Diary7/2/1come out come out... I just found out that I lost a lot of things when I moved back from school. If you happen to come across a stack of four-track tapes and all of the letters and photographs I put on my walls, tell me where they are. Please? 7/1/1 la Boring boring Sunday. My big accomplisments for the day were finishing Escape From Monkey Island, and tabbing out some of those things I wrote before so I don't forget them for the second time. Escape From Monkey Island was actually a lot better that I was afraid is was going to be since they started the whole 3D thing. It's hard not to love a game with a giant robot monkey. I still think the third one is my favorite in the series, though. np: Ted Leo/Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance 6/29/01 this again Hello diary. Been a long time... So I guess there's no point in summarizing a whole month of not being able to write here, but here goes: went to Boston and saw K. and Retsin, got a job, hang around, saw some other shows, and that's about it. Not bad, though. Tonight, Eric, Teresa and I went and saw Atlantis at the theater in Rotterdam Square. I had four free passes that Ariel's dad gave me a year ago that expired at the end of june, so I figured the 29th might be a good time to use them. We just gave the extra one to some random old lady who was going to see a movie anyway. Yay for being nice only when it doesn't require any effort... But yeah, the movie was pretty, had some parts that didn't make sense, and people had triangles for fingernails. Take that how you will. 6/18/1 ...hi? My computer is back. Now I can put things in my diary again, yay! First things first: this weekend I drove out to Boston with Teresa and Matt and I went to see K. and Retsin at the Middle East. Of course the show was awesome, and of course I have pictures, and of course I've been too lazy to scan them in yet. Teresa and I (and Frank on the way back) played the movie game for about four hours in the car. Today, when I was getting my PowerBook back (it's a good thing it was under warranty, by the way, the parts cost CompUSA $972), I coincidentally ran into Frank and Teresa! Totally bizarre, so we went and got iced tea and lemonade and desert for them and talked for a while, then I brought them back to Teresa's so they wouldn't have to ride the bus, and eventually caught up with Zak and Eric. We rented Death Race 2000 which is so incredibly awesome that I can't begin to describe it. "It's a hand grenade." Christ. Anyway, I'm back online. Ungh. 6/2/1 ayeyiyi So I started feeling sick during the Juliana Theory show and had to leave early and now my Powerbook's screen is acting really weird. It's pretty hard to type this because I can only see what I'm doing about three quarters of the time, so you'll have to excuse me. I probably won't be able to do the reviews for this weekend's shows until after I get this fixed... I've been better. 5/30/1 hee I'm better now. Hopefully I'll get my money back from those jerks (the kid who stole my credit card number and the pornographic website that allowed him to use it). I'm tired of thinking about it, though. So today, Zak and I went to a thrift store for the first time in a while, and didn't find anything worth buying. Oh well. After just chilling with Zak (and riding along when he picked up a job application), I went to Ariel's (and Anna's :) ) play, which was very cute. The plan was that I would meet back up with everyone else (Raeesa was having a barbecue and Ka-Man had a show of her photographs at the airport, both of which I would have gone to, but I can only be in one place at a time...), but that didn't work out because I didn't know where everyone was going to be when I got back. Oh well again. 5/28/1 rrr! So someone stole my credit card number and used it to subscribe to a pornographic website. I reported it to both the billing company that put the charge on my card and to my bank, so I'm not going to get charged for it, but I am so. fucking. pissed. off. I want to know how he got it and who gave it to him, and even more I want to call his fucking mom and tell on him. How can someone be so full of himself that he steals from someone else in order to jack off? In what kind of goddamn screwed up moral system does shit like that come before the rights of others? Stupid little shit probably thinks himself a "h4x0r" or whatever. I mean, thinking about it, I should probably pity the kid (I'm assuming that it's an adolescent male - who else would steal pornography?), porn is probably the closest thing he gets to human interaction. I apologize for all the swearing, but I'm mad. 5/26/1 I'm sorry, really I am Yeah, I ignored the diary again. A lot actually happened since I last wrote in here, but I just haven't been feeling like writing much. I think this happened last summer, too. I guess it's fate. Since I wrote last: bought car, got job application, saw Joe for the first time in forever, Zak came back from college, helped Teresa buy a futon (which actually fit in my Civic), saw Jets to Brazil, and played video games. Yay. 5/20/1 I'm sorry about the neglect Yep, I've been ignoring the diary again. Sorry. I went to Eric's last night with Kevin and Al and got back home around three. We watched