Hobbes For President

so we drank all the beer

2005-09-13T11:30:00.000-04:00

and the worst part is, we just got it. I mean the day before yesterday, and we drank it last night, the whole case. I dont even have a hangover... this is awesome.

In his drunkeness last night jake registered me into facebook, all of you should be happy to know that i am now a member.(screw that!)

In more interesting news, i have a class called refugee issues, that, up to now, has been a pain in the ass. Yesterday, prior to getting drunk, i got to meet my refugee family.

Theyre Russian. They dont speak any english. Theyve been here a month and 2 days.

wow.

That was fun, and the best part is we never have class, so all i really have to do is hang out with Haley and Cassy at the russians place and occasionally goto class, where we basically sit and listen to Edy tell Rachel about how lazy she is. Edy's cool, shes one of the TAs, we havent seen our teacher yet, shes in Guatemala.

Russians have really good green tea.

Im learning C++, thats fun too. mostly right now im bored, cause i have a four hour lab in like an hour and a half...

OOOO hOOOOOO!

2005-08-28T10:13:00.000-04:00

Check this out, im reading the news....

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/opinion/28dennett.html?pagewanted=4&th&emc=th

and this too whilst your at it:
http://www.strangescience.net/

oh, oh and here is the hurricane that we all hope isnt going to kill ashley ponson and her lovely new orleans school:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/115900.shtml?3day?large
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/28/hurricane.katrina/

been a while...

2005-08-21T17:26:00.000-04:00

so ive moved in. Jake, the roomy, is cool as shit. we have some serious systems set up. EIght speakers, and a sub, on my amp, with his computer and mine and a fifty cd changer and an xbox. woo!

its the shit.

and we have a couch, and a handicapped room, which, other than the fact tat the peephole is on crotch level, means that we have three closets, one of which is huge, the other two not so much, and a shower that has no tub, but is roomy as hell, i can lay in it without touching any walls, even stretch some...

i havent found a job yet, or gone to the bookstore. i do have a parking decal, and some money left over surprisingly enough, with which to buy food, even though i havent done that yet either.

oh well. if youre reading this you should check out lee's too:
www.lambentwit.blogspot.com

so.... work

2005-06-09T18:50:00.000-04:00

lots and lots of work, at cutthroat shitty pay, and god, is there ever alot of it, as a matter of fact about all i do is work, i dont even eat very much anymore, even though i am putting on weight, but thats just cause i spend so much time in the weight room at work, thats what i do on my break, workout.

i swim alot too

and teach people how to swim

an make sure that the stupid fuckers that cant swim dont drown, cause theyre too goddamn stupid to swim,

oh.... and i coach the swim team.

i bought lots of books, really cheap at the used book store, good ones too...

i ramble, maybe i should have titled this post rambling.

but anyhow, back to the work issue, i do alot of it, but im about to give my two weeks, along with everyone else thats there, because we get treated like shit, haha. dumb fucks...

but i think ive found another job, labor intensive, but much better pay, and if that doesnt carry through then i can always go apply at beefs for the wait job thatll be opening up soon.

oh and i got a car.... 204000 miles, gold, subcompact, decent condition for the mileage, sound familiar anyone, thats right i went car shopping with my dad, and he found a car, so i got the reject saturn that he didnt want to fix anymore.

well when it dies i hopei have enough to ressurrect it...

still bored

2005-04-27T10:50:00.000-04:00

well half done with finals, and mostly packed, im sitting here in front of the computer, searching for the inspiration to do anything.

i could go to the gym, but seems likei have all of these ridiculously little things like running back and forth to the honors office or meeting totally random people, and i dont quite fit GYM in in between, shoulda gone early this morning, but i slept in: til all of 830.

and yeah joe is a major pain in the ass.... last night, he walks in, and proceeds to just sit there, i was busy damn it!!! damned inconvenient if you ask me. and he listens to his shit music, like i dont already have something good, like zepplin or hendrix, or god forbid even cake, playing: just walks in and starts it going on top of mine.

