Fast Forward

Damn, so much has been going on lately. It's hard to keep up!

First off, I need to get my tires fixed if I'm trying to come up in a few weekends. I'll be in Herndon the 13th-15th to see a football game on Sunday, then I'll be back again the Wednesday after that for Thanksgiving.

School has been good, I got my progress report grades and I have A's in 4 of my classes but... something else in my math class. xD

I won the schools homecoming Poker tournament which was so much fun. After like 70people, 3 hours, and 100+ hands, I finally won! I got a bunch stuff: A ODU water bottle, an ODU umbrella, a ODU football tshirt, a ODU homecoming tshirt, 2 free tickets to the homecoming concert, a poker set, and a black table and chairs.

I went to the doctors with a painful spot on my chest. Turns out I had a Cyst, but with the medicine it mostly went away so it looks like I won't have to cut it off.

Jessica and I went to the Zoo today and we got an awesome close view of the Lion. I wish she could come with me to the homecoming concert tomorrow night but shes working. :/ I'm sure it will be fun with my friend Jen but it's not the same!

I like Twitter a lot. It's also gotten me into Facebook again a little bit too. I really like the fact that just the legit people have Twitter.

Finally, if you haven't already heard, the monopoly game was a total fail. I never want to try it again, and to be honest, the Jewishness(no offence j9) of the Monopoly game + the ridiculous late night menu have disgusted me with McDonalds. $1 Double Cheeseburger at BK you officially win! I seriously can't wait to be free the awful meal plan at ODU next year, where everything closes at 8, so I can start getting my own stuff and eating healthy. xD

Missing Link

Ahh so my 21st bday weekend is over. It wasn't as nearly as exciting as I expected, but I'm quite fine with that. My roommates older brother had some friends visit, and I was supposed to go to the bar with them, but I ditched to just hang with my friends. I actually don't really have a desire to go. All in all though, buying alcohol for the first time was extremely gratifying and I had a lot of fun.

My van is done again by the way. After singing at Andrews house, I packed up my things and left, only to have my front right tire blow out an hour away from the school. Then, to make things worse, my roommate had to drive and hour out and help me fix it because my jack was broken. He slowly escorted me on the flat tire back to ODU. After like 20minutes of going 60mph on the spare, it felt like it could break down any minute so it was really scary... but I made it back ok. The Van's just chillin in the parking lot for now.

Finally... am I on the outs with some of the Crew? I mean I don't have a link with all you guys because I don't have a PS3 but I thought we were still cool. But then again I feel like I haven't spoken to Dan or Lori in months, and I don't know if its ok to call them or hit them up on facebook anymore because its been so long. Maybe I did something? But either way I was just really sad when I didn't even get a happy birthday from Dan Lori Kit or Joe. :(

Twenty-one

Wow... I'm going to be 21 in less then a week. Finally I will be magically mature and won't have to deal with the po-lease! It makes me feel really old though. I'm excited to check out the bar scene, but I don't think I'd like it that much and it's probably better that I don't. xD
I really don't think being 21 will change much for me as lame as that sounds. But woooo 21! Lol.

Me and 2 of my friends are also trying something crazy. We want to get mcdonalds a bunch of nights a week and collect the monopoly pieces! You can also play online by entering the codes on the pieces, each one giving you a roll on the board to try and collect a monopoly there too. Were basically riding on winning at least 200 bucks to get back what we spent. Hopefully it will pay off! The 3 of us have collected just over 30 pieces in the last 3 days.

Monopoly and I'm gonna be 21? I think it's time to be a highroller again.

Long Time Coming

Wow my blog. Haha it probably thought I wasn't coming back! I feel really bad because I had so many stories I wanted to share including how awesome working at Old Navy was, and my move in at ODU but they are out of my head now. I hope everyone is having fun at college! I was worried when I first got here because it hit me that it might not be as awesome as I was building it up to be over the summer, but it has been awesome. I'm really excited for some of you guys coming down to ODU so I can show how we do it around here!

My van is dead for right now, which sucks. The battery has been wack and I've had to jump start it 4 times this week! But I drove to Jessica's last night and it died and wouldn't even jump start so she had to drive me back and the van is just chillin dead at her place.

