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20
Apr 08

La Zona Rosa, Cloverjam, et al.

Yesterday was busy day for me. Saturday’s are usually spent tending to sleep, rest, and maybe some yard work. This Saturday was a little different because I have the day-from-hell coming up at school and needed to get a lot of research and paperwork done. I spent several hours working on research and got a couple of pages written and decided that I needed to go out and enjoy myself.

Cloverjam was happening that night so I assumed Erika and I would go to that, but before it started Lindsey called Erika and said she and Bo and the George’s were going to eat a La Zona Rosa before going to the block party.

Ok, so I don’t really feel like reviewing the whole evening so let me give you the run-down. We ate Mexican food at La Zona Rosa, went to have drinks at Sinclair’s during cloverjam and then just walked around meeting people, talking to old friends, and meeting up with others.

The entire evening ended with Erika and I walking home with Emily and Trey. We stopped in the park and talked for a while before going our separate ways and calling it a night.

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27
Jan 08

The Weekend of Pride and Justice, I don’t know why I name these things sometimes

It isn’t often that the weekend plate is filled with a variety of different options from which to choose. The problem with these decisions is there are so many good ones that it becomes hard to pick. The real problem isn’t in which ones you choose to do, but in how many of them you think you can handle in one day. Here’s the dirt…

Earlier in the day on Saturday, my friend Bo was having some folks over to play some video games and have fun while his wife was working. We went and played some games, watched the TV a bit, but mostly it was to hang out and have fun. A few hours later, we decided to go to tomatino’s and have dinner. Delicious by the way, and if you haven’t been to Tomatino’s you must go, easily the best Pizza in Montgomery, but probably the best pizza in the state.

After eating, my friend seth was having a going away party. Erika and I went there, to our old place The Carriage House. It was a good time. I got to talk to people I haven’t seen in months. But you know exactly what happens when you go to places like this. You start drinking, then there are people that show up, and you don’t want to talk with them. But did you know this? Nobody else wants to talk to them either. The only people who want to talk with them are them. As strange as it sounds, it is true, they just want to hear themselves talk. Annoying.

It was a good time, and I am glad I went, and before I go, I want to wish Seth and Chrystal a safe and happy travel to their new home in Nashville.

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7
Oct 07

Blue frosting causes stained teeth, Florida loss

I think I mentioned this in my last update, but after tomorrow, the majority of my semester will be completed. I have just gone through what can only be described as collegiate hell to have a much happier time this year. In the last 7 weeks, I have completed 3 college courses. I have one class left after all of these, and even though it is an upper level economics class, it will be a cake walk. (I am not going to mention outside of the confounds of a paragraph that I happen to love economics.) Here is to the next 8 weeks of a much more relaxed school semester.

Outside of school, let’s talk about football and friends. Auburn kicked some Vandy ass this weekend. I say that in a loving manner. I love of Auburn. I am a jackass when it comes to my teams. So even though Auburn is winning, I always have Cincinnati to keep me down. Good thing they have a bye week. I guess this just means i will have to rely on Green Bay to give me my NFL jovials this Sunday as they play Chicago. I mean, really, who am I kidding? Green Bay should win this game, Chicago as been playing poorly all season and the Packers are undefeated right now at 4-0.

So Auburn won, and our friend Melissa invited Erika and I to watch the Florida – LSU game at her place. Bo, Lindsey, Trey, Emily, and of course Scott were all there. I was hoping Florida won, no matter how much I hate every team from that state. LSU is undefeated and with that in mind, I needed Florida, a team from the SEC, to beat LSU so Auburn looked a little better. It didn’t happen.

The fun part of the evening, besides the fantastic pizza Melissa and Scott got from Tomitino’s, was seeing Emily, Bo, and Scott eat these cupcakes covered in blue frosting. They were staining the inside of their mouths, and better yet, anywhere the blue frosting touched. Lips, teeth, fingers, all turned to a smurfy blue once touched by the over-sugared frosting.

The blue frosting caused more than just stained teeth, it caused quite a bit of ruckus as everyone was either conserned they would have all of their teeth rot out, or just become a vampire, as the picture of emily below shows. BoBlueTeethEven though Bo’s picture here is a little blurry (Ok, a lot blurry) it show how much blue was really on their teeth.