OOOOO and i told one of my three bosses that she was a bitch and that she should find a way to make herself much more convenient for everyone else by dying over the summer... well i did tell her she was a bitch. she took $42.50 out of my paycheck because i didnt personally turn in my paperwork: i forgot, i still got it covered within the time period=> FUCK YOU BITCH... and i spent like an hour and a half on that bullshit

anyhow, joes almost gone (tomorrow afternoon hopefully), and i am officially done at the pool, so i can say fuck and bitch to erin, and i am almost done with finals, i should also be studying for that physics final....

so i guess its all good, and wouldnt i rather be bored and in bed early?

no.....

so... I be bored

2005-04-17T20:38:00.000-04:00

mmm HELLISH weekend. got a ten pager to write on the evolution of the islamist movement through the end of the aghan war in 1989.... itll be fun, and actually the paper is a hell of alot more interesting than the class.

on to the weekend... starting off with friday night, i went to bed... early like, maybe 1230. had to be up for work at before eight (yikes those hours exist?), went to work and kristi went home. i froze my ass off in the pool. what the hell is this 56 degree bullshit in the middle of april? anyway, after work i went straight to my Mimi's (kinda like a step grandmother) for "yard work" turns out yard work means moving a beach... up.

see shes got this creek behind her place, and her neighbors yard kinda washed down into the creek what with all the rain from the hurricanes, and the series of severe storms weve had, so there was like this beach in the middle of the creek, it was ugly, and they wanted it moved. so Trace (Bob's son) and i moved it. which involved first shoveling it about two feet over our heads into a wheel barrow that was sitting on about four feet of bulkhead, and then taking the heavy ass wheelbarrow and emptying it forty feet away in the middle of painland for those of us with bare feet (ie everyone in the creek, me and trace). so ~fifty wheel barrow loads later, feet bleeding and backs complaining we climb out of the creek, minus an island. good news is, we both got 45$ out of the deal. well after our respective showers, trace and i both proceeded to consume more food than would feed an ethiopian family for a month, ie an entire pork tenderloin, five pounds of mashed potatoes and a pot full of green beans, good thing mimi knew we'd be hungry.

now at this point fat, exhausted, sore and one MASSIVE glass of wine later, my impoverished, beaten and sore body died, literally, i crashed so hard i dont remember ever waking up at any point in the night, which is saying alot since they have two dogs, one of which loves to investigate earholes with her doggy tongue, and i was sleeping on the couch.

and since i had crashed not at home but at mimis i had to go to church in the morning, oh... woe is me. But i got breakfast.

damn... i still have a paper to write, whered my weekend go?

i made additions

2005-03-08T00:41:00.000-05:00

notice blogroll... and points of interest... oooo, radio stations and an interpretation/ adaptation of Fight Club to Calvin and Hobbes.

i need to find a webshots or somesuch service to post pictures on, or something like that....

Found something

2005-03-06T15:14:00.000-05:00

i found some shorts...

my favorites:

Beware of the Dog - Roald Dahl
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/botd.html

The Most Dangerous Game - Richard Connell (at the risk of being cliched)
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/danger.html

Rikki Tikki Tavi - Rudyard Kipling (the greatest short in existence)
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/rtt.html

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/patel.html

and...

The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/timemach.html

i spent some reading time on these... thought provoking at the very least

addendum...

2005-03-05T09:07:00.000-05:00

alright so... i got up this morning, bitched about going to work, went to work, and discovered that, lo behold, i did not have work. What the hell is that? the cruel cruel world

anyway, the lee is still sleeping it off, and i threw him in my bed when i left for "work", so ill just stay up.

dude has to go wait in line for his seats at 11:00 for a 200 tomorrow game...
so lee was drunk with us last night, the bitch that wouldnt drink with us in high school has come around, awesome.

all i have to say,

oh yeah, and all those quotes are from last night, muttered by the lee himself in his continuing narration, the more drunk the more he talked... damn did he talk.

Lee quotes

2005-03-05T02:30:00.000-05:00

"tacos are bad news for local newscasters"
"alright bitch you aint gotta be fuckin' cranky.
-well im fucking drunk okay?"
"well the bottles will act sober too..."
"you gotta be really sober to do that shit too"
"the old shit ratio would put me right here"
"im drunk as god!
-im drunk as shit!"
"if i ever see it, ill fuck you up"
"it makes sense to me, what im saying to me..."
"why the fuck????..."

more in the morning, after work, when i get sober enough to editorialize...

and alex went home... like a bitch, he is a bitch

sleep eat study work

2005-02-03T16:10:00.000-05:00

life in general.

went to the pink floyd laser light show, some of the animation was cheesy, otherwise, awesome.
been studying lots, means ive been sitting at this desk alot.
work, work, work.
payed on friday, finally.

humbug.

peeny and a nickel

2005-01-21T10:30:00.000-05:00

i dont have anything to say... stop reading this

meh

2005-01-10T21:07:00.000-05:00

I wonder if anyone stopped reading this since i didnt post for so long... huh.

anyhow, the whole stopping the gluttony in my eating habits sucks, i get hungry again in no time.

