Upon reading in Dave's journal, "I wanted to write because I do like writing in this thing and we all have been a little lax about it lately." I realized that I have been more than lax about it. I figured it's been quite a long time since I've updated, so why not take the time to finally do so? Geez, I haven't updated with a real entry in slightly over a month.

Well, there's a particularly noticeable difference in my journal, as seen in my friends list. The change was for a few reasons:
a) I never really read some people's journals.
b) Some journals I did not find interesting.
c) I'm not going to read post-after-post about anyone's obsession with their bf/gf (this, however, excludes Dave since I've grown used to it and for the fact that he now writes real entries more often). I'm sure no one would read my journal if all I wrote about was a girl, so understand that when I say I'm not going to read yours.

Should go without saying, but those left on my list are the journals I do read, and like to read.

Hmm, various miscellaneous events have happened in the past, oh, 4 weeks or so, but I'll opt not to drone on about everything. Let's see, for an overview, I've basically been keeping up my work so my GPA stays nice and high. Easter Break was basically spent vegetating in my room, downloading like there was no tomorrow since I was home and not subject to the GLAAD firewall that exists on the school network. I returned to school and got back into the grind of doing work, etc.

-To interject my own train of thought, I often reflect upon just how great this semester has been in comparison to the previous three. It has been quite noticeable that I have overall been much happier, and it's more than obvious that I finally truly enjoy my classes (as my grades have reflected). I'm looking forward to next year so much: I'm going to be living on the Ave. in the SPAA house (in a massive single!), so I won't suffer living with fucktards in my hall/dorm, won't smell cow asshole from the nearby fields, etc.; I'm taking more classes in which I'm actually interested, including Greek, Philosophy of Religion, Buddhism/Asian Christianity, and Studio Techniques, amongst others; My grades this semester will definitely bump up my cumulative GPA, so I won't have any problem meeting the requirements to pledge "Puma", and their house is literally right across the street, so I can go there pretty much whenever I want. It's looking like next year is gonna be amazing. I can't wait.

Getting back to my recollection, this past weekend was full of fun times. Saturday was a fun road trip to Harrisburg, primarily to hit up Target since I've never been to one, but also to explore some other stores in the Colonial Commons. I really wanted to find and purchase the little round chairs with the folding legs that they sell at Target (seems to be the chair that everyone in college has, and they're so damn comfy and affordable), but they only had two brightly colored chairs that were $40. I passed and figured I'd make a trip before school starts in the Fall, so I can catch a back-to-school sale. Well, being the nerd that I am, the only purchase I made was the two books I bought at Border's (Dan Brown's Angels and Demons and Kevin Mitnick's The Art of Deception).

Man, I really have become a nerd. I've gotten into reading like it's my job! I read Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and was blown away. I highly suggest that everyone reads that book. Well, I ended up joining two book clubs in the past month or so, one being a Christian book club to which my mom also belongs, and a History book club that I joined recently. Oddly enough, through the Christian book club I ordered the lot of J.R.R. Tolkien books, and bought books on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Lost Christianities, Lost Scriptures, and Prophecies through the History book club. Heh, seems a little backwards, but whatever. I'm all about reading. It's a good time.

Anyway, came back from Harrisburg and went to a barbeque at the Zeta house, but it wasn't too exciting. I got up early (for me, anyway) on Sunday to head to Williamsport for the AIDS walk at Lycoming College. The group of us that went stopped for breakfast at the shady 4 Seasons Diner here in Shamokin Dam. The highlight of the day was hearing the project manager tell us her weird dream about a squirrel masturbating inside the equivalent of a tree house, then a knife entering to scrape the "result" off of the walls, then the whole thing turned into a commercial for peanut butter with some ridiculous slogan about being "straight from the squirrel's nuts."--we were all going WTF?! After that interesting conversation, we headed to the stadium and went to register our team (which I said we should call ourselves "Squirrel Nut Butter", but we went with Team SPAA instead). We ended up walking 4 miles! We had our laughs, especially when this guy consistently lapped us and I mocked his robotic arm movements while singing "domo arigato Mr. Robot-o". We enjoyed ourselves, despite being sweaty and dirty (since Lycoming's track is just a big gravel pit, it's gross). After that I went along to the Greek store, in which I felt envious since I'm not in a frat yet. After that I went home and had a nice shower, ate, watched Eight Crazy Nights, and relaxed.

School's basically still the same routine, but thankfully finals are coming up, and more importantly, summer break. Right now I'm looking forward to Spring Weekend. Friday night we're having a Percussion "sectional"--i.e., we're getting annihilated. Hopefully the partying will continue Saturday night as well, because it's always fun to show up to a concert still having alcohol on your breath. The concert kinda pisses me off. Band is annoying because we've basically been ready for the concert for about a month already. It's also annoying because Dr. Martin's kinda freakin out because we're gonna be televised, and so now we have this dress code, which says we can only wear gold jewelry, so she says I have to take my piercings out for the concert. It's bullshit. We'll see how that goes.

Well, there's a novel for ya. My apologies for the lack of updating.

I think you should write all your entries about how awesome I am, so many people would read it. Especially because I really AM awesome. But aside from the lack of Rory in your entry it was a good read, kinda like all those books you read, nerd.
» rmarino on 2004-04-20 11:53:07

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