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BLAGOJEVICH GOT FIRED!!! ABOUT DAMN TIME!!!!!
How Big of a douche can you be where you're STILL trying to sell the vacant senate seat or take it yourself even though you KNOW the FBI is investigating you?? DUMBASS They supposedly wiretapped everything, and personally, i would LOVE to hear those conversations.
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| I need to remember this |
[Nov. 20th, 2008|12:38 am] |
I was watching some video clips and I realized how awesome soem of the Jackie Chan movies are. Not the ones like Rush Hour or that kinda crap, I'm talkin about the old school stuff straight off the boat. I need to remember to see these movies:
Police Story One and Two City Hunter Project A Wheels on Meals Gorgeous First Strike Anything with "Drunken Master" in the title Dragon Lord Dragons Forever
Any one know any others let me know. I just know those have kickass fight scenes in it. |
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| Only The Beginning |
[Nov. 4th, 2008|11:06 pm] |
I won't go into how happy I am that Obama won tonight. All I will say is that, watching the Indecision 08 overage and eating Ben and Jerry's Cinnamon Roll ice cream while simultaneously listening to the news is pretty much the best feeling in my stomach ever.
Also, I'm listening to Chicago right now. I used to have a lot more of their music on the Zune but I deleted a lot of it besides teh harder stuff ffrom the late 60's early 70's because thats the good shit. Just like Beginnings. Good times, reminds me of life right now. New beginnings...
I haven't posted song lyrics in a while, so excuse the lame transition. I'm happy.
When I'm with you, it doesn't matter where we are, or what we're doing I'm with you, that's all that matters
Time passes much too quickly when we're together laughing I wish I could sing it to you, oh no I wish I could sing it to you
Oh whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Mostly I'm silent, mm-hm-hm-hm...Silent, la la la la la Never think of the right words to say
When I kiss you, I feel a thousand different feelings The color of chills all over my body, yeah, yeah, yeah
And when I feel them, I quickly try to decide which one I should try to put into words, oh no, try to put into words
Oh whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Mostly I'm silent...Silent...La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la...Silent...
Only the beginning of what I want to feel forever Yeah, oh, oh, whoa Yes, only the beginning of what I want to feel forever Only the beginning, only just the start, yeah I've got to get you into my life mama, I've got to get you next to me Only the beginning, only just the start Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah...Mmm-hmmm...
Only the beginning...Only the beginning... Only the beginning...Only the beginning... Only the beginning...Only the beginning... Only the beginning...Only the beginning... Only the beginning...Only the beginning... Only the beginning...Only the beginning... Only the beginning...Only the beginning... Only the beginning...Only the beginning... Only the beginning...Only the beginning...[fade]
With rockin horn solos. |
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[Sep. 24th, 2008|06:11 pm] |
One month of school down, and so far it's been pretty solid. I'm still considering whether I should quit the DI because I got a C on my first Reporting 2 paper, which I know I could have gotten a better grade on if I had more time to report. I'm trying to go home this weekend too, but I don't think its gonna happen.
I checked out a house today, and it was a bit run down and outdated. The basement has three rooms, but with mildew and no ventilation, it's not a place to live. Fortunately there's seven other rooms in the house, but I'm not sure if I should take it or not. It's cheap sure, but it's pretty freakin old. At least if I get the second floor, i get the whole damn floor, haha.
At the very least, living with my one friend is starting to be a pain in the ass. He does things without telling anyone, like hide food he said the old roommate left behind, even though he doesnt eat it. He avoids confrontation at all times. It's a bit frustrating.
Jeanne is finally better. Not officially since she hasn't been to the doctor to confirm it, but we're pretty sure she is. Haha. Making out is so much sweeter after four months of nada.
Life in general is good, but hectic. I'm hungry and bored. I bought some Hungryman. I will eat that soon.
It's time...
To face...
THE HOLE!!!!!
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[Sep. 11th, 2008|11:47 am] |
I know it's been some time since I last wrote in this anything of value. Or anyhing at all. But I'm at a break from a Board of trustees meeting here and I thoguht I would give an update.
