I found out I won the sweets bet with my sister again (she lost a long time ago). That's four for four for me. wow, that's a lot of for sounds in a row.
twenty bucks .... woohoo! she warned me the check might bounce though, supposedly this might be the last twenty dollars in her bank account.
I still turned down the pumpkin pie tonight. Even though it was Frischs.
J
happy turkey day!
on my way home!
-j
Can I just point out that U of Illinois has a Kinesiology department. The Individual and Dual Activities class (Kinesiology 102) teaches you freaking BOWLING in section E. How badass is that. It's basically the study of sports and they try saying the movement of the body but ... yeah. This is the same school that brought you:
Agricultural Engineering
Agricultural Education
Agricultural Communications
Agricultural and Consumer Economics
And everybody's favorite past time ...
Crop Sciences
oh the fighting illini's. i'm actually on campus right now, visiting jlew. the game between uofi and nu is tomorrow ... we are going to kick some illini ass like true illini's should kick other true illini's ... or something ... i don't really know
yeah, so ... enjoy the kinesiology ... check out bowling
spork
so i think this is safe to post now, it's been one week
But, for some odd reason people actually believed that total crock of shit called my post from last week.
Let's break it down ....
1) Her name is Kirstie. It's possible, but just a little too stereotypical Kansas (and topeka? I definitely had to look that one up cause I don't know any cities in kansas other than kansas city)
2) Agricultural Engineering? Let's leave to UofI, shall we? There's definitley no AE at NU other than Aerospace Engineering, so let's just get that one off the table. And bassoon studies? tell me you didn't laugh when you read that.
3) I said she was greater than cornbread ... com'n people, is this something I would say?
4) Crosses and Christ fireside and ice cream social ... it's possible, I admit, and it's possible I'd go, but still shouldn't have sounded like me, cause I'm more mass on sunday's than uber-christian gatherings ...
5) First real clue, though, and definitely should have been the biggest tip off (from the get go) is I took her to Bob Evan's!!! Give me some credit people, the Bob Evan's thing was definitely just one more component of the grand scheme of things.
6) The religion teacher work study thing, I actually looked it up and saw there was an opening, so I went with that ... I think I ripped the description straight off the site. Next, a few mentioned our perfect schedules, those that know me well enough know that I don't have a work study job.
7) Would I really take someone to a zoo? That's actually a trick question. No I would not take someone to a zoo, but yes I've been with someone to the zoo before.
8) But the hold the hands thing? Give me some more credit. People really don't have any faith in me.
9) My standpoint on online diaries is still the same ... mine will always be as impersonal as I can make it, just saying "here's what I've been up to" or "here's a good laugh." Also, I hate PDA, so I would definitely hate me "sharing my happiness" to the world.
10) the whole bit about drugs, alcohol, and punk music was all a crock, and the only thing anyone believed from this was that my oldest brother had to actually ask me if I had really gotten arrested (he was definitely skeptical, but still, that should have been obvious i didn't)
I don't really need to continue. That's enough evidence. All I have to say is ... to those of you who believed it, I am ashamed.
i had friends here in Evanston believe it, the same friends who hang out with me from after class till I go to bed practically ... I was most ashamed of them.
Alright, so, what was the point? It was meant to be a funny read, with nice pictures and flashy demonstrations in the middle to keep you interested (everyone loves links, so they'll at least read to that point). I also felt like practicing a little creative writing, though, I didn't think about this that long so it's not like it's all that scholarly or anything like dr. morehead would have approved of last year. Anyway, detail ... that's what it's about.
John.
Freshman class registration sucks. The only english course I can take is at 7:30am. It's like high school all over again...
Anyone agree? Who's registered already? Is anyone (like me) still waiting for their window? What's your story?
Alright, calling ALL creative juices here.
My dorm is called "1835 Hinman" because it's address is "1835 Hinman Avenue." We call ourselves Hinmates. We are south campus.
We need a t-shirt design, and I'm pseudo on staff to help come up with ideas/get this thing going. So I have tried coming up with clever stuff, but this isn't exactly rowing boats here, if you all know what I'm saying.
that's irrelevant, though
So anyway, CJ, Joanna, Iain, Grant ... I know all of you were into graphic design at some time, can you possibly put some creative juices going on this one and maybe come up with some clever ideas? Utilize Hinman, obviously, utilize 1835 if you can, but you don't have to ... be artsy, be creative ... you dont' even have to make anything, just shout ideas at me, like "imagine this"
I know that's lame, but nobody, and I mean nobody, in my dorm seems to be creative enough to come up with anything ... this is what we've got:
1) hINMATES (like inmates ...)
a) black and white stripes (pretty much voted down)
b) orange (like jumpsuits, pretty much voted down)
c) just putting prisoner number 1835 on the back (kinda lame)
2) Hinman: South of the Border (taco bell logo ripped off)
3) Hinamn: Southern Comfort (supposedly tried last year, but can't use the logo, so the suggestion is to do the same shirt just without the logo)
4) Hinman: Dirty south
5) Hinman: ridiculously good looking (zoolander rip off)
6) Hinamn go woo! (and then something about bubb rubb)
Oh, and this one is legit, it's not me banking off my dorm or anything (although, that seems far less unethical here than it was at manual, thank god, cause people make their own t-shirts incessantly here).
so yeah, anyone, Diya, Eli, Danielle, JLew, i don't care ... just think of something ... and respond here ...
you can even rip off your college dorm shirt ideas, just cause as long as we don't rip off northwestern ideas I think it's fair game (although we joked about a t-shirt that had a particular dorms name, slogan, picture and then we'd just cross of their name and write hinman above it, to be funny)
Alright, peace
John.
