Last Blog

Ah, the last blog, how it's been so long since I've had a dream of this day. Blog's have never been too hard to write, it has just been a tedious task to remember everyday. I'm glad it's over, but this was definitely a simple and easy way to boost students grades, especially if you keep up instead of doing everything last minute lie I always do. Anyways, I definitely gained a little from blogging so it was not entirely purposeless. Writing about things that happen in my life and in the world is a lot more fun than writing about Shakespeare. Well, goodbye blog. I won't miss you at all.

Online

Online homework just may be the death of me. I miss homework assignments that were handed out to us during class. With a hard copy of the homework, everyone knows exactly what is due, instead of just guessing how to work the online program. Granted, blogger is pretty simple, but this like Aplia, which i need to use for macro economics, is quite confusing. And I feel like the stuff we do on Aplia relates to nothing we do in class. I don't know, it's just very different than a piece of paper and harder to do.

QT

Quentin Tarentino, known as one of the more crazy directors, has put out some of the greatest movies I have ever seen. Recently, Inglorious Basterd's has jumped into my top list, but it has joined greats like Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction. All these movies are very violent and confusing, and my favorite part is how they never talk about anything in any of his movies; its all just action. This keeps the viewer interested in what is about to happen next. I'm obviously a big fan, but there are some that hate his stuff, I just don't see why you can hate the uniqueness of it.

Counting down

Only four more Blogs to go. The thing on my homepage of blogger said I had 63 posts, so I got really excited and thought I was done after this, but then I looked on my page and it said a different number. Not sure exactly how many I have, but I guess I'll do more just in case. Originally, in this process, I took blogging very seriously and put links in and tried to copy my favorite blogger, Mark Titus, as well as I could. This failed and I gave up on doing it every day because I realized I was getting 0 views, compared to Mark's 1,889,069. Makes me feel like a baby.

Olympic Logo

The 2012 Olympic symbol might be the worst thing I have ever seen. Symbols in this century are usually so crazy and unique and cool that something as big as the Olympics should have hired a company to make it better than what it is now. It really looks like a few scraps of paper left over after a kinder gardener used scissors for the first time. And, there are news reports that it is triggering epilepsy. Not only is it a danger to everyone making fun of it, but also a health risk to people with a disease. This needs to be changed.

Blog Suggestions

To talk about this whole blogging process, I feel like they should be graded differently. If you really wanted people to blog everyday, you should make it graded on a weekly basis. Also, I think students should be forced to read other blogs; even leave comments on their peer's work. This would force people to put more thought and effort into them every night and would work better for everyone. Writing 30 blogs on the last night isn't helping anyone but me catch back up because I know no one will really read this.

Teeth

Retainers are the most frustrating things to wear. They definitely don't work as well as they should. I'm pretty convinced that my teeth would stay right where they are now without them, but I continue to put them in every night to make sure. They hurt my teeth and definitely affect my sleep even more than it should be. When I'm having trouble sleeping, I'll pop them right out and fall fast asleep. I think there should be a new, more comfortable way to keep teeth straight. Maybe I'll invent it someday.

Night Time Studying

Sleep deprivation could be the one most common thing in my life. I talked earlier about how I believe humans kinda survive with much less sleep, and I completely stick to that point. I have gotten very little sleep over the past weekish and I'm doing just fine. I have had a lot of work to do lately, so staying up way past when I should be going to sleep is definitely nothing new to me. But this is the best time for me to do work; when I'm the only one awake and in the dark. I don't know why, but this is the only time I can really find to sit down and do a lot of work. The library just doesn't help me.

Barstool

Barstoolsports.com, although it's another not very appropriate website to put on my English blog, is quite another funny website. Worse than Phil DeFranco, but not as bad as the bro site, "the Stool" goes over anything that is Boston or Boston-area sports. Half the articles are about how the Yankee's suck, and the other half is pictures of half-naked women. I guess this would attract any guy in Boston, or New England for that matter, so the marketing scheme definitely paid off. All the prez has to do now is find more pictures of girls and he'll always be making money.

