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Got this quiz-thing off Facebook. 1. What was your FIRST job? First printed-pay check job was CAing at the University, hired January 2008. Before that I worked as a cleaner with moms company sort of temporarily. 2. What was your FIRST car? Was? My first car is a 2009 Toyota Yaris. 3. Who was your FIRST prom date? Haha, funny you say that. First prom date was Steph R. from my graduating class. Second prom date was Liz W. 4. Do you still talk to your FIRST love? Still dating my first love. 5. What was your FIRST alcoholic drink? Dad used to let me drink the foam off beer when I was a little kid. oooooh, parenting... 6. Who was the FIRST person to text you today? Today? Laura said something along the lines of "Coming to class?" 7. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning? Woke up and thought "Sarah, turn off my alarm..." 8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher? Mrs. Schillthorne (Sp*?) - she was awesome. 9. Where did you go on your FIRST ride ...

AHH! My labtop's charger has finally passed on. Not just the charger, but part of the motherboard that the charger connects too. So my labtop is in the shop - it's been five days, and it's going to be at minimum another week! :( I'm 'topless, and I feel Naked! Finally, after a week of checking into the Bierce Labtop center like 6 times a day I have got my hands on a week long check-out-able labtop so I am not cut off from the world. (Though with twitter, facebook and foursquare on my phone I don't think that was ever much of a problem. Haha, word of advice to anyone planning to check out a week long labtop though: you have to sign in ON CAMPUS before leaving, cause otherwise you can't even get it to start up when you get home. I had to drive back to campus, park in the Gallucci parking lot and wait for it to connect to Rootown (the new Tsunami to those out of the loop) to even get it to get past the log-in screen! It's working just fine now. But at the t...

Blah. Working 12midnight - 6am. It's already almost 4am and I haven't touched my homework - lol. Gonna watch this video by the Nostalgia Critic about "Home Alone 3" then try to start my Japanese homework. Then maybe work on my Content Reading homework. Fun stuff I know. So Last night was Sumner-fest, a street-wide party on Sarah's street. That was kinda interesting. Well let me rollback a little farther, so I had got out of the Census at about 4'oclock. I try to leave Quaker, and the guy tries to charge me. I'm like "Um, I'm a student." "I still gotta charge you. How long were you here?" He isn't trying to be a dick, he was trying to be really nice about it - just doing his job, I understand. But I was angry, cause I made a distinct effort to park somewhere I was allowed to -- which is why I chose the lot that HAS THIS SIGN: What's that you say? All Permits? You mean like Commuter permits? Yup, that's a permit. ER, Univ...

Sorry for the long wait readers! :D To refresh your memories of the chronology, it's Thursday (March 18th, 2010 - haha, it's taken me a month to write this!) mid-day -- we've left the disappointing Centralia, Pennsylvania and had lunch in a quaint little Diner in the middle of no where (this is pre- Telephone FYI, so no Diner jokes...) and it was really just a ton of driving. Sarah took over driving after Centralia I believe, so I got some time to read my "The World Without Us" book I'm TRYING DESPERATELY to finish this semester, massive fail. Anyway. So hours later, we pass some major city (may have been Trenton, NJ?) We're not sure. Actually, now that I think about it it was probably New York City just from far away, lol. Oh well. Anyway, so we go through a long tunnel (The Lincoln Tunnel) that we have to pay like 8 bucks for :( then we are in rush hour traffic trying to go through another tunnel. It was here, Friday night, that my Law of Gaga was fi...

Hey, a guy can be optimistic can't he? Maybe I'll start eating healthier in the 2060s. I do hope to live to be a hundred though, that would be perfect. If I can live to see the 22nd century, that'd be even cooler! But do to the personal developments of a close friend lately, the topic of death and what is done with us when we die has been in conversations and I thought I'd think about what I want to do when I die (hopefully of old age at 113.) Also I wanted to explore a certain image suggested tonight. Just to explain my longevity for a second, I want to live to be 100. My great-grandma did, and my moms side of the family is unusually longevious. It's my dad's side of the family that ruins the average by the males dying young. But I don't want to die at exactly 100, that's like only being able to enjoy your party you've worked your whole life for for a few days. So If I'm going to live to be 100, I mise as well plan on seeing the turn of the cent...

(Sorry if this blog seems a bit jumpy, I wrote some of it one day, more of it another day, then the rest of it a week later and its all discombobulated!) Blah, I am so overwhelmed with these handful of projects all due this week x_x one turned in done, completely. The other partially, and is due at midnight. Sigh, but now that I'm almost a third done I know how I'm going to write the rest and it should be simple its just a matter of doing it (between 3 and 7 today) cause tonight is scheduling for summer hours. But anyway... Look how amused Kayla is with Rob! Saturday night, a group of us went to LUX Niteclub in Akron. Sarah was away at Key Club DCON in Columbus unfortunately :( Brit having fun with a rat-toy she found in Rob's car. So we go to LUX , and first of all drinks there are really over priced! To the point of I don't really want to buy drinks there again, just dance. I don't even like to dance, but EVERYONE there were bad-dancers - the kind that just kind...

New York = Soon! Not that I have seriously loyal followers that are dying to see these pictures, lol. But here's a sneak peak I suppose: Weird statue adjacent to World Trade Center site. Whatever they are trying to sell, their message is interesting. Me and Sarah atop the Empire State Building! So I'm going to rant about some current events, large scale and local. Firstly, yay! Thursday - 04/08/2010 (today) - is a don't-wear-shoes day. There is a popular Facebook event on the U of A's campus promoting not wearing shoes all day to spread word of the plight faced by millions of children every day, the infections, diseases, and dangers of being raised in poverty without shoes. "Always having to focus on your step, rather than other things." I'm totally participating in this, and think it's a good idea! But at the same time, spreading the word of causes and contributing to them are two different things. Next time you or I go shoe shopping, perhaps we'l...

As Sunday rolled around, we needed to head home to Akron. I'd already looked into visiting Franklin D. Roosevelt's house in Hyde Park before the trip, and it looked like I'd get my wish -- cause unless we wanted to drive through the middle of Manhattan and a million tunnels (which we didn't), we'd pass relatively close to it. Along the way, we *Happened* to pass through Chappaqua, NY -- current residence of the Clintons! Alan Arkin (from Little Miss Sunshine) and "the lead singer of Survivor" also live here apparently. You'd think you'd be able to find a decent restaurant, but we couldn't find a single one! Arr. Haha, also on the way there we crossed this toll free bridge. (The two in Manhattan cost 8 bucks a piece! Craziness!) It had several signs warning "DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF BRIDGE" that were pretty serious. Naturally, Sarah had to stick it to'm - so for you're viewing pleasure, THE FORBIDDEN BRIDGE!: After a morning o...