Well, the end of yet another year is upon us my friends. I know you all out there love reading my endless banter of my life, but that’s what makes each of us a unique and interesting person.

I just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone here in LiveJournal-land a very Merry Christmas, and I hope you get to spend it with anyone special that you may have. I’ll be by myself, but that’s OK. The family knows I love them anyway, and we’re all miserable and broke (hee hee, what’s new).

In other news… what kind of athlete does Michael Vick think he is? 10 years? $100 million? $37 million in incentives? Geezus, don’t get me started yet again on the way professional athletes get paid. So what if he can run, Fran Tarkenton literally ran his whole career (yeah, I know, from sideline to sideline instead of forward), but still, how can so much hype and expectation go into someone who literally carries a team to a division championship and possibly at least into the second or third round of the playoffs (I don’t see them getting to the Super Bowl, sorry Falcon fans…)

I’m sure this is just the X-Mas present that HE wanted…

What Will nicholasm23 Get ?

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Something Shiny from	dmota104
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Something Breakable from	tman01
Something Useful from	jasona1
Something not useful from	xanfan
The Black and Decker Tool Kit from	jollyantix
Livejournal account from	johnissoevil
The Make-up Bag from	baugh217
Stack of DVDs from	lambertman
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Hmm, interesting. More later…

In true Chuck G style, Saturday night I done what has not been done in almost four years. I got pounded, waisted, smashed, trashed, whatever you want to call it… I call it stress relief. It felt pretty good.

Now, I know what you’re thinking, and I’ll say this… I’m not going to do this all the time, just occassionally when I feel I need to have fun in the safe confines of my own residence/apartment.

On the other hand… I am doing a rare tape trade with Ryan G., whom I got a wealth of GSN-aired 1983 material from before, and I’m getting some good stuff from him now, like the premiere of “Balance Game” and “On the Nose”, two of the more interesting anomalies in Price history, and an episode from 1990 with the Home Viewer Showcase called “Summer Fun”. I didn’t realize they did those things up until THAT recently. Oh well.

Nothing else to report this week, just getting ready for my three days off this weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday), and waiting to hear something from the housing department at ETSU regarding my room assignment, but I probably won’t get anything until after the holiday.

This post is coming to you from Dan’s house.

Loading up some necessary software and finally have the CD ROM swapped out, so the computer is finally complacent and secure, complete with an ethernet card.

My internet resurgance is now set.

I can’t wait until January, mwhahahahaha 😀

Well, the car is rolling again folks. As thought, the fuel pump did go out, and it cost me $280. Ouch! It’s going to be a very broke christmas for me, but oh well… at least my car is functional again. Yay!

Kudos to my supervisor at work, he let me come in today to make up for being off yesterday so I wouldn’t lose 8 hours of time, that’ll help out tremendously.

Now, gotta find cardboard boxes and start getting organized. Next payday: getting mini-storage to move my schtuff into.

Woot! I got an additional $2,000 on a Perkins Loan. Turns out however that I can’t drop below 12 hours because then I won’t be full time. So I decided to drop the Introduction to Theater class over concerns of overloading myself with what I’ll be able to handle. Schedule remains the same. Tuition wouldn’t have mattered if I did have that class or if I dropped it.

So, now I’m basically covered, but alas, another problem has introduced itself…

I have been known to run cars on empty quite frequently, and I think my fuel pump has gone out on my car… which has left me with nobody to take me around, nobody to help me out get from point A to point B, nothing. So I had to walk to work the last couple of days in the freezing dead-ass cold. Not fun. I hope the world and society just realizes how displeased I am with it right now… (but I am not angry, please don’t read between the lines :-P)…

Talked to the guy in Atlanta, he is very intersted in me, we do share common interest, and we’re talking about possibly planning on getting together sometime in January after my classes start. It’ll be good to get away for a weekend to relieve early stress… It’ll probably be for a Friday, Saturday and a Sunday. Woot! (Again!)

