Saddles
( )Garden State
(x)The Princess Bride
(x)Young Frankenstein
( )Anchor Man
( )Napoleon Dynamite
( )Saw
( )White noise
( )White Oleander
(x)Anger Management
( )Fever Pitch
( )The Matrix

total here: 6

( )50 First Dates
(x)Jason
(x)Scream
(x)Scream 2
( )Scream 3
(x)Scary Movie
(x)Scary Movie 2
(x)Scary Movie 3
(x)American Pie
(x)American Pie 2
( )American Wedding
( )Harry Potter
( )Harry Potter 2
( )Harry Potter 3
( )Harry Potter 4
( )Resident Evil 1
( )Resident Evil 2
(x)The Wedding Singer
( )Little Black Book

total here: 9

( )The Village
( )Donnie Darko
( )Lilo & Stitch
(x)Finding Nemo
( )Finding Neverland
(x)13 Ghosts
( )Signs
( )The Grinch
( )Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( )White Chicks
( )Butterfly Effect
( )Thirteen going on 30
( )I,Robot
( )Dodgeball
( )Universal Soldier
( )A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x)Along Came A Spider
(x)Deep impact

total here: 4

(x)King Pin
( )Never Been Kissed
(x)Meet The Parents
( )Meet the Fockers
(x)Eight Crazy Nights
( )A Cinderella Story
( )The Terminal
( )The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( )Passport to Paris
(x)Dumb & Dumber
( )Dumb & Dumberer
( )Final Destination
( )Final Destination 2
(x)Halloween
( )The Ring
( )The Ring 2
(x)Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
( )Practical Magic
( )Chicago
( )Ghost Ship
( )From Hell
(x)Hellboy
( )Secret Window
(x)I Am Sam
(x)The Whole Nine Yards
(x)The Whole Ten Yards
(x)The Day After Tomorrow
(x)Child's Play
( )Bride of Chucky
(x)Ten Things I Hate About You
( )Just Married
( )Gothika
(x)Nightmare on Elm Street
(x)Sixteen Candles
(x)Bad boys
( )Bad Boys 2
( )Joy Ride
(x)Seven
(x)Oceans Eleven
(x)Oceans Twelve
( )Identity

total here: 19

( )Lone Star
(x)Predator I
( )Predator II
(x)Independence Day
( )Cujo
( )A Bronx Tale
( )Dark City
(x)Christine
(x)ET
( )The Professional (Leon)
( )My Big Fat Greek Wedding
( )Maid in Manhattan
( )Frailty
( )How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(x)She's All That
(x)Calendar Girls
( )Sideways
(x)Mars Attacks

total here: 7

( )Event Horizon
( )Ever after
(x)Forrest Gump
(x)Big Trouble in Little China
(x)X-Men 1
(x)X-Men 2
( )Catch Me If You Can
( )The Others
( )Freaky Friday
( )Ring of Fire
( )The Hot Chick
( )Swimfan
( )Miracle
(x)Old School
(x)Ray
( )The Notebook
( )K-Pax
(x)King Arthur

total here: 7

(x)Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(x)Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(x)Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
( )A Walk to remember
( )Boogeyman
( )Hitch
(x)The Fifth Element
(x)Star Wars episode I The Phantom Menace
(x)Star Wars episode II Attack of The Clones
(x)Star Wars episode III Revenge of The Sith
(x)Star Wars episode IV A New Hope
(x)Star Wars episode V The Empire Strikes Back
(x)Star Wars episode VI Return of The Jedi...
(x)Troop Beverly Hills
( )Swimming with Sharks
(x)Air Force One
( )For Richer or Poorer
( )People Under the Stairs
( )Blue Velvet
(x)Sound of Music
(x)Parent Trap
( )The Burbs
(x)The Terminator
( )Empire Records
( )Meet Joe Black
( )The Order
(x)Spiderman
(x)Spiderman 2
( )Amelie
(x)Star Trek: Nemesis
(x)What's Eating Gilbert Grape

total here: 19

(x)Mean Girls
(x)Shrek
(x)Shrek 2
(x)The Incredibles
(x)Collateral
(x)The Fast & The Furious
(x)2 Fast 2 Furious
( )Sky Captain Of The World Of Tomorrow
( )Closer
( )While You Were Sleeping

total here: 7

(x)Titanic
(x)Saved!
( )Boondock Saints
(x)Bowling For Columbine
( )Fahrenheit 9/11
(x)The Sixth Sense
( )Artificial Intelligence (AI)
( )Love Actually
( )Shutter
( )Ella Enchanted
(x)Princess Diaries 1
( )Princess Diaries 2
( )Constantine
( )Million Dollar Baby
(x)Envy
( )Eurotrip
(x)Malibu's Most Wanted
(x)Big Daddy
(x)Black Sheep
(x)The Breakfast Club
(x)West Side Story
( )Moulin rouge
( )The Phantom of the Opera
( )The Party

total here: 11

(x)A Christmas Story
( )Spanglish
(x)Pulp Fiction
( )Sleepover
( )The Evil Dead
( )Killer Clowns From Outer Space
( )The Seed of Chucky
( )Vanilla Sky
( )Nightmare Before Christmas
( )Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
( )Interview With The Vampire
( )The Crow
(x)Purple Rain
(x)Wayne's world
( )Six String Samurai

total here: 4

(x)Wayne's World 2
( )21 Grams
(x)Blow
( )Edward Scissorhands
(x)Clerks
(x)Beauty and the Beast
( )Guess Who
( )Monster In-Law
(x)Elf
( )Stuart Little
( )Stuart Little 2
(x)Chasing Amy
(x)Dogma
(x)Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
(x)The Incredible Adventures of Wallace and Gromit

total here: 9

(x)Beetlejuice
( )The Last Samurai
(x)The Amityville Horror (old or new)
( )The Aviator
(x)Romeo and Juliet
(x)Barbershop
(x)Barbershop 2
(x)Legally Blonde
(x)Legally Blonde 2
( )The Forgotten
( )Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
( )The Grudge
( )National Treasure

total here: 7

Total number watched: 109

buck owens (1929-2006)

2006-03-25T20:23:00.000-05:00

BuckOwens.com

Rest in Peace, Buck. You were awesome.

boundary rider

2006-03-22T22:11:00.000-05:00

The Go-Betweens - Boundary Rider (live) (pops)

Today was okay, I guess.

My final prospective draft for the research project went through, so I start the sampling next week. A 50 person sample, give or take five. I'm just ready to get it over with, write my conclusions, make the poster, and do the presentations. Sometime in late April, our projects will be displayed in the "presentation hall" (conference room) at GSC-OC, so if you really want to see some bush-league psychology on display, here's your chance. I think I have to talk about the project for something like ten minutes, and answer any questions for maybe an hour while people walk around looking at all the posters.

That's pretty much it. I still have to write my speech for Monday. I'll definitely be assigned a paper to do for World Civ tomorrow, but hopefully it can wait until the week after next. I've got too much to do this weekend to worry about two projects.

Speaking of which, this weekend I have to go on my biannual shopping trip to get new clothes. For once in my life, I don't need to get a bigger size, but a smaller size. Much smaller. I'm not svelte by any means, but I have lost a good amount of weight in the past year, so I need some new clothes. My pants are literally falling off of me, and my belts are at their first notch, so I think it's time.

So in conclusion (and I since I don't have any thing else to say), here's a random picture of a cute animal. Refresh to see a new one, click to enlarge. No guarantee of cuteness is implied. Enjoy!

king of pain

2006-03-20T21:37:00.000-05:00

Alanis Morissette - King of Pain (opens in Last.FM player)

Hi everybody! (Hi, Dr. Nick!)

How was every little thing? I understand that Savannah was a lot of fun this year.

It's official, I did nothing over the break. I was literally voted "Least Active Vacation" in my Psych class today.

Today I went to class, hoping for no homework. I sort of got my wish, since nothing's really due, but I still have to clean up my research paper a little bit and get it to him by Wednesday. I have to write up a speech for Communications by Monday, but it should be a little bit easier since I can use the same topic as last time, with a little exposition. Technically, all he said was "you can't give the same speech". I think I could re-write the one I've got, give it a new intro and conclusion, dress up the facts a little differently, and be fine.

As far as what I did over the break, I did a lot of comic book research. (I figure, if you want to do something, do it right.) A lot of Wikipedia stuff, crosschecked as much as possible. One of the best sites I found was Christopher Priest's site, which detailed a lot of day-to-day workings of a comics writer. Plus, he's a very good storyteller, and he's always entertaining. If I were a publisher, I'd hire him in a heartbeat, and let him work on whatever he wanted to do, bar none. I've always liked his take on superheroes and, more importantly, their environment. Remember, would Superman be as intriguing without Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, and Lois Lane, with Metropolis in the background? The city is a character, too, and gets overlooked a lot. Supporting cast in general gets overlooked, so it should come as no surprise that cities get the bum's rush, which is a real shame.

Over the break, I think I watched a good sixteen or eighteen hours of lucha. And it was good. I'm a week away from being caught up with current US Galavision, not counting this past week. I now understand why Pierroth is awesome. He has this persona that makes you want to hate him, and a moveset that fits him. He knows how to structure a match to go with the ebb and flow of the crowd, and I could almost guarantee you he couldn't explain it if he tried. It's second nature to him. Working against Hector Garza in the caballeras match, he (along with Perrito Aguayo on the outside) made the match have the "big event" atmosphere. It wasn't a mat exhibition, and there might have been only a handful of actual wrestling moves, but they portrayed the intensity and violence of the match beautifully.

So that's about it. Comments, questions, concerns, and hate mail can all be directed to here.

time after time

2006-03-15T21:43:00.000-05:00

Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time (pops)

Nothing to report.

As in, I've done absolutely nothing this week.

I should be writing a speech, re-writing a draft of a paper, filling out a scholarship form, and reading three chapters in a textbook.

I have done none of those, and I've only got two days left to get them done.

Even when I have a vacation, it doesn't feel like a vacation, because I've still got deadlines. I almost wish we could just plow through and get more time at the end.

Almost.

If it wasn't for Spring Break, the majority of us wouldn't have anything to live for. So it's probably a good thing to have.

Today I watched a bunch of movies. "Walk the Line", "Crash", and "Murderball". Let's do a quick review, shall we?

"Walk the Line" is great. It's like "Ray" (of course), but this movie doesn't try to make the protagonist look good. Johnny (for the most time during the movie) was a drug abuser, an adulterer, and an all around asshole. But he's still human, and that shows through. June isn't perfect, as you could say she stole him from Viv, and the movie doesn't try to hide that. It's about real people, and real people aren't cut-and-dry good or bad.

"Crash", on the third or fourth viewing, comes across as heavy-handed, but still powerful. If you don't get choked up watching Lara get shot at, and Daniel's reaction, you don't have a soul. It's also a good example of "real people aren't cut-and-dry good or bad", and I like that. Sadly, it also beats the viewer in the head with "RACISM IS EVERYWHERE!". I could do without so much of that. Then again, I'm a Caucasian male aged 18-34, so I'm part of the problem, right?

"Murderball" is awesome. I love the humorous, almost light-hearted approach of most of it. The movie doesn't try to say that "quadriplegics are special, and should be handled like fine china". In fact, it says the opposite: these are people, from all kinds of backgrounds, that had some bad shit happen to them once, and are just like anybody else. Plus, quad rugby is realy fun to watch.

So what did you do today?

just might make me believe

2006-03-13T21:25:00.000-05:00

Sugarland - Just Might (Make Me Believe) (pops)

I have got to write more.

I've got too many stray ideas that could be something substantial, if not necessarily earth-shattering, to not get some of them down.

So I've got a plan.

This summer, I resolve to write something of artistic merit every single day.

I'm intentionally leaving that vague, because I can do a lot of things that fall under "something of artistic merit". Songs, poems, short stories, novellas, magazine articles, comic books, you name it. Any genre, but I've got to get something down every day. I'm afraid that if I don't put something down on paper with some regularity, the skill will leave me.

I'm so going to need someone to remind me of this idea later, or I'll never get started. One of my intrepid readers, maybe?

