Hrmm, not sure why... but I'm in one of those shitty moods all of a sudden. Hopefully it'll disappear soon. :/I forgot to mention last week, at work (not my new job) a rather "regular" customer called in and was being a bitch. What frustrated me to no end was I couldn't finish a friggen' sentence cause she interupted me so much. I was pretty rude to her in the end, and I shouldn't have been, oh well.
On my way home last night, I was pulled over on the NJ Turnpike. This time I didn't leave empty-handed; I was awarded a ticket. It's always hard to remember EXACTLY what was said, so here goes, as best I remember.
Officer came up to the passenger window, "Sergeant (so and so), NJ State Police. License and registration please."
I give him such materials and he says, "You do know why I pulled you over, right?"
I: "Yes, sorry about that." Him: "You were going 87."
I: "Ugh, in a... 55?" Him: "Uh, huh... OK, I'll be right back, let me see what I can do for you." I say OK.
He comes back about 15 minutes later with ticket and warning in hand. "Here's your license and registration back. And that registration comes back to different plates."
I: (pause a few seconds, couldn't think what was up, then realized) "Oh... shit, I have a pink card because I just got new plates."
Him: "No, no, I don't need it, it's ok. I'm issuing you a ticket for disregarding traffic signs; it has no points. I gave you a break here; you can call the number on the back and ask them how much the small fine will be that you can MAIL in."
I: "Oh, ok, like 40 bucks or something like that? Him: "Yeh, something LIKE that, I'm not sure."
I: "Ok, thanks." (shake his hand and say) "Sorry for causing you trouble."
Him: "It's ok, have a good night."
So, overall... the cop was nice. I have never been pulled over by a state trooper before and they don't fuck around. Hence why I was issued a ticket.
I have to slow down, I know.It was nice sleeping til like 945AM today, versus the 630AM as this past week.
Lastly, I want to add that Howard Stern is still a funny, funny man. Before this week, I have not heard his radio show in a long time.. mainly because I'm not up early enough. But since I sit in an hour of traffic now, I listen to him, and each day this week I laughed at least once during his show, haha.I feel better now... because I'm talking to a good friend of mine online. Later! =)
[Posted exactly at 10:29 PM]
I got a ticket today, blah blah...
It's been a pretty exhausting week so I'll "update" tomorrow probably.
[Posted exactly at 11:52 PM]
Work is still going well, I'm pretty much working 8-4 now, which means I get up at 6:30 and leave my house at 6:50. Sitting in my car 2 hours every day (one hour per way) is a hell of a lot of fun, but not too bad... yet. haha.
I found out today that GE owns NBC, among many other companies. You know the 3 "chimes" that NBC has? The tones are G - E - C... which actually stand for General Electric Company. Pretty cool if you ask me!I want to get a new layout for hh.com.
Oh, and, my registration card still has NOT arrived from the fucking DMV!!!!!!!!!! I HATE THE DMV!!!! They are so corrupt and full of assholes/people that don't care. The lady I spoke to said it was mailed TWO Fridays ago. Now last time I checked, a piece of mail doesn't take 2 weeks to get somewhere especially in the same fucking state.
In other words, she was lying to me. Well I'm glad my fees (for registration, plates, etc.) go toward liars.
[Posted exactly at 8:20 PM]
Yawn. My first day at work yesterday was pretty cool, mostly orientation stuff. My "leader," Ray, is pretty nice and has many years experience in the IT field. I worked 9-5 yesterday with an hour lunch included.Today was more eventful. The other intern and I had our first project today. Basically we had to trace and document all the ethernet cables in the network room in our building. Our building is the headquarters for like 80-120 locations throughout North America, so that's pretty cool. I was busy doing that all day with the exception of my lunch hour that I took at 1:30. Around 4, we were done and I had to put all the numbers in a spreadsheet and make it organized/sorted. By the time I knew it, it was past 5 and I was outta there.
Traffic to and from my job is kind of a bitch, mostly because it is 40 miles away. So far, it takes me about an hour or an hour and 10 mins to get there or vice versa. Tomorrow I am going in at 8 to see if I might be able to be some traffic... and then I will leave around 4.Last night was our playoff game. Ugh, I will keep this short so I don't go hang myself for the way we played. Basically, by the end of the 1st period, we were winning something like 6-1. They ended up tying it up in the 2nd period.. or 3rd period at 6-6. Then they went up 7-6 and then we tied it 7-7. And the final score was 7-9, we lost, as fuck-fuck-fucking usual. Oh well, it'll be nice to have no hockey for a few Monday nights. The next season will start in like 3 or 4 weeks I think.
Between getting home from work at 6 yesterday and eating dinner and then playing hockey at 10, I had fire department stuff to do... we had a short meeting and then a work night to clean up the fire house. So yeh, yesterday was pretty tiring. I got home after the game around midnight and was in bed around 1:15. Got up today at 7:10.
Going to bed now to get up at 6:40.
[Posted exactly at 11:32 PM]
Good 1st day at work, but I have to go to the fire dept. now and then I have a game right after at 10. Will update later.
[Posted exactly at 6:48 PM]
Worked til 4 yesterday then went to Jason's wedding reception. It was pretty nice and everyone looked very nice.
However, the DJ and/or the announcer was pretty obnoxious when announcing the bride and groom and the rest of the people... he did it in a way like they announce WWF wrestlers, and no, I'm not kidding.
This one guy that works with us, Ryan, he is one of the most energetic people I've ever seen. He was dancing like a madman, haha.
And a few of the guys mentioned to me that they visited my site here and they bitched about not being able to read the text... so, I guess I'll look into changing it. Finally.
I left around 8 and went home. Eventually went over Greg's and a few of us just chilled. Around 12 I was feeling sllllllleppy so I jetted.
Went to asleep around 2 and woke up at 10 and for some reason I feel extremely tired. I did get 8 hours of sleep last night, right?
[Posted exactly at 12:35 PM]
Yesterday was at The Triangle doing production and whatnot until about 245AM. I wasn't really happy with the layout especially since I had very little to work with, oh well.It is now definite... I start my new job at GE Capital this Monday at 9AM. As the welcome email states, "Your day will start with an orientation meeting," it looks as if the day will be one of new stuff. I don't know if I will have my own cube (cubical) or area or what... I'm excited that I will be working full time but I'm afraid the commute (40 miles + traffic) may get to me... we'll just see what happens though.
Went to the beach/Ocean City the other day with some friends. Was the first time this summer I've gone down and it was a good time.
The same day I finished my 6th co-op interview. I am glad I had 6 but am also glad that I have finished them all. Hopefully I will be offered at least one job.
Watched "Sum of all Fears" today. Was a good movie, I thought.
Oh, and, I got a parking ticket yesterday for an expired meter. Now I know those mentally retarded bumblefucks (PPA = Philadelphia Parking Authority) are just doing their "job" but give me a fucking break! These people can barely talk and write (or even drive... God, one day a PPA van almost ran me the fuck over when I was crossing a ped. walk!!!) but they are allowed to write citations... hahahhahah, what a mockery!Halfhonk.com... what to do, what to do, decisions.
[Posted exactly at 1:53 AM]
Had 6 fire calls today plus an interview (for fall winter co-op) that went OK with Cigna in Voorhees. Then went over to TJ's and we put my "system" in my car. Speaking of, if I make some money this summer I want to tint out my car. I'm tired and I have 1 interview left (for co-op) tomorrow at 10 in Center City.
[Posted exactly at 12:22 AM]
Saw "Bad Company" last night... it was pretty cool. We went to the Loews theater in Cherry Hill and holy shit - I have never seen so many fucking people at a movie theater!!!! It was a fucking mob house in there. However, the place was all nice and "technologically advanced" with the movie times and shit displayed on a flatscreen above-head.
Of course on the way home, I was going a tad fast and got pulled over on Route 73... in about Voorhees. I was going 80 in a 55 and the cop was cool, he walked up to my car and said, "Hey Buddy." I said: "Hey what's up man?" He: "Phew, you were flying!" Me: "I know, I'm sorry.." Him: "It's OK, let me see just your license so I know you have one." Me: (shows him license and holds up firefighter card..) "Do you want to see this also?" (He takes it..) Him: "Oh wow, they issue these now? Who does issue them?... Oh, Gloucester Township.." Me: "No, it's uh... Camden County, Freeholders... James Beach." Him: "Oh, OK, gotcha. Ok man, here ya go, have a good night." Me: "Thanks man!"
Since I have firefighter license plates, he knew I was a firefighter before he even got to my car.When I got home, I chilled over Chad's for a bit... just had a drink and everyone was watching "Jeepers Creepers." Was pretty good, from what I saw. I then went home and went to sleep.
Today at work was unusually busy for a Sunday. No real assholes called, so that's a plus. =)
[Posted exactly at 6:22 PM]
Oh, yes, last night was fun for sure, let me bitch about the DMV first.Thursday after my interview, I went to get a "drug screening" aka pee in a cup. That was fun and the 85 year old nurse was quite, interesting. There were all kinds of rules like don't run any water, don't flush the toilet, and leave the door cracked. I was nervous and I don't even do drugs, imagine if I did, haha! Anyway, back on track... after that I went down to an inspection station in Winslow. It's seriously in the middle of no where. I pull up and the sign says "Estimated wait time 10 minutes." Great, I think, not bad at all. Well, that thing must be fucking broke because it was closer to a half hour. I get up to the front of the "line" in my car and give the guy my stuff (license, registration, insurance). Before I go on I will say that I just got new license plates the other day (they are firefighter plates) and they were sent through the mail. In the little envelope they included a pink piece of paper that said "temporary registration, valid until July 7 2002."
So anyway, the guy looks at this temporary registraton thing and I should have known there would be a fucking problem. He asks one of his co-workers and they are screaming back and forth and they say "NO, this is no good." It's like what the FUCK, I did not tell the plates division that I wanted a temporary registration,,, why the fuck should I suffer because they are taking their good old time to mail me a real registration card? And besides,,, the new plates were on the car and I had the old plates as well as the current registration card. I mean, just fucking inspect my car and I'll be on my way... it's your fuck up, not mine! I don't make license plates in my back yard for a living. I hate the NJ DMV, they are definitely the worst in the country.Last night was Jason's bachelor party (a guy I work with). I wasn't sure what the plans were for the night, but I arrived over his house at about 730. Limo came at 8, it was pretty sweet - it was an 8 person limo. It was basically the guys from my work that went and 2 of Jason's other good friends. The limo driver was a little talkative but it was funny because some of us were making fun of him, heh. We had drinks in the limo.. we had to pick someone up and then we stopped at a liquor store (it's fun getting out of a limo at a liquor store, haha). Then we went to Dave & Busters in Philly. I brought my "ID" and it worked for the guy at the door. Then we went upstairs, got some drinks (I got carded again), played some games while we waited for our table. By the time they called our table it was like 1030, so we just got appetizers and we told our waitress to be as fast as possible, haha, and that she was. Her name was Mary Beth and I was calling her Betsy Ross, lol. I got another drink at the table and of couse she carded me too, but it was all good, it worked again. By that time we were all pretty shitty, and loud too, I'm sure.
We left out of there in a hurry and piled in the limo (more drinks, of course). We went to a strip bar in the city, called "Cheerleaders." When we pulled up, there was this HUGE guy at the door.. When I first saw him, I thought he was a fucking statue.. I was like fuck, my ID is NOT going to work. Well, it did. Heh, and I was so concerned about it that when he OK'ed it and asked for $6 I had to bum $5 off someone, haha. We get in there, and holy shit, it was hot in there (not hot-cold, but hold as in phat). I went to the MAC and took $60 out and guess how much it charged me to take MY money out of the ATM? FIVE DOLLARS. I was like holy shit, but who cares, I'm having a good time. The girls there were really hot, not the usual strippers, but hot. We stayed there for a bit, had a few drinks, and then went to another strip club.
"Show 'N Tell" is the place we went to. $20 to get in, and yeh my ID worked, cool. Girls there were cool... There you bring your own beer with you, and that we did, and that we drunk. A few of us got lapdances and we left there around... 130. Then the limo brought us back to Jersey to Jason's house. I decided to drive home because it is seriously only about 4 minutes, well that leads to another story....
I was about 50 feet away from my street and I get pulled over... fucking wonderful!!!!!!!! I sit, get nothing out, and wait for the officer - my usual procedure when pulled over - and he comes up and says "license and registration please." I recognized his VOICE right away and at that same time he recognized me and was like "Duffy??? (laughs) Oh my God." I laugh too, and he's like, "Damn, why you going 79?" and just starts walking back to his car. I smiled and asked him "Do you still want the stuff?" (the license crap) and he's like Nah man. So I got lucky yeh, considering I was going 79 in a 35, whoops. It was an officer, *[name removed]*, that used to be a firefighter at my station.. he was actually the one that trained me at the station when I first joined. He left when he went through the police academy. He's a really fucking cool guy (obviously).As for the night, I spent AT LEAST 80 bills ... but people (my mom, my cousin, the lady at one of my interviews haha, etc.) always tell me "You should enjoy yourself while you are young" and "I hope you find time to have fun when since you work so much" so that I did. Word.
[Posted exactly at 3:22 PM]
The Red Wings won last night, good for them. The sad part is that hockey is over for 4 months, what will I watch... definitely not baseball.Had an interview with Cigna today at Liberty Two (second biggest skyscraper in Philly). I think the interview went real well and I think I would like the job. They also said it's about $15-16/hour, so that's good. After, I grabbed some lunch at a pizza place in the city. Right now I'm on campus at The Triangle office killing time before my next interview in like an hour.
Tonight, Jason from work is having his bachelor party... all I know is I have to meet at his house at 730 and we are taking a limo to the city... should be a good time. =)
[Posted exactly at 12:27 PM]
Finally got around to installing my head unit (the one I had installed in the Tempo) into my car, everything went smooth with the "installation" for the most part. I'll have to bug TJ to hook up my box and amp (I refrain from calling it a "system") next.
I went over to Josh's tonight.. a few of us just chilled, nothing big.The L.A. Lakers won the NBA Championship tonight. Well, I guess I will start off by saying... congratulations, it does take hard work to win a championship. Now, I will say fuck them, fuck Kobe, fuck Shaq, their fans, and the whole team. Who cares, pro basketball is shitty anyway. Now if I can only hope that the Red Wings don't win the Cup tomorrow night, heh.
