Monday, November 29, 2004

Some Recognition

Just a little blog here.

I just wanted to say congratulations to a couple of people.

Mandy and Katie:
Congratulations to these two ladies for getting the RA jobs next semester...as FRESHMEN! Katie is going to be working in Cumberland Hall, and Mandy will be in Cambridge Hall! My friend Kevin interviewed too, but there were only 3 guy spots available and some sophomores tried out...but expect Kevin to be RA'ing in the future. Good job to all of you guys!

Jadyn:
Congratulations to Jadyn for two accomplishments. She found out on the same day, that she is going to be a student page for Garrett County in the spring, and also found out she was accepted directly in to Penn State's main campus! I am very happy for her! As most of you know, I was a student page for Allegany County last year, so I am especially happy to see my friends do the same.

Nothing as exciting has happened to me, but I figured I would acknowledge these people for accomplishing so much for themselves. Now why don't you stop reading this and go do something similar to this!?

...When Is Winter Break?

Yeah it's only the first day back from break, and I arleady am looking forward to winter break. It's kind of pathetic. All I want to do is do nothing at all. I sit and I wonder when I will have a break from school, but what will I be doing? Nothing at all. This vacation was good, but I am looking more forward towards Christmas now.

It didn't feel like Christmas until Friday, when Thanksgiving was finally over with. Although, plenty of places had lights and decorations up for Christmas as early as Halloween. I really love Christmas. I was thinking today about how much I hate the cold weather, and I wish it would go away. But, in reality I don't hate it at all. I love the fall, I love the crisp air. I love being able to wear jeans, and feel comfortable. It always feels like a movie when it's Christmas time. It always feels like everyone loves each other around Christmas time. So, I appreciate that.

I always told myself that when I get older, I would move away to some place where it's hot year round. I probably won't, now that I think about it. If I did move away, I would come back to Cumberland to see my family all winter. I just have to be in the cold when it's December and all Christmas-like.

Jake is going to have to deal with my love for Christmas. When I lived at home, I would always have Christmas lights up, and decorate my room for Christmas, and that's not going to change. I am thinking about getting lots of icicle lights and hanging them from the ceiling...and covering up the light in the room that blasts 400000000000 watts of electricity so that my eyes melt when I walk in to the room. I really hate that light. With these icicle lights, we can turn them on and use those as light...so that it's just enough light and it feels like Christmas! I LOVE CHRISTMAS!

Anyway, the semester is almost over and that's exciting! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I will try to post as much as I can this week!

Friday, November 26, 2004

C11-H12-N2-O2

Yesterday was Thanksgiving, and I loved me some turkey.

My grandmother makes some of the best food on earth. Today, my dad, Pap, Granny, my aunt Mechelle, my uncle Josh, his girlfriend April, their daughter/my cousin Aurora, Mable, and I all tore up this here turkey dinner. We had turkey, steamed vegetables with cheese sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, and noodle soup! It was delicious. All this was topped with apple pie courtesy of April's mom, or pumpkin pie courtesy of Sam's club -- which by the way is awesome. Don't underestimate Sam's club.

Lately, my sleeping pattern has been severely out of whack. I am going to bed at like 4a.m. and that's ridiculous. Then I wake up at like 11 or something, and am so tired, that when I go to take a nap, I am sleeping for 5 hours at a time. This has happened the past two days. Oh well, I will hopefully get over it. That tryptophan did wonders for me today.

Friday, November 19, 2004

Who Is Pai Mei, and Why Is He So Mad?

Tonight, before Jenny was rushed out of the building in a stretcher, put on the ground, and wrapped in a restraining bag...some of us watched Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Vol.2.

Basically, the Kill Bill movies are really awesome. I saw the first one a long time ago. But, then I borrowed my friend Trevor's Vol.2. So, Mandy, Krissy, Kevin, Katie and I watched Vol. 2. I wathced it last night, but since they wanted to see it, I came and watched it with them.