00:01

Clocks that aren't set back to the timing being displayed might be my biggest pet peeve. I don't know why, but if there is a microwave that still has seconds displayed on it and not the time, I freak out. Yeah, I'm a little weird, but it's not a big deal. Other things I can't handle is when cable boxes always have the channel on display instead of the time. No one needs to know the channel that much. The time is just so much more useful than anything else and I usually have to fix it at other peoples houses it bothers me so much.

Superlatives

UNH is ranked in the top 25 in three categories on thepricetonreview.com. These three categories are Little Race/Class Interaction (#3), Most Beer (#2), and Town-Gown Relation are Strained (#6). For the first one, I guess I can understand that. I know we are in the top 5 for least amount of diversity, but I guess they don't give out categories for that, unless this is it. Most beer. Really? I would never have guessed that... Haven't seen alcohol on campus at all... And Town-Gown Relationships? Does Durham really not like us? I don't know much about Durham besides around campus, but it seems like a friendly place.

Good Parties

My mom sent me a care package over the weekend. It was filled with a random selection of food that I don't think my mom has ever got in her life. I asked why she changed what shes bought as soon as i leave the house, and she said that only half the stuff was hers. The other half came from a "care package party" a friends mother had. Really? A care package party? I understand that mothers want to look out for their children at college, but do you need a party for that? At least just don't give it the label of a party, because i think this could be the only thing worse than a tea party.

Internet

The invention of the internet has not only been one of the biggest advancements in technology of my time, but also the biggest advancement in procrastination. I have learned throughout my years of late night homeworks that you can find anything you want to find, and more of what you don't want to find, on the internet. I truly believe I work better when it's late at night or close to deadlines because before then, work doesn't mean as much to me. This causes more problems than it solves though because I'm also easily distracted by that FaceBook tab on the top of my screen.

Family Guy

Family Guy is one of my favorite shows. The witty comments and hilarious scenes never get old. My favorite kind of humor in the show is when they overplay something way past the point of it being funny, so it gets even funnier. For instance, all the chicken fights. They are so funny. And when Peter falls and scrapes his knee and then lays on the ground in pain for at least 5 minutes. Also, when they talk about something that could be said two different ways. There is one episode where a doctor says something about Peter being sick, but it always turns out to be about something else.

Badvent Calenders

Why do advent calenders count to December 25th? My roommate pointed out that they should actually countdown. I feel like this would be more purposeful to see how many days there are until the big man in red comes than to see the date of today. I want to see how many days there are left until all the presents come. Also, I usually get a cardboard advent calender with just little chocolates in them. This year, my mother bought me a big wooden one and put different things in every day. This is much more exciting because I get real chocolate and other cool things like little pictures rather than bad chocolate.

Ice T vs. Soulja Boi

I'm switching off from blogging and YouTubing, so I found a video of Ice T (the legend) making fun of Soulja Boi (the worst). Ice T is one of the greatest rappers to ever live, and Soulja Boi kills the game song after song. Ice T is completely right in saying that Soulja Boi is ruining the game. Soulja Boi came back with YouTube video calling Ice T old and saying that he doesn't meant anything anymore because he was born in the 1950's. Yeah, that is pretty old, but respect your elders you little boy. Don't talk trash to one of the greatest ever. This is just going to his head and I really don't like Soulja Boi

Nellyville

Where has Nelly gone? I just through on his Country Grammar CD which has been in the closet for a while. Not the best rapper ever, but I like a few of his songs. Country Grammar and Ride Wit Me were classics back in the day, but I got sick of his whole band aid under the eye and grills real fast. He did have some pretty sweet music videos though. Dye his hair silver, and he'd look just like the great Sisqo himself. Everyone remembers Sisqo from the thong song. Great one hit wonder. Speaking of OHW, Daniel Powter won "One Hit Wonder" of the year. Not sure how great of an award that is...

the Philip DeFranco Show

I have recently been following Philip DeFranco on YouTube. DeFranco does a show every Monday through Thursday about things that happen everyday. He takes the common news, and adds a funny twist to it. He also has a Question of the Day which are usually pretty funny. The shows are only about 3-4 minutes (which he says in the intro) and can't take longer than an hour to make, so I looked up how much he makes a year. $250,000 a year. That's pretty crazy if you ask me for a guy to make a year on just YouTube videos.

