An Ode to Northfield

I have been thinking aobut how much I am going to miss living in Northfield and also all of the great memories that I have. I have lived here for the majority of my live, in fact for all but approximately 4 years of my life. Maybe it is more like 5 I guess i dont really know, but at least I have here for 3/4 of my life. Which is just amazing. This may very well be the last time that I spend an extended period of time here. I am going to miss the way this town is. I can not imagine a place that I would enjoy living in as much as I have here. The town has some great history which is something that you don't have in every other town in the country. This place will always be a part of me. I am pretty sure that this place will be a part of me for the rest of my life. It is a place that I would love to life here later in my life if possible, although Eau Claire is quite a bit like Northfield in many ways. Well enough about Northfield, although I wish I had something a bit more elegant to say. I just do not have that poetic touch within myself. I started to load a few things in the evening yesterday when my broher got home. And then just randomly at about 1am I got the urge to load more. So I did. I pretty much loaded everything I wanted to into the van last night. I did not have to do any real work today. I guess I don't have too much to say today. I have been sitting in the basement all day because our carpets were getting shampooed. I probably will not be posting for a few days because I am gonna be in Eau Claire without a computer.
Movie of the Day: Kung Fu Hustle, this movie is a slapstick comedy with lots of Kung Fu involved along with some good parodies of American movies. Worth seeing.
Song of the Day: Walk Away----The James Gang, the james gang is a band that I love, that very few people have heard of. The song symbolizes my life in Northfield. I should not look back when I can look ahead and hopeful to the future. The James Gang is also a historical thing for Northfield because Jesse James and his gang were stopped in Northfield.
That all for today.

2 days to go

Well it is about 2 in the afternoon and I have aready done many things that I would not be doing until about now. I went to target and bought some things that I needed to get. I have been going through stuff more and more. Cleaning all sorts of stuff in my room. I have realized that when I walk, I clear my head. My thoughts run their course within my head. I am able to think about any of the things that have been bothering me. Although lately when I have been walking my dog I have just been enjoyingthe weather around me. The blooming trees and everything. I have been gathering pictures of my family lately so that I will have some in my room when I move away. I have also been thinking about how I am going to miss the town of Northfield itself. It is a nice small college town with a very nice downtown area. A river runs right through down town and this actually kind of reminds me of Eau Claire. I guess the reason that I like Eau Claire is because it reminds me of Northfield. It is pretty much Northfield multiplied by 3 or so. Today I got a haircut, so that now my hair is nice and short which feels great in this weather. I can not wait to start packing up my stuff and get all of this just out of my room. there is so much stuff all over the place and when it is packed up into the van that means that I am going to be able to move in to the house.
Movie of the Day: Old School, One of the best comedies that has come out in the past decade. It is fun to watch especially when you are in college. I wish our house would be something like this, but you know I know the house will be fun.
Song of the Day: Bob Dylan----Tamborine Man, Bob Dylan is one of my favorite musicians. I love his music and also his voice. It is kind of weird and what some people would call a little untraditional, but I love to listen to any of his songs.
Check this out tomorrow for more.

A long night

Well I stayed up all night last night reading Angels and Demons. I got to sleep aroun 7AM, but it was worth it to power through the book. If you have not read this book or the Da Vinci Code please skip down in the post because I may be revealing things that you may have wanted to find out whe reading the books. Sorry if I ruin them for anyone. The book was full of twists and turns that will keep your mind thinking. You keep thinking through your head, who had caused this to happen? It seems throughout most of the book that Dan Brown is trying to bad mouth the possibile organization that is the Illuminati, but in the end of it all he was attacking part of the catholic church. In the last 50-75 pages there will be so many twists and turns in the plat that it will make your head spin. You keep thinking aobut who was responsible for each of the things that had transpired, until it is finally revealed and at least for me the one who was responsible was the person who I had least suspected it to be. All in all I thought this book was very well written. It would seem that Dan Brown does great research about all of these quite unknown groups that exist worldwide, just like he had done in the Da Vinci Code. This book shows all sorts of the scenery and also the art that exists in Rome and the Vatican city, much like The Da Vinci Code had done with Paris. This book as a pageturner, I coulld not bring myself to put it down once i got halfway in. I must have read the book for about 8 hours in a row last night before i went to bed. I liked this book and I also liked the Da Vinci Code, but there was just something about the Da Vinci Code that I liked more. Although the last line in Angels and Demons was a very corny an slightly off color joke. I enjoyed that very much and probably laughed way too hard at it, although everyhting is more funny when I am tired. I reccomend that everyone read these books, not becuase the conspiracy theories that are included within, but rather because even for the people who do not like to read books very much will enjoy these books. They are just fun to read and exciting.
Well that is enough for the book review. If you want to know more about what I thought, feel free to contact me some way. Well other than the book there have been a few more revelations that have been brought to my eyes. Well this past winter break my younger brother and his friends and I were all hanging out. They were all complaining aobut all of their friends who either got high or drank and i was trying to help them understand that those are just things that some people do. They would not stop complainging about what these guys were doing and I was trying to help them understand, but they just would not. Now I have found out that they are both big drinkers, and possible also users, not so sure about the second one. It is not the alcohol that bothers me, it may seem that I am sort of having a crusade against these things, but my problem with it is that these guys can go from very much against from bery much for in about 3 or 4 months. I am not a fan of those who are hypocritical. If you say one thing then you should believe it not say one thing an then turn around and do the exact opposite. Well I should stop complaining about the going ons in this town, I will be out of here soon enough.
Movie of the Day: Mean Girls, this movie is a well written comedy about high school life. Although the movie focusses on the female side of high school there is also a kind of statement about the cliques that exist within high school. I was one of the people who had never really found out hich clique he should have been in. I was stuck in between to groups pretty much, at times in one and at others in the other. I was never really taken in a real memeber of either group though. I think that this is one of the reasons that i developed my depression. I felt like i did not have a place that I belonged. I felt like I was out of place. I guess I am using this movie to talk about my life more than anything.
Song of the Day: American Music----the Violent Femmes, this song is my choice in honor of Memorial Day.
Thats all for today, take it easy.