First of all, this semester is BY FAR the hardest I've ever had. Now I know what everyone else has been bitching about these last two years. Reporting 2 is probably going to kick my ass hard. It'll be worth it to learn how to write more about public affairs and get a better understanding of how to write like a real reporter. But damn, it's a lot of reporting. ANd stipulations I would normally not have to follow. Like having 5 NEW sources for every story. Ouch.
The DI (newspaper) is killing me too. My god. They make me write too much and im barely having the time to do it all WITH the classes. The Shakespeare and Victorian Lit I'm taking are a ridiculous amount of reading too. So is my political science class what with me having to learn every section of the constitution and all.
I did get a part time job though while im out here. Ironically, out of allthe places I applied to, the first one to call back was a pizza place. It's called Papa Del's and its a local favorite around here. The place is pretty much packed EVERY DAY. Saturday is insanity basically. But it's better than LOu's since I feel like the effort I put in and the reward are equal, and despite haveing like 10 managers, things make sense and no one is an ASS like at Lou's.
Lou's still has a better pan though in my opinion, even though Papa's has bacon and a better thin and a stuffed I haven't tried yet.
Unfortunately though I can't live where I currently am next year. Dave's brother is coming in, which is understandable and it's his parents condo and all. BUT my friend John is an idiot who can't graduate in 4 years so he wants to stay there and since he was here before I was, I get the shaft. I plan on staying at Capstone (if you havent seen it look at the pictures on facebook) but I need two roomies, or at least one, since even one will still in many ways be cheaper than most places on campus. If anyone wants to help me out with that :-) let me know.
Things are going great with jeanne too. She got mono while out in Connecticut though so not being able to kiss one's girlfriend, especially after not doing so since May, can be kind of a hard thing to do. Hopefully that won't last much longer though ;-) She gets tired pretty quickly though, like at 10, for no reason.
Overall though, things are going pretty well really. I'm generally exhausted and tired but I'm busy and always doing something and thats something that rarely happened during the summer. It's pretty nice. Now if only the Cubs can stop imploding that would be swell. |
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| Taste of Chicago |
[Jun. 30th, 2008|03:48 pm] |
THanks again to everyone who came. I had a lot of fun and I hope you did too. The rain made it more exciting in my opinion, but my opinion kinda sucks sometimes, haha.
So, as I usually do, here is the post containing what I ate this year:
Aunt Diana's: Chocolate Fudge Bacino's Pizza: Slice of sausage pizza Chicago Chocolate Company: Giant turtle (the candy, not the animal) DOminicks: Watermelon Franco's: Italian ice, later some gelato as well Hashbrowns: sweet potato hash browns (very disappointing sadly) Lagniappe-Creole Cajun Joynt: Beignet Mazzone's: Nutella crepe Polo Cafe and Catering: Skewered Shark Velacruz (yeah I had shark, what now?) Sweet Baby Ray's: BBQ Meatball sandwich Tamarind: Taiwan Shining Noodles Tiparos Thai Cuisine: Fried Chicken Tenders with sweet and sour sauce Tuscany: Toasted Cheese Ravioli Vienna Beef: CHicago Style Hot Dog And a bottle of water
I'm proud of myself. Thank you for asking. |
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| Facebook Apps and Rotary |
[Jun. 16th, 2008|01:08 am] |
Alright, so there was this "Cutest Friends" app, which, interestingly enough, I got as an invite from Judy's sister who voted on my level of cuteness and wanted me to see it. Whether this is actually true or not only Judy's sister (who used to change her own name a lot or soemthing, leading me to believe she has issues that cannot be resolved through theraputic sessions on facebook) would know. Anyways, installed the app for shits n' giggles to see my ranking, and all the friends that also had the app were ranked.
I was number 1...then i reloaded and i was number 2.
I'm not sure how to respond to that, though I do admit that Lindsey Bell is much cuter than i could ever be and understand the decision fully. I don't know how to sarcastically thank people for thinking im cute without sounding like an ass so i'll be sincere about it, which is more true to the fact anyways.
Thanks. Though I hardly consider myself worthy of such an award, haha.
