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| 11:16am 09/02/2010 |
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Yeah, 'lot's happened since I last wrote in here. Some good, some bad. I'll start with the bad, just to get it out of the way. One of my best friends passed away on January 23rd:
Marine Core Lance Corporal Jeremy Kane was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan during a routine patrol. R.I.P. Jeremy, you were a great team mate, colleague, and most importantly, friend. I'll miss you bud, campus will not be the same without you.
Ok, good stuff now. I have a girlfriend, her name is Angelene, and she's pretty awesome; not to mention gorgeous. I met her through her brother, Adam. Apparently she liked me for awhile, and I was completely unaware, haha, figures right? Anyway, we had been seeing each other for the greater part of January and we became official February 2nd. I guess it's true, you find some of the most meaningful things in your life when you least expect it.
Anyway, yeah, life's pretty damn peachy as of now. |
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| 01:29am 08/01/2010 |
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...and I don't care who knowsss, haha. Yes, I hungout with Erin on Tuesday, and it was amazing.
I drove up to New Brunswick and we hungout there. To be quite honest, I didn't know what to expect. I wasn't sure if it was a date, or if we were just hanging out. We went to a restaurant on George St. Talked so much that the waiter had to come back three times before we were ready to order, I'm sure he appreciated that, haha. So we ate, talked about music for a few hours. Then walked around the Rutgers campus, despite it being freezing out. So as the night came to a close, I worked up the nerve to put my arm around her, then once I walked her back to her car, she kissed me on the cheek, and I proceeded to kiss her on the lips, and it went uphill from there. Man, it was an amazing feeling.
She's so cool and pretty. I'm even more excited that I'm hanging out with her tonight after I get out of work. Not sure what we're doing, might hit up Princeton for dinner if it's not too late, if not then we're going to a diner or something, we'll figure it out. I have high hopes that this will go somewhere, but not too high though. Not yet at least. Anyway, yeah, this is looking to be a good start to the new year.
Wednesday I drove up to Sussex County in North-Western NJ with my mother to visit my grandfather, who's health is slowing going downhill. Surprisingly, the visit was very upbeat. My grandpa was in high spirits, he's fully aware of everything that's going on around him. Of course, I'm sure it helps that he has two young hot Puerto-Rican caretakers watching over him; that and the fact that he's back in his own home. Anyway, we played Rummikub and he kept giving me tips and my mom and the one caretaker kept getting pissed off at him, haha. Anyway, it was a great visit. I hope I get to see him again.
Of course the upbeatness of the trip ended abruptly as soon as we left. I got a call from my job. Apparently I was supposed to be at work at 3PM that day, and it was 4:00 and I was 2 hours away from home. Luckily my manager was cool with it, so no worries.
After work, my cousin Andrew called me and told me he was staying at my mom's that night because he had a business meeting in Mt. Laurel down here. So after work I drove over to my mom's. We ate pizza drank some of my Dad's old Scotch from the cabinet and exchanged college stories until 10ish. Then my mom made me stay over because I had one glass of Scotch. The next morning I left and drove back to my house, let the ferrets out and slept until 1ish, then went to work. Yup. |
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| New Year's 2010 |
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| 03:08am 02/01/2010 |
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mood: good music: "Hey Elzar, take it up another notch with the Spice Weasel, BAM!" - Me Vs Hero
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So I am now officially 23, as much as I hate the thought of getting older, I'm actually pretty content.
Threw my annual New Year's/Birthday Party at my place. Generally it was amazing, all my favorite people were there, Johnny, Dave Lucas, Manders, Erin, Dannypants and his awesome new GF, Skunk, Bickerson, Mogie, Aliya, Lauren, Lorrae and many others. Drunken circle pits and skanking were of common occurrence, Municipal Waste, Choking Victim, The Slackers, GG Allin, Rancid, Operation Ivy, and Agoraphobic Nosebleed were played on a normal basis. Aliya went down to the basement sprayed Roland and Soffie when they were being naughty down there, which was hilarious. Hell my neighbors across the street even came over, it was a good night.
