September 24, 2008
I’ve been itching the day before and today because I have a Spanish quiz. I bombed the last quiz with a 77. Then again… You get to drop a quiz, there are a handful of the quizzes, and it only counts for like 10-20% of the grade. There are two midterms that count as 15% each and a final that counts for 10%. There’s so much random shit and work that’s why the percentages are so low. A real class could have the final at like 30-40% with a midterm being lower, participation only counting 10% at most and the rest for whatever essays or stuff. It’s horrific that this Spanish class has by far been my hardest and busiest class so far. I’m pretty sure I did fine on the quiz though.
After the quiz at 3:00ish, I go to the other supermarket. They are opposite sides of NYU “campus,” which is just a bunch of city blocks. The one that’s a bit out of the way, then again, that’s my standard. I just hate walking that much and people would literally say that it’s 4 blocks away. That’s just 4 blocks too much for me.
I get the ingredients for a chili and other stuff. I’ve been drinking out a big Wendy’s cup for the past few days. People make fun of it on Stickam and I agree it’s skeevy. However, I’m all about big cups and the mugs I have aren’t big enough. Thankfully this supermarket as 16 oz. plastic cups.
I get roast beef and garlic cheddar (turns out to be really interesting tasting, but very garlicky). The sandwiches are mostly for eating in the library between my class ending at 12:15 and next class starting at 2:00. The walk is “worth it” for me so for me it’s easier to go the library, plug in the computer, sit on there like I’d be at home, watch my shows, and have my lunch.
When I get back, it’s cookin’ time. It’s the first time I’ve made rice without a rice cooker. Wash the rice, put water, simmer rice. Unfortunately, I leave it on the stove for a bit too long instead of letting it sit and cook itself off the heat. The rice turns a bit off al dente, but it’s fine.
Time for the chili:
Big pot, oil, brown a pound of ground beef. Diced, 4 small red onions, which is like 2-3 cups. Sweat for a looog time, want them sweet and soft. 5 cloves of garlic, minced, in. 2 red peppers, chopped, sweat until they are soft too. Conventions call for canned tomatoes, but I used tomato sauce instead. I’m off of pasta/sauce carb load diet, so I have to use the jars of sauce that I’ve previously purchased. It’s basically the same, but it’s spiced and everything. A can of red kidney beans, in. Throw in water and reduce until right consistency.
Now I have rice and chili instead of pasta and sauce. The onion, beans, and peppers fills it up more than just being sauce. The meat is hella lot better than not having it. It turns out to be like over 2 liters of chili into a Tuperware. I had to squeeze 2 liters of rice into the other Tuperware. The conventional heat is to from Jalapeno or chipotle in abode. The place doesn’t have either. The other stuff is American hot sauce, the vingerry Tabasco or Buffalo sauce stuff. Instead, I choose Sriracha, but it’s a weird brand that is also vingerry. I throw that in and it turns out fine for getting a kick in.
I’m thinking of throwing in some eggplant. It really shrinks to nothing after being cooked and I might need lots of it.
I’ll need some cheddar to cut up and sour cream that I’ll buy tomorrow as condiments for the chili/rice.
September 25, 2008
After I walkout of my class at 7:30.T A switch just flicks in my head and I just end up having the urge to do something because it’s the “weekend” since I only have class at 2:00 on Friday, so it basically can count as a three day weekend for me.
I get back and sit on Stickam for a bit. On a usual day, I’d just watch some TV, sit on Stickam, and end up going to sleep. However, it’s the “weekend” so I jjust can sit there. I drink 4-6 cups of coffee out of boredom and it gets me really jittery. I actually look up how to make hard cider, since I’m out of alcohol, I plan on buying the ingredients tomorrow to make my own alcohol, apple cider, yeast and sugar.
I end up getting the idea that I should go to the Russian liquor store that doesn’t card and stuff. I even dress up into a button up so I look older. It’s a good coincidence that I haven’t shaved for the past few days too. My chalked ID has worked twice at a bar, so I hope if it comes to it, it works at the liquor store too. I look around and grab a plastic handle of vodka for $18.50. The guy doesn’t even card me! I tip the $1.50 change into the jar. A quid pro quo kind of move. Hopefully, I can consistently use this place.
It’s so great. It’s literally a top three moment in life. I celebrate and give a few people calls like Miah and Jenn. I get back work on my vodka and Diet Coke. It’s a good thing that I haven’t eaten since 3-4:00. I Stickam a bunch, going out for a few smokes, and stuff. After I’m done drinking, I have myself a roast beef, garlic cheddar on rye with honey mustard.
Writing about Privileged in the middle of the night:
If you guys don’t know “Privileged,” there’s an incredible moment where I just had to laugh at. There tutor (main character) is worried about her “tutee” (not sure if that’s word) being held back a year because of her grades. The “tutee” says that she might not get good grades no matter how hard she tries. The tutor responds, “That’s like not going out with guys because you worry they’ll cheat on you or not writing because you’re worried that you’ll never get published (the tutor is a struggling writer).” The girl responds, “Are you talking about the Sex and the City? I loved the movie, but I’m not sure what you’re talking about.” It’s this off tempo joke is what makes me absolutely love Casablanca. The tutor is really worried about the girl’s future and sets an extremely dramatic tone in the scene, yet the reply throws everything off and just works so well with the juxtaposition. I guess most/some might not find it funny, but it’s exactly my kind of humor and I even stopped the show to write almost 200 words about a little thing like this. In the end, the tutor explains you can’t not try because you’ll never know what the outcome will be.
I end up passing out by 5:00 for class the next day.
September 26, 2008
I sit around for most of the day. Hasan tells me to go back, but it doesn’t seem worth it if I hang out in the city instead. Also, they’re supposed to be coming into the city tomorrow anyway. Evan is unreachable for such a long time, but by 12:00, he’s almost ready and stuff and we’re going to a bar. Lets see where the night takes us.
We meet up and go to the bar that is near us. It’s one that I’ve been to three times already and the people that Evan knows are there. It turns out that I guess the people are up to other stuff and only a few of the guys are there. We only stay there for a while until the two of us walk with Karthik back to his place to hang out.
The walk back, he’s super drunk and has the flyest vomiting that I’ve ever seen. At one point, he slows down a bit and vomits onto some trash bags. I didn’t even know it was him and I think it’s something falling from the sky. He then throws up in front of him while he’s still walking and it doesn’t even get on him. He does a good job being so slick about it.
We go into his room and sit around listening to hip hop. We wait there for a while until Boris will come back because it has his weed locked up. We chill there for a while until I realize that I’m pretty much sober. We then go out to get food because Boris is on his way back eventually. Evan and Karthik get some chicken gyro shit.
On the walk back, Evan says that he needs to go sleep and goes back. Karthik invites to me to stay and hang even though Evan is going back. That’s cool. Boris is back we he rolls a fast ass joint. I only take 1 hit of it and I’m getting there. It turns out there is Coors Light in the fridge so I grab it and finish almost a 40. We then go a few doors down to Derick’s place. He has some people over and he rolls a blunt. I don’t have any of it and I end up leaving soon after that. It’s good that I got to hang out tonight and did it even though Evan left.
September 27, 2008
It’s Saturday and people end up coming into the city. I have a few drinks of my vodka until I meet up with Bolanos, Josh, CNF, and Atron. We go to the liquor store and they pick up a bottle of rum. It’s 10:30ish by now and I’m really paranoid having people over. The woman has her like 4 year old kid over and us guys are usually loud and especially with drink, which I would prefer didn’t somehow get back to mom.
We’re good about it and up leaving my place by 11:20ish. We meet up with Evan in front of his place and walk around to find a place to go. We end up going to a bar that’s near NYU campus. Atron’s ID is bad and he can’t get in. We then walk around for a while with nowhere to go. We end up walking over to Tuck Shop.
Then, Atron and Evan go off to get weed from Boris. CNF, Josh, and I hang around for a bit. We find a bar that’s a block away from me and we all are able to get in. CNF finds out that he’s lost his keys, so we run back to my place to look for them. Luckily, he finds them and we go back to the bar to grab a beer.
We tell Atron to go there because he’ll be a good wing, but he ends up again not being able to get in. I guess the city is rougher than we though. They end up walking or subwaying back to Penn by 2:30 to catch the 3:19. It’s still relatively early and I have noting to do so I end up speaking to one of my Stickam friends outside for an hour or so until I head back in.
September 28, 2008
I wake up at 4:00 and feel a bit funny. Some of it is from the fact that I probably smoked near a pack the night before. I eat and go on Stickam. Someone mentions they’ve pulled an all nighter of drinking. I decide to copy and start drinking at 5PM out of boredom. I stay that way until 2:00 when I sleep. Now that’s a fuckin long day of drinking.
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
I'm A Sick Man
September 23, 2008
So I just found out that I’m watching an unprecedented amount of television.
How I Met Your Mother
Heroes
Smallville
Entourage
90210
Prison Break
Burn Notice
I Love Money
Greek
Gossip Girl
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The Hills
The Soup
Dexter
Californication
Mad Men
Fringe
Privelege
Samurai Girl
I think that’s a record 19 shows I’m watching this season. Alright, lets do some quick recap.
How I Met Your Mother- It was set up last season with the marriage proposal to Sarah Chalke’s character. They specifically played with the yellow umbrella that was left at the club during St. Patty’s. I’m very curious where they take that. Otherwise, I’m disappointed that Ted has become a “settled” man and now that Barney is left to his own crazy self. More people in the world need to be like Barney.
Heroes- The show really needs to move quicker and stop with the boring offbranching storylines. It’s also entering weird confusing plot lines that involve the future and characters how they might be by then. However, I’m glad that they’re back to Sylar, who is one nail biting villain. Noah Bennet also turns out to be alive, who is very well portrayed by Jack Coleman and easily one of my favorite characters.
Smallville- I’m not sure why I’m into Season 7 of this show. I don’t think I’ve really loved an episode for a while. Then again, there are a couple episodes that are to die for in the Second Season. They really pace the storyline of Clark slowly and I think he’s finally reached the Daily Planet now, while skipping college because of whatever mysticism/conspiracy/Da Vinci Code-ian ideas they’ve brought onto the show.
Entourage- The last episode with the party was pretty fun. However, they keep making Vinny Chase absolutely invincible with his “un-bankruptability” and weird situations where he gets paid $200,000 to show up to a Sweet 16 for a couple hours and sing. Seriously?
I’m interested in where Eric’s career starts going now that he’s moved a big script onto Edward Norton. Hopefully Vinny turns out alright in Hollywood and finds another blockbuster. Hell, who am I kidding, does anyone doubt it’ll all turn out well for the crew?
90120- A pretty decent teen drama show. The dynamic between Dixon, a black teenager adopted into a rich white family, and his family has emerged. There’s a parallel story with Silver, a girl that’s on the run from an alcoholic mother that’s abandoned her. Also, the show needs more Jessica Walter (the mother figure of both 90210 and our beloved Arrested Development)! She’s absolutely hilarious, witty, and sarcastic. I’m curious to see where this show goes.
Prison Break- For some reason, I like that the “gang” is out of the jail setting now and into the real world. Then again, they’re trying to dig deeper into a conspiracy called the “Company,” which is somehow trying to take over the world and working on smaller countries first and then the US. It has its exciting action/Scofield mastermind moments.
Burn Notice- The show is consistently doing a good job and now it’s getting more exciting since we’re getting deeper and deeper into Michael Westen’s handler played by Battlestar Galatica’s Tricia Helfer. She seems like an interesting character and I want to see where this plan of her goes since Michael is one of her “pieces” in a mastermind plan of some sort.
I Love Money- We’re down to 4. White Boi or Hoops better win.
Greek- The show has really picked up with Calvin’s homosexuality being explored and Casey’s new love for Rusty’s RA. A fun to show watch, though I’d like to see Rusty romantically get involved or something. It sucked that LonelyGirl15 had to leave last season.
Gossip Girl- I’m absolutely loving this season. Chuck has become a liked character and the love triangle with him, Blair, and the Lord is cool. However, the Lord mother, Vanessa, and Nate, this is just scary stuff. Blair is still a devilish amazing mastermind. She had a great move last season. I wonder where Amanda goes from here. I hope Jenny turns out to have a bright future with her fashion career.
Why are Dan and Blair being such idiots? I so wanted them to stay with each other. This is balls! Dan and Blair 4 3v3r! xo xo! Gossip girl.
