Summer Plans

1. Work All the Time to MAKE MONEY MONEY MONEY
2. Work out All the Time
3. Learn to Play the Piano, for real... what the hell else do i have to do this summer?
4. Road trip to the Gulf of Mexico

New Computer

Well I now have a computer that will not screw up half way through a post or freeze for no reason. This is the first post on my new macbook, which I love so much. This should be good motivation to post more, maybe if I had something to post about I would do it a little more often. School is rapidly approaching its end, and it can't come soon enough. I love the people here and I will miss some more than others, but I need some money so this summer job thing, as embarassing as it is, will be nice to have. I will be working at Jimmy John's in Bourbonnais this summer, for the last time I swear! Hopefully I can get some job shadowing thing at a hospital now that I have a paying job somewhere else.
If anyone wants to go on a roadtrip or something or is moving away and wants a visitor this summer, I'm sure I will be free for a couple days and I will be more than willing to swing by your place. I really want to go a few places this summer, nothing too spectacular or expensive, just somewhere I have never been. St. Louis is probably on the list, why? because I have never been there, and its so close. Maybe catch a baseball game, who knows. Anyway, I'm going to hopefully try to make a video post sometime in the near future. that probably won't be the most awkward thing to watch EVER! I hope it makes you all uncomfortable.
Word of advice: Listen to Mitch Hedberg more than you currently do. (R.I.P.)

Irish

This weekend was suprisingly entertaining due to the wonderful hospitality of my dear cousin Bo. I was awoken early Saturday morning to my mom telling me how Bo said that I should come up this weekend and go to this irish party with him on Sunday, because he has a few days off and he needs to know ASAP because we have to make reservations to get into this party. So not being one to pass up a party in Chicago, especially seeing as I didn't have a thing to do on the first couple of days of spring break. I kicked off the weekend by visiting the family up in Romeoville for an afternoon of eating and drinking while watching the Illini crumble in the face of a much better Wisconsin team. After family time was over I jumped on the train to Chicago where I met up with Bo and a couple of his buddies who were just as hospitable. We swung by a little pub to chat and warm up for the long day of drinking that awaited us the next day. After a rather impressive bar tab was conjured and the complimentary shots of jameson were in out bellies we decided its now time to call it an early night. the 7 am wake up call was not going to be greated with a smile if we were to stay out much longer. Once 7 am rolled around we were excited to get going, the goal was to be waiting at the bar at 8:45 so we could get a table and get all the party favors that we could. We are not sure if we did something wrong in the passed days or if we should chalk it up to plain bad luck, but we did not make it to the bar as smoothly as we would have liked. As we are in the middle of a transfer from blue line to red line spaulding realizes that she forgot her I.D. and needs to run back to the apt. to get it, but the reservations we had were in under her name. She said she would just jump in a cab and probably beat us there since we had a little bit of a train ride to the north side. We catch the redline train north and we sit there.... and sit there..... and sit there. An announcement states there is a delay and that they appreciate out patience. We are not very appreciative of their appreciation and after about 5 min. which Bo was convinced was more like 25 we all leave and hop in a cab as well. Having only 3 hours at this bar until they start charging us for drinks we needed to hurry to get as much open bar time as we could. Once we arrived, the madness began. 2 and a half hours of "free" jameson and cokes which i wonderfully lost track of later... i was in a rather blurred and happy mood. I called kyle soon after and he somehow knew exactly what I was up to, apparently I had called him earlier and talked for sometime. I, however, do not remember this at all. After we overstayed our welcome at that bar we went back to Bo and Becca's apt. for a wonderful spring drink-a-thon. As we all enjoy the weather and the suds a few of the guys decide to get mohawks and soon there after the cops show up. We were being a little loud and the old people surrounding us did not approve. They just said to keep it down a little and they just have to show up when called, it was really no big deal. Passed out at 7:00.
Overall a weekend that I will not soon forget. I thank everyone who was hospitable this weekend and thanks to all the people I met this weekend who made it so enjoyable.

