Some Facts

I always require breakfast in the morning, no matter how meager it may be.
I can play two musical instruments pretty well.
I bought a mandolin with my money for my 18th birthday.
I have a huge case of "that guy" avoidance
I broke my space bar on my computer with a pair of scissors
I have a twin brother, who I talk to the most out of anyone I know
I don't keep in close contacts with my friends from my high school when I'm away
I'm an eagle scout
I've been to three different schools in the past three years
I can edit audio on a computer
I am slow at meeting people in certain situations
College doesn't thrill me
I can swim well...just enough
As a kid I swam, played racquetball, baseball, all non competitively
I played no sports in Middle School
In 9th grade I joined Debate Club, Computer Club, Drama Club, and Photography Club, and I stuck with none of them.
I never exercised my artistic abilities enough to develop as an artist in High School. I'm now involved in Art Forum.
I'm unsure of my major, and I may choose to minor in art.
I'll be in college forever
I've always wanted to be in a rock band
As a kid, my favorite kind of cheese was swiss
Cigarettes are cool, but I don't smoke
I know more about Nature than most people in my major at my age
I've worked as a camp counselor since I was 14, and kept some sort of a job since then.
I'm currently unemployed, and not putting much effort in looking for a job.
I have received one traffic ticket and pleaded guilty in my knee socks.
Fredonia nickels and dimes me on many things, and I have refused to pay them. According to the school, I owe them over a hundred dollars in useless fees.
I do not enjoy living in a box with a kid I cannot relate to and doesn't speak english well.
My favorite movies are Back to the Future, the Good the Bad and the Ugly, the Royal Tenenbaums, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, and the Big Lebowski
The first cd I ever bought with my own money was Sum 41's All Killer No Filler
I waited until everyone I knew had either a cellphone or Ipod before buying it myself
My favorite color is green
Most of my clothing is blue
I need new sneakers
I can skateboard, but not well. I haven't skated much since I fell down on the sidewalk on a tuft of grass
I have two posters in my room; one of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the other a Back to the Future movie poster
I've been reading Hidden Faces by Salvador Dali for over a year
I know more about the radio than you do
I listen to mostly public radio at home
I often buy records, and end up just giving them to my brother. I haven't a turntable.
I currently hold about 5 different career certifications in my wallet
I caused a car accident three days after I got my license
Most of my clothing at one time came from the Salvation Army. Recently I've been buying clothing with my own taste in stores at the mall. I've warmed up to the Gap.
As a kid, I used to hate the Gap.
I grew up in New York, moved to Iowa during my childhood, and moved back to New York 3 years later. This caused me to become a completely new person.
I consider myself more mature than I was my first year of college.
I feel stripped of my independence while living in a dorm on a meal plan.
I won't be able to move out on my own until at least next semester.
Of the music I listen to now, much of it came from my Dad's stereo in the mid-90s.
My favorite house I ever lived in was my house in Iowa.
I miss Maggie
I haven't gone fishing with my Dad or watched Nascar since I was in middle school.
During the summer, my job sometimes gets too busy to enjoy all that I have access to.
Most of my friends watched too much Nickelodeon as a kid
I had a nasty Pog collection
I've never been a fan of screamo or Limp Bizkit
I've never been a fan of Abercrombie and Fitch, red and orange pants, or the "fag wave" *hair flip* from my Middle School Career
I wore braces for 4 years or more
My favorite foods include apple cider
Fall is my favorite season
My birthday is three days before Halloween, they've often been celebrated together
I envy my brother's steady approach to school and work
I'm involved in a long-distance relationship, something I'm not liking getting used to.
The Counting Crows first album holds more memories of my childhood than you could imagine.
In the past two days, I have read over 200 pages in a Jonathon Franzen novel I bought because of an episode of the Simpsons
I have been taking Spanish classes since Middle School, and I still dislike the language
I went through a huge Bob Dylan phase in my freshmen year of college.
Its about 80 degrees in my room right now
the Legend of Zelda is the greatest video game series ever
Super Mario RPG is my favorite game for the Super Nintendo
I have never owned anything Playstation
At one point in time, most of my pants were khakis. I currently do not wear them unless I have to dress up, and thats still a stretch.
I own a pair of wingtip dress shoes that I bought at a Salvation Army
I looked up to Greg's older brother Russell when I was in high school
Both cars I have ever owned have been blue Hondas
I did not celebrate my 19th birthday, and barely my 18th
I never went to my high school's proms
I do not understand Physics or Chemistry
My birthmark is under my chin, and has disappeared
I have gotten stitches three times, but never broken a bone
I would like to go back to Iowa, and to Illinois, to tromp around the woods in Camp Eastman
I have been involved with scouts since 3rd grade
I watch what I eat
I am underweight and very skinny, which i do not like
I don't exercise enough
I hate the dentist and orthodontist and have purposely avoided appointments
I have deleted all the webjournals I have ever kept
I kept a real journal during my freshmen year at Cortland. It makes me the most miserable reading it than any else I have ever read.
I read Atlas Shrugged because it was the largest book I could find with a plot in the bookstore
There's nothing to do in Fredonia; Fredonia needs a bookstore
Last year at home was the most therapeutic and happiest years I have had since high school
I rarely fall asleep before 2 am

When I was a kid, I never realized how much I would hold on to things.

