tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62197532012-02-10T02:34:51.066-06:00A blog that is sometimes frequently updated, and sometimes abandoned completely, from an aspiring writer and professional procrastinator.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.comBlogger1101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-44349315898062276802012-01-24T00:02:00.000-06:002012-01-24T00:02:45.748-06:00

It's a tricky thing, not writing a novel, and you may need some helpful advice to get you through the process. Fortunately for you, dear reader, I have a great deal of experience in not writing a novel, and I'm going to share with you some of the top techniques. Be warned; some of these are not for beginners. 1. Netflix. If you're not subscribed, you should definitely sign up--at least for

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That, I am proud to say, was my word count for November, though the word verification on the site only gave me 50,051. After years of feeble efforts and failure, I finally beat NaNoWriMo. I had a strong start (4500 words on day one) and then started to fall behind at the halfway point, but I managed to hit 50,000 a day early after a staggering (for me) 12,000 words in 3 days. NaNoWriMo

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I'd like to share with you, if I may, a brief history of my dealings with NaNoWriMo. I don't know for sure what year I began, but I know it was when NaNoWriMo was still relatively unknown--I think 2003, which would make me a junior in high school. The concept was new and exciting, and I found myself really looking forward to November, when I would tackle my first ever novel-length writing

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I stayed up tonight with the intention of revising/rewriting a short story I intend to submit, but about 1300 words in I've pretty effectively lost focus. I really enjoy the first of editing--finding the problems. I like to find some of the ridiculous inconsistencies I can manage even in only a few thousand words (typically, characters introduce themselves twice with different names, or start

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This post started as a script for a vlog--oh, by the way, I've been doing a vlog called English Majors Talking (or English Major Stalking) and you can find it here.   After a disastrous two-hour attempt at editing, iMovie crashed and I lost everything.  I still have the footage, but I don't really feel like reliving that experience, so it's not getting edited.  But rather than have it be a

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I seem to be on something of a monthly posting schedule, which isn't all that horrible considering some of the other gaps between posts.  I'm now all settled in to my new apartment in Madison and found a new desktop support job, although it's only a three month contract with no plan to hire at the end of the contract, although they aren't ruling it out either.  Still, even if it only lasts three

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In the latest Vlogbrothers video, John Green said this fantastic line about writing: "Writing does, at least for me, require quite a lot of concentration.  And to concentrate you must be prepared to face the terrifying spectre of boredom without fear."Hearing this made my night.  Most writers love talking about writing more than anything else, and to hear them talk about it, writing should be

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Here's a familiar scenario.  It's after midnight, I have class in the morning, and I find that the thing I want to do least of all is go to sleep.  I'm finding that as my penultimate semester comes to an end, it's becoming more and more common of an occurrence. My final semester.  There's something I was afraid I'd never be able to say.  After six years in college, the thought of actually

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p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } ...And I'm not as embarrassed to admit it as I thought I'd be. Backstory. My friend Martin (whose blog I would link to here were it not completely devoid of posts) has been trying for the better part of eight years to get me to give it a shot and I've resisted—partially because it just seemed too nerdy, partially because it seemed overly complicated, and largely

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It seems the only time I post twice in a row, it's because I'm still rambling on about the same thing (and I'm sorry for that).  But this time I wanted to talk about Madden 11 specifically as a video game and post my impressions so far. I've seen some complains in other reviews and forums about the difficulty leading to unrealistic play, but for me it hasn't yet become a problem at the default

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Obviously, that follow-up post on Wikileaks never came.  But let's face it, if you aren't caught up by now, there's not much I can do about that.  So we're moving on to something a little less dramatic. I speak, of course, of football. I've been playing Madden 11 basically non-stop for the past few days now.  It's not because of the strategic elements that sucked me in to Civilization V, or the

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Sometime in the fall I finally got into Reddit.  If you're familiar with it, you probably know that around that time, tons of former Digg were jumping ship after a terrible site redesign.  I wasn't actually part of the wave of internet immigrants, though--I just went to Digg so many times in one day in the summer that I was bored enough to try Reddit, which I initially hated because of it's

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I last posted in January.  Nine months ago.  I think after a certain amount of time, I started to think that it had been so long that I needed to come up with something good to post to justify so long without writing anything.  I considered rebooting the blog, starting from scratch--but I made that mistake once before when I wiped out two years of posts.  So instead I made everything private till

