penguinpride

so i’m basically in the process of packing my life away. not really though…just the majority of my clothes.

i’ve been cleaning my room the past few days. and by “cleaning”, i mean purging most of the remnants of random things in my closets. they are almost bare right now, and it makes me kind of sad that i don’t really have things to put in them [without making them a total mess].

i have 3 boxes full of clothes so far…i think i’ll probably have 4 total when i’m done. i still have some laundry to do before i leave. and i have to pack my jeans.

i feel like people have so much more stuff than me for their dorm. i guess we’ll find out how much i’ve forgotten on Thursday.

i feel like so many people have texted me and IMed me, saying how i should hang out with them before i leave…but quite frankly, there’s literally no time. like right now, i could be hanging out with people. earlier i could have as well. but everyone waits till the last day to ask. my plans for tomorrow are as follows:
-wake up [i guess by 9:30 i should be good]
-do some laundry
-pack like no other
-maybe go to alex’s house and chill
-pick up alexis and krista from school and hang [also get a peak at the new science wing, and see my teachers for the last time until i leave]
-last supper with the family at fuji

Then Thursday, i guess we’ll do any LAST MINUTE packing [which i assume is like deodorant and toothbrush and stuff. we MIGHT go out to breakfast. i have to pick up my last check at safeway. then we're off to Towson...to get there AFTER 11 sometime. my roomate's getting there at 11, and i don't want to get there first [mainly i dont want to decide what side to sleep on lol]

This week I’ve tried to pack FULL of work. And I succeeded. I definitely am looking at some overtime pay in my next check – which is awesome. So Monday night I hung out with Andrew. We saw Tropic Thunder. Even though it wasn’t on my list, I still loved it. I wouldn’t consider it “epic” though because it doesn’t have enough memorable lines.  Although “Never go full retard” is pretty good. Also it’s been awhile since I’ve seen such a star-studded cast in a movie that was actually good.

So it’s been like a really long time since I posted. There’s been so much going on I don’t even know where to start. Let’s see…..I decided to go to school in Dallas. Actually, I left Maryland this morning with my family. School starts on Wednesday and I have very mixed feelings about this. Excited, nervous, and sad all at the same time. It was harder than I thought it would be to leave Maryland. I always have a hard time saying goodbye to people as is usual. Two friends specifically will be very missed…..

I am in Tennessee right now at a Best Western in what I think is Cookesville, Tennessee. Unfortunately, we got a very late start this morning so we got here very late….We were all ready to leave about 9:00 which was only about an hour off target time when my dad got called into work to do something which took about 2-1/2 hours so that was frustrating, but we did make it, and I guess it’s not too late. One thing I learned from all this traveling is that Virginia is way too big. We traveled for like 9 hours and only made it into Tennessee. A little bit disappointing, but there is nothing i can do about that.

Sorry if the pictures are not that great….They were taken with a cell phone. Tomorrow I think we will stay in Arkadelphia and then we will make it to Dallas on Tuesday…. So all in all I would say that this new chapter of my life has gotten off to a fairly good start.

wow, two posts in less than a day time period from Schweffy…i must be on a roll or something.

i got a text message while at work today from anna:
“Before the game we are getting all access passes and going down on the field and up to the press box plus our seats are sick i’ll show you where later :) :)”

anna and i have significantly “cooled things down” between each other…but it’s weird, we still talk a lot sometimes, still call each other babe, etc etc…i hope that we act the same in person as we did the last time we saw each other.

her dad is friends with  someone high up in the nationals program [screw it if i know what they do, but i believe they do something in the press box]. about a month ago, they invited me to the nationals game on September 19th [its a friday evening, and would be convenient for everyone]. that was ~*technically*~ right after we stopped whatever we had going on. i asked her a few weeks ago if she still wanted to go and she was like “yeah dude i’m totally excited for it, i actually talked to my dad about it today” etc etc.

but i can’t believe it…on the field. of nationals stadium. shit son. and in the press box…that souns amazing. i’ve only been to the new stadium once, and those seats were pretty sick as shit…i wonder what these ones are going to be like…

i’m also excited for that day, because anna’s going to head up to towson and get me. i can show her around campus, show her around a city that i am just getting the hang of, introduce her to new friends, and just feel all around comfortable [especially since my parents arent there to make her uncomfortable]. she also asked me to sleepover her dad’s house that night, so that should be tight…who knows maybe it’ll be like the date that we missed in July. and maybe i can introduce her to the love that is checkers.

i’m excited even though it is more than a month away…but it will go by so quickly.

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i just got an IM, showing me where our seats our.
Section 129…”i wasn’t too impressed by the seats” says anna…the best i’ve ever got lol. i have sat in 113 before, but 129 is pretty damn good…

I’ve been talking to this girl Kait I met on Facebook for a couple weeks,so naturally we decided it was time to meet in person. And since she doesn’t/can’t drive, it was clear who was going to be making the 3.5 hour drive! :D

So I make the massive drive, starting out at about 10:30 or so. Somehow, I don’t make it there until just before 3am. The directions tell me to turn on Casey Avenue, then take a left on East Northampton Street. I got to Casey Ave, and… there is no E Northampton St! So I frantically text Kait, asking for help.

