And thats a Winner
Time for the 2nd Aussieland Cd import!
From the "Pop" CD entitled Pop Copywrited Dodgy CDs Australia 2004.
- George Michael - Freeeek! Athough images of george micheal in the bathroom being arrested by a police officer still plauge my mind, i gave his new songs a try. The array of poppy music and nice beat keep me very entertained. This song reminds me of my early 90's days. Ahhhh the 1990's.... I'd admit I am addicted to VH1's I love the 90's series, i even tivoed it... KEEPER
- Beverley Knight- The First Time (britain) "Through these misty eyes, it's plain to see, even though you are here, i am not with you..." They lyrics sound like they are from some romantic movie. The combination of soft muttled piano and her voice, just gives me goose bumps. This is one i will get caught many times singing on the freeway. KEEPER
- Holly Valance- Kiss Kiss (OZ) I had it turned up really loud at first and that huge Kiss sound at the beginning scared the living crap out of me, but it was well worth the recovery. The very poppy lyrics and beat keeps you bobbing your head from side to side. I found myself doing the drums on my steering wheel in traffic the other day. This entire CD is gonna get me lots of stares. KEEPER
- All Saints- Pure Shores (Britain) At first it reminded me of that group, with the fat chick that had her surgery posted on the net live... now she is skinny... Wilson's Trio... i think... but actually this song is one of my personal favourites now. Its so light, so airy... so upbeat. Just what i need in times of stressfilled rush hour. DEFINITELY A KEEPER
- Har Mar Superstar - As (Seasons Change) (US) All i remember from this song is "horny neighbor kids..... " It reminds me of a haunted halloween song, actually he does say halloween in the song, but it tends to remind me of something you would hear at Six Flags Fright Fest. KEEPER
- Starsailor- Four To The Floor (britain) This one definitely needs further listening. I think there is something more to this song that i am not getting... KEEPER for NOW
- Girls Aloud- Love Machine (Britain) This is something that i would take to the beach and have on as background music while playing volleyball. I have to admit i got caught boucning along to this song in the car too. I would be perfect for that new show on VH1, motormouth. "I am just love machine, feeding my fantasy, give me a kiss...." KEEPER
- Will Young- Your Game (Britain) I have high hopes for this song, Aussie talks about him all the time! I have high hopes because i know what mister young looks like, and the voice is NOT matching... :( Oh i like the choir in the background though. Tops for that. He has the voice of an early 'blackish' jackson. Its tolerable. Song is pretty good too. I expected more of him though. He better have a better second cd, thats all i can say. Keeper for the Moment.
- Robbie Williams- Radio (Britain) Techno is only good when i am piss assed drunk. Moving on
- Rachel Stevens- Some Girls (Britain) HEY! HEY! Yeah more music for when i am drunk. Moving on yet again.