old GoBots episodes and Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Yay summer! I'm gonna get a job this week. I mean it. Really. I just have to find one that doesn't involve food, retail, typing, fixing computers, things that smell bad... 5/17/1 If I could live to be several hundred... Wow, I haven't written in my diary for over a week. It's not like nothing has been happening - I went to a wonderful show, my brother graduated from college, I'm probably going to be getting my first car that is actually mine... but I guess I've been two lazy to write about it. I still am, but I figured I should at least put something here, you know? Anyway, tomorrow Ariel and I are hopefully going to the Orange's CD release party after her brother's school play. At least that's the way I'm hoping things happen, who knows what's actually going to happen. Car-wise, I'm going to be buying my brother's old car because he's buying a new one. His old car is a Honda Civic and his new one is a Civic. My mom has a Civic, too. Huh. 5/9/1 sweep sweep I cleaned my room today. Fun. I mean, it's not going to stay this way for very long, but for now its nice that i don't have to hop around on one foot when I want to go and open the window on the far side. Yay hooray! So did I actively look for a job today? Nope. Do I plan to tomorrow? Nope. The day after? Nope. The weekend? Nah. Oddly enough, this is still the hardest I've looked for a job in a long time. I'm just lazy, I guess. 5/8/1 aaaah ha hush that fuss So now I'm looking to get myself a job. I'm planning on getting a shitty lame one to complain about at this point. Of course, unless someone pays me money to only do things I would do otherwise, I'll complain about it. So yeah. I finally have all my grades now - three As and a B, which totally seems a lot better than the actual effort I put into the semester, but it always seems that way. I guess that's ok. Anyway, today was SO boring. I didn't anything at all! I didn't even leave my house! I had no reason to! Hmm... summer. I played video games and listened to Dressy Bessy. I guess there are worse things to do... 5/5/1 again... Yay I finally put up those show reviews with the pictures and such. Took me long enough. I'm really getting nervous about one of my grades - I sent the paper to the professor on friday when it was due, but he hasn't acknowledged it at all, and the grades are due in pretty soon. Once this is all over I'll be such a happy young man. My other grades were... (fake drum roll): Optics: A, Experimental Physics: B, Moral Development: A, Metaphysics of Consciousness: grade unknown! (Yes, I know that class names shouldn't be capitalized unless they're languages, but this is the internet; we don't know shit.) I also bought a whole bunch of grey-market fast film today because I found it cheap. Hopefully this will be good - people either seem to like it or hate it ("It's like putting sand in your camera"), but I think the people that hate it just got shitty prints. Hopefully it'll get here by Thursday and I'll try it out. If it sucks, I'll just take pictures of Zak with it. 5/5/1 the worst laid plans So I was all upset about nothing since the Promise Ring isn't going to be playing at Parkfest after all. I was a little iffy about whether or not it was worth thirty dollars when they were playing, so there's no way I'm going now. Oh well. The Onelinedrawing show on Thursday will probably be better than that could have been, anyway. 5/4/1 this looks familiar So nobody wants to go see the Promise Ring and They Might Be Giants with me at Parkfest, huh? Fine! That just means more show for... oh fuck it, I'm not going. 5/3/1 I think my straining to hard to pretend that I'm past the finish line, I'm going to end up falling on it The essay is written! All that is left is for me to proofread it and hand it in. I had my final today, too. I'm pretty sure that I rocked its face. Yayayaya. I still have moving to do, and I'm still not too down with the idea of picking up heavy things, but such is life. I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote the last entry, but the date is wrong. I don't remember what it really was, but unless I went back in time, the 26th shouldn't come after the 27th. I think. I don't have any more math classes (for a few months...) so I don't have to think about things like that any more. Also, it's hot out here. I don't like it. Nope. 4/26/1 fz Sorry about the lack of updates, its just that I have an essay due by the end of the week and a final exam thursday morning, so I've been occupied with that stuff. When it's all over, I'll put up reviews of the shows that I went to in the past couple of days - I got the pictures back and they're much better than I expected. It's nice when show photos have colors other than red - yay for the Nikkor primes I spent too much money on. I know some of my grades now - I'm pretty sure I got an A in moral development. At least that's what I gathered from the professor's rather cryptic email (sent to 12 people in the class)... here's a quote: "Because grades are confidential, yet each class member can't be sent their own right now, 'whom' is being confided in instead. And according to 'whom,' if one were being copied this memo, one should be especially happy about a grade that they achieved." Um. That means I got an A, right? I know for a fact that I have a B in experimental physics because THAT email came right out and said it. The other two classes I'm still working on. So, half relief, half fear. Three more days... Also, I'm writing this from OS X. It's getting better. I don't hate it anymore, at least. It only made me lose 100 words of an essay when it went insane. We obviously still have issues to resolve with each other. 