(Back to this, probably the best episode of the entire show’s history, watch this week’s episode.)
Terminator- A cool Sci-Fi show, though I’m curious who the next Terminator is. It seemed like they killed the last one and the new one is liquid like the one from Terminator 2.
The Hills- I’m so glad Lauren and Audrina are back together. I can’t wait to see more of Spencer. There needs to be a new word for a douchebag, Spencer. There’s no explanation for anything worse than his attitude. How does any person, even Heidi, deal with him?
The Soup- A must watch. It gathers all the greatest moments from TV and just throws them into one show.
Dexter- He’s back to his old murdering self, but all revamped after the chase on him. He has to hold onto his code, adapt it, and continue his life. He needs his father’s code to survive. This season looks like it will be bringing new people trying to squeak into his life and figure who the real “Dexter” is.
Californication- The season ending was pretty surprising. Lets see what happens from here.
Mad Men- The show continues to be outstanding. Peggy is going to have to face that the Father knows about her baby and we will be going back to the flashback and her history at the hospital for months and months after her birth.
Don is going to have to clean himself of his flirtatious ways and adulterating around. Mrs. Draper knows and she’s taken off her shell and ready to fight back at him.
Ms. Halloway has gotten a taste of what it’s like to break the gender boundaries like Peggy has. She loved the job of reading scripts and being “one of the guys.” Her reaction to the loss off his task was shattering. She’ll be striking back as her usual fiery, snappy self.
Fringe- The Sci-Fi gets a bit ridiculous, though I keep watching because of the conspiracies of “The Pattern” and how the company relates to it and the government. The scientist and his son are hard to believe and what they get done on the show is just unrealistic. Then again, it’s Sci-Fi for a reason.
Samurai Girl- I’m two episodes into this six episode mini series. It’s an interesting blend of teen drama with family issues entwined with martial arts action and Japanese culture and traditions. I will definitely finish this mini series.
Privilege- My vote for the up and comer this season. The first few episodes have been fun and fresh. Then again, it’s definitely not Veronica Mars, but the mood and sass is still there.
So I just found out that I’m watching an unprecedented amount of television.
How I Met Your Mother
Heroes
Smallville
Entourage
90210
Prison Break
Burn Notice
I Love Money
Greek
Gossip Girl
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The Hills
The Soup
Dexter
Californication
Mad Men
Fringe
Privelege
Samurai Girl
I think that’s a record 19 shows I’m watching this season. Alright, lets do some quick recap.
How I Met Your Mother- It was set up last season with the marriage proposal to Sarah Chalke’s character. They specifically played with the yellow umbrella that was left at the club during St. Patty’s. I’m very curious where they take that. Otherwise, I’m disappointed that Ted has become a “settled” man and now that Barney is left to his own crazy self. More people in the world need to be like Barney.
Heroes- The show really needs to move quicker and stop with the boring offbranching storylines. It’s also entering weird confusing plot lines that involve the future and characters how they might be by then. However, I’m glad that they’re back to Sylar, who is one nail biting villain. Noah Bennet also turns out to be alive, who is very well portrayed by Jack Coleman and easily one of my favorite characters.
Smallville- I’m not sure why I’m into Season 7 of this show. I don’t think I’ve really loved an episode for a while. Then again, there are a couple episodes that are to die for in the Second Season. They really pace the storyline of Clark slowly and I think he’s finally reached the Daily Planet now, while skipping college because of whatever mysticism/conspiracy/Da Vinci Code-ian ideas they’ve brought onto the show.
Entourage- The last episode with the party was pretty fun. However, they keep making Vinny Chase absolutely invincible with his “un-bankruptability” and weird situations where he gets paid $200,000 to show up to a Sweet 16 for a couple hours and sing. Seriously?
I’m interested in where Eric’s career starts going now that he’s moved a big script onto Edward Norton. Hopefully Vinny turns out alright in Hollywood and finds another blockbuster. Hell, who am I kidding, does anyone doubt it’ll all turn out well for the crew?
90120- A pretty decent teen drama show. The dynamic between Dixon, a black teenager adopted into a rich white family, and his family has emerged. There’s a parallel story with Silver, a girl that’s on the run from an alcoholic mother that’s abandoned her. Also, the show needs more Jessica Walter (the mother figure of both 90210 and our beloved Arrested Development)! She’s absolutely hilarious, witty, and sarcastic. I’m curious to see where this show goes.
Prison Break- For some reason, I like that the “gang” is out of the jail setting now and into the real world. Then again, they’re trying to dig deeper into a conspiracy called the “Company,” which is somehow trying to take over the world and working on smaller countries first and then the US. It has its exciting action/Scofield mastermind moments.
Burn Notice- The show is consistently doing a good job and now it’s getting more exciting since we’re getting deeper and deeper into Michael Westen’s handler played by Battlestar Galatica’s Tricia Helfer. She seems like an interesting character and I want to see where this plan of her goes since Michael is one of her “pieces” in a mastermind plan of some sort.
I Love Money- We’re down to 4. White Boi or Hoops better win.
Greek- The show has really picked up with Calvin’s homosexuality being explored and Casey’s new love for Rusty’s RA. A fun to show watch, though I’d like to see Rusty romantically get involved or something. It sucked that LonelyGirl15 had to leave last season.
Gossip Girl- I’m absolutely loving this season. Chuck has become a liked character and the love triangle with him, Blair, and the Lord is cool. However, the Lord mother, Vanessa, and Nate, this is just scary stuff. Blair is still a devilish amazing mastermind. She had a great move last season. I wonder where Amanda goes from here. I hope Jenny turns out to have a bright future with her fashion career.
Why are Dan and Blair being such idiots? I so wanted them to stay with each other. This is balls! Dan and Blair 4 3v3r! xo xo! Gossip girl.
(Back to this, probably the best episode of the entire show’s history, watch this week’s episode.)
Terminator- A cool Sci-Fi show, though I’m curious who the next Terminator is. It seemed like they killed the last one and the new one is liquid like the one from Terminator 2.
The Hills- I’m so glad Lauren and Audrina are back together. I can’t wait to see more of Spencer. There needs to be a new word for a douchebag, Spencer. There’s no explanation for anything worse than his attitude. How does any person, even Heidi, deal with him?
The Soup- A must watch. It gathers all the greatest moments from TV and just throws them into one show.
Dexter- He’s back to his old murdering self, but all revamped after the chase on him. He has to hold onto his code, adapt it, and continue his life. He needs his father’s code to survive. This season looks like it will be bringing new people trying to squeak into his life and figure who the real “Dexter” is.
Californication- The season ending was pretty surprising. Lets see what happens from here.
Mad Men- The show continues to be outstanding. Peggy is going to have to face that the Father knows about her baby and we will be going back to the flashback and her history at the hospital for months and months after her birth.
Don is going to have to clean himself of his flirtatious ways and adulterating around. Mrs. Draper knows and she’s taken off her shell and ready to fight back at him.
Ms. Halloway has gotten a taste of what it’s like to break the gender boundaries like Peggy has. She loved the job of reading scripts and being “one of the guys.” Her reaction to the loss off his task was shattering. She’ll be striking back as her usual fiery, snappy self.
Fringe- The Sci-Fi gets a bit ridiculous, though I keep watching because of the conspiracies of “The Pattern” and how the company relates to it and the government. The scientist and his son are hard to believe and what they get done on the show is just unrealistic. Then again, it’s Sci-Fi for a reason.
Samurai Girl- I’m two episodes into this six episode mini series. It’s an interesting blend of teen drama with family issues entwined with martial arts action and Japanese culture and traditions. I will definitely finish this mini series.
Privilege- My vote for the up and comer this season. The first few episodes have been fun and fresh. Then again, it’s definitely not Veronica Mars, but the mood and sass is still there.
Sunday, 21 September 2008
Mundane stuff and Going Out on Weekend
September 17, 2008
After class, I go to the supermarket to buy some shit. I need to change my diet because I fuckin gained weight from last semester eating only pasta with heavy tomato sauce and sandwiches of turkey and Swiss, with chips and hummus. It doesn’t seem like that bad, but I guess the pasta is what did it.
I try to go to salad, so I grab two heads of lettuce because it’s fresher and a better deal than buying the salad mix. I already have balsamic dressing, so I work it off of that. I should’ve made my own vinaigrette. I grab a block of mozzarella, a fresh red bell pepper, croutons, and a lb. of chicken breast. I also get to large Tupperware things for the salad.
Cooking part (You can skip if you don’t care about cooking):
When I get back, I clean and cut up the lettuce. Almost of 2 lbs. of lettuce turns out to be a lot… So I don’t use it all since it won’t fit in the container. I then cut up the peppers and cook them. You want to burn them a little bit to get that grill flavor. Put that into another container. Get the block of mozzarella, dice it, throw it in with the peppers.
Salt, pepper, and curry on the chicken. Onto the pan. Cook, cover, flip, cover. You want color on the chicken, but chicken needs to be cooked all the way so lower the heat and cover it at a point. Then let it sit. If you cut it immediately, it’ll be way too hot for fingers. Most importantly, all the juice will flow out. Letting it sit firms it up and makes sure it withholds the juices.
Then dice that up, throw it into the cheese and peppers mix. Handful of lettuce into bowl, scoop of the “substance of the salad” mix, put up dressing, toss salad, and finish with croutons. It will probably last me 4-5 times because I used a lb. of chicken.
I’m supposed to do some work, but I end up sitting on Stickam for a while. I also hate on Atron for unemployed ass getting an iPhone. Whatever, he got his priority on ballin’ shit. Evan gives me a call because he wants grab dinner. I ate, but I go along to hang out.
We walk to the dining hall on campus. We meet up with his friend Emery, who I’ve met a bunch of times already. It’s his birthday and he’s having his 21st on Saturday. It’s supposed to be a crazy party. Good times!
We end up going to the conversation of how I’d do all those Psych paid oddjobs/surveys and whatever. He gives me an email for that. Sweet times. We then get into the game of “How Much Would It Cost For You To…”
It goes into how Evan would take $100 billion if he had to die at 35. We then speculate how much could be done to the world with that much money. While some of it could be used to have fun, but we just have this idea of what good could come out of one’s life with that much money.
I come back to write the blog and watch the new CW show, Privileged. I love it so far. About a quirky, witty Yale graduate writer from New York that gets hired by a multi-billionaire family to tutor two snobbish high school girls in Palm Beach, California, thus the name “Privileged.” She’s supposed to make sure that they get the grades to get into Duke. She reminds me of the strong-willed female that we love so much from Veronica Mars, which is one of the finest shows of our time. It’s a very fun show. It’s filled with the awkward conflict with one of the daughters, who’s she’s supposed to help and is relying on her doing well. And then there’s the younger sister that looks up to her as a mother figure. Then again, the set up is very “Cinderella.” Did I mention that her pay is $1,500 a week and getting all her college loans paid off if she pulls the job…
Anyway, time to get off this blog and back to doing some schoolwork. I’ve actually come to enjoy doing some of my readings and reading outside stuff about it because I’m especially enjoying my Civil Liberties class, which might as well be called “Supreme Court.” The reading up is good because I should be participating more in classes in general and it also helps me do my favorite thing, faux debates in class where I simply smash people down for comments that I find stupid.
September 18, 2007
I get an email back from the Psych department that I can go in on Tuesday and earn like $10 for like an hours of filling out stupid shit. Sounds like a plan. After my class, I try contacting Evan, but he’s not picking up. I get back to the apartment and start finishing my Vodka. It’s been good that it’s lasted for almost 2 weeks.
I start at 9:30ish and it’s a good thing that I haven’t eaten since 2:00. I work on that while I’m chilling on Stickam. At 12:00ish, I go out for a walk and cig break. I have a 40 minute call with Bolanos speaking about legal jurisprudence, the deficit, future Presidents, and so on. I then go back on Stickam, make myself a sandwich, and sit around until 4:00 when I sleep since I have class at 2:00 the next day.
September 19, 2008
For my Spanish class, I end up getting a 77 on my test from stupid mistakes and all that dumbness. It’s so ridiculous that this class is killing me. Whatever, I should be able to drop this quiz, but I gotta start doing better in this bullshit. After class, I go to the supermarket. I don’t know why I didn’t go this supermarket last semester. It’s right on campus. So instead of walking out of my way to a supermarket and walking back, I can just stop by on the way home from classes.
