Tuesday, January 13, 2009 sending postcards from a plane crash (wish you were here)

Current mood: blank Category: Food and Restaurants Well, it’s a new year. New beginnings, new hopes, blah blah blah. I hope you all had a merry x-mas etc… that being said, ‘tis time for me to start the blog again. Over break I kept coming up with things I was gonna write about, certain things that would just piss me off or make me wonder. But alas, I forget them all. Haha, that was one of the things actually, some kid I work with would constantly write “alas” in our communication binder, where we leave notes for the next person to come in. mostly they just write stuff down when they break the machines, and then I have to come in and fix them, aanyway this kid kept writing “but alas” and I thought It was funny and i was like “man, I’m gonna have to include that in my blog the next time I write”. But alas, it comes out stupid when I do it. Haha Sorry. Ok, seriously now, it seems that I have a lot of bad habits, and they’ve all been coming back and biting me in the ass these past couple of weeks. First, I’m the kid in class that everybody hates, not because I’m an asshole, but because I’m the kid that never shows up for class, never does homework, shows up for tests and gets A’s and B’s. I’ve kind of always been that kid. The last time I remember actually sitting down to do homework was in 6th grade and I’m 25 now. Aaaanway, that’s gonna have to change. Last semester I took an economics class that of course I never went to. I just so happened to miss the day that he handed out a list of data assignments that we were supposed to do over the course of the semester and hand in at various points. So I never did any of them and they were worth a huge chunk of our grade. At the end of the semester I tried to argue that it wasn’t on the syllabus etc… and he would just not have it. Usually I can talk my way out of pretty much anything but this guy was a brick wall. So I got a D in the class. WTF. So now I’m probably going to have to re-take it and actually go. What a waste of time and money. I was and am pissed. Sort of. It was my fault but still, it should have been on the syllabus. Right? Whatever. Second. Those of you that know me, know that I drive a jeep. It has a soft top on it, and I’ve gotten into the habit of whenever it snows, instead of gently brushing the snow off the rear window, I just whack it with my snow brusher (what the hell is it called? Whatever you know what I’m talking about), but I just hit the rear window and all the snow just falls off in one quick motion instead of brushing it all off. Well anyway, over break, on one of those days that it was insanely cold, I went and hit it and I guess the plastic was sooo frozen that part of the rear window just shattered as if it were glass. WTF. So now I have clear mailing tape holding my rear window together. It doesn’t look so bad though because I am a badass and I fixed it pretty good. But anyway WTF. Third. Who’s heard of the Gaslight Anthem? Well back in the day when they weren’t that good, they used to add me all the time on myspace. I accepted them once, but in one of my deletion frenzies when I do maintenance and remove people that just added me to make their friends list ginormous (gynormous) whatever, I deleted them from my friends. Then they kept adding me and since they kept adding me I kept denying the request because they were getting annoying. All this by the way and I don’t think I had heard one of their songs yet. Or the stuff off of their old cd sucked. Aaanyway, this year they broke out and now their huge. I’ve been hearing their songs on the radio and wherever, and they are pretty damn good. They were on everybody’s lists of top records of 2008 etc… they also stopped adding me a while back. So of course I go and try to add them now, and now you need to know their last name to add them. WTF. My, how the tables have turned. Haha. Assholes. Now just because off that I’m going to download their shit off of limewire. Take that. And I encourage you all to do the same. j/k j/k. There were a lot more, but those are the only 3 I can think of right now. Maybe if I remember, tomorrow I’ll write part 2 of this here blog. Whatever. I don’t know if any of you read my bulletin yesterday, it was some lame survey because I was bored, well anyway, I wrote about how one of my profs. Was Japanese and had that stereotypical accent where they say r’s instead of l’s. so instead of saying really they’ll say reary. What made it worse was the fact that she also talked like she had some botched collagen lip injections. I wrote about how it was going to be a long semester. Well god must have read that bulletin because today I met my t.a. for my stats class. Wtf. He’s from like some eastern European country, so he has the hardcore eastern European accent. But as I mentioned yesterday I can deal with accents. This guy however speaks so quietly that I’m not even sure he can hear himself. He told us his name, but nobody heard him. Then he went to write it down because I’m sure he picked up the vibe that nobody understood him, and of course, he has the shittiest hand writing of all time. I think his name was Konstantine or Korstartir. Idk. His last