4/27/1 gr. Ok, so no one wants to go see Guided By Voices and Spoon with me tomorrow, eh? Well, fine - that just means more show for me! Hah! 4/26/1 yay I scurried out of my hole at school and I didn't even get afraid of my shadow. This can only mean one thing: a few months of summer vacation =) My last class was yesterday and I'm still giddy. ...later that day... I beat Fallout today. I hate that fucking game. 4/21/1 from where I've been a hundred times Three more class days! The panic of wondering if I'll be able to get everything done has given way to the realization that it will end no matter what, and I have a tendency to get my work done, so I don't really have to worry. Besides, I've actually been doing my work tonight (unlike yesterday, but I had to take yesterday off because I HANDED IN AN ESSAY ALMOST EVERY DAY LAST WEEK). Yeah, so I ran into that strange lady at the heath food store once again, but she was talking to someone else, so it was easy to escape. I know she's just a lonley old lady, but she really creeps me out. So I'm a horrible person. Should I put the songs in their own section? Like, maybe get rid of the thoughts section that's been empty for months (is that symbolic?) and put it in its place? Or should I concentrate on writing the rest of my essays instead? Did anyone listen to them anyway? 4/16/1 clack I'm sick of typing. That's pretty much been my day. Not really typing, but essay related things and class. At least Wednesday is over, or at least it will be in 33 minutes. Two and two halves essays to go. There are seven days until the last day of class. I hate how that's never a good thing, because it's just a huge deadline. But then it passes and it's good, so I shouldn't complain. This next week will suck, but that was pretty much determined from the beginning of the year so I should just live with it and do my work and shut the heck up. So I will. 4/15/1 I will survive... Two essays down, four to go. The last day of class is a week away. No sweat, right? It's late because I was just up writing one of them, so I'm tired and really don't feel like writing anymore. Don't worry, nothing exciting happened today, anyway. 4/14/1 oy. I actually made a schedule for myself so I do everything that I need to do before the end of the semester. This isn't going to be fun, but I can pull it off. I'm going to be overtired, cranky, and probably have carpal-tunnel syndrome by the end of it, but I'll survive. 4/13/1 wooooo---aaaah! Things I did today: - Go to a mall with Ariel, buy ugly flip-flops and Shrinkwrapped by Gang of Four at an all-for-a-dollar store. - Watch Enter the Dragon at Zak's house and be filled with an overwhelming desire to be like the karate dude with the afro. - Buy Pez watch that doesn't fit me - Wish Kevin a happy birthday - Sleep! Hooray! Not too shabby. 4/12/1 I love that "I'm going to regret this" feeling Today was... I don't know. Nothing bad happened, but I misheard a voicemail message that made me worry all day and then I listened to it again and I didn't really have anything to worry about. So the story of the day is that I'm stupid and worry too much. Nothing new there. Anyway, I've been sitting here and you know, there's this thing about me that I never mention on this web page (or to many people for that matter). This is the fact that I write shitty songs. Yep, I'm another kid in his bedroom with a four track and guitar playing the same two damn chords. I have had the good sense, however, not to inflict these on many other people out of my altruisic nature, but I'm feeling like a bastard tonight, so here come the mp3s. Not only are these badly written, but I don't even bother re-recording when I mess up the guitar parts because I'm lazy and they're just for my own reference anyway. The name of the band in the ID tags is "Air Nickel" because one of the first songs I wrote had both Ariel and I singing and we needed to think of a name to put on the CD (it was a present of sorts) and we couldn't think of band names so we rearranged the letters in our names and got Air Nickel. It was either that or "Alien Rick." Heh, anyway, here are some of the ones that I bothered making mp3s of: Always Be Somewhere - I wrote this on monday.So uh, yeah. I'm sorry. 