I am almost 100% done with facebook. I look at it a lot but I'm just way to lazy to write people back and keep up with peoples birthdays and stuff. I might try a test where I get rid of my wall completely so not to many people will write me and if they do it will have to be by private message. And although I hate to say it I might test out twitter as well. Its starting to look like facebook without the hassle!

Finally, I love my new phone. I'm not very materialistic but for some reason I always need a ballin cell phone. I do whatever I can to use it cause its sweet just looking at it, and Jessica surprised me with a 8GB mini SD card for it and so it has completely replaced my ipod since then so I'm back to being apple product free! :)
The camera is also awesome and I snapped a picture of my van at exactly 150000 miles. I'll have to add it later though because I actually typed this whole blog post with my phone while waiting outside of my 2 o' clock class.

Anyways, I'm sorry I have been extremely lacking with my online activity but I miss all you guys a lot and I hope you're having a great time now that we're back!
~Andy

Summer... Hobbies?

Overall, I'd say the summer has turned out to be pretty legit this year. Still, I am excited that I only have a month to go starting today for ODU! I think its been more legit cause its been more relaxing. I kinda stopped hanging out with all my friends in Herndon aside from my main group and occasionally visiting nearby college friends. I have less work hours but I'm still making enough money to last me all of college. The problem at first was now I have a lot of free time on my hands but the crew has held it down very well. I'm really glad we're going through this boredgame hobby phase because it is a lot of fun and I really feel like I'm doing something interesting and making good use of my time.

Coming soon in just a little over 2 weeks... the NFL season returns! I know most of you guys could care less but life just feels so empty when there aren't games every Sunday. That and GunZ will help fill some more voids lol.

Finally though, my dad is going to let me use this software that we used to record a song together a while ago(i think I posted it) when he gets back from Florida in a few days. So, I've also been writing lyrics for fun. It has a lot of things that audacity doesn't, many of them more practical and simple for novice users like me. However, the main one I am trying to finish, which I think I talked about in a car with a few of you once, is a rap song. It will probably be my first and last attempt at doing it but it had to be done for the lulz. I went with a simple beat that has its own chorus, and I'm done with 2/3 of the verses(which I wrote myself). Assuming that I can even sound so-so, I'm really excited for you guys to hear it. Here's the beat I'm gonna use.

Haha here's to hobbies.

~Andy

Summer Sins

Geez I haven't posted in this since May. I feel like if I posted something now no one would even notice! But basically my summer has been..... uneventful. Hence no posting. Searching for a job was the most annoying thing in the world and lately I've been noticing more things that annoy me. So here they are really quick:

1. Discrediting someones story; ex) when someones telling a story and someone else goes "no that never happened" or "you never did that!" or "yeah right!" or even "what?" Just seems kinda rude to me.

2. When people tell instead of ask; ex) "Come to my house after school" as apposed to "do you want to come to my house after school?"

3. Lectures; ex) being lectured on your bad habits or about why you should do something

It hasn't been happening to me directly really but I know it bothers me, especially when my friends do it to other friends. And you know your summers uneventful when you make a list of dumb crap like this. That's kinda why I titled this "Summer Sins": I was hoping to do something crazy. My parents were gone for a week so that was nice but I'm looking for something different then a carefree evening. Something different that know one would see coming or no one would have to know about crazy. Because, looking ahead, the only eventful thing left this summer is the VA Beach trip... so I'd rather just want to fast forward through work and get back to college! But until then, who knows, maybe just try to sin it up a little. Or maybe not. Whatever. ;D

Weight Loss

My mom has been really frustrating me lately. I went to the doctors for a regular checkup the other day, and I mentioned to my mom that the doctors suggested I watch my weight. The last time I got a checkup was two years ago, and I was 163lbs then. Now I'm 144 pounds, which doesn't make sense because I've been eating more and exercising less since I've been home.

I don't feel or seem to look any different, and I certainly dont believe it. Yeah I'm 144 right now, but what would I look like with 19 extra pounds? I feel like that's a lot. Now my mom is forcing me to eat fattier foods and more often, making me check my weight all the time, and wants me to get blood tests, etc, if my weight doesn't go up. First of all I think shes freaking out over nothing, and second of all I don't want to put on weight or know if I can. I just have a really high metabolism! 

