Alright here's the deal here. I bought these new fruit snacks from the wonderful chef and chefettes at Betty Crocker. Keep in mind I'm using the term "wonderful" loosly here, it's similar to me saying "Wow! those open-handed slaps in the mouth were wonderful!". These snacks had a positive flavor to them upon first bite, but the more you eat the more you realize that you should probably just have devoured the entire "Big Pouch" in one large open-mouth-bass'd bite. They're Fruit and Yogurt-esque mixed together! It's all the fun of Root Canals in every bite! If you have a hankerin for some Fruit and Yogurt and you need a quick fix, go to Giant Eagle and buy Dannon or Yoplait "Fruit and Yogurt". You'll probably thank me with assorted high intensity games of hopskotch and/or high fives, trust me, it's WORTH IT.

Alright, Not too much has really been goin on for me socially lately, some clown pulled a couple lame and very weak pranks on me, by utilizing such Federal crimes such as "Identity Theft" and "Invasion of Privacy". Silly nerd! pranks are for kids! Just remember, if you really wanted to leave me a message, just use 1-800-COLLECT. Either way, it's not really worth my time, I'm just glad I'm so high on someone's thoughts! ~*Warm Fuzzies*~ Do Do Do ya have it? GUTS! (apparently not)

I'm pretty sure I need to go get a haircut, I tried to spike it the other day like I used to a couple weeks ago; and I looked like a vicim of a gang beating. How it changed my entire visual image, I'll never know. Anyway, here's the deal...tonight's Saturday night, and my roomie Jason and I bought a little bit of high quality booze (3 olives cherry and orange). This booze isn't neccesary for a good time, but we have it. So maybe next week some people around the BWish area want to have a good ole time? lemme know! I'm looking for some fun!

for now....I'm out!

Do You HAVE IT?!?

oh MAN am I sore from the other day, phew. I'll tell ya one thing folks, don't ever work for UPS and do intense workouts the day before!

I had a funny occurance today after work. Ya see, I went to McDonald's after work, which lately is a pretty rare occurance thanks to me trying to stick to my high protein low fat diet. So I go there becuase i'm completely famished from work, and I order my food. Then they give me the ole "Your food will be a few minutes longer, please park over yonder", so I park over yonder and I wait for about 10 minutes, and people who park with me in that yonder region come and go and get their food and I'm still waiting for mine. I'm not really stressing or anything, but it's kinda hard to wait for food when you're dying. But like a light ray piercing the darkness! a HUGE HUGE Tour type bus rolls in

Now who is in this tour bus you ask? nothing more than about 30 or so very cute ladies! I did one of those laughs where you can't believe your good fortune! Ya see, these ladies all had different clothing styles, and different hair styles and they all had a unique "classy messy" look to em. It was the best wait I'll ever have at McDonald's that's for sure. needless to say my food arrived two seconds later, and I rolled off, a happier man.

Ya know another thing that's really good? Random presents you get(got) from people that you've wanted for awhile, and never really thought you'd get it. for instance, my Sophmore year here at BW, I was really close with this girl Rachel, and she ended up making me this!(see above-right)An Anklet! when it's warm out I wear that thing all the time. it comes from the old days when i wanted to surf all the time after Jeff tought me how. I'd still love to, but I never really get the chance to go to a beach on a vacation...anyone up for a Road trip this summer? Boys and Girls both admitted! Regardless, the anklet is a very special gift of mine, I have many of these gifts that I still keep with me.
I'm one of those guys who loves to keep things around to remind me of special memories. Like when I ate my first bowl of Salsa (Dip)....YUM!!

Anyway, I'm an Idiot, it's 4am and I have an 8:50 class! I'm basically sitting here checking out my little penguin "Shivers", (on your left) and my very classy but very ridiculously shaped beaver (whom I have yet to name, because well...he's freakin ridiculous) who's probably on your right about now. Regardless, they keep me up with stimulating conversation such as:

Beaver: "Wood"
Me: "Chuck?"
Shivers: "Moo"
Me: "Hairy Pencil!" *throws little bits of paper at his skull*

And that's why I'm never going to be a Real Boy!

annnnnnd 3-2-1 slumber.