I have loads of lettuce, but I’m falling down on my “filler” mix. I get a red pepper and a small eggplant. I also grab ice trays because the one I have is way too small. The one I get is huge and makes ice cubes the size of the Titanic.
I get back and roast the peppers. I cook the eggplant with simply oil, salt and pepper. So now it’s curry chicken, roasted peppers, diced mozzarella, and eggplant. Again with the same, throw that in with some pasta, and croutons and balsamic vinaigrette, it moves away from a salad and is super satisfying while still being a salad…
I also have a small coffee maker, which only makes 4 cups at a time, which sucks. I make the 4 cups, put in the fridge, then transfer it to a Coke bottle, then make more coffee since a “serving” for me is like over 2 cups. I didn’t get milk I wouldn’t finish it. Instead, I try use a Tiramisu flavored wet Coffee Mate. While it does taste a bit fake, it gets the job done and the Tiramisu flavor is sweet.
It turns out that one of the people I know from Stickam has visited New York City with her class, all the way from Sweden. She tells me she’s going to my “library.” So I go on my campus, walk around a bit looking for a large group of Swedes. I drop that after a bit and go meet up with Evan at the libray. I then go back, have a light dinner, and go out with him to a bar. This girl he knows from class invites him and they are mighty aggressive texts.
We take the train up there. Notice that I’m sober because I’m dry and nothing was picked up. We walk in and we see the person that he knows. By the way, this is the first time I’ve used my chalked and it worked… And it’s a big bar near Grand Central, interesting… I’ve seen her before when Evan helped her with some stuff at the library. She buys us a shot of Patron. I then get a Kettle One mix drink. Then a Jello shot. Then a rum and coke. Then a vodka tonic. I offer to buy her drinks, but she refuses. Even Evan has a couple drinks because it’s the social thing to do, it has no effect on him, and he’s just bein a playa.
Speaking about that, that playa has like bitches all over him. One of them leaves and the other one is like workin him. She then starts talking to some other dudes. I wing for him and I’m like, yo, you gotta get on up that or you losin it. After those drinks stopped flowing, I decide to tell Evan to get me a shot. It ends up costing $5, which is expensive, but not bad compared to how much I got for the night.
We then meet Evan’s friend that had the apartment party last week. We’re planning to go to his place, but it’s 1:30 and Evan’s sick. There’s a party tomorrow, so he wants to be ready for that. We end up walking back and Evan runs into a girl he knows from before. She’s balling crying and we walk her back for a few blocks. Hopefully she’s alright.
Evan then runs into two people he knows from Stern. They’re going to some ballin’ party tomorrow. It’s crazy seeing Evan the social butterfly running to the people every single time that I walk with him anywhere.
It’s still early for me, so I speak to Miah and Bolanos. Miah’s at a party. Bolanos and Atron had a party. Just keeping up with niggas, you know how it is. I get back to Stickam for a few hours until I end up sleeping really late at 7:00.
It’s been a 180 from last semester with all these ballin’ weekends. Hopefully tomorrow’s party will be crazzay.
September 20, 2008
I meet up with Evan at 9:30ish. We walk to the dining hall and meetup with Brian. They eat and we walk over to the Emery’s girlfriend’s apartment where the pre-game party is. I see a couple of the guys from Prague, so it’s cool seeing them. I also see the two of the girls that I hung out a lot with, but it’s just the standard Hi, What’s up deal.
When we walk in, Brian makes himself a drink. I see immediately that it’s Ciroc, P Diddy vodka. I pour myself three shots into a red cup and chug that straight fast in a heartbeat. It’s also good since I ate a salad at 4:00ish, had half a bagel at 6:00, and that’s all day. I let that shit sit for twenty minutes until I go for my next drink.
Throughout the night, I just lose count. It’s just sneaking to the kitchen, and smoothly pouring myself shots and shots and mix drinks and mix drinks. We meet this twenty some year old guy who lives in the apartment above. He heard the party, he comes down, and he said he’s throwing something next week, so I grab his number in case I’m not doing anything that night.
I speak to this guy that went to Prague the last semester, so share stories on that. I think before 12:00, we end up taking a cab downtown to the bar. It’s actually three blocks away from my old dorm. It’s a pretty nice place and I get in with my ID. Slowly, I realize that I’m really shitfaced because I started smashing down drinks right before I left. Evan says the next day that I was just out of it and looked like a woozy drinkass.
I slowly get off of that and feel a lot better. Evan and Brian leave at one point and I have no idea when that is though. I end up saying Hi to some of the people I already know from Prague. I speak to this guy that I met at the pregame. He’s a built guy and says that I should work out more. He gives me a shoulder squeeze and it hurts. I guess I’m a pussy.
He then for some reason asks if I’m gay. I say no. He says he isn’t gay either. He then says he doesn’t like Asian girls. I agree with him. I mention all these girls around us and where our “targets” can be, but he’s reluctant and says he doesn’t like these girls and doesn’t like those girls…
He needs to go to the bathoom, where there’s a downstairs for. After that, I remember going up the stairs and literally tripping on every single one. It’s too embarrassing. I guess it’s this point where I should’ve noticed I was still too drunk. I can’t find the guy after going to the bathroom. After a while of standing around and being an awkward individual, I decide to leave. It shouldn’t be hard getting back, I’m 3 blocks from where I used to live. I end up going the complete opposite direction for 4-5 blocks and getting myself way lost.
This is when the drunk has been replaced by being really worried because I literally have no sense in where I am. Thankfully Jonah calls when I call him and he Google maps for me and I end up finding my way back. I also speak to Tim and Sam and tell her about studying abroad, my experience in Prague, and it’s just nice in general keeping up with them.
I get back into the apartment before 4:00. I go on Stickam and it starts hitting me since I’m so out of it. I start getting the hiccups, dizziness, and just all that stuff. I don’t know where it came from and maybe it’s from being tired. I sit around and sober up drinking 2 liters of water until I sleep at 7:00. A bit of a disappointing night because I didn’t speak to many people and especially none of the other race.
Additional story:
At one point in the night, one of the people I know gives me a forceful hi five or bro hug or something and it flings my glasses onto the ground. I quickly run onto the ground to find it. Weird part is that this is the second time it’s happened during the night. It would be baaadd if something happened like I couldn’t find it or someone on the crowded bar area just stepped on them. I would literally be blind in a dark area and wouldn’t have any chance of finding my way around or getting back home. My vision is fuckin shit.
When I quickly bend over looking around, I must’ve accidentally touched a guy or something. He starts giving me shit and my acquaintance tries to defend me. I guess I must’ve brushed his ass or something because this beep was not going to have any of it. He eventually let me off the hook. While there are few negatives to getting “too drunk,” having a high tendency to lose my glasses is just horrible. That would really bum out the night and I would be fuckin lost, hopeless, and unable to anything without my glasses.
After class, I go to the supermarket to buy some shit. I need to change my diet because I fuckin gained weight from last semester eating only pasta with heavy tomato sauce and sandwiches of turkey and Swiss, with chips and hummus. It doesn’t seem like that bad, but I guess the pasta is what did it.
I try to go to salad, so I grab two heads of lettuce because it’s fresher and a better deal than buying the salad mix. I already have balsamic dressing, so I work it off of that. I should’ve made my own vinaigrette. I grab a block of mozzarella, a fresh red bell pepper, croutons, and a lb. of chicken breast. I also get to large Tupperware things for the salad.
Cooking part (You can skip if you don’t care about cooking):
When I get back, I clean and cut up the lettuce. Almost of 2 lbs. of lettuce turns out to be a lot… So I don’t use it all since it won’t fit in the container. I then cut up the peppers and cook them. You want to burn them a little bit to get that grill flavor. Put that into another container. Get the block of mozzarella, dice it, throw it in with the peppers.
Salt, pepper, and curry on the chicken. Onto the pan. Cook, cover, flip, cover. You want color on the chicken, but chicken needs to be cooked all the way so lower the heat and cover it at a point. Then let it sit. If you cut it immediately, it’ll be way too hot for fingers. Most importantly, all the juice will flow out. Letting it sit firms it up and makes sure it withholds the juices.
Then dice that up, throw it into the cheese and peppers mix. Handful of lettuce into bowl, scoop of the “substance of the salad” mix, put up dressing, toss salad, and finish with croutons. It will probably last me 4-5 times because I used a lb. of chicken.
I’m supposed to do some work, but I end up sitting on Stickam for a while. I also hate on Atron for unemployed ass getting an iPhone. Whatever, he got his priority on ballin’ shit. Evan gives me a call because he wants grab dinner. I ate, but I go along to hang out.
We walk to the dining hall on campus. We meet up with his friend Emery, who I’ve met a bunch of times already. It’s his birthday and he’s having his 21st on Saturday. It’s supposed to be a crazy party. Good times!
We end up going to the conversation of how I’d do all those Psych paid oddjobs/surveys and whatever. He gives me an email for that. Sweet times. We then get into the game of “How Much Would It Cost For You To…”
It goes into how Evan would take $100 billion if he had to die at 35. We then speculate how much could be done to the world with that much money. While some of it could be used to have fun, but we just have this idea of what good could come out of one’s life with that much money.
I come back to write the blog and watch the new CW show, Privileged. I love it so far. About a quirky, witty Yale graduate writer from New York that gets hired by a multi-billionaire family to tutor two snobbish high school girls in Palm Beach, California, thus the name “Privileged.” She’s supposed to make sure that they get the grades to get into Duke. She reminds me of the strong-willed female that we love so much from Veronica Mars, which is one of the finest shows of our time. It’s a very fun show. It’s filled with the awkward conflict with one of the daughters, who’s she’s supposed to help and is relying on her doing well. And then there’s the younger sister that looks up to her as a mother figure. Then again, the set up is very “Cinderella.” Did I mention that her pay is $1,500 a week and getting all her college loans paid off if she pulls the job…
Anyway, time to get off this blog and back to doing some schoolwork. I’ve actually come to enjoy doing some of my readings and reading outside stuff about it because I’m especially enjoying my Civil Liberties class, which might as well be called “Supreme Court.” The reading up is good because I should be participating more in classes in general and it also helps me do my favorite thing, faux debates in class where I simply smash people down for comments that I find stupid.
September 18, 2007
I get an email back from the Psych department that I can go in on Tuesday and earn like $10 for like an hours of filling out stupid shit. Sounds like a plan. After my class, I try contacting Evan, but he’s not picking up. I get back to the apartment and start finishing my Vodka. It’s been good that it’s lasted for almost 2 weeks.
I start at 9:30ish and it’s a good thing that I haven’t eaten since 2:00. I work on that while I’m chilling on Stickam. At 12:00ish, I go out for a walk and cig break. I have a 40 minute call with Bolanos speaking about legal jurisprudence, the deficit, future Presidents, and so on. I then go back on Stickam, make myself a sandwich, and sit around until 4:00 when I sleep since I have class at 2:00 the next day.
September 19, 2008
For my Spanish class, I end up getting a 77 on my test from stupid mistakes and all that dumbness. It’s so ridiculous that this class is killing me. Whatever, I should be able to drop this quiz, but I gotta start doing better in this bullshit. After class, I go to the supermarket. I don’t know why I didn’t go this supermarket last semester. It’s right on campus. So instead of walking out of my way to a supermarket and walking back, I can just stop by on the way home from classes.
I have loads of lettuce, but I’m falling down on my “filler” mix. I get a red pepper and a small eggplant. I also grab ice trays because the one I have is way too small. The one I get is huge and makes ice cubes the size of the Titanic.
I get back and roast the peppers. I cook the eggplant with simply oil, salt and pepper. So now it’s curry chicken, roasted peppers, diced mozzarella, and eggplant. Again with the same, throw that in with some pasta, and croutons and balsamic vinaigrette, it moves away from a salad and is super satisfying while still being a salad…
I also have a small coffee maker, which only makes 4 cups at a time, which sucks. I make the 4 cups, put in the fridge, then transfer it to a Coke bottle, then make more coffee since a “serving” for me is like over 2 cups. I didn’t get milk I wouldn’t finish it. Instead, I try use a Tiramisu flavored wet Coffee Mate. While it does taste a bit fake, it gets the job done and the Tiramisu flavor is sweet.
It turns out that one of the people I know from Stickam has visited New York City with her class, all the way from Sweden. She tells me she’s going to my “library.” So I go on my campus, walk around a bit looking for a large group of Swedes. I drop that after a bit and go meet up with Evan at the libray. I then go back, have a light dinner, and go out with him to a bar. This girl he knows from class invites him and they are mighty aggressive texts.
