Diary05/04/00Today's big issue: when the sucka MCs try to chump my style, I let them know that I'm versatile Tomorrow is my last day of school. I have two finals and then *zip!* I'm out of here. Right on. Other than that... today was dull dull dull. I've listened to Usonian Dream Sequence by Geoff Farina today more times than I can count. One more day won't get to me. For better or worse, I can count the number of hours left on my fingers and toes. np: Geoff Farina - Usonian Dream Sequence 05/03/00 Today's big issue: eww. I haven't updated this for a few days for the simple reason that there are only so many times that a person can say "I didn't really do much today" in a journal until you want to stick pins in your eyes and jump down a flight of stairs. That said, I didn't really do much today. One weird thing was that there are people painting the windows on the front of my house. Today, this included the window on the one bathroom that has a shower. Because of this, I didn't take a shower until well into the afternoon due to my fear of being seen without clothes on by some weird painter guy. No such problems ocurred though. They played rush limbaugh on their radio, though. I swear, that guy, for all of his alpha male cheuvanism, is just a sniveling baby. Anyway... So I started playing Pimp War. It's an online game and it's really stupid but for some reason it's fun. They're not letting new people sign up at the moment because their server is too busy, but when they do, my pimp name is "Nick", since I'm boring and me and Al are the "happysunshinefunclub" alliance. Heehee everyone else has proper pimp names, but it's more fun to stick out like a sore thumb (or a overly twee pop kid in a crowd of pimps). I noticed that I've gotten really bad at responding to emails. I used to always answer them as soon as I got them, but now I tend to completely forget to, even ones that I really want to respond to. Weird. Hope no one out there hates me because of it =) Also, major huge colossal terrible bad thing: my job, the one that I've had since I was in tenth grade, no longer exists because the school district is too stupid to spend their money properly. The run down: a few years ago they decided, "hey! let's buy a bunch of computers! It'll be like free stuff since the state will step in and pay for them!" so they did. We have a bunch of semifunctional IBM computers that run Windows NT. But no additional tech support people. I was one of the original tech support people before this went down. Then, it turns out, the state didn't step in and pay for everything, so the school district of my small town of 50,000 people finds itself in a 3.6 million dollar debt! Whoops! So now they fire a bunch of teachers and nonessental people (hi!). Meanwhile, I'm completely out of a job, which sucks because my old job was just about the best job anyone could hope for. Well maybe it could have been a little better without the stress and being yelled at by people with computer problems, but still it was a good job. I'm considering the implications of either finding a new job or being a bum this summer. If I got a new job, I'm not sure how well I would fare or what I would do. I don't want to do anything computer related for any real business, that's for damn sure. It's not like I could get a job related to my major, either; there's not much demand for people with one year of college studying physics and philosophy. On the other hand, if I don't have a job, I don't have any money and that would basically eliminate the possibility of any cool vacations or even much purchasing of new music. I can't stand either choice, basically. 04/29/00 Today's big issue: nothing at all, really I was bored today. No one was back home and Ariel was busy with play-related stuff, so I just chilled at my house. I wrote some new music reviews and played video games. That's really it. 04/28/00 Today's big issue: rah! I found out that I have an A in physics II. Woo! Now I just have to wait for my other grades to finish - I have an essay to do for philosophy that I'll have to drive back to school on monday to turn in, plus my finals in Calc II and dinosaurs on friday. But that's it! I went to see Ariel in the school production of Violet (a musical about a girl with a scar on her face that goes to see a televangelist to get it healed). Ariel played an old woman and accordingly had wrinkles drawn all over her face heehee. People keep trying to take that Secret Stars tape auction away from me, but they don't understand that any sucka that tries to front is gonna go down. It's up to $24.51. np: Karate - Karate Girl, you've got me all wrong! It's not about the money! 