Bro's Like This Blog

Continuing on with the bro theme, my friend found me this great site; www.broslikethissite.com. Granted, I don't follow this and I don't consider myself a bro, I think it's hilarious to read the stupid things this guy writes about. Anything from Drunk Driving to Halloween to having a Designated Obnoxious Fat Friend (DOFF). This site is just filled with complete nonsense. If it's not talking about something illegal, then its taking about something socially unacceptable. I haven't fully explored this site yet, but everything I've read has only made me stupider and made me hate "bro's" even more than I used to.

Big Joe

Joe Rogan is one of the most legendary bro's of our time. He has been in many films and television shows and has absolutely no talent what so ever. He was born as the comedic host of MadTv in 1996, and then continued to be the host of UFC. Joe's popularity grew with the sport, so he went to other TV shows, including: The Weakest Link, Howard Stern, and The Tonight Show. This was nothing compared to the job he scored as the host of three of the greatest shows on late night TV: Fear Factor, The Man Show, and Girls Gone Wild. Anything Mr. Rogan has ever been in has just gone gold, besides "Joe Rogan and Talking Monkeys in Space." Never heard of that one.

Dorm Sports

Growing up with friends with older brothers, I heard so many stories of "dorm sports." These games are any type of sport a collegiate student can think of that can be played in a hall way. I have yet to see any done in my hallway, and its quite disappointing to me. I might start a game next semester, once quiet hours and finals are over. There are cautions when playing. One of my friends brothers were participating in a friendly game of hallway football when the ball struck the fire extinguisher knob and set off all the sprinklers in the hall way and on his floor. This caused massive amounts of damages, but he was not fined. I'm not sure how he got away with that one.

Wayne

Wayne Gretzky Hockey is now officially the greatest game I have ever played. Completely goes along with the simplicity of the other games. There's only 3 offenders per team, with a goalie. The goalie pretty much does nothing but get out of the way of the puck, so the game usually ends at around 9-8. It is also impossible to pull away and take a commanding lead. Once the human goes up by more than 1, the computer immediately scores a crazy goal. I kind of like this, because it makes it a closer game. It's also really hard to win, so me and my roommate have been playing on the same team for the past few games.

THPS

The first game I decided to play on N64 is Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1. The first game in a legacy of Tony Hawk video games that have grossed millions of dollars. It is up there with legends such as Halo and Super Mario for best game series. The game play is unmatched, especially for it's time. It was the first ever skateboard video game and brought an entirely new look at what developers can do with technology. It changed gaming for life and is still one of my favorite games.

N64

My roommate just brought up his old Nintendo 64 and we've been playing all night. Gotta say, these games are still better than some of the ones that are coming out now. The simple game play is exactly what i love the most. Newer games have obviously better graphics and online play, but this system is pretty good for coming out in 1996. With so many classic games, I don't know why I ever stopped playing. I'm just glad it's back in action, and won't be unplugged unless it's to play Assassin's Creed II.

Puck

I've never been much of a hockey fan until this year. My high school team wasn't good at all (1-18-1), so it was hard to be a fan of the sport. Watching UNH play has really changed my opinion of the game though. And my roommate is from Canada so, naturally, all he watches is hockey. Being from the Boston area, I guess I'll cheer for the Bruin's. My roommate is a Toronto Maple Leaf's fan and knows everything about the game, so I'm learning a little more every game.

Thoughtless

Thinking of things to blog about is getting kind of hard. I mean, I've talked about everything sitting around my desk and all the things that just pop into my mind. I've run out of options so I decided to talk about not knowing of what to talk about. And I still can't even write enough to make this blog even count. Being a business major, I've never been the best at writing papers. So thinking of one hundred words to fill out this box isn't so easy.

