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[Jul. 2nd, 2007|09:21 pm] |
I am now what is commonly referred to as a working stiff.
oh and i shaved my goatee, cuz it didn't look professional. and oh yea, this pic, it's me in my bathroom. like, the one in my apartment. that i'm renting. on my own.
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[Jun. 2nd, 2007|01:38 pm] |
Really, I'm not. I became obsessed with FFR again and have gotten deeply embedded in that community so I haven't been on lj at all in a long time.
A lot has happened. I think the last time I posted was right after spring break. Vegas was unbelievable. Strip clubs and copious beer were involved. This quarter was easy enough. Behavioral Econ was one of the best courses I ever took at NU. I wrote the last research paper I'll ever write last week for that class. It was a study on procrastination. It's really good and I had a good time researching and writing it, even if I was up until 6 finishing it :p. I was in a poetry class which sucked actually. The prof liked to tell us that we were wrong in our interpretations of poems which just seems off. She has that air of superiority about her that is just really off-putting. She should die in a fire :D. I was in a film class which was even worse though. The jackass that taught the class didn't show up to his own class every now and then. It's only held once a week and it's 3 hours long so that's kind of retarded. I've written 4 papers for that class and they were all on films and readings we hadn't discussed. They were all more or less completely generated by wikipedia.
Dillo Day was fun. I drank a bottle of wine and passed out at like 6:30pm. JRho brought a buttload of med school kids from Feinberg (NU's med school) and partied at our place for a while. I don't know, we all passed out far too early and the weather sucked so whatever. I didn't even go to the concert even though the Roots and Cake were there. I don't even think I would have been able to get in. The rain forced the concert into Patton (gymnasium) and the line was ginormous and not moving.
I graduate in like 2 weeks. I have an apartment in Madison where my job is. Address:
8410 Isaac Drive Apt 204
Junction Ridge Apartments
Madison, WI 53717
I should probably call movers soon to get my stuff up there :p. Finding the apartment was fun. I spent lots of time during winter quarter researching places so I found the place I wanted in only two trips up to Madison. One of those trips was an entire weekend and I stayed with some distant relatives who I didn't know existed that happened to live 5 minutes from where I'm going to live. I know they're distantly related because they're nice people :p. I really like this place I found. 1bd1bth, 810sqft, high vaulted ceilings with ceiling fans, full kitchen, w/d in unit, etc etc, only $755/mo. which is ridiculous. It's so cheap to live in Madison, especially out in the burbs where I'm going to live. The city apartments were all small and didn't have half the amenities I wanted, plus they were more expensive. And I suppose I'll always be a jersey boy out in the suburbs. I'm right near a mall too which makes me happy.
Really right now I've just been hanging out with people I won't get to hang out with much longer. Yesterday a bunch of us went downtown for all you can eat sushi (awesome!). Tonight we're all going to get together and watch Purple Rain at Lambda Chi. With any luck, we'll all start crying all over each other.
As far as dreams for the future go, I've suddenly been turned on to the idea of teaching econ someday. I haven't decided whether I'd rather teach at the high school or college level though. I think both have their own unique intrigue, but I just don't think I'd be able to get into a decent PhD program with my grades (I have a 3.127 cumulative and econ GPA). I could probably get into a first or second tier education program though. However, I really don't know if a school like Rutgers would turn me down if I applied there. I mean, NU econ is one of the top econ programs in the country, and unlike other top-tier schools, there isn't massive grade inflation here. Did you know that the average GPA at Yale is like a 3.7? I mean, sure, they're smart, but that's an A- on average. Classes here are belled to a 3.0 so if you're ever getting a 3.7 in a class you really destroyed it. I've gotten like 5 grades at a 3.7 or higher during my entire time at NU. Meh, whatever, I've got a few years to figure out what it is I want to do. I do, however, have to get rec letter confirmations from a couple more profs and set up an account at university career services to hold them for me.
Anyway, I guess sorry for neglecting lj for the past two months. Did you miss me? |
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| Long time coming |
[Mar. 28th, 2007|09:18 pm] |
I don't have time to do a post on spring break, I'll do that later... maybe in a couple days or something, but I do have time to do the meme I said I'd do some two weeks ago. Sorry Ally!
01. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
02. I respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
03. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
04. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
05. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
1) What is your favorite Disney movie?
I assume you mean an old one, because I think Invincible would be my favorite now. I was obsessed with Pinocchio when I was really little, and I think Aladdan was my favorite after that.
2) What is one thing you've always wanted to do?
Turn Super Saiyan?
3) What is the most reckless thing you've ever done (on purpose)?