04/27/00 Today's big issue: i'll give you three... Guess who is back home! Guess who finished his last phyisics test! Guess who just got the "wait"/"riot kill" 7" by the Secret Stars in the mail! Guess who's a very happy boy... 04/26/00 Today's big issue: *sigh* I just watched Princess Mononoke... it was really cool... I'm too tired to talk about much now because I have a big physics test tomorrow and I'm not feeling too well. I finally got a perfect score on that gateway exam. I used the force. It's a test that normally takes me 50 minutes to an hour and a half, and I did it in 23 minutes and got a 10 out of 10. It is only when the young warrior doubts his abilities that they leave his side. =) The second Secret Stars tape is up for auction on eBay. I had it for five dollars and then someone outbid me and now I'm up to $20.50. I will not back down. There are some things that are important in life, like food and water and shelter. Everyone has something that goes beyond that... I swear, I don't care how high the price goes. That tape is perfectly worth a week of work in my eyes. Don't push me, suckas =) np: the Secret Stars - the Secret Stars 04/25/00 Today's big issue: blech Today sucked. Work work work for no gain whatsoever. But it's almost over... yay! Summer will come and with it all of the happy things I haven't been able to do at school. This person goes to my school (the link was on kickbright)... I think she's in my dinosaurs class.... Speaking of that, my last dinosaurs class is tomorrow - I don't think I'm ready to enter a world where I'm not learning about dinosaurs for credit anymore =) np: Secret Stars - Genealogies 04/24/00 Today's big issue: ticky ticky tick tick I have three more class days =) Not much happened today. I got a postcard from Ariel! Hee she beat it back to the US, but it's still a cool thing to get; it cheered me up. I went to a lecture by a guy (the president of?) SETI on the possibility of life on Europa (the moon of Jupiter that has a big ocean all the way around), so that was pretty neat. After that, it was just another failed attempt at passing the stupid gateway exam (click on "practice tests" and then set it to "Calculus II gateway exam" to see the simple yet nitpicky stuff I have to do...) for calculus and putting a few finishing touches on an essay for my philosophy class that isn't as thorough as I wanted it to be, but from what my professor said when he read the rough draft, it's fine (or a "strong paper" as he put it, but I think he was just trying not to make me feel bad =) ). And Mel called! And Eric has his own domain now! It's for his comic Salt and Pepper People 04/23/00 Today's big issue: la! Yay! I really good weekend! Almost everyone (with the exception of Matt...) was back: Zak, Kevin, Eric, Ariel and I all chilled. Not all at the same time, but everyone got to chill with everyone else for at least some amount of time. Rad. We watched Super Fly. Rightous. It sparked Zak's and my new interest in cool hats. I mean, I don't think I could pull off the same hats as Priest, but I would really love to get a derby. Next time he's back, me and Zak are going to hit up as many thrift shops and whatever other enclaves of entertaining haberdashery we can find. And today was Easter. Ariel and I went over to Zak's for his family's Easter brunch type thing. Nothing religious, I mean Ariel's Jewish and I'm an agnostic and no one in Zak's family is particularly religious, we just sat around and talked and ate a bit and then talked some more and played and so on. Zak got a Gwar CD from his dad (or from the Easter Bunny, if you want to be nitpicky). I'm jealous =) I only have four class days left! 4! You can count that on one hand! Even if you lost a finger, you could! This is one of those "Oh my god I'm glad it's going to finally be over, yet it's going to be over soon and I'm not quite certain that I have enough time to make everything turn out perfectly" types of situations. But still, four days. Four. I decided to do one of those "now playing" things at the end of my diary entries, because, you know, music is fun. So... np: Camper van Beethoven - Camper van Beethoven is Dead, Long Live Camper van Beethoven. 04/20/00 Today's big issue: who knew? Sending jars of peanut butter to Singapore can be expensive =) Oh well... I listened to this a lot today. And I went to class. And I mailed peanut butter to Singapore. Mostly an average day, I guess. Of course the good thing is that there aren't very many of these so-called average days left: there are 5 class days remaining. Then finals, of course, but the end is quickly approaching. I'll be so happy to leave this school behind for a few months. Then, of course, I'll come back, but I'll be in a single room and I'll be taking theoretical physics. Yes, that last part is a good thing. Really! I mean it! Oh, come on =) 04/19/00 Today's big issue: rah. I'm finished with doing dinosaurs presentations! yay! I bought a Secret Stars CD for Melissa today because I felt bad that the one I convinced her to get never got to her because either it got lost in the mail or the check got stolen. It's good that I can