Home Sweet Home

So the last day on campus wasn't nearly as boring as I thought it was going to be - I had breakfast with some friends, packed all my stuff up in like three hours, talked to my roomie's girlfriend who was still on campus, and my mm came about two hours earlier than I thought she was going to. Overall it wasn't that bad.

When I said goodbye to Jen, her roommate said it sounded like something out of a movie - I gave her a little stuffed chick that peeped when you squoze it (she was in love with it from the first moment she saw it), and said she could remember me by it. She said she would never forget me, which made me feel good. It was at that point that her roommate spoke up. That made us both laugh. I really hope that I can go see her over the summer - she lives near the coast, and said that I would have to come down and eat lobster with her at this lobster booth near her. I truly hope I can manage to do that.

Speaking of road trips, a group of us from school all got tickets to a Dave Matthew's Band concert in the middle of June. The plan was to get to the concert way early, everyone get smashed, and then after the concert go to a lakehouse owned by one of the friends. This sounded like a pretty good time - I like Dave Matthews, I enjoy watching drunk people, and the lakehouse sounds like a super fun time. Unfortunately, there is also a reenacting event that I truly want to go too on the same weekend. As it stands in my mind right now, I'm going to be going to the event - it's a kid's maritime festival at the museum that I worked at last summer, and I haven't seen any of the people that are going to be at the festival in about a year.

For those of you wondering, I am a reenactor, and one of the units I am a part of helps out with Pirate's Weekend, as it's called.

So, despite the fact that I really would like to see my friends from school, and see a Dave Matthew's Band show, I think that the Pirate's life is the one for me. I'm sure I'll be writing more about this as time goes on.

If anyone has been wondering about the title of this entry - yes I am at home. It's rather boring. My mom and I got home about 10 on Friday night, and my sister had a bunch of her friends over. That was pretty cool. Two of them ended up spending the night and we all watched Aeon Flux, which is a pretty cool movie. I'm stunned it's only PG-13, with the lack of clothing that lead actress wears.

So the night was pretty good. Then this morning, my mom and sister leave for a soccer tournament one state over, and are going to be gone the entire weekend. My dad came home midafternoon today, and other than that I've had the house to myself. I have done abosolutely nothing. Well, I kinda did laundry (I started it this afternoon, and still have to fold the first load, and switch the second into the dryer), but nothing really productive. Tomorrow, my dad is going to Canada for a day trip that I don't really want to attend, so I'll likely have the house to myself again. I really need to get a summer job, or I'm going to be bored beyond belief for three months.

Exiting humor - one of my sisters friends told me she saw a questionable picture of me on the internet. This was in reference to one of the Pimps and Hoes pictures. That made me laugh :)


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Still at school

It's 11 at night, campus is pretty much deserted, my room is more naked than a stripper, and I have all of tomorrow left until I can go home. Wow, I'm going to be so bored . . . I am so bored. So my roommate left this afternoon and took basically the entire room with him. It's rather amazing. HIs bedding was red, he had a rug that was green and both of us had posters up all over the walls. We put a ton of stuff in storage, including our futon, and my bean bag chairs, so all of the stuff that made the room so cool and relaxing is gone. It's so empty!! This coupled with the fact that like the entire campus is gone is a little depressing.

The other day I was talking to my track coach online (see my last post about the sunburing on a beach), and I told my roomie about it. He said that she seemed sexually frustrated (ie, not getting enough action), and that I had a chance with her (a bit of background - I showed him pictures of her from the Pimps and Hoes party, and he was like "Wow, she's hot!!"). I kind of laughed at that. I wish I had a chance with her. However, a) she's my coach, b) she's lusting after someone else, and c) she's my coach. The coach thing is both a turn on and a real deal breaker. I mean, anyone who has played a sport and had a hot coach knows what I'm talking about. However, she might be getting a paid position next year. Also, she'll still be coaching me at least for the beginning of next year. Me hooking up with her, while fun, could easily ruin the track season. Why does sex have to have so much extra emotional baggage attached? It's not fair.