Today, I read an entire history of Valiant Comics, a synopsis of the Piers Anthony "Incarnations of Immortality" series (which is more than a little similar to Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" series), and watched four hours of lucha from mid-August.

So I'm feeling inspired. I think I've figured out that I need a reliable illustrator to work up some sketches for a comic book idea. I just need someone who can do pencils, because I can do inking and coloring on my own (with or without Photoshop). As far as the idea, I don't want to go into too many details, lest someone with more publishing mien than me happen upon them and pilfer them, but think "Rising Stars" meets "JLE". But suitable for teenage audiences!

Seriously, if you or anyone you know has any interest in doing comic-book-style graphic work, let me know. I have a design aesthetic in mind, but I really have no room to talk as I can't draw for shit, so I'm flexible. I can trace pretty well, though.

If I can get somewhere on this idea, it will really help me on my summer goal. Otherwise, I see a lot of bad love songs in my future.

Speaking of love songs, Last.FM is the best thing ever. The "similar artist" radio is awesome, even though I have to use the skip button a lot more than I should. It will go through five songs I hate, but then it plays this one song I've never heard of but instantly love. It's a good discovery tool. I like it a little more than Pandora, mainly because there's no time limit for non-subscribers.

Well, that's all the time we have today. Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow.

celebration

2006-03-10T22:49:00.000-05:00

Kool and the Gang - Celebration (pops)

It's a celebration, bitches!

Spring Break is finally here, and I couldn't be happier.

Well, I could, but I know my limitations. Certain things aren't going to magically happen, so I'm the happiest I could be under the circumstances.

Anyway, since I'm on vacation for the next week, I guess I'll either be posting every day out of boredom, or not posting at all because the torrent of laziness washes over me.

So it's pretty much the same erratic schedule as usual.

If you want to get together and do something, call me, email me, send a carrier pigeon, or something. I've got nothing going on but sleeping.

lights and sounds

2006-03-08T21:59:00.000-05:00

Yellowcard - Lights and Sounds (pops)

I'm doing okay, I guess.

I got a bunch of grades back in the past few days.

I made an 87 on the last Spanish test, giving me a 91.23 in the class. I have no idea how it got that high, because I don't do that great on the assignments. I guess it's the lab work (which is sort of a "gimme" grade).

I made a 148/150 on my speech from Monday. Did I mention that it was about legalizing cannabis? I had to persuade the audience about something, so I picked a topic near and dear to my heart. I spent the first two minutes of the speech explaining how I don't smoke, but don't care if others do. Actually, I like being around people who smoke out, because they're much easier audiences. They'll laugh at all of my horrible attempts at humor. Plus, you get deep philosophical discussions on the structure of Twinkies.

Also, the teacher gave me an invite to a speech contest using my last speech. All I'd have to do is give that speech again. It's on the Monday after Spring Break. At 12:00. In Oakwood. There's no way I could make it from Watkinsville to Oakwood in ten minutes, so I'm out. The top prize was only $100, so no big loss.

I've got a test tomorrow in Civ, which I haven't even begun to study for. Then I've got a presentation in HGD, and I'm done for the week.

I hope beyond hope that no one decides to be cute and assign work over the break. I don't think anyone's that cruel, but if they are, you can be sure I'll be bitching about it for days. There's no need for that, because it just means resentment and more assignments to grade.

So anyway, how was your day? No, really, I want to know.

pure

2006-03-06T20:00:00.000-05:00

The Lightning Seeds - Pure

Well, I survived.

I finished the paper with no time to spare. I did okay on my Spanish test. I got my speech written and delivered. I made my Powerpoint presentation for Wednesday.

Can I go to sleep now?

I'm completely ready for Spring Break. It can't come soon enough.

I've got a World Civ test on Thursday, but I think that's the last major grade I'll have for a while.

In Communications, I've only got one more speech to give until the end of the semester. That's kind of nice, because all of the pressure is off.

I have no idea what Spanish is going to be like tomorrow, but I doubt any huge projects are going to be assigned that I don't know about already.

By the way, the singer/songwriter for the Lightning Seeds looks like the kid from the Wonder Years that everyone thought was Marilyn Manson.

I'm sorry that this is a little rambling, but I'm kind of tired.

I've got so much stuff to read over Spring Break, as far as comics go. I picked up some new stuff these past few weeks, so I could spend the entire week reading comics, unless anyone's got anything better to do.

Speaking of comics, I've been reading old Bloom County strips a year at a time. They still hold up. Garfield doesn't. Fair warning.

I think I'm about done. I'll try to be more regular through this week, but next week, all bets are off.

pressure point

2006-03-01T18:21:00.000-05:00

The Zutons - Pressure Point (pops)

Hey kids! Math problem time!

If one (1) student at the local community college has one (1) test in Spanish 1002 on Thursday, one (1) research paper draft for Human Growth and Development due on Friday, one (1) persuasive speech in Communications to give on Monday, and one (1) PowerPoint presentation to give in the Human Growth and Development on Monday, plus he has had a massive headache that hasn't gone away for three (3) days, how much time will he have left over for the things he actually wants to do, like blogging, listening to music, and making fun of those who are different from him?

Yes, you in the back?

Correct! He will have no time for anything but work for the next five days. At the end of this five day period, he quite possibly will have a nervous breakdown and revert to a fetal state.

Any more questions?

Okay, class dismissed.

dare

2006-02-28T21:41:00.000-05:00

Gorillaz - Dare (pops)

Nothing much to report, other than the fact that my body has rebelled furiously. Sinus infections are no fun, especially when they're combined with my sinus drainage problems and burgeoning ulcer.

I spent yesterday sleeping by default, because it hurt too much to get out of bed. My sense of balance is still screwed up. I've got a headache that no amount of Tylenol can cure (and I've tried, believe me). I'm thisclose to popping a Lortab I've got leftover from my wisdom teeth extraction, just to get some real rest.

But this morning, I knew I had to get to school, because I've got a Spanish test on Thursday. So I gritted my teeth, popped some tylenol because anything stronger would have left me unable to drive, and went. I don't really remember anything besides getting back my World Civ paper (with a 100), and being really pissed at her lack of literary copmprehension. It's not that I'm this great writer, but she is completely clueless about paragraph structure, formatting, and all of the other basics of writing. I think she's spent so much time in the world of dry scientific journals that she can't handle actual writing.

Plus she tried to get us to write a paper about the role of women in the ancient Olympics. Newsflash: they didn't have a role. They had the games of Hera, so they didn't bother with the Olympics (the games of Zeus). Not everything is gender-equal, and you can't make this huge feminist point out of every little thing.

I've been listening to TMBG a lot, mainly because I can be half-conscious and still enjoy them. I think my LastFM page will show this trend to be true.

"Man, It's So Loud in Here" is the greatest song ever, or that could be the headache and nausea-induced hallucinations talking.

Anyway, I'm going to keep this one short. I've got to get up even earlier tomorrow, so I'm going to try to sleep somewhat restfully. Cards and letters can be sent to the usual address.

nobody's fool

2006-02-26T22:41:00.000-05:00

Avril Lavigne - Nobody's Fool

Sadly, this isn't a cover of Cinderella's hair-metal tour de force. Well, I guess a guy can hope, right?

Seriously, this live footage shows that some singers (not to mention any names) need a good producer to rein in their vocal "quirks".

I'm being very nice by using the word "quirks" in place of the proper word, which would be "flaws".

Avril is fine when she's got the Matrix behind her. No, not the Wachowski brothers movie, but the trio of producers that made her a pop star. Any other time, she has a tendency to be, well, bad. Not horrendous, because Pro Tools can only do so much, but definitely not up to par.

Anyway, on Saturday, I got a haircut, went grocery shopping, bought a new copy of Norton AV, and got an external dual-layer DVD-RW drive. So I'm pretty much depleted as far as money goes. Nobody ask for a loan for a while, huh?

I spent today doing Spanish homework, installing said drive, and trying to not stress out over HGD test I took on Friday. I also need to not stress out over the projected Spanish test on Thursday, the speech I have to give on next Monday, and the World Civ test lurking around the corner. I've got a PowerPoint presentation to do for HGD sometime, but he hasn't even gone over the requirements for it, so I'm not too incredibly worried.

Tomorrow, I'm going to go to school (and hopefully just be able to veg out), then come home and do Spanish lab work, write a speech, and try to study everything else.

I'm not going to be fun to be around until sometime in the middle of May. Then, I have to get ready to go back for three weeks of class. After that I'll get my real summer vacation, from the end of June to the middle of August, where I will not get up before 9:00 unless someone is dying. As it is, I can't even sleep past 8:30 on weekends. I've got too much to do, and my brain won't let me forget it.

So how was your weekend?

talk dirty to me

2006-02-23T22:39:00.000-05:00

Poison - Talk Dirty to Me (pops)

I'm tired.

I should be studying for my Human Growth and Development test tomorrow, but I can't bring myself to do it. I think I may be that much of a sloth.

Or maybe everyone else is just too much of an over-achiever?

I really hate bands on MySpace. Not all of them, just the really unpopular ones who have to resort to mass-mailing people to get hits. I have it clearly stated on my profile: "No, I do not want to add your crappy band". Maybe they just like a challenge. They do get at least a hit from me, just to make sure it's not someone I actually know under an assumed name.

I know all about assumed names, since I use one everyday. On this blog, for example, I almost never use my real name (Harvey Finkleberg). But seriously.

I'm sorry I'm rambling. I haven't gotten much sleep the past few days. My ear has been killing me, I'm generally run down, and I've got the ever-present stomach woes. I'm at the point where I'm really tired, but I can't actually go to sleep because either I'm not truly tired or somewhere in the back of my brain, my subconscious thinks that I've got better things to do than sleep.

I've been reviewing places to transfer after I get my degree from GSC. If I can get some serious financial aid, I can go to Piedmont College, at the Athens campus, and get everything I'll need to teach, plus get a foot in the door for the graduate program. Otherwise, it's either NGCSU at the Oakwood campus or (shudder) UGA.

What's so incredibly depressing is that, a year ago, I couldn't have cared less which colleges in Georgia offered leadership degrees. Now, it's actually a fairly important facet of my life.

On the plus side, if I get into Piedmont, I'll only have forty-five hours of classes (roughly) that affect my major (English) and minor (Secondary Education), so I've got fifteen hours to do whatever I want with. I'm thinking either Applied Physics or Advanced Volleyball.

You know, Oconee County schools are out tomorrow for whatever reason. I hate them. At GSC, we get MLK and Spring Break, and that's it. Otherwise, it's just pounding out week after week. It's incredibly tedious.

So how was your day?

sympathy

2006-02-22T20:29:00.000-05:00

Goo Goo Dolls - Sympathy (pops)

So I signed up for (or, rather, renewed my old account at) Last.FM today. You can see the link to my user profile on the sidebar somewhere around my Xanga and Facebook profiles.

In addition, I've got a little widget on the bottom of the page that tells the last three songs played in WinAmp on my computer.

I will warn you right now, I listen to very little "macho" music, and most of it is probably worthy of beating me up. What can I say, I'm a pop person. For every Sabbath album, there's three TMBG and three Cure albums.

I went through the heavy phase, like every male age 13-18. But I can't honestly say that I would rather listen to Maiden or Priest than Fountains of Wayne or the Gin Blossoms. I will say, however, that you should absolutely listen to Maiden, Priest, Megadeth, Cannibal Corpse, Killing Joke, and the like to get a rounded view of popular music.

That's what I'm really after. I listen to all forms of popular music. I listen to Gram Parsons, Wu-Tang Clan, Death Cab for Cutie, Lyrics Born, OK Go, Hank Williams, Slick Rick, Kelly Clarkson, Rush, Fall Out Boy, Nickel Creek, and the Amboy Dukes, all in the same day, if not in the same hour.

Part of my charm is that I won't discount something for being either too popular or too obscure. I will admit to liking Kelly Clarkson's last efforts more than any heterosexual male my age should. Just because it's popular and aimed at twelve year old girls doesn't mean it's not good. In fact, it's the best synthesis of Def Leppard, Cheap Trick, the Smashing Pumpkins, and Celine Dion I've ever heard.