We take the train up there. Notice that I’m sober because I’m dry and nothing was picked up. We walk in and we see the person that he knows. By the way, this is the first time I’ve used my chalked and it worked… And it’s a big bar near Grand Central, interesting… I’ve seen her before when Evan helped her with some stuff at the library. She buys us a shot of Patron. I then get a Kettle One mix drink. Then a Jello shot. Then a rum and coke. Then a vodka tonic. I offer to buy her drinks, but she refuses. Even Evan has a couple drinks because it’s the social thing to do, it has no effect on him, and he’s just bein a playa.
Speaking about that, that playa has like bitches all over him. One of them leaves and the other one is like workin him. She then starts talking to some other dudes. I wing for him and I’m like, yo, you gotta get on up that or you losin it. After those drinks stopped flowing, I decide to tell Evan to get me a shot. It ends up costing $5, which is expensive, but not bad compared to how much I got for the night.
We then meet Evan’s friend that had the apartment party last week. We’re planning to go to his place, but it’s 1:30 and Evan’s sick. There’s a party tomorrow, so he wants to be ready for that. We end up walking back and Evan runs into a girl he knows from before. She’s balling crying and we walk her back for a few blocks. Hopefully she’s alright.
Evan then runs into two people he knows from Stern. They’re going to some ballin’ party tomorrow. It’s crazy seeing Evan the social butterfly running to the people every single time that I walk with him anywhere.
It’s still early for me, so I speak to Miah and Bolanos. Miah’s at a party. Bolanos and Atron had a party. Just keeping up with niggas, you know how it is. I get back to Stickam for a few hours until I end up sleeping really late at 7:00.
It’s been a 180 from last semester with all these ballin’ weekends. Hopefully tomorrow’s party will be crazzay.
September 20, 2008
I meet up with Evan at 9:30ish. We walk to the dining hall and meetup with Brian. They eat and we walk over to the Emery’s girlfriend’s apartment where the pre-game party is. I see a couple of the guys from Prague, so it’s cool seeing them. I also see the two of the girls that I hung out a lot with, but it’s just the standard Hi, What’s up deal.
When we walk in, Brian makes himself a drink. I see immediately that it’s Ciroc, P Diddy vodka. I pour myself three shots into a red cup and chug that straight fast in a heartbeat. It’s also good since I ate a salad at 4:00ish, had half a bagel at 6:00, and that’s all day. I let that shit sit for twenty minutes until I go for my next drink.
Throughout the night, I just lose count. It’s just sneaking to the kitchen, and smoothly pouring myself shots and shots and mix drinks and mix drinks. We meet this twenty some year old guy who lives in the apartment above. He heard the party, he comes down, and he said he’s throwing something next week, so I grab his number in case I’m not doing anything that night.
I speak to this guy that went to Prague the last semester, so share stories on that. I think before 12:00, we end up taking a cab downtown to the bar. It’s actually three blocks away from my old dorm. It’s a pretty nice place and I get in with my ID. Slowly, I realize that I’m really shitfaced because I started smashing down drinks right before I left. Evan says the next day that I was just out of it and looked like a woozy drinkass.
I slowly get off of that and feel a lot better. Evan and Brian leave at one point and I have no idea when that is though. I end up saying Hi to some of the people I already know from Prague. I speak to this guy that I met at the pregame. He’s a built guy and says that I should work out more. He gives me a shoulder squeeze and it hurts. I guess I’m a pussy.
He then for some reason asks if I’m gay. I say no. He says he isn’t gay either. He then says he doesn’t like Asian girls. I agree with him. I mention all these girls around us and where our “targets” can be, but he’s reluctant and says he doesn’t like these girls and doesn’t like those girls…
He needs to go to the bathoom, where there’s a downstairs for. After that, I remember going up the stairs and literally tripping on every single one. It’s too embarrassing. I guess it’s this point where I should’ve noticed I was still too drunk. I can’t find the guy after going to the bathroom. After a while of standing around and being an awkward individual, I decide to leave. It shouldn’t be hard getting back, I’m 3 blocks from where I used to live. I end up going the complete opposite direction for 4-5 blocks and getting myself way lost.
This is when the drunk has been replaced by being really worried because I literally have no sense in where I am. Thankfully Jonah calls when I call him and he Google maps for me and I end up finding my way back. I also speak to Tim and Sam and tell her about studying abroad, my experience in Prague, and it’s just nice in general keeping up with them.
I get back into the apartment before 4:00. I go on Stickam and it starts hitting me since I’m so out of it. I start getting the hiccups, dizziness, and just all that stuff. I don’t know where it came from and maybe it’s from being tired. I sit around and sober up drinking 2 liters of water until I sleep at 7:00. A bit of a disappointing night because I didn’t speak to many people and especially none of the other race.
Additional story:
At one point in the night, one of the people I know gives me a forceful hi five or bro hug or something and it flings my glasses onto the ground. I quickly run onto the ground to find it. Weird part is that this is the second time it’s happened during the night. It would be baaadd if something happened like I couldn’t find it or someone on the crowded bar area just stepped on them. I would literally be blind in a dark area and wouldn’t have any chance of finding my way around or getting back home. My vision is fuckin shit.
When I quickly bend over looking around, I must’ve accidentally touched a guy or something. He starts giving me shit and my acquaintance tries to defend me. I guess I must’ve brushed his ass or something because this beep was not going to have any of it. He eventually let me off the hook. While there are few negatives to getting “too drunk,” having a high tendency to lose my glasses is just horrible. That would really bum out the night and I would be fuckin lost, hopeless, and unable to anything without my glasses.
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
NYU 13-14
September 13, 2008
I wake up at 3-4:00ish because I slept past 6:00 the night before. I Stickam for pretty much the whole day. We’ll see what tonight brings. Evan and I meet up to walk over to the huge party with one of his friends at 11:00.
Now that I’m not in dorming anymore, I can’t swipe into the dorm for the party. I decide to take Evan’s ID to swipe too. Evan isn’t slick with passing it back, so we get caught. The security guard asks for my ID and I give it to him. I hide the fact that the other is in my other hand. When he looks away, I pass Evan’s ID back to him and he shows that to the guard. It’s good that we slicked that by.
When we get to the party, it turns out that it was broken up RAs. The party is so freakin big and unbelievable that it had over 100 confirmed Facebook guests and it was in dorming…
Evan and I stand around with people outside because the shit’s broken up. People are supposed to go to a bar, but people can’t get a move going. Evan and I end up walking back to our homes. I change, re-up on drank, and see a man about a horse. I go to Evan’s place and we sit around. Before it’s 1:00, Evan says that he doesn’t want to go all the way to the bar. It’s not that bad since the place also needs ID, so whatever. At 1-2:00ish, he gets a call from a friend that he’s having a party at the apartment.
Evan and I take a cab there. I meet Evan’s friend and a few other people. It’s a great apartment and is a party of almost 10 people. It had lots of shit though including drank. I end up taking two and a half shots and that pushes me ahead and I’m super drunk at that point.
One of the apartment mates has work or something so the party gets broken up pretty quickly after we arrive. Evan and I cab back. We’re fuckin starved so we go to Tuck Shop for a meat pie. We go back to his place, split the meat pie, and I leave. I fuckin just pass out when I’m back, without changing or nothing.
September 14, 2008
I wake up before 4:00. I spent the day on Stickam and sweating my balls off. It turns out that Tom and CNF will be hanging out. I leave my place to take the train to CNFs at 10:00ish. We hang around and I work on my flask while I’m there. We then to the promenade and smoke a lil’ bit. We get back, watch some TV, CNF makes some hot dogs, and I start off watching Philadelphia with Tom Hanks.
I end up leaving past 2:30 and it takes longer to catch the train that usual and I get back before 4:00.
I wake up at 3-4:00ish because I slept past 6:00 the night before. I Stickam for pretty much the whole day. We’ll see what tonight brings. Evan and I meet up to walk over to the huge party with one of his friends at 11:00.
Now that I’m not in dorming anymore, I can’t swipe into the dorm for the party. I decide to take Evan’s ID to swipe too. Evan isn’t slick with passing it back, so we get caught. The security guard asks for my ID and I give it to him. I hide the fact that the other is in my other hand. When he looks away, I pass Evan’s ID back to him and he shows that to the guard. It’s good that we slicked that by.
When we get to the party, it turns out that it was broken up RAs. The party is so freakin big and unbelievable that it had over 100 confirmed Facebook guests and it was in dorming…
Evan and I stand around with people outside because the shit’s broken up. People are supposed to go to a bar, but people can’t get a move going. Evan and I end up walking back to our homes. I change, re-up on drank, and see a man about a horse. I go to Evan’s place and we sit around. Before it’s 1:00, Evan says that he doesn’t want to go all the way to the bar. It’s not that bad since the place also needs ID, so whatever. At 1-2:00ish, he gets a call from a friend that he’s having a party at the apartment.
Evan and I take a cab there. I meet Evan’s friend and a few other people. It’s a great apartment and is a party of almost 10 people. It had lots of shit though including drank. I end up taking two and a half shots and that pushes me ahead and I’m super drunk at that point.
One of the apartment mates has work or something so the party gets broken up pretty quickly after we arrive. Evan and I cab back. We’re fuckin starved so we go to Tuck Shop for a meat pie. We go back to his place, split the meat pie, and I leave. I fuckin just pass out when I’m back, without changing or nothing.
September 14, 2008
I wake up before 4:00. I spent the day on Stickam and sweating my balls off. It turns out that Tom and CNF will be hanging out. I leave my place to take the train to CNFs at 10:00ish. We hang around and I work on my flask while I’m there. We then to the promenade and smoke a lil’ bit. We get back, watch some TV, CNF makes some hot dogs, and I start off watching Philadelphia with Tom Hanks.
I end up leaving past 2:30 and it takes longer to catch the train that usual and I get back before 4:00.
Saturday, 13 September 2008
More NYU and Weekend
September 8, 2008
I wake up at 10:00 for my 11:00 class. Then again, this time it doesn’t have the extremely long routine of packing up all of my computer shit. I go to my Administrative Law class, which basically goes through the theoretical of shit. The girl next to me asks some random questions about the class. She for some reason brings up preemptively apologizing if she sneezing or coughs during class. What the hell…
After class, I have to go to the post office to pick up a few books. I’m never at the apartment, so they leave yellow slips of paper saying that I need to pick up my books or whatnot. I then go to the supermarket to pick up food, 1 lb of roast beef, .5 lb of buffalo chicken, 1 lb of hot Monterey Jack cheese, cream cheese, salad mix, balsamic vinaigrette, and bread rolls. I get back to the apartment to drop off my shit and pick up all my computer shits. I go to the library and spent 15 minutes running through 8 floors looking for a good place to set myself for the next 10 hours.
Evan shows up eventually. We make fun of this girl that’s sitting near us. She’s pretty cute and might be French from the book she’s reading. However, she has a disgusting, loud, scratchy, manly Smoker’s cough. It’s a scary sound, especially in a quiet ass library. I keep on downloading my shows, which is taking quite a while because the speeds are low for some reason. For other shows, it comes by quickly. I mostly sit on Stickam and do my reading for Civil Liberties. It investigates the legitimacy of judicial review and also an interview of Justice Powell.
I guess this could be a chance for Stickam update:
-Elin, Nana. Mysterious Swedish girl that’s Wapanese.
-Samantha, from PA randomly called me last night because she was shitfaced from beer. She also takes “cyber classes,” which means she does all her schoolwork through home on a laptop that they sent to her.
-Lizzy and Noorie, friends from Manchester. Interesting learning about their different school system.
-Danielle from B-More. Quite a crazy girl, what she uses… telling by the calls that Atron and I have made to her.
-Meagan, little girl from Birmingham that gets back at like 8:00 PM from school because of soccer and cheerleading. Why people do so much extra curricular shit…
-Jema, crazy Mexicana from Cali who has told me about “party lines,” where you call a number, an automated message tells you about a party, where, when, and everything. They gotta get that shit down in the East Coast.
-Red, Asian girl that was in school in Cali, but lives in Thailand. She has visa issues so she will end up going to Australia for school instead of back to Cali.
