Has been a while I know, I haven’t even logged in since last
post. Over the last 3 weeks I have made
many trips to Columbia and back, as
well as working the last week for the U.S. Women’s National Team.
The same lyrics play over and over in my head. They have been for years now. Two years to be exact, because that is how
long Robbie Williams spent writing the new CD (which came out yesterday,
btw).
'Cause I got too much life
Running through my veins
Going to waste
How funny is this, that a former member
of some boy band I didn’t know about when they even existed is the main source
of my adult inspiration. Sure there are
other things, but Feel makes me…well,
feel the best. I need…no I
have to get out of here. There
are only so many romantic/hopeless romantic comedies that I can find to watch,
though upon finally seeing When Harry Met
Sally last week I certainly saw what everyone was so crazy about.
A couple weeks ago I went and saw
Serenity and found out why the television version, which didn’t air its’ full
season of episodes, generated an unbelievably strong cult following. Now I am playing catch-up, trying to not miss
the episodes when they come on Sci-Fi on Friday night and anxiously awaiting
the Pocket Books series starting early next year. Joss Whedon is an absolute master, I thought
nothing could touch West Wing’s casting, but Whedon dashed the best with
ease. Watching the program you want,
depending on the situation, to be
every male on the program and want to be
with every female of the main cast.
Two new shows of the season have
been great to catch, including The War At Home on Fox and How I Met Your Mother
on CBS. Both great premises, though WAH
is nothing new per se, but they are doing it better and more hardcore than one
would think was expectable. Now people are
complaining that a show, which does actually portray suburban life accurately,
is over exaggerating. Well, guess that
works for me since I over exaggerate everything. My main concern with HIMYM is whether the
show will last long enough for the climactic event to occur and if the show is
successful, at what point do you allow it to happen? The cast of this show have done a lot so far
to maintain some weak spots in plot. The
night club episode from two weeks ago was hilariously unforgettable. I have also managed to discover why the sixth
season of West Wing, which I just very recently saw for the first time, was so
highly criticized by viewers. Change.
Television, movies, and
music. Blah Blah Blee Bloo Blah. Hell, I hate baseball and watched five hours
of it last night. Four hours of that was
pitching changes, I swear that the next person that tells me soccer is boring
is going to be manually removing my foot from their ass.
There is something scientific I
can babble on about. Having enjoyed the
five or six Discovery Channel and TLC programs (each at least a couple times) on
the subject of Architeuthis, or the giant squid, I was quite excited to wake up
one morning a month or so ago and see that someone did finally manage to
photograph one in the “wild” for the first time.
I found out today that quite
possibly the job of my current realistic dreams (with USC basically going
around the country talking with alumni) slipped through my fingers. There were supposed to be two people for two
positions in the second interview, apparently three made it through. The Director and VP were “really impressed”
but in the end “things swung the other way.”
This was tough to take as it was the first internship, scholarship, or job
I have interviewed for and not gotten. This
rejection is in some ways a good thing, as it will make me hungrier and more
forthcoming for the next interviews. I
did turn down a job offer a few weeks ago, I considered accepting but if I were
to do this sort of position I need to take one in the Columbia area. Unfortunately
a recent AIM virus, which was a most incredible virus, led to the loss of some
things since middle September. That
includes about 50 cover letters that could have been used to put these puppies
out quicker. No matter, though it will
take a few days to get my bearings back.
I must give a shout out to my Star
Wars Galaxies server Ahazi. Though I
have long since retired from the Galactic Civil War, it was great to see that a
player organized battle spread to the extent that the event got a two page
layout complete with timeline in the extremely popular PC Gamer magazine. A small battle on Deadwood, Tatooine
eventually spread to five other cities before spreading to five planets, in all
involving over one thousand players over a six hour period as each side
strained to protect their cities’ bases.
College football season is going
well. We are on track for our five wins,
though we never play well at Arkansas so we will see what happens. The Vanderbilt game this past weekend was
incredible, the crowd atmosphere was great and when Vandy got the ball back
near the end the crowd took a stand and didn’t allow it to go any further. That was the loudest crowd I have heard in a
couple years and the sight of the entire student section jumping was
wonderful. Unfortunately, Syvelle Newton
who played 3 positions during the game was injured on his last touchdown. He was named SEC Offensive Player of the Week
but he is lost for the next two seasons with a torn achilles. This type of injury is so bad he is already
redshirting for next season. We have
gotten some great commitments this week, both from the state of Florida. The boys are
3-stars and over 300 pounds with Mr. Young having turned down 32 other
scholarship offers. Mr. Kevin Brown and
Mr. Seaver Young, welcome to the Gamecock Nation.
Well I suppose that in a way this
was therapeutic. Though I don’t see
hiding the only worthwhile paragraph in the middle, between all the television
and entertainment psycho-babble as if it purveys I am dealing with things
appropriately. | 
