So I ended up quitting the Boys Down the Hall last night. There had been many issues leading up to that point, but last night was the final straw. We auditioned off the solo for Prayin' For Daylight, a song that had a lot of sentimental value to me and I desperately wanted. We auditioned it off and they gave it to Bryan. He sucked, I sounded so much better than him, it's ridiculous! Jeremy auditioned too, but they didn't give it to him because we needed him on tenor I. I wasn't very good when I auditioned, but that was because Scott had Frank play me the first chord for reference, and the chord was WRONG, completely screwing me up.

I got so pissed off. This was the only solo I cared about. I've auditioned for every solo we have so far and haven't been able to get one. I wanted this one so bad, and I couldn't get it. The group members are terrible at choosing soloists. Scott to this day still doesn't know the words to One, when I know them all by heart.

The whole group plays favorites and it's all every man for himself. Scott and Jeremy run the damn group and undermine me at every step. I even asked some of the group members the other day if they thought I was being a good president. They told me no, it seemed like I didn't have any power, it was all Scott and Jeremy.

I was sick of babysitting everyone. I made sure everyone was always at rehearsal and tracked everyone down. I was sick of people making up excuses why other things were more important than rehearsal.

It always seemed as though no one cared about the group. Everyone had other things they cared more for.

Last night I just finally snapped. All this trouble is not worth the stress. All this work isn't worth performing a couple of times. It just isn't fun to me anymore. When I first joined BDtH I anticipated something like when I first saw them sing during accepted student's day (Prayin' For Daylight). The group I joined was not even close. I tried my hardest to get the group back to that point, but I'm sick of my efforts going unnoticed.

So I quit.

I've been having major economic problems and for once, it's not my fault. My boss for CTS forgot to file my timesheet so I didn't get paid last Thursday. This has been causing all sorts of problems for me such as not being able to pay the insurance money to my dad, my account went negative and I was charged $50 for it and I don't know if i'm goign to be able to pay my credit card bill in time which would in turn charge me even more!!! I'm trying to get ahold of the person who is supposed to be giving me a check but she isn't responding and I'm trying to get ahold of Denise at Bank of America to remove the charges because they aren't my fault. Unfortunetly I'm in class right now so I can't do anything!


And to make matters worse, Chris locked me out of the room this morning when I went to go take a shower and didn't take his cell phone with him. I was late to class and didn't get a chance to eat breakfast because of the douchebag (and this time it's not a nickname!) I had to get Spencer to get me a lock-out key.

I have two more projects I have to get done this semester in addition to all of my finals. An essay for ENG and a statistical project for MAT. 

I just want this semester to end! I don't particularly want to go home, I just don't want to work anymore! I wish I could go from today to Christmas back to January 21st.

Oh and before my parents start getting mad at me not wanting to go home it's because of the condition of my room, not you them. I don't feel like going back to that dusty, moldy, horrible place to be. I can't breathe there and it's just miserable.


AHHHHHHH!!!

So I have way too much to get done for the next two weeks. My ISC professor just assigned a 5 page research paper due next Thurs (12/11) and on the same day gave us ANOTHER assignment to be done by tomorrow. ALSO, I have to do an assignment for Math in which I have to do a statistical study on people and that's due the last day of class (12/12). There is also going to be another essay for English before the end of class, but she hasn't assigned it yet.

Chris was complaining about all the projects he has to do instead of finals, well I have to do all these projects AND I have finals in every class! I don't know how I'm going to make it to Christmas!!

AHHH!!!!!

Oh and I'm working in the Snygg lab right now and it's crazy busy. There is only one printer and there is about 10 or so people standing around it trying to get their papers. It's kind of funny watching people scramble through stacks of paper and getting angry about it. I'm just sitting here typing away lol.

Sigh...and my Ambie is very very sick. Everyone wish that she gets well soon!!


It'll be a miracle if I make it to Christmas without killing myself!

Wow, the lab is busy today! People rushing to get their end of semester projects printed. I feel more like a Printing Assistant today rather than a Computer Lab Assistant!

Thanksgiving weekend went ok. I'm really starting to hate my bedroom though. For all the positive aspects of being at home, the condition of my room takes away three. First off, it's dusty and moldy which drives my asthma insane, I wasn't able to take a full breath all weekend long. Also, because of how dry the air is, I wake up every morning with a totally dry mouth, tongue, and lips. Sorry Mom and Dad but I'm beginning to hate coming back home! :)

Amber made a tofu turkey which I really enjoyed, but she didn't like too much it seems. The whole nation got Rick Rolled during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade which was really funny.

Black Friday at Walmart was crazy. People running everywhere grabbing things. I'm glad I was behind the register and not acting as crowd control! Some TVs actually got broken in all the madness. People really will do anything to get a deal...sheesh.

I spent the rest of my Friday with Amber and her Mom installing my new car stereo. My old radio was shot, so Amber gave me the stereo that Dusty gave her to save for when she got her own car. The parts to install the thing cost me quite a bit, but I finally have a working radio again, and a CD player too!

On Saturday we went to visit Uncle Dan and Aunt Tracey to surprise Grandma Akers for her birthday in Morrisville. I was so happy to see them for the first time in YEARS! My cousins Max and Clare (although I'm sure they didn't remember us) seemed glad to see us as well.

Nothing important happened yesterday, all I did was spend the whole day packing and getting ready to come back here. Amber and I watched The House Bunny after we got everything done and put away.

This morning my first class was canceled. I was glad to get the e-mail last night about it. I only have 5 more ENG 220 and MAT 158 classes left and 4 MET 100, ISC 220, and CSC 120.