Alex came to visit, that was a big success and great fun. First experience with Thai food.

ive been... doing nothing, lots of nothing, mostly running back and forth from the pool, my own swims and meetings for work, and soon, work.
lovely

meh.

woooohoooo: "low speed" internet

2004-12-17T08:49:00.000-05:00

so im home, right? and no one else is. thats annoying, but hey, i can wait and today is hopefully the last day of that annoying- ness. but you know what is even more annoying? being home, there is no such thing as the internet with a high speed connection. i mean COME ON!!!!. but anyhow, just wanted to say that i am loving life sleeping in my sisters bed, sans sister of course, though that is better than that couch, without any of my people about, when are you all coming back? damn you and youre late exams....

i saw people at school. alex worsley and mr goss and lots of juniors (ie GOWDA!!!), and mr keers, and mrs delk, and all of those other really cool teachers who actually will give you an A and wont screw up your grade by sheer carelessness (A complaint thanks to honors proffessor who did everything he could not to, finally cutting me by like one half point or some such as i got the highest grade otherwise possible, and the other complaint due to my phy prof who gave me a C, which is impossible, as i would have had to have missed 10 of the eighteen on the final, which i dont think i missed more than 3) that being the end of the bitching i shall now continue on with the good things in my life:

Kristi.
i love my Kristi.

ok... thats it. good morning to all you lazy bastards still in bed, im sorry im not in mine; or, as the case may be, my sisters.

here i sit a wassailing

2004-12-03T16:10:00.000-05:00

so here it is, again:
if i go to an 18 hour semester i could finish in 4.5 semesters... meaning five with 9 hours of screw around time for electives.
as it stands i have 81 hours to graduation, meaning on the current 15 hour semester i would have 5.14 semesters to graduation, five and a half with 4hrs to screw around in.
and i have to think about the comp prog minor too....
thats another fifteen hours (i think)... so that would be 2 and 2/3 years to grad on 18 hrs a semester.
ha!
blahblahblahblahblah...
i just did an entire bulk mailing (1370 letters indivdually addressed with thier own sticky and then organized by zipcode, ascending) in two days! a thursday and a friday no less... thats only eight and a half hours (of which i probably spent 5 and a half) working on it.

so... now... here i sit a wassailing (did i spell that right?) in the holiday spirit.

well here it is

2004-12-02T22:52:00.000-05:00

blah...
ive got three job prospectives... A:) pool, B:) career services, C:) RAM professional group
the first is the most likely, the second the most dreary, the third the best
RAM is an engineering firm on Baymeadows. it would definitely be most awesome.

and i wrote my le guin paper: holy freaking crap... 18 pages, 13 sources, 12 of them quoted more than once.

other than those its officially dead time right now, i mean, study time. Phy and Calc (which i insist on typing clac)

calc is good, i mean hard, which is good. stuff i havent done and all.

phy sucks. bullshit prof

and i finally know what that girls name that joe was with the last time is... shes here again

and joe and his girl are here

Oh the Things i can do

2004-11-21T23:17:00.000-05:00

WOW... so friday was a monumental first for me... guess what... I got fired for the first time ever. It wasnt even for anything good. I mean i could rage on the stupid voters that think that raising min wage by an entire dollar an hour is going to improve thier life... NOOO!!!!. it will not. First of all, raising min wage destroys small business, putting people like me out of jobs. Second of all, american workers now have to be paid 6.15 an hour whereas the mexicans still only charge the same old rate. How many jobs is that going to cost you huh? and third raising minimum wage... will raise the cost of living. you dont want that when your best buds mom and pop shop just went out of business and your son who worked for him lost his job while the job you were running at walmart just got filled by a mexican who costs less than half what you do. ALL BECAUSE YOU ARE GREEDY FOR AN EXTRA BUCK AN HOUR THAT YOU ARENT EVEN GETTING ANYMORE!!!!!!
but im not raging, remember?
so on the next scale of importance we have my halo skills.
so i got bored right, called a friend we played some halo... today while i wasnt working on my presentation i picked it up... then i beat it... five hours later, on heroic, and i havent played in how long?
damn
so tomorrow im going to Human resources and looking for a job for next semester, cause im not technically fired until Dec 10th, so ill need one soon but not right now. My other option look s like UPS from 4a-9a four days a week at 10 an hour but that would just blow... so maybe not... but anyhow i think im going to go work for sean this summer laying cable; maybe he can get me a job. A pretty damn decent income and no time to spend it. Down side... well only one week off for every three that i work so barley any kristi time, i hope we can handle it. God almighty my head is splitting. so whatcha think you all? got any other job ideas for me... cause i sure as hell am not working for min wage as a lifegaurd (that is fucking ridiculous).

