sonic reducer

:: 2006 21 February :: 10.14pm

Oh my goodness.
That was an awesome time. Went to the Grand Culinary Affair. Pretty cool. My feet ache like whoa though cause I wore stupid shoes. It was worth it. Tickets were $65 so I was happy I got to go. There was a lot of awesome food and I saw a lot of people I worked with and knew. I'm glad my aunt had a good time.
The most fun was the dart game. For $20 you get 2 throws. You aim at chef hats and then people pull cards out and the number on it corresponds to a gift. Well I didn't ever think I'd play cause it was so much, but my aunt gave me $40 to do it. So I threw and won 2 things... It was so cool. I got my knife kit for school, and normally it'd be about $250 or so...And I got a cookbook so that's pretty neat. It was a good time.

:: 2006 21 February :: 2.55pm

Standing in the hall here. haha. I so did not write my paper......
That's not good.
Tonight is the Grand Culinary Affair and I'm taking my Aunt with me. It should be pretty nice.
I ran a mile and a half today. And didn't eat anything. But I'll probably eat tonight.
Bah. I missed class last Thursday cause of the weather, now I didn't write my paper...
Well I should probably actually go do something for class.

:: 2006 20 February :: 12.57pm
:: Music: The Shins

It was a really great weekend. And beautiful.Just really reminds me of why we're together.
I love him.

Sometimes it's just really nice. You have to remember the beauty in things.

:: 2006 19 February :: 11.59pm
:: Mood: sleepy sleepy
:: Music: the printer

my weekend

it was a good weekend. friday... radio show, party at hunter's. that was good fun. saturday morning was band practice. then we came back here and shannon made some awesome chicken noodle soup, and kevin made empenadas. took kevin home, crashed at shannon's last night. five o clock this morning the fire alarm went off. that was obnoxious. and cold. but hey. nothing to put you to sleep like a really huge adrenaline rush. except for not.

and then today, just hung out. tried feebly to do some homework. read some. took shannon and sarah to see brokeback mountain. i didn't actually go in though, i sat in the lobby and did some honors reading. still not done though. but yeah. on the way there i spun the truck on a patch of black ice... that was fun. but i managed to not hit anything or kill anybody, so that much was good. and then the truck was acting up on the way home. it got gradually better, but it's something to do with the throttle, or the spark advance or something. just, something's not working right, and so i'll open up the throttle, but the engine won't rev... or the rev will be really inconsistent. or i'll hold the throttle and all of a sudden the rev will jump like mad. which, that one is kind of fun, because it's like somebody pushed the NOS button or something. but still, i don't like that i can't control it. i'm not sure what the problem is, but i don't have time to deal with it right now. i'll just not rely on the truck at the moment.

ryan came to practice saturday, that went pretty well. and i'm soon to be the official full time back up drummer for souls of rhythm, and that should be fun. he's gonna call me sometime this week. gaaa.

sleepy time. i wish. homework time. yup.

stinko

:: 2006 19 February :: 9.43pm

this weekend i slacked off again with school.
i don't even care.
i freakin want summer. even though that means precalc.

but the trees look sweet.
it's like living in a snow globe.

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:: 2006 16 February :: 7.17pm
:: Music: Vermilion, Pt. 2

I won't let this build up inside of me...
Ahhhhh our power is out!
I have like, 7 candles lit in my room. Our house will probably catch fire...
...
I hate this crap.

:: 2006 16 February :: 3.48pm

So spill my blood.
Midnight skies turned scarlet red.
I told you I was really sick. Then you don't call or anything.
At least I have someone who cares.
I feel like falling off the face of the earth again to you. At least for a day or so.

Whatever. That whole entry probably didn't make sense!

:: 2006 16 February :: 1.05pm

Oooooh. I think I heard thunder.

Yeah. I'm not going to class today. I'd probably get stuck in GR when the storm hit.

:: 2006 15 February :: 10.28pm

I've never been so tired in my life.

:: 2006 15 February :: 10.10pm
:: Music: wgvu jazz

hrm...the 'dust' one made me laugh...

Froy Marriage Rating = -340

"Generally speaking, no woman with an FR of under 250 can be recommended, especially to our less experienced friends. FR-minus women are out from the start."

Approximate Risk of Marriage = 100%

http://kevan.org/froytest.cgi

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:: 2006 15 February :: 10.06pm

I don't know where to begin.
It's just sad.
People get replaced so fast.
A vendor my dad worked with, a really nice guy, was trying to plan a meeting for them to work out some stuff.
Thursday my dad calls saying he's kind of busy and if they can reschedule it for Friday.
Friday the guy calls saying he's not feeling too good maybe Monday.

Then he dies.

