aimless meanderings of a simple mind

Busy summer...

2009-08-03T18:12:00.000-07:00

Jeez.

it's been busy, that's for sure.

thanks to the infinite wisdom and impeccable planning of LAUSD, summer school for elementary and middle school students was cancelled this summer. for the entire district. 2nd largest district in the nation and summer school...cancelled. nice.

so, what is ol' weatherboy up to this summer? well...

i've been trying to work on my house. i have several projects on my list that i will get done before the end of summer. many of these projects include working out side. not a big deal right? well, it wouldn't be if we weren't having one of the most unrelentingly hot summers on record. it's been in the 90's almost EVERY DAY for the last...oh, two months or so. and, rain? nope. we're in the middle of one of the craziest droughts i've ever witnessed. so, it's kinda difficult to get my grass to keep green during these hot days. boo. i will prevail, though. anybody know how to get rid of a nation of rabbits that's moved into your backyard? (without killing them would be nice.)

why "busy summer" though? well, we've had MILLION visitors this summer! it's been great! don't get me wrong. but, it's been one right after another for the last few weeks and there's not a lot of break 'till school starts for me on the 8th of September. the nice thing about this is that BOTH of my siblings have finally decided to make this the summer they come and visit. only, like, four years after i move here! nice! well, i've only had a house for two of those years, but still...

anyways. not a lot to post. school isn't coming for a while. it's gonna be an interesting year, since LAUSD in it's infinite wisdom FIRED/LAID-OFF so many teachers that i'll probably have somewhere around 40+ kids in a class. goodtimes. no strain on my kids education whatsoever. thanks, jerks.

right, well. you all take care out there. keep positive. we'll get through this. and keep in touch, old weatherboy misses you all. don't forget to write.

and, as always...

...stay tuned.

creeping ever closer...

2009-05-09T08:04:00.000-07:00

yep, 29 in less than 24.

i'm getting old. i started this "blog" (god, i still HATE that word) back in, what...? 2005? and i'm still posting on it, however erratically.

what's my current status, you might ask? well. it's 8:32 on a Saturday. why am i up so early? well, my dogs MUST be let out at around 6:30-7 EACH DAY. they sit at the sliding glass door in the bedroom and bat at it until ONE of the humans in the room wakes up and lets them out. WHO is the only human in that room that will wake up? ME. it's okay though, i'm a morning person. that's why i'm already: logged into to facebook, gmail, my google reader (and i've already read EVERYTHING that's been blogged about that i'm following), and i've already been commenting on "the stranger's" "line out" blog. yep, i get a lot done in the mornings.

today many of my friends and family and i are going out to celebrate my birthday by going to the Los Angeles Craft Beer Festival. i don't know what to expect, but i'm dubious as my beer adolescence was spent in the great Pacific Northwest, the place where good beer lives, and i haven't seen ANY california beer stand up to even the middle of the pack in the Pacific Northwest. i'll go with an open mind though, i'm sure i'll find some good stuff there.

i got a surfboard from my beautiful wife for my birthday! i'm totally stoked for it too! it's a softboard, but i'm still a learner, so a softboard makes sense. PLUS, it'll be a nice board for people who come to visit us to use so THEY can learn to surf too! i even got a wetsuit and a rash guard, so i'm all set for this summer's surfing season! i kinda wanted to go to the beach this morning to try everything out, but decided against it...i'm still a little sleepy, and i've got a big day ahead!

i'm finally coming to the end of another crazy year of teaching. during this year, i managed to get LAID OFF (thank you VERY much LAUSD and California Legislature for not passing a budget for MONTHS after it was due!), get that layoff rescinded, and STILL not be quite sure what's going to happen to me as far as where i'll be teaching next year! i do know that i WILL still be teaching in LA...just not 100% sure where yet. i'm pretty sure that i'll be back at my regular school, but you never know what's going to happen! boo.

well, other than that. i don't have a ton to report. i'm still the same old weatherboy...i'm just a few years older. i still love beer, singing, playing guitar, teaching and various kinds of death sports.

anyways, hope everyone who reads this is doing well! i'll be back in Washington again at the end of my school year!

so, keep your eyes peeled, and calendars open! a night on the town is a MUST when i get up there!

take care, and RockSteady.

-WB

Sorry...

2009-04-20T16:30:00.000-07:00

...but i just read this and i had to comment on it somewhere.

http://theguide.latimes.com/ToddMartens/lists/146620/best-beer-bars

that is a list of "the best beer bars in Los Angeles."

i just wanted to say...the BEST beer bar on this list would be considered average north of Bend, Oregon. father's office (#1) on the list would be shunned for the way it treats it's customers if it opened a location in the Pacific Northwest. the TRUELY best of the list in my opinion would be Lucky Baldwins, it doesn't put on heirs, but has a great selection. (and they make their own beer!)

all this article did was prove to me that Los Angeles is still YEARS behind the Pac-Northwest when it comes to good beer. (my tavern idea would KILL down here!)

seriously...?

2008-12-06T09:26:00.000-08:00

ok, let me just say FIRST that i have GREAT RESPECT for our troops. I DO. often i feel like i'm more on their side than their own current commander in chief.

BUT, i'm here watching the Army vs. Navy football game and army is wearing CAMOUFLAGE UNIFORMS. like the camo they wear out in the desert. NOW, i do understand the reason why they would wear that, you know, probably a nod to the alumni and current troops there...and a nod to the idea that they might be going too. but, come on. they look like a team from that poorly devised XFL with those cartoon like uniforms.

The Army vs. Navy game is one of the more revered rivalries in college football, does Army really need to cheapen it with gimmicky uniforms? what's wrong with their school colors? there's a LOT of honor and respect tied to those colors. but CAMO?

it's just sad.

In other news, USC and UCLA will be reviving an old custom of BOTH teams wearing HOME jerseys in their rivalry meeting today at the Rose Bowl. Some people see it as a sign of disrespect to UCLA (since THEY are the ones who currently play their home games at the Rose Bowl), but those people probably don't follow history very well since I believe that, until the early 80's, both teams wore their home jerseys when they played each other. honestly, i think it makes the game more fun. BOTH teams wearing HOME jerseys? it kinda makes it feel like LA is up for grabs, and the winner takes it all! both teams claim LA but only one gets the bragging rights at the end. seems rad to me.

well, all we can hope for is that Florida stomps 'Bama, Missouri beats Oklahoma, and then, if all the stars align, MAYBE USC will get a title game nod.

...and, as always, we pray that UW can pull off just ONE win this season. but, against a once ranked CAL...it doesn't look too good. winless this season? (sigh)

finally.

2008-11-29T08:56:00.000-08:00

it's finally cold here in california again. i've been waking up to what i can only really describe as washintonian mornings these last few days. it's been down right BRISK outside when i take the dogs out AND there's been a good amount of fog greeting me as i look around our little canyon. it's just like walking around outside on a brisk fall day in...say, Seattle, or my hometown of Olympia. makes me a little nostalgic for those places, i have to admit. but, i'll be there again soon enough.

thanksgiving was pretty rad this year. through some workings of schedules and whatnot weatherjen and i picked up the task of having the california family dinner at our house. we did christmas last year, and now this was our first official whole 'so-cal family' dinner. it was amazing and the food was beyond good. mother-in-law decided to come down on a last minute whim and she's been staying here the last few days and helping with the food and cleaning. it's been pretty nice. her extra help has turned this 'holiday break' into a full-on vacation! ...now, don't get me wrong, i've been doing work too! but, an extra set of hands certainly lightens the load quite a bit!

today is saturday, and i'm probably going to be driving family to different places. we had our little cousins (13 and 10) staying with us (because cousin Jenny is SO MUCH FUN!) and while weatherjen works, i'll take them and my mother in law back to "grandma's" (in-law's mom) house. i'll most likely be back in plenty of time to watch the USC game. don't think i even want to watch UW play. 0-11 is almost TOO much to bear and CAL very well could make it a NO WIN SEASON! ...good god, how sad. but, i'll watch to see what happens with the rest of the PAC-10. i have no real plans for tomorrow or the rest of weekend. just trying to get things done and hoping that the next holiday break will come quickly.

we leave for washington on friday, december 19th in the evening. i can't wait to be back in washington. it'll have been almost a year since i was last there. more than 11 months. that's WAY too long. i really have to start being better about getting back more regularly. it's just a matter of planning, and as some of you know, i'm terrible at planning. anyways, i WILL be around for ten days starting on the 19th though, so plans really need to start being made. i think Jen and i are going to flesh out a schedule so that we can divide our time pretty evenly between Oly and Seattle. we have so many people that we want to see that it's gonna be necessary to have a schedule to let everyone know where we'll be and when. i'll post again when we have an idea of what we're gonna do. BUT, we're talking about having a couple of different nights where we (jen and i) just go to a bar in a central location (maybe u-district and some other place, possibly on the east side) and send out the clarion call to all comers. i just want to see as many people as humanly possible, since it's been so long!

k, well this post has been nice and lengthy. i'll send this out now, with more to follow as more news becomes available. actually, there's lots more stuff to say, but i'm gonna go and take a nice mid-morning nap. i always get up WAY too early and get tired and start falling asleep at un-fun times. you gotta love the holidays!

so, yeah.

stay tuned.

Ooh...

2008-11-02T17:50:00.000-08:00

...and eight.

how much more can i take? the huskies have not won a game ALL year and some people think they very well might not get a win ALL SEASON. i think they'll probably pull a win off during the apple cup this year, but that's gonna be basically a battle for the bottom. it's just sad.

that said, i'm looking forward to positive week. last week was SUPER stressful at school. we had No Child Left Behind advisers come to our school to review us and give us help. (for the record, our school's test scores have gone up EVERY YEAR i've been there; it's just a formality that NLCB flagged school have to go through) that was totally nerve wrecking! in the end though, they only came into my classroom for like two minutes and that was it. a lot of buildup for not a lot of action. but, i'm totally okay with that. grades are due this week, but that's not too big of a deal.

i'm most excited for tuesday! i'm gonna be on a field trip with my kids to UCLA for a musical thing. it'll be cool getting the kids out and into the collegiate world. but, we'll be back before the end of the day so i can get to the polls and get my vote in before i head home and spend the majority of the afternoon and all evening watching CNN to see when our new president is chosen. i'm just praying that the current polls are right and hold firm!

PLEASE...don't screw this up America!

updates...

2008-10-21T22:39:00.000-07:00

or lack thereof.

so, i'm still learning the whole blogging thing. (you guys should know that HATE that term-blog. i don't know why, i just like "online journal" better.) honestly, i wish i were as adept at it as my beautiful wife is. i still need to learn to add pictures and whatnot. but at least i can add hyperlinks! woo!

so, jen and i saw W. this weekend. it was good. honestly, at points, i actually felt bad for old G.W.. i kind of agree with the way that Stone portrays Bush, it didn't seem too off the mark, or unbelievable. i don't think that i could do the movie justice in my review, so i'll stop. i've never been very good at writing reviews of movies or books. you can find weatherboy on citysearch, but not so much on book reviews and stuff on amazon or things like that. anyways...

uh, school's fine. Jen's fine. she does a good job updating everyone on the goings-on with us on her blog as linked above; a much better job than i could.

my beloved Huskies lost again, i know when do i give up? the answer: never. i'll always want to stop what i'm doing to watch the Dawgs play football. someday, they'll start winning again. you guys can move on, if you want...i'll let you know when they win again. for now, i'll stand by my 0-6 Huskies. yes, ZERO WINS, and SIX LOSSES. nevertheless, i keep the faith.

oh, i just got a RAD lp in the mail. for those of you that don't know, i collect rare vinyl, of the rock/punk/alternative/grunge styles, from the late seventies to the mid-late nineties...all from the Pacific-Northwest. yes, i'm a child of the grunge era. i'm bringing that word back. especially since i've noticed that some of the old "grunge fashions" are starting to sprout up again. flannel seems to be creeping back into vogue...who would have thought? hm, moving on...i just got the Eight Way Santa album from the band TAD. i already own it on cd (also very rare), but i bought the LP with the "banned cover", here's the wiki page for the album, the picture of the original LP cover is there too. if you don't know TAD, you should. probably THE most underrated grunge band of the late 80's and early-mid 90's. plus, they ROCK...HARD. probably one of the heaviest bands i've ever heard. Tad's website is pretty rad and he's posted some of the band's songs and the band's history on it. OH, btw...TAD is the band, Tad Doyle is the guy who started the band and is the lead singer/guitar player.

sorry. i'm just really jazzed about the LP!

right, well, it's late and i have to get up and administer a LAUSD Test in English early tomorrow!

WOO! STANDARDIZED TESTING!

-rocksteady

my indian summer...

2008-09-30T19:11:00.000-07:00

here, listen to this while you read my post...it'll set the mood. :p

well, school is in session. i've started my fourth year and there's been some changes. i've taken on a auxiliary class, so i now teach six periods every day with no breaks. i also am the intramural coordinator again this year...so, i don't get a lunch period either. it'll mean some extra cash though, so that'll be nice. but, it makes for some long days!

anyways, i mention indian summer mostly because that's what fall is here in california...just an indian summer till winter, which doesn't really start till around january. that's not necessarily bad, though, since my pool looks better than it ever has...(we finally broke down and got a pool guy. i still brush and sweep it, but the chemicals and filters are no longer my worry) and the weekends still feel mostly like summer. i stopped by zuma beach in malibu a couple weekends ago and it was amazing! most of the tourists have headed home and there aren't as many people there at all! i made a mental note to make this my surfing beach, when i actually get my own board!

something else needs to be addressed...UW football. WHAT THE HELL!? we have (had, he broke his hand in the last game making a lead block) a good qb and a decent backup, WHY DO WE KEEP LOSING!!?? 0-4!!?? it's painful watching them every week! (sigh.)

anyways...that's all. i know this was a rambling post. i'm sorry. just wanted to do some catching up and vent a little. (i held back, though. i have some choice words about VP-candidate Palin...i grew up in AK and...wow, i'm glad i left.)

k, take care...

"we'll come baaaack for indian summer..."

gotta love beat happening!

...stay tuned.

my thoughts about college football vs. nfl...

2008-08-31T13:22:00.000-07:00

this guy sums it up SO well in his article.

i've been to NFL games (seahawks, both times) and i watch the super bowl most years. they were fun, i guess, but, you just can't get around the purity of college kids playing "for pride", as this guy mentions in the article. that's been my big argument the whole time, most of the kids who play college football DON'T go on and play pro ball...and they know it! but, they still play and many graduate. (too bad college basketball can't really claim the same) this guy did a great job summing up all the cool things that college football does that the nfl just kind of ignores, or does with a fraction of the heart.

give it a read. it's rad.

29 by 30...

2008-08-27T22:30:00.000-07:00

well...maybe it's more like 28 by 30...

a long time ago weatherjen did a post called, 30 by 30, in which she made of list of 3o things she wanted to accomplish by her 30th birthday. "what a cool idea for a post." i thought. so, this is my attempt at a post listing the thirty things i want(ed) to get done by MY 30th birthday.

(i'm stealing the order in which these are listed from weatherjen's 30 by 30 blog post.

Health and Fitness
1. Get back to something resembling my "just after high school" weight.
2. Train for, and be able to do, a half-marathon.
3. Be back in shape enough to be more of an impact player on my rugby team; score a try in a rugby game-i've done this, recently, that's why i said 28 by 30...woo!
4. Get all my blood phenylalanine levels back around 15 or below. (pku is bitch)
5. Start learning how to surf. (kinda already started this, i've take a lesson and TOTALLY love it!)
6. Take boxing lessons. (private or group, i don't care. i just think it'd be fun to learn the basics!)

Fashion
7. Come up with a nice wardrobe for teaching, going out, working out, and hanging out.
8. Get rid of ANYTHING that doesn't fit and is never worn.
9. Streamline

Mind, Heart, and Soul
10. Read up on Nordic history.
11. Continue researching Pacific Northwest rock history.
12. Expand my collection of rare vinyl.
13. Go to live music shows more than once every few months.
14. Write some more songs and get them recorded.
15. Start a band and do some gigs.

Community
16. Look into coaching a pop warner football team.
17. Research bringing full contact football to middle schools in LAUSD.
18. Visit the local farmer's market, regularly.

Career
19. Successfully finish five years of teaching.
20. Be on the way to either an administrative credential, or a secondary-single subject credential, or a national board cert.
21. Move up at least one to two spots on salary points scale.
22. Make an impact on my school.

Money
23. Move up in my salary points for work quickly.
24. Pay back loans and credit cards.
25. Invest in real estate/rental properties.
26. Max out my 403B for retirement.

Miscellaneous
27. Keep in better touch with friends.
28. Perfect a beer and a cider recipe.
29. Travel with weatherjen LOTS more!
30. Have a massive party at my house and have ALL my friends and family come!

whew! that was a LOT harder than i thought it was going to be! anyways, i'm sure there are things i might have left out, but i'd really like to do everything on this list by the time i'm 30!

i got a lot of work in store for me!

k, i got my first day of my 4th year of school tomorrow! time to go and greet my new 6th graders!

peace.

-w

holier than thou...

2008-08-18T22:01:00.000-07:00

i am now an ordained reverend.

so is weatherjen.

that is all.

the words chris cornell sings...

2008-07-29T15:44:00.000-07:00

never seem to add up to the ones inside his head...

the brilliant mind/voice who gave us: "spoonman", "rusty-cage", "birth ritual", "seasons"-from the movie 'singles', "the day i tried to live", "nothing to say" and COUNTLESS other true rock, if not 'alt-rock', classics has been slipping as of late. i heard that he did a solo album...? don't know much about it. But, i heard he collaborated with Timbaland to make this, and possibly more. and i can't say i'm sold on it. this guy is a rocker! what's this weird poppy stuff? even the sometimes lamented audioslave project still rocked...this? hm. i don't know. cornell is trying to pass this off as a psychedelic-type project. we'll see. i might get this just to give it a true chance. i'm into some strange kinds of music, like this, or this. (one of those should be a MAJOR blast from the past! the other, just odd.) i just might end up liking cornell's new album, but it'll be hard to beat classic chris cornell. (that song was a tribute to his dead friend who OD'd)

sorry about all the links, but, it'll be a good soundtrack to your day!

...seriously!

-w

things i hate...

2008-07-26T09:54:00.001-07:00

well, just one thing at the moment.

tripping the alarm for our house when i let the dogs out in the morning. damn. i HATE doing that! AND to make things even MORE awesome, our security company doesn't call the house, they just call the cops. NOW, i'm probably at fault for this, i probably should have called THEM to let them know it was a false alarm, but shouldn't they call THE HOUSE to see if everything's okay? again, i might be at fault for that one, weathergirl might have the contact number listed as her cell, since she always has that on her...but, still...damn morning alarms followed by police visits! that's happened to us twice this year! BOO! (one time was our "housesitter's" fault, so no biggie, but this time it was me.

in other news, today i will FINALLY be using the surfing lessons that weathergirl bought me for my twenty-seventh birthday...yes, it's taken OVER a year. i talked peej into taking a lesson with me, so we'll be out a the beach in santa monica all afternoon seeing if we can figure out how to stand up on waxed wood and let waves carry us to shore. i'll wait to make a final judgment, but i think i'll be into surfing. we'll see...

anyways...that is all.

i'm gonna eat some breakfast and do some cleaning. have a good day, all. and...as always,

rocksteady.

absence makes the reader grow...

2008-07-16T22:26:00.000-07:00

disinterested?

totally. i understand.

well, for what it's worth, i'm back! ...again!

currently, i'm waiting for weathergirl to come back from a late night of work.

what have i been up to since i last posted? well, i think it was april the last time i updated this thing. so, a lot has happened.

i turned 28. that was a good time. weathergirl threw me a totally RAD birthday party and it involved going out to a place that's an adult version of chuck e. cheese's and getting totally loopy while watching an old hippie band called 'the screaming clams'! i hardly remember much after getting home and that's not normal for me, but it was a good time and it just solidifies weathergirls' dominance of the art of party planning!

i also finished up my third year of teaching and am now currently teaching summer school. i sign up for summer school every year 1. for the extra money, and 2. to actually DO something during the summers since i know weathergirl would LOSE IT if i just sat around on my ass all summer and hung out by my pool! (and who could blame her, right!?)

speaking of pools...i'm not winning the war with mine. due to a setback while we were on vacation, my pool is not in the greatest shape. i should be honest, it's never been in the "best" shape really. i've never owned a pool before and i'm still not quite sure about how to do all the things required to keep it up to par! it's never been up to par, even since before we bought the house! so, i'm probably going to be calling in a professional here any day now to make my pool work right.

sigh.

anyways, i know i could go on and on about the vacation that we took to CHINA(!!!!), but i could never do it the justice that weathergirl does in her blog. she was SO diligent about posting pictures and keeping all of our family and friends up to speed on what things were like in the far east that i could never express all the amazing things that we saw and did while we were there! for a MUCH better rundown of how my AMAZING trip with my darling wife went, check out her blog.

now for some events that are coming up...

well, summer school is almost half way over and the next big thing on the horizon is my 10 year high school reunion! i can't believe it's been TEN YEARS already! i know, people always say that. i actually CAN believe it's been that long, BUT the thing is that i can't believe that i'm actually ten years older. i don't feel like i'm ten years older...not yet, at least. whatever. it's gonna be a fun trip. peej, weathergirl and i will all be making the trek back up to the kenai peninsula in south central alaska to hang with fam, try out some of the "outstanding microbrews(??in my old hick hometown!???) ", and go to a few events planned by the members of our senior class who...surprise, surprise...still live there! i'm actually looking forward to this trip a great deal. i haven't been back to alaska in the summer time since 2001! and the last time i was there was in 2004 and it was winter, so i really didn't "see" much of anything except the snow that i've seen more than my share of in my life!

k. this has been a long post. i'm gonna head on off now and take a...nap? and wait for my wife to get home! then i get to go back to sleep and wake up and teach tomorrow!

woo! exciting life, right!?

OH, i'm gonna brew ANOTHER beer here soon too! it's probably gonna be a blonde ale. to date i've brewed a maibock (may-malt), an irish red, and a pale ale (that's really more of a double-bock and is REALLY STRONG, about 8-10%abv!!!). pretty rad that peej and i are brewing together now, he's really down with it and it's SO much easier brewing with two people! i'll open my microbrewery yet!

but, that's another post for another time...

peace out all,

and stay tuned.

"meandering" my way home...

2008-04-05T17:53:00.000-07:00

...

...is this thing still on?

test, test...
"pppppfffffffht!"

we got a hot mic here!

yep, I'm back everyone. if you've been keeping track, you'd notice that i have not posted on this account since 2005!

it's currently, April 5th, 2008, and i'm finally "de-lurking" myself!

i've been away from the whole "web journal/log" thing for quite a while. yes, i, like every other 11 year old in the nation, have a myspace, and originally i was going to use that as my new all in one spot for pictures, communication, and web journaling. who would have ever thought that i would end up back here? i didn't, but i'm glad that i finally bit the bullet and came back. myspace is a pain in my assholes anyway. it sucks denying over and over to a group of sixth graders (for those of you not up to date on ol' weatherboy, i teach 6th grade English and History in Canoga Park, CA) that i even have a myspace page. so, i think i might just get rid of it and keep my facebook page. i haven't really decided yet.

things are good over here in Calabasas, CA (CalaBADASS if you're nasty! and i know you are!). weathergirl and i got a house here in Oct. of last year and have been making quite a niche here for ourselves. our house is awesome and we have a great view from our backyard! but, the most exciting thing for this little Washingtonian-born, Alaskan-raised guy is that, for the first time ever, i actually have a pool! my own pool! how crazy is that!? i never thought i'd have my own pool! but, here i am!

it's good living here, in Calabadass. Pj and Crackie live close and we have family and friends coming over all of the time to spend weekends, or just to bar-b-que! how awesome is it that my best friend from Alaska somehow managed to become a film editor and move down to LA and then become roommates with my wife's best friend!!!??? talk about convenience! we all get to hang out whenever we want! getting old isn't so bad, it turns out...as long as you keep surrounding yourself with good people!

hm, this is a rather rambling post. but, then, what else could you expect from a guy who hasn't used this account in over three years!? hopefully, this time, i'll stick to it!

In other news/updates, i'm in my third year of teaching (almost done, June's-a-comin'!), i'm starting to brew my own beer (it's F-ING AWESOME!), i play rugby for the Malibu Knights' Men's Rugby Club: (http://www.maliburugbyclub.com/ -yep, still a Hooker!), i still miss the Pac-Northwest, but i'm loving where i live more and more all the time!

the rest i can catch up with as i go! i'll leave this as the first of, hopefully, many more posts to come from "aimless meanderings..."

it's nice to be back...

stay tuned...

quicker...more seductive...

