Friday, June 30th, 2006 - 2:43 am

Last night marks another Anatomy test that I’m going to wish I had done better on. I tried a lot harder this time, but it seems that Anatomy really isn’t my field. I’m not going to give up just yet, but damn if I’m not ready for it to be over.

You know when you’re just wishing for someone to piss you off, because you missed or bungled your last chance to tell them exactly how awful they are? I’ve got that right now. I thought for a moment that maybe the lack of that new offense meant they might not be that awful, but then I remembered why they were awful in the first place.

Before and after pics of the backyard pond Dad and I have been working on:

And a picture of the Morton men at Jessica's wedding:

Things have been going extremely well lately. Moreso than I had any reason to expect. Let us hope it stays this way, and that I don't somehow screw it up. I amaze myself with my luck sometimes. Now I just have to pass Anatomy, not run out of money, and find a job in the fall. Yes, things are going well.

Listening to: The Black Heart Procession - It's A Crime I Never Told You About The Diamonds In Your Eyes

Sunday, June 25, 2006 - 1:22 am

My cousin Jessica got married today in a beautiful outdoor ceremony that lasted only about fifteen minutes. Grandma was a bit miffed that it wasn’t in a church and that there was no priest present, but I think it was the loveliest wedding I’ve been to. Afterwards we came back home to make an appearance at a neighbor’s graduation party. I used to play with the guy all the time when we were little, but we stopped talking when I decided I didn’t want to play with Ninja Turtles anymore and we never looked back.

The wedding reception then wasn’t quite what I expected. Maybe a year of college has changed me more than I thought it did, but this was probably the first time I was able to comfortably converse with many members of my extended family. Maybe they were always the ones holding back, and when they saw me holding that beer today they figured they could finally talk to me like an adult. Or, more likely, I’ve just been a stick-in-mud (as Grandma puts it) until recently. Mom took lots of pictures, and perhaps I’ll choose to share some of them tomorrow.

When I got home last night I thought I’d only be on the computer for a few minutes before I went to bed, but I thought of a way to maybe get it working smoothly again and fix my garbled sound problem. So that took an hour, and when I went to bed at four I ended up lying there for almost two and a half hours, contemplating. Thus I am tired.

Also, some good stuff happened with a pretty girl, but that’s between me and her.

Listening to: Cake - Comfort Eagle

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 - 2:10 am

PRO: I had a fantastic time at the Cleveland Zoo today, mostly because of the company. As a result I am very much looking forward to the latter part of this week.

CON: I didn't have a very good time screwing up my Anatomy test tonight. The two hours of lecture that followed weren't exactly riveting, either.

PRO: Mother made me a homemade pizza that came out of the oven right as I got back from class.

CON: My computer is being a stubborn cunt. I've heard plenty of awful things about the Tangent Notebooks that Dayton forces us to buy, but I never had any problems until yesterday. Now it's running sluggishly, taking forever to start up, and all sound output is garbled. As a Computer Science major I should probably have some idea of how to fix it, but I'm far too frustrated at the moment. It's probably all because I had a BitTorrent client installed for a few hours the other day. I swear, in thirty or forty years when I can afford another computer, I'm getting a Mac.

PRO: We watched a kickass movie at Jake's called London. It's about a guy who can't seem to get over his ex-girlfriend, and everybody does a lot of drugs. He deserved to be dumped, though.

CON: Some people just suck.

Listening to: Nothing, because my computer hates me, and so does God, by proxy.

Saturday, June 17th, 2006 - 2:53 am

Well that was unprecedented.

Listening to: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Turn It Again

Saturday, June 17th, 2006 - 1:50 am

I had a dream last night where a few friends were hanging out at my house when slowly but surely strangers started showing up, a few bringing kegs and others bottles of liquor. Before long there was a massive party in my front yard and I seemed to be trying very hard to keep it quiet so as not to wake my dad. You were there.

I think I would absolutely love to see Stephen Hawking speak. Not only am I in complete awe of his intelligence, but almost every quote of his I read makes me smile. Plus, he’s done quest spots on Star Trek and The Simpsons, and that’s just badass.

Lately I haven’t been extremely cognizant of the world outside our little Northeast Ohio –sized bubble, and I suppose I should be ashamed of that. At the moment I’m paranoid about my immediate future, though that state of mind has no tangible prompting that I’m aware of. Paranoia leads to mistakes, kids.

Tonight we crashed a block party on a street that none of us live on. No one seemed to mind, which was both a relief and a disappointment, because it would’ve been more exciting if someone questioned our presence. Still, if we’re going to sit around and talk a new environment is more than welcome.

Listening to: Alkaline Trio - Stupid Kid

Friday, June 16th, 2006 - 12:30 am

There have been interesting developments in the past two weeks. It turns out that summer Anatomy & Physiology is actually as boring as I feared, and while it won't affect my GPA at Dayton, it'll come up when I want to go to grad school, so I can't just fake it. There have been happy developments too, though.

Listening to: Secret Society - Nineveh (Brandtson cover)

Friday, June 2nd, 2006 - 5:05 pm

Today I asked my father to take me to Sandusky to see my Grandma, since I didn’t get to see her on Sunday on account of my being at OU. Once we were there, however, Grandma got a call from the hospital saying that my uncle was ready to come home. Wait, what? It turns out that my uncle was in the hospital since Sunday, the day when my Grandma called my family to tell them not to come since my uncle had been drinking heavily. For those of you who don’t equate heavy drinking with a week in the hospital, keep in mind he’s been an alcoholic for forty years. This had happened once before this year, but I guess he’d been sober for the four months leading up to this latest incident. Everyone was amazed he survived the first bout, let alone the second.

Anywho, following the phone call was an argument about who was going to pick him up (my grandma insisted that she go because my uncle hates my dad, also news to me, and my dad insisted that it was too far for her to go alone), and then an argument about what to do with my unstable uncle. The verdict? Nothing. We wait around for him to get drunk again, and maybe he’ll live, and maybe he won’t.

I had an interview on Wednesday at Best Buy. It was the first real interview I’ve actually been on, and I think I did pretty well. Unfortunately, I’m a bit wary having to sell magazines and replacement plans to people who just want to get the hell out of the store and go home. I suppose I can manage though, and I should be hearing about a second interview soon.

In other news, the priest who served as principal of my father’s high school touched some kid.

Listening to: Imbroco - October, November, Ohio