aaargh ill explode on you and cover you in brain bits.... so there i win.

RAGE (and balls to IE)

2004-11-12T15:08:00.000-05:00

ALRIGHT ILL TRY THIS AGAIN:
fuck stupid people and arrogant cops.
to the new list i add microsoft.
basic synapsis:
1 - i post giant segment on how this cop is too fat to use a normal stall and thereby hogs the handicapped stall. he isnt handicapped and if he were hed have no business being a cop. continuing with people who arrogantly ignore secretaries thereby causing them to catch hellatious shit from thier not even bosses.
2 - IE crashes
3 - gus implodes
4 - gus writes this
5 - gus moves on
FUCK INTERNET EXPLORER
ok
im done
i think ill post this on livejournal for all of my poor peoples there, who complain about having to go to a whole 'nother website to read my bitching and complaining, as my oh so nobel objective of intellectual criticism of the world around me failed dismally so very early on.

Im writing a paper on Ursula K Le Guin.
holy freaking cow... its gonna be awesome
awesomer than maddox
im wading through the research right now but i could do like a whole freaking thesis on le guin and her impact on sci fi/ fantasy and childrens literature... literature which people of any age would benefit from if they would only read it.
Seriously... analyzing her text has made me realize just how much of my own ethics stem from the ethics she writes.
Most of her texts are ethical fiction... or as its called in the fantasy genre... High Fantasy.
Her works readily compare to those of Lewis and Cooper. I mean holy freaking cow.... for those of you who have no idea what the hell i am talking about i encourage you to go to the library and read anything from le guin... most importantly the Earthsea series (recently concluded) and the Books from her Hainish universe (those of which the Left Hand of Darkness is a part of). These books are deemed childrens literature and science fiction respectively but do not be fooled by thier labels. if you feel that you do not immediatly comprehend them i would encourage you to seek out criticisms of her work... most specifically aything by Suvin or Lassetter as they have what i percieve to be the most accurate (closest to my own understanding) undertanding of her message.

WOW holy crap

Life the Universe and Everything

2004-11-05T01:10:00.001-05:00

Well at the moment, in spite of the answer being 42, it sucks.
that would be why its been so long since i posted. stuffs been happening and i try to spare you all my troubles.

I pray I am wrong when I say that I am returning to my old insomniac habits, but you know there's something about not getting 6 hours of real sleep in the past two days, and that "sleep" awake more than truly asleep.

I have returned to my old habit of pushups and situps/crunches before bed though. At the moment I can do about 200 of the latter and roughly 70 of the former. I AM PITIFUL.
Add on to this that I can no longer do 18 pullups in a minute and we have a poor state of affairs. I can however still swim three miles, and I ran a mile in under six minutes... the last time i bothered to time it.

Ella Fitzgerald is wonderful. One of Kristi's friends, Sarah, started singing "Summertime" during the weekly Wednesday jazz concert and I just absolutely had to go turn it on. Since then I have of course been listening to it at every opportunity... and Louis Armstrong too,

Do any of you recall the parking decal theft? Well aparently the dude who stole it is a moron. He parked illegally with a stolen tag, that was reported, and publicized as being reported.
Unfortunately the "system" is also moronic: the reported stolen tag was recorded as belonging to me, right? well i now have a ticket on my record... so i also now have a hold placed on my account at the school, meaning i now have no grades and cannot enroll next semester until i get it straightened out. Further the ticket was issued on the 18 of October and i just now found out about it. This is a bitch.