It's also probably the only synthesis of those I'm ever going to hear, but that's really beside the point. Suffice to say, it's well-produced quasi-intelligent pop, and that's sadly becoming a rarity.

I'll listen to unsigned bands, too. The only problem is that, if they're unsigned for too long, there's probably a very good reason they haven't been picked up by a label. Mainly that they suck. There are exceptions, but they're few and far between.

That reminds me, I've got to get some new music to listen to. Now that I've got an audience that cares what I listen to, even if it's only an Audioscrobbler robot, I better get some that actually reflects what I listen to.

Well, that about does it for this week's show. Join us next time when we'll show you how to disassemble a carburetor from a 1972 Ford Pinto, build a fully insulated toolshed out of just a piece of plywood and a roll of kite string, and how to prank call unsuspecting Congressman without going to federal prison.

21 questions

2006-02-18T22:11:00.000-05:00

50 Cent - 21 Questions (pops)

(ultra mega mass special toukon retsouden super double daily weekend post!)

THE BASICS...

NAME: Stephen Doyle Foster, Junior

GENDER: Male

BIRTHDATE: January 11, 1987

EYE COLOR: Blue

HAIR COLOR: Blonde leading towards brown, with the occasional rust-colored highlight

JOB: You're kidding, right?

SCHOOL: Gainesville State College, home of the Fighting Geese

FAVE CLOTHING STORE: As much as I shop for clothes (i.e., almost never), Wal-Mart

FAVE RESTAURANT: Humble Grounds (R.I.P.)

OBSESSIONS: Wrestling (lucha in particular), comic books, curling (right now)

DEEP THOUGHTS...

DO YOU LIVE IN THE MOMENT?: Never

DO YOU HAVE ANY SECRETS?: Too many to name

DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?: Yes, although I can't think of a single person other than me who likes it

WHAT'S YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?: Bears. Specifically, the North American Grizzly

CAN YOU SING?: Not particularly well

WHAT ARE YOUR #1 PRIORITIES IN LIFE? Getting through school in one piece so I can get a decent job and grind out a life

ARE YOU A DAREDEVIL?: In that I am a blind Columbia-educated lawyer with heightened senses and at the peak of human athletic ability, yes.

WHAT'S YOUR GREATEST WEAKNESS? Kryptonite. Or possibly the color yellow. Or the code word "Abraxas".

DO YOU THINK YOU'RE EMOTIONALLY STRONG?: Not a bit.

IS THERE ANYTHING YOU REGRET DOING/NOT DOING?: Can anyone honestly answer "no" to this question?

WHAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON YOU'VE LEARNED?: Strongbad is a bad guy, bad guy.

ARE YOU CONFIDENT?: Outwardly, yes. Inwardly, no.

ARE YOU PERCEIVED WRONGLY?: Absolutely, nearing 100%.

DO YOU...

SMOKE?: No

DO DRUGS?: Only as prescribed by a physician or a bass guitarist.

READ THE NEWSPAPER?: Maybe half of the time.

PRAY?: Not as much as I probably should.

GO TO CHURCH?: I don't really believe in the concept of a "group faith", as I believe faith is a personal, one-on-one relationship that doesn't have to be displayed publicly on a weekly basis to be strong. To me, being "showy" with faith kind of masks the truth, and can act as a crutch for people with faith that may not be strong enough to be stand on its own.

(Sorry about the editorializing and digression. On with the show.)

TALK TO PEOPLE EVEN THOUGH YOU HATE THEM?: All the time.

WOULD YOU OR HAVE YOU EVER...

HURT YOURSELF?: Not on purpose

BEEN OUT OF THE COUNTRY?: No

BEEN IN LOVE?: That depends on the definition of the word "is". And I'm being completely serious, not pulling a Clinton-ism out of my hat.

HAD A MEDICAL EMERGENCY?: I slammed my finger in a car door once. I still have a chip missing out of one of my fingers.

HAD SURGERY?: Yes

RAN AWAY FROM HOME?: No

PULLED AN ALL-NIGHTER?: Not often, thank God

SLEPT TOGETHER WITH THE OPPOSITE WITHOUT ACTUALLY HAVING SEX?: Yes

SLEPT ALL DAY?: Yes (while sleeping off drugs, to boot!)

KISSED THE SAME SEX? Yes, on a dare. (Interracial to boot!)

BEEN BETRAYED?: Yes

MADE OUT WITH A STRANGER? No

DO YOU BELIEVE IN...

LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS?: With the size and scope of the universe, there almost has to be something out there.

A THING CALLED LOVE?: Just listen to the rhythm of my heart.

MIRACLES?: Yes

GOD?: Yes

SANTA?: No

GHOSTS?: In a manner of speaking, yes.

LUCK?: As an abstract principle of the universe, yes.

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT?: Not so much love as pheromonal interaction in the reptilian sub-brain. So yes.

YIN AND YANG?: In a manner of speaking. More "Ahuramazda and Ahriman" than "Yin and Yang". A "yetzer hara and a yetzer hatov", if you will. Really, more of an aggadic view than anything. (Look it up!)

IS IT POSSIBLE TO REMAIN FAITHFUL FOREVER?: I'll give it shot, given the opportunity

DO YOU CONSIDER LOVE A MISTAKE?: It's possible, but in hindsight, anything can look like a mistake. In the moment, no.

WHAT DO YOU FIND ROMANTIC?: Most people would say sense of humor, but I'd have to go with breast size.

TURN-OFF?: Penises. I can deal with pretty much anything else, but if you've got a penis, I'll have to pass.

TURN-ON?: Vaginas.

DO YOU WISH IT WAS MORE ACCEPTABLE FOR A GIRL TO ASK A GUY OUT?: Absolutely, mainly because I'm fairly sure I will never build up enough courage to ask a woman out. Sober, at least. (I'm working on that.) (The courage part, not the sober part.) (I'm not really working on the courage part, but it sounds good.)

WHAT'S THE BEST ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX?: Vaginas and breasts.

WHAT'S THE WORST ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX?: Three little letters. Can you guess what they are?

WHO'S THE LAST PERSON THAT BROKE YOUR HEART?: Let's see. In terms of totally shattering my heart, I'll have to reach back almost a decade and go with Ms. SS. In terms of just dissappointment, I'll have to go with KD, with the alley-oop from CF.

WHAT DID YOU DO YESTERDAY?: Went to school, watched curling, cooked a roast.

WHAT MEMORY DO YOU MISS THE MOST?: How can I tell you if I miss the memory. By definition, I wouldn't remember it. What a stupid question.

LAST VACATION?: Tybee Island?

PRESENT

FAVE COLOR: Grey

FAVE CANDY: Dove chocolate Promises

FAVE BOOK: Good Omens

FAVE MOVIE: Reservoir Dogs

FAVE TV SHOW: Centurions, or maybe Sports Night

FAVE SONG: Follow You Down

FAVE DAY OF THE WEEK: Saturday

FAVE MONTH: July, because I'm assured of being out of school.

FAVE SEASON: Autumn

FAVE SHAMPOO: Prell (old school, baby)

FAVE PERFUME: Wouldn't know the difference, merely that you had some on.

FAVE GIRL'S NAME: I seem to have this thing for girls with names beginning with the letter K. I have no idea why. I'd love it if someone could explain it to me, and perhaps break me of the habit. (Or not.)

FAVE BOY'S NAME: Algernon

FAVE SPORTS TEAM: Team Canada

WHAT ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT?: Everything. Seriously.

WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?: A t-shirt and shorts

WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?: Me typing

FUTURE...

OCCUPATION: High school literature teacher

WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GET MARRIED?: Backyard

WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO ON YOUR HONEYMOON? Away

WHERE DO YOU WANT TO LIVE?: Here

NUMBER OF KIDS: Somewhere between 0 and 50.

CAR: 1989 Honda Accord. (Dream big, kids.)

only wanna be with you

2006-02-18T16:34:00.000-05:00

Hootie and the Blowfish - Only Wanna Be With You (pops)

Special Weekend Edition!

Okay, it's only to make up for missing my usual post, but still, shouldn't you feel special? I took time out of my busy weekend (*stifled laugh*) to post, just for you, my loving audience.

Speaking of which, the only comment I've gotten lately was from a corporate drone at PodBridge, who responded to my complaint about their product with a quasi-form-letter.

That tells me several things.

One, they're worried about their image enough to scour the 'net looking for complaints.

Two, they have enough complaints to even have a form letter.

Three, they actually have employees who would rather respond to complaints instead of, you know, actually doing something about them. Like updating their product to work with Firefox's latest build. The browser covers around fifteen percent of the total market, according to some recent statistics. I'd say people familiar enough with computers to use PodBridge would have a much higher Firefox usage rate. Firefox gets updated regularly. In order to keep up, you have to do the same. If you're not prepared to offer maximum conpatibility, please be so kind as to remove your product from the market. M'kay?

Four, my webpage is apparently popular enough to warrant recognition when I complain about something. Yay me!

Now I should probably complain about something else to see if I can actually get something important done.

Should I criticize the war? No, too obvious, and I've already got my little image on the sidebar doing all my talking for me. Plus, I can't think of anyone who's gone up against the military-industrial complex lately and won. So that's out.

Should I try to get a recall on dangerous products marketed to children? No, Ralph Nader's already got that covered. Plus, I don't want to become a potential Green Party candidate. So that's out.

I know! I should rally the masses around something that is really important.

Bring back Sheriff Lobo.

I implore you, Viacom, bring back the hilarious comedy stylings of Sheriff Lobo, and all will be forgiven.

(And Mr. Government, please ignore that little remark about the military-industrial complex. I hear Guantanamo's nice this time of year, but I'd rather not find out for myslef. We cool?)

behind these hazel eyes

2006-02-15T21:36:00.000-05:00

Kelly Clarkson - Behind These Hazel Eyes (pops)

I am incredibly tired, and I'm not sure why. I think it's the fair amount of stress I'm under, because this semester the teachers decided to all lump their assignments into the same few days.

I slept this afternoon for an hour and a half. I should have been doing homework (which seems to never end), but instead I just couldn't help falling asleep. This evening, I was still sleepy, and even now I could probably sleep straight through until morning.

I gave my speech today. I didn't think it was good, but I'll let you in on a little secret: I've never done anything I've been onehundred percent satisfied with. I always think "Well, it'll have to do for now, because there's no time left to fix it". I think that's probably what makes me the good student I am, that I'm never happy with anything I do and always want to make it better, but it also makes me quite the bitter little man. How would you feel if you never thought what you did was good enough? I know for a fact that some of you (hopefully) reading this know exactly what I mean.

Also, I had an OBE while giving my speech, which was fun. An OBE, for those of you unaware, is an out-of-body experience. In my case, whenever I have to speak in front of a group, I somehow disassociate. It's a "meta" moment, where everything sort of slows down, and your conscious mind separates from whatever you're doing, and you realize that you're on autopilot. You split into two minds, where one is reading the speech, or whatever, and the other half sort of looks around and takes it all in. It's the weirdest damn thing. And it almost always happens when I either have some sort of speech to give, or when I'm in a similarly stressful situation.

It probably has something to do with my weird sensory memory. I knew my memory worked differently than everybody elses, and my (cognitive/memory expert) psych professor agrees. I absorb more "things" than the average person. Most people have around five to nine "things" they can absorb at a time, but my capacity is much larger. So when I'm giving a speech or something like that, my mind actively wanders because it's bored, and not getting enough stimulation.

Just a theory. All I know is I had a disassociative episode, and I've been tired a lot lately.

I'm going to try to do more homework now. I hate ancient Greek civilization at this point, by the way. They can all go jump in the Aegean.

arms of a woman

2006-02-13T21:26:00.000-05:00

Amos Lee - Arms of a Woman (pops)

My festering hate for this time of year is soothed over ever so slightly by the sultry sounds of Amos Lee, a singer-songwriter from Philadelphia who plays the best Bill Withers/John Prine songs that neither wrote. It's silky soul/jazz/folk, and proof that music doesn't have to be complex to be good, nor does it have to be part of a current trend. Old music is good. People need to learn that.

I got my papers done this weekend. I had to resort to the dirtiest trick in my book to do it, but I did it.

