Saturday, September 27, 2008

Fridays Live Again

After falling asleep in the early morning, I woke, once again, after Calculus had started. But this didn't matter, because I had planned to drop it as soon as I woke up. I no longer have Calculus anymore. If it wasn't so early, I wouldn't have dropped it, but I didn't want to take a class where I wouldn't learn anything new and had to wake up at seven to get ready for. But back on topic. I woke up yesterday morning with a sore throat. I thought it would go away, but as the day progressed it seemed to get worse. But that was all in the back of my mind because it was Friday, and that means Fridays Live. I had to do lights this time, which I would have preferred not to, but I performed at my best. After that, I sat with David as he edited the video for airing, and then walked with him back home. After checking to make sure the show aired without a hitch (because David was worried since some things happened), we left for the party at Fab's house. I had a great time. I danced, talked, watched people play beer pong, was molested by drunk people, laughed at drunk people, and just all around had a good time. Upon my return home, I went up to Justin's room where we watched this great movie called A Boy and His Dog. I really don't feel like describing it completely, so here's a quick blurb: the movie was set in a post apocalyptic world and followed a young man who could speak with his dog telepathically. It was a great movie, and after it we watched some TV. I didn't go to bed until 5, but I think it was worth it. The worst part was that, when I woke up this morning, I felt like crap. My throat was dry and hurt, and my nose was stuffed almost leaving me incapable of breathing. The strangest part, I didn't drink even a sip, and yet I felt worse than probably some of the people who hadn't gotten wasted.

Do You Feel Like Dancing?

Okay, so here's the lowdown, the 441, the straight truth. Upon Justin's invitation, I went to his gay people dance on Thursday night. I had gone a little anxious that I would be molested by some drunk gay guy, but my fears were silly at best. I went there to dance, and boy did I dance. I was awesome. It was so much fun, but a little creepy. There were these four guys who kept getting all up on each other and having an orgy in the middle of the dance floor. A lot of people felt uncomfortable and one person said it's people like that, that give gay people a bad name. But we remained undeterred in our dancing, dancing until one. Then Justin, Adam, and I left for home. I was still full of energy and was having the time of my life as we walked home. Apparently, when I was running down the hill enjoying life, Justin said something like "And he's not even gay."

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Saddened

I'm sorry it has been a while. I return to my readers a little saddened. I was walking back to my dorm today, after my global warming class, and I was walking very slow. I noticed as people just walked, nothing else. There were the occasional walk-and-talkers, but overall people were just walking trying to get to their next destination. I was a little disheartened. People don't seem to care about the world going on around them, just their own life. I was enjoying watching the leaves fall, the birds fly, and the squirrels run. People don't just stop anymore to watch the world. I don't know what else to say. I haven't had anything interesting happen to me lately.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Fridays Live

Woohoo! Today was awesome. I did a poop ton of stuff. I finally had my meeting with Professor Alost about double majoring. There's some information session this Friday where I think I will find out if there are any openings in Photojournalism. I also discovered that I can get my degree in three years if I try. I got a Tazo green tea, and returned to my room for a nap. After Japanese, I went to the Fridays Live studio for practice, and guess what? I got to be an extra during this one skit. I stood in the background pretending to be doing things for the Obama campaign. It was awesome. The show was great and very hilarious. It was so funny that the laughter cracked glass. Not true, but when we were tearing down the set, one of the flats fell into one of those "in case of fire break glass" windows. After that incident, I returned to my room to drop off my stuff and wait before going to the after-party. Before I did though, Justin invited me to go out with him and his friends to a party. I decided on that one and had a great time. First we walked forever to the first party, and when we were there we ran into our friend Kelsey who was drunk. It was great because she kept repeating herself. The best part of the first party was this girl who saw we just kicking it and dancing. She came over and was like, "I love your dance moves. They're awesome." Then when she was with her friends she was like, "That's my new boyfriend." I thought it was hilarious. Then we left that party and were just walking. We stopped at the BP and ran across some Magic cards and Justin was all excited. He was drunk, but not that drunk, just a little buzzed. I wasn't drunk at all, I think because I wasn't drinking. After BP, we continued just wandering, and then eventually Justin, Madison, and I went with some friends of Madison's. That was a much smaller party than the first, and it was much more fun. They played beer pong and great music. When we finally decided to go home, I had a fun walk home. I was jumping, running, skipping, twirling, singing, dancing, etc. It was a great night.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

