Fallen Thoughts

:: 10.31.2001 ::

ah, weblog neglect!

so far, this week has been one of those weeks where everything just kinda gets by. I walked into BIO class Monday night to find everyone head down in notes studying their ass off. dammit, we have a test... I walked up to the board and wrote 'Test Rescheduled For Wednesday', but the teacher wouldn't buy it. so I did the rational thing. I walked out. no really, I sat there and did a 10 minute power session and took the test. how'd I do? we'll find out tonight...

hung out with this kid Jason the other night for the first time in a while.. we used to burn MAD trees back in the day, steady trippin'. forgot how funny he is. hopefully he'll be around more.

in other news, just started reading 'A Chinese Garden Of Serenity: Reflections Of A Zen Buddhist'. I guess reading Kerouac rekindled my affinty for the ways of Zen, so I'm reading up and learning while it's fresh. want an example? I thought you would:

'Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die. Chess-playing is an enjoyable pasttime, yet the players are motivated by the idea of war.'

while on the subject, my mom asked me what I was reading tonight and I told her. she replied, 'that's ok, but I'd much rather you read the Bible...' something about that struck me wrong.. what's the harm in learning about other religions? to take it a step farther, I think there should be classes on religion in younger years, at least in high school. maybe even middle school and elementary grades. let people learn about other religions and let them believe what they feel is natural, rather than force a set of rules down their throat. best stop now, as this could go on forEVER.

now that I've amassed a nice bit of bloggage, I think I'll step out and see what this day has to offer.

oh yeah, Regent's Test today... wish me luck!

:: posted by Michael at 7:54 AM (0) comments [+] ::

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had a great time up in Athens Friday night. went to a few bars, drank some beer, talked to some folks... just a good time. also got to meet my friend's new girlfriend, Leilani. she's Filipino and really cute, so good for Tubbs. hit up Best Buy and played with lots of stuff that I wish I could afford. wrote a little something after we left in my friend Dawn's little book and liked it, so I copied it and brought it home with me:

Unturned pages enrage a simple mind
Behind empty walls lies the content of dreams
Can't find the words hidden by thoughts resigned
What flows from the pen isn't always what it seems...

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Kings and queens sip royal tea
Colored light brown, hues of forgotten simplicity
Righteous men boil leaves of earth
Grasping ideas instilled with birth

no real correlation, at least not intended. I did write them back to back, so maybe there's an unknown relation in the two that I've yet to find. at any rate, I liked them and I hope you do, too.

as for the rest of the weekend, we decided to drive back home yesterday afternoon. went out to Kyler's last night and I've just been relaxing today. me, Chris, and Kev hit the dirt roads this afternoon and had a great lil' drive. took some pictures which I hope turn out nicely. I've been thinkin' about making a gallery of sorts for some of my dirt roadin' pictures, just need to find the means to do so. if and when I get it runnin', I'll post it up...

just ate some enchiladas and they were excelente. time for a stope.

:: posted by Michael at 8:18 PM (0) comments [+] ::

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FUCK.

slept through that ENG 102 class I was waiting on. sat around the house trying to do anything and everything to pass time, but ultimately ended up dozing off on the couch. how typical of me.

gonna head up to Athens pretty soon... my buddy Chris turned 21 today, so a proper celebration is in order, Athens style. haven't seen Mr. Tubbs in quite a while, too, so it'll be great to kick it with him. this weekend is the big Georgia/Florida football game, and it's in Florida, so the place will more than likely be a ghost town. which is good AND bad. good because we'll get great service and if there's a good band playing, we'll get a great spot... bad because there will be an unusually low amount of señoritas roaming the streets. oh well, the good is plenty to go on. =)

now it's time to check on the haps in Athens... enjoy the weekend!