My trick? Wu-Tang Clan, "36 Chambers", put on repeat and played loud. It's inspirational music, dammit. It feeds my rhythm, and I write better to a drumbeat. The only problem is that it's so incongruous to my topic, I have to filter out the lyrical influence. It wold just be too weird to have a paper about the history of the ancient Greek sporting festivals with a thirty-two bar interlude about trying to survive in the ghetto by selling drugs for a living.

I did that paper for World Civ, and I wrote five minutes on how BitTorrent works for my Communications class. The topic itself was easy, as far as the history of it goes, but explaining the technology to a non-geek audience is hard. I have to resort to really weird metaphors, like cops at intersections and gourmet cheeses, to make the theory accessible to the common man.

So back to how much I hate Valentine's Day. I hate it a lot. Having never been in a successful relationship during the season leading up to the dread day, I guess I've never seen the upside to it. Seems like a big waste of resources and manpower that could be spent better.

Then again, I should probably shut up, since an entire side of my family has at one time or another depended directly on the holiday for their job security. You see, both of my father's brothers and one brother-in-law work or have worked at Flowers, Inc., a company that makes Valentine's Day crap in particular, and generic holiday crap overall. You know, balloon arrangements, teddy bears, mugs, flower arrangements and the like.

So if you ever need free or discounted party favors, I'm probably your man.

But I really hate the holiday. It's a giant slap in the face for those of us who aren't romantically successful. It's saying to us, "You are a failure in society". That, to me, is really unfair.

La vie es injuste, though, so I'll quit bitching.

Happy Valentine's Day, everybody!

run it

2006-02-10T21:54:00.000-05:00

Chris Brown featuring Juelz Santana - Run It (pops)

69 Odd Questions

1) Are your parents married or divorced?
Married

2) Vegetarian?
I can't give up meat, so no

3) Heaven?
Yes

4)Come close to dying?
On several occasions

5) What jewelry do you wear 24/7?
None

6)Where'd the question go?
Huh?

7) Do you eat the stems of broccoli?
I don't eat broccoli all that much, but yes I do eat the stems

8)Makeup?
Nope

9) Were you the dumper or the dumpee in your past relationship?
Is "dumpee" even a word?

10) Would you ever have plastic surgery?
Under the right circumstances (horrific accident, etc.)

11) What do you wear to bed?
Clothes

13) Can you roll your tongue?
Yes. I have an oddly flexible tongue. (Make a note, ladies.)

14) Pluck your eyebrows?
Nope

15) What kind of watch(es)?
Wal-Mart el cheapo

16) Abortion?
I'm not 100% sure on this one because I haven't been in that position. I would like to think it would be up to the individual, but I'm not sure if that coincides with my personal moral code.

17) Hair color?
Blondish-brown, with reddish tints mixed in my beard

18) Future child's name?
Something normal: John, Jim, Dave, Bill; Alexandra, Karen, Elizabeth, Catherine

19) Do you snore?
Like a champ

20) If you could go anywhere in the world on a vacation, where would you go?
I hear Tahiti is nice, so are Samoa, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, and the Bahamas

21) Do you sleep with stuffed animals?
Nope

22) If you won the lottery, what would you do first?
Faint

29) When's the last time you cried?
Honestly, I don't remember

30) Have you loved somebody so much it made you cry?
Yes

31) Would you ever go out dressed like the opposite sex?
Only for money or humor

32) Ever been involved with the police?
Not personally, but nearly every member of my extended family has

33) Believe in Santa?
Sure, why not?

34) Do you talk in your sleep?
Hopefully not. I have weird (and pre-cognitive) dreams, so that could get icky.

35) Beach or pool?
Pool. Less chance of drowning for a non-swimmer like me.

36) Can you cross your eyes??
Yes.

37) What's your favorite song at the moment?
Gin Blossoms, "Follow You Down"

38) Window seat or aisle?
Aisle

40) Do you feel that you've ever had a truly successful relationship?
Nope

41) Do you twirl your spaghetti or cut it?
Twirl

42) Ricki Lake or Oprah Winfrey?
Oprah by default. Ricki was good in "Hairspray", though.

43) Would you ever admit to having done plastic surgery of any kind if confronted?
N/A

44) How long does your shower lasts?
Ten minutes now that I don't have hair. Before, I could be in there for twenty easy.

45) Do you drive a stick?
I could drag race, but as soon as I had to shift down or brake, I'd be in trouble.

46) Cake or ice cream?
Usually, ice cream, but I'm not turning down either.

47) Self-conscious?
Usually, but I try not ot be, and I usually can come off as un-self-conscious if I try.

48)What time do you get up?
7:00 AM

49) Have you ever given money to a bum?
Does Jonathan count as a bum? If so, yes.

50) When was your first crush?
Kindergarten

51) Where do you wish you were?
About ten years in the future, or fifteen in the past

52) Have you ever broken someone's heart?
Smart money's on no. The reverse, however...

53) Ever been given a ring?
Nope

54) 54 died, correct?
Huh?

55) Last gift you received?
Money for my birthday

56) Last sport you played?
Real or virtual? Football for real, hockey virtually.

57). Things you spend a lot of money on?
Gas, insurance, car maintenance, groceries, bills

58) Where do you live?
Go to the only stoplight in town, go across the railroad tracks, and go about three-quarters of a mile. I'm on the left.

59) High School you attend(ed)?
Winder Barrow High School

60.) Last wedding you attended?
My cousin's.

61) Favorite fast food restaurant?
It's all good.

62) Where do you work?
Occasionally, at home.

63) Can you cook?
Yes. Very well, in fact.

64) Most hated food:
Okra

65) Can you sing?
In that air can be passed through my vocal chords in a vaguely melodic pattern, yes.

66) Last kiss?
I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that I may incriminate myself or others. Mostly others.

67) Last concert attended?
I can't remember.

68) Favorite Alcoholic(s)?
Jack Daniels by default

69) Current crush?
I've got several dozen. I'm one big fleshy mass of unrequited love.

love is only a feeling

2006-02-09T22:01:00.000-05:00

The Darkness - Love is Only a Feeling (pops)

I hate this time of year.

It's worse than Christmas, because on Christmas, there's always your family to fall back on.

On Valentine's Day, if you don't have anyone, it's you against a tide of advertising, programming, and the pervasive feeling of "not fitting in". Love, and the world loves you. Don't love, and the world is indifferent to your plight, possibly even actively against you. It sucks.

On top of that, it's the time fo the year when the teachers realize they don't have any grades, and that project they've been meaning to assign needs to be on this quarter's report. I get to wall up in my room and do nothing but research and write for a few weeks, and the teachers look good on their evaluations. Everybody wins, or not.

I haven't been able to do any of the things I like to do, like play video games or watch lucha or write for pleasure (like on here, for instance) because I've got too much work to do. The word "burn-out" is slowly flickering in my mind. I swear, if the pace doesn't let up a little bit, I'm going to completely stop giving a shit. As it is, I'm giving maybe three-quarters of a shit at best. More than not, it's less than half.

The sad, frustrating thing of it all is this: the more trouble I have writing something like a paper, the worse I feel. The worse I feel, the more trouble I have writing. The creative process, when it works, is the best thing in the world. When it doesn't, it's like pulling teeth with no anaesthesia.

And it comes back around to not having anybody to bounce ideas off, to help me let off some frustration.

I hate this time of year. I really do.

this must be the place

2006-02-07T22:28:00.000-05:00

Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (pops)

Why do I always get the fantastically creative ideas when I have no time to get them done before I forget them?

I've got a fantastic idea for a script/novella/short-story, but there is no way to get it done before the end of the month. I've got too many projects with my GPA attached to start worrying about frivolous stuff.

Got a 92 on my HGD test, so I'm happy about that, I guess. I also got my project for there done a week early, so go me.

I did the basic research for my Civ project, which is due Tuesday. I should be able to hammer it out by then. I don't know why I even bother going to the class, though. I spent the entire time today doodling in my notebook. It's all stuff that I've heard a million times, and it's not a new presentation, so my attention drops to nil.

I've got about nine notebook pages (4-5 minutes, by my handwriting) to fill for a speech Monday. I haven't even started on it, but between now and then I should be able to do something. I'm probably going to talk about lucha or something similar.

And I had a cuticle on my right index finger, so I'm trying to type with a big bulky bandaid, and it's not going so well. It's taking me a ridiculously long time to get this done, much less the five page paper I should be devoting every spare minute to.

So how was your day, intrepid readers? First person(s) to respond gets a cyber-treat.

bia bia

2006-02-03T21:56:00.000-05:00

Lil' Jon - Bia Bia (pops)

I've got anywhere from nine to fifteen pages to write this weekend, so it's going to be a fun few days in my house. If you want to see me try to ride a 48-hour caffeine rush, feel free to come watch the spectacle. I could use the moral support.

My cold is getting worse, too. I slept for two hours this afternoon, and I still feel bad. My back is starting to hurt, and I think I somehow pulled a muscle. Probably sneezing or coughing.

Meltzer's radio show is now available in podcasts, so I broke down and installed iTunes. I'm not too fond of it, but what really bugs me is the third-party stuff from PodBridge. It only works with Internet Explorer, which is like saying to me "We refuse to actually support the internet, and would like to infect your computer." I hate proprietary formats, too, but that's a different story altogether.

So I bring this challenge to my readers: Find me a podcast I'll like. I've already got Meltzer and the Onion show, so suggest to me something that's good. You know from the music selections I put on my posts that I'll listen to just about everything, so I'm open to anything. Well, no midget porn, but besides that, anything.

I'm going to go take some more pills and get more sleep. As soon as I wake up tomorrow, I'll have to get going, and I really hate having to do that. Yes, I know that I don't actually have to have anything done until the 10th, but I don't want to be up all night next week trying to cobble something together.

Anybody want to do some legwork on the history of the Olympics or trends in adolescent aggression? Please?

I'm a loser

2006-02-01T22:14:00.000-05:00

The Beatles - I'm a Loser (pops)

I'm both bored and stressed out. How weird is that?

I think it's that I'm being inundated by busywork, but I'm not really learning anything I consider useful, or at least in three out of four classes I'm not. HGD, I learn plenty, and it's in a subject that actualy applies to what I want to do.

Although, to be honest, if you really want to know what I want to do, it's to be a stay-at-home parent, who writes and tutors on the side. I think I'd be content raising my kid(s) and writing novels or short-stories on the side. The only problem is finding a wife who is okay with being the breadwinner while her husband is the domestic half. In this day and age, you'd think there would be more women who would be comfortable with the idea, but there simply aren't, at least in my experience. Maybe it's got something to do with growing up in the Bible Belt, but even in the liberal center (Athens), so-called "traditional" values still rule the roost.

Tomorrow, it's the start of a brand new unit in both of my classes, so I'm sure to be bored out of my skull. I'm dreading the grades for both of the tests, but hopefully they won't be back in until next week. The thing about complicated tests is, as long as it takes to take them, it takes almost as long to grade them, especially if they're subjective, like essays.

Well, I'm going to try and get some sleep. My cold is coming back, and I'm currently under the influence of some non-narcotic cold pills. I would have taken the good ones, but I've got to get up in the morning. And since I've got somewhere between nine and fifteen pages to write over the weekend, I won't get to sleep this weekend wither. I took a nice long nap this afternoon, but it will probably be the longest but of continued sleep I'll have for a while. I love college.

the impression that I get

2006-01-31T21:29:00.000-05:00

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get (pops)

God, I hate Tuesdays and Thursdays.

It's bad enough the weird hours I've got to go, but do they have to have two tests on the same day?

This weekend, I was pretty much a basket case. Stress and I aren't best pals, so I spent most of Sunday trying not to vomit. Monday wasn't great, and this morning was rough.

But this afternoon wasn't that bad. The test in World Civ was as close to a cupcake as I'm likely to get. It was easy mostly due to me cramming like crazy with my friend Justin right before the class began. We spent thirty solid minutes going over every stray bit of information, so when the test came, it seemed easier.