Apple Cinnamon Cheerios always remind me of being a kid. A little kid. 3 or 4 years old? Nursery school, for crissakes. Wonderland!

I just got back from the supermarket and picked some up. Delicious. Maybe that's where my job will be? I gotta get crackin' on that...as soon as I settle the deal with the 75 dollars in parking tickets some cops gave me. Fuck that jazz, turn down my appeal? I'm gonna go stomp their faces in tomorrow. This bullshit has gone on too long. The Student Accounts office and I don't like each other.

Today was tuesday...hella busy. It looks like I may have to switch my radio show to a different day, as to loosen up my schedule a bit and make room for homework time (which in the past two days has been FRANZOWNED).

I didn't fare too well on my Moons and Planets homework. There's another assignment due next week, and a test after that. Great. Nothing like shooting in the dark at something you're quite positive will come into your life and eat your GPA.

Who cares about much you can bench press? No, really, who? Do I? Will you ever use that knowledge to get under a car to save a baby? No. Fuck that, who cares. If you brag about how much you can bench press, please, do yourself a favor and put a shirt on.

I miss being home and supporting myself. These thoughts frequent me late at night. Fuck Moons and Planets. I'm fairly certain I don't need to take any more Spanish in my life. I already know how to Publicly Speak. I sometimes wonder if I should just get into the real world with my own place and own job and own cat and own life.

I've been doing well at adjusting to college life again. I can say that the adjustments this year have going smoothly, but I still miss being home. I feel like now that I'm back in college I've been almost stripped of my independence. Maybe I really do want to be in radio production? I miss my internship at Albany Broadcasting. I think that I should contact Jon Bailey and Steve and see whats up and how their work is going.

I went through this same wave of thought the last time I wrote in this. I talked with Chris Allen about what he did after college and what he's doing now. He edits on tv and whatnot. I'll have to shape my major around my interests. I think I'll switch back to Radio and Audio. Why not? If its something I like, why not go back to it? I'll have to speak to my adviser eventually. Whoever that is.


This weekend was okay. On Friday I stayed in and played 3 long games of Pictionary with my suitemates. I drank a slug of whiskey that went down like paint thinner.
On Saturday I drove to Buffalo with Nick to buy some books. I'm continuing my progress with Hidden Faces and bought a book by Franzen. Afterwards, I sat around. I called up Matt, a kid in a couple of my classes. Nick and I went to his place in town, sat on the roof for a breif moment while his housemates smoked pot. We went in and I jammed with him on guitar, he played drums. We ended up going to some girls house for a get together. Nick and I each stole one beer and in a jerk-move, left the party for the search for pizza.
Today I woke up sick. Thanks, Tim. I spent the whole day napping. On times when I was awake, I didn't speak to Tim. He sat in the room all day on his computer. I said two things to him, "thanks", when he opened the door for me once, and, "hey tim", when I saw him outside on the way out to the Starbucks to buy a hot chai.

Tonight I constructed a playlist from my IPOD's music:

Red Right Ankle by the Decemberists
Me and My Friend by Julie Doiron
Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor by Mississippi John Hurt
After the Gold Rush by Neil Young
Comin' Around by Shotgun and Jaybird
God by Apollo Sunshine
Eyes on the Prize by M. Ward
Skating by Vince Guaraldi
He' a Mighty Good Leader by Beck
The Stars Shine in the Sky Tonight by Eels
Brokedown Place by the Grateful Dead
Raining in Baltimore by Counting Crows
Nick Drake Tape by Clem Snide
Please Tell My Mother by Golden Smog (Jeff Tweedy)

This is one of the better mixes I have ever made. At some point it might manifest itself as a radio show. My radio show will be Tuesdays from six to seven. I'll try recording it and posting it on here, if that works. Tuesday is my favorite day of the week. Although, it is also the most busy. At 11 til 12:15 is Moons and Planets, which is horrible. At 2 is Public Speaking, at 3:30 is Rhetoric of Vision and Sound, at 6 is my radio show, at 8:30 is Art Forum, and then homework to follow. Busy, but I think look forward to Tuesday more than the weekend, crazy as it sounds.

I have not written in this for a while. Mostly my attitude toward blogs has been off and on in the past, and for the past 5 months or so I haven't really seen it as a vital outlet towards documenting my life.

But in the past 5 months or so, big things have happened. The Camp season came and went. It was my first summer as the Nature Director. I had to go to camp school for it, which was a great experience in itself. I transferred to SUNY Fredonia and have gone back to school. For the time being, I am enjoying it, although every now and then I still have my woes about being back at in college.

I enjoyed working at home and supporting myself this past year at home. I learned many many things and grew up even more. It was a difficult decision coming back to school, but so it goes, and if it means putting off my ascension into then real world, then so be it. I can't be a lifeguard for the rest of my life, and I'm not so sure about working as a radio DJ, and I'm also not too certain on my current major of TV and Digital Film, but hopefully, eventually, I'll figure out what I want to do.

Right now I'm debating on what sort of content to put in this entry, on fear of other readers and the lack of privacy, so I'll stop here. Maybe I'll pick this up again in a few months.