I'm Impressed

I know this is kind of a weak way to post but I can't sleep and think that anyone who reads this should take a look at this kids video. He says that this was not nearly as difficult as it seems and it only took him a day. I need to thank one, Adam LaGesse and his myspace page for bringing this video to my attention. Oh, and Michelle because she is the one who showed me his myspace page, and possibly this video, alright enough with this run on sentence connected by a bunch of commas, seriously.
Quick Edit: Originally there was only one video, but after looking a little bit i found another, this kid impresses me. Be sure to check them out. (Quick Edit #2: This first video is really good too, kind of an intro into the videos that you will hopefully watch after this one,)

You can pretty much not even watch baseball now.

I figure there is no better way to make my comeback to blogging than by giving you my 2nd annual picks for the upcoming baseball season. I will not go so in depth this season so I don't screw myself on small meaningless picks... beacuse the other ones have a meaning. Here goes....

American League:
East: Toronto Blue Jays. No explaination needed.
Central: (Toughest Division in Baseball) Cleveland Indians
West: Angels (wherever the hell they are from)

National League:
East: New York Mets
Central: St. Louis Cardinals (or the Cubs, but I figure I pick the Cubs every year and I will change in hopes of actually winning this season.
West: San Francisco Giants

I will make more picks once the season is closer and I can assure health to some of the players that I will be putting unjustifiably high expectations on.

I can't just jump back on here and not update you all (maybe 2 people will read this) about what is going on in my life. Semester is flying by. Spring break starts on Friday and I am looking forward to eating for free for a week. I don't have any special plans for spring break, unless I make it up to Chicago to do some cousin time at some bars. Speaking of cousin time, I am getting rather excited for the scheduled Vegas trip in June. Having never been to Vegas, and most of my cousins being of age now, which is really strange to think about, it should be a heart healthy good time. Other than school zipping by there is really no new changes in my life that stand out as important. I still have that girlfriend. She is pretty cool, even though she could have killed us all with her disease. She had meningitis (viral) about a month ago. She is ok now after spending a few nights in the world famous Sarah Bush Lincoln Hospital. Hopefully I will go on a few week stretch of updating this with more meaningless, yet hopefully more hilarious tidbits of my life.

I have been annoyed into writing another post due to the fact that I have one devoted reader who cannot go on without my literary genius. The reason for my lack of updates is lack of topics worth making an international note of. However, I will look at this not as a post of the recent past, but of the recent future. Tomorrow concludes yet another semester of university life and x-mas break will start. It will be a much needed break from Charleston, IL. I will be visiting both ends of the social spectrum in the next week. Right now I sit in an apartment in Charleston, IL population 12,000 during school months (pop. during summer months: 1,000). Mostly farm country and the meth capital of the U.S. Next Tuesday traveling will commence and three great friends of mine and I will enbark on a road trip to the north east and visit NYC population 8 million. There is a good chance that there will be more guests at the hotel we stay at than the entire town that I call home right now. I promise that once I return from NYC there will not only be plenty to write about, but plenty of pictures to show you, as if you won't have already seen them kyle. Until next time, i bid you adieu.

We are all atheists to the majority of the gods society has created, some of us just go one god further.

