A week in review

[Tuesday]
fucking up harcore
shitshitshitshitshit
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Last Thursday was a pretty shitty day, mostly because of the whole "I've been working for 9 days straight" thing I had going on. I got Friday off though, which was needed beyond belief, although for all the wrong reasons. Instead of doing the "right" thing (in this case study like a mofo and do a weeks worth of review in all my other classes) I made the trip up to Ann Arbor in order to party like a fuckin' rockstar - and did I ever.

Through a bizarre twist of fate (kinda) I found myself in possession of a fifth of Everclear and a pint of Bombay Sapphire dry gin. Not counting the various drinks in the friends dorm room I was staying in, (I bought it for her, so she owed me anyway) or all the free, although shitty, beer that would be all over every party within 10 miles. Now, it's kind of been a dream of mine ever since I started reading Tucker Max to try his signature drink, the Tucker Death Mix. Made with Everclear, Lemon-Lime Gatorade, and RedBull, this stuff is literally the Special Olympics in a bottle. Combine that with the 7 or so shots I had afterwards and I was getting ready for a fun night out.

To start the night out we went to a highlighter party which was pretty fun I guess, except for the fact no one told me beforehand and I would have liked a t-shirt to write stupid shit on. I saw some random ass kid who I'm almost positive I've never met in my life and he fucking runs up to me yelling "Whats up man! How crazy seeing you here!" and giving me a high-five. I think he was the crazy one, and not the incident of us both being at this party. I played along though like a pro and we bullshit for a few minutes talking about how "random" it was seeing each other. Whatever, I'm sure it made him happy for the moment, and it makes a funny story for me.

After a while, we slowly made our way out into the street because this girls roommate wanted to go with some guy and we didn't feel like putting up with her whorish bullshit. Let her get raped, I'll still sleep fine tonight. We slowly made our way to this one frat's "Jimmy Buffet" party, which wasn't really my thing. None of his music, too crowded, and it was a total sausage fest. Oh, I wasn't too into the margaritas either, so yeah. Lastly, we went to the frat usually visited for pre-game festivities but no one was there and there was puke on the floor somewhere so we weren't too excited for that.

To end off the night, we stumbled our way to "Big Ten Burrito". The prices were more expensive than the Moe's I used to work at, and the burritos were smaller, but whatever it was 1 am and we were starving. I didn't realize until the next morning that I was somehow coaxed into paying for the burrito of the person whose dorm room I was staying in. An $11 burrito. Awesome!

Saturday Night was pretty great as well. I got off work around 10:15 or so, hung out with some friends, and then went to my ex-manager Mary's legendary birthday/Halloween party. The costumes were pretty wild, I got to see a few old friends, and they had 2 kegs of Rolling Rock, which was pretty damn sweet. Also, some guy from the Beastie Boys "Sabatoge" video was there. Random celebrities are pretty neat.

I Love Apple

[yesterday - 10:00pm]
kind of writing a paper
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So I originally began to write this post on an iPod touch that I was trying out. I don't know why I didn't finish it, might have been because of class, or because of the campus' pretty shitty wifi (or at least it was for me.)

Anyway, for years now, I've been wanting an iPod, not any other brand of music player, just iPod. Of course, I've always put it off for some reason or another - Theres going to be a new one announced in a few months, I don't have the money, Its summer and I'll only use it during school so I'll wait, I have the money -but do I really want to spend it? - Yeah, stuff like that. So, around mid September, I said "Hey, I'm in school, I have a lot of free time between classes, I have money, and my birthday is coming up, I should get one. Not surprisingly, as soon as I start to look up some stuff, the new iPod line is announced. I loved the iPhone and its interface, so naturally, the iPod touch looked amazing to me. Sadly, my old job at Moe's had just ended, so I really was out of money, and I kinda put it off in my head again.

So, last week, at my Father's office, they got a whole load of different players for the new line of Ford vehicles that are fully integrated with mp3 players. I convinced him to let me "test it" for the weekend. I tried setting it up at his office, but I really couldn't since all my stuff is at home on this computer, and for some reason the area hes in doesn't have wifi, only the "presentation suites" upstairs. Why the work area doesn't have wireless internet, I don't know.

