mike mulligan… no mary anne
It’s freakin’ APRIL! Gah… It’s been nearly shorts-weather for the past week, few weeks, and now its just as white outside as February… Ew… It’s not even cold enough! It’s still kind of warm out…
Whatever.
I feel I owe you, dear reader, an apology.
It seems my “update” yesterday was more of a rant than an honest, all encompassing, update. And I am sorry…
Sure, some bad stuff has gone down, but things have been on the up ‘n up too. And here’s where I get to boast…
Well yesterday sure was a grab bag of emotions and confusion…
Where do I begin? I began the day with a dash of frustration and about two teaspoons of guilt and anger each. I had tried breaking into Apartment 2’s wifi for a good few hours the evening before, to no avail, and some hardware I had bought specifically for the job neither worked on my Mac, or wanted my Mac to work.
Money wasted.
Money, come to find out, I didn’t have, as I was a good $6 in the hole, even after a $200 check. So thats no good. As it turns out, NSF (No Sufficient Funds) fees can pile up quick. In total, I think I was responsible for about $40 (these were a few really small checks), and the NSF fees accounted for almost $180 of debt. Thats absurd, and to top it off, despite waking to a formidable blizzard, my Approaches to Literature teacher decided she wanted to hold the only class of the day… So there’s your frustration and anger, all balled up inside of my first few hours of the day.
Luckily the rest of the day went considerably better. Including obnoxious balloons, flowers, chocolates, bottles of water, chocolate syrup, lace and American Idol… Not all in that particular order. Read on…
So I am finishing up packing… Heading to Vegas momentarily, but I need to vent real quick, you know, assuming I’m not being censored or anything…
Really, as excited as I am to be going to Vegas over this next week and shooting Miss America, and as much fun as I know I am going to have (well, pretty sure at least), I’m just about ready for it to be over already… I mean really, just how excited can one be to spend the week with chaps that wholly feel that:
“So stay tuned, if you know whats good for you. In the same fashion as last year, I will be posting nearly every step of the way, so expect something up at around 6pm tomorrow evening…”
(offending material)
needs be censored? Thats not my kind of crowd… Sorry…
I know, I know. Its a stupid little thing, but I assure you, its just the beginning. There’s going to be a whole SLEW of nitpicky things that one unnamed soul with stop at no ends to point out and command be rectified.
I honestly believe that, in todays society, all of this uptightedness is just one big misunderstanding. I can’t imagine that people honestly are as anal retentive as they think everybody else thinks they ought to be and are because of it. I mean, how can a person function like that?
Whatever, I’m going, and I am going to have a great time of it, and thats that. I’ll be blogging about it both here, and at the Miss Maine website. Also, photos will be up at some point, but I shall not disclose their location… yet. Check back later for such juicy details.
Peace!
So, its been a while.
It seams like only yesterday I was setting up my newest blog (this one) and writing away. Posting about this and that to an audience that I wasn’t even sure was out there. Then I hit a road bump, got caught up in the end of the semester shenanigans, and next thing I know… POOF! Happy New Year! Then I just put the whole blog thing on the back burner with the full intent to catch up once I got back to school.
Problem is (and this is a whole story in its self) we don’t have internet at the apartment yet, and I have been having computer “issues” using the school wireless network… But its all back together now, and I thought I would check in.
Some of my photographs were featured in the Husson College Spectator last week.. The photographs are of one of the events hosted by the Student Activities Committee on Halloween: Pumpkin Bowling. Unfortunately I was not able to attend the entire event, and thus two of the four photographs, although taken on my camera, were not taken by me.
What I was there for was quite a bit of fun, and I have posted the two photographs that got published and were mine. They are to the left, hope you like them.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIR-…
You get the point… Jen’s Birthday was this weekend… Lucky…
I’m not going to lie, it was pretty fun. Friday she went out with the girlies for her “Girls Night Out,” whatever that means. Evidently they Stitched and Bitched the night away. Which as I take it was relatively fun, so thats good for her. The guys and I went to check out the house and watched movies, but more on that later.
We celebrated Jen’s Birthday through Saturday night into Sunday afternoon. Saturday evening Jen’s cousin came over, and a sizable bunch of us wasted the night away playing Guitar Hero and Mario Party in a friend’s room. The next day Jen’s Mom and Dad came up from Waterboro, and we went out to lunch at Ichban’s (or something like that). Jen and I filled our cravings for Sushi, and then some. 
