Song Suggestions

so this summer seems to be pretty interesting so far. ill be doing a lot of races over the course of the summer; the 24 hour run, RAGBRAI, and the Urban Assault Race. out of those three i am the most scared about the 24 hour run. i just know that i can handle some biking events, but running....? we'll see.

in the mean time i am trying to put together some motivation songs for my running during the event tomorrow. here are some of my thoughts and some suggestions from friends so far.

"american boy" by Kanye West
"i gotta get through this" by i dont know who
some led zeppelin
"bombs over baghdad" by outkast
"rock n roll" by led zeppelin
"your hand in mine (w/strings)" by explosions in the sky
"cecilia" by simon and garfunkal
"ha ha" by mates of state
"paradise city" by guns n' roses
"nothing better" by the postal service

if anyone has suggestions for another song, just leave a comment

summer so far

so summer has been awesome. other than not having money im doing just fine. i still need a job and it feels like money is blood for me (if i dont have it ill die!) but i get by with a little help. been biking and running a lot, doing the 24 hour run alumni team next thursday and im going to die. thats all there is to it, plain death. so ive been trying to get up early (sometimes it works) and do some runs. been pretty consistent with the biking though. took a Tour de Elgin solo today and wanted to go further but i had no idea where the trail went when there were detours in downtown elgin. also to note; elgin is a really nice place, bunch of benches by the river to sit down at and really nice scenery. the Tour was about 30 miles but i did fine other than the fact that my eyes started to hurt because of the wind and my gouch was torn apart from the rock solid seat. i need to name my bike. maybe itll be "KW" or something because i put that Key West sticker on it. we'll see if any name rises naturally.

went to the CL bars for the first time tonight. celebrated the going away of ashley powell to her new home in colorado. the friends are starting, and now that i think of it have never stopped, moving away. thats the way things are. you just got to find someone to stick on to. it was a good time in down town CL though. i was DD so i didnt really kick back as many as you might say miskell or even fogerty... hahaha. he was a mess. putting his feet on the table at georgios is just an example. oh well, he was a good topic of conversation.

im loving the show The Office more and more each day. watched a bunch of episodes at mals house and tried my best to hold back that bursting/humiliating laugh i have when i cant control it. then i watched the season finale tonight which, by the way, was an hour long (sweet) and felt like i was a character. thats how personal it was. oh lordy.

planning on heading to naperville with some bros saturday. its going to be a night of pure juicing at the summerfest that they are having. from my history with the fest (that being one year) it should be a great time. really looking forward to yelling out random obscenities at the fireworks again

new from the old

so its 1:43 in the morning. its saturday. im still at the ilstu and not nearly finished packing my room. this dorm (watterson) is one of the biggest in the nation and its fucking empty... really. the only two people that i think are still in it are me and the kid across the hall in the single bedroom that ive had roughly 3 conversations with that didnt have more than 30 words in them. other than that i dont here a sound from any floor, dont see anyone anywhere, and it all feels like a ghost town. doesnt help either being in a room with half the amount of people its supposed to have be in it. oh well, ill make it through. this is going to be a long entry because i havent wrote in it since my birthday. my life had been pretty boring since then actually. it was mostly just class, homework, and repeat. but for my send off of the school year ill say some of my favorite moments of the year according to who did them.
sarah
-watching that horrible japanese movie with you
-dropping my shorts in the stairwell
-"smoke weeeed"
-latino studies and theatre in general
-"put your ..."
mark
-all of the drama
-the "emperor" drinking game ("kill kill kill kill, live live live live")
-being the beer pong tourney champion
-chillin on Dunn 4 and your face behind the door about abby
justin
-johnsons bar crawl
-the jimmy buffett band
-lighter for birthday candle
-courts bday
-winning 8 in a row at rickys
abby
-the photo shoot in your room
-you playing cupid
-your dress for barn dance
kyle
-most epic Hardcore game of halo
-your stupid but awesome beer pong finals win over eiler and i
natalie
-frisbee
-trip to purdue and miami ohio
-wearing my cub scout uniform for halloween
-our marriage talk
-you not showing up when you scedualed lunch
-latino studies moments
andy
-incorporating brian into the scene and the actions that came from that
-my BP partner for most of the year
-challenging my dance moves
vargas
-raging at the pub 2 bodyguards
-starting the revolution in alabama
-"ooooooooh gasmoooooooo"
-pink drank
-the bro walk
-fights with your roommates and anyone who wants to rumble with words
hickey
-always offering even though i will refuse every time
-the hickey shuffle
-arguments with vargas
-professing your friendship through horrible deeds.
-talking about gta
-your cars bass making me feel like an earthquake was coming
lindsey
-olive garden and sushi
-your best game of beer pong at hickeys
-dissing the girls business frat
annette
-"make me drink the salty waaater"
-organizing the "ruck fockford" party
-comparing me to your mother...
colleen
-always shrugging your shoulders and holding the double thumbsup with your smiles
-whatski isski youski sayingski?
-blacking out on multiple occasions
mike
-always sucking at video games
-trying to get into fights the most
-never failing to say "whats up fagnes"
-recognizing how bad brian fucked up
-not having any nice cloths for a good occasion
-feeling 10x cooler to the "hustlin" song
bini
-being the most photogenic friend i have
-talking about video games
-losing everything on centsports...
-sharing hilarious/stupid online videos
adam
-yeaaaaaaaaaaa
-ooooh what up hal!
-epic swedish fish toss
-pinning your finger in the door, bruising it, and never telling me until months later...
-sienfeld everyday and owning in sienfeld trivia
-tripping you when your drunk
-listening to stupid david play halo/listen to music/be dumb
-intervention

and thats all im going to do really. if anyone reads this and is sad that i didnt mention them. tough luck bro. its just a dumb blog