They buried him today.
My dad really didn't want to have to call the company, but they said they'd get someone to fix things.
Someone called 20 minutes later to take the other's place.
My dad felt really weird about deleting the guy's number out of his phone.

I would feel weird, too.
Everyone just gets replaced so fast.

I haven't felt very well today.

:: 2006 15 February :: 3.33pm

3:33!!!
yeah, that's all i've got.

aside from a shitpile of homework, as per usual.

which means i think i'm going to go get some money out of the bank. which i have ceased putting money into. and then i will proceed to spend said money on other people. and prophylactic lubricant. and food. in other words, everything a growing boy needs. although, not necessarily in that order.

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P.S. Check out http://www.woohu.com/~spud and see the funny quote of the day! today's isn't that great though. but still. it's something fun i added to my journal. and it's all in german. if anyone knows the coding to get all the other stuff in german, that would be way super fun!

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:: 2006 14 February :: 8.46pm

Turn out the lights. My life, on standby. :-(

This weekend was different. Saturday Charlie and I drove all the way up to Gaylord to go to this restaurant called Legends on the Hill. It's at Treetops resort. Three hours away. It's where I wanted to go for New Years but we couldn't. He said he never forgot. And that felt really nice. When we got there it was totally different than we expected. Freezer paper tablecloths, the works. I just laughed. I don't think we needed a bigger sign that said "We're not from around here". But I laughed. The ride was nice. The talking. The silence. The laughing. Everything. All the gas stations we had to stop at so I could pee. Haha. It's a beautiful relaxing town that looks like Switzerland. I asked him to pull over on the way back so I could give him a ring that I'd gotten him.

Monday I spent the night there and waited up for him to get home from work. I stopped The Big Lebowski and jumped out of bed to greet him at the door with a hug. But he was upset and held on tight.

His mom has cancer.

But I have this feeling and I can't explain it. I've been praying so much for her to get better. I just have this feeling like it's not her time yet. How could I know such a thing? When I told him "It's going to be okay." He asked "How do you know?" And I had no idea. I just feel like how could God take such a wonderful person away like that. Maybe it just doesn't feel real. She has so many people who love her. And a new grand-daughter. She feels that our lives are pre-destined so she doesn't want to get treatment. I don't know. But I feel like she's going to be okay. I hope so. :-(

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:: 2006 14 February :: 8.20pm
:: Music: HH- Life On Standby

I need you now, more like yesterday, the last day I could see you smile.
It's felt more real than ever before.
Waiting. Waiting.
Till I could hold you.
I'm sorry. I wish I could take it all away.
I just know
It's going to be okay.
There's too much sadness.
It's going to be okay.

stinko

:: 2006 13 February :: 11.02pm

well . . . i played scrabble this weekend like i planned.
but i was pretty much only into it for like the first half.
robby kept cheating. but i had a dictionary at my disposal.
so it was all good.
i still am not sure if i am sane, this weekend did absolutely nothing to get me closer to the truth. blah.
blah.
school sucks.

i need a vacation away from everything i know.

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:: 2006 13 February :: 1.13pm