I've got a math test Wednesday. It's the last test before the final and if I don't do well (not GREAT, just OK) on it I might not get the minimum C+ to pass the class. I REALLY don't want to take this course again. I have to study tomorrow, just refresh my memory on this stuff. I understand a lot of it in class, but I never retain the information when I leave. As soon as I walk out of that classroom, I forget about everything. Sigh...

Well that's about everything....

23 Days Until Christmas!

Yeah I realize that I haven't updated in a long time but there hasn't been anything interesting at all going on recently. I spent all day yesterday working on my paper for English 220. I successfully proved that you can do a 5 and a half page research paper in one day with no previous knowledge on it. I changed my topic right before I even started. I was going to write about Sarah Palin but after realizing how difficult that was actually going to be, I changed my topic to be about how maps are beneficial to presidential elections.

We're going home tomorrow for Thanksgiving break. I can't wait to finally have access to WiFi again. Oh and see my family too I guess...>.>

This will be my first thanksgiving as a vegetarian, and I'm excited about it. Amber can't wait to cook a whole bunch of vegetarian dishes and I can't wait to eat them lol.

I'm at work right now with an hour left to go. I'm so bored and have nothing to do. I brought my DS with me to play, but I don't really want to for fear of getting strange looks by the students here. It's bad enough I'm sitting in the lab with my Nerd Herd shirt on typing in my Livejournal, to see me playing my DS, and Pokemon Ranger 2 nonetheless, is bound to get me ridiculed.

At least the TalkRadar podcast keeping my entertained on my iPod.

We have practice tonight for Boys Down the Hall. We have three upcoming performances and we're working hard so we sound great. We're currently working on learning a new song, Irish Blessing. Jeremy found a new guy who wanted to join us and was supposed to come tonight, but because of a family emergency, we won't see him until after break.

I really don't want to pack up my stuff tomorrow, it's such a pain to unhook my Wii and stuff to bring it home. Especially my Guitar Hero World Tour set. The guitars are easy to carry around, but now I have this big drum set to bring home with me as well along with my laptop, clothes, the gerbs, and whatever else I need....AHHH!!!!!

I'm not being allowed to be the late-night DRO next semester at Lakeside. Even though I'm one of the best ones they have, apparently because the managers have it out for me, they've requested to Shannon that I not be DRO. That's ok, I'm applying to be a Computer Technician in Scales hall for next semester which is the exact same job I already do for CTS. If I get that, I'm quitting lakeside. If not, I'll still have all my CTS hours for next semester, and I'll have to be a late-night server for lakeside which I'm really sick of working late-night. I never have time to get anything done when I'm working at late-night. All time evening time is sucked away by working then and it really sucks.

Anyway, I'm sick of ranting and I'm done now.

BLAH

Extremely tired...kind of stressed about Boys Down the Hall, kind of but not really. Just really wiped out. I need to sleep. Ugh

Oh, GameFly sent me Wii Music and Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Alma today on the new subscription that I have in Amber's name now lol.

We have two upcoming BDTH performances:

December 7th - The Feast of Carols
December 13th - Christmas Cabaret

Be sure to come see us perform!

Well it's official. With John McCain's concession speech, Barack Obama has been elected the 44th president of the United States of America. YES WE CAN!!





I went home to vote yesterday for the first time. The voting booth was a lot more complicated than I expected, but the only thing that mattered to me was my vote for Obama. I haven't been in Auburn for months so I had no idea who the people running for all of the other offices were. I picked up my winter clothes (which were covered in mold from the closet...) and movies from my house after I voted and I brought Amber to vote afterwards. We stopped at her house when she was done to wish her Mom a happy birthday (this Saturday) and give her the cake she made and present she bought her. We got fast food for dinner before heading back to Oswego  so I could make it to work at 8:30. Other than Thanksgiving at the end of the month, I'm pretty sure there's nothing else exciting happening for the rest of November.

We've had two opportunites to perform for Boys Down the Hall and we haven't been able to do either of them. We were originally supposed to sing at the open house next Tuesday, but Todd Graber (our staff advisor) doesn't feel we're ready yet. Instead he gave us the opportunity to sing Friday before the choir concert, but we're not doing that either. Jeremy's busy with something else and Scott's going out town. Without our two soloist, it's kind of hard to perform (Jeremy: Run Around Sue, Scott: Take You Back and One). The only other chance we're going to have this semester to sing is at the Feast of Carols on Dec. 7th but we'll have to learn a festive song by then, meaning what we're doing now won't have purpose until next semester. I'm working on setting up auditions to get some more people before next semester but I'm still waiting on the response from my room reservation before I can put up the advertisements.

My free trial membership with Gamefly is almost up and instead of sending me the games on my list that I want to try out, they're sending me ones that I don't care about that much. I wanted to try out Wii Music as bad as it is, but instead of sending me that, they sent LittleBigPlanet for the PS3. LBP is a really interesting game and I'm glad I get to play it, but I still want to try out Wii Music. They are also currently sending me Samba De Amigo for the Wii instead of Ninjatown for the DS which I wanted more. When my subscription runs out, Chris bought the same pack of air heads I did so we can get the subscription again, but this time in his name. I just have to make sure I cancel it before the end of the school year otherwise he's gonna get charged for another month!

Well I'm at work and have about a half and hour left of my shift, so I'm gonna wrap things up here.

KayThanksBye...2!

Since I'm really lazy this is all you get:

Wednesday: Rocky Horror Show. Wasn't as good as last year.

Thursday: Drag Ball, some performers were awesome, some were better last year.

Friday: I dressed up as Dr. House, pics on Myspace/Facebook and we went to Bryan Westling's party for a little while before getting bored and getting Enzo's pizza and eating it at home.