And now we come to Rotary Fest. First of all, why does everyone go there? Yea, you can buy alcohol (some of us anyways) and that's all well and good, but why do you want to go back to see everyone you went to high school wth in one concentrated space with a bunch of old fogies and awful cover bands? I get a lot of "there's nothing else to do" and that's BS because there is SOMETHING to do that doesnt require forcing yourself to catch up with people you didn't want to see again after graduating. I got dragged there twice unfortunately (Thanks Richy, but at least we didn't stay long and you were drunk each time so that made it more exciting, haha) and though I met some good people there (Ya know who you are dunja and christina journalism mommy and others; theyre just the few with LJ's that read consistently) I just hate the idea of people going to a place, because they know everyone they knew from high school is going to that place in order to reunite with people they may or may not necessarily want to see.
I dunno, it seems like a waste of time to me. Like you NEED a special four or five days to take a poorly organized hick-version trip down memory lane when you could just call those people up and HANG OUT WITH THEM. But whatever. I shouldn't bitch too much because i DID end up going and all. I just didn't enjoy myself too much. No one's fault but my own on that. |
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| Important information in the last paragraph |
[May. 10th, 2008|08:34 pm] |
Ya know, I TRIED to do that survey thing that everyone else was doing, but it was such a pain in the ass posting all the questions and then deleting the answers just to write in my own, I felt it was kinda worthless. I'll just give a decent update without the survey.
Finals were great, i think. I only got one back so far, and I got a C with the curve, and a B in the class, with the final grade also curved. Can't complain, it was a hard ass class, and I'm just glad I got the B. I got out of one because I already had an A in the class and was able to skip the final with no bad effects, and i still have to hear about the other two. Sounds pretty good to me.
I also hope everyone's mothers have good Mother's Days. I can't speak for my mom. My best hope is that she doesn't return the gifts we got her.
I came home Thursday night to surprise my parents who thought I was coming home on Friday. Wasn't much of a surprise though since I had to tell them otherwise they wouldn't have been up for it. It was more surprising for me, in fact, because I walk in and see this big furry ball of fluff known as Dude who had at least tripled in size in the previous month. Grow little man grow.
Just stop trying to eat me.
He's trying right now I might add. Keeps biting my feet.
Anywho, to the important topic of discussion that everyone would really want to know about in the first place.
I have a girlfriend. I'm not saying this to brag....well maybe a bit, because I really like this one. But I've had her for a month now, and I know it would bother Monica and possibly others because I've said nothing and it's not "facebook official." To answer that, it is because she's interning in Connecticut this summer and is leaving at the end of May, so we're trying to avoid the long-distance thing. Regardless, it's been a great month and I'm hoping to have a few more good weeks come out of this when she comes back on Wednesday. I won't write anymore about this on here. you want the details, just ask.
Hope you all have a great summer and try to get to the soccer game tomorrow at 5 pm. If it's not raining. |
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[Apr. 11th, 2008|09:58 pm] |
So I get home from the internship interview today and in my yard is a new dog.
I knew I was getting one so it wasn't a surprise, but seriously, it's still shocking.
He's a Wheaton Terrier and his name is Dude.
He likes to bite things and when he goes onto grass, he likes to hop onto it and he walks sideways.
It's pretty nice having a dog again.
Any picture will probably be on Facebook. |
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[Apr. 5th, 2008|12:24 am] |
So I had to cover a story about a vigil remembering those who have died in the Iraq War; they counted both sides. It didn't seem too different from any normal vigil, if the act itself is considered normal. And then I met a guy who had been there. Now, to be honest, I had never met a guy that I can remember to this point my age who had been to Iraq, fought, and came back without a scratch. He was there in the initial invasion, and he went from Kuwait to Saddam's home town, which I believe is Al-Awja. It was kind of startling and a very different experience for me. It's times like this that I'm glad im a journalist. It allows me to meet many different people and experience these kinds of things, and then to go and tell their stories so maybe, someone can vicariously feel exactly what I felt.