The only downside to my birthday that I can think of was the the conflict with my neighbor next door, Nikki; at 7AM, someone started ringing my doorbell obnoxiously, at first I thought it was just Johnny or someone being an asshole. Then I hear the voice of my neighbor screaming "where is Bryan? He needs to get the FUCK out here and clean this mess up!" Apparently my guests were throwing all their cigarette butts on her lawn and on her porch, and she was super pissed. So Johnny and Aliya started cleaning everything up, but my neighbor was still yelling, so Aliya, being Aliya, got an attitude with her, and it all went downhill from there. Eventually things calmed down, but it's just a another slate of bullshit I have to deal with, being that they live next door. Today or tomorrow I'm gonna have to work up the nerve to go over there and apologize to her.
Ugh, whatevs. All things considered, it was an amazing night, and a promising start to the new year.
And I still have things to look forward to. Sunday playing an airsoft game with Danny and the rest of SK, and I get to field my brand new G&G M14 rifle. Tuesday or Thursday I'm hanging out in New Brunswick with this cute dreadie girl named Erin, deff excited about that. Anyway, I've got work at 1 today.
-Later |
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| Gloomy Christmas Day |
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| 12:43am 25/12/2009 |
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mood:  pessimistic music: "I'll Catch You" - The Get Up Kids
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So I'm sitting here on Christmas Day, stressed out and looking into things way too much. I got my evaluation results back, evaluators didn't recommend that I be offered and alternative to Algebra, this sucks. I want to become a teacher so badly, I want to pass on my knowledge to others, I want to actually make a difference in people's lives, I don't care about money, I want to do something I enjoy. But this mathematical roadblock is preventing me from doing so. I don't know how I'm going to get by this. I'm too far along to give up, but, at the same time, my goal seems so far out of reach at this point. I don't know, at least I can start substitute teaching next fall. At least, worst case scenario, I can live my ambitions out to some extent, even if it is a limited one. Whatever, I'm putting it out of my mind until I'm staring it directly in the face. I'll just have to keep pushing forward.
I don't know, I feel like I need to get out of this town, this state, I need to start fresh; I want to travel. As soon as I get my 60 credits and I'm eligible to start substitute teaching, I think I might want to sell the house and move to Minneapolis, something. I'm tired of them same memories I have of this place bogging me down, making me miserable. I don't want to constantly remember any of it anymore. Too much history here, I need to start something new, meet someone new; even if it's just to forget the old. I don't want to remember the mistakes I made in the past, I only want to look forward to the future. To look towards the future, I need to forget the past. A new year's on the horizon, and I want to make the most of it.
On a more positive note So the semester's finally over, woot! And I actually PASSED my Human Reproduction class, which I did not think was happening. Grades look like this:
-Fundamentals of Teaching: 84%
-African American History I: 88% or 90% (Glasker's taking FOREVER to post the damn grades)
-Human Reproduction: 70%
So Kyle Applebaum, Dan and I started a Drum and Bass band: Molotov Cockslap! We played our first show at a party at Brad's place AKA the "TR House" in Westmont. Besides getting snowed in in the blizzard and my car getting stuck in 6 inches of mud and snow and having to get it towed in the morning, it was amazing. Being stuck in a house full of alcohol, french toast, and 20 of your best pals - could you ask for a better place to get snowed in?
Anyway, throwing my birthday/new year's party next week. Hopefully it'll be as awesome as last year's was. It seems like yesterday I was writing how much I was dreading turning 22, now it's 23, ugh. I hope I can make this year more productive than last.
-Until next time |
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| 10:26pm 09/11/2009 |
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I need to stop thinking I'm right about everything. |
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| *Something That Produces Results* |
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| 02:03am 25/10/2009 |
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mood:  blah music: "Wilkes Booth Style" - No Cash
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Livejournal! Long time so see. I'm sure you've enjoyed my strange poetry, right? Haha.
Haven't updated in here in sometime. Semesters been going pretty smoothly so far. Got an exam in my Fundamentals Of Teaching class I've been stressing about all weekend, really need to do well on it. I'm really excited about this whole teaching career path I chose. I really could never see myself in some professional career besides music. But looking back in retrospect, teaching just always seemed to make sense to me, I'm just pissed I never realized it until now. I'm shooting to teach elementary ed, preferably kindergarten. Only problem is, when I take the Praxis exam, I'll need to pass the math portion as well, which sucks, because ever since Highschool, I've always been given as pass with mathematics, now it's biting me in the ass. But whatever, I'll just have to bite the bullet and get through it, I'm too far along now to look back.
