Machine Head, Glycerine, Tonight Tonight, and more

Lots to do today...work consists of ignoring people with questions and doing as much research as humanly possible for my paper thats coming up.

On the iPod now (Good Stuff playlist):
Lloyd Banks - Karma
DJ danger Mouse (Grey Album)w/ Jay-Z - Threat
Ben Folds - The Ascent of Stan
Sparta - La Cerca
Young Bloodz - 85 South
Usher, Joe budden - Confessions pt. 2(remix)
Nelly - Over and Over
Tim McGraw - Walk Like A Man
Kanye West - Family Business
Yellowcard - Only Once
Fuel - Falls on Me
Akon - Locked Up (Remix)

Got Winamp? the stream I listen to while at work- Hitzradio.com #1 for all the Hits! (compliments of shoutcast.com)or ambient psyc chill stuff if I really get tired of contemporary crap...
Have a great day!
~Andrew

What are you listening to???

A case of the Mondays...on Wednesday...

Hi....I'm tired.


Bye..

Funny pickup line

Hmm...anyone think this would work as a pickup line?

"Hey baby, you've got something on your butt: my eyes"

I can definately see The Ladies Man saying this and then mentioning something about a fish sandwhich. For more pickup lines you can check out http://www.pickuphelp.com/ or http://www.bored.com where i got the link from.

So glad its almost 5....work has been way too slow and I haven't gotten anything done...gots to go home and get this research taken care of!!!

Edit:
Just saw this one at pickuphelp.com...had to post if for those of you who won't follow the link....
"Baby did you fart, 'cause you blow me away!"
How can you not love that...there should be a huge smile on your face....if really wierd humor is a way to a woman's heart...than I can see this one working....otherwise all I see is the woman wondering what the hell is wrong with the guy who said it.

Get 'er done

My weekend:
Saturday - did some mountainbiking around Cosmo Park by myself (damn lazy..or hung over... cycling team members...who really need to go to a homecoming game anyway, even if we did invent homecoming...), perfect day for it..and the new glasses are sweet. Relaxed for a little while at home then went on campus and read a book for 6 hours! Its not that I'm a slow reader...its just that if I'm gonna have to write a paper about this book then I've gotta slow it down, otherwise I'll end up having to basically re-read the book when I trying to write the paper.
Sunday - church, hurried home and changed and met a couple team members for a road ride. Perfect day for riding...its just that my body apparantly didn't realize that 'cause I was hurting...guess its been too long since I went on a lengthy ride. After recovering I went on campus again to write my paper. After a good 4 hours the paper was basically done (didn't have an intro or conclusion...threw those on after i got home). Feels great to finally be done with that paper!....but now I've got another longer one due next week. I know I can do great on this paper if I'm able to get all the research done...and I know I can get all the research done if I have enough time....so the question is....will I have enough time? Its a question I don't know the answer to right now....

My fun for today - getting a haircut. Yes...I am that exciting of a person...sitting in a chair and having my hair chopped off really does bring me enjoyment.

So how was your weekend?

Blessings

I've got a whole lot going for me. I've got the best family possible and friends that are there for me. I even got a sweet new pair of shades from the UPS man today...and because the MU team is sponsored by Rudy Project they were discounted big time. :) Its also a perfect day to go mountainbiking...and therefore try out those new shades.

So why is it then that all I can think about is how far behind I am in class? ( I don't really want an answer to this...just sympathy...or maybe a slap in the face) And even though I'm constantly thinking about how far behind in class I am I can't seem to do the things I need to do. Man.....I wish I could zoom ahead about 5 years when I should have a steady job and less to worry about (yeah...I'll probably have plenty more to worry about...but I don't want to think about that now because what I've got to worry about now seems almost overwhelming).

Hi

Haven't posted in a while...so I thought I'd say "hi". Things have been pretty crazy around me. I'm constantly feeling overwhelmed by class, but never seem to want to work on the stuff that needs to get done for them. I try to force myself to but then my body rejects it in the form of falling asleep.

I'll try to post something worthwhile later tonight before I fall asleep.

Happy point for the weekend: Rode 80 miles with some team members on Sunday. I'm pretty sure none of us would have made it on our own (mostly because of lack of food...and who would have thought beef jerky would taste decent on a bike...you're the man Brady..) but working together we got it done.
Also did some mountainbike action Saturday....had a great time. Man I missed that feeling. Its one that can't really be put into words....so I'm not gonna try.

Unhappy point of the weekend: about none of the homework i was planning on doing during the weekend got done...so where does that leave me? With more to worry about during my already busy weekdays.

Took the GRE: did bad. Very unsure about my future right now. I feel like I should be teaching...but I also hate to think about the debt I'm racking up. Which bring up another point...how extremely lucky I am to have had mom and dad support (i.e. pay f0r) at least part of college up to this point.