Saturday: Work: I got to do DRO instead of serving. BDtH practice: We auditioned off the solo in One, Scott and I auditioned, Scott got it. We also reaudtioned off the solo in Run Around Sue, Jeremy, Bryan, and I auditioned, Jeremy got it. I'm kind of upset about it.


Like I said. I'm feeling lazy.

I don't know what to do anymore, I'm sick of math. After getting such a low grade on my last test, I tried to work harder for the next time. I did all my homework and paid better attention in class. I really understood the concepts of these few chapters. Well apparently I didn't because I got to the test today and I'm pretty sure I bombed it. All that work I did learning the concepts was useless because it was never used on the test as far as I could tell. I could be wrong, but it was not the same as we did for homework. We might have learned the stuff on the test, but it definitely wasn't what I've been working on. So I wasted my time and I probably failed it. I need this class for my major and I really don't want to retake it again. 

On a brighter side, Dome was yesterday. Auburn came in 3rd place which everyone I spoke to was disappointed with. I would have loved to get 3rd place when I was in the band. It was Jenn's last time with the band and I recorded the whole thing. I haven't gotten around to editing it and uploading it online yet but I'll do it eventually.

I got Guitar Hero: World Tour Sunday morning at midnight. Amber, Chris, Jess and I took a trip to Walmart in Fulton to see if I could get a copy of the game. When we got there, there was a big line and I was heartbroken when I heard they only got one copy of each system's band kit in. Somehow, amazingly, I was the only one there who wanted the Wii Band kit, so I went from the back of the line right to the front while everyone else fought over who was getting the only PS2/PS3/360 versions. Until this morning I was convinced my drum set was broken. Many many people have been reporting that the red drum pad on the set didn't work all the time and when I was playing my set I noticed this to be true.Apparently I was just being a hypochrondriac because after playing around with the set for a couple hours this morning I realized it was the pad, it was me. It's tough to hit the yellow cymbal and the red pad at the same time as is required in almost every song. It's tough, but it doesn't mean the set was broken. I finally figured out the technique to make it work. Now I can happily report that the only glitch I'm having with the game is the occasional hiccup the guitar has where it will strum with you doing anything causing it to break your combo and mess you up.

Saturday we had BDtH rehearsal at Garrett's house. I lost my Run Around Sue solo because of a freak occurance where I couldn't hit the high notes. I've been perfectly fine every other time, but for some reason I couldn't do it. Instead they're having Frank do it which is insane considering he's a bass and I'm a tenor II.  We got a new member as well, Rob Kristal, a tenor I.

Friday was the Ball in the House concert. Those guys are amazing. They sang a lot of stuff I don't remember from last year. I got almost the whole show on tape but my battery died 57 mins in so I missed the end of the concert. Their VP guy, Johnny wasn't there on account of his wife having a baby three weeks ago and the replacement's name was Steve. They sang us a couple songs off of their upcoming Christmas album, due out mid-November. Afterwards we went to Bridie Manor and hung out with them there like we did last year. How many award winning bands will hang out with you after their show? That's what makes these guys so great. On the way to the bar, as we were walking to Garrett's car, Amber fell and sprained her ankle. She went to the hospital on Saturday and she's on crutches now.

Earlier in the week we had a "chat" with Chris about all his baby stuff. When I say we, I mean Amber, Scott, Jeremy, and I. Steve, Scott's roommate was there too but wasn't talking that much. We were basically lecturing him about what's going to happen if he doesn't get his act together and get a job. We talked outside for quite a bit until Jeremy went back to Riggs and we went inside. Scott and Chris left while Amber, Steve, and I continued talking in the stairwell until Scott came back and we moved our discussion into the main lounge. Chris eventually came down to the lounge and we basically went back to what we were talking to him about before. You'd think after all the yelling we did and lecturing we attempted to give him he would have gone out and tried to get a job right? Well he didn't and isn't. Apparently his parents think it would be stupid for him to work now because he needs to focus on his classes. For a few days I was extremely pissed and hostile towards him for completely going against what we advised but I've gotten over it. I've tried to help and he's not having any part of it so I've stopped caring. So has everyone else. I'm not yelling, but I don't support him. I can't possibly support him if he's not going to listen to us and take our advice.

I'm having major car trouble. My battery died again. We tried jumping it before and it worked but we assume the reason it died in the first place was because of my Sirius radio. Well it died again and my radio wasn't even plugged in. I need to find a place in town to buy a new battery and a place to install it for me (hopefully one in the same) because I have no idea how to do it.

I've still got a ton of time at work left and nothing much else to do. I like how livejournal's calling itself Undeadjournal this week in honor of Halloween. I still don't have a costume yet...

Schedule of events this week: 
Tuesday: Working at Lakeside
Wednesday: Supposed to work at Lakeside but going to try to find a sub because there is another Rocky Horror Show being held in the campus center like last year.
Thursday: BDtH practice and the Drag Ball. Probably going to have practice earlier so we can go.
Friday: Halloween! I'm invited to a party at Bryan's house (he's in BDtH and I work with him at Lakeside) so that should be fun.
Saturday: Lakeside work and BDtH rehearsal.

Well here's a new place to be updating from...I'm in Meteorology class right now being bored to tears by Professor Steve Skubis. I was awoken by Amber calling my cell phone and waking me up this morning. It was annoying at the time, but I'm grateful because I probably wouldn't have gotten up otherwise. She wanted to go to Cooper for breakfast. I got dressed a went off the Cooper (in the rain) to meet her. Now I'm sitting here on my laptop in what is pretty much the most boring class I'm taking this semester. It's amazing, Skubis is so loud and excited about this stuff, yet I'm still bored and it puts me to sleep lol.

I spent all yesterday working on my ENG 220 essay. It's due Wednesday and because of my procrastination, I hadn't started it yet. I've got the rough draft done, I just need to edit it for tomorrow.