4/11/1 sometimes it's a good thing light passes through me I won't go into it, but I had The Most Uncomfortable Social Situation of All Time today. Oy. Anyway, other than that, today was pretty nice. I found out that a picture of mine won third place in the school's photography contest, so that's pretty nice. There's still no word on what the prizes are, but it's still nice because I'm not really the type of person who wins things. Well, I didn't really win; I came in third, but I still get my "thanks for trying!" smiley face sticker, right? School ends in less than three weeks and I have six essays to write. Peh. np: Tiger Trap - self titled 4/10/1 stoopid boid So when I went to school this week, I forgot to bring bread with me. No problem, though, since there's the store on campus and I finally went over to buy a loaf today. I just left it on my bed and went to class. Now, today was extraordinarily nice weather-wise, so I had my window open, and RPI being the ghetto place that it is, I have no screen. This, apparently was an invitation for some damn bird to come into my room, rip open the bag of bread, take a few bites, get crumbs all over my bed and fly off with not so much as a "thank you." I had to throw the whole loaf out because even though only the top three or so pieces had nibbles on them, I'm paranoid about whatever crazy diseases Troy birds have. Plus, it's just gross. Otherwise, it was just another boring school day. I put up another air freshener in the bathroom. If three air fresheners doesn't cover a one-shower, one-toilet bathroom, maybe I should just burn it down. Why do people at college have to be so dirty and stinky and gross? Is it really too much to ask that people not pee on the floor? 4/8/1 Penelope shoot the apple off my head... Yeah so today was nice... I bought a Powerpuff Girls DVD (the one with Bubblevicious on it!) and saw a movie at Proctors with Zak and family, although I can't for the life of me remember the name of it. There was the second random Anna sighting this week there, too :) Oh and we watched I'ma Git You, Sucka (or some variation on that spelling). We sure do know how to live... 4/7/1 [wailing guitar] Zak and I rented (and watched!) Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey today. It's quite possibly the dumbest movie ever made. And by that I mean it rocks! (Guitar solo) Christ... Anyway, yay for being back away from school. Another weekend where I'm going to completely ignore everything school related and just chill. Just like I should. There was something else that was rad that I wanted to mention, but I forgot and I'm tired, so I won't bother... 4/2/1 I ride my unicycle down the stairs... My day: 2:30am - finally finish physics lab 3:00am to 7:00am - a little bit of that "I know I'm not going to get enough sleep and worrying about it keeps me awake" sleep 8:00am - Hand in lab 8:00am to midnight - fall apart Sort of. I decided to take a little nap around five and ended up sleeping for three hours. So now I'm even more messed up than before. Rah. At least I don't have class until two tomorrow, so I can try to do something resembling normal. I registered my classes for next semister... Oy. Three physics classes and a math class. Joy. At least there aren't any lab classes, I guess. Actually, I don't know that, but they don't have scheduled lab times at least. I swear something interesting happened today and I completely forgot what it was... np: Of Montreal - Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies 3/26/01 zzz. I'm tired. Probably because I got up at 6:45 and didn't go to bed all that much before that. I'll catch up, though. I don't have class until two tomorrow... Anyway, I went back into the darkroom today and made some more prints, and this time I did it all by myself! Yay. Me alone with chemicals... isn't there a warning sticker on me that says not to allow that to happen? Anyway, more pictures: This was in North Adams. I think it's cute. 3/25/01 whee So, instead of doing the reading I was supposed to catch up on, I decided to beat Breath of Fire IV and spend a few hours in the darkroom tonight. Hey, at least I did what I set out to do, right? And I'm happy because I finally can make prints. Hurray hurrah. I mean, I spent two hours in there and only made a contact sheet and one 5x7, but now I know how to do everything, so it won't take as long now. Maybe. This is the one I made a print of so far, there are others that I'm going to get to but for now, this is Ariel's robot learning how to read. The paper got fogged a little bit, but it came out ok, more or less. And yay for ISO 25 film since there's so little grain it makes it hard to focus the enlarger... I should go to bed soon. I have class at 8, but I'm not tired. I hate that. And now I'm rambling... well, night night. 3/25/01 this is just stupid, boring, computer stuff So the thing that was making Classic not work was that I had OS 10 installed on a UFS partition. So I reformatted the partition and reinstalled. Classic worked, and I was starting to warm up to OS X. Then the dock froze. I force quit everything that was open and it was still stuck there, so I did a force restart. When it started back up, all of the applications were no longer applications, they were folders. I couldn't run anything, not even the system settings program to change my startup disk back to the OS 9 one. So I used my OS 9 CD to get everything back running, and reformatted the partition with OS X on it. I'm never installing it again. I guess Apple delivered on their promise of delivering the power of UNIX, in that it made my computer totally fucking worthless. I'll keep my Mac as a Mac, thank you very much. 3/24/01 sigh Yay so today was cool. The trip wasn't nearly as uncomfortable as I feared