No Day Like Today

For today I bring you fantastic adventures to far and different worlds. First was the world of the thrift store. I went into the jungle that is donated retail items and attempted to capture the American cheapskates in their natural habitat. Carefully prowling through the bags, hats, and racks upon racks of clothes, I captured photographic proof that this rare creature is in fact not extinct. In fact they are alive and well, shopping smart. After that fun trip with Anna, she made me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and we walked to the Post together. Then I returned to my room to look at my photos and add captions. After that I went to Current World Problems, which was a little boring today. It didn't really have to do with global warming, more with the politics of dealing with it. My photo staff meeting was moved to 6:30, so I went to that but there weren't many assignments. Since we finished before seven, I put my photos on the server and decided I go to that drugee meeting that Justin kept talking about. Boy am I glad I went to that instead of this photojournalism lecture (which would have be more beneficial but I was living life). It was mainly people who smoked pot. There were several people there who were high as kites. The best part was that we had to introduce ourselves and then say something funny. I said, "I'm John, and I have transcended space and time, oh and my best friend is Jesus." The whole room laughed and this one guy who was high was like, "What?" It was great. Then I went with Justin to his heretics meeting. As I listened to the blasphemers speak about how they commit crimes agaisnt God and humanity by liking the same sex, dressing as the opposite sex, or wanting to be the opposite sex, I realized that there is nothing wrong with these people. Now I had always known, but it was fun making anti-gay comments to Justin under my breath. He thought it was funny. The best part were all the intolerance stories. I know that sounds mean, but they all found them funny, maybe not when it happened, but now it's laughable. They had funny stories of grandmas accusing them of being a lesbian (well she was another straight person like me). They also had stories about parents who tried to hook them up with the opposite sex even though they were definitely gay. It's funnier if you were there (as is everything).

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

A Mon, a Tues, a Mon, Tues, Three, Four.

Justin doesn't think the title is absolutely genius, but it obviously is. I'm so witty (and narcissistic). Anyways, as I hope the title alluded to, this is going to cover Monday and Tuesday. The only important thing that happened on Monday was in Current World Problems. I believe this to be my favourite class, mainly because I find it extremely comical. The reason is that this quarter it is about global warming. Now global warming is a hot button issue, but many people are uneducated when it comes to it. I thought, since I would be in college, I would find like minded people who have done the research I have and understand the "facts" surrounding global warming/global climate change. Unfortunately that did not come to fruition. There are only two people who seem to have a good grasp on the information, one on the opposite side (pro-global warming), and the other in the middle. The rest are unable to speak eloquently on the topic. For the most part, I take a neutral stance and do not speak, mainly to avoid conversations with believers who will shun me and label me a heretic. The interesting thing is we are presented both sides of the arguement, yet majority of the class believes in anthropogenic global warming, whether it's extreme of not that extreme. The professor is trying to make the class as unbiased as possible, but I think it will be hard in a room full of evanGorecals (genius I know). Now moving on to today, I would like to make fun of about half of my Precision language class. Now I know English grammar can be confusing, but if a person cannot tell the difference between an adjective and an adverb or doesn't know what a verb phrase is, then our education system is in serious trouble. If a college class teaches students about nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepostions, conjuctions, and interjections, that's a little sad. I have some trouble with grammar, but they are rare occurences of things I never actually learned but just picked up. But despite all this, they are my favourite classes. That's it for now. Tomorrow will be an interesting post because I'm taking photos for the Post with Anna (yay Anna).

Friday, September 12, 2008

The Horror

I committed an egregious crime yesterday. I missed Calculus. I woke up at 6:30 as usual, but decided to lay down for just a little longer, but next thing I know, it's 8:30 and class is already half over. So I returned to sleeping, waking around noon to go to eat and then going to Japanese. Japanese was fun because we watched this really old video about Japan. Then we practiced for the test on the 19th and we were done. I returned to my room only to remember the Fridays Live meeting (thanks to David). After the meeting, I spent some time with David. I can't wait to get involved in Fridays Live. The people involved seem really cool, funny, and nice. I can say this with confidence that they are because I went to a party with Anna and David for Fridays Live yesterday. It was fun. Anna spilled strawberry Arbor Mist on this girl named Kristen (the cup just split), David played beer pong terribly, and I got to laugh at it all. I did not get drunk, nor did I drink. I didn't even take a sip of the Arbor Mist (strawberry flavored things are usually nasty). After a fun party, we stopped at Goodfella's Pizza. It was delicious. Then I watched "The Forbidden Kingdom" with Justin. It was a terribly cheesy movie. Oh, and I almost forgot, none of my modmates really talk to me. They never seem to be around, and when they are their door is closed (mine is almost always open). But yesterday, while I was listening to Dear and the Headlights, scenster kid, Simon, asked what I was listening to. I told him and then his friends noticed my Ben Folds painting (by Mike Taylor). They thought I did it, but I took no credit for Mike's talent, but I did show them my photos, which they really liked. They really liked the silhouette of David on the rocks and didn't think it was too dark. They thought it was perfectly printed and perfectly captured the mood. They understand art (cough, photo class, cough (just kidding)).