:: posted by Michael at 1:21 PM (0) comments [+] ::

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well, supposedly I'm getting a cable modem today. if not today, then early next week. this makes me VERY happy. I'm sure a good bit of you out there are still stuck with me in dial-up land, so you can imagine my joy at the thought of broadband. I'm hoping I can find something interesting to make use of the new speed, but I'll probably just check e-mail, update my site, and blog a LOT faster. works for me. =)

had quite the day yesterday, too. not so YES, just a nice day. spent the afternoon with Shelly and had quite possibly the wildest car tune-up/vacuum/wash ever. ok, maybe not ever.. I could tell some stories there, but then this thing would be more like a personal diary. not gonna go there. ANYway, ate a muscle relaxer after that and it was downhill from there. didn't want to do anything but sit on mine ass... and so I did. passed out around 12-ish and now here I am. woke up at 6 am. I'm telling you, whatever part of my brain is controlling sleep has issues. or maybe it's just me. shut up.

time to sit around for 3 hours and wait for my boring ass ENG 102 class.

have a great day.

=)

:: posted by Michael at 7:59 AM (0) comments [+] ::

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had such a productive and eventful day today. as we said earlier, I washed my Honda and she thanked me for it. felt so good riding with my windows down today in my fresh ass car. I was loving it.

went to class and found out that it was cancelled. YES. -- talked to the lovely Cara outside of said class and remembered why I love women. YES. -- went and caught a 4x4 of one-act plays afterwards and they were quite enjoyable.. YES. -- then me and a couple of buddies went out to the state park and did a bit of trailwalking and bowl burning. great time... YES. -- made it to Biology class just in time and he ended up only making us stay for an hour in what's supposed to be a 2 ½ hour class. YES. -- came home to a great seafood dinner. YES.

now I'm sure you're thinking, 'how could SO much go right in one day?' well here's the catch. after eating my seafood, the long productive day began to take its toll on me. this is when Shelly calls.

"hey, I'm on the way home from Athens! get a bottle of liquor and come out to the house! it's been so long since I've seen you... let's get drunk together!"

now you would think it would be another YES. wrong. I passed out. NO. now I feel bad because she sounded really excited to see me and left a message around 11 sounding really sad. alas, all is good because I'm going to call her tomorrow/today/in 8 hours and go see her. take her out for lunch or somethin'... hopefully she'll accept the offer. =)

and now, here I am at 5 am bloggin'. I'm kinda starting to dig this thing. if you didn't notice up in the left corner up there, I got me a nifty lil' stat meter. I feel so advanced. much props to shep for the indirect help. I 'viewed his source', and what a nice source he has... also, I believe Reblogger is back up and running, so leave me a comment, folks. now that I know how many people are cruising through here, I EXPECT some interaction.

BTW, I just found some brownies... mmmmm, brownies. YES. =)

:: posted by Michael at 5:16 AM (0) comments [+] ::

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it's funny how I say tonight at 7 am. (see: below post)

if you haven't noticed by now, my sleeping habits are a bit out of whack. I think I woke up around 4:30 this morning and started this wonderful wednesday. wise words written willfully without warning. I love alliteration.

just got done washing my car a bit ago, brought back that showroom shine. which is hard to do to a '92 accord. at this point I would link a picture for you out there to see it, alas, my bitchofaserver powow doesn't allow picture links. with that said, what should I do about this dilemma? do most freehosts allow this? being that reblogger is more whack than my sleeping habits, maybe you could e-mail me with a suggestion. see 'contact' up there in blue? click it and holla at me. =)

I think I'm gonna hop in my newly washed ride and get some breakfast... mmmmm, breakfast.

:: posted by Michael at 10:12 AM (0) comments [+] ::

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I'm on a hip-hop stint tonight. got the playlist FULLA dope shit:

Beatnuts - 'It's Da Nuts', 'Se Acabo (Remix)'
Goodie Mob - 'Angelic Wars', 'Just A Song', 'Blood'
OutKast - 'So Fresh, So Clean (Remix)' f. Snoop
Gang Starr - 'Full Clip', 'New York Mix', 'Mass Appeal'
DJ Premiere - all kindsa tracks, various artists...
J5 - 'Concrete Schoolyard', 'O Le Le' f. Ozomatli
Black Eyed Peas - 'Magic', 'Joints And Jams'
Wu-Tang - 'Reunited', 'Hollow Bones'

got my head bobbin' at 7 in the AM.