Unprotected sex?
4) Would you rather hit every red light for the rest of your life or always be wrong?
Too easy. I'm sure I'd catch on at some point that I'm always wrong and start abusing it. "There's no way in hell there's a naked supermodel in my room waiting for me to ravage her." ::open door:: ::smiles::
5) Would you rather have one leg ridiculously shorter than the other or have arms that don't bend?
With prosthetics the way they are these days, the shorter leg wouldn't be much of a hindrance. The arms on the other hand, would make it impossible to eat, drink, go to the bathroom, or do much of anything without assistance. |
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| Here we are again. |
[Mar. 11th, 2007|03:24 pm] |
Finals week cometh. On my faceth. ...that's just gross.
Due to NU being run by a bunch of racist asshats, Reading "Week" was shortened to Thursday and Friday last week, meaning I've barely started studying.
( The itinerary: ) |
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[Mar. 6th, 2007|09:20 pm] |
http://northwestern.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2218004124
Best facebook group evar. Supreme kitty cuteness ftw.
Oh and in other news, the Vegas trip is set. I fly to Vegas the afternoon of the 17th and we're staying at The New Frontier Hotel & Casino (second shittiest place on the center-strip, because the shittiest was full :D) until I fly back to Chicago on the morning of the 21st in order to pack (and sober up) for I fly to jersey on the afternoon of the 22nd. I'll be there for only a day or two, and they will be spent packing my shit in the car to drive back to Chicago before Monday. I don't know if I should go for it in one day - it would be about a 13 hour trip or so. I mean, I could do it, and it would give me one more day in jersey, but I don't know how much that means anyway, since jersey's lame. then again, i don't know when I'll be back in jersey next, as I'm kind of moving to Madison directly after school, so maybe I should stay. eh, i'll see what triple-A thinks when I get home. I wish my car had a gps - i get so paranoid about getting lost. It doesn't look like a tough drive at least. There's basically two roads that I spend 350 miles on each of the total 800 miles, and the other roads are in jersey and illinois and I know them. Haha, this'll be the first time I've seen western PA, Ohio, and Indiana. I will actually be driving right by Gary, should be exciting!
bah, problem set, later! |
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| Only updating because it's been a while. |
[Feb. 22nd, 2007|09:33 pm] |
Yea, I know, I never post anymore. It's not like nothing's happened in the past two weeks or so, it's more than I'm never at my own computer and am therefore extremely productive. I'm not even at my computer now. I'm at the libes, about to give up any hope of reading this history article because I already spent a good 5 hours on this material and I can't stand it anymore today.
So what's been happening... Tacky Prom happened on Saturday at The Keg. Sucky venue, but killer party as always. The idea is that everyone goes in extremely tacky/ridiculous 80's garb and all the music played centers around that theme. It was great fun. Is it weird that I think all the girls totally looked hotter in 80's style? I mean, I've partied with all these girls before, but some of them were on fire that night. This one chick, Jennie, has one of those t-shirts with the neck ripped wide (it was a pong shirt!) over a tank-top and had a headband and a pony-tail and god was she smokin'. Too bad she's out of her mind, as most chicks seem to be here...
What else, my and maybe 8 other guys are gonna go to Vegas for Spring Break. It's going to be epic. Doubtless daily drunken debauchery. Isn't prostitution legal there? Yea, it's going to be fun. :P I think we're staying at this famous hotel, Circus Circus. I still need to buy my airline ticket...
The radio show continues to be a blast, although I doubt I have enough A material to last another quarter, not to mention that my schedule is earlier in the day next quarter. I'll probably just ask for a near-impossible-to-get time with an added note that I wouldn't mind giving the spot to someone else if there's a conflict.
Oh yea, my final quarter at NU is coming. I registered for courses on Monday, but I didn't do a "My schedule can beat up your schedule" entry yet because I imagine it will change, mainly because (I can't fucking believe it) a course I wanted filled up. It's for my major too. I think I'm first on the waiting list and there's already a couple spots from people dropping it (fucking athletes get to register before anyone, even majors, and hold classes for their fucking idiot friends by squatting on the spots - yes, I'm bitter). Anyway, I'm trying to get into Behavioral Econ (I reged for Law and Econ while I wait for a permission number), and I reged for this high level english course really just to experience one before I graduate, reading/writing poetry, and an Ingmar Bergman film class. I also plan on sitting in on a computer programming class. I'd take it pass/fail but I actually placed out of it 4 years ago so I can't :P So that means... 5 classes?! I only need 2 to graduate, but most of these are just for fun anyway.