2005-06-01T19:22:00.000-07:00

i know, the dark side is evil.

but, myspace is just better. everything is there. my webjoural, my peeps (austin, where you at?) everyone else, and bands! and now i just need to get everyone to make the big shift!

i won't be posting here much anymore. come to myspace.com. join us... if you only knew the power of the dark side!!!

come on over, the water is warm.

till then...

i'll remember my training, save me it can...

-rock steady

i think it's time to make the move...

2005-05-16T20:26:00.000-07:00

i've been the anti-social guy for better than a year now...

so, i'm taking off. i think that i'm gonna start 'aimless meanderings' again on my new Myspace online residence. the web link is: http://www.myspace.com/weatherboy
so, there it is. i'm hoping that i can get some of the loyal readers of this post to move on over to myspace as well. livejournal is good and all, but i've found myspace to be quite fun and it gives us all something to do while we hang out online. cause it's more than just a webjournal place. you can even become friends with bands from all over! i'm now friends with LePush from saturday night! it makes the world a whole lot smaller, which can be good and bad i'm sure, but it's still fun being able to see all the info on people all the time! and bobanna, you can still post quizzes and all of that good stuff! so yeah, there you go! oh yeah, it's free too. they don't make you pay more to be able to see people's profiles and stuff.

so, yeah. this last weekend was awesome. mellow. but, awesome. no monopoly, though. that's okay it's better left for a nicer, sunnier weekend. lots of good beer, good people and good music. that's kinda exactly what i was hoping for. my football team lost spectacularly to the Willamette Valley Raiders, 60-23. sad. at one point we pulled the score to within 3, but we just couldn't overtake them and we fell apart in the fourth quarter. that's okay, saturday night was the best part of the weekend anyways. pretty girls were awesome and so were the other two opening bands. that's been pretty rare this last year. good bands all the way through the night. the venue is now two for two as far as great shows. bobanna and KP came down and enjoyed the show with HEW and i, then drove home as KP had to get up and work early on sunday. goodtimes.

i finally get to jen again this week! i leave tomorrow for california to look at wedding sites. it's gonna be really fun. i get to hang out with jen and her fam down there and just chill in so-cal! i'm really looking forward to it! it's like my summer vacation! i can't wait!

oh! i've also started subbing down here. so far i've been in a seventh grade classroom and a fifth grade class. two days in a row. i'm thinking that i'll be a hot commodity here soon! (even more than usual, i mean!)

there's my update. soon i'll only be on myspace, but for now i'll leave this active so i can wean myself off of blogspot. shouldn't take long...

life is good.

but, i'm still not drinking any fucking merlot!!!

-weatherboy

25 years and my life is still...

2005-05-11T11:27:00.000-07:00

tryin' to get up that great big hill of hope...for a destination...

yes, 11 years later, that song finally relates to me. it's true friends, weatherboy is now a quarter of a century old. crazy, huh? do i feel that old? not really. is 25 really THAT old? doesn't seem like it. time will tell, i guess. SO, what did i accomplish in my 24th year?

well: i got my masters degree. i got engaged. yeah, that's it. but, that's a lot of stuff for one year! not too bad. this coming year i'll be getting my career going and planning a wedding...kinda. (jen'll probably do the bulk of the work on that!)

so, as far as my birthday went it was really good. i went out to a nice dinner at wild ginger with my fam (bug's included in that) and i just hung out with family all day. the night before my birthday (and into the morning of) i went out to see keane at the paramount with HEW and KT. keane kicked ass just like they did at the deck the hall ball and they introduced some new songs that are totally awesome! KT had to take off early and the night was finished by the customary trip to beths' were i drew a picture to commemorate the night and stuck it on the wall. overall it was a great birthday! i missed jen. when she's around for my birthday she always goes out of her way to make it a crazy, fun time! oh, well, i'll see her soon.

as for this weekend, i still only have confirmation from HEW that he will be coming down. Austin said something about being in the area, but i'm not sure about attendance. as i said before, all are welcome! it looks like it will be a nice weekend! call me and let me know if you're coming! it'll be a good time!

k, so i'm off. hope everyone has a great rest of the week! keep in touch and take it easy. do as little work as possible! no problem, right bobanna? :)

alright, i'm out!

-weatherboy

it's finally over...

2005-05-03T21:26:00.000-07:00

my year long sprint is over.

today i recieved the word that my master project has been approved. tomorrow i will go and have it professionally bound, take it up to the city u campus at Fife, have my supervisor sign it, and that's it. i'm done. i've completed my masters degree. i am now a master in teaching. and i'll have my washington state resident certification. i never thought that i'd get this far. i was one of those guys who never really thought much about life even after high school. there were times where i thought i wouldn't even make it through college. i did, barely. but, i'm proud to say that my final graduate GPA is 3.757. not too bad.

i'd like to take a moment to tell everyone who reads this that you all played a part in my sucess. it took you all to keep me sane during this academic year. if it wasn't for the bowling, karaoke, dancing, drinking, talking, and friendship, i would have had really horrible time with this year and i don't know what the outcome would have been. so, i'd like to say thank you to all of you. in my master project there is a dedication, in it i acknowledge my family and friends. i just wanted you all to know that you're in there. and that i am very thankful that you were all there this year. thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

AND, to show my thanks, and since my birthday is next week, i have a great idea for a get together! I have the house to myself from may 13th through the 15th! SO, i invite all of you to come down that weekend! come on down to OLY! come when you want! but, everyone please come! when will we have another chance like this for everyone to get together!? friday nothing really important is going on. we can hang, drink, play bocce, drink, watch tv, hit the oly bars, listen to music outside on our outdoor speakers, play porch monopoly, and drink. it will be laid back and awesome! everyone can stay the night, i have lots of room. (no work is being done on the house this time so everyone will have lots of room and the kitchen is working also, but that doesn't mean we can't grill!) saturday can be as lazy as we want. i have a football game at 1:30 (i think) in town, so everyone can go watch me play, or they can just hang out! doesn't matter. here's the BIG part of the weekend! HEW and i already have tickets to go see Pretty Girls Make Graves at the China Clipper here in Oly (i've talked about it before, it's small and awesome!) SO, i went to ticketmaster today and they have LOTS of tickets left. the show is only 8 bucks and we could all go see a kick ass show then go back to my place and do an afterparty! sunday we can all go down to steamboat annie's and get some burgers and fries and cross the street to hit some golf balls! what a kick ass weekend!

so, there's my big idea. i think it could work. i envite EVERYONE to come! bring people! all are welcome! this house has a beautiful fenced backyard so we have privacy and we have a big dog! (he's hypo-allergenic, so no problems!) so, please! come one, come all! come for as long as you like! this will be a great time! everyone get back to me on this, I MEAN IT! call me and tell me who you're bringing and when i can expect you!

alright, now i'm all excited! i can't wait till next week! jen is usually the only person who can get me excited about my birthday, but i'm getting excited about the weekend after!

"YOU'RE excited!!?? FEEL THESE NIPPLES!" (has anyone else ever seen the movie Brain Donors?)

-weatherboy

killing nancy and sara...

2005-04-27T11:38:00.000-07:00

no matter which way you go...

i know, i know. i just keep disappearing! well, i'm back ya'll...and i'm black ya'll. (CB4 anyone?)

k, so lots has been going on. this last weekend was so great on many different levels. i saw some AWESOME bands, i got together with friends i have not seen in forever, and i got to be back in seattle for a while. I also got to play football on saturday, and went out the night before...but i'm getting ahead of myself.

friday was a pretty cool day. sometime around 5pm-ish i went to the Olympia Art Walk with my mom. i love the art walk, it's so cool. lots of local artists and performers. after seeing some of the sights my mom and i headed back home. HEW was on his way down and he got kind of a late start, but it actually worked to our advantage. we drove down town and hit the streets looking for the fight of our lives. after grabbing some food at King Solomon’s Reef we walked around aimlessly for a while then ran into a guy from my cohort. he knew a guy whose band was playing at the 4th ave tavern. so, after some thought and walking, HEW and i ended up there too. it turned out that i knew the guy in the band too. the band was tracing 8 and they were pretty damn good. the lead singer had kind of a gwen stefani thing going for her, not too bad. after that band was done, a metalica wannabe band came out for the closing act of the night. i could only handle a couple of songs from those guys so we split soon after their set started.

saturday was cool. i played in my third football game of the season and the South Sound Shockers are now 3-0! We are also ranked #8 in the Far West Conference of the Minor League Football Association polls! That's pretty crazy for a team that is playing as an independent! we'll be traveling to Omak, WA this weekend to play the Okanogan Commandos again. road trip game, those are always rough.

after the game HEW and I headed back up to Seattle where we eventually ended up hanging out with Austin Tucker and Henry at our old haunt...Ballard All Night Bowl's Sunsetter Lounge. we went in and drank some drinks, rocked the place with some karaoke, and made fun of the people who bugged Henry! it was a great time and i really miss hanging out with austin it was nice to hang out again! We pretty much closed that place down and called it a night...oh! after a trip to Beth's Cafe. (but, isn't that just assumed anymore?)

sunday was the day of the Killers show. HEW and i spent a good part of the morning watching videos off of the itunes website. after watching a couple of the videos of Tegan and Sara i was REALLY looking forward to seeing them later!

when HEW and I left for the show we ended up getting there nice and early, so we had a little time to kill. well, we went on a quest for a bar close to the Moore Theater. we walked FOREVER down one road to find ANY bar and at this point we both had to use the facilities. so, we ended up finding THE MOST seedy bar in all of Seattle! it was great! we were the only ones there under...oh, about 45 or so. it only had one beer on tap...pbr. so, we sat had a pint of pabst and then headed on off to see the killers.

the show was amazing. Tegan and Sara opened and they were unbelievable! i must have their record. they were so great live. the crowd was really good too, surprisingly. there were a lot of young-uns, but that's not really bad at all. if anything, it's encouraging. the killers came out and totally rocked the place into the ground. it was a great night and a great concert!

after the show, i got a call from Bug and she told us to come and meet up with she and her wife at finn-macools (sp) on the ave. so, off we went, the prospect of half price beers was just too tempting. we went, said hi, hung out for a while, then headed on out. i had a dentist appointment on monday morning at 10-ish and HEW had to work in the morning. so, we said our goodbyes and peaced on out of there.

it was a great weekend. thanks goes out to HEW for helping facilitate it! at some point i'd still like to get everyone together at the same place at the same time! and i mean everyone!

okay, well. not much else to report. the killers concert was awesome! i hope maroon 5 kicks some ass for you this weekend bobanna!

everyone check your calendars and think of ideas for getting the whole troupe together!

miss you all and hope you're all doing well!

till next time...

i remain as always,

your man with the plan,

-weatherboy

and the world stops turning...

2005-04-12T20:12:00.000-07:00

is it still march?

long time, no post, eh guys? i've actually been getting my sorry self up to the keyboard a few times this week and nobody is posting. now, i know i started the long break and i deserve a little bit of the silent treatment, but i get the point now...let's move things forward...

today was my educator's job fair. it wasn't all it was hyped up to be. it wasn't a total bust either. i got some good leads on some jobs and i was close to getting an interview with seattle school district. i did have a nice long talk with the aberdeen school district about teaching music and a few other core classes there. can't help but think of how cool it might be to teach music in kurt's hometown. i'd be lying if i said i wasn't considering that.

okay, speaking of music...HOLY SHIT. you all MUST check out THE END's line up for ENDFEST 05, it's pretty sweet...it's, it's incredible
INTERPOL
SOCIAL DISTORTION
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
HOT HOT HEAT
PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
KAISER CHIEFS
TEGAN AND SARA
VENDETTA RED
THE LASHES
MOUNTAIN CON
AQUEDUCT
wow...seriously...wow.

june 4th, everyone...mark your calenders. Tickets for EndFest 14 go on sale Saturday (4/16), 11am at all Ticketmaster outlets, on-line at ticketmaster.com, or charge-by-phone at 206-628-0888. $20 on the lawn $30 in the seats $40 in the pit(plus service charges)

i'm almost tempted to just go, bring some good beer, sit on the lawn and catch some really great bands.

anyways. so there's a good update i think. i'm fine. i'm happy. i'm tired. i'm outtie.

-weatherboy

i'm done waiting...

2005-04-10T18:13:00.000-07:00

for my real life to begin...

changes run abound. this weekend was crazy. it started for me on thursday. thursday morning i ran up to seattle to meet with bug and show her the ring. after that i drove back to the airport to pick jen up. we drove up to annacortes, through really crappy weather, and got on the ferry to go to Friday Harbor....

hmm...

the rest of the story, i think, can be discussed over beer and face to face with whomever wants to hear it. needless to say it was a picture perfect weekend and i am now on the wedding trail. jenny and i are now engaged. life is good, and i am a happy and lucky guy. i could go on and on about love and how much better things are and will be now...but, you can all see that when i see you next...it shows, and i'm such a nerd!

life is rolling along pretty fast now. i'm mostly done with school, i have an educators' job fair to attend on tuesday. a party at "Sluggers" in woodenville on wednesday. and to top it all off i need to finish my placement file and get myself in the substitute teacher rotation here in the oly area! with some luck, after the job fair i will have a teaching job set up for next fall and then i'll really be rolling. for everyone who is interested in where i'll end up, here are the places i'll check in to...

-Clark County School District(Los Vegas)
-Los Angeles Unified School District(duh)
-Seattle School District
-Tumwater School District
-Olympia School District
-Hawaii Schools
-anyone else who's looking

so, there you go. i'll try to stay local, but it might be easier to go to LA right off the bat. i don't know. i've never got a full time teaching job before. we'll see. i'll never be gone from the pac-northwest long though, rest assured of that.

well, there's a little update for you all. questions? comments? please feel free to let me know what you think. i'm happy, life actually seems to be starting. crazy shit, huh?

'till next time...

send me good thoughts on tuesday!

...a very happy and hopeful,

-weatherboy

April, 5th 1994

2005-04-05T10:29:00.000-07:00

where were you when you found out Kurt died?

i had just got home from school. i was in 8th grade. for some reason, me and my two best friends all went to my house after school that day. we came in, went downstairs to turn on mtv (cause it was still cool in 1994) and watched kurt loder (who looked like he had been crying) tell the world that kurt had been found dead in his home in seattle. we were shocked. no idea what to do. we all liked nirvana, and kurt was a hero to all of us in some way. we broke out Nevermind and blasted it as loud as we could. no smiles, we just jumped around and trashed my basement. we didn't know what to do. we found some cool pictures and made a little shrine in my hidden room underneath the stairs, we lit some candles. what else was there? we watched the tv and soaked up all the information we could about his "self-inflicted gun wound". we knew that kurt had been having trouble with heroin and his stomach and we figured that that was why he ended it, it seemed to make sense. drastic, yes, but kurt was a crazy guy. it took me a long time to actually come around to nirvana. i liked Nevermind, and i liked the song Sliver. as many of you know i'm a big nirvana history buff now and i have read several books on the band. i have my suspicions about his death. but, today it'd be a good thing for us to remember his life. the music he left, it's suprisingly good once you have a real listen and understand where this guy was coming from.

so, that's my post for the day. or, at least my subject for right now. where were you when you found out kurt cobain died? or, did it not really mean that much to you? for me kurt was a screaming voice of my youth that stopped all to suddenly, and left me with a feeling of...well...what now?

take a second today and listen to at least one nirvana song. the end is playing them all day long, amonst other songs. they're taking today, the actual day of kurts' death, and using it as a day to remember. i think i'll join them.

peace, love, empathy,

-weatherboy

don't call it a comeback...

2005-04-04T19:02:00.000-07:00

no, he's not dead...

hey all. yes, i'm back. it's been too long. unlike the rest of the people who read this, i tend to not post as much when i get stressed and i have a lot going on. well, i still have a lot going on, but the stress is much less than it has been in a long time. i'm not done with my masters just yet, but i'm one step closer. i'm in the final stages. soon, i'll be out in the workforce, substitute teaching and having a good time doing what i've been taught to do for almost a year now. it's about damn time.

so, how's things? funny you should ask. okay, so, as HEW mentioned, a couple weeks ago i had my first football game since october 3rd, 1997. i played more in that one game than i played my entire senior year. my coach my senior year was an asshole, i rode the bench for the most part. but, at this game i even got to run the ball. i ran for a first down and got the closest anyone on either offensive sides got to the goalline. i took the ball down to the four yard line, only to have a reciever get a 15 yard penalty the next play. our defense won the game for us, scoring twice with our kicker doing the rest of the job. the final score was your South Sound Shockers 16, the Umpqua Valley Knights 0. a shutout for our first game ever, not too bad. our next game will be here in oly i hope, maybe then some of you guys can come and watch. it's a lot of fun.

i have been a hermit these last few weeks and i have not gone out in such a long time! there are a TON of concerts coming and the clouds are parting for me and soon i will be back up there in the city that i love having the time of my life. i think that the time has come for us to all get together. i've said this before and have recieved little responce. but, i want to get together and totally throw down like we did so many times over this last year of mine. which means that dancing is a must, and karaoke is a definite possibility! the whole tribe needs to come! i say last year of mine speaking of my academic year (spring to spring). i need to put this year to bed, and i intend on doing it in grand style. this weekend is pretty much spoken for, but april is the month for us all to get back into the groove. i need to live it up before i turn 25!!! the quarter-century mark is on the way and i refuse to go quietly into the night.

so, major changes are coming. those of you who have stayed in touch know exactly what i'm talking about. those of you who don't, well...ask a friend.

needless to say, i miss you guys and i'll be back in seattle soon. my phones still work and i'm usually down for a good conversation! i hope everyone had a great st. patricks' day (i was working on my projects and had school the next day) and i hope that all travels went well. wish me luck on my travels this week!

till next time...

there is a light at the end of the tunnel and this time it's not the train...

-weatherboy

from the golden state to the rainbow state...

2005-03-14T19:54:00.000-08:00

yeah, choke on it hawaii...

finally, a piece of good news from CA. crazy that it came from fox news. not sure how reliable that is, but it sounds good and i hope that it is upheld on appeal. if this works out then all we need to do is get rid of oregon, those narrow-minded bastards, and the west coast really will be the best coast. how could the vote like they did? HONESTLY? people suck sometimes...

um...yeah.

not much else to post, but i can't leave messages on a certain persons' web journal, so i had to leave it here...

-p.l.e.

-weatherboy

for lack of something better to write...

2005-03-13T14:18:00.000-08:00

another bobanna survey...

* WoULd YoU rAthEr *

(Note: None of that neither/both crap! Make a decision!)
1. Live on a houseboat or in a treehouse? Houseboat (sleepless in seattle..)
2. Play a mean accordion or a ukulele? something very soothing about a ukulele, but i would say accordion just because it takes more skill.
3. Have 1 wish granted today or 3 wishes granted in 10 years from now? I assume we can't wish for more wishes now...so, i'll say three in ten years, ten years is a good, long time to decide what to wish for. that way you can make the wishes fail-safe, making sure none blow up in your face. (be careful what you wish for, right?)
4. Stop time or stop worrying? Worrying!-I worry WAY too much!
5. Be a private detective or a professional wrestler? Definitely the detective, although being an icon to the idiot masses does sound great...
6. Win $1,000,000 for charity or $5,000 for yourself? who couldn't use $5,000? Let's be honest, we'd all like to have an extra five grand lying around, but it is far greater to give than recieve so i'd go with the million for charity.
7. Know it all or have it all? if you know it all, you can always get what you need.
8. Sneeze every 30 seconds or have to repeat everything everyone says? repeat, jen hates sneezing. plus, i could probably work it to the point where i only have to THINK back what other people say. UNLESS, this is like the greek myth of echo, where she loses her voice and can ONLY repeat the words spoken by others. however, since that was not specified, i'll just assume i can work around it.
9. Find an envelope marked "Top Secret" or a $20 bill? i would base my decision on the shape of the envelope, the weight of it, and where i found it. people get mail from publishers' clearing house that says "top secret", let's be sensible here.
10. Be a boy or a girl? boy
11. Meet your favorite movie star for 5 minutes or get no homework for a year? Well if i didn't have to GRADE any homework for a year i'd bite, but i think i'll go with the movie star.
12. Live on the bottom of the ocean or on another planet? well, i have always wondered what it would be like to probe...neptune...
13. Have 7 older brothers or 7 older sisters? I'd hate to be the youngest boy in a family of girls, i've seen how that can work out. i'd rather have a bunch of older brothers.
14. Get a bad haircut or the flu? haircuts can always be altered.
15. Eat the same thing every day or lose your sense of smell? I would never want to lose ANY of my senses. I'd eat the same thing every day, but i'd spice it differently and i would still enjoy my food AND be able to smell and taste it. if you lose some of your sense of smell your sense of taste gets messed up too doesn't it?
16. Have every CD you want or see all the movies for free? every CD
17. Have freedom or happiness? as long as i'm happy with my life...
18. Always lose or never play? always lose. it shows character to get up and keep trying...
19. Always eat with your hands or have to put hot sauce on everything? i don't mind hot sauce, but i'd eat with my hands cause hot sauce doesn't belong on everything
20. Have a vocabulary of 10 words or speak a language none of your friends understand? i'm with bobanna, your friends would learn...i'd hate to only have a ten word vocabulary.
21. Be forced to lie to your best friend or tell the truth to your parents? truth to parents, that isn't hard at all
22. End hunger or hatred? it's too easy to say hatred, i think. i'm gonna say hunger. how would the world be if no one was ever without food? i'd like to see that.
23. Be stranded on an island with a clueless hottie or with a gross guy/girl with survival training? i've taken survival classes and i can make a fire out of just about anything...
24. See the movie or read the book? book first...
25. Bungee jump off the golden gate bridge or climb a really high cliff? bungee jump, but i'll take a dive too!
26. Have free chocolate for a year or free potatoes forever? i could live without chocolate...
27. Give up sleeping or eating? eating
28. Give up your computer or your phone? i hate dial up, so i'd give up this computer in a heartbeat with no real problem at all.
29. Be allergic to money or music? money, i f-ing hate money anyway.
30. Have to say everything on my mind or never speak again? i would hate to never speak again, that sounds like torture.
31. Have x-ray vision or bionic hearing? hearing is cool and all, but i would love the x-ray vision!
32. Find true love or $1,000,000,000? true love
33. Smell like licorice or popcorn? this one is too easy! you can have all sorts of fun with red vines! popcorn would get really old, really fast.
34. Go out with someone who hums all the time or someone who mumbles? i don't like when people mumble.
35. Be caught singing in the mirror or spying on your crush? i sing in the mirror all the time, i'm the guy who sings in the car, and my "crush" is really far away.
36. Give bad advice or take it? well, i wouldn't want to ruin anyone's life with my bad advice, but i wouldn't want to take it either. i'm with bobanna again, i'd tell them that they didn't have to listen to what i was telling them...but, i'd still feel bad if they took my advice and it turned out badly.
37. Have skin that’s tie-dyed or zebra-striped? tie-dyed, hippie style...
38. Be locked overnight in a department store or library? you could sleep in either, but if you were in a department store you could play with all of the stuff!
39. Scream at the top of your lungs for one hour or be silent for 3 days? only an hour? sure. ever been to punk concert?
40. Be a good singer or a great songwriter? i'd love to be a great songwriter, but i'd like to be a singer first.
41. Snore or talk in your sleep? talk in my sleep, snoring sucks...
42. Play the violin or the drums? i already can play the drums for the most part, the violin would make you a better musician.
43. Wake up and find yourself in the middle or the desert or in the middle of the arctic? as long as i wasn't naked, i'd do alright in the artic. at least there, you'd have a source of water.
44. Have a crush on your best friend's boyfriend/girlfriend or find out that (s)he has one on you? i would rather find out that they had a crush on me. i could deal with that and move on easily.
45. Have spinach caught in your teeth all day or fart on a first date? Fart. cause, most people know how to hide them and your date will never know. i don't know if i'd be all about a girl farting on the first date. just like she'd probably not like it if i farted either. let's be honest. it would put us off. the chance of laughter would be high, but the likeliness of a second "romantic-minded" date would be somewhat slim. farting comfort comes later in a relationship...unless you and the date are just going to be "buddies!" (one of the guys/girls) openly farting isn't really something you want to risk.
46. Vegetables tasted like candy or traffic sounded like laughter? laughter can be annoying too, just like the sound of traffic. i guess it would depend on which vegetables tasted like which candy.
47. Know when everyone else is lying or always get away with lying yourself? know when everyone else is, for sure.
48. Go hiking or watch a video? Right now - hiking...depends on my mood.
49. Dribble tomato sauce on your favorite shirt or sing loudly on a crowded bus? sing, even though someone might get mad and punch you and get blood on your favorite shirt. most people keep to themselves on the bus though...
50. On a scale of 1 (poor) to 10 (excellent), how would you rate this survey? 5-almost annoying, but something to do...

die liver...DIE, DIE!!!