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Is this: "How did I get a virus?" and/or "Why didn't my antivirus software catch it?"I'm never really sure how to answer because I can't know for sure, but these are probably the reasons:1. You Didn't.Well, not really. A lot of the so-called viruses we get are actually just fake antivirus/antimalware programs that brings up a list of "infections" and then tell the user they need to purchase the

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Kotaku had an interesting article today about kids and video games, originating from an anti-gaming parent who argues: Here's my question: When do kids ever think these days? When do they ever have brains free from electronics long enough to ponder the universe? To think of things that might someday lead them to a cure for cancer? If Sir Isaac Newton had been playing a DS, I'm sure he

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Oh, the wonderful time of the new year when I start posting again. This week’s topic is childhood.  I’m 22 years old, and I’d like to think that I’ve reached some semblance of adulthood.  I have my own place, my own income, my own health insurance.  I’m getting married in a few months.  I finally have a freakin’ graduation date. But still, I thought I could make it to a solid 24, maybe 25,

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It's weird, switching from a 40-hour work week in the summer to a much less consistant week when the semester starts. Now my days are organized seemingly at random, starting anywhere between 7:30 and 11:00 and ending anywhere from 3:40 to 8:00. In a way, I have more time to do things, but I also have more to do. It always takes me a while to readjust. Usually I'm used to it right around the

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I spent the weekend down in Milwaukee for Summerfest. The trip was a lot of fun, although the fest itself was somewhat of a disappointment. I planned to go Thursday through Saturday to see Rise Against, The Offspring, and Barenaked Ladies, but ended up only going on Thursday for Rise Against. The festgrounds are huge, but at least there are a lot of places to get food and water unlike some

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I haven’t been reading like I said I would.  I did finally read An Abundance of Katherines, which was a fantastic read.  It’s one of those books marketed as “young adult” that actually is enjoyable for everyone (although it seems a lot of those books have that ability).  But I’ve been pretty lazy in the reading department otherwise—I never finished Mindfulness (I like it, but nonfiction is always

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Alright. So here's where we're at.This summer, I'm doing an independent project that will go towards my English major called By Riverside. I'm going to be heading down to Riverside Park 2-3 times a week and interviewing people to get a feel for the community and share stories that may otherwise never be told. The profiles will be posted blog-style at By Riverside, and it'll even be updated

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I love Bookmooch.  Give old books.  Get new books.  Keep the post office busy.  Everybody wins! Except that a) I am very bad at remembering to send out books and b) I am very bad at reading the books that I get. The front page of I Should Be Writing has a list of links on the side called "What I've Read in '09" and I believe in a podcast earlier in the year she mentioned that the point

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Originally, I had planned on writing this entry from the Cellar, so that I could comment on how once-upon-a-time I frequently (okay, occasionally) posted from there but according to my archives, the last time I did was December of 2007.  But the wireless internet there hated me, so instead, I'm coming to you live from an empty auditorium where I'll be taking an exam in about an hour. Things are

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I know I said this was going to stop being sort of like a tech blog, but the release of the Windows 7 beta happened to coincide with my return to the blogosphere, so I’m writing about it.  If you do not care about computers, you may want to just stop reading and come back later this week when I complain some more; those are the posts you’re more used to. Anyway, a few months ago I bought a

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Author/podcaster extraordinaire Mur Lafferty just posted a video podcast about the tools every writer should have, and one of the things she mentioned was an external backup drive.  A flash drive, external hard drive, Google Docs--it's not important what you use, so long as you're backing up everything.  Most writers know this, and all techies know it.  But here's the dirty little secret: Most

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I turn 21 on Wednesday and I don't really know how I plan on celebrating, although I plan to enjoy a little vacation in my summer vacation and take the rest of the week off work. Then this weekend will be Warped Tour for my third time attending (after skipping last year). This year's line-up worries me, though. For every band that I'm excited about seeing (Anberlin, Angels and Airwaves,

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The Dark Knight is a great movie. It's unpredictable, there are lots of explosions, and it raises more questions than it answers. In short, it's everything a movie about the dark and gritty Gotham City should be. But if you're in the mood to see a movie that'll make you feel good, stay away. Go watch Wall-E, which I also enjoyed, but for vastly different reasons. Otherwise, the second movie

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-13018670752150417082008-07-15T11:50:00.004-05:002008-07-15T12:40:03.777-05:00