Saturday Night

Well as you might be able to tell from the time of this post I am home fairly early on a Saturday night. I slept really late today followed by finishing my laundry. After, and even during the time my laundry was being washed, I went through a bunch of the old board games that my brothers ad I have and took the ones that I thought I would want to have. I am pretty much packing and gathering up all of the stuff that I think I will want to have. I am ot sure how much stuff I am going to get to fit into the van, but I would like to get more of the big stuff out of the way o the first trip so that maybe my dad could take me in his car on the secod trip their. I am excited about the prospect of being out on my ow for the first time ever. It will be fun to have all of those guys around to hang out with and stuff as well as other friends probably stopping in from time to time. I think it will just be a blast. I am also ecxited to be getting a new bed. I have been sleeping on a matress that is a pile of junk for quite some time, nothing against the matress, I just want a real bed for once n my life. Although the bed will not arrive until the 2nd of June I will have to find something else to sleep on for the time that I am there on the 1st. I want to fill the van up completely which should not be too hard with all of the stuff that I have to bring. Well enough about that stuff and more about my day. After packing and gathering and folding all of my laundry, I pretty much slacked off for a few hours and did nothing , but watch tv. After slacking I was invited to go see an art show of a kid who is practically like a brother, because he is around so much. It was pretty boring and crowded although it was cool that he is getting about $200 per painting of his. After that I hung out with my brother and friends for a while. they started some weird sumo wrestling where there is one of those big stretching balls is between two people and the would run into each other. They were having fun with this and said that I should try. I want up against my friend Galen. Well being the big guy that I am he kind of pretty much bounced off of my and flew backwards. Everyone in the room started laughing so hard. I was laughing so hard that I actually cried that is how funny it was. Although he hurt his butt from landing on it too hard. It was one of the funniest things that I have seen in a long time. After that we went over to one of the guys' houses and just hung out there. Nothing much was happening so I decided to walk home. I ordered some new clothes online which I am excited about getting. And after that we are to here and now when I am writing this. Athough I have been noticing more and more how girls are becoming more and more skanky and also more and more people are getting into drugs in this town. This is happening at younger and younger ages. I guess I am just a prude. Well for my movie of the day, I really did not have anything that came to mind right away so I thought I should just go with one of my all time favorites.
Movie of the Day: American Beauty. This is a movie that I just loved from the first time that i saw it and continue to enjoy it just as much if not more each subsequent time that I watch it. Worth seeing no matter who you are.
Song of the Day: Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting----Elton John, It is pretty much a tribute from me to my sumo wrestling brethren tonight, although I kind of doubt they will be reading this.
Thats all for today, check back next time.