2005-03-07T21:36:00.000-08:00

you non-enzyme-producing fuck!!!

i'm tryin' to drink away the part of the day that i can't sleep away...

yeah, that's right. fuck my liver. as most of you probably know i am plagued with the genetic disorder of PKU (phenylketonuria). a birth "defect" in which the liver is unable to produce the enzyme that breaks down the amino acid phenylalanine(sp). it's one of the basic 20. at any rate, i was watching "super size me" today. and WOW, i'm not gonna eat Mcdonalds for quite the long time. but, i'm once again mad at my liver for being less than what i need to function as a "normal" person. crazy how all i need is for my liver to produce one little enzyme to allow me to eat like the majority of the world. i'm not suffering, so no big deal.

tonight i finally got my mom to watch "bowling for columbine". it was great. she and i talked through most of it, but it was all on topic and it was all good. at one point i told her that "soon my generation will be in control..."
"and then what?" is what she responded with.

to be fair, i don't know what will happen next. i hope we'll have a window of peace, but who knows? i just think that our generation is gonna make a lot of good changes happen. hopefully we won't go too overboard and step on everyones' toes to get what we want like this last generation has done, but there are no promises. i realize that. i have faith in us though, we are much smarter than many generations before and we've seen a lot of the bad that can come out of the over-righteous public. so, hopefully, we can overcome that and make some really good changes come about.

of course, i say most of this after drinking about 6 beers in a row without eating very much. gotta love pyramid snow cap. it's hoppy, but very good.

i'm still hopeful for the future. i think that with people like jen in law school, we've got a good crop of people in line to set america straight. people who are liberal, but are not totally crazy either...people that are ready to look out for other people...not stiffle them with lame-assed laws that are made to keep homophobic, gun-toting, self-righteous, middle-americans feeling safe and warm in their hate mongering section of the country, while they keep consuming crap that they don't need from corperate america.

okay, my drunken ass is done.

i leave you all with this quote from dr. seuss, who's birthday was this last wednesday.

"unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get better it's not."

written so long ago...but it still makes so much sense...

-weatherboy

like drawing blood...

2005-03-01T20:53:00.000-08:00

finally, people are writing about their lives again...

it's good to hear from you guys and have it be about what is actually happening in your lives at the moment. i love making random posts, but i usually give a rundown on how things are going!

SO. not much to report today. a houseparty sounds okay i guess, my idea is to rent out the tumwater community center and have some bands come in and rock the place to the ground. now THAT sounds like fun! no alcohol allowed, but i think we're grown up enough that we can live without that...at least until after the show. who knows though.

on the literary scene though i've actually got my head into three different books at the moment. I'm still trudging though the indie music one that i've mentioned before and i'm also working on a book on starting a band and i'm also reading kurt cobains' 'journals'. i told myself that i would never read kurts' private journals, but jen put it well when she said, "look, i don't know how i feel about reading his personal thoughts, but i hate the idea that courtney love is making a buck off of his private journals. if someone bought them FOR me, then i wouldn't be giving courtney a dime so why shouldn't i read them?" of course, i paraphase, but it was more or less something like that. now, i'm not reading any "classics" by many peoples' standards, but this stuff is interesting to me. i'm also starting to gear up to read "the history of 'HIP'". a book on...well...'Hip' the term and what it is/means/how it came to be/and the different aspects of it. it's actually a very interesting topic.

so yeah. there you go. there's another post for you all to read and take up a few minutes of your workday...

hope it finds you all in good spirits!

great to hear from austin tonight! i miss you guys!!!

gotta run...Scrubs is on!

-peace

hate, hate, hate, hate, hate...

2005-02-28T19:57:00.000-08:00

i'm done with the hate.

these web journals are tearing us apart! from now on i'm only going to use these things for good. i'm done ragging on the negitive things, only positive things from now on. let's just stop all the fighting...

so yeah. wednesday night was excellent. i must say that THAT was a great night for music. ya'll should have hearlded what i said. i said everyone should come down, but no. too bad. Joey Casio was awkward at first, but after a few of his songs i was very impressed. his presence was really good and the music was some pretty original shit, i haven't heard anything quite like it yet. maybe that's just my inexperience talking, but it was good. he won me over by the end of his set. NOW, Mind Your Pig Latoya (no idea if there's a comma to show ownership of the pig or if it really is just the name of the pig) was NOT BAD at all. their songs were really simple and all, but they were not bad. they harmonized and the drummer was pretty good. ok, okay. they weren't the best looking girls in the whole world, but that shouldn't stop anyone. i thought they were fun. (in fact, more on them later) anyways, yeah, the third band of the night was Les Georges Leningrad...and i will agree with HEW on this one...they SUCKED. i'm all about being experimental and stuff, but these guys didn't even really have songs. i think they were going for some hippie-drug-tribal thing, but it just sounded like shitty noise. i was a real dick when these guys came out, i complained throughout their whole set. i was quiet, i didn't totally broadcast my thoughts, but i did do a lot of complaining.

then the gossip came out and kicked the shit out of all of us. it was such a great, positive vibe there at the clipper that night! i foresaw this the night before when i went to the clipper to see some music but was shot down. i knew, once i had a look at the space, that the gossips' show would be special. so, not only did HEW AND i talk to the drummer of the gossip and the guitarist, but i remember talking with at least two of the members of mind your pig latoya and i talked to joey casio too. it was a really great night and i was so happy to feel like the music scene here was somewhat approachable. everyone seemed so down to earth. despite the fact that HEW and i didn't directly talk to the lead singer of the gossip, i did tell tell her and her drummer that they had a great set as HEW and i were walking back to the car and they were all excited about it and shouted their thanks quite loudly. so, yeah. that was truly a great experience.

NOW, on to the no-so-great experience. ok, so i found a flyer for a house party concert where mind your pig latoya and a few other underground bands would be playing here in olympia. so, i thought, "cool, underground indie scene, that sounds great!" well, it was set for a sunday night, so i get all of my work done on sunday and at 8pm sharp i show up at the address on the flyer. well, it was at some random guys' house and i was the ONLY ONE THERE WHO WASN'T IN A BAND. no outside people were there. it was like it was a private party. i didn't know ANYONE and i went by myself. i was just this random guy who shows up at a random party and i felt TOTALLY AWKWARD!!!!! i went in to this house and stood in the corner for like 45minutes! i barely talked at all! NONE of the bands were playing, they didn't even have a PA system! totally weird situation! so, after feeling more out of place than i think i ever have IN MY LIFE, i take off. i did see one of the girls from mind your pig, but i didn't know her well enough to just start talking with her. god, it sucked. and ya' wanna know the worst part of it all? I could have gone to see Sleater-Kinney at evergreen college THAT SAME NIGHT! AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME! no, i took a chance and it failed. and i missed what probably would have been a great concert. damn. so i hope that story amuses some of you. go ahead, you can laugh at my misfortune, i don't mind...someone should find joy in my uncomfort.

on the positive side, i'm doing well in most of the other areas of my life. jen and i are doing well, school is stressful-but fine, and i'm all caught up...for the most part. my first football game since october 3rd, 1997 will be on march 26th at 1:30 in southern oregon. i'm totally excited about it, yours truly will be fullback and possibly part-time halfback for the south sound shockers! it'll be nice to get out there on the field and play again.

how are the rest of you doing? it'd be nice if you all did a post here soon that was kind of a state of the union post, where you told us how things were in your life. it's too easy to lose track since we haven't all seen each other for a long time. what's the long term looking like? the short term? any goals you're working on? fill me in. i won't speak for anyone else, but i know i'd like to know.

here are some shows you guys should check out this weekend. i'll be chillin down here, but if you aren't doing anything go see some live music!

FRIDAY-The Blood Brothers-i've heard a lot of good things about this band! at Hells Kitchen (Early Show) 6 PM (Club Show)W/ The Chinese Stars, Mean Reds

SATURDAY-The Briefs at Sunset Tavern 9 PM (Club Show)W/ The Minds, Joey Casio-this is the guy that HEW and i saw!!!! 21+, $7ADV/$8DOS

SUNDAY-Pretty Girls Make Graves at Neumos-Great Band, Great Venue!!! Doors 7, Show 8 PM (Club Show)W/ Monitr Bats, Chromatics, Other Ghost, DJ Roy All Ages, $10

HOLY SHIT, i'm so jealous! THREE NIGHTS of great music! I gave you guys a show a night! i wish i had the funds to come up and go to some of these shows! what a great weekend of music! someone go...please...for me!!!

right, so here's where i'll end. not much else to talk about now, i'm bored of my computer. i hope this finds you guys at work or at home, anxious to see who has posted recently...well...i guess i'm the one this time...SURPRISE!!!

till next time...

-happy thoughts from the tom-tom club
(i got 'tom-tom club' from the lexicon of grunge, look it up. it's real. i thought it poetic since i was quite the outsider on sunday...)

-weatherboy

keep on rockin' in the free world...

2005-02-23T17:31:00.000-08:00

or, in communist china...whatever...

so, last night i drove my happy-ass on down to 'the china clipper' to watch a songwriters' show that was being promoted my KAOS radio evergreen's station. totally thought it would be a really cool time to see some good independant songwriters show their latest work... well, upon getting there i walked down the rather odd and dark hallway that leads...PAST the bar (it's just a room really) and into the performance space which had a couple of pool tables in it...but no music going on at all. yeah, that really sucked. i was all excited to see some live music, but it was just a dark room that a couple of people were playing pool in. however, i was determined not to let the night be a waste so i walked though the room and had a look at the stage. so, at least i got to have a look at the venue that i'll be watching the gossip perform in tonight. it's actually a pretty small space, that's good cause i like small, intimate venues when it comes to music. small venues allow you to connect better with the energy that the band puts out. the show tonight should kick a lot of ass. i think HEW is on his way down to come with and if anyone else gets the urge to see good music on a wednesday night, come on down! it's college after all, still time to do crazy things like drive down to olympia and watch an indie band kick the shit out of a small club and do some good drinkin'!

anyways, i'm sure i'll be posting about tonight later on tomorrow. so...stay tuned.

i remain as always,

blond.

-weatherboy

looks like a quarter till ass...

2005-02-22T18:59:00.000-08:00

goodtimes...

lets all thank bobanna for the very random website find...that's some funny shit...

things remain pretty slow down here in oly. i have this week off from school, it's our mid-winter break. yeah, what do you suckers think of that?!?! while you're off doing the 9-5 every damn day, i'll be getting vacations like mid-winter, spring, and SUMMER break off every year, while you're still working! WOO! i haven't got too much done since my break started, but slowly and surely, i'm chipping away at the stuff that will be due upon the completion of my student teaching. then, it's time to find a jobbie-job.

so much great music is going on right now. if any of you will be in the olympia area either tomorrow or sunday you could tag along and watch some really great music with me and possibly HEW. The Gossip will be playing tomorrow night at The China Clipper and the great Sleater-Kinney will be at the evergreen state college on sunday. there's so much good stuff going on right now and i'm so glad to know that i'm getting deeper and deeper into it all the time! hell, tonight i'm thinking about going over to the China Clipper cause it's songwriters' night, and it's free. what can i say? i love where i live! (i'll always love seattle more though, let's be honest)

so, bobanna and i are still the only ones who post at all. it's like we're talking to ourselves. it sounds like everything's happening up there in seattle, but i can't always be up there. i might be up there this weekend. i'll be hanging with the big brother and the sister in-law. but, i'll be around none the less.

i hope that everyone is doing okay. i have not heard from anyone in quite the long time. shwee is off the hook, for the most part. bobanna seems to be always sick or something. it's just been so long since we hung out, i miss you guys!

well, not a whole lot of humor on this posting, just an attempt to fill everyone in on what's going on with me. things are good. jen and i are doing really well. yeah. life's good right now...

this is pretty much the worst post of all time...(like anyone can even know that, weatherboy...)

-OUT

while you're waiting...

2005-02-12T19:30:00.000-08:00

i guess i'll write something to fill the void...

ok. bobanna suggested a great topic to write about, and where i would love to say that i am the king of romance, i am not. valentines' day makes us all try to live up to this ideal of being totally romantic and thoughtful people...for one day. you should show your love for someone you care about EVERY DAY. valentines day is just a ploy for people to make money. HOWEVER, i am not against it totally. even though i don't know many people who have really great stories of the holiday. i've done the dinner thing and the flowers thing...but the thing behind all of this is that i really have been doing that the whole time. not just on one specific day. i do have one really cool story though. it's not about something that i did, it's about something that jen did.

we had just started going out, way back during our jr and sophomore years of high school. i had just made the All-Northwest honor choir and i was going to be away (in bellevue no less-this was when we were still in AK) for our first valentines day. sad right? well, i left a bunch of goodies and cool lovey-dovey stuff there for a friend to give jen. i thought for a while that i wouldn't get anything for the holiday, as there was no real way for her to get stuff to me. to my suprise, toward the end of the day i walked into my hotel room and i had a bunch of gifts sitting there waiting for me! i was really happy, needless to say. i called her and asked her how she got them to me. at first she said she'd never tell. eventually she said that she flew down just to put the stuff on my bed and then she left. horse-shit right? i thought it was one of her friends who made the choir with me, but he still swears to this day that he didn't, and he's a minister now! the cool part about this story is that all these years later, jen still sticks to her story and i still don't know for sure how she got me all that stuff from alaska. i still have the teddy bear she left though, her name is princess.

so, there's my story. i don't have any real sad ones or anything, i've been really lucky over the years.

ok, there ya go.

i hope everyone is doing well and having a good weekend!

-keep it real

the 2,411,378.00 dollar man...

2005-02-10T21:12:00.000-08:00

that's right bitches.

can anybody top that? bobanna, i would have to say this particular survey that gives you a ridiculous classification is the best one you've come up with yet. i'm also proud to say that i am currently worth the most of all of us. AND i don't even have a job yet! WOO!!! i'd like to bring something up though. i did it twice cause i didn't see how they broke down how you do the iq thing, and i also noticed that i forgot to put in my race. so i checked "white" and i also upped my iq (i was pretty modest actually). but, i noticed that i went up quite a bit after i changed just those two things. so, race has something to do with it i guess. AND, as a white male, i'm worth a ton!

so, that was fun. anyways. i hope you all are having a good week. i can tell that bobanna is working hard and barely has enough time to do anything on the computer at all. :-) and i'd like to see what everyone else is worth, it's kind of funny. i was hoping that i could go really cheap and be worth like five bucks, but nope.

k, so have a good week everyone! give me a call sometime! it gets lonely down here! and i'm tired of always coming up there!!!!

-but not really...

-out

dick danger and dolphins...

2005-02-09T22:15:00.000-08:00

primitive.

that's how i'd describe dick danger ale. primitive, but with a very subtle charm. dick danger ale is the "flagship" (or, bestselling/best known) beer of Dick's Brewing Co. Centralia, WA. It has a very bold taste, but goes down very smooth for you pussies who can't handle a more manly, hardy tasting beer (like redhooks' Ballard Bitter, or a porter of some sort like Guniess or Rattlesnake). just kidding. i'm loving beer more and more and this one is well worth trying. so, is dick's beer (a different kind of dick's beer, simply known as dick's.) so, yeah, support your local brewery!

so. jen came and jen left. i miss her. i wish she was still here in the pac northwest. i think a few of us share the same feeling. don't worry guys, i'll get her back here, by hook or by crook. anyways, i had a good time hanging with jen and bug and her man for a day or so. it was good, i look forward to doing it again soon. things are going...well.

one thing weighs heavy on my heart. i have not seen the group together for a long time. i've been told that i complain too much about my "group" and that we never meet, but i think that we can all agree that it's been a really long time! i'm gonna be in oly this weekend. BUT, i can say that i have an entire week coming up at the end of february (basically the 18th- 27th) where i have nothing to do, as it is my schools' mid-winter break. that would be and EXCELLENT time to for us to plan a shin-dig (is there a proper way to spell that?) of some sort. we should shoot for all parties to attend! like i said, it's been a long time since we all got together and i miss you guys! so, let's get with the planning!

right, so i'm doing well in school. things are good. i miss jen. i miss you guys. i like Keane and i like dick danger ale.

...and dolphins...

goodtimes.

take care all.

-weatherboy

just a joke...

2005-02-02T22:31:00.000-08:00

i thought some of my democrat friends might like this one...

the rest of you will at least smile i'm sure...

The President, the First Lady and Dick flying on Air Force One. George looksat Laura, chuckles and says,

"You know, I could throw a $1,000.00 bill outthe window right now and make somebody very happy."

Laura shrugs her shoulders and says, "Well, I could throw ten $100.00 billsout the window and make 10 people very happy."

Cheney says, "Of course then, I could throw one-hundred $10.00 bills out the window and make a hundred people very happy."

The pilot rolls his eyes, looks at all of them and says to his co-pilot,"Such bigshots back there.....hell, I could throw all of them out the windowand make 56 million people very happy."

damn this web journal...

2005-02-02T21:57:00.000-08:00

damn it.

i can't do the picture survey that bobanna posted cause it won't let me copy and paste pictures onto the journal. suck.

anyways. i'm doing well. i got all of my grading done really quickly tonight. i've got some cleaning done. AND, i've even put on a load of laundry! jen comes into town tomrrow and i'm so excited to see her! i don't know if we'll make it up to seattle...we might try to come up on friday night...not sure.

i thought of something great to write about today when i was sitting in my car this morning...what was it...oh yeah...

i was hanging with HEW this last weekend and i got him to put together some of the pictures and video's that he's taken for this year, well MY academic year, last spring to now and put them on a dvd. it's fucking awesome! we had some problems with the burning process, so it's still locked inside his computer. but, i wanted to say that you all really need to see the slide-show. it's put to a really great song and it makes me laugh and smile so much. i've mentioned before that i'm one of the most nostalgic people i know, and the slide show HEW put together (really fast, by the way) really means a lot to me...and i have a special reason too.

Ok, here's why...

i loved my high school. i poured my heart into my school. i loved everything about it. it was hard for me to let go of high school, i'm glad that i can admit that now, but it really was hard for me...ask jen. anyways, i was on the school yearbook staff my senior year. i got all of my friends into the yearbook a lot, and i even made subtle fun of some of the people i didn't like, it was great. SO, the yearbook staff is in charge of the senior slide show that shows AT graduation. i worked so hard on yearbook to make it great...i sat through MY senior slide show AT graduation and i was the ONLY SENIOR NOT IN IT. i have the video of my graduation and you can go back and watch the entire slide show...no weatherboy. it kinda really made me feel bad. so, the fact that HEW put together a slide show of all the crazy things that have happened to me, and the people around me, within the span of my time in gradschool...it means a whole lot to me. so, i just want to say thanks HEW. AND, like i said, you all really need to see it. it's really funny!

ok, sorry to get all sentimental there. k. so, i'm gonna sign off for now. i hope that everyone is doing well. i'm glad that people are posting...some more than others.

keep writing y'all!

-and a banana cognac bitch!

oh, and i'm all about Interpol right now! Also, check out The Lashes, they're local, and they kick ass. they'll be doing a show at the end of the month!

-out

another long ass survey...

2005-02-01T17:39:00.000-08:00

but, what else is there to do...right?

b a s i c s
1. name: Joshua Donald Weatherman
2. single or taken: taken
3. sex: avec penis
4. bday: May 10th, 1980
5. sign: Taurus
6. siblings: Older sister (Jenni), Older brother (Kitt)
7. hair color: blonde (duh...)
8. eye color: blue (seeing a superior trend here...?)
9. height: 5'6"
r e l a t i o n s h i p s
1. who are your best girl friends?: Jen (but, that's easy) Jewels, Makenzie, Ashley, Kristin.
2. do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?: Yes.
3. did you send this to your crush?: no, she'll read it though (HI BABY!!!).
f a s h i o n s t u f f
1. where is your favorite place to shop: pacific place, there's a lot of good stores there, Saks’ 5th Ave.
2. any tattoos or piercings: wouldn't you like to know...:-)
s p e c i f i c s
1. do you do drugs?: only the ones that don't require needles.
2. what kind of shampoo do you use?: it varies. the last one i used was by redken
3. what are you most scared of?: i dislike needles, i'm sorry but I have good reason! when i was young they used to take blood samples from me a lot, and they used to have to strap me down with a straight-jacket! my viens were really hard to find and i hated it!!!
4. What are you listening to right now?: 107.7 the end-Smells like Teen Spirit is on
5. who is the last person that called you?: Jen
6. where do you want to get married?: Canada (i'll keep the details to myself, no one gets to steal!)
7. how many buddies are online right now?: don't know, i'm not signed on right now.
8. what would you change about yourself?: i wish i were a little bit taller. other than that...not a whole lot i can't do by myself.
f a v o r i t e s
1. color: blue/green/and white
2. food: potato gnocci (at the moment)
4. girls names: Katherine, Hanna, i forgot some of the others...
5. subjects in school: english, french, choir, drama.
6. animals: dogs, horses
7. sports: football and golf
h a v e y o u e v e r
1. given anyone a bath?: just my dogs
2. smoked?: nope.
3. bungee jumped?: no, but bring it on!
4. made yourself throw up?: no i just starved myself to drop weight for wrestling.
5. skinny dipped?: not completely, i don't think...
6: ever been in love?: yes
7. made yourself cry to get out of trouble?: not since i was a little kid
8. pictured your crush naked?: well, yeah.
9. actually seen your crush naked?: not telling
10. cried when someone died?: yes
11. lied: everything i say is a lie...except that...and that, and that, and that, and that, and that............and that.
12. fallen for your best friend?: yeah, she kicks ass...
13. been rejected?: yep, and it does suck
14. rejected someone?: yes, and it wasn't cool.
15. used someone?: probably, for good and bad reasons...
16. done something you regret?: if you have no regrets you really have not lived yet. you can't be perfect all the time.
c u r r e n t
clothes: western hoddie, jeans, rugby t-shirt
make-up: just some pore minimizer
annoyance: bitching and idiots...the world is full of them...
smell: my deorderant, AXE (awe, yeah) phoenix. when i wear cologne it's channel platinum
favorite groups: modest mouse, nirvana, yeah, yeah yeahs, social d, the stills, keane, postal service, et cetera, ad nausium...
favorite singers: glen danzig, kurt cobain, the guy from keane, bobbie deal, corin tucker (even though she's kinda stuck up), the guy from Live, there are probably others...
desktop picture: a view of the space needle that jen found online
book you’re reading: our band could be your life: scenes from the american indie underground 1981-1991.
cd in player: which player? one has modest mouse, "good news for people who love bad news." another has fountains of wayne, "welcome interstate managers"
dvd in player: i forget, either dead like me, napoleon dynamite, or singles.
l a s t p e r s o n
you touched: my dog, f-you he's a person
you hugged: austin tucker
you imed: Jen
you yelled at: my class
you kissed: Jen
you dated: Jen
you got in a fight with: Jen
you flirted with: Jen
a r e y o u
understanding: nah, i just blink and nod
open-minded: i'm totally open minded, unless people think differently than i do.
arrogant: i try.
insecure: of course not. why should i be insecure? everyone loves me. i have a million friends. i never get a moment to myself! i wish people would leave me alone sometimes, they just won't stop bugging me! i have a life you know!
interesting: no, i could put you to sleep in like sixty seconds
random: no, i actually like veal.
hungry: only for innocent blood
smart: no, i cheated all the way through college and gradschool
moody: what the fuck do you care if i'm moody?
hard working: only when the boss is around
organized: not really. if i find something that needs to be found...good, if i don't it was never meant to be found.
healthy: a diet of starches, candy, and beer...my body is a temple.
shy: no, that's what the beer helps cure.
difficult: as often as possible.
attractive: all the bitches want my ass (especially when i call them bitches!)
bored easily: what? sorry, i was watching tv.
responsible: totally, my parents even let me feed the dog now!
obsessed: only with pokemon
angry: only when pinko commies try to take my guns away
sad?: yeah, i don't know if i'll ever get over the loss of "undeclared"
happy: everyone's happy when there's nitrous-oxide around!!!
hyper: only when i'm "happy"
trusting: no i'm pretty suspicious of people
talkative: i can talk all night if i get goin'
legal: oh, i'm legal...but you can't afford me...
w h o d o y o u w a n n a
kill: i honestly don't want anyone dead. it's kind of harsh to say you want to kill someone cause of their views isn't it? hmm...i WOULD like to kick BIG DUMB in the nuts though!
get really wasted with: i've pretty much got wasted with all the people i need to get wasted with...getting drunk with a celeb would probably just be a bad thing.
get high with: dave chappelle, my brother, my sister in law, wes, jen...i don't know, i've never done it.
talk to offline: jen, and all of my friends
talk to online: usually just jen, sometimes austin
sex it up with: not telling...(but it should be obvious!)
r a n d o m
in the morning i am: up really fast and in the house to shower. after the shower i watch Q13 morning news for about ten minutes then it's off to teach!
all you need is: carbon. (it's hard to do this one without being cliche')
love is: something that is never forced, that is unconditional, and something that you wish everyone could know. it's the butterflies you get when she walks into the room. and it's the smile that you will never ever grow tired of seeing...
dream about: teaching and grading papers...my dreams are not that cool
sexual preference: italian female
w h i c h i s b e t t e r
coke or pepsi: pepsi. choose your side and stick with it.
flowers or candy: depends on the situation, sometimes chocolate is a must. but, flowers are hardly ever a bad idea.
tall or short: in the case of the opposite sex, for me, it's always better to be shorter than i am.
o p p o s i t e s e x
what do you notice first: hair, ass, eyes, brests. (jen's ass caught my attention first...and her legs...she was wearing the little catholic school outfit)
last person you slow danced with: i havn't really slow danced in a long time...maybe austin at that last dance i went to...? not sure.
worst question to ask: how big is average?
makes you laugh the most: this is no lie...Jen...she is so randomly funny.
makes you smile: these questions aren't meant for people who are with someone...Jen
gives you a funny feeling when you see him/her: JEN
d o y o u e v e r
sit on the internet all night waiting for that someone special to im you?: yes, i have no life. i just sit here and wait for someone to im me.
save conversations: no, how do you do that?
wish you were a member of the opposite sex?: oh, hell yeah.
wish you were younger: from time to time, just a few years...i'm coming up on the quarter century mark...i just want a few more years before that occurs.
cried because someone said something to you?: most people have, i'm no exception
N u m b e r of times
i have had my heart broken: never, i've deserved it though
of hearts i have broken: one (and i regret it every day)
of guys ive kissed: shit, i lost count
of girls ive kissed: maybe ten? i don't know...it's been years
of cds i own: not nearly enough
of scars on my body: dozens of cut scars on my arms and hands, one on my forehead, a couple on my shins, and the one that the aliens left me...
of things that i regret: too many to count and why bring up painful memories and things when we're supposed to be enjoying a fun little survey?
y o u r t h o u g h t s
I know: a lot of usless shit, that somehow comes in handy when i'm at parties.
I want: a wife, kids, good job, good life, to be in a band, and to win a billion dollars and buy my own private island where i can invite all of my friends and we can become a new nation were all we do is live the good life and be waited on by servants.
I have: the perfect girl, dreams, and a chance.
I wish: for a thousand more wishes
I hate: people sometimes
I fear: elmo
I hear: that ivory soap floats
I wonder: what the next year will bring
I love: i talk about what i love in my journal a lot. i love her. i love my friends. i love life.
F i n a l q u e s t i o n s
1. do you like fillings these out?: from time to time, but this one is too damn long!
2. how many people are you sending this to?: none, but it will be posted
3. who will send it back?: nobody, they might post their own though
4. least likely to send it back?: next...
5. gold or silver: platinum
6. what was the last film you saw at the movies?: white noise
7. favorite cartoon/anime?: Family Guy
8. what did you have for breakfast this morning?: approx. 102 grams of phenyl-free dietary powder
(there is no 9 i guess)
10. who would you love being locked in a room with?: that motherfucker who used to pick on me when i was in jr. high, cause only one of us would walk out...and it wouldn't be him
11. could you live without your computer?: yes, unlike the rest of the world, i'm not connected to the internet 24/7. i actually read books and newspapers.
12. would you color your hair?: i did only once, and i totally regret it! never will again.
13. could you ever get off the computer?: depends on how long this survey is!!!
14. hablas espanol?: un poco.
15. how many people are on your buddy list?: i think like, three...maybe
16. drink alcohol?: nope, it's against my religion.
17. like watching sunrises or sunsets?: both, it depends on the mood. i love being able to watch the sun go down, and still be up when it comes back up...
18. what hurts the most?: getting kicked in the balls
19. best words ever?: i'm really bad at this kind of question...don't ask for the best quote from me...i'll take like five years to decide on one
20. if you have a crush, do you think she likes you too?: yeah, she's coming over to see me this week
21. what is your all-time favorite song, as of right now?: mayonaise, or float on.
22. are you happy this is over now: yes, it's just too damn long.

