Froze Toes

Froze Toes was today. Weather was great, and I was much better prepared than last year. Good times

f'n neiman marcus

has plain white t-shirts for $70!
(Disclaimer: I get my white tee's at walmart. Something like 3 for $6.)

With the help of AskMen.com I'm learning going to learn how dress up fashionably. Mom and I just picked up 3 1/2 nice button up shirts a couple weeks ago for the price of one of these fancy (read: plain) white tee's. What the hell f'n neiman marcus?

Alright, gotta find out about this whole sweater over button down shirt revolution that's going on...

Mizzou, all the shame that you are

It would be nice to say something nice about Mizzou's leadership, but that's been hard to do the past year.

Presiden Floyd - you're wife had some recorded conversations that made her sound as racists as any dude running around in a white sheet and funny looking white hat might be.
You have made plenty of decisions about this campus without any input from students.
You allowed ricky clemons into your house, and onto your ATV...and we all should know what that led to.
You issued a statement last night that was basically a lie, and a spokeperson had to clarify it so that later down the road you didn't get caught in it.

Mr athletic director Alden - you suck...basically enough said.
You're quite the fibber. Alright, you may consider it usual policy of the athletic department, but the rest of us out here in the real world understand your policy to be bull$hit.
I appreciate the shirt you gave me a couple years ago because I was wearing a Southern Indiana Basketball shirt on, but I would rather give you back that shirt, and you actually do your job.

Mr Snyder - you kinda got screwed. I would feel for you if you could get a talented group of players to win. BUT YOU CAN'T.
(Blah blah blah...our players have never been that great...BLAH BLAH BLAH...only a couple have made it to the NBA. It's a team game, that not having as much talent argument doesn't fly with me.)
One more thing, it pains me to see the best true freshman in the country, who is from Missouri, playing in any other state than missouri. You got 3 of the last 4 Missouri players of the year. 2 are still on the team, 1 underachieving in most peoples eyes, and the other might turn out to be a dud, the other no playing for Missouri State. The one that could have made the difference...you didn't get. You would be employed at this university right now if you had.

Mr Pinkel - you're no better than Snyder. In fact, you may be worse. Congratulations!

Chancellor Deaton - don't know that much about you. You came in with big shoes to fill. I've read more good things you've done than bad, so hows abouts you stop playing in the snow in new york and come pimp slap all these people.(yes Floyd too...)

Thats all..enough ranting for now

Learned

I learned more about grandpa at his funeral that I ever did while he was alive. How? This slideshow

(It may take a little while to load, if you're on a dial up you might as well download it)
Download it here

Thanks go to Uncle Tom and Uncle Jim for getting these pictures put together and making the slideshow

too late

In the past two days I've gotten calls from 2 places I applied to in December asking me for an interview.

Sorry Eddie Baeur and Wilson's Gym you're about two months and $700 too late.

Found some great student teaching clothes the other day with mom, and had a great time.
The only disappointing part of the trip was dad asking me how much I was working, telling him about 27 hours a week, and him saying "is that all."
If you're a full time student and working this much per week while trying to be competitive in a sport you can understand how this comment makes no f#(*ing sense. But most likely you aren't a full time student trying to be a competitive athlete so you don't know either...

Field Visiting

Started my field visits for school this morning. Visiting Hickman High School, the largest high school in the state, 4 days a week.

Today I was in a Web Development class and then a Into to Digital Media class. If everything works out (if the teacher likes me)this could be who I student teach with next semester, which I'm sure would make that experience a lot easier.

Tomorrow I'll be with some dude in a Marketing class for one class period.


My weekends were taken away from me, and now my mornings are gone....what's this world coming to?

videos

Check them out...GOSH!

Neyo: So Sick
Neyo: Stay
Simple Plan: untitled

little of this...little of that

It has just come to my attention that Staples employees get a weekly paycheck. This would have been nice to know on Friday so that I could have picked up my check and been able to pay my cell phone bill on Saturday before it was disconnected. (On a side note, it would be nice if my direct deposit would work so that I would have to worry about taking a check to the bank)

There's not much better than walking around campus at night listening to Miri Ben Ari. If you haven't heard of her check it, she's known as THE hip-hop violinist.
A few of my favorites:

• Hold Your Head Up High ft. Lil' MO


• Sunshine to the Rain ft. Scarface & Anthony Hamilton (there's also a sweet music video for this one!)


• Miss Melody ft. Akon


• Fly Away ft. Fabolous, Kanye West & Musiq


• She was just a friend ft. Anthony Hamilton

Went to Deja-Vu last night with some guys from Staples...good times!

The only black guy that works at Staples (in columbia at least) was just fired for coming in late or just not showing up too many times. Its too bad, as he was a lot of fun and someday might be a decent artist. He's got some kind of rap group and one of the 4 songs on the cd has potential. (Note: I'm extremely with my rap music, so if I see potential in it, it could go places with a little work)

Rode 25 miles today. Froze Toes, Columbia annual "training race" that is considered the season opener, is just a few weeks away. If I'm able to race, and don't start putting in more hours on the bike I will be dropped midway through the race like last year.