[Posted exactly at 2:02 AM]
Sweet, I got the job at GE Capital (for the summer internship) =D
I will be working in their IT department and even though the job is 40 miles away it's $750/week and I hope to gain experience =)
[Posted exactly at 2:28 PM]
3rd term grades are fucking horrible. I'll just say my gpa for this term (not cumalitive) is 2 point something, and we'll leave it at that.I had an interview this morning in Devon, PA for GE Capital at 9AM. I left the house at approximately 730AM. Followed the pre-set directions to take I-95 North. Well let's say I took it north until 1-95 fucking ended in PA. I was so pissed. I called them up and the receptionist was like "Well where were you coming from?" and I told her from Jersey over the Walt Whitman Bridge. She said, "Ohhh, you should have taken 1-95 SOUTH, not north." HAHA, Oh ok. But she was nice and when I finally got there (1/2 hour late), everyone was very nice and very understanding/cool about me being late. I think the interview went well, but I will find out tomorrow what's next, if anything. I hope I get this internship, it sounds pretty cool.
Tomorrow, I start my interviews for my co-op that will begin in September and last until March 2003. 1 interview tomorrow morning, 1 Thurs, 2 Friday and 1 next Wednesday and then 1 that I still need to have scheduled. I hope I do well, heh.Just a tidbit. AIM profiles: They do not and should not be updated/changed too regularly (for example, every single day). Jeez, get a fucking diary if you change your profile so much. And if you do change it like every week, that's ok, but every day is just too much, especially when its you bragging and/or complaining about something, bleh.
[Posted exactly at 5:02 PM]
I will have 7 interviews in the next week or so. Starting off with 1 tomorrow at 9am for GE Capital. I hope I get this summer internship, only time will tell though.
Tonight we have our 2nd to last game, but it's my last game because I can't go to next week's game.
I hope those fucking Red Wings lose tonight (and my team wins), hahaha!
[Posted exactly at 4:07 PM]
Worked yesterday then went down to Josh's new house in Delaware - where he goes to school UDel. Got shitty within the first 25 minutes, they had a keg (it was kicked by like midnight or so, but thats all good). His housemates and other friends down there all seem pretty cool, I'm glad he likes it down there.. and his house is pretty nice and it's close to his classes and shit.
We watched the horse race first... I didn't even know it was on yesterday, but some horse that had odds of 70:1 (I don't remember the name, but I'm sure it was like Crazy Golden Piss or something crazy like that). Then we watched the big Lennox Lewis / Mike Tyson fight. Holy shit, Tyson got his ass beat. Some of those punches, they showed in slow motion... damn, I would be out of there... I would say, 'Sorry, I have to go... I left something in the oven' or something stupid like that. Anyway, after he lost, Tyson said some stupid things - as usual - in the interview, heh. For example, he said "I really have to give my HAND to you." After that was over, we turned on hockey.. it was double overtime. It went to 3 overtimes and fucking Detroit won. I hate them so much, I hope they lose this year... but I don't know, we'll see.
[Posted exactly at 1:49 PM]
This is a little late but I went to the Pop Disaster Tour last Wednesday. It was Saves The Day, Green Day, and then Blink 182. It was the first time I saw Blink live... they, and everyone else, were fucking awesome. The one thing I thought was funny was the "moshing area" was right next to where Ryan and I decided to watch the show. He said something like "why do they always do that shit RIGHT next to us?" It was hilarious, because it's true... everytime we go to a concert, the obnoxious fuckers who swing their arms like they are trying to escape prison do their act 2 inches away from wherever we chose to sit. Oh well.
It was pretty cool toward the end when the Blink drummer was on a platform - with his drums - and it rotated 360 degrees a bunch of times. It was unreal.
As for the Tweeter Center... it was pretty cool, up on the grass area wasn't too bad. Kind of far away, but hey $20 cant ask for too much.Monday night we had our game. We lost, what else is new. But at least I had a goal, it was a nice slap shot from the point. And hell, I didn't get a bruise or any stitches so that's always a plus.
Tuesday I had my Math exam. I think - and that's a big think - I am confident enough that I passed the exam. I really really hope I did because I needed to pass the exam to pass the course :/ I hate fucking Math, aka Discrete Computational Structures. As for Wednesday, I had my open book C++ exam. It was OK, but I also hate C++ so I didn't put my effort into that. Today was my ISYS 105 exam. I meant to study last night but I fell asleep real early like midnight and woke up at like 3am. I tried to study ten but it was impossible so I held it off til today. I got almost everything (like 95%) memorized in time. And the exam was just as the review said it would be.. no surprises, and I like that. So I'm pretty confident I got an A on that. I won't be getting above a 3.0 this term, blah.
[Posted exactly at 1:34 AM]
1 exam to go (tomorrow), yay. I just hope I passed the other 2 previous ones.
[Posted exactly at 11:24 PM]
This post dedicated to my Aunt Debbie. 2/13/52 - 5/29/02My Aunt Debbie died last Wednesday night... right now we're not sure how, she was only 50 - pretty young. Aunt Debbie always loved me no matter what I did and no matter how much I tried to get on her nerves, she never that I can remember got mad at me. Always would just laugh and say "you little bugger" or something funny like that. I was OK Wednesday night... I drove back home (from my dorm) to make sure my mom (cause it was her sister) was OK. We went down to my Aunt's house in Ocean City for a few... her boyfriend/longtime friend was there. I don't know what he's going to do. :/ Thursday was rough because I had a lot of shit to do (I won't get into it, but let's just say HOURS of Visual Basic and an instructor that doesn't give a shit of anything besides Visual Basic) and its hard to do things that are hard when you are thinking about an aunt of yours that died. Toward the end of the day, I had to go to The Triangle and write my article. I didn't spend much time on it but I think I did OK. I was going to stay all night like I usually do, but one of the other staffers KIND of upset me by doing what I usually do (the paper's layout). I usually can handle the stress but that night I said it's OK, and told him he could do it. They (the staffers) could tell I was upset but I just said I had alot of stuff to do anyway... which I did.
When I got back to my dorm after leaving the office, Geof - the editor in chief - IMed me saying he was sorry for the guy that upset me. I told him it was cool and I told him I shouldn't have been up there really cause my Aunt died. He felt bad and was very nice in telling me everything would be OK.
I don't really like telling people, especially people up at school (because I haven't really known them), that my Aunt died. I didn't even tell my roommate, but I'm sure he could tell something was up.Friday was a ... bittersweet day, kind of. I mean, it was the last day of classes. What a great feeling, I look forwarded to this day.. counted down to this day for so many weeks and it was finally here. I could relax for at least a day or two. But my Aunt was gone.
Saturday I had taken off work because I had a training session for a peer leader thing I'm doing in the Fall. After that I moved most of the shit out of my dorm and went home. Felt shitty all night and just chilled at home once I got home.
Sunday was the rough day. It was the viewing, from 2-4. My mom and I went to church that morning at 10:30.
When we got to the funeral home at 130, it was rough seeing all kinds of pictures of my Aunt's life (many pics of me, and her 3 kids, her boyfriend, my mom, etc etc etc.). Then I went up to her and paid my respects... I held strong I think through that. Then of course alot of people showed up.. including my Godmother, my moms friends from work, all family, her friends from work (she worked for the Atlantic City Expressway for 21 years), and more.
At the closing of the ceremony, we had a prayer service. At the end of the prayer service, the priest said that anyone that wanted to say a few words could come up. Well my cousin (her son) Shawn read a poem he wrote. God, it broke my heart. (He is 27... wasn't the PERFECT son/kid but really turned out to be a good man and a hard worker.) Also, one of the daughters (shes 25) read something. She said when she graduated high school 6 years ago her mom told her she was upset she was the last one leaving the house and she wrote her a poem. She gave her the poem then but told her to give it right back because she had to fix it up and frame it and whatnot. Well, every year Colleen asked Aunt Debbie 'wheres that poem?' and Aunt Debbie kept sayign she was working on it. When Aunt Debbie died, Colleen was afraid that she wouldn't find the poem but she did. Colleen read the poem out loud. It was a really really touching poem and Colleen could barely finish reading it.
After the viewing/service, most of the family/friends went to a restuarant. It was nice to spend some time. That's what my Aunt would have wanted - all of us together having a good time.Losing an aunt is pretty tough especially when you don't have a big family to begin with. However, we'll all be OK and will get through this.
I know my Aunt Debbie would want us all to be happy again too.
[Posted exactly at 9:46 PM]
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[Posted exactly at 11:52 PM]
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[Posted exactly at 10:31 AM]
Who gives a shit about: Visual Basic, C++, and Discrete Computational Structures? Well those are the classes that I'm not doing well in.My roommate looks like a lobster.
Why am I posting random things, I need to fucking do more WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
[Posted exactly at 12:46 PM]
MDW is over, it was relaxing for me. Now just 4 days of class left.. In between each day I have many assignments and projects due. I think I have enough motivation to do some work today.
[Posted exactly at 8:06 PM]
Alarm goes off at 9:24AM as usual. I get up and turn it off, as usual. I go back to bed and stuff my face in my pillow for a "minute." I look at the clock it's 10:51AM. That was a fucking long minute.. well no, I slept for a fucking hour and a half making me miss class. Oh well. I went back to sleep til 3.
Everyone has gone home or away. Drexel is quiet as a fucking ICU unit in a hospital right now. Even the crazy foreigners are no where to be found. Oh well, I'll find something to do...
I'm actually looking forward to work tomorrow.. haha.. now that I said that I will proabbly be punished with 250 idiot phone calls =)
[Posted exactly at 6:45 PM]
Just got in from the newspaper... I won't be getting much sleep tonight. Oh wait, I said that last Thursday night, how can that be true again?
Oh well, one more class than it's "MDW!"
[Posted exactly at 4:52 AM]
Fuck fuck fuck. I got a 0 on one of my labs cause it's "the same as" someone elses.. fuck.
[Posted exactly at 3:38 PM]
The comment was in reference to my game Monday night. I got beat up like a red-headed step child. The first time was when I got checked (it's a non-checking league), I seriously flew about 5 feet. It was fun plus funny though. The next incident was when I was brutaly high-sticked from the nose to my forehead. Don't worry, I won't be forgetting for a bit since I have some marks to help me remember. The last was in the final minute of the game. I went in deep just to hope and generate something (oh yeh, we we losing 7-4), and this kid punched me square in the face. He surprised the shit out of me, I fell, and it felt real good. The refs didn't give a shit. So I guess that means that every player is permitted one punch in the face in this non-checking league. Whatever, fuck them.Today was a moderately-good day, I guess. Only seven more days of class and then 3 final exams and then do you know what??? No school until April 2003 (well techincally March 31st, but I like to say April). I'm sure I'll get sick of working, but it's nice to dream now, right?
I'm not sure what's going on for Memorial Day. My luck I'll be stuck doing absolutely nothing. Oh well, at least I'm prepared for that.
In other news, this upcoming weekend... which I think I will declare that it starts tomorrow... is my last at Drexel. I PLAN to party hard.. especially since I've been so fucking stressed the last 6 weeks or so.. my cholestrol (spelling?) is probabably the equivalent of a 70 year old smoker who has had 17 open heart surgeries. Exaggeration? Hrmm...
Good night =)
[Posted exactly at 1:10 AM]
Sometimes hockey just sucks.
[Posted exactly at 12:02 AM]
Last night was pretty cool. After work, went to KOP mall with a friend then we saw "Unfaithful." What a good movie. It was pretty sad though, but I want to see it again. Maybe someone can "get" it for me. =)Ugh, Sunday homework sucks. Got a big essay due tomorrow as well as a group project. I'm not looking forward to tonight. But I'm just hoping for some inspiration during my essay writing.
[Posted exactly at 3:17 PM]
I went home last night because I wanted to help with my fire dept's hoagie sale this morning. In the meanwhile, we had a firecall around midnight.. and then 8 this morning we had a call for an apartment fire with "reported people trapped." For anyone that doesn't know, that's not something that you hear often, more like once or twice a year if that. Well it turned out to be a tranformer on fire. How the fuck did the caller see "flames coming out of a window with people trapped inside the apartment" when it was only a transformer? But it's ok, we're used to calls that turn out to be nothing... it's just that when we hear "reported people trapped" we obviously step it up a notch, and usually when you hear that it doesn't turn out to be someone that was on crack just seeing things.Not sure what's going on tonight, I'd like to go out and party, but that's not likely since a lot of people at school went home this weekend.
[Posted exactly at 12:32 PM]
Yes, it's whatever time in the morning... and I am still at the newspaper. It's pretty late. Right now, I'm/we're just waiting for the final "proofs" of the entire paper to be printed. By the time I get home it will be around 6ish... and I have to get up at 924. Add in a few showers, food, and the process of getting up, and I won't be sleeping much tonight... or is it today, or tomorrow, or morning..... what?
[Posted exactly at 5:33 AM]
I can't believe that my VB Instructor actually thinks the "games" we are assigned to write are actually fun. AND, he calls me "Christopher" - who the fuck does he think he is... my mother? I think not.
[Posted exactly at 4:11 PM]
Wow, 2 years ago TODAY I started halfhonk.com. Anything you do every single day (besides a few missed days here or there) for 2 straight years, you get pretty "attached" to it.
[Posted exactly at 12:40 PM]
I love being woken up from my DEEP BABY SLEEP at 3 am in the morning (on a Monday night) by drunken morons. And especially when they come back to the room (yes, one of those morons lives in this room), and then leave for a few minutes and leave the door wide open. Like what the fuck. But don't worry, since I love it all so much I slammed the door as hard as fucking possible. Microsoft should create a game because it's just so much fun... maybe... "Sleep Disrupting Simulator." It would be a hit seller.
[Posted exactly at 12:07 PM]
I forgot to mention I had my Mom (the best) tape ER for me. I watched it yesterday when I was home before I cut my hair.
Holy shit, what a sad show (Dr. Greene died). I will admit I cried, I fucking balled my eyes out. It really reminded me of my grandfather and when he died.
[Posted exactly at 2:23 AM]
Ugh, the doldrums are back. What the fuck ever happened to good times that lasted more than a day-and-a-half? Especially when doldrums last for a week or so, go away for some hours, then come back.Anyway, here's my lyric for today, straight from Saves the Day. Unfortunately, it's exactly what I'm thinking:
"I saw myself touch your face and I noticed jets begin to race above our heads. And I pinched my arm, rememebred how much you hate me, remembered the fact I cant see what you need..."
[Posted exactly at 3:54 PM]
Interesting/good night last night. For once, a good night, heh. First off, I went to my 10AM class and then since I got in at like 4 (from the newspaper), I decided to skip my other 2 classes and took like a 4 hour nap. I really needed it. Anthony, Tony, and I went out around 10.. grabbed a cab and we were going to one of the bars we go to. The cabbie is an idiot. He gets on the fucking Schukyll Expressway.. and it ends up costing like over $8. We were like,,, uh which way are you going and it never costs more than $6. Surprisingly he was cool and just said give him whatever. I give him a $10 and he gives us $14 back... but since I'm a good guy I told him I gave him a $10 not a $20.