Speaking of sex and relationships - my roommate is an idiot. He is currently dating this super sweet girl who is extremely innocent and a wonderful person overall. However, when she gets drunk, she starts to doubt herself, and her relationship with him. This is not helped by the fact that he flirts with other girls when he gets a little buzzed. Last night, there was a massage party in my room after I drove two of my friends to get pizza after they got the drunk munchies. We walk back in and my roomie is over one girl, who has her shirt bunched around her boobs, and his girlfriend is over another girl, who is still wearing all of her clothes the way they are supposed to be worn. Now, personally I think the couple should be massaging each other, and the other two can figure out what they want to do with one another. But anyways, the massage ends, and the girl with the clothing issues starts talking about a make out party. So she wants a threeway kiss with the girl who was recieving the other massage, and one of the guys I drove to get pizza. So of course my roomie videotapes this on his camera. As he's doing this, he is totally ignoring his girlfriend and concentrating on the chick who initiated the kiss (who is a little bit flirty anyways). When this girl says "Are you filming?" to my roomie, his girlfriend replies "Of course he is" in this hurt/resigned tone of voice, and goes over to the computer that's playing the music, and starts picking out really sad music. Later that night, she ends up crying in one of our friends laps, and my roomie is still ignoring her for the most part. I don't get it. It really seems like he would rather be friends with her than date her. However, I think he kind of wants to date her without the responsibilities. I can see why someone would want to do that, but this is the wrong girl to do it with. She's very naieve, she has a ton of people who will kill him is he hurts her in anyway, and he's not getting sex out of the relationship (she's a virgin and doesn't want to rush things, which I think is good).

Another thing that strikes me about my roommate's relationships, at least those he's had at school, is that his girlfriend ends up spending a lot of time with me. This makes me a little uncomfortable. I mean usually I don't know them that well before hand, if at all, but when they start dating him, they also seem to take a new interest in me. I really don't know what to make of it. I easily could be oversensitive to stepping on my roommates turf, or they actually could be more interested in me than before. Whatever.

Anyways, I think I was going to write more, but I got side tracked. I'll have plenty of time tomorrow to write if I think of it.


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Last night was a complete and utter shit show. It was hysterical though. My roommate bought some alcohol and a bunch of our friends came over. They ended up getting totally trashed, and my roommate was taking videos with his camera throughout the night. Watching those this morning was amazing.

I also had a wonderful conversation with my throws coach - she was in the library at 2 in the morning attempting to work on a paper that was due the next day. Her away message had something in it about hating the library and wanting to be naked and sunburing on a beach. I poked fun at her for this and the conversation went downhill from there. It was great fun.

So I don't think I've expressed this here before, but I really enjoy cars. I have a 1963 Volkswagen dune buggy that I'm planning on restoring this summer, and today my roommate and I got talking about engine swaps for it. The idea of a turbo'd motorcycle engine came up and both of us immediately started drooling. It would be so much fun! Lots of work but so much fun!! However, I kind of want to keep the buggy stock unless parts are totally unrestorable. I don't plan on it being a "go-fast" car, more of a fun around town car. We'll see how it turns out :)

Other than those things nothing much has been going on - lots of people are packing up to go, but I have another two whole days. Ugh. I'll just have to find ways to amuse myself, I guess.


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Last week of school!

This week is the last week of my freshman year of college! It's been a wild ride. I'm a little worried about my GPA, but it'll work out. At the worst, I can totally drain my savings accounts and make it through another year, get really good grades (aka closet myself in my room and work), and get another scholarship. However, I'm not that worried about it.

So I talked to Jen again last night. I'm so confused by her. My roommate and I visited her one time, and he was like "The body language is there! Just go for it!" I wish it was that simple. Anyways, she's transfering next semester - fall semester taking classes at a college near her house, and in the spring semester she's coming to the state school in the same town as the school we're at now. She wants me to come visit her over the summer, though. I really hope that I'll be able to do that.

Well, there are people in my room now, and they seem to need some supervision, being the disorderly drunks that they are. Haha!



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Oh yeah

I forgot - I have decided that I need a digital camera, a car, and a cell phone. These are the three vital components in dealing with drunk people, ranked in order of importance :) THe only problem is that I have no money for any of these things.

RARGH!!

Well, it's been an interesting few days. The last day of my PC Systems class the professor said that we could burn a processor up. However, when we got to class, he said that he had been explicitly told not too by the powers that be. So he handed back some tests, talked for a few minutes, and then was like "Hang on a sec" , left the room, and came back 10 min later and said "Let's go to the Chem department!" Everyone was super excited and we all raced down to the Chem dept, set everything up, and did our damndest to blow the processor up. Nothing happened. Apparently the motherboard had a built in temperature sensor that cut the power once the porcessor started to overheat. That sucked. So the Chem professor got out some liquid nitrogen and we froze the hell out of the processor. We then threw it on the ground as hard as we could. It bounced. Everyone was really disappointed. However, it was a good way to end the semester.