Another good day

Well today was a very good day. Not much of a better start than that. Well I got up a bit after noon. Did some chores around the house. I packed some stuff up and then took the dog for a walk. He was just beat today so it was short. It was quite hot outside so I did not blame him for being so tired. I chatted with a wonderful girl who i have a crush on, hopelessly. I enjoy chatting with her even though i have no real shot. Oh well, I just wanna be able to get over that. There is one thing that I have been noticing about my friends here at home. Last summer i could not have gotten any of them to really hang out with me no matter how much I tried. This summer however they all come out of the woodwork and want to hang out with me. Too bad I am only at home for about 2 weeks. They all are saying that they want to hang out, but still whenever I have time they don't so I doubt any of this is even going to happen. I guess I won't be missing out on anyting in that case. I will be living ith my roommates that i get along with so well and are actually willing to spend time with me. Well that is enough complaining about that stuff. After chatting I did some more packing of stuff. I then started reading Angels And Demons by Dan Brown. I will give a review of it when I have finished for those of you out there who want to know my opinion. After reading I went up to Apple Valley with my friend Miles. We were gonna go for dinner and then see a movie, well we did not know which was going to come first until we started discussing which would happen first. I on and we went to dinner first. So we went to Famous Daves. Who does not love some deliciously cooked meat covered in bbq sauce. It was delicious as always. After getting our fill of food we went to see Xmen the Last Stand. The movie was pretty good. There were a few things that I didn't like, but the action was excellent. My favorite Xmen were finally featured rather prominantly. Beast was in there and so was Collossus who finally had a decent part although still not that big. One of the very bright spots was Kitty Pryde. She was very cute. She had just the kind of looks that I like. Nothing too over the top, but gentle natural good looks. In the movie there were quite a few good one liners in the movie. Lots of rather big laughs for everyone in the theater. I was a little dissapointed by the lack of nightcrawler and a few other xmen like jubilee and another one of my favorite Xmen Gambit. I don't know why they did not try to work these characters in, but I do remember seeing a kid dressed like Jubilee in one of the other movies. There were also some cool new enemies like Juggernaut which made it very entertaining. Well after that I came home and found out that the actress who played Kitty Pryde is 18 which makes me feel like I am not as dirty as my friend had said I was.
Well of course the movie of the day is: X-men: the Last Stand, For anyone that liked the cartoon or comics in the past I think that it is definitely worth seeing. It wrapped up all of the loose ends that there had been.
Song of the Day: In the Garage----Weezer, the song is about being a geek, like i know I have been for all of my life. I am proud of who I am and what I am interested in. The song also makes reference to Kitty Pryde and Nightcrawler who are X-men which is always cool. I love weezer, especially their first two albums.
Thats all for tonight.

my creed

This is something that I am getting tired of haveing to explain to people. I don't drink or smoke. I don't plan to drink to get drunk like most people do, I might enjoy a glass of wine if I decide that is something that I enjoy, but I am not going to be pressured into something like that, especially smoking. I find the idea of inhaling stuff into my lungs of any kind disgusting. A few days ago one of my little brother's friends asked me why I don't smoke or drink. This kid was utterly against drinking not 2 months ago and now he loves it. I have nothing against drinking, maybe a little against smoking, but this kid completely rturned around in a short period of time and then he is questioning me and telling me I should do it. For those of you who don't know me, I don't give in to peer pressure. If i had a nickel for every time i was offered a beer I would be rich! I am messed up enough as it is. I am just wild and wacky personality-wise, so why do I need a drug to make me wild and wacky when I am currently taking a drug to make me less weird and less depressed. I think it is just a dumb idea for me to start drinking while I am on my anti-depressants. I will just drink something that completely counteracts the medecine that I am on, does that sound stupid to anyone else? I am easily ammused by almost everyhting in the world, so why should i take something that would make me enjoy somehting maybe a little more? I am just not planning to drink or smoke any time in the near future. I don't need to to have fun. Some people seem like the only way they can have fun is to get loaded, well thats not me. I also feel that all of my friends have finally started to understand my reasoning and accept it. Some of the hed a litle trouble to start with, but it is just the way it is.
Well tonight I ended up not going to see X-men tonight. I am going to go tomorrow instead. Well I think I will be wrapping this up now. No movie or song of the day today, sorry, just did not feel like thinking of them tonight.
check back tomorrow.

Late night post

Well today has gone without much of anyhting serious happening. When I woke up I wanted to watch the Twins game which was supposed to b e on ESPN, but what I saw was ESPNews and that means that the game much have been blacked out into our area. The Twins got crushed in the game. After that I spent the day watching episodes of the Simpsons on dvd along with chatting and surfing the internet. I checked my fantasy baseball team as I usually do a few times each day in order to make sure that I have all of my pitchers that are pitching in my lineup so I can get stats from them. Other than that I went out to dinner with my brother, mom and her boyfrined. That was kind of weird, because he is a very unusual person. And it is just awkward as some of you might be able to imagine. He wants to be my dad, too bad for him I already have a dad. He wants talk about things that don't really talk to anyone about. I walked my dog for about 45 minutes, I think it was about 3 miles. It was good fun. The weather was just right. I have been playing some free online poker tournaments that either give out money or other prizes. Right now I am watching the first two xmen movies in preparation for the third which I hope to see tomorrow night at a midnight showing. I think it is about to wrap this up.
Movies of the Day: X1 and X2 Good movies taken from comic books. They work well. Some comic book movies did not work out too well, but the xmen movies worked out well, so did the spider-man movies worked well because of the way they were made. I have high hopes for both of the upcoming xmen and spiderman movies.
Song of the day: Money----Pink Floyd
One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite albums(Dark Side of the Moon).
Worth listening to for anyone.
Well so long for now.