So I ended up caving in and buying an iPod Touch. I even have some of those white Apple stickers now. Curse you, Apple, for making reliable products that do what they're supposed to do. And for making them so damn cool.Anyway. I guess I might be becoming an English major now? Through two years of having no declared major, my focus touched on Music, Computer Science, Broadcasting, Creative

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-53126796641529359042008-06-27T09:05:00.002-05:002008-06-27T10:42:25.104-05:00

This Lifehacker post asks the question: What books have changed your life? It seems like as good as any reason to get back into the blogging swing, so here's my list. I don't know if I'd really say that all of these changed my life, but at the very least, they all left lasting impressions.Mila 18: Of all the wars in America's history, the only one that ever really captured my interest was World

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-42822473460813971282008-06-24T09:51:00.003-05:002008-06-24T09:52:58.631-05:00

This isn't really a post, I just thought that it may interest some of you to know that Less Than Jake just released their new album, GNV FLA, and you can stream the entire thing here.

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Okay, okay. I'm almost done talking about operating systems. I've come to the conclusion that I just sort of hate my laptop, no matter what OS is on it. There, I'm done. You can uncover your ears now.I feel compelled to tell you once again, internet, that I have not gone and left you for dead. I'm starting up a new project, which I'm not going to say anything else about just yet, but you

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So last week the Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) was released, and a co-worker talked me in to giving it another shot. You may remember I flirted with Linux a few months ago with minimal success [meaning I spent five hours getting my computer to recognize my wireless card, and even then it still didn't work--along with audio and video]. On his recommendation I installed it over Kubuntu (7.10?) which

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It's that time of year again--elections for college office. A lot of people don't really see the point of running for student office--but I for one feel that the whole thing is a valuable learning experience for the entire student body. It not only teaches future politicians valuable campaigning skills [see: sidewalk chalk], but the onslaught of "vote-for-me" messages all over campus also teach

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Friday night the apartment was empty except for me and Turtledove, our cat. I was watching House and doing whatever on the computer when the power suddenly dies. I went out on the porch to see if it was just my house, but the street seemed quite a bit darker than usual so I went outside to check it out. Sure enough all the neighboring places were in the same state as I was, with everyone

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...to the person who stole my CDs out of my car a few weeks ago:Seriously. Who steals CDs anymore? Get with the times, man. If you're going to steal music, just use the internet like everybody else. You get more, you get your choice, and oh yeah, my CDs don't go missing. I would have gladly burned you copies of everything in there if I'd known how badly you wanted it all. The worst part is,

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-90438363698001650042008-01-12T19:13:00.001-06:002008-01-12T19:27:11.517-06:00

They say college is a time for experimentation, so here goes: After all my years of Windows, I'm finally test driving Linux.Right now I'm posting from an Ubuntu live CD, but everything here looks a little too Mac-ish for my tastes, so I'm downloading the ISO for Kubuntu, a KDE version that's a little closer to what I'm used to. I also played around a little with Knoppix. The real challenge is

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I pondered writing a run-of-the-mill end-of-the-year post-with-lots-of-hyphenated-words and so I ran through the archives a little bit to see if there was enough to warrant a year-end recap. That spurred dig even deeper into the archives, and I think I finally solved a riddle that I've wondered about and posted about for quite some time: why is it I still feel the tiniest need to keep this blog

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-61722710009465069162007-12-05T11:23:00.000-06:002007-12-05T11:27:17.011-06:00

Every day I eat lunch in the Cellar and order some sort of meal with a Mountain Dew. As soon as I get the cup I hold it up as if I'm about to take a drink...but really, I just love the way the fizzyness feels on my nose. It only lasts about a second and a half before it settles down, but it's one of those simple things that makes me smile.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-13728570325726162092007-12-03T20:06:00.001-06:002007-12-04T23:20:50.975-06:00

But I just bought myself a Christmas present.