We had Boys Down the Hall practice last night, it went alright, but we had a rude awakening by Emily. She's the girl who basically comes in and tells us how much we suck. We're stopping work on One for now, and we'll be coming back to it after we make Run Around Sue (which I'm doing the entire solo for now) and Take You Back (the new song we started on Saturday).

This past weekend was Family and Friends weekend and Amber's mom came up to visit us on Sunday. She took us to the movies and we saw Sex Drive. Afterwards we went to Price Chopper and got some groceries.

Last friday was the first home hockey game of the season. The US National Team took on the Oswego Lakers. They were assumed to be much better than us, but we did pretty well considering their skill. We were tied until the end of the game when it went into overtime. During overtime the visitors scored within 12 seconds to win the game. There is another game this friday, but i'll be attending something much better. Ball in the House is coming back for another concert on friday! There is also a statewide acapella conference being held here all day friday which leads up to their concert at night.

I won a free 1 month, 2 games out at a time subscription to GameFly (the video game equivalent to NetFlix) out of a pack of airheads the other day. I got my first two games yesterday: Wario Land: Shake It!  and Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.

Class is almost over so I might as well wrap this up.

Kay
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I wasn't planning on going to English class today because Amy was going to Mississippi and we were just going to watch a movie that didn't really have anything to do with the upcoming essay and was just background information on what we've been learning in class. Amber and Kelly suggested that I just show up to class, sign in, and leave. Well I ended up doing just that, but it wasn't my choice. When I got to class (purposely late, I knew I wouldn't miss anything) the TA, Mandy, was struggling to get the DVD player to work. When she couldn't she tried to play the DVD on the computer. That didn't work either so she gave up, told us to sign the sign-in sheet and leave. I had to work (and am still here) at 10 in Snygg so I couldn't exactly go home. My flash drive was still in the computer I was using during my programming class luckily so I went and picked it up before waiting to punch in to work. Coincidentally, Alex (of Boys Down the Hall) was using the exact same computer. I think I confused the hell out of him when I ran in and grabbed the flash drive.

 I just got done watch Chuck 2x03 - Chuck vs. The Break-Up and it was awesome. This series just keeps getting better and better. Bryce (the guy who put the intersect in Chuck's head in the first place left him a pair of sunglasses in his room which, when put on, updated the intersect. I'm thinking that means even if they manage to rebuild the intersect, Chuck's still going to be more up-to-date and they're still going to need him (thus prolonging the series). It's funny, I'm sure the writers know what they're doing, but it always seems like each episode is going to be the last, or at least, they're numbered and won't last long. That's what I call good writing. It doesn't seem forced either. It doesn't seem like they are artificially prolonging the series either. It all flows really well.




 Oh, and House was also freaking awesome last night!  Wilson's back!



Gotta work tonight, probably gonna be a typical Wednesday night (extremely busy...ugh). Otherwise, that all I have to talk about.

This past weekend was one of the best in a long time. Not only did we have no classes Thursday and Friday because of Yom Kippur and Fall Break Day, it was also Amber's and mine three year anniversary AND both of our roommates were gone for the weekend (as well as over half of campus) The easiest way to make sure I don't forget anything is to write about it day by day, so here goes:

THURSDAY:
The first day of our vacation started out a little rough, but got much better. First of all, Lakeside Dining Hall was closed for break, so our only food option on campus was Cooper, which we both dislike. We made a vow not to go to Cooper once over break and we actually managed to pull it off. Starting with Thursday, we went to Arby's for lunch to try their new Mac n' Cheezers.

I got the idea of going to Carousel mall sometime that weekend, and Amber thought that Thursday was a good a day as any to go. We ended up getting slightly lost on the way there, I forgot that I had to take exit 9S off 481 to get on 81 but a friendly cop got us back in the right direction.

We spent pretty much the entire day at the mall, going to tons of different places. I got a pair of skull candy ear buds and a` mini iPod speaker at FYE which were both on sale. We went to Borders and I got the first volume of the new Legend of Zelda manga. I helped Amber buy a book too and she also got a Tarot card set and book. We got dinner in the food court and went home shortly after.

When we got back it was still relatively early so we decided to watch a movie, The Rocker. It was ok, Afterwards I went downstairs to play Uncharted: Drake's Fortune while Amber read.

FRIDAY:
We had decided the day before that we wanted to see a movie that night but we couldn't figure out which. We kind of wanted to see Eagle Eye and Lakeview Terrace, but with the mediocre reviews we found. we weren't sure. We finally settled on City of Ember. For lunch we both had leftovers and whatever we could find in our rooms.

City of Ember was nothing like I expected, but it was really good nonetheless. I didn't know it was based on a book, but I had a feeling it was before I saw the end credits. I thought it was supposed to be this serious action movie, but we still weren't disappointed.

For dinner we got McDonalds, and man that place was mobbed. The place was full of high school kids, but it was to be expected. There was a football game taking place right outside (McDonald's is RIGHT NEXT to the high school).

When we got home, Amber helped me (ok, she did most of the work) rearrange the room. Pics are up on facebook and Myspace of the new layout. Check them out if you wanted to see. It's less cluttered than it was before so I'm pretty satisfied with it. I spent a little bit of time with Amber in her room after we finished and headed back downstairs to get her anniversary presents ready for the following day.

SATURDAY
Our anniversary finally came. Amber got me a bunch of stuff including: 
a tripod for my video camera
a 4 gig HCSD card for my camera
a new necklace
a karaoke thing for my iPod
and my favorite, a t-shirt that says "Vegetarians Rock"

I ended up getting her season 3 of House on DVD and earrings, which we ended up returning because I thought they were diamonds when they were actually cubic zirconium (silly me) . She ordered something else online with the money instead to make up for it so she was happy.

