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Angel_Bob

:: 2005 15 October :: 4.25pm

Why should you go to Aquinas?
This next week, all week, we have no school. That's right, a week-long fall break.

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TaoMan1121

:: 2005 13 October :: 7.45pm
:: Mood: happy
:: Music: Sheryl Crow - The Na-Na Song

Evidently, I moved to Seattle instead of New York. You can just call me "Frasier" from now on... I'm listening. 4.39 inches of rain yesterday on top of Saturday's 3.35. That brings the month to date total to 7.95, which just beat out the average of 3.26. And keep in mind we aren't even halfway through the month yet.

Alias and Kolchak tonight. Yummy.

I'm going out with Steve (VanDyke) on Sunday. Looking forward to that.

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angel_bob

:: 2005 12 October :: 8.00pm

Happy anniversary, sirrah!

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TaoMan1121

:: 6666 66 June :: 6.66pm
:: Mood: mischievous
:: Music: Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil

Woohu Entry #666
In honor of my wicked little milestone, I have unleased the demon Dancing Baby on the unsuspecting skaters at Rockefeller Center. Mwahahahaha! Dance little piggy, dance!



"I am Torgo, I take care of the place while the Master is away."

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TaoMan1121

:: 2005 10 October :: 7.21pm
:: Mood: quaffable
:: Music: Oasis - Hello

Scully & Mulder
Ross & Rachel
Carrie & Big
Dawn & Tim

Yippie! I have a new exemplary TV relationship to look up to. Those are always healthy. :-P Evidently, I need to buy the Office now. The Christmas special made me splooge.

In the same vein, I found this pretty interesting (third post down):
Top 50 Romantic TV Couples

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angel_bob

:: 2005 9 October :: 10.30pm
:: Mood: blank

Blah blah some old speech blah crap blah
Being a woman sux0rz.
Being hormonal sux0rz.

Thinking with your amygdala sux0rz.





I love you all. I hope you're doing okay. I know I'm not home a lot because of school and stuff but I still have my cell phone. So if you want to talk about anything ever (I don't care if you want to tell me how hard you gave it to those hookers last night, tell me ALL about it) call me. Tell me what's going on. Tell me how much you miss your dog (which I swear was NOT BLACK, Kelly). I don't care what you want to tell me. If you want to talk: I'm here.

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TaoMan1121

:: 2005 9 October :: 3.00pm
:: Mood: nostaglic
:: Music: Bach

Fall
I love fall. There's this sense of demise attached to it, but it also brings to mind a necessary completion of a natural cycle as well. Fall also evokes some of the strongest associations from my childhood, many of which have to do with my father. Watching football, going to open houses, seeing the leaves turn outside his house, Friday evenings spent watching X-Files, Millennium, and DS9, seeing the Shining alone for the first time alongside a cozy fire... these are all things that come to mind when I conjur up the last few months leading up to the end of the year. To me, fall has always been something dying, time dwindling down and therefore taking on a newfound sense of urgency. There's also a lot of associations with family and the holidays and Christmas has always been the apex of that climb; the first couple of months after the next year have always been a desperate, barren wasteland for me. I don't know, I think about all this stuff and I can't imagine a true existence without four seasons. For all my obessions with change and rebirth, as much as I complain about winter, I couldn't imagine being truly complete without it.

Lately, I've been hearing a lot of people voice a longing for a job and stability and family, and I have to admit, I'm starting to get drawn into it. I don't know if it's because I'm on my own or because I'm staring down the long end of this degree or if these are true feelings brought on by a newfound awareness of some sort of a biological clock, but I occasionally find myself "longing," the best word I have to describe it. As with most things in my life, there's a duality to my feelings that hamper me from ever being truly convinced of either side, so until one jumps out of its seat and starts flailing its arms to grab my attention, I continue to venture on with my established way of thinking. But I can identify some sort of important development here in the fact that I'm starting to open my eyes to the possibility. I've always maintained a gaping chasm between my current status and the thought of settling down. But then again, I'm not getting any younger...

I'm suprised by my failing need to perfectly articulate my feelings. As one point, I would've spent as much time polishing an entry like this as I would thinking it up, but now I just have this intense need to convey my feelings, using whatever means I have at my disposal.