Surprise Me

so last night was my birthday party. it was a good day in general. lets get the bad things out first though. the start was horrible, enough said. and i lost around $1.30 on centsports! oh lordy it was a horrible day of betting for me. i won a good 4 game parlay in for soccer and then lost nearly it all in basketball and baseball. i hate betting on baseball, its the hardest sport to bet on. thank goodness i dont do it with actual money. just centsport money. its fun.
but for the good part of my day.
went with adam to go pick up a helium tank and some packets of balloons. got a good idea that it would be fun to have a bunch of balloons floating around everywhere. i had a good time setting them up. even though justin has a new found distaste towards balloons. poor guy. then after that the bambini family came down for the spring football game and invited mark, justin, and i out to dinner at this really good mexican restaurant. the portions were huge and the prices were cheap. i know that stuff is going to wreck me in the future. oh yea, and "air africa" is a reallll button pusher, kinda like me. but i still would love to watch beanbo rock him one of these days. after that i got my first purchase of an alcoholic beverage. a keg of natty. it was pretty boss. and nick had a pretty hard time helping me up the stairs. those NCC kids are so strong... haha anyways. after some showering, watching sports, and pretty much broing out we decided to get a second k-e-g and i got some pink drank for nat-dog. a good amount of people showed up last night but it was a waste to move the shitty couch into marks room. im so sorry mark, even though it fits perfectly. i was really happy at the people that showed up. austin, corrine, and nick i knew were coming and i was really happy that they had a good time. i really think corrine bonded well with some friends of mine and shes a good dancer. but the real thing that surprised me was kait and danielle bursting through the door at around 10:30! i was sideswiped. kait had been lying all week that she couldn't make it because of a volleyball tourney she was going to and a team dinner afterwards. then danielle made the long trip from western and i was really happy she came also. i still cant believe that they came, utterly surprised. austin got me this collectible derrek lee bobble head that he got from a cubs game that he attended with corrine. it was awesome, apparently a lot of people at the game asked him if they could buy it off him and he just said "its for a good friend." ohhh shit. kait got me this card that she put together last minute but it was still something that i read at least 4 times over last night. she should really think about partnering up her Kaits Kards company with Danielles Designs. they would make a pretty good tag team duo. then some friends of mine that i havent really hung out with for a while came and the night dwindled down until everyone started to head home. it was just a really good night. thanks

Never Again

so its my birthday. big 2-1. last night was pretty crazy. started kicking back a few around 7:30 and went over to justins at 8:00 to watch the sox game and get things started. as soon as i get there justin gives adam and i a shot of jager. that stuff is better than i thought. we got some coors. it was good. i was drinking. a lot. my sister came at around 10:30 and brought a cake. but she didnt have any candles. so justin got a scented candle. didnt work. so he just used the lighter. it was very easy to blow out. im stumbling. a good amount of people came for the small celebration. we finally go to the bars at midnight and im wearing that stupid tiarra that justin has. about 3 seconds of being in the bar justin gets me a landshark. i drank it way too fast. after that i remember four things; taking a sip from marks rum and coke, going to the bathroom, pointing to my tiarra and saying to some completely random guys "this isnt too gay is it?", and taking the four horseman. half way through the four i nearly upchucked and mark says that he cringed when he saw me do that. after that i blacked out. apparently i puked all over pub 2's parking lot and needed to be taken home by brittany and mark or justin, i have no idea. that night will never be recreated. im happy its over with. drink responsibly. carpe diem.

Bruised Thumb

so i went to this dodgeball club on monday at the mccormick center. it was a good time. i was the silent new guy. might of had a better time if i didnt try to dodge from a ball coming at my right arm, swing it out of the way, jam my thumb into my thigh, and get a bruised thumb that looks like i have a black french tip manicure... never bruise your thumb. our speech and our thumbs are what makes us human. you wouldnt believe what you cant do with a bruised thumb. turning a key? brushing my teeth? playing halo? writing with a pen? nope, not going to happen. the only thing that is fun is showing people and looking at their reactions. but its not cool to pinch my thumb. you know who you are.

Sweet fones.

so i went to the AGD formal dance this weekend. we got searched beforehand so that we didn't bring in alcohol. but they served alcohol at the facility. it was kind of weird. it was one of the few dances were i got so tired that i didnt want to dance anymore. i was exhausted. i think it was the screaming and jumping at the same time during "jump around." that song always gets me. care was a fun date. i ate the dinner that they served us in probably 8 minutes. i was so hungry. after that we (meg, care, kyle, and i ) went to miskells who was having people over. land mines is a bad bad game.

my dad, mom and sister alison came down yesturday for mass, lunch, and catching up on things. it was a good sunday afternoon. my family has a real problem talking about people that we see in church.
"what are those things in that girls hair" said alison
"um, paperclips?" said dad
it was refreshing to go to mass. then we went to medici's. which was good. walmart for some things. which was good. and then my dad and i tried to get this U-lock off my bike down here because i lost the keys to it. we had this huuuge bolt cutters and my dad sets the bar of the lock way back into the cutters, puts one handle on his thigh, and then pulled down as hard as he could on the other handle. it left a dent about the lenght of the bottom line of this "L". it was crazy. and then we used hack saws. two of them. both blunted before they even scratched the lock. lord have mercy. that hardened steal is awesome.... too awesome.

after our failure i got some bday presents. a $100 bill from my parents which is in my wallet right now. i feel like theives are looking at my wallet right now. risky? yes. i like to live on the edge. and then i got an awesome wireless headset for my phone. i can even recieve calls and talk to people on it.

technology owns.