We went to Ponderosa for lunch after going to Walmart (to return the earrings). I also discovered that Axe is finally going to make Shampoo as they had a trial size for sale along with hair gel also made by them.

We watched House that afternoon before going to dinner at Ruby Tuesday which was excellent. The food was awesome. We watched more House after dinner before we both went to bed.

SUNDAY
I spent Sunday morning cleaning up the room because Chris was coming back that night and afterwards watched more House with Amber. We once again had our own food for breakfast/lunch. For dinner, before I went to work, Amber made falafel, which I had never eaten before, and was pretty good.

Work was uneventful last night. We were supposed to have Boys Down the Hall practice last night at 9:30 PM because we didn't have any practice last week since no one was around, but I didn't have one single person give me a 100% confirmation that they were going to be there. Everyone said they were going to be late or were still on the road coming back. So, I canceled it. We watched House again until I went back downstairs and did my usual messing around on the internet before going to sleep.


Man what a weekend! I almost didn't want to go back to regular college life today. Who am I kidding, of course I didn't want to go back to normal!

As for today, there was nothing noteworthy going on. It's Columbus Day so no one has school, except for us. There was an open house today as well so we were stormed with crowds of high school students all day *shudder*. I saw the State Singers in the Campus center food court this morning and thought to myself that it would have been cool if we (The Boys Down the Hall) sung there. Then I remembered that Kris actually gave us the opportunity to perform there, but we would not have been (and still aren't) ready to perform. Our first performance is sometime in November for the next open house. I can't remember exactly, I have it written down somewhere.


So that is the awesome summary of my awesome weekend. Phew...my fingers are tired!

I realize I haven't posted an entry in days, but nothing really important has happened recently. We had Boys Down the Hall practice Thursday and yesterday and both rehearsals went pretty well. We chose the singers of the solos for Run Around Sue (I've got the first one, Ben second, and Bryan third) and yesterday we started going over One. No word on who's doing the solo for that song yet, we're trying to learn the regular part first. Chris didn't go to either practice which has got everyone in the group mad at him. Thursday he claimed he was sick and yesterday he went out of town. We've been arguing all day about his commitment to the group and I'm really pissed at him right now. He wants to be a member of the group, but will be missing lots of rehearsals and doesn't even know if he'll be able to attend the concerts. I told him I needed a decision whether or not he wanted to stay in and regardless we're going to be having more auditions coming up soon. With losing Brent (I think I mentioned that before) and with Chris doing this down, we are really lacking in members. I'm having Scott set me up with a new audition time and I'll be remaking and posting the posters ASAP.

Other than the drama with Chris, things have been pretty boring. We only have a three day week this week with Thursday off for Yom Kippur (gotten love Jewish holidays!) and Friday off for Fall Break Day. Saturday is Amber's and my three year anniversary. I've got her presents already and I know she's gonna love them!

I finished taking my antibiotics for my throat on friday and on friday night and all of saturday my throat totally hurt again. Today has been a lot better but I don't know why it was so bad yesterday. I'm still debating whether or not to go back to Mary Walker tomorrow.

Friday we went and saw Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist. It was pretty good. Afterwards we went to Walmart so I could return my video camera. I noticed the other day while I was there buying Amber's anniversary present that they had an updated model of the same camera I bought with new features and it was red and silver for the same price. I was still in the 30 day return time, so I brought back the old one and bought the new one. I'm really glad I did because this one is a lot better.



My pretty new camera :)



Amber and I played Lego Batman for a couple hours today.



Now that I think about it, I completely forgot to talk about the big important thing that happened last week. Nintendo's fall conference. In an attempt to make up for their poor showing at this year's E3, Nintendo blew everyone away with a plethora of new announcements and games! First, and most importantly, they announced the DSi the successor to the DS Lite. It's looks almost exactly like the DS Lite, but with many differences. It has two cameras, one on the inside, and one on the outside. It's got an SD card slot which can be used along with the newly announced DSi store where you'll be able to download classic games and homebrew games (exactly like the Wii has now). It has an updated interface, built in web browser, it's thinner than the DS Lite with slightly bigger screens, but it doesn't have a GBA port. Here's a picture of it, there is also going to be a white one.



Nintendo also announced several new games for the DS and Wii such as: Sin and Punishment 2, Mario and Luigi 3, a new Warioware game, and the one that I'm most excited about, Punch Out for the Wii.



With full motion support, this game is going to be awesome. My dad's so excited about it, he's even offered to buy me it when it comes out as long as I let him play it.

This Saturday is national coming out day and we get our free t-shirts either tomorrow or Tuesday. Since we have no classes on Saturday, the day is being observed on the 8th, giving everyone a chance to wear their shirts to classes.

21 days until Guitar Hero World Tour comes out!



WHOO-HOO!!!!


That about wraps things up for tonight's entry. In conclusion:

-Chris is really pissing me off
-Boys Down the Hall is doing really well
-Nintendo is amazing again


Also, what do you think of me including pictures in my entry? Like it? Hate it? I think it makes things more interesting to look at. What do you think? Leave me a response in the comments. Also, I want to get the word out about my journal. Anyone have any ideas on how I can do that? Please let me know.

-KayThanksBye...2!

The doctor at Mary Walker gave me some kind of antibiotic. It's not amoxycillin because I'm allergic to it but it's something that I take 2 for the first day and one for the next 4 days. She thinks that will cure me, but just in case took a throat culture to make sure I didn't have strep. Unless I'm 100% better by Wednesday, she wants me to stop in in the morning. I'm already feeling somewhat better so I think that's exactly what I needed. She also gave me a bottle of their "sore throat gargle" which was 1 half cherry maalox and 1 half benedryl. That definitely helped too.