Then yesterday night was an event in itself. It started out with me smashing the hell out of a TV stand with a 2 and a half foot long 1 inch thich peice of rebar. That was fun. My roommate got it on video too :) Later that night I went to a Pimps and Hoes party hosted by one of the seniors on the track team. That was very fun - some of the track girls are amazing to look at. I ended up escorting two people back to my dorm (they live in the same building). When I got back to my room (around 1), there were about 8 people there, all of whom were in some altered state of mind. It was impressive.

Then, today, I was talking to Jen, and she had gone down to a frat, and had ended up getting shut out in foosball. The house rules of this frat are that if you get shut out, you run the length of the block and back in your underwear. She did it, and apparently was wearing very risque undergarments. She told me this and was like "This is what happens when you don't party with me." I told her I was going to go cry in a corner.

Also this morning was a bacon day at the school cafeteria. However, we got there, and there was no bacon!!! I was very put out. I love bacon!

So other than that, not much has been going on - it's exam week starting Monday, freshman year of college is essentially over, and my roommate is trying to light the room on fire. It's been a good year :)


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Amazing show!

So last night I went with my friends to see the Lashes, Ok Go, and She Wants Revenge play. That was amazing!! I would have paid the $20 just to see Ok Go's 30 min show. And then She Wants Revenge came on! It was wondeful. The lead singer for SWR has an astounding voice - very eire, and very complex. His wardrobe last night and overall mannerisms also reminded me of Capt jack Sparrow. Pretty cool!

A week and a half of school left! Boy. That went by pretty quick. I'm truly looking forward to summer break, but I'm going to miss all of my friends. I hope we manage to get together at least a few times over break.

I found out people actually read my blog!! I was very happy about that. I hadn't set my preferences to notify me when comments were left, so I was going along all saddened that no one even looked at this. Then I was rereading one of my posts, and I saw a comment and was like "WHEE!! Someone actually read it!!" So thank you those who read this and leave comments! You made my day :)


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Bored and confused

I'm sitting here at my computer, and am bored off my ass. I have WinAmp going in the backgroung, running through my entire library on "Random" - that's pretty impressive. Earlier toay, my group and I finished out final geology project. That was good. Boring but good.

Yesterday, my roommate and one of our friends and I went to see some live music - Ok Go, The Churchills, Zox, and They Might Be Giants. That was pretty interesting. Not exactly my style, but it was a good show. Ok Go was chastised for using inappropriate language, which was amusing. This coming Tuesday, a bunch of us are going to see Ok Go, She Wants Revenge, and the Lashes again. That should be a good show. After we got back from that, my roomie and I and a different one of our friends went down to a frat that was having senior kegs - a keg per senior. They had six. By the time we got there (around 9), there were 2 left. THey had started around noon. Most of the brothers were pretty smashed. We left after the brothers started a keg toss, and ended up smashing one of their neighbors windows. The neighbor came out and was rather pissed. We decided that it would be a good idea to leave at that point. We met up with my roomie's girlfriend and another of our friends and went to a pizza place in town. We saw some of our other friends there, and got some hysterical videos of them being utter retards in a restaurant. It was fun.

So as I was working on the geology project today, Jen IM's me and we started a conversation. She had said earlier that she wanted to get pictures of us together the next time we partied together. This was before the frat party, which we were both at. We didn't get pictures then. I reminded her of this, and she responded that we would just have to party together more. Of course me, being who I am, said "There's always a party in my pants, and you're always invited ;)" Then I apologized - what girl wants to hear that? Apparently she did though - her response was "I'd love to attend that party" I was astounded, and rather confused. Was she serious? Was she joking? How do I handle this? At the time of the conversation, I was in the library. And of course, my laptop battery decided to die at that time. I was pissed. At least I told that my battery was dead, before I was forced to sign off. Ugh. I really don't know how to handle this. I'm still sick (runny nose and major cough), she's slightly sick, there are two weeks of school left, and exams are half of that. The timing sucks. Maybe we'll work something out, or maybe I'll be my usual unlucky self, and not get any action until next year of school.

Whatever.


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Why?