Im going to go finish the Dark Tower and attempt the sweet repose as per my orders, so love all and sweet dreams and thank you sam for the gift of your music.

wow its been a bit

2004-10-28T01:00:00.000-04:00

sooo.... yeah ive been very busy... and sleepy... and not studyingrightnowohshitfuckingphysicsdiegarnerdie!!! (Garner=prof)
and then i realized that using calculus as a break from my other homework is just pitiful... so here i am posting... wow its 12? hrmmm like almost two whole hours of studying got done... wow
LEEs GIVING ME UGLY CASANOVA!!!!!
and i get to go home this weekend. oh the weekend, hell oh tomorrow afternoon... when all i have to do is work god what a blessing that will be
the Calc take home is done, the Phy test is tomorrow, Then all i have to do is go to work and do tha calc homework that isnt do until next monday... hoorah... friday is slacking then wokring then going home. saturday is regionals, wandering about Polk County with Kristi? or going and seeing lee and other people at home, then driving back to here so that on sunday i can sleep and be lazy for the calc quiz on monday and the test on wednesday.... oh and then on the eigth farber is forcing his entire 4m class to commit suicide so my life will be over and nothing else to worry about(quiz and Essay exam on one day... jeebus)but after that im coasting... then on to finals, work until the 17th of dec which means i am officailly homeless for a week. and then home for winter break... ohh i cant wait.

response

2004-10-24T01:16:00.000-04:00

well hello all,
after the camping trip things seem much less bleak... although kristi and cece seem determined that the same soap that i have been using for the last 8 months now smells girly!!!
i am well and i think i had fun... i got to ride horses, i did not remember it being that much fun... and then there was the water and the canoes and all of that... but hey life is living and i am still physically capable so what have i to be upset about? i will be stronger for the adversity i am sure. but thank you all the same for the expression of concern. and alex i look forward to the adventure as long as you dont mind me eating with my grandmother as she is having my uncle rob down whom i have not seem in two years. rachel thank you as well. i am glad you can perk up even a little bit. i hope all is well with you all as well(?)(what was that????) and have a wonderful thanks giving and halloween if i dont see you before then. which i will see alex and rachel>!>!>!>!.

ermb.....

2004-10-21T16:06:00.000-04:00

i made the "police beat" section of our schools newspaper twice!!!!
and hey i didnt even do anything wrong...:)
but yeah anyway thats a sign as to how my week has been going since last week
IT SUCKS
but... anyway IT SUCKS
i have an away message theme devoted to its suckiness.
these two planetary masses of shit have made it thier goal in life to collide with me in various manners... theyre very cruel... sometimes they let me get to the end of a good day and ambush me... oh well
i guess for there to be good times there have to be bad
but yeah read my aways sometimes... AIM SN= kaseistleib... it might be amusing to ye who do not have shitty days
back to work....

here i sit

2004-10-17T02:27:00.000-04:00

Well this is the story...
Joe got drunk. joe came home. Joe puked fake absinth (minus wormwood so really just shitty tasting alcohol) and beef stew all over the common room. Someone went and got Jessica. Jessica got the cops. the cops got me to let them in the room...
right so joes Blood Acohol was .4 when he puked according to the cop chick ( is that possible i think i must have misunderstood) but detox is full... duh sunday morning @ 130? no shit. well anyway now they can either take joe to jail or leave him here with me. well yeah i have to call every thirty minutes to assure the cops that hes alright until 330.
So here i sit in front of the computer whilst my lovely girlfiend and my best friend Andrew sleep upstairs since my room is inhabited by drunk smell.
im bored and posting and reading journals and blogs and allsorts of other bits of interesting ness.
thank you patrick for the help on the sidebar code that i screwed up... ummmmmmmmmmm.?
right what else is there... well mimi moved a lot of stuff this morning @ 930... did she tell me that i was to get up and be there at 900? NOOOO! crimeny i only slept til 6 but i kept going back to sleep cause i had no reason to get up... but she calls and leaves a message for me... oh yes she does. which i dont get until im on the way to her house anyway... but whatever i still helped move some stuff and i climbed into the creek in defunct waders to try to fish her hook thing out of the mud with a rake when i cant even see the bottom, and im filling up from the crotch down in COLD ASS creek water.oh god. mmmm cece we should talk. why is it that reading live journals always gets me in trouble? i should just not... it perpetuates drama... drama bad.
mmm still sitting here.
anyway i think i got in good with a couple of the cops though... so that makes two incidents with the cops and i wasnt in trouble for either of them... wow this could be a good streak.(ihope) i wish the phone would ring or something. but not at 230... nah.
alright i have nothing left to really ramble on so im gonna just say that having visitors is awesome, never workout for the first time in a while and then sleep on a concrete floor and grandmothers are great people.
ohhh yeah!
i did burnouts on teh bench and squats instead of leg press for the first time in like... woah!
but damn it hurts... i had forgotten.

