L'office

I just watched the last episode of the second season of the American Office. I felt that the writers sort of rushed things, and I felt they didn't earn all the sort of plot turns that happened, certainly not the ending. The worst part was Jim's revelation to Pam that happens not 10 seconds after Pam's fiance leaves the parking lot. I like the American office, but they are much better at the comedy than they are at the serious parts. The last scene of the second season is particularly shocking.

Work sucked again today.

The Best Free Scrapbooking Class Ever

The new place that work moved to sucks. It's loud and small and it sucks.

I bought Arrested Development Season 3. It was well worth the $20 I spent on it.
I also bought "Z" by My Morning Jacket. It's ok.

It turns out that song I kept hearing on the radio that I really like is by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. I'm going to have to do some research now.

I'm an American aquarium drinker

Wilco is playing in Springfield on a tuesday in early October. I wouldn't mind going to see them. In fact I would very much like to go see them. Springfield is like a five hour drive though. It's also on a tuesday. I probably won't go, but I'd like to.

This week has been really long/sucky. A lot of early mornings. A lot of moving. It kind of blows. Saturday is going to suck a lot. The company that is supposed to move the big machine is supposed to start at 730. They are moving it using the big truck that Jay rented to move all the stuff. They aren't going to be done till like noon at the earliest. Which means we aren't going to start moving stuff till then. It's going to blow.

I was going to start running again this week, but the lots of work/school starting prevented me.
Anyway, I have homework to do so I gots to go.


OH YEAH!

Tomorrow is my dad's birthday. He'll be 49. I need to get him a present.

School Starts tomorrow

I have my IRL class tomorrow. My online looks like it will be fun. It's a lot of forums and stuff. I should be going to sleep right now (because my class is at 8 am), but I'm not even remotely tired.

I need a new game to play. Guild Wars is ok, but I need an RTS. I'm playing X-2 right now, or I would be if I could skip the opening cut-scene. Paine is the most Japanese looking character ever to be in a Final Fantasy game.

Ok what else. CMS moves on Saturday, so I'll be going in early every day this week to pack stuff. It kind of blows. I don't mind the moving. But the packing is not cool.

Did you know that Ben got his learner's permit? Cause he did. I don't know if I told you, the internet, but Ben got his permit last thursday.

Ok I'm going to try to get tired real quick.

We'll build our walls, aluminum.

So I get this e-mail this morning from Pete with a link to download a file. This particular file, or more precisely collection of files happened to be a certain album from a certain rock group that certainly isnt available for purchase, and won't be for another month and a half. The album in question is amazing. I've been listening to it all day. I should stop before I get tired of it.

I'm registered for a class. I'm hoping to double the number of classes I'm in by the end of the week. We'll see what happens.

What should I do this weekend? This weekend is the last weekend of summer vacation so I feel I should do something special.

Ballaz do it on the court.

Da Ballaz (the dodgeball team that I play on) got second place at the tournee. This isn't so great an accomplishment considering that the tournament had a grand total of 5 teams, one less than the last one I played in. It was kind of sad. I didn't play much in any of the important games as we had more than enough people on our team, and I was definately the worst player. It was still fun.

I finally watched Running Scared. I purchased last week along with 16 Blocks and Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is the best of the bunch. Running Scared is very good though. I don't think I'll ever watch it again, but I'm proud to have it in my collection. Paul Walker is very good in it. I know. It's shocking. Scandalous even.

So August is almost half-way over, which means September is fast approaching, which in turn means that October isn't too far away. So now is the time that I need to start preliminary planning on the Halloween game, if I'm going to do one this year. I'm still sort of undecided about it. I have no idea what to do about it. I don't even know if I can get enough people to play. I don't think I can top last year's game. I try to think about putting on a game and it doesn't excite me at all. It seems sort of daunting. I don't know. It's still summer. We'll see how I feel after the fair (the unofficial start of Autumn).

Ted Leo rox.

His name is Leather McWhip

This has been a really long week.

Friday: Work
Saturday: Dodgeball
Sunday: ???

That's my weekend folks.

In other news... there really is no other news. That's about all I have to say for now. I will hopefully post the dodgeball results Saturday.

My skin is white as parchment

Last night I played in the poutiest game of ultimate frisbee ever played. I was on Layne's team and she was displeased with the throwing-off style of play. I understand why she doesn't like playing throw-off (because she just wants to run around a lot), but people like me who are completely out of shape enjoy the respite that the walk back after a touchdown affords us. J-long's team was mostly upset by the fact that we don't play by official rules. We allow three steps, which Jonathan always takes out of spite, and we don't play slaps. The three steps are pretty much just for touchdowns but the no slaps rule just seems more fair. It doesn't affect the game too much, plus I feel that our group isn't good enough to play slaps. There wasn't a lot of fun being had, especially by Josiah, who I accidentally slide tackled while trying to intercept the frisbee. I pretty much felt like a complete d-bag after that happened.

In other news Cole Jenkins is still one of the coolest people I know. He came out to The Ballaz "dodgeball practice". Jimmy didn't show, so it was just me and Adam. Cole showed up, we called J-long and decided to play some sand volleyball instead. It was pretty righteous.

Ok I'm going to golf

The Slow Clap

I finished Strange and Norrell today. It was a good book. It took me two months to read it, but it was worth the time.

I just watched A Knight's Tale. That movie still rocks. It's kind of like an anti The Reckoning. Both films have Paul Bettany, but one of them sucks. Speaking of movies that have Heath Ledger in them, how about The Dark Knight! Heath Ledger as the Joker? AMAZING!

Ok what else... Been listening to a lot of Rogue Wave as of late. They're keen.

I think i'm going to Carbondale with Pete and Steve this weekend. I also have a secret mission I have to complete on Friday... well by friday. I suppose I could do it tomorrow. We'll see.... oh yes. We shall see.