Thanksgiving

boys will be boys hiding in estrogen
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I just gotta say that I don't like Thanksgiving. People go absolutely crazy for it and I still fail to see why. Is the food they eat drastically different from what I usually consume every year? Are their families that much more entertaining? Are they spiking the drinks? I don't have the slightest idea.

All I know is that my food usually isn't that special. Yeah it's thanksgiving, but still, as far as I'm concerned, mashed potatoes can only be taken to certain extremes. Turkey can only get so good, and I don't even eat meat anymore anyway. Rolls are usually good, but you can't ever get enough and getting sick while eating is the worst thing in the world. Dessert is pretty good, but still - you only have so much room for food combined with there being 147 pumpkin pies and only 1 apple pie. I don't know why there is always such an imbalance of pies. No one ever finishes all the pumpkin pie and people always want more of whatever else is offered. I don't even like pumpkin pie that much, so it's even less for me.

Maybe it's me, but Thanksgiving sucks.

Almost There

schoolin'
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Well, the end of the semester is almost here, and I couldn't be happier. Yeah, it really is still a couple weeks until it actually ends, but for the most part its all downhill and I couldn't be happier. I'm still looking at classes and credit hours and that sort of thing, but it's not nearly as bad as I had assumed. Plus, my grades aren't seeming too bad at this point, so maybe that time spent in Ann Arbor isn't as far off as it seemed.

Speaking of which, I'm psyched to head up there this weekend for the OSU game. I don't have tickets of course, but I like going for the "atmosphere". Naturally, that's just what I tell everyone as a sort of euphemism for getting ham dammered. Saturday will definitely be a good day, and if we win, it's definitely going to be one hell of a night as well.

Other than that, there's a new episode of "Pure Pwnage" out, and since I kind of owe it to them for helping me get excited about gaming again, I'm about to go watch it. It's a great show to begin with anyway, so I guess it's not only because of its influence on me.

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.

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.

2 Parties and a Birthday

10:49am
its my birthday! and now no one will leave me alone
2:04 pm
you must construct additional pylons
11:12pm
WORK! im crackin' down for my own good

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This weekend was a bit interesting. Went to a party at a neighbors on Friday night which was alright, except a lot of the people there were obvious lightweights and got real annoying real fast. I ended up sitting at a bonfire in the backyard with my friends older brother and some of his friends. It was a lot better and quieter.

Saturday I had a miniature birthday party at a friends house. We got some drinks and I got out my hookah "Picard" and we sat around having a good time. My friend Tom, who had had like 8 beers earlier at the Michigan game tried to drink again with us. He did alright until the end where he beat my record of 12, with his 15. About 20 minutes later though he had to do some self induced vomiting because of how shitty he felt. I guess I'm still champ.

Today was my 18th birthday, but it was more of a hassle than fun. I was woken up around 10 in order to be asked if I wanted to go to breakfast at 11. Well fuck. I felt shitty and tired from 2 late nights out in a row and I get woken up in the middle of deep sleep. I wasn't even about to stop sleeping. Anyway, I eventually get my ass out of bed and hop in the car. We end up at some Motorcycle themed sandwich shop for breakfast. They didn't have much on the menu, and everything good had meat in it so I had some burnt pancakes and a can of Coke. Other than that, I went home, unsuccessfully tried to study, took a horrible nap since no one would shut up, showered, and made myself a personal pizza. Now I've got to do some papers for school along with a bunch of other bullshit (like getting a job and finding football tickets). Oh, and I have to register to vote...

Unexpected Fun

[Thursday] 9:18am
class and then much work to do
[Thursday] 7:34pm
out out out out out out out out out of this world.
1:08pm
typing a paper. cool.

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No time to update yesterday since my night took an unexpected turn. I had already made plans to hang out with a couple people and I was just thinking "We're not gonna do much, probably sit around and watch TV, maybe go to someone else's house, but other than that nothing too special.".Fortunately, while sitting in the Taco Bell parking lot waiting for the others to eat (since I had just had dinner before they called) we got a call from my buddy's girlfriend wanting to know if we wanted to come up to Ann Arbor for a while. It was only about 7:30 when we got the call, so we were all excited that we had the whole night ahead of us to do whatever.

The ride up was kind of funny/ironic in a way, mostly because we were making great time driving up. Its only a 30 minute ride, but we were making it faster than normal, however, the very second that Eric (who was driving) goes "Wow! We are really making it up in record time!" we all suddenly see a wall of red lights in front of us and signs saying the left 2 lanes end in 1 mile. Of course there are hundreds of big 18 wheeler trucks on the highway that suddenly need to get over 3 lanes, so the traffic was abysmal. Not only that, but we were less than 10 miles from the exit, so we just had to sit there knowing that it would have taken us about 5-7 minutes more to have some fun.

Once we finally did make it, everything was awesome. We walked around the dorms, me and Ashley did a "few" shots of something watermelon flavored that a friend of her roommate gave to us, listened to some music, and then went and walked around Ann Arbor for a miniature tour since I'll ideally be attending next fall. Other than that, we didn't do much else.
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Lazy Wednesday

12:34am
REM. hopefully the sleep kind - though i dont mind the music type either.
5:44pm
I am eating a gourmet meal prepared by one of France's finest chefs.

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Not much going on today. I decided to go back to sleep for an extra hour this morning but it quickly turned into my jolting awake realizing it had been almost three that I had slept. That alone almost screwed me over since I have an ass load of work to get done before the weekend in order for me to fully enjoy my time, and I didn't get to do any of it since I spent my remaining time before class cleaning my horribly messy room and taking a quick shower. My rooms still not clean, so that just goes to show how much I really got done. Lets hope that tomorrow is a productive day (since I already plan on going out tomorrow night whether I have anything done or not.).

Awesome, AWESOME, shitty...

1:11am
my computer will kick your ass
4:23pm
rockrock
8:50pm
time to get to work. ive got a lot of stuff to catch up on...

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So last night I get my computer all set up and such and it rocks. The surround sound makes everything infinitely better, and the new keyboard/mouse combo makes everything so smooth and fast. I had a few hiccups while running Quake4 which kind of scared me, but I passed it off for some stupid reason(even though theres little I could have done to fix it.).

School was nothing special, except that it was another day where I didn't eat for some stupid reason. I probably need to wake up earlier. Anyway, I hung out in the library for 2 hours with some friends and narrated the other peoples lives that were sitting around us. It was cruel and funny, so basically we all thourougly enjoyed ourselves. At about 1 though I started getting tired, and I kept getting heavy headed in my seminar.

Once I finally got home, I wanted to show my new computer off, even though its sitting in the living room on a coffee table. I turn it on. It gets stuck at the BIOS. It shows post code 75, a.k.a. problems with the OS. Just fuckin' dandy! I tool around with things, but nothing works, and the hard drives are making evil noises at me too. I'm pissed.

Other than my computer suddenly not working, I've also got 2 papers due next week, a lot of studying on my hands, and I'm still dead tired. Plus my birthday is on the 23rd, so I want to go out and party, which translates to having to do everything before Friday night. Whatever, I'll find a way to work some magic.