I'm giddy like I used to be. I think that's a good sign. I haven't been giddy in a while. I feel a lot of love.
Today we went to the Amway. It was pretty cool getting to see what goes on behind the scenes. I almost forgot about the tour today. Then I took a test. I think I did pretty well.
~~~
Quit coming up with excuses you're going to blow us all off anyway. You already have.

:: 2006 12 February :: 10.25pm
:: Mood: �berfrohlich
:: Music: kein Musik

blah blah blah
don't remember what my last update was. if i didn't mention it, president's ball was friday. that was fun. i got to dress up in my suit again. i realized i need a light grey shirt with a full collar and requires cufflinks, though...

yesterday we (shannon) basically lazed around all day. then went downtown for coffee and a walk. that was super cool. then today we went to the museum. which was also super cool. but i told her i need a breather... and she should need one too. so, we're planning on seeing the vagina monologues on tuesday. i'll hopefully manage to resist the urge to call her until then.

it's just that i need to focus on homework for awhile. and it's not that when she's around she demands that much attention, or any attention at all really, it's just that i lack the discipline to ignore the fact that she's here and she's entertaining herself and i need to get shit done. especially when it's shit i don't want to do. like write a history paper. or study for a stats test. or study for a german quiz. or write a german essay. or read a novel for honors.

speaking of which, my homework beckons.

i'm glad professor place is taking things into his own hands and ditching the auf geht's curriculum. the whole "immersion" thing is cool and all, but really, i need to know some grammar structure as well. that way i can recognize when things are past tense. or figure out what the subject is. like, i didn't even know "Hausaufgaben" was plural until like ten mins. ago. that's some serious bullshit. but i am definitely learning a lot from him, and i very much want to go to germany now. for serious. just to live and talk to people and stuff. by which i mean, listen to people, since i would be far too ashamed to talk. and they all speak english anyway.

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:: 2006 12 February :: 3.51pm

Yesterday was a lot of fun. The ride was long but it was nice. :-)
He never forgot. It felt good.
He means more to me than he will ever know.
It was a good day.

:: 2006 10 February :: 11.33am
:: Mood: kinda sleepy
:: Music: n/a

so, president's ball tonight. should be fun. but now i have to do homework for my 2pm class. and after that, i'm at the radio station for 3 hours. i'm doing a 3pm show, and my normal 5pm show. if you'd care to listen, http://www.wcks.org/

after that is dinner and dancing. and i really should iron my shirt and stuff. but i guess i'll have to go without. i think i'll wear the prom outfit though. i hope it's here. i may have left it at home. which would be teh suck.

...

i'm surprised nobody mentioned the nude woman smothered in guacamole.

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:: 2006 9 February :: 11.19pm

Today was a really good day. Had some fun with my good ol friend Becca. Took a test that I think I did fairly well on. Talked to my love. He makes me so happy. I played the guitar a lot and actually learned a whole song and it sounds good. I love it. Tomorrow's going to be really nice too. And fun. And awesome. I'm excited. :-) So yeah, that's what's been going on. The other night at work, we did a bridal tasting where all these brides come in, along with all our vendors, and we just make a bunch of fancy stuff. It was pretty neat. We had our Choc. fountain out too. Yummy. Works been going well.
Anyway, that's about it.

:: 2006 8 February :: 4.00pm
:: Mood: asi-asi
:: Music: Aerosmith - Dream On

this may prove dangerous...

*edit* let me know if you want to know what i searched... lol *edit*

Instructions:
- Visit: http://images.google.com.
- Search for:
1) Where you grew up.
2) Where you live now.
3) Your name
4) Your grandmother's name
5) Your favorite food.
6) Your Favorite Drink
7) Your Favorite Song
8) Your favorite smell.

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Christopher Best studied composition under Edward Cowie (Lancaster), HughWood (Cambridge) and Nigel Osborne (Nottingham). He now divides his timebetween freelance composition and working as Senior Lecturer and Reader inMusic Composition at Dartington College of Arts in Devon. He has receivednumerous awards and scholarships, including Northern Ireland's 'Sonorities'composition prize and a four month Danish Government grant to work at theCopenhagen Conservatoire.Much of his more recent work has been in collaboration with choreographersand dance companies, such as Scottish Dance Theatre, Jamaican NationalDance, Kaleidoscope Dance Project and Bimba Dance Theatre. This has led in turn to related education work in cross-media collaboration; directing theComposers/Choreographers Exchanges at the South Bank in London in 1998 and 2000, and in Madrid in 2001 and 2002. He has also contributed articles toDance Theatre Journal and Animated Magazine. Chris is also established as a concert composer, recent work taking much from the experiences of working with dance. spnm invited him to write a piece for the 1997 Spitalfields Festival, and other compositions (including Another Kind of Air, Rossetti Dances and Moonlighting) have been selected by the reading panel. Recent compositions include a large-scale orchestral piece for Kokoro, a 60 minute CD Waking Dance and How Great, How Fall'n written for the John Armitage Memorial concert series and premiered earlier this year at St Bride's church in London.

"Police dog Kaiser and his handler, police officer Christopher Best, keep an eye on train travellers in Washington."

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okay, so the alcoholism has to show through at some point, i suppose...

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^ totally bizarre... ^

8:

... hm, i suppose i deserve this for some reason?

*

there you have it. all of my innermost thoughts betrayed by google image search.

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:: 2006 8 February :: 1.54am
:: Mood: ugh...

prepare for me to slaughter some german...
ich habe ein Deutsch pr�fung um 10 uhr.

aber, meine freundin ist SEHR cool. sie ist interessant und humorvoll und intelligent. und wir knudeln immer... ; ) (das war f�r Tracey)

aber manchmal, ich frage warum wir zusammen sind.

also... ich denke immer, aber ich wei� nie.

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:: 2006 6 February :: 10.57pm

Am I sleeping with my eyes wide?
Am I alone?
Will I wake to find you waiting by my bedside?
Will I wake to find you waiting by my side?
~~~~~

I really didn't go to class today. Test too. I missed it. I didn't write my paper for Survey but we can miss one so that's okay. Tomorrow I have class then work. Hopefully I only have to do prep so I don't have to work too late. Wednesday I have to get up early and go to class. Then breakfast with my Char. Then mommy's birthday. This is going to be one carazy week. We shall see.