summer television

one great thing about summer t.v. is that it typically aims to entertain. example: wipeout. on its second season this show isnt anything ground breaking but it sure is fun to watch.

also - the apartment below me is surprisingly loud but not obnoxious as much as impressive. they seem to have a playlist of music on that everyone who is there is singing along to. while the most popular track of the night was 'must be the money' the one that first caused us to take notice of them all belting along was the song they sang the loudest to last night - that taylor swift song that has the annoying pause-to-breath moment in the chorus "SEEEeeee *pause* eee"

i dont like that song. its pretty stupid lyrically. i mean are we really writing songs about how mr. popular wont love you because your not the head cheerleader. does that even happen - captain of the football team paired with ms cheerleader? did it ever?

its time again

i set a few goals for myself for my days leading up to class. first was to take care of the electric/gas bill. second was to take care of the cable situation. third was to call the central park early learning center to inquire about a position. past that was unpack, decorate, and pay my parking violation.

i am pacing myself so i took care of the first two today. we have power and the cable guy is coming thursday. i also started to unpack in in doing so unrolled all my posters and laid them out with shoes and other assorted objects holding down the corners to flatten them out. ill work on figuring out where i can put them all tomorrow.

moved in

i guess thats relative though. i am in the bronx now. this building is now my primary residence after spending 3 different times here as a visitor knowing i was returning home i am now turning the tables. i know theres stuff we still need - but for the most part we are settled. my goal for tonight was to unpack and tomorrow was to food shop but got hungry. so tomorrow my goal is to unpack. its better this way because i can have a bowl of cereal or some eggs in the morning before i unpack instead of waking up totally unpacked and with no food.

nfl draft is tomorrow for my fantasy team and i havent given it any more thought than i am right now as im typing it. i should change that.

also - my big light wouldnt fit in my car and my desk lamp sucks so i brought a clip light figuring i can just bend that where ever i need to. problem - bulb is burnt out. solution - went to target for things like bowls and shower curtain which we needed and bought bulb. no resolution - socket didnt match. alas i am using my closet light to illuminate my room. yes they give you a light in the ceiling in the closet - but not in the bedroom.

the end.

things arent what they used to be

above is a picture of my little sister's freshman year dorm room. the title of this post, while usually relfecting on a time when things were better, is in fact - the opposite. this room is massive for a freshman dorm room. its as big as an ohare dorm room or bigger with a two door (seen on the left) closet, comcast cable, and a handicap bathroom that is massive. its probably 2/3 the size of my martyrs dorm room. did i mention that they have a bathroom - their freshman year! what happened to communal showers and getting locked out in your towel. in addition to the sweet digs, they have their own thermostat for control of heat and air in their room. they are right next to the laundry room which is 5 washers and 5 dryers for the floor which are all new (brand new dorm building). five rooms down the hall the other way there is a gym and in the building next to theirs in the basement there is a diner. which is right infront of the brand new cafeteria.

atleast i got a good 3 years of sudexho quality meals - :(

taking some advice and laying in the grass

digital exhibition

i read tonight on a blog i follow written by david horvitz a pretty interesting prompt. david uploads screen shots on the program TextEdit the Mac equivalent of Notepad every one to two days of a prompt for his readers. i typically read them for a purely 'hmm thats a cool idea' but i liked the latest one. he said - go to your grandparents house an take a picture of every photograph up in the home and email the gallery to family or friends or whomever as sort of a digital exhibition. i dont have my digital camera home but im planning on trying this with my house to see, after taking pictures of the photographs here with my phone, if the idea turns out to seem as intriguing once i have all of the images. i took a picture of just one frame in my family room tonight. its probably my favorite picture we have.

hurry up and wait

while i dont regret my decision to drive home last night and sleep in my own bed until 1 pm - i do now have alot of time on my hands in a home that is feeling a bit void which could probably be because of most of my stuff being at school in addition to no one really being home.

i know when im in the heat of the year or month or week when i have a laundry list of things to get done and im waking up early/going to bed late i cant wait for a day to just do nothing. but then there are days like today where i literally feel shitty form just sitting on the couch for 2/3 of the time ive been awake.

last night. i never got to the point of eyes closing or anything like that but i could tell my judgment was off at some points like circling a parking lot in a rest stop trying to get to the exit when, where i was parked was very close to the way out. i also never thought that it was possible to get stuck in traffic at 3 in the morning. i know that when a road like 95 goes from 3 lanes to 1 that that should mean traffic but a 30 minute backup at 3 am is hard to conceive...how are there that many cars on the road at 3 am? also, truckers are crazy. i saw 18 wheelers pulling maneuvers that cars would make. going 75 on 95 isnt fast but its also not slow. so to say that truckers were flashing their lights and flying past me going lane to lane and nearly hitting other cars on the road while doint so is almost difficult to picture but it was almost like when the lights go down and everyone retreats home, these truckers treat the highway like that area of road just beyond a toll where there are no lanes and its almost a free-for-all.

new york was fun. once the chaos passes (4 people occupying a 2 person apartment is one thing, 4 people and all their shit in a 2 person apartment is another) our apartment should be a bit more spacious. back in the bx on sat.

i think i want some ice cream.