So what's coming up... this Saturday we're going to get drunk for Caroline who turned 21 yesterday, which should be fun. I'll probably go to Meow (awesome improv show) tomorrow, hopefully with someone. I swear to God, every time I run into this chick she talks to me like I'm the second coming but then she never returns my calls. She is out of her damn mind. Bah, when (not if) she doesn't turn up, I'll find someone else to go with.
Overall either college is getting to be less stressful in general or I'm finally growing up or something. I don't recall the last time I spent 5 nighs a week in the library from like 4 until closing, but it really doesn't bother me anymore.
I love all you silly bitches. Later! |
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[Feb. 8th, 2007|08:26 pm] |
found a freaking youtube GOD.
They are all dbz vids that remix scenes, using more or less the same footage over and over again, while adding random batshit crazy references to other animes and shit to make them absolutely nuts.
His vids, from oldest to newest:
Nine Thousaaaaaand!!!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBtpyeLxVkI
I hope my body can take it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbSjKjjObLg
The Balls are Inert http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cS18yG8DJI
Addendum to Balls using that awesome court game for the DS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR0Yn8u-f3k
The Whole Universe is Going to Die! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnPN2yOup9E
My favs are definitely Balls and Universe
In other news, midterms are done, for now. Everyone thought the econ midterm was the hardest shit ever - except I thought it was rather easy, which is probably a bad sign, but everyone I talked to afterwards ended the conversation with "we should study together for the final" which is probably an excellent, excellent sign. however, now that midterms are done, i really don't feel like working for the rest of the quarter. oh yea, tune in this monday for a special "Fuck You, Fay" edition of The Punk Rock Elite Not Admitted Show! Endless angry autobiographical (and extremely petty) songs! |
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[Feb. 7th, 2007|03:55 am] |
So Fay emailed me which was her first contact with me in about 6 months. I had her on a list that was getting a weekly email reminder of my radio show and she sent be a rude email veiled with fake politeness that said to not email anymore. No "hey how are you" or anything. She doesn't want anything to do with me anymore. It kind of irritates me but surprises me more than anything, because she doesn't have the will to take any sort of decisive action involving relationships of any kind. I guess she got so mad for how "rude" I was when I was being overprotective back in August. So she says my emails aren't "pertinent" to her. I just looked kind of randomly and it seems that Fay unfriended me here. So I guess now I can go ahead and speak freely.
Fay is a petty, dumb, stupid bitch.
Oh and just in case someone sends this to her or if she finds it herself, my also being petty, ergo a hypocrite, does not make me wrong, you stupid, horrible, ignorant, ungrateful person, you. |
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[Feb. 4th, 2007|02:41 am] |
I just want all of you to know that I just walked home from Celtic Knot (at least a mile) in -2 weather with a staggering -20 windchill, according to weather.com. there were literally icicles hanging from my moustache. chicago winters rule. |
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[Feb. 2nd, 2007|02:59 am] |
Tonight was pretty damn hilarious. I went to a Foster-Walker Complex show downtown for the first time in a long while. I was kind of bummed that a her canceled on me and I had to go alone, but if she had gone with me we would have had to leave at some point... and I wouldn't have been able to shamelessly flirty with a thousand women I met there. So after the show I rode with Danny and we went to meet up with Marcus and some chicks at a bar. When we got there, Danny sat down and immediately started talking to this chick Liz, Marcus was talking to this girl Lauren, and there was another Lauren there who was drunk out of her mind. Marcus purports that he started talking to other Lauren because I was talking to my Lauren, but the opposite is true. Anyway, when I sat down I was just talking with her just trying to get some decent conversation out of the night. It became readily apparent that she was very drunk... because she was all over me. I was laughing the whole time and she was attempting (successfully) to make out with me the whole night. She declared me "super sexy" by the end of the night, which pleases me to no end. We drunk-danced a bit, which is always funny (especially because the song playing was that song from Blues Brothers - "Twist it! Shake it, Shake it, Shake it, Shake it, Baby!").
Anyway, to add to the hilarity, she along with Liz and Marcus all apparently work at the Flat Top on Church Street. I think I'll go over there for dinner tomorrow or something. Maybe I'll bring my roommates over and we'll laugh at her or something.