Goodmorning Class

In a recent post of mine I discussed the use of sleep and how it is highly overused in the world. This point has been proven correct. This entire week, I have yet to sleep more than 3 hours in one night and I'm honestly still fine. Yes, it is 6:42 am and no, I didn't wake up early. I actually never went to sleep tonight (unexplainable reasons). Even though I occasionally feel like I'm in a dream and I did fall asleep while walking the other morning, I believe humans can and should use their time doing more productive things than sleep. Example: I'm about to work on my paper instead of taking a "night time nap."

J. Matthew Osten

People spend a lot of time perfecting their signatures. But for me, I'm pretty sure it changes every time. I don't know why I have such a lack of care towards this, especially since it's a very serious and personal thing. A signature is just as important as someone's word. People make life or death decisions that are finalized by their names. A simple ink mark on a treasured ball can mean more than anything to a lucky fan. Your signature is something you are known by. Maybe I'll work on mine.

Soda Cooler Talk

The great debate of soft drinks has finally been solved: Coca-Cola is by far better than Pepsi. I mean, the crisp taste is just superior to the Pepsi brand. I understand all of you that say you think Pepsi is better, but you're just wrong. Dive into a bottle or can or cub, or 2-liter if you're really that thirsty, and you'll know what I mean. The only thing holding back the "double C's" from making Pepsi obsolete is it's diet side. Diet Pepsi may just be a tiny bit better than the real Coke's version, but who drinks diet soda anyways?

Paper Jesus

Last class got me thinking about the new age of reading. With almost everything in life available online, we still have so many books. So how do we get books on the internet? The way to do it now is just scan it on and the image will be there, but there are problems with this. First of all, the print is very difficult to read. All the online stories and articles for this class have been small letters and strained my eyes to read. This is not the one who scans the papers fault, but rather the internet's. Maybe this is like as if we are going against the God's of paperbacks, and will just never put a book successfully online.

Zzzz

Sleep is completely overrated. I fully believe a human being can function well on less sleep than is needed. Personally, I'm all for sleeping in, but there's no doubt in my mind that people can learn to sleep less. With less time spent doing nothing but resting, our days can be lengthened and we can get more done. Blogging about this is getting me no where, but it's just how what i think. I'm going to try to do this over the next week and see how I hold up.

A Wirelessless World

This lack of wireless internet is continuing to frustrate me. Not only can I not sit in my bed and go on the internet, I can’t even go online while my roommate plays Xbox online. I didn’t think living in an environment without internet and Xbox 360 live was such a hassle. We usually take turns playing, but while I’m not playing, I need something to do. Games take about 10 minutes to finish, and I thought that would be a perfect time for me to creep on facebook. But I guess that’s just not possible.

k

There’s nothing worse than getting a text that just says “k” and everybody knows it, so why would anyone still say it? I don’t get it. Waste of a text. Why not just throw in that extra o? Just the k makes you sound like a jerk that doesn’t want to talk to anyone. The only time I ever do it is to show the other person that I’m mad at them. I don’t know why it bugs me so much but it really does and I think it should be banned from the texting vocabulary.

The Final Final

What's the deal with finals being on Saturday? I mean, there has to be sometime my macro econ final can be taken besides the last day before winter vacation. I guess it gives us more time to study, but no one wants to stay here for the whole time of finals. I think there should be two possible test dates; one earlier and one later. But I guess that would result in people knowing what is on the second test. Either way, it just sucks to be on the last day.

You Can EnV Me

My EnV 1 has just come to its last stretch of life. Although this is my ninth one, they have all lasted less than 3 months. But on November 12th, my contract with Verizon comes to an end and I get to buy a new phone without paying like 3 grand just to get another bad phone. I'm not sure which to get but I'm thinking of getting the new Droid. It's Verizon's version of the iPhone, but it cost $70 a month without unlimited texting, which is necessary. Obviously, I would want the BlackBerry, but that's expensive too. I'm not sure what I'll end up with.