I like where I am and I'm already feeling really sluggish from eating Popcorn Chicken all the time and sitting around playing Guild Wars with the crew. I just can't imagine eating more(considering I already eat a lot) and I wish mom would just drop it; I mean my brother looks like more of a stick insect then I do. I don't feel sick at all and I wish she would stop saying that I could have a bunch of things wrong with me. So I don't know what to do now: either put on the weight so she will drop it and then go back to normal, or tell her I'm not going to the doctor and have her mad and on me about it all the time?

~Andy

Surprise Job

Well I'm back in Herndon. I must say I'm surprised at how fast I settled back in. Missing college, I thought I would be restless. But I'm just chillin. Well... not exactly. My mom and I went everywhere yesterday just applying for jobs and applying for jobs online. Some of these applications (especially the online ones) are absolutely crazy! One I did on a computer at the Home Depot asked me to alphabetize a bunch of stuff. And THEN you get the ones that have like 20 pages of questions with multiple questions on each page asking you to pick things from "Strongly agree" to "strongly disagree". Some of the questions were so wack and out of control almost to the point of ridiculousness. Its like... you know I'm just trying to be a fucking cashier right!?! But somehow they make it rocket science. :P

I was surprised how many jobs we hit though. If we get nothing back, my mom and I will try RTC and the mall next. Another weird thing about the jobs I applied for is that like 3/4's of them require drug tests to join if accepted. I don't have anything to worry about, but somehow that just seems like a really weird/awkward invasion of my privacy. Like walking into Home Depot so I can pee in a cup lol... just seems wack to me. It also seems pointless. Who in there right mind is just gonna roll into work on crack? lmao but I guess you do get weirdos.  

Other things of note: One of the managers at Bed Bath and Beyond looked like a total molester of some sort so I'm glad he told me they hadn't hired someone in the last 3 months(isn't that crazy? not good if its like that everywhere!). The other is that some dude that worked at home depot asked my mom "who she was" to me because he and a few other employees thought she was my hot girlfriend. LOL. Hopefully you guys have more luck with your summer job finding!

~Andy 

Summer and Social Fail

Damn I don't believe summer is just weeks away. I for one am not ready at all. I just want to chill. Summer in high school was great; I didn't have to worry about anything! Now summers are filled with so much crap and responsibility. Work, having no license, people who try to make you look like an imbecile then pretend it's nothing, missing college friends, and it just seems more hectic. I'm going to miss college so much just because our group of friends got so close and we never had to worry about drama or anything and fun was daily. I definitely don't want to work either. Jessica met my parents today and they loved her so it sucks that were gonna split for the summer too. Don't get me wrong I love the people I have in Northern VA like Dan, Matt, J9, and the others... but I wish they were at college with me instead. :P Hopefully despite work and other responsibilities we can still make this the most ballin summer ever.

Also, I feel so behind now. I used to be extremely good at being social and had a lot of friends and such... I even felt like I was kinda ahead of my time. But now that facebook is here and I don't hardly use it at all... I'm actually way behind my time. I can't keep up with anyone and when I actually do decide to comment on something Andrew has probably already beaten me to it. I can't get into these blogs my close friends are making and being raved about and I'm so far behind with Sean and Lori and the others it's not even funny. That's one good thing about the summer though because I really really can't wait to see them face to face. But for now I fail. :P

Hopefully I'm wrong about my bad view of the summer!

~Andy

Insomnia

I was up with my friends and decided to drink one of those NoS energy drinks tonight at midnight. I wasn't playing attention and drunk the whole 3 servings of it. I have so much to do tomorrow and tonight has been one of the worst nights of my life. I had a great weekend but I've been trying to sleep for the last 3.5hours with no luck. I'm yawning and want to sleep but there is just so much caffeine that I can't. I'm praying that I can survive this day and I will never ever do this again :(

Weekend Social

Last weekend, my brother finally got the chance to come down and visit me at ODU. We had a lot of fun and he really liked my friends. Haha I think I've convinced him to come here after a year or two at NoVA. 

