"panda watch!"

so yesteray i found out about a "scandal" of sorts at mcalisters. seems that a certain man by the name of reginald scammed at least 7 people out of money because he "ran out of gas." he also asked me, but i didn't give him anything. 1) 'cause he waited til no one was around to ask and asked quietly, 2) i needed gas $$ myself, and 3) i don't give money to people unless i really know them and trust them. he got about $80 total. so this friday, when (or if) he comes to get his check... yeah, there might be a mcalisters beat-down. or maybe just a 'friendly' escort to the bank. or maybe just the withholding of his check til he gives the money back he decided to permanently borrow.
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i also almost died yesterday. well, almost could've died and/0r lost my truck. a buick le sabre ran a stop sign (wether his brakes didn't work or he wasn't paying attention, i don't know). there was an toyota corolla driving down toward me on the road i was on. fortunately, the guy in the corolla saw the le sabre and managed to swerve onto the other side rode with only a minor bump. had i been going just a little faster, i would've ended up being squished between the two. yeah, ouch.
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well, i have an optomotrist app in a little while, then school afterward. yeah. fun.
my schedules really rather full this semester:
mon: work til school, school til d&d w/ devin, d&d til sleep
tues: work til school, school til sleep
wed: work til school, school til church, church til "free time" or sleep
thurs: work til school, school til sleep
fri: work til off, and then off!
sat: work til off, and them some more off!
sun: church
yep. fun fun.
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oh, halo 3's coming out in november. and the movie's coming out next year sometime. cool stuff.

unicycle

Well, I couldn't sleep, so I though I'd blog and stuff for a little while. Maybe get tired or something. By the way, if a comment you make don't automatically pop up, don't freak out, it's supposed to do that. Due to an unsavory character, I've enabled comment moderation to try to keep this blog at at least a PG lvl. But yeah.

This is a cool mosaic picture thing that I found on the WoW website. You can't really tell 'cause it's small on the blog, but it's made up of all the symbols in the game. Nifty little picture. Whoever first came up with that idea to make a picture with pictures is either a genius, or insane. Who knows. Either way, they look cool.

from a tortured-ish type mind

Here's the lyrics to Black Balloon by Goo Goo Dolls. I like it alot.

Baby's black balloon makes her fly
I almost fell into that hole in your life
You weren't thinking about tomorrow
'Cause you were the same as me
But on your knees

A thousand other boys could never reach you
How could I have been the one
I saw the world spin beneath you
And scatter like ice from the spoon
That was your womb

Comin' down the world turned over
And angels fall without you there
And I go on as you get colder
Or are you someone's prayer

You know the lies they always told you
And the love you never knew
What's the things they never showed you
That swallowed the light from the sun
Inside your room, yeah

Comin' down the world turned over
And angels fall without you there
And I go on as you get colder
Always someone there

And there's no time left for losin'
When you stand they fall, yeah

Comin' down the world turned over
And angels fall without you there
And I go on as you get colder

All because I'm
Comin' down the years turn over
And angels fall without you there
And I'll go on and i'll lead you home and
All because I'm
All because I'm
And I'll become
What you became to me

"i cried out, 'heaven save me!' and i'm down to one last breath. and with it let me say, let me say..."

so evrythings really weird right now. evryone needs to stop freaking out. im serious. you can take or leave my judgement, but Heather is a good person. yes, she may be "rough around the edges," but shes changed. she made some bad choices, but so did i. some of (maybe even most of) the things people think about her are my fault. my fault in that i tried to cover my butt and let her take the fall for what she may have done and for the fault that i had. in doing so, in one instance, it gave the impression that she was a slut 'cause if i had tried to convince them otherwise it would've given light to things i may have done. i love her and want to stay with her. stop spreading rumors about different crap that "you heard him telling her what she was told" 'cause thats not gettin anyone anywhere. a) stop trying to pry into ppls lives, b) stop freakin making things up and speculating about things, and c) if you want know something or have some problem or another, please please please just bloody ask! and for crying out loud, clarify evrything you hear before telling evryone you know. i've been told some really weird and off-the-wall storied made up by the youth group at madison, and in no way am i appreciative. so if you don't know anything: shut the freaking crap up.

school = no $$

I just realized that Halo 3 is realllly close to coming out, and am suddenly very psyched about the movie coming out next year. Supa-sweet. I'm not psyched about having to go to work in 8 hours, but hey, gotta take what you can get.
On a Halo note, "The Guys" need to get together and asign ourselves a Halo night. Or make a "let's get together [thus and such a night/day] evry week (or evry other) and just play Halo or watch movie(s) or plan potato cannons, camping trips, tree houses, and explosives or just sit and talk and 'keep in touch,' as-it-were." That'd be cool. I'll go ahead and pre-propose an evry other Friday or Saturday A) 'cause those guys with "significant others" need Fri & Sat nights for dates and such too and B) 'cause the Calhoun-ers don't have classes on Fridays and I hope none of us was dumb enough to have classes on Saturday.
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Speaking of classes and school, I think this semester's not going to be half bad.
Classes =

• Geography - gonna be a little involved, but not too bad and seems to be potentially very interesting and easy to grasp. I estimate an A.
  
