I'm leaving to go sky-diving momentarily. If I don't make it back - it's been fun, and at least I made it to 20! I will come back with pictures. Peace!

Sweet!

You are StrongBad. You hate everyone, especially
HomeStar. Your e-mails and prank calls are
hilarious. You're my favorite character. You
try to be evil, but sorry, being shirtless with
boxing gloves just isn't scary. Don't worry
what everone else thinks because hey, they are
all "crap for brains".

There would be a picture but it wont work because it is a piece of turd.

Football is the political Ouija Board.

Apparently in the case of the last 15 elections, the Redskins have been a predictor. If the Redskins have won the Sunday before the election, so has the incumbent candidate. If they have lost, so has he. So this is the first and last time I'll ever say this as a Bears fan, GO PACKERS!!!

This is my pumpkin. I thought that you all would like to see it. 

Quote of the day:

"The most important game of the century and I'm going to be sitting, with my Yankees hat on, at Mimi's, eating a muffin."

-Eric, from class

I feel old.

In less than two weeks, I will bid farewell to the teenage years.

But that's not what I mean. My body feels old. I have been fairly active lately, getting in as much volleyball, softball and the gym as I can.

But I am now feeling:
Tendonitis in knees and ankles (old softball injury that flares up every once in a while)
Shin splints
A bruised shin bone (from that guy at volleyball a few weeks ago)
A pained tail-bone (from a TERRIBLE slide in softball last week)
A sore wrist (from volleyball?)

I'm tired and in pain. And I haven't even started my 20's yet. At this rate, I'm scared of my 30's and 40's, I might be held together with duct tape. Although, ... that might not be too bad...

So tonight was the big debate. The debate which I did not watch because I working, ironically enough some of that working was on the debate. Well, not exactly the debate, but I was helping out ABC News and ABSAT (a satellite service of ABC) for the past few days. I really didn't do much of anything, but it was an interesting experience, and I met a lot of really nice people. I saw lots of people too. I saw Sean Hannity walk by and wasn't sure if I wanted to challenge him intellectually, bring up Joey's challenge or just cut to the chase and punch him in the gut if I got a chance. But then I just watched as he walked by. I also saw Mr. Colmes, he is frightening looking. Seriously, it was scary. It was surreal, everyone there, the politicians, the media, the protesters, the Secret Service, the President, me. Very strange. And I realized something today, as I thought about how my week has gone. Essentially I have been working three jobs - Red Robin, ABC (although not getting paid), and I started my new job at Firebird's. I also have studied and done homework, even though I haven't had class at all so far this week. That is entirely a lot of stuff in a schedule. But I have the opportunity to make that work. And it might. I think that I might be able to pull off two jobs and 21 credit hours. I might be insane in a few months, but hey, isn't that what youth is for?

This post is in response to recent clamor on http://poopshute.blogspot.com (Joey's blog).

A little late to hop into this one, but I wanted to make a few comments, as a neutral party. First of all, I read the post and did not find it aimed at anyone specifically, until names were brought up. Obviously I haven't been around for recent political discussions, maybe that was the Rosetta Stone that I was missing to consider the post an attack.

Voting is a right, but also a privilege.

This election will be my first vote, I'm super-pumped about it. I believe in it. Ed is right, the system isn't completely legit, but it is the one in which we live. So I will vote. I don't like Bush, I don't know if I even like Kerry. I think that some people look at the whole thing in too simple of terms. Vote or not vote, Bush or Kerry, etc. You can choose to "throw your vote away" as some may call it by voting for Nader or a write in. Or you can literally throw your vote away by not using it.

That is the choice that some are posed with. If you don't like the candidates, then waste your vote. It's like someone has given you a million dollars. You can waste it on candy and movies and other shit or you can throw it in a trash can.

But don't you think you would like to waste it on something?

One of the confirmations is in - I can go to Chile!

I'm am now almost positive that I will be staying in school longer than December 2004. Don't hold me to that, but I'm pretty sure. I have applied to an exchange program to Chile. The only thing that is holding me back from being sure that I got it is the fact that it is run through the College of Business, and they have to approve for me to go and "represent them" or something like that, due to the fact that Journalism and Mass Communication does not fall under the general business category. I should find out within the next few days.

What I also will find out tomorrow is if I got a job that I auditioned for. Fox Sports Net held auditions last week for the Campus Correspondent position for a portion of their programming called "SunDevil Insider." I went, the audition went really well and whether I get it or not, I'm happy about the experience. But I still want it.

So, in summary, tomorrow I will find out if I am going to be a correspondent for Fox Sports Net as well as if I will be able to go to Chile next semester. I hope that both don't happen. Because then I will have to make a decision. Boo.

Well, that's the end of today's discussion, next topic, conflicts of interest(nice transition, eh?). See you all then!