So I realize I owe about a months worth of posts. I apologize for the absence, but I have been busy. It's been one hell of a month here at school. And the events that led to and are a part of the cause for my long silence have been wild. Where to begin? Somewhere near the middle? I'm not sure.
I met a girl. (GASP! Shreaks from the ladies).
I know, I know. This is news to many of you, but her name is Kirstie, and she's the greatest thing since cornbread. She's from Kansas, specifically a little city outside of Topeka, and she's here at NU on a dual music and engineering degree. She's majoring both in Agricultural Engineering at McCormick and specializing in bassoon studies in the School of Music. We met two weeks ago at a Crosses and Christ fireside and ice cream social. I couldn't eat the ice cream because of the sweets bet with my sister. I took her out to eat at Bob Evan's, mainly cause it's one of her favorites and I think the closest to home. It was then that I asked her to go steady with me, and she said yes!
So we've been spending a lot of time together. She does a work study job doing secretary work for this religion professor. It's mostly photocopying, retyping, formatting, etc his books on various christian studies. Her hours aren't bad, and she's usually done before dinner. The hours line up pretty well with my work schedule, I'm putting in a few hours here and there at the student center, doing various odds and ends. Mostly maintenance, but it's just enough to pay for the various things Kirstie and i do, and it was enough to pay for all the parties and such before she and I got together (i'll get to that). The other day when the weather got abnormally warm we went the zoo. I'm probably getting a little personal, and hopefully she wont' mind me saying ... but we held hands. It was great. Jesus, I'm blushing now.
I'm probably contradicting everything i've said in the past. I know I said I could never understand how people pour themselves out on livejournals and online diaries, but somehow my mind has changed on this idea. I'm so happy, and I want others to know. Kirstie and I are doing great, and she's changed my life in so many ways.
When i got to campus, I was having a hard time with my new friends. The people on my floor were alright, they were great in fact. But things got a little crazy. Their sinful ways were just oh so fruitful and tempting. Drugs, alcohol, and punk music took over my life. I was a wreck, and worst of all I was forfeiting my college education in exchange for a quote "good" time. Worst of all, the ladies situation was terrible. While I fell in love instantly with four young ladies from the second floor, they soon grew tired of my antics while under the influence.
After I shook the notion that the spiders were plotting to destroy me (the premeds and psych majors told me it was all a product of the LSD, but I'm still not convinced), my depression set in. I hated the world. Lots and lots of emo music. The really whiney kind, y'know, all ovaries and no testicles. Any feeling of connectedness would have been warmly welcomed. Sometimes I felt so disconnected from anything real. I would have cried myself to sleep at night except for two reasons. One, what would have been the point? Fuck the world. Just cause I was depressed didn't mean I owed the world tears. And Two, i was usually passed out drunk before I made it back to my bed anyway. Waking up in strange places, having no idea how I got there. Was I asleep? Had I slept?
I think I hit rock bottom when I was arrested by the Evanston police for public urination. I don't really remember that night much at all, but according to the police I passed out in the car ride to the station. Somewhere in my sleep/coma, I had a dream though. It was kind of an awakening. It was basically like that guardian angel scene in Bedazzled when Brendan Fraser meets Gabriel Casseus who's playing god/angel figure ... only in my dream my cellmate was Ice Cube but he was going by his name Bucum Jackson from All About the Benjamins. The strangest thing, though, was that the whole time he was holding a 700mL bottle of Jack Daniel's in his left hand, and I remember thinking (I didn't know Ice Cube was European (cause they only ship 700mL bottles to Europe, and 750mL bottles to the states)). Basically, we talked for an hour about life, faith, and whether the cubs would make the world series or not. He said they wouldn't, and I said they would but that they'd wouldn't win it. He obviously was right about the cubs, and right about my life. I needed a change. So he told me to consider looking into God. That's when I went to the Crosses and Christ fireside and ice cream social, and that's where I met Kirstie.
So yeah, that's about it. She's changed my life. I've been sober for almost two weeks now. I still have the occasional flashback every time I see a spider, but they tell me that'll go away soon, and if not, the mind learns to pass it off as nothing. Classes are picking back up, I had to drop a few of them to balance the load so I could pick up the slack. I still hope to finish my engineering degree in four years. They tell me my AP credit should cover the failed credits and I've promised them my life of incessant sin has ceased and I will show massive improvement over the next two quarters.
Anyway, Kirstie is coming over soon and we're going to study chemistry together. I'm getting giddy already. I'll be sure to post more often now that things are better in my life and all is going well. I can't wait to see everyone on Thanksgiving and Kirstie asked me not to put pictures up of her here, so you can see them then!
luv ya'll!
alright, i'm gonna start posting again ... it's pathetic that
(1) It's almost been a whole month
(2) I've checked thespork.com for new updates every single day since that last day I posted expecting something to change without me doing anything
(3) I am in college, and have tons and tons of free time
so yeah, I'll start posting again.
but first, calculus class in 15 minutes with a quiz on multivariable partial derivatives, implicit differentiation in this manner, and linear approximation.
w00t!
Spork.
HELLO! HOW IS EVERYONE DOING!
- jo [ known here as SARS ]
