I spent this week with Jason at Bradley's summer orientation. When I arrived on campus Sunday morning with a chicken teriyaki sub in hand, I was more than ready to commence the "orienting". I had been feeling groggy from a night full of graduation partying and the Rocky Horror Picture Show, but as I stepped into Harper Hall I felt a sudden rush ( Read more... )

Graduation was yesterday, and in retrospect all I remember is being very, very hot. As I drove to the school with my cap and gown in the backseat and The Righteous Brothers playing on the radio, I began to feel very emotional about graduating. This was the first time I felt this way, mind you. Then I got to the school and it was like ninety ( Read more... )

There are times in the early stages of every man’s life when he faces an unparalleled moment, unlike any he has seen before. It is at times like these that a young man must decide who he is and who he wants to become. This weekend was full of not one, but several such moments. I like to humor myself by thinking that I came out of this weekend ( Read more... )

What a counter-productive weekend I had, filled with basically every person I know either working or going to the fucking senior lock-in. Friday afternoon I didn't do much except sit at Barnes and Noble reading a book about what to expect your Freshman year of college. It was a very enlightening little book, and one piece of advice that said, " ( Read more... )

Today was Mother's Day, a holiday invented to honor mom's for doing laundry. I got my mom a really hard to find DVD of some movie from the eighties called Clan of the Cave Bear, based on some book that she read. We watched the movie, and for a film about Cavemen who don't know English...it was pretty good. Then she and Eric took off to go ( Read more... )

Tonight I went with some people to see an epic film at the Rave theater. We were the only guys in the entire theater, minus the ones who were there with a girl (but they don't count). The movie itself was enlightening, refreshing, and charmingly funny. It nailed a lot of truths about High School, and yes I am speaking of "Mean Girls" starring ( Read more... )

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My second favorite moment in High School comes once again from Print Journalism class. The event took place this semester on my second go-around with the do-nothing class. So here it is. Number two -- with a bullet -- is the time we ordered pizzas from Casey's for Print Journalism. Mrs. Schiedle was subbing for Chianakas, since the latter was ( Read more... )

Well what the fuck, I might as well give into the hip new livejournal craze ( Read more... )

My third favorite moment from High School has taken longer to think about than the previous ones, because frankly I've been too fucking busy to worry about the old livejournal. Thursday my mom and I drove for two hours to Bushnell, IL where we had to attend my Step-Great-Grandpa's funeral. I never met the man (I barely even know my Step-Grandma) ( Read more... )