Holy crap, I really do love where I live and this wonderful time of year. I would contend that this is the hap-happiest season of all. Let me tell you a story; a tale filled mostly with the triumph of dumpster diving and the joy resulting in sharing of loot. It all began one sunday morning, the sunday after finals at scsu to be exact. I walked to the bathroom at the crack of 11:30 and glanced out of the window from my throne only to see the most delightful golden chair. Of course, I promptly grabbed it and brought it inside. This find spurred my imagination, "What treasures are currently residing on campus if this beuty was in my own back yard?" So I sallied forth on my bicycle to scour the campus dumpster fare. By this time, however, they were all fairly picked over. I did however find a pretty solid set of computer headphones which I gave to my roommate, Andre. The next day, the very next day, I was seated at my throne once again only to see a fantastic TV stand. This was fortunate, as the TV in the living room was always seated on the bed side table I brought from home. This all pales in comparison to the dumpster-fest I experienced today.
While cleaning the house up after research, I took an armload of trash out to the dumpster only to find two bad japanese horror dvds and an unopened can of beans. If that was not enough, my colleage called me, expressing a desire for me to take a 32" TV off his hands. HOT DAMN. So we go to pick up the TV, and they offer us a fine table as well! Now we have a bangin' table and a new big ole' TV. Plus, they also offered me a 25' coax cable to boot. What a day, and dumpster season isint even over yet!
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Chicken Curry
There is really no doubt within me anymore about my cooking ability. I can, with great certainty, make an amazing chicken curry. In my most recent batch I used some hungarian paprika and even more curry powder than usual. In addition, I used milk instead of half and half, which made the sauce turn out much less viscous than usual, which is definately a good thing. They say nescecity is the mother of invention, which is excatcly how it happened here. I only used the milk because the half and half came out of the carton as cottage cheese, and thus, innovation. Besides this most recent culinary breakthrough things have improved drastically since last I posted. School goes well, research exists and I will be going to memphis on my REU this summer. June 17th, to be precise. I'll be down there for 10 weeks doing science. So thats certainly exciting. Also, I recently found this blog called Equestria Daily which does a great job of fueling my My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic addiction. Also, started reading lord of the rings. I have been having a massive craving for fantasy type stuff, and since pretty much everyone on the planet apparently read the series in elementary school I figured I should catch up.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Tis the season of marathons
I planned on watching much of the twilight zone marathon on sci fi channel this new years weekend, however this plan changed abruptly when I realized that at the exact same time TCM was having a Marx Brothers marathon. The night was pretty amazing over all because I got to play axis and allies mono e mono with my brother, Andy, which is always a blast. Secondly, I got to play some left for dead with andre and wii with austin erickson. Then, the night got even better with the Marx brothers marathon. Andre, my dad, austin and I all watched the 1st 3/4 of 'Duck Soup', my favorite of theirs, I might add, and, after austin passed out on the couch, the remaining group watched 'go west', 'a night at the opera' and 'a day at the races'...necessarily in that order. We ended up staying up past 6 am, missing the ball drop early into this foray during 'Duck Soup'.Upon completing this marathon andre and I ventured to play some Left for Dead 2 on our computers...We ended up failing at a mission several times (understatement) so we gave up at around 830 am and that was that, the zombies won.
Now, you may ask why I was staying up this late, as I know it is very uncharacteristic of myself. Well, this was due fact that for some reason, austin had to be in st. cloud by freaking 12 noon to catch a bus back to his place. UGH. So I felt like I would be more drowsy trying to drive if I had slept than not at all. Almost should have not invited him. Would have felt annoyed by it if mike, zach and leah all decided to bail on me because of the "weather", which was bad earlier in the day but by night had been reduced to a steady breeze of dry snow. Bah. Fuck em. I dont need them if they dont need me. I dont think ill really venture to communicate with them so much for the rest of this break period as it seems to me they just blew me off because they were lazy or wanted to smoke weed which they cannot do at my house. I get so tired of the terse phone conversations with mike nowadays. Its really beginning to bother me because I really would like to be his friend, but he just seems to drift away from me each time I go back to school for a semester and it takes weeks of effort to gain back his trust, it seems. But, maybe its like that for all friends. Who cares anyways? God, I need to focus more on my research and reading anyways because they never really begin to bother like some people do. So it leads to the question, why should I even have expected him to show up? This thought really goes against my selfish, pessimistic life philosophy I am venturing to develop. Bad thoughts, its a new year. I wish to pursue my life exactly how it comes to me this year and if I desire human contact, I will get it, either from family OR friends, and if i do not desire it, I will focus my efforts on my occupation. I know this will work because I have achieved everything I every desired to achieve in the past four years, and that will not change so long as my goals are always kept to heart. Also, fuck you, austin, fuck you and you holier than thou perception of you god-awful, piss for brains university, also, fuck you worthless, inane choice of occupation. I really wish I would just tell you this in person when you crack at SCSU, but for now, it will only be here. All I know is that I WILL be able to find a well-paying, satisfying job wherever I wish to work it, and you will be stuck suckling off the teat of us driven, practical folk for the rest of your miserable life.
Well, that was fun, I really think keeping this journal is fun, hopefully no employer will dig in here too deep and take this too seriously, as it is only harmless venting. And when you cant yell and fight, thinking it out loud and putting it into perspective is the next best thing.
Now, you may ask why I was staying up this late, as I know it is very uncharacteristic of myself. Well, this was due fact that for some reason, austin had to be in st. cloud by freaking 12 noon to catch a bus back to his place. UGH. So I felt like I would be more drowsy trying to drive if I had slept than not at all. Almost should have not invited him. Would have felt annoyed by it if mike, zach and leah all decided to bail on me because of the "weather", which was bad earlier in the day but by night had been reduced to a steady breeze of dry snow. Bah. Fuck em. I dont need them if they dont need me. I dont think ill really venture to communicate with them so much for the rest of this break period as it seems to me they just blew me off because they were lazy or wanted to smoke weed which they cannot do at my house. I get so tired of the terse phone conversations with mike nowadays. Its really beginning to bother me because I really would like to be his friend, but he just seems to drift away from me each time I go back to school for a semester and it takes weeks of effort to gain back his trust, it seems. But, maybe its like that for all friends. Who cares anyways? God, I need to focus more on my research and reading anyways because they never really begin to bother like some people do. So it leads to the question, why should I even have expected him to show up? This thought really goes against my selfish, pessimistic life philosophy I am venturing to develop. Bad thoughts, its a new year. I wish to pursue my life exactly how it comes to me this year and if I desire human contact, I will get it, either from family OR friends, and if i do not desire it, I will focus my efforts on my occupation. I know this will work because I have achieved everything I every desired to achieve in the past four years, and that will not change so long as my goals are always kept to heart. Also, fuck you, austin, fuck you and you holier than thou perception of you god-awful, piss for brains university, also, fuck you worthless, inane choice of occupation. I really wish I would just tell you this in person when you crack at SCSU, but for now, it will only be here. All I know is that I WILL be able to find a well-paying, satisfying job wherever I wish to work it, and you will be stuck suckling off the teat of us driven, practical folk for the rest of your miserable life.
Well, that was fun, I really think keeping this journal is fun, hopefully no employer will dig in here too deep and take this too seriously, as it is only harmless venting. And when you cant yell and fight, thinking it out loud and putting it into perspective is the next best thing.
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