Okay, that really took a long ass time! but, there you go. a little bit more of me.

hope everyone is doing okay! jen is coming to see me this week!!!

WOO!!!

-rock steady

anyone?

2005-01-29T18:35:00.000-08:00

hello?

well, here i am. it's around 6:40 or so and i am still here in oly. no one got back to me about going out this weekend, so i'm just gonna stay home and get some stuff done around here. that's probably good. i need to get organized, and i have a TON of tests to grade!

i found out that i actually DO have school on monday. only, i don't have to teach. it's an inservice day. i'll just attend meetings. it also starts at 8:00am instead of 7:30 for me. that'll be nice a whole half hour later. great.

anyways, i'm tired. my neck kind of hurts. i got hit pretty hard on top of my head at football practice today. a play went wrong and i got knocked sideways and someone elses' foot came down on top of my head as i was falling and kind of rung my bell a little. it took me a second or two to get back up and on my feet. people thought i got knocked out, but i was just taking a second to make sure everything was still functioning. i'm fine now, but like i said, i'm a little sore from it all. BUT, i only stayed out for like two plays and i was back in. i'm not gonna sit out this season. i'm gonna play.

anyways, well. i'm not sure what everyone else is up to. if any of you are bored give me a call. i'll be here. hey, i might even be up for a making a night of tonight, but i'm not sure. we'll see. pretty girls make grave will be playing tomorrow in seattle, they were a great show last time i saw them. but, i'm not sure if i'll be coming up tomorrow. i havn't got any kind of confirmation or plan for tomorrow night. i might still try to marathon it if it's a go. but, i'll be here till know for sure.

talk to ya'll later...

keep it real...

-weatherboy

butt fuck nowhere...

2005-01-25T21:07:00.000-08:00

but, at least your friends are along for the ride...

sitting here. drinking the latest seasonal from New Belgium, the good people who supply we the drinking public with Fat Tire, it's called Biere De Mars. it's fantastic. literally translated as, beer of march, it is so nice and easy to drink. i'm working on becoming a beer reviewer. i need to get more descriptive.
anyways...

it's horrible, but today i was listening to tom lykis and he made a good point. to get an idea of who we are all we need to do is add up the parts of our friends. your friends reflect you. now, this could be good and bad. but, let's focus on the good. my friends LOVE to dance. i love to dance. my friends are quite fond of talking about politics. i've grown very fond of talking about politics. my friends like good beer, for the most part. i LOVE good beer. my friends are very intelligent and all have college degrees, for the most part. i'm working on finishing up my masters, the jury is still out on my intelligence. my friends all love music. i wouldn't even speak to you if you didn't like music. (i still have a hard time with bobanna not liking the smashing pumpkins...not even ONE SONG of theirs bobanna!!!???...(sigh)) my friends are very thoughtful and have great views on life and appriciate the arts. that's pretty much all of me. i'm always reflecting on life and i only wish i could dedicate MORE time to my love of the arts. i guess the whole point of this is to let you all know that i'm very grateful that i have such wonderful friends. all of the things that i likened you to myslef are not only ways that i think you are my friends, but ways that i like to see myslef. it's all a very postive thing. we are the final gasp of generation X, the generation that is supposed to save the world. and i believe that it's people like us that will make a difference when it's our turn to take over running the nation. we had a lot of the hate from earlier generations beaten out of us, but we also had some of the ultra-hippiness reasoned out of us as well. we are a good balance now. i'm just glad the\at my friends are people that make me feel good about where the world is going...however delusional that feeling might be. if the world goes down in flames i'll be in good company when it happens, and we'll all be laughing at the idiots that made it happen...

so, the student teaching continues to go well. i'm going to be all by myself tomorrow. my cooperating teacher has a workshop to attend and i'm not invited this time. i'll have a sub with me, but i've been told i can tell her to go do other stuff. my cooperating teacher said that i can handle the kids better than she can anyway. my confidence is growing little by little.

well, i might be heading back to the emerald city this weekend. i don't know if i have plans on sunday night yet (i have no school on monday and i hear that another b-day party is about to happen), but i do know that i'll probably come up sometime on saturday to just "be" in seattle. we, our little internet family, should get together this weekend. of course, i say this when bobanna says she might head up to canadia for the weekend. damn. well, i'd still like to assemble as many troops as possible for an outing on saturday night. so, clear your schedules everyone! let's kick the jet city's ass! gay dance club anyone?

ok. i'm gonna peace on out of here. i hope that this week is treating everyone well. for those of you who have the time (at work or otherwise) keep posting. we need to get more regular about this whole thing. we go in phases. we'll all be really good about it for a long time, then most of us will drop off a little. lets keep it goin'! bobanna and i are the last two to post, let's all get caught up!

i remain as always,

hopelessly devoted,

-weatherboy

what can i say...?

2005-01-21T22:16:00.000-08:00

i'm the man.

and world is working its' way back into its' usual rotation...

wow. people are posting (for the most part). i have homework and i'm procrastinating as usual. but, we are all busy little hampsters making our respective wheels spin at our semi-normal pace. things are getting back to whatever form of normal we are used to. it's strange. the holidays seemed to knock me off my usual course more than they usually do. it's taken a couple of weeks to actually feel like i'm back in the swing of school...and school. going (but not really since i'm student teaching) and teaching. always an adventure. that's the nice part of teaching, my days are NEVER the same. something new always happens. there are not many jobs anymore that can offer that. most take a whole lot of f-ing school to get to, the others involve death...i.e.-firefighting...etc...

student teaching this week kicked my buttocks all over the place! every day i've been exhausted at the end. of course, being sick with a cough didn't help much. thank you very much bug, coughing all over my ass last weekend...

how's the world going for all of you out there in cyberspace? i hope that work is treating those of you that work well, and that school is running along smoothly for those of you still in school...i think that's just you schwee. i hope the classes are going by fast, but that the times are going nice and slow. i'm sure you understand. who went to college and doesn't? i don't really remember much of my french history class, but i sure as shit remember drinking a six pack of spire cider WHILE i was doing my radio show on KUGS up in b-ham! THOSE are the times you remember...the classes will all slowly fade. that's good and bad i guess.

i'm actually at the point in my life where i think that i'll want to keep taking classes, just for the sake of learning. just to know more stuff. i'd LOVE to be able to take classes just cause i felt like i wanted to learn what it offered. i know, that seems lame and kind of new age hippie loser talk...sure we'd all like to keep learning, weatherboy. you're not unique. nor do i claim to be. that's just where i'm at right now. thankfully i'm in a profession where learning is required for the duration.

anyways, so as i've said before, i hope all is well with everyone. i miss jen. i'm gonna be in oly this weekend. i have a party to go to after football with my cohort here in oly. after that we might venture on downtown, all are welcome. give my ass a call sometime, it's been longer than a fortnight since i've talked with most of you! yes, i said fortnight.

that's over two weeks bitches!!!

CHARLIE MURPHY!!! (*!PUNCH!*)

-out

i could have danced all night...

2005-01-18T20:35:00.000-08:00

and partied ev-a-ree-day...

hey kids. well, another good weekend. nothing major, but it was good. friday i went bowling with HEW, eric, and tonya. the young couple had to hit it early cause they can't stay awake much past ten, so HEW and i stayed and bowled for a while longer. we went home and slept not long after that. morning came and i woke up early as usual. i watched troy then headed on south to get home in time for football practice. after that i came home and got showered and got a call from bug confirming an invite to a birthday party that was to be held that night (saturday for those of you trying to keep score). i got dressed and headed back on up to the emerald city and met up with bug to go out and get some dancing done at this birthday party being held at the last supper club. bug and i were on the guest list and we got special wristbands that allowed us cheap drinks all night. bug and i were kind of the odd ones out for a little while, she didn't know many people there, other than the b-day girl. so i got to really just sit and talk with her for a while, it was really good. i have not had a long talk with bug in a really long time, even though we were in AK together this christmas. she was kind of pissy when she was there, but oh well... i also got the opportunity to meet bug's new man. he passed just about all approval tests, other than the fact that he settled for budwiser cause it was cheap. never settle. it was a good night. since the alcohol was cheap i made my peace with gin and we are now friends again. i drank a great deal, it was extra cool cause bug was coming along and with me drink for drink, we also had a couple of shots. it was a really good time. with the inebriation taken care of, dancing became the new order of the night. since i had NO dance partner at all, i was the solo freak out there on the floor. bug did a lot of egging me on, so i went out and danced and had a really great time. bug, stayed with her man and they looked equally happy with the evening. all in all it was a great night, as i've mentioned. the night came to a close hours later and we headed off in seperate cars and i drove my happy ass home. i still had a lot of energy, so it was an easy trip to make.

jen, i'm thinking of you. call me whenever you can. i'm praying.

here i am now, on tuesday after getting a lot of stuff done on monday. i got a lot done today too. hopefully everything will work out well for everyone for the rest of this week. to some, there's more stress than others. i'm here for you.

i hope everyone is doing okay. i still have not seen some of you in quite a while. someday we'll remedy that. just let me know when, i'm a busy boy...

take care all, and until next time,

"don't be jealous cause i've been chatting with hot babes all day..."

-weatherboy

i can't believe that i'm filling this out...

2005-01-12T21:19:00.000-08:00

god help us all...

1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4, Write down what it says:
...seeking favor. It eventually passed along to... (from the book, "1,000 places to see before you die.")
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?:
air...i'm in an office.
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?:
LOST
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what time it is: 9:25 pm
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?: HOLY SHIT! 9:25 pm!!! i'm awesome, what can i say?
6:With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
107.7 the end's people's choice countdown. and my mom talking.
7: When did you last step outside? what were you doing?: Like an hour and a half ago. I walked back into my house, i had just got back from the gym.
8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?: bobanna's LJ
9: What are you wearing?: white tee-shirt and blue jeans...yep, that's it. really.
10: Did you dream last night?: i think i was saving the world again...
11: When did you last laugh?: wow, i really can't remember...that's sad...
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?: Calendar, whiteboard, paintings, stained glass, rack to hang keys on.
13: Seen anything weird lately?: i teach fifth graders...i see weird stuff all the time.
14: What do you think of this quiz?: i'm with bobanna,Woo!
15: What is the last film you saw?: Lionheart (VanDame baby!!!)
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?: a baby, strait up cash.
17: Tell me something about you that I don't know: i love to go to interesting bars and read books and drink beer all by myself. and i always try to read by daylight. i'll go to the brightest window and i'll just open a book, order a beer and read for hours. when the sun goes away, that's when i'm done. i'm a sunchild i guess.
18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?: kill whitey.
19: Do you like to dance?: Some people might think that i do, but it's all an act...
20: George Bush: good, strong leader. couldn't think of a better C student to run the nation, oh wait...i probably can...
21: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?:
She-ra
22: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?: Ashton, or Kenton.
23: Would you consider living abroad?: Yes
23: Fruitcake or Chocolate cake?: WHITE cake with that rainbow frosting that has those little chewy balls! (that sounded a lot worse than i expected)
24: Who was the last person to call you?: my dad
25: What is your favorite time of the year?:
Late Summer/Fall
26: Beach or lake?: depends, both have their place. but, i would have to lean towards beach
27: Would you rather drown to death or burn to death?: neither.
28: Dog or Cat?: (another way to phrase that:friend or asshole?) Dog. cats can choke on it.
29: Book you are reading now?: our band could be your life: scenes from the american indie underground 1981-1991. it kicks ass.
30: What was your last hand gesture you made?:
i shook my fist at some asshole driver who, like many dumb assholes in washington, didn't know how to merge. and didn't use a turn signal.

there you go, that's the post for today.

-OUT

absence...

2005-01-11T21:25:00.000-08:00

doing it's job...

i miss you guys. there's a couple of you out there who i have not seen since last year. it's been months, in fact. so, i propose that, at some point...perhaps this weekend, we can all get together again. i know that things are busy for many of us, but i think back on the fun times that we had this year and i get sad that we have not hung out in a while! too long. so, i'll come up north if i can get some positive feedback from you long lost friends. or, hey, you can come down here, but that's a little harder to get done, HOWEVER some of you might want to come to oly for some reason or another...i'm not sure...

anyways...let me know.

switching gears. my life and times are going along just fine. looking forward to a visit here soon from jen, don't know when yet, but i'm so happy that she might come! school is going fine. i'm slowly taking on more and more subjects and my cooperating teacher is leaving me in charge of the whole class more and more. i even have my own weekly lesson planner, i'm all grows up. (yes, grows...i grows up, and i grows up, and i grows up) anyone?

so, yeah. there's me for now. i come home, eat, go to the gym, come home, grade papers, then mill around and watch tv until i wake up and do the whole thing over. oh, and i'm still going to football practice on saturdays, which is fun. i think i need to go and see some more shows or something. there are some good ones going on these next few weeks.

k, so start posting again soon everyone...i'll be here, as always...

"the defect in this milk is bleach..."

-weatherboy

in-out, in-out, in-out....

2005-01-08T17:27:00.000-08:00

and i never called...

(the in-out, refers to the show situation below, and the not calling is also explained)

yes, my punk rock new years was messed up. nothing really bad happened, but nothing really awesome happened either (other than the final band of the night). the first part of the night went more or less how i expected. dinner started late and there was much talking going on between me, HEW and blackmamba...and much drinking on blackmamba's part (HEW wasn't doing too bad either, but nowhere near mamba). we left for the show a little before 8pm, just as i planned. we got there, got in, and were kicked out less than a half an hour later. after sobering up the drunk of the party (who will remain unidentified for now, save that it wasn't me), we went back into the show and we had COMPLETLY MISSED the second act. THEN we got kicked out again, same culpret again after the third act, who sucked by the way, ( the same bouncer got us again, he had it out for us). thankfully the guy at the door let us go out and walk and get some water and come back for the final act, jello biafra and the melvins. they kicked ass and half way through the drunk member of our party decided to "go to the bathroom", but never show their face again. the final band started at midnight and did a really cool countdown. they also played an absolutly AWESOME set! after the show we couldn't find the missing party anywhere and so we ended up walking around cap hill for like an hour trying to find the person. goodtimes... actually, i didn't really mind at all. i thought it was a perfect night as far as summing up the year. good things and bad things happened all year, but the feeling of the night was right. the feeling was that of being in the middle. not mad, not happy, not bored, but content at just...being. enjoying life and missing the girl i love to share it with. i saw a great band and brought in the new year that way. we might have lost someone in the process, but,in the end, it was just me feeling like i had done what i wanted. nothing wrong with that.

after finding our missing party, we decided to hit beth's. by the time we got there, the drunken party was already asleep again. so, we went home, watched a little bit of a movie, made some food, and went to bed around 4:30 or so.

that's how i brought in my new year. and i managed to not point out who got drunk and caused the headaches for the night! sweet! oh, bobanna, i'm so sorry that i didn't call you to let you know my plans...however, i did post them. so you probably knew.

no reflection on 2004 in this post i think. that last year went by so fast that it's hard to feel like it's even over yet! let's just say that at this time last year i was substitute teaching, working at pizza hut and hanging out in upstate new york with jen...a year later, i'm back in washington, doing my student teaching which is the last part of my Master in Teaching program that i started last spring. a lot has happened in a year. 2004 was probably one of the most active years i've ever had! hopefully 2005 will be just as active without all of the moving away from loved ones. moving toward loved ones, now that i can live with...

this last week was my first week of student teaching and i had a great week getting back into the swing of things with my fifth graders! next week i start taking over the class little by little and i will soon be the full time boss...i mean teacher. it's a little daunting, but at the same time i'm really looking forward to it, it's a new adventure...to say the least.

alright, i'm done for now. i've written a TON. not bad for the first post of the year. i've noticed that the only posts that have been put out there lately have been political. to this i will say, let's just f-ing revote! washington is already looking like a joke, we need to save some face. voting in this country is becoming the joke of the world. oh, yeah, LOOK! We're getting Iraq to vote, but we can't even choose our own president without charges being brought up on tampering or whatever. WE CAN'T EVEN VOTE IN A NEW GOVENOR WITHOUT A PROBLEM NOW!!! i'm done. i've almost lost all faith in our system. so, once again, i'm going to observe our government from a distance, but i'm not gonna get emotional about it.

k, so i hope everyone is doing alright and i hope that you all had a great new years!

till next time, i'll have a strawberry smoothy...

"AND A BANANA COGNAC BITCH!"

-weatherboy

weatherboy's HUGE plans...

2004-12-30T09:43:00.000-08:00

currently:
prepairing to go out and play ultimate frisbee with some cohort members.
Apre' C,a:
probably heading on up to seattle to make holiday traffic a non-issue.
NEW YEARS EVE DAY:
-drinking shall commence sometime after noon (or whenever...)
-dinner prep shall commence sometime around 3:30-5:00-ish
-7:40pm(or so) me, HEW, and perhaps BlackMamba will head over to Club Neumos (located at 925 E. Pike ST. on cap. hill) to see The Melvins and Jello Biafra (of The Dead Kennedy's fame), along with three other bands, bring in the new year!
After the Show:
The night belongs to the City.
-several options are open
from:
1. Going to Beths and getting some food
to...
2. Going bowling in ballard
to...
3. Just going out and dancing if our happy asses feel like it!

The night is open to the public and it would be great if anyone else wants to participate in the events! The invitation is open to all! NO STRESS is the focus of the night. Other than going to the show, the night shall be felt out as we progress through it. nothing, save the show, is set in stone. if anyone wants to attend the show with us the ticketswest website is:
ticketswest.com (catchy isn't it?) the show is at The Neumos in Seattle and the tickets are $16 plus the usual lame-ass fees. I think tickets will be available at the door, but i'm not sure. it'll be a great show though, the acts performing are pretty good and the Melvins and Jello Biafra are legends in their own right.

anyways, there's the plan. as i said, all are welcome to come along. those who don't will be missed, those who can't will be thought of the whole time, i really wish a certain punk rock girl was here so she could come along-she really got me more into this indie-punk phase i'm in.

much love goes out to all and if i don't hear from you...

Happy New Years!

-ROCK STEADY

abandon ship...

2004-12-29T10:08:00.000-08:00

man overboard...

well, schwee is already out for new years. and there's no way for me to leave a message on her post cause she disabled my ability to do that! i hate having a separate web journal host! anyways...

i didn't get ahold of anyone yesterday. i know i'm a bad person. HOWEVER, i still think we need to cement some plans! i've heard of a party being planned, but i need more details. i will not waste this new years!!!

k, with that said i'm gonna go and get my day started.

post, call, email, whatever...just get in touch with me...

-Weatherboy

back from the last frontier...

2004-12-28T11:23:00.000-08:00

alaska...the dream belongs to you...

so glad that i went to alaska! it was beautiful. she was beautiful. christmas with a really warm family was beautiful. i got totally spoiled by jen's fam. now i'm back in oly and home alone. goodtimes. sucks to be with the one you love and then have to fly away and be alone in a house. now, it's nice to have alone time. i understand that now, i probably should respect other people's alone time more. hmm...

so, what's the haps on the NEW YEARS EVENTS!!!! i'm back! it's time to plan! i'll give everyone a call here sometime today to see what's going on! schwee actually got ahold of me and we decided to plan something...not sure what yet. bobanna left me a message as well...so much to do!!! mission for the day is to cement at least a tenative plan!

ok, here's something to think about. i just got back from alaska. alaska isn't even connected to the united states directly. yet, somehow, they manage to have a GREAT beer selection, all the really great pacific northwest beers are there! what was in the fridge at jen's house for christmas beers? well, the standard Alaskan Amber (wonderful) AND, Jubelale from the Dechutes Brewery in Oregon(FANTASTIC)! HOW can alaska, that is so far removed from the rest of the country, manage to have a great beer selection while a MAJOR US CITY like...i don't know...CHICAGO! can only offer up sam adams crappy beer? why? alaska might be behind the rest of the world when it comes to movies and liberal thinking (besides legalizing pot), but it puts pretty much all of middle america to shame in its taste in good beers. (I tried some other alaskan micro's while i was there and they were fantastic! OH, and i tried these beers in KENAI of all places! Even po'dunk kenai, alaska cares enough to have LOCAL micro's shipped in from anchorage, homer, or other random locals.) all to more reason to stay out of "the middle".

-out

call. we need to plan.

merry chrismachanniqwanzika to you...