-Tanya, 20 from Calgary, one of the hottest chicks on Stickam. Fun story about her running to the liquor store to get wine because she’s got nothing to do. This brings up my alcoholism, but I shove that right down even though I have vodka because I have three classes tomorrow, it’ll be rough. She says she ran into a hobo. She was telling her friend about good vodka and the hobo buying plastic bottle shit says that the “best” shit is what gets you drunk. The hobo pulled the words out of my mouth…
I download the VMAs. Unfortunately, some of the performances are shortened like Lupe, Katy Perry, and Ting Tings. It’s sweet though because it has Travis Barker drumming for all those side shits. The Lil Wayne is hella weird because his pants are literally off the entire thing and you see his underwear… The Christina Aguilera is great and is showing off a new dancier Blackout style. I hope it’s a great album, but it’s better than she’s constantly shifting. Dammit, only if there was more Back to Basics like stuff coming out. The Kanye West is alright, but it sounds a bit like an R&B song with him singing and he can’t pull it off so he needs a vocoder. However, the production pulls off the song.
I watch an episode of The Hills and leave the library before 1:00. I get back, watch Mad Men, write this shit and have a hella long day ahead of me tomorrow.
September 9, 2008
I end up going to lunch with Evan and Jonah at a place near campus. It has an amazing cheesesteak on a Kaiser roll with grilled onions, an amazing sauce, and cheese. The rest of the day is spent in the library Stickaming along and random business.
For dinner, I have my switched up sandwich of a sesame roll, roast beef, pepper jack cheese, honey mustard, and pickles. I end up meeting with Evan so I can go to Wendy’s and get a free Frosty float that I turn in a receipt for. She asks what kind and I reply with vanilla, and then Dr. Pepper. I guess she doesn’t hear Dr. Pepper, so she gives me…. Orange Fanta?
When we walk out of the place, I tell Evan that it’s definitely because the woman’s black. What kind of fuckin’ white person would make a good ol’ fashioned float with orange soda!? That’s like fuckin… using ketchup as tomato sauce with your pasta. Then again, it doesn’t turn out all that because it’s like an orange and cream Popsicle.
When find a private room in the library to hang out and chill because you can’t usually speak in the library. We end up leaving at 1:00 when the library closes. I get back to finish my episode of Prison Break and watch Gossip Girl. It’s 2:00, I’ll be sleeping soon for my Administrative Law class at 11:00. It’s so stupid that the professor allow laptops. Writing notes by hand feels embarrassingly slow, barbaric, and inefficient.
September 10, 2008
It’s again another day in the library on Stickam. I also have a lot of stupid ass Spanish homework. Evan and I meet up at night and I run to McDonald’s to get an Asian salad. I get it to compare it to the Chicken Mandarin of Wendy’s. The dressings of the two are basically identical. Wendy’s has mandarins, crispy noodles, almonds, and more grilled chicken. McDonald’s spices up the salad with peppers and snap peas, but in the end, I prefer the Wendy’s. The vegetables are fresher and almonds and crispy noodles just bring out the salad to a different level.
We then go an empty room in the library so we can speak and hang out. While in there, Stickamer Tanya gets back from getting a Monroe (a piercing above the lip like where a beauty mark would be). Evan brings up how he hates piercings. I test how much he hates them and it goes fuckin’ far.
September 11, 2008
At night, I go on Stickam and just hang out for a while. People are being bitches and don’t hang out. I end up meeting Jonah at like 11:00ish to go for a walk and a bite. We walk for a bit and we end up going to San Loco a taco place. I get rice and beans and he just gets rice. We talk about our issues about eachother and I think shit okay.
We end up leaving each other eventually after that and I start drinkin for the night because I got my Internet today. I end up drinking like 11 drinks for the night because I have like my 40 which I haven’t finished which is like 3 drinks still because it’s flat and I also have my vodka which I have been trying to kill. I drink a shit load and have fun on Stickam until I end passing out because I’m so drunk.
September 12, 2008
I’m so drunk that I end up having a hang over for the day after. Even though my class is at 2:00, I wake up late and I just don’t feel right. Sitting though the class is really rough. I should buy groceries, but I end up getting comfort food at Wendy’s with a chicken wrap and a large chili. I sit on Stickam until eventual I see Evan at like 11:00ish. We end up going to a bar to see the people that he knows and it’s great to meet up with people that I’ve met before but I still need a better standing with. We then go to another bar, which I have a hard time walking to. I haven’t eaten since 3:00 and I’ve been working on my 8 shot flask the entire night.
We then go to another bar, whickh I tell Evan to butch up because I’ve been trying to learn the Atron ways. I tell him about all the situations where we can talk to girls. I know I’m shy but bars/clubs/parties are the situations to hit that shit up. He bitches out so we end up not dealing with that.
We then then go to a bar with 4 guys and 2 girls. One the guys ends up walking with one of the girls for the entire night. When they get to the bar, where the guy ends up making out with a girl that already has a boyfriend. She also goes there to meet him. That’s just so weird. It turns out that there’s a party tomorrow, so hopefully that turns out well. I get back, Stickam a while and top it off with a few mo’ dranks.
I wake up at 10:00 for my 11:00 class. Then again, this time it doesn’t have the extremely long routine of packing up all of my computer shit. I go to my Administrative Law class, which basically goes through the theoretical of shit. The girl next to me asks some random questions about the class. She for some reason brings up preemptively apologizing if she sneezing or coughs during class. What the hell…
After class, I have to go to the post office to pick up a few books. I’m never at the apartment, so they leave yellow slips of paper saying that I need to pick up my books or whatnot. I then go to the supermarket to pick up food, 1 lb of roast beef, .5 lb of buffalo chicken, 1 lb of hot Monterey Jack cheese, cream cheese, salad mix, balsamic vinaigrette, and bread rolls. I get back to the apartment to drop off my shit and pick up all my computer shits. I go to the library and spent 15 minutes running through 8 floors looking for a good place to set myself for the next 10 hours.
Evan shows up eventually. We make fun of this girl that’s sitting near us. She’s pretty cute and might be French from the book she’s reading. However, she has a disgusting, loud, scratchy, manly Smoker’s cough. It’s a scary sound, especially in a quiet ass library. I keep on downloading my shows, which is taking quite a while because the speeds are low for some reason. For other shows, it comes by quickly. I mostly sit on Stickam and do my reading for Civil Liberties. It investigates the legitimacy of judicial review and also an interview of Justice Powell.
I guess this could be a chance for Stickam update:
-Elin, Nana. Mysterious Swedish girl that’s Wapanese.
-Samantha, from PA randomly called me last night because she was shitfaced from beer. She also takes “cyber classes,” which means she does all her schoolwork through home on a laptop that they sent to her.
-Lizzy and Noorie, friends from Manchester. Interesting learning about their different school system.
-Danielle from B-More. Quite a crazy girl, what she uses… telling by the calls that Atron and I have made to her.
-Meagan, little girl from Birmingham that gets back at like 8:00 PM from school because of soccer and cheerleading. Why people do so much extra curricular shit…
-Jema, crazy Mexicana from Cali who has told me about “party lines,” where you call a number, an automated message tells you about a party, where, when, and everything. They gotta get that shit down in the East Coast.
-Red, Asian girl that was in school in Cali, but lives in Thailand. She has visa issues so she will end up going to Australia for school instead of back to Cali.
-Tanya, 20 from Calgary, one of the hottest chicks on Stickam. Fun story about her running to the liquor store to get wine because she’s got nothing to do. This brings up my alcoholism, but I shove that right down even though I have vodka because I have three classes tomorrow, it’ll be rough. She says she ran into a hobo. She was telling her friend about good vodka and the hobo buying plastic bottle shit says that the “best” shit is what gets you drunk. The hobo pulled the words out of my mouth…
I download the VMAs. Unfortunately, some of the performances are shortened like Lupe, Katy Perry, and Ting Tings. It’s sweet though because it has Travis Barker drumming for all those side shits. The Lil Wayne is hella weird because his pants are literally off the entire thing and you see his underwear… The Christina Aguilera is great and is showing off a new dancier Blackout style. I hope it’s a great album, but it’s better than she’s constantly shifting. Dammit, only if there was more Back to Basics like stuff coming out. The Kanye West is alright, but it sounds a bit like an R&B song with him singing and he can’t pull it off so he needs a vocoder. However, the production pulls off the song.
I watch an episode of The Hills and leave the library before 1:00. I get back, watch Mad Men, write this shit and have a hella long day ahead of me tomorrow.
September 9, 2008
I end up going to lunch with Evan and Jonah at a place near campus. It has an amazing cheesesteak on a Kaiser roll with grilled onions, an amazing sauce, and cheese. The rest of the day is spent in the library Stickaming along and random business.
For dinner, I have my switched up sandwich of a sesame roll, roast beef, pepper jack cheese, honey mustard, and pickles. I end up meeting with Evan so I can go to Wendy’s and get a free Frosty float that I turn in a receipt for. She asks what kind and I reply with vanilla, and then Dr. Pepper. I guess she doesn’t hear Dr. Pepper, so she gives me…. Orange Fanta?
When we walk out of the place, I tell Evan that it’s definitely because the woman’s black. What kind of fuckin’ white person would make a good ol’ fashioned float with orange soda!? That’s like fuckin… using ketchup as tomato sauce with your pasta. Then again, it doesn’t turn out all that because it’s like an orange and cream Popsicle.
When find a private room in the library to hang out and chill because you can’t usually speak in the library. We end up leaving at 1:00 when the library closes. I get back to finish my episode of Prison Break and watch Gossip Girl. It’s 2:00, I’ll be sleeping soon for my Administrative Law class at 11:00. It’s so stupid that the professor allow laptops. Writing notes by hand feels embarrassingly slow, barbaric, and inefficient.
September 10, 2008
It’s again another day in the library on Stickam. I also have a lot of stupid ass Spanish homework. Evan and I meet up at night and I run to McDonald’s to get an Asian salad. I get it to compare it to the Chicken Mandarin of Wendy’s. The dressings of the two are basically identical. Wendy’s has mandarins, crispy noodles, almonds, and more grilled chicken. McDonald’s spices up the salad with peppers and snap peas, but in the end, I prefer the Wendy’s. The vegetables are fresher and almonds and crispy noodles just bring out the salad to a different level.
We then go an empty room in the library so we can speak and hang out. While in there, Stickamer Tanya gets back from getting a Monroe (a piercing above the lip like where a beauty mark would be). Evan brings up how he hates piercings. I test how much he hates them and it goes fuckin’ far.
September 11, 2008
At night, I go on Stickam and just hang out for a while. People are being bitches and don’t hang out. I end up meeting Jonah at like 11:00ish to go for a walk and a bite. We walk for a bit and we end up going to San Loco a taco place. I get rice and beans and he just gets rice. We talk about our issues about eachother and I think shit okay.
We end up leaving each other eventually after that and I start drinkin for the night because I got my Internet today. I end up drinking like 11 drinks for the night because I have like my 40 which I haven’t finished which is like 3 drinks still because it’s flat and I also have my vodka which I have been trying to kill. I drink a shit load and have fun on Stickam until I end passing out because I’m so drunk.
September 12, 2008
I’m so drunk that I end up having a hang over for the day after. Even though my class is at 2:00, I wake up late and I just don’t feel right. Sitting though the class is really rough. I should buy groceries, but I end up getting comfort food at Wendy’s with a chicken wrap and a large chili. I sit on Stickam until eventual I see Evan at like 11:00ish. We end up going to a bar to see the people that he knows and it’s great to meet up with people that I’ve met before but I still need a better standing with. We then go to another bar, which I have a hard time walking to. I haven’t eaten since 3:00 and I’ve been working on my 8 shot flask the entire night.
We then go to another bar, whickh I tell Evan to butch up because I’ve been trying to learn the Atron ways. I tell him about all the situations where we can talk to girls. I know I’m shy but bars/clubs/parties are the situations to hit that shit up. He bitches out so we end up not dealing with that.
We then then go to a bar with 4 guys and 2 girls. One the guys ends up walking with one of the girls for the entire night. When they get to the bar, where the guy ends up making out with a girl that already has a boyfriend. She also goes there to meet him. That’s just so weird. It turns out that there’s a party tomorrow, so hopefully that turns out well. I get back, Stickam a while and top it off with a few mo’ dranks.
Monday, 8 September 2008
A Good First Weekend
September 5, 2008
I wake up at 12:30ish. For breakfast, I have the leftover pizza from last night. Man, I really feel the love for Italians every time I bite into that cappacola. I have class at 2:00 and immediately go the library for the internet. You know that move, what else I got to do.