Smile...I'm gonna try to

20 WAYS TO CONFUSE TRICK-OR-TREATERS

1. Give away something other than candy. (Toothpicks, golf balls, bags of sand, etc.)
2. Wait behind the door until some people come. When they get near the door, jump out, wearing a costume, and holding a bag, and yell, "Trick or Treat!" Look at them, scratch your head, and act confused.
3. Fill a briefcase with marbles and crackers. Write on it, "Top Secret" in big letters. When trick-or-treaters come, look around suspiciously, say, "It's about time you got here," give them the briefcase, and quickly shut the door.
4. Get about 30 people to wait in your living room. When trick-or-treaters come to the door, say, "Come in." When they do, have everyone yell, "Surprise!" Act like it's a surprise party.
5. Get everyone who comes to the door to come in and see if they can figure out what's wrong with your dishwasher. Insist that it makes an unnatural "whirring" sound.
6. After you give them candy, hand the trick-or-treaters a bill.
7. Open the door dressed as a giant fish. Immediately collapse, and don't move or say anything until the trick-or-treaters go away.
8. When you answer the door, hold up one candy bar, throw it out into the street, and yell, "Crawl for it!"
9. When you answer the door, look at the trick-or-treaters, act shocked and scared, and start screaming your head off. Slam the door and run around the house, screaming until they go away.
10. Insist that the trick-or-treaters each do ten push-ups before you give them any candy.
11. Hand out menus to the trick-or-treaters and let them order their candy. Keep asking if anyone wants to see the wine list.
12. Get a catapult. Sit on your porch and catapult pumpkins at anyone who comes within 50 yards of your house.
13. When people come to the door, jump out a nearby window, crashing through the glass, and run as far away from your house as you can.
14. Answer the door dressed as a pilgrim. Stare at the trick-or-treaters for a moment, pretend to be confused, and start flipping through a calendar.
15. Instead of candy, give away coloured eggs. If anyone protests, explain that the eggs are the only thing you had left over from Easter.
16. Answer the door dressed as a dentist. Angrily give the trick-or-treaters a two-hour lecture on tooth decay.
17. Answer the door with a mouthful of M & M's and several half-eaten candy bars in your hands. Act surprised, and close the door. Open it again in a few seconds, and insist that you don't have any candy.
18. Hand out cigarettes and bottles of aspirin.
19. Put a crown on a pumpkin and put the pumpkin on a throne on your porch. Insist that all of the trick-or-treaters bow before the pumpkin.
20. Dress up like a bunny rabbit. Yell and curse from the moment you open the door, and angrily throw the candy at the trick-or-treaters. Slam the door when you're finished.

Indiana

Weekend was really good....
Saturday: 8am Raced C's cross country. Took the lead at the top of the first climb and never got passed. Unfortunately the course wasn't well marked and I added a couple extra miles at some point and ended up in 3rd.
Around 2pm Raced C's downhill. Was the first rider to go. Took out one small tree and got thrown off one other time. Place: 4 out of 4...wish we could have had 2 runs down the course like we were supposed to but we were running late.

Sunday: Left our cabin at 7am to head to the race site for the Dual Slalom and STXC (short track cross country) which was about an hour away. Stopped on the way to have a healthy breakfast of McDonalds of course. (As Chris said, I figured with all the riders here everyone would be eating healthy and stuff, but everyone's like.."yea, McDonalds...")
I think the Dual Slalom qualifying run started around 11 (give or take a couple hours)...supposed to start at 9 but a few things threw us off schedule. I decided it wasn't worth paying an extra $10 to race it since the STXC course actually went down the DS course.
I decided to race B's in the STXC. Around Noon we started. Lapped plenty of C's and ended up in 6th place. Sprinted past 2 guys in the last stretch which felt really good...until I was pretty sure I was going to throw up. Didn't do it...but it took a while for the feeling to go away.
Mizzou took 2nd, 4th, and 6th in the Men's B's STXC
Cooled down...watched the DS finals and headed home.

My weekend

What my weekend looks like:
Friday: take off from Columbia at 4pm....headed to the University of Indiana...or more like some kind of campground place near it. Then the MU team shall attempt to cram about 20 people into a cabin made for 10 I believe.

Saturday: My cross-country mouintainbike race starts at 8am...yeppie skeppie. Andrew was assigned to race "C's" so we'll see what happens (fyi: A's are the best/fastest, B's second fastests, C's are basically just expected to stay upright on the bike and eventually cross the finish line)
Later in the day is the Downhill race I think.

Sunday: Short Track Cross Country Race (STXC) sometime as well as Dual Slalom race.

I'll probably be doing all of these races depending on how much money I feel like spending and whether or not I'm motivated being in the "C's" races.

Oh yeah...and while all of this is going on I need to get two books read in order to write a paper thats due this coming Wednesday. Right.....thats gonna happen. Also have a project due Sunday (I sure hope its due at midnight like I think it is) that I'll be getting done as soon as i get back to Columbia....which ironically might be much closer to midnight than I expect.

Thanks to everyone that reads this.....sometimes just typing something out makes you feel better....don't believe me...start a blog (or a diary if you don't like others reading what you write) and see for yourself

Love

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails." ~ 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 So is it true? Does love never fail? What about if you're not sure about what exactly you love?

Life, the little that I know about it

Life is a gift.
I pray that you will get everything out of it you ever wanted. I pray that the people you choose to keep in your life are the kind of people that will help you grasp those things.
If I can be one of those people for you I will. If not then please go find them

The strongest woman I know showed me this poem:

LETTING GO TAKES LOVE

To let go does not mean to stop caring,
it means I can't do it for someone else.
To let go is not to cut myself off,
it's the realization I can't control another.
To let go is not to enable,
but allow learning from natural consequences.
To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means
the outcome is not in my hands.
To let go is not to try to change or blame another, The time to love is short
it's to make the most of myself.
To let go is not to care for,
but to care about.
To let go is not to fix,
but to be supportive.
To let go is not to judge,
but to allow another to be a human being.
To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes,
but to allow others to affect their destinies.
To let go is not to be protective,
it's to permit another to face reality.
To let go is not to deny,
but to accept.
To let go is not to nag, scold or argue,
but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.
To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires,
but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.
To let go is not to criticize or regulate anybody,
but to try to become what I dream I can be.
To let go is not to regret the past,
but to grow and live for the future.

To let go is to fear less and love more
Remember: The time to love is short
------ author unknown

Favorite song right now: Nelly ft. Tim McGraw - "Over and Over"