Pushes My Buttons

The iPod touch is my favorite iPod on the market right now, but it does have its flaws. It is just a great piece of technology, full of memory to hold songs and it has the ability to use applications. It is even coming out with new applications that are putting things like the TI-83 plus calculator in jeopardy of becoming extinct. It has good battery life, too, if you keep it on low brightness. But the only thing that bothers me about it is that when I'm listening to it before going to bed, I have to turn it back on to change the song. With my old iPod, I could just hit the next button until I found a song I liked. With this, it's becoming a hassle to listen to without it waking me up every time I get a song I don't want to listen to.

No Ceilings

The new mix tape recently put out by Lil Wayne has become quite the hit. Even though he has recently been arrested on weapons charges on October 22, this new mix tape has all his fans going crazy. "No Ceilings" has no limits to how big it will grow, seeing as it has some great songs and is free online. My favorite song's are Ice Cream Paint Job and Wasted, but other good ones include Swag Surfin and Watch My Shoes. The song even includes remixes of other popular songs. For example: I Gotta Feeling (Black Eyed Peas), Throw It In The Bag (Fabolous), and Run This Town (Drake or Crooked I). If you haven't heard it, check it out.

Quoting

Is anyone else having this problem? I feel really awkward quoting lyrics with swears in them. I've never really dropped F bombs in English papers so I guess it's just weird for me. No one else probably has the same problem because I think Tupac has the most vulgar language. Especially quoting racial slurs is just difficult in this paper, but pretty hard to avoid since half Tupac's songs are about killing and getting in fights and smoking. I guess I'll just make it interesting.

What Name Do You Like Betta?

Back to what we were talking about. Since we brought this fish home, we have yet to decide on a name. First thoughts were something simple; maybe name him Arnold, or Bowser. Marty was looking for a simple name, but I kind of wanted a spin off name; something like Dwyane Wave, Donofin McNabb, Ludafish, Adrian Peterswim, Wave Matthews, Leonardo DaFinci, or Fincent Chase (yeah, we're big Entourage fans. When we get a goldfish it will be "Ari Goldfish"). All of these names are a little long, but would definitely get a couple laughs, maybe they can even be a middle/nickname. Picking the last name was easy because obviously it would be a combination of our last names: Martin and Osten. Martin-Osten was fine with me, but when switched around they produce Osten-Martin. This has to be the sweetest last name ever just because of its resemblance to the famous car company. I'll blog later if we decide on a name.

The Chosen One

I was going to continue my blog-spree and talk about naming our Betta fish, but I chose to redirect this line of conversation and talk about something else for now. Have you ever said something, and seen the same word as you said it? Maybe it's just me, but I find this happening quite often and I really get freaked out when it does. A little different situation, but as I was typing "...the one." in my last post, I was scanning the library room for more interesting books. As the words were coming out of my fingers, I saw this black book with green letters stand out of the crowd that was titled The Art of the Matrix. Feeling like I was Neo, I grabbed the book off the shelf and took it to my study desk. Turns out the book was filled with interesting pictures of what the designers and creators of the movie wanted things to look on film. I quickly browsed through it and it was pretty interesting. Pretty interesting as in those things that I can blog about, but only looked at for 5 minutes. Check it out sometime.

The Betta Way to Do It

This weekend, while I was home to visit friends and family, my roommate and I stopped by Petco to pick up a third roommate. I wanted a sweet snake, but Marty hates them. He wanted this sweet but probably poisonous frog, but we decided it wouldn't be allowed in our room. I'm allergic to rabbits, so we decided to get a fish. The store had a whole section of Betta fish of all colors. Some bright blue, others flashy red, some with stripes of rainbow like colors. I was not too impressed with all these colorful fish because if all Betta's are colorful, who stands out? And that is when I saw him. I would say it was love at first sight, but I don't think that applies for fish. I hadn't felt this way since I first saw Transformers. In the bottom right corner, like he was hiding from the glare of the other lame fish, we saw our Crowntail Betta. He's a dark black with stripes of white and probably the most beautiful male Crowntail Betta I have ever seen. We quickly decided he was the one and that was final.