Turkey Break

Its turkey break here in my life. whoops, just hit the eject button on my brothers laptop. I mention this everytime I'm home and using this, but I really need to get a laptop sooner rather than later. I have no desire to own a desktop anymore. I really don't have a desire to own a PC anymore either. I use this Mac and it makes the desire to own one increase greatly. ok, less redundancy. I was at Best Buy the other day and I wanted to buy a new CD. I always think of CD's that I want to get, but of course when i walk in the store my mind goes completly blank and I can't think of a single cd that i would like to own. but then it strikes, in a moment of clarity, i think of one. The Mountaingoats. i hear good things and have checked some things out about them online and all is well. well to no ones suprise i cannot find it on the shelf, but i being the optimist that I am chalk it up to me not looking hard enough. its at this point that i notice that I have set the record for being in a best buy for more than 5 minutes without a single person coming up to you and asking you four times if there is anything they can help you find. the one time i would like someone to approach me, to no avail, i am left alone. finally someone sees that I am walking in a circle with an obvious confused look on my face and they offer to help. They check the computer after a strange glance when i tell them the name of the band I was looking for. they do carry the cd, however they are sold out. I don't know what I did to deserve that, but I was pretty dissapointed. i had to go back to the radio or the decemberists cd, which while great, makes me sick to here it due to the fact that I have listened to it non-stop for the past 3-4 weeks.
I'm getting excited for a big homecooked feast on thursday, i dont know about the rest of you, but it should be a good time. anytime you can get lots of good FREE food from people its got to be a good day.
I am very excited to get my traveling off and running in about one month. I think that rich people travel boring. I think that they should make it more exciting and stay in a mediocre hotel that they no nothing about, and have a very strict spending limit. I don't know if i truly believe that this will make their traveling experience more exciting or if it is just a way for me to justify the fact that we will be going to NYC on very little funds. if you would like to know how little, there will be a cooler involved with lunch meat and bread. does that do it for ya? GOOD! and no broadway shows. which doesn't really upset me as much as one might think. now don't get me wrong, i want to see a broadway show as much as the next bloke, but i am very confident that this will not be my final tour of NYC. hell, you never know, i could live there..... HELL! I might be in a broadway play someday. you keep laughing. i will leave you in the words of Ben Marcotte, 3 P's and a V, love ya to pieces.

Just good Fundamentals

Suspended Tackle Albert Haynesworth: 'I Just Wanted To Make Sure The Guy Was Dead'

You better watch out for this guy on the football field. Hopefully he doesn't play I-M football here @ EIU.

Well the NYC trip is pretty much set in stone now that we have reservations at the New Yorker for 3 nights. I am very excited to kick off my abundant travel throughout the better part of my twenties and throughout the rest of my life. I figure since I have not been on many vacations or trips I have some making up to do. I have another trip to Las Vegas planned for a few days in June to see my cousin Kevin get married. Not to be a "downer" but I'm a lot more excited to go to NYC than Vegas, but I am very excited to be in Vegas with a lot of my family members. I don't think Vegas is somewhere I would go on my own, or my own money for that matter. It should be a pretty good family vacation #2.

Best game..... EVER!!!!!!!

Can I get a puff of smoke with that?

Firstly, A gloomy day here in Charleston and for some reason I think I like it. The cold grey skies contrast the bright warm autumn leaves. I don't know if it is because the weeks are flying by or I am just crazy, but it seems as if autumn and the changing of the leaves is going way too fast. I awoke this morning to the majority of the leaves falling off of the trees. I think that autumn is making a pretty strong case for best season. Summer is pretty hot, winter is pretty cold, spring would be the normal front runner however, when spring rolls around I am so sick of the cold that I want it to be summer right away. Spring doesn't understand that and will randomly throw in a giant snow storm in the middle of March. NO ONE wants snow once march rolls around and nasty mother nature has teased us all with a 70 degree weekend once. Autumn doesn't lie to you like that. You know the cold is on its way, and there is no suprise there. I am also sick of the heat right now, and when is the last time in the middle of October that it has been uncomfortably hot out? I don't remember any such instances.
In closing, go Autumn and powerwriting

I decided after writing that last line that I would throw it back to the writing techniques that they taught us in grade school that were considered the worst writing style EVER!

You're right, he probably didn't do steroids

I was a little bored and thought I would compare one of my favorite players pictures from early in his career to the post steroid era. Most people realize after a few years in the league that they are way to strong for their own good and they should cut back on the working out. That must have been what he was thinking. Texas is then, Tigers is now.

Concerts and Tennis

The weekend was as pleasant as expected. Although the "Of Montreal" show was very dissapointing. I don't know why a band that is as musically talented puts up with awful sound. It sounded like they were trying to impress someone with how loud they could play. Everything was turned up far too loud. After too many PBRs and only two OM songs I decided to exit the venue. I ended up walking around Champaign alone for a while at around 1 or 2 in the morning.
On a much more positive note. The City on Film show at the Iron horse was amazing. Bob Nana does not dissapoint. I even had a little chat with him before his set and we had a nice toast to drinking Lienes. Pretty cool guy if I do say so myself. Its too bad that I was never able to see a Hey Mercedes show. I bought a t-shirt, but it seems to be way too small. So michelle has probably inherited a nice black t-shirt.