2004-12-18T10:21:00.000-08:00

a helpful hint to everyone out there...

don't order stuff online for christmas. i thought i'd be all good and stuff and order a lot of the gifts for my family and friends online. nothing but a hassle. backorders, late shipping, taking FOREVER to process an order, ups doesn't deliver on saturdays...it's just not worth it. too much work and it takes too long to get ANYTHING done. maybe some of you have had good experiences with ordering stuff online for different occasions, hell, i have have too, but this christmas...ordering online has done nothing but disappoint. bad times...

well, jen left for AK this morning/last night. and i'll be following her up tomorrow evening. which means one thing...

guess who will be in Seattle tonight?

that's right. for one night only the josh show will be back in the emerald city, the scene of so many crimes. i'll be there, but i will be without a car. i most likely can meet people downtown though, as i'll be attending a family get-together down somewhere around there. anyways, i know this is kind of last minute, but we should ALL try to get together TONIGHT, as one last meeting to, if nothing else, try to plan something for NEW YEARS!! WOO!!!!

so everyone, give me a call, cause tomorrow...i'm outta here!

I don't know if i'll be updating my post again before x-mas, so let me just say that i hope that everyone who reads this gets everything they want for christmas. i hope everyone who reads this is happy this christmas. i hope that everyone has a great time while i'm gone. and i hope that we can all get together before another year arrives!

Merry Christmas everyone...

me love you long time.

-ROCK STEADY

jamming in the basement...

2004-12-13T19:31:00.000-08:00

after the killers kicked my ass...

wow. that's all that could be said about thursday night's deck the hall ball. we only got to see 5 out of the 6 bands (thanks for the ultra-fast set there snow patrol!), but oh my god, they were all SO AWESOME! i'm so glad that HEW and i got seats where we did, cause we had a great vantage of the stage and all of the bands and the stuff that went on backstage. it was a great show. keane came out and rocked harder than most bands do...and they have no guitars to speak of. that guy on the piano was all over the place, just goes to show that kurt was right, it doesn't matter what you use-use your guitar to hit the drums, just play something, mean it, and you're the star. (i'm paraphrasing of course) anyways, two scoops of thanks go out to HEW for making deck the hall my christmas present. don't know how to counter that one...hm.

i had class the very next day. it was my last day with my 8th graders. it was so sad. i liked these kids. i kind of wish that i could have done my student teaching there, but i went and visited my fifth graders today to let them know that i'd be coming back, and they were so happy. it's nice to be wanted. so, anyways, i had class the next day and i brought the 10 1/2 dozen cookies i made to share with the kids. they loved them and we had a great final day. the kids organized and bought me a startbucks travel mug and a $20 gift certificate for coffee there, i guess i need to actually dedicate myself to coffee drinking once and for all. i brought my guitar in to school and i got to play a few songs for 4th and 5th periods. it was great, they told me that they wish they had bought me recording studio time. they also told me to try out for american idol. umm, no. it was sweet of them to say so, but american idol isn't my thing. i love to sing and all, but american idol isn't my style at all. all the different periods also got together and gave me a huge card that everyone signed, it was really nice of them. i was sad to leave them. and now we move on...

after my 4 hour seminar on my student teaching that i will do starting in january, i headed on back to oly where i was invited to hang out with jeremy from my cohort. his wife was out of town (two weeks in a row, hanging out with a guy who's wife is out of town...strange), so it was guys night were we just chilled and cooked some dinner and watch a local trivia show on public access called "Trivia King". it's a call-in show where these two guys from olympia high school (total nerds-but funny cause they're so nerdy!) ask questions and you call in to answer them and if you get the answer right you get to tell them what your team name is and you compete for "Trivia King" for the night! perfect game show for drunk people on a friday evening! it was so funny watching this show you don't understand! we never made it on, but we will next week! There's also a show on directly after that that must be addressed.

it's a dance show! there's this performance space in downtown oly where people can come in and dance for free to really strange music and they get put on tv. it's awesome! i still don't quite understand it, but it's so random and cool. everyone MUST come down and be on this show with me. we'll all meet at a bar before the show and when it's time we'll head on over and dance! i'll record the show and we'll all come home afterwards and watch it! the best part is it's all LIVE! anything can happen! WOO!! we MUST do this. get back to me on it.

after the shows were over we decided to move to a friend of jeremy's house to play cards. I SUCK at cards. it was texas hold 'em and i was out first. HOWEVER, one thing i have not mentioned is that this house has the basement of my dreams! it's basically a really cool recording studio. there's a really great drum set and mics and amps and distortion pedals and guitars and bases lying around everywhere! i went downstairs and the guy who owns the house came down and started taking off all of the covers on the instruments and told me to have at it! i was in heaven. i picked a really nice gibson guitar and started just messing around. after a while another guy named eric (another friend of jeremy's) came down and got behind the drums and we just jammed for like a half an hour. it was such a great half an hour though. i've never actually jammed before, but it was awesome! neither of us was the best at our chosen instrument, but we really sounded good! man i want to start a band.

so yeah, saturday i went to football practice and sunday was pretty uneventful. today is monday and i've already taken a test, written a rough draft for a major paper and begun work on my health/fitness final. i'm gonna call it a day here soon and get a good night's sleep. i'm so glad that i don't have class tomorrow! yeah, nothing like sleeping in on days when everyone else has to get up and work! HA! just kidding, i'll get up too. i have to finish a bunch of stuff before i take off to AK, finals and papers to fix.

well, take it easy everyone. don't work too hard this week. remember, christmas is coming and we can all relax a little bit here soon!

love you and miss you all long time!

-weatherboy

one more thought...

2004-12-07T21:04:00.000-08:00

i kind of miss undergrad...

i have great memories of western. everyone i knew and hung out with was in a concentrated area and i could always get a hold of everyone. i had friends at western and friends at the U. i do still have friends at the U, but my ties to western are no longer there. i just have some pictures. and to be fair, i wouldn't have those pictures if HEW hadn't taken them in my last quarter of school. that was really a great quarter. i had NO worries. other than my thesis. i had a radio show, i worked as a greencoat and found out how to break into every building at western. i took a poetry class at the most hippie college in all of washington (yes, more hippie than evergreen-evergreen people are hippie posers if you ask me) for credit to get out of college. i partied, both in seattle and in b-ham. i really had a great time that i will remember for the rest of my life. i miss the people, i miss the times, i miss the sorority dances, i miss making "FRENCH FRIES!!", i miss having three refridgerators (two for beer), i miss cooking dinner and watching HORRIBLE reality tv, i miss that shitty 20 minute walk to campus, i miss only having class on two days of the week, i miss watching the m's lose at the quarterback, i think we all miss the brown beaver, i miss randomly going out to throw the football around, i miss running to pizza hut, i miss going to The Jade Dragon and me only ordering the grilled cheeze and some fries, i miss the wooden arms of the couches that i could pound on to get a point across, i miss the appartment, and i miss hanging out all the time...

(sigh)

i know i'll have a list similar to that for this year. in fact, if i don't remember, someone write a post reminding me to do an end of the year "i'll remember" post for the end of 2004. it's been a great year, but it's had it's ups and down. i know i'll miss be a grad-student when it's all over. but, let's not get even more nostalgic just yet...;)

all your base are belong to me...

-weatherboy

screw you guys...

2004-12-07T20:42:00.000-08:00

i'll go by myself...

i've been posting about going to the deck the hall ball for a long time. no takers. none. so, fine. i won't miss this show. i will go by myself. no worries. we all have shit going on, so i understand why people didn't get back to me, or gave me reasons why they can't. i got nothin' but love for all of ya'.

anyways, i'm just taking a moment, that i don't really have, to update this lj thing. i've been running all over the place. i had a huge meeting today that decided if i passed my latest internship. i did, thank god. my cooperating teacher is really cool, and my field advisor is also really cool. i really lucked out. both of the ladies i worked with this time were really nice and they both seemed to like me. not everyone in my cohort got the same luck as i did. everyone in my cohort will probably be GREAT teachers, but some of them got field advisors or cooperating teachers that suck. i really feel bad for them. i hope it doesn't hurt their chances to be teachers.

needless to say though, after my great experience, i'll be sad to leave the kids i'm working with now. HOWEVER, i'm really excited in the fact that i get to go back and work with my fifth graders again. i miss them! i got really lucky when i got the class that i asked for for my student teaching. so, i'm feeling pretty good right now.

k, so, i know this is a little premature...but, if i stick with this football thing (and i'm planning to) our first game will be march 19th. if i play in that game i would really LOVE for anyone who reads this to come and watch! it'd be awesome to have fans! we have a great mascot! it's the shocker (the team is called the south sound shockers)! check it out, www.shockersfootball.org, that's the team! if any of you know about "the shocker" that's also our unoffical mascot/team symbol. childish, yes, lame, yes...also kind of funny...

yep, so there's an update. not much of one. i've got a few things i'm saving up for when i have a bit of time to dedicate to more thoughtful posts...

so, till next time...

me love you all long time...

-ROCK STEADY

from the house on stibgen road...

2004-12-01T19:27:00.000-08:00

here's your update...

OK, christmas this year will be spent in AK. i leave on the 19th, unless i get a later flight...but, we'll see. i'll be back the 27th. plans for new years eve should be made in advance...(not like i'm booked or anything)

right, so this week has been crazy. i've had TONS of shit due and i still have a formal observation and a presentation to give! BOTH on friday! bad times, but a little less stressful than the last few weeks...finally.

so, i had a MAJOR paper due today and a final for a class all at once. after the test (that was total horse-shit, way too much) was over and the papers all handed in, a bunch of my cohort people and i went to Mickey O'Reily's (right next door to city u) and started drinking. it was great! there had to be like 12 of us there! all at one table and we drank and talked shit about the other cohorts and how they all hate us. goodtimes. BUT, what does my dumb ass do? i carpool and i didn't drink and drive (cause i wasn't driving today!) but i did go and leave my coat at the bar! what was in my coat? MY KEYS! when did i realize that i left it there? BY THE TIME I GOT BACK TO OLYMPIA! DAMN. jeremy was cool enough to give me a ride back to my casa, and i met my mom there and we went and got my car. i called one of the girls in the cohort with jeremy's phone she lives in oly and was still there and asked her if she would bring my coat with her when she comes home tonight. i'll get it from her tomorrow. damn though. i hate it when i do stupid things like that.

so, yeah. i'm probably doing another oly weekend this week. i need to save some money. i'd still like to go to Deck the Hall Ball. if anyone wants to marathon it with me let me know. it'd make for a long night for me, but i'd have gone to a great concert...one that would be sad to miss.

right, i'm done. no exciting shit going on. i get to go home to ak, i'm excited about that. i haven't been there since 01. too long.

well, hope everyone is doin' alright. i have a phone you know, i can be called. of course, i could call all of you as well...and i well should...

tired...

i leave you as always,

bursting with fruit flavor,

-weatherboy

people dream dreams of oceans and sand...

2004-11-27T09:42:00.000-08:00

illusions caused by tryptophan...

t.s. elliot eat you heart out...

i love that poem. anyone know which one i'm refering to? i gave a big clue with the authors' name. if i were a poet, i'd like to think that i'd be like t.s. elliot. he makes fun of himself and at his insecurities. it all seems very now.

anyways. friday was a bust. i did nothing...well, i cleaned. i must admit there is some satisfaction in having a really white and clean toilet bowl. and having my room all organized makes it easier to think. but, i didn't even leave the house yesterday, that's pretty sad. i don't know why, i just didn't have anything planned that would take me out of the house. i usually have a million things that take me around and about the south sound, but yesterday was just for sitting and being.

today, however, i'm off to football practice. i'm still the shortest one there, but i don't get any "rudy" jokes (from the people there at least) and i have a good time. so, yeah...there you go.

right, i wish that i had more to say. i kind of want to keep writing, to pour out all these amazing thoughts, but i just don't have anything there to let out. the rut continues, i'm still alive, all your base are belong to us, don't stop believin’, there's always tomorrow for dreams to come true, i just want to be me...when i can...i will...

place those song exerpts!

and so i leave you,

as scattered as always,

-weatherboy

grateful for...all the usual stuff...

2004-11-26T09:03:00.000-08:00

...family, friends, people who i love and care for.

yeah. i'm grateful for you all. i'm grateful that i've made it this far, and that i might still have a ways to go. i'm grateful for the place i live, the people i associate with (no matter any of their faults! cause i've got more than my fair share). i'm grateful that i'm here, now, living the life that i am, going to school when not many people can. i'm grateful that the people that i love are all safe and doing alright (as far as i know). i'm grateful that somebody cares. i'm grateful that i have love to give, and i do give it...to all of my friends and loved ones, even if it's hard to tell, it's there...i promise. i'm grateful that the nascar track that was coming to washington has been rejected. i'm grateful for so many things that this list can go on and on...i'm grateful for you all and i hope that you all had a truly happy thanksgiving, i hope you were with people who matter to you. i was missing someone during my thanksgiving...i'm still missing her... i'm grateful for her...

anyways, i don't know how to really end this...i've made a list similar to this before and it was probably better as it was not sparked by anything more than emotion, but emotion had a large part of this too.

I'm kind of sleeping my days away, i don't know why but i've been sleeping more than ever. it's weird. i spent thanksgiving with my family at my grandparents house. it was good, i saw a bunch of my extended family. but, i came home and pretty much slept until this morning. crazy. where is my mind...i just don't know anymore...

well, there you go. there's my thanksgiving post. it's kinda mellow i guess. then again, that's kind of the feeling right now...

who sucked out the feelin'?

damn you seasonal affective disorder...

always yours,

-weatherboy

everyone's home and safe...

2004-11-22T07:40:00.000-08:00

goodtimes this weekend it seems...

unfortunately i had WAYYY too much to drink last night. it was my sisters' birthday party, my parents had a bunch of her friends come over and stuff. there was a lot of good food (some that i even made myself!) and a lot of good beer. (pyramid Snowcap) I drank way too much that's all there is to it. i past out some time around like 8 or something. bad times. i seem to fall asleep at the worst times...

anyways, i hope that you have a good week schwee! kick those tests in the balls! i know you can do it! you'll get out of that school! and jen will get you out if needs be, i'll help. hell, i mapped out HEW's course to get out of WWU. you have a strong support unit!

well, there you go. i have nothing else to really report. i'm not sick, i'm still in a rut of sorts, i'm down, but not out, and it's almost christmas... maybe the holidays will bring more good times...

till next time kids...

keep it real...

-WEATHERBOY

cosi, cosi...

2004-11-20T20:41:00.000-08:00

a night of mediocre wine and good people...

so, my week of stress is over. and, as i said i needed to, i went north to meet up with friends. i was invited to a wine and cheese party. so, with that as the plan for the first part of the night, i went up and called the usual kids... HOWEVER, they (save bobanna) were all on their way to the apple cup (WSU 28- UW 25). and bobanna was tuckered out from a week of tomato's and internet quizes, so she hit it early and couldn't meet up with us later. SO, it was just HEW and i heading on over to K.T.'s place in seattle right underneath I-5 in eastlake. it's a great place, and K.T. and her roommate Alli have made quite the little home for themselves there. HEW and i got to meet K.T.'s man, who is a very cool guy. We also got to meet a bunch of new people and even some people that we met last new years, like K.T.'s brother (who's a really good drum and bass dj) and his woman Carla. and a group of people (husband and wife pair and one of their friends) who were really cool, down to earth, and loved alaska. so, we all traded stories for a while. it was just a really good chilled out, relaxed time. untill some jackasses appeared with their girlfriends. NOW, i know that i get really annoyed sometimes with guys for acting stupid, and i might just be a snob or something. BUT, these idiots were ALREADY drunk on wine and THEN they busted out the 24oz cans of BUDLITE (pussies) and THEN started taking shots of Jack and Crown Royal...OH, and i might add that it was like 2:30 in the morning when they started doing this. they were putting their hands all over the women at the party cause they were drunk and they knew they were the shit. too bad their girl friends were there to witness the events. but, the girl friends were probably too drunk to care anyways. so, other than the morons, it was a really great night with some really great people! i've finally met K.T.'s roommate, Alli, and her bf, and alli was really cool. so, i guess i had a good friday night.

Oh, HEW and i made a return trip to Beth's Cafe later on, and the service was MUCH BETTER this time. they were really fast and there was even a guy there who played some classical violin for us (the whole Cafe, not just HEW and i). we got home sometime around 5 or so and just went right to our rooms to sleep. a night well spent.

(EDIT)-by the man himself...i ranted, and i retracted...done.

ANYWAYS,

this weekend would have been a lot better if i had jen here. the wine and cheese party i went to would have been so much cooler if i had my hot baby with me to show off. and for those of you who know jen, you know she really shines in situations like that. i miss you baby...

well, i've been all over the place on this post...

so, i'm done...

till next time...

"the sun still shines in the summertime, i'll be yours if you'll be mine, i've tried to change...but, i've changed my mind...

think i'll have another glass of mexican wine..."

-OUT

the origin/explanation of our names...

2004-11-17T07:29:00.000-08:00

i got my screen name from a little journal that i was given. the journal was small yellow with a really retro-cool drawing of a little boy with an umbrella on it. on the top of the journal was simply the word Weatherboy. so, as many of you know i like beer, and cider. i always said that if i ever opened up my own brewery, that i would call it Weatherboy Ales (and ciders-if i went down that road). from that idea came using Weatherboy as my offical title for many different things. that and it has something to do with my last name...

so, there you go. the origin/explanation of my name, i was wondering if we all could do this so we all have a new little insight on the people who read our journals. that and i'm just curious as to where some of you got your name (i forgot how schwee came about, and artsypants...?) anyways, just a thought...

it's the day before my judgement day. i have so much to get done. today shall be a sprint, but i think that i can do it. send me good thoughts today and tomorrow everyone, i'll need them...

anyways till next time i'll leave you all with my mantra for the next couple of days...

"come on schwartz, come on schwartz!"

-OUT

therapy...

2004-11-15T20:23:00.000-08:00

did you ever just have one of those weeks...?

well, here i am. procrastinating. i could be working on all of the shit that i need to get done. but, no. i want to take a moment and just talk to the screen. it relaxes me. i love posting on this site, it's good. i've been told that certain persons never know what's really going on in my life, they have to find out by looking at my web journal (that's right, web journal. i CAN'T STAND "BLOG", it's a lame buzzword that will only get over-used and soon be on one of those lists of words that fashion people never want to hear again...like "CYBER" ,or "EXTREME", or "E-[place word here]") i don't quite know the reason that i put a lot of my life out there for everyone to read. even more, i don't quite know why i have a hard time conveying my life orally. i think it's because more and more i tend to live inside my head. i seem to talk less and less. the only times that i want to really do a lot of talking are when i'm with good people in a fun environment. give me a little beer, and i'll talk your ear off. i think i'm letting my emotions do a lot of the talking for me anymore and i think that i realize that and that i tend to be quiet when my mood isn't all that great. rather than talk it out, i just think long and hard about it and eventually let it go. ok. i'm done, no more "what's going on in weatherboys' head". sorry about that.

so, i'm going nuts down here in oly. i need to get away. i'm due for a trip north. i know i said that i might be down here for the entire month, but i think i'd lose my mind if that was what ended up happening. so, i think that i'll be in the area sometime friday after my class is out.

sorry about the last few posts being so dreary. i know that i attempt to be happy in most of my posts, but it takes a lot of energy anymore. i'm in a fog at the moment, but with the weekend's approach comes the eventual lifting of some of the fog and eventually i'll be in higher spirits. needless to say, i miss all of you and i hope that we can all get together soon. baby, i miss you.

till next time everyone...

write happy posts in my stead...

-WEATHERBOY

no dancing and no beer make weatherboy, something, something...

2004-11-14T21:13:00.000-08:00

go crazy...?

at least there's pleanty of wine around the house. alas, i have imbibed none within the last 6 hours or so...just a glass of chianti (stracalli) with lunch.

ok, good news on the horizon. the nirvana box set comes out on november 23rd, i believe. 80-some tracks, (including a dvd) and of those 80-some songs, 63 are previously unrealeased!!!!! i know, i'm kind of a nerd about this, but i can't wait!

NOW, i can't understand waiting in line overnight for a damn video game! What the hell was that about? i like collecting things and all, but people who wait all day and night in line for HALO II? i just don't get it. it's just a fucking game! but, people were talking about it like it's this monumental moment in their lives...wow. i'd hate to have their life. if a game brings them that much joy...damn. i don't lose my mind over things of this nature, i guess that's what i'm trying to put out there. i'm just trying to convince myself that i'm not THAT much of a nerd! (trying...)

needless to say...i won't wait in line for the nirvana box set.

it's been a pretty dull weekend. i think that makes two in a row for me. no reason to complain though. i'm getting into a schedule that seems to be working. i'm going to class (to teach), then going to school (to learn), then going to work out (at evergreen), and then coming home and doing my school work and stuff (stuff meaning sleeping). so, yeah. that's me at the moment. i've even starting going to football practice, i'm way out of shape, but if anything will kick my ass back into shape, i'd put my money on this. november is turning out to be quite the endurance test of a month, in more than one way. it's good for me though, it'll make me better...in general.

ok, so i've decided that the show "drawn together" is pure genius. it's a cartoon on comedy central and you all should check it out. i'm going to start recording every episode. it's that good. family guy is excellent, and i can't wait for it to come back, but, holy shit. this show is awesome. it's even sparked me to want to design my own tee-shirt. you all must see it at least once, it's horrible...but great.

alright, i'm done. i should get back to work on my project that's due thursday. i'm trying to lessen the stress of this week. i've got a lot of shit to do. and two presentations on thursday, shitty...badtimes...

well, you all take care of yourselves and keep me posted...

till next time...

"i love Ling-Ling!"

-ROCK STEADY

i'm getting old and i need something to rely on...

2004-11-12T22:01:00.000-08:00

Keane is a great band...

so yeah. it's friday, and what am i doing? NOTHING. i'm sitting here listening to keane and updating this post. this week has sucked, pretty much. well, nothing bad has really happened, so i guess i'm just complaining for the sake of complaining. i would go out, but i have no desire to spend a ton of money (that i don't really have) buying beer (that costs too much for a pint-at least $3 a pint NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO ANYWHERE IN THE P. SOUND AREA!! that's like robbing someone! MOST microbrews only average about $1 a bottle! fucking savages...) and then again i'm still here in oly, which isn't that bad. it's just that nobody else is down here. oh well, i'll get some good work done this weekend. next week has a lot of stuff due, so i need this weekend to get my shit together...or, at least have good intentions too...

k, well, schwee and bug are off in I-town in central NY. hope they have a good time, jen if you read this get schwee a bottle of tug boat red! it's soo good!

this post sucks. i'm just not up to it tonight...i thought it would be a good thing to update my shit though, i get so bad about not updating...

so, this has more than run it's course. i'll post again when i'm in a better mood and something cool has happened that i need to post about...

-OUT

i have a very good fwiend in woam named biggus dickus...

2004-11-08T22:15:00.000-08:00

Monty Python's: Life of Brian (if you liked quest for the holy grail, you really should see this movie...

well shit. not much to report. my weekend was quiet and lame. i did however manage to make it to my first football practice in 6 years. i died at the end, but it was really good to be out there doing the drills again.

umm...yeah. not a whole lot else that needs to be said. i'm kinda in a rut at the moment.

i'm really glad that my "much love" post actually meant something to some of you, it meant a lot to me to put it out there. i really value my friends so much, and it makes me happy that i made some of you feel all warm and fuzzy cause i meant it. i really don't know what i'd do without you guys. i wish we could all hang out more, alas, i'm stuck down here for a while...however...

has anyone seen the line-up for the end's Deck the Hall Ball? HOLY SHIT, it's probably the best fucking line-up of bands that i've ever seen!!! The End has totally outdone themselves! This line-up puts all the other deck the hall ball's to shame, and most of the endfest's... The show is Dec. 9th (thursday, not a great day for a concert, i know) but this would be probably one of the best shows to catch for quite a long time! making plans for a group outing sounds like a good plan to me...

so, it'd be nice to hear from you guys. i could use hearing a friendly voice. things havn't been all peaches and cream for yours truly as of late, so give me a call sometime...

i remain as always,

short and blond,

-OUT

i believe in a thing called love...

2004-11-04T22:59:00.000-08:00

ok, so tonight didn't go how i planned...

i was supposed to meet a guy in my cohort named Jeremy at a tavern called "the eastside". it was $2.00 micro's tonight and it was a great time to go out and have a few beers with good people. unfortunatly, no one else showed up...it was just me. SO, i read my current Nirvana book and tried some new beers. jubellale(i'm not sure on the spelling)...is really good by the way... I had a few and then decided to head on out to get some mexican food at EL Serape'. i noticed that, when i got there, they were doing karaoke...well i couldn't help it...i went in and had a look at their selection while i had yet another beer and waited for my food. I did "i beleive in a thing called love" and "you know you're right". I believe in a thing called love ROCKED THE FUCKING HOUSE! It was so awesome! I had such a great time. after i did the much less popular "you know you're right" i got my food and headed back home...