Ugh, I also haven't really been using facebook at all lately. I look at it a lot but never use it or write back to people. It has offically overloaded for me. It just makes me mad that I thought that being social was a skill that I had; now it's easy to be that social because of facebook and I feel now that I'm not using it I'm just falling behind. Its been the same for LAMATB too. I look at it all the time but never feel the need to post unless someone is calling me out. I kinda respect the fact that Andrew can use facebook all the time and really well, unlike my roommate who will be on facebook for hours doing quizzes, finding bumper stickers, and picking his top 5 anything. I just can't do either. I just refresh my page hoping for something to happen and then when it does I don't usually do anything about it.

Ahh well. I could always try twitter and just live though status updates. Anyone know if that's worth it? 

Random Event

Whew, I finally got through my first day of community service. I'm working with a young lady named Kim. Shes really cool, and we spent most of the day talking about her job. They pay her to just come up with a bunch of creative programs that help kids learn about drinking and diseases. But unfortunately she can only find me 4 hours a week so it's gonna take a while. :[ 

I have a story! I was late to class on Monday and if I wanted to barely make it on time I had to walk really fast without stopping. So I was walking by the baseball field and saw this girl that lives in Powhatan that I've had my eye on. She starts waving at me, so really surprised I waved back. But then I was embarrassed because two girls were behind me and I thought she could be waving to them. But then as I walk forward she kinda comes out from behind a car and says "Hey sorry, I don't really know who you are, I was just waving to you randomly." I was in a hurry so I said the usual "haha It's all good yeah." Then I walked on. She then walked by those 2 other girls without saying anything. After class, I told a few of my buddies about it at Dinner and one of them, Rob, actually knew who she was. After dinner we were standing outside of my apartment when Rob said "Hey." I turned around but had to do a double take. It was the same girl, except she had on a completely different outfit then she did 1hr 30mins ago. 

I just thought that was kinda weird, and it sucks that I had to rush to class and didn't get a chance to talk to her. I also ran into a janitor today who told me I had some "doo-doo" on my shirt. I looked and didn't see so he starting pointing around, so I said "where?" and took my sweater off. "I was talking about your Redskins Jersey." he said, and a few of the other janitors laughed. They got me good. :P

~Andy 

Service.

Haha my weekend was a ton of fun. My roommates brother came down and we partied with the crew. I hadn't played pong in ages and my roommate and I went 5 wins 3 losses last night. 

Fun aside, I finally met with the Community Service lady. I have to work early mornings Monday and Thursday for our student health center. Apparently I'll be typing stuff she needs to have typed, making posters, put up flyers around the school, etc. Hopefully I wont have to make too many posters though, because my artistic talent is very very limited. :P

My only problem lately is that my Dad is a little short on cash and so I had to throw down 250 of my own money for a housing deposit for next year. On top of that I don't think he'll be able to pay me the 250 he said he would for the Wii... which means I practially gave it away now. So I'm kinda pissed about that, but hopefully my dad can figure it all out. 

I feel like I'm kinda at a turning point in my life right now and it's kinda exciting. Although I'm still doing the same old, my grades are better and a lot of things in college still feel fun and new. Gary R. sent me an Inbox message on facebook wanting to be friends again, and I donno I'm kinda indifferent about it. Still haven't written him back yet. Haha at least he hasn't tried to make me look like an idiot though.

~Andy 

The Brakeup.

Ahh so it's over for Anna and I again. It stemmed from a ton of things, and while it wasn't a bad brake up I'm still a little sad we couldn't work things out. My alcohol charge and not willing to stop hanging out with certain "trouble makers" killed a lot of the Romance we used to have. She admitted to acting like a 35 year old and that she was used to living a certain upper-middle class lifestyle and I guess that just didn't mix well with how I am. 

I'm writing this post about her because I'm almost certain she has written one about me. I just hope she's not talking trash about me. But after we brokeup I joined Lori as one of the people to be kicked off her now friends only LiveJournal. I mean we still want to be friends, but that's like the main way we communited when we weren't going out so it's a little dissapointing. I also wish I could have gotten Anna into the webcam, because I really think that could have helped save our relationship. But the romance wasn't all that was gone I guess. We never really ever talked about the physical side of our relationship, some of my "friends" would tell her things they thought about me like being two-faced, and neither of us just quite had the effort to put into a long distance relationship. So the relationship was kinda always just at one level.

