CAMPIING!

Hey kids. Since no one else is awake yet, I will talk about it here.

Who: YOU!
What: Camping, Hiking, Spelunking, Kum-bay-yah-ing
When: Thurs or Fri to Mon
Where: Turner Falls, in the foothills of Davis, Oklahoma
Why: it's like nature, and stuff
How: By talking to me or JV
How Much: $11/person per night + food

This will be a great chance to ignore your responsibilities for a weekend and relax. Does anyone else feel like they've been in school for a month? Plus, you'll make great memories of a college road trip and camping trip. We can even bring beer, if that helps. Let's go!

Who are these people vol. 2

Who are the people that are still buying regular Oreos, as opposed to Double Stuft? Regular Oreos have a terrible cream/chocolate ratio. With the Double Stufts it's perfect. You get the sweetness and a little crunch to go with it. I don't know why you wouldn't want that. It's not like Double Stuft is a new thing. They've been around for a while. I know you've seen them. Bright pink wrapping, word OREO on them, probably next to the regular Oreos. Get with the program.

who are these people?

Some things (ok most things) I can't figure out. For example, how did $13.2 million dollars find their way out of the pockets of the American people and into the box office for Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, the sequel to Anaconda? I mean, really. If movie tickets cost say $8 on average, that's over one and a half million people that wasted an evening seeing that trash. 1.5 million! That's a lot of people. And where will that $13.2 million go? Toward the production budget of More Anacondas: Snakes from Space. Our country can't even pick movies. Good luck with that Democracy thing in November...

nope

My attempt at car inspection failed. Apparently something in my transmission is aborting the emissions test, but the guys at Jiffy Lube don't know why. So I've got to find a Volvo dealer and see if they can figure it out. Yay for having an 11 year old European car. Can anyone hook me up with an inspection sticker? Ryan, I'm looking in your direction...

my cup runneth over

Tim's family has arrived, and true to form his mother brought a truckload of groceries for us. Our pantry and freezer is packed to the brim with foodstuffs. Here are some highlights:

12 cans of Chef Boyardee
a bag full of dried, mixed berries
65% lean beef chili (most disgusting thing ever)
60 frozen mini quiches for all of the tea parties we throw

Theres some normal stuff in there, too, like cookies, tuna, leftovers, frozen chicken breasts etc. I think I need to do something nice for Tim's mom. She's always stuffing our freezer full of food.

I might actually get my car inspected today. Wouldn't that be something??

uhhhh what happens in my life

I can't even remember what I've done the past 2 days. Why do I have this thing again? Oh yeah, it's to practice writing and to vent in a vague and mysterious way that gets me attention without revealing any true feelings....much like my conversations.

I anchored The Daily Update this morning. It was pretty sloppy all around, and I did a pisspoor job. Low energy, bad inflection, no presence - it's the first step in a long journey. I'm not upset about it because I know it's necessary, but I really hope no one ever sees it. Then I shot a piece at the museum about one of their exhibits. I've got some good footage. Shooting artwork is always easy because the artist has already created an interesting and powerful image, and all I have to do is capture it. It makes for great footage. My interview was pretty crappy and once I started editing I thought of all the questions I should have asked. Again, it's all steps in a process. I have to finish editing this weekend, and I need to catch up on my other homework. I always do well in school, but I can't figure out why. I have no study skills, foresight, or motivation.

I ended up wearing my suit all day. There's something about a suit that makes you feel good, but damn, I hope I don't have a job where I wear one. I'm very tired. Time to catch up on sleep this weekend and actually get things done. No more wasted Saturdays.

money or lack thereof

I just blew another $80 at the bookstore on a book and some DVD's for class. Maybe I'll call Carl about that tutoring thing. It's costing me a lot of money to get everything I need for back to school - there's lots of little expenses adding up. Computer stuff, some video supplies, car inspection, I should buy some clothes. That wasn't a sentence. I'm the greatest journalism major ever. But I found out from a friend's blog that. Bitch. is it's own sentence. Who knew? I've been using it wrongly in all my news stories about. Bitches. and hoes.

I stayed up too late last night. I'm feeling it today. They should make some sort of pill or drink or electronic hat that gives you the same effect as sleeping. Whoever invents (and patents) that device will be rich. Needless to say, it won't be me.

