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It's really inaccurate and extremely stereotypical, but enjoyable.

Just post when you are gonna be home. I'm home March 7th-16th. Right now I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be bored as fuck, unless I'm hanging with the high school kids, but I'm pretty sure they still have school most of the time.

One word to describe me... just one single word. Leave it in my comments section. Then post this original message on your journal and see how many strange and interesting things people say about you.

So my house was broken into and I scared him off. Ask for me to regale you with the tale when you see me.

December 5th is Repeal Day. 75 years ago prohibition was repealed, be sure to celebrate.

Thanks to that Dewars commercial for educating me about this amazing and little know holiday.

So I have an A in Food Science so I don't need to take the final...Woot! No one says "woot" anymore, but there probably is a good reason for that...Anyways, I'm probably gonna get an A in Communication and a B in this bullshit orientation class. See I do good in the classes I actually enjoy going to, I'm probably gonna get an F or D in Calc, Microbiology, and Chem so I will have to take those again either during the summer or next year. No use beating myself up about it, what's done is done. I'll just hope for better professors next year. In the big lectures no professors seem to teach, they just list off a bunch of information from the books and expect you to memorize it without a study guide or even a list of what you should know.

I will be spending this weekend chasing my group members around so we can organize our final presentation which is about 1/4 of our grade in Comm. I need to study for my lab practical. Also, I need to write a 1-2 page paper about myself, my goals, and why I want to study abroad.

Finals start a week from Monday, here's what my piece of shit finals schedule looks like.
Monday: 8-10am Calc
Tuesday: Bio, I forget the time
These aren't the bad times, this one is
Friday: 3:20-5:20pm Chem

My hardest fucking exam is on the very last day and late in the day, I'm gonna be sitting around for pretty much 3 days then taking an exam that I will just get uncontrollable urges to just leave and go home during. I'm contemplating on not even taking it because I'm pretty sure I can't get a D in the class to pass, I'll have to double check that though...

I can't believe I missed "The Office" because of a stupid calc exam that was eventually postponed due to a tornado warning. Hopefully they will give everyone who didn't finish free points, but they won't because the are asses.

I signed up for my classes next semester, they are:
Chem 257- a condensed version of Organic chem, gonna be intense
English 106- basic writing class
English 262- classic literature written by the Romans and Greeks
FS 162- intro to food processing
FS 245- food packaging

Next year I'm taking horseback riding as an elective, should be awesome. Also, I found out that the only study abroad programs that I could get Food Science credits for are New Zealand and Sweden and I'm not sure on which one to attend yet.

I think my nickname for hurling is the "flying gypsy"...I wore a tie-dyed shirt and was the fastest in practice...I really hope it doesn't stick.

Team drinking tomorrow. Our president works at a liquor store and his boss told him that target was trying to get rid of its "old" liquor, which is the dumbest thing I have ever heard, so he ended up getting bottles at 1/3 the original price. Should be a good time!

Lots of exams next week, not prepared, all I need is a D in the class to survive, I'm getting A's in 2 other classes so it should balance out nicely.

And that is an update on my life.

P.S. The couple across and up one floor have sex in the middle of the afternoon every so often and they leave the screen door open and you can hear them so Dan tells them to shutup and if they pause he shouts "don't have much endurance, do yah?" Entertaining, but we may have to step it up to throwing things (eggs, paintballs, rotting food) at their door because you can hear them if we shut our door so I'm pretty sure they are getting louder. And the girl stands out on her balcony for hours and literally shouts into her phone, most annoying neighbors ever.

Anyone want to go to London sometime next year? I was thinking winter break, but I suppose the end of this summer is also a possibility. Yes, I'm completely serious and if I can get a group of 3 or more people I don't see why we couldn't plan out a cheap way to spend a week? there. Pubs, sightseeing, pubs, shopping, pubs with new upcoming bands. Think about it and I'll get back to you on an a $ estimate per person within a week or so.

So I think we would be able to do this trip for ~$1500. So save up over the next year!

