I found out this semester just how much pride people from New Jersey have in there home state. I also realized that I don't share the same pride in the state where I had lived for atleast 11 years. I do realize that New Jersey has a unique culture thats different from New York, or the New England states. We love promoting that we have hundreds of light houses along the coast, and that we have more malls per square mile than any other state. Speaking of which I discovered a new mall this christmas vacation, one that is only 40 minutes from my house as if I needed a new one, there are already 5 within 20 minutes of my house. Growing up in New Jersey was definitley and experience because the entire state is made up of suburbs from New York City and Philadelphia, when I think about it I guess I have to be glad I didn't grow up in Wisconsin or Alabama.  ¶ 1:03 PM

  Happy Christmas Eve, I'm in New Jersey where I have been for the last week now. Its been pretty average, I haven't really done too much, I haven't even seen my friends from high school yet. Most of my time ehas been comsumed with getting the internet up and running again, and it took me 3 days to finally fix it.
The biggest story of the break so far is that I am goign to Las Vegas on January 1st. I have never seen airline and hotel prices as cheap as they were the day Jeff and I purchased the tickets. If Vegas is anything like the Toronto/Montreal trip was I think we are in for a hell of a ride.  ¶ 12:26 PM

  More random thoughts:

1.) 2005 is coming to an end rather quickly and I just realized that I met more new people in 2005 than I ever have in my life. When I first started university I met alot of kids back then, but most them didn't have lasting impressions. Here are a few people who have had lasting effects that I met this year. Lets start with the roomates, there was Kevin Ducharme, Tyler Ayers, Guion Childress, Nathan Weidner, and Daryl Lamprey. Guion's girlfriend Lauren who knows how to throw a house party(Brookline), if she is in charge they never run out of beer. I can't forget Lauren's roomates the most sexy girls I have ever seen living in one apartment. Then there was Nathan West, Greg Koulisis, Ian Walker, and the rest of DLP. That was a saga within its self and out of that I gained a few good friends I must say. There was Bob Gregor, Joshua Boilard, and Micheal MacDonald who are all eternally tied together in my mind for some reason. Then the Summer came along and there was James Simms and Bobby Feingold, also Katie Maclaughlin, I know I'm forgetting someone else who is important, ah yes Brad McKinney. Then my friend Jeff moved in with the boys of 444, and that is history in itsself. It has been a long year and I know I'm forgetting like 20 other people that I've met this year, but thats why I wrote this line.

2.)What to do when I graduate? This question has become a snowball rolling down a mountain and right about now is the point where it is big enough to engulf a small child. I have to find a way to stop it before it becomes big enough to move houses. Don't get me completely wrong I have a few general ideas of what I want, but I just need to put forth that final effort to secure soemthing.  ¶ 4:04 PM

  Just some random thoughts:

1.) I think too many people group sex and love together, let me clear this up once and for all. The two have nothing to do with each other. Sex is just the animalistic part of us that needs to be fullfiled every once in a while. Love is something I can't speak much about because I don't think I have ever been in love. Alot of people think that just because you are having sex with them that you are in love with them, it doesn't really work that way, atleast not at this stage of our lives. Now, having sex with someone that you are in love with would seem to be the ultimate achievement in regards to sex. When you are in college and having sex with people randomly when drunk it loses its intimacy quickly, maybe that is why I have such skewed views on sex and love.

2.) I went to Cheesecake factory today with Andrew Berry one of the kids from 444, and we sat next to Raef Lefrentz of the Celtics. The funny thing is that I didn't even recognize that it was him until he stood up. He used to be one of my favorite players when he played in Denver a few years ago, and he was also a college favorite of mine when he was at Kansas.  ¶ 9:43 PM

 

In my Sports writing class yesterday, our professor Chuck Fountain read a few excerpts from some of his favorite books. There was one that he read describing Ted Williams' final at -bat in 1961. Never did I imagine that words could come alive in this way, I wish I wrote down the name of the book it was from. It described in detail how Ted Williams got up to bat and the crowd started cheering, the cheers lasted for a few minutes, and all the while Williams was standing in the batters box ready to get the at-bat over with. After a while the Umpire signaled for the game to continue, and on the pitchers third pitch Williams completed his final performance by hitting a home run to center field. They way it was written was a hell of alot better than I could ever say it or try to transcribe it myself.  ¶ 11:21 AM

 
I had my first Poker night on friday up here at 61 hillside. The pot was pretty small only a $60 dollar game, and this kid from Berkley Mike Baldo ended up winning. I will most definitley have another game in the near future.
Last night I finally caught up in the tv series "Lost", MacDonald and I started watching it about 2 or 3 months ago, starting with Season 1. The show has its ups and downs in my opinion. Some of the characters are really meaningless to the overall plot, yet they get flashbacks which take up an entire episode. The show seems to always end on a cliff hanger, which if I were watching it every week on ABC I would have been pissed when they end certain episodes the way they do. The best characters in the show to this point are "Sawyer", "John Locke", "Mr. Ecko", and "Kate".  ¶ 1:18 PM