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TaoMan1121

:: 2005 8 October :: 3.15pm
:: Music: Ben Folds - Late

Listmania!
Top 10 Musical Acts to See
1) Coldplay
2) U2
3) Bruce Springsteen
4) Ben Folds
5) Bob Dylan
6) Beck
7) The Killers
8) Fiona Apple
9) Franz Ferdinand
10) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Top 10 Live Albums (that I own anyway)
1) Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
2) Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
3) Ben Folds Live
4) Sarah McLachlan - Mirrorball
5) Rod Stewart - Unplugged... and Seated
6) Dashboard Confessional - Unplugged 2.0
7) Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
8) Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
9) Metallica - S&M
10) Barenaked Ladies - Rock Spectacle

Top 10 Foo Fighters Songs
1) Everlong
2) Baker Street
3) All My Life
4) Stacked Actors
5) Monkey Wrench
6) Times Like These
7) Walking After You
8) Best of You
9) Next Year
10) For All The Cows

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TaoMan1121

:: 2005 7 October :: 1.35am
:: Mood: very well

God, I want to be British.
Saw David Gray tonight at Radio City Music Hall. First of, that venue is breathtaking. I had a blast just walking around before the show, checking things out and taking it all in (I mean, they've got foot pedal-operated blow dryers for christ's sake!). The acoustics were amazing (as you would expect) and looking back at the mezzanines during the show, I was just taken in.

I can say without hesitation that tonight was the best I've concert I've been to since Dido a couple years back and it's definitely top five all time. I had reservations going by myself, but I picked exactly the right show to do so. Though Christa turned me onto him, I've always felt David Gray was one of those artists that was mine, one that I didn't necessarily share with a past or present love. There were times tonight I just got taken into so completely that from the outside I may have seemed distant or bored, but in reality I was just completely zoned in and connected with the music and the man. He was so professional during the show, keeping the chit chat down to a minimum, but you could tell the joy he derives from performing. He plays the paino, guitar, even the harmonica, and to top it all off he's a very sharp dresser... I don't know if there's anything that man can't do. I also can't remember the last time I teared up during a concert. One of the perks of checking the show out by myself is I had exceptational seats: I was six rows back, center stage. I may have been closer to the stage in past shows, but these were by far the best seats I've ever had. I'm so glad I indulged myself, bit the bullet, and bought a ticket for this show. Tonight's show just put everything is a sort of calm prespective; it allowed me to enter into that moment so completely (the way few shows can) and was immensely cathartic and much needed. And while it temporarily satisfied the overwhelming itch for a concert that had plauged me since I got down here, I'm thristing more for. Fiona's coming in December, hmm...

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angel_bob

:: 2005 6 October :: 6.02am

I think that doing our French project last year (the second fairy tale, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, not the first) had to be one of the best times in my entire life.

And up until three seconds ago when Nicole reminded me of it, (Je suis un ninja comme Jackie Chan, WAH-TAH!) I had totally forgotten.

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TaoMan1121

:: 2005 5 October :: 12.21am
:: Mood: durpish
:: Music: Fiona Apple - Red Red Red

Said layout is done. All Fiona, all the time. (Except for the tite, which is Pink Floyd). It's not going to be a long term layout as it's too... not masculine for me. But I like it for the time being and I'm pretty proud of it. By the way, the new album is spectacular. I'd like to say that the six year wait has been worth it (it has), but doing so makes me want to cry. Stupid record label.

Fun fact of the day: Fiona Apple's "When The Pawn..." was released on my birthday back in 1999.

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TaoMan1121

:: 2005 4 October :: 7.09pm
:: Mood: amused
:: Music: Fiona Apple - Get Him Back

Nic Cage named his new child Kal-El, which happens to be the birth name of Superman. Wow. Looks like Apple has a new playmate. :-P

I find it amazing that I haven't been carded (for alcohol) in this town yet. Ironically, the only time I even got a weird look was when I was with my parents. They vouched for me; I found that cute.

I found out today that carrying four 2-liters of pop and a 18-pack of beer bottles (that's 280 fluid ounces, for those keeping score at home) even two blocks sucks. A lot. Watching my muscles spasm uncontrollably is kind of cool though.

