There's a car horn going off somewhere near my house. I'm ignoring it in favor of listening to music.

Damn, the most recent comments on my journal are from almost 2 months ago, and some of the older ones date back to well over a year ago. I guess that just goes to show how much I use it now.

Anyways, I'm back in school, just started up again on Monday. I have classes starting at 9 AM Monday and Wednesday, and at 8 AM Tuesday and Thursday. Friday I have only one class from 12:30-3:30. But afterwords I'll usually be having to head to work, which kind of blows. Speaking of work, I've heard there's rumors on the internets that say that they're looking into promoting me to a Projectionist position. Now I just need to find segments of 35mm porn videos to splice into the movies.

Anyways, carver gave me this meme.

( Comment on this post saying you want to play and I'll give you five things I associate with you/want to know more about. Then you post them in your journal and elaborate.  )

( I broke myself )

Tonight is also the midnight release of Harry Potter and the one Dumbledore dies in, which has already sold out the maximum possible 6 screens, which is no surprise because the last HP movie we had sold out the maximum possible 5 screens at the time. I think this one sold out faster though, since I think it's been sold out for about a day now, where as the last one sold out around 3 or 4 PM the day of the midnight.

Anyways, blah, I don't know how to conclude this post so there.

So I had a pretty epic night that started out with a really lame ending to a long work day.

I started work at 5, knowing the new Fast and Furious movie was out, especially having seen it earlier this morning at 10 AM, wasn't expecting much business. Well, the shows ended up selling out, every showing, in every theater Fast and Furious was in. Somewhere in between there were these two groups of kids that started arguing in a theater, so we kicked them out. I was outside patrolling the lot when I saw them obstruction traffic. I whipped out my MAG light, focused the beam right on them, and yelled across the lot for them to get out of the street. I had to yell at them quite a bit before they finally wandered off the lot, still in the middle of the street (an intersection this time), and calling me and my flashlight, "Bitchass." When the fourth showing of Fast and Furious sold out in a row, we ended up extending business hours to accommodate for an 11:15 showing of the movie, which I had to stick around for. Oh well, no big deal, I got hold of some friends and gave them dollar passes to go see it.

After work I joined my friends in the theater to watch the rest of the movie, and afterwards we took my car to some pretty cool spots. One spot with a quiet off-road view of the city, and another park on one of the lakes of the isthmus. There we ended up walking around on a pier for a bit before we decide to go somewhere else. Walking back though, I jokingly made an offer of $1 if they hit one of the ducks in the water with a rock. I throw the rock I'm holding out into the lake, and accidentally nailed one of the ducks, I felt so bad for being mean to the duck, even though I know it's going to be just fine.

A little bit farther back on the pier on the way back to the car, I saw a boat dock that was probably sitting 6 feet from the pier, made another joking offer to make the jump for $1. I decide to try it in a spot where there's a bridge covering the gap in between the dock and pier. Anyways, I get a running start, jump, totally land on the pier meaning I would have made the jump, but in my thinking I made a fatal plan error. I realized after I landed that I was still moving forward from the momentum of the jump. I tried to catch myself but I just totally slid into the water instead. I wasn't too worried other than the fact I had my cell phone in my pocket, but I remembered people who have dropped their phone into the lake, not in a pocket, for several minutes, and still be fine after it dried out after a few days. So I stopped worrying about that. I hopped myself out of the nice refreshing but not too cold water, into the mildly windy 30 degree air. Luckily I had my work clothes with me, so I just took off my soaked clothes, and changed into my work clothes. My wet clothes are still sitting in my car, will probably take care of that tomorrow. The only thing that sucks is that I probably won't have a phone till Sunday or Monday, or if I have to replace it, the screen was already cracked and leaking fluid preventing the screen from displaying right, so it'd be no big loss.

Well, I'm back from my trip. Saw some guy taking a shit on the street in Las Vegas, and another guy smoking a joint on the street in broad daylight in San Fransisco. More to come later.

Well, spring break starts for me tonight, and I'm leaving with a few friends to drive out to southern California, then drive up the west coast, then drive back to Wisconsin. I'll be taking lots of pictures, so hopefully some of them will prove interesting.

This just in: Colds blow more than a hooker. I've had it since Friday, and today is easily the worst it's been, with most of my body being really stiff, nose getting congested, and my throat still sore and dry. I hate colds.

So I've had an interesting few days. Yesterday on my way to school the tire on my Jeep goes flat, so I'm thinking, "No deal, I'll just put on the spare." So after about 10 minutes of fumbling, I get the spare on, am on my way from there, about a block later, the SPARE goes flat. Luckily this was all within 2 blocks of my house so I just drove back. So I call up some friends to take me around to try to fix it up (which didn't happen).