SO, that was my night.

my DAY was not too much different. class in 8th grade was fine and then i took off to do a field trip with my cohort. we went to the museum in tacoma and a few of us got bored really fast...so we took off to a local brewery to have a couple beers really fast before the field trip was over...i had a lot of people with me and we had a great time, it was a lot like undergrad (god i'm lame!). ANYWAYS, the people in my cohort and i now have yet ANOTHER story to tell when we are older. today was a great day. it was nice to be able to go out, with like twenty bucks for the whole day, and have a couple of beers with some nice people. I hope that everyone had a good day. needless to say i miss everyone. you all would have had a great time today too...i wish you all could have been there.

i'm tired now...and i have to teach in the morning...

je vous aime...

-OUT

there was a lit-tle spanish flea...

2004-11-03T19:29:00.000-08:00

a movie star he thought he'd be...

well, hey! woo! how's it going everyone!?

you know what i love? i love my family, friends, basic cable, and free trips to the salad bar...everything that makes this country great!, a hot itailian-lookin' girl in NY, the state that i live in, the life that i live, the people i've met, the times that i've had, the music that i listen to, the freedom that we all take for granted, dancing, singing, laughing, drinking, having a choice, making use of my ability to choose, dogs, the past, the present, the future, the thrill of it all, karaoke, long walks at night, football, thai food, learning...always learning, technology (always and forever), time (even though sometimes it goes by so fast that i lose track of it, or so slowly that i feel like the clock is going backwards), high school, college, grad school, kids, reading old notes, everything...i love the life that i have lived thus far, and the life that is still spread out in front of me. i have hope, it'll take a lot to take the hope from me. i'm optimistic for the future because of the people that i know. i love this country, and i love being swiss...

take care all, and sleep well. things are gonna be fine, the sun will rise tomorrow and things could always be worse...

much love,

-Weatherboy

what the hell is this monkey shit!!??

2004-11-01T19:56:00.000-08:00

so much for keeping our names out of the picture...

okay, okay...fine.
the name's joshua

was i named after someone? yes, the biblical figure. and my middle name donald is after my fathers best friend who died of cancer. (it's also kurt cobain's middle name)

now i'm not the odd one who needs to be all secretive.

i had a good weekend. i reffed football on saturday afternoon in the cold and rain and was greeted by messages on my phone when i got back into my car to head back home. it was bobanna (i'm still refering to everyone by their nicknames, we've earned them) and she had plan and it sounded good. i got home, showered and headed on north and called HEW to see if he was down. since another party was being flaky in the form of not giving directions, we took the other offer and headed on down to mr. lucky's, where RD and Hill were throwing a fantastic party! EVERYONE seemed to be drunk by the time that HEW and i got there, but i just wasn't feeling the hard-a at the moment and when i finally got a beer, i spent too much and was very displeased with the selection. but oh well, the music was good and the company was better. i hadn't seen hill in a very long time, RD either. so i was pleased.

turns out that KP, Bobanna and the BF had to head out kinda early, it seems that KP actually had work in the morning! holy shit, i can't believe that she even came out! not long after, HEW and i took off and went back to the homestead to bake some pizza and watch some family guy. KT gave us a call once we got there and she decided to come on over and watch family guy with us and eat and have a sleep over. she arrived we talked and ate a little while watching and eventually we all got heavy eyes and we departed to our rooms.

that's about it.

i was the first to get up on sunday. i had to head on back to oly to do the hang with the fam thing. brother and sister-in-law had just come home from Paris and we watched a slide show from their computer of their trip. it was cool, i guess. i'm not the biggest fan of slide shows, especially after a few LARGE glasses of wine. they did bring me back some french brandy though, that's cool. anyways the fam eventually left and i took a nap and did some homework. after that i went to my room and turned on Bram Stoker's DRACULA, great movie. that's how i spent my halloween. kind of a let down, but i didn't expect much more since i had gone north for saturday night.

so here i am, in front of the computer again on a monday night, reflecting on the weekend. goodtimes. too bad i'm stuck down here for a while. i need to focus on school for now. at least for the next month. this month is SO going to suck. work, work, work.

so, as i sit here sipping my cab/sav, i'd have to say that this year of school has been made so much better thanks to all the people who read this post. i know that i get sentimental sometimes, but i mean it. you guys are all great, you make me laugh and forget about my problems and all the shit that is looming on the horizon. i'd like to say thanks. the dancing, the drinking, the drag-shows, the eating, the fireworks, the singing, the time spent on the phone, everything...thanks. i am truly a lucky bitch to have friends like you.

with that, i'll be off...

a warm and fuzzy,

-Weatherboy

float on...

2004-10-31T22:49:00.000-08:00

i've used that title so many times...

instead of making my usual post about my weekend, i think i'll just take a survey...

1. First Name: not telling...we're all nameless here...
2. Were you named after anyone? yes, he brought the walls down
3. Do you wish on stars? yes, we all should...kermit even says
4. When did you last cry? when i thought of the end of Stone Fox...(snif, here i go again...)
5. Do you like your handwriting? no
6. What is your favorite lunch meat? i don't acutally EAT meat, i uh...well you see where i'm goin' with this...OH!
7. What is your birth date? may 10th, 1980
8. What is your most embarrassing CD? OMC-how bazarr
9. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you? yes
10. Are you a daredevil? from time to time...
11. Have you ever told a secret you swore not to tell? probably i have a notoriously big mouth...i know, i suck
12. Do looks matter? if anyone says no, they're lying...
13. How do you release anger? i like hitting a punching bag, i haven't for a while...
14. Where is your second home? where she's not
15. Do you trust others easily? yes, but hobbs was right...
16. What was your favorite toy as a child? he-man...of course.
17. What class in high school do you think was totally useless? kiel, enough said
18. Do you have a journal? perhaps...
19. Do you use sarcasm a lot? no, never
22. What are your nicknames? i've been called pookie, jerk, penis, and weatherboy...only one stuck...thank god
23. Would you bungee jump? yes
24. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? depends on how big a hurry i'm in
26. Do you think that you are strong? Yes in some ways...
27. What's your favorite ice cream flavor? chocolate chip cookie dough, but i don't eat a lot of ice cream
28. Shoe Size? 9 it's misleading...
29. Red or pink? pink...is my new obession
30. What is your least favorite thing about yourself? i don't want to be putting negitive vibes out there...so i'll abstain from that one...
31. Who do you miss most? duh.
32. Do you want everyone you sent this to, to send it back? no, i'm just bored
33. What color pants and shoes are you wearing? blue and no shoes
34. What are you listening to right now? "in the morning of the magicians"-Flaming Lips
35. Last thing you ate? halloween candy...that i stole from my sister
36. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? space needle white (it's an actual color! it's in the new "limited edition" crayola box featuring all the states...why we weren't green or gray i'll never know)
37. What is the weather like right now? clear and cold on this all hallows eve
38. Last person you talked to on the phone? jen
39. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex? hair, eyes, legs, it's never the same twice...
40. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yes, she's a good kid (she didn't actually send this i kinda jacked it from her journal)
41. Favorite Drink? Pepsi and various beers including: Fish Tale Organic Amber, Alaskan Amber, Mak and Jack's African Amber (this is all coincidence) Fat Tire, Redhook ESB, Mirror Pond, Pyramid's Hefewisen (widermere bros. is okay) and i could probably go on and on...
42. Favorite Sport? football and various other sports that make use of my "talents"...OH!
43. Hair Color? blond that slowly is getting darker
44. Eye Color? blue
45. Do you wear contacts? No
46. Favorite Food? french fries and thai is good too
47. Last Movie You Watched? wrong turn, it was okay i watched it at like 2:30am so i was really into it
48. Favorite Day Of The Year? no particular fav. i like october though and halloween is one of my favorite holidays
49. Summer Or Winter? Summer in Alaska, Winter in Washington
50. Hugs OR Kisses? hugs, kisses are reserved...
51. What Is Your Favorite Dessert? heh heh... yeah
52. Who Is Least Likely To Respond? everyone, that's not what i'm looking for here if people talk about it, cool...
53.What book are you reading? Nirvana: The Chosen Rejects
54. What Did You Watch Last night on TV? family guy with K.T. and HEW
55. Rolling Stones or Beatles? NEITHER
56. Do you believe in Evolution or Creationist? i believe in a thing called love...
57. What's the furthest you've been from home? Italy

Well, that was fun...

talk to you all later!

-ROCK STEADY

All Hallows...

2004-10-30T09:54:00.000-07:00

hey all...

just needed a little time to myself. not sure i've taken enough time. HOWEVER, a major holiday is here. saturday will be my day to hang out, i've got TOO much to do that's due on monday. SO, there's some talk of hanging out at a fathers', brothers', bestfriends', cousins', sisters' former roommates' for a party. haven't hung out that much for a while and the former roommate is still a good friend, but i don't know. i'm still not totally pumped about it. i'm not really totally pumped about anything right now. it's been a weird time for me.

i'm always open for suggestions. i don't know what would motivate me. what are everyone else’s' plans for tonight? i have to ref AGAIN this weekend so i will miss out on football practice AGAIN. Oh, did i mention that i'm gonna try and join a minor league football team here in oly? well, i am. south sound shockers, that's what they're called. anyways i'll never be able to make it to a practice until this stupid reffing season gets over!

so, everyone...POST let us all know what you're doing. it's good to hang out with people that make you happy.

-out

sad times...

2004-10-25T23:36:00.000-07:00

think i'm done for a while...

stay tuned...

-out

there just aren't enough tassels in the world...

2004-10-25T19:36:00.000-07:00

one of my best weekends ever...

so much happened this weekend, but it was all not too big of a deal. friday rolled around and i had a seminar to go to in the morning...very boring. afterwards a BUNCH of people from my program all went to this restaurant called "katie downs" in tacoma, on the waterfront. it was great to hang out and talk with these people, they are all so much fun to be around it was great. eventually we all had a shot together and then headed out on our various ways. i had a nice long car ride ahead of me.

from tacoma i headed north. on to woodenville and the redhook brewery. i met up with HEW and our roomie from college there. we talked and they drank for a while (i was kinda done for the night...kinda-i just knew i'd be doing a lot of driving over the next 24 hours) anyways, eventually we all left and got KT and we all met up with bobanna and schwee at the Gender Explosion on capitol hill.

the explosion was great! it was so funny and cool and kinda hot. schwee mentioned the 1940's type burlesque dancer woman, who was awesome and she did the tassel twirling, that was just plain cool. i was kind of surprised that she didn't get a bigger ovation considering the audience.

after the show no one was ready to end the night...in fact we all wanted to do some dancing. so, what was a good dance place that wouldn't be too expensive and wasn't too far away? neighbors. and, after a quick stop where we ate some food at do'MINo's (ya' know that family place?) we met up with bobanna's man and headed on over. it was great. the people were cool, not like the assholes and creepy people that you might run into in the clubs downtown. upon walking in the door one of the doormen rubbed my head and said "awe, aren't you cute!" i got my compliment and was ready to take the floor. the music was crazy and fun and we danced forever, and only paid $5 for cover (downtown is looking worse and worse). sometime around 2:30 or so members of the group started mysteriously disappearing, so the last few of us, schwee, HEW and i all decided to call it a night. we went out in search of food and our travels took us to the hop in the u-distict. i'd only been there once before with jen. this time was interesting cause it took us FOREVER to get some food and i was being a real bitch about it. i was ready to take off and head over to the ave and hit the burger hut, but eventually we sat down and got our order out. the food eventually came and i enjoyed my VERY undercooked fries and had great conversation with great people!!

After that we parted ways again and HEW and i went back to his house where i promtly got about 2 hours of sleep and woke up again. cause i had 3 football games to ref down in olympia saturday morning...it was great. i was SO tired and it was SO cold. PLUS, for some reason, the coaches were particularly bitchy too! i thought for a while that maybe i was just tired and they were really being fine...but NO! a lot of the coaches were being assholes that morning and i almost had to eject one of them! fuckin' people, sometimes...

after the games i went home and took a shower and grabbed some more clothes and talked to jen. then i turned my ass around and drove back on up to seattle for the Bill Mahr show, which was fucking awesome!!!! he was so funny! his show consisted of a lot of bush bashing and a lot of common sense stuff, but it was SO funny. needless to say the people in the audience came out of it feeling good, a lot of laughing and a new national identity...swiss.

After that (yes this is the weekend that never ends) HEW and i headed on over to Brandy's (a friend of black mamba's that i met when i was still in western) house to have a welcome home party for black mamba who is now back in washington for good, her hubby is still of fighting the wrong war at the wrong time, no actually he's in Asscrackastan. so we met up with her and a bunch of her friends, most of whom i just don't know...but we did meet a nice guy named Phak, that was cool. there was a lot of drinking and taking care of kids who went a little crazy, but all in all the night was really good, just meeting new people and talking with them. brandy is a really cool person and she's married to this really nice girl named terese(i think) there were a lot of lesbians at this party. this weekend really had a Gender Explosional underlying theme!

The next morning HEW and i went to our usual morning food place, Elmers. We tried to get ahold of K.T. and have her have "breakfast" (at 12:30pm or so) with us, but no answer. As we were leaving K.T. called and we all ended up watching the Seahawks LOSE AGAIN at HEW's house. K.T. told us about her adventures in europe over the summer. it was cool seeing pictures and hearing about her work and stuff. THEN the three of us headed on out to Stewart Andersons and got some more food... it was just like old times up at western...almost too much so... K.T. proved to HEW and i again that she does need a butt gasket!!

now, it's monday and here i am left with the memories of a great weekend. the whole weeked wasn't perfect, some strange things happened, but overall i can't complain. it was another of the weekends where i can take a whole bunch of memories and lock them away to remember a great time in my life. i think once upon i time i used to pine away for the past, but i do believe that i've grown up a little bit and this weekend was one of those times where i lived with a love for the moment. i think i need to keep doing that more. it makes life so much more fun and exciting. i can still be nostalgic, but i need to make sure that i'm there in the moment when it happens...what am i talking about? ...i don't know.

i had a great weekend. thanks to all who were involved with it. hopefully it can be repeated several more times throughout the year.

i don't know what else to say...there's not a whole lot to look in to, it was a good weekend.

i'll talk to you all later...

"and there was much rejoicing..."

"yea...!"

-ROCK STEADY

football, football, football...

2004-10-19T11:45:00.000-07:00

and maybe a little bit of halloween...

i love october. the leaves are changing. there's a different smell in the air. it makes me think of many things, football, halloween, and jen, for obvious reasons...:) after a weekend of being really sick and kind of in a daze, i finally emerged from it yesterday and had a pretty good day. i went to class and that was all well and good. but, i also went to see "friday night lights". oh my god, it was SO GOOD. there are only a few movies were it's okay for guys to cry, movies where the hero dog dies, and i would have to say this movie. i saw a bunch of older guys...my age and older...sitting there wiping their eyes at the end, just like me. i won't say much else about it. i think it really hits the guys who played football in high school pretty hard, or anyone who was caught up in their high school's football program in any way. take my word for it though, it was good.

SPEAKING of football...
the seahawks did something that i only wished for for a brief moment. they got jerry rice. i was sitting in my room sometime around 3:00am this morning (i just couldn't sleep, good mood coming off of a good day and a good movie just kept me awake) and i just happened to switch to sportscenter and they mentioned that jerry rice had been traded...well i decided to sit through ALL of the BORING-ASS baseball commentary and finally they announced that Jerry Rice was being traded to Seattle! i was so happy i was yelling and clapping, i was so excited. i think that jerry rice is exactly what the hawks need. someone they can rely on for a few seasons more while he teaches our young receivers how to be REAL receivers. i can't wait to see jerry in a game up here, it'll be great! as soon as i heard that he was looking for a trade, i knew that this would be the best place for him to come and finish out his record-breaking career.

On to halloween. OR, all hallows eve, for you who might be afraid of the pagan ties to this VERY HARMLESS holiday. i honestly thought that christians stopped having a hard time with this holiday when it was called all hallows eve. the night we remember those who have passed before us. but, no, thanks to bobanna i've found that the "devils' holiday" idea still isn't gone. so sad. as most historians, or people who just love the holiday, know, halloween gets its origins from the old celtic festival called Samhain. it was the "new years eve" if you will, of the celtic year. it marked the end of the sunny days and the time of harvest. it was when the death process in nature began for them. IT'S HARMLESS. i also must take this time and remind ALL christians that a whole TON of our "sacred religious holiday practices" are STOLEN from pagen traditions. it was all a part of rome making it easier for people to give up paganism. there's more to it all, but just relax and enjoy the candy and the kids and the scary movies and stuff...it's fun! this is my favorite time of year!
(oh, there's this new scary move coming out, it's called..."white noise", it's with Michael Keaton. it looks SO FUCKING SCARY!)

So, there's a little update for ya. i even included a little lesson on halloween, isn't that special? i don't have class today, so i will take this time to relax, cause i don't think i did enough of that this weekend..., and i'll get a paper done. other than that, i want to do some reading and maybe have a few beers as it's been a long time since i've had some fish tale...

take is easy everyone, don't let the man get you down...

current music:mixed cd by jen...currently-The Postal Service

-ROCK STEADY

Pho' seahawks...

2004-10-17T19:04:00.000-07:00

they just can't seem to get a break...

I spent the morning yelling at my television. to some of you who know me, that might not seem too out of the ordinary on any occasion. however, today i was yelling at the referee's in foxborough. it really bugs me when the refs kind of just give a game away like that. now i'm a very bias man, i love the seahawks. BUT, honestly there were like 7 penalties on the seahawks in the first quarter alone...and NONE for the pats. that's just bullshit. the refs were obviously from the area. i was so mad. and i was even more upset that seattle posted this great comeback push, and we just fell flat...again.

anyways, i finally went out and did that cultural thing for my diversity class. i went and ate at Pho' Olympia, vietnamese food. it was damn good. what i got was wonderfully spicy, lots of good noodles, a fucking huge serving, and really, really cheap! i'm making this place a regular stop in my growing menu of places to eat in oly. so good. i even tried some chinese beer, tsangtao, i think it was called...not bad really. it went along well with the food.

so yeah, that's what i've been up to today...how about the rest of you? i know, usually the majority of people who read my post and post themselves do so after the weekend is over. when they should be getting along with their day to day lives they take breaks from school and work to update their posts. so i leave you all with a lot of new stuff from me to read, if you haven't been checking recently. and my best wishes that you all have a productive week to come! (i sound like a fortune cookie!)

peace out bitches!

-W

well that is that, and this is this...

2004-10-16T19:16:00.000-07:00

you tell me what you want and i'll tell you what you get. you get away from me...

now, i really like 'float on', by modest mouse. but, 'the ocean breaths salty' is almost equally as cool. it's kinda dark, but i like it. there's one hopeful line in the song. not too bad.

anyways, the reffing went well. i had some evil parents yelling at me from the sidelines. these people need to stop living through their kids. dads who go nuts and yell at me and at their kids. it's just not cool. and just so you all know MOMs are NO BETTER. there are almost as many cheerleaders on the sidelines as there are players on the sideline! and for every cheerleader out there there's a mom sitting in the front row doing all of the moves with them. it's americana at it's best and all, i guess. people just passing the traditions down. i can't honestly say that i won't urge my kids to do the same things. i'd love to have a son play football, or a little girl as a cheerleader. OR, the complete opposite, i'm not gonna play the gender game. a girl can play football if she damn well chooses, i've seen it many times. even in Kenai, redneck, Alaska there was a girl on the high school football team! i saw her play, and she made one of the best blocks for a run i've ever seen. it was totally textbook and she took like two guys right out of the play, it was awesome! she was like half their size too! anyways, i'm done being all progressive. if i had little girls i really would perfer they did cheerleading, i'm sorry. and i'd like my boys to play football, if it's possible. i know i must be a sexist asshole. but, that's how i feel.

so yeah, here i sit. bored again. not feeling 100%, but i think i reached almost 80%. that's not half bad. i'm gonna hang out and watch some more...you guessed it, football! and then i'm probably gonna just turn in early. i might get up early tomorrow and head off to mass at 8am so i can watch the seahawks play at 10am. we'll see.

if anyone out there is bored too, i'm right here, reach out and do some touchin'...

"...and maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both grow old...well, i don't know, i don't know, i don't know i hope so..."

-ROCK STEADY

calling in sick...

2004-10-16T11:35:00.000-07:00

i just can't do it...

i can't call in sick. i'm not even up to my expected 75% yet, but i'm gonna brave the rain and the cold to ref. my morning has gone by remarkably fast, so i'm assuming that i'm feeling much better, i'm not coughing as much and i haven't sneezed all day (knock on wood). so, let's hope that today goes off without a hitch.

HEW expressed some interest in coming down this weekend, as i am sick, i will not be traveling up to seattle this weekend. i could use the company, i don't know how exciting i'll be, but it's always nice to be around people. anyways, one of the guys in my cohort, Jeremy, wanted to get together to have dinner (an assignment for our diversity class, if you can believe it) and tonight was the night we were going to try to pull that together. he also mentioned that afterward we could move on to the bars. i think that sounds really good, i do like the bar scene down here. especially when i can experience it with cool people who are fun to be around, not that idiot greener chick (sorry, but i'm starting to not like her more and more). so, maybe that's in order for the night. i hope so.

so, yeah, that's pretty much all that's going on here south of seattle. i'm kicking the tail-end of this cold, but i'm feeling hopeful that what's left of it won't be bothersome enough for me to postpone my life further.

i'll talk to you all later...

i'm kicking some major ass on this posting shit now!

-ROCK STEADY

do what i please...

2004-10-15T10:01:00.000-07:00

gonna spread the disease because i wanna...

no, i'm not diseased, i'm just sick, and i'm not gonna spread it.

i've spent the last 16 hours in my bed, on cold medicine to try to kill whatever it is that it ailing me. it's definatly not gone yet, but i'm feeling much better. i'm still in a fog at the moment, but i can't tell if it's the sick fog, or the 'i've got too much sleep' fog.

i feel especially bad because i talked to jen for a little while last night and she was upset. this distance is really kicking our asses. imagine that you are with the person you love. you have spent the majority of your relationship living in different places, but still seeing each other pretty regularly, but still not enough. THEN everything changes. you move to a place where the two of you are together all of the time, in fact you practically live together! for about an academic schoolyear! you find out that you two work so well together, sure you have your arguements, but you begin to rely on each other. like one of you waking the other person up in the morning when that person is NOT a morning person in ANY way! or, driving each other to school and whatnot. sleeping in a bed next to each other, feeling the warmth and love every night. THEN one of you just up and leaves, has to go to school again in a far away place. and all the ties that you developed are just cut and left there. the feeling is still there, but you left a part of you far away. it's hard, and this is what jen and i deal with every day. our relationship has always been one where one of us has always been far away from the other. there has only been two times where we were in the same place, at the same time, and one of them was high school, the other i've already described. all we want is to see each other more, we've been dating for SO long, but our relationship isn't like anyone elses' that i've ever seen. i've seen many relationships start and fail, sometimes the ones that fail seemed to be the ones that would make it. it's hard to tell. jen and i have stood the test of time, that's to say the least, i guess we just want to be together...why is that so hard for us? i should have all of the answers, but i don't. i love her, that's all i know, and it's done well for me thus far...

sorry, i don't even know what i'm rambling about, just a flood of emotions i guess.

well, today is friday and i'm still sick. so, i'll be taking it easy all day. maybe i'll break out the old x-box and figure out how to use it.

i've been told that i seem to write to only a few different people, HEW, schwee, bobanna, black mamba from time to time, and jen. i know my audience and that's who i write to. these people are the only people i know of who actually read my journal, so naturally i would write to my audience. it does make me seem a little pathetic i guess. of all the people i've just listed only one of them is a guy, and two of the females were friends of jen's before they were friends of mine. but, i do consider them friends now. black mamba is a friend of HEW's and the only person that jen hasn't met, but she'd probably like her if she met her. my circle of friends does seem a little small, but i have other people i interact with, like the people in my masters program. but, we don't hang out all that much and i have fun with them and all, but they aren't the same as my friends in seattle. besides, my cohort members all have their own lives established just like i do, they are always hanging out with their friends and whatnot, so it's not like we all have no life.

i'm putting all of this useless information out there so no one will feel like they've missed out on a part of something. my life is pretty uncomplicated, if it was i'd get confused...that happens to me easily. again i don't know exactly what i'm saying, but i'm just talking...if i seem to stop making sense, please refer to the title of my journal...

well, there's another update for ya'll hope things are going well...

update your stuff, i'll be home all weekend so i'll be checking! give me a call if you're bored!

-Weatherboy (who misses jen)

top 4 college movies of all time...

2004-10-14T10:35:00.000-07:00

to me at least...

#1. PCU -even though this movie doesn't have ANY nudity in it at all (all the other movies on my list do), it's still shows college life in the way most movies never get around to. and it's very intelligent.