Alright first off, glance to your right..maybe about what? 6 inches tops. Now normally, I wouldn't be so bold with a statement, but I'll explain. Friday Night Lights is a harrowing tale of a football team that bares the weight of their tremendously ununderstanding town. This is in Texas, which means Football > Drive Through Liquor Store > God. So basically, it's *trying* to focus on the stress and hard lives of the players, and Fame, and Racism, and a tiny bit of Sex, and a little bit of Pressure, and Football's somewhere in there.

Now this wouldn't be so bad! however, they do this in a horribly light way, and you never really get to know the characters. For instance, by the end of the movie, myself and my colleagues couldn't identify which of the characters corresponds to their number or position. We ended up having to discuss what just happened during the football moments, I'll share an example of our charactorial troubleshooting sessions:

"Alright...so guy who's mom is sick threw the ball to guy who's dad beats him right?"
"I dunno, I think he threw it to the quiet black guy"
"Nah, that guys on Defense!"
"You Sure??"
"Wait...is the TV even on?"

something like that. Even though it did depict the kids having a real hard time with life dealing with Football, but Character Development (this is all in my and my possé's opinions) was severely lacking, and they just threw in problems at random times that didn't fit with the current mood. I'd compare it to being forced to drink alchohol and being spun around in a number of circles equal to your age, then being forced to watch a political history summary session with EPSN in the background.
-Fin-

Well that's that, at least I don't have to cover that movie anymore. So what else happened today? My Tai Chi instructor for some reason "Can no longer finish the semester". I don't really know what that means, it sounds like he may have died...that or forced to watch a Blair Witch Project Marathon. On the bright side, our new instructor is doing the first Tae Kwan Do class to ever be offered at Baldwin-Wallace. That's cooler than a chilled pop can to the back of the neck!

What else? well, I forgot to do a lame animation for Multimedia, cause I didn't write it down when he assigned it, DOH! I went to the Gym/barn a bit later with my buddy Nate. It was pretty crazy crowded in there! However, I did see a few friendly faces, I'll tell ya what though, having a smiling friend (Hi Jill! and it was very nice to meet ya Casey) in a sea of eh...well I guess testosterone is really a great thing. My Advice to any of you that go during the "peak" hours (which seem to be 3pm+) is bring a friend, and don't care about working out in front of others because we're all just trying to do our own thing.

I think the 3pm thing might have to be the time for me to go. So if anyone wants to have a little chat while we're doin some fitness, COME ON DOWN!

Other than that, I got nothing for ya right now, I'm a little too exhausted from trying to figure out what the writers' angle was when they made Friday Night Lights. I guess I'll leave you with, what I think, is the greatest quote from Dogma (apple from the random tree?):

"Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer."

Herm! I've been meaning to blog all day today, but it kept eluding me. Anyway, here's the deal...lately I've found that regardless of what's been going on, this book can put a grin on my face =)

There's really nothing that I can figure to be a better than a bunch of really absurd looking cats doin odd things. I mean this coming from the guy who used the image to the right for his online avatar for about a year.RRRRRRRRRRRAAAAA
AAAAAAAAWWWWWRRR!

alright today was a pretty laid back day, I stayed up a bit too late with my buddies last night and ended up being FAR too tired to go to my first class (a fairly fun physics course) but, not strangly, I didn't feel too bad about it. The sleep I recieved was definatly fantastic. I did however, manage to make it to my Web Page design class. Perhaps my "favorite" of them all, just becuase it's a small class with everyone possessing such a great attitude. Well, we got paired up today into groups, and I'm very happy that the group members I'm with share an appreciation for the video game genre, and it seems that is what we'll be focusing our project on. I've got no beef with that. However! I'd just like it to be stated that even though I am video game oriented in a lot of my life. that does by no means constitute all that I am!

I'm saying this because I had some assitance from my classmates' (stares) after I exclaimed some arbitrary video game term. Sometimes I forget what I sound like when I say ridiculously dorkish things. I was pretty embarrased, but ya know what? it's all in good fun, and if they had a good laugh over my nerd moment. SO BE IT,

LAUGH IT UP CHUCKLES!!

Either way, I found an old picture that my friend Bri from last year took when we went to Friendly's. See now, if you can't tell by the odd colored piece of equipment near my nose, I have a french fry all up in my business. My Biz-Nassss. Those were also back in the days where I'd have a goatee-type thing goin on. I kinda fade in and out of that phase.