I got a job

Well It is official, I have been officially offered a job back in Eau Claire. This is a good thing of course because it wil give me the freedome to do what I want to during the summer. I plan on working 40 hours a week mostly during the week. Then I will be able to relax on the weekends with my roommates. If all goes well then I would also like to work a few shifts during the school year. just to keep the money flowing. I think it will be a job that I can tolerate. I can handle working a bit during the school year because i have a pretty simple schedule. Well It is too early to judge on that. I had some fun hanging out today, just enjoying watching tv. I watched some techtv which is mostly about video games. What geek does not love to learn about the new video games?
Well after that I walked the dog down to the soccer fields so I could watch my brother play his soccer game. He did not start like I am used to him doing. He did get to play some, and played fairly well. The whole team played rather well. They won convincingly without much competition. Then I went out for some chipotle and some coldstone. What a great combination. I had my usual burrito and tried something new for cold stone and boy was it delicious. I thought I had earned a treat after walking around for about 2 hours and getting my job officialy. It was a good time. Afterwards my brother and I watched garden state. I love Zach Braff's work on this movie. He is a good actor and wrote this script very well. Also he did a great job directing. I love him on scrubs and this movie is kind of like scrubs. It has good humor in spots, but is also a lot about life.
Movie of the Day: Garden State, If you have not seen it you should. It is definitely worth seeing.
Song of the Day: Mack the Knife----Luois Armstrong, I heard this song on the way to chipotle, It wasnt for the first time, but it was enjoyable. I love the way that Louis sounds.
thats all for today.

outdoors

Well today was nothing much special. Spent some of my time inside, I finished up the Back to the Future trilogy. I had dinner at my dad's. We had some delicious grilled cheeseburgers. After that I took my dog down to the soccer game that my brother was reffing. It was a good time although our team lost horribly, something like 6-0. I didnt do much other than this except watching some shows on the National Geographic Channel. There were things about aliens and stuff on. I kind of like things involving aliens and other unexplained things. Well while chatting with friends I started to get a little lonely becuase I was chatting with a gir that I have a crush on, athough she has made it completely clear that I dont have a shot. I dont know why i cant get over it. I guess it is the sort of flirting that goes on. I am not used to girls flirting with me. I mean I am not a special catch of any kind. I wish i could just find someone to be with. THat is some very wishful thinking though. No girls have ever shown much interest in me at all. I guess she is the only one that flirts with me
too bad that it really isnt sincere flirting. I mean if someone is going to flirt with me, hy cant it be with the intention of actually liking me as more than a friend. I guess I am just greedy. Today I was also expecting to hear from my job, they had said that I would hear from them if i had gotten the job. I guess I will have to wait and see if they call me tomorrow. I am trying not to worry about this today. I guess all I can do is wait.
Movie of the Day: Wedding Crashers, this movie is hillarious. It is one of the funniest movies in the past few years. It is worth it to see for those who have not yet seen it.
Song of the Day: Get Back----The Beatles
A classic beatles song that I really like to listen to. I think it is from the end of their music together as a band when they were more rock based. Always a band that is fun to listen to.
check back tomorrow for more.

Home

Being at home has gotten me thinking abut the way things were before college. Back in high school I have had a ton of nicknames, and I had always wanted to list them all so here goes a try at it:
Weck
Pete
Big Weck
Weckster
Big Pete
Petey Pie
Petey
Peter
derwexenmeister(from german class)
then at college there were a few more:
The Keg(due to my portly figure)
Sneaky Pete
There have been a ton more than that, but I just cannot think of them right now, kind of dissapointing. Well today I went out to lunch with my brother and mother, Had a great lunch at Hogan Bros. a great local sandwich place. Then I relaxed and watched the twins this afternoon, they lost as usual. It seems when I watch them they lose and when I don't they win. Its a weird little thing that probably isnt even true. I have been relaxing and watching scrubs with my brother all day and chatting. I am watching Back to the Future 2 right now and am enjoying every second of it. It reminds me of the past which is kind of ironic. And I love seeing the depiction of the future from the mid 80s point of view. There is a lot of cool stuff that I wish we had right now that we still don't. It is a nice piece of nostalgia.
Movie of The Day: Back to the Future 1 2 and 3
They are all classics that everyone should see. The first two are must see movies and the third is good too. They are just wonderfully made movies about people wanting to learn about the world through time travel and then time gets messed up by people misusing the time machine.
Song of the Day: Power of Love----Huey Lewis and the News
The theme song for the first movie in the trilogy. I just had to go with the theme.
Well thats all for now.