Also, I may do something incredibly, INCREDIBLY, ridiculous with my career that I by no means need to do in any way. I think I thought too late about getting a minor. Can anyone guess what it is? |
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[Apr. 2nd, 2008|10:33 pm] |
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William Safire was on The Daily Show today becuase he wrote a political dictionary. I thought it was pretty cool. JUst thought everyone should know. |
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[Mar. 8th, 2008|04:08 pm] |
The following is taken from a post on Juicy Campus ranking fraternities and sororities by Harry Potter style. I found it hilarious not only because its extremely racist, but my old roommate Dave SOrenson is on here. You'll see...
Have you ever wondered what house you would be in if you went to Hogwart´s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Well, your time has come. Here is the official listing of what houses U of I´s Fraternities would be sorted into.
Slytherin: Sigma Chi Alpha Tau Omega Pi Kappa Alpha
These houses think that they are way too cool to be associated with the rest of the fraternities on campus, while in reality everyone except themselves thinks that they are a bunch of homos that ride each others broomsticks and play with each others wands. Quote: Fuck the Leaky Cauldron. I’m goin’ to Staysh. Rob Main... Has many leather bound books... but can´t read.
But what about Betas you ask?
Betas would be what is considered in the wizarding world a squib. Squibs should be magical and know full well of the wizarding world, but are in some way retarded so that they are physically incapable of performing magic. Which in fraternity sense means that they are fully aware of what shakin´ that Laffy Taffy would entail, but are not quite sure what it looks like when someone in fact shakes their laffy taffy. Not because there is a lack of horrible hoes lining up to use their ass machine as a performance enhancing tool, but because they are too mentally inept to comprehend what type of laffy taffy shaking has just occurred. They may have eaten too many of Bertie Bott´s Every Flavor Beans. The Schaper Brothers: May look like Abercrombie Models, but can´t spell Abercrombie, or Schaper or Models. moving on....
Ravenclaw... Sigma Alpha Mu Alpha Epsilon Pi Zeta Beta Tau Delta Upsilon
Apparently Ravenclaw is pronounced RavenIhateJeususClaw. This may be due to the fact that Ravenclaws think about straight A´s while they are making love to a kosher Girl or possibly because they pay their teachers off with their unlimited supply of Jew Gold. Either way these stars of David cherish their schoolwork way more than their Mohel. Followers of Christ may or may not be scattered into this group of brews. The Fat Sammie that works in Station should seriously consider growing a beard, sporting a yamika, or killing the leading figure of a religious movement.
Gryffindor.. Sigma Phi Epsilon
These Goodie Two Shoes homos love nothing more than telling teacher about how bad the other kids in school are and how much they try not to break the rules like the mean old hoodlums they learn with. In between pouting sessions these Harry-want-to-be´s practice destroying dark magic by holding bible sessions and exorcisms. If you are lucky you can attend their formal chapter which entails wearing a suit and confessing to the chapter how Dumbledore (Jesus) has touched their hearts and filled up their cauldrons. Inappropriate fondling may or may not occur. Generic Sig Eps: It doesn´t matter they´re all gay. Including Dave Sorenson.
Hufflepuff: Delta Chi Delta Tau Delta
These houses are more than happy to take the rest. Quantity over quality is their motto. If you have a pulse and can pay your dues, welcome aboard. Although they do have their Cedric Diggorys... Ryan McNeily. Hufflepuffs tend to be a little bit goofier than the rest of the houses and notoriously lame. Quote: Aww I’m not sweet enough to be a Slytherin and I´m not Jewy enough to be a Ravenclaw, I could be a Gryffindor, but I think I like girls too much... I guess that makes me a Hufflepuff. Maybe Robin can get me a job.
ACACIA:
Muggles... Not capable of doing magic... Mostly because their members are scattered so far across South America that no one Wizarding school would be able to take all of their applicants.
Yo´ Essay I think I saw that Amigo disapperate. Ey´ G I think you smoked too much peote. Erik Stoecker is not Mexican but cannot pronounce his own name.
AGR/ Farm House:
A house full of Hagrids. Clean up my shit please Hagrids. I think I shat myself. Too bad care of Magical Creatures includes slaughtering pigs and cows. Bowman. You are large.
