Johnny Rockstar

I was greatly disappointed this morning when I used that quote in my Latin class' discussion of Partative Genitives. Apparently people aren't watching Casablanca anymore. I wonder if they would have recognized "Play it again Sam", which by the way, was never actually said in the movie. Damn kids these days anyway, always being too hopped up on painkillers and goofballs to pay attention and watch the classics.

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I was replacing a broken light switch in the kitchen today and as the electricity surged through my hands, two thoughts came to mind. The first being, last Friday my mom, my uncle, and I had a conversation about how young people never believe old people and have to learn lessons on their own. And the second, always being told to make sure the electricity is shut off. The moral of this story is that in my house, the fuse labeled half-bath is also connected to the kitchen light switch.

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Me: Sweet, drinking during class.
Prof: We're not going there to drink.
Me: I'm going there to drink.
Prof: Okay, you can drink, John.
Me: I plan on it.

We've had snow, sleet and rain already today and suspect more is on the way. Despite the fact I usually get cursed for saying this, I love winter and I hope it really snows soon. I prefer cold to hot just about any time. Other things of note, I actually have a short story due tomorrow evening. Yes, tomorrow, Thanksgiving evening, I have a paper due. And because of the fact my compy died and I lost everything on my hard drive, I have to rewrite the whole thing later today. And finally I found out Monday that the last class for my writing workshop will be held in a bar, which explains the conversation transcript a few lines up.

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Speaking of bad video games, at least bad video game endings, I just beat Halo2 and I have to say I was horribly disappointed. The game itself felt pretty short, but the ending… horrible. I hear if you beat it on legendary you get an new multiplayer map, so I guess I should work on that now. I wish there was someone down here who liked video games as much as me to help with that.

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I'm not sure how great of a story it really is but when Bourke and I were still living in the apartment we had a few people over playing dominoes one night. And I mean a few, probably not more than six of us if I remember right. Not much was going on, just dominoes and listening to music. Now we could hear the neighbors screaming at each periodically but didn't think too much of it. We just laughed at what they were calling each other and ignored them. After awhile they seemed to settle down and we kept playing our game. Then a few monster ballads came on and we all sang along. Apparently we did so really loud, because not long after that there was a knock on my door and when I opened it, there were five or six police officers standing in the hallway. Not your average, street blue's, police officers either, these were some badass looking dudes. Technically not SWAT though, I’m not sure what they were. I guess they had responded to a domestic disturbance call at my neighbor’s and when they were talking to them, our loud singing caught their attention. They just told us to quiet down and left but let me tell you, when you open the door and unexpectedly find six mean looking guys with guns, it's a little scary. I’m can almost guarantee they went home and told their wives or girlfriends or whoever about how some kid shit a brick when he answered his door and found them standing there.

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Who's down for some major Halo2 action sometime over the long weekend? Multiple tv's, multiple xbox's, multiple bottles of beer.

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I'm sick again! What's up with that? I haven't been well for two whole weeks and I get another cold. This one isn't so bad though, it's all in my head, mostly just sinus pain. On top of that, I forgot to take my ankle brace to Yoga and now my ankle hurts something fierce today. But the good news is, it's blue's bar night! To hear theCrossroads Blues Band, and drink cheap beer. How's that old saying go? "Feed a fever, drown a cold in alcohol and bar fries."

Oh and before I forget, just in case you were wondering, they do make a Green Bean Casserole flavored soda-pop. For a great review of that and the four other Holiday flavores, click here.

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I was watching the remake of Dawn of the Dead last night and during the "living in the mall" montage, I noticed a real loungy sounding cover of "Down with the Sickness" so I did a little research and found this awesome musician by the name of Richard Cheese. Apparently all he does is take songs, mostly harder heavier songs, and turn them into Lounge Lizard style songs. And for reasons I can't explain Lounge is one of my favorite genres of music. So in conclusion I would like to say, find yourself some Richard Cheese and enjoy his unique styling’s.

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I spent most of yesterday evening writing, then woke up this morning and wrote for about four more hours. Then I took a break and for a change of pace I worked on a bibliography page. After that I wrote a short story. Writing takes a lot out of me, so I've been staring at the tv for a while now. I'de like to keep doing that but I have to do a little more writing, this time in Latin. What a Sunday. The good news is I now have my tickets to California booked. Hurray for California!

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Three things of note:
The first being I recently had a paper accepted for WMU's Fall English Studies Symposium. To be honest, I’m not exactly sure what that is, but it does mean I get to read my essay in front of a crowd of people. I’m told that kind of thing looks great on applications.

The second thing is, this weekend I bought and ate several Grapples, which were, to say the least, interesting. When I bought them, it was under the false impression that it was some sort of hybrid apple/grape fruit species. However, it became immediately clear that wasn't the case when the grape flavor was that of grape bubblegum.

Thirdly, it's finally showing up.

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Every now and then the Western Herald puts out a crime beat section, but the stories are all lame. We get things like Joe Schmoe was caught peeing in a bush behind the dorm. Who cares? Its nothing like what UC Santa Barbara has in their version. Read through some of those if you have time, they're hilarious.

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I'm in the mood to go to a bar, eat some hot wings, drink some beer and play a whole lot of trivia. It's been a long time since I've played bar trivia. I love trivia, but I would settle for a night of Trivial Pursuit, but I really want some good bar trivia with the little boxes and your funny name on the screen. Then there's always that one guy who you know plays every day because he gets a perfect score every time. Remember when we used to go to Hooters every Thursday and play trivia? Despite what many of you may thing, we really did go for the trivia.

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I should be writing a story right now but I'm just not inspired so instead I'll tell you about my voting ordeal this morning. I waited in line for 20 minutes, not that I'm complaining, and when I finally got to the table, my name wasn't on the list. I could see the confusion in the lady’s face when she saw my dad's name, my mom's name and even my Grandpa's name but not mine. So I went into the back room with a different lady and she pawned me off onto yet another lady. This final lady asked if I had my card from nearly 8 years ago and I said "Yes, I have it in my car," because coincidentally enough, it has been in my car for years. I went to get the card but by the time I came back I was told they already found me and said that sure enough I was registered and I should be on the list. So, I returned to the original lady and she wrote me into the list and ushered me to yet another lady. This lady said the lady before her forgot to sign my little card thingy so I had to go back to the first lady for a third time. Thankfully after that, I was good to go. So I voted and drove back to Kalamazoo in time to miss only a half hour of work. Get all that?

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