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So after 2 years and and almost 3 months, my laptop has died. Here's what happened: I start noticing that once and a while, it doesn't boot, and when it does, it likes to spontaneously close programs and blue-screen. "Oh man," I think, "my laptop is dying!" So I get my external hard drive back from Cody with the idea that I can simply back everything up before it gets too bad and then I can

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I need all the advice you internet lot can give me about waking up in the morning, because it is a curse on my life. Yes, for starters, it would help if I could lock down the ability to go to bed early enough to get enough sleep and still make it to my earliest class(es). But even when I get enough sleep, I completely lack the ability to get out of bed most mornings and I can't explain why. I

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-78114718460279081242007-09-27T20:49:00.001-05:002007-09-27T20:57:52.246-05:00

First of all: Facebook users, welcome back. I have finally recalibrated the reticulation spline with regards to the modifier conjuplexus server and now we can be friends again! So I come to you all tonight with a moral question, inspired by my amazing boredom and reading the archived notes of Matt Perry. He noted that he felt silly after he had held open an automatic handicap-accessible door.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-90140216271042202802007-09-25T11:40:00.001-05:002010-10-09T23:07:13.068-05:00

I'm in the Cellar, the campus eatery I tend to eat lunch at. Every Tuesday they have chicken and dumpling soup. Typically, it is delicious and wonderful. Today, it was not. Today, they changed it and it tastes like Campbell's reject. I put up with it when they switched from their cool fries to boring regular fries. And when their chicken strips shrunk for some strange reason. And I thought

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-29013435480241009842007-08-14T01:41:00.000-05:002007-08-14T01:50:21.673-05:00

I'm currently posting from my porch, where a monstrosity of a storm is flooding the street and making all -kinds- of noise, not to mention shaking my porch to the point of knocking down a picture and for what I think is the first time ever, leaking. I gave in and closed the windows when the wind started to pick up which turned out to be a wise decision as the wind then picked up even -more- and

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-84775071515963709472007-08-02T03:15:00.000-05:002007-08-02T03:32:50.380-05:00

Today I had what I can only think to describe as a mental disintegration. After a night out at Perkins from which we all returned home around 4/4:30 ish and somehow became completely and totally convinced that if I were to evaporate away nobody would notice or be concerned. What brought on this sudden vacation of my self-worth has so far eluded me but it kept me up till about 6 in the morning

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-86897033524970154602007-07-30T02:38:00.000-05:002007-07-30T03:06:20.838-05:00

I'm challenging myself to post daily, so that I'm at least writing -something- every day. Slowly but surely I'm trying to work back into writing. It's funny how over the past few years it turned from something I seemed to remember genuinely enjoying to a chore. I stopped writing for myself entirely and so everything turned into an excuse--why write in my blog if everyone has stopped reading it

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-81238923869416443122007-07-29T03:31:00.001-05:002007-07-29T04:04:01.759-05:00

We never met. Or maybe we did, but neither of us knew. It doesn't matter either way. We didn't know each other. Still, you affected me in a way you never got to see, and I just wanted to tell you.I didn't know the man who ran inside to tell us what had happened, either. Maybe he was a youth leader, or your father. But when he asked all of us to pray, I actually did, because of you. And when

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A lot's been going on lately, sort of. A lot has changed since I last posted. I'm engaged now, which comes as a surprise to everyone, including myself. I realize full well the dangers [and foolishness] of getting engaged at such a young age, but to be perfectly honest, it's the one decision I've made in the past year or so that actually feels right. And anyway, the actual wedding won't be for

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-52371524301022852862007-05-14T17:26:00.001-05:002007-05-14T17:26:51.099-05:00

...does "We're still young" stop being an anthem and start being just an excuse?

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It's so nice outside that I don't want to sit in here and do things on the computer, even though they're things I need to be getting done. And my guilt for not doing these things is strong enough that it's keeping me inside and not letting me go savor the sunlight. Together, these forces are combining to leave me trapped on the interweb in a hopelessly nonproductive loop. Also, I forgot to

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-91675709955564507822007-04-16T14:23:00.000-05:002007-04-16T14:37:54.406-05:00

Today is the last day to file for a tax return, and I'm trying to decide if it's worth doing for my $7.62 refund. Yes, yes I think it is.So I've been putting in a lot of thinking about whether or not I want to keep on following the college path. The only situation I can think to compare this to is when I was debating on transferring from Knox to (okay, I admit it) live closer to Melissa. And I

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-86505561891017175692007-04-10T15:19:00.001-05:002007-04-10T15:19:36.568-05:00

Just a few minutes ago, I had a complete stranger come up to me and ask for tech support. There were two other people with laptops just as close, and he came to me.I must give off some sort of tech aura.Even weirder, we compared all the settings (he was trying to get his wireless working) and they were all the same, so he tried again, and it suddenly started working, confirming what many already

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-21039269790886194152007-04-06T01:18:00.000-05:002007-04-06T02:03:51.410-05:00

