Shirking Responsibility

Seeing the lead singer dancin around like an elf on crack (why are so many things described as being on crack?) was just beyond weird. Dude is wacky.

But the show was great. It was very cool seeing them perform Just, Paranoid Android and Street Spirit live! I can’t say I’ve really listened to their latest album a lot, but I think I’ll give it another try. Oh, and I liked how the screens surrounding the stage had big Winamp-like graphical visualizations on them during the songs from Kid A.

Thanks go to my friends for getting me a ticket too. I love music, but I always have to be dragged kicking and screaming to concerts. I should go more often, it’s definitely worth it (especially when you have just the right amount of alcohol in your system).

My traveling for the summer is done and classes start in a week. Hm…and after writing that last sentence I realized that that would make this blog nearly a year old now.

Anyway, this past Saturday I was not looking forward to classes at all. Partly, I believe, because I don’t really like my school all that much. It’s not the classes themselves, really, or the professors. I’ve had some very good and helpful professors. Also, now that I’m actually into classes, unlike during my first time around at college, I’m enjoying the whole process so much more.

I suppose, then, that it’s not so much that I dislike my school as I dislike school life. FIU just feels too much like a commuter school. Whenever I’m there just a bit late in the day, everything takes on an eerie air. It’s almost as if everyone learned what they needed for the day and then drove home as fast as possible.

I myself am guilty of doing this, though. As soon as my classes are over, I walk with frightening determination to my car and peel the hell out of there. After experiencing just a few days of life at Jodie’s school, though, I am beginning to wonder about what I missed, and am still missing, from college life. I know very few people at my school and those that I do know I barely have contact with outside of class.

How did I miss this huge aspect of college life? I know I am a bit anti-social at times (or so my friends say) but it’s shocking to me, at least now, to realize that I have made none of those “life-long friendships” that they always talk about during those boring speeches to the incoming freshmen. Also, never having lived at the dorms due to my family’s close proximity to the school, I wasn’t able to tap into that liberated vibe that is common to those living far away from everything they knew. Whatever the reason for my alienation from my fellow students, something has to be done.

I hereby resolve to not be such an unfriendly bastard at school this year.

I am sitting here somewhat amazed that tomorrow, at about 1PM, I will be picking Jodie up at the airport to drive her up north to where she will be attending college.

I should get to bed.

During the week that I was away it seems that an entirely new KFC was built and opened for business. Just how fast can these people put one of these damn things up?!

For some reason, I find that a little scary. Well, maybe it’s because I dislike KFC. Why couldn’t they have opened a place that I’d actually consider visiting?

I fixed some CGI issues I was having with my blog during the week I was away. Not sure how it happened, but my Movable Type directory no longer had permission to run scripts. No idea how that happened because my friend who has her MT site on the same host had no such problems.

Anyway, it’s fixed. In case anyone had problems trying to post a comment in the past few days, it should be working now.

I have a theory that the type of people who only post to their blog when they have something more than a one or two line comment are the same type of people that dislike the ritual of mindless small talk whenever they meet someone face to face. If you don’t have anything interesting to say, you needn’t fear silence.

Eh, maybe not.

Tonight’s lunar eclipse was one of the best I’ve ever seen.

It was a beautiful night with barely a cloud in the sky. If only the weather were as accommodating during all celestial phenomena.

It seems what I was planning to do this summer won’t be happening. I am again left completely without anything interesting to do.

Well, until August, that is.

*laughs maniacally*

I’ve always been big into mint. I still remember the day I first discovered Altoids. They felt so unprocessed and raw. And yes, they also tasted pretty good. One of the other good aspects of Altoids was the rectangular tin container. It’s perfect for tossing into your backpack and forgetting about it until you need or want a mint. Never had one Altoids tin open and spill it’s contents about.

So why is it that the new Altoids Sours come in this strange round tin that you are unable to close properly. How am I supposed to carelessly toss a container of these into my backpack without them ending up everywhere?

What were they thinking?

The experiment was a complete success.