Rant: Apparently I can't be healthy. I rock climb, I tear a tendon in my ankle. I had surgery on that, got better, and then started to run. I felt great about that and have been running for the past year. Then two weeks ago I get pain in my (good) ankle. I have apparently stress fractured my fibula. Fantastic. Even when I try to be healthy I just hurt myself. Rave: I graduate in 29 days. I realize it's just a stupid piece of paper but I'm glad that I'll be done with this step of my life. Rave 2: Girl I met a few weeks ago and I are very much into each other. We are making the distance thing work. It's going really well up to this point. edit: minor grammar issues
Rant The cold, fierce grip of November is now coming in. Just a little slap-in-the-nuts reminder that Jolly ol' snow and ice and black ice and driving on black ice with 100,000 idiots and early sunsets and slush and salty cars and soakers and cold car seats and scraping the FUCKING WINDSHIELD OFF ALL THE FUCKING TIME AND....yeah, winter's here soon. Good times. Rant Rumer Willis must stop showing her face in public. How can you be the daughter of Demi Moore and Die Hard yet look like an Easter Island statue with Down's Syndrome?
Rant: The one day I have to shit so bad that I nearly shit myself while driving home is also the first day in 2 or so months that there has been traffic on the 1. Rave: didn't shit myself.
RAVE: The seeds have been ordered and the grow cabinet is nearly completed. RANT: Now we play the waiting game. Ahh, the waiting game sucks. Let's play Hungry, hungry hippos!
Rant: A good guy friend of mine has a new girlfriend. That isn't the rant though. She posted a pic of his 'new pedicure' a few minutes ago. What kind of chick paints her boyfriends toenails? Seriously?! What kind of guy lets this happen? It sounds nothing like my old drinking buddy, but apparently he's just that kind of guy. Gross. Rave: I might end up working the day after Thanksgiving. Why is this a rave, you ask, that's because not only will I get paid for working that day I will also get an additional day off for working the 'holiday.' As I've posted here, I have tickets to a concert on a Monday night and I would really like to have the following day off. If I work next Friday, I'm taking that day off whether they want me to or not.
Rant: This week is taking forever. Every teacher is giving their last test or quiz or major assignment before Thanksgiving break. Rave: 3 days visiting my best friend and getting wasted. Getting my hair cut finally. Going to Chicago to celebrate my birthday and eat amazing food. Thanksgiving dinner. Birthday. See my family and friends-sounds amazing. A whole 10 days where I get to do absolutely nothing. Rant: I feel like I bombed my human physiology test. I'm freaking out about my calc test tomorrow. I'm hoping I can keep my A's-A's and my B's-B's. Absolutely hate gen eds. Rave: Only 2 and half days until I leave. Only 2 and a half....
Rant: Worked from 7-11 tonight and I have to write up an annotated bibliography for the final paper in my spanish class... due tomorrow. Rave: I'm gonna have the bitchinest booth ever at a convention this coming weekend. You may laugh... but we will kill it. Rave: Spending Thanksgiving with the girlfriend's family and going to the Husker Football game on Friday and then never leaving bed with the girlfriend on Saturday. Weekend after that, I'm driving back there for her sorority's formal. Hells yes. Rave: I've been emailing the CEO of a much larger company back and forth regarding a sales/marketing position. He wants to move forward. I'm trying hard not to build up too much hope... but it seems like I'll be able to make a seamless transition between jobs soon.
Rave? Rant? Not sure: Tried that 4 Loko shit tonight to see why my state is banning it. It's definitely unlike anything I've ever felt before. I'm drunk, but awake. It's kind of like doing Adderall and drinking a shitload of beer afterwards. I'm generally against the prohibition of any substance, but I can see why people want to get rid of this shit. In large quantities it could be very, very dangerous.