• Psychology - going to be alotta work, but has a great teacher w/ a sense of humor. I'm estimating a B just 'cause it seems like an uber-sized load of work.
• Accounting - not really sure what to expect due to relative vagueness on the syllabus, but if it's as straightforward as just knowing terms then an estimated A.
• Drawing - I love to draw and that's all that this class is. Literally. I'm hoping, aiming, and expecting an A out of me on this class.

Well, I'm going to wrap this up. I think I'll end with some semi-pointless comments.

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You know there's something wrong when I'm hungry all the time.
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¿Why does evryone ask for only one (1/uno) moment at a time. Why not ask for two (2/dos) moments?

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Brueggers (or howevr you spell it) is yummy.

Quiz: In this picture, am I an:
A) Pirate
B) Gangster
C) Pimp
D) Matrix extra

i wish i had some ice cream

So much to say. But at the same time, so little. Yeah, that's me up there.

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Not looking forward to tomorrow particularly.

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School starts tomorrow, but that doesn't have anything to do with the aforementioned not-looking-forward-to-ness. I hope that my classes aren't too bad and I really hope that I don't have to use the books so I can save $$ buying them and I really really hope they're enjoyable. The one I hope the most is enjoyable is Drawing 'cause it's my last class Tues/Thurs and is 2 hours and 45 minutes, taking me from 7:00 to 9:45. It's going to be a loooong semester if that one's not fun. But I like drawing, so we'll see.
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Went skeet shooting and the like yesterday (Saturday). Devin, Todd, and David got to experience their first dry ice "bomb." They're alotta fun. It's funny how fast a box of 25 rounds can go with only two guys and a shotgun. Kinda humorous that those same two people can go through a box of 50 rounds of .22 ammo is the same amount of time.
Soon I need to look into packing my own shells. Save me some $$ in the long run.
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I realllly need to clean my room. It's a mess and a half. I always end up playing WoW instead. Or writing (someone will know what I'm talking about).

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I need a cookie. Or chocolate. Actually, I just need something to munch on. I'm a snacker. You wouldn't think it being that I end up skipping meals 'cause I don't have time or would rather do something else. I'm working on eating regularly though. Some people claim it's good for your health. Probly just another fad. :P
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Finally got decent sleep last night. Went to bed at like, 6:30 or 6:45ish with a headache and woke up the next morning (Sunday. Today) at 8:30. So 14 or almost 14 hours of sleep. You think I should get more?
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Ok. Time for me to be quiet. But I'll leave with a pic of the St Louis Arch taken w/ my phone.

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i'm not quite dead... i'm getting better

I'm about to go to NE. That's Nebraska if you don't know the little shorteny thingys. David, Dad, and I are driving up there to visit mine & Dave's grandmother, Dad's mom. It's like a 15 hour drive. Yay! And I'm not even mad about a 15 hour drive: I get to sleep!
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Well, yesterday I got back from camping w/ some pplz. My muscles are sore from hiking (I need to eat more and should probly go to the gym) and my shoulder's a tad stiff from shooting shotguns all day. Did some skeet shooting and stuff. Created a new inside joke, "Pulling a bullfrog." Ask me later if you wanna know what it means. It's more like a term describing an action, not dissimilar to "kick the bucket" meaning dead. It doesn't mean anything dirty, so don't worry, it involves guns.
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"what's with that guy?"
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Well, gotta run out the door now. Finish all I was trying to say later.

sometimes it gets hard to keep trying

I heard a song and couldn't help but post it 'cause it fit so well.

Wasted Years::Cold

There's a game life plays
Makes you think you’re everything they ever said you where
I’d like to take some time
Clear away everything I've planned

Was it life I betrayed?
For the shape that I'm in
It's so hard to fail
It’s not easy to win
Did I drink too much?
Could I disappear?
And there's nothing that's left but wasted years
There's nothing left but wasted years
There's nothing left but wasted years

If I could change my life
Be a simple kind of man
Try to do the best I can
If I could take the sides
I'd derail every path I could
An I'm about to die
Won’t you clear away from me?
Give me strength to fly away?

Was it life I betrayed?
For the shape that I'm in
It's so hard to fail
It’s not easy to win
Did I drink too much?
Could I disappear?
And there's nothing that's left but wasted tears
There's nothing left but wasted years
There's nothing left but wasted years
There's nothing left but wasted years

Was it life I betrayed?
For the shape that I'm in
It's not hard to fail
It’s not easy to win
Did I drink too much?
Could I disappear?
And there's nothing that's left but wasted tears

Was it life I betrayed?
There's nothing left but wasted years
For the shape that I'm in
There's nothing left but wasted years
Did I drink too much?
There's nothing left but wasted years
All those wasted years
There's nothing left but wasted years

Was it life I betrayed?
For the shape that I'm in
It's not hard to fail
It’s not easy to win 

Going to finish packing now.

Disclaimer: Don't take that any more than it supposed to be.