Phi Delts:
Go to school with Victor Krum. Are on a lot of Drugs. Vadim and Pete Chambers. Fuck ´em, you let Brad Wallenberg into your house.
Mexicans:
House Elves for America. House Elves are short things with big ears that wait on their masters. Quote: Pedro Can I get a double Chee and a Small Fri? Si Master....
Girls that Speak French: Give me Boners. Fleur Can I fill you with my doodle?
Triangle Frat and Business Frats:
Work at Gringotts. Are pieces of shit/ future pieces of shit that love money and wish they were jews.
Black Greek Council:
Dementors. Suckin´ yo´ Soul. Hellz yeah you tryin´ to break outta prison? Me too. |
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[Feb. 27th, 2008|12:20 pm] |
I've realized something about my life that I don't like. I'm always waiting for something. I'm waiting for my internship to start, or I'm waiting for spring break to start, or I'm waiting to get through college, or I'm waiting for the right girl to come along, etc.
I'm getting tired of waiting for things.
It's not even that I've been given uncertain guarantees about things happening or things will come along, or if I wait long enough the right stuff will come along. I know this will probably occur, but on the basis of the fact that I still have to wait for it, or that I haven't waited long enough.
I consider myself far from perfect, but I feel I have the ability to reach certain plateaus now that I couldn't reach before that entitle me to at least get the chance and stop waiting for the world around me to give me the opportunity. I have lived for a long time waiting for people to drop things in my lap. I have lived even longer waiting for other people to do things for me. I don't think I can wait much longer and I'm becoming impatient.
I think part of this stems from the fact that, for the first time in my life, I have some aspect of myself aside from my personality or appearance that I take pride in and care about. This thing defines me for those who do not know me, and defines myself in times of trouble or drama. Until now, the things I did or the school work I accomplished meant little to me, and I tried to do them as fast as I could so I continue doing nothing and waiting for the next assignment to come along. But now, my journalism and my writing have changed that. As I read the comments my articles sometimes get, many of which I do not agree with in the slightest, I get angry, hurt, puzzled, or proud of what is said. This happened on occasion back at school, but not to nearly as intense a degree or nearly as consistently.
I have a pride and a passion for my work, and I hope to continue it even if my subject material pisses off the audience.
My internship is supposed to begin this week. I will be writing profiles of baseball players and coaches until what will likely be June. And for the first time, I'm excited about a job. But the coaches haven't made teams yet.
I can't wait anymore. |
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| Thoughts on Juicy Campus |
[Feb. 26th, 2008|02:48 pm] |
This is probably old news for some if not most, but for those who don't know, Juicy Campus is a web site that allows people to anonymously post gossip, rumors, and blatantly offensive opinions about people which other people can anonymously comment on. Now for a long time, I haven't been on the site, mainly because I didn't want to read a bunch of ignorant opinions fillled with hate.
Boy was I wrong. Not only are they filled with hate and ignorance, theyre also downright hilarious.
I mean, some of the things these people say about others is just hilarious, and in such a matter of fact way. Granted the content and intention is probably a bit wrong, but I'm laughing my ass off at this thing every 20 seconds because I cannnot believe what some people are saying. My god.
Anyone else read this thing or find it hilarious or anything? |
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| Thoughts on NIU |
[Feb. 15th, 2008|04:47 pm] |
I feel awful about this. Every time I think about it, it makes me feel worse. I never knew Kazmierczak or anything, he graduated EG 9 years before I even showed up there, but it doesn't make me feel any better. The more shooters that come out of the woodworks to hurt people in schools, the more I realize the facat that just about all of them came from a suburb town or suburb school. It makes me realize just how hard it can be for some people growing up in a high school in the suburbs. SOme might not agree with me, but I believe the suburbs are the most intolerant area one can live in both racially nad socially. Yet at the same time, it probably offers the most benefits for educational advancement around. It's quite a decision for me on where I would want to raise my children in the future if nothing changes.
That's not the only thing that botehrs me. Apparently the WEstboro Church is going to the vigils and funerals and protesting at them with their "God hates Gays" signs and wahtnot.