Social life's been kinda sporadic, met a girl at a party in Rutgers New Brunswick when I went up to chill with Robbie and Richard. Good wayy too drunk and ended up vomiting for the first time in 6 years, kinda disappointed by that, but it happens. Anyway, girl I met's name is Sam, she goes to University of Rhode Island, going up to see her for Halloween, well see where this goes. Anyway, got work in the AM, open to close, so I'm gonna get some sack time.
-Lates |
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| I Can't Believe How I'm living |
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| 01:24am 13/10/2009 |
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mood: sore music: "Manhattan" - Midtown
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As obstacles are thrown at me, I keep moving forward,
I take it time and time again
But I can't believe how I'm living,
It isn't right
What's done is done
What's lost is lost
Time stands still
I wake up
go through the motions day after day
For what?
I'm not sure
After 1 year
You're still here
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| *Speak to me now, won't you put your guns in the ground* |
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| 11:46pm 28/07/2009 |
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mood: good music: "Only For The Night" - Rx Bandits
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Never got to finish updating on my trip. Probably because it was flat out amazing, I had so much fun. I got to see my Florida buddies, Helen, Sean, Amber and met many others. Saw amazing sights, things you could never see up north, let alone in New Jersey. It was just, amazing. I wanna move down south as soon as I get my degree and graduate.
Anyway, back to the present. Elena and I are, on and off I guess. She's still involved with her ex to some extent. We're supposed to hangout on Thursday, she'll probably bail, but I don't really care, I met someone else last Saturday at my friend Jeremy's going away party. Jeremy's in the Marines Reserve, and he's being deployed to Afghanistan this Sat. I'm really gonna miss him, but I think he can take care of himself, good guy. Anyway, onto this girl I met. Her name's Paige, this beautiful black-Israeli girl; she caught my eye at one of Jeremy's parties a month or two ago, but she was leaving just as I was arriving. Anyway, we really hit it off Saturday night. She's so intelligent and so damn down to earth. I asked her out for coffee, and she enthusiastically accepted.
Of course, she ended up asking me to hangout last night in Philly at a Hookah bar on South Street and I totally cock-blocked some creepy guido dude that was trying to hit on her and buy her hookah. To make a long story short, we held hands all night and hooked up by the end of the night. Needless to say I went to bed happy that night.
Meeting up with her after work tomorrow to go out for coffee in Collingswood, then hitting up Philly with her to see Rx Bandits play at the TLA with Danny and possibly Johnny. Ahhh, so excited.
Not letting myself get too excited though, as she's leaving for NYC at the end of August for college, not sure if she'll wanna pursue a long-distance relationship her first year of college, but we'll see.
I'll be nice keep you guys on the edge of your seat for the next month or so, and let you know how everything played out whenever the hell I remember to update in this thing again.
-Lates |
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| 2009 Road Trip to Orlando So Far |
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| 01:46am 08/07/2009 |
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It's been amazing so far. I'm so glad I decided to do this.
Dan and I left early Monday morning, got to Florence, South Carolina around 7:30 and checked into the Comfort Inn, then met up with Dan's friend from Rochester, Charles. Pretty cool kid, kinda quiet, but cool. He has a NICE house lots of land, a lake, a pool and pool house. We hungout at the pool house and talked for awhile. Then Dan and I headed back to the motel, since we had to wake up early in the morning to leave for Orlando.
Next morning we woke up, resumed our trip. Made I pit stop in Savannah, Georgia. Oh man, such a beautiful place
So we spent a few hours exploring and longboarding around Savannah. Amazing place, a very well put together town. If I ever headed south, I'd move there.
After that, we were back on the road and finally arrived in Orlando around 7:30ish, met up with Kyle and went out to Smokey Bones, such a good BBQ place. Then we met up at Jimmy's and watched awful b-flicks, now we're back at Kyle's.
So far there have only been a few downsides to the trip:
1) When we stopped in Georgia to get gas, Dan went to press the button to release the gas cap cover on my car and it FELL INTO the door panel. Luckily, that was after we filled up the tank. Still, as of now I can't access the gas tank, therefore I can't fill up the tank. That's kind of a big problem lol. So I need to go to the local Volkswagen dealership down here tomorrow and have them fix it, or at least get the gas cover opened so I can fill up my tank.