At home

Well I got all of my stuff loaded inro the car very quick. It was a quick load into the van which makes everything a bunch better. When we got back my brother's friends helped me unload all of my stuff which was also something great to have happen. I went through lots of unpacking and gettins lots of this stuff out of the packaging. There was also some stuff that I decided to leave packed because I am only going to be here for a few weeks. I am not sure if I wrote about this before but I got a job working at a grocery store which will make everything this summer go smoothly. After getting back and unloading it was time to go see the Da Vinci Code. The movie was good, but it was not great. Nor was it that true to the book which I am sure is going to afect the reception of the movie for the millions of people who read the book. It was a fun movie to see after waiting for so long, but still i was underwhelmed. I am not movie critic, however I do think that I have a good appreciation for movies. This movie was just not that great. And the fact that the book was so amazing would hurt any little bits in the movie that were not as great. Im sure it is very hard to adapt such a good book into a movie in such a limited amount of time. I like Ron Howard's movies and also Tom Hanks' movies, but no matter how much I like their stuff I can not say that this is their best work. It was a tough role for anyone even Tom Hanks to play. I had a good discussion with my friend Miles after we saw the movie. After the movie we went and had some Chipotle, which is something that I had been dearly missing over the time that I was at school. It is the only restaurant that they do not have in eau Claire. After the delicious chipotle we went and stopped in at my little brother's friend's birthday party. It was a bit of fun, but I really am a few years removed from wanting to hang out with them. I mean I am friends with most of them, but I also think that I need to be around people my own age. We came back and watched some scrubs which is always fun. I went to bed fairly early and got to sleep in as late as I wanted. When I got up there was some baseball on. Who does not want to watch the cubs play the white sox. Well as soon as I started watching there was a brawl that broke which is always interesting to see. Not sure what I am going to say about this, but I just thought I should sdd it in. Movie of the Day: The Da Vinci Code, If you loved the book it is worth it to see this movie. otherwise it is something that you can just pass on.
Song of the Day: Born in the Usa----Bruce Springsteen
Not sure why I picked this, but it just embodies my mood.
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DONE!!!!

Well It is all over. I am done with school for the semester. I got a b in my history class and an A on the final. The final took me a whole 5 minutes and was only 30 questions long. Well It feels very good to be done with school I have been cleaning up all the junk around the room before I go. I am most likely going to be up late tonight and leave tomorrow fairly early at least. I have a few things left to pack up, but not too much. I will hopefully load up a cart tomorrow so I can get out of here when my brother arives. Well I a played some pool with my friend John to unwind a bit before we got out of here, something that we had not done very much this year at all. I spent a lot of time today studying, but so much of it was wasted. I spent 3 hours studying and ony 5 minutes taking the test. What a waste that was. Oh well you can't live in the past. I watched the Producers with John and his girlfriend today. I thought it was going to be just John and I, but i ended up being the third wheel and watched the movie while they made out. What a wonderful thing to watch every damn time i want to watch a movie with a friend. I think i need to say something because what they do just gets so annoying and disgusting. I did enjoy the movie though so it wasn't that bad. It is a hillarious movie.
It has to be the movie of the day. If you haven't seen t you should. It was originally written by Mel Brooks and who does not enjoy Mel Brooks's movies?
Song of the day: Schools Out for Summer----Alice Cooper
It is kind of cliche to have this for the song of the day on the last day of school, but you know what I don't care. It is a good song and it embodies my mood right now.
Thats all for today.
Check me out tomorrow for more.

Only a day and change

There is only a little over a day until I am out of here!!!! I am very excited to almost be done with this semester. I have one final left. I am not too scared although I do plan to study tomorrow. And even some before I go to bed tonight. I have to learn the stuff from the second part of the semester. I do know most of it fairly well, but It doesn't hurt to actually try to apply myself. I have a job interview tomorrow morning which I am fairly excited about. I am not sure if I am going to have the qualifications for the job that I am mainly looking at but they have many other openings so I think I should be able to find some sort of a job there. This makes me happy because it will hopefully be a fun thing to do. I think I will splurge on a gift to myself either tomorrow or Friday to celebrate another year. Not sure excactly what, but hopefully some sort of dvd. I will certainly have to get somehting if I get a job. If I don't I would be rather dissapointed. I am going to try to be positive about this though. I am excited and nervous at the same time. Well I just got the news that my brother's stupid friend broke the window of my beloved van! :( This saddens me and angers me. I hope it is going to be ok. I need that van to move into the house. Well it is time to study a little and then go to bed.
Movie of the day: The Sandlot, I am just in that sort of a mood. I want to play some pick up baseball right now.
Song of the day: Funk 49----The James Gang, one of my favorite artists, Joe Walsh is the lead singer in this group. And I love the funky style of rock of theirs.
Check back tomorrow for more.