I get on Stickam and I have a lot of fun doing it. I randomly check out girls in the library and people think it’s funny. Then again, I get “caught” by one of the girls and she gets eye contact with me. I hideaway and it’s weird.
I stay on Stickam and watching The Shield and random stuff for the next few hours until 9:00ish. During that, Erdem keeps saying that he’s free and he’d be willing to come it. He pulls the same ol’ shit of, “I want to come it, but I’m not coming in without plans.” There’s a stupid, fake expectation as if there would be plans in the first place. Later in the night, he ends up ditching out. That’s unexpected…
While I’m in the library, Jenn gives me a call. We end up gossiping with her for almost an hour about random shit like Jonah, CNF, other people, and her situation in with the group in general. I give her the stark truth about how her situation is with us, but she takes that as a surprise. I tell her that she should really not be caring about our opinions of her. She’s a chick, what the hell. She takes offense to shit. Then again, I probably would be a shitty therapist. I tell shit straight as it is and I even give help and solutions.
By 10:00 I end up leaving the library because I’m going to make plans with CNF and Evan. I walk over to a Duane Reade, get a 3 pack of Parliaments for $20, man have cigarettes gotten way to expensive. Shit used to cost fuckin like $16. I get to my place, drop of my computer shit and take a shower. I then go to Evan’s and CNF is already there, it’s a surprise that he got there so fast.
We then go the store near Evan to get beer. I unfortunately only pick up a 40 of Budweiser. Then again, we’re supposed to leave quickly because people are already at the bar. Evan has plans to meet up with peeps that he knows there including people that I met at the party on Labor Day.
I down my 40 and it’s a really rough time doing so. I’m doing it on the clock and it really just feels like I’m pushing bricks down into my body. We then walk over to the bar, which is sweet because it’s only 4 block away. For the city, that’s like just way too close. It turns out to be a bar/restaurant kinda shin dig. I say Hi to people that I’ve already met from earlier in the week. CNF ends up buying me a Pilsner Urquell which is really sweet. Eventually, CNF and Evan have “shit” to do the next day and leave by before 1:00.
I could’ve left with them, but I follow the Atron influence and hang around. I small talk with a few of the doods and small talk away. People end up leaving by 1:30ish so I walk back too. The night is way too young and I try to give calls to people, but fuckin’ people aren’t picking up and shit.
I end up going back watching a few episodes of The Shield and write this shit out. Imma have to go into the library tomorrow and do some work, chill out, and whatever. I’ll definitely have to DL some more shows.
September 6, 2008
Evan wakes me up at 12:00ish even though my alarm is set for 12:45. I make a sandwich and immediately go to the library. I find a cool ass room that is open. It’s open, huge, and is big enough for 5 people. I stay there for an hour or so, but it turns out that people have reserved the place and I have to awkwardly leave while removing my external and all that messy business.
I have to bring my external around because I need to download my shows and everything. I need that to get my shows onto it so I can move it onto th Mac side and I can watch my shows. I stay at a level for the entire day until Evan comes along at night.
I sit around on Stickam and such and don’t do any work. I guess all my readings are left for tomorrow. We end up trying to figure plans, but shit’s messed up because it’s pouring rain outside. I end up going to Duane Reade to buy an umbrella and I also find Tupperware there. I really need that shit because I can’t only eat sandwiches and if I cook anything, Imma eat it at the library, so I can microwave my shit there. I just need something that I can bring that shit along in.
We end up deciding to go to CNFs. I end up getting handle of Smirnoff for $24. I’m pretty sure there’s a better deal to be made, but what the hell. I put some in a water bottle and we subway over to CNFs. I work on my vodka and it turns out that Evan’s trying to be “straight” or more like gay for the semester. That means he’s trying not to drink, smoke neither weed, nor cigarettes for the entire semester. The man is frakkin bitch.
We channel surf and shit. We also go on Stickam and I call Danielle during it. It’s a crazy time. We then walk to the “promenade,” which is an interesting view because it reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from The Wire. Sorry for the obscure reference.
We end up getting dropped off at the train spot and we walk back. When I get back, it turns out that I finished almost a fourth of the handle. Shit… Then again, some of it was pour from me. Some of it was poured my CNF. A fuckin waste!!! Jeeezzz!! Anyway, I’ll have to deal my work and whatever tomorrow. We’ll see what it brings.
September 7, 2008
I wake up before 1:00 because I went to sleep before 5:00. I spent the night before watching The Shield. Shit, that show is too fuckin’ good. I shower and pack my usual sandwich. Then again, I switch off from bread this time. I have a roll with honey mustard, buffalo chicken, Swiss cheese, and pickles. The packing is rough because I have so much shit. I have to pack my laptop, the charger, my external in its box, the sandwich, pretzels, some Arnold Palmer, a book I have to do reading from, my mouse, a house pad, my iPod, keys, wallet, phone, etc. It’s quite an ordeal.
I go to Wendy’s to get my favorite salad, the Mandarin Chicken Salad. Not because it’s Asian or anything. It’s just tasty. It has sweet mandarins, grilled chicken, almonds, crispy noodles, and sesame sweet, ginger dressing. I also need that since I haven’t eaten vegetables for a frakkin week. My week has all been sandwiches and bagels with cream cheese for breakfast.
I meet Evan at his Stern building, but the wireless there is rough and blocks everything, even fuckin’ torrents. I sit on Stickam the whole day and do my readings. Man most of that shit is ridiculously boring. I skim that shit and retain so little of it. When it comes to shit that’s interesting like reading Article III Section 2 of the Constitution, what the Court is supposed to be able to do, and the birth and justification of judicial review.
I stay in the library for like 10 hours until the library closes at 1:00. I leave then, get back, watch some of The Shield, and write this shit down. It’s going to be a hella lot day tomorrow.
I wake up at 12:30ish. For breakfast, I have the leftover pizza from last night. Man, I really feel the love for Italians every time I bite into that cappacola. I have class at 2:00 and immediately go the library for the internet. You know that move, what else I got to do.
I get on Stickam and I have a lot of fun doing it. I randomly check out girls in the library and people think it’s funny. Then again, I get “caught” by one of the girls and she gets eye contact with me. I hideaway and it’s weird.
I stay on Stickam and watching The Shield and random stuff for the next few hours until 9:00ish. During that, Erdem keeps saying that he’s free and he’d be willing to come it. He pulls the same ol’ shit of, “I want to come it, but I’m not coming in without plans.” There’s a stupid, fake expectation as if there would be plans in the first place. Later in the night, he ends up ditching out. That’s unexpected…
While I’m in the library, Jenn gives me a call. We end up gossiping with her for almost an hour about random shit like Jonah, CNF, other people, and her situation in with the group in general. I give her the stark truth about how her situation is with us, but she takes that as a surprise. I tell her that she should really not be caring about our opinions of her. She’s a chick, what the hell. She takes offense to shit. Then again, I probably would be a shitty therapist. I tell shit straight as it is and I even give help and solutions.
By 10:00 I end up leaving the library because I’m going to make plans with CNF and Evan. I walk over to a Duane Reade, get a 3 pack of Parliaments for $20, man have cigarettes gotten way to expensive. Shit used to cost fuckin like $16. I get to my place, drop of my computer shit and take a shower. I then go to Evan’s and CNF is already there, it’s a surprise that he got there so fast.
We then go the store near Evan to get beer. I unfortunately only pick up a 40 of Budweiser. Then again, we’re supposed to leave quickly because people are already at the bar. Evan has plans to meet up with peeps that he knows there including people that I met at the party on Labor Day.
I down my 40 and it’s a really rough time doing so. I’m doing it on the clock and it really just feels like I’m pushing bricks down into my body. We then walk over to the bar, which is sweet because it’s only 4 block away. For the city, that’s like just way too close. It turns out to be a bar/restaurant kinda shin dig. I say Hi to people that I’ve already met from earlier in the week. CNF ends up buying me a Pilsner Urquell which is really sweet. Eventually, CNF and Evan have “shit” to do the next day and leave by before 1:00.
I could’ve left with them, but I follow the Atron influence and hang around. I small talk with a few of the doods and small talk away. People end up leaving by 1:30ish so I walk back too. The night is way too young and I try to give calls to people, but fuckin’ people aren’t picking up and shit.
I end up going back watching a few episodes of The Shield and write this shit out. Imma have to go into the library tomorrow and do some work, chill out, and whatever. I’ll definitely have to DL some more shows.
September 6, 2008
Evan wakes me up at 12:00ish even though my alarm is set for 12:45. I make a sandwich and immediately go to the library. I find a cool ass room that is open. It’s open, huge, and is big enough for 5 people. I stay there for an hour or so, but it turns out that people have reserved the place and I have to awkwardly leave while removing my external and all that messy business.
I have to bring my external around because I need to download my shows and everything. I need that to get my shows onto it so I can move it onto th Mac side and I can watch my shows. I stay at a level for the entire day until Evan comes along at night.
I sit around on Stickam and such and don’t do any work. I guess all my readings are left for tomorrow. We end up trying to figure plans, but shit’s messed up because it’s pouring rain outside. I end up going to Duane Reade to buy an umbrella and I also find Tupperware there. I really need that shit because I can’t only eat sandwiches and if I cook anything, Imma eat it at the library, so I can microwave my shit there. I just need something that I can bring that shit along in.
We end up deciding to go to CNFs. I end up getting handle of Smirnoff for $24. I’m pretty sure there’s a better deal to be made, but what the hell. I put some in a water bottle and we subway over to CNFs. I work on my vodka and it turns out that Evan’s trying to be “straight” or more like gay for the semester. That means he’s trying not to drink, smoke neither weed, nor cigarettes for the entire semester. The man is frakkin bitch.
We channel surf and shit. We also go on Stickam and I call Danielle during it. It’s a crazy time. We then walk to the “promenade,” which is an interesting view because it reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from The Wire. Sorry for the obscure reference.
We end up getting dropped off at the train spot and we walk back. When I get back, it turns out that I finished almost a fourth of the handle. Shit… Then again, some of it was pour from me. Some of it was poured my CNF. A fuckin waste!!! Jeeezzz!! Anyway, I’ll have to deal my work and whatever tomorrow. We’ll see what it brings.
September 7, 2008
I wake up before 1:00 because I went to sleep before 5:00. I spent the night before watching The Shield. Shit, that show is too fuckin’ good. I shower and pack my usual sandwich. Then again, I switch off from bread this time. I have a roll with honey mustard, buffalo chicken, Swiss cheese, and pickles. The packing is rough because I have so much shit. I have to pack my laptop, the charger, my external in its box, the sandwich, pretzels, some Arnold Palmer, a book I have to do reading from, my mouse, a house pad, my iPod, keys, wallet, phone, etc. It’s quite an ordeal.
I go to Wendy’s to get my favorite salad, the Mandarin Chicken Salad. Not because it’s Asian or anything. It’s just tasty. It has sweet mandarins, grilled chicken, almonds, crispy noodles, and sesame sweet, ginger dressing. I also need that since I haven’t eaten vegetables for a frakkin week. My week has all been sandwiches and bagels with cream cheese for breakfast.
I meet Evan at his Stern building, but the wireless there is rough and blocks everything, even fuckin’ torrents. I sit on Stickam the whole day and do my readings. Man most of that shit is ridiculously boring. I skim that shit and retain so little of it. When it comes to shit that’s interesting like reading Article III Section 2 of the Constitution, what the Court is supposed to be able to do, and the birth and justification of judicial review.
I stay in the library for like 10 hours until the library closes at 1:00. I leave then, get back, watch some of The Shield, and write this shit down. It’s going to be a hella lot day tomorrow.
Friday, 5 September 2008
HARD TIMES
September 3, 2008
Update: Evan ends up meeting with me before 12:00. We go to McDonald’s to get dinner. I have a sweet tea, two burgers, and 8 McNuggets. We then go to the Stern (Evan’s school) building where it doesn’t close at 12:00 and there are private, secret, unused ridiculously supped up lounges for us to chill.
I eat there while Evan does some reading. We leave before 1:00 to go back to our homes. I’m currently watching the first two episodes of the new Prison Break. It feels a lot like a repeat of the last season by setting up the main characters to do a “spy sneaky Scofield business.” It’s getting a bit repetitive, but it has enough suspense, action, and pazazz to keep me watching.