:: posted by Michael at 7:17 AM (0) comments [+] ::

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drinkin' pulp free OJ again and it's YUM-MY.

thinkin' about going outside again. I stepped out to have a smoke a bit ago and there is a thick layer of fog just hovering... gives the night such an eerie feeling, which I dig. feels nice, too.

God forbid I actually go to bed. that'd be TOO weird... =)

:: posted by Michael at 5:35 AM (0) comments [+] ::

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I think I'm due up for a nice long rant.

I have a tight grasp on the notion that I'm an insomniac. maybe not even an insomniac, just a night person. I damn sure love sleeping, it's just the times that I choose to do so which throw a wrench in the gears of normalcy. a direct result of this habit is my attendance, or lack thereof, to a Tues. & Thur. PE class. being the schmuck that I can be, I just stopped going. I haven't been to the class in a good 2 weeks now, and that's just lame. it would have been so damn easy to just drop it, but my constantly growing slack resulted in my not knowing the final drop day had occured 3 days before I had the realization that I needed to do so. I'm doing great in all my other classes, and now I'm going to let a fuckin' PE class of all things bring me down. dammit.

in proper form, it's 5 am now and here I sit babbling. I've been going off on these deep tangents in my mind lately, just thinking about life and purpose and all that good stuff. read Kerouac's 'The Dharma Bums' last week, which didn't help said situation. not that it's a bad thing to think about, just that there's no real answer to come to. the whole Zen Lunatic way of life just appealed so much to me. it seems there are so few people these days, especially in our 'go, go, go!' society, that actually take time to enjoy life... to stop and smell the roses. life has become such an expected structure - go to school, go to college, get a job, get married, have kids, get old, die. why does the norm have to be so boring? work your entire life so you can reap the benefits when you're too damn old to get out and do so? fuck that. carpe diem. s'what I say...

:: posted by Michael at 5:27 AM (0) comments [+] ::

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hey, I'll be damned... another all-nighter.

got my sister out (see: below post.) last night with no setbacks. good to know people sometimes.

watched part of that DMB FanClub thing on VH-1 tonight. nice variety, I thought. saw rach yakking during the credits.

"I'm just so happy to be here with friends... yadda, yadda."

save it... we know why you were there, rach. the drugs. admit it, you were SLOPPY in that interview. =)

I tried to set up a stat thing on my site tonight to no avail. such a slow learning process.

now I have a paper to revise for my ENG 102 class due at 11:00 am. it is the same paper that I had to completely rewrite because my ancient professor said he couldn't waste his time trying to read that. yes, the same professor who has to read everything he writes on the board 3 times so the class will know what the hell he is talking about. yes, the same professor who gave 75% of our class a 50 on our first essay. yes, the same professor who gave me a 75 on the grounds of it being 'a disorganized discussion...' Dr. Himber, if you're out there... suck it.

I need a smoke.

:: posted by Michael at 5:59 AM (0) comments [+] ::

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had to go pick my sister up from jail this morning. it seemed so awkward, as it's always the other way around.

they were arrested for some petty alcohol charges and stealing a sign. suddenly, I feel like the golden child. I'm such a great son. :^P

in other news, I added a picture. like it?

:: posted by Michael at 9:44 AM (0) comments [+] ::

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another link from the maysable one. this track is a wee bit different than the last.

it's called 'Tha Untouchable'.

"mmmm... can I touch it?"

:: posted by Michael at 4:39 AM (0) comments [+] ::

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I went to town at Old Navy yesterday. they had more sales than I care to discuss. being that I go shopping about once every 2 years or so, I was rather excited.

got me some new pants on and they put the 'fort' in comfortable. not sure why fort, but we'll keep it.

I also went to Best Buy. NEVER go to Best Buy when you are broke. torture, I tell you.

:: posted by Michael at 6:12 PM (0) comments [+] ::

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strange how I didn't post to this thing for 3 months. I just sat down tonight and got the urge to figure it out.

now look at me go.

I'm a WILD man.

:: posted by Michael at 5:57 AM (0) comments [+] ::

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mr. mays was kind enough to link an mp3 I recently made on his site.

go give it a listen. see how it is. report back. =)

:: posted by Michael at 5:43 AM (0) comments [+] ::

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