Big Book of Nothing

Spending all the time in the UNH library has brought many things to my attention. Occasionally, as I sit here thinking of things to blog about, I'll grab a book off the shelf (don't worry, I put it back right where it belongs) and skim through it. The last book I picked up was a book about the size of a tennis court. Okay, maybe not that big but it had to be almost four feet tall and two and a half feet wide and had barely anything in it. It was all about some old culture and had pictures of scripts in it. If you see this book, I recommend picking it up just to say you've held a book that big. Maybe you can blog about it, too.

Procrastinoter

When it comes to homework, I have noticed that I am a very "at the last minute" type of worker. This is not to say I procrastinate; I just think I get a lot more done when it's crunch time. My work is done a lot faster, and it is usually better quality. Being so much of a working to the deadline guy can sometimes be a bad thing, especially when I have more of a workload than expected. These library hours I have recently started haven't been quite as productive as I had hoped, but I definitely get a little work done.

Ardi

I read an article on Yahoo! the other day that talked about how archaeologists found a skeleton of a woman that dated back 4.4 million years. This gives us a some answers about our history, but digs up way more questions. What was this place like that long ago? I mean, that's almost two and a half million years BC. The woman was 4 feet tall and they say she weighed about 100 pounds. This is tiny compared to a human today, but that was average size for her day, are we still going to grow? This is just one question that is thought of on this topic. What is the answer? Only time will tell.

Books on Books

The amount of books in this library is completely ridiculous. Just looking around me right now I can see thousands on thousands of just books. Maybe I'll read some of these books in my life, maybe not. I mean, there are just so many books I have to read one of them, right? I can't imagine how long it would take to read all of them; definitely impossible in one lifetime. I really don't even know why I'm so shocked by the amount of books. A library should have this many books, I guess. I just thought I'd share my excitement

Better than Wall Paper

Posters have never really played a factor into my life until college. Every room you walk in, you can tell what kind of person lives there by the posters on their wall. My roommate and I have so many posters right now there are barely any space for more. I bought half of them, which consists of pictures from Entourage, Inglorious Basterds, Pulp Fiction and a portrait of Megan Fox. My roommate has pictures from Boondock Saints, Fight Club, a Canadian flag, and a picture of the cover of Rolling Stone with Taylor Swift. What do you think a couple guys are like with those on their wall?

Maybe You Can Have It All

My favorite show came to an end Sunday night. Entourage, a show about Vinny Chase and his glorious life has caught my attention earlier this summer, but since then I have purchased seasons 1 through 5 to try to catch up. I missed most of this latest season, but I'm not too sad about that because it just means theres more Johnny Drama's drama to watch. The show is not really that interesting; not much happens besides Vinnie getting offered a new movie and Ari getting mad. But even though there isn't much plot, all the viewers just want to live like Vinnie Chase. He gets the girls, the money, the respect, and the fame.

So since my first post and now, I took a break from catching up in blogs and went down to the library cafe and grabbed a roast beef sandwich, apple juice, and S'Mores pop tart. First of all, if you're thinking, "Ew, S'Mores pop tart? Like... Chocolate and Marshmallows where the classic Brown Cinnamon and Sugar should be?" you clearly have never engulfed one. They are delicious. Secondly, I'm not sure about this sandwich. They put weird things on it (onions and red peppers) instead of what is usually on it (lettuce and tomato). At least the apple juice is terrific.

Energy drinks are definitely given a bad name because of "untested" or "non-FDA approved" ingredients. I'm not sure if the supplements inside are safe or not, but they sure are delicious. I think my favorite is Red Bull. Even though it tastes great, the price for a 8.4 Fl Oz bottle can cost up to $2.50. That's 2.5 times as much as I could get a giant Arnold Palmer or AriZona Iced Tea for. The cost may be worth it, but so far in college, my roommate and I have gotten the big 20 packs because they cost a little less per bottle. Still expensive though.