Rant: They're taking the caffene out of it. Fucking bastard moralisers ruining everything that's good "Tuesday, November 16, 2010, Chicago, Ill. – Phusion Projects today announced the company’s intent to reformulate its products to remove caffeine, guarana and taurine nationwide, saying it has taken the necessary steps to do so and is informing its employees and distributors of the plans. Going forward, Phusion will produce only non-caffeinated versions of Four Loko. "
Rave: Just registered for all online courses next term, which means I can move in with my sister and niece four months sooner than I had planned! My sister is suffering from severe wifeism right now, but her husband is in Iraq so she has no one to take care of, which means whenever I visit she makes me meals whenever I am hungry and cooks me hangover breakfasts. I am freaking stoked. Rant: NaNoWriMo is way harder than I thought it would be. I'm only at 5,700 words when I ought to be at around 20k. I doubt I'm going to finish by the deadline.
Rant: Have managed to fuck things up with the most incredible girl in the world. Ever meet someone who is smart, gorgeous, funny and you have so much in common it's frightening? Well, I had, and one row and a massive over reaction from me, and I've fucked it all up. What a stupid cunt. I'm going to drown some brain cells in beer, because that'll make everything better. Fuck.
Rant: Driving cold rain and whipping winds... a "beautiful" New England November morning. I'd love nothing more than to stoke up the wood stove and catch up on Dexter & Weeds but there is a mini-pony sized puppy that's eyeballing me because it's time for his walk. Where are those fucking rain pants...
Rave Nothing quite like getting banned to clear the mind and cleanse the soul. I recommend it for all the longtime members.
Rant: Went out for a training ride with my roommate this morning who is a very inexperienced cyclist. I didn't know that inexperienced also meant lacking common sense. I woke him up at 730 this morning to get going and he decided that he wanted to do a load of laundry first. After all of his other bullshit, we finally left the house at 9am! Didn't get to the starting location until 915 at which point he realized he forgot his helmet and gloves. He went home and got his things and didn't get back until after 930. When he was finally ready to go, he asked me if I thought his tires were inflated enough. They were barely inflated enough so that he could ride. He never bothered to check them before he left the house. I can't be babysitting a 27 year old man. He has a PhD for shits sake. I told him that he was at a much greater risk for a flat and that pedaling would be astronomically difficult with such low pressure. He said "Fuck this shit." And got back in his car and went home. What a waste of a perfect fucking morning. I need to find more reliable riding partners.
Rave: Econ class this morning was easy. Showed up, was given take home test (not due until a week from Monday) and left. Rant: Leaves me 3 hours until my next class. Rave: Paper/presentation due tomorrow, but I'm almost ready to go for that (only about 15 minutes of work left, should be done before I go home today). Rant: Next class is nothing more than a movie. A movie that will be completely useless and have absolutely no bearing on any exam or paper we write. It is something I am so disinterested in, I would seriously consider giving myself a major wound (i.e. cutting my own arm) to get out of going to this class. Rant: She takes attendance, and drops you from the class if you miss more than 4 classes. Who the fuck does that in a college. I'm paying thousands of dollars to be here for your class. Make it worth my while and I won't want to ditch it. Stop showing us silly and useless movies that have absolutely no bearing whatsoever on anything that you're actually teaching us. I didn't pay all that tuition money just so you could show me a movie when you run out of stuff to talk about. Rant: I've already missed my '4 classes.' I have to at least show up for attendance, or she may actually drop me from the course, despite the fact that I had a 104% on my first exam and will likely ace the class otherwise. Rave: Highly considering showing my displeasure with her sillyness and the fact that she plans to spend the next 4 classes showing us movies by signing the attendance sheet and immediately getting up and walking out. Rant: While she is senile and barely knows anyone's name, she has chosen to memorize my name. Apparently, my extremely high test score in conjunction with my 'excellent presentation' (her words) have somehow made me her favorite student. Fuck. Rave: I know how to work the system in most classes to get easy As with minimal effort: Do the readings. Crazy, right? I find that I don't even necessarily need to go to class (unless they take attendance). Read the books, and you have all the information you need to write any papers or take any tests for a class. It saddens me that it took me so long to figure out that if you just read the books for your classes, you can easily ace pretty much all of them.
RAVE: went to a nice jazz blues club here in Toronto. Reservoir Lounge. Great place. The sax player was someone I'd known 25 years ago from the Ontario bar scene (Shuffle Demons for the win) and I got to sit in for a couple of songs. It was fun. RANT: playing jazz is a lot like riding a bicycle; you never forget how to fall off.