There is this guy Pai Mei, and he is the guy that taught the Death Squad how to fight, and at one point in the movie, Mandy was like, "WHO IS PAI MEI!?" Once we told her, she was like, "WHY IS HE SO MAD!?"

HAHA it was hilarious.

Today is Friday and I am excited about that. That means I get to go home and see my family. I love them so much. My baby cousin Aurora is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. She is going to be a pro tennis player in 16 years. I am going to be her coach and it's going to be awesome.

But, for now, I have to get to sleep so I can wake up and go to class tomorrow! Hope you all have a good weekend.

P.S. I hope Jenny is alright.

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

The Financial Aide Office and Wind Turbines

You know it's a bad day when seeing wind turbines is the highlight of your day. Yeah today sucked really bad. It couldn't get much worse. Here's what's up.

So, for the past couple months I have had a hold on my university account. A hold is when you have an obligation of sorts that keeps you from progressing with your life, basically. If you have a hold you can not register for classes, you can not graduate from the university...and I am sure there are many more consequences that I will eventually come across, that I don't know about yet.

Bascially what it comes down to is that I had a hold...fixed it...and when I got back from fixing that hold, I checked my status, and I had another hold.

So I called the unbelievably rude "professionals" that work at the financial aide office and asked them what was going on. I had to get a form turned in before I could have my loans dispursed. Even though this is something that I have been dealing with all semester long, (because my mother had to get me her tax forms) they decided to go ahead and put a hold on my account THE DAY BEFORE I SCHEDULE FOR CLASSES.

I later find out that it takes up to 7 days for the paperwork to be processed and my hold to be lifted. So, I won't be registering for classes today, and I probably won't get any of the classes that I want.

Yeah it sucks.

So, Brittney had to go back to Seton Hill to return some books from when she was there, and she asked me to go, so I went with her. On the way there, I look to my left and there are atleast 10 HUUUUUUUUUUUGE wind turbines...you know the things that spin and convert wind in to energy!? It was amazing! I never realized how unbelievably big the blades were, and how high they were in to the air.

I know most people don't find wind turbines the least bit fascinating, but seeing them all together like that and on top of a mountain was very exciting to me, for some reason. Oddly enough that was a highlight of the day!

We went to Seton Hill, and had a blast. We met up with some of Brittney's friends from school when she was there and they were a great time. It was nice to get my mind of things, and we had a blast doing it.

So, anyway, I just thought I would vent by writing about my day. I hope all of you had a better day than I. And, if you are reading this and you go to Frostburg, I hope you got all the classes you wanted...because I probably won't. :(

Saturday, November 13, 2004

Networking = Notworking

I really get sick of Frostburg State. I mean not only is the weather unbelievably cold here, the networking that I am paying for REALLY SUCKS, bad.

The network on campus goes down atleast once a day. Sunday when I got back to campus I couldn't get online until Monday morning...why? Figure out what the problem is and fix it. Other schools that are much larger than this one don't have problems this bad, I am sure of it.

So, on top of the internet failing all the time, this laptop of mine is now infected with with, as of right now...63(still scanning), different viruses. That's pathetic. This school needs to get it together with the networking not working.

Well the weather sucks, and it's 3:11a.m. and I have no clue why I am still awake. Oh yeah, because I slept from 9-11 on a Friday night, then drank a Cupaccino.

Goodnight
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Song to Download: "Selah" by Lauryn Hill

Saturday, November 06, 2004

No, You Don't Know

I hate to continue to complain about thing after thing, but I feel that if I let you, the innocent bistandard, learn about the stupid shit that goes on in my world, you can learn to avoid it, undertand it, recognize it, and ultimately destroy it. Okay?

If I hear one more person say the phrase, "I know, right?" one more time, I am going to walk over to that person and rip that person's larynx out of that person's neck in a successful attempt to hush this person from ever uttering these words again.

It's fake. It's retarded. It's pathetic. It's a fad.

I wish people would wake the hell up and learn how to be their own person.

My suggestion would be to not ever say those words around me. I know where your larynx is.