I wake up, do the usual, shower, bagel, and make sangwich for lunch. I go to my Administrative Law class. It’s sort of hard to describe what the class is, but I think it’s pretty interesting. It deals with regulation and how the government deals with many issues like the environment, goods, and such. Unfuckinfortunately, my professor says that no laptops are allowed because he thinks it distracts students. Fuck that shit!! It’s going to make the class a lot rougher.
I then meet up with Evan and we’re supposed to go to the Junior Class meeting that is being run by Alex. She said there’s going to be lunch there and it’s nice to see what’s up and get to see Alex. Evan wants food, so he runs down to get it. I wait for him and Alex says that the meeting is inside. I said that I need for Evan outside of the room since I have his shit.
Evan then comes and says he wants to go somewhere else for food, so I go along with him. At that point, I eat the sandwich I packed and miss the pizza that was supposed to come late. I write on her wall on Facebook because I basically showed up, and then left. I guess she thinks that means that I left because the free food was late and replies with that attitude. Jeez, makes me feel like a real skeve.
I then sit around in the library for a bit before my Spanish class. I pull off a tremendous move because people are supposed to print out a packet for Spanish homework. I didn’t really understand that was out assignment, so I didn’t do it. However, it’s on my laptop. So I answer one of the questions because I have it downloaded.
I both participated and legitimized that I “did” the homework and that I actually use my laptop for class purposes. After class, I call Aaron and talk about how he’s a social expert and walks around talking to strangers. I then sit with Evan in a library room for a while. I end up leaving at 6:00 to go grocery shopping.
I go to a store near campus that’s on the way to school. It’s pretty standard; I get paper towels, sponges, and saran wrap. I then drop off all my shit like my laptop and business at the apartment, walk 2 blocks to the Whole Foods. The place is ridiculous, all this organic, preppy, expensive food. I walk around there and just find more and more of the same expensive shit and end up leaving.
I decide to go Met, which is the supermarket that was near my old dorm on Broome. It’s a longer walk from Whole Foods to Met than it was from Broome, but it was literally 5 blocks from Broome, already way close.
I get a pound of buffalo chicken and half pound of Swiss because I know there’s nothing to eat other than sandwiches. My mom has to come tomorrow with the cooking shit like microwave, plates, forks, and everything. Also, I’m going to be just making sandwiches so I can stay in the library. I also get some baked fresh rolls, which will help the fact that sandwiches aren’t way filling.
After that goose supermarket chase, back to the library! I find a secluded floor, hook myself up, and start roamin that shit at 8:00. I’ve been on Stickam for so fuckin long by now. I guess I’ll stay on, but I should do some reading now instead of just writing this shit up.
I turn off my computer and move into the bottom of the library where it won’t be closing soon. I turn on my computer and it goes to the starting up Windows XP page and restarts the computer. It does this constantly, even though the computer is sleeping.
I call Miah to get some help and I can’t get anything out of it. I go online, speak to him and Spamps and figure out a long ass plan for the next day. During this situation, the wall of shock hits me. My “life” has literally been turned upside down. My computer is dead! The walk back to my apartment is filled with depression and despair, a walk that I will not forget.
September 4, 2008
I specifically wake up early at 9:30 so I can run to Bestbuy to get an external hard drive. This way I can save the stuff from my Windows side because the Mac side of my partitioning still works. Granted, most of it is extremely recoverable like shows and music and favorites on Firefox. However, stuff like my magnum opus, the Prague Blog, 200 pages of memories would be lost, and also the pictures from my trips, essays that I’ve written for previous classes, so on and so forth. I quickly find a 500GB hard drive for $100.
I then go to class and when I get out, I start trying to fix my computer. I find a spot in the library to set up my laptop and external. It’s a bit awkward having all that stuff out. I move my shit onto the external and torrent Windows XP. I then realize that I forgot that I have to buy CD-Rs to burn shit on them. I go to the NYU store to grab 6 with jewel cases for $10.
I burn Windows onto the disk. I try to remove my other Windows partition, but that doesn’t seem to be working. I try to work the burned CD, but that doesn’t work. By now, I’ve spent the time going to Bestbuy and all this time. I’ve already spent like over 6 hours on this business. I have a 6:20 class, Civil Liberties. My professor randomly asks me about Marbury v. Madison.
I jumble around that it was Adams that appointed Marbury and Jefferson was the one that didn’t allow for it. I get a bit flustered. She also asks the ridiculous question as to what Marbury was appointed to. It turns out that it was stupid ass “justice of peace” of DC.
She moves onto the next person, while I get publicly embarrassed. Now I have to read up on the next class and participate to push myself up, goshdarnit.
After that, I have to go back home because my mom is dropping off stuff like microwave, cooking shits, and whatever. We then to go to a pizza place that’s 2 blocks from my dorm at Broome. It’s pretty fantastic because it has spicy cappacola on it. C’mon, you guys know how to pronounce that… “gabba gool.” Learn that shit motherfuckers.
I then get dropped off at the library near 9:00ish. I try to DL another version of Windows to see if that will work. I do random shit in the mean time and reminisce on how frustrating and depressing my day has been. It’s probably been the most shocking day that I’ve had in a long time. I feel as if tons of bricks are on my shoulders and I just have such a hard time dealing with the day.
Eventually, Evan comes to visit. After I burn another Windows and trying to burn it onto the computer, it doesn’t work either. Finally, I feel a lot of the weight off of me because I realize that shit is basically futile for now. There’s nothing I can do.
Part of the problem was that I felt I could fix it and tried everything I could to try to. Now that I know I can’t, I have to try to get shit by. I can still run the Mac side though, but it can only hold like 5 gigs with the partition issues.
My mom also has a shitty HP laptop that I maybe can use the mean time. Hasan also has a real copy of Vista, so maybe that will work with getting my Windows back up.
Evan and I end up going to his dorm. On the way, he gets me two 40s of Coors. I drink one at his place while we chill out. We do random stuff, like watching the DiPrague Vlog videos. They’re pretty weird/boring/funny when looking back. He needs to go to sleep, so I end up leaving his place before 2:00. I save the other 40 for a later date.
I get back, write this shit down of my horrific day, and watch a few episodes of The Shield. I truly feel is a real incredible show and probably a classic in my book. It brings a fresh look onto the cop drama genre with the idea of corruption and how much realism that it brings. It also has some great camera work.
Well tomorrow is a fresh day and we’ll see what that will bring.
Update: Evan ends up meeting with me before 12:00. We go to McDonald’s to get dinner. I have a sweet tea, two burgers, and 8 McNuggets. We then go to the Stern (Evan’s school) building where it doesn’t close at 12:00 and there are private, secret, unused ridiculously supped up lounges for us to chill.
I eat there while Evan does some reading. We leave before 1:00 to go back to our homes. I’m currently watching the first two episodes of the new Prison Break. It feels a lot like a repeat of the last season by setting up the main characters to do a “spy sneaky Scofield business.” It’s getting a bit repetitive, but it has enough suspense, action, and pazazz to keep me watching.
I wake up, do the usual, shower, bagel, and make sangwich for lunch. I go to my Administrative Law class. It’s sort of hard to describe what the class is, but I think it’s pretty interesting. It deals with regulation and how the government deals with many issues like the environment, goods, and such. Unfuckinfortunately, my professor says that no laptops are allowed because he thinks it distracts students. Fuck that shit!! It’s going to make the class a lot rougher.
I then meet up with Evan and we’re supposed to go to the Junior Class meeting that is being run by Alex. She said there’s going to be lunch there and it’s nice to see what’s up and get to see Alex. Evan wants food, so he runs down to get it. I wait for him and Alex says that the meeting is inside. I said that I need for Evan outside of the room since I have his shit.
Evan then comes and says he wants to go somewhere else for food, so I go along with him. At that point, I eat the sandwich I packed and miss the pizza that was supposed to come late. I write on her wall on Facebook because I basically showed up, and then left. I guess she thinks that means that I left because the free food was late and replies with that attitude. Jeez, makes me feel like a real skeve.
I then sit around in the library for a bit before my Spanish class. I pull off a tremendous move because people are supposed to print out a packet for Spanish homework. I didn’t really understand that was out assignment, so I didn’t do it. However, it’s on my laptop. So I answer one of the questions because I have it downloaded.
I both participated and legitimized that I “did” the homework and that I actually use my laptop for class purposes. After class, I call Aaron and talk about how he’s a social expert and walks around talking to strangers. I then sit with Evan in a library room for a while. I end up leaving at 6:00 to go grocery shopping.
I go to a store near campus that’s on the way to school. It’s pretty standard; I get paper towels, sponges, and saran wrap. I then drop off all my shit like my laptop and business at the apartment, walk 2 blocks to the Whole Foods. The place is ridiculous, all this organic, preppy, expensive food. I walk around there and just find more and more of the same expensive shit and end up leaving.
I decide to go Met, which is the supermarket that was near my old dorm on Broome. It’s a longer walk from Whole Foods to Met than it was from Broome, but it was literally 5 blocks from Broome, already way close.
I get a pound of buffalo chicken and half pound of Swiss because I know there’s nothing to eat other than sandwiches. My mom has to come tomorrow with the cooking shit like microwave, plates, forks, and everything. Also, I’m going to be just making sandwiches so I can stay in the library. I also get some baked fresh rolls, which will help the fact that sandwiches aren’t way filling.
After that goose supermarket chase, back to the library! I find a secluded floor, hook myself up, and start roamin that shit at 8:00. I’ve been on Stickam for so fuckin long by now. I guess I’ll stay on, but I should do some reading now instead of just writing this shit up.
I turn off my computer and move into the bottom of the library where it won’t be closing soon. I turn on my computer and it goes to the starting up Windows XP page and restarts the computer. It does this constantly, even though the computer is sleeping.
I call Miah to get some help and I can’t get anything out of it. I go online, speak to him and Spamps and figure out a long ass plan for the next day. During this situation, the wall of shock hits me. My “life” has literally been turned upside down. My computer is dead! The walk back to my apartment is filled with depression and despair, a walk that I will not forget.
September 4, 2008
I specifically wake up early at 9:30 so I can run to Bestbuy to get an external hard drive. This way I can save the stuff from my Windows side because the Mac side of my partitioning still works. Granted, most of it is extremely recoverable like shows and music and favorites on Firefox. However, stuff like my magnum opus, the Prague Blog, 200 pages of memories would be lost, and also the pictures from my trips, essays that I’ve written for previous classes, so on and so forth. I quickly find a 500GB hard drive for $100.
I then go to class and when I get out, I start trying to fix my computer. I find a spot in the library to set up my laptop and external. It’s a bit awkward having all that stuff out. I move my shit onto the external and torrent Windows XP. I then realize that I forgot that I have to buy CD-Rs to burn shit on them. I go to the NYU store to grab 6 with jewel cases for $10.
I burn Windows onto the disk. I try to remove my other Windows partition, but that doesn’t seem to be working. I try to work the burned CD, but that doesn’t work. By now, I’ve spent the time going to Bestbuy and all this time. I’ve already spent like over 6 hours on this business. I have a 6:20 class, Civil Liberties. My professor randomly asks me about Marbury v. Madison.
I jumble around that it was Adams that appointed Marbury and Jefferson was the one that didn’t allow for it. I get a bit flustered. She also asks the ridiculous question as to what Marbury was appointed to. It turns out that it was stupid ass “justice of peace” of DC.
She moves onto the next person, while I get publicly embarrassed. Now I have to read up on the next class and participate to push myself up, goshdarnit.
After that, I have to go back home because my mom is dropping off stuff like microwave, cooking shits, and whatever. We then to go to a pizza place that’s 2 blocks from my dorm at Broome. It’s pretty fantastic because it has spicy cappacola on it. C’mon, you guys know how to pronounce that… “gabba gool.” Learn that shit motherfuckers.
I then get dropped off at the library near 9:00ish. I try to DL another version of Windows to see if that will work. I do random shit in the mean time and reminisce on how frustrating and depressing my day has been. It’s probably been the most shocking day that I’ve had in a long time. I feel as if tons of bricks are on my shoulders and I just have such a hard time dealing with the day.
Eventually, Evan comes to visit. After I burn another Windows and trying to burn it onto the computer, it doesn’t work either. Finally, I feel a lot of the weight off of me because I realize that shit is basically futile for now. There’s nothing I can do.