Spanish, on the other hand, was a cold hard bitch. I left two questions blank, which I never do. One whole section was a mystery, and half of another I know I did poorly on. But the straight conjugation was good because I spent forty-five minutes drilling them into my skull right before the beginning of the class. The scrambles and pronouns, though, were not my friend. I did a good job on the essay section, so that kind of makes up for it. I have the feeling she's going to be a strict grader, which means I'm screwed. If I get above an 85, I will be genuinely shocked. I'm thinking somewhere around an 82 or 83.

I've got to do some book work in Spanish by Thursday, a two minute speech in Communications by Friday, a test in Human Growth and Development on Friday, plus four medical journal article summaries in HGD by the tenth, and a five-page MLA format paper for World Civ by the fourteenth.

I finally figured out the one bad thing asbout a two-year school. In a four-year program, you've got eight semesters to get rid of the little crap electives. In a two-year, you've got to cram all of the shit classes into four semesters.

So how was your day?

walking with a ghost

2006-01-27T21:40:00.000-05:00

Tegan and Sara - Walking With a Ghost(pops)

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Measure Your Fears - Would You, Wouldn't You, You Did

Pet a snake: Did
Spend a week in an empty room: Would
Ride in a hot-air balloon: Would
Sky dive: Wouldn't
Sing in front of a huge audience: Would
Scuba dive: Wouldn't
Sit in the front seat of a roller coaster: Would
Deliver a baby: Would
Swim across the Amazon River: Wouldn't (although, more like "can't")
Change careers: Would
Disappear for a long period of time: Would (but you can argue "did")
Walk through the forest alone at night: Wouldn't
Join a space mission: Wouldn't

Tell everyone what you honestly think of them: Did/Do
Call off your wedding: Would (I'd have to have a damn good reason, though)
Walk naked through New York City for 10 minutes during rush hour: Wouldn't
Walk up to Mike Tyson and call him a girl: Would
Disarm a bomb: Would
Clean the outside windows of a skyscraper: Wouldn't
Draw a mustache on the Mona Lisa with a permanent marker: Wouldn't
Go on tour with Elvis: Would
Go swimming during a thunder storm: Wouldn't
Perform surgery on your best friend: Would

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Questionnaire

Q1) Sleep with or without clothes on? With

Q2) Prefer black or blue pens? Blue for writing, black for inking

Q3) Dress up on Halloween? Not really

Q4) Like to travel? Not particularly

Q5) Like Someone? Always, more than one, too

Q6) Do they know? Some do (and get quite a kick out of it), most don't

Q7) Who sleeps with you every night? No one

Q8) Think you're attractive? Borderline

Q9) Want to get married? Sure

Q10) To who? Lisa Loeb, or possibly Oprah Winfrey

Q11) Are you a good student? Except for Foreign Languages, yes

Q12) Are you currently happy? Meh

Q13) Have you ever cheated on a test? Yes

Q14) Birthplace? Athens, GA

Q15) Christmas or Halloween? Christmas

Q16) Colored or black-and-white photo? Halfway - sepia-tone

Q17)Do long distance relationships really work? Probably not for me

Q18) Do you believe in God? Yes

Q19) Do you believe in love? Yes

Q20) Do you consider yourself the life of the party? I can be, but I don't like to be

Q21) Do you drink? No

Q22) Do you make fun of people? Always

Q23) Do you think dreams eventually come true? Not my dreams, because they're entirely too weird

Q24) Favorite fictional character? Death from Sandman

Q25) Ever moved? No

Q27) What's up? The rent and the light bill

Q29) Last time you cut your hair? Two or three weeks ago

Q30) Last person you talked to on the phone? A girl from my Spanish class

Q32) Loud or soft music? Yes

Q33) McDonalds or Burger King? Yes

Q34) Night or day? Night

Q35) Number of pillows? 3-4

Q36) Piano or guitar? Guitar

Q37) Future job? Pornographic filmmaker or high school English teacher

Q38) Current job? Full-time student

Q39) Current thought? Why do fools fall in love?

Q40) Current longing? A nice big sandwich (I live in the now)

Q41) Current disappointment? Spanish

Q42) Current annoyance? See above

Q43) Last thing you ate? Chicken Alfredo

Q44) Last thing you bought? Gas

Q45) Most recent thing you are looking forward to? The summer

Q46) What are you wearing right now? T-shirt and shorts

Q47) Plans for the weekend? Homework and studying

Q48) What did you do today? Went to school, came home, watched TV, ate dinner

Q49) DO YOU LOVE THE PERSON WHO DID THIS? Meh?

Q50) Didn't you just love this survey? Not particularly

Everyone has their firsts...

First best friend:
Joey Morgan

First school:
Statham Elementary

First concert:
Split 50

First screen name:
piledriver328

First Funeral:
Great-grandmother when I was a month old

First pet:
Fish named Gizmo

First piercing/tattoo:
N/A

First big trip:
Chattanooga?

First flight:
N/A

First time out of the country:
N/A

First job:
Website designer

Everyone also has their lasts...

Last person you hugged:
my mother

Last song you heard:
"Walking With a Ghost" - Tegan and Sara

Last car ride:
From school to home

Last time you cried:
can't remember

Last flight:
N/A

Last movie you watched:
Shall we say a "blue movie" and leave it at that?

Last food you ate:
Chicken Alfredo

Last item bought:
Gas

Last Shirt Worn:
navy blue "The Cheat" t-shirt

Last time at the mall:
At least three months ago

Last drink:
Water

Last thing you typed:
Water [:)]

my favorite headache

2006-01-26T22:04:00.000-05:00

Geddy Lee - My Favorite Headache (pops)

Headache. Drug-resistant headache, no less. No post for yesterday or today. Maybe tomorrow. Tons of work to do this weekend, though. Don't hold your breath for anything resembling coherence.

Uggh.

nth degree

2006-01-24T21:37:00.000-05:00

Morningwood - Nth Degree (pops)

Today was long and draining, just like I predicted it would be.

World Civ is possibly the most pointless class there is. If she would just say "Here's the study guide, here's the book, the test is on the 26th, be ready", I'd be okay. But no, she has to drag out the class, and validate her existence on some level, by showing movies and passing out busywork. We all know the only thing that matters is the test, and everything on the test is on the study guide, so that's all we focus on. She publishes the study guides on the first day, so there's really no reason to come to class other than the bullshit busywork grades.

If given the opportunity by the curriculum director, I want to have a solely essay-based high-school writing class. No worksheets, no quizzes, no bullshit grades, just four essays, each covering a section of the curriculum. You get the topics at the beginning of the semester, and it's up to you to get them done on time. Each is twenty-five percent of your grade, and you get as many revisions as you think are necessary, within the alloted time. One essay is due every month, with the last essay getting whatever's left of the year after three months (probably a month and a half). Day to day class would be showing different writing styles and techniques, with emphasis on how it applies to modern writing-based occupations. Simple, and perfect for building the self-motivation required in not only future academic settings, but it also teaches working on a deadline and working with an editor, both skills necessary to become a writer. I think it would be perfect for upperclassmen with a literary bent to fill up their schedules with.

Well, pipe dream and all that. It'll never happen, and I'll probably get stuck teaching dim-witted high-school juniors their ABC's.

Spanish sucked, as I did the math and I have approximately an 85 in the class. I've gotten three grades I know of: a 100, an 82, and a mystery number you'll just have to figure out for yourself. That last one is what I got on the quiz I got back today. Not exactly encouraging. Plus, the class itself was mind-numbing repetitive stuff.

I'm beginning to think that certain people, those who acquire high-level English skills early, have a really hard time assimilating foreign languages later in life. Also, I think I'm one of those people. It runs in my family, as my cousin had to be spoonfed Spanish to get through her college degree. Literally, she had to go in and sit down in the office with the teacher and have him whisper the answers as they worked with flash cards. She's about as proficient as I am when it comes to writing and English grammar, but foreign languages escape her completely.

My family is solidly monolingual. We do watch a lot of Univision and Galavision for some reason. Mostly, "Bailando por un Sueno" and Lucha Libre. Seriously, you've got to watch the Mexican version of "Dancing with the Stars". It's the best thing ever, because it's completely understandable even if you don't know a lick of Spanish.

I'm going to bed. I've written too much, and I've got to get up in the morning.

do you sleep

2006-01-23T21:17:00.000-05:00

Lisa Loeb - Do You Sleep (pops)

If and when I ever get married, I want one "out". One instance where cheating is allowed and even encouraged should the opportunity arise.

My out? Lisa Loeb.

I don't really have to consider it. It's an automatic response.

I don't know if it's the glasses or the hair or (most likely) the personality, but I'm fairly certain I would cut off a digit to spend a week with her.

So I ask you, gentle reader, who would your "out" be? You only get one, and it has to be someone who you would never encounter in normal day-to-day life. If people respond (doubtful), this could be quite the revelatory moment.

This weekend, I spent the better part of a morning wandering around the local hub of culture known as Wal-mart getting my oil changed, or more accurately, wandering around waiting for thr wrench monekys to get around to my car.

At my local Wal-mart, there's always one woman who fills out the paperwork for the new customers, then two old (60+) men manning the actual service stalls. I've only heard unsubstantiated rumors of other people working in the Auto Service department, and never actually seen them. I'm operating under the impression that there are no other technicians, and that those three do everything, from tire replacement and rotation to full lube jobs.

Or at least it's funnier to imagine that, anyway.

Tomorrow is the worst day of my schedule, as I've got two late classes and very little time to do the homework assigned in them before Thursday. On Thursday, I've got five days to do any work, including the weekend, but on Tuesdays, I've got just two, with an early day sandwiched in the middle. It sucks.

I'm going to head on to bed (or more accurately, go to sleep, as my bed doubles as my office chair and workstation). Arrivederci, i miei amici.

take on me

2006-01-20T22:09:00.000-05:00

Reel Big fish - Take On Me (pops)

Yeah, so, I'm really lazy, and also, I don't have anything of great importance to say, not even by my meager standards of "great importance".

I got my first credit card bill yesterday. I paid it off immediately.

I got my financial aid check yesterday, too. This is good, as it means my house can have electricity, high speed internet, and satellite television for six more months. Everything else is secondary.

Tomorrow, I'm going to finally get my oil changed, after planning to do it for over a month but never finding the time.

I also have another speech to plan for Friday, and I have a composition in Spanish due Tuesday. I'll have at least one, probably two quizzes in HGD this week.

I would also love to find time to go to the doctor, but I've got to wait for my college's certification to get to my insurance company. This is probably my last year on my mom's insurance, so I better make the most of it. Hopefully, after I get my Associate's, I can get a part-time or full-time job, so that I can either get on an insurance plan at work (not likely) or be able to pay for insurance directly (not really likely, but more likely than the first).

So yeah, I guess I'll see you next week, same Bat-Time, same Bat-Channel. Adios, muchachos.

peanut butter jelly time

2006-01-18T21:00:00.000-05:00

Family Guy - Peanut Butter Jelly Time (pops)

Yeah, about yesterday... Blogger was being weird, and didn't want to load a "new post" dialog. So whatever I had written didn't get posted. And now it's lost to the sands of time, because I didn't save it. Way to go, computer age.

For once, I had no homework today or yesterday. Just had to study for a quiz in Spanish tomorrow. I've got to get the stupid lab work done, though, because my test is next week. I really hate spending extra time at school. Even though it's not like I'd be doing something worthwhile, it's still an intrusion on my personal time.

I finished Sandman, and now I definitely want the extras that aren't the main series, especially the Death series. Sandman #72's art was just so good. It was the complete opposite of an Alex Ross or a photo-realistic artist like that, but it was still so well laid out and fully realized.

I have a question for the males in the audience: Do the girls in Playboy really do anything for you? I can't bring myself to fantasize about Playmates, when there's so many girls I see everyday at school that are much better looking, that I can actualy see up close and in person. There's even the off chance that one will speak to me. The plasticized and Photoshopped fantasy that the classier skin mags offer just isn't what I want. I'm being completely and utterly serious when I say I read it for the articles, because that's how much of a bore I am, and how little the girls in there do for me.

So, yeah, I'm going to go back to sleep. I'm increasingly tired these days, and my insomnia isn't helping.