So the first week of school is finally over and it took fucking forever. My schedule has to be one of the worst on campus, I have a 7:30 class everyday except one and a 4:30 class everyday except one. Plus all of my classes are extremely spread out. For example, tomorrow I have a 7:30, 11:30, 4:30. Also it was 90 degrees with 90% humidity all week. I was changing shirts 2-3 times a day because I would sweat so much from the 20-25 min walk between my apartment and my classes. Math and chem are already kicking my ass so I need to do very well in food science and comm.

But not everything is bad. The apartment is pretty fucking sweet even if the neighbors are all couples and basically keep to themselves. It's nice to have your own room with a/c. The people in my classes are cool, it is so much fun impressing the freshman in my comm class. Met up with some friends from last year this weekend and went to a party at Skulls. It was pretty fun until the cops showed up and their security plan was shoving everyone into rooms and turning off the lights and music. Basically we ended up in a room as big as my bedroom at home with 50 drunk kids, 25 of whom started smoking in there and it got to about 120 degrees before the cops left some 20 minutes later. Fucking cops. I might go to Indiana University next weekend to visit some people and party. Oh and instead of doing ballroom dancing, which I discovered is a lot faster paced than I thought, I think I'm going to join the hurling team (at the very least go to a call out for it). I have a feeling that this year is going to be fairly good.


P.S. Sorry to hear how your year is going for you Nicole. I felt that way pretty much all last year. Come visit me 11/10/07 for the Purdue/MSU game!

So the wisdom teeth are finally out and there is no pain, but my allegies just decided to go nuts and my eyes are all watering and i'm sneezing like every 5 seconds and i'm pretty sure the stiches are going to rupture. But "All is well" and i get to reread HP over the next couple days! I think i am going to go have some more yogurt now...

Whenever I long in to LJ there are no new updates. The newest update is "How is this weekend not over" by Nicole which was written a week ago. When I went home I saw there were about 20 other updates that I can't read on my laptop here. Does anyone have any suggestions to fix this?


Nevermind, it updated once I posted this...

Right so I came to a realization (which isn't another word for epiphany) that I feed off of the emotions of the people around me. An emotional vampire I guess you could say...So I find that as long as my friends are happy then I am happy whenever I'm around them, no matter how shitty a day has been. I hope this is making sense so far...So I'm swearing to myself that I am gonna help everyone around me, mostly friends. I get an amazing sense of accomplishment from helping people with things, from simple(homework, yardwork) to the complicated emotional. I think I would have become a doctor if I actually had the drive to go to school for 8 years.

Right...well the point is that if you need me to help any of you with anything, anything at all(except for your chores, you can do those yourselves), just ask I'll be there in a jiffy (what an awesome word) and do the best I can. I'm being honest about this, so don't be shy.

I got a new car! It's a silver 2005 Honda CRV with 46,000 miles. I have only seen pictures, since I can't drive it until summer, but it looks pretty sweet! I'll apologize now if I brag way too much about it but that is what happens when I'm excited about something.

Just to reinterate this summer will be awesome. Streetlight Manifesto/Less Than Jake/Reel Big Fish concert is not in Chicago, it is in Missouri, Milwaukee, and Detroit on July 3,4,5 so whoever wants to go with me let me know. It really depends on the weather for which day is best for me, but just mark your calenders now. I was thinking we could go on the 5th and take thursday-Sunday off work and after the concert in Detroit we could run up to Canada and have a few drinks.

I think I will visit Jack in Boston over Fall break next year and visit Nicole over Labor day or Spring break.

Does anyone know where I could buy some hens and roosters? Dan and I want fresh eggs for our apartment next year. We could also have cock fights over the summer...do some gambling...

Dude, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows comes out in 113 days 7 hours and 17 min from now! I am pumped, they released the cover today and it once again infused me with a huge sense of excitement. I cannot wait!