- Delta Goodrem- Out of the Blue (OZ) AWWWWW, a new beginning for all of us dear delta. I love pianos. I think I am getting caught reviewing this in a sappy mood because i am liking this one a lot. KEEPER
- Danni Minogue- Put the Needle on It (OZ) *NOTE* Danni you will never be as good as your sis, thanks for ratting out her marriage to hottie french boy, but you have potential. keep at it. * KEEPER
- Michael Buble- Spiderman (US) Finally someone did a jazzy version of a man in tight clothes. It has a bit of big band feel to the song too. I can see it being sung in clubs in downtown jazzy chicago. "Look up, here comes the Spiderman" KEEPER
- Kylie Minogue- Giving You Up (OZ) SHHHHH! Dont tell Aussie but I have already downloaded this song. KEEPER
- Robbie Williams- Hot Fudge (Britain) Mister Williams you can lick me, just yell YEE HAAA! YES we can move to LA. Have lots of babies and you make sweet sweet music to me every night. I love the upbeat nature of this song too. DEFINITELY A KEEPER
- Cheyne- I've Got Your Number (OZ) The craky part at the beginning freaked me out a bit, but the upbeat poppiness of this song, is just so hard not to "try" and sing along with. I am not very good at singing songs, so i just mummble until i hear a part i know, or the chorus and i scream that out loud, LOUD and C L E A R! KEEPER
- Jem- They (Wales) This song's major beat reminds me of some christmas song but with an EVIL twist. I was told some of it was written by Bach, that shoulc explain a lot. I love it actually. I first heard it on 89.1 the Wood, a local college station here in st. louis. Very interesting. I am sure this song has some deep meaning behind the lyrics, i will have to listen deeper for those... but for now, its a KEEPER
- Vanessa Carlton- Ordinary Day (US) I am sensing a theme here. Lots of piano. Which is fine by me, because i love the piano. And this song hasnt had the air time i thought it should have here on the radio. Miss Carlton has some wise advise, everyone should take it. KEEPER
- Sugababes- Freak Like Me (Britain) I wish the US imported and played more British stuff. I this group. Its and all around good song. I gave them positive reviews on the last cd review too, Whole in the Head. KEEPER
- ABS- Stop Sign (Britain) I dont know what ABS stands for in Britian but here in the US it stands for Anti Lock Brake System. So not attractive. But maybe ABS in OZ stands for Aggressively Brilliant Singers.????? the fast forward pop style beat makes me want to get up and dance. But i will spare you all... KEEPER
- Wendy Matthews- The Day You Went Away (OZ) What a nice way to end the CD... something really sweet and soft. The combination of vocals and piano just gets everything all sweet and mushy inside. I bet people in OZ use this as their wedding or break up song. Keeper for those days i need a sappy song. Keeper
All in all, the CD was a smash. So that was the 'Pop' CD, the "Not-so-Pop" CD is next for the review so look for that. Thanks to Aussie for the CD. The CD is a KEEPER!
Es war ein beschisse Tag
Heute war ein beschisse Tag. Zuerst, ich habe meine zuerst Klasse fehlen. Ich bin sehr mude und ich habe kein schalfen. Ich habe also eine Quiz in IS 364 fehlen. Das ist nicht gut. Dann spricht ich uber den Article uber Digitalen Kameras im Deutsch Klasse. Ich einrichten sich nicht auf. Ich habe gesagt. UMM... Englische worter... UMMM... Englische worter, usw. Das war nicht gut. Und jetzt habe ich viele Englische hausaufgaben and ich habe keine Zeit. Ich habe Hunger and ich habe meine auswiess verloren. ich bin sehr aufregen.
Ok now that i have all that out of my system, i will continue in English. Today has just been so shitty. One thing after another, yet I dont find myself THAT upset. It's just school. I mean I will have plenty of other times to make it up. And really none of this is really counting. It's just a GPA grade that will be transferring to UND. I am not worried about it too much, for none of these classes are my major. Although, at one point i did think about making German my minor, but that has sense gone out of the picture.
Paul the drunken guy that leaded on my shoulder at the party is becoming a bit obsessive and I am too nice of a person to say, look i am too fucking busy to worry about trying to find time for your ass. Seriously, the only free time i get is when i am driving from work to school or school to work. Thats MY TIME and i am not going to rearrange my schedule so you can "get to know me" better. Whatever thats just slang for you want to fuck me. I get it. Whatever. Just get over the fact that School and my job come first. Social life.... HA... that comes at the bottom of my list.
I just know it i am going to be the 30 something year old that hangs out at the bars, his straight friends, mostly girls, trying to fix him up with the gay guy that lives down the hall or next door to them. I can just see it now, blind dates, that go terribly wrong. Being the cool gay uncle to all my friend's kids. That doesnt sound so bad. For me, my job, my future career comes first. I really dont have time to mess around with all that dating crap. It really is just a waste of my time, especailly here.
And that concludes my rant for the month. I nearly made it all month without saying one thing. Just a few days shy.