#2. Revenge of the Nerds -shot at the campus of the university of arizona, this movie has it all. it's funny, it shows the underdog overcoming great odds, and it's the ONLY movie i know of that re-inacts the tradition of the panty raid...classic. good view on 80's greek life too.

#3. Van Wilder -it's by the people of national lampoon, and it's funny, clever, and still holds on to that sick humor that made national lampoon such a mainstay in comedy movies throughout the years.

#4. Animal House -it's a classic. not much more to be said. it's what started the tradition. plus, it has tom hulce! the guy who SHOULD have got an acadamy award for his role in Amadeus.

for right now there is no five. i have strict rules on the choosing of these movies and NO none of the american pies count. maybe Road Trip could be #5, but it's just an okay movie, there are a lot of okay college movies. I listed the ones that have staying power, in my mind. the ones i listed are movies that EVERYONE in college should watch at least once.

I'm watching "So, i married an axe murder" right now, that's kinda what sparked me to do this. i love that movie.

other movies to check out that are good "college time" movies (not movies about college) are:
1.the evil dead series (they're all awesome)
2.the rocky horror picture show (tim curry! come on! if you haven't seen it you owe it to yourself)
3.singles...(if you go to UW and know ANYTHING about seattle or the music, watch this movie, probably the best romantic comedy out there period. it's not sappy or overly lame, and it has a KICK ASS soundtrack)
4.a clockwork orange (it's crazy, check it out)

the list can go on and on, but there are some suggestions.

i know this is kind of a random post...but i'm sick so leave me alone!

-OUT

rollercoaster life...

2004-10-14T09:33:00.000-07:00

that about sums it up...

after a spectacular weekend of laid back drinking, singing, meeting new people and football...i found myself heading home (unfortunately) on saturday night. i received a call from schwee sometime on saturday night, but i had already made my trek home, i would have had so much more fun had i stayed in the emerald city that night i would bet. and that causes me much pain.

no, instead i went home and sat around. on sunday i met up with my aunt and 1st cousin-once removed at church with the rest of the local fam. we all headed over to the g-parents house to have dinner. my cousin, who is 9 by the way, sat next to me during dinner...the first thing she does it look me dead in the eye and pronounce, "you need to shave. you look better when you shave." she's 9!!! and giving me fashion tips! i explained to her that i decided to grow it out for a while to see how it looks, but no, she told me i needed to shave. gotta love the honesty of kids.

so, monday i attended a class at a local "high class" grocery store, (ralph's bayview to anyone who knows the area or remembers where we got our supplies for the 4th. it's an absolutely beautiful store and the eating area is ON the pier like the store and looks out over budd bay, it's amazing) and it was a cooking class on "hearty italian soups" it was really cool, it was set up like we were on the set of this really nice cooking show. the chef lady came out and told us the stories of the soups and she made four different ones that we all got to taste and they were all really good! some not spicy enough for me, but that could be fixed. we even got to taste some wine and she showed us a great way to make garlic bread. needless to say i walked out of ralphs that night with a bottle of Bolla-Valpolicella. which brings me to my next topic of the morning...

i guess i really do like wine. since i drank 1-1/2 bottles last night! There's just something about watching political debates that makes me want something to drink. it was a good time though, and i did some drunk dialing, but not to the usual victim. i'm just testing myself, i think my tolerance is getting better and better all the time. the only thing that happened to me last night as far as the effects of drinking is concerned is i went to sleep around 12am when in the same situation on the weekend i'd be up until about 5. whatever...i didn't have a hang over or a headache the next day...

this is all fine and good, but i woke up this morning with that horrible feeling in the back of your throat, behind your palate. you know when it's all sore and hurts when you swallow? anyways, i think i'm coming down with a cold of some sort. damn it. i really didn't need this for the weekend, but at least i'm doing ok otherwise.

so, there's my rollercoaster life for right now...i had a great weekend and got to hang out with my friends and with bug (for a little while) and watch football and watch a hardcore lesbian sing the best metallica i've ever heard anyone do, total eclipse of the heart did kick ass, as did everyone else's performances, i liked "waterloo" but that's just me, no one else knew the words...so disappointed bobanna! sounds like a round two is in order...hopefully when i'm not feeling sick like i am now...

and i still have to go to class today...

bad words...

-OUT

two posts within 12 hours...

2004-10-08T09:26:00.000-07:00

it must be hormonal...

well, last night i found out that waking up early + homework and school all day + beer and wine...don't = a headache for this weatherboy...it just equals me falling asleep around 10. i was a tuckered out little trooper last night.

anyways, something happened in class the other day that made me want to come on here and rant a little, so please allow me to paint the picture...

we were all supposed to bring in artifacts from different cultures and stuff and tell about our interest in our artifact and tell what we will bring to the social studies classroom. no big deal right? that's my major after all. SO, my artifacts are a viking sword and a few of my books on nirvana and kurt cobain, cause i like the music culture of seattle in the 90's (and now too). I begin telling everyone about my interest in music and one of the people in class, jokingly, asked me what i thought happened to kurt cobain. i've made my feelings known a few different times, but now was not the time to bring it up again, so i just kinda laughed it off and said i'm not sure...

NOW, here's the part that pisses me off! some of you might remember a girl in my program i refer to as 'greener' (guess where she went to school). greener grew up in olympia and SUPPOSEDLY knew all sorts of underground music people, she claims to KNOW the girls of sleater-kinney. anyways, she got all weird when the subject of kurts' death was brought up, like she knew something we all didn't or i was giving out secret information or something! ok, the thing that really bothers me is that she was at her seat going, "ummm, yeah...uh...anyways..'weatherboy'...stop!" like i was saying something that was either offending her, or scaring her. like someone was going to come and get me for saying something like that out loud within a hundred miles of olympia. see, according to greener, lots of people who still live in olympia and run in the underground music circles knew kurt cobain and will get really mad if you say ANYTHING negitive about him or say something that might be viewed in a bad way. she stopped me from talking about him the same way, but with a lot more urgency, a few months ago when we were just out walking around downtown oly. LIKE SOMEONE WAS GOING TO HEAR ME AND COME AND KICK MY ASS FOR TALKING ABOUT A GUY WHO IS DEAD! and hey, i'm sorry if i would offend anyone, but kurt DIDN'T LIKE the underground music scene in oly that much! They're a bunch of elitist assholes down here! some of the people in this "indie, underground" scene think that they are the real artists of the world and the rest all all just posers. It just bothers me that people would act like that, telling someone not to talk about something that is really not that big of a deal in ANY WAY. i can understand why people who knew kurt wouldn't want anyone saying anything bad about them, but for greener to be so lame and paranoid, like she is guarding something so sacred, it just comes off seeming really stupid and oversensitive...especially coming from someone who embraces a music culture that DOES have some good talent, but can't get over themselves...

Anyways, greener never seems to miss a chance to annoy, that's why i've kind of stopped hanging out with her and her husband. not like i did that much anyways.

give me the kindhearted kids that i know are good people up there in seattle any day. i still like oly, it's great...but it needs to get over itself.

ok, so i've ranted, and i still don't know what i'm really talking about. but, i'm glad that i got that out. i'm gonna go and clean for a while.

i hope i can see some of you kids in seattle tonight! if you haven't got the invitation...consider yourself invited!

talk to you all later!!

-OUT

mirror pond...to alaskan amber...

2004-10-07T19:22:00.000-07:00

not such a bad change up...

well, shoot. a whole lot has happened in my life i guess. don't know quite where to start. i don't always know what to post on this journal, sometimes i think i just like telling you guys what's going on in my life and i use this forum as a way to keep everyone informed. other times, i want to tell you what i'm thinking about. for instance...

it's finally happened. another ex-girlfriend is getting married. she'll be married on the 8th of october. now, i'll be honest, i didn't treat ANY of my high school girlfriends right...not until jen. so, the other three girls...and there were only THREE, kinda all got a bad deal. i was a jerk. when i wanted to break up with any of those three girls, what i did was jut ignore them...for like two weeks! god, i'm such an asshole. these poor teenaged girls who i was going out with and were all very emotional and i just made them feel worthless. i suck. now another one of them is getting married, but this time i really don't care. this is the one girl who i told her i loved her. NOW, neither of us were mature enough to know what love is, we were in love with the idea of being in love. a very typical highschool thing to do. the break up was bad and i totally did her wrong. i take full blame for all the badness at the end and she had every right to be angry with me for a long time. we fell back into a friendship of sorts again anyways though. but, now, for some reason i just don't care that she's getting married. she was definatly a interesting part of my life, but i guess i'm just over it. jen asked me if i do care, and insisted that i do care at least a little bit. but, you know, i've tried to reflect on the reationship and all, but i was 15 and we were a dumb couple and i just don't care. in fact jen probably thinks about it more than i do! i don't know, i'm not nostalgic about this ex or anything anymore, it's over. so there. that's what's on my mind right now.

beer is good. i like mirror pond. i didn't drink that much tonight when i stopped at buzzes to get some jojo's and a couple of pints of mirror pond, cause my dumb ass though that the debates were on tonight, so i only had two and rushed home. i love going to bars, ordering a beer or two and sitting around reading books. it's by far and away my new favorite thing. i wish i could include you all in this, but it's kinda something that i like to do by myself. it's easier to read that way. jen and i could probably pull it off, cause she could study torts or something while i read. anyways...there you go...

SO, i'm thinking about being in the seattle area this weekend. in fact, i might head my ass on over to the husky game on saturday cause HEW got some last second tickets through his dad's work. SO, any of you easy-D's out there gonna be at the game? (sorry, i love that joke) give me a holler!

umm, i'm done with my second internship and it went SO WELL. the kids loved me, the teacher loved me, and the faculty loved me. i'm gonna request this school for my final student teaching this winter quarter, it's gonna be awesome!

SO, i'm thinking football and karaoke this weekend, but maybe karaoke on friday night. who's with me? HEW already said he was, anyone else? Bobanna? Schwee? bug(i never know with you)? get a hold of me you guys lets get together, it's been WAY WAY WAY too long since we all hung out!

i'm gonna go finish my alaskan amber. sorry i'm not sufficently drunk enough to leave a highly humorus post, but at least i'm not spend my free time looking at volcanic activity...AT WORK!

I'll talk to you all soon!

me love you all long time...!

-ROCK STEADY

drunk and loving it...!

2004-09-30T22:16:00.000-07:00

here i am drunk off of a bottle of wine shared only by me and myslef.

i watched a presidential debate on tv and it was awesome. does drinking beer and watching politics on tv make me a redneck? we'll see, i guess.

so, no offense to my republican friends...but, i honestly think that Kerry won that shit tonight. Bush seemed to not know what to say half the time! I've never been this excited over a political debate series before!! I'm having a good time with this election...and right now i'm drunk...so, i'm gonna move on...

jen has great news! call her and find out!

um, tomorrow is my last day of school. I baked my kids cinnamon twists tonight, they are so good, they're like crack. the kids will love them. i'm also taking a zuccini bread loaf to my cooperating teacher and another teacher who was kind to me. goodtimes... this was a great internship, i might even come back for my student teaching.

Alight, now i've posted and i'm no longer a bad person...ALL the rest of you are! NOW POST!

Love you all long time...!

-A VERY DRUNK,

-WEATHERBOY

finally facing my Waterloo...(a song or a realization?)

2004-09-21T21:23:00.000-07:00

well shit, here we go again...

don't adjust you sets everyone, i've done some re-modeling. what do ya' think?

So, school, reading, drinking, and talking on the phone with jen. that about sums up my life right now. if i'm not in class teaching, learning, doing homework, writing out lesson plans, i'm trying to find a good place to hunker down and read my nirvana book with a good beer, or i'm talking to jen on the phone. i'm getting through though...that's the important part.

things seem to be on the up and up for the most part. my friends all seem to be doing well, getting offered jobs, and getting tickets to up-coming events, and getting good numbers for a great house. needless to say, i'm happy with life at the moment.

i've been all about oly these last few months, you should all be here...everyone...i think we'd all have a lot of fun if we were all here. i just love the history and everything. it's so cool.

anyways, i don't have a whole lot to say. we need to plan a weekend where we can all meet at the karaoke bar that bobanna found called the Rickshaw, i used to drive by that place when i went to work...when i lived up in shoreline...anybody else remember that? ah, the shoreline place...goodtimes...(sigh)

so, yeah there's my post...my update. i hope this entry finds you all in good spirits and full of hope cause it's a waste of time to not have high hopes and be postive about the way things are going...they could ALWAYS get worse...

take care all...

-ROCK STEADY

2004-09-10T21:00:00.000-07:00

The ram is everywhere (u-district, puallyup, lakewood-i was there today!-, and tacoma!) ...

SO, today i got to go out and drink with my cooperating teacher and about ten other people that are all in the same school as i am, i feel like i really belong there...but. then again, good beer and decent people will do that to a person! NEEDLESS to say i'm having a good time and i WILL keep this positive ball rolling for the old weatherboy...good things keep happening to me and the people that know me (save one, who is dealing with the situation at the moment and my heart goes out to her and i know that anything that happens will be meant to be and i will be there to support her and help in any way that i can! whatever happens i'll help her roll with the punches and this will all work out!) i honestly think that if i keep the positive thoughts flowing that everything will continue on it's merry way...just keep a postive mind and i think that we'll all have a really great life! things are good, and things could ALWAYS get worse! SO, just enjoy what's going on around you!

Yeah, so other than that, i want to remind everyone that digital underground will be in OLY on the 18th and it'd be great to have everyone down to see them! um...if ANY of you get board tomorrow (saturday) morning around 10:00am, i'll be at Ranier High School refing youth football...it should be a good laugh! I'd love company!

let's see, nothing else really important is going on with me...i think the rest of you need to update your shit, but as it's the first part of the academic year, i understand not being aware enough to check on and post what's going on in your lives...but you should all do it soon!

SO, i bid to you all a good night, everyone needs to call my ass...and to those who might not be with us much longer...good luck...it was fun while it lasted, but 'like a moth to a flame that's burned by the fire..."

health, wealth and happiness...

-weatherboy

2004-09-07T08:12:00.000-07:00

good moods run abundant...

it's been a good last couple of weeks and i can't help but feel good about things at the moment. i don't have any negitive vibes out there at all, i'm just floating in a happy little bubble above all things that could go wrong at the moment...and weatherboy saw that it was good...

things are good right now, i'm more optimistic than i've been in a long time, which is really good. (and i don't think i've used the word good enough) with that said, i think it's time to start organizing another get together... over this last holiday weekend, HEW and i talked about organizing another bar-b-que down here in oly, all i can say is that plan is slightly shot. HOWEVER, i have another plan. does anyone remember Digital Underground? you know, ''the humpty dance"? at any rate, they will be in oly on the 18th, a couple weeks away, so i was thinkin' we should all get together for that maybe. what do you guys think? oh, and schwee, pass the word on to bug would you? she never checks this stuff and it'd be nice to see her again sometime. that's just an idea, so you guys should see how that fits into your schedules.

ok, now i know i've been really bad about writing posts, and there are some weirdo's who post like 15 times a day, i don't really care about that. this is just a friendly reminder to everyone to get out there and let us know what's going on. here's what's going on with me...

i start my second internship at Custer Elem. in the Clover Park school district tomorrow. it's gonna be fun, i have a cool cooperating teacher and i know i'm gonna learn a lot from him, plus i've been told that this school district needs more male teachers so, i'm hoping to make some good contacts.

TODAY, i'm gonna go and do some movie shopping, cause i'm bored with my movies, then i'm gonna probably go to the fishbowl pub for some fishtale amber (which i introduced to HEW this weekend and i think he liked) and do some reading...goodtimes. after that i have a dentist appointment to get a...yes...cavity filled!!!NOOOoooo!!! i thought that time of my life was over. for those of you that know me and have glanced inside of my mouth at all (i know you guys have, who could resist?) you'd notice that i have a bunch of silver and stuff inside...what can i say? I ate a lot of candy in my youth...but, now i have to go and get a shot and get all numb (i used to hate the shot, now i hate the numbness, IT NEVER GOES AWAY FAST ENOUGH!) and to top this all off i have a refs. meeting again tonight, another two hours...gone...

so, for the moment, that's my life. not exciting, but i wanted to put it out there as an example of filling people in on my life. some people use these journals as an actual place to post their feelings and thoughts and stuff, and i'll admit that i've done similar things to that. i just hope that everyone who does this thinks about what they write. i know it's easy to fall beind the protective excuse of "it's my journal, and if i want to post my innermost thoughts and feelings...i'll do it!!!!" just remember that, UNLIKE a real journal, your innermost thoughts and feelings are being broadcasted across cyberspace! and every now and again if you say something cheezy to an obnoxious extent, or offensive to and equally obnixious extent that people most likely will react! i'm not about censoring yourslef, that sucks, but just be aware...everyone! for instance here's my reaction to a post...
i really can't handle dreamy, whistful, utterly sappy, and obviously forced posts on feelings... that's just me...HOWEVER, i go off on my own happy little tangents which might be too much for everyone to take, especially if they're having a bad day, and when i write those kind of posts i write in the hope that whoever reads it will feel a little bit of the hope that i put out there...

i guess that i'm just one of those people who thought these journals were a good way for all of us to keep in touch, and the one person who got me started on this still hasen't posted since may 26th! so, i guess she set the standard for me and i just kept it going! anyways...with ALL of that said, keep posting everyone and let us all know what's going on in your head or otherwise!

till next time...

may the shwarts be with you...

-ROCK STEADY

2004-08-30T21:09:00.000-07:00

ah, calming blue...

alright, now i hope that most of you agree that chris rock is probably one of the funniest people alive today, i think he is. i just got done watching his latest standup on hbo, HOLY SHIT it was SO funny! He does this thing were he talks about marriage and shit, oh my god i thought i was gonna die! he mentioned something about the symbolism of the bride throwing the flowers...hahahahaaa....i'm cracking up again just thinking about it! for those of you at mrs. bunwells' (yes, MRS.) wedding you would understand, well maybe just schwee and possibly bobanna. i'm gonna tape it when it comes on again, in about an hour...gotta love satellite tv!

So, i was just listening to modest mouse, they're on "the end's top 10" and they're #10 tonight with 'the ocean breaths salty'. I remember a story that i heard them tell about modest mouse on the end like a couple of weeks ago. evidently at a show they were doing the lead singer was being a total jerk and was "mocking his sudden celebrity" saying shit like they were only gonna play one more song and that was fucking it and the crowd would just have to deal with it. (THE END's dj thought that was funny-the dumbass) well, i'm happy to say that he was just kidding around and the band ended up doing like 4 encores. but, my problem is this...ok, i know modest mouse has been around for a long time and the guy is like "what the fuck? we've been around forever and people are JUST liking us now?" he probably feels like this is kind of selling out in a way. i just want to say...FUCK HIM if that's what he thinks. he needs to stop acting like the poor misunderstood artist and BE FUCKING GREATFUL to all of these people who have discovered his music and now like the band. and let me ALSO say that the only reason that his songs are getting played more than they have in the past is that his songwriting took a MAJOR turn and he rose to a higher level. there are thousands and thousands of bands that would LOVE AND KILL to have modest mouse's kind of success, even the success they had before this last album. The lead singer/songwriter for the band should get over his little problem or i might just lose a taste for modest mouse, even though i think this last album is AMAZING and HEY i'm one of the people who JUST jumped on the modest mouse bandwagon! i've heard their old stuff, i used to spin their records back up at western on the radio, but they've become something more thanks to their good songwriting on this last album "good news for people who like bad news" and i hope they don't keep acting like little bitches and just enjoy the fucking ride...i know i would. the whole "we don't need you people" act needs to fucking go, quick...kurt's dead and his deal was real, modest mouse is from "the quah" not aberdeen probably the most depressing town i've EVER been in. life's not that bad, as their amazing song "float on" says...

ok, sorry about that little rant. i don't do it too often. anyways, wow i'm back. i've written for two days consecutively! WOO! go me. yeah, so i start my next internship tomorrow. i still haven't talked to the guy i'll be interning under, but i guess i get to meet him tomorrow. should prove interesting. OH, did anybody know that i'm working on becoming a football ref? i'm in an apprenticeship program with the local union here and i'll be a line-judge for youth football soon. so yeah, i'm out there working with the schools and the school programs. good times...

alright. so, not much else is on my feeble mind at the moment. i still haven't got around to reading my nirvana book, there's been too much going on here. HOWEVER, i have checked out a few books on cider brewing and i think i'm going to try my hand at it sometime this fall...that's gonna be cool.

so, yeah. i'm out.

i'll talk to ya'll bitches later...

-ROCK STEADY

2004-08-29T12:47:00.000-07:00

no sleep till brooklyn...

ok, i'm back from church. i'm so glad that this weekend is a longer one for me. i really don't feel like having to worry about going to school in the morning. but, i do have a few things i need to do. one of them is get my ass down to the city courthouse or whatever to sign my voter registration. the last three times i've registered there's always been a problem. it's starting to piss me off. i'm pretty sure i signed everything, so i don't know what's going on. i just want everything done so i can vote this november. is that too much to ask?

ok, speaking of voting, i went to the kerry rally in tacoma yesterday. i was talking about going anyways, but good old HEW called around 8:30am and told me General Clark was going to be there and i decided that there was no way that i could miss something like that, so off i went. it was hard to see and it was a lot of stuff that i had already heard, but the energy was great and i think that kerry might really have a chance and he just might be able to do some really good things. so, yeah...

i just bought ANOTHER book on nirvana...the band, not the state of ultimate enlightenment. i'm like a little kid, i'm so excited about reading it. i read the "love and death" book on kurt's murder so quickly that i was left wanting to find out more. so, i got a book on the history of the band as told through interviews and stuff...it's gonna be really good...i hope!

k, i'm off to go read!

till next time,

"let's lick bush! and his dick!" -one of the bumper stickers at the rally

-ROCK STEADY

2004-08-29T09:21:00.000-07:00

the biggest offender of them all...

it's been so long since i've posted. i've been really bad about it. i've seen or talked to just about everyone who would ever read this though, so you all know i'm ok and there's no problems other than just finding the time to write. it's not that i've been SUPER busy, i've just always got something else that needs to get done and i forget to post. oh, well let's move on from here.

so, i have a lot of things to talk about i suppose. i went to a wedding, reunited with people that i had almost totally written off, but somehow can't decide how i feel about this individual now. who knows, at this point i'm just in a "moving on" state of mind, so lets...

uh, well one thing that kind of weirds me out is that today is sunday and instead of staying up super late on saturday night...i went to sleep around 10:30 or so. then i woke up around 2:30 or so, called jen to let her know that i fell asleep and that's why didn't call her back (i'm sure she figured that out) then i thought i'd fall right back asleep. nope. it's now around 9:3o, i'm fixin' to head off to church in a minute and i've been up since 2:30am. i'm doing things backwards and who knows what kind of night i'm going to have tonight since i'll most likely crash this afternoon.

well, shit. maybe i'll give everyone a call tonight. that'd be good, a quick hello to see how everyone is doing...

well, off to St. John's episcopal church...goodtimes...

i'll write more...eventually...

-ROCK STEADY

2004-08-17T21:16:00.000-07:00

each day is better than the next...

...take a second look at that.

hey kids. i'm bad. for many reasons evidently. i have not posted in quite the long time. i haven't been in the mood, honestly. and i'm still not really in the mood now. but, i thought i'd leave this out there in cyberspace to let you know that i'm still breathing and keepin' on...it's a struggle sometimes though. i have times everyday that are good and times that are bad. unfortunatly you guys get to see me in the bad time.

well, lots has happened since i last posted, but none of it seems important enough for me to remember and relate to you guys at the moment. sorry. i'm just in a bad way right now...need to get off the web and get some work done, i have a paper due tomorrow, i haven't even started. it shouldn't kill me, but i need to get it done.

so, um...schwee i'm glad you're home. scout, sorry for not calling back yet (no good reason for not calling, just feeling bad), bobanna...yeah, and HEW i'll give you a call sometime, baby...(sigh).

-out

2004-08-09T19:01:00.000-07:00

Let me know when you can lick your own back...

holy dicknuts!

alright, i'm sorry that it's been so long since i posted. i'm a bad person of sorts. i've been doing a lot, but i can sum it up pretty quickly...

i went to NY to see jen. it was awesome. it went too fast. i miss her. a lot of us miss her, she misses us, but she's doing really well. i can't wait to see her again as she might be coming in october! i really miss my baby girl...

anyways, so here i am. i got back yesterday. thanks to my dumb-ass not setting my phone clock to east coast time, i set my alarm wrong and i slept right through my flight home yesterday. i flipped out, i NEVER miss flights. jen calmed me down, took me to syracuse and i got on standby and left right away. i had to wait for a long time in chicago (more on that in a second) and then i finally got on a flight that got me into seatac around 6:50. so, overall the day didn't go that badly i guess...other than the leaving jen...