Anyway, the first bar we went to hardly anyone was in it - except the regulars. We ask how much the pitchers are and, once again, they have no pitchers. What the fuck. So we just get up and leave, heh. We stop by a local pizza shop and pick up some 6 packs and a 40 for the 3 of us. Go to a parking lot and drink up. Then we go to "South Street Blues." Get a pitcher and go downstairs, watch some pool. I noticed a girl when we went downstairs. She was looking good. When we got downstairs I asked Ant if he saw her... he said no and went back up haha. So then we ended up going to this other room upstairs where there's a pool table and shit. So there's that hot girl and 2 of her friends (they were eh-OK-eh), and a strange black man in there as well with all of us. The girls are all fucked up... the hot girl was talking about her ex-boyfriend ("John" - she wouldn't shut up about him) and somehow she ended up sitting on Ant's lap. I don't exactly remember how but she was on my lap next. I tried to get her to hook up with Ant but she flat out said no. So I figured why not me. We hooked up and shit, and yeh she was pretty hot. Not amazingly hot but good nuff. Better than the usual ladies we see. So they decided it's time to leave (of course it's always the friends that are bugging to leave) and she wants me to come back home with her. She lives in fucking Roxborough. That's like 20 mins away/west of the city. But I was like OK. All 6 of us were in her friends car, heh... she was on my lap the whole ride, it was pretty good. I mean, nothing spectacular, but you know... it's been a little while for me, heh. (I haven't even been trying to get with girls lately.. I've been so stressed and shit I didn't even care for a few months.) So during the car trip, I was thinking.. how the fuck am I going to get back tomorrow morning and go to work. No one was sure and I wasn't up for paying $40 for a cab ride. She kept telling me she would bring me back cause she had work, but ehhhh. So anyway, they just drive us back to our dorm - which was fine by me, I didn't care.. at least we didn't have to pay for another cab, hah. Then Ant & I went to Taco Lou's (holy shit I haven't had Taco Lou's in a LONG time). I was nice and bought him something. HAHA, he told me "I'm proud of you, honk." It was hysterical, him proud of me for just hooking up with some girl. Of course I have her number now, so I might call her in a few days or something who knows.Speaking of number, before we went out last night I noticed my old cell phone was ON. I was like what the fuck. I buy a new cell phone and the old one magically starts working fine? Oh well, nothing I can do now... my new one is phat anyway... plus it has a vibrating battery. Word.
[Posted exactly at 12:48 PM]
Well I purchased (don't ask) a new cell phone. Well at least one good thing, it has a vibrating battery and they own.
Anyway TGIF, but... I have tons of homework this weekend, how can that be right?
Bleh. And I hate the Red Wings but it looks like they are going to the Stanley Cup Conference Finals.
[Posted exactly at 6:28 PM]
FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKk
I dropped my cell phone in the toilet, got it working, and now it has a mind of its own.. also known as NOT WORKING AT ALL NOW. FUCK ME AND FUCK SUICIDIE WEDNESDAYS
[Posted exactly at 9:14 PM]
I got my income tax check from the feds back already, sweet! So I go to the bank. Walk in and fill out the deposit form and sign the check. I see a guy walking in so I tried to beat him but I tried to pick up my pen and left the cap and couldn't get it (because I'm an idiot). So I'm like.. oh no big deal, it's only one guy in front of me. What a fucking mistake. I waited in line for AT LEAST 15 minutes. I don't know what the hell he was doing at the counter, but him and the clerk lady were talking and laughing and ha ha ha for fucking 15 minutes. All I wanted to do was cash/deposit my check!!! If I would've known he was cashing his fucking 2 trillion dollar paycheck, I would've knocked him over to get in front of him. And then when I finally got up there the lady was being the biggest bitch. Asking "How are you doing" in the most non-caring way. Not that I care if she asks, because I'm NOT doing great especially since I was waiting in line for 15 minuntes, but don't ask me if you're going to be a cunt. And then she gives me my money... and without an envelope. It's like, I know you must have 2000 money envelopes and you know you just gave me a lot of money so why can't you give me the money in a nice little envelope so I'm not flaunting around my 20s asking to be claubbered over the head? Jeez.
[Posted exactly at 6:42 PM]
Things are going better... friends are being friends, so at least that's good. Got to sleep in my room all by myself last night, that was a nice treat. Found out when my exams are, my exam schedule (first wk in June) isn't too bad, so I'll live.
And it's been pretty nice the past 3+ days so that's definitely a plus.
So, I CAN look at the "bright" side of things. =)
[Posted exactly at 12:46 PM]
Offspring: "Have you ever buried your face in your hands Cause no one around you understands "Answer - YES.
We lost our game tonight, even thought I told anyone that asked that we actually won. That's how sick I am of losing. Chilled with a good friend and got a lot of stuff out, but things are still kinda shitty. I think it's bed time now. See, my bed loves me.
[Posted exactly at 1:41 AM]
You know what, being DICKED OVER is one thing, but having someone dick you over that you always go out of your way for, is just... words cannot describe what it feels like.
[Posted exactly at 9:42 PM]
I won't get into the night I had last night... I'll just say I love being stabbed by my friends.
So anyway, I needed some food... well first off I had McDonalds for breakfast, BurgerKing for lunch, and Geno's Steaks for Dinner. That's WeightWatchers - my style!
So I went to Geno's then afterward drove down to front street and such, and I see some smoke by the new staidums!!! I was like aw fuck yehhhh the races are back. You should have seen my face I was like a little kid on Christmas morning. I knew they were back, I saw the cops, the tons of nice cars, loud exhausts, and more. I didn't stay too long cause cops kept coming so I didn't really get to see any races but now I know they are back! Hopefully if I go down there next weekend around 11ish (I think that's cop shift change), I will get to see something I haven't got to see in like a year or TWO... RACES!
[Posted exactly at 3:05 PM]
Someone just told me that we have 19 class days left. See now, that doesn't seem too bad. But I don't think it can come soon enough - May 31st (or better yet, June 8th when I know I'll be done all my exams and everything).Thursday night I actually left The Triangle early. By early I mean like 12 midnight (usually there til 3 or 4). As I'm walking approaching my dorm building, I hear a noise. None other than the dreaded fire alarm. Ugh, so even though I was SO ready to jump into my bed, it would be a long time before that. As I waited until we were allowed back in, I was getting in more of a bad mood. Watching the MONKEYS that live in the same building as me, I seriously wanted to throw up. They fire department came and left and about 20 minutes AFTER they left we were allowed in. That was about... 12:40. I get up to my room and go to my bed and eventually fall asleep. Within 15 seconds of me falling asleep, guess what happened? Fire alarm, oh yay. I was so pissed I wanted to shoot someone, literally. And, just for the record, during a fire alarm everyone feels that they must scream and yell as if they are actually on fire. Yeh, I don't get it. So this time the same thing happens where the fire dept. came and left but this time, we are outside for a good... 40 minutes AFTER they leave. So, I'm still not sure what the fuck was going on that we had to be kept outside. There was obviously no fire after the fire dept. left... maybe they decided to shampoo all of the carpet in the building since we were outside at 1 AM IN THE MORNING. (And it was cold too, I only had a tshirt and pants on.) It was really sickening to watch little immature monkeys run around screaming and yelling and booing (yes, booing), and cuddling, and playing hockey with a tennis ball in the middle of the street. I seriously feel like I live in a ZOO. I'm in a cage, a big cage, at the zoo. They finally let us back in, I ran in and went to bed - was around 2:30.
[Posted exactly at 3:07 PM]
Things are going real well. 65 on my Math exam, 70 on my C++ exam, many projects/assignments due very soon and I don't even know which ones, haven't even started writing my TWO newspaper articles for this week (they are due Thurs at 5PM by the way), halfhonk.com is going down the shitter, and everyone else in the college universe is done school except for me and my Drexel-buddies. It's real fun and things are going as smooth as a fucking cactus. Oh wait, why did I waste my time saying this, no one asked.
[Posted exactly at 2:54 AM]
How can someone eat cereal so loudly??? Ugh, some people never cease to amaze me.Oh Thank goodness it is May 1st finally. Now only 5.5 weeks left.
[Posted exactly at 2:29 AM]
The Flyers fired head coach Bill Barber today. Words cannot describe how pissed off I am. They want to blame this year's disgrace on one guy? I am truly sick of this team.
[Posted exactly at 3:08 PM]
Things are going rather well. I'm in a good mood for the moment and just wanted to make a note of that.Also: I will be tweaking and fixing up the crazy "story" from Friday night, so if you haven't read it yet, don't until I re-do it.
[Posted exactly at 4:29 PM]
I forgot to mention I saw a guy that I used to work with at Denny's called "Butch." (I think that's his birth name, haha.) He was cool and he now works as a securiy guard at the First Union Center.
I saw Sal (a kid from high school) at the mall today. He was still cool as shit, but he sucks cause he is done school this week. Oh well. That's all good cause May 31 is coming soon =)
While at the mall, I was in a store called USA Blues and I saw a pair of REGULAR jeans for $185! YES, one hundred eighty five.. and it said "on sale" next to the price. Holy shit, they must be made of something very very special. :P
[Posted exactly at 2:32 AM]
It's going to be a tough day. When the loss sets in.
[Posted exactly at 10:09 AM]
Went to the block party by myself, I had no tickets. At 7 most of the people cleared out (presumably into the FU Center) and most of the big screen TVs outside were turned off. I was planning to go home and watch the game. Then I found, under the tent, a TV on. Me and a few others watched the decent 1st period.1st INT I went to the porta-potty. On my way back a woman was saying something and handed her ticket to one of the security guys outside. I said, "I'll take it" and he confusingly gave it to me. Holy shit, sweet.
Section 102, Row 13, Seat 2. Valued at $120 all for me, for free.Well the game was great, I think the crowd was really into it.
When the "delay of game" call was made, I screamed from my seat, "Give me a fucking break!" There were obviously plenty of other obscenities and people screaming things at the same time.A security guy came over and told me I could not curse. I was polite, but short, said OK and turned my head to watch the game. He got pissed and asked for my ticket. Without saying anything, I gave him my ticket and kept watching the game. He told me again there could be no cursing and I again said OK and turned my head back to the game as he gave me my ticket back.
Well he didn't like my non-kiss-his-ass response. He told me to give my ticket to him AGAIN and to follow him up the steps. I didn't think I would be EJECTED from the FUC for making one simple mistake. It was when we got to the top of the steps I learned I was being kicked out.
Not only did he NOT listen to me apologizing and BEGGING to watch the OVERTIME period that was going on, he physically kept pushing me as a very young Philadelphia Police officer watched and actually listened to me explain. As I was being pushed, Ottawa scored and I didn't even know it. All we saw was a mad rush to get out - the guard disappeared.
I was extremely pissed and calmly went back to the officer and asked him his supervisor's name. He said, quote me: "I don't fucking know my supervisor's name." I was amazed. The same reason I got kicked out was his response to me. He eventually told me to go to "116" to file a complaint. And that I did where I briefly spoke to the head hauncho guard who said he would be right with me (it was very busy in there, with drunks). While waiting, the original guard came in... and noticed me and asked me if he could help me. I knew what he was getting at so I told him POLITELY that I was being helped. He knew I was there to FILE A COMPLAINT and screamed over to the manager that I was to be kicked out and shouldn't even be in the complex. The manager nodded, and I was, no exaggeration, physically pushed out of the security office to the outside by THREE grown men.
I was beyond pissed at this point. Why can these people push me out (I didn't drink at all I may add) and I can't even express my feelings about a bad call? I found a police officer outside. A sergeant. He was not in the mood to hear that I wanted to know how to file a complaint. He kept telling me to call "the Philadelphia Police Department" to complain. This is obviously not an answer as I needed the name of the officer that screamed at me. As the argument got heated, I screamed in his face, "WHO CAN I CALL?" At that point, I was thrown onto his trunk and searched with my hands behind my back. I was on the verge of being arrested... but then I told him I was a firefighter, he became nice, and he then told me who I could call and I thanked him.
Bottom line here is... why can a guy not be given a second chance? I didn't throw anything on the ice. And while I didn't pay for the ticket, someone else did and $120 is a lot of money as is a playoff game important. These guys are absoultely ridiculous. And the Philadelphia Police Dept. was treating me like a Taliban member (no, I'm not a foreigner).
[Posted exactly at 10:08 AM]
Holy shit, what a fucking night.
I think I'm going out now I'll explain later...
[Posted exactly at 11:31 PM]
You know what I love? Forcing my self to eat shit just because I'm hungry. Now that's what I call living it up.
Ack, I gotta run (to an AIDS Quilt thing where I will be reading off names)... I'll explain more later.
[Posted exactly at 3:36 PM]
I am sickened.I A M S E R I O U S L Y
G O I N G T O V O M I T-
WHEN WILL THEY
FUCKING WIN?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????
[Posted exactly at 10:03 PM]
Haha, man Rye (not from across hall, from Penn State) cracks me up. For example, he was all stressing his Spanish exam earlier and he was trying to just speak regularly Spanish over AIM. Anyway.Today pretty uneventful... didn't get much done in terms of school work. I have my Math exam tomorrow and boy am I in trouble. I don't know why I do this to myself. If I set aside one solid, consecutive hour of studying for this, I would probably definitely get an A. Instead, I think I try and see what the minimum amount of studying I can do with the best grade. Well I think that theory will collapse tomorrow when I'm caught dead in my shoes (or however that term goes). But, for example, I studied about 10 minutes (no exaggeration) for my Information Systems 105 class and got an 86. Not a great grade, but with the amount of studying, pretty good. But then again, if I stuided for an hour, I would have a definite A. Ugh, I need to kick myself in the ass.
Roommate came in at 7 AM last night. Slept all day (literally) and is sleeping now. How can someone sleep like 16 hours a day everyday? I mean, it must be nice to sleep all the time and have no job or anything like that. That's why I'm counting down til I'm done classes - 5 more weeks baby, 5 more. Then I can look forward to at least like a few days a week that I can sleep in past 9. Oh yeh baby.
[Posted exactly at 2:41 AM]
Our game tonight. We were losing 3-2 with about 4 mins to go in the 3rd period. We got a power play, I went in deep and passed to Simons who backhanded it in perfectly. Oh how sweet it felt! We were then tied 3-3. 10 seconds to go, Nuno (yah, interesting name) down the side shoots toward the net and Anthony deflects it in. We fucking won 4-3 with 9 seconds to go. Our whole fucking bench was roaring, it was so sweet. I'm still smiling ear to ear.As for my Math exam, it was postponed until Wednesay.