3 down 1 to go

Well I had a long day with lots of work. Well maybe it was not work. There was lots of testing in the day I guess would be a better way to say it. Well I flew through my Economis test and think I did really well on it because the information seems very basic to me. After Econ I went up and finally declared my major. I am not business management major with and emphasis on entrepreneurship. Now I just have to declare my minor too. Yay for German. Well after declaring my major, I was supposed to go up to my history prof's office and makeup a missed quiz. I was up there and knocked on his door, but no one was there. I waited for a few minutes. I guess he had forgotten. I made an appointment with him for tomorrow. He had better be there or I will be pissed. I am going down the hill on a day when I dont have a final. I am going to return my books too so it wont be a complete waste of my time. I am excited for the Champions league final tomorrow. What a great day to not have a final! Well after waiting for my prof I had about 3 hours to study for my accounting final. I didnt really use much of this time for studying which was a shame. I was looking for anything I could find to use as a distraction. I chatted some and played some games on a computer. I think taht the final went very well. I was not worried at all during the final. I think it was a good day in all. I went out and played some catch with John which is always fun, especially in the weather we had today. It was perfect out. Well Lets see I guess the best movie for today would be office space. I am sure that anyone who is reading this has watched it. It is a classis of our time. And that is just the mood I was in today. Well It is about bed time because I am going to study all day tomorrow.

I've got the blues

Not the normal blues, but the Kraft Mac and Cheese blues like they sing about in the commercials. This post is really not going to be somehting that has much of a point, but just me pouring out a few final thoughts before I go to my german final. I have been having a sort of recurring dream. This dream involves a class that I seem to be signed up for where the entire grade is based on the final. I have not been going to this class with the intention of studying on my own time, although that had not been happening at all. It has finally come to the day of the final for this class and I have still not studied any for it. I stay up late trying to learn everyhting for the class and then I oversleep. I have to run to the class only to find out that it was cancelled a few months ago and everyone has already taken the final. It is at this point that I wake up. I am not sure if this is supposed to be a message about how i need to stop procrastinating or something along those lines. I am not going to worry about it because I have been studiny more recently than ever before. It has finally come to the point that I have actually started to worry about my german final that is coming up in about an hour. I think I am fairly well prepared for it. I guess you can never be sure though. I kind of wish that I had someone to practice my german with, but I think most of my friends would just find that annoying. Well after not getting much sleep I am going to be wide awake for this final. Well thats all ive got. Check me out later.

Last sunday of school

I spent much of the day relaxing alone. There was some chatting and tv, but most of it was pretty much nothingness. I have to study some for german, although I am still not worried about it. I am going to study for the next few hours and then sleep. I get to sleep in because my final does not start until 1pm tomorrow. I watched the twins game which was good for a while until they gave up their early lead and ended up just losing. You can't win them all. And taking 2 of 3 from the white sox is good for any team. I watched March of the Penguins so I dont have to go to the final for film. It was pretty good, but it was nothing too amazing. I guess it is really hard for a documentary to be really interesting. I am interested in almost anyhitng that has to do with animals, but I guess i just wasnt that interested today. I would recommend that anyone who likes animals see it, but its not a must see by anyone's standards. I guess I don't have too much to say tonight.
Movie of the day: March of the Penguins. It isnt that long of a movie so if you watch it and dont like it you will only lose like an hour and 20 minutes.
Song of the Day: Ants Marching----Dave Mathews Band. I think this song would have worked well with the movie, because the sounds at the beginning would have gone well with the penguins as they all march.
Wish me luck on my finals.

Relax

Its a day of rest in my religion today. For those of you who did not know, my religion is laziness so a day of rest is pretty much redundant. The end of the semester is so close that I can almost taste it! I am done with prety much all of m work except for the finals of course. I have a final on monday. It is pretty much just an oral exam for german. I am not too scared of it. It sohuld not be too hard. I just have to be able to describe things in german which i can do fairly well at least. I have not done much today. Just some relaxing, sleeping and then also a bit of eating. Yesterday was fun. Went to a birthday gathering for a friend for a while and then watching Super Mario Bros. the movie! I have seen it before and i just love how corny it is. It is so entertaining to watch with friends. Every guy in my generation spent hours playing the games so it is soemthing we can all get somewhat interested in. It is another one of my favorite bad movies. Who does not love to sit down and watch a crappy movie? Well today I might end up doing a tiny bit of studying, but that is not very likely. Most likely I will be celebrating this day of rest. Which is something that pretty much contradicts the idea of a day of rest i know, but i really do not care at this time. I am currently playing play money poker with a friend online. it is occupying my time fairly well.
Movie of the day: Super Mario Bros. everyone will get a kick out of this movie!
song of the day: Super Mario Bros. Theme song
It is something that I always enjoy hearing.
So long for now.

Almost done!

Well there is only one day of classes left before finals begin. I have spent lots of time lately working on an accounting problem and most of it works out well which is good enough for me. Accounting seems to be coming easily to me. I guess we will wait and see how well I do on the final. I have been doing well in econ too which is a very good thing. I have a german assignment but I am not going to worry about it until tomorrow morning. Today was nice despite all of the work and the ugly weather. There is a chance of rain tonight. RAIN IN MAY! What the hell is up with that? After classes tomorrow I think I will need a nap, expecialy if the weather is gross again. I have a job interview next week. I am not sure how promising it is, but i dont think it can hurt. I think I am going to finally declare my major tomorrow. Which will probably feel good. I don't know. I am tired and don't have that much to say tonight. I guess I will say good night to you all.
Farewell for now.