Tired Legs or Laziness?

After a bunch of weeks of school, I have come to a point where I really dislike walking. I've thought of other alternatives, but none really appeal to me. I guess I could buy a long board, but those can cost around $150 and I've never really had one. How does one stop on a long board? There are no breaks. I guess its possible to just jump off but thats kind of dangerous. A bike would also work, but storing it isn't very safe; I wouldn't want my bike to be stolen. And what happens in the winter? I think I might just buy a snowmobile. Now that would work.

Study hours

The library at the University of New Hampshire is more helpful than I knew. Coming to college, I thought I would come here once or twice a month before tests just to really sit down and study. Recently, I have been assign to attend library hours from 6 to 9 every night, Monday through Thursday. I originally thought this time would be a waste and boring but I actually get a lot of work done here and then have the rest of the night just to hang out. The only downfall to this assignment is it cuts directly into my dinner time. There is a cafe here, so I might check that out and blog about it.

"Love in an Elevator"

Seeing as I need to make up five blogs, I split the last one into two. The second topic was if we got stuck, who would it be with? To knock out the obvious, I said Megan Fox was not allowed to be an answer because she is way too understandable in this situation. My second thought was someone genius, maybe Bill Gates? And then it hit me. How about Benjamin Franklin? He could easily bring electricity back to the elevator and we’d save ourselves! Granted, I would take half the credit of keeping us alive. Marty said we couldn’t chose people from the past, so I decided on Mark Titus, because he clearly knows how to have a good time in that circumstance.

Willingly Trapped

So if you’ve been following these past few blogs backwards, you’d know we lost power and someone got stuck in the elevator. This brought up a couple topics between my roommate and I. First of all, would you want to get stuck in an elevator? And secondly, if you had to get stuck, who would you want it to be with? The former of these two questions may seem like an obvious answer, but I think I would love to get stuck. Not for too long, of course, but how many people can say they’ve been stuck? My roommate said he would absolutely not want to get stuck, but I hope I do someday. I really do.

250 Remarkable Years

The recent “Guinness” commercial has inspired me. No, not to drink more dark ale from London, but to join in on anything other people are doing. If someone raised their glass and cried, “To Arthur!” how could you not join in? The excitement shift from person to person is just too much of a powerful thing to skip out on. I tried to start my own the other day. After filling my plastic cup with Minute Maid Apple Juice from the Philbrook dining hall, I lifted my glass and said “To Arthur!” just like the commercial. No one joined in and it was an utter failure. I just looked like a fool.

What starts with F and ends in UCK?

To continue, and to make up for missing a bunch of blogs previously, why hasn’t the power come on yet? I’m not an electrical engineer but I know there should be a semi-easy way to bring back the light for all of us. Can’t someone just reconnect wire A to wire B? Maybe tape up the red cords? But as I’m pondering over how easy it may be, a fire truck just pulled up outside my window and I think, how do we have constant power? If we need a fire truck to assist on fixing this problem, it must be a big deal.

NOTE: After writing this, I found out the fire truck was here because someone got stuck in the elevator.

The Only Good Thing Without Energy

“This power outage has really put a damper on my day,” said the great Andrew Martin, “and I just used the word damper!” Yes, this lack of power has definitely caused a halt in my busy schedule full of an endless amount of writing, but I guess it has improved my roommate’s speech, so it was not all that bad. I’m sitting here now, writing this blog on my Microsoft Word. It just doesn’t have the real feel of writing a blog. This Times New Roman font just doesn’t have the same look as the Courier on blogspot. I just hope it’s over soon.

The "Crackberry"

In the past, the Blackberry phone as used only for the business industry. Who else needs e-mail and internet access at all times? As they get more revolutionary, it seems like more people are getting them just to get them. Most people think this is stupid, but it's exactly why I want one. I mean, who doesn't like brick breaker? I tried to talk my dad into paying the extra $29.99 a month for Verizon phones but he was against that. I even offered to pay for the first 6 months and buy the phone. He just said that if I can afford the extra thirty bucks a month, I should be paying for my phone bill already. I decided not to push him and I'm still stuck with the same old phone.