The flyers lost tonight 3-0. They play again Wednesday night.................
[Posted exactly at 2:35 AM]
Not good not good was referring to the Flyers losing 3-0 in their game. Oh well, they need to win 3 out of the next 5! GF!Yesterday was the day I have been doing 50/50 (crunches, push ups) everyday. I hope to do it everyday for at least 4 months straight, I can do it as long as I keep positive =)
In other news I have 2 exams tomorrow/today (Monday). One at 11 (studied little) and one at 1 (studied less than or equal to 10 mins). Not good not good.
But in the meantime I uploaded my resume to /resume.doc.
[Posted exactly at 2:23 AM]
Not good. Not good.
[Posted exactly at 10:06 PM]
Last night was, as stated in the previous post, "interesting."
Our plans were to go to the bar around 930, get fucked on the $2 pitchers (yes, 2 dollars for a whole pitcher of beer), then go to 1616 club - they were having some special event. OK, so we get to the bar ("P.B.") and it is packed, but not with normal people. Old people about 70 years old that think they are still 15. It was someone's birthday and they were having a party there. Well there were only 2 bartenders and it took one of them about 30 minutes to get to us. We order the pitchers and we finally get them and they are WARM. We say fuck this, leave, and go to a nearby pizza place that has shit. We pick up some 6 packs. Once again, the beer (that I had) was warm. What the fuck! So we go to 1616 and no one else uses their ID to get in (to drink), I was the only one. But it worked, so that was good... everyone else got in, it's just they couldn't drink and couldn't go to certain places I could. So it was aight there but everyone else I was with was bitching because they were being treated like kids. Oh well. So I start off with a shot of vodka cause I needed to feel something. That was $4. Kinda steep, but not abnormal. Next, I get a draft beer (only $2, woo).. and it was "Black and Tan." Oh my fuck, the worst beer ever. This shit is like drinking dead elephant piss. But I drank it. Then I was ready to have something good tasting, a nice soothing Kahlua and Cream. The guy starts making the drink - I see him pouring it.. I turn around to look at something then look back and the drink he was making is gone. He walks back and says "yeh, we have no cream." WHAT THE FUCK! Well at least he told me cause I wouldn't want to be drinking curdled milk - yummy. I bought a Corona for a friend and it was FIVE BUCKS. That is robbery. Anyway, the night was so-so.Back to Thursday night when the Flyers played Game 1 of their playoff series. I watched the first 3 periods at Bridgewaters. The game was going into OT, so I decided to leave and LISTEN to the game back at my dorm since the pub would be closing soon and wasn't sure if the game would be going to like 5 overtimes, like 2 years ago, hah. Before I left the train station, I went to McDonalds. BUNCH OF IDIOTS. I had to say "double cheeseburger, no pickles" FIVE times within a minute and a half. We love to make you smile? How about you love to make me strain my voice by repeating the order 45 times. So I wasted a lot of time there, finally left to go back to my dorm. I RAN back to my dorm (5 blocks), got in & turned on the radio. 7 minutes in OT the Flyers scored. Holy shit I flipped. I jumped up so hard that I kicked my chair and it flipped over. I was screaming and ran across the hall and jumped on top of Ryan screaming "we won!!!" Haha, it was great that they won.
[Posted exactly at 2:59 PM]
HAHA... just got back from an interesting night but while in line to get some (famous Taco Lou's) food... a friendly man said, "happy 420!"
WHAT THE HELL. hahahahahhahahaha! is it Christmas? whay are people wishing me a happy holiday.. haha. you potheads are fucking too funny, i fucking love it! =)
good night!
[Posted exactly at 1:34 AM]
I just did two posts for hh.com in like 25 minutes, phew.. my wrists hurt, heh.In other news, I'm tired. And I'm skipping homework just like in high school, woo hoo (except that this time it's about $25,000 more expensive)!
[Posted exactly at 3:05 AM]
I really want to scream something like this right now:
"I DONT GIVE A FUCK!"
...but I'm in class (a pain-in-the-ass 2 hour Visual Basic lab) right now, so that's not likely. Well, only an hour to go, then I'm going to watch the Flyers (NHL playoffs baby) at 7PM. =)
[Posted exactly at 4:41 PM]
Well about to go to bed on this Tuesday night. Nothing too exciting today. It was 90 today - a new record for Philly - but I'm not bitching. It just kinda sucks that some of my classes don't have A/C, which will be real fun next summer when I have classes all summer, but oh well. Tomorrow is Suicide Wednesday - and it's very unlikely that it will be anything less than that since I did not finish homework for 2 of the classes. YAY!
As for the "fuck everyone" mood, that's still on hold for now. But I have a feeling that will be returning in the next few weeks sometime, we'll see.
[Posted exactly at 1:39 AM]
Well, things are doing a smidgen better than this time yesterday, so I'm not currently in fuck everyone mode.
But we lost our game tonight (I feel like I play for the Atlanta Thrashers) so that certainly doesn't help matters.
Tomorrow I have 2 classes then some group interview for a Peer Leader thing I want to do next year (you get 4 credits for it... that would be nice).
I'm tired so I'm going to bed right now.
[Posted exactly at 1:09 AM]
Fuck everyone.
[Posted exactly at 1:57 AM]
Could it be MORE beautiful outside? It's nice, like 75 with the right amount of sun, today.
I work at a place with no windows so sometimes I'm blind to the fact of how nice or shitty it is outside. Don't get me wrong, I love this place, it's just no windows has its ups and downs.Last night was pretty cool. We went to chill at my RA's friends' apartment... just a few people chilling, drinking, ya know. Ryan, aka The Bartender last night, made us some margaritas. Uh, he fucked them up, hence why he is not a real bartender. Then we went to the newest bar of late... I started off with something new called a "Smooth Bitch." I don't even remember what was in it but it was good. Then I had a chocolate cake shot... good shit. We all got pretty shit faced pretty quick and I was extremely tired - I was falling asleep sitting up in my chair, heh.
Apparently there was a fire alarm in the middle of the night last night. The fact that I'm using "apparently" is not good. Either the alarm in our room doesnt work (not good) or I did not hear the deafening buzzing, screaching, and click click clanking (not good times 20). I used to be used to being woken up in the middle of the night (before college... fire calls in the middle of the night several times per week) but I guess I could sleep through a meteor hitting Philadelphia at this point.
[Posted exactly at 2:26 PM]
So evidently not only is Wednesday titled Suicide Wednesday, but also Thursday and Friday. Thursday started normally, with only one class and I was done by 11am. I think afterward I met up with my Godfather and then grabbed something to eat. Around 1 I went up to the newspaper and finished my articles (they take much time believe it or not) and then came back to finish my essay for Humanities. Well that didn't go over too well because what did I work on? Nothing. In fact, I think the essay got worse even though I didn't touch it - that's how much nothing I did. Went back to the newspaper around 4 to work on the layout (this is about a 12 hour project, no exaggeration). After much tweaking and shit, the layout was finally done and I left at 330am. Yes those are two letters next to each other "a" and then "m" signifying the birds were chirping and the sun was sleeping as I was walking back to my dorm. I worked on my essay when I got back here at 4am, aren't I talented? Actually, I did fucking horrible on it and I'm expecting a C - which is a bad grade. When I came in Mike (roomie) still wasnt in, so I figured oh great, as soon as I fall asleep he will be barrelling down the door smelling like every drug in the universe. Thankfully I was wrong... he had stayed over a friends for the whole night. Woke up this morning (930) and what a FUN time that was. Went to humanities and wasn't in the mood for anyone's stupid jokes such as "it's finally Friday hahahahah!" Shut the fuck up, I still have lots of shit to do and have work on both days so stop making non-funny jokes. After class I went to lunch downtown in Center City with my Godmother... that was cool. Came back here for my last class which went by pretty quick. After class I had to rush to the orthodonist to get my retainer fixed. Then went home cut my hair, played with Domino, and just chilled (ate pizza in the living room with Mom, watched TV). Came back up to college in hopes of doing something but of course nothing is going on. Even though I'm dead tired (as you should know why by now), I was in the mood to get my drink on. Hopefully tomorrow night. Wee.I hate being this descriptive but since nothing spectacular happened today, that's what you get. Goodnight.
[Posted exactly at 12:52 AM]
I like going to bed at 415am and getting up at 9, I really do!!!!!
[Posted exactly at 4:11 AM]
The guy at http://profiles.yahoo.com/you_roody_poo lists me as a site to visit. But he's scary looking, stay away scary man!Well, this night was fun fulfilled with talking to Greg, my best friend, and his girlfriend, Kate, also a good friend... We'll just say I was the "middle man" between the two tonight. Not much got accomplished because I think Greg went to the moon. He should be back tomorrow when we can wrap up the "psychology session" then. Haha, nah I don't mind helping the two lovebirds out.
I have two points about my roommate tonight... which should I mention first.
We'll go with the hamster roommate point. My roommate is a hampster. Ever see a hamster in the middle of the day sleeping? That's my roommate. He gets, no exaggeration, probably TWICE as much sleep as I get per day and I get about 7.5 hours of sleep each night, so figure that one out.
Secondly, he had a 40 gig hard drive. His computer is like 6 months old and he has about SEVEN gigs left! That's alot of space... but he does have a shitload of movies on there... so that's cool... He cracks me up. It's all good though. I'm glad I have a cool roommate rather than a fat one that tries to eat my limbs while I sleep, man that would suck, heh.Lastly, I would like to say I live in a very strange dorm... well, maybe not...but the kid we refer to as "code strange" just ran by while, at the same time, kicking both legs high in the air. lol.
Oh and ever see COPS where the neighbors complain about "strange people going in and out of the house over there..." and they think there is either a drug ring or some weird porn action... well thats my neighbors across the hall. ALWAYS strange people, from 10 to 30, chinese to american, nonspeaking or speaking.. going in and out. I dont even want to know whats going on over there, I just laugh =)
So we'll end this post with a post... me NOT thinking about the homework I didn't do today and the dreadful "Suicide Wednesday" tomorrow. Lates all, have fun.
[Posted exactly at 2:14 AM]
This isn't a "bashing" about snoogins.net but someone read his post, found it funny, and told me... well here it is:"want to know a little about the man behind snoogins? read the following.
i'm 21 years old. i live at home with my dad and i pay no bills. i have no car as well as no high school diploma. i work full time, yet i only have $288 to my name. all the money i make i spend on narcotics, fast food and music. i haven't bought a new article of clothing in over a year. my future does not look promising. look up to me? how could you when i look down upon myself? i'm not a role-model, i'm what you don't want to turn into. how i found such a good girlfriend i don't know. she's the exact opposite of me. she's smart, has goals and i'm sure she's going to make something of herself after school.
i felt i needed to get that off my chest. i'm a loser and you all deserve to know it. if you've thought otherwise, i'm sorry, you thought wrong."
Hrmm, all I'll say is that I already knew 99% of that info.
[Posted exactly at 12:54 PM]
I just uploaded some pics... take a look at the pics directory (link above), or click the new pic links here: kateandjosh, mel (my ra), myhome, me walking, my dog.There is a long post right below this one that I JUST posted 10 mins ago. Lates.
[Posted exactly at 1:59 AM]
Lack of sleep, yah. Oh well.
Let's start off with my Cingular story first (Cingular is a celluar provider for those who don't know).. I have a plan that has "nationwide long distance." Take that for what it's worth (nothing). Last year I had a plan that had "free nights and weekends." This isn't the term that I CALLED IT, but what THEY CALL it. Go figure. So I made some calls to Dustin (near Boston, Mass) last year (it was during the "night" time) and got charged for it... I called them up and the idiot explained it that it was FREE airtime NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS, but toll charges still applied if it was out of my local calling area. Ok, that's bullshit because FREE is either FREE or NOT FREE, nothing is half free... fucking idiots. So whatever. So now I have the free nights and weekends and the nationwide free long distance (once again that F word is in the phrase). I had called Dustin last month and we just got the bill... What do I see? $0 for airtime and $15 for "toll" charges. WHAT THE FUCK?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Someone please explain to me how in the fucking world I can be charged for this when I have something on my plan that is called nationwide free long distance. I will be calling these people tomorrow (Monday) and bitching up a storm. I WILL NOT be paying that $15. I'm going to give them a "free" pile of shit along with my check when I send it in. These people should be shut down! You cannot call something free if it costs money. Do candy stores have signs that read "FREE CANDY!!! FREE CANDY!" all over the store and then when someone takes a piece of candy and walks out gets tackled by the SWAT team? Give me a fucking break Cingular. The only thing you are singular on is services... piss poor.What next? I was half hour late for work today. NOT because of the time switch, but because I woke up ON TIME today and decided to "close the eyes" for a few more minutes. Well a few minutes apparently turned into an hour and I was late for work. And I was hungover somewhat, haha...
Speaking of hungover, we went to a new bar near South Street last night. This place was pretty nice. No cover, all kinds of tvs, hot bartenders, nice people, $2 pitchers!!!!!, available seating, and good music. You can't ask for a better place (except maybe MORE hot girls, hah). We get there and it's pretty phat. I was going to get a Kahlua and creame drink but it was too much so Ry and I just split a $2 pitcher of Bud. A pitcher has about 4.5 beers, so do the math and that's 50 cents per beer... that's a fucking pathmark deal there kids! So the first 2 pitchers go down real smooth (we're up to about 4 beers each so far). The bartender, hot black young girl, starts flirting with us. Nothing unusual... that's her job... and we're the hottest 4 guys in Philly... oops, I was dreaming there, sorry about that. So then she starts flirting with just me. Laughing and giggling and touching my arm and shit. So I'm like, OH OK, no problem here! I offer to buy her a drink... Actually the line I used was, "So If I bought you a drink you wouldn't want it?" (Don't try that at home, it's quite dangerous.) She laughed and ha-ha-ha. So she asks us if we ever had a "chocolate cake" shot. None of us did. I don't feel like describing it but it WOULD HAVE cost us $7 a piece but she bought it for us. Holy shit, this shot was orgasmic. Amazing stuff. So after that I think we had 2 more pitchers, we were all fucked up. In the meantime there's this other girl that keeps looking over at us - or it seemed. So we all were flirting with her when she walked by.. You know what sucks? I could have def. gotten with her but I didn't do anything cause I wanted the bartender (not only cause she was hot but also cause it would be cool... with the bartender... you know?). And then there was another girl that I was flirting with. Uhh, she wouldn't have gotten with me if I was covered in chocolate... no chance there. She was a bitch anyway, she should go back to Punxatoney or wherever she is from. Now that I think of it, I think this is why I wasn't able to get w/ the bartender... she def. saw me talking to the no-chance girl. So, it's all my fault, I'm an idiot, what else is new. Nah, just kidding.. it was a good night. And you know that's true when you wake up the next morning still drunk. I'm sure other people know what I'm talking about.
