Life: April 2005 Archives
My random attempt at creating a collage of my ticket and confetti from the concert
This Wednesday, for the second time in six months, Gerry and I went to a Green Day concert, this time in Binghamton. The line there was insane, but Gerry and I cut into it about twenty feet from the door without a problem, which probably saved us a good 45 minutes.
The line outside that we didn't wait in... Because we're too old for that junk!
(Copyright Press & Sun Bulletin)
The opening band was My Chemical Romance, which was pretty bad live, just as Sugercult and Newfound Glory had been in Rochester. Green Day was insane again though. Nothing like a good bruising a week before exams!
There were also a ton of reminders for me about how I'm slowly but surely becoming an old man. As I looked around I couldn't help but laugh at the fact that about half the people there were under the age of six when Dookie came out eleven years ago. While they were watching Lamb Chop's Play-Along I was sitting in the back of the elementary school bus yelling out the lyrics to "Longview" at the top of my lungs!
Yet now we were all smashing our bodies against each other to the tune of "Jesus of Suburbia."
Read the Press and Sun Bulletin article (PDF File)
This past hour I got the "great" idea of back-archiving some of my old weblog entires that haven't made it to this site yet. I started webloging in December 2000 while at home in Vestal, New York for Christmas Break.
This weblog is probably one of my favorite parts of my "web conglomerate," but reading old entries is horribly depressing beyond belief. I browsed through some of my hundreds of entries and now I feel like crap.
My major problem back in my high school years is never realizing what I had when I had it. Even well into 2001, when in my junior year, I was still writing stupid junk like this:
"Vienna, a city of nearly two million inhabitants, is your average big city. You can get around easily, do a lot of things, but I miss the tranquillity of Vestal. The only reason I stay there is because I like the school better. I go to the American International School there." -April 20, 2001
The summer after my senior year, only a little more than a year later, I was filling my weblog with pages and pages of depression about no longer being in Vienna. I guess I could never have what I wanted.
Anyway, if you want to take a look at the old weblog entires, you can do so here. (It's a 713kb file, so be patient)
I love days (or weeks) where I am a complete waste of space. Take this past day for example. I woke up at six for work, but had to call in because I felt like complete crap. Then I proceed to sleep another six hours. Then it was off to Rite Aid and then Acropolis with Gerry for some pizza. That was probably my biggest "achievement" of the day. The rest of the day was spent sitting in front of the computer or TV. I left the apartment one more time for dinner, after which I wasted some more time. I did watch the second part of that A&E FDR documentary, so I guess I built my education up a little.
Now I have heartburn... Wonderful.
Not much has happened since last November... Or, I'm just lazy to write that much...
Over Christmas Break I just worked 40 hours a week at Target and mostly stayed in Syracuse. I took one week off from Christmas to New Year's to spend with my family down in Vestal.
Over Spring Break I flew over to Vienna and spent 10 days or so there. Vienna is not what it once was, but I still had a pretty good time.
This semester I've only been taking four classes (after dropping one). That hasn't made my life easy though. In fact, I should be studying right now for a damn Politics of Western Europe exam which is a real pain.
Spring is finally here, and today it reached 80°F (27°C) and it hasn't rained in over eleven days. I'm planning on studying in Vienna this summer, which should satisfy my Vienna addiction.
The SU Quad today. The yellow tape was some kind of architecture class's project/protest thing.