Procrastination

Well I have a 7 page paper that is due on thursday, and I have no written a word, although i do have a very good idea what I will be writing about. Oh well I will get a start on it after class today. Right now I am in a very good mood. I am in a pretty good position in first place in my fantasy baseball league. It is a sunshine filled day which is always good for my mood. Film class should be fun. And it might also help with more ideas towards my paper. I plan on writing all afternoon and even all evening if the muse is hitting me right. The only thing that is keeping me down a little is that I still have not heard from any of the places to which I have applied. Sure it has not been that long but still I would like to think that someone is interested in me! Another thing i should not worry about right now while I have this paper and a few other thigns coming up. Well I sohuld wrap this up so I can get to class.
Question of the Day: If you could have a superpower what would it be?
Song of the Day: Superhero----Stephen Lynch
Stephen Lynch is hillarious, his lyrics are funny and he has a good accoustic sound to his music.
Movie of the day: Mystery Men
A very underreated movie with good comedy, good actors and a little bit of social commentary in it.
If you like Ben Stiller then you will love it.
Time to go to class.

sunday bloody sunday

Well its sunday morning and I am up too early! I tried playing some poker this morning I was finally getting some good hands and I was playing aggressively. I was getting my chips in with the far superior hand. Too bad I got sucked out on multiple times by the same donkey. I hate this crap. I play well and actually get some hands and nothing good happens. Its just aggrevating. I would make those plays anytime. I guess i just dont have any luck left in me. Maybe I used it all up. I dont know. Well yesterday was a fun day I relaxed. I did not sleep well but i slept a lot to make up for it. I should have done some homework but its not due til the end of the week. I know I will get a start on it today. I might also go garage saling like I had been planning too recently but who knows. Well another thing that is on my mind is the weird dreams that I have been having lately. I had a few last night, one where I thought my roommate was trying to kill me which was very weird. I can not remember the other one I had last night but I know there was a very weird one. A few nights ago I dreamt of one of my friends winning the world series of poker and then becoming a complete jackass, which is really unlike him. I dont know where that one came from either, because i had not talked to him in quite a while. Well I think that this is all that I have for today, or right now at least. I have to at least try to start on my homework. Song of the day has got to be Sunday Bloody Sunday----U2
This is the second U2 song I have used and I am not even that much of U2 fan. Its hard to really get some of my favorite songs worked in because they are not mood songs. In fact they help to cheer me up when I listen to them.
Movie of the day: Rounders I am in a poker mood even though i keep getting unlucky. Well I will have to keep on hoping and not give up.
So long for now.

Friday night baby!

Well I spent my night tonight as the designated driver. It was a good time for the most part. I got to watch sports on a huge tv and then also go to sit in the bottom level of a 2 level furniture settup. I also got to see some fairly hot girls dance pretty much right on top of me, I don't know if they did not know I was there or what but they were grinding on each other and even spanking each other pretty much right in my face. Although even that can get old. Well this weekend has lots of work to be done. I have a big essay for my film class and then also a big problem for my accounting problem both due at the end of the week. I would like to make some progress on both of these before the end of the weekend.
Here is something that has been on my mind for a few days. I was chatting with a friend who will remain nameless, and this friend told me that they were watching Narnia. We started chatting about the movie. I started saying about how the story parallels many different things. This person, who is about to become a minister, kept telling me that the only thing that it parallelled was jesus's life. Nothing like the closed mind of a hardcore christian. Oh well you can't sway the minds that are already poisoned. If I had a dollar for every time this person tried to convert me I would be a rich man. Oh well some people dont understand. Its like with drinking people will offer me drinks until I die, but I will just have to say no, until I am ready. It is possible that I will never drink and that idea is just mind boggling for some people. I don't see what is so appealing about it. I hear horror stories about it every week and then they are like want a beer? Yeah those stories make me want to drink soooo bad! Oh well.
Well a movie for the night is Collateral. I felt like a taxi driver tonight bussing about my drunk friends. It was fun but still not something that I would do every weekend. I am pretty sure that no one really reads this, but I still like to think that someone out there does. And that is who I am writing this for. That, and also just to get some of these thoughts out there, if m friends choose not to read then that is their choice. If people want to know what I think then they can find out. That is all for now