The thing that makes blogs (especially my blog) unreliable is the wait. My wait for comments before I post again, and your wait to see what I post next, to see if I reach a decision. Well, I've officially reached a conclusion:I might take a year or two or more off school.And I might not.The truth is I have no idea and I have less and less of an idea every day. I bounce back and forth faster

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-69093730615969865992007-03-22T23:58:00.000-05:002007-03-23T00:37:58.325-05:00

It turns out I sort of double-lied about the blog; I said I'd do it, and didn't, then I said I was setting it aside for a while and I started working on it. Basically, I finally have figured out how I'm going to design the layout [don't worry, I'm getting rid of the blue] and although I did start making it, I'm going to end up scrapping it and starting over because it still wasn't quite right.

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So, I lied...but then, you're all used to that by now. Actually the site design has sort of taken the back burner at the moment, but rest assured that all is not lost just yet. Don't expect anything in the immediate future, though.The first post on my present blog will, if I remember correctly, inform you that I had deleted all the posts before it, which I think was in the 400 range. Now, I

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1168502650739707902007-01-11T02:04:00.000-06:002007-01-11T02:04:10.886-06:00

This will be my last post for a little while--I'm going to put off blogging until I can give it the amount of attention it really needs. This wee site 'o mine is going to undergo a complete overhaul (no, I really mean it this time, said the boy who cried redesign). So nobody worries, because I hate it when people worry about me, here's my life now.I'm happy. I haven't used my winter break to

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1167847669744457952007-01-03T12:07:00.000-06:002007-01-03T12:07:49.893-06:00

I meant to post an obligatory Christmas post, but I decided against it and then I just sort of forgot. Anyway, it's 2007. It's 41 degrees outside on a January day in Wisconsin and while that is absolutely ridiculous I like it not being freezing cold because I am not an Arctic-oriented person.So I got a violin for Christmas, which was pretty random but neat nonetheless. So now I have another

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1164084219836937542006-11-20T22:43:00.000-06:002006-11-20T22:43:40.036-06:00

I finally started going through my computer and listening to entire albums that I haven't heard even though they've been on my computer for a long time, and I realized I hadn't actually listened to either of the Goo Goo Dolls albums I had so that's what I'm on now. It's a good night for Goo.So my Last.fm profile looks kind of strange, because usually the top artist is still only four or five

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1163616514641839262006-11-15T12:48:00.000-06:002006-11-15T12:48:35.216-06:00

I'm sitting in the Cellar eating french fries and chicken strips and listening to The All-American Rejects' "Move Along" while reading Sam's NaNoWriMo story and thinking about how good of an idea it was to not participate this year. I am wildly distracted.Last week my cell phone died a flickery death so I lost all my contacts. Cody gave me his old phone so I'm back in business but I've only got

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1160621213230149642006-10-11T21:46:00.001-05:002006-10-11T21:46:53.233-05:00

Successful drinks made in college cafeterias: - Orange root beer [50% orange soda, 50% root beer] - Hawaiian Punch - esque Fizzy Drink [roughtly 40% orange soda, 30% grape juice, 30% apple juice]Failed experiments: - Apple Pepsi [50% apple juice, 50% pepsi]I also successfully made a substitute for Mountain Dew Code Red because they do not have it there, by mixing Mountain Dew and either Cherry

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1159936543817169522006-10-03T23:35:00.000-05:002006-10-03T23:35:44.650-05:00

So the magic of the internet now syndicates my posts onto Facebook as notes.Hi, Facebook!

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Wow! I'm behind. Okay, I'll get you up to speed.Last weekend was my birthday! I appreciate the birthday messages from everyone who remembered, and for everyone who didn't, well...sigh. =( Except Angela; I've cleared her of guilt.So what did I do for my birthday? I held a party for me and a few thousand of my closest friends in Chicago. I called it Warped Tour. Catchy. Less Than Jake and

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Less Than Jake's new CD, In With the Out Crowd, is really different [as far as I can tell] from any of their older stuff. If I'd heard it without knowing it was them, I don't know if I'd even know that it was, except maybe for the few songs that feature the horns [and I can understand the desire to experiment with different styles, but I can't help wondering if JR and Buddy (sax and trombone)

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I have the weirdest feeling of obligation towards this blog. Whenever I load up the page and see that I haven't posted I get this pang of guilt, as if people are waiting desperately to hear from me [which I know is completely not true]. So now I'm curious about why that is and I've decided that it might possibly be because this weird little blog is the only outlet I've used for writing in a

