the good news is our guys bball team is 5-0, the bad news is that i played horrible tonight. abosolutely horrible. like, i sat out the last 10 minutes of the game because i knew i couldn't add anything to the 5 guys already playing. we needed a spark, but i knew i had to stay on the bench because i couldn't score and i couldn't do anything right, really. we won by 2 points, somehow, in the ugliest game ever (just ask mike, joel, or heidi). i have no confidence in my playing ability. boo.
i met with my UT professor today and its annoying because we get so much done in our meetings, i just don't want to put the time into it. and its really hard for her to budge at all on her goals for this independent study. we've been meeting for 1 1/2 semesters now and we're still not finished. i work on this class more than any others. i'm frustrated all around.
all this frustration sucks because on the whole, this week has been spectacular. maybe because its been sunny everyday, maybe because i slept a little over the weekend. i felt great earlier this week - it was awesome to turn your day around on tuesday, wags - but now i feel frustrated and full of crap, really. i could use a really hard run about now, except we have an 8am meeting tomorrow and i just got out of the shower. maybe in the summer.
don't you hate it when you're in a bad mood and you can suddenly remember everything that sucks in your life? they just keep piling up. i won't mention them here for your sake. i'm going to go to sleep to get this day over with.
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thumbs up: 9-1 in basketball regular seasons for two teams
thumbs down: i have no basketball skill, and i can't get any basketball skill because i spend all my time on stupid classes
quote: "and one!" "um, you have to make the basket to get an 'and one!'" me to the guy on the other team who seemed to think his shot went in
cd rotation: hey mercedes: everynight fireworks
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new found glory: sticks and stones
you know you're a blogger when all your toolbar links are to other people's blogs. i'm a junkie.
i found myself in an interesting and unfortunately rare situation today: my basketball team is up by 50, how can you keep playing? i mean, we still want to play hard and have a good time but the other team is usually ready to kick the crap out of us because they're losing so bad. and what do you say at the end of the game? "good game." no it wasn't, you played horrible. "nice job out there." yeah, nice job losing by 50. "nice shooting." your shooting was so nice that three of our players each outscored your team. what did i say then? "nice playing." i don't know what that means. i'm just trying to get my butt kicked in the parking lot. it also didn't help that this one guy i kind of threw over my shoulder and he got the foul called on him. we both went up for a rebound and i pulled it down, and he came with the ball as an added bonus. i think he thought i was staring him down but really i was looking at a chunk of dried spit on his face.
brian, i hope you know that with the new on-call structure, productivity goes down about 200%. i mean, now there's always someone in the office who wants to talk to you. so now every 5 minutes or so i stop working and make fun of resnet or spt or some other branch of RCC with the lab employee who's on-call.
i finally finished up my independent slop for my meeting tomorrow. hopefully we're about done with the whole project. i spend more time on this class than any other one right now, and my credit is for last semester, not this one, how crappy is that?
here's a new question: would you rather it be 25 degrees and sunny or 38 degrees and cloudy? i'd prefer the sun i think. it's almost march and we've had temperatures over 40 like once in the last three months. c'mon, spring.
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thumbs up: 4-1 co-ed basketball season
thumbs down: reel big fish is coming to bgsu...they were good back in high school i guess. i can't believe they're still around.
quote: "everybody's waiting for that something they can hold on to. failure is so sweet, as the last time" -fsf
cd rotation: further seems forever: how to start a fire
let me clear up old school a bit. i guess i walked into it expected a smart-funny comedy and got a dumb-funny comedy, so it was disappointing in that fashion. i guess we had different expectations. anyway, it'll probably hook in if i see it a few more times like jay and silent bob or something. and i'll still snowball fight you anytime franklin, bring it. we can terrorize the neighbors together.
oh, i think i'll copy & paste everyone's FAQ into a file on my webspace and you can all link to it. seriously, i laughed out loud at all of them i think. still waiting on some from mike and joel and heidi, among others. of course you can ADD QUESTIONS to the FAQ and we can make it a big ordeal. i was thinking of a couple other weird ones like: "backpack: one shoulder or two?" or "what is more fun on a vacation: getting there or being there" or "what is the stupidest town you've ever been in" or "which state is more backwards & hillbilly: kentucky or west virginia?" i don't know where these questions come from, this is seriously what i think about during the day.
i hate it how every week starts off nice, and then something, always something comes up. and you never know from where. this week it's an independent study meeting. last week it was a math program, the week before that a thermodynamics test. usually hits around tuesday at noon, and then i'm done for until friday. at the rate RCC employees are dropping, i'll probably have to work 25 hours next week (you notice that i think 25 hours is a lot, wags here is pushing double that each week, plus 20 credit hours, wow).
so kurt just IM'd me and said he might be out for our spring break backpacking trip. why? he might be going to florida with his girlfriend & her family. the girlfriend does it again. how many times have your plans been changed because one of your buddies screws you for the girl (and never the other way around). you know, seinfeld had a bit that all plans between guys are tentative, because you never know when the opportunity may arise. of course i'm just giving kurt crap because he's dating an awesome girl, Lord knows how many times i'd screw my friends on purpose just for payback. kurt and alaska J, be forewarned.
one last digression: yesterday in my numerical analysis class (with 4 people in it) there's this girl who can't be long removed from china, she speaks broken english and once asked me what the difference was between "the super bowl and the other american footbal championship [college football]." anyway, she was sitting in class the other day reading a bible that's written in chinese and english on the same page. i don't see many american students, let alone chinese students read the bible in class just for reading pleasure. i mean, i claim to be a christian and i've never even thought about it. i was thinking though, isn't christianity supressed in china and other communist countries? we take our freedoms too lightly, i think. this girl may not even know that people give out bibles on street corners in BG, and most people don't take one, or if they do, throw them away in the nearest trash can. something as small as seeing this girl read a chinese/english bible made my day.