After work today went to Jillians (kind of like a Dave and Busters) for a staff dinner for the newspaper. It was a good time, especially considering the dinner was paid for by the school. I like the people I work with (at the newspaper)... Some of them may be considered a little weird, but they are all cool people. And we all like cool people.
I had a ton of homework to do so I only stayed a few hours... but of course I got back and only did one thing. I got a lot of shit to do tomorrow plus lots of homework. This is week 3 at Drexel so trust me, it's all down hill from here. TRUST ME. Oh and since I had to go right to Jillians after work, I had to park my car on campus. I hate having my car on campus, I worry about it every hour of every day during the week. Because there are crazy and shitty drivers in the city. Trust me on that too, haha. Uhm, some good news... my Godfather said he is going to hook me up with tax preparaton because his friend owns an H&R block. Sweet, because I want a nice return so I can buy a new DIGITAL CAM! I miss my digi cam, yes, still.2 songs of many that I listened to while doing this post: Jimmy Eat World - Hear you me; Uncle Kracker - Yeah Yeah Yeah.
[Posted exactly at 1:48 AM]
Ah, week 2 at Drexel is over. Only 8 more weeks of school left for 2002. Yay.I was out last night until 5AM. We had a lot of shit to do for The Triangle. And to make things worse someone (not me) fucked up, so the paper didn't get printed til VERY LATE today. Oh well.
Tomorrow I have to go to a parade (our town's little league opening day parade) with my fire company at 8 in the morning. Then I have work, as usual. I might be going to the NYC auto show tomorrow night, not sure yet. If not I definitely need to go out tomorrow night (on campus) and have some fun.
Our hockey season starts Monday and obviously I'm pumped for that. Just don't know what time the game is at yet.
Lastly, I hate baseball. Just want to make that statement. Have a good Friday night! =)
[Posted exactly at 9:19 PM]
Well, things are looking up.
Let me clarify the "Suidice Wednesday" first... On Wednesday I have 6 hours of classes. Doesn't SOUND bad, but for a college student it is. On top of that, the last 2 hours of the day is a lab class that is taught by a "Visual Basic Nazi." Oy vey.The Flyers. They are not playing well right now but I'm hoping for the best. That's all you can do when you're a diehard Philly sports fan.
[Posted exactly at 2:14 PM]
It's Suicide Wednesday.
[Posted exactly at 12:44 PM]
This fucking day sucks. Flyers lose, people dicking me over left and right, homework and projects out of the ass, fuck everyone right now. I'll be in a better mood eventually, but fuck everyone. Yes you too.
[Posted exactly at 11:40 PM]
Had a REALLY good time last night. I'll just say a few of us went to a club downtown and I got into the upstairs/bar area and it was a fucking great night all the way until the very end (which was around ... 6 am or so). =]But damn, after tonight (Easter dinner), I have shit to look forward to for a while. I have that huge VB project due Wednesday, I have to start the pain in the ass income taxes, other financial forms (FAFSTA), scholarship applications, and money is running low again. And I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch of other shit I have to do. Bleh bleh bleh bleh.
[Posted exactly at 11:36 AM]
So, Thursday night we were going to go to New Angle. But, first off Ryan decided he was going home for the weekend. What eles is new, we all have to plan accordingly to Ryan's plans. So then it was going to be me and Pat (kid down the hall) and some of his friends to New Angle. Then they heard New Angle was not a good place to go to that specific night. Whatever. So we decided to chill and drink up in some girl's room that Pat knows in a different dorm on campus. I get a shower and whatnot and get my ass ready. We get up there and chill in this somewhat small room. One of the girls that lived there was hot as shit. Nice tatoo on her back right above her ass too. And another alright looking girl there. So we're all getting pretty fucked up on 40s and alcohol - I had at least 8 shots (I hate when you lose count after sometime). Then we did some other stuff and blah blah... I went back to my room somewhat early, lay on my bed, and fell asleep! Haha, I had my hat on, all my clothes, my shoes, etc. My roommate thought I was dead, haha. Ah, got to love college.Speaking of, there's a new bar down near South Street that is "cool." So I'll have to check that out next week.
Yesterday, I went to my 10 AM Hum class. Then I decided to skip 2 classes (my 12 o clock C++ class and my 1pm ISYS class) to play roller hockey. A few guys I know plus a few guys from my team played a pick up game (all in all we had like 12 guys) at an indoor rink a few towns over. We played from 1230-4. Fucking 3 1/2 hours of hockey... You know you love hockey when you play that much of it. I played rather well... In the 1st game we won like 13-1 or something (heh) and I had only one assist, but it was a dandy :P
The 2nd game, I all of a sudden got my slap shot on target... I was impressed with myself. Had 2 beautiful goals plus a few assists. I'm not bragging, it's just I must have gotten the skill from (RIP) Ted Toy watching me above, or something... Now I can't wait for our first game of the new season April 8th.Last night didn't really do anything except be lazy. Speaking of, I'm back doing my "50/50" (50 crunches, 50 push-ups) every single day. It's not much, but I get so motivated after I do it... because it certainly does help and summer is only 2 months away. Since summer is only 2 months away that means only 2 more months of school, fucking sweet!
Tomorrow, Easter, I'm working then probably going over my Aunts for dinner. The whole family will be there including all the little cousins (and 2nd cousins) and whatnot, yay.
This school week is going to be a bitch. I got a bunch of Triangle articles to write, plus I have some catching up to do in some subjects, plus I have a Visual Basic program to complete by Wednesday... I haven't even started it, ugh. I hate VB.
[Posted exactly at 2:11 PM]
Woo, I got fucked up last night. I'll give more details later on.
[Posted exactly at 11:46 AM]
I MISS MY DIGITAL CAMERA < insert crying here >!Pics section updated.
Tomorrow is going to be a hell day. I have classes from 10am until 6. Not cool.
[Posted exactly at 1:12 AM]
Saw "Showtime" with a friend last night. Heh, halfway through the movie froze. The reel or whatever was all fucked up. We all sat there for like 5 minutes while the idiot up there fixed it. It was during a good part too, heh. When they finally fixed it they skipped over about 2 or 3 minutes (I'm guessing) of the movie. Not too intelligent. I should have asked for my money back even though we had free passes to get in, hehe.I'm back up at my dorm. It's 11 o clock and I'm tired... how can that be? And I'm starving, but what else is new?
Ugh, I have 4 classes tomorrow... one of them being Math. I dread Math. I also haven't bought any books yet.
At 10 - Humanities, 11 - Mat... (I can't even say it anymore!), 12 - C++, 1 - ISYS.
After that I have to work on a fairly large news article for The Triangle. It's a "6 months in review" type of piece. Then, the Flyers play around 7. Hopefully, we'll all go out somewhere tomorrow night and have a good time.Lastly, there is this annoying girl up in my dorm... let's call her A (for annoying). Well today A stopped by (all loud and obnoxious as usual) with 2 of her friends. She introduced me in a way but I didn't even bother looking because we (the guys in this part of the dorm) tend to ignore A all together. Well when I turn around I see her one friend. She is fucking hot. And it turns out she is 21. Fuck, take me to a bar and put me on the rocks baby. Well, I might be wandering down to A's room just to maybe get another look at her nice looking friend.
[Posted exactly at 11:16 PM]
Can't believe my 2 week break has gone by so fast. I should have known that though. Tomorrow night I move back into my dorm. Going to see "Showtime" tonight with a friend then we'll chill. Started packing tonight.
[Posted exactly at 7:00 PM]
Well, at first I thought I would be free from filing taxes this year if I didn't want to. BUT, I made over $10K last year ...so now, for the first time, I HAVE TO FILE. And guess what, I can't do TeleFile (the easy way). Ugh, this is going to be a nightmare. All in all I had 3 jobs last year (same as now plus I did the Cutco job during the summer). April 15th will be here in a snap of the fingers, so ain't I the lucky fuck?
[Posted exactly at 9:08 PM]
Worked today 8-4. Exciting stuff.WHY IS BASEBALL ON SPORTSCENTER? Not only do I hate SportsCenter, I fucking hate baseball... all kinds of it. Baseball makes me so sick, how can anyone torture themselves into watching it? And most of all, it's mid March! They don't show 15 minutes of NHL hockey a month before that season starts, so who gives a flying fuck about baseball. Man, I hate baseball and I hate SportsCenter (aka BaseballCenter).
If anyone is wondering, no, I don't want to go back to school Sunday night. But I suppose I'll have to get drunk week one, if at all possible.
[Posted exactly at 6:29 PM]
Flyers traded 3 draft picks and an AHL goalie for Superstar Adam Oates. Am I happy? Lack of better term! =D
Now I can't wait for Thursday's game.. I might even go down to Voorhees and watch them practice tomorrow morning.I might be going to South Street to chill w/ a friend tonight... Since I got to sleep til 1, I'm a little less cranky, hell yeah to that.
[Posted exactly at 4:45 PM]
Bad mood, yes.Where shall I start? Actually I don't feel like bitching. So I'll just say: Flyers playing like shit; my friends and others are being shady; my gpa; no sleep.
[Posted exactly at 12:30 AM]
Grades (still waiting for one class to be posted):CS 390 Computer Programming - A
HUM 102 Reading and Research - A
ISYS 102 Intro Info Systems II - A
ISYS 141 Information Systems Lab II - A
MATH 102 Introduction to Analysis II - DNow you tell me if there is something wrong with that picture.
In other words, what I'm trying to say is: I fucking hate college math and I shouldn't be required to take it.Life goes on.
[Posted exactly at 3:44 PM]
Since it's snowing/sleeting out and the dog just came in, she smells like shit.
Speaking of snowing, we hardly got any snow this year and that pisses me off. We got maybe an inch of snow this year. The average is like 25". Oh well, maybe we'll get a huge blizzard next year. =)Could there be more SHITTY TV on right now or what? Fucking nothing is on. After 4 straight episodes of Weakest Link, I'm going to just pretend the TV is on.
Happy St. Patrick's Day... Kiss me, half of me is Irish.
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[Posted exactly at 9:55 PM]
A friend & I went to see The Time Machine last night. It was actually pretty cool, I liked it.
Ehhh.. the Flyers lost yesterday. Was a tough loss because they did play well. Oh well, only 15 more games left.. so hopefully they get it together for good within the next few games.Laziness: I didn't update halfhonk.com last night (but I blame part of the reason on dialup, heh); I didn't finish an application for a special "peer leadership" class yet; I didn't do my 50/50 yesterday - I used to do 50 crunches & 50 pushups everyday for almost a year, and then one day I stopped... so now I'm trying to get back in the swing of things.
Ahhh.. tomorrow I get to sleep in!!! I'm excited, heh. I had to wake up at 9:45 for Church, work (we had a call at like 8am anyway, so I was awoken); yesterday had to wake up at 8am..Friday 7am, Thursday 7am, Wednesday 7am, Tuesday I got to sleep in. So tomorrow will be the first day in a few days I got to sleep in ... and I'm even on break, heh.Rewind a few days... Uh, Friday I accidentally washed my car after work. That's a no-no because we are in a drought/water emergency. I rememered like half way through washing it and hurried up the rest haha.
Thursday night I was coming home around midnight and a white thunderbird was driving like a maniac... All over the road, speeding up, slamming on his breaks and shit. At first I was going to call it in (call Glo. Twp. Police), but didn't. But then the fucker pulled over to the side of the road and since I was behind him I went by and then he pulled out and I noticed he was behind me. I was pissed then... I don't need some asshole running my car off the road. He was fucking right on my ass too, so I pulled over really quick and he flew by me. So I sped up and then decided this fucker wasn't going to kill someone on my time. I followed him on Sicklerville Road for bout 1/2 mile, then he almost ran off the road making a left onto Jarvis. At that time I called up GTPD on my cell. Told them I had a possible drunk driver all over the road, excessive speed, etc. I followed him into a development (my old development, ironically... but I know it well) and he then knew I was following him. But I didn't care what he thought. He pulled into a driveway and turned his lights off - dumbass. Then he backs out, in the middle of the road revs his engine... then goes down the road and whatnot. The police showed up and he was in the middle of the road driving with his lights off. Busted bitch. He was in fact DUI, they arrested him and took him away. I probably wouldn't have called it in if he didn't try to run ME off the road. And also, what if he crashed into someone and killed them... I wouldn't want to live with myself then. So hopefully he learned not to be a douschebag.
[Posted exactly at 12:15 PM]
Hey... just want to say this before I forget. The LAST question last night on Jeopardy... I actually got it!!! I have never got the "final" question right before. I was literally jumping up and down. Haha. Well here is the question/answer:
In October 2001 this song went to No.1 on the charts and its lyrics were written by a 19th century man.
I've give the answer tomorrow (remind me if I forget).Heh, after my exam today (don't ask how it went, bleh!), I went to my car and it was fucking blocked in... someone had double parked. Fucking idiots. It was a White Mazda with Maryland tags if anyone sees it on the road. I waited for about 20 minutes (I had to go somewhere asap) and then I said fuck this and called 411 on my cell phone.
Cingular Wireless on my phone is a piece of shit. Not only does it cost an arm (like $2 bucks) but they ask you about 3000 questions in order to get the number. I asked for Philadelphia PD. She asked what precinct. Do I look like like I know every fucking precinct in Philadelphia? Fuck no.. But she MADE me pick one (out of a hat). I called random precinct and the officer told me to "call 911" after he told me I'm in the 16th district. I asked him, "Are you serious?" and he got all pissed. I was like, it's not a life or death emergency and he said "That's how you do it.. you call 911!!" and then he hung up. Gee, I'm glad I don't pay taxes in Philly for that fine police support. Assholes. So I call back 411 AGAIN and ask for the Philadelphia PD 16th District- it takes this woman 5 minutes to get the number... what the fuck, do they have to use a phonebook that is across their office to find the phone number? Idiots. And I pay $4 for 411.. shoot me.