2) Elena(the girl I've kinda been seeing for the past couple weeks) totally played me, she's still seeing her ex Ken, or something along those lines. Whatever, there's nothing I can do about it. She claimed she got drunk at a party and "did things she didn't remember doing" all I can do is speculate what that means. But in any case, I think it's over between us. It sucks, I really liked her and felt like we had a connection. But what can ya do? I don't have the time or the drive to deal with it.
I'll admit I am upset, but at least this happened at a practical time; while I'm away from home in a place I love with my best friends. So it's not dragging me down too much.
Anyway, it's 3am and I'm tired as hell from driving 1,000+ miles in the past 2 days. So much to do and see this week. I'll update later hopefully.
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| RIP MJ 1958-2009 |
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| 09:00pm 28/06/2009 |
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mood: cheerful music: "Bad" - Michael Jackson
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You were the first musical artist I ever got into. I remember in 3rd grade when my mom played your cd in the car, and that was all I wanted to listen to for two years straight. My mother seemed alittle concerned when I said that I wanted to go live with you though, lol. You will be missed dearly by my generation as well as many others. You truly were and still are the King Of Pop and left your mark on the musical world and the world in general. I'll miss you MJ.
In other news, dear girl. I'm glad you decided to see me again =] |
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| *Light a match, for I deserve to burn* |
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| 01:45am 18/06/2009 |
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I really like you, I hope last night wasn't just a one night stand. I'd like to see you again.
In other news, I still love The Beautiful Mistake after 4 years, lead guitarist makes the most surreal guitar riffs, ever. |
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| *She's the blade, and you're just paper* |
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| 03:00am 12/06/2009 |
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So this week has had it's ups and downs. I'll start with the downs I suppose. Mainly lastnight.
So Dan and I went to Coffee Works in Voorhees after he got out of work. I pulled into the parking lot, and low and behold I see Gabby Gola's car, so I figured Ora and Devra were with her. Sure enough, they were. I walked in and can I say "umm...awkward??" Dan and I walked to the back and hungout, tried to keep it comfortable, talked about the boating trip we're going on with his dad next weekend. Regardless, I was pretty awkward. I didn't even look at Ora, because she's made it clear that she wants nothing to do with me. It's a shame, I'd really like to make peace with the girl, but for some reason she is not fond of me at all. I have a feeling that an individual who I shall not name made up a story about me and Ora was gullible enough to believe it and now she's wants nothing to do with me, simply due to the fact that Ora didn't think critically and just believed whatever this individual told her I did. But whatever, I did all I could to make things right between her and I, nothing more I can do about it.
So anyway, after getting snobby stares from her and her friends when we left Coffee Works, Dan and I decided to drive over to Haddonfield to go longboarding, it just got worse from there. So we parked our cars at the intersection of Haddon Ave. and Kings Highway. Got our boards out, and cruised around Haddonfield, we circled back to our cars and noticed a white Honda Accord parked directly behind my car with two sketchy-looking black dudes in the car with pantyhose on top of their heads. We figured they were up to something, so we moved down to a bench about 10 meters from my car, chilled out and shot the shit and whatnot, then longboarded a little more. We come back to our cars, and MY FUCKING PASSENGER SIDE WINDOW IS SMASHED IN!! The bastards broke into my car and stole my GPS and my Radar Detector, IN FUCKING HADDONFIELD ON A BUSY STREET bloody ironic man.
Anyway, after flipping out and calling the cops and assessing what was missing from my car. I drove home in low-spirits; talk about a shitty night.
In retrospect, it wasn't too bad, I got my window replaced today, and more importantly, those dickhead's actions were ultimately in vain; I had the adaptor to my GPS rigged around my steering-wheel well; I guess the douchebags got impatient and just cut the wire, basically rendering it useless since they won't be able to sell it off without the adaptor to charge it. Also, they just ripped my radar detector right off, not bothering to grab the windshield mount, therefore, they won't be able to mount it on their car and have it work properly, also rendering it virtually useless. Anyway, yeah that was my night.
On a more positive note, I have a new inhabitant in my house:
Meet "Rommel" my new Marshall Ferret and his adorableness. He's tons of fun, I love him already. It feels good to have a non-human companion in this empty house.
Blah, anyway, I gotta hit the sack, work tomorrow 10 'till 4, then throwing a party at my place at 7; hopefully no one will come rob the house while I'm at work. *knocks on wood* |
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| 12:34am 05/06/2009 |
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Thursday already, god damn.