The thing handles like a dream. It's light, the screen is beautifully clear, at home the internet was fast, youtube worked awesome, and the songs/album/artist lists are just fun to use because you can throw the stuff around with your finger. The one thing I was always worried about was how the fingerprint smudges would look on the screen after more than 25 seconds of use. With the backlight on you don't even notice a thing (unless for some reason you release an abnormally high amount of oils from your skin, or just ate some sort of pizza). I read probably 5 or 6 of Tucker Max's stories and went on Facebook, and the screen stayed clear as always and I completely forgot about the smudges existing since they're invisible from that view perspective.

All in all, I'm buying one, plain and simple. 16gb though, because even though I only used about 5gb of space on that one, and i don't even listen to 70% of that music since it's not mine, most of my CDs aren't on this hard drive and I plan on having at least a movie or two on it, plus room for extra stuff and photos.

One last note, at the moment, I have in my hands a 30gb Zune. I'll be done with "testing it" tomorrow around 5pm, so I'll give some feedback on how it stacks up to the competition.

People say the funniest stuff

[AFK] School/work all the fuckin' time
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me (12:02:04 AM): you'll need a passport

friend (12:02:29 AM): ain't hard to get one

me (12:02:17 AM): starting 2008 you need a passport

me(12:02:19 AM): im just sayin

me(12:02:21 AM): its a bitch

me (12:02:29 AM): why cant we be like Europe?

friend (12:03:08 AM): cause europe doesn't have Mexicans

Yeah, it's so true isn't it? I'll get an update in sometime tomorrow.

Let's talk about hell.

[sometime around 9am]
x to the zzzzz
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So, the next few months are gonna really suck. As in literally horrible with the way things are looking now. Get this - by the end of the school year, I will owe somewhere around $2600 for tuition. Add on 500$ for books in my second semester. $300 for car repairs. Roughly $100 a month for gas. Christmas will probably cost me around $350 too since I like buying my brothers all the good presents so that they don't leave getting the good stuff in the hand of various 40-50 year old family members. Anyway, all this cash adds up to roughly $4350 which I will need around the end of April.

My job currently pays $7.50 an hour, and that probably won't go up for a while since I just started working there last week. They have me working 25 hours a week, which I really don't even want to work since I go to school full time (well, I only have 13 credit hours this semester, but I'm aiming for at least 14-16 next semester). I told them I want 10-15 hours a week, but they don't like reading so whoever decided to make the schedule either can't read, or just doesn't give a shit. Anyway, assuming I keep working 25 hours a week at $7.50 an hour, I'll make $750 a month. At that rate, it will take 5.8 months to have enough money to be completely out of any debt I have to anyone and start making money for next year. Of course, this is all really optimistic since I'm (stupidly) not taking taxes into account, days I take off for sick/personal reasons, and my inevitable breakdown from working 5 days a week while going to school full time.

Not only does that whole situation make me pissed, but I'm not even paying my whole tuition, I only had to pay a third of it this year. Secondly, I'm only at University of Michigan Dearborn, and when I go to Ann Arbor next year it's going to be more than $10,000 a year there.

Yeah, I know that I really shouldn't complain about being in debt as a college student, especially with at least 3 full years ahead of me, but owing anyone any amount of money eats me alive. I hate the feeling of owing people something, especially something like money that (unfortunately) is a big factor in how people do anything in life.

Work!

work @ 4-??
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Its been a real busy weekend, and I can't believe it's already over. Thursday involved sitting in a friend's basement watching episodes of "How I Met Your Mother", which is one of my favorite shows of all time now. Friday consisted of going to the mall, looking for "life completing" garments (those are not my words) and looking for an awesome hat (this is what I wanted.). Unfortunately, all there seemed to be were fedoras, which I'm not the biggest fan of.

Now Saturday was a hell of a day, and now that I think about it, it was probably equal to 3 normal days. I woke up at 7:55am, showered, ate, got gasoline, and picked up my friends to go up to Ann Arbor for the Michigan-Eastern football game. Now, I'm not a big fan of football, or any sports for that matter, but I do like Ann Arbor, I like being drunk, I like parties, and I like free stuff. So it seemed only natural that I'd make the trip so that I could get what I wanted, and it worked splendidly. The frat we went to was awesome, we met another friend there too, and we had free beer before the game and got to hang out in someones room with air conditioning (which was needed, since it was about 80 degrees out that day). The only real downside to this was that we were drinking notoriously shitty beer, a.k.a. the cheapest kind imaginable (Natty Ice, and The Beast), and it was all lite beer. So yeah, famously bad beer combined with lower ABV. Maybe I should be thankful though, because I would have been annihilated beyond belief if it had been "ice" beer, or even normal (maybe).

