29.8.02
Well, Joey is on hiatus. That makes me sad. From what am I supposed to derive my entertainment now that I can no longer live vicariously through a gay Canadian man?
Eh, I can always point and laugh at those idiots over at YellowTimes
26.8.02
Look for some new pictures posted on the website of my (still roommate-less) dorm room sometime in the near future. It's just a matter of uploading them and then writing something witty. Unfortunately I have a mound of reading to get done and also band and also class and also touch football (shut up, I'm actually a pretty good receiver) so I don't know when I'll have time to get that done. In the meantime, amuse yourself with this: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~wxs/images/humor/
I don't feel any different. But then again it's hard for me to say if I've changed, since I live with myself every day (yes, that is as tough as it sounds) and change is gradual. I mean, I don't feel like I'm any taller than in middle school, but I know I am. Unfortunately you can't measure internal growth by marking it with a pencil on the wall. So if you've known me for a while and can tell me if I've changed at all, let me know.
23.8.02
Wow, this blog is getting more hits than a whore on payday. This makes me happy.
Well, I'm nearly done with my first week of classes, and I must say they're better than I thought they'd be. I will now post my impressions of each class and the professor.
This is me being Professor Caddell. Now I'm being Dr. Griffiths.
Hahahahahahaha I kill me.
Really, though. Anth 10, while boring, should be really easy and afford me an opportunity to write a paper on the Iron Chef. Spanish 21 is all in Spanish, but I remember more than I thought I would so it doesn't suck so hard. Plus the teacher is from North Carolina so she doesn't have an incomprehensible accent. History 30 is exactly as advertised, the history of Russia pre-1861. I'm actually very fascinated by Russia, and I'm going to start taking the language next semester. So this is pretty cool. English 58 (Shakespeare), with Professor Floyd Hyphen Wilson, isn't too bad either. It's going to focus on the tragedies and the histories, which I actually like a lot better than the comedies. And finally, History 63B.....Air Power! This class is going to kick seven different kinds of ass. The professor is hilarious and the subject matter is just incredibly interesting.
So this semester is going to be pretty good, especially if my roommate continues her policy of not moving in.
Class time. I'm outta here. Oh and if anyone wants to go see Dashboard Confessional with me and Shellie on Oct. 6 at the Ritz send me a message. Also I like comments.
I am angry with every single person in Major League Baseball, owners and players alike, because they don't realize how god damn lucky they are. They get paid to play baseball! Actual money! To play the game that they love! Do they realize that there are people who do it for free? And the owners. Don't tell me that charging $3.50 for a hot dog is good business practice. It costs about 50 cents to make a hot dog, slightly more if you want a lower percentage of rat feces. Nothing that anyone in baseball does makes sense, and they don't care. It's not about the game any more for them, it's about the money. And yeah, I realize that we live in a capitalist society and I wouldn't have it any other way, but even so, ethics and decency have their place and MLB is choosing to ignore them. So screw them. If they strike, it doesn't matter how much they charge for a hot dog, since nobody - NOBODY - is going to go to games anymore. No more merchandise, no more lucrative ad sales, nada. Because I know that more people agree with me than disagree, and no matter how much it hurts they're going to turn their back on the league.
17.8.02
I'm all moved in and band camp is over. Double nice. Unfortunately, my books cost so damn much this semester. It's a friggen crime how much they charge for some of this crap.
10.8.02
I love baseball. Nothing can make me dance like a goober as consistently as the Braves getting off a good hit, a great play at the plate, or Smoltz pulling off another save in true Smoltz fashion. However, nothing can make me curse incoherently as well as, say, when the Diamondbacks score like 5 runs in two innings. This is a verbatim quote of one of my finer outbursts: "Gaaaaaaah! Shit. Fucking. Ass. Balls." with each word accented by my punching the couch. I can use one word at the time, but putting together a coherent stream of curse words just isn't my forte.
You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.
Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend.
You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You'll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines!
Geek [to You]: I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals!
You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.
7.8.02
I did some serious back to school shopping with my dad this afternoon. Among my purchases were: a carpet to replace the one my last roommate ruined by defrosting her fridge onto it, new sheets, some jeans, new kitchen knife, new plates with adorable fish pattern, silverware organizer for a drawer, and a new alarm clock that hopefully doesn't sound like the apocalypse when it goes off, and a car battery.I also bought a lot of various and sundry little things that will either make my life easier or get lost in the move.
Braves beat the D-Backs last night 4-3, on an Andruw Jones home run in the 13th inning. wo0t.
6.8.02
Some thoughts while watching the Braves play the D-backs
-Gary Sheffield (Braves RF) is a great actor. If the pitch has even the slightest possibility of maybe being a little inside, he whips back like he's on the verge of death by baseball. Calm down, Gary. The umpire saw the ball. Let him make his own decision.
-Craig Counsell (DBacks 2B) and Julio Franco (Braves 1B) have the absolute most awkward stances at the plate I've ever seen. How they manage to swing is a mystery to me.
-Matt Franco (Braves 1B) looks a lot like his uncle Kurt Russell. Not related to Julio Franco in any way.
-Andruw Jones (Braves CF) looks like a little boy, but he plays center field like Frank Robinson used to.
-Randy Johnson (DBacks LHP) is a scary scary man.
-Leo Mazzone (Braves Pitching Coach) rocks like a crazy person. It's worse when there are men on base.
-Half of the Braves roster is either from Central America or the mountains of North Carolina.
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