Procrastination Station

Hooooly cow it's been a long time since my last blog post. Better fire up the backburners and crank one out!

So, a whole lot of things have happened since my last post and I probably won't cover them all, for I am far too lazy to write them and I'm not even sure if I could remember them all. I'll try to summarize them anyway.

Summer ended, which was both a bad and a good thing. Bad is of course because of school (though it really is not that bad). The good thing is I got to kiss my job at Menards goodbye in order for bigger and better things. Hallelu-howeveryouspellit. No more boss who has no idea what he's doing, no more forty and fifty hour weeks. I was ecstatic. Then, as good fortune worked out, I ended up getting on as a workstudy at University Plaza, the place that I'm living. I work (and by work I mean sit at a desk for three hours and check ID's) twelve hours a week in exchange for totally free housing and reduced meals. It is seriously one of the best deals out there.

Since then I've moved down here (to DeKalb) and school started this last week. Classes aren't too bad, I have a few interesting professors (One in my Linux class insists that we use the book from 1984 instead of the recent one) but overall I think it will be pretty easy. I've tried to actually keep my room clean for a change instead of letting it go all to hell so that I can at least try to stay organized.

Speaking of my room, it is humongous and I don't have to share it with anyone. My roommate (who I've only seen twice in the course of a week) is 25 and pretty much lives at his girlfriend's apartment, which is fine with me. It seems a little odd to pay for a place like UP when you are going to spend all your time elsewhere, but it gives me more quiet time so again, I don't really care. He seems like a pretty nice guy anyway.

Well, that wasn't all that bad. Hopefully I can update more frequently. Maybe.

Savoring Summer while it lasts

Summer already feels like it is halfway over. It probably is, I'm just too lazy to check.

The fourth (well, the third here) was great. I had the day off so I hung around home until and pretty much just killed time (playing video games and the such) until we went to the fireworks. We screwed around and set off our own little light show with the fireworks that we brought (The cheap non-explosive ones, the only ones legal in Illinois). The kids that were sitting near us loved it and we even got some applause from the people that were sitting in the grandstands behind us. We weren't doing it for fame, persay. Me and my brother just like lighting things on fire.

Then the main event came. The fireworks this year were pretty great. They were shorter than usual but the grand finale was more amazing than I remember it being in years. Maybe I just have a bad memory, but I thought they were pretty good. We were sitting up close (as close as you could get to where they were launching them from) and when all was said and done we found a pretty good sized chunk of a shell of one of the fireworks sitting about five or ten feet from where we were laying. We thought it was pretty neat and took it home as a souveneir.

Besides that I have just been working and trying to get everything settled for school in the fall. The stuff that you have to go through for financial aid these days is ridiculous. The thing that really irritates me about the whole thing are all of the kids who go to college just to party and flunk out of their classes. I don't mean to get up on my high horse - if people want to drink alcohol and do who-knows-what drugs-wise, that is their choice. It is just a shame that because of this kind of education system - if one would even call it that - it makes it hard for people who are serious about going to school for the purpose that it is meant for.

With that said, I'm not saying that college should be stone-cold serious. I like having fun (though I do it in different ways than many of my peers) but there has to be moderation. I have seen many of the kids from my graduating class in high school around town working in crappy jobs because they went to college and partied for the first year or year and a half and got kicked out, and it just makes me wonder how our educational system would be different if we weeded all those kids out from the start.

Ah well, enough ranting for a couple days. Back to video games. :)

Wow, I suck at this.

Ace has a blog of his own. I'm pretty sure the world is going to end. 

Oh wait, that's in October, isn't it? Ah well.

Anywho, I wanted to take this first post and explain why I made this in the first place. Hopefully I don't make too much of a fool of myself on here. 

I came back from the MOST AWESOME VACATION EVER the other day and I've been a bit down since then. I had to work again for the first time since last week today and the reality set in that I was back to my boring life once more. At work I remembered that my friend in Taiwan started up a blog, and I got the most random idea that I should too. I have always been terrible about keeping a journal and sometimes I feel like I need somewhere to jot down random thoughts, so here I am.

With that said, I really am new to this. Social communities on the Internet have never really appealed to me. I've stayed away from Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter mostly because I really don't think I need to know what all of my friends (or pseudo-friends) are doing or thinking every minute of every day. Invasion of privacy, much? I'm also fairly private, and I know how public those things can be. So, if you were looking for the one person on the interwebs that does not use any of those three, you can stop looking. :)

Anyway, Fireworks tomorrow! I'm just happy that they weren't canceled (They almost were last year, since my town has been having money problems). Though, I do think the whole 'not having fireworks on the fourth' is funny. This year, the fireworks were moved from the 4th (A Monday) to the 3rd (A Sunday) so that 'people could watch the fireworks and still enjoy the fourth'. Now, when I think of the 4th, pretty much the only thing I think of is going to fireworks, so I'm not sure of the logic on that one. Also, an even funnier note: Last year, they moved the fireworks from the 4th (A Sunday) to the 3rd (A Saturday) simply to avoid having the fireworks on a Sunday. Apparently that's out the window this year. :P Just shows you how backwards the town is. 

Regardless, I will enjoy my day off from work (Which I am sure I will discuss later) and the fireworks.