still do nice things, i think. RPI still hasn't destoyed my soul. I win. s 04/18/00 Today's big issue: eck? Big presentation for dinosaurs tomorrow - I hope that turns out ok.. it should but you know, I worry. There's some sort of weird controversy going on in my dorm, but I'm being Swiss about it... The week slowly ticks down.... 04/17/00 Today's big issue: ticky ticky tick The last days of school are counting down. I'm nervous, but at least I realize that there's no real reason that I should be. I have to finish up my group stuff for dinosaurs, take the stupid annoying gateway exam for Calc II and then just generally study for finals and finish whatever else comes my way. Tick Tick. Soon it will be over. So I picked the winner for contest today! Yay! This is going to cost me a fortune to mail, though =) I've been listening to this song a lot today, it's "hurt yourself again" by Yesteryear: i know youre crying out loud five hundred million miles away i can clearly hear you wheezing I guess the breeze is strong this season because you're anything but brittle you have an impact on me i feel the pain through you so tell me what the hell do when you hurt yourself again you hurt yourself and I'll fret over a toothache your dizzy brain makes another mistake and sends you into hysterics they can't prescribe anything to cure this paramedics shake their heads but you won't believe them when the doctors say you're decades away from being dead you send me wasted tears over the phone lines what am i supposed to do when you decide to hurt yourself again? what am i supposed to do when you decide to hurt yourself again? what am i supposed to do when you decide to hurt yourself again? I just love that song. Nothing that relates to anything that happened today, I just like it. Now I'm listening to the Secret Stars ("(Whisper:Eye)", to be specific) and soon I'll hop into bed... 04/16/00 Today's big issue: *shrug* For some reason, today I was all like "salty! must have salty!" So I had rice for dinner and made it black with soy sauce and then put salt on top of it. Now I will keep within the ship's hull for many months at sea without showing many signs of rot. I'm thristy. The school year is quickly ticking down - there are 19 days until my last final is over. I hope I can get everything done adequately... And I got my room for next year! I snagged a single in the nicest dorm on campus!!! yayayayayaya! Ok, it's small as all heck (89 square feet) but I'm happy. Now it is time to study. 04/15/00 Today's big issue: heehee This was a pretty interesting weekend. On friday, I didn't really do much, except for check out my mom's spiffy new car. I guess all my time reprimanding her for getting a big, dumb SUV paid off since she got a neat little Honda Civic. Yay! Yesterday (which was saturday because this is sunday and I neglected all things webby on the weekend - meaning I didn't do the reviews that I wanted to because I'm a lazy dork. I actually went to bed before midnight on a saturday - this school thing is wearing me down) I went to Russ' show (he = Yars Revenge), and that was so rad! He was the only non-punk act, but that's still cool. It's not really all that punk to play punk at a punk show anyway, is it? He was really nervous about the whole thing, but he kicked ass. I took pictures: Russ smiles for the camera before the show Yars Revenge kickin it More Yars Revenge My camera was being a punk the whole time and I didn't know it - they all came out kind of grainy and my lens was dirty. Oh well... 04/13/00 Today's big issue: the lucky duck So Ariel is on a plane to England right now, and over the next week or so she'll go to there and France. I, on the other hand, will go to Troy, NY and Schenectady, NY, and go to classes. No fair no fair no fair! =) I decided to go to Russ' show on saturday! yay! I decided that spending all Saturday moping wouldn't be all that helpful =) 04/12/00 Today's big issue: and it's more than a little pathetic... I don't know what to do with myself this week. I've had oodles of work to do, and I've done it in time, but it a weird sort of way that takes a long time and doesn't really let me do much else. I've been really tired, too. (sighs) And it's only wednesday. I guess the good thing about that is that tomorrow is, hopefully, thursday and friday is only one day after that and with friday comes the hope that saturday will follow shortly. And Ariel leaves for France tomorrow! This is going to be a strange new experience for me: when everyone in my class went to college, I could pretend that I wasn't alone out here since she was still around so I had one of my friends around. Now everyone will be gone. Let's see how I can handle it, shall we? I mean everyone else has had to do the same thing, right? My friend Russ is doing a show on saturday. I really want to go to it, too. It just depends on how the week turns out - if the trend I've been