Jackie this girl in my german class asked if she could buy me a case of beer for my Geburtstag. I just smiled and said no thanks. She asked if i was going out with my friends. HA, friends what local friends do i have? the cloest person i know lives in Illionis but on the other side of the state, and i have yet to met him. The others live within flying distance, but its just not feasible to fly or have them fly in. It's just a birthday. Just one more day older. For me, its really not THAT big of a deal. I still have to figure out what i want to get my mum for her bday, her's is the day before mine. It's her 45th, so semi important. I just dont know anymore.
This weekend i will be at home, so i wont have much acess to the net, or at least in very limited forms. Its still dialup country were i live and its pathetic. Its AO HELL dialup country. This is the finally weekend for the family business of grass cutting and i am so excited.
cheers
History of Halloween
For my Aussie Friend who doesn't know the REAL story about Halloween, since they dont celebrate it in upside down land.
Halloween, or the Hallow E'en as they call it in Ireland , means All Hallows Eve, or the night before the 'All Hallows', also called 'All Hallowmas', or 'All Saints', or 'All Souls' Day, observed on November 1. In old English the word 'Hallow' meant 'sanctify'. Roman Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherians used to observe All Hallows Day to honor all Saints in heaven, known or unknown. They used to consider it with all solemnity as one of the most significant observances of the Church year. And Catholics, all and sundry, was obliged to attend Mass. The Romans observed the holiday of Feralia, intended to give rest and peace to the departed. Participants made sacrifices in honor of the dead, offered up prayers for them, and made oblations to them. The festival was celebrated on February 21, the end of the Roman year.
In the 7th century, Pope Boniface IV introduced All Saints' Day to replace the pagan festival of the dead. It was observed on May 13. Later, Gregory III changed the date to November 1. The Greek Orthodox Church observes it on the first Sunday after Pentecost.
Despite this connection with the Roman Church, the American version of Halloween Day celebration owes its origin to the ancient (pre-Christian) Druidic fire festival called "Samhain", celebrated by the Celts in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Samhain is pronounced "sow-in", with "sow" rhyming with cow. In Ireland the festival was known as Samhein, or La Samon, the Feast of the Sun.
In Scotland, the celebration was known as Hallowe'en. In Welsh it's Nos Galen-gaeof (that is, the Night of the Winter Calends. According to the Irish English dictionary published by the Irish Texts Society: "Samhain, All Hallowtide, the feast of the dead in Pagan and Christian times, signalizing the close of harvest and the initiation of the winter season, lasting till May, during which troops (esp. the Fiann) were quartered. Faeries were imagined as particularly active at this season. From it the half year is reckoned. also called Feile Moingfinne (Snow Goddess).
(1) The Scottish Gaelis Dictionary defines it as "Hallowtide. The Feast of All Soula. Sam + Fuin = end of summer."
(2) Contrary to the information published by many organizations, there is no archaeological or literary evidence to indicate that Samhain was a deity. The Celtic Gods of the dead were Gwynn ap Nudd for the British, and Arawn for the Welsh. The Irish did not have a "lord of death" as such. Thus most of the customs connected with the Day are remnants of the ancient religious beliefs and rituals, first of the Druids and then transcended amongst the Roman Christians who conquered them.
Halloween history is one of religious traditions, sacrifices and folklore. While it seems strange to understand the motivation of these ancient actions, it is good to know the roots of our current practices of Halloween.
Tell me why you wouldnt want to go see soccer action in St. Louis?
Enjoy
Turning in my paperwork for Australia today. EEK! Although I am very excited to finally be that much closer to my dream and goal, it all seems very amazing to me. Ten Thousand Miles away from home, I will be finally be on my own. I will be able to do the things I want to do, without mum and dad looking over my shoulder. Telling me that, that decision was right or wrong. Dont get me wrong i like when people give their opinions but maybe it's time to finally decided on my own. The picture is one of the buildings on campus, I do believe it is part of the student center. Their campus reminds me a lot of my campus here, at least from what i see from pictures. Lots of rolling grassy hills and a few lakes and ponds. Lots of trees. Although it will be nice to see trees in the winter that dont loose their leaves.
