Class is Cancelled!

So I get up this morning and on a whim decide to check my e-mail before heading off to class. It's a good thing I did because my one class today was cancelled by the prof since his kids are sick. So what do I do with the extra free time I've been given? Well, something inside me said "do school work" and so that's what I've been doing for two hours now.

I should go to the store quick and pick up some of the food I need and I could do some laundry as well, but, well, I'm just too damn lazy so I think I'll just sit here a while longer and see what happens.

Eating lunch I was flipping around on TV and Unsolved Mysteries caught my eye. I never liked that show as a kid since the music always scared the hell outta me. But every now and then I'll see something good on there. Today they were talking about a Bible Code, in which important historical events and figures appear to have been planted in the Hebrew version of the Bible. Things like Nixon resigning, the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, Pearl Harbor being attacked, and even the Wright brothers inventing airplanes. Coincidence or not it's still interesting stuff, made all the more interesting after reading The Atlantis Blueprint. So do I think maybe we were settled by some other civilization or at least given clues about our world by somebody else? At this point in my life I'm sort of inclined to think so after what I've read and with all these random "coincidences" in the placement of religious strucures and things found in religious documents from the past.

As for the book I linked to above, if anybody wants to borrow if you're more than welcome. It was a challenging book to read but it was really good at the same time.

New Look

OK so since I'm a New England kinda guy and I really liked this blog format I figured I'd change to it. Hope it works for everybody... I really like it.

I'm Famous! (Kinda)

Yeah, like the title says... since the QU public relations department is so industrious they sent the photos John Morgan took at last week's live Q30 newscast to my hometown newspaper, the Enfield Press. So me and Melissa ended up in the paper today... for all 5,000 subscribers to see, including my neighbors and half my family. Is this it for my 15 minutes of fame? I sure as hell hope not!

Busy Busy Busy...

Wow talk about your busy days!

For the first time in a couple weeks I actually fit over 7 consecutive hours of sleep into one night.

It felt so good to wake up and yet I still
felt like I could sleep more.

Needless to say my nice relaxing day ended the minute my alarm went off... 10 minutes late. I ended up rushing off to class, finding a spot in Hogan only to find that the shuttle driver was on her break... at 5 minutes to one. This is the old lady who once let us on the shuttle then decided to take her break with us sitting there.

So I get out of class and head to McDonald's to get a fish sandwich cuz, you know, it's Ash Wednesday. So I get back home, drop the bag of food on the chair, and go to the bathroom. Literally... before my hands are dry... my phone's ringing. Graphics! Graphics! Graphics! Yup... here we go. So it's an hour and a half straight of doing graphics while munching with the other hand.

Do the news which ends up totally screwed up but thats nobody in particular's fault... for the most part. That takes another 4 hours out of my day. So it's back here... eat... work work work since my history prof apparently has no life.

To top all this off I'm thinking about graduation coming up and getting all these little reminders from all these random places and people... hello... not something I really want to be reminded about every five minutes. But it's ok... it's all almost over. With graduation comes the end of late night IM's for graphics, mid-class phone calls about news stories, and being doing a million different jobs for a million different people at Q30. Don't get me wrong... I love doing it all. But Q30's not my life. It can't be. I've got a real job... I've got an apartment with rent I myself have to pay. I've also got dreams and aspirations and in some ways I almost feel like sometimes Q30 (and by extension Quinnipiac itself) makes me not want to do it anymore.

When I leave here in May I want to come away remembering I had a great time... not that for two nights every week of my last semester I was coming close to nervous breakdowns trying to do work for what has really come down to being a job that pays no money and has no real tangible benefits for me anymore - at least at this level. The looming history test didn't help much with the whole nerves situation.

It's amazing how four years changes things. Coming in naive with the whole world in front of me, and now feeling like college life has passed me by only to be replaced with a 20+ hour a week job that comes attached with more stress than my real job. When I see my roommate for only 30 minutes a day (if I'm really lucky) I know I'm spending too much time on work and not nearly enough time on life. I kept thinking my last year in college would be the best time of my life... finally being out of the dorms and being 21. But it's quite the opposite... I feel like I'm in the real world now and feel like I've lost a bit of what I still hear from friends at other schools. Sad but true... if I could be a junior perpetually I probably would... at least for a couple more years.