Also, I’m thinking about, during Spring break, if baseball does not get in the way, of finally taking a trip out to California to go to “The Price is Right”, I hope I can do this… it would finally be a dream come true. I think that I am in the top-10 of obsessed all-out Price fans. I know the show and have lived it and breathed it for so long (as people on my friends list can probably tell you), and it would be a life event if I get to go… maybe I should send off a ticket request now so I can get them on time…

Pray for the car folks… :-\

Well, not much has gone on this week. Talked to Financial Aid yet again yesterday on discovering the possiblity that, if I go ahead with a 15 credit hour schedule I would run short on being able to pay the housing costs. I said, “Can I get a Perkins loan?”, to which they said “We’ll have to see if there are any funds left and we will let you know in about 7-10 days.” Great. More waiting. Just what I need.

Well, there are three options here…

A) Stick the 15 hours out and hope for the loan
B) If I don’t get the loan, drop down to 9 hours (dropping two classes)
C) Drop to 9 hours anyway even if I do get the loan

Maybe I should do option C, because think of it this way, I haven’t been in class of any kind in almost four years. I need to ease back into it. And as my friend John puts it, maybe I should take an extra loan if I can get it to have a little extra in the kitty, just in case.

In other news… (god, this does sound like a newscast), I have started talking to a guy that has been interested in me for a while… who lives in Atlanta. I know what you’re thinking, another long distance possibility? But this guy has been seeking me out, and he sounds very interesting. We share some common ground, and he loves my voice. Take it from a aspiring broacaster that one loves complements to their voice.

As I always say, “We’ll see what happens.”(TM)

Well, Orientation went off without a hitch… I hope.

Met with an advisor, and it was his first time doing advising in only his second semester at the university. Oh geez . But, he tried, give him an E for effort. He couldn’t seem to get into any of the systems… but, no bother. I still was able to register on the system.

Here is what my Sched looks like…

Monday, Wednesday, Friday

Public Speaking (Speech requirement) 9:20-10:15 AM
Survey of Broadcating 10:20-11:20 AM
English 1020- Critical Thinking/Argumentation 12:35-1:30 PM

Tuesday, Thursday

Introduction to Theater (Humanities requirement) 9:45-11:05 AM
Elementary Algebra (Developmental requirement, ugh) 11:15-12:35 PM

Well, I found out the results of that bombed skills test, I am taking Elementary Algebra… but high-level math will once again knock on my door, as I need a lot of it to fill out my BS requirements, so pray for me folks.

I started out in the kitty with $3837.50, tuition totaled $1676, fees $363.50, leaving $1798.00… and now I’m scared that my housing may not be covered. How am I going to get books???? Am I going to have to go in-pocket for housing so I don’t get purged on 1/14??? I’m worried again…

This journal is now friends only. I’m sure we can be friends, can’t we? But if you would like to see my musings from this point forward, I must add you as a friend.

Have a nice day, and try not to make a mess… 😀

My trip to Danville was AWESOME yesterday. Me and John had a great time hanging out, drove around Danville, saw some of the new roads in the area, had a excellent lunch, and just shot the shit for the longest time. The way back was interesting, because I took a route I had never even considered, until then.

I decided to go full circle in the way home. Going there, I went up I-81 through Virginia to I-77, went Southbound on I-77, then eastbound for roughly 120 miles on US 58 until I arrived in Danville.

On the way out, I decided to pay a visit to North Carolina. So, I went down US 29 to Greensboro, then got on Green 85 (a business loop route), and then took I-40 westward. At Winston-Salem, I took Green 40, and ladies and gentleman, I finally clinched (or completely driven) a Interstate route! I feel accomplished. After that, took I-40 back through Asheville, and came back up I-26 to home. Total mileage: 605 miles. Wow, what a trip, and I had a blast the whole time.

Also, John took some new photos of me because I needed some, considering my last picture is almost five years old. They turned out good (except for one goofy looking one, which will remain concealed). I’ll try to get them posted soon.