I call up the 16th district and a woman answered like she just woke up. Sorry to disturb her, I should have said. I told her I was double parked and couldn't get out and had to go somewhere. Guess what she said, "And why are you calling us?" WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS CITY'S POLICE SERVICE?!?! Who the fuck am I supposed to call, Fed Ex? Idiots. So after I answered her with... "they are parked illegally" she abruptly banged the phone down and a few seconds later some Sergeant got on the phone. So, of course.. I had to re-explain the whole thing to him. And he finally moaned, "We'll get someone out there for you." Why gee, thanks.. will there be a fee for me bothering you? 2 minutes after I hang up, the car's owners show up. I said "Is this your car" (it was 3 women off course) and they all nodded. I guess they don't have vocal cords. And I said, politely as possible, "Well you need to move it NOW because I need to go somewhere." They didn't say anything and then left. Idiots.Well I went to Rittenhouse Square and met up w/ a friend today. (Rittenhouse Square is like a park in the middle of center city.. real nice, and it was beautiful out today.) I didn't bother to put quarters in the meter - I didn't have any, and there were NO spots anywhere else within 5 blocks. So, after lunch.. about an hour later I come back to a $15 parking ticket. Well thank you for the gift. I don't know if I will pay it or not :) I heard (I''ll have to check w/ some police friends) that if you are out of state and get a parking ticket there's nothing they can do. Oh well.
I'm working tomorrow 8-4 at the station; then 11-4 Sat & Sun as usual at JerseyNet.
In other news, my computer is acting up again. So, if you IM me and I dont get back to you.. drop me an email (halfhonk@halfhonk.com)...
[Posted exactly at 6:59 PM]
6 months after September 11, it still hurts to think about it.
[Posted exactly at 4:37 PM]
Ah, a Sunday that I don't have school the next day. So nice.
Yesterday, had work... after work did nothing really. I've made 3 firecalls since I came home Friday night, so thats good. No major emergencies though, don't worry.
Tonight, at 7 the Flyers play Toronto. At 8, that ESPN movie "A Season on the Brink" is on - I'll probably be taping that. And then at 9, CBS is having a two hour never-before-seen Sept. 11 documentary. Tomorrow, at Ground Zero they are supposed to have these two beams of light for a temporary memorial. I can't believe it's been six months.Hrmm, I have my Math exam Thursday... dreading that. I'm working at the fire station (filling in for a paid guy that is sick) Wednesday and Friday 8-4. That's all for now, go Flyers!
[Posted exactly at 12:25 PM]
THE END OF THE WINTER TERM AT DREXEL IS NOW OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO HOO, IM SO EXCITED! I had so much shit to do this week and it is all completed.
Next week IS finals week but I only have 2.. On Tuesday afternoon I have my CS text (its HTML and its open book) so no studying needed for that. Then on Thursday at 8 in the morning I have my Math final. Much studying needed for that, but plenty of time between now and then. I need a 93 on the final to get a B, if I get between like a 70-92 Ill be getting a C, which is fair-fair. Everything else I should be gettting an A, so all A's and one C/B isnt bad, we'll see what I get in the end.
I'm still excited that I just turned in my VB projects.. they were such a pain in the ass, and they are done.. A in the class for sure, whamm!What am I doing for Spring Break? Going home, relaxing, working, running fire calls... Just want I want to do, really. Next Spring Break I'll do something major... like maybe California or something... hopefully I'll have more money then.
What am I doing tonight? Flyers play Tampa ay 7:30, probably be watching them... then, I don't know... I'm a little low on money until next payday so we'll see.
Lates!
[Posted exactly at 3:39 PM]
It's another one of those crazy weeks at school. I'm in one of my classes now (Visual Basic, a whole nother story). I have one more class after this... then I have to do something and I forget what it is. Then I have to push my newspaper article for tonight, if it even will turn into a story (articles take a bit of time... over an hour at least!). I have to work on my Humanities portolio (will take at least 1/2 hour), then study for an Info. Systems exam tomorrow. Once tomorrow afternoon is here, I have to finish up my Hum portfolio and I think that's about it for tomorrow. Imagine that. But, then I have to start the nightmare of studying for the Math exam next Thursday 3/14. But, for now... once this day itself is over, I'll be more happy. =)The Flyers are doing well, they are... 3-1 since the Olympics. They play tomorrow night next.
I'm going home for most of Spring Break - looking forward to that.
[Posted exactly at 1:04 PM]
Saves The Day concert, w/ Piebald opening.. was flat out AWESOME... Hell, I'll use the word "phat" even!
[Posted exactly at 12:13 AM]
Things are getting better.. especially since it's the end of the week... and I get to sleep in Monday, can't wait for that hah.Got work tomorrow and Sunday (as usual), and Sunday night I am going to the Saves the Day concert... I even got a special photo pass for the first 3 songs, sweet!
Still got one more week left in the winter term and then finals week (but I only have 2 finals that week), so I'm not out of the (stressful) woods just yet. But things are looking up, so thats good.I want to get a good night's sleep tonight, so here are the three articles I have done in the past 2 issues of The Triangle - the newspaper I joined 2 weeks ago. Thanks for everyones support (in everything)!
March 1st issue:
Exam schedule problems resurface
Pi Lambda Phi charter revoked
Feb. 22 issue:
Study abroad participation in a lullFeedback welcomed, on anything of mine, as always. Lates!
[Posted exactly at 1:14 AM]
It is utterly obvious that I am the only one that can improve halfhonk.com and update it. It is also apparent that I have a hard time updating it, as of late.
If I close the site I will bring much sadness to those who love it and bring pleasure to those who really hate me (and/or the site).
If I go more into detail, this post will turn into a 30 minute arsenal, which I don't have time for.
[Posted exactly at 11:08 PM]
I've been pretty busy lately with school work and The Triangle stuff. Figured I'd take a minute just to let that be known. Things will get better SOMETIME in the next three+ weeks, heh.
[Posted exactly at 1:15 AM]
Forgot to post yesterday, something happened to a friend of mine (something good) and I was happy for that person. =]This may not be good news for some of you. Right now, I am seriously considering closing halfhonk.com. It's not that it's "hard" to post every night, becuase if that were the excuse, I'd be mad at myself for trying to give up so easily. I'm involved with more things now and my site, which used to get at least an hour of my time every night, is getting less and less time from me. I still spend at least 25 minutes on a post.. just trying to find unique stuff and whatnot.
I don't really get help with the posting on halfhonk.com, but I don't really want it. It's my damn site and I know I hate going to a site that has like 5 OR MORE posters - its pointless, I'd rather enjoy the posts of the person I came there for.. not everyone else except that person. And, even IF I wanted someone to post on my site once a week (for example), there aren't that many people that can commit to doing that in addition to having my trust. So, it's basically a lose-lose situation. I know so many people come to the site everyday and really love the site, but sometimes it just drains too much out of me. This isn't anything new. But I know I will have to really think this decision over - whether or not to keep halfhonk.com going - before I decide on yes or no. If I make the decision to close it down, it WILL NOT reopen. I hate seeing sites that close and magically re-open.
In all honestly, halfhonk.com has my mixed emotions. In a sense, it never accomplished what I wanted it to be - a site that gets tons of hits everyday, etc. I do get a good amount of visitors day in and day out, but I was never in competition with the bigger sites out there. I always tried to say "well they have porn" which some of them do, but a few of them don't and still kill me with how much more recognized they are. On the other hand, I have been approached about my website a few times, developed all kinds of levels of friendships with people because of it, gotten COUNTLESS compliments, and have been visited by almost every country/continent out there.
I don't know what's wrong with me, I just want more. I have also gone through posting basically every single day for the past 600+ days. Yes, I have skipped a post here or there, or did real short posts, but even on nights (like tonight) that I really DID NOT want to post, I did. And I know most people don't appreciate that. Just like the ignorant people that STILL message me (I probably get one racist per week, on average) racists slurs. After a while, it does get annoying. And I also get the people that say they love the site but less than 10 seconds (literally) later, they ask for a plug or link. That tells me that don't care about the site, just care about themselves. And I hate when I'm nice to people and they still push me. They push me until I yell at them (online) and then they bitch and I look like the bad guy.If I closed the site down, I know many people would be disappointed in me. I would get people that I know in real life asking me why I took it down, and what would I say, who knows.
If I keep it open for as long as I can stand it, or as long as I have some extra time, it will be weird. Some of my visitors will probably "grow up" and not bother to visit, and I may have a new wave of visitors.
If you think I'm paranoid over the visitors issue, I'm really not. When I think of me possibly closing the site, I think how disappointed I would be and the people that I know in real life and Internet that are loyal visitors.What's kinda interesting is that this time I am not mad at anything related to halfhonk.com. In the past when I considered closing the site down, I was either pissed off a some AIM hacker, racist, or problems with the site itself. This time, none of those apply here. So maybe this time it's for real.
Maybe halfhonk.com & the character that runs it should realize it's time to go.
[Posted exactly at 2:05 AM]
This weekend was good.
Yesterday, after a good/usual day at work, I got ready for dinner w/ my old prinicipal (a priest) from high school.
We went to a nice Italian restaurant in the burbs of Jersey. It was myself, the past principal, and 2 other kids (friends that I had during high school). It was really a good time. We basically reminised (sp?) about high school, specifically senior year. He told us how good of a class we were, we told him about the stuff we got in troube for. He told us the whole story of how he got "transferred" to another church and how he basically had many verbal fights with the bishop. That part was kind of interesting because it shows that even priests aren't perfect.
We all talked about so much, I wouldn't be able to type it all out here. We all also talked about present day things and how we are doing in school, what we want in the future and such.
God, he is such an intelligent man full of wisdom. I felt like revived after the dinner - even though I wasn't feeling down or anything.
Now, some of you are probably thinking he was "preaching" to us.. he really wasn't. He's a real down to earth guy.
For example, we were telling him how we get in bars and he was laughing and he found it real interesting.
We also talked about how highschool was really a great time and sometimes (we all) wished we could be back in highschool, even he said that and he is like 60 something. We also talked about how much you mature after you leave highschool.. you see how everything is and how certain things DID matter and how certain things didn't.Well enough rambling. =)
[Posted exactly at 3:01 PM]
First off, it's going to be a cool gold-medal ice hockey game tomorrow: USA vs. Canada. GO USA. But after that's over, I'm definitely ready for the NHL. Thankfully, the Flyers play their 1st game back Tuesday night. Speaking of hockey, we have our usual hockey game Monday at 8:45.
Last night, we went to our usual hangout bar (Atlas) on South Street... chilled there for an hour and then went to this phat place in Center City (downtown). It was real nice there (well, nice considering, for college students), lots of girls (a good thing), lots of music, dancing, grinding, etc.. It was awesome. Since we drank much at Atlas, I only had 2 drinks at this place... and the fact that each drink was $4 and then $5. Yeh, $9 on 2 drinks. I felt like something tasty, so I got Kahlua and cream - haven't had that in such a long time, I missed it.. haha. We left around 130-2 (fairly early; because I have work), got back and I was feeling fine.. Little buzzed, so thats all good. All in all, I spent like $30 last night. ACK. But it was a good night. Most def.Today I have work til 4 and then going to dinner with my old principal and some high school friends. I'm looking forward to that. He's a very wise man.
Kate (& her friend) from UDEL are coming to Philly today/tonight, hopefully we'll get to meet up and chill.. Maybe I'll go to N.A.L. tonight.. hrmm.
[Posted exactly at 3:30 PM]
I'm not bitching but rather stating that this week is a tough one. Week 8 and 9 are always tough ones here at Drexel since those are the finals weeks of the term. But it's at least halfway over, thank you God. Had my Math final today... that went OK I believe/hope. Won't find out the grade until Wed or Fri of next week. As of right now, I probably have an A in everything except that class and I will probably end up with a Cish. We'll see. :/I've started as a staff member of the school's newspaper here. Currently, I am a news writer for The Triangle and I enjoy it so far. But it does involve work but hopefully it may pay off by being on my resume.
Today when I was up there (we have our own section of a building for working on the paper, etc.), one of the other guys (Yoni is his name.. but he's cool as shit) asked me if it was OK to call me "Chris Halfhonk." HAHAHAH.. CHRIS + HALFHONK = CHRIS_HALFHONK.. sounds like a screen name or a quake2 handle or something. I told him sure, no problem... and that many people call me halfhonk, honk, etc.
I find it funny how people have the urge to call me the name, they cant resist. I have no problem with it though... OBVIOUSLY.The liberty bell in Philly is now under "high alert." Great, thats just super news. Link is here: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/22102_nw_bell.html (Remind me if I post about news in the future. I don't like having news on my blog site.)
In halfhonk.com world, I am so far behind. TONIGHT I posted Tuesday's update. People don't know, even when I have a "short post" it usually takes me a good 15 minutes at least to research and post.
Tomorrow I hope to watch the Ice hockey semi-finals. USA vs. Russia; Belarus vs. Canada.
My predicitions: USA & Belarus win; USA wins gold.
I can't wait for the NHL/Flyers to start back up.Plans for future: Go to Saves the Day concert beginning of March, go to Flyers carnival, go to Green Day/Blink/Saves the Day concert in May.
TGIF!
[Posted exactly at 1:13 AM]
Just want to make it clear that end of term stress is here and it sucks. =P
[Posted exactly at 7:10 PM]
Just woke up. I was up until 330AM last night, what a mistake. I am so fucking tired I can barely keep my eyes open to type this. I have a fairly long day today, have shit to do and to go to, and have to study for a very important Math test which is tomorrow. Guess what time the exam is? 750AM. Ugh.
[Posted exactly at 9:33 AM]
Dustin went back home today. We had a fun weekend, it was cool.
Anyway, after he went down the stairs to the train I noticed a girl and a guy hugging for about 2 minutes straight. They were obviously quite the love couple. It was interesting because the girl was probably about 5'3 and the guy was about 6'3 (I guess) and probably over 250 pounds. HOW CUTE!!! He could barely hold back the tears as she slowly descended down the escalator and blew kisses back toward him.Besides that exciting stuff, we lost our game tonight 6-2. Bleh.
[Posted exactly at 1:10 AM]
Dustin (DaZ) is down from Boston for the weekend. His train came in Friday night at 9PM. He is the biggest fag ever, really.
HAHA, just kidding. He's a cool kid.. He's been enjoying his stay at Philadelphia/Drexel so far I believe.
Friday night we all went to Geno's (famous cheese steaks) and then went to New Angle. We didn't stay at New Angle long.. but it was good to go back there since I haven't really been there in a while.