In conclusion it was a rather good weekend. I'm especially glad a certain person did not attend because there might be a chance to hang out with a girl. We probably had a better time with Ben. Private stock, burgers, and Cubs cookies.

Oh, the cold

Well the school year continues to roll on uneventfully yet again. The Bears are playing great and that makes me excited for Sundays. The weather is very chilly today, and I think I like it. The cold really gives my life a good ole college feel. The air just seems more crisp. This week is a tough one with a test I took on Monday, a test on Thursday that will be really tough, and another difficult test on Friday. Good thing I have a great weekend with my good buddy Kyle planned this weekend. Friday night we are going to see The City on Film (Bob Nanna, formerly of Hey Mercedes) and as of right now Saturday should be another great night with Owen and Of Montreal. I think the only thing that could make this weekend better concert wise would be to throw in a little The Format. Hopefully there will be some new pictures either on here or on facebook.

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Gerrymandered To Serve King Friday's Make-Believe Agenda

Crazy Maybe Lezzy

I feel I must share the tail of my Human Disease professor with all of you. I know that most have heard the story and I appologize for being redundant. However, there are many who have not.
She is a shorter woman maybe 40 years old with a crew cut with a nice salt and pepper hue. Appears to be a normal build at first, until you make your way down the torso and realize she is hiding a innertube in her waistband. The sarcastic smurk on her face cannot be mistaken as she leans against the lab table in the front of the classroom. At first you don't know how to take her as you try and decide the difficulty of the class based purely on the apperance of the instructor... (simply put, she is short, round, and has a lil' lezzy look to her).
So the other day during this class she is talking about AIDS and the whole sharing needles thing. She goes off on a tangent about coke-heads using a new technique called "jacking-off." They put the cocaine into a syringe and pull blood from their body filling the syringe and mixing the blood and cocaine. They promptly inject the mixture back into the body enhancing the already potent high of cocaine. Everyone reacts appropriately with the standard, "ooooooooooo" or "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkk." (with a sigh mixed in) One kid however looks a little deeper into and promptly asks, "Oh yea, how do you know?" With a quick tilt of the head and a witty giggle she says with (no sarcasm at all), "I actually have done it about 200 times. (rolls up her sleeves) You see, I don't want to show you guys my track lines, so I usually shoot up in the crack of my ass... or between my toes." Every immediately laughs uncontrollably until she continues. "You should see how I put a tampon in..." laughter quickly seizes and a soft, ughhhhhhhh comes over the class. "It involves jumping off a building!" The laughter is completly gone at this point and I just begin to pack up my stuff, because I have officially checked out of paying attention to this lady today.
I had a conversation with Mr. O'Connor the other day about a similar situation, yet more generalized. I don't know what it is about instructors swearing. I know I should be used to it, because I have had numerous swearing instructors each semester. Everytime though it gets me, just makes me want to giggle like its the first time I have ever heard that word in my life. Now, if I could only get one of them to use the word "clusterfuck" in a sentence, it would make college all worth while.

Right Guy To Fuck With Identified

I'm sure that some of you will find this boring and dry however, I know at least a couple people who will find it rather humerous. Hopefully something exciting or funny will happen to me and I will be able to write something original instead of putting up creative and funny things written by people armed with far more wit than I.

The Real NCAA Pre-Season Poll

Here We Go Again

To all of you who are laughing right now, its not the same this time. I have been trying to post on my other blog. However, I cannot seem to remember my password or the e-mail address that I used. I was automatically signed in for the majority of the time and then once I moved to school it forgot my information, hence no posts for sometime. I have been trying to remember and try all sorts of different names and e-mail addresses just so I wouldn't have to deal with the shit that I will inevitably recieve for starting yet another blog. Yet, if you want to know what is going on in my life you can deal with the transisiton.
I bid you farewell for now.