X-mas wishlist

Here is a short comprised list of things I would like for Christmas:

1. iPod Nano (2GB)
2. Grateful Dead Bean Bear (Lovelight, El Paso, Katie Mae, Shark Star, Shakedown)
3. Seinfeld Season 3
4. Tamrac Pro 12 Camera Bag
5. Jason Varitek Red Sox jersey
6. Any Jawbreaker CD
7. Grateful Dead's Working Man's Dead
8. Wireless XBox controller (off ebay)
9. Airsoft Pistol (Wal-Mart)
10. Boston Red Sox Hat (size 7 3/4)
11. Boston Red Sox 2005 World Series

If I find more I'll post another.

TGIF

The weekend is officially here. I got off work tonight around 11:15. Was expecting to come home to a nice quiet evening of either hanging out or just going to bed, but as is the usual course people were drinking at my house. Hopefully people leave somewhat early tonight. i.e. by 3 a.m. I was such a waste of space today. I stayed up drinking until 4 a.m. last night and didn't do anything productive until at least 3:30 p.m. today. I at least got a run in though before work.

I'm going to do a little research on what I want for Christmas this year. Stephanie needs some ideas and so does my mom. Of course I really want an iPod Nano, but I'm not sure I'll be able to get one or not. Maybe I could talk my parents into making it my x-mas/birthday present. It's only 2 months away and then it would already be done. I could also just buy half of it myself too.

I know I probably want to get a music dvd or two. I'll put my list up here later after I've compiled it fully. If anyone wants to they can go ahead and by me a 70-200mm f/2.8 Canon lens. It's only like $1699 brand new. I already know I'm getting a gift certificate from my grandmother this year and will get another one from my other grandparents.

We should be starting the weekend off with a party tomorrow night which is good because we need to build this pot up big time.

I finally picked up my camera after almost a week. It's been a long needed break. I find out tomorrow whether or not I got my internship. I'm nervous to be honest. I'll also be getting my car in the middle of next week. Well, time to do some research. Maybe I'll post when I get it done.

Free At Last

The past few days have been a lot more relaxing and less stressful than I can remember in a long time. I'm still working on my final project for my online class and trying to figure out my last photo essay, but other than that, I've had more time to do things I've really needed to do. Like working out, reading, and making some money at the Hut. I finished reading Hunter S. Thompson's "Better Than Sex" last night. I'm not sure whether I'm huge fan of Thompson. All I really got out of the book is that politics is a bitch, Richard Nixon was evil and George Bush Sr. is just as evil. A lot of this I really knew. It was hard to tell what was semi-fiction in the book and what was for the most part true. The saddest part of it all is that in Hunter's world, it was all true. Maybe I should try to read another one of his books like "Fear and Loathing" in Las Vegas. "Better than Sex" was actually part of his Gonzo Papers Collection. It's possible that's why the book had very little direction to it.

Today I started reading Nick Hornby's "A Long Way Down" which Nora bought me as a graduation gift. It's a book about four people who meet on a rooftop that is infamous for people committing suicide off of. I just realized that it's really wierd that I just finished reading a book about a guy who committed suicide and now I'm reading one about four people who try to committ suicide. That's actually just pure coincidence. (Somehow I feel like I'm going to get several calls from friends tonight asking if I'm alright.)

I also just finished watching Ken Burns' "Unforgivable Blackness." The life story of the first black heavyweight champion. I think this is the first time I really realized the ignorance of so many people in the first half of the century. I think it must have been Burns' way of portraying Johnson and white people, but it affected me a lot. I couldn't imagine living in a period where about 50 white people would line up on a bridge or near tree where they had just hung another human being and stand there with dead corpse and pose for a picture like they had just bagged a deer. Makes me sick to my stomach.

Stephen got a job at the Journal Gazette-Times Courier so congratulations to him. I wonder if this means there's no shot at an internship there now. I'm still waiting to hear back from the . I really hope I get that now. If not I'll still try to pressure the Times-Courier or I'll just hang out for the next few months and work at Pizza Hut or Roc's or find a factory job around here. Doing any of those couldn't be good for my mental health though. I need out of Charleston in a bad way.

Chucktown

Back in Chucktown after a nice week of relaxing. Unfortunately, the Panthers lost to Southern on Saturday. I tried to listen to the game, but it was a little difficult at Steph's. First I had to help her with some organizing stuff so I missed the first half, and then the computer was cutting in and out. Quicktime was not my friend that day. Oh well. Congratulations to the EIU Panthers for a spectacular season. They went undefeated in the conference with an overall record of 9-3. Today I'm trying to get some school work done and then I have to work at Pizza Hut again. I'm uploading the new prototype for the Sigma Nu website later today, so if it isn't up when you check it, check back later. I have a feeling I'm going to find myself in the newsroom more than I was when I actually worked here. I'm also finishing up an essay today as soon as Scott Kelley calls me back so I can interview him. I will load it to my site if I finish it tonight. I'm really sad I don't have a key to the newsroom anymore. Now I'll just have to call Eric and make him come let me in.