Yesterday I had work, nothing unusual there.. except that it was more busy than a typical Saturday. Afterward, we went to the Deptford Mall, Sports Authority, and finally South Street. South Street traffic is horriffic. Example: We sat in traffic ON South Street for an hour. And then finding a parking spot took a good 10 minutes. But it was a nice walk on South Street. We got back to my room around 9. We just chilled really.. I ate like a fat pig almost a whole bag of beef jerky, so that's healthy. Then we watched the USA ice hockey team play Russia at 1130 - that was pretty cool. Olympic hockey is fucking awesome, it's so fast-paced. I fell asleep somewhere around 1. (Not because of the game, just because I was really beat.)Work today. Then we are going to the Phantoms game probably. Who knows what's up for later tonight. THANKFULLY I have off school tomorrow, what a miracle. Dustin is going home around 1230 tomorrow.. then I have my game at like 6 tomorrow night. Lucky me, I got a new hockey stick.. woo fucking hoo. Maybe I will work on cd.com tomorrow. We can only hope =)
[Posted exactly at 3:05 PM]
There is this extremely annoying girl that my roommate has become friends with. Let's call her O, for obnoxious. O stops by several times a day knocking hard on the door to see if my roommate is here. When he is here, she immediately welcomes herself in and goes to buddy-punch my roommate. In fact, she is in my room right now. She never comes in here and talks with him for less than an hour. She is loud, she is obnoxious, she is a stinky girl. She is annoying, did I mention that already? I think she thinks she owns this room, but she doesn't. She's also retarded. And, she's still in here. GET OUT!!!!!! Argh.Margi Gras the other night was cool. EXCEPT that I lost my fucking rather expensive digi cam. I loved that thing and I have nothing now. I guess I will eventually get a new one, maybe off ebay or something, but right now and for the next month I have no money to buy a new cam.
I plan to work on cd.com today, lets hope for motivation.
[Posted exactly at 4:42 PM]
ughhhhhh I fucking lost my digi cam :(
[Posted exactly at 9:39 AM]
This is a rush post because I'm in a rush.. got my game tonight so I'm leaving for that in about 10 mins.
We got scheduling tomorrow, I'll try to post my Spring term schedule for you all to see later.
[Posted exactly at 4:23 PM]
What did we do last night? We basically drove around the city for 2 hours. You would think we saw every block in the city, but since traffic was LITERALLY GRIDLOCK we didnt go too far.. but it was really cool being in the traffic, the city was crazy.. tons & tons of sweet cars..omg.. We unfortunately did not see any famous/important people, but it was funny I'm sure there were tons of important people's people.. The only pictures I took was when were in traffic (often), and an OK pic of some crazy ass (like 22" probably) rims.. I'll probably upload them later when I get back to my room.I got pulled over on the way back from the dorm to work this morning. And nonetheless, by a DRPA police officer! (These cops are really known for NOT being cool.) I would tell the story here, but that would spoil the fun for the new addition to the halfhonk.com busted stories section.. I will talk about it tonight in tonight's post (at halfhonk.com).
I'm kinda happy because I only have 2 classes tomorrow (really only one class), I have no homework for tomorrow, and my game is tomorrow night. Oh yeh and GO FLYERS - they won last night against St. Louis 5-0.
[Posted exactly at 2:54 PM]
Last night did nothing.. Nothing really went on. Got some solid sleep though!Today, work was unusually busy. Enough said.
Now, we're getting ready to go out to center city and MAYBE spot a celebrity... I think I'll bring the digi cam.
Tomorrow.. got work.. can't wait til Monday night to get my game back on track.. no more unacceptable games, I'm telling myself!
[Posted exactly at 11:42 PM]
Last night we went out fairly early.. we left probably 5 minutes after I made the post.. so around 9:30 - that's fairly early for us. Right before we left the fire alarm went off.. so we just hurried up and left then. Good thing it didn't happen 15 minutes earlier when we were still getting ready in the showers and stuff.
I forgot.. before we went out, we went to Geno's (famous Philly cheese steaks) around 8. Man, every time I have them it hits the spot.
So, anyway.. we went to this new place down on South Street.. not the popular part of South St. but about 15 blocks away from it. It was cool, I got pretty fucked up, but not too bad since I did have classes today. Actually, everyone was fucked up haha. We came home around... hrmm, 1 ish. A bunch of us were out in the halls making noise and bullshitting, it was all good.Today was OK. I found out I got an A on my essay that I just turned in for Hum, I'm happy about that. This weekend is pretty big for Philly because of the NBA All-Star game, all kinds of famous people are in the city it's crazy. We hope to spot at least one famous person.
Also, not to mention Mardi Gras is Tuesday.. man, I hope to go down to South Street (yes, the popular part) and at least get some beads and shit.. take some pics, maybe see some titties - sounds like a plan if you ask me.
[Posted exactly at 3:53 PM]
Going out for hopefully a fun night out with the guy friends of mine. Lates! =)
[Posted exactly at 9:24 PM]
Fuck the world I am in a really shitty mood right now. I really need to break something or someone so I need to calm down right now.
I know this is stupid posting this because you will wonder why I am so upset but I cannot talk about it at all, it is personal. But I am posting just in the hope I will feel better. Feel a little less stressed.
On top of this shit, I feel like I don't have anyone in real life to talk to. None of my good friends want to be bothered with my shit. Sometimes I just hate life.I'm not feeling better so I'm going to keep going. OH I just realized the Flyers are on, let me go to a site to listen to the game radio.. Ok, its loading now...
Ah, I'm listening to them now.. And thankfully they are winning 3-1. Ahh, this is soothing. And Dorney is back, wow.. his life is 100 times worse than mine - his daughter just died last week from cancer.. See, this blog is helping me right this second realize my life isn't that bad.. things will get better.. I will get out of this angry-ness...
I've also realized that I need to not think of other things that will annoy me right now because I will go off..OK I think I'm cooled off a little now..
[Posted exactly at 11:49 PM]
Me? How am I feeling? Shitty. Don't you just hate it when your throat is so fucking sore you can't even clear it out? Ugh.
On top of that, I have a paper I have to write. Hopefully soup, tylenol, and ibuprofen will make me feel better in an hour or so.
We are in week 6 out of 10 so we are almost done this term. Hum is going to be tough to pull off an A, Isys I should get an A, CS I should get an A, Univ I SHOULD get an A, Isys lab I should get an A, and what does that leave? Fucking Math 102. Man, I don't know what it is, they just explain it so much more different here than in my high school. My current average is 61.5 (my exam grade), but we do have another exam, a quiz, and then the final. I can pull it up but this term I'll be shooting for a B rather than a C like last term.In other news (does that annoy you when I use that phrase, heh), Saves The Day is coming BACK to Philly in a few weeks. I just need someone to go with me and I'm set. They were just here - or so it seems like yesterday - in late November.
Lastly, I have decided to not require a username/password to read this blog. While I don't care about this blog being public, I don't think the people that do want to read it should have to (first, remember their un/pw and) put in their un/pw everytime. I like posting here, because it kind of relieves stress when I do have it.
[Posted exactly at 8:25 PM]
The Installation Dinner (at the Fire Company) last night was alright. Kate (a friend from high school) went with me - she didn't seem too bored. The guy that got Firefighter of the Year deserved it so that was cool. The mayor showed up this time... last year she didn't. Ron, who used to be a paid firefighter at our station and became a cop, gave him a F.O.P. card. That was cool of him especially since it was in his town that another cop took my old card last year, heh. After the dinner, Kate went home and I went back up to school. Nothing was really going on... well, nothing that I wanted to do. I had and still have a headache so I didn't feel like going out and drinking. My plans are to get all my work done for Wednesday so I can go out (SOMEWHERE) Tuesday night for Mardi Gras. But in order for that to be accomplished I first have to write a rough draft for tomorrow, do my 'lesson plan' for the kids, and my case study for Isys. Bleh.The Superbowl is obviously tonight. I think I'll just watch (some of) it in my room, no big plans for tonight.
I plan on making this blog public again, but when - I'm not sure. Also, I'm working on the christopherduffy.com "layout" so bare with me.
The Flyers play tomorrow night and I hope they can get a nice win. I have a special dinner to go to also tomorrow night. One of the Information Systems professors is having a big dinner for all the IST freshmen. That's at 5:00 and my game is at 7:45, haha. So, I have a rather busy night tomorrow night. Speaking of winning, let's hope my team gets above .500 by winning tomorrow.
[Posted exactly at 3:47 PM]
Eh... I'm not in a great mood right now. Not really because of the day or anything, just because. I think this post will be in reverse chronological order. =)
A bunch of us just got back from Hooters - we went to the one on Delaware Ave. It was aight, I've actually never been to a Hooters before. I thought they were more classier than that, haha.. what was I thinking? The girls in there were OK.. really only one or two hot ones though. It made me want to go to the strip club after, but no one really wanted to and plus it's at least $15 spent at the closest one.
I watched some of the NHL All-Star weekend tonight.. that is always cool for me to watch. I love hockey.
This reverse posting is hard.. heh.
Uhm, my HTML exam today was easy.. and speaking of exams.. I got a 97 on my ISYS exam. That's sweet.Since I didnt post yesterday... I watched ER (probably my fave show) and it was a real good episode. Then I went to New Angle and just had one beer. I just wanted to go up there and put one down since I haven't drank in a while. I didn't drink tonight either. But I have work tomorrow morning so why should I get fucked up... so I can be late and look like an ass tomorrow? No
Speaking of tomorrow.. After work I have the Installation Dinner at the Fire Company. It's an annual semi-formal dinner. At this, they give out the firefighter of the year (I really want it, but don't think I'll get it), rookie of the year, and other honors and stuff.. Usually the mayor and other important people are there... But its a nice night because it's the ONE night that all of us firefighters in the company can actually not worry about a call. If there is a call we actually have another town in our station "covering" us for the night, so we won't even respond. I am bringing just a friend.. Kate from high school. I think we should have a good time.
[Posted exactly at 1:50 AM]
Had my Information Systems exam today - went OK.We had a fire alarm last night in the dorm.. I was sound asleep, no lie sleeping like a baby and all of a sudden HECTIC NOISE!!! We stood out in the cold for about 20 minutes, it was enjoyable since it was raining too. I bet someone that thought they were cool pulled one of the fire boxes. I really think some people in my dorm never ever sleep. Or, we have some people that stay awake all night long (and I guess sleep during the day) and run through the halls like there is some monster chasing them. My roommate came in from a night out at 9AM THIS MORNING. But the annoying arctic fan is what woke me up when he turned it on. (For those who don't already know, he always ALWAYS sleeps with a full sized fan propped up on a chair blowing at him on MAX.. its extremely annoying.)
I'm watching COPS now and it seems that every other time I watch it it's one I already saw. Now, I am an avid viewer of the show but I haven't seen more than 15 or 20 episodes total. So I guess that is all they have ever recorded.
I would like to go out tonight and drink. We'll see..
[Posted exactly at 3:09 PM]
Ah, long time no post, how about that?
Now that everything should be up and running again, expect regular posts again. Enjoy.
[Posted exactly at 10:39 PM]
I didn't really have time to post about our game last night, so here goes:
WE WON! Yep, we finally won... final score 6-2. And hell yeh I had a goal and an assist. I was very pleased with the outcome of the game and I can't wait until next week's game - we all have 10 times more confidence now. And on top of all this, I didn't get hit in the face requiring stitches again... woohoo.
In other news, the Flyers ended their 8-game winning streak last night. That sucks, but what I say is that it's only January... It'll be more important to win games in the playoffs. Go flyers.I didn't fall asleep until about 330AM last night... I guess the 14 hours of sleep I got Sunday night was kind of overboard.
Effective this Saturday I will be working every Saturday and Sunday (11AM-4PM). I actually made the call on this because I need the money. I shouldn't be lazy and only work one day a week and watch my bank account drop. The thing that sucks is that I won't be sleeping in (past 10AM) on ANY day for a while. Oh well, I made the decision, I'll live with it for now, heh.
I have pics from the auto show, and other various pics that I will probably be uploading here soon. Flyers play tonight at 7. Please win and Desjardins don't let me down!
[Posted exactly at 6:40 PM]
If you are using the honk.blogspot.com URL, once again start using the christopherduffy.com URL. Hopefully, no more problems will come about. The honk.blogspot.com will not be updated, so use the cd URL, thanks!
[Posted exactly at 6:32 PM]
I found out that I will have my co-op Fall/Winter 2002-2003 so that's cool. Hopefully we are out of the recession then and I can find a job.
The Math exam went OK, I'm thinking I got like an 80... Should find out Friday or so.I'm off to teach the kids now, be back around 3...
[Posted exactly at 12:32 PM]
Oh fuck me. It's 5 o clock, I have to leave for my game in about an hour and I haven't studied for the Math exam tomorrow. The exam is at 8AM, which means I have to get up by at least 715. I am such a procrastinator... They should have a record for world's worst procrastinator. I wouldn't win that, but I'd be fucking close. By the time I get home tonight it will be after 10 and I will not feel like studying. Someone IM me after 10 and yell at me to study and study hard, it is fucking important."The wound" is healing up... so that's cool.. I've uploaded the NYC pics to christopherduffy.com/pics/nyc - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT USE THEM IN ANY WAY (besides just looking at them) WITHOUT MY CONSENT. There are not many people that know of this site and the path to those pics so don't be an ass. Thanks.
[Posted exactly at 5:05 PM]
I'm home in Jersey for the weekend.. I will be back at my room proably Sunday night.
And I don't know what's up with christopherduffy.com.
[Posted exactly at 11:27 PM]
Today in our University class I met our new teacher. He seems kind of cool. There is this one kid in the class that I think he has SADD - SUPER Attention Deficient Disorder. Maybe not "Disorder" but "Catostrophe." Needless to say, he really annoys me... indirectly. He is one of those kids that has to answer a question on every fucking thing talked about in class. For example, the teacher asks a yes or no question to someone. Someone answers it. 10 seconds later, SADD kid asks a question that is so obvious a fucking dog could answer it by sign language. Not to mention this kid is actually normal looking, so he has no excuse for his chimpanzee behavior. He also rides one of those kiddie scooters to class. You would think if you rode a scooter, or any type moving THING, you wouldn't be late to every class.. Not only is he late to every class, he has to make a scene when he comes in ten minutes late. Does he think he is still in pre-school? You know, some of us are paying to come here and we don't want to hear your metal scooter clank-clank-clank for five minutes while you hustle and bustle to take your coat off in the middle of class. Today he had on pants that only someone needing extreme attention would wear... or, a male stripper. They were black pants with white spots all over them. Is he suddenly a spokesman for cows? Idiot. A few months ago, in one of his no-one-gives-a-flying-fuck stories, he mentioned he had gotten mugged in Philly twice in his life. Well, I'm not even going to comment on that. Lose the scooter, lose your annoyance, be more on time, and stop acting like you are negative 13 years old.Phew, glad I got that out of my system...kind of.