Financial situation still sucks. Financial aid office told me they had a solution for me and then a week later I get an e-mail from them that says I don't have the money. No explanation (until I asked for one), just "we cannot offer you this loan".
This makes me very unhappy...

My "Issues in Education Policy" class will be a challenge. Everyone in there is about 10-15 years older than me, and sound like they've taken a number of classes together, seeing as how they kept bringing up other professor's names and books they've had to read. The professor is nice though. Welcome to grad school. (No I'm not technically in grad school, but these people are)

That's it for now. Time to write another "How I got where I am today" paper for an education class. I hate papers like this. I hate having to write about myself in this way.
The kind of tone I like to write with probably isn't appropriate for a paper like this. This teacher might accept it....maybe I'll find out...

don't feel so hot today.

So what am I going to do about it?

Put myself through a few hours of pain with a few guys on the cycling team.

RIP grandpa

No more grandpa's for me.

Got a longer post about it but I just got done working all day and now I've gotta go to the Reflector to do some stuff I told Judy I'd do, and she says I can't do it tomorrow since it's a holiday. $#%#(&

So that makes it about a 12 hour work day.


Dear weekends,
We were once good friends. I'll miss you.
Love,
Andy

P.S. My f'n feet hurt

My financial situation is a little better now.

But now my weekends are non-existent for a while. Work in an hour, work most of the day tomorrow, I think I'll even be working most of monday.

What's this mean? I may not have time to ride my bike. My last collegiate race could have been Nationals last October...

sucks even more to read another mu cyclists blog and see that he and his roommate are in New Mexico for a week or so putting in base mileage for this season.

#%()*@&

WARNING: if you don't like cusswords stop now.

I SAID STOP!





My financial situation is fucked!
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tired

is the word of the day.

Staples should be a good introduction into the world of retail, but it's not going to be all that rosy.

And a late happy new year to you. If you've got some kind of resolution good luck with that.

if

you see one movie this year (since 2005 is almost over, we'll say this post is for 2006) make it Crash.

It might be the most powerful movie I have ever seen...now if only I can figure out what it means to me...

A little freezin' in December

Rode about 40 miles with another guy this afternoon.
Weather wasn't too bad...mid-30s with a nasty, but not as nasty as the other day, cold wind. Did a couple loops of the Apple Cup course.

He put me in the pain box a couple days ago, today wasn't as bad. Almost visited the pain box once, but could have handled a little more. The scales just said I weight 206, I expected a little closer to 200 because of how good I felt on the bike. Much better than my first couple rides since taking some time off.

That's it for now....gots to find a job...or start pawning stuff off like Nell did.
F'n hire me people...I've got numbchuck skills and "i'm good with computers"(that ones for you scott, if you remember when we heard that said over and over again years ago)

music

some music is hard to stop listening to

check it.... Ne-Yo "So sick"

Yeah...books

As long as Ronnell answers the doorbell I'll have three new books arriving at the house today.
Postsecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
The Rose That Grew From the Concrete - 2Pac
Found : The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World

Should be quite the exciting evening. Actually if Ronnell doesn't feel like being a lazy bum all evening then we'll go play ball after I get off work at 9...then took at the books for a few minutes before putting them in my "to read" pile.

My teeth are killing me right now. Actually it's just one wisdom tooth that's doing it. If this continues I'm going to have to find some industrial strength pain killers.

Speaking of books...I'll have another post soon related to books...

So...

its been a while since I've done any blogging. My bad.

Last weeks was very hectic, as I had one huge project for a class due (about 75% of the grade in the class) and one unit plan and a paper revision due in another.
Stayed up all night one day last week, and got lots done...just went through the next day in a daze. Which was ok, 'cause that's the last day of class for me.

Finals week is this week, but I've got none..so it's just work and finding a job. Got an application for the hospital Ronnell works at with good possibilities of work.

Went on my second bike ride since MTB Nationals and Ben put me in the pain box. Not a fun place to visit. (Note to self: avoid pain box)

Obviously lots has happened since the last time I posted...as I remember I might just post it up.

Oh, sold my mountainbike...so i've got a little more money to help pay off credit cards, just no more mountainbike.
Fire up your little violins and play a little tune for me (if you don't know me you have no idea what this means...so sorry)


I'm out like a fat kid in dodgeball

F'n CompUSA

Way too many f'n people at CompUSA at midnight. Scott and I drove by there cause he was thinking about getting some stuff but the line was from the door, along the front, along the side, and clear to the back.

In other news, I read some article in a magazine the other day that said saying "f'n" or other derivatives isn't cool. I disagree, and therefore shall continue to use it.


Happy late Thanksgiving to you. Mine was good. Thanksgiving lunch at Uncle Jim's was great. Couldn't get anyone to go with me to the plaza lighting (thanks a lot for beeing oversees booger :) so I simmered at scotts. Just now realized why I've been snacking so much the past 4 hours....no dinner. So I shall drink some more caffeine, eat a not so much frozen anymore pizza, and watch a movie with scott downstairs.

snow

I want snow.

lots of it.

If it's going to be chilly, there should be snow. Pennsylvania spoiled me.