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1147150753547073762006-05-08T23:59:00.000-05:002006-05-08T23:59:13.573-05:00

I'd like to share something I posted almost exactly a year ago. May 7, 2005:Her and Martin are trying to get me introduced to a girl named Melissa. She had -just- left when I got there. Apparantly they think she'd be good for me, or something. I had a feeling earlier this week that at least one of them secretly was trying to set me up. One of those weird vibes. Anyway, they're still trying to

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1144182662933777482006-04-04T15:31:00.000-05:002006-04-04T15:31:02.946-05:00

Let's face it, it's always a good idea to have a backup plan. Last year (Septemberish?) Tawny and I decided that our would be to run away together and be hobos. International spy pirate hobos.Step one of the plan would be to meet up, of course, in a manner as hoboish as possible. At the time I was living in Galesburg, IL, the only city in American where all three major railways cut through.

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The problem with not posting is that the longer I go without posting, the more I feel I have to make up for, and the more I have to post, the less I want to post it.So I'm just not going to bother. =)Last night I became hooked on this poem, and I don't even like poetry:PROLOGUEYevgeny YevtushenkoI'm many-sided. I'm overworked, and idle too. I have a goal and yet I'm

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Sorry about my last post! When you click BlogThis, it automatically puts the title in as whatever the title of the website you were on at the time. When I posted, I was on IMDB checkin' out the trailer for that movie and I didn't notice. My bad!So why is it that people apologize even when they couldn't have possibly had anything to do with what happened? How did it end up as part of society

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1140643046372074952006-02-22T15:17:00.000-06:002006-02-22T15:17:26.416-06:00

So recently I read a book called Thank You for Smoking, by Christopher Buckley, a satirical look at the tobacco agency [and even the anti-tobacco angencies.] And the other day I find out it's being made into a movie! It comes out March 17th, I believe. Go see it. You'll laugh. =)[[Update with actual content coming maybe someday ever.]]

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This is a great article--Bottled Water: Nectar of the Frauds? Yes, it really is true what they say about all of you who buy bottled water. You're stupid.[Naturally, as I type this, a bottle of Dannan "Natural Spring Water" is sitting next to me. Despite the fact that we live on the ridge and our tap water essentially -is- spring water...my mother still feels the need to buy it in bottles.]Last

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1138656556067955062006-01-30T15:29:00.000-06:002006-01-30T15:29:16.136-06:00

So here I am, sitting in the library [doing absolutely nothing] waiting for 4:30 to roll around for band. Friday night I went to the Warehouse and caught The Audition with Inept, This is Me Smiling, and Last House on State.Last House on State is a local band, aptly named because they live on State Street [or maybe Street Road, which is literally 4 blocks down]. There were two dead giveaways that

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1137786728147258152006-01-20T13:52:00.000-06:002006-01-20T13:52:08.243-06:00

This is interesting. It's rare that you actually find some good points when you're going through random blogs.Yesterday I got bored and went around Tomah and finally re-activated my debit card. You know how on those Visa commercials they promise that if your card is lost or stolen, they'll catch it? They really do.Not that mine actually -was- stolen. It's just that I'm an idiot. See, I

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Have you ever had a band sort of sneak in, under the radar, and you find yourself liking them when you don't remember ever making the decision to like them?It's like that for me with The Reputation. They're a Chicago slow-rock-ish band that came to Knox once last year. I ended up with a copy of their CD and I never really listened to it because it didn't really impress me. But now, whenever

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1135582509956287482005-12-26T01:35:00.000-06:002005-12-26T01:37:24.193-06:00

Christmas stuffs: [I hope I don't forget anything.]--Saw DVD--Watch [that I need to have resized for my tiny wrists =( )--3 assorted guitar picks--Desk lamp--Tim Horton's coffee/hot cocoa/magma mug--Rise Against t-shirt--"Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them" t-shirt, with stuff in the background in lighter lettering like "i hate you" "you are an idiot" "your

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"How does Christmas keep managing to sneak up on us? I mean, it's the same day every year. You'd think we'd know by now." -- Some customer. So I'm working at Burnstad's again. It's not too horrible. Sure, I'm making minimum wage doing fairly mind-numbing work. But at least I'm getting some kind of income--besides, it's not like I need a whole lot of money--and plus I finally have somthing

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1135072768077726692005-12-20T03:59:00.000-06:002005-12-20T03:59:28.200-06:00