Erika and I left just before midnight. They started watching Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. I think we left during the freakshow scene. That finished off the evening for us, and brings me to today.
Of course, this post as come out as more of a stream of conscience for me. I have already talked about today, but what I didn’t mention is that I took a test online today. It didn’t go as well as I wanted, but I have the opportunity to take the test again over the next couple of days. Emily is a VampireAlright, I am hoping these updates will come more often now that I am done with the majority of the my classes. Oh, and wish me luck on my final tomorrow, it is on financial management. I have told most of you how I feel about any kind of finance class. Crazy math. Let me do calculus, statistics, or geometry any day, but any kind of math that involves balance sheets, income statements, and worst of all, any kind of depreciation time lines or tables, and I just don’t understand it. I get economics and I understand finance, but accounting is something totally different. Anyway, I think what I am trying to say is I need all the luck I can get because the final is much more accounting heavy.

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30
Sep 07

“So, I am in Montgomery and I drive a Geo Prism…”

I have been drowned in school work for the last five weeks. I haven’t done much on the updating front unless it happened to fall into the 140 characters or less realm of twitter. Drowning in SchoolworkThose aren’t real updates. They are notifications. They are blurbs about what I am thinking, or what I have done. They have no emotion. They have no inner thought.

I look at these updates as more of a manifestation of my inner thinking, my feelings, and generally the thought I had leading up to making the large post. Sometimes, no matter how busy one may be, writing out these things comes out of the necessity to get things off their mind. This is one of those times.

I want to preface the remaining paragraphs of this post by saying I am fine. There is nothing wrong with me. No doomed sense of security. There are no LiveJournal drama cases that I wish to emo out. Call me crazy. I just wanted to write.

I had some things I wanted to share, but I don’t feel like pulling them all together right now. I might save this as a draft and put those items in this post later, but then again, maybe I will just update instead. I may never publish if I put it in a draft…

Ok, so that paragraph above, I ended up saving it as a draft, and guess what? It is three days later and I am just now picking this up to finish where I left off. I know myself a little too well. In fact, I scare myself with how lazy I can be in the update realm. It isn’t important really.

I think I meant this update to be about me. What have I been doing? Well, let’s do the 4 week catch up.

I have, of course, been swamped in school work. I occasionally come up for air and breath, see my friends, and before I get to have a ton of fun, I am back at it again. I have been generally sleeping about 4 to maybe 5 hours a night during the week. I try to do much more than that on the weekends.

Last week I went to Perdido Bay. It was a group of friends, invited to stay at one of their family’s homes. Pirate's CoveVery nice. It took place during the middle of a tropical depression, but the weather didn’t hinder out ability to have fun. Auburn won their game that night, and Alabama lost theirs. The games were a bit of a highlight for me, but cooking and hanging out with friends that I don’t normally spend that much time around was also appealing. Emily, Trey, thank you for having us down there. Bo, Lindsay, Melissa, Scott, Chris, thank you for the great time.

I came back from that trip to a lot of work I needed to finish. I had two papers and two presentations that week. The irony of all this is that was just the tip of the iceberg. As much as I would love to elaborate, I will save all of those taking their incredibly precious time and not. Plus, the less said, the more spoken. At least it sounded good at the time.

Friday I met up with Lisa. She and I are working on a presentation for a Global Trade and Finance class. We are doing on U.S. sanctions in Myanmar (Burma). I got to catch up with what she has been doing over the last 6 years. Apparently, it was quite a bit of moving around the country. Now comes the title line. “So I am in Montgomery, and I drive a Geo Prism.” Beautifully put.

Auburn Wins with a FieldGoalThis weekend was fun for the most part. Bret and Mike came over yesterday to watch the Alabama game. They lost. It wasn’t as big a disappointment for Bret as I assumed it would be. After that game, Auburn came on. It was refreshing to see a game so invigorating.  I don’t even know if that last sentence made sense. Regardless, that game was fun. The first half was amazing. The second half brought the fear of another loss. But in the end, it all worked out. Thank you Auburn for winning a game few thought you would win, including me.

After the game, Colette came over, Bret and Mike left, and Seth and Crystal came over. In that order. We ended up going to 1048 to see the Moonshine Cherry Band. Yet another good gig for them.

I had a lot of fun. Now I must complete the work for all of the classes that I have ending this week. Three of my four classes are coming to an end this week. I will be back to myself again soon. Then Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year’s will come and go, and I will be back at it again.