Well the beach last weekend was fun. Dan and I ended up going "beach hopping" haha. We were going to hit up Dewey Beach in Delaware, but we woke up too late for that. So we went to Point Pleasant in North Jersey instead. It was ok, we got fish and chips, which were actually mad good. Couldn't longboard on the boardwalk though, too many people, so that kinda sucked. Saw a transvestite up close, that was cool, haha. We longboarded on the streets for an hour or so, then got board. So we decided to hop down to the Margate Beaches, since I haven't been there in like 4 years. Last time was 4th of July with Danny, Ora and Gollmer; fuck, that was 4 years ago? God I'm getting old. Anyway, the beach was much more pleasant there, the boardwalk was pretty much empty since it was 7PM on a Sunday, so we longboarded down the boardwalk from Margate to Atlantic City, then Dan started getting tired, so we left and headed home. Traffic was awful on the AC Expressway on the way back, but we had Dunkin Doughnuts coffee! Yayyy! Some douchebag in an Acura RSX thought he was cool and was weaving through traffic; so I tried to race him, but Dan started flipping out, so that was a no go. Shame, I would've smoked his ass too. It was a fun local trip all in all though. I'm glad I've actually found some use for my longboard, I got it in like 7th grade and only used it sporadically up until last year. I'm really getting some use out of it now, it's pretty rad.
That's really it. Oh, come Monday, I'll be the proud owner of a pet Marshall Ferret. Tom just got one, they're so adorable and fun to play with. It'll be good to have something else with a pulse living in this empty house with me, haha. Soo psyched!! |
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| 03:06am 31/05/2009 |
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Yeah, saving money is more challenging than I thought. I made $278 on my last paycheck, and after paying my phone bill and laptop bill, I'm already down to like $26, not good haha.
This weekend was okay. Went up to Netkong, NJ with the Suicide Kings to attend Crisis Point Cuba III hosted by Airsoft Simulations. The drive up there was pleasant, I love driving through Princeton, NJ, It's so pretty there. If I can ever afford it, I want to move there after college, or somewhere in Florida, haha.
My opinion towards the game was, indifferent. Tom, Derek, Jason and I got stuck on the US Forces team, whose uniform requirements were tan DCU camoflauge. Which made us stick out like a pair of sore thumbs in the woods. It took the admins forever to get the game started; it was supposed to start at 9:30, we weren't deployed until like 10:45, whatevs, that didn't bother me too much. What pissed me off was the way some of the members of the opposing team were conducting themselves as far as calling their hits were concerned. I got some good kills though. After lunch the second half of the OP started, everything went well, until my 3-point sling broke and my S.C.A.R. rifle went clattering to the ground; part of the hinge on the stock is cracked, I think it's an easy fix though, some gorilla glue and clamping should do the trick. Anyway, although I didn't have the best time at the game, at least I got a hell of a workout from it; I have blisters on my feet from and the walking and running around I did yesterday.
The ride home was probably more amusing than the game; Derek and Tom going on their crazy rants "Jehovah's Witnesses look just like Jews, except that wear backpacks and funny-colored clothing!" haha, Jason snoozing on and off and hearing things, getting ridiculously lost via GPS. It was a good trip all in all.
Tomorrow Danny and I are supposed to go to the beach, I'd like to hit up one of the Delaware beaches, I've heard good things about them. We'll probably bring our longboards along in case the opportunity presents itself, granted my feet aren't killing me tomorrow morning.
I just realized this is going to be the first summer I'll be spending being single in 6 years, holy shit, I'm not sure how I feel about this. I mean, I'm sure I'll enjoy the summer, it's just, I don't know, different. We'll see.
Totally rocking out to Yellowcard right now, more specifically, the song "Rocket" can you say old school? It's giving me that sentimental feeling I felt when I listened to it non-stop 5 years ago, well I'll be damned. |
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| 03:53am 28/05/2009 |
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Or have 50% of the shows they air on AdultSwim become nothing more than a series of plotless, mind-numbing, self-indulgent crap? Seriously, I watched "Tim and Eric Awesome Show" and "The Mighty Boosh" a few nights ago, and could've sworn I felt my brains oozing out my ears.