Again

2004-10-15T17:09:00.000-04:00

I think this may just be a great day... this is twice ive posted today and there may(?) be a third.
It would seem that Jacksonville has experienced the passage of a front. in the wake of this front there comes, of course, the most pleasently cool air.
So i walk out of the dorm after coming home, bathing, posting, and changing and lo behold the rain has slowed considerably and the temperature, i would estimate, is in the high 60s. Well i go to lunch, eat, take my time and come out about 30 minutes (and four plates) later and what is this i feel? it would be the cool air of winter/ fall. in the thirty minutes i took to eat i guarantee you that the temperature dropped 5 degrees, it felt closer to ten. It was WONDERFUL.
So its now roughly 60 degrees outside and i wander about, go to class, enjoy the cool air and the nice breeze, and eventually make my way to work. After work as i exit the university center i smell the most wonderful thing in the entire world... that cool crisp air smell, i love it. Now for those of you who dont know UNF campus is situated in a series of canals and marshes... so imagine all that water and that crisp air... i even liked the sun for once. Oh winter should hurry up. I love the winter.
But yeah i rambled on the weather... God im a doof. but i loved it so much... no more of the instantaneous sweat appearing on your forehead at the instant of emergence from the AC, it shall be wonderful.

I am in a really good mood today.

oh the days of my life

2004-10-15T10:19:00.000-04:00

Dr Suess did a great many things, but thats not what im talking about here and i have no idea where that came from.
so yesterday i got to work... and left nine and a half hours later. what is this you ask? well my honors professor decided that it would be a good idea to go camping on days that i work... so im working extra to make up for it... yesterday and next thursday, 12oo=> 930.
What, you ask, am i doing all this time? well for much of it i sit and play office bitch (succinct wording attributed to Karl Kong). But the last four and a half i setup, register and sit for a workshop on starting up small businesses. This is good stuff. Like seriously if i had anywhere to apply any of this knowledge it would be of good use, but i dont. I know four major types of Corporation in Florida, their pros and cons, the qualifications for meeting the criteria justifing an entity's existence as a small business, and the series of steps required to put a business into operation. Sadly as i said i really have no application for this knowledge so in a week or so ill have lost a good 60% of it. What a waste.
But this morning i got up and went for a nice little 1.5 mile run, worked out (including a set of burnouts on the bench) and then swam, a little bit. I should have swum more but i really didnt feel like a thousand today. then i saw kristi on her way to class, came home took a shower and, as soon as the cafeteria opens up again, am on my way to a nice hearty lunch. Then for work, and play at the hendrix wine bar for a jazz concert. So if you have as wonderful a day as i am hopefully going to enjoy, !tu encantas la vida de colegio!

adios and have a great day

Wow!

2004-10-12T21:42:00.001-04:00

So... alot happened
i was sick, and sick some more, and then sick again.
but im better now, thank god.
but in that short while...
Kristis parking decal got stolen, i finished that book by Cameron.... um yeah thats about it. Well the parking pass was 130$ so there went one paycheck until she can pay me back. oh well.
As for the book by Cameron, im not so sure that i like it.
if Everyone is creative... is everyone really creative?, especially if everyone's creativity is derived from this "god" concept she establishes. Can a person be creative if your ceativity is in fact "god" working through you. And what does her theory say for the unsane artististic greats? i mean if creativity is a product of mental and emotional health then how could van gogh be creative? and can you deny that van gogh is creative? she totally denies the aspect of "ownership" or style within a work of art. It is... different, it certainly has value, but i find it difficult to agree with. There is cerainly a great deal to the idea that everyone can be creative through a healthy psyche. Are there distict types of creativity? can it be said that the creativity experienced by the everyday person is different from that of van gogh?
hmmmm.....?
ill continue on this line later on i think.
Anyway...
Patrick, my cousin whom i havent seen i 3 years, and i got in touch. WOW!!!. i think weve both changed a great deal... that was like a call back to the early ages of gus
Hrmmm....
Drama at home... must talk to tim and jen, why are some guys so damn disloyal?
i think thats everything...

any way im exploring html code so that i can play with my templates and stuff so if you find something new dont be concerned, and if youfind something you like alot (or dislike equally) let me know...

have a good day all
gus

LJs

2004-10-09T21:33:00.000-04:00

hmmm.....
theyre all so fancy...
friends lists and all makin it so as i cant read my little sisters's posts (rachel and cece)
oh well i guess ill just have to come up here and ask kristi what theyre talking about, other than school that is.

mmmmmm speaking of cece whats the deal little one?
youre mad at me because i wasnt commiserative enough? and you wont even tell me that youre mad?
hmmmm this doesnt sound like cece who wanted to be all blunt and me like.