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thumbs up: nap
thumbs down: that awkward 15 minutes after waking up when you have no idea where the heck you are or what you're doing there
quote: "we're going to protest the protestors with signs that say 'protestors are hypocrites'" -jesse
cd rotation: october fall mix
it's going to take a lot of work, but there's a chance i may not have any exams during finals week. all i need is a few A's on some tests and turn in a few papers in late april, and i should be golden. in the meantime, i can't even figure out my two thermodynamics homework problems for tomorrow. just two problems, i don't know either of them.
so the roommates all met at 10:30pm and we wanted to start some shiz with the neighbor apartments, but they weren't any fun at all. we were just throwing snow at their windows and doors and they asked us to stop. russ then proceeded to shovel snow onto their doorstep, but pat cleaned it off, called an apologized, which i protested. we're 21, people, we should be able to provoke some friendly snowball fights without coming off as jerks. so Q4 decided to throw snowballs at each other, and we did so for about an hour, and it was the highlight of my week!
refer to justin's review of old school if you haven't seen it. i was hoping it would get funny sometime, but it really didn't. i was hoping luke wilson was going to pull through and save the movie, but he didn't, although he did have a few funny lines. will ferrel was his usual self and that was cool. i felt like i was watching the movie with someone holding a giant sign that said "LAUGH" at the parts we were supposed to laugh at. i respect justin for walking out, there wasn't really much point in staying around. in fact, the fire alarm went out about 3/4 of the way, and we all got up to leave, and i thought, "man, i just want to see if they end up together." they canceled the fire alarm before we left and so i did get to see the ending. don't spend $5.25 or $8.75 or whatever your ticket costs.
kath, you're probably gonna go to bed thinking what it'd be like if we ended up together...just remember, our kids would be really, really, ridiculously good looking.
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thumbs up: hitting ray in the head with a snowball
thumbs down: getting hit by ray in the head with a snowball two seconds later
quote: "i think ray and i are gay" - pat in a clear-thinking moment
cd rotation: jimmy eat world: clarity
fellow bloggers: i thought it might be cool to have this little FAQ on each of our pages where you can write a little about yourself and be stupid, whatever you want. anyway, click on the link download it and fill out your answers as truthful as you'd like. then, post it as a link on your website.
**blog from yesterday**
of course a police officer had to stop by the pinewood practice room because we were doing donuts in the parking lot, and rick seemed to think he take his jeep through a 3 foot drift. well, he couldn't. but everything was cool, the cop just saw me wipe out on the ice and went on his way.
unfortunately ray was asleep when i got back, so i couldn't screw around in my room and i was relegated to the basement because i didn't feel like watching sitcom reruns. at least i got my secondary room in the basement all cleaned up and looking pimp. i'm one of those people that puts everything in 'piles' and calls it 'clean.' like, i have 11 of these piles sitting around the room and i consider it spotless.
pretty happy that i can't aim a dashboard confessional song at anyone.
i came across eric barton's blog today, another guy i've never met, but he is chillin in cali with my friend phil jenkins which makes me really, really jealous. i mean c'mon, we're in 8" of snow, they're swimming. why do we live in ohio? i've never found a good reason. some people say "you'll miss the seasons if you move out on the ocean" but as far as matt edwards says, you miss the seasons for a few minutes, and then you go surfing in january. my bro jeff said he gets all the snow he needs during their two weeks home over winter break, and then back to the arizona sun.
jay, hope everything is going ok. we'll have a big cousin revival down at UD sometime and you'll show us the ladies you've been stockpiling down there.
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thumbs up: contentment
thumbs down: blogger down time
quote: "i'm gonna call you GT: goggles & teeth." - a high schooler to jesse when he was in jr. hi
cd rotation: further seems forever: how to start a fire
i feel inspired to write a blurb here. i've had a great week and i'm having one of those rare thoughts of "all will be well." despite the snow, it feels like spring. despite the homework, school will get easier. despite missing some friends, i'll see them soon. it's been a while since i've felt happy for more than just a few hours of the day. maybe its because i slept this weekend or that i can think clearly since my cold is going away. whatever the reason, it feels good to care and not care at the same time. God is good.
holy jeez its snowing outside. i almost couldn't even turn off of main st. into my apt. driveway cause there's so much snow on the roads. if only it were sunday night, we'd be looking at no school i think. but its not.
tim and i hung out all day today, doing some studying and watching the bucks win and the falcons lose.
after watching ocean's eleven (again) i've decided that i want to be a criminal. anyone ever read the great train robbery by crichton? a similar plot, and i think the criminals are even cooler in that book.
my sinuses feel like they're in a vice right now, so i'm going to bed.
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thumbs up: beating ashley in darts finally
thumbs down: toothache
quote: "yeah you do" - me to jesse after he said something quite ridiculous
cd rotation: brandtson: dial in sounds