I'm currently balls deep in shit. School is becoming a pain in the ass, the teachers here blow. I only have one class where I feel like I learn something. I'm borderline failing all my classes except the one where I feel like I learn stuff. Although I was borderline failing my classes last semester but I still got C's in all of them which was bullshit I shoulda had a B in botany, but whatever. So I am planning on treating these last 40 days of school like I am very religous and it is lent and I am giving up everything that distracts me, my brain is the main distraction but I kinda need that to do good in class so I guess I can't get rid of that until summer. Speaking of classes, I'm pretty sure I have and exam every week until dead week so these next 5 weeks are gonna suck. Physics exam tomorrow, I think this will be the one class I stop caring about. Let me demonstrate why I hate it so very much. So I was doing my homwork for physics and a question came up (homework is online and I only have two chances to get it right) "On a 30 degree ramp which would reach the bottom first if released at the same time? Choices are a solid sphere, hollow sphere, solid cylinder, hollow cylinder, cube. Their masses weren't mentioned. So I enter solid sphere, wrong. I am surprised, but if this isn't it it must be the solid cylinder, wrong. HOW THE FUCK DOES A CUBE REACH THE BOTTOM FIRST!? Honestly this class is a fucking waste of time, none of the rules I am learning can happen in the real world because all of this crazy ass shit happens in an "ideal world" with no friction or air resistance, so basically I will never have to use this for food science unless I want to find out which would reach the bottom of a ramp first an apple, pineapple or a dead cow...according to this shit the cow would win.

If you can't tell I cannot wait for the summer. Everything I have planned for the summer is coming together. My pop is helping me look for a car since I am in Indiana, and we got this guy from Naperville Lexus helping out, hopefully he'll be able to find me a nice CRV or Rav4 or some other small suv type thing, so I'm pumped for the new car. Goddamn I love new stuff, but then who doesn't. Planning on paintballing alot, so if any of you want to join me let me know so I can give you a call when we go. Canada a couple of times for camping and drinking. Perhaps some concerts, if Flogging Molly would come to Chicago more than 2 times a year. Streetlight Manifesto has a new album coming out soon, and most likely a tour following the release! Need to buy a new laptop, this piece of shit I'm touching right now disgusts me. I'm gonna be severely in debt during the next year or two, so I need to push things like tattoo and motorcycle down on the priority list unless I win some money this summer. Only one thing left is securing my painting job, I called and they are going through the apps right now, the guy said to reapply to make sure so I did. They'd better hire me, my entire summer relies on this. I need new shoes as well, these are starting to squeek when I walk and that pisses me off an absurd amount. I'm thinking a fedora as well, I found a cheap one that looks good but I need to try some stores first, I don't like ordering clothes off the internet.

I think that is everything for now, this is pretty much what I have been thinking about for the last couple of days. I'm getting kinda antsy, 'specially since it has been getting so nice out. The first nice day and the campus came alive, people were everywhere, like and ant hill after you blow it up with firecrackers and they all pour out to repair it. Ever since it has been nice I have felt like dancing so whenever my roommate leaves I shut the door and "dance", you all know what it looks like, no need to try and describe it. OH I just remembered, THE BLACK DONNELYS on NBC is the most amazing show of all time, kinda like the departed(which is on our campus movie channel right now) but has less to do with cops. You can watch full episodes of it at NBC's website, I suggest you should if you like mob type stuff.

Now I think that is everything, I'm impressed if you read this all the way through.

How come nothing ever happens the way I want it to happen? Honestly, everything that could happen differently always does. Maybe I think too much about things, but that is what I have always done and I don't think I could break out of the way I do things. I have tried, but everytime I am alone or bored the same scenarios run through my mind. I swear I think of everything, but something I never forsee sneaks up on me and throws off whatever I wish to happen. It is time to try again; I think it is time to just shutdown my brain and feel my way with my heart. The brain and heart are the two most impotant organs you have, but they always rub each other the wrong way. It is probably best when you only use one at a time. If you try and use both you will over analyze while feeling a gauntlet of emotions and end up getting nowhere. So I think, or rather feel, that I should shutdown my brain for the next couple of weeks and see what comes of it.

