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Aug 10

Eyelids on the coast?

This past weekend was vonderful (with a ‘v’). I got to see a lot of my close friends back home, but sadly many of them I also did not see. Then again, it was a short weekend and I didn’t try to plan too many things with very many people.

Elissa and I mostly sat around and made eye-goggles, which I later found out one of my roommates is physically incapable of doing. Brian, Scotty, and I brainstormed about the placebo effect of EpiPens and watched MST3K: The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy. I challenged myself to eat an entire bag of butter mints….that was unwise. After reading the ingredients all I could taste was the salt. Salt and butter. Salt and butter and misery.

Cole and I spent Friday night sitting at a very classy looking table drinking tea and hot cocoa while discussing life’s important matters (ie. band names, pinky swearing, and night wear). Despite the fact that she and I haven’t actually ever done much while hanging out, every time feels like an adventure none the less. I’m enjoying getting to know that gal.

Catching up with my parents was wonderful. My mom also dropped some rather suprising news on me:

She’s retired

My mother seems far too young to be retired already, yet I do agree with her decision. In the few years since her last surgery she never seems to have energy to do anything once she gets home. Plus now she can spend more time grandma’ing it up.

A slight funk seems to have stricken me, luckily it’s quite a tiny one. It’s not unusual for me to be in an odd mood after returning from a great weekend to a schedule of homework and exams. I don’t think the weather is helping. Luckily, all that it takes for me to get back to my usual giddy self is a good song. This one works everytime:

[interesting tidbit: the main lyric is actually ‘eyelids want to close’, the singer named the song Island on the Coast just to mess with people. I like this guy.]

Jan 23

Dear Chinese war elephants, happy 1038th anniversary

“If a distraught person is running at us swinging an ax, administering a five-page questionnaire on psychopathy may not be the best strategy.” - Gary King

The above statement caught me off guard. You see, often times when reading for class it’s easy to read every word of a page without actually processing any of it, instead thinking of what the bass line to a song is and making a mental note to figure it out sometime. This phenomena is especially common when reading stupid .pdf files, something about reading pages of text on an LCD screen just makes one less interested (as I’m sure you’ve noticed /wink). I was reading along on cruise control when all of a sudden this sentence snapped me back to attention. Now that I’m reading it again, I find it to be considerably less interesting than the first time through. Oh well, at least I’m entertained.

My girlfriend, Shemeko, is coming out to Flint for the weekend. Needless to say, I am rather excited. I do however feel unprepared for this weekend. I believe I have some sort of obligation to come up with cool things to do that are unique to my life in Flint that she’ll love. However, my life in Flint consists of homework / class / video games / reading / being ridiculous (in that way guys do, which girls hate). My only plans thus far are as follows:

Watch Pineapple Express again
Make a snowman in the backyard (Yvonne’s first!)
Cook a turkey
See if Circuit City has any deals yet
Church (should be interesting)
Somehow writing a paper

Shemeko, I apologize in advance for a weekend of disappointment, underwhelming food, and putting up with Theo.

So what else is new….

Oh, I got a tuning pedal for free. Guitar Center is slowly redeeming themselves to me. Verrryyyyy slowly.

I played racquetball with Andrew and Yvonne today. Yvonne learned pretty quickly, although there is unquestionably room for improvement.

Andrew and I were both sadly dissatisfied with our Red Death Rooibus this evening. I will certainly drink it again, however I was certainly hoping for more, but I suppose one can only expect so much from an African shrub. Once he and I finish with our Diggnation tea sampler I’ll review them in a post.

Closing Remark:
Songs with random outbursts of opera singing should be marked in some manner. Honestly, if half the cd’s manufactured in this country have ‘explicit content’ tags on them, can’t we legislate some ‘contains spastic Italian wailings’ warning label?!

Jan 12

breath vs cancer

I’ve been having far too much fun until far to late into the evening lately. Sorry about the lack of blog posts. Blame Theo.

Just 8 minutes ago Andrew was crying ( ‘streaming, not just damp’ -his words) because of my bottle of mouth wash:

Cancer in yo mouth!

Somethings just can’t be explained…

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Tomorrow I start classes, I have Mech 310 and Organic Chemistry. I might be able to get by without books for either /cross-fingers!

I feel like I should have a lot to say…I think I do…I’m just not interested in it. Sleep sounds better.

Oh, and Andrew and I are trying to become tea connoisseurs. So far we haven’t been too adventurous. We’ve tried green tea with mint, with  jasmine, with pomegranate, with blueberry. It’s between mint and blueberry for my favorite thus far, however we have a whole slew of contenders coming in the mail as you read. Stay tuned…

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