on continues I'm afraid that I'll just have to spend all of saturday crawled up in bed in the fetal position... remember these?: Five stuffed animals sitting in my room smiling but not any friends 04/11/00 Today's big issue: nothing at all, really Not much at all happened today - I handed in my paper and then pretty much wasted the rest of the day being tired. I did hop along the link on Kickbright to the Love Calculator... It seems only partially accurate =) Chances of a successful relationship between: (bands): Nick Karpowicz & Built to Spill : 93% Nick Karpowicz & Poster Children : 99% Nick Karpowicz & the Promise Ring : 89% Nick Karpowicz & Fugazi : 31% Nick Karpowicz & Momus : 63% Nick Karpowicz & Belle and Sebastian : 93% Nick Karpowicz & Tullycraft : 51% Nick Karpowicz & eric Metronome : 66% (friends): Nick Karpowicz & Zak Hochheim : 75% Nick Karpowicz & Matt Bradley : 54% Nick Karpowicz & Kevin Spain : 78% Nick Karpowicz & Eric Feurstein : 72% Nick Karpowicz & Ariel Slomka : 96% Nick Karpowicz & Matt Gelina : 54% It's wrong about Fugazi and I know I hate Zak and Ariel way more than that =) 04/10/00 Today's big issue: groan. I wrote a paper today. I mean, I wrote it today. I did all of the reasearch and everything today. So you can understand if I don't feel like writing any more =) Not much happened anyway... 04/09/00 Today's big issue: guh! If you look at the pictures from yesterday, you might notice that it's very sunny out. It was very nice out yesterday - In the upper 70s and all pleasant. So of course today it's freezing and we get a foot of snow. That makes sense, right? Grr. I finally made Ariel's mix tape for her trip to France (she leaves on thursday). I thought she was leaving later, so now I have to mail it to her so she can get it in time. Oh well. I'm tired. I got up early for no reason, and I've been tired all day and therefore didn't accomplish any of the numerous school related things that I should have done. I'll have to spend a late night tomorrow... I'll be very angry if I'm woken up early like I almost definitely will be. 04/08/00 Today's big issue: yay! Today was one of the more interesting day's I've had recently. I eventually got over to Zak's house and I went with his family and Ariel to French's Hollow, which is a neat little place near a lake and railroad tracks and with lots and lots of shale rocks and stuff like that. I took pictures: Sitting on railroad tracksYeah, so that was loads of fun. After that, I went over to Valentine's to see the Orange play! Yay! I ended up going by myself since Ariel had to babysit her brother and Zak had to do some of the homework he had been neglecting over his week off. Heehee it turned out I did and hour and a half of driving to watch a half hour of music. Oh well. The Orange still kicked booty and I'll have a review tomorrow-ish. After that I went back to Zak's and I chilled for a bit and went to go grocery shopping. I bought an 11 pound sack of Goya rice! Yay! I don't know why we can enjoy grocery shopping so much... it's probably a sickness... anyway we chilled and then I came back here, to my room, where I am writing my diary. Since I've been completely neglecting this for most of this week, it's time to play catch up. On tuesday I found out that classes were cancelled on wednesday, so it being Zak's week off he came and got me and I spent the night in Schenectady. Zak and I rented Who Framed Roger Rabbit? on tuesday night and I realized that I had only seen that movie once before. It's such a cute movie! Then on Wednesday we... worked! A friend of Zak's family needed, well she needed someone to tape cardboard to her floor and we were just the right two college kids to spend four hours doing it for her. It was silly. The thing that probably took the longest was getting the cardboard in the first place - we went to BJ's Wholesale Club, the creepy shopping cult, and took advantage of the fact that they have free boxes. I finagled a temporary card because my dad has a membership and we were off - we raided the bin and filled a shopping cart riduculously high with boxes and took a swing around the place and then left. It was weird since we had a full cart but nothing that cost anything, so we bypassed the checkout lines and just walked out. I was terrified that we would get stopped and questioned and then thrown in the BJ's dungeon when they found out that I only had a temporary membership card. But we didn't, so all is good. We fished the job there, hung out a bit in Schenectady, and then I had to go back to school. Thursday is a blur. On friday, I got to go back again, and Zak, Ariel and I watched The Muppet Movie! Well, me and Zak did anyway - Ariel was too sleepy from getting up early to go to school to watch the whole thing, but she saw a good chunk of it anyway. Zak does an eerily accurate Kermit the Frog voice... So that was my week. The older entries are here... |