Alright here's a little something that all you out there in Cyberspace might not know about me. I figure, if you're reading this, maybe you want to know a little about me . So here's the deal, something I'm really attracted to, like huge...is the ability to do something that I could have never predicted. Now I know that's a big one for a lot of people, spontaneity, but it's a little different for me. I'll explain.

I have this way, that Csilla and I used to talk about (and share the same tactic) and we referred to it as "being too thinkey". Now my way of thinkin is as follows: I tend to predict the actions of people I know by their personality, and by my past experiences (hopefully wisdom) to figure out what they're going to do in the near future. A lot of these predictions come out in dreams that I have, and don't always neccesarily want to believe, but I might as well if they're lurking in my subconscious. So anyway, the point is...I'm probably making these predictions about You and to be honest (I'm not trying to flaunt/brag) I'm more often right than wrong. This is why, I absolutly adore it when people prove me wrong (at least in that department..haha!). I'll give you an example: On let's say....Smallville,(this is made up...for the most part) Lana is going out with Ex-BF Whitney (what a lame name!) and something occurs to Lana and she ends up going to Clark who's hanging out in his loft or doing some arbitrary task feelin kinda low. The feeling Clark gets when he sees Lana come to him...that's such a powerfully amazing feeling. It would keep a smile on my face for years. I can remember one instance of something like this happening to me, and I Cherish it to this day.

So there ya go, a little more tidbits into my head...as well as an image of a cat that may haunt your christmases for years to come (if you couldn't tell, that very scary cat has a santa claus hat on!).




BLING!

Alright, I've found that a lot of people who visit this site, are looking for some sort of Sideburns help, or interesting facts on them. So I've decided that I'm going to partially dedicate one entry to sideburns, or at least give a FAQ on them.

Q:So this site says "Sideburns Central", but alas! there are no sideburns here!
A:alright buddy, *I* have sideburns, and this is infact, my core central place for writing inane, pointless, and redundant posts. Whallah! Sideburns Central

Q:Umm...ok, are your sideburns cute at least?
A:No (see right)

Q:So...you're just as lame as your sideburns?
A:oh, without a doubt

Q:Dude, come on now...that's weak
A:I know, I'm sorry

Q:No seriously....dude....
A:yeah, I know...I'm sorry

Q:So...if not sideburns, what do you think about Religion/Politics/OtherTabooSubjects?
A:Annnnnnd that's all the time we have for today folks!


So there you have it, pretty much everything that could ever be covered in a FAQ about my site. I hope all you sideburns seekers out there have found immeasurably vital information from my vast and expansive FAQ. Now I'm headed to the Gym for awhile, can break an appointment. SEE YA!

You know, there's a sad twist to that little bugger that is life. This time, this twist applies to both genders in relation to one another. although the statements I usually make here are so "elementary" or "common sensical", I just can't help but stand in awe at how irrefutably true they are!

For instance, I'm currently in a state of mind, where I'm kinda frustrated with the dual X chromosome'd gender (I'll give ya a hint (cause I needed one too actually...) XX means you don't have urinals in your bathroom). However, it isn't really a "Fuck all girls" sort of thing, it's more of a "I need a break", cause let's face it, Gender relations is soooo tiring. I think all my guy buddies, and all my lady friends can agree, dealing with each other is just fuggan EXHAUSTING.

but here's the little kinky kink kink in my little equasion. Attraction. just say the word out loud....Attraction....you get a little zing that goes through your body eh? Cause it's that damned physical attraction that (a good amount of the times) starts the feeling. So let's assume I'm kinda taking a break from cross-gender relations...and today I'm driving home from class (yes...it's snowing, I drive to class that's a 13 minute walk away...bite me) and I see a bunch of girls on the way back walking down beech street. and the vast majority of them, are....Cute.

Now, I dunno what you consider good and bad in this world? but I'll tell you one thing, girls.........you damn dirty apes, you just have that unfair advantage of beauty. There's a girl in my Physics course, who sits across the auditorium, and she kinda got herself ready for the day early it seems, ya know, brushed the hair, maybe put on make up, whatever she wanted to do. To put it as plainly as I can, she was just stunning. One of those kinds of stunning where you just can't pay attention to the material, because there's just something so enchanting that you can't look away, you want to study it and marvel at it's splendor (while being extremly attentive to her movemnts to make sure you aren't caught gawking like a buffoon).