Have you ever wondered if a turtle makes any noise? Well let me put your mind at ease, watch this video all the way through please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Wwl5B5gqo

Not many songs that start with E, but I guess these are my favorite ones that I have.
1)Every Dog Has Its Day--Flogging Molly
2)Eclipse--Pink Floyd
3)Easily--Red Hot Chili Peppers
4)Everything Went Numb--Streetlight Manifesto
5)Eleanor Rigby--The Beatles
6)Eight Days A Week--The Beatles
7)Enter Sandman--Metallica
8)Early Sunsets Over Monroeville--My Chemical Romance
9)Eat Steak--Reverend Horton Heat
10)El Manana--Gorillaz

So I've been looking for ways to use my title in regular conversation, harder than it would seem...It's patented so no one can steal it without giving me credit!

Right, so I feel like my entire year here at Purdue was a bungled waste. I shall recount the story of how I ended up here if you don't know. So I was going to do a Biotechnology major either at North Dakota State University or Purdue. NDSU definatly had biotech as a major and Purdue kept sending me forms to fill out and a category on the forms was "intended major" where I filled in Biotechnology. While this is going on my family is pressuring me saying Grandma and Grandpa are getting old and need your help for chores and whatnot. So I must say this weighed in on my decision, I really wish I was more cold-hearted. So when I visited Purdue they stated to me and gave me a sheet where biotechnology was listed as a major. At this point I decide I am definatly going to Purdue, help my G-parents and do my studies. Right then I meet with a counselor after I have accepted going here, the counselor tells me that biotech is only offered as a minor. WHAT THOSE FUCKING BASTARDS LYING TO ME!! I don't have a backup major planned out so I look at the list she gives me and I choose Plant Genetics and Breeding, which is more or less what I was interested in, note *was.


So PG&B ends up being in a different College (we have College of AG, College of Science, etc) so I need to get a transfer sheet to the College of AG. This wastes about an hour then I finally go to the AG HQ to meet with my counselor there who by this time has gone home, so I don't even meet with a counselor. So I met with everyone that was unqualified to put me into the classes I needed for my major and ended up taking a bunch of useless classes not pertaining to my major with the exception of botany and agriculture economics. So right off the bat I'm fucked.

About a month into my major I realize this isn't what I wanted to do and regret not going to NDSU. My roomate has dropped out by now due to his stess levels and drug addiction, so it was nice having a room to myself. So I begin looking into other majors and think about things I am interested in/passionate about. For those who know me, which is all 3 of you who may read this, may know that I am passionate about lots of things. Although, it is not a sustained passion. So as I try and figure out what I want to do for the rest of my life, life itself continues in a blur of nothing new and no people that I'm interested in becoming good friends with. Sure there are people I go play sports with but the only lasting friend here is Dan Riordan who I've known since junior high. I enjoy him being my best friend here, but I desire to branch but honestly there are no interesting kids here. I suppose I haven't looked too hard, but everyone I can see myself being friends with are in different majors/classes and I only see them when I walk around or occasionally at a party. All the kids in AG are the Frat/Sorority types. All lound, obnoxious, think they are so cool and they know everything, really annoying, can't hold a conversation with them for more than 3 minutes.

So I have found a new major which seems promising and interesting, especially if I can get into the alcohol section of the Major. So something with a vineyard or winery I'm thinking. But now I'm playing catch up but after this semester I realize I cannot handle 18 credit hours, especially with 3 science classes. So I figure I won't be able to graduate for 6 years. Oh and I don't know anyone with the same major as me, I have not met one single person with a food science major.

So to recap, I have fucked myself/pressured by family/purdue swindled me/switched majors/behind on classes for graduation/have met more new friends at my friends colleges than here(i swear to god)/waste of a year/one more year here and I'm going somewhere else, I don't fit in

College isn't what I expected at all and I cannot wait until I am home again on the 1st and the 9th and can see my closest friends and we can just chill and talk for days. I haven't had a good conversation in awhile...