Did you ever have a night when your brain wouldn't turn off? That's a constant for me. 24/7, my brain is on, all fires burning. It would be nice to just be able to switch it back to pure reptilian mode every once in a while.

heard 'em say

2006-01-16T21:39:00.000-05:00

Kanye West featuring Adam Levine - Heard 'Em Say (pops)

Well, there goes another three-day weekend, and the last break I'll have until Spring Break. It always seems like I fritter away my vacation time, and I could have spent it better.

As it is, I got a haircut, shaved off my beard, and filled out my voter registration form. Plus, I went to the library, bought a new pair of steel-toed boots, and read most of the Sandman series.

That's a lot, or at least it is for someone who lives as sedentary a life as I do.

And now I can't stop feeling my chin. It's weird to have a bare chin after having a beard for most of the past few years; in some ways it's weirder than having a shaved scalp after having a full head of hair. You end up noticing a beard more than your hair. You touch your face more than fifty times a day. You only touch the top of your head a few times if at all.

I need to grab all of the Sandman Mystery Theatres, plus the oneshots and all of the mini-series. So far, I'm really liking the core Sandman series, and more importantly, I like nearly all of the secondatry or supporting characters. Cain and Abel particularly are a hoot, as are Merv Pumpkinhead, Lucien and Matthew. Of course, all seven of the Endless are fun, particularly Delirium's stories.

Tonight is the big UFC show on Spike, and I'm looking forward to seeing it tomorrow on TiVo. I'll have to avoid spoilers, which will be pretty hard considering all of the sites I go to every morning.

I'm dreading going to school tomorrow and the day after, because I've got a Spanish quiz, a speech to give in Public Speaking, and a quiz in HGD. I'm not particularly prepared for any of them. I guess my inner Tommy Flanagan will have to come out. Yeah, that's the ticket. The one thing that has served me better than anything, more than my memory or my ear or my booksmarts, is my good old Irish blarney.

Though, since I'm not Irish, I guess the correct term would be "Anglo-Saxon bullshit".

The skill to talk your way out of situations is invaluable. I can't count the number of times I could have got my ass kicked, except I averted crisis by spinning a yarn. School, work, just general life, it's useful in all arenas.

Oh, and Kate, I've got to add another recipe to that collection you got for Christmas. It's sort of a cheesy cornbread that's dead simple. Really good, too.

Well, that about wraps it up. Good night, and good luck.

put the needle on it

2006-01-13T23:05:00.000-05:00

Dannii Minogue - Put The Needle On It (pops)

And now the boredom sets in.

I've got three days to do nothing with.

I'm actually glad for the break already. School is such drudgery, or at least on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays are pieces of cake. Today was really easy, as all I had to do was watch and listen. Wednesday, I'll have to do my first speech, and I'll probably have a quiz in HGD, but I'm not worried. I just really dread going to school on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I'm glad in a way that I go in so late on those days, because I don't know if I'd make it every day if I had to go in at 9:00 AM or so.

I'm getting a chest cold, so I'm going to go on to bed. I'm getting a haircut tomorrow morning, and I've got to go grocery shopping, which is always fun. Buenos noches, mis amigos.

bittersweet me

2006-01-12T22:46:00.000-05:00

R.E.M. - Bittersweet Me (pops)

I didn't update yesterday, because I'm basically a lazy creature. Also, I didn't feel like it, and my birthday is a national holiday.

Or at least it should be.

A boy can dream, right?

Today was okay. in World Civ, we split up into groups to "get to know one another", so I met Bart and Anna, in addition to Devin, who I've now had four classes with. That was about it, but it was a thousand times better than listening to her lecture for an hour and fifteen minutes.

In Spanish, I did all the homework correctly, except for past tenses (which I never learned in the first place). My quiz grade in there was an 82, which I am perfectly happy with. I don't mind getting a question wrong, so long as I can go back and tell exactly what I did wrong. My problem is if I have no idea where I messed up. Then, I worry. I didn't see any higher grades, though I'm sure there were some, so I'm content. If I can get that grade throughout, augmented by some extra credit, I'm good.

Tomorrow will be easier than today, as I have two classes I like. In Public Speaking, I'll go over the first speech we have to give (a mini-introduction), and in HGD, we'll continue reviewing stuff from Intro Psych, so I'm golden.

I really like this branch of psychology, not so much I'd want to do it for a living, but enough that I'm not going to bitch about the research paper we'll have to write. I've already got my topic ready: Childhood interactions with violent sporting activities and its impact on aggressive tendencies in later adolescence. Basically, that boils down to: if you played or watched a lot of hockey, football, or wrestling, you're probably more aggressive than the average kid who didn't. I think the gender gap will be interesting to deal with, as I wonder what impact exposure to violent sports has on aggressive tendencies in females. The male link should be a piece of cake.

I'm probably wrong, but as long as my research is valid, it doesn't matter what my hypothesis says. No one said you had to have a correct hypothesis to conduct a valid study.

Anyway, I'll be going now. I've got to get some sleep.

where is my mind?

2006-01-10T21:10:00.000-05:00

Pixies - Where is My Mind? (pops)

Why, oh why, is this video listed under "T"? There is no "the" in this band name!

It's the little things that bug me. And there's a lot of little things in the world.

I figure that if I'm so crochety now, by the time I hit seventy or so, I'll be completely unbearable. I will literally be reduced to yelling at kids to get off of my lawn. I just hope my kids pick a nursing home with an attractive staff, so I'll have something to do in between yelling at poeple and writing angry letters to the editor.

This weekend, I need to go get a haircut, and if possible, go by the doctor's office to get my ankle looked at. I've got a sore patch of dry skin on there that won't go away. I also need the doctor to look at a mole on my neck that I cut to pieces every time I shave. I think it can either be burned off or frozen off with little or no fuss.

Spanish sucked today. We had a quiz, and I was semi-prepared for it. I knew around half of the stuff on there right off the bat, and the next half sort of came to me during the course of the test. None of it was completely foreign to me, so that's good. I was a little fuzzy on some of the irregular conjugations, but that's to be expected with an almost three year layoff in between classes. I'll have to really tighten up in there if I want to do well. One of my friends' girlfriends had this teacher last semester, and she got an A by just doing all of the copious homework and doing every extra credit assignment that was offered.

World Civ was extremely boring. It's just a straight lecture with no "audience participation" as it were. I took about a page of notes, but I had to consciously make an effort to stay awake. I hate those kind of classes, almost more than the foreign language model of busywork. Strinking the balance between mountains of busywork and boring students to death with endless lectures is the key. Otherwise, you don't learn anything.

I'm going to knock off early. I've got a headache which is probably the beginnings of a cold. So just like every other year, I'll be sick on my birthday. Go me.

lonely day

2006-01-09T21:08:00.000-05:00

Phantom Planet - Lonely Day (pops)

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I could tell from the minute I woke up
It was going to be a lonely, lonely,
lonely, lonely day.
Rise and shine, rub the sleep out of my eyes
And try to tell myself I can't
go back to bed.
It's gonna be a lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely day.
Even though the sun is shining down on me and I should feel
about as happy as can be,
I just got here and I already want to leave.
It's gonna be a lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely day

Everybody knows that something's wrong
But nobody knows what's going on.
We all sing the same old song
When you want it all to go away.
It's shaping up to be a lonely day.

I could tell from the minute I woke up, it was going to be a
lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely day.

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I hate that that video is so small, but my regular video site's search function decided to go out on me. Either way, it sadly sums up how I've been feeling the past couple of days.

You ever get that feeling that you're going through life without anyone there to help along the way? It kind of feels like that.

But enough of that. I don't want this to turn into something Adkins would write. (Cheap shot, I know. I apologize.)

School was fine. I didn't really do anything, though. I just listened in Public Speaking, and I took notes in HGD. Nothing more than that. Getting out of the parking lot was more of a hassle than usual, but I think it's because I parked in a different spot than I usually do. Also, I require a little more room than the average car to back up because my car's a little bit bigger than your average two-door coupe.

I got another cigar catalog in the mail today. I was thinking about ordering a sampler, but I don't really know. There are some nice seconds in there that I could get for cheap, too.

I've been messing around with one of the new (to me) games I got for Christmas, the first WWE SvR game. It's fairly fun for a technically oriented fan like me, who gets into the psychology of it all. Honestly, I spend more time in the Creation section than anywhere else. I unlok everything first with my codeBreaker, then go to town with the moveset creator. Going through the actual gameplay is secondary for me.

So I guess that's about it. Birthday's on Wednesday, so send something to me. Either a gift or a little note.

Cash always accepted.

dr. worm

2006-01-06T22:29:00.000-05:00

They Might Be Giants - Doctor Worm (pops)

Today didn't suck nearly as much as yesterday.

I wake up, take a shower, get dressed, and eat breakfast. My grandmother comes over to help plan a surprise party for my grandfather on Sunday. She also brought my birthday card, containing some money. Always nice.

As I'm walking out the door, my uncle calls and wants to know if I can help him move back into his house. (It's a long story, but the moral is simple: get a good divorce lawyer, and don't give up everything even if you want your kids to have a smooth transition. It just gets messier and messier.) I tell him that I'm walking out the door to go to school. He says okay, and to call him when I get home and see if there's anything that he still needs help with. I said okay. Later, I did call him, and he was practically done, so no need for me to drive from Statham to Bethlehem to Winder to Bethlehem and back to Statham. My gas tank thanks him.

So anyway, I go to school, and my first class is Speech. The teacher was pretty cool, except for me having to buy another book on top of the required textbook. He was the stage announcer for the Libertarian Presidential Convention in 2004, so I have a feeling we're going to get along just fine.

HGD was fun. I like the teacher, and the teacher likes me, to the point of making fun of me for essentially acing the prerequisite course he taught. Interestingly enough, he said that Stacie and I were pretty much the only ones who made above a 90 in his Intro Psych, and that out of 28 students in the class, 17 failed. So I feel much better about my academic abilities. Ego = stroked.

Then I came home, watched "The Office" and "My Name is Earl", and piddled around for a while. I had Domino's delivered. The new 7-7-7 deal, where you can get three mediums any way you like for $7 a piece. I got Hawaiian, Mom got the all-meat, and Dad got the supreme, sans mushrooms.

He's as allergic as I am, if not more. Then again, he's had more opportunities to get sick off of them. I had a great-uncle who, when he was a kid, found out the hard way he was allergic to mushrooms. He ate a full plate of them and wound up in the hospital, where they had to pump his stomach. So we avoid mushrooms in my family like the plague. Actually, we'd probably take our chances with the plague.

So that was pretty much my day. Not too exciting, but I prefer boring to disastrous any day. This weekend, I'm going to re-learn Spanish, and do about a dozen online worksheets. That's about it. But it's enough, right?

last goodbye

2006-01-05T22:26:00.000-05:00

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye (pops)

Today kind of sucked.

It was the first day of classes at GSC (but apparently nowhere else, college-wise). I wake up at 7:00, since I'm going to have to wake up then tomorrow, and I want to get into the rhythm. I piddle around for five hours, watching Martin Short on "Sit-Down Comedy with David Steinberg", an episode of CMLL from the end of November (that's how far behind I am, sadly), and an episode of SNL on E.

That is to say, I didn't watch it while under the influence of ecstacy, but rather on the "E!" network. Much less fun that way, I know.

I drive to school, and traffic's not that bad. It shouldn't be, at 1:00 on a Thursday with no UGA classes. I go sit in the Atrium, since I don't have a class for about half an hour. I intentionally left early to see how bad traffic would be. I see a couple people I know, but not many.

I make my way to World Civ. The teacher, Sezgin, starts in with the scare tactics, designed to make you drop the class. See, once enough people sign up for the class, they'll keep it around no matter how many drop it, since it would wreak havoc on the schedules. Ergo, less work for her. I can't say that I blame her. Otherwise, the class was completely uneventful, and it let out forty-five minutes early to boot.

So I sit around for an hour, waiting for Spanish 1002 to start. Eventually, the clock rolls around, and it's time.

I look in the classroom, and I realize we're in a computer lab. Weird, but later it's explained that the campus has become so overcrowded that every available room is being used. Well, excpet for offices, since we know we couldn't be trusted in those.

She starts with a conjugation chart and I realize: "I have forgotten well over three-quarters of this."