Anyway, this week has flowing right on by, which is a good thing. Work did today as well; of course it helped that Derek and Tom stopped by before they went to the gym, had amusing conversations with them. Always a good time with those two. Looking forward to attending the Crisis Point Cuba III airsoft event up in Netcong with them this weekend with them, I've been looking forward to it for the past few weeks since it'll be the first time I get to thoroughly field my new Echo 1 A.S.C. SCAR rifle.
I'm listening to the Senses Fail cd "Let It Enfold You" oddly enough, the songs I never really listened to or appreciated when the CD came out in 2005 are the ones that are bringing back a flood of memories from that year, good ones though. '05 was a good year for me, I'm really appreciating it right now; I'm in one of those moods, hah.
Tomorrow going longboarding with Danny in Filth-adelphia. Should be a good time, those suburban yuppie-hipsters will never know what hit them! I'm just kidding...or maybe I'm not, hah! |
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| 01:20am 27/05/2009 |
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Did pretty damn good this semester:
Jazz/Blues/Rock/Folk Appreciation: A
US History II: B
Europe Since World War II: C+
A little pissed about the C+, but eh, whatevs, at least I'm off academic probation. It's kind of depressing, I realized all the people in my graduating class are now graduating college, and due to me screwing around my first two years out of highschool, I'm not even halfway through college yet. Oh well, at least I'm getting there. Next semester I start my teaching and education classes at Rutgers. Not exactly looking forward to it, but whatevs, it's all building towards something.
My summer's had a pretty good start so far. Been hanging out with Danny, Joanna and everyone else a lot. Danny, Joanna and I have been trying to get a musical project going recently, with an acoustic guitar, a lap-steel guitar, and a tenor sax. Surprisingly, it's been pretty productive. Haven't practiced in a couple of weeks though, we'll see where this goes.
Works been going pretty smoothly, had to work all memorial day weekend open to close, which was kinda a drag. But it was so dead, that I just pulled out one of the doggy-beds and took like a 3 hour nap through my shift in the back Monday; getting paid to sleep is pretty rad I must say.
Tonight Danny and I went longboarding from Collingswood, all the way up Haddon Ave. to Haddonfield. Longboarding through Haddonfield at 11 at night was awesome. It's completely dead, it's like having your own personal skatepark all to yourself. At the same time it kinda felt like we were in some kind of "I Am Legend" type movie, haha. I guess that town is useful for something after all.
Alittle over a month 'till Dan and I's road trip down to to Orlando, FL to see Kyle. Sooo psycheddddd. |
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| 12:56am 26/04/2009 |
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mood: Pleasant music: "Cornered" - Rx Bandits
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Ugh, this week has been...quite an ordeal. Every day I either had 6+ hours of work or class...or both. Whatever, I'll end up making a pretty fat paycheck by next week. Annnd classes are almost over, 2 more weeks. Confident that I have a B or higher in all my classes, if not, I won't be going back to Rutgers next semester, which wouldn't be cool. So let's hope my theory is correct lol.
Pretty hyped for the summer. Danny and I are taking a road trip down to Winter Park, FL to see Kyle in July, it's gonna kick ass. Also gonna get to see Helen and the Delray Beach crew. It's gonna be a week of being surrounded by the people I love most. I can't wait, I'm so excited.
I'm just glad I'm getting a break for the next couple of days. No work 'till Weds, in the clear in most of my classes. Just 2 finals and another paper or two to write. Can't wait 'till it's over and summer is here.
Tomorrow I'm escaping to nyc to hangout with Danny for a few days. Should be fun times. It'll be good to get away from everything for awhile. Then back to classes, barghhhhhhhhh.
Currently listening to the cd "Halfway Between Here and There" by Rx Bandits, and I don't even care that every song reminds me of her, or the fact that this was "our" cd. I've come to terms with everything. I'm finally at peace with myself after 5 months. It reminds me of our trips to Ocean City the summer of 2005 before I went away to college, and a million other memories of her. And I will cherish them forever, I'll remember the good, not the bad. Listening to it right now is giving me a warm, pleasant feeling, the first time I've felt this in awhile. Thank you, for everything. |
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| 03:22pm 08/04/2009 |
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mood: bouncy music: "This Is the End(For You My Friend)" - Anti-Flag
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So the powers out at my house, the transformer blew out...just when I was 3 pages short of finishing my essay; so I drove to the CH Library to finish it. Now I'm here, and I just realized I left the paper back at my house...gahhh. Sometimes I think I wasn't meant to finish this paper. So just decided to write in here.
