my day so far:

7:15a: wake up, get ready, go to school.

8:00a-1:50p: school. pretty boring. although my second class is usually pretty fun because the professor is both smart and amusing, and i sit in the back with a friend of mine who cracks me up sometimes (today being one of those times). our professor said something in jest about throwing a pen at a student, and perfectly synchronized, she and i both ducked our heads as if avoiding a thrown pen. it wouldn’t have been nearly as funny if we didn’t both wait approximately the time it would take a pen to fly across the room and then duck our heads at exactly the same time. pretty amusing.

2:00p: skate into driveway at home after class.

2:10p: pull out of driveway.

2:35p: pull into best buy, go in, look on shelf. no copies of vice city. fuck. turn around to store employee at info desk and see that he is standing next to a plastic crate up to his knee full of copies of the game i was looking for, selling them one by one to a line of four or so guys who came in before me. at this point i think to myself, “i’m glad they knew we were coming.” we being the line of nerdy guys who rush to buy certain highly anticipated video games on the tuesday they are released.

2:40p: pay 43.29 for hours of carnage to come. go sale prices. leave very happy. several people show up in line right behind me for the same game. i start wishing i owned stock in rockstar games.

3:00p: pull into driveway, grab root beer, unwrap and play game. kill people with chainsaw, bludgeon people with 5-iron, flip golf cart, crash motorcycles, listen to killer 80’s music while speeding through virtual streets…smile a lot.

5:15p: break for 20 minutes to walk to gas station and eat a few corn dogs. return to game. smile more.

6:05p: remember i wanted to watch simpsons while i check email and brag on blog about how great this game is even if doing so makes me sound like some sort of “gamer” tool. umm, watch me try to care….wait, i just can’t.

6:45p: get tired of typing. decide it’s time to grab a heineken and head back to vice city. outstanding.

(this part is merely a prediction at this point):

6:45-11:00p play video games until the daily show comes on, interrupted by a few short pauses where i think i should do homework but decide that it can wait until later. or tomorrow. or thursday…

11:30p finish watching tv and decide to read or something before i fall asleep having thoroughly tired out my eyes by staring at a screen all night. go to bed well aware that this will probably be the best day i’ve had out of the last 10. feel perfectly okay with that and sleep well.

[now hearing this: umm, more spoon. i can’t seem to remove this disc from my player. of course i don’t think i’ve tried yet.]