Now, on to more bitching.Tonight, the crew (which is myself, Ryan and Anthony from across the hall) went to South Philly. They had heard of many of their friends going to this one bar called South Street Blues - at 21st and South. So, I go to MAC to get money, we walk down to Market and catch a cab down there. We get there and see a group of people walk up. The guy outside asks for ID from all of them (of course none of them had it). So it's then we are not going in there. I was pissed because I KNEW this was going to happen despite Ryan's assurances that it wouldn't. So does anyone have any other bright ideas? Of course not, so we walk 5 blocks WEST and then back 6 more blocks EAST trying to figure out what to do. I had mentioned that we just go to South Street. Did Ryan want to do that? Of course not, because "nothing is open." So I actually told him I dont care what we do except go back to the dorm... let's think of something. So finally he decides we will go to South Street. We get down there, stopped in Condom Kingdom (which is cool, first time visiting), and proceeded down South Street. We saw some type of store which I forget and Ryan didn't want to go in. I was pissed, again. Why the fuck do we always have to do what he wants to do? And Anthony basically does whatever he says so he doesn't gey yelled at. The motto is: Do whatever Ryan wants. If I wanted to go to South Street with a bunch of old people that act like my parents, I would have fucking went by myself. And this isn't over... after we are done walking South St. we keep walking and walking west. Plenty of cabs go by but none of us flag them down. So we end up walking from 2nd and South to 9th and Market (about 15 blocks) and it was FREEZING (because I only had a windbreaker on, didn't think we'd be taking a city-wide tour)! Ryan decided we were going to take the subway, so of course, that's what we did.
I should have just went up to New Angle by myself and got drunk.Oh well, it's *SUPPOSED* to snow tomorrow...
[Posted exactly at 12:49 AM]
I went to Bridgewater's last night to watch the first 2 periods of the Flyers game last night. I stopped at the McDonald's before I returned. From the start a strange, black, homeless man was causing some sort of a commotion at the counter. He was waiting for something that he ordered and didn't get... or something like that. There was quite a long line and he was holding every up. The manager came over and asked what was going on. The homeless guy mumbled something and then the manager told the guys in the back to make a burger or something. Meanwhile the homeless guy started having a temper tandrum with himself and flailing his arms. The manager came back over and said "EXCUSE YOU?!!" The homeless guy mumbled some more jibberish and the manager said "You know what, why dont you take all your money (pointing to all the pennies, nickles, and dimes) and roll!" The homeless guy scooped up his change, spilled the drink in his hand all over the floor, and started to walk out... still talking shit. The manager followed him out and eventually PUSHED him out of the McDs and yelled "ROLL!" It was rather amusing.I'm going out now, I'll be back soon..
[Posted exactly at 9:52 PM]
Well, the review for the Math exam today went OK. I think if I study my ass off I will do well considering this stuff doesn't seem TOO hard. It is "Math Analysys."
I only had one class today, which is good shit.I've uploaded another letter I found. This letter, from last year, is a letter to the Assistant Principal at the time about a crappy class.
And here is the link from the letter I uploaded yesterday.Kate Sheppard leaves for Colorado today. Damn she is lucky as hell. All the snow, plus I've never been to the west side - I'm jealous, I want to go, heh. AND she told me she was flying first class... can it get any better? Hopefully she'll bring back some pics for me.
I actually finished my rough draft essay which is due tomorrow around 230 today. Unusual for me because I usually wait until the last minute... or at least around 1am. I still have to read AT LEAST 2 chapters for Isys 102, type a journal for University class, and review a little for Math. Thankfully, we have off Monday.
Now, I plan to work on halfhonk.com's new forum/messageboard.
[Posted exactly at 4:21 PM]
I will continue to add more of my stuff to this personal site. Here is the letter I sent to my old principal back in November: Letter to Father Rock.
I hope to scan his response if I find someone around here with a scanner.
[Posted exactly at 1:21 AM]
Nothing exciting today. However, if you want to consider this excitement, let me know: I found out that I have a Math exam Tuesday. And we have off Monday, so... I need to get my ass on track because I have no clue what will be on the exam.
Believe it or not, I am already pre-planning my spring term (end of March until end of May) and it is looking so-so.Somehow, I found this article from about 6 months ago about volunteer firefighters in South Jersey. Read it and maybe you'll understand firefighting a little more.
"The injury" (my face, from the hockey game) is doing ok, but it was sore today. I now realize this is going to suck because it's going to scar and before that itch and bleh. Oh well, I'll tough it out.
In other news, APPARENTLY "Webpig" from the fairly famous internetgossip.net IM'ed me today asking about the whole snoogins.net racist incident. I told him and he was pretty cool. He said he will be posting about it, linking me and bashing dan because he doesn't dig the racist stuff. Well, we'll see if that was him and if he posts what he said he would.
[Posted exactly at 11:44 PM]
Ok, so the game last night was at 9:45pm. As usual, they were running behind so we didn't actually start the game until about 10:15. We rather quickly fell behind 3-0. I forget how exactly the scoring went, but we lost 9-3. Bleh. At the end of the second period, I was pinching in toward the puck... one of their forwards lifted his stick just as I skated in. I went down right away, it hurt, but I thought it would just be a bruise. Someone said, "there's blood" so I knew then I was bleeding. I was bleeding pretty good. I stopped the major bleeding for the most part and finished the game in the 3rd. Like I said, we ended up losing anyway, but they were a really good team - but thats not an excuse. It wasn't until right after the game when I looked in the mirror and I thought I was going to need stitches. There was a decent gash on the right side of my face. After I got changed, I called my mom at home and told her and asked her what I should do. She was obviously sleeping (it was around 1130pm when I called) and told me if I thought I needed stitches to go to Presbyterian (right by my school). For anyone that doesn't know we play about 20 minutes away from Drexel. So on the way home, Ness dropped me off at the ER.
I walked in... I didn't see many people around so I thought that I would be in and out. Wrong.
I "sign in" at the security guard's desk and he tells me to go sit down. A few minutes later, over the P.A. I hear "Chris Duffy to Triage." What the fuck am I, a doctor? In triage, the lady asked what happened, etc. Then when she was done asking 20 questions, she told me to go to "registration." Over there I signed my name about 10 times, showed ID and insurance - the whole time I could barely hear her because there was glass like a ticket window. She then told me to go wait.
And that I did. For about.. an hour. I heard my name again over the intercom telling me to go to the treatment area. Basically, a nurse cleaned it up for me and gave me ice. He then sent the medical student in (who was cool.. he used to be a firefighter/paramedic in NYC) and he came in about 1/2 hour later. Then about 15 minutes later the real doctor came in for a few.. then she left and sent the suture guy down.. He came down about 15 mins later, then left after putting some topical numbing stuff on (no litacane), and came back around 3:15am (I remember that time). Him and the med student did the stitches. They were both cool and it didn't really hurt. The med student got to try one stitch and I was cool with that because how else are you supposed to learn, ya know?
And I was out of there around 4AM. Walked home (about 5 blocks or so) and eventually went to bed.I didn't (plan to) go to my first 2 classes today but I did go to the University class where I went to a Philly public school and taught my 1st graders for about an hour. It was cool, everything went smooth. Of course they asked about the stitches and I told them.. They actually thought it was kind of cool.
The Flyers won tonight, I'm happy about that. And that's it for tonight.
Here are pics of my face: http://halfhonk.com/pics/stitch1.jpg - http://halfhonk.com/pics/stitch2.jpg - http://halfhonk.com/pics/stitch3.jpg
[Posted exactly at 11:57 PM]
Well, we didn't win the game tonight. AND I got hit with a high stick and had to get (4) stitches. Since its 4am, I'll post the rest tomorrow.
[Posted exactly at 4:19 AM]
My hockey game is at 9:45 tonight. PLEASE.. let us win!!!!!!!!!!!
[Posted exactly at 1:27 PM]
I'm also glad Twoinchesfully.com has gone down. I knew it would.. Ironic how it went down a week after I removed them from my links. Snoogins and VA will be next. Watch and see.
[Posted exactly at 12:20 AM]
So now I have Dave from VA talking shit on me and my site. Do I care? Yes. Will I lose sleep? No.
[Posted exactly at 12:16 AM]
NYC was phat. I have never been to New York City and I had a good time last night. It was Melanie (my RA) driving, her brother (who is cool), Ry, Anthony, and I. We left around 5 and got up there by 7 - pretty good time considering we were in Holland Tunnel traffic for over 45 minutes. The car ride itself was interesting because before we left Anthony kept commanding me "you are sitting in the middle (in the back)." Eventually, I got annoyed and refused to sit in the middle so he (who is about a foot taller than me) had to sit in the middle the ride up there.. In other words, it was like 3 little kids argueing on the way up there. Once we got up there, Ry had to go to some "world-renowed" ring store.. Then we went to have dinner at a nice restaurant on Broadway (109 West Broadway). After that, we went to Ground Zero. It was very emotional there... seeing all the stuff on the fence including missing person posters was tough. I took about 15-25 pics of the area itself. After paying our respects there, we grabbed a cab... wait, we had to grab 2 cabs, because there was 5 of us and no one would take more than 4. We got a cab to Time Square. Holy shit, that place is so lit.. its so phat. We stopped at ESPNZone.. a sweet little restaurant/bar - just to look. It was really amazing seeing all the lights and screens and shit at Times Square. I had seen it so many times on TV (for New Years Eve), but never saw it in person. We ate desert at Roxy's. Good shit there also. By the way, it was cool how so many people were on the streets at like midnight, you would never guess it wasn't like 6pm. Then we went to Rockefeller Center and that was cool also. It was really a great time. I hope to go up again real soon and visit my cuz - because I'm sure he can show me sweet places and maybe a bar. :PWe made awesome timing on the way home. We left around 1245am and I was in my room by 145-2am.
Flyers had a great game today, they won 4-2. So far the Eagles (playoff game) are winning 17-9. I think I'm going up to the New Angle for a while to chill there.
By the way, I got pics from our trip to NYC if anyone wants to see. =)
[Posted exactly at 6:06 PM]
im going to nyc right now!! =D
[Posted exactly at 4:05 PM]
In my math recitation class today the TA told a joke. It was something like this: "Guy walks into a bar sees a bowl of 20 dollar bills. Asks the bartender what its there for. He says, 'If you can make that horse over there laugh, you win the bowl of $20s.' So, the guy walks over and makes the horse laugh and wins all the $20s. Comes back to the bar the next night and sees the bowl there again. Asks the bartender why its there again. Bartender says, 'Make the horse cry and you win all the $20s.' So the guy walks over to the horse and makes him cry and he wins the bowl of $20s. The bartender asks the guy, 'Hey how did you make the horse laugh AND cry?' The guy says, 'Well the first night I told him I have a bigger penis and he laughed, the next night I showed him."I did not laugh at all... Nor did anyone in the class. Not only was the joke not funny, it was completely inappropriate.
Anyway.. we went out to new angle (a bar in the city) last night and we just planned to have a few drinks, nothing big. It was quite shady in there last night. Tim the bartender was telling us how they are going to be carding for a while now because they are under watch by the cops. None of this would have started if people weren't fucking stupid and get in fights and shit.
(I tried to compose this post with proper capitalization and I will try to do so for future posts here.)
[Posted exactly at 11:35 AM]
the url to this blog is now christopherduffy.com - for now, this "blog" isnt public, only a few have been told.. and i know who i told, so be smart =)
[Posted exactly at 1:03 AM]
woops, i forgot, i went to the car show tonight and also saw apperances by mark recchi and brian boucher. that was cool.
the auto show on the other hand was ok, but not as good as other years.haha, my roommate went to bed about 10 mins ago and he keeps rolling over and over, probably trying to hint for me to go to bed and turn the light off. well since he makes me suffer with his arctic fan blowing all night long everynight, he will have to deal with my shit! (we really do get along though)
[Posted exactly at 2:15 AM]
well, this is a little late but here goes. the other night (monday), we had our hockey game.. the first of the new 10 game season. we were down 1-0 and then rebounded nicely 1-1. then we were up 2-1, 3-1.. then we lost the lead 3-2, 3-3.. they scored AGAIN making them winning 3-4, and then 3-5.. we scored to make it 4-5 and then they scored 4-6. final score 4-6. we fucking should of won that game, i was so pissed. i played real well the first period, good in the 2nd and shitty in the 3rd. i really was disappointed in myself. overall stats for myself was 2 assists, 3 shots on goal, 0 goals. i am on defense for those who dont know and i believe i was a "+1" or "even". we have practive saturday, so i plan to get my ass back on track.in other shit, STD (no not the bad stuff, but Saves The Day) was just on conan! they fucking rock. as does new found glory. point made.
look at the time and i didnt update the regular site yet, oh great, i will be bitched at by someone probably.
[Posted exactly at 2:11 AM]
imagine this. i am sitting here, at the computer, doing the norm. listening to my music - and it isnt usually loud, as im not usually a person that listens to loud music for a long period of time... and my roommate decides to listen to his music at the same time. is this possible? well let me rephrase that.. is this possible for more than 1 minute? no.man, im so spoiled.
[Posted exactly at 12:56 AM]
the kids at blankenburg were cracking me up today.. i think i have a decent class.. typical 1st graders i guess. they seemed to like me, even though i barely got to know them. the teacher seemed nice.. i think even i got scared when she was giving some of the kids "eyes" when they were being bad. ackkk.. dont stare at me! =) to bed i go now. class all day tomorrow 10-3, ugh.
[Posted exactly at 2:32 AM]
my aim (halfhonk) isnt working, its annoying the shit out of me.
[Posted exactly at 11:37 PM]
internetgossip.net annoys me to no end - even though i visit it at no regular intervals... it is truely a scam of a site they are running over there. with a domain name like that, they should have gossip of more than just 3 or 4 websites (mainly nay, iwangf, etc.). their most recent idea of internet gossip awards was a great idea.. but what do they do.. close off voting in like 1 day and include their own categories and sites, of course including their regular ones.. iwangf, nay, stile, and so on. bleh.i hear thissitegotmelaid.com has closed. i think i was there once, so no loss to me.
speaking of losers, dan from snoogins has renewed my idea that he has no life. i pissed him off, thats no doubt.. but for him to publicly make a racial slur at me (and other blacks), is pure stupidity on his part. and as other people sometimes say, "thats the best you can come up with?" oh well, life goes on. (and him removing my link off his site is no loss to me as he might have sent me 4 links in the time i was linked there).
speaking of plugline sites.. i removed "snoogins" and "twoinchesfully" last night. ben is a cool guy, and ive known him (online) for a while now. but his lack to even CARE about his website and not bother to post it for weeks on end made me remove the link. but what i found odd, is that less than a day after i did this, he actually POSTED!!! ... and removed my link. hahah. oh well; i am well aware i cannot be liked by everyone.
however, currently, i am thinking of halfhonk.com. i know it provides entertainment to many people daily, but shall i keep it up? most likely for a while more, but i have been thinking...
[Posted exactly at 12:59 AM]
well moving in last night wasn't too bad.. although the double parked cars was interesting.
for most of the night my room had no heat.. and all the TV channels are blurry. its not cool.
[Posted exactly at 1:14 PM]