Author: briancollapsing

the overexposure in the little picture of me on the right was bugging me, so i replaced it. now you can see what my chin looks like. lucky you.

is it conceited or vain to have a picture of myself up at all? i wonder about that. but i feel like it makes sense to give you some idea of the face to put with the ideas, so that i’m not just some abstract entity whose voice you’re hearing/reading, but a real person you can imagine talking to. i don’t know. i just don’t want anyone to think i’m showing myself off. it’s really so that on the off chance anyone reads this and sees me afterward, they can point and laugh at the right person.

i do wonder what people think about this though, so if you have an opinion please share it.

we just played some informal soccer with a group of seven. it was fun but i realized that i’m not very good or in very good shape. i can run alright as long as i only have to run across a street, for example. or maybe down a hallway. running all over the place for an hour playing soccer is something i’m in no condition to do. i liked my prior definition of “in shape” as “not flabby”. that i can live up to. running takes all this work.

can’t say anything on the agenda for tonight will likely be what i really wish i was doing. but i can’t say what that is either because it wouldn’t help anything.

i’m kinda dirty and am going to shower before i feast on toaster oven chicken nuggets. party on folks.

lots of folks have been stopping by here lately i see. must keep up the good work.

last night i went out to eat with a handful of kiddies to ed debevics…the gimmick wears thin, sure, but it’s pretty cheap and they have the most excellent chicken fingers. and free refills on vanilla coke to boot, which if i were a deity of some sort would be the the official flavor of ambrosia. oh man, i wish i could hold more liquid in my slim little body just so i could drink 8 glasses of vanilla coke over the course of a meal. yum yum.

so that was a nice start to the evening which ended up going nowhere. the rest of the night consisted of three of us either playing grand theft auto or watching someone else play, while josh, dom and i just sat around and “shot the shit”, as they say. it would have been one of those nights that makes you kind of look at yourself and wonder why you don’t have more of a life, except that hanging out with those guys is never a sad thing even when it should be. they’re just too great. i could probably never make another great friend in my life, but if i had these guys around that i have now, i think i’d be pretty set. so the night that was boring on the surface was actually fine by me.

too bad dom and my roommate mike are both leaving next semester along with the coolest girl i’ve met here and probably ever will. but we try not to think about that, or let it dampen the fun of this last week before they take off not to be seen until next summer. it’s just not a cheerful thing to think about.

i almost forgot! this is exciting–i preordered my copy of rejected from bitterfilms.com. this is the coolest animated short ever and i think it’s worth the twenty bucks to own it on dvd. i’m really excited and will probably have a public showing of it sometime soon after it comes… i want everyone to appreciate the fine work of art that is stick figure animation at its finest.

if you have 20 extra bucks lying around or want to get someone a great random but cool gift (that may not necessarily arrive before christmas), i recommend this to anyone.

so i didn’t make it right back here to blog when class was over. why don’t you cry about it.

or you can smile at these nice thoughts here. on the way to class this morning i was skating along the wide sidewalk that runs toward campus alongside one of the big apartment complexes. walking toward me was a large group of pre-schoolers in matching yellow shirts, holding hands in buddy system fashion, led by a few teachers. i heard some of the kids from a ways off say something about a skateboard, and then when i got closer, at least two thirds of this group of cute, cute little kids all started waving and smiling at me, saying “hiiiiiiiiiiii”, like little kids do. so it must have been at least 20 cute little faces looking at me being totally innocent and friendly. how could you not smile and feel good at something like that? i waved back and said hi to all of them with a whopping big grin, let me tell you.

and class is done with (nice), and i blew off work this afternoon (score), which i justified by the fact that they’re making me work 7 hours during finals week (burn). but at least it’s the weekend (sweet) and i don’t have any work i need to start doing until monday afternoon (tight) and i get to go see what should be a fantastic saves the day/ hey mercedes concert on wednesday (rock). so i’m feeling pretty good right now.

plus i just finished wrapping all but one of the christmas presents i bought for my friends (one is still in transit via mail), and i just set them out around our shiny little tree. wrapping presents made me feel all happy and generous and holiday spirited too. so today is just smile after smile. nice change of pace.

just try not to think about how good your ex-girlfriend looked today and you’ll be fine, champ. haha.

first off, good morning world.

second up, i’m off to my last class of the year.

third at bat, it’s friday and i’m in a great mood.

and in fourth place, thank you for visiting.

ps–i’ll be back in an hour with more to say and in an even better mood because i’m done with classes until 2002.

i’m not sure if kate is making fun of me or not. you tell me.

but i’m not arrogant, i swear.

what a day. after today, i only have an hour in the classroom besides exams. this makes me a happy fella. plus today i got free lunch at work. that’s right, library christmas party. i know it sounds like more excitement than i’m known to partake in, but i went out on a limb today and dove in. it was good thinking though because our boss is very grandma-like. at times this can be bothersome, but today it was grand because she brought a TON of good food. mmm. plus i met and talked to another girl at work who was pretty rad. she has a skateboard and was wearing a studded belt and shoes with flames on them. that was fun because i think she liked me.

also, we turned in our finished magazine for visual culture today. it turned out really “dope”. haha. i said dope. the finished product was pretty impressive, actually. in my opinion anyway. i think my article was the best looking/best written too, although i can understand cause the other guys spent more time on doing ads and putting together the video for our presentation. want to see my contribution? this one’s for my mom: page one, page two, and page three.

disclaimer: i don’t really like maxim that much, but my group chose it and i did what i can to make an article. that’s also why the writing isn’t very good–i had to try to approximate their writing. that’s the only reason, honest. but all the charts and graphics (just not the pictures) are mine, so at least i did a good job of creating something that looked like the real thing, sort of.

i realized a couple things in the shower this morning.

one, when you’re in our shower, you can hear whether or not the shower is running in the apartment directly below us, since this is your average grid-like apartment building and their shower is right beneath ours. and the apartment below us is occupied by four girls. so that means if i get in the shower and hear water running in the pipes already, that means there’s a naked girl standing directly below me. how ’bout that.

two, my roommate and i were driving back to the pad from getting jack in the box drive through last night, along the greek row, and there were a bunch of girls going from sorority house to sorority house looking at the decorations (they all dolled their houses up real nice for the season…much more appropriate than t-shirt wearing carollers). some of them were wearing santa hats and stuff too. i just realized this morning that if i had leaned out the window and yelled “HO HO HO” at all the sorority girls, i would have been really funny. (that is not a typo. i didn’t mean ‘it’ would have been funny. i would be. that’s right, me.)

oh, and i just realized thing number three, even though i’m not in the shower: i’m late for work.

the worst feeling there is–even if that feeling is unfounded and mostly unreasonable, in which case you still can’t always keep it from cutting you apart–is the feeling of being replaced. like a punch in the gut. sudden and painful and not easy to recover from.

sleep it off, tiger.