Alright, so, some things to

Alright, so, some things to talk about

First, for those of you getting this virus ... The person that sent it to you is in no way the person that is infected. That's not to say that they aren't infected, they have received the virus email too. But the virus is pretending to be people it is not!

Second, I have joined a fraternity! It's crazy, I know, I even made fun of this fraternity for stalking me all last quarter. Many of you made jokes like "I wish fraternity boys were stalking me" (this comment came from mostly girls and Joe Yeager, I believe) Anyway, the fraternity is Lambda Chi Alpha, or more appropriately LCA. This fraternity is not your animal house or your wild college party frat. Basically, it's known for being the gentlemen frat, or the frat where everyone gets along. It has been so far a fairly small frat, but this year we had more associate members then we expected. 27+ associate members dropped their bids.

That's another thing, we dont' have "pledges." In fact, we avoid the word altogether because of the hazing associated with it, as well as the separation of the new members from initiated members. The only thing differing myself from an iniatiated member is simply that I have not see the initiation ritual. I have full rights otherwise, including voting and holding office.

Everyone there is great, even the red-headed irish catholic (none of thos adjectives are hits against him) named Jay who stalked me all last quarter. He's actually a really great guy. Anyway, it's just a very great experience, and I had a number of reasons for doing it. To be honest, I felt slightly dissatisfied with my college experience. I wasn't totally feeling like Northwestern was necessarily the fit for me, or that I was meeting enough people. But already, since I've joined LCA, I haven't had any of those thoughts.

I've already gone paintballing with the guys, which by the way was a blast. It was miserable conditions (cold, wet, uber cold, snow, uber wet) and so our goggle fogged 2-3 minutes into the match. But the THREE matches where my goggles DIDN'T fog made up for the rest of the day. Seriously, i want to go back paintballing in the warm weather sometime when goggles won't fog and I can see. That was a seriously good time.

Another good time was going out for Sushi with two of the guys who I actually didn't meet till AFTER I dropped my bid, Adam and Phil. These two guys are GREAT, and they found this Sushi place called Dr. Zushi. (yeah, cheesy, and it's spelled with a Z). It's supposed to be all Japanese/Euro blend about itself, but we show up on a tuesday night, and immediately notice on the menu ... all you can eat sushi for 16.95! AND THIS WAS GOOOOOOD SUSHI. We ate like kings that night.

Anyway, what else. My Dad has a new job. He is no longer the President of the Brown Forman Distillery Company, but is now CEO of Lenox, Inc. one of Brown Forman's subsidiary companies. Lenox makes all those really nice plates and china and collectables as such. It's a really big move for him, and a good one. I know a lot of people have already read the article in the courier-journal, and so i should probably clear up that we are NOT moving. My dad will basically do a M-Th in Jersey and a F-Sun in Louisville. My mom and occasionally some of us in college will go visit him up in Jersey. My older brother is trying to convince him to get a place in NYC, but I don't think he actually will. So don't worry, I am not leaving louisville.

What else. I've started apprenticing at WNUR rock, the chicago sound experiment. That's really cool. should expect a lot of new music from me ... their mission is only to promote the lesser known bands, which is great.

I got a new camera for christmas that ROCKS my world ...

Umm, yea, so ... school is going well, i'm taking only Engineering classes so my schedule BLOWS, but I had no choice (literally). My diet went very well, until the day I quit, and then I bloated back out cause i didn't do the retransition phase where I slowly reintroduce carbs into my diet. Problem was, I drank one night while on the diet, and was miserable the next day, so I ate carbs that night cause I knew I'd be doing even more that night (rush week). So, it is probably better. I exercised this morning, which was good, it felt great, I'm gonna try to go again tomorrow.

Umm, yeah, if I've forgotten something, I apologize. My break was decent, but not awesome. But I was TRES satisfied, cause all I did was laze about and sleep and do nothing, and that was fantastic. That's the only reason I didn't say my break was awesome, cause I feel guilty calling a break where I did nothing but relax and chill fantastic. I wasn't active enough to have a fantastic break, but seriously, the doing nothing part WAS fantastic.

Average Joe 2: Hawaii, disgusts me. I'm sorry, I hate reality TV, and someone made me get into this show (I didn't see the first one) and basically I've decided I hate humanity. I've decided this many times in my life, a lot of things have helped me get in touch with my hatred for humanity ... Average Joe, working retail ... participating in an all you can eat cheese-steak eating contest. Y'know, things like that. But man, that girl is GORGEOUS. She's very pretty. My younger brother right now would interject that she isn't that great, cause she doesn't have big tits or something ... but I am a sucker for brown haired girls.

And yeah, this post is long enough. I'll think of more. I'm alive! And I'm well.

SpORK