name I’m not even going to attempt. He was also wearing a light blue velvet suit jacket. Hahahahahaha. His fashion sense we’ll leave for a different blog. Haha. Maybe those are all the rage in Ukraine or wherever he’s from. Idk. Yup. Speaking of weird voices, has anybody ever heard miley cyrus talk? Why are little girls obsessed with this chick? She’s the Hannah Montana girl right? Well anyway I heard her being interviewed for some new years eve thing or something, and holy shit was I taken aback. She’s got a deeper voice than most dudes I know. Haha. I’ve never watched Hannah Montana but now I’m curious to find out if she sings like Louis Armstrong or something hahaha. She sings on her show right? I think so. If given the choice I’d still vote for Blagojevich over George W. Bush anyday. The guitar solo in “The Trooper” by Iron Maiden is the greatest guitar solo of all time. Or maybe I should say solos since they are dueling. Da Bears need a wide receiver. Could you imagine if opposing defensive coordinators had to game plan against a wide out, Greg Olsen, Devin Hester, AND Matt Forte? Oh man. Saaaaaawwweeeeeeeet. Rod Marinelli’s coming to help our D-line. Maybe we can get some sacks next year. I’m not too thrilled about the new defensive backs coach though. I wouldn’t say the ineffectiveness of our backs last year was due to the coach, it was that somebody was always injured so they never got into any sort of rhythm and they never established any chemistry because they were always rotating. Whatever though. We’ll see next year. Also the cubs got Milton Bradley. Hahahahaha. I can’t wait to watch the cubs self-destruct from the inside this year. Hahahahahahahaha. I’m calling it now, Milton Bradley is going to destroy that team. Sorry cub fans. GO SOX!! Also, books in college should be free. We already pay so much for tuition then we gotta go and pay for books. I just spent 500 bucks on books I’m never going to read. Wtf. Manchester United crushed Chelsea over the weekend. Which was awesome. 3 nil. Hahahahahaha. For those of you that don’t really follow the EPL, that’s like the Bears beating the Packers 30 to 0. No, no I got a better example, that’s like the Sox beating the Cubs if George Steinbrenner owned the Cubs and spent a trillion dollars a year bringing in the best “talent” year in and year out. Except instead of only having the minor league and part of south America to draw your talent from, you have the entire world because not everybody plays baseball, but everybody plays soccer. Hahahahaha, suck it Chelsea. Ohhhhh, that’s what another one of my bad habits was that I forgot to mention. I always take my ipod to work and listen to music. Then when I go on break I just put it in my back pocket and go sit down and eat. Well, finally after all these years, and all the abuse I put it though, I sat down on it and the screen cracked. So now all I see is a giant black splotch and a crack down the middle. I can still listen to music I just can’t navigate anywhere because I can’t see anything. So for the past month or so I’ve been listening to a 90’s playlist I made a while ago because that’s the only thing I can find and I don’t want to back out of it and then never find my way back into a playlist. Haha. So rest in pieces ipod. A positive that has come out of it though is that I listen to the radio again now. After I got my ipod I bought the road trip thing so that I could listen to it in my car and for the past couple of years I haven’t listened to the radio. So now I’m back to WONC 89.1. haha. It’s funny how after a couple of years I could still remember their little ads. My favorite would have to be the Bill Cosby impersonation, “you see the kids they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage, so they don’t remember what “commercial free rock” is all about. You see?” haha. Cracks me up every time. So anyway, I’ve been discovering new music this past month. Which is awesome. Remember a couple of blogs ago when I wrote that I went to hot topic and saw a band that had the coolest name but I couldn’t remember it? Well I heard them on the radio and I heard their name again. Forever the Sickest Kids. That’s pretty cool. Their music is alright, but the name is cool as hell. Speaking of cool names for bands, the other day I was watching Ferris Bueller’s day off. (classic) but I only watched like 30 minutes of it, but in those 30 minutes I came across so many names for bands during the movie. For example, the sign on the water tower that says Save Ferris. I think that is a band actually. But it it isn’t it should be. Here are some more Baseball, Shame, and Cocaine My Father’s Gun and a Scorching Case of Herpes Hmm, now that I actually type them out they seem like better names for songs than actual bands. I’m sure Fall Out Boy saw this and that’s where they get their wordiness for song titles. Haha. but I’m sure if you watched the whole movie you’d find a lot more. I’m sure you could make a drinking game out of it. Lol. Wow, if you’ve read this far you must have been pretty bored. There was more I wanted to write about but I’m tired of writing now. Also, people that end their messages, blogs, e-mails, comments, messages, etc… with “cheers” should be shot. Salud haha