So I go back home, and another friend calls me up wanting to hang out, but I tell them they have to pick me up and take me to school the next day, so I agree, and he picks me up and we're over there for the night playing video games and whatnot on the Xbawkx. In the morning we played Gauntlet Dark Legacy on the Gamecube until I had to go to work. I joined in a bit late so we played a level of the Sky Dominion and then fought the Plague Fiend until I leveled to over level 22.

So I get dropped off to school practically knowing I'm not going to have a ride unless I arrange it with someone at school, which I forgot to do every time I saw someone I knew. Eventually I called a friend for a ride, and while waiting I got one of the free bus passes they give out. I think I might have to use that to explore the city a bit more, just going on random buses and what not.

Anyways, I end up getting a ride with one of my friends and end up going there for a bit, before taking me to my friend's work. I picked up his car because I was going to take it to school tomorrow to look at the power steering which died about 6 months ago.

tl;dr I need to stop being a lazy bastard and get my Jeep fixed.

Also I finally got the christmas present from one of my friends that's been sitting at his house for the past month and a half. It was the first two seasons of Scooby Doo, Where Are You! I think I'm gonna go watch those now.

I finally got my car back yesterday after I was T-boned Nov. 5th. It's finally drivable, but it still needs a fair amount of cosmetic work seeing as some of the sub-frame was dented in causing the door to be out of alignment with the rest of the car, and the fender is still in pieces, but other than that I've almost completely recovered. And I still have $570 in insurance money to fix the rest of the car, which I'm going off to do today.

I've been procrastinating on way too much lately, my room is a mess and I haven't really been fixing my theater. Since I don't have to work until Friday, I figure I can do those things in the time before then.

I made purchase recently of a couple of books to read, House of Leaves, Watchmen, and Treasure Island to read with my 6 year old half-brother.

Yesterday I also heard some music on Student Radio that I absolutely loved, but was hard to find. It's this mostly instrumental rock jam-band called The Disco Biscuits, which I must say have a great sound. The song I heard on the radio was from a live session in Jamaica, which I've only be found here, called Helicopters. I would also recommend Magellan (2).

Well, 2008 for me was pretty much a hopelessly pointless and awful year. It started off shitty, and is definitely ending shitty as I have to work pretty much until year ends, probably with the projectionist who, last time I closed the building, was harassing me. Hopefully 2009 will be better.

So far things I have to look forward to 2009 for are my car finally being fixed after it was wrecked by a careless driver in early November; furthering my education in the automotive repair industry; going on the BABE rally in hopefully my Nissan 300zx, or if it's not fixed in time, my Fiero, and meeting some of you peoples on here; and that seems to be all that I can think of at the moment.

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I guess happy new years to you all.

I accidentally spilled soup in my keyboard and now some of the keys stick. I also had some very unusual things happen at work last night, but I'll try to talk about them later.

Stupid Motorola phone broke. Gonna get a new Samsung slider phone today probably. Should be neat.

So my manager recently gave me this job, Janitoring the theater after close, when everybody's left, in which I clean the bathrooms and vacuum the lobby and floors for 3 hours. I get paid $375/week for it, and I usually get done earlier than 3 hours, so I sometimes technically get paid for the time driving there and back. There's also a guy who will come in every other Saturday night/Sunday morning and do it, but I'll still be getting paid for the time he's there. It's not a bad job, but it keeps me asleep until noon once I get back.

I also have to go to court to testify against the assholes that robbed my theater last Sunday, so I'll have to see how that goes.

http://www.wkowtv.com/global/story.asp?s=8784618

I dealt with the guy with the red hair. He was about as threatening as a teddy bear. He would have had a higher intimidation factor had he lost the hat.

Here's a hint to you all: Go see the Dark Knight as soon as possible, if you haven't seen it already. In fact, if you have, go see it again. It was fucking awesome. That is all.

So, I don't know how many of you know about my old Geo Prizm I used to tool around in. Front wheel drive, slow, automatic, and rusty as hell. Well, my mom is trying to get rid of it, but she's not the greatest salesperson. My solution? DRIFT CAR. I'm going to try to sell my mom's Geo as a DRIFT CAR, to see how many people respond to it as such. Gosh, trolling the internet is so easy these days...

Anyways, I'm thinking of getting a second job somewhere that pays a little more than $7.50/hr, especially after working at this establishment for two years. I'm thinking something different as well, like (oh god) retail. Hopefully it's a wee bit better than food service. Or I could apply to some janitorial type jobs, since my experience at the theater would prove useful.

I don't know why, but I almost never have anything interesting to update with, so how bout this, you ask me a question about what's going on in my life, and I'll answer it with another post.

( Here's a picture of House riding bumper cars. )