OK, now, i really don't like the midwest. people say that the pacific northwest is depressing...yeah i just don't see that. ok, maybe the weather gets a little gray and it can stay that way for a while, but that's a fucking JOKE compared to how depressing i find the midwest. notice how i said I feel, you all might have different opinions about the midwest, but i just have to say that I find it absolutely miserable. I went into a bar in the airport, ok no big deal, it's just a bar right? three beers on tap, 1.) budweiser, 2.) bud lite, and the one i settled for...3.) Samuel Adams (never a good choice). OK, colorado is NOT that far away from chicago...and chicago is supposed to be some kind of MAJOR hub of the united states. Colorado is the closest state with decent beer; they couldn't just have beer sent from there? we have beer from Milwaukee here in the pac northwest!! CRAPPY BEER!! why can't they have beer from like ONE state over!??!?!?! what the fuck is their problem!? Another thing about chicago, here's the way i view that city...it's the beacon of hope for the midwest. everyone who's stuck in the hell hole that is the midwest looks to chicago as a beacon oh hope that they might be able to leave someday. the only thing is that this MAJOR city just sucks people in. it's a good city for the midwest because all the semi-smart people who want to leave go there, they just fucking STAY! Let's just list the bad things that are in the midwest. snakes, never good. no good beer, just beer that sucks and makes you fat and gross and ultra-right wing. ok...TORNADOS and FLOODS that kill a lot of people all the time...yeah I'd love to live there...sounds great. yeah, there's a bunch of bigots and racists and homophobes and right wing assholes who keep voting bad people into office for bad reasons. two words one person, one show that sums up middle america...Jerry (say it with me now) Springer! i know i sound like a bad person and i know it's mostly because of the poverty level of the midwest, but education is NOT that great in the midwest and if you started on both sides of the US, you'd find that as you moved inwards at the same time on both sides the education level of the population would decrease. the middle and the south are just not cool, i know i'm a lucky person for growing up in such a great place and i've gone to college and i'm a very lucky little bitch for that. but, that doesn't stop the fact that the highest concentration of undereducated people reside in the midwest and south.

ok, i'm done with that. i'm sorry. i don't usually go off like that, but i could NEVER imagine living in the midwest. i'd go insane. i need to be near a coast at all times. anyways...moving on.

i'm home. i have a TON of shit due this week, but i'm taking tonight off to drink GOOD beer and get in touch with everyone, POST, and listen to music. goodtimes. So, HEW, Schwee, bobanna(if you're still there), Scout I'm sorry that i've been so bad, but i'm home now and i'll be here for a while! i MIGHT even be up in seattle next week to help out the brother and sister in-law paint a house. we COULD plan something, if Schwee isn't too busy with uw shit! i'm kinda wanting to hit the sloop again and do some more singing!! what do ya say?

k, i'm gonna cut my ass off for the night. i probably pissed a lot of people off with my own little rant. i very seldom rant like that, but i just had the urge...sorry again.

OH, if none of you have seen Napoleon Dynamite, GO FUCKING SEE IT. it's fucking brilliant! we'll all go see it this weekend if you all want I LOVE this movie!

Right, till next time...

"I CAUGHT YOU A DELICOUS BASS."

-rock steady

2004-07-28T21:51:00.000-07:00

girls kick ass...

ain't that the truth? i've had quite the time these last few days. i've been all over the sound seeing all sorts of people and seeing all sorts of things... where to start? OK, so i went to seattle and that was fucking awesome, wait let me explain why girls kick ass... Jen rules. so that makes me feel that way obviously. ALSO, the bands that i have been listening to this weekend and beyond have all been female fronted bands. SO, for all of you i recommend: the gossip, pretty girls make graves, and the yeah, yeah, yeah's. they all fucking rock, and they all are female fronted bands. i was at apollo's pizza and pasta the other day and i tried fish tale amber ale for the first time, it was awesome! after one pint while i waited for my food i was already getting very hyper! i had a GREAT time driving home listening to the yeah yeah yeah's! i even bought some more fish tale at the gas station by my place on steamboat island; i drank a few more today before class...goodtimes! So, it's a local beer, made right here in olympia and i think i might make it my official beer for a while. i love staying local! anyways, i've been so happy lately with music! has anyone else been listening to the end lately? they are concentrating on new music and it is making my heart very happy. I think that my doubts as far as music today is concerned have all been put to rest with some of the new stuff out there. pretty girls make graves and the gossip help me in the feeling. you guys...i think we are living in a great time. i think that seattle will lift itself out of the ashes again soon, it will come more as a subtle roar, as opposed to a loud shout like it did with nirvana. i'm really happy about it though. oh, and as i sit here i'd like to share with you that the yeah yeah yeah's have a hidden track on their new cd, i just figured that out. get a hold of me or HEW if you want a copy of any of the music that i've mentioned.

So, this last weekend was filled with: dripping wetness due to heat, pool, karaoke, Elvis, beer, gin and jazz, random band at the bad ju ju lounge with a good female lead singer, sir mix a lot with the 14 year old girls shaking their asses on stage, a sad sight with a dog with piercings, sand, sun, kelp, and the beauty of a washington beach full of pale people, good music copied and bought by HEW and i (thanks again for the copied cd's HEW), heartbreakers (actually a cute movie that sChwee, Scout, HEW and i watched at the house on 50th.), more beer, random phone calls late at night, 36oz. drinks at the sloop (must go back there), pool, jukeboxes, hales ales, the NON-existence of a 3rd redhook somewhere in freemont, steakhouses, thai, gasworks, picking scout up from work, seeing sChwee on a study break, my time at UW genetics clinic, time spent in u-village, music fun and people that are good. it was a great weekend and i'm glad it went so well. i'm sorry i won't be up next weekend, but i need to get some shit done for school...

speaking of school...i went on a field trip today to a middle school and had a middle school science teacher lecture for us for four hours. it was a long time to sit in a warm classroom on a beautiful day. after that was over i went with about 8 of my fellow co-hortians over to one of the co-hort members' houses. he just recently got married over the weekend and he invited us over to see his house and meet his wife and drink beer and bar-b-que. goodtimes. i now think i have a place where i can watch football this fall! me along with like 4 other guys in my program! i'm pretty stoked! that and there was good beer and chips and hummus, just a good time at a cute little house that brian (the now married guy) made into quite the little haven for he and his wife. SO, i had a pretty good day. I don't have class tomorrow, so i'm gonna help my sister paint her house and then i'll come home and get a bunch of work done on my language arts class project...and THEN, if i have enough energy, i might head out to a bar in olympia called Hanna's, for their karaoke night. a guy in my co-hort named jeremy has a brother who actually runs the night and he can hook us up, it'll be a good time! SO, i have a lot to look forward to in these next few days! I'll be missin' seattle, but i do like OLY quite a lot, and i might have to head over to the fish tale brewery/pub to check out my new brand that i'll be supporting from now on! they sell levenworth beers there too! the alcohol percentage on these beers must be pretty high cause the people in my cohort that have tried them have ALL commented on the potency of the beer! I'm lovin' life right about now!

SO, with that i end this little update, i know i've been pretty bad about it, but i haven’t been in a very good mood until just recently, SO i'm happy to be back behind the screen again and i look forward to keeping you all posted as to what's going on in the wonderful life of Weatherboy! as usual, you're all invited to come and participate in the festivities in oly whenever you feel like it! i love company!

ok, so, till next time...

-ROCKSTEADY

p.s.-scout...you left your water bottle in my car!

2004-07-22T22:48:00.000-07:00

Here we go...

Light pink...nice huh?

nah...green.

Update time...

Jen's in Rome.

I'm still here.

i'm gonna be coming up to seattle on saturday, after i stop off at the senior olympics to watch my grandpa kick ass at the discus and shot-put. he wins the gold every fucking year! and my grandma takes the gold in EVERY swimming event there is! i really hope to be doing as well as they are at that age!

SO, that's the plan. i'm gonna be in seattle for the cap. hill block party, and i plan on making it to ballard all night bowling for some bowling and karaoke (not in that order!) so this weekend is looking like it'll be a lot of fun. i have a doctor's appointment with UW genetics clinic on monday afternoon so i'll be around all weekend and some on monday, so give the old weatherboy a call and we can all connect at some point...i'm talking to you too bobanna! it's been WAY too long!!!

Talk to ya'll later...

-ROCKSTEADY

2004-07-20T11:26:00.000-07:00

clairification...

OK, this needs to be put out there cause i realize that some of the posts done by HEW and myslef might seem like we feel ditched by our friends. OK, this is not the case. these posts are centered more on a "friend" who HEW refers to as KT. this "friend" has flaked on us more times than we can even count. and this weekend HEW and i really felt like we didn't matter to this friend, a case of too little too late. she just doesn't act like a real friend. i just wanted to put that out there so others that read this will know that if we seem bitter, it's not about you. in fact we'll get over it. like i said before in a past post, i'm trying to be done with complaining about people and hanging out, it's stupid and selfish. anyways, i'll talk to you all later...

-OUT

Upon further review i noticed that HEW's journal clearly states that he's talking about other people and i was just being a dumbass and you should all ignore this particular post...

-out

2004-07-19T22:44:00.000-07:00

so, this is what life is supposed to be like...

you get through a week, and you enjoy the weekend. i wish life could be more like that nofx song about how he loves weekdays, cause the weekends are when he works. come to think of it, i really loved going out on sunday. showed up at the sunset bowling bar and instead of doing ANY bowling at all, HEW and I celebrated his birthday by drinking Mac & Jacks' and me doing karaoke. HEW said i blew people away, not the case. i had a good time though, i sang 'two princes' by the spin doctor's (anyone else remember that song?), and to end the night they let me sing 'good riddance' by greenday. it was mellow and cool to be sitting in this little bar with like 8 other people. goodtimes.

to expand on saturday...
ok, so my dumb-ass thought that the showbox was where the graceland was. oops. well, thanks to the resourcfulness that i can honestly say i pick up from jen, i just grabbed a stranger (the paper, not a person) and looked up the place in the club listings, found the address and booked it down there with plenty of time to spare as the these things never start on time. so yeah, the gossip and pretty girls were fucking awesome just like HEW said. the new mexicans were very technical and good as well. the first band...SUCKED. no other way to put it. i hate bands that try to make up for having no vocal ability by screaming and dumbing down the music so they can call it punk. no, it's not punk, it's shit. i'm sorry. get over it.

anyways, another weird sidenote of the whole night was that i ran into duncan forbes, a guy who grew up across the street from me in kenai, and who i went to college with up at the university of alaska anchorage. so, he and his girlfriend (who i met when we were in anchorage way back) kinda hung out with HEW and i the whole night. it was very cool. we ended up giving them a ride home, before we headed out to beth's. we alaskans have to stick together. i hadn't seen duncan or kate (gf) since 1999. LAST MILLENIUM! damn.

So, yeah, i would have to say that last weekend was a great weekend. Good music, food, beer and, of course, people. i wish that every day could be like this last weekend. i'd like jen to be present for obvious reasons. other than that it was just goodtimes all around. i'm not gonna complain about who could make it and who could not, it's been done already and i know we don't really solve anything by doing it. it IS nice to vent about people that piss us off and i don't want to stop doing it altogether, but i'm just concentrating on all the good shit that went on this weekend.

so, next weekend is the capital hill block party. bands playing for two strait days, well maybe not strait, but nonstop! :) sounds like a shitload of fun to me. i'm supposed to meet up with my alaskan friends again there and i hope that i can talk some of the rest of you to come with me! i'm gonna approach it like i did this last weekend...I'M going, if ya wanna come, i'd love you to be there with me! other than that, i'll see ya later.

so, to drive the point home...happy birthday HEW. Hope everyone's work/school week goes well and make sure to keep in touch! Scout, you and shwee should get ahold of me and see what's going on this coming weekend!

till next time...

"it's something unpredicable, but in the end is right...i hope you had the time of your life..."

take care everyone...

-ROCKSTEADY

2004-07-16T22:56:00.000-07:00

pretty girls, good beer, and bowling...

that's what's on tap this weekend! again, i send out an open invitation to everyone! come to the Pretty Girls Make Graves concert and have a kick ass time with some great people! Scout, i'm sad i missed your availability, you'll be missed. that's okay, like i said in a recent post...i was going to go solo if no one else wanted to go. it's time to just GO and DO. no more sitting on my ass.

SO, there's the plan all. EVERYONE who's in town on sunday should come and hang with us and wish HEW a happy birthday! Bowling is in the idea bin, and i KNOW how much some of you like to bowl! friends of HEW are encouraged to come! you know who you are!

RIGHT! i'm excited! i'm coming back to MY city! WOOOO!!!!

I'll talk to ya'll this weekend!!! (in some way or another!)

-ROCKSTEADY

2004-07-15T22:42:00.001-07:00

2004-07-15T22:42:00.000-07:00

i can't stop the blood...

i cut myself today. about a half an hour ago. it's still bleeding. i don't mind getting cuts anymore. i didn't even notice i had a cut on my finger until i saw the blood on something i grabbed, weird. it's all wrapped up now, kinda hard to type right now. i remember when i cut myslef in bellingham when i was breaking into my room. the door to our apartment was usually unlocked, well on this day it was. damn. i was in a bad mood. i had just done really badly on a final. so i pushed on the window to my room a LOT harder than i should have. Smash! my hand flies through the window and CHOP! bloody weatherboy. i eventually had to go and get stiches after about an hour with my hand under the sink without the blood stopping. HEW took my ass to the health center and i got my hand stiched up. i DID get an extention on a paper that i didn't want to do thanks to the cut, so it wasn't all that bad...i guess. so, yeah, i'm used to getting semi-minor cuts. sorry, i'll stop talking about blood and stuff now...

hey. did anyone notice that my font is bigger now? this website has finally upgraded and now i can use all sorts of cool shit! I can change the color of my font, I can write in italics, bold, i can add pictures and all sorts of cool shit! i'm so excited! anyways.

i went to see 'anchorman' today. it wasn't as bad as bobanna led me to believe. you just have to be familiar with the 70's genre, it was a SPOOF, THAT's why it was funny! you either get it or you don't. to those who didn't, ya missed out.

i'll be heading north on saturday, back to my city. i hope that everyone has a great weekend and keeps in touch so we can all get together if it's possible on sunday! i'm listening to the end to see if i can win tickets to the pretty girls make graves show, probably won't happen, but it'd be nice. OH, HEW, keep listening to BJ SHEA and see if you can win some tickets to their mariners thing on monday!

well, i'm pretty tired and i have class in the morning!i'm gonna head on out for tonight. I'll talk to ya'll later...

-ROCKSTEADY

2004-07-13T17:55:00.000-07:00

where did everybody go...?

it seems like everyone is taking off this weekend! bobanna is off to her long planned trip to the coasts of oregon, shwee is off to visit the fam again (for important reasons), and jen is never around as she is in europe. a select few remain. crazy...

well, yesterday i went fishing out at offet lake in tenino. my dad, my nephew and i. it was great i didn't do any fishing, i just brought my cobain murder book and some beer and i did the rowing...alcohol and boats...it doesn't get much better than that! a little buzz and some good reading in the middle of a lake on a sunny day...goodtimes...

TODAY, i went to Enchanted Village with my nephew. it was a good time. my dumb ass forgot to put my shorts on before i got there or i would have done the whole wild waves thing too. but alas, i don't think i'm at my peak physical form at the moment and i was fine without getting half naked anyways...maybe soon...

only three days of school this week, that's cool. i'm happy about that. i've been taking care of my nephew pretty much the whole time, so all this time i've had off hasn't been just random free time. i've been babysitting basically. i've been staying up SO late these last few days, just so i can enjoy time by myself and play my guitar.

i've been wanting to put some of the few songs i've written down on my 4-track, but everytime i start getting around to it, my nephew comes in. and i can't really do it at night cause it'll get pretty loud when i start in. i need to get them down though or i'll lose interest and never get anything done. i still want to get a band started. if anyone knows a drummer and a bassist who'd like to be in a band...let me know...a drummer would be nice, i can handle the bass and guitar for recording...

well, i think that's about it for me...for now. I'll talk to ya'll bitches later...

-ROCKSTEADY

2004-07-12T09:39:00.000-07:00

emerald city dreams...

it's been way too long since i've been to seattle. and to make matters even worse, the end is playing "drown" by the smashing pumpkins which is on the 'singles' soundtrack. such a great song, such a great movie, such a great city...i'm getting really depressed here! i've been stuck down here for a long time! i'm feelin' like a social outcast! i've been here in oly spending time with my nephew, which i love doing and all, but he's ALWAYS around me! the story of my life goes that whenever i'm in family situations, i'm ALWAYS the one who is closest in age to the youngest person. therefore, they cling to me and never leave me alone! it drives me a little nuts, i just want a LITTLE time to myself! i stayed up till around 4am this morning just because i had time to sit there and play guitar and watch some really cool movies. SLC punk always seems to be on when i stay up late, either that or i stay up late whenever it's on. i'm not sure!

a chance for redemption...

i've found out that pretty girls make graves will be playing at the showbox in an all ages show, booze if your 21, on the 17th. THIS SATURDAY! if ever there was a place for all of us to gather...this would be it! a great local band, great local spot, and it's only $8. sound good to anybody else? i think i'm going...regardless, so if anybody wants to tag along, by all means, feel free. i've decided that i haven't gone to NEARLY enough shows since i've been in washington, i'm gonna remedy this. life is TOO SHORT, i want experience as much as i can!

well, not a whole lot else is going on with me. i miss jen. but, i'm at least fortunate enough to be able to talk to her a lot, so that's good.

i'm gonna go and get myself started with my day. i'll post more later, i'm just not inspired right now.

-out

2004-07-08T20:43:00.000-07:00

wait...

they don't love you like i love you...

i LOVE this song. what can i say? MAPS by the yeah, yeah, yeah’s. it's just really good. i've talked about this song before, but i must stress that it's songwriting genius. very simple, instrumentally, and the words are almost spacey but have a great meaning if you look for it. i love it. if any of you haven't heard it, honestly, find a way to. i think you'll like it.

so, instead of running for my three miles today, i decided to rollerblade for about 5 miles. i've been getting really bored with the running. it's fine, but it really gets old. so, i strapped on the old k2's and skated my ass down the road. it was good. now i'm all sore in all sorts of weird places. that's probably a good thing though. other than the fact that my lower back isn't too happy with me right now, oh well. so yeah...

i'm tired. and it's only 8:47. what is happening to me? sore in weird places, tired early all the time. well, i did get quite the sunburn from this weekend. that can explain the tiredness, so maybe i'm just worrying too much. who knows? i AM working the quarter century mark though...(shiver)

ok, holy crap. i bought my books for this quarter today...DAMN! i can easily say that i've got all you other summer schoolers beat by a long shot on book costs. i'm gonna be in SO much debt at the end of all of this. shit. yikes. vegas, baby, vegas.

i saw spiderman II last night. HOLY SHIT, it was awesome! ok, i know it's sappy and cheesy and all that good stuff, but wow. they did a really good job on this one. the story KICKS ASS and the love story doesn't weigh it down at all, in fact it only makes it better. it's one of the best summer movies i've ever seen and i think it's by far the best superhero movie i've ever seen...and i've seen them all. sam raimis kicks ass, and bruce campbell too, of course.

that's another good point. if ANY of you haven't seen all of the evil dead movies, we should all get together and watch them! it's SO worth it! they're great! indie movie classics, all of them. i pretty sure jen hasn't seen any of them and i really think that she would like them. maybe i'll get her to someday! if she'll ever trust my taste in movies! not too likely though... :)

k, so i've talked about all sorts of random shit. i think i'm done now. i'm just babbling.

talk to y'all later...

till then,

"...we have to get these guys!...now, watch this drive..."

-ROCKSTEADY

2004-07-08T12:48:00.000-07:00

do i seem too intense?

cause i can be intensely laid back too...

ok, ok, ok. i'm done. i've been enlightened. i'm not gonna give you guys shit for hanging out anymore. it's none of my business anyways. i'm done and i just sound lame when i do it. so, my apologies now let’s move on.

i'm reading a book on the murder of kurt cobain right now. yes, i said MURDER. he didn't kill himself. anyways, it's really good. if you ever watched 'kurt and courtney' then you'd probably like this book, it continues in that vein. it kinda pisses me off when i read it; i just wanna kick courtney love in her stupid head and tell her to admit that she had kurt killed. bitch. fuck her.

so, yeah, reading and hanging out with my nephew. that's all i'm up to right now.

i love life.

oh, i talked to bug online just a second ago and she's loving rome and doing fine.

-out

2004-07-07T22:09:00.000-07:00

if you wait around long enough...

i guess SOMETHING fun might eventually happen... :)

as was the case for many of us this weekend. HEW and i decided to take the mellow route, drinking, games and pyrotechnics. shwee and scout did the family thing, but managed to come and hang. while some people just wished they could have played monopoly with us, and even asked if they could play over the phone! yeah, fun, sure, but a LOT of waiting around happened this weekend, and people were missed. i'm still not sure why an ex-girlfriend keeps hangin' with you and your bf bobanna...hmmm, odd.

well i'm glad that we all got some really good things out of this weekend. and here we are, wednesday, i have no class tomorrow so all of you suckers who have to go to school and/or work can have a good time! i'll be thinkin' of ya!

no, i'm gonna be hanging out with my nephew who is in town for a while and i think we'll try to do the golf thing. hit the old steamboat driving range again, goodtimes.

yeah, so this weekend looks promising, and i know HEW won't say anything, but the weekend of the 18th is his birthday. he hasn't really planned much, but i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the GROUP is invited. let's just say that bowling was discussed, but we're gonna keep things down to just good friends. no "awkward vibes". anyways, you guys should mark the 18th and come out! I don't have school the next day, i know some of you will, but you're young! and it's summer quarter!

anyways, i'm gonna go watch my nephew play the x-box for a while, then head off to bed. i'm amazed at how into playing video games this kid is. he's not even that good. i only know one other person who plays video games that much, and he made it a part time job kinda. hmm, well i guess i might not have been too much different. i DO know that i spent a lot more time outside than this kid though! damn!

so, i'll talk to ya'll bitches later...

-WORD

2004-07-05T22:16:00.000-07:00

BOO!!!

I'm very disappointed. i did an entire long post and stuff and the whole thing was lost!! my internet has been actin' really funny. i hope that everything smoothes out before i get back into the thick of school again. Speaking of school, two of my grades are in and i have a good gpa at the moment, it's above a 3.5 i know that! and that's really good for me at this point in the program!

Anyways, the overall gist of the last post was:

this weekend was awesome! We drank, played monopoly, blew stuff up, we had a great time with the drinking and the beer...it was great! up until i got hit with a rouge fiery ball! I gotta watch out for those fiery balls! anyways, i have a welt and bunch of good memories and we need to plan something like that again, hopefully before the summer is over!

k, well other than that i miss jen and i wish she was here...:(

i get tomorrow off and that's good, so i'll be checking the posts! Get on it everyone!

-out

p.s.-i'm think that blogspot is having some problems, i KNOW that my last post went through, it's just not showing...so this might go through and seem a little redundant...

2004-07-05T17:15:00.000-07:00

a little sun burnt...

but, it was just what i needed. thanks to everyone who made this weekend possible, Jen, HEW, shwee, scout and a call from bobanna while we played monopoly. it know, monopoly, are we really getting that old? or, are we just regressing that much? i'd like to think that we are just getting back into touch with the games of our youth. i didn't turn on the tv until last night, after the fireworks. and, it was just to educate scout on chappelles' show. the end supplied a great weekend of music and we did the drinking and the beer and it was just a good time. mellow. well, except for the blowing up of stuff that was kinda violent, but awesome! however, i did get hit in the leg with a rouge flaming ball, yeah that sucked. i got to talk to Jen a lot this weekend, it was really great. i miss her. yeah.

Anyway, now i'm in the process of cleaning and it's already mostly done thanks to the help of my great guests!

oh, after we woke up, we procrastinated for a while and cleaned a little and then we went to steamboat annies' for some food and the driving range to knock some golf balls around, good times. shwee is a fucking AWESOME golfer, holy shit! so, yeah after that we all headed out our separate ways. I wish more weekends could be like this one, really mellow, and not over yet!

Yeah, i get tomorrow off too, but come wednesday i have class again and it's back the grindstone.

well, i hope all of your weekends kicked ass! go greece, they won the European world cup! i'm glad that things went so well, and it would awesome to plan something like that again!

Take care all; don't get too stressed out this week!

Till next time,

"i'm gonna go lisSSHHten to my brittney SSHHpearSH RecordSSHH!"

-ROCKSTEADY