Oh! and Merry Christmas!

Well I goto Las Vegas tomorrow. This will be the first Christmas I'm away from my parents I think. I'm going with my uncle/aunts and cousins. My parents are going to this fancy 7-course dinner at Yosemite with my mom's work. I'd have gone, I can hardly resist something that tempting... Jeez... I mean SEVEN courses! But there's nobody my age there and I think my parents want to be hanging out with the adults there anyways, so thats all good. I get to go to Vegas and possibly some other destinations. This should be fun. More likely than not the last time I'll have a sort of "family" vacation, although certainly not the entire family. I'm getting older and "moving on in the years" if I can describe myself as such. And this is likely my last trip. Better make it a good one eh?

Chuck Berry - Run Run Rudolph

Go watch The Lord of the Rings. It kicks serious ass. And I'm not just saying that because I'm a big fan, its got some cool fight scenes too for people that are only into that. Or if you're into the lovy dovy thing, its got some of that too! And Liv Tyler is hot! And there's also a Star Wars preview that precedes the movie. So if all that doesn't persuade you to watch this masterpiece of a movie then you're just a plain hater. And we all know you shouldn't hate, you should participate!

Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings Soundtrack

Okay, now that I'm home, I haven't had much to do, so I figure I'll make up for the lack of updates and write all about my first quarter in college. Now that I'm home, I figured I'd list a few things about being home that I like and can't have at college and vice versa:

-At home, when I fart around other persons, I don't feel a need to explain myself.
-At college, the water in the shower is hot as soon as I turn it on.
-At home, I get to decide what I watch on TV.
-At college, when I'm bored I only have to walk down the hall for entertainment.
-At home... well I can't think of anything right now, but I'll have more later, in other posts.

College has been interesting. Dorm life hasn't exactly been what TV and movies have told me, but then again I'm not the party guy that those people in movies and TV are. But maybe things will pick up second quarter. And its not like I want keggers all day or panty raids, what I mean is I haven't really met any friends that I automatically click with. Like most of my friends that I've met are all on account of the fact that we live together and are sort of *forced* to associate and we associate out of convenience as opposed to really being friends. Its not that I really mind having to associate with them, its just that they aren't people that I believe I will associate with for any realistic amount of time, outside of the dorms, once I move it. Oh well. The year is young.

My internal clock seems to have righted itself. After starting the week with a 48-hour marathon of not sleeping, I went to bed at 8PM one day and slept till 10 or 11, then the next day I went to bed around 1 and woke up at 7 for a final. But what was weird was when I got home, Friday, I fell asleep watching TV at around midnight and woke up at 1 to stumble to bed, to awake, naturally, around 10:00. This was weird, but today I also went to bed relatively early and woke up at 9. But today I awoke due to a phone call, nothing special. We'll see tomorrow.

Fun things that've happened to me during college, first quarter of freshman year, in a sort of list. Not that its going to happen, but if anybody just happens to be interested, most of these have some anecdote, or more story involved that what I'm listing.

-Spent entire time playing Madden 2002
-Roommate got arrested, and police, or some other government officials searched my dorm room.
-Had a weird crush on somebody I don't think I need to mention on this public thing...
-Characteristic of my entier academic career, started out the school year with good grades and sort of faded away, maybe I'll start and finish strong next quarter.
-Went to an Alien Ant Farm concert and got beat up a lot, that was cool.

Uh... okay, well my mother needs the use of this computer now, so I'll relinquish it to her. More on college later.

Jeffrey Gaines - In Your Eyes

AHHHHH!!!!! Finals week. Ugh. Finally the whole procrastination thing has caught up to me. Oh well. No sleep for 24+ hours is a small price to pay for 3 weeks of doing absolutely nothing at home. Hopefully anyways. More later when I don't feel dizzy standing up. I've got 3 different papers to write, so I should get movin' on them.

John Williams - The Patriot

These last few days have been all screwed up. I think I've messed up my internal clock quite a bit, even more so than usual. Normally I'll get to bed around 3-4 AM, sometimes I'll stay up till 5 if I don't feel tired, but for sure before the sun rises. But yesterday I stayed up all night to finish an 8 page term paper for my political science class. The paper didn't turn out horrible, but it obviously needed improvement and I didn't sleep all night. I stayed up most of the day until the afternoon, and I fell asleep from like 3 or 4 o'clock till around 12 AM. And now I haven't slept. So basically here goes my plan. I plan to stay up till around 11 or 12 tonight and goto sleep when a normal person would sleep and wake up around 9 or 10, depending on how tired I am. Hopefully that'll get me back on track for correcting my sleep schedule. I certainly hope I'll be able to because next quarter, Monday, Wednesday and Friday I've got class at 9:10am. Horrible, I know, but the class seems very interesting.

It's been nearly 3 months into my college career and I've realized that the reason I haven't been posting is because I'm in a rut, intellectually anyways. All of my thoughts are nothing important, or worth posting anyways. Its not like I'm a boring person, well, not any more than usual, its just that college has allowed me to become lazier, and I haven't had to do much thinking. Classes here are pretty simple so far and all I do is hang around doing nothing and go to classes. Oh, and I can't forget the computer that I spend days at a time on.

I was watching the Drew Carey Show yesterday and I saw this episode where he and his girlfriend were going to tape themselves having sex. That whole concept of taping oneself having sex with his or her chosen partner is just very weird to me. Aren't you just asking for somebody to find it and watch it? For example, Pamela Anderson and company. Does watching oneslf have sex turn you and your chosen partner on? But then again, perhaps I should have a chosen partner before I can make that decision, huh? Perhaps I will post more ramblings later on.

Oh. And another thing. Just to check readership here, anybody want anything for XMas? ;)

UB40 - Red Red Wine