I still kinda have Jessica there for me so I'm sure that this must have been harder for Anna then me. Or maybe it didn't really bother her at all... I don't know. But I guess I'll start to move on even if we end up staying in touch or not. I don't even know how she feels right now. But yeah, I just wanted to say something in my blog about all this.

~Andy   

Times Are Changein

Man, spring brake has actually been really good. I don't feel like doing much typing so I'm just gonna do a "bullet" post of everything I've done.

-I've had about 4 different people come pick me up from my house so far. Thanks for helping. :]
-I got to catch up with 2 friends, one who I hadn't seen in over 3 months, the other 3 years!
-I've had Popcorn Chicken 3 times since I've been back, and I'm trying to make it 5.
-I told a lie to a friend the other day to see if they would say anything about it.
-I got an 88 on my paper that I turned in right before spring brake!
-I'm making a list of issues.
-I went to my Highschool Chorus concert and it was really nice to see everyone.
-My brother and I picked up a job aplication at Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
-My brother might be moveing back into the house soon after 5months of being gone.
-I think monday was the last day I was actually home for dinner, but I might be tonight.
-I saw a chick flick and liked it.
-My mom is going to attempt to trim my hair down just a little today.
-I played at least 4 different board games last night.
-I saw my P.O. on Monday.
-I got the new version of MSN messenger and it's... eh.
-My car is all salty and dirty from the snow. Even though I can't drive it I have to wash it. :/
-I only have 3 days left before I'm back at ODU.

I hope everyone elses Spring Brake list is full and interesting too. Or, that it will be if yours is next week!

Dreamin On

I decided to update my blog yesterday because of the snow day... but then never got around to it. I guess I'll do it now! Yesterday was crazy. I stayed up till 4am writing a paper. I just kept getting sidetracked from my paper waiting for the snow to start assuming there would be a snow day. I tried to shower at midnight, but that didn't help motivate me either. So it was just a looong slooow writing process. Then I finally got it done at like 3:30am... and it starts snowing.
But I guess that's how it works. XD

But the main thing I wanted to talk about is a really weird dream I had. I don't have them that often, and I have been trying to figure out if they have a hidden meaning or if they're just mind garbage. I don't remember some of it, and it jumps around a lot randomly, but here goes:

Its started out that I went to a HHS chorus reunion. I walked into the room, only arriving with a few people from the class of 06. The room was kinda dark, it had a stage of risers, a red curtain, black walls, tables, and a wooden floor. When I walked in though, all the people that were on stage were from Madrigals (it turn out to be the group we had the year I graduated, and they were all in there outfits) and I overheard two of them talking about me when I walked in, saying things like "Oh, shit it's Andy" "Ohh, what has he been up too." But then all of a sudden I was somewhere else. I was in an all white room with one tall white table and one tall stool. There were a lot of people in there, but I didn't recognize any of them. However, Anna was there, chatting to a few of the mystery people as if she knew them. Then when I sat on the stool, she asked to sit, but I refused, so she sat on me. <_<
Then, one of the mystery people called me over. It was a black girl, and she asked me if I knew any of "these people" claiming that I had some issues with them. She showed me a few pictures, and they were actually people I knew! But they were the most random far-fetched acquaintances that I hadn't talked to in years. Then, before I could answer, Anna and I started dancing in front of everyone for about 5 seconds to no music. Then we just stopped. After a few seconds of complete silence I just walked out of the room....
and then woke up. Isn't that the weirdest dream ever?!?!? The more I re-read it, the more I'm convinced that dreams are just random brain garbage/info that gets all jumbled up. :P

And other thing, what do you guys think about 11:11? I didn't believe it and strictly didn't do it at first... but now I'm kind of a big believer. I guess I've just feel like I've had a lot to wish for... or more so the feeling to need to wish for. I wish for a ton of stuff, from doing good in school, to hoping my relationship goes in the direction I want it to, to winning future events, and for certain weather, etc. I was just wondering if anyone else was into 11:11, and what kinda stuff they wished for.