Anyway, the game was pretty fun. We sat, we stood, we cheered, we did some kinda stupid stuff with our hands and keys. I got to see some people I haven't seen since graduation last year, so that was kinda nice. It was hot as hell though, which I wasn't the biggest fan of. Also, I purchased a "Michigan Beer Pong" t-shirt for $5. Not a bad deal at all.

Once I finally got home at 5, I took an hour long nap, which ended up lasting until 7. Wow I'm lazy. Anyway, I went to go see my friend Aaron because he wanted to hang out. We ended up calling our neighbor Nathan and his friend and driving to a secret spot I discovered called "Canton 2.0". There's a whole legend behind this place, but it's a very long story. We got Coldstone, went to a secret liquor store because I wanted a pack of gum and Swedish Fish, and then walked around the abandoned streets. It was Resident Evil esque in about 100 different ways. Next we dropped Nathan and his friend off because they needed to go, and we headed out to Wyandotte in order to meet some of his random friends aimlessly wandering the street. We did that for about 35 minutes, and then went back home. As soon as I get into my room and pull out my phone, I realize I have a missed call from my friend Josh who's in school in Chicago.

So, as it turns out, he is in town. I headed over there and we talked about stupid shit thats happened since we last met. Apparently, both of his roomates at his dorm walk in with their girlfriends and nail them openly. Like, he'll be doing homework, or watching TV and people will just come in and have sex next to him. He seemed so thrilled at this. Secondly, he has a story where he's watching Southpark, and his roomate and his girlfriend (who is apparently a highschool sophomore) have an all out screaming match over something. According to him, as he turned around to look at what the hell was going on, the guy lifts his arm and beats her across the face screaming "You see what you made me do!?". Yeah. Kinda scary.

Let us get destructive

[yesterday]1:58am
let's be nihilists a'ight?
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Why shouldn't we be? What have we got to lose?

Mix it up a bit

10:34
shit shitty
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Yeah, I woke up a little late today since I was planning on studying hardcore for my Art History 100-something exam today, but I ended up going on AIM, Stumble, taking a shower, and managing to get iTunes open and playing music. What's a work ethic?

Anyway, I took that test, expecting to get destroyed and embarrassed by it, but it turned out relatively easy considering the excessive amount of cramming done along with me not knowing roughly 20% of the material. Another one is coming up in less than a month, so I guess I'll see where that leads me.

In other news, I got a job making pizzas at a local restaurant at $7.50/hour, plus discounts and free stuff. The works not hard, the people are cool, the schedule seems easy enough, and the decent wage (for me at least) and free food make it awesome. My favorite part would have to be that by the time I make the 1300 or so dollars required to pay off my current semesters tuition, the new one will be starting. I'm still broke for about another few months, but whatever, I need the money, I need to to work (since I go crazy without having a job now), and I needed something to waste my time with since studying obviously isn't on that list.

AFK RL

9:46am
this sucks!
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Yeah, I've been lazy lately and not updating. Life got busy, I got distracted, things (kinda) got done.

Good news: I have a job, I might be getting an iPod touch (which I've been wanting since the second I heard about it), it's raining outside, and it's October, my favorite month of the year!

Bad news: I have an exam on Wednesday, and should be studying since I know next to nothing thats going to be on it, I still owe a lot of people money, and my fucking computer is sitting there as and inconveniently large $2000 5.1 surround sound paper weight. My life needs figuring out, since I can't seem to get what I want when I want it, and what I want most is probably the farthest away and most difficult to get.

Kuh-Razy news: I started my own fraternity called "TΣT". I kind of considered it a joke of sorts since I saw fliers advertising the "Biggest Fraternity on Campus!" and wanted to make the smallest on campus with me and 2 friends. We really haven't done anything yet since it's less than a week old, but I think there are some people that seriously want a part of this. I figure "why not? what the hell!", so only time will tell how kickass this really turns out.