So I'm still sick, sleeping didn't seem to help any, and I skipped my second lab of the day, yet again. This lab is theoretically non graded, thus I haven't been in like three or four weeks. However, I'm worried that I've missed something vital in the class during the labs that I've missed. I also feel guilty about missing them. Why do I do this to myself? What is the point? I don't understand. Instead of class, which I have paid for, I am sitting here at work, listening to music from "Drumline" (good stuff!), and typing away in a blog that no one reads. I don't understand myself.

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So today has sucked gangrenous balls. I wake up with a majorly sore throat, and it goes downhill from there. Throghout the day I get sicker and sicker, and when I finally get out of work at 5, I have a pounding headache, and feel achey all over. I then go talk to the track coach, who proceeds to talk to me about motivation and how I feel about the team. Me missing two meets in a row, and not being at practice at all for the past two weeks seemed to have really annoyed some people. My throwing coach apparently is also very hurt/pissed/affronted at me for not showing up. I wrote an apology to her, and am going to send it to her tomorrow. Here's a copy of it.

Dear Coach,

I just wanted to thank you for helping me throughout my first year of college throwing. I know I wasn’t the best athlete to coach, and I apologize for that. But I want you to know, you were one of the best things about the track team. Your wonderful sense of humor kept me from getting pissed off throughout the season, and you helped me go past my limits, which admittedly I reach rather easily. You have been a wonderful coach, and I hope that you manage to get a spot as throws coach next year. That would be awesome! Good luck at ECAC’s – I’m sure you’ll shatter the record, and your name will be on the board for the next decade or so!

Thanks a ton,

The Wookie

So, that's that and hopefully I'll be able to pull myself together next year and get a good season out. I really do feel bad about missing all that practice. Oh well. I'm going to go sleep now, and see if I feel any better when I wake up.

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So here I sit . . .

I skipped class again yesterday. My first lab was cancelled, and I wrote the professor of my second one that I was really sick ("bad food"). I ended up doing absolutely nothing. Not a single thing. I was planning on doing laundry, but that never happened. Instead, I sat around my room and played video games and watched movies. Why do I do this to myself? I should be in class. I should be at track practice. I should be doing something remotely constructive. Instead I sit around on my ass all day. Not good. I'm going to end up failing out of school and being a fat ass couch potato. I don't want that! This happens to me a lot. As soon as I start doing well at something (school, track, whatever) I lose interest in it. I don't get it!! Why? What is wrong with me? Grrr!

So, in the relationship status, I'm pretty sure things with Jen are going to end up as a "just friends" type thing. As much fun as it would be to have an actual relationship with her, or even a one night stand, the timing is all wrong. It's the end of school, she's transfering out, and exams are coming up. So I'm just going to step back and let things roll. If the opportunity comes up for more intamacy, then by all means, I will go for it. However, I'm not going to force it.

The class that was cancelled yesterdsay isn't meeting until Tuesday. Unfortunately, it is the middle of my three classes on Mon, Wed, and Fri. That means that I have a 9 o'clock class, and then an hour of downtime, and then my next class. That hour really isn't long enough to do anything in. I really probably should do homework or something. Instead, I'm here, updating a blog that no one reads. How sad is that?


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Beginning of May and good news!

Start off May with a bang! My ex-girlfriend called me this morning, and told me that her test results came back and she is clean - no HPV! Yippee! This takes a weight off my shoulders. I can now go do my best imitation of Cassanova :) I saw that movie last night and really enjoyed it. Heath Ledger did a pretty good job, and overall it was very amusing. However in the back of my mind, I kept thinking, "Heath is just doing this as a follow up for the ladies after Brokeback Mountain." That made me chuckle a few times during the sex scenes.

I got a new pair of glasses today. Well, I actually ordered them half a month ago, when I went home for spring break, but my mom hadn't picked them up yet. When she came down a few days ago to pick up my tuba, I asked her about them, and she was like "Oh yeah! That phone call was a long time ago!" So she sent them to me when she got back home. The prescription feels slightly off, but I think my eyes just need to adjust to it.

So yes, my mom and sister visited a few days ago. That was an amusing time. My friends all love her and my sister, which is good. I was slightly afraid that my mom would say some totally non PC comment, as she invariably does, and my friends would take it the wrong way. But all went well, and my friends now want my sister to come down and get drunk with them. First my sister has to get her license, then she can come down. We'll see if she decides to get drunk or not. I'm not sure how I would react to that. It would certainly be an interesting night, to say the least.

Well, that's all for now folks. Just one quick request - if anyone actually reads this blog, can you please leave a comment? Even something as dumb as "Comment." I just want to know if anyone sees this.


Thanks!!

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