Thursday is almost friday which is almost saturday

It has been like 48 hours since I last posted, and I think I am suffering from blog withdrawal. Today was just a great day. I woke up feeling very refreshed, which is always a great sign. I had to print a paper and edit it before I went to class, but this was an easy task for me when I was feeling so great. Walking to class with my friend John was intersting because he had not slept all night. He had stayed up all night playing Civilization 4, his new addiction. He was a little goofier than normal, but very entertaining. We talked about how hopeful we were that his roommate Pat would open his poetry folder in class only to find that there was a sports bra tucked in it. It was a pretty funny thing to think about for us, however I do not believe that Pat brought his folder to class which was quite a dissapointment. Oh well you win some you lose some. So in film today we watched a movie that I had seen once before and didn't really enjoy the one time I watched it before, but this time was different. When I first saw Rushmore I must have been too young and naive to get the jokes that were in it or something, because watching it in class I enjoyed much more than I had thought I would. I guess my tastes have changed since the last time that I saw it. I did really enjoy the other two Wes Anderson movies that I have seen. Life Aquatic is one of my favorite movies in the last view years. I like the way the relationships between peope are used in his movies. His music is also well chosen. Most everything is tastefully written, but still very funny. They all have another common thing within them Bill Murray, who has accelled in my mind during his recent carreer in films. I enjoy the melodramatic comedies that he has been found in. They just play to my mood and mindset very well I guess. After class I went outside and as John and I were walking towards the hill we noticed that the band that was playing on campus was the band of one of our floormates from last year. The band, Chester Bay, has played around town before, but it was really enjoyable to stand outside in the breeze and listen to them play some good covers of Tom Petty, John Mayer and even Elvis songs. After standing around long enough to get cold it was time for us to be on our separate ways. I had to go drop off a job application and John had to go up to his room and sleep, that poor baby. When I got back after turning in my application I had hoped to also take a nap, but I was unable to fall asleep. Oh well I at least got to relax a good amount. Now after having finished the little homework that I did have for tomorrow, I am relaxing to the pleasant sounds of the Twins. They are losing but at least we get Fox Sports Net now so its at least tolerable. They arent giving up many rus, it is currently 0-1 as they trail the Royals, but they just cannot seem to get the runners in. They have left the bases loaded twice in this game. I really just think they have had a sluggish start batting. The pitchers have also not started that well, but are beginning to get back on track. Well I think I have covered all of the ground that I really wanted to for today.
Movie of the day has to be Rushmore. If you have written it off after watching it once try it again and maybe you will really enjoy it.
Song of the day is: Under Pressure----David Bowie and Queen
thats all for now, don't be a stranger!

A Good Day

Today has just been a good day. I have a test tomorrow and I am not at all worried. I got nice relaxing day. Other than film class I have not really done anything. In film we watched Mona Lisa Smile and i have to say that I enjoyed it. Despite the film being about feminism it sent a good message of making your own choices and not just going with life the way you are told it should be. The music went very well with the movie as well. It made me want to download some Nat King Cole. I have a paper that I have to write on a film we have watched. I am not sure what I will write on or about. I have until Thursday to figure that out. Plus if something is going to be an issue it should be the test that I have tomorrow, which I am just about to study for. Well I should wrap this up because there is not much more for me to say.
Movie of the day has to be Mona Lisa Smile. It is worth seeing no matter who you are.
Song of the day: Mona Lisa----Nat King Cole

bedtime already?

Yes I do believe it is bedtime. Well for anyone who reads this blog you should let me know because im starting to think that I am the only one who is reading my blog. I have been playing poker occasionally online but I have been catching the coldest cards that i have ever had. I have given up playing for the rest of the school year. We are finally into the home stretch of school so I will be trying to be productive. The weather outside is not giving me something to be distracted by which i guess is a good thing. Well tomorrow is film and I am not sure if I will enjoy watching whatever film we have scheduled. I am still thinking about finding a job. I have a few applications to still return, I am actually excited about the idea of getting a job at holiday especially if they have flxible hours. Well I do not want to get too excited about the prospect of a job, but thinking about moving into the house is just getting me excited for summer. I just can't wait.
With jobs being on my mind a good song is:
Money----Pink Floyd
I think everyone enjoys listening to this song, which happens to be by one of my favorite bands. Yes it is possible for someone who is not a stoner to enjoy Pink Floyd. Well thats all I have for tonight. Check back for more tomorrow.

Sounds like someone has a case of the mondays

Well it has definitely been a rough day today. The weather was more than depressing. Economics was the usual boring class although it is a very good thing that the material is coming so easlily to me. In accounting my professor did not know what she was doing at all. She kept doing the same thing to the number twice and when we would try to tell he what she was doing she would not aknowledge it. Then german was nice and relaxing, with not much work as usual. The history test could have been worse I didnt know any of the topics that well, but I got the one topic that I was fairly confident in. I have to write some english papers in the next two weeks, on movies that I am not overly farmiliar with. Well I am going to get some pizza tonight so I think my mood will be greatly improved.
A good movie for my mood is: The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A movie that i loved and still do love.