Friday was fun, I took the train up to NYC to visit Dan. I had a great time, we walked all over New York City. We went to a mad cheap filafel place, it was good stuff. Then we walked up to this custom-fitted hat shop to try and find a hat that would fit over my big-ass hair. We found one, but they wanted like $80 for it lol. So that was a no go. The girl at the register was mad cute though. I debated asking her for he number, but for some reason I didn't, oh well. The we headed back to Dan's crib, grabbed some beers from Trader Joe's first. Then we went to the water front, drank beer and just talked about shit. Then we went back to Dan's place and crashed. Next morning Dan dropped me off at the train at like 9:30 since I had work at like 2. Shame, I wanted to stay longer. So I got home and got ready for work. Work was a bore. Got home, debated going to a party, then decided against it since I was tired as hell. That was my weekend basically.
Tomorrow I have to turn this paper in, that's all I've really been stressing about lately, which is a good thing I suppose. This weekend is looking to be pretty promising, Friday Dan's coming home, so we'll probably be hanging out. Saturday I'm chilling with Justin, Neil and Art we're taking out cars up to Allentown for import night a Sonic, that should be pretty rad. Anyway, I'm gonna drive back home and see if the power is back on yet.
-Peace |
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| 11:43pm 01/04/2009 |
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mood:  awake music: "Charred Fields of Snow" - A Static Lullaby
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Things have been on the upside lately. I FINALLY got my car back from the dealership. They did all the bodywork on my car for free, and did a bang up job. Only thing that sucked was that I was confined to using mad'res mini-van for the past week. But now I have my gti back, and I'm happy.
School's going pretty well. I'm content that I have B's in all my classes so far, so that's good. I just have like two more papers to worry about for the semester, then I'm in the clear, woo. My love-life is the same as it was before, just kind of unstable and unpredictable. I think my standards are too high, I'll hangout with a girl, and then just pick out all these reasons why I'm not into her, I guess that might be suggesting that I'm still not over Ora, so I guess it's a good thing I'm not getting involved with anyone yet.
Works going pretty well, I've been getting a ton of hours, so that's good. I'll probably blow part of my paycheck on a VFC SCAR airsoft gun, or a Megan Catback Exhaust for my gti; probably gonna go with the airsoft gun though, since I only have two working airsoft guns as of now.
I've been jogging a lot for the past month, and I've noticed I've gained a lot of muscle tone in my legs, it's pretty cool that I'm able to jog 5 miles without stopping.
The weekend is looking to be pretty good, going up to spend the weekend in NYC at Danny's, should be fun. Blahhh...time to start my hw. |
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| 02:10am 13/03/2009 |
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mood: awake music: "One Foot On the Gas, One Foot in the Grave" - Streetlight Manifesto
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So I hungout with Roxanne yesterday. It was fun, took her out for sushi and we went walking around Collingswood. It was fun, I don't think she's looking to be anything more than friends though. Got to hold her hand though, so that was a plus, haha. She's pretty efing awesome, shame, I was really getting into her. Still, she'll be a pretty rad friend.
Spring break starts tomorrow, which I was unaware of. I guess that's good, don't have any plans though, so that kinda blows. Hopefully I'll find something to keep my occupied. Danny and Joanna are home for now on break, so I'll have them to hangout with until they head back to New York for school.
Apparently my Volkswagen GTI that I just bought was in an accident before I bought it. Which is annoying, since the Carfax report claimed it had never been in one. Eh, I knew it was too good to be true, a 2005 GTI with 12,000 miles on it for $10,500. BUT the dealership I bought it from is going to stand behind it and pay for their body shop to check it over and align the driver side door and the hatch and whatnot, so no biggie I guess.
So I got a C+/B- on my US History II midterm, which is ok I guess, I could have done better, and my professor thinks the same thing. He took me to his office today and pretty much gave me a lecture on how he knows I can do better than a C+, and he's right. It actually made me feel good, he tells me I have so much potential, which feels really good coming from a professor. I'm glad he told me that, it really motivated me to step it up after break. At least someone in this world believes in me.
Tomorrow should be fun, going to the beach with Danny and Joanna then tomorrow night probably hitting up a show in South Philly with Liza and Chris after I get out of work. We'll see what happens.
-Until next time |
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