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[Jul. 2nd, 2008|09:03 am] |
I am going to not drink from July 1st (Canada Day) until January 1st (New Years Day). I've been talking about quitting drinking for awhile. It just doesn't financially make sense. In the past people have been discouraging. Either they want people to drink with them, they discourage you from trying or when you're hanging out they act like your judging them.
I think drinking is fine. It's a fun social activity but there are other things I want to spend my money on. So I am setting this goal of six months and at the end I am going to try to put out a seven inch record for a friend. At the lease I spend 20 dollars a week. That's over 80 dollars a month. At the lease I'll have saved 500 dollars which more than half the cost. If we never sold a copy it wouldn't hurt me because would all be money that I would have drank.
I am posting this so you can hold me to it.
Plus I want to stop drinking to lose weight. |
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[Jul. 1st, 2008|04:54 pm] |
I was sitting on a concrete wall in the parking lot of an abandon fast food joint when a hillbilly looking man pulled up in a dusty beat up car. I thought he was going to tell me I wasn't aloud to be there. At first I couldn't understand what he was saying. I asked him to repeat himself twice. I finally understood what he was saying.
"Do you want a blowjob?"
Of course my midwestern manners kicked in.
"No thank you."
Then he tried again.
"What if I paid you?"
I said no thanks again and he gave me a thumbs up and drove off.
I walked across the street to the Grand Coney to meet up with Scott and Edwin. When I told them they didn't seem to think was as strange as I did. Edwin only said, "He probably thought you were gay." and Scott said, "Why didn't you ask how much. I would be curious." We went in to eat and it was never mentioned again. |
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[Jun. 21st, 2008|10:54 am] |
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Introductions are a necessary awkwardness. Yesterday when I was at Katie's brother's cookout there were a lot of people that had not met each other so there was a rapid series of names and handshakes. One time I introduced myself to a man who had the same first name. I said, "Hello. Chris." and he must have thought I said, "Hello Chris." He replied, "That's right... We already met." For a minute I thought we had. |
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[Jun. 15th, 2008|08:09 am] |
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I've been in the dumps lately. Nothing too terrible has happened but a series of events has added up into a big stomach ache. It's mostly anxiety.
I've been trying to cheer myself by going to the Merriam-Webster website to listen to the proper pronunciation of inappropriate words. Even that's not working.
The think the problem is that the Merriam-Webster website doesn't give the pronunciation of conjunctions. At least not for the words I want to hear. If I could hear the computer say, "shit balls" I would be fine. |
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| AIM |
[Jun. 13th, 2008|06:01 pm] |
Me: We could make a pizza!
Todd: i need pizza gratification now i'm afraid |
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[Jun. 13th, 2008|11:39 am] |
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Yesterday my brother told me that his wife will be having a baby girl in October. How exciting! This will be their first baby. |
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[Jun. 10th, 2008|12:50 pm] |
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Our landlord is showing our apartment to potential new tenants. Chad and I should have planned ahead. All we did was clean but we could have done so much more. One suggestion was having are friends come over, were all black and sit in every seat. They would not say a word and we would not acknowledge them unless we were asked. I am not sure what we would say. We would be dress how dressed how we normally are. |
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[Jun. 4th, 2008|04:59 pm] |
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It looks like we're moving out at the end of August. Sam is going to grad school in July and Chad wants to buy a house. If anyone is looking for a roommate to find a place or is renting out a room let me know. |
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[Jun. 3rd, 2008|08:50 pm] |
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"It's this girl I met at the accounting conference..." |
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| napping |
[Jun. 3rd, 2008|03:54 pm] |
I am emotionally tough cookie but there is something about waking up after a nap that makes me feel despair.
If you have ever talked to me about about dreams I've told you that my dreams are practical and boring. I'm either fixing a sandwich or paying some bills on line. I didn't have a dream like that during today's nap. In my dream I was having all you can eat chicken wings. The chicken wings were served with chinese food which you were not aloud to eat. And you were only allowed to eat as many chicken wings as glasses of beer you drank.
I didn't want to drink anymore beer but I did want to eat more chicken wings. So I would take the chicken wings out of the chinese food and go to the bathroom. While some guy was peeing all over the floor, I shoved them in my mouth.
After waking up from this dream I felt depressed for ten minutes. I have to clue what this could have meant. |
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[Jun. 3rd, 2008|11:12 am] |
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When I was Walking down Fuller, I heard a white guy tell his older girlfriend, "I was doing straight shots and chasing it with Mad Dog." |
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| Over heard in Grand Rapids |
[Jun. 2nd, 2008|07:42 am] |
In front of Skellitones, the Christians punks rock coffee shop, were teens hang out.
"You should have punched me. It would have made you feel better." |
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[May. 30th, 2008|04:47 pm] |
My mom wrote me to tell me she doesn't have cancer. Two years ago she had ovarian cancer.
"They called and told me the MRI followup (that I had last Friday) came back okay so that's a relief."
If you haven't done so lately you should probably give your parents a call and let them know you love them. And maybe not just your parents. Some times we forget to do that.
Also you should quit smoking too. I know, hypocritical but true. |
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[May. 30th, 2008|03:38 pm] |
This may not be great video but it's still one of my favorites. The song is done by one my favorite band (the Ramones) and it's written by one of my favorite song writers (Tom Waits). As a little bonus the video features artwork by my favorite cartoonist Dan Clowes.
I Don't Want to Grow Up was the first song I ever heard by the Ramones. It was off their 1995 album Adios Amigos, the Ramones last album. Don't be fooled by all the Ramones t-shirts you may see, while they together they had never mainstream success. Even during the hight of "alternative rock" when Green Day was selling millions of records. Adios Amigos was the Ramones saying good bye because they were coming to terms that they would never be as popular as the bands they inspired even after playing together for 20 years.
In 2001 Joey would die from lymphoma, in 2002 Dee Dee died from a heroin overdose and in 2004 Johnny would die from prostate cancer. |
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[May. 29th, 2008|02:50 pm] |
I found this interesting primer on screen printing. The first five minute is very basic but the last minute is used to tell you how to do things that i would never thought to ask about.
Also, I checked out the site that made this video and it's pretty cool. Maybe you already know about it. It's www.makezine.com |
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[May. 2nd, 2008|01:25 pm] |
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[Apr. 29th, 2008|06:16 pm] |
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[Apr. 27th, 2008|10:28 am] |
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Chad's alarm has been going off almost half an hour. It's 10:28AM. I think I am going to... the alarm just went off! Never mind. |
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[Apr. 1st, 2008|04:40 pm] |
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I went to the library to check out Michael Chabon's "the Yiddish Policemen's Union." Marianne was working so after finding my book I stopped by the reference desk to say hello. I ask her if the Grand Rapids library had any books about birds that are big enough to carry babies away. We discussed this for a bit then another librarian told us to look up this video: |
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[Mar. 27th, 2008|07:25 pm] |
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Last night I went to see Joe Sacco speak at the UICA. I surprised to see so many people. Even though there was a lot of people there the only person I knew was George. After word we went bowling. |
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