Get your Ass up
Uni life can sometimes be a bit stressful. You have exams and papers to write. You have to balance your time between work and uni. The incredible task of actually GOING to class. But I have accomplished all of those so far, but the one thing that gets on my nerves the most, the thing that pushes my politiness skills to the limits are roommates.
Now the fact that i have to share a room, is a problem, since i have had a single room since i was born, but my roommate that i share a room with now, is a cookie cutter version of me, only straight. Quite, respectful, a decent human being. Now the guy that has the single room.... He apparently cant hear his alarm. So EVERY morning I have to get up when he does, which is about 630am. I pray every morning that he will hear it and i wont have to get up. But I lay in the bed for 30 mins listening to that horrible buzzing sound. Then it dissappears. thinking that he got up, NO...it changes to the radio. Glen is beyond white and likes ganster rap. Thats fine i can stand every type of music. I like to hear new things, but ganster rap at 7am blarring so i can hear it through the walls, not so good!
So about 715 in the morning i cant stand it anymore, i get up fling open his door yell, GLEN, ALARM! He springs up and turns it off. Now i dont know if his mummy got him up every morning but i am getting fucking tired of it.
When i finally got up today, he seemed really pissed. Gee was it my waking YOU up at 715 this morning that made you pissed, glen?
Studio 515
Studio 515 (2a) is a place that EVERYONE has to experience just once. Yeah its not your normal clubs, in fact it isn't even a club, it's just an apartment on campus that happens to be utterly gay friendly. 100% of the occupants are gay, and i dont know how much gay friendly you can get than that.
So Keith, a former worker i know fromTarget (or TAR gay) basically dragged me to this party. I would have been quite content sitting at home playing Simcity or chatting with friends. But NOOOO drug me out to the party. I get there and people are already hanging off the second story balcony, the party has migrated to the next door apartment and the cops had already shown up twice. I get there and i head directly to the bar. ARGH... fruity drinks. Where's the CROWN? Where's the Jack? Oh thank god they had Jack and coke, i was gonna die if i had to drink, "cock and balls" or "pink pussy".
Had a couple of small glasses of Jack and Coke, and then a couple of beers, but I was no were near drunk. Maybe a bit tipsy at a couple of moments, but nothing like some of the others. Just did the normal people watching for the first hour or so, checking out the guys, the girls, the extreme dancing, the extreme 'friendliness' of the gay drunk, etc. Just the normal mingling.
Met this guy. Paul. He was a bit tipsy when i first met him, and then when i "met" him again, because he didnt remember my name, he was utterly drunk. To the point where he needed my shoulder to stand up the rest of the night. It was ok, he was really cute. UTTERLY CUTE.
He continued to lean on my shoulder and kiss my neck the whole night. He was a very touchy guy, at one piont i made a rule, hands above the waist, at least while everyone is around ;)
Near the end of the party, this other cute guy was leaving and came up and gave me a hug, out of nowhere. He whispered into my ear... "are you gay or straight? ... cause i told everyone you were straight and that #7 was offlimits."
* i was wearing a shirt with a HUGE #7 on it
I just laughed and gave him a kiss on the neck. "YOu tell me!"
Meanwhile "leaning cute boy" was about to head to bed, but before he did, he decided to leave his mark. Yes, he left a hicky on my neck. It wasnt a big one and is fading a bit, but that was nice explaining how i got that at a party to the parents tonight.
"yeah mum, this really "slutty" chick gave it to me..... "
But all in all it was a very nice time. Drank a bit, socialized a bit, made out a bit, and met some really interesting, cool individuals. So if you are ever in St. Louis and need a cool "club" to hang out at.... try Studio 515 (2a). I highly recommend it.
cheers!