I met Jen’s Mom a few weeks ago, but this was the first time I have ever met her father. He is a pretty nice guy. Jen’s Grandmother made her two skirts, and Jen’s mom bought her a few shirts and on sick pair of boots (thigh-high, stiletto, black). They also brought up all sorts of snack foods and goodies with them too.
I had heard a while back that Jen was really looking forward to the new DDR: Super Nova, so I got it for her (she’s a BIG DDR fan), as well as a loofah (a duck loofah), so she had one over here in Bell when long nights left her other one oh-so far away… They were both a hit. All in all I’d say it was a pretty good day…
In other news, the boys and I checked out “The House” this past Friday, and I’m not going to lie… It needs work. Not the, “Oh, lets paint the living room,” kind either. More like the, “We should call a wrecker,” kind… Everything is in workable shape. Just about every room needs a coat of paint, and a few doors need to be patched. Besides that, everything else is great… Except the kitchen…
The kitchen is bad-ass, its got an island in the middle, hanging ceiling fan, a telephone bar, fridge, stove, washing machine, the works, and its huge. However, its not done. It needs a new ceiling, a new floor, and the windows need to be finished (plus a little woodwork here and there), but I/we just couldn’t let that get to us… the rest of it is just too good a deal. It’s a three bedroom apartment, with a full bath, living room, sitting room, full kitchen and breakfast room (sun room). Plus a porch and a 6-8 car driveway (3-4 of those spots will be ours). It’s a mile off I-95 (about 10-15 miles north of school). It’s just nuts!
The landlord is Caleb’s brother, so no secrets there (he is a nice guy, not a dick), and the tenants upstairs are sorority girls (so they are pretty chill, and again, not dicks). Rent is $800 a month, which comes to about $267 per person a month, and if we agree to do work on the apartment (pretty much a given) he will drop it to $600 a month (all of this only because it is family).
So we signed up. There wasn’t really any other choice… I am sure you understand…
Finaly, I have my interview for Image Works tomorrow. Can’t wait. It’s at 13:00. I’ve been getting my paperwork together all afternoon. I’ve got a few more things to get from my mom, but I’m really excited… 
Ok, Jen’s back, and its time for our HTML study session… God I love this girl.
PEACE!
PS: She’s sweaty… She took a moment to remind me of this fact with her FOREHEAD! Gah…
So we went to the Halloween Dance here on campus this past Friday. In all honesty, it wasn’t all that bad…
To start things off we pre-gamed with the outdoors club peeps up on 9th floor. A little rum and a little Rock Superstar and we were ready to go…
Jen decided to be Alice for Halloween. She even had her mom make a custom outfit for the occasion. Now, we’re not talking the pretty little Alice in Wonderland “Alice.” This Alice has problems. Jen was the Alice from the game American McGee’s Alice. This is Alice after her house burns down, killing her whole family. This is Alice after being sent to a psych hospital, only to go absolutely insane, slip into a coma, and suddenly be forced to battle her way through Wonderland on acid… It’s a trip… She played the part well too. Full with the bloody apron, crazy knife, and hooker boots. She made me proud…
I, on the other hand, wasn’t nearly as creative… About two hours before the dance I still had no idea what I was going to go as, but Jen bailed me out… So… After a quick stop at Rite Aid I became a Vampire for Halloween. It was brilliant.
The dance was OK, mostly because the DJ played everything on the Billboard Top 100… I mean… Its an easy A. I’d show off more pictures of some other kids outfits if I had them. There were some decent ones. Problem is, I don’t even know who took these ones.
Tonight I have to go shoot the Pumpkin Bowling thing in the student center. After that I am off to Steven King’s house for some scary biz.. Hopefully… The plan is to only show up to the student center. Take like three pics, and get out… Thats the idea any way…
Wish me luck!
I have finally established a solid personal space on the web. I’ve had a number of websites in the past. Namely beLine Perspectives. However, when I started referring business contacts its way I had to change its lean a little more towards the professional side.
The worst part is now I am going through a name change and will probably drop the beLine name in the near future, but since I have already sent referrals to that domain I can’t change back. I need a place I could blog freely… not MySpace…
So here it is…
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