I was sent this e-mail the other night. Last night was one of the most horrific nights I've ever witnessed. My family and I had just gone to bed and were well asleep. The temperatures were already well below zero and it was expected to be one of the coldest nights so far this winter. Sometime between 10:30 and 11:00 pm, we got a phone call. The caller was in hysterics and screamed that

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1134594866717730762005-12-14T15:14:00.000-06:002005-12-19T02:32:08.643-06:00

My most-listened to albums of 2005...Less Than Jake: AnthemRise Against: Siren Song of the Counter CultureRelient K: MmhmmDay at the Fair: The Rocking Chair YearsParamore: All We Know is Fallingblink-182: blink-182Eve 6: Eve 6Pete Yorn: MusicforthemorningafterBest Moments of 2005:Lifest 2005: Talking to strangers, running the Thousand Foot Krutch merch booth (during their concert =( ), getting

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1133341177731882392005-11-30T02:59:00.000-06:002005-11-30T02:59:37.783-06:00

The effect of the title of this is that of a fast song, and then the guitars and drums stop and the vocalist yells, "let's go!" and it starts up again and rocks even harder. It loses something when you type it. So, as usual, I don't have anything to post. I haven't really been doing anything since I got home, except for playing Resident Evil 4 and I'm really, really bad at that game. It's

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1132557639355450342005-11-21T01:20:00.000-06:002005-11-21T01:20:39.406-06:00

Tonight I'm posting from my own house in my own room, something I haven't done in a while. =) It's different. I've gotten so used to living with 18 other people that it feels weird only having a couple other people around...people that go to bed before three in the morning. At the same time, it's nice having it to myself again. That's been kind of the theme for these last few months. Weird.

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I don't really have anything to post, I just feel kind of obligated to do so. I decided to try NaNoWriMo and I am 13,000 words behind. This was perhaps too large of a project for me. Wait, by 'perhaps' I mean 'most definitely' and by 'for me' I mean 'and I was crazy to think I had even a remote chance of making it.' =) It's crazy to think that in just two weeks, barring any unforseen

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Sleepy. I don't think anything remarkable's happened this week. Although, I've corrupted our entire floor with Sim City 2000. I found the game while I was scanning through my external hard drive because I didn't remember what was on it, and Sam saw me playing so I put it on a disc for him, and then he gave it to someone, and they gave it to someone...and now about half our floor is playing Sim

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I'm so very behind on this blog.Cliff notes!The weekend before last, I went on a spontaneous trip home that led to me getting back together with Melissa. Bad reason to drive 200 miles? Possibly. Worth it? Definitely.And last weekend--we're skipping the week and taking it for granted that nothing thrilling happened--was the improv show I was in, Forms of 42. It was so much fun. Improv is unlike

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1129010975432498542005-10-11T01:09:00.000-05:002005-10-11T01:09:35.476-05:00

This is insane. What the hell? This site has some videos and newscasts of the scene. There's absolutely no excuse for something like this. Memo to self! Continue tradition of not seeing shows in Kenosha.

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So, it turns out Mount Everest is 12 feet shorter than we thought. THIS JUST IN. No one cares. Moving on. I haven't posted in...2 weeks? Three? I'm not for sure. It's been a while though. May as well pick up from where I left off, the first weekend of October. Chicago is amazing [at least to someone who's spend the majority of their life not living within a quarter mile of another house].

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Few quick nifty things. A few days ago I auditioned for an improv show, Forms of 42, and I got in so I'm now a proud improv-er which is fun except that rehearsals are 10-midnight on weeknights. Yikes. But the first practice was really fun and I'm really glad I went out for it. It does wonders for your ability to create characters =) Also, I got a radio show on WVKC, the college radio station

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Really, I should be asleep. I've got a class in 7 hours. But I'm too awake for that. =/ So, college. I suppose this is a little overdue of a post. So far, it's been really cool. First off, our entire [co-ed--I don't think I could live with all guys] floor gets along awesomely. Basically, if anyone's here, their door is open and anyone is welcome to come in. We all stopped knocking by the

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Sunday's show--The Homeschoolers are a pretty cool local band, but they are changing their name. Sunday was their last night officially known as the Homeschoolers, but they decided to temporarily change their name to Death By Numchucks, a move I fully support. Turns out Brandon and the guitarist used to hang out a couple years ago. Small world. I got their CD 'cause it was cheap 'cause they