The great and all powerful American Airlines (www.aa.com) will be laying off more Missourians this year. More than 600 Missouri-based American Airlines workers will be laid off next month. 221 of them are in St. Louis. The other 400 are in Kansas City.
Most of the layoffs involve aircraft mechanics. Aircraft cleaners, parts, and fleet service workers are also being let go. American Airlines lost more than $200 million last quarter.The airline could cut more jobs nationwide over the next year. Yeah, you go American. We dont want your crappy airline in St. Louis anymore. Be wiery Dallas, Chicago, New York, and Los Angles, you are on the chopping block next.
English is da bomb
I thought I bombed my English exam the other day. I just knew i didnt do well because I left several questions blank.. but low and behold, my grade for the exam was posted online today, and WHOA... i pulled that A out of my ass! Seriously. It was a mircle I did that well. I laughed when i got the test and noticed we got 1 point for our names. And i knew at least i wouldnt get a 0 out of 100. but damn. Three exams down, three excellent grades. Only 3 more classes to do the same in.
Sydney in 120 days!
I've decided to fly to North Dakota in Feb to visit right before i leave for Australia. I dont think i am ready for the challenge of driving in lots of snow. I will be stressed as it is... Somehow I think this tiny assed plane is gonna crash when it encounters anything... even AIR... much less SNOW.
These next two weeks are going to be killer. I have to wait until Nov. 2nd to play anymore on my RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 demo. It will defnitely be my gift to myself for my birthday. Oh yeah... get me lots of stuff for my birthday. Its number 21. So RCT 3 has so great new features. One is you can ride the rides you design. You can sit on the rollercoaster, in the chair swing, on the water rides, etc and have a front row view. VERY cool. You can design and corrindate your own firework shows to your mixed music. And so much more. I only got to do so much with demo. And now that i have released my inner nerd once again... i will crate it up again and ship it to Helsinki...
In other news... I finally renewed my "lost" passport, but no worries a new one arrives in 5 to 6 weeks. In plenty of time for Australia. And HOLY FUCK... who ever decides the prices for passports apparently never bought one. It cost me 97.50 for a fucking book with my pictures and birthdate in it. I could have made one for 3 bucks. Take a pic with the digital camera. Print it off.. paste it to a cheap photo album from walmart and write in my birthdate. That simple. And then i had to swear my life away to sign a piece of paper... i certainly dont remember doing that before. I guess i was too young to remember.
Hotel Hell
Mum had this to say to me the other day...
".... you seem to be using our house like a hotel lately. Comming in eating, showering, sleeping and then leaving. I don't like it. Then your room is a mess, the bed is never made, and your clothes lay all over your room....."
First of all... Its not a hotel because when i visit hotels, they whip my ass for me. Home doesnt. Secondly, its not MY room, it was turned into the guest bedroom less than 36 hours after I left for my first year of uni. She chuncked my pictures, my posters and all my things into a bucket and replaced everything of mine with neutral colours and pictures of the ocean. Thirdly, close the door if you dont want to see the room, its not like anyone goes to that side of the house anyways... i get more tumble weeds in the hallway that leads to my bedroom more so than foot traffic.
Cant please them for nothing. Less than 130 days until i finally get far enough away that I wont have to hear it constantly. It's like when i am there, I am there too much, and when i dont come around, they complain becuase i am not around.
.... sigh... and a tear...
WTF! We were suppose to win this thing easily. We were suppose to be playing New York Yankees. Instead If we dont win on Wednesday afternoon, our season is over. WTF! I HATE HOUSTON. I HATE WILDCARD TEAMS. I HATE EVERYTHING THAT COMES FROM TEXAS, I HATE BUSH, I HATE HIS DADDY, I HATE HOUSTON'S SMOG, I HATE ENRON. I HATE THAT FUCKING FRUITY BALLPARK. I HATE THE BEES!
oh ok, i done now.
FUCK HOUSTON! What do you have? HMMMM? We have world series championships, many more than you. We have a national momument, the GATEWAY ARCH. We have clean air. We have more things than you!