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Update

Please ignore Journey to Journalism, I've decided to go another way for my blog about journalism. I will have it up within the next week. In other news, I had another batch of classes today. Calculus seems to be shaping into the last half of AP Calculus, so it should be pretty easy. In J133A, my precision writing class, we were assigned our partners for this project where we have to present the proper use of a word on this list she gave us. In Japanese we went over numbers which was really fun. Then in J101 we had two guest speakers. It was an informative class, but not a boring one. I actually took notes, surprising myself since I haven't found anything worthy of taking notes in any class other than Japanese (I took notes in J133A, but it was already stuff I knew and was only to reinforce it in my mind). Other than that, nothing important has happened. I really need to find stuff to do. I've been sitting in my dorm doing nothing.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Wed-nes-day

That's how it is spelled at that is how it should be pronounced. Now, moving on, today was a organizing day. I had to stop at Dr. Bob's office to talk about double majoring, where I was told to speak with Professor Alost. Before proceding to North Green, I stopped at the bookstore to buy some notebooks and at my dorm to pick up my portfolio on the advice of Dr. Bob. I went to Professor Alost's office only to find that he had just rushed out the door. I decided to wait to see if he would return, but he did not, so I made an appointment for next Friday at 9:30 am. I returned to my dorm only to leave for lunch with David and Justin. After lunch, I read my polysci homework. It was a book on global warming/climate change that only refuted my beliefs saying that there is irrefutable evidence for anthropogenic global warming. This is not true. If the climate is changing, humanity has little fault. We are at fault for destroying forests and not recycling, but we can't really change climate. To top off the annoying "global warming is real" crap, we watched the most holiest of texts in the Gospel of Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, in polysci. I got Grab'n'Go for dinner, since David and Justin were too busy at some engineering dinner, and then went to my Post Photo meeting. I can't wait. My first assingment is with my dear friend Anna. She's writing an article about thrift stores in the falling economy and whether they are doing good or bad. I'm also thinking of working on the journalism side of the Post and doing the culture section.

Templates

If anyone who reads this can help me make a template for Journey to Journalism, please e-mail me at jpnero@sbcglobal.net. I don't know the least bit about html or xml so any help would be appreciated. Details will be discussed through e-mail. If anyone can find me a good template editor for blogspot.com, that will do the job almost as good.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

New Blogs

Today I created two new blogs. The Modern Eclectic is finally up and I will be posting as much as possible. My second new blog is Journey to Journalism. During J101 today, Dr. Bob said it was a good idea to create a blog focusing on journalism. He said how a former student was hired instantly at a London newspaper because the interviewer read her blog. Since the world of journalism is changing, more people are going on line and less people are buying daily newspapers, it is a good idea to write a journalism blog. That one will be updated usually after every journalism class and/or any time I do something journalistic (take photos or write an article). I hope you all continue to read this blog and would enjoy feedback on my two other blogs.

Monday, September 8, 2008

First Day of Class

For my first day of class at the prestigious Ohio University I awoke at 6:30 am. Well, I can't really say I awoke because I never actually fell asleep. I couldn't sleep, yet today I was pretty awake. My first class was Calculus II at 8:00 am, so after taking a shower and brushing my teeth, I set out for Morton hall which is not to far from my dorm of Ewing. After Calculus, I ate breakfast with Justin at Nelson and then retired to my room for a short nap, which I only fell asleep for a short time. After my nap, if one could call it that, Justin, David, and I set out for Jefferson for lunch because Nelson was packed. I had a delicious vegetarian soup, a surprise since my soup experiences at OU so far have been lackluster (but what can you expect from a cafeteria), and then we took a nice walk before dispersing for our separate agendas. I was off to Japanese 111 at Gordy Hall. It was an interesting first day as we dived directly into learning and speaking it. I have to be able to write in Japanese characters in a week, which doesn't seem to be that hard. Japanese only has 47 letters (more like characters because they are a combination of each consonant and each vowel). After a fun Japanese class, I stopped back at my room to grab some stuff and then set out for Bentley. My next class is called Current World Problems, and for fall quarter it is dealing with global warming/climate change, one of my hot button issues. Luckily the class doesn't look like it's going to shove the Gospel of Gore down my throat. Instead, it seems it will deal with all perspectives about the debate/so-called consensus. She let us out early, I ate dinner with Justin at Nelson, and then we retired to my room. That was all for today, but tomorrow is going to be packed as I have four classes and six hours of class. My weeks may get even more hectic as I plan to double major with journalism and photojournalism.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

I Got Drunk!