Other than that I don't have much else to talk about. We had a test in Stats today. I'm not exactly sure how I did on it, only time will tell.

Work went very well tonight. I'm still here, but only have 20 mins left in my shift. I managed to get my ISC assignment done and turned in even though we don't have class tomorrow.

I want to play a game, my brain needs some stimulation. Maybe if I can pull Chris off the TV I'll try out Devil May Cry 4 or Lego Batman after I get some food at late-night.

Just taking the time to update while I'm at work. Yesterday was the Harvest of Sound in Auburn. Amber and I went home for the day. I was supposed to go to Aunt Ruth and Uncle Al's 50th anniversary party. I assumed it was at their house because no one told me otherwise but when we got there, no one was there and we didn't have time to try to find out where the party was because my parents told me the show started at 6 and we wanted to get good seats (the show ACTUALLY started at 7 AND the party was at the Senate Fire House, but I didn't know that) We ended up going to Pet Depot to get a few things for Salt and the Gerbils before heading over to Holland Stadium.

Auburn came in first place, but their score wasn't very high. I taped the entire show and uploaded it to Myspace/Facebook/YouTube. Here's the link to just Auburn's performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icbRyOJUPKI
I have another video with the band entering and exiting the field, but the sound is slightly off because I had to compress it to fit it on the internet. I'll be putting up that one on YouTube eventually so be sure to look for it.

I got my new phone yesterday finally. The LG Shine, it's black. Amber has the same phone in red. Amber, her mom, and I went to Walmart to get it and I got a couple other things while we were there.

I've been having a medical problem the last couple of days. My uvula (that little dangly thing in the back of your mouth) is swollen and elongated. It hurts to swallow and it's so long it's touching the back of my mouth and tongue which is very irritating. From what I've heard, it can be easily cured with antibiotics, so I'll be going to Mary Walker Health Center as soon as they open tomorrow.

We don't have class Tuesday because of Rosh Hashana

I can't think of anything else to write about so I might as well end it here.

Man...there has been nothing interesting at all going on recently which is why there has been a lack of updates. Pretty much the most exciting thing that has happened all week is that I got Mega Man 9 Monday and holy crap is it hard. Gone are the days where I can just breeze through the 8-bit Mega Man games in a couple hours. It's taking countless number of hours and DEATHS to get through each stage. Especially when it comes to Wily's stages at the end. I got to the second stage boss, died and ran out of lives. Frustrated I saved and quit which actually sucks because if you continue, you can pick right back up on that same stage; but if you go to the stage select screen or quit, you have to start back at the first level (of Wily's castle), which was hard enough to get through! Oh well, if games were meant to be beaten in a day, they wouldn't be as fun right?

Last Saturday Amber, Chris, Jessica, and I went along with Kelly, Kevin, Russ, and two of his friends to Trexx in Syracuse. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a gay bar. Yet, it didn't seem THAT gay when we were there. I was expecting, I don't know, a lot more gay men. It just seemed like a regular bar to me, well, except for the Drag Queen dancing there lol. Jessica got sick and was throwing up for most of the night so they (Chris too) basically sat out in the car for most of the night. Sure sounds like a fun evening to me. We went to the B-Ville diner afterwards which is kind of funny because the Vanguard had their show in B-Ville hours earlier. Chris drove to Syracuse initially, and I drove home because he had to "attend" to Jessica. I had to stop multiple times on the way home because she had to throw up. Did I mention this whole pregnancy thing is really fucking annoying? Anyway...

As for this week, there has been literally nothing interesting happening. I've been going to class and going to work and not much else. I'm at work now, as updating from work seems to be the most convenient for me. We have our first practice for Boys Down the Hall tomorrow. We should be learning Chasing Cars, so long as Scott can manage to teach it to all of us. We don't have the sheet music for it.

This weekend is the Harvest of Sound, the Vanguard's home show. Not only do I get the see the marching band show in it's finished form for the first time, I also get my new cell phone that day. I'm finally due for my upgrade and I'll be getting a black LG Shine when I come into Auburn for the weekend. Yay!

My classes this semester are going really really well.

ENG 220: Amy Shore is the funniest/most awesome teacher I've ever had (with my SOC100 teacher coming in 2nd). She makes fun of everyone (in a nice way, kind of) and makes the class really interesting. The only real assignments we're going to have in that class are three major essays. Not looking forward to that, but she said she's going to make it as easy as possible for us.

ISC 220: Despite being very hard to understand, Professor Yoon is a great teacher. I admit, I was skeptical about having her in a classroom after taking her online ISC 110 course last semester with mistyped questions and unclear details, but having her in a classroom is much much better. She explains everything extremely well and makes everything very easy to understand. She's really giving me a good idea what Information Science is all about, and I really like it! I still don't really know what kinds of jobs are available in the IS field, but with all the internships Oswego offers, I shouldn't have too many problems finding something to do with my degree!

MAT 158: Stats. I hate math, but Professor Mosbo somehow knows how to make it interesting, kind of. The main thing that annoys me about the class is that he assigns homework but never checks, grades, or goes over it. I hate professors who do that, it makes it a lot harder to learn the concepts. Other than that the concepts in the class aren't too hard, I've been exposed to many of them before in previous math classes and he's pretty funny and nice too.