DEATH TO HOUSTON and ANYTHING related to it!
Forget Going to Breakfast this AM
I woke up to this... screw going out to get breakfast today. The power went out many times last night too. And i know this because i have a battery back up on nearly everything i own that takes power. Just in case i need to watch tv or play simcity for another hour to 2 when the power is out. Well the battery makes this most annoying BEEPING sound the entire time it is on its backup power. So all night long, little flashes of light, big flashes of light, thunderous sounds, car alarms going off in the parking lot, and BEEP.... BEEP... BEEP. This raining is reinforcing my decision to skip psycho class today. I dont think i could handle 90210 girls today either. I am still pissy from the Cardinals loss.
Macquarie here i come
Already planning out my events
Only 130 days from today (Oct 17) until I am down under at Mac. And i can not wait! I am so excited about all of these events that are coming into view now for my life. Thought i would peep up my spirits by posting a picture of Sydney... Doesnt it look so much warmer than St. Louis right now? And that ocean... so delightful.
I want to go back to bed, it's far warmer there.
What a dreadful day. It's rainy and cold. This is a view from my second story apartment. Why does it have to be so cool and rainy... wait i know this one... IT'S FALL.
My parents have two tickets for tonights playoff game. BURR... that's all i can say...
See that fire hydrant. Yeah that red one. Well interesting story. Three years ago, some supposedly drunken guys were playing a game similar to tennis... they were hitting back and forth a tennis ball. Well one of them go the novel idea and dunked it in gasoline and lighted it fire. So they were hitting back and forth a lited flaming ball. Yeah smart i know.. Well they hit it onto the roof. And notice how we have LOTS of trees... yeah LOTS of leaves must fall from LOTS of trees... well the flaming fireball caught my building on fire... then it caught the next one across the pathway on fire. And the adjacent buidling on fire too. All told three apartment buildings were buring in flames.
Now the campus police really dont hurry out to the apartment complexes becuase we get a lot of false alarms, plus being 2 plus miles from campus dont help either. Anyways the fire department wasnt called for a good some time. So lets just say the three buildings burnt to the ground.
So now we have the newest buildings on campus. YAY. The newest furniture, the newest kitchen appliances, etc. But NOW we have the most sensitive fire alarms on campus. So many nights we spend standing outside because someone forgot to turn on the vent in the kitchen while cooking or what not.
I had to stand outside today because of the fire alarm.... In the rain.... in 47 degree weather... without an umbrella.... with the sniffles.
Cheers....
AH>>> what is that... OH its me! One of the very few pictures I think I look attractive in. Dont mind the date... its really off... I took them a few days ago... behind me is my bleak college room... its covered in a great thing... WHITE paint... and my OPEL jersey... YAY.... anyways. enjoy... more to come... promise
90210
About 10 mins before the psychology exam is about to start the girls that sit at 12 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock, and 6 o'clock from me started to chit chat like normal.
"Oh my god, you are so tan! Where did you go?"
"....like my parents had the people cleaning out the summer home in the Islands so they wanted someone there so like 'Olay Mexcian' wouldnt steal like stuff."
"...Oh my god. Why didnt you invite me?"
"SHIT! what the fuck is he handing out?"
"... Oh my gawd... it's a test!"
"shit i didnt study"
"you wanna just put our names on it, then turn it in, then go to Sachs?"
"Yeah"
"Yeah"
"Yeah, I saw the coolest leather jacket"
Why do i get stuck sitting between the rich girls? I would move except there are no extra seats and I hate getting to that class earlier than i have too.
I wanna be a baseball player
Albert Pujols being covered with bubbly. Nothing is hotter. Congrats to the St. Louis Cardinals for their win over the LA Dodgers. St. Louis' fans got a scare the other night when Lima shut us out but we all knew that if the big boys started swinging those bats it was going to end up in a win for us.