No response.

So I decide to look up Northampton St using the internet on my phone. It seems simple enough: just find Main Street, then turn on Northampton St. Now, where is Main St?

I look for an hour. No Main Street.

I text Kait again. No response. This worries me… what if she fell asleep??

I find a street called Wilkes-Barre Blvd. I turn on this, figuring if I take any street north, I will find Main Street. This plan fails with the first two streets I tried becoming dead ends, but the third street did indeed take me to Main Street.

What kind of city has MAIN STREET so hard to find??!?!?!

Also, you would have to see it to believe it, but Wilkes-Barre is an amazingly sloppy city. Imagine a fun game of Pick-up Sticks. You drop all the sticks and they form a tangled pile on the floor. Well now imagine those sticks are roads and you basically have Wilkes-Barre.

I think I might have seen a total of one 90-degree angle intersection there. Also, they have a funny traffic pattern where one of the lanes MUST always turn left or right, and I kept ending up in that lane, despite the fact that I wanted to go straight.

So in any case, I’m driving on Main Street, and after defeating the town square by driving in the left lane, I located Northampton Street and turned left. Now I was on track!! So I looked at my directions: the next turn was Hillside Street. So I drove slowly up the street, looking for Hillside. Passing some more insane intersections, one of which being Wilkes-Barre Blvd, which means I could have avoided the entire Main Street debacle, I could not locate Hillside St! A few miles up the road, the houses suddenly stopped and were replaced by forest. I thought maybe Hillside St was a little further up, so I kept going. The road suddenly got very steep and going in a broad circle, and I realized I was driving over a mountain. Not gonna lie, I’m scared of driving over mountains. And I couldn’t turn around! The road was too narrow, and if this mountain was anything like Mt. McConnellsburg, one slip and you’d plunge down to your death. Plus it was dark (4:30am) and foggy so it was basically not fun. Somehow I made it to the top and turned around there, and made my way back down. Still no sign of Hillside St. I ended up going back to the very tiny and VERY difficult to use map on my phone and was looking for alternate routes when I accidentally found Hillside St. It was at a 45-degree angle bisecting the intersection already formed by Northampton and Empire Streets. And it was angled AWAY from the direction I was going, so I had to pass it, turn around, then turn on it.

After that, the last 2 streets were relatively simple. So I found Kait’s house… all dark. And there was nowhere to park. So I drove BACK down to Wilkes-Barre Blvd and parked in the McDonald’s parking lot. There, I fell asleep. It was 5am.

At about 9am I woke up — with about 10 text messages. All were from Kait. Apparently she had woken up at 5:10 or so and realized she had left me all alone. She ran outside looking for a beige car with Maryland plates… she couldn’t find one. Apparently then she thought I might me dead, and sent such text messages as “AARON PLEASE” to me in a panic. When I woke up I texted her back…then fell back asleep.

At 10am I woke up again and drove up to Kait’s. I got out of my car and she looked exactly how I thought she would. She was sitting outside waiting for me. So we talked awhile, explored the empty house next door to hers which a guy was in the process of remodeling until he dropped dead, and found out that I’m not really a guy. Then we went to Red Robin, where I’ve been DYING to go and try their 5-alarm burger. I did–and it was GREAT. I told Kait she should try it but she had to be a woman and get salad. (The next day she got sick due to her incorrect choice.)

Sadly I had to leave after that. I wish I could’ve stayed longer but I had to get home. It’s a good thing I left before I got even more tired. Because as soon as I got back I collapsed into bed and fell asleep in minutes. :)

i think ramen is one of my comfort foods. i’m eating it right now…to try to calm down.
i feel like i’m starting to get cold feet for college…with 13 days left.

every day that gets closer, it feels more and more of a reality…and i wonder, can i handle this shit?
i realize that people have to grow up…and i’m probably being a baby because my college is only 45 minutes away from my house. but i dont see it like that. i’ve lived in this house for 18 years. my biggest move was from bowie [5 minutes away] to crofton when i was 1, and too young to even remember our old town house. i’ve gone to the same schools, and have known the same people all of my life.
but now everyone’s leaving…well some people are staying…but that’s not the point.
people are going to move on…get better lives, get new friends. they say that your college friends are usually your friends for life, and you get closer to them more than your high school friends. i like my friends just fine now though. **shrug**

i was talking to byron on the phone one night [he called and my dad told me to answer the phone], and the things he said made me kind of upset. he was like “after you leave for college, your house isn’t going to be your home anymore…you’ll be a visitor from now on.” saying that is probably one of the biggest things you can say to me that sets in the reality of that. it set in even more when my parents told me that when i left, they might paint and rearrange my room. that made me dumbfounded. its my room, and they’re just going to take my stuff and move it around to their liking.