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homework

I don't remember having this much homework in school. Maybe it's because I'm actually doing it now. Well, that's a stretch. But I am thinking a lot harder about doing it than I used to. That must count for something. If only I could get laziness classified as a disease under the ADA. Believe me, it makes it very hard to function in a normal society, or in ours for that matter.

amazon sucks

Hey Amazon, don't just tell me that there is an error, tell me what the fucking error is so I can fix it and order my books. I'm trying to give you money! By the way, this is an expensive semester for books. Why does a journalism major need books? And why does my 1 philosophy class have 5 books? I'm never going to read all those. Grumble grumble. ...good thing I'm going to work now.

early mornings

Dude, it's 8:30 and I've been up for 3 hours. There is something wrong here. And that wrong thing is me working on the Daily Update, the journalism department's attempt at a morning news show. My classes require me to go, at 6am. That, for those of you who don't know, is early. And rest assured I will complain and complain. It's what happens when I'm tired. I get miserable very quickly.

I'm posting merely to kill time. I've got to buy books and take a shower at some point, but that won't take me until 11am, when I have class. My bed is calling out to me, but I know that a "nap" will turn into me sleeping through the day. And that's unacceptable....for now. I just looked at some pictures of the 2005 Corvette. It's pretty sweet. I think I'll get one, in 2025 when I can afford it.

blog burnout

I find myself wanting to post the most pointless things on here, several times a day. Any thought I have that is remotely funny/interesting/insightful I think should go on the blog. Thus I'm posting 8 jillion times a day for now. Then I'll get bored, run out of things to say and have to be bitched at by everyone who reads this to get a post a week out of myself, a phenomenon known as blog burnout. But until that happens, enjoy my site.

I'm feeling very accomplished right now. I did laundry and cleaned up a bit around here, which is an amazing feat if you know how rarely I do anything. Case in point - I did not get my car inspected this weekend. I did not renew my registration. I did not buy books. I did not finish moving in to my room. I did not get a haircut. I did not go grocery shopping. Wow, I have a lot of things to do. So much for that accomplished feeling...Where did this weekend go?

"I don't get it. I haven't changed since high school and all of a sudden I'm uncool." - Homer Simpson

Free Plug

I just posted an advert for this site on the group blog of Catherine, Kaleena and Meghan. They are friends here from SMU who decided to promote their apartment online. So I'm riding their coattails to get hits on my site.

But their apartment is fun. Air hockey, Super NES, pool, over-cooked hamburgers, Cranium - it all happens there. Peace.

compliment

The greatest compliment I have ever received is that I "have great man hands." If only I could remember who said it.

garden state

was a good movie. It was quite funny, in a refreshing and quirky, clever way. Zach Braff very obviously wrote and directed it, as the whole movie fits his personality perfectly. You should definitely see it.

My bed is actually made for once. This is rare. It almost makes my room look finished. I need some posters on the wall and something on my entertainment center. (What an SMU thing to say. I also need to have my BMW waxed.)

I've been really tired as of late - constantly groggy and sluggish. Maybe I have mono, or I should just get more sleep. Or do something like exercise or eat breakfast. I refuse to jump on the coffee bandwagon, though. That caffeine will mess you up good. My body is my temple. I'm getting rambly so its time to wrap up. See Garden State, or you're an idiot.

progress

I think this summer was good for me, and I'm just realizing it now. I was able to finally meet some more people here. Also, I'm excited about this upcoming semester. I finally feel a sense of progress and forward motion in my life. Something I haven't felt in several years. I wonder if there's a correlation between certain things. I hope not...that would be sad. It's 3:30, thus bedtime. More on this later.

trying to get going

Now I'm up to post #2. I want to tweak this thing a little more before I really make it public, but if no one is reading it then will I ever have the drive to tweak it? Survey says no. I'm tempted to get a Livejournal just so I can be in my friends' friends ring. If only I were cool enough to have my own website like Andy Kaufmann. I've got things on my mind, but no desire to type them. Night.

baby's first post

I'm jumping on the blog bandwagon again. Everyone I know has a Livejournal now, but I'm not going to get one. Blogger has been good to me; it is teamed up with Google; and I've always hated Livejournal anyway.

Tim turned me on to the whole LAUNCHcast thing. Now I'm hooked, trying to rate a bunch of songs and set up my station. Their whole rating system is cool. You rate songs, and then they find users who also like those songs and play you some of their other favorite songs. So I like Red Hot Chili Peppers, and LAUNCHcast plays songs that other RHCP fans have rated highly - songs like Anywhere but Here by Hilary Duff. They're still tweaking the system.