CSC 120: Ugh, don't even get me started on this class. It's so friggin' easy. This is the BASIC level programming class that I am being forced to take for my ISC major. I've already completed the higher level programming classes and now I'm forced to take two steps backwards. I know all the information already and it makes the class so easy. Professor Bosch is great though. He knows that I , along with a couple other guys know all the info already and offers bonus points on the assignments if we do more than what's expected of us, which isn't too hard considering anything basic I can add to the project nets me the extra points. This is the kind of programming class I wish they started me with in my freshman year. I might have still liked programming today, but now it's too late. This class is structured similar to the Visual Basic classes I took in high school. Everyone is sitting at a computer at all times while he gives directions in class, we're sitting there programming right along with him. It's very hands-on and that's the best way I learn. Oh well...I'll get an easy A in the class anyway...

MET 100: What can I possibly say about Professor Skubis...he's a huge science nerd. He's goofy and LOVES weather perhaps a bit too much. He spends half the class showing weather maps and forecasting the weather for the next few days and doesn't start giving notes until way over half-way through. He's a really exciting teacher, but somehow I still manage to fall asleep in his class until we get to the note-taking portion. Man that guy loves hurricanes....


That's pretty much everything I have to say for now.

This is Josh Farrell, signing off.

-Goodbye-

Taking a cue from the green I dyed my hair last year, I'm going with a different color this year. White! Well, it didn't exactly turn out white. It's very light, and only slightly purple (yes purple), but it looks great nonetheless. I'm very satisfied with it.

We had a boring Lakeside meeting tonight where Shanon told us what we already knew.

I have nothing to do tomorrow night and it's friday. Luckily Saturday's going to be fun! I'll be sure to post about that when the time comes!

3 more days until Mega Man 9 is released (I hope!)

The last few days have been very uneventful. I've been working, going to class, playing video games, whatever. Nothing noteworthy at all. One of the guys in my hall, Dan, has a wireless router set up so he can use his Wii online and he agreed to give me internet access on Monday so I can download Mega Man 9 on WiiWare when it it released! Now I don't have to bring my Wii home on the 27th when I go home for the Harvest of Sound.

I'm at work in Snygg again. Seems like work is the best place to update my journal, lots of free time and nothing to do with it. I've had really bad heartburn all morning and I don't know why...ugh...


I've been playing Metal Gear Solid 4 quite a bit recently. I'm on Act 4 of 5. Storyline-wise, this game is absolutely amazing. It manages to connect every single event, no matter how insignificant from every game in the Metal Gear series (even the NES ones). There have been many times where I have been left speechless at some of the twists. I won't spoil anything here but for anyone who has played the Metal Gear Solid games, I HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend playing this one, you'd be crazy not to!

Half an hour left of this shift then class at 3 and work tonight at 8:24. I'm so busy.

This was a pretty nice a relaxing weekend. I'm currently at work in Penfield right now and it's a slow Sunday night. This afternoon I watched Boyz n the Hood with Amber because she had to watch it for one of her PSY classes. I went downstairs and did my ISC homework and ate dinner before I came here.

Yesterday Amber and I went to see Burn After Reading. It was pretty good, but Amber felt that it was like "half a movie". The best way to describe the movie are the last two lines in it:

"So what did we learn from all this?"
"Hell if I know, but we know not to do it again!"

...and then it just ends. There really is no point to the movie. It was good but kind of felt unfinished.

Friday night the only thing I remember doing was watching Employee of the Month with Amber in her room. We originally planned to see Burn After Reading that night, but decided to go Saturday instead.

I neglected to mention what happened Thursday because I was so caught up in the Tribble incident. (Grr..) We all went out to bodified because the girls wanted to get piercings. Amber got her nose pierced and Jessica her lip. I got the whole thing on video with my new camera (which actually turned out pretty nice!) and put it all together in a movie called" Piercers" which I have saved on my computer. After bodified, we went grocery shopping at almost every place in town! Mustard Seed (an all organic food store), Walmart, and Price Chopper. I got a lot of good stuff, and so did Amber.

That's about all I have to report. Chris is still annoying, but what else is new?

I'm currently at work in the Snygg computer lab and it's slow so I'm taking the time to update my journal since I haven't in a couple days. Let me see...when was the last time I updated...wow, friday, ok I have some catching up to do!

SATURDAY:
As far as I can remember, nothing too important happened. Amber was still gone in PA. and I basically sat around with Chris and Jessica all day (thrilling huh?) I did my homework, took out the garbage, and did my laundry. OH! I forgot, I worked from 11 - 2 and after I got out, my parents had me meet them at Ontario Orchards because Grandma Akers was visiting for the day and they brought her up. They had stuff for me which they gave me there. I ordered my first zonie of the year that night which had to be Macaroni and Cheese only instead of my favorite Mac & Dog Zonie since I've been trying to be a vegetarian for almost two weeks now! Go me! It wasn't even Amber who got me to do it, I just kind decided on my own. Sure, seeing her helped, but I'm doing it because I realized that I gained 3 pounds after being here for only a week and I needed to start eating way healthier! Being a vegetarian was definitely the way to go! Although there are some foods I miss eating...oh well...

SUNDAY:
Amber was still gone and I got up at 10 forgetting that I thought I was supposed to attend the SAPB conference being held in the campus center. I rushed over there half asleep and unshowered and sat through two meetings until I got a phone call from Scott saying I already knew all the info and didn't really need to be there. Wish I'd known that before going! At least I got a cool portfolio-type thing for free for going! After went back to the dorm and we (Chris, Jess, and I) got some brunch we went out shopping. I needed some stuff from Wal-Mart like folders, vitamins, and a micro fleece throw blanket. What?! It's soft and comfy! Anyway...we went to Price Chopper afterwards because Jess wanted some orange juice because..oh yeah...I haven't mentioned it here yet...well it's pretty much common knowledge know...

Jessica is pregnant.

and they're keeping it.