...I am a horrible, horrible person. |
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| next week |
[Jan. 31st, 2007|01:07 pm] |
Monday
11am - Econ problem set due
3:30-5am - Radio show (meaning not sleep, study, or writing, all of which are needed)
Tuesday
6pm - Film paper due (huge joke, but it'll take at least an hour or so to write)
Wednesday
10am - Aspects of Love paper due
11am - Econ midterm
8pm - Aspects of Love midterm
It doesn't seem so bad except there's still a lot of reading I have to do. I need to reading the second half of Eugene Onegin and all of this short Tolstoy book (well, short for him...) for Aspects of Love, a short article for Film, and ...all the reading for the quarter for Econ. I recently found out that even though he hasn't referenced it once, he is going to test us on the reading... what a poo-head. I just wish there wasn't so much stuff on Wednesday because for some reason that seems to be the day that the lack of sleep from the radio show catches up with me (I'm really tired right now, I'm in the library waiting for my friend to show up to study for my History midterm tomorrow). I'm really just worried that my extravagantly slow writing will take away too much time to study and read for Econ and Aspects of Love.
Anyway in other news the radio show yesterday morning was a pant-load of fun. I even recorded most of it (couldn't get the first and last couple songs). I know for a fact that Claire, Ryan, Rabbit, Sara, and Prem were listening in this week. Everyone else should listen in as well and I'm personally offended by all of you :p Don't know if I'll be able to go to movie night tonight (probably not) due to midterm tomorrow. As I've related, my quarterly burnout seems to be hitting me, as I can't seem to concentrate at all. On that note, I guess I'll head over to facebook and procrastinate some more... |
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[Jan. 28th, 2007|09:26 pm] |
It took 4 weeks but I finally hit my wall and have lost all ability to concentrate.
1)Tell you why I friended you.
2)Associate you with a song/movie.
3)Tell a random fact about you.
4)Tell my first memory of you.
5)Associate you with an animal/fruit.
6)Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7)In return, you are encouraged to spread this disease in your LJ.
stolen from![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) imnotahippie |
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| Idiots are attacking video games again |
[Jan. 24th, 2007|05:26 pm] |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIu3JMGxk3Q
I find everything about this funny, so I posted this response:
"This whole issue is so laughable. I don't know what's funnier: the fact that people think that video games are dangerous, or the fact that people are actually making a documentary with this is its thesis.
I'm going to make another documentary that proves beyond any doubt that everyone involved with this project clearly eats paint chips and fellates ovine for quarters, because this thesis has just as much (personally I think more) validity than the one purported here."
I wanted to also write (but didn't, for obvious reasons, because it's even worse than the blowing goats for quarters line), that when I saw Joe Lieberman saying something like, "We told the industry that we didn't want to go in and regulate and force them to accept a rating system, but we told them that if they didn't take these actions that we were going to go ahead and do it."
All I could think about them was the scene in "Juggernaut, Bitch!" where the red dude is standing over the chick in the evil castle or something and says, "Am I gonna take this shit, or are you gonna give it to me willingly?" |
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[Jan. 23rd, 2007|05:27 am] |
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God I love having a radio show. Tonight's was the best yet: 6 (known) listeners, a genuine caller with praise of the show, a special guest dj (dj virgin mary will hopefully make more appearances), on top of a ton of great music that I really love and the freedom to talk about why I love it. If anybody else was listening, I'm glad they did and I hope they enjoyed it. I tried to record the show but it didn't come out, oh well maybe next week.
It's weird, it's such a rush that I doubt I'll be able to get to sleep easily, which is bad because it's 5:30 in the morning.
This is the best year ever. I've said that on multiple occasions, but none of you can understand what it's like for someone as freaking emo as I am to actually find a year this awesome. I hope it continues. |
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[Jan. 11th, 2007|05:23 pm] |
I just had a thought. So one thing I've been tossing about in my head is how I'm really not looking forward to leaving college, but at the same time I'm excited about Epic. What I came to realize is that in the grand scheme of things, if this is my biggest concern, I'm doing pretty well, so yay for me. :D |
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[Jan. 9th, 2007|12:42 pm] |
Being a radio dj is the funnest shit ever. I know none of you listened, but you should have, as it was glorious. Put it in your damn planner - "Punk Rock Elite Not Admitted" with Paul Bryan, Tuesday morning 3:30-5am CST, 89.3FM, www.wnur.org. |
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| hell yea |
[Jan. 7th, 2007|08:50 pm] |
E! A! G! L! E! S! EAGLES!!!!!! Eagles win, baby! Going all the way! Bring on the Saints!
Ahem, anyway, with philly sports becoming something to pay attention to these days, I looked over at the phils and decided to update my work on them.
Transactions to make:
Jon Lieber - get him the hell out of this organization. We have five starting pitchers that are better than him and we can probably get something for him like...
Relievers - we need middle relief and arguably a more solid closer (or at least a younger one). Lieber should be able to get something. The relief we have now is young and will get better but we need a veteran presense in there to help the young guys, especially as geoff geary is getting old and won't be around much longer.