The title is a lie. I did it to fuck with your minds. Yes, to my readers who know me personally, I just did write a curse word. I have decided that, after a fun philosophical-life-world-everything AIM chat with Theresa, I will start phasing in curse words to my vocabulary by typing them first. I have used curse words in my head, but that's my head and that doesn't count. I think that by typing fuck, damn, shit, and bitch, I will be able to slowly phase them into my everyday speaking, someday being able to say "Fuck it...we'll do it live," once I am comfortable enough with writing them. But I digress, so let us return to the title. I did not get drunk. Using common sense, one would realize that most drunk people would be too inhibited to be able to use a computer. We did not go to the party because the drunk girl that told Justin about it vanished. She told Justin she would take us there after she took a shower. After waiting for awhile (and talking with Theresa on Justin's AIM) I decided to joke that she had drowned in the shower much the way a turkey would during the rain. You see, according to Johnny Bravo (the show not the character in the show), turkeys are so unintelligent that when it rains they stare up at the sky with their mouths agape, resulting in their sometimes eventual death by drowning, unless something distracts them. So sadly, I have no party to detail to you.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

OU? No Me!

It's an odd title yes. Okay, so I woke up at 8:45 after confirming that my floor meeting was not at 7:00 am. I cleaned up and got ready for Saturday's events. I didn't go to breakfast, sad face, but it's fine. Our seminar/orientation/introduction to the Scripps College of Communications was a little boring, but then Dr. Bob took the podium after all the other departments left and talked about clubs to get involved in for the journalist crowd. After some informative (hint something is boring) information (I would hope so), we went to take a picture in front of the new Scripps Hall home. Unfortunately the professional photographer didn't show because it was raining earlier, but Dr. Bob came to the rescue by having his camera just in case. After that I ate lunch with Justin and David and then relaxed with a nice nap. Justin woke me up to tell me he needed to go to the Import House again, so we walked there and then chilled in my room for awhile (Justin played Final Fantasy XII on my PS2, I just sat on the computer). Then we ate dinner and I went to my floor meeting at 7:00 pm. After that Justin, David, and I went to the Baker Center for a short time, as all the billiards tables were taken (yes I call it billiards and not pool). We returned to my room where Justin played again and David watched (I was trying to figure out my grand plan for double majoring). Now I am going to a party with Justin to make sure he doesn't get drunk. I will post another entry after the party to tell you all of the events that transpired.

Friday, September 5, 2008

Move-In Part 2

Move-in was awesome. I have everything where I want it and nothing went wrong. I missed my good friend Nick, but that's okay because I will see him again someday. After I finished putting everything in the right place, I went to the Pita Pit with David and Justin. Mmmmm, the Pita Pit. And so begins my venture into vegetarianism. I will try my hardest to be a vegetarian in college. It will be much easier now that I chose what I put on my plate. After a delicious veggie pita, we stopped at Import House, the local head shop. We chilled in my dorm for a while, then went to Justin's (which is in the same building), and then went to David's. After David's, Justin and I went to visit my good friend Anna. We had fun talking for about an hour or so in her apartment, and then returned to our dorms. I'm am so excited to be out of my house and can't wait to keep all my readers updated on my hopefully awesome college experience.

Move-In

I'm moving in today, but I can't get any sleep. I'm too anxious too fall asleep, so I have been playing games for like two hours. I'm so worried I'm going to forget something, or something will go wrong when we get there, like my name won't be on the list. Maybe I'm just going crazy because I'm sleep deprived. Would that be ironic? Let me think...no just a paradox. It's like the which came first question. Am I crazy because I'm sleep deprived, or am I sleep deprived because I'm crazy? It might be both. I'm leaving in a few hours! I feel like I have so much to do. I feel like I did absolutely nothing this summer other than laze about. Oh, wait, that's exactly what I did. I don't know why, but I feel like I have so much left to do before I leave, yet I can think of nothing. I still have no idea what books to buy for school either. Only Dr. Bob, my Journalism 101 professor, sent an e-mail telling all Journalism majors what book to buy for the class. Okay, my eyes are starting to feel heavy, I think I'll try and get a few hours of sleep and then sleep on the car ride down there.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Apologies

I apologize to all my readers. I haven't been in the mood for blogging, mainly because my family computer is being retarded and doesn't know it's connected to the internet. But now I have my HP dv9700t laptop, and it is awesome. It works great, and it will be easier to post with my laptop always in my room or with me. I might be posting as the day goes along from now on. I would also like to inform all my readers (for those that aren't my friends) that tomorrow, Friday September 5th, I will be leaving for Ohio University to begin my freshmen year. I also plan to start a new blog called "The Modern Eclectic." The Modern Eclectic will follow my budding eclectic tastes in my everyday life, such as eclectic movies, books, art, food, and news. Feedback is much appreciated, so email me at jpnero@sbcglobal.net with ideas or advice. I think I will end on that note and will try to post again today.