Part of the problem was that I felt I could fix it and tried everything I could to try to. Now that I know I can’t, I have to try to get shit by. I can still run the Mac side though, but it can only hold like 5 gigs with the partition issues.
My mom also has a shitty HP laptop that I maybe can use the mean time. Hasan also has a real copy of Vista, so maybe that will work with getting my Windows back up.
Evan and I end up going to his dorm. On the way, he gets me two 40s of Coors. I drink one at his place while we chill out. We do random stuff, like watching the DiPrague Vlog videos. They’re pretty weird/boring/funny when looking back. He needs to go to sleep, so I end up leaving his place before 2:00. I save the other 40 for a later date.
I get back, write this shit down of my horrific day, and watch a few episodes of The Shield. I truly feel is a real incredible show and probably a classic in my book. It brings a fresh look onto the cop drama genre with the idea of corruption and how much realism that it brings. It also has some great camera work.
Well tomorrow is a fresh day and we’ll see what that will bring.
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
End of Summer and NYU
August 27, 2008
It’s a boring night as usual, however at 1:15, we end up sitting the DnD parking lot. Alon and I are in Hasan’s car. Miah is outside calling the girlfriend. An officer pulls into the parking lot and immediately asks for our IDs. He then proceeds to check our IDs. He gives us a warning and lets us off.
However, the issue is that there’s no reason for asking for ID when it’s not a traffic stop. Also, he checked our backgrounds with no PC. I email his precinct about it.
August 28, 2008
It’s Alon’s last day. We sit at DnD a bunch and go to Herrill Lanes. I don’t play because bowling is for fags…
They pay for an hour so I force them to play “speed bowling.” It’s a real sport when there are teams involved, but basically I force people to play as fast as possible. When you’re paying by time, there is no reason not to be playing for speed and points. Then again, in general, I think it’s stupid for games to not be time based.
August 29, 2008
CNF, Hasan, Tom and I go to Astoria. I’m surprised that Tom comes along, but he’s going to school in the city and CNF has gotten to know him. I thought that he only knew Atron, I guess not. CNF has a pint of Stella. Tom and I have 40s. We then go to Magic Carpet. Get back by 2:00ish.
August 30, 2008
CNF picks me up to go to Flushing with Jonah and Tom. We go to a Bubble Tea/restaurant café thingy. I have a bubble tea and we end up going back before 1:00. I get dropped off and I get some of that drank on. I got some champagne, some whiskey, and some wine. It’s a lot of time spent on Stickam. I also make a call to Bolanos, who tells me about Atron being in true form and throwing up. I call Danielle and she’s fucking out of it on Addie’s.
August 31, 2008
I’m supposed to move in today, but the apartment isn’t really “ready.” I end up staying at home for another day. I spend most of it on Stickam and stuff. Evan was bored the night before and we’re supposed to do stuff today because I was supposed to move in.
Instead, I end up going to the city anyway because Evan says he’ll be hanging out with Derek from Prague and such. I walk over at 8:00ish and take the 8:50 in. I then take the subway and get the dorm by 10:00ish.
I drink some beer that’s sitting around. Marco, Gianfranco’s brother, and I play beer pong and we lose rough. They’re down to one cup. We’re at 4. One of them makes his cup and his partner bounces it and makes his cup. That’s three cups down and they get take back. They both make the single cup shot to seal it. Fuckin’ hell!
I continue drinking lots of beer. A lot of people show up to this room. It also has a sweet roof where you just go out the window and can have a smoke and whatever. I get freaking real drunk. I take a few hits of a blunt. There’s this crazy ass guy there that is a mad free styler. I eventually leave with Evan so I can catch the 3:19 back.
It’s a lot ass trip to take back, so I call a few people like Bolanos, Atron, and Miah.
September 1, 2008
I wake up in the morning to start moving and my mom runs in the room. She says that I smell like alcohol and a lecture about it for the rest of the day. I’m can’t imagine what it could be. I don’t have anything on me since I drank last night at the party. I don’t know, maybe it’s because I’ve been stealing shit from the house, I’m not sure. Fuckin’ shit is super awkward though.
I move into the apartment and there’s no wireless. I have to wait until next Thursday for the cable guy to come. I walk around campus and find out that there’s nothing open. I have to go to Starbucks to get internet.
I meet up with Evan and we hang out for a bit. We then meet up with Evan and CNF. I spent basically the whole day on the computer. Jonah, Evan, and I walk over to cart. I get a gyro platter.
We then find a place to go in Stern. It’s way too nice. It’s got loads of rooms, tables, chairs, and flat screen TVs. We hang out there for the rest of the night. We go on Stickam, listen to some music, watch some TV, and just random shit. At 11:00ish, Evan and I walk back to our respective homes. It turns out that his dorm is literally at the corner of my apartment.
September 2, 2008
I have one of those weird sleep things where I wake up a few hours early and then I can’t fall back a sleep, but then end up going back to sleep, only to barely have enough sleep until I have to wake up.
My class is at 11:00. I grab a bagel with cream cheese, make myself a turkey and cheese sandwich packed up, and I head out.
First class of the semester is American Public Opinion or whatever it’s called. It’s basically a class on what the general American opinion on political issues is, why they have these opinions, and so on. The professor seems great and RateMyProfessor gave him a fantastic rating, but it’s still something I have little interest in. The American public in general is just a bunch of idiots. I mean studying them is real important, but I don’t care for it.
I then have my Spanish class. It’s so ridiculous that I have to take three semesters of this shit. The class isn’t too bad, but it’s harsh getting rid of the cobwebs. Even with 7 years of Spanish, not dealing with it for 2 full years really is rough.
After that, I grab some coffee with Evan and eat my sangwich. We sit around for a bit because my class is hours away at 6:20. I know, who the fuck has late classes like that? Either way, it seems like a great class, Civil Liberties.
The syllabus shows that the class is basically all Supreme Court cases, which I just love. She basically explains the class, which only takes 10 minutes and then lets us go. I end up buying the E-Book for like $50. I think it’s like all court decisions, so it’s like a huge fucking waste. That shit is all fucking online…
Notice, my day so far. Wake up, class, find “secret” place I can use my computer on campus, sit on my computer in the library, class, hang out with Evan/sit on computer, third class. Now… Sit on computer again…
On Facebook I find out that there’s going to be desert or whatnot through Alex, Junior class President. I show up at 8:00, say Hi to her, grab some food and drinks, speak to her for a bit, go back on the computer…
Now it’s 11:14 and the place closes at 12:00. I’ve been on Stickam and watching TV for so long. So much time spent this fucking library. I think Evan’s supposed to come here or something. Then again, I also haven’t had dinner yet… Shitt…
I guess I’ll need to get dinner and eventually go home to watch some shows and sleep for my 11:00 tomorrow.
It’s a boring night as usual, however at 1:15, we end up sitting the DnD parking lot. Alon and I are in Hasan’s car. Miah is outside calling the girlfriend. An officer pulls into the parking lot and immediately asks for our IDs. He then proceeds to check our IDs. He gives us a warning and lets us off.
However, the issue is that there’s no reason for asking for ID when it’s not a traffic stop. Also, he checked our backgrounds with no PC. I email his precinct about it.
August 28, 2008
It’s Alon’s last day. We sit at DnD a bunch and go to Herrill Lanes. I don’t play because bowling is for fags…
They pay for an hour so I force them to play “speed bowling.” It’s a real sport when there are teams involved, but basically I force people to play as fast as possible. When you’re paying by time, there is no reason not to be playing for speed and points. Then again, in general, I think it’s stupid for games to not be time based.
August 29, 2008
CNF, Hasan, Tom and I go to Astoria. I’m surprised that Tom comes along, but he’s going to school in the city and CNF has gotten to know him. I thought that he only knew Atron, I guess not. CNF has a pint of Stella. Tom and I have 40s. We then go to Magic Carpet. Get back by 2:00ish.
August 30, 2008
CNF picks me up to go to Flushing with Jonah and Tom. We go to a Bubble Tea/restaurant café thingy. I have a bubble tea and we end up going back before 1:00. I get dropped off and I get some of that drank on. I got some champagne, some whiskey, and some wine. It’s a lot of time spent on Stickam. I also make a call to Bolanos, who tells me about Atron being in true form and throwing up. I call Danielle and she’s fucking out of it on Addie’s.
August 31, 2008
I’m supposed to move in today, but the apartment isn’t really “ready.” I end up staying at home for another day. I spend most of it on Stickam and stuff. Evan was bored the night before and we’re supposed to do stuff today because I was supposed to move in.
Instead, I end up going to the city anyway because Evan says he’ll be hanging out with Derek from Prague and such. I walk over at 8:00ish and take the 8:50 in. I then take the subway and get the dorm by 10:00ish.
I drink some beer that’s sitting around. Marco, Gianfranco’s brother, and I play beer pong and we lose rough. They’re down to one cup. We’re at 4. One of them makes his cup and his partner bounces it and makes his cup. That’s three cups down and they get take back. They both make the single cup shot to seal it. Fuckin’ hell!
I continue drinking lots of beer. A lot of people show up to this room. It also has a sweet roof where you just go out the window and can have a smoke and whatever. I get freaking real drunk. I take a few hits of a blunt. There’s this crazy ass guy there that is a mad free styler. I eventually leave with Evan so I can catch the 3:19 back.
It’s a lot ass trip to take back, so I call a few people like Bolanos, Atron, and Miah.
September 1, 2008
I wake up in the morning to start moving and my mom runs in the room. She says that I smell like alcohol and a lecture about it for the rest of the day. I’m can’t imagine what it could be. I don’t have anything on me since I drank last night at the party. I don’t know, maybe it’s because I’ve been stealing shit from the house, I’m not sure. Fuckin’ shit is super awkward though.
I move into the apartment and there’s no wireless. I have to wait until next Thursday for the cable guy to come. I walk around campus and find out that there’s nothing open. I have to go to Starbucks to get internet.
I meet up with Evan and we hang out for a bit. We then meet up with Evan and CNF. I spent basically the whole day on the computer. Jonah, Evan, and I walk over to cart. I get a gyro platter.
We then find a place to go in Stern. It’s way too nice. It’s got loads of rooms, tables, chairs, and flat screen TVs. We hang out there for the rest of the night. We go on Stickam, listen to some music, watch some TV, and just random shit. At 11:00ish, Evan and I walk back to our respective homes. It turns out that his dorm is literally at the corner of my apartment.
September 2, 2008
I have one of those weird sleep things where I wake up a few hours early and then I can’t fall back a sleep, but then end up going back to sleep, only to barely have enough sleep until I have to wake up.
My class is at 11:00. I grab a bagel with cream cheese, make myself a turkey and cheese sandwich packed up, and I head out.
First class of the semester is American Public Opinion or whatever it’s called. It’s basically a class on what the general American opinion on political issues is, why they have these opinions, and so on. The professor seems great and RateMyProfessor gave him a fantastic rating, but it’s still something I have little interest in. The American public in general is just a bunch of idiots. I mean studying them is real important, but I don’t care for it.
I then have my Spanish class. It’s so ridiculous that I have to take three semesters of this shit. The class isn’t too bad, but it’s harsh getting rid of the cobwebs. Even with 7 years of Spanish, not dealing with it for 2 full years really is rough.
After that, I grab some coffee with Evan and eat my sangwich. We sit around for a bit because my class is hours away at 6:20. I know, who the fuck has late classes like that? Either way, it seems like a great class, Civil Liberties.
The syllabus shows that the class is basically all Supreme Court cases, which I just love. She basically explains the class, which only takes 10 minutes and then lets us go. I end up buying the E-Book for like $50. I think it’s like all court decisions, so it’s like a huge fucking waste. That shit is all fucking online…
Notice, my day so far. Wake up, class, find “secret” place I can use my computer on campus, sit on my computer in the library, class, hang out with Evan/sit on computer, third class. Now… Sit on computer again…
On Facebook I find out that there’s going to be desert or whatnot through Alex, Junior class President. I show up at 8:00, say Hi to her, grab some food and drinks, speak to her for a bit, go back on the computer…
Now it’s 11:14 and the place closes at 12:00. I’ve been on Stickam and watching TV for so long. So much time spent this fucking library. I think Evan’s supposed to come here or something. Then again, I also haven’t had dinner yet… Shitt…
I guess I’ll need to get dinner and eventually go home to watch some shows and sleep for my 11:00 tomorrow.
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