So now we wait for our competition. Houston and Atlanta play later today in order to figure out who moves on to play St. Louis.
The Yankees are playing the Red Sox. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO RED SOX!
Cheers
Do you take Visa?
I lost my passport! HOLY SHIT and i leave for Australia in less than 4 months! ARGH! So now i have to meander down to the local office to sit in line for 8 hours, wait patiently to be told that they arent doing them today and then come back the next day. I had to write a letter of submission tot he federal government telling them basically that I am a dumb fuck and cant be trusted with important documented papers and that i need to file for a new passport cause i lost my old one, which is due to expire during my trip to Australia in May of 2005. This should be so much fun.
$55 bucks for a renewal and another $35 for processing!!!!!! My god how can our government be so far in debt? Its a fucking rip off... and on top of that, i have to pay $325 bucks for a fucking VISA. See they never mentioned those "hidden" costs in the brosures for Australia.
All i have to do now is get four pictures of my shoulders and face and write a check to Australearn and my packet is ready to be sent to be processed and screened. Now i am getting nervous. But i am sure all of it will turn out ok...
Feburary 18th i depart from US soil... counting the days... not quite to counting the hours... but i am counting the days... right around 4 months!
cheers
Dont really have much to talk about. Changed a few pixs on the side bar. Most notably, my personal picture. Then i added one of SIUE, UND, and MAC.
It's not so black and white as it seems
We are the generation of scheduled activities; we are the generation of Internet and personal computers; we are the generation of safety and comfort. We are the kids of baby boomers. For us, we have had our hands held for every moments of our life. But now we have to grow up and be adults. My parents have treated my life an adult for most of my life. I have had to face difficult decisions from the moment I could walk to today. I thought being treated like an adult when I was 15 and 16 was ‘cool’. I thought I was making all the right decisions about my life. I thought it was great. Until life got a bit more complicated. Here is my dilemma.
I am ready to move on with my life. I am finally sure I know what I want to do. I live for aviation. I breathe it in constantly. When I was younger my dad drove me to a spot that over looked the runways at Lambert Airport. Every 45 seconds two planes side by side would swoop in. It seemed as they were racing to the finish line. A neck and neck, race down to the wire. The sounds of the roaring engines as they flew just overhead. The rumbling of the air as it whirled back sweeping back the leaves that were on the ground. Then the best part was still to come. The sound the tires made as they went from a non moving state to spinning at 200 miles per hour, that puff of smoke that kicked up. Then the reverse of the engines. The high-pitched whine they made was just something that sent a shiver up my spine every time. Even today, as the spot where you can park is gone due to airport expansion, I go out of my way every Monday and Wednesday to take the Lindbergh Tunnel that emerges you from the depths of the Earth to see the planes racing overhead. I slow down every time, open the moon roof, and watch as the planes glide overhead.
I am ready to move on. I have a choice; a difficult one. I am going to Australia. I have worked to hard to just leave that dream in the dust. I just have to decide if I want to study abroad for one year, or cut my trip short by a semester and come back home to start at UND in August of 2005.
Choice 1. I can study abroad in Australia for a year. Enjoy every moment of it too. And come back and attend SIUE for a semester and then begin at UND in Aug of 2006.
Choice 2. I can study abroad for semester in Australia. I can then travel from mid June to early August and then come back to the states and attend UND in August of 2005.
I have to make this choice very quickly, for this next week, I am sending in my applications and I have to mark for how long I want to be in Sydney. A year or a semester. Feed back is very much desired.
i wanna ride in the rescue unit!
At work, cut my finger open. Gushed blood. Went to the hospital... got a shot... got a name tag... keeping the nametag... got a fucking cute gay doc... he had triangles on a ring! watched tv at the rich hospital... paid by True... pissed in a cup... my pee is warm. signed out... went home to calm mum's nerves... now eating fries from texas roadhouse courtesy of bro. all is well.... my arm hurts a bit from the shot but all is WELL... promise... dont freak out like mum did