Finally, I don't believe Teddie turned out to be a dude after being hollow inside for so long! That makes him a lot less cool. But it's ok... I still think you're awesome Teddie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WumXo0lPAE

Anyways, bye for now!
~Andy

Yep...

Sigh... I don't know whats up with me right now. I'm in one of those moods where I feel like I have a lot of problems right now, but maybe I actually do.

I went to court and have to do community service and a 1 day for hour class to get in off my record, then on top of that I have a 6 month licence suspension and I have to visit a Parole Officer once a month.

So now, I don't have a car at ODU. And I went to the 2nd floor of our main building to find community service, but they wouldn't give it to me. Apparently, they only want people who want to do community service, not those that have too. So fuck them, that's so dumb. They redirected me to a lady at Judicial Affairs which deals with people like me trying to find community service. But... shes out today so I have to wait till tomorrow.

Jessica wrote on her blog the other day about music and how listening to it was a big part of her life. It reminded me of how it used to be a big part of mine. I definitely want to see if I still have it, and looking back at old music I used to sing. I'm kinda upset I haven't kept up with that either.

But there are other problems stirring in my head that I don't really know how to handle or bring up. But I will eventually for the good of anyone involved of course. I guess I just didn't have what I thought, and everything seems to be getting me down. Ahh well, here's hoping for a better tomorrow! Looks like its time for my first visit to fmylife.com. Sike!!

Whats good, Yo?

Sweet and Simple, here are some stories about what I have been up too lately:

The other day our apartment complex had a fire drill. They were going through all the rooms because if you didn't leave during the fire drill you got fined. However, when we got back to our room one of the RA's pulled David and I aside with our other roommate. (We have 4 people total, our other roommate is just never there) They put us in a room and closed the door so we got really worried. But all they said was that they found an illegal knife(because it was too big) belonging to our roommate, and that our apartment is too messy. They said they were going to give us 24 hours to remove the knife and clean our place. 90% of the mess was our roommates, and he had to get a friend to help him clean because he had so much crap everywhere. David and I didn't have much to do but we said screw it! And gave the apartment a whole new clean over. Vacuumed the floors, cleaned the bathrooms, threw out all the trash, dusted our desks, etc. But they never showed up to check our room.

I've been going through major Persona 4 withdrawals. I accidentally left my PS2 at home before I came back and I really really want to play. I like the music also and the game comes with the soundtrack! But I left that at home too. Luckily a few of the good ones are on YouTube.

I went to a "Sex & Sundaes" event for our school, where if you answered questions about safe sex, you get a free sundae. Our school has been doing events like this all week for Valentines Day. However, when I took some free condoms there like the other guys to make it look like I actually had some use for them, I saw a handout that was really funny. It was titled "101 ways to make love without doing it" and included things like "Go to the library", "Find out what makes each other sad", "touch each other in a special way", and "Give each other pet names". I wish I could put the whole list on here, because most of them were quite hilarious. And as if that wasn't enough, one of the tables had two wooden penises that you could take off and put on condoms. I stayed clear from that table. xD

We're not allowed to have candles in our apartment, but I've been lighting one in here anyways. It makes the room feel 10x more chill. You should try it! It's weird but it makes a really nice difference.

My roommate and I went to that food panel thing and told them what food we wanted, but it seemed like they were most interested in how to make people go to the cafe more and they asked us what kinda stuff we wanted to see in the cafe(like TV's or something). We stressed to them that if they really wanted us to go more, that they had to stay open later then 8pm. That is the most ridiculous food campus closing hour I've ever seen at any college. I hope they listened.
~Andy

Food Panel

I registered my roommate and I for an RSVP discussion group in which we talk about what kind of food we want to see at the cafeteria next to us next year. I signed up for this because A) the food we have now kinda sucks and B) I figured people who want to see healthier foods would be the only ones interested in signing up. I'm going there to counter them and bring the good stuff back!