Rachel.... im sorry.... i guess itll suck: you moving to NY and all, never seeing you again like old times, not that youll even read this but.... love you anyhow
(as for brian hes an asshole and dont even worry about him... no respect at all breaking up with a girl like you on the internet)

But anyway, aside from the segways into the personal lives of my blood and adopted family, it seems that i am "intelligent" in these post things ( huh!)
i guess thats because i generally write them when im not pissed off to save you all from my viscious, biting and indiscriminate anger.
(why is it that i do not include any apostrophes or capitalization or anything of that grammatical nature in my newly learned typing?)

ooooOOOOO i need music!!!!!
people should look for music by the Kidneythieves and Lacuna Coil for me... yes i realize that theyre really old hard rock but i like them and i dont have any of their music anymore...

you all should give me comments.... i have none ::pouting face::
yesyesyes....
i am hurt

whatever ya'll.
takin it easy.....
(and yes mike i realize i ramble.... SO WHAT???? WANNA MAKE SOMETHING OF IT?)

Musings

2004-10-08T16:17:00.000-04:00

Well let me begin with a complaint of mine: What business do you have using a handicapped stall when you are the only person in the bathroom, and you arent Handicapped? I dont care if you are a fat donutmunching cop and dont fit in the regular stalls, as a matter of fact if you can give me a ticket for parking in a handicapped spot why can you use their stalls? thats simply rude and inconsiderate.

ok im done with that.

Were reading another book in Farbers... The Artists Way, i dunno about it though... she seems awfully repetitive. It seems that she could have written the book saying that if you do certain things you will have a more complete conception of the world and thus will change as a person and thus have a more complete conception of the world and thus will change as a person, and oh yeah it worked for this one chick, but anyway youll have a more comlete conception of the world.......
What shes saying in between may be of some value though. It would seem that if you are honest with yourself you can lead a more productive and happy existense. Well.... i could have told you that and Self Helpers have been telling us for a long time that the key to others respect is self respect. The value of her "12 step program" is in its ability to cause such honesty in people who were incapable of motivating themselves to be honest.
At the same time it is interesting to see a modern "divine inspirationist". Madam honestly believes that creativity is a higher power working through us. While i could accept this as possible i personally find it harder to accept than such theories as Jungs, mainly due to my own religious beliefs about Free Will. More on this when i finish her book.

One of Farbers other projects is a halloween project. Each of us is required to dress up for Halloween in some guise or another. Well wandering about campus this morning on my way to class i had a thought. How many have seen Young Frankenstien? I think that i shall be Igor. You know with the hump, the cane, "Werewolf... Therewolf" and "Frau Blucher!!!" or " I aint got no Body, no body at all", yeah just a touch of my creative genius coming out. (yeah right, creative genius?)

But anyway.... i attempted not to ramble on and on like Neitzsche this time for those of you incapable of following the stream of consciousness writing style from COW WOMAN... i hope i was successful.

good day all and have a wonderful weekend

what am i?

2004-10-05T21:24:00.000-04:00

Which Office Moron Are You?
Rum and Monkey: jamming your photocopier one tray at a time.

Which Extremity of the World Are You?
From the towering colossi at Rum and Monkey.

Nggghhaahhh!
Grrr arrr Rum and Monkey.

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

Which Latter-Day Glendinningite are you?
Brought to you by Rum and Monkey

What Kind of Drunk Are You?
Brought to you by Rum and Monkey

Which Colossal Death Robot Are You?
Brought to you by Rum and Monkey

Which Evil Criminal are You?
A Rum and Monkey crime.

Which Horrible Affliction are you?
A Rum and Monkey disease.

COW WOMAN!!!!