>.<

We've been dealing with all of that since Thursday when they told us. What a mess that all is...oi...I'm nicknaming the baby Baby Douche since Chris is Douchebag and Jessica has been dubbed Douchette

Anyway....I went off to work at Penfield at 5 for my first CLA shift! It's such an easy job, perfect for me! (I'm kidding! I'm not THAT lazy!!) There was supposed to be someone there to help with my first shift, but no one showed up so I basically winged it. Thankfully I had no problems even arise. After my CLA shift, I had to rush back to Scales to get ready for my second job of the night, at Lakeside. 8:24 - 11:24 as DRO, as usual. Actually my hours got changed. I was in at 9 before, but we've been extremely busy so I have to come in every night at 8:24 now. It's kind of annoying...but oh well. I also discovered Galbadia Garden on Sunday, a website where you can download many different video game soundtracks. I got Mega Man 1 - 5 because I've been on a crazy Mega Man kick recently (Mega Man 9 ALMOST confirmed for Sept. 22nd release on Wii Ware!!) and the soundtracks to Mario 1, 2, and 3 and Zelda 1 and 2.

MONDAY:
Today was kind of a fun day. Amber finally came back and I got to give her her shirt I bought friday along with a big House picture I got at the Beyond the Wall poster sale in the Campus Center. Classes weren't too noteworthy, I had a quiz in Math and class was held in Snygg 6 (that's where I am now!!) to learn how to use Minitab (a computer program for working with stats). I had a CLA shift at Penfield from 4:30 - 8:00. Tim from CTS was there to run me through everything I needed to know (what I needed the night before). Everything went pretty smoothly. When I got out of work we were going camera shopping! Amber got quite a bit of money from working the weekend and needed to buy a new camera because her's is broken and mine sucks. We decided to go to the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Fulton because A.) We've never been and B.) They potentially have a much larger selection of items there compared to the Oswego Wal-Mart. I had also planned to get a video camera for use with Boys Down the Hall among other things like marching band competitions and Chris's baby. Before we went to Wal-Mart we all (all four of us) went to Ruby Tuesday for dinner. It was a much better experience than the last time we went. After the long drive to Fulton, we finally found the Wal-Mart, and it was out in the middle of nowhere! Amber ended up getting a 10.2 Megapixel black Samsung camera among a couple other things and I got this awesome looking Samsung video camera. It's by no means a top of the camcorder, but for what I need it for, it will work perfectly. Plus, it looks awesome! Chris also ended up buying something at Wal-Mart...Jessica's engagement ring (and wedding band). She helped picked it out, romantic huh? I also managed to find Oriental flavored Top Ramen brand ramen noodles. Why are these so special? They are the only ramen noodles (in the packages) that are purely vegetarian. The maruchan oriental flavor isn't. Cool huh? Chris ended up proposing to Jessica that night in his dorm room and I recorded it with my camera. Again, romantic, right? *rolls eyes*. I also spent the night in Amber's room because she wasn't feeling really well (and still isn't) until I left around 3 am and went back to my room.

TUESDAY:
We had a fire drill at 7:15 AM, the first one I've ever been woken up by at school. Of course it was pouring outside so were all had to stand outside in our pajamas in the freezing cold and rain. What a fun way to start the morning huh? The Boys Down the Hall auditions were at 6:30 last night and had a rather disappointing turnout. We only had two guys audition:

Cliff Weinstein  - Tenor II
Frank Risole - Bass

I was hoping for more people to show up and they might tonight but if not, we're not too badly off. Our group currently stands:

Jeremy - Tenor I
Cliff - Tenor II
Bryan - Tenor II
Me - Baritone
Chris - Baritone
Scott - Bass
Frank - Bass

Flip recommended that we not do Take Me Home Tonight as the solo is quite high and difficult. Instead he suggested that we relearn Run Around Sue with the new guys, and me doing Ken's solo (he quit the group claiming he had too full a schedule and was in a "real" band now...hrrmph) and potentially Scott's and Garrett's too. Garrett is gone from the group as well (graduating in December) and Scott can't sing as well as right now because of some problem I don't remember. After that he thinks we should work on Chasing Cars, Crazy, Good Ol' Acapella, and Insomniac all previously done by BDtH and not that hard to learn. Scott said I was in charge so I wholeheartedly agreed (Flip knows how much I LOVE Chasing Cars (the song, not the activity). Tonight is the blending exercises to see how well the new guys sing with us. Chris's parents came up to Oswego while I was at the auditions. Apparently they want them to live with them now, which is the direct opposite of how they acted when he first told them Sunday. Personally I don't think it's a very good idea for many reasons. I worked at Lakeside after auditions were over and man was it busy! We're calling late-night Dinner 2 because there have been pretty much the same amount of people for late-night as there is for dinner. This semester is just brutal! We did over 400 people in the first hour! That's nuts!! Jeremy introduced to me to www.televisiontunes.com, even though I already had it bookmarked, I didn't know you could actually download all the TV themes so I've been having fun and going nuts downloading the theme songs for all the shows I used to watch and even the ones I currently do! It's a fun trip down memory lane :)


Well, I've got an hour left of my shift here, it's a short one today, only 2 hours then it's off to lunch! It's always nice catching up on missed days with one huge entry. It's funny to see how much I end up typing when I really get into it!

Oh and Kelly got her eyebrow pierced. Random I know, but I didn't find out until late last night.

I also have been listening to 3OH!3 a lot. Don't Trust Me, their new single is AWESOME! Their style is similar to Gym Class Heroes being a combination of Alt Rock and Hip-Hop/Rap.

I thought of the band name I want to have in Guitar Hero: World Tour -- Wiizer Get it? I like Weezer and I'm getting World Tour for the Wii? It's lame and perfect! God I can't wait to get that game...it's pretty much the only game I care about for like the entire rest of the year. October 26th (yes that is Dome day as well!) can't come soon enough...