it would be, I met some really nice people, and I developed my first roll of film ever. So yay for today. Although, I must say that I really feel bad for Apple. They try so hard, they really do, but unfortunately, I can't see myself ever using OS X unless I have to because there's some application I need on it. It doesn't help that Classic won't run on my computer for some reason. So, it's sitting there on it's own little partition, wasting a third of my hard drive, and I don't think I'll ever boot back into it except to show it off. I want my $130 back! 3/23/01 the butler, maybe? Ok, this is just really mysterious. I went to my mailbox today, and there was a card in it. The envelope didn't have my full address, just my name and my dorm, and there wasn't a stamp or return address so it must have been through intracampus mail. I opened it up, and it's a cute handmade birthday card, on orange contruction paper, with glittery writing and all that jazz. Very sweet. Of course, my birthday was exactly two months ago, and the person who sent the card didn't put his/her name anywhere on it. The inside just says (in glitter stuck to glue) "Have a nice birthday." Heehee. I mean, I'm flattered that someone sent me the card and put the effort into making it, but I have no idea who, why, or how. I mean, who on campus would send me a card on my un-birthday? Teresa already denied involvement... Maybe it's someone reading this page? Um. Person? Hi. Thank you, but who are you? Or maybe that's the point... Anyway, I'm going on the photography club trip to MASS MoCA tomorrow. Hopefully it will be fun... sure, I don't really know anyone in the photography club, but it'll be ok. I think... np: Fear of Commitment - Paper Dolls and Paper Plates 3/21/01 tra la... Lazy, lazy me. I haven't done any work lately, and it's likely that I'll finish the week that way. Why, you ask? Stupid Breath of Fire IV taking up all my time. I just can't resist the wiles of a game that has a robot that smashes things with its face. Teresa and I, spurred by a constant barrage of unpleasant suprises in the bathroom, have decided to make a sign. What do you think of mine? If you were the type of person that couldn't be trusted not to pee on the wall, how would you react? I also spent another fifty bucks on photography equipment today. So much for being done buying stuff, eh? This time it's a softbox and a polarizing filter... np: Of Montreal - The Early Four Track Recordings 3/20/01 quack quack quack! Happy Birthday, Ariel!!!! 3/18/01 let me be your one light So spring break is over. I'm back at school. Sucky. Hey, at least I played on Eric's Atari and visited Zak at Bard, right? Woo-hoo! Spring Break '01! Rockin' da par-tay! Yeah. So. I didn't do any reading for my classes over the break. It's not such a big problem, since there wasn't all that much to do, but maybe it would have been nice to have a head start. Still, I have no regrets. I needed a week off. I also wrote a bunch of new music reviews! It's been a long long long time, but I think I might actually get back into doing it regularly again. I figure if I can spend countless hours playing lame Playstation games, I can devote a few to that. Plus, there are some that I started and didn't finish... 3/13/01 for shame I chilled at Eric's tonight... and you know, I really wish I could say that we didn't spend four hours playing River City Ransom, but I can't. And we STILL didn't beat it. We got close and then the game went all crazy. We did figure out a new method of coaxing a Nintendo into working, though. There's the standard "blow on it" approach, which we found insufficient, there's my "don't insert the cartridge all the way" method, which usually works but didn't this time, and now there's the "shake the hell out of the NES until it works" method that we invented tonight. Yay. Before that, I went to Ariel's mock trial thingie at the courthouse (basically there are two teams and they act as the defense and prosecution in a made up case). Ariel's team lost... but an interesting thing almost happened. Well, maybe not "interesting" but definitely weird and almost disasterous. You see, I have these ninja stars. I was going to give a few to Eric tonight, and I put them in my pocket earlier in the day. Ariel's mock trial was, as I said, in the courthouse. There are metal detectors at the court house. I had ninja stars in my pocket. They set the metal detectors off. The guard didn't care. Phew. 3/11/01 there's not enough room here and there's never enough poison to kill the way that I really feel Sorry about the so long with no updates. Not that I ever have anything interesting to say. Anyway, school's over for the present - I went back home on thursday and I don't have to go back until next sunday, so that's cool. I don't really have all that much to do, but there are some things that I wanted to catch up on. Zak, his dad and I went to see Bela Fleck and the Flecktones tonight. Rad. Plus we got in for free, go Michael. ... and yes, you were right, but I'm still not telling. Later. 03/05/01 oh boy... landmark discovery for Nick's laziness #10: instead of drying my dishes, I can put them in the microwave! No I'm not going to try it on the silverware... The older entries are here... |