2004-10-05T14:48:00.000-04:00

dootdoodooodoooooooooo!!!!!!!! BOOOOOOOO!!!!!
now really, i dont like stupid people. So in light of this why is it that they insist on calling me? at work no less?
me - "Small Business Development Center this is Gus how may i help you"
Woman - "hi is this the Small Business Development Center?"

this is just a sampling of the inanity and mundanity that some people, most notably Cow Woma, have sunk to.

Then after repeating in 6 different manners the same coherent, concise and intellectual message, namely that before you can schedule appointments you either have to have a.) a business in operation, or b.) Attended all the workshops, and that since neither of these requirements were fulfilled she should attend our workshop, I succumbed to the mindless, numbing, brain retarding drawl of Cow Woman. Miraculously i still had enough presence of mind to pass her back to our help man: Jeff Jefferies, to whom such vagarities are but the way of life, and allowed him to sort her out. Thank you Jeff!!!

Anyway here i sit at work, with, lo and behold, no work. This is not because they dont give me enough to do (they dont) it is rather because i am so skilled at applying labels to the recesses of newsletters and organizing Bulk Mail that the nefarious plans of my almost boss woman, Stephanie: primarily to short circuit my mind with repetive and picky make work, failed. That is because i am super man!!! no mindless labor can break my back, and no job is tedious enough to change my pearly grin into the evil grimace of a mindless zombie. So there Stephanie!

I guess i could study for that Physics test.... but who wants to do that? i mean i retaught myself Kinematics, Newtonian Mechanics and Basic Conservation last time i was at work... why do i need to do more now... i mean i already know it... i know i know but Exams are evil... they cannot even touch my impervious superbrain!!!!

yeah right.... im off to study non uniform circular motion and angular momentum....

First Post

2004-10-04T23:21:00.000-04:00

Wow. Im going to have to send this site to people for them to see it arent I? huh! oh well. Anyway, I ve got four classes right?: Physics Lab and Lecture, Calulus Two, and my Honors Seminar (Music, Myths, Movies and Madness: a Study in Creativity). Well Farber teaches my seminar... i think he might be a bit off the strange end. His class is strangely similar to the "intro to ToK" that was Graffams in Tenth grade, except we do alot more reading and tend to go much more deeply into discussion; as you would expect of a college level course. Well today (woah kristi hair on the keyboard.... that stuff gets everywhere!) we read Ion from Plato and The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche. Well..... Plato had a fairly simple approach.... the gods inspire in mush the same way a magnet magnetizes and holds together a line of circles in a chain, the strength of the arts message decreases with each successive link, and each succesive interpretation and perception, to use his own metaphor. The artist then is a sort of translator for the god in question. This seems well enough thought out if you agree that art(sorry art in this case=poetry) is divinely and solely divinely inspired. However one thought of Plato really piqued my interest: that art is imitation, the imitation of the imitation of the artists own perception (important word!!!!) so art is a 3rd degree imitation of what plato called the higher or eternal forms. These "eternal" forms are then the true reality, that in which we exist is merely, in the words of Neitzsche, "aesthetic phenomena".
Neitzsche has much of the same things to say about the imitiations inherent in art... but he also says that art is the prime human endeavour, the only worth while one as all else is: "aesthetic phenomena". Neitzsches other contribution was the distinguishing of the Appolonian and Dionysian forms of art. The Appolonian is the art of sculpture, concrete, intellectual, and possessed of beauty. the Dionysian is that art which is sublime in nature, the art of music, the art which subdues the intellectual, the necessity of form. He then likens the Appolonian to the "Superman", the leader and hero, and the Dionysian to the "Herd Mentality". He then goes forth and while proclaiming the necessity of balance between the two (and praising the greeks as the only culture to achieve some semblance of this balance) devalues the "herd" thinking.
It is notable that much of hitlers philosophy was deirved from a sickly twisted perception of Neitzsche's, that one of Neitzsches most prominent examples deals with the division of the Aryan and Semetic cultures.

Thats the philosophy for the day anyhow.

Well other than that there isnt much on my mind... so tell me how was my first post? What do you think of Neitzsche and Plato?

Thier theories seem vaguely supportable... logically at least as their work is truly supposition not a concrete science... and yet is not this understanding of the psyche essential to being human? should we not seek to understand ourselves and how and why we think how and what we think? The Herd and the Superman are possible but are there not other factors?.... huh! the unifying theory of Psychology!!! right:)

Well now if Kristi ever finishes watching Donnie Darko ill print her stuff out for her....