i started going dorm shopping with my mom the other day. it’s kind of an overwhelming and daunting experience…i didnt even know where to start. i feel like the majority of the stuff that these stores are selling are useless. and crap. we walked around both target and walmart…walmarts selection was disappointing…even though it IS walmart, and we didn’t have very high expectations to begin with. we ended up buying some towels and detergent. that’s how far i’ve gotten with my dorm shopping. freaking towels and laundry detergent. no i lie…we also bought a box of tampons. lol.

we decided to get sheets and a comforter and stuff from the catalog that towson sent us…they had a much wider variety of twin xl sheets than the places that we went to, and i actually liked some of the stuff, so that’s out of the way as well.

i dont even know what else i have to buy…a lamp, for sure. things i need for the bathroom, make sure i have shampoo and soap and toothpaste stuff like that. i feel like i’m being a minimalist…either that, or i’m just not thinking enough. oh well…i’ll probaly remember when i get on campus…which is good. lol. because the first night that we move in, a bus will come and take students that want to go, out to target to finish shopping and to get things they might’ve forgotten. i think thats cool, only towson students roaming target after closing time.

the countdown continues. anticipation and fear have played their parts…and i’m sure they will both continue to play their parts. i have a lot to do in the time that i have left. i started cleaning a month or so ago…haven’t gotten far at all. i’ll probably end up going through my closets and just throwing massive amounts of shit away. because truthfully, i have so much shit i don’t use. my family is filled with packrats. my parents are weird and go through all the trash that i throw away, and keep the stuff that they “could, maybe use”, or “could, maybe donate to goodwill”…in the meanwhile, we have piles upon piles of clothes, toys, etc etc in our basement, with years of neglectment. i’ll take things into my own hands now. i WILL have my room cleaned before i go away.

July was a pretty awesome month.

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*August stats are for August 1-11, 2008

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As for how each site in the network competed against each other, check it out:

That’s my horoscope for today. It sounds rather cryptic and mysterious. But I guess it could be true… I mean, I couldn’t possibly know about it if nobody’s talking to me!

For the record, I’m happy that Schweffy has decided to continue blogging here. I’m thinking we’re going to be like phone acquaintances, for a while anyway. Maybe one day we’ll become friends again, but I don’t think that time is now… perhaps it’s best if we just take a break from each other, seeing as how we fight all the time. But as phone-acquaintances, we won’t have the opportunity to fight! I definitely hope that someday we’ll be friends again, though. Maybe if we ease back into each other, things will work out.

O. I just came back from the beach. I went with Andrew Lewis and Damien Sautter, the former of whom is a leprechaun, and the latter an extraordinarily attractive man (no homo). So yeah, there was a lot of beach walking (but not much swimming), some volleyball, sharkhunting, a rather interesting game known as “Samurai 1″ which is basically hide-and-seek in a city (gotta love parking garages and hotel staircases!!) where the hider is actually waiting in ambush for the seekers… well it’s complicated kind of. But VERY fun (I reckoned it would come down to this, Hank). Also we picked up two girls, unfortunately they were whores. Plus one was 14. Ah well it was fun without them :)

So on Twitter yesterday, I compiled my list of Movies I Simply Must See:

1. Pineapple Express saw it 8/13
2. The Dark Knight (that’s right, I still haven’t seen it)
3. The Mummy
4. Step Brothers
5. Mirrors (comes out 8/17)
6. Lakeview Terrace (comes out 9/17)

After seeing Pineapple Express, I concluded that it was an awesome movie. For my full review on the movie click here.

So yeah that’s whats been up with me lately.

“6. I miss you. I need you back in my life. We had the best connection. I’m pretty sure that we’re destined to be really good friends.”

i know that one relates to me.
i read that and started crying. because it shows that people do want me in their life. believe me, i go by thinking that people don’t want/need me, and are just trying to be nice. but she didn’t KNOW that i’d read this.

the sad part is, i never really “missed” her. don’t get me wrong, i love talking to her, i have to admit she is one of my best friends, even though i haven’t known her for as long as i’ve known other people. i just don’t “need” her, per say, like i feel i need other people. who knows, maybe in time we’ll be great and have no drama. but that’s one of the main problems with us, is the drama factor.

XIX “The Purple Mix” – 8/8/08

1. Beyonce – Forever to Bleed
2. Rihanna – Disturbia
3. Crazy Loop – Johanna (Shut Up)
4. Frou Frou – Let Go
5. Coldplay – Viva La Vida
6. Mr. J Medeiros – Constance
7. Grand Funk Railroad – We’re An American Band
8. Wylde Bunch – She’s Nuts
9. Crazy Loop – Crazy Loop (mm ma ma)
10. The Police – Message in a Bottle
11. Bang Camaro – Push Push (Lady Lightning)
12. Murray Head – One Night in Bangkok
13. Blue Oyster Cult – Joan Crawford
14. Blue Oyster Cult – Harvest Moon
15. Justin Timberlake – Cry Me a River
16. Alien – Brave New Love
17. Chris Knox – It’s Love
18. Epik High – One