It got a little better as the class wore on, except for the fact the bookstore sold me the wrong book, and I had to go buy a new one, and come back tomorrow with the receipt for the old one. Plus, the new one was fifty more dollars. Yay.

I already hate the lab component. We have to spend at least an hour or two in the library each week doing the equivalent of busywork. Remember the workbooks in high school? Well, they're on the computers now, and they don't trust us enough to do them by ourselves, so we have to get a TA to come check us off. They claim they treat us like adults, but they don't trust us enough to do our own work, on our own time, before the deadline.

And I get to do all of this tomorrow, but with Speech and HGD. At least I know what to expect out of the HGD, and I have inside information that says my Speech teacher is a joke and an easy A.

With Spanish on my plate, I think I could use an easy A. Honestly, if I get out of Spanish with a B, I think I'm going to be happy. All I need is a 3.2 to transfer credits to UGA, and if I get my degree outright like I plan to, they won't care what my GPA is. I only have to worry about keeping my scholarships, and a 3.0 will do that nicely. Anything on top of that is gravy.

So how was your day?

walk away

2006-01-04T20:20:00.000-05:00

Joe Walsh and Friends - Walk Away (pops)

My God, is that some horrible hair on Joe's head. Drugs are bad, kids.

My dread-o-meter is officially on high, since I go back to school tomorrow. I go in at 2:00 with World Civilization 1111, followed by Spanish 1002 at 3:30, and hopefully I'll be back home by 5:30. Friday is a little earlier, as I go in at 10:00 with Speech 1100, followed by Human Growth and Development 2103 at 11:00. I should be home by 12:30 then.

My stomach's acting up again, but I'm 90% sure it's stress brought on by the impending semester. Shots of Mylanta will be downed, just to make sure.

I already know that Mom bought me some stuff off of my Amazon wishlist (pops), but she's doing her best to keep it a secret. Too bad the list only defaults to Christmas mode (i.e., not letting the creator see what's been bought) during Christmas. The stuff should be here by the 10th, leaving a full day where I can be tempted by the thought of fresh presents meant for me, yet beyond my grasp.

I'm dreading Spanish more than anything, because I can bullshit my way through Civ and Speech, and HGD is just more of the same from last semester. I'll have to tap my resources and see exactly what level of proficiency is needed for the class. Hopefully, my regular schedule of lucha-viewing is keeping my high school Spanish skills alive and kicking. If I need to do a project, I've got a great one built in. All I need are some DVD's from either Cubs or Fredo, and I'm set. I've already got the mask and the knowledge.

I wonder how well Super Porky would go over at GSC? Probably pretty well.

I've got to get my beauty rest, so I will bid you adieu.

Or adios.

One of those Romance language farewells, anyway.

first day of my life

2006-01-01T23:18:00.000-05:00

The rasmus - First Day of the Rest of My Life (pops)

I really haven't done anything these past few days. I didn't do anything for New Years, but I usually don't.

My work's been pushed back to whenever I can get to it, since the servers are getting switched over and I don't have a clue when they'll be back up. That's a hardware problem, and I'm a software person in this little business. I think the actual server's in Colorado or Wyoming, so I couldn't do anything anyway.

Friday night my TV in my room died, so on Saturday I had to get a new one from the mecca of modern shopping, Wal-Mart. Hopefully, this TV will last more than a year, unlike the broken one. It's not that it's a huge expense, but it is money I'd like to have back, you know?

So, let's get to the good stuff. Nobody came forward with the 20,000th hit, and it's been about a week, so I'll just have another contest.

It's a song contest this time, so a little knowledge is required on your part. No straight Googling allowed (i.e., plugging the quote directly into the textbox of any search engine and hitting enter). Any other use of internet resources is iffy, but may be acceptable upon review. Honesty is paramount.

The theme is "first lines". All of the ten following phrases are the first lines of songs. They may be obscure, they may be well-known. It's a crapshoot. I can tell you that at least one of these you will either know right of the top of your head, or be very disappointed in yourself when you see the answer. Anyway, onto the lyrics.

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1. "I never jumped in and rescued you, but I wanted to."

2. "For a small girl, Barbara sure has got a big crush."

3. "Make a hole with a gun perpendicular to the name of this town in a desktop globe."

4. "Just when I believed I couldn't ever want for more, this ever changing world pushes me through another door."

5. "I'm becoming less defined as days go by, fading away."

6. "If he was from Venus, would he feed us with a spoon?"

7. "I want to love somebody, I hear you need somebody to love."

8. "While the music played, you worked by candlelight."

9. "Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling. Do you feel my heart beating?"

10. "Let me tell you how it will be: there's one for you, nineteen for me."

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There you go. Game on!

the new year

2006-01-01T00:00:00.000-05:00

Death Cab for Cutie - The New Year (pops)

Happy New Year, Auld Lang Syne, and all that bullshit.

Mainly, don't suck this year. Okay?

anniversary

2005-12-28T20:02:00.000-05:00

This is the 250th post on this blog. As a result of this momentous occasion, I shall share with you this little bit of information:

BIRTHDAY! JANUARY 11TH! DON'T FORGET!

Ahem. That's better. As an aside, here is my wish list, which shall be updated throughout the upcoming few days. I don't really expect anything, but if you feel like you just have to, there's a rough guide for you to go by. If in doubt, ask me if I have something already. Anything on there, though, is fair game.

I'd love an Observer subscription, but do understand that going through the WO website is much cheaper than the almost absurd price quoted by Amazon.

Remember, I also accept checks, money orders, and even good old fashioned cash. Email for a mailbox address, or look on my Facebook profile.

Gift cards are nice, but fluid currency is much easier on me and you. Cut out the middleman, and give the gift that keeps on giving.

So there is my 250th post, and it's nothing but a heartless shill. What better way to exemplify my site than through blatant commercialism?

it's a hit

2005-12-27T22:39:00.000-05:00

Rilo Kiley - It's A Hit (pops)

Any band that has a former cast member of "Salute Your Shorts" is alright with me. Well, except for Danny Cooksey. And he knows why. If you meet him, ask him. The douche.

Everybody have a good Christmas? Or, the first three days of Hanukkah, for our Jewish or pseudo-Jewish friends? (Kate knows what I'm talking about. Certain people are only Jewish when it gets them out of confession and penance for doing naughty little things.)

I got gypped this year, but I understand the most of it. My immediate family is not doing so great financially, so we basically had a Ned Flanders "imagination Christmas". (If the words "I got a hula-hoop!" are not coursing through your head at this very moment, I'm not sure I want you to be reading my page.) That's not what bugs me, although the shoddy state of the social security system in this great country could fill a few pages with rants.

What bugs me is my grandmother's Christmas present. I got fifty dollars. I'm not saying it's not enough, because it's extremely generous when you factor in my nine other cousins. What bugs me is that every kid below sixteen got fifty dollars and three individual presents from her. So six kids got bonuses while the three oldest (of which I am the youngest) got the shaft.

Previous Christmases, the younger kids got presents, while the three oldest got the cash equivalent. That's cool with me, because it's easier to cash a check than to stand in a return line. I just would like equality, because you can't tell me its somehow fair for the younger kids to suddenly get more this year when they haven't before.

And I already know I'm going to get shafted again on January 11th (my birthday), because no one seems to remember it. They never even send a card with a token five bucks. Even ghetto kids get that, you know. If I get forgotten when I'm seventeen days away from Christmas, imagine if I was born on the actual day, like my aunt was. She always got double Christmas presents, though, because if you're born on the actual holiday, you don't have an excuse for forgetting.

I guess I'm in that golden range where the Christmas buzz has worn off and the hangover of the New Year has started pounding a neverending drumbeat into the skulls of the masses. Go me.

That about does it for this pity party. Remember, you have only fourteen shopping days before the Feast of St. Suplex, the anniversary of the birth of the third greatest human being to ever walk the earth.

Behind Jesus and Chuck Norris, obviously.

Anyway, it's my birthday on the 11th and I expect presents. Sexy, sexy presents.

all I want for christmas is you

2005-12-24T19:53:00.000-05:00

Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You (pops)

Well, this is Christmas Eve. So, I figured I had to post something. That something is:

"Have a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, a Kwaazy Kwanza, a tip-top Tet, and a solemn and dignified Ramadan. And now a word from MY god, our sponsors!"

There's a good chance my cousin is coming home from Iraq either this week or next, so I may be away from a computer, preventing me from posting regularly. Then again, this past week hasn't been a bran muffin of regularity to begin with. So let's just say I'll see you when I see you, okay? Good.

Call or email me for updates, or come and see me if you're out about town.

A REMINDER: The 20,000th hit is just a few clicks away, and the prize for attaining such a lofty mark will be positively scintillating. Mark my words. Scintillating.

don't stop believing

2005-12-19T22:52:00.000-05:00

Journey - Don't Stop Believing (pops)

This is by far the most accurate personality test I've ever taken, and it's only three questions. It perfectly describes me, and if anyone disagrees, please say so.

Here are my results:

***Your Personality Is***

Rational (NT)

You are both logical and creative. You are full of ideas.
You are so rational that you analyze everything. This drives people a little crazy!

Intelligence is important to you. You always like to be around smart people.
In fact, you're often a little short with people who don't impress you mentally.

You seem distant to some - but it's usually because you're deep in thought.
Those who understand you best are fellow Rationals.

In love, you tend to approach things with logic. You seek a compatible mate - who is also very intelligent.

At work, you tend to gravitate toward idea building careers - like programming, medicine, or academia.

With others, you are very honest and direct. People often can't take your criticism well.

As far as your looks go, you're coasting on what you were born with. You think fashion is silly.

On weekends, you spend most of your time thinking, experimenting with new ideas, or learning new things.

***End of Results***

The Three Question Personality Test(pops)

So won't you please take this little test? See how accurate you think it is.

we gonna win

2005-12-18T19:15:00.000-05:00

Miri Ben-Ari - We Gonna Win (pops)

Whee! I'm not dead, though my lack of posting may have led you to that conclusion.

I've been photoshopping for about two days solid in an attempt to get that stupid calendar done, and I just had to take a break.

Anyway, here's the deal: I'm about to reach the 20,000 hits mark, and I offered a prize for the last milestone (10,000), so I'm offering one for this occasion as well.

No, I won't tell what it is. Suffice to say, it will reek of awesomeness (and desperation, but that's my natural scent). Once I figure out what it is, that is.

Simply, if you can provide proof that you were the 20,000th visitor (a screen capture would be nice), you get a prize. No matter where you're at, you'll get something, either e-mailed or snail-mailed to you, depending on what I decide the prize will be.

Remember, the counter on the right side of the page is your guide. It counts page views and not unique visitors.

So how about it? You up for a challenge?

keep hope alive

2005-12-14T22:05:00.000-05:00

The Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive (pops)

Today I did nothing, but that will change tomorrow.

Tomorrow, I've got to start work on the extended family's Christmas gift to the grandparents, namely a calendar. Dad and I are the only two with the requisite Photoshop and desktop publishing skills, so we got volunteered to do it. And to think, I thought I would never use anything I learned in Buoy's class.

Doesn't mean he's not a douche, though.

In addition, my uncle's crazy moneymaking scheme is acually paying off, so I've got some more work to do over the holidays for him setting up websites. It's only a hundred sites (I know, you're thinking "ONLY a hundred?"), but I'll take the work. Lord knows I can use the money. It's drudgery, but I'm getting paid much more than my normal rate for taking this on short notice.

So my holiday went from being leisurely to being jam-packed pretty quick. The calendar shouldn't take more than a couple of days, but staring at the screen doing blemish touch-ups for eight hours isn't good for my eyes. Then, the websites shouldn't take more than four days, as soon as I catch my rhythm again. I'll have to find all of the old passwords and remember all the tricks of doing it as fast as humanly possible, when I could do 75 or 100 sites in a (caffeine-fueled) day.

As a result of all this hustle and bustle, I may not get to post again until next week. Bear with me and you'll get your dark sarcastic lord of mirth back.

walk away

2005-12-13T22:15:00.000-05:00

Franz Ferdinand - Walk Away (pops)

Please tell me I wasn't the only one hoping for a James Gang cover.