Here's what I'm thinking of what they've served so far:
Pros:
-Chicken Nuggets
-Cheeseburgers
-Cobblers/Pies
-Fried Chicken
-Tater Tots
-Turkey/Mashed Potatoes
-Roast Beef/Corn
-Pizza
-Sandwich/Taco Bar
-Ice Cream Bar
Cons:
-Breakfast for dinner
-Cafeteria Ribs
-Fish
-Usually undercooked fries
-Meatloaf
-Random foods that look fancy and add diversity but taste like crap
-Salads
-Healthy/Vegetarian Crap
-Scrambled Eggs with Cheese/Grits
-Grilled Cheese

Haha and on top of the Pros, I'd like to see them add "Popcorn Chicken" to that category next year. Anything you guys think needs to be added to the lists?

Whats Real?

Since I am really into blog's at all that type of stuff, I enjoy finding and reading others as well. But usually, I never find anyone who talks about something besides events that happen during their day or Quizzes. One friend that does write about things beside the normal wrote a Note on Facebook that simply said: So am I lame for writing these? Or am I real for being me?

I think he's real. When you write blog posts about emotion or other things that mean a lot to you, you find a lot of fakers. Because pretty much everyone understands or knows what you mean, but not a lot of people will admit to that. They say stuff like "why would he put that on the internet?" Like there's some kind of society normal as to what you can put on the Internet, when really, it's completely the opposite. (See YouTube, Porn) I say respect others opinions and don't pretend shit isn't real. I'm interested, what do you guys think about people who post blogs on a personal level? Would you ever write one?

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
-Dr.Suess

Ghost Story

So I'm not gonna lie, I sort of do believe in the paranormal, but I never thought it would happen to me. I wasn't going to mention it at first, but since it has continued, I have to write about it.

In our room, my roommate and I have heard a girls scream from our window. And it's like a shrilling "I'm getting killed" scream. But it's really quiet. Sometimes you hear it in the afternoon, but it's mostly during the week between midnight and 1am. It sounds like the same girl, but sometimes the screams are different length but it always sounds like they are in the distance. We think that it happens too often and at the same volume to be coincidence. I wonder what that sound is... and what that girl wants if shes real!? It does get a little scary.

Also, my alarm clock that's set up right next to the same window can't recieve any radio channels. It makes the appropriate fuzz sound in between channels, but it just makes a really weird/annoying high pitch sound when you reach anywhere that would be a station. Sometimes you get faint talking around 104FM but that's it. We tried unplugging things around it to see if they were causing the interference but still nothing.

What does this ghost want from us? I'm trying to set my alarm clock so I can wake up on time! We'll just have to see what's revealed so we can lay this ghost to rest..... hopefully.

Potbelly is Downhill.

So on Saturday, all employees of Potbelly are required to go to a mandatory meeting due to "changes in the company". However, I know some people on the inside who have already discussed with me some of the things that will be talked about at the meeting... and it's not looking good for us. After hearing this, I definitely don't plan on returning there for the summer.

Change 1: Sandwiches will be raised from 4.19 to 5 bucks.
This is an awful idea. Our sub rolls are approx 8 inches, so why get one at Potbelly when you can get one almost twice as big for the same price at Subway? But I feel like it wont effect our store that much. Because even with the price raise, we are still the closest and cheapest place to eat in Reston Town Center, we're kinda just taking advantage of that. And ours still taste better.

Change 2: The price of the PB&J sandwich will be lowered to under 4 dollars.
This makes sense, because who wants a PB&J when they can make one at home? Almost no one gets them, so this might help that. The only problem is, the fact that all our sandwiches were the same price made it pretty easy, so now our simple menu board is going to get scrambled with the different prices.

Change 3: Employees no longer get a free meal, and Manager Meals now get downgraded to the Employee Meal deal of 6 bucks per meal.
What the hell! This is the first store I've heard of where regular employees get no discount at all. What are we supposed to do during brakes? Sit there? Use an hours pay a day for a sandwich and a drink? I feel bad for the managers too. Because after the sandwiches hit 5 bucks, 6 bucks wont get them anything but that. People might have to start bringing there own lunches/dinners to work. I'll be interested to see what the people at the meeting who are hearing this for the first time have to say! And I'm sure employees who have worked there for a while will be able to sneak out with a sandwich anyways.

So that's all I know for now, it will be interesting to see if there are any additional changes after the meeting... but it looks like Potbelly is starting to go downhill with the other sandwich companies.