Utility - we also need a utility infielder. I don't consider Danny Sandoval and Abe Nunez as viable backups. I know Coste can backup Howard if the worst should occur, be we should have one solid guy who can hit at least .200.
Other than that, and most of that is minor, I'm pretty satisfied with the Phils offseason moves. We probably shouldn't be giving Adam Eaton nearly as much money as we are ($24.5 million over three years), but I don't know the specifics of what kind of bidding war was going on for him, and I'm still glad we have him. I'm not crazy about Rod Barajas, but Coste makes for a good pinch hitter.
Phils '07 starting lineup
SS - Jimmy Rollins
RF - Shane Victorino
2B - Chase Utley
1B - Ryan Howard
LF - Pat Burrell
CF - Aaron Rowand
3B - Wes Helms
C - Rod Barajas
P - Brett Myers
Our main pinch hitter will be Chris Coste, followed by Jayson Werth. We have great pinch runners in Roberson, Sandoval, and perhaps Bourn (the use of which I'm not entirely sold on, but so it goes).
Pitching
SP1 - Brett Myers
SP2 - Freddy Garcia
SP3 - Jamie Moyer
SP4 - Cole Hamels
SP5 - Adam Eaton
Relief - ...needs work. We have Ryan Madson, Geoff Geary, Clay Condrey (might be able to provide the veteran support I'm looking for, but probably not), and Fabio Castro, Scott Mathieson, and Matt Smith are young and will get better.
Closer - Flash Gordon. I still think he was just pushed too hard after his injury. He's an old man so rehab probably took longer than it would for a 25 year old. Anyway, he's better now and he should last us at least one more season, but this position needs to be looked at.
I know some people *cough*Allison*cough* are going, "WhatthehellColeHamels=sexgodandshouldbestartingeverygamewellatleastshouldbe#1!!!" Well, although I agree on the sexgod part, he's still a kid and will be put behind the veterans until he has a few years experience under his belt. If it gives him a chip on his shoulder, maybe that will make him perform better. If he learns something from looking up to the veterans from his position, he'll definitely perform better. It's pretty win-win.
In other news. I'm beginning to get bogged down in reading, and my econ 350 class will be very hard. It's another professor that is against teaching, and this time he even had a balls to say, "don't ask the TA for help, as I have instructed him not to help you." What the fuck. What an ass. So I'm doing the first problem set now, and it's impossible because I don't have the slightest idea how to even approach these problems because he's an ass that won't teach us the material. Ugh. Anyway, my first radio show is late tomorrow night 3:30 - 5am central time. Get a stream here: www.wnur.org
Back to work. |
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| Back at NU |
[Jan. 3rd, 2007|02:39 am] |
(I'm drugged up on a double dose of NyQuil so excuse me if I'm not so eloquent)
So I got back to NU last night. I cried because there was no food in the apartment and everything was closed within a mile radius. Eventually Bryan and Caroline showed up and we went to a Panera. The poor children's bags were lost somewhere on the flight. Bryan showed me his surprise for the apartment - a kitty. We have a kitty!!! It's a year old brown long-hair thing. We call it Styx, or Stinky, given it's farting problem (I voted for Poops McGee but so it goes). Only we would get a farting cat. Today most of the other people showed up and we hung out a lot. I got sick at some point last night and I've been feeling like crap since then. Perhaps it was when I inhaled a load of Febreeze when I was trying to rid the living room of cat fart. We had a ton of people in the apartment for the first time this year, and I couldn't hang out because I was so sick.
Anyhow, the main reason for this post is to announce that I got a radio show. My show, "Punk Rock Elite Not Admitted" airs 3:30-5am Tuesday morning (Monday night) Central Time (so that's 4:30-6am eastern). I'm telling all of you this because no matter who you are or where you are, you can listen to my show! Go to www.wnur.org and on the top-right of the screen is a box that says "Listen Online." Pick the option you want to get a live stream of the radio station. It's a shame though, since my friends Ryan and Ross's radio show didn't get continued.
I have my first day of classes tomorrow. I'm going to try to get into Aspects of Love at 10. I then have Monopoly at 11. If I can't get into Aspects of Love I may be stuck with Econ of the Family at 12:30, but probably not.
Anyhoo, time to pass out, I'm still going to be funked out from the NyQuil when I wake up in 7 hours.
Just to let all of you know, I am ecstatic with all that's happened over the past month. Best grades ever, employment, confirmation of FCC certification, radio show, and to top it off lots of doing nothing interspersed with partying. |
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