sweet home
im home. there's something different about home. door knobs are lower. the carpet is soft. the cinder block walls are gone. the bathroom is less public. the doors are lighter. the shower head is really low and i have to bend over to wash my hair. and it's all wonderful.

highway robbery part 2

Total Amount Spent on Books: $97.25
Total Amount Made on Sold Books: $0.00
Difference: $97.25

Total Bookstore Used Price: $181.25
Total Bookstore New Price: $240.65

Total (Used Price) Saved: $84.00
Total (New Price) Saved: $143.40

not bad all in all, i guess.

fox is tops
i'll admit. im addicted to joe millionaire. something gives me pleasure in seeing the evil schemes of women revealed.
there's this certain girl, who is, incidentally, a hoosier. she calls herself "mojo" which makes her that much more annoying. well, here's what i had to say before the show as an away message:

"if joe millionaire doesn't kick "mojo" off the show tonight i'm gonna smash a tv or two. and gouge my eyes out. and pour lemon juice and ketchup into my eye sockets. and scream. a lot. i hate that girl."

i am pleased to say no tv's were smashed, and i still have my precious eyes. she was kicked off. if you dont watch the show, you have no idea how good this news is. here's what another friend had to say:

Cerafina7: so he kicked her off
Cerafina7: i've seen about five minutes of the show
Cerafina7: that girl made me want to chew my own eyeballs out of my head
Cerafina7: hallelujah

so, its the general consensus. even someone i dont know IM'd me and told me they were with me on the away message. i mean, she wears ugly hats. and that about all she wears. and she thinks shes hot. and for the love of all that is human and good, she calls herself mojo. thank you, fox, for getting rid of her.
now i'm rooting for zora. she's the underdog. she's modest. she's not a tramp. she's not flirtatious. etc. she's respectable. go zora.
and for goodness sake, i just cant wait til he drops the bomb and breaks the news.
and thats all i have to say. goodnight.

highway robbery
i only have to buy books for 3 classes, you'd think i could handle that...but these prices are out of control. i dont know why im not majoring in book-making..these guys are millionaires...taking advantage of poor college students. im putting books up for sale and shopping for the best deals...its quite the strategic process. i'll let you know how i make out...one thing's for sure, i am definitely not paying $110 for a biology book.

ive been informed that my blog makes me sound suicidal. i assure you i am not. blogs just bring out the cynicism and jadedness in the best of us. i havent been suicidal since i was a physics major.

good riddance super bowl sunday
another one has come and gone. it was a pretty disappointing one at that.
the only good thing about super bowl sunday is the food. our dorm had a good cookout. that was nice.
the game was terrible.
the commercials were quite disappointing this year, too. although it was fun to see mxpx in a diet pepsi commercial and hear mogwai on a levis commercial.
it is pretty sad to see what super bowl sunday has done to our country, really. nobody cares about football, including myself...yet somehow...for some reason...millions and millions of people drop anything and everything and put their lives on hold to watch a stupid football game. and companies are spending 2.2 million dollars for a 30 second advertisement. pretty ridiculous when it all comes down to it. 4 hours of my life wasted...and im sure i'll do it again next year.

it snowed a lot last night. maybe 5 or 6 inches even. its still snowing. for some reason, this has been the first snow where ive kind of enjoyed it..im not sure why. it had the surprise element, where i didnt know it was coming, and its not too cold, and theres that little bit of a "snowed in" feel. whatever.

i dont know when i fell asleep this afternoon, but i think i slept for at least 3 and a half hours. ive been quite fatigued lately.

now im trying to finish my homework before the big super bowl party. i think i want the raiders to win, but who really cares?

the show was interesting last night. calibretto is one of those silly obnoxious jr. high youth group bands. so it was about 5 taylor students and 50 million jr. highers. it brought ray and i back to our high school days. the pancakes were delicious. watching the fight is an awesome band, i think. they right pretty mature, creative music...they have great voices...and lucious harmonies reminiscient (sp?) of simon and garfunkle. i love it.

yet another sign of the apocolypse: i worked out today, for what i think was the first time in my life. bear made me. bear and su and ray and i are all getting pretty pudgy, and so they roped me into working out with them, excpet that su and ray ditched us. losers. and just last night i came to the conclusion that i was facing the facts and just getting really fat. im not disciplined enought to work out and get skinny, and this awkward stage of trying to look skinny but being quite pudgy just isnt working. so, either im giving up and getting fat or giving in to bear and the guys and working out. we'll see.

friday night plans
calibretto is playing here tonight with IWU rock heroes watching the fight. i am working for it. calibretto is fun, but kind of obnoxious and not my favorite. my friend jared is making free pancakes for everyone that comes - what a goof ball. so it should be a fun night all in all...getting paid to eat pancakes and listen to some enjoyable music.
i'll talk more about the music scene later.
good thing its the weekend. only 3 days of j-term left...hard to believe. i cant decide if ive enjoyed jterm or not. an enjoyable jterm is like.....the unattainable holy grail or something. all of first semester you say "i cant wait for jterm...we can do this over jterm...and that...and this...and we work really hard in our class...and read lots of books in our free time...and build a coffee table to suspend from the ceiling...and take a road trip to canada." and then jterm comes, and you turn into this lazy zombie. doing absolutely nothing all day except for watching 24 episodes of 24 and playing video games. and you just get so tired of it and sick of it and its really not as great as you think it is. hmmf.
anyway, time to go work.

i need to be challenged. i need to be told i have potential. i suppose when it comes down to it, we all do. but some people know better than others ahead of time.