I'm not against freedom of speech and indeed I am not against them voicing their opinion, even though I find it incredibly hurtful to have "THANK GOD FOR NIU, THE VICTIMS ARE BURNING IN HELL!" splattered across a Web site. But what kind of assholes don't allow people to mourn in peace, and instead use the opportunity to blatantly blast homosexuals and te country by calling everyone "fag-enablers?" I even have a press release they sent the Daily Illini telling us about it. I have never heard such hateful things in my life.
I also read a story saying that Kazmierczak was an avid fan and player of Counterstrike. So now I have to eventually hear about JAck Thompson's bitching about evil video games im sure.
Has everyone missed the point? Instead of preaching high ideals and placing blame, shouldn't one mourn the fact that innocent lives were lost for no reason at all? What the fuck!?!?
What is the world coming to? |
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| Romney dropped like a bug hitting the zapper |
[Feb. 7th, 2008|12:19 pm] |
I am not uber-political enough to have saw this coming like some people said they did. Still, I was kinda surprised that he did drop out. I was fortunate enough to listen to his concession speech on the giant big screen while I was walking out of lunch. I'm not a republican by any means, mainly because of the ignorance of the entire party. ON that same token, the Democrats are too naive about the economy and foreign policy, but at least they have new ideas.
Anyways, I have to say that I did agree with some of his speech. His ideas about what to do with our economy were always solid, even if he was so religious that he wanted to get constitutional amendments for marriage to exclude the homosexual and then try to blow up the other half of the world. I was particularly impressed about what he said about finding new fuel sources. Granted I think his logic to the conclusion may have been a bit skewed to foreign policy reasons instead of "save the world from dying" reasons, but I guess with that issue its about the end instead of the means. There should be enough reasons why we need more energy-efficient fuels by now for god's sake.
I never liked McCain, so if any republican had to win, I would have wanted it to be Romney or Huckabee, UNfortunately, Super Tuesday showed that Huckabee is kinda out and McCain is probably gonna win the nomination now. PErsonally, I would have thought that those states that got on the Huckabee bandwagon would have gone for Romney as a second choice, which would have helped him out more, but apparently he didn't think so.
I just thikn it's funny how, even when dropping out, he claims to have done it for the love of America and to support the party. If he stayed much longer up to the convention, it would only make the party weaker and make it easier for Obama or Clinton to win, which would screw over the country according to his logic. Oh, he'll be back, and I have a feeling that some day he may be a president, especially depending on the outcome of this coming election. But I just thought how he HAD to relate his droppign out to his love for America and invoke Reagan again was just kind of ridiculous and unnecessary.
I don't know if anyone else saw it, but I already know at least one Romney supporter who is probably reading this (becca) so I was wondering what anyone else thought about it. |
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[Feb. 4th, 2008|12:03 pm] |
The weather is ridiculous today. I look outside and see nothing but white. It's not snow, but instead a dense white fog that has clouded my sight. I can't see buildings. I can't see trees. It would be interesting if, when the fog lifted, all of what was once familiar and normal disappeared with the fog. Even when I'm walking on the streets, the fog won't allow me to see too far. What I can see is hazy and surreal. Everything that is and was, becomes questionable and uncertain. The melting snow and rain flood the streets, creating rivers on sidewalks. Each moving current reflects different a facet for only a moment, if even a second, before it moves and changes. Looking at the ground, one cant see themselves the same way as they did a second ago. This water flows down declines in the earth until it gets to the sewer gratings and creates waterfalls into the darkness. This weather is confusing and disorienting. This weather, if it persisted for every hour of every day, might cause one to lose perspective and grip on reality, on the corporeal.
Never has the weather more ironically and perfectly fit my state of mind as it does right now. If my mind could transmit my emotions and feelings into the environment and force it to reflect myself, this is what would probably come out.
It's all very strange. |
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[Feb. 3rd, 2008|10:45 pm] |
I'm still surprised about that Super Bowl game. And I still hate Eli. But it was a very entertaining game which, during the Giants game-winning drive, just became ridiculous at one point.
I'm pretty sure Jesus is a Giants fan.
Also, here's something completely different: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvltzwkUEEA |
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