New layout on the way tonight.

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TaoMan1121

:: 2005 2 October :: 9.21pm
:: Mood: anxious
:: Music: Eels - Ugly Love

More Pics
Jeebers challenged me, so I decided I'm going to periodically post 5 random NYC pics:

Read more..

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Angel_Bob

:: 2005 2 October :: 1.52am

Hello.
I guess I should tell you about school, now that I have time.

College is the best thing that I have ever encountered. (Next to Nick, of course but normally I don't call meeting Nick an "encounter".) All of my professors are nice (even though my I&E prof channeled Mr. Watson yesterday), none of my classes are lectures and I haven't slacked off as much as usually. School is so much fun. My friends are awesome to just hang out with, all the clubs I'm involved in are either on topics I really care about or things I'm really interested in and the girls outnumber the guys 4 to 1.

My French professor is also the Spanish prof. She speaks French for the entire hour. At first, I was really afraid of that class but as it got going, I realized that we aren't learning anything. Then Shayne and Nicole told me that Mrs. Dudka is pregnant and on bed rest again so they aren't learning a thing either.
My English class (I&E) is okay. It's really a waste of time but since I didn't take the AP test and it's required...I'm trapped there. The prof, Dr. Dawson, is a hippie.

My PE/Health requirement (Nutrition, Exercise and Stress) is just that, a requirement. I'm trying to get it out of the way so I can be happy an unhealthy for the rest of my life. The prof also teaches the pilates and yoga classes at Aquinas so of course we had to do those things. Pilates smurfing sucks.

My math class is alright. I hate math. I hate algebra. My prof is pretty awesome and nice. She also explains things very nicely. I understand most of everything. Mostly because I've learned it all before and it's pretty much remembering. I hate factoring.

At Aquinas, freshmen are required to take this Intro to Information Literacy class that teaches you how to use the library and research things for papers. It's actually kind of interesting and fun but I'm a dork. The professor is the co-director of the library and, for some reason, loves me to death.

My web page design class is great. It's all done in Frontpage so even if I didn't know how to insert pictures, I could find out in less than a minute. The professor wrote the first college textbook on HTML and is pretty "hip". He grows all of his own fruits and vegetables, his house is run on his own generator, he loves spelunking and he cannot remember any HTML. He loves cars and music too. Pretty cool.

My friends are awesome. I met my friend Jeremy at orientation. We usually eat lunch together. Sometimes his sister, Elysia, comes along. She's a junior and transferred from Saginaw Valley State University. They're from Caro, some small town on the other side of the state. Shayne used to eat with us but now he's too cool. He's in my I&E class though so it's okay. I see my friend Emily once in a while. She's in my French class and in both SAC and the radio station club. She rocks. And she's beautiful.
Life's going pretty alright too. I got a job on campus at the registrar's office. I only get about 10 hours a week so I was thinking of maybe getting a weekend job too. We'll see. The only sucky part is that we work during all breaks. Which means that I don't know if I can go see Katie anymore.

Nick and I are doing great. We keep running into these crappy things (that I bring up because it's my job to over think everything.) but we get right through them. We keep talking about getting married eventually or living together next year. I hope it happens eventually. It'd be nice. Nick's a really nice guy and I hope he sticks around for a while longer. We're coming up on sixteen months. It's awesome!

On Wednesday, I got up the courage to drive myself to school. Ever since then, I've been driving everywhere. I love it and I never thought I would.

Anyway. Life is awesome. School is awesome. Yeah, I'm stressed and worried about a bajillion things but I'm having fun and growing up. That's all I wanted. Hopefully I can start going to church again. I keep wanting to but I make a thousand excuses every single time.

I love you all. I hope everything's going great for all of you. I miss you, Kelly, come home sometime. The rest of you all need to come home too.

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TaoMan1121

:: 2005 1 October :: 2.16am
:: Mood: tired
:: Music: Jonathan Rice - My Mother's Son

Pics!
I got a new haircut today. I like it.



Oh yeah. I have sideburns again. I like those too. :-)



And a cool new (free) poster tonight. I like that as well.



That's all.

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