She's evil... and not just high school evil.

To build off my last blog, Megan Fox is starring in a new film. Jennifer's Body, which premieres this Friday, is about the most popular girl in school, Fox, and how she slowly kills her male classmates. Adam Brody of The OC and Amanda Seyfried of Mean Girl's and Alpha Dog co-star. From the looks of it, this movie will only make money of the SuperFox fan club. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, seeing as I am a true member and will probably go to opening night but not necessarily to see the movie. Diablo Cody, the script writer, also wrote Juno, so it has some chance of being decent.

Megan... I mean, Jennifer's Body

Everyone knows who superstar Megan Fox, a.k.a Foxy Megan, is. Notice I said superstar, not superstar actress. If you've seen either of the Transformers, which you probably have since combined they've made over $1,500,000,000, you know Ms. Fox was not hired for her acting skills. The real reason is quite relevant in the poster on my wall right now (Note: I'm not positive this is suitable for an English class blog). Recently, she has been quoted on calling producer Michael Bay "...like Hitler." Personally, I don't believe anyone who made millions for you can be like the The Fuhrer, but if she's trying to team up with Brad Pitt for a sequel, I'll give more credit than the crew did. An open letter from unanimous crew members called Fox "Classless" and "Dumb-as-a-rock." How rude.

Kanye West is going south

Is it just me or is Kanye making himself look more and more like a tool? Taylor was clearly touched by the voters opinion on her music video, so who would go and ruin a moment like that for someone? Kanye, she's married so you're not getting anything out of this. Maybe a feature in Beyonce's next jam, but wouldnt you rather rap with T-Sweezy? Jay-z can't even spit fire like a nineteen year old white country girl from hicktown Pennsylvania. No one should ruin a moment like this, hair like this, or sunglasses like this.

Roommates

Living with another person every night is a very new experience to me. I haven't shared a room with someone since 1996 when my youngest brother was born and my parents stuck me and my other brother together. For college, I went with the uncommon route and requested one of my good friends from home. Everyone says we're going to hate eachother by the end of the year but we've had no problems yet. I think it was a smart idea to room with him because we got everything we need for the dorm before and knew we would be all set when we got here. It's only been two weeks, so we'll see what happens the rest of the year

Latest Form of Procrastination

Today (this isn't an FML), I picked up a pair of Bose speakers from the GSS mail room that I ordered online about a week ago. Nothing too big or expensive, but with these speakers are great. The only problem is now that I have these speakers all of Christensen 4A can hear, I have to get some new tunes to go along with them. I planned on starting this blog at 3:30 but I've been too busy downloading free mix tapes off a plethora of web sites. All legal, I swear. Without the use of Limewire on campus, this website has to do.

The Boondock Saints

The Boondock Saints has to be one of my favorite movies. It combines a little humor with a lot of violence, perfect for a guys watching. Director and writer Troy Duffy adds a new concept to a gun slinging movie. With no romance scenes, or really any girls at all, it is just a complete action movie. Besides Willem Dafoe (Spiderman, American Psycho), there are no famous actors seen. Actors Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus, who played the infamous McManus brothers, seeking out evil and killing all scum. I'm very excited for the sequel to come out early next year. What do you think of this movie and how Duffy twisted the "shooter" movie into a comedy/action film? Will you watch the next movie?

First Blog

After reading "Learning to Read" by Malcolm X, something really stuck out to me. In the final paragraph, the author talks about how he thinks he got a better education in jail than in college. He says this is because "...there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and coola-boola and all of that." I think this is very true because in my first week of school here, it's been very hard to concentrate with so many things to do. I'm not saying I'd study more if I were in prison, but it's definitely something to think about. Do you think it would be easier to study in prison?

Also, I didn't know we were supposed to blog on Friday, so I hope Sunday counts.