Now, you want to talk about your underrated bands, there's a prime candidate.

Anyway, I took my last final today. I don't feel great about it, but I think I'd have to fail the final to impact my grade in there a letter grade, and I don't think I did that badly.

In other news, I bought books for next semester. $345.66, which is less than I spent for this semester's. Three used, one new. Damn you, Spanish 1002. (And I'm fairly sure that won't be the last time those words are found on this page.) The rest were under $75, but Spanish was $125, and it's the thinnest book.

Am I the only one who feels a little ripped off by the lack of hardcover books? It seems to me that if you're going to spend more than $100 on a book, it should be in a format where you can keep it for a little while, if you so choose. I appreciate the lack of heft in my messenger bag, but I'd kind of like a set of books that will last a few years.

Speaking of my messenger bag, maybe I can get some more patches for it next week. Right now, I've got four of the Homestar Runner patches, and they look mighty swank. I'd love some band patches, particularly a "Death to the Pixies" patch.

I haven't shaved this week, so my beard has gotten to the point where it rubs against my neck and chest when my head is down. It's profoundly annoying, but I'm too lazy to shave it off yet. I've got two trains of thought here. One, I can shave it all off and start anew in January. Two, I can let it grow wild and shaggy and maybe get a spot in ZZ Top's touring band.

Tomorrow, I'm going to try to catch up on lucha and my sleep. Not necessarily in that order.

If you want to get a hold of me, my phone number's on my Facebook profile, and my email address is on the right side of this page. Call me, email me, maybe we'll do something. I've got a full tank of gas, and I can go buy half a pack of cigarettes.

helena

2005-12-12T18:35:00.000-05:00

My Chemical Romance - Helena (pops)

Well, I haven't done a damn thing all weekend.

Actually, I did several things (sleeping, eating, etc.), but you know what I mean.

I haven't done anything particularly interesting, would be the correct statement.

I've got a pimple on my left eyebrow that's bugging me now. It's right on the bone ridge, so it sticks out and rubs on the frame of my glasses. I don't want to pop it, since it would leave a noticable scar, so I guess I'll just live with it.

I've been listening to a string quartet's rendition of a bunch of Garbage songs, and it's amazing how well they hold up. "Special" and "When I Grow Up" sound positively majestic.

Tomorrow I'll take my last final, get gas, and buy books. So I'll be in the hole about $450 or $500 by tomorrow night. I'm glad that little scholarship check came in the mail last week. I've got to get a Spanish book, a World Civ book, a Communications book, and another Psycholgy book, and if I can't get them used, they'll be about $150 a piece, give or take. Hopefully I can find at least a couple used, which could be between $40 and $80 a piece.

I'm not going to trade my current books in, since $15 isn't worth it. Eventually, one day, I might need to know how to set up a logarithmic equation, and I'd hate to have to look it up on Google when I could scavenge the answer from a book I'll have to spend an hour looking for.

After 2:00 tomorrow, I'll probably go to sleep and not wake up until dinner at the earliest. This will set the tone for my entire break, save for occasions when I have to go eat at my grandmother's house.

Wish me luck. I don't know if I can take that kind of schedule.

for the movies

2005-12-09T19:49:00.000-05:00

Buckcherry - For The Movies (pops)

MOVIE CHECKLIST

(Disclaimer: This list was not compiled by me. I'd leave off most of these and put on a lot more, better, movies. Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Arsenic and Old Lace, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday... The list goes on and on. Anyways...)

Put an (x) by the movies you've seen.

( )Pirates of the Caribbean
( )The Mexican
(x)Fight Club
(x)Starsky and Hutch
( )Never Ending Story
(x)Blazing Saddles
( )Garden State
(x)The Princess Bride
(x)Young Frankenstien
( )AnchorMan
( )Napoleon Dynamite
( )Saw
( )White noise
( )White Oleander
(x)Anger Management
(x)Rocky Horror Picture Show
( )50 First Dates
( )Jason
(x)Scream
(x)Scream 2
(x)Scream 3
(x)Scary Movie
(x)Scary Movie 2
(x)Scary Movie 3
(x)American Pie
(x)American Pie 2
( )American Wedding
( )Harry Potter
( )Harry Potter 2
( )Harry Potter 3
( )Harry Potter 4
( )Resident Evil I
( )Resident Evil 2
(x)The Wedding Singer
( )Little Black Book
( )The Village
( )Donnie Darko
( )Lilo & Stitch
(x)Finding Nemo
( )Finding Neverland
(x)13 Ghosts
( )Signs
( )The Grinch
( )Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( )White Chicks
( )Butterfly Effect
( )Thirteen going on 30
( )I,Robot
( )Dodgeball
( )Universal Soldier
( )A Series Of Unfortunate Events
( )Along Came A Spider
(x)Deep Impact
(x)KingPin
( )Never Been Kissed
(x)Meet The Parents
( )Meet the Fockers
(x)Eight Crazy Nights
( )A Cinderella Story
( )The Terminal
( )The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( )Passport to Paris
(x)Dumb & Dumber
( )Dumb & Dumberer
( )Final Destination
( )Final Destination 2
(x)Halloween
( )The Ring
( )The Ring 2
(x)Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
( )Practical Magic
( )Chicago
( )Ghost Ship
( )From Hell
(x)Hellboy
( )Secret Window
(x)I Am Sam
(x)The Whole Nine Yards
( )The Whole Ten Yards
(x)The Day After Tomorrow
(x)Child's Play
( )Bride of Chucky
(x)Ten things I hate about you
( )Just Married
( )Gothika
(x)Nightmare on Elm Street
(x)Sixteen Candles
(x)Bad Boys
( )Bad Boys 2
( )Joy Ride
(x)Seven
(x)Oceans Eleven
(x)Oceans Twelve
( )Bourne Identity
( )Lone Star
(x)Predator I
( )Predator II
(x)Independence day
( )Cujo
( )A Bronx Tale
( )Darkness Falls
(x)Christine
(x)ET
( )Children of the Corn
( )My Boss' Daughter
( )Maid in Manhattan
( )Frailty
( )How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(x)She's All That
(x)Calendar Girls
( )Sideways
(x)Mars Attacks
( )Event Horizon
( )Everafter
(x)Forrest Gump
(x)Big Trouble in Little China
(x)X-Men
(x)X-Men 2
( )Catch me if you Can
( )The Others
( )Freaky Friday
( )Ring of Fire
( )Hot Chick
( )Swimfan
( )Miracle
(x)Old School
(x)Ray
( )The Notebook
( )K-Pax
(x)Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(x)Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(x)Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
( )A Walk To Remember
( )Boogeyman
( )Hitch
(x)The Fifth Element
(x)Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
( )Star Wars Episode II: Attack of The Clones
( )Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of The Sith
(x)Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
(x)Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
(x)Star Wars Episode VI: Return of The Jedi
(x)Troop Beverly Hills
( )Swimming with Sharks
(x)Air Force One
( )For Richer or Poorer
( )People Under The Stairs
( )Blue Velvet
(x)Sound of Music
( )Parent Trap
( )The Burbs
(x)The Terminator
(x)Terminator 2
( )Terminator 3
( )Empire Records
( )Meet Joe Black
( )A Clockwork Orange
( )The Order
(x)Spiderman
( )Spiderman 2
( )Amelie
(x)Mean Girls
(x)Shrek
(x)Shrek 2
(x)The Incredibles
(x)Collateral
(x)The Fast & The Furious
(x)2 Fast 2 Furious
( )Sky Captain Of The World Of Tomorrow
( )Closer
(x)Titanic
(x)Saved
(x)Bowling For Columbine
( )Farenheit 9/11
( )The Sixth Sense
( )Artificial intelligence (AI)
( )Love actually
( )Shutter
( )Ella Enchanted
( )Princess Diaries
( )Princess Diaries 2
( )Constantine
( )Million Dollar Baby
( )Envy
( )Eurotrip
(x)Malibu's Most wanted
(x)Big Daddy
(x)Black Sheep
(x)The Breakfast Club
(x)West Side Story
(x)A Christmas Story
( )Spanglish
(x)Pulp Fiction
( )Sleepover
( )The Evil Dead
( )Killer Klowns From Outer Space
( )The Seed of Chucky
( )Vanilla Sky
( )Nightmare Before Christmas
( )Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
( )Interview With The Vampire
( )The Crow
(x)Purple Rain
(x)Wayne's World
(x)Wayne's World 2
( )21 Grams
(x)Blow
( )Edward Scissorhands
(x)Clerks
(x)Beauty and the Beast
( )Guess Who
( )Monster-in-Law
(x)Elf
( )Stuart Little
( )Stuart Little 2
(x)Chasing Amy
(x)Dogma
(x)Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
(x)Beetlejuice
( )The Last Samurai
( )The Amityville Horror
( )The Aviator
(x)Romeo and Juliet
(x)Barbershop
(x)Barbershop 2
(x)Legally Blonde
(x)Legally Blonde 2
( )The Forgotten
( )Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
( )The Grudge

MY TOTAL: 96 out of 228.

Wow, that's a lot of bad movies that I've succesfully avoided.

See you Monday if I remember to wake up. Tuesday if not.

when a fool becomes king

2005-12-08T19:03:00.000-05:00

The Polyphonic Spree - When A Fool Becomes King (pops)

Could you do me a favor?

Please?

Here's what you need to do: click this link a few hundred times.

Okay, maybe not a hundred.

But a few dozen, at least.

Although, I'm not going to stop you from clicking it over a thousand times.

It won't take but a minute of your time, and it'll help me win a StumbleUpon contest. I want to be the number one SU newbie, so that complete and utter strangers will shower me with accolades. You know that's always been my life-long dream ever since, like, yesterday.

And remember: this is only a test-run for the full mobilization of my army of intelligentsia. When will the full mobilization occur? Whenever I find something worthy of mobilizing my entire readership to do something. Perhaps a political cause or something.

Anyway, I took my AmGov final today. Not too bad. Tomorrow is Algebra, which might pose a small challenge.

I saw people today trade in their books at the bookstore in anticipation of not needing them again. It's always funny to see people spend $700 on books a semester, then get $15 back when they trade them in. (I actually know someone who spent that much, and you have to remember that a full semester's tuition at Gainesville is only $775.) Personally, I'll get more use out of them as bookshelf spacetakers for my classroom. It's not worth $15.

Yesterday I got the second half of one of my scholarships, so I'll have some extra spending money once I find time to go to the bank. Who wants to go on a wild, exotic shopping spree?

Well, I'll see you tomorrow. Actually, I won't see you most likely, but you will have the chance to read what I wrote. Enjoy!

i'd do anything for love

2005-12-07T20:23:00.000-05:00

Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) (pops)

No known band has even attempted to cover this song, or "Paradise By The Dashboard Light".

I intend to change this.

It will be both a serious musical statement and the most hilarious event of the century, as I have no vocal talent whatsoever. I will need an expert team of musicians to accomplish this goal, but since I don't know an expert team of musicians, I will be forced to do this myself. The instrumental parts are fairly easy, since I can just program them into a sequencer and be done with it. However, the vocals must be done in the authentic "drunken karaoke" style. And this must be videotaped. You know, for posterity.

All kidding aside, I'm fairly sure that my ultimate purpose on this planet is to be the world's worst and best karaoke singer. With my comical physique and stage presence, my near-encyclopedic lyrical knowledge, and my unflappable willingness to make a complete jackass of myself in front of intoxicated strangers, it is a match made in Heaven. Let me get my lucha mask, and we're ready to go.

I'm all set for my finals for this week and next. It's official that I don't have to take my Psych final. I did the math, and I only have to make above 70 to get an A in algebra, and the other two classes I have solid A's in as well.

I get to sleep in half of Friday and all of Monday, so the weekend should be a sloth-filled excursion into the depths of human laziness. Tuesday is a joke, since the only real difficulties I'll have are this week.

I should get completely drunk on Tuesday night, but alas, I live in a Puritan household which knows not the pleasures of the vine. And I'm too lazy to go visit anyone who would have booze on hand.

Plus, my body is a temple.

A temple to Buddha, apparently, but a temple nonetheless.

With that, I am away. We'll meet again tomorrow, same Suplex time, same Suplex station.