I always feel like I'm playing "the game" with a handicap. Then reality kicks in, and I'm just another guy in the mix trying to get my own slice of the perverbial pie.

enh, vague was never my color.

Did you ever have one of those dreams that was so close between reality and fiction, that you wake up and immediatly act as if it HAD infact happened?

I had one of those dreams, it was about a friend whom I haven't spoken to in awhile, randomly gave me an IM and we spoke for awhile and it was good times, I woke up and went to the computer to continue to talk to this friend, but before I actually sent the IM, I realized that it was infact a dream. Maybe I should have sent the IM anyway, but it's been awhile, and I'd feel a bit awkward doing it now, and quite honestly, I don't want any part of those feelings. forget that!

Other than that, I just bought a new BW beenie, and hoodie. I tend to buy hoodies a little smaller than usual, because I forget that hoodies are supposed to be friggan huge and clunky. Instead, this hoodie is more of a style based warmth. I should buy larges instead of medium, but I always forget...because secretly...I'm an Elephant. I guess I'm the exception to that oh so set in stone rule: Elephants Never Forget. I never bought that anyway, it's an Elephant...I mean come on, anything that desires the companionship of a peanut and is afraid of what? MICE? that's gotta be forgetful. They probably forgot that they're a MILLION times bigger than a mouse, or at least a thousand...ok 250 at the least...maybe.

Well, After work today, the weekend is officially here. It's been

1

week. JUST ONE?!? man oh man, it's been pretty long. sure it's probably becuase I spend half the day sleeping to try and get my body rested to fight these beginning stages of a chest cold, that or I spend the day sleeping cause...sleep rules, school drools. Regardless, it's been a good time, I've gotten to see a good number of friends again, and I'm gonna be able to spend my time focus'd on school again, and totally slink down into the dark dark regions of schooldome. You know those regions...the kind where AIM away messages plague you and where you get that awful sinking feeling when you forgot about a homework or reading assignment. THOOOOOOOOSE feelings. yep yep. Well either way, it's gonna be another 17 more weeks until we see the light of summer, and what a beautiful beautiful summer it'll be.

well, it's back to the ole bed, oh how I've missed thee.

Lemme tell ya somethin. Work today = Not Kosher.

I go into work, and I'm all ready to do my thing, and the floor boss comes over and is all like "Ellsworth, we need you in the hole today buddy!". Ok, for reference, anything named "The Hole" isn't exactly a great place. especially when referring to manual labor (resist the urge to pervert that statement). Anyway, "The Hole" is a place in the far corner of this gigantic building, where most/all of the packages being shipped to Illinois are sent to. Now you say, Illinois? not a very populated area, given it does have Chicago, but come on! It was PACKED full with packages today. I worked my rear to the MAX. But it was one of those times where you work so hard that it's funny. Myself and the other guy were just making jokes all day about how crappy it is. I laughed, I cried, I ate Doughnut Stix (spelled that way too, so you can imagine the succulent flavor).

Anywho, it's been a rather exhausting day, and I found that I don't infact get screwed by my nightclass which interferes with work. I just get a day off.

what a grand occassion.

that and I'm very content with my classes thusfar. So good (I just hope I don't jinx myself).

I've decided to give my blog a little face lift. I'm not sure how much I enjoy the newer skin to it yet, but I think it might turn out ok.

Maybe a little color tweak here and there. Whateva.

Alright so, I'm really friggan sore. This is one of those feels where you go "Hurray! I'm going to be stronger....but it suuuuuuucks right now. Oh well, I'll stop complaining and just do my thang.

So let's see, what else is there to talk about? I know! THIS AWESOME FRIGGAN WEATHER! I mean seriously man, this weather is quite amazing. The air just smells so wonderful. I wish I could take a big bottle or I dunno, a jug or something, and capture this air, and release it into my house in a few days when it gets cold and crappy.

either way, it's a nice little change of pace. and it also means, lots of people are going to get sick from the weather fluctuation. OH WELL, nyquil for everyone!