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1124399449113584712005-08-23T15:49:00.000-05:002005-08-23T15:45:42.380-05:00

On the way back from a Halo party last week, Dan put on Anberlin's new CD and I really liked it. I gotta get myself a copy of that.The Halo-ing was up in Winona with some guys I work with. Thursday was my last day working at Burnstad's and I'm glad to be done but I did meet some cool people there. It's almost enough to convince me to come back and work there over winter break.Almost. =)So this is

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[[This post was originally started July 12. I'm just now finishing it.]] So, Lifest. I never even posted the day I left or anything. It was awesome, as usual. This year I volunteered 2 shifts so I could get a half-price ticket, so I ended up working the merch booths for Yexus 24:7, TFK, and Echelon. Without further ado-- Thursday We left for Lifest around 9 am and managed to make it there

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So, the show last night was fun. =) The Warehouse is the smallest venue I've ever been to. We're used to going all the way down to Milwaukee for concerts. 1000 people minimum. There were maybe 50 people at this one. It was kind of nice, though, being guaranteed a good spot. =) The first set was Theresa Lane, a one-man piano playing side project. He only played a few songs, but he was

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937835403694739359noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219753.post-1115782396295745202005-05-10T22:33:00.001-05:002010-10-08T00:27:50.356-05:00

I've been trying to organize my music somehow on my computer, and I'm finally getting around to doing it. Just including my "real" CDs--no mixes, in other words--Windows Media Player presented me with a staggering playlist of over 116 hours of music. That's almost five days worth. And that's still not including all the...extra...music. The problem is that I am never going to be able to

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[[Edited October 8, 2010: This post really should be one that was pulled from the archives for not having much to do with anything, but I'm keeping it up because it amuses me.  That girl I mention at the end of this post, the one I don't want to get set up with?  She's my wife now.]] I bet someone today that I'd get pulled over for having a headlight out on the way home from picking up a

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That's what I was told today, at Goodwill. I ran into a girl I work with, although I've only actually worked with her maybe twice and it was a good two months ago. It was an interesting conversation. I walked past the aisle she was in and she looked really familiar, and she looked at me like I looked really familiar too and she said hi. It took us both a minute to figure out that we knew the

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I posted on this blog, roughly a year ago, that I thought seeing Less Than Jake in concert would be pretty cool. Little did I know. So I just got home from the concert a few minutes ago. I should be sleeping but I felt the urge to blog this all now 'fore I forget it all. =) We would have been on time to see Kane Hodder open, but we were hungry and we stopped at Subway. So we got to the

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So, Susen [with an e!] posted a list of things (that I'm assuming came from some site somewhere) from the 80's and such. Fifteen is my favorite: "You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school." Oh, man. That game was the best in fourth grade. It could be the most beautiful day outside, and we'd fight over who got to stay inside at recess at play Oregon Trail.

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The other night I was pulled over because my car, apparantly, was too loud for the guy's taste. He wastes five minutes of my time before he finally even gets out of the car. Then he walks -past- my door and inspects the dent in my quarter panel. It's obvious this guy had his opinion of me all set up before even looking at me. The conversation went something like this. Italics indicate my

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Something occurred to me. In order to be a failure, you actually have to try something, and fail. If you just skip over the trying straight to the failure, you're something worse. To call yourself a failure when you never tried is a disgrace to all those who tried their hardest and couldn't do it. Fear of failure shouldn't be that hard to overcome. I mean, think about it. If fear keeps

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It's been a long time since I bought a game. For Gamecube or computer. The last game I bought was, I believe, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, and that was a long while ago. (Not that I've had money, but not the point.) That may change, sooner or later. A few games have been grabbing my attention as of late and I've found myself wanting to start scanning eBay for them, even though half of them

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And sometimes I think I'm the only one That feels like going nowhere is like giving up, Whoa, I'm not giving up... Who'd have thought the answer I've spent the summer looking for would come form a Less Than Jake song? (I get the feeling that there's no way I can make this entry not look like the 'ol cliche blog/livejournal entry with the lyrics 'n all. Blah.) I've been torn all year

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The sun was hidden under layers of layers of clouds and it was muggy. The sky teased the ground with the occasional tiny little raindrop. I woke up around three this wonderful afternoon and prepared to get ready to go hang out with Lauren 'n Dawn 'n John for quite possibly the last time ever (tear) and I was faced with a shocking sight. In the night, I was visited by either a complete jackass

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