Well, I've hit most of the classes so far, and it doesn't seem too harsh.

I enjoy the small class I have in Web Page development. There's a lot of friendly faces in there, and I enjoy the professor. That class should prove to be a lot of fun I think.

next, there's Physics, a big class filled mostly with Freshmen and Sophmores, which a funny teacher and an easy grading system.

Multimedia, lots of things having to do with Flash, and making games, and that's always a good time, I look forward to that.

Tai Chi...I really like that class, fluid movements with a sense of meditation and inner focus.

That's all for the classes. Even though classes seem like a big huge deal right now, they aren't it's more about what I can do with the time I have during the day, which is to say...not much. I went to the gym today with my buddy Nate, and we did multiple sets of chest related exercise. It's been about...3-4 months since I've done flat bench press, and I swear, I pretty much maxed out on 150. That's really sad considering I was up to 185-190 last semester. but that's ok, I understand it takes time to get back into it (and for the record, I don't by any means think that 190 is an impressive number, just giving you the facts). Oh by the way, the new rec center...is pretty much in a barn. You read correctly, a barn, although it does look rather nice, and it is insulated, but the hours are kinda odd. they're something like...8-10, 12-1, 3-9. weak.

It's all gonna be a crazy ride really. There's always drama, and right now, I just don't want to deal with it. Usually I'd be all about trying to tackle this shit and expunge it from my life but eh. I kinda don't have the energy for it right now. You ever feel that way? it's kinda like being hit with a lot of shit at once, and you blow a fuse. I just gotta get enough energy to flick the circuit breaker.

That was an awful analogy. I apologize for slaying a few of your brain cells, I'll send flowers.

It's that time again! TOOL TIME! no wait....not tool time dave you fool! it's SCHOOL TIME!

that's right, another 18 weeks of action packed, knowledgy goodness (and yes that's not a word). I'm pretty excited about this semester, because it'll be like an escape from the warped state of affairs right now...hopefully.

Here's the lineup, if you guys are ever wondering why I'm not answering my cell when ya call at a certain time:

Physics         * MWF * 10:40-11:30am

Web Programming * MWF * 1:20-2:10pm

Tai Chi         * TTH * 8:50-9:40am

Multimedia Prog.* TTH * 9:55-11:10am

Data Base       * TH  * 6:15-8:45pm

and there ya go, a rather skimpy schedule who's design should allow me to have a wonderful semester filled with more freetime than last semester...I hope.

That's the plan anyway, I think my number one priority is to get to know a few more people around the BW area. I met quite a few last semester and it was a good time, but I didn't get to really follow up on those friendships and hang out as much as I'd like to.

it's basically one of those, go where the river flows kinda deal. you know what I mean...the "life is a roller coaster, enjoy the ride" kinda schpeels. Welp, if ya want to have a little chat, hit me up on the cell, otherwise

I'll see ya around.

Happy New Year

Another year passes and time keeps flowing forward. I'm sure if you've ever been to this site before you'd expect me to try to get out some constipated philisophical mish-mash. But I figure, it's 2005, you'll get enough of that from other friends, family, and people from the opposite gender.

So what AM I going to say after all? you are sitting here in front of this glowing box to see SOMETHING right?

well this is what I have to say, if you're out there trying to make some crazy meaning for yourself, do yourself a very important favor, sit down, take a breath, look around you and see what you've got before you need to find what you need. I went out before midnight tonight, doin a little partying (a.k.a. the magical ball drop) and then decided to go back to the apartment. I spent the majority of the night alone in the apartment with no one around. But it wasn't all bad, it gives one a litle bit of the insight into your own mind. When you're alone on a "major holiday" you get this urge to be upset, and depressed.

Ya'know what I say? Fuck that.

Every year I think i've had the "best start to the year" and whatnot...know what happens right after that? my supports I lean on the most crumble, and really fast. So this year, I had a shit New Year's Celebration, but if that means that somewhere down this long bumpy, Odd Numbered year I have a good time? Awesome, I'll remember this new years with a big grin on my face.

Cheers to all you out there who have and cherish the love in your heart for friendship and romance

and a big "Fuck You!" to all you people who feel the need to create unneccesary drama to fill the void in your life.