summer school

It’s going pretty well so far. I’m learning some basic grammar that I totally forgot apparently, and I’m getting taught a lot of things about film that I never really noticed. But wait..I’m getting ahead of myself..

I meant to start out with our (Tyler and me) first day of class. Tyler went to the bathroom and I waited outside for him. He came out whispering “Duuude…come in here and take a look at this..” Naturally I thought he was going to show me his dump so I didn’t want to. But he insisted. I didn’t have to go all the way in to see what he was talking about.

I know it’s bad quality, but as you can tell there’s someone sleeping on the floor in the bathroom stall. At first I was thinking “Ok, nobody sleeps in the bathroom on the floor. Especially when there’s a perfectly good lounge with couches right around the corner. This guy is definitely having a seizure or he’s dead.” However, if you’ll notice in the picture, there’s a backpack or something strategically placed under his head for added bathroom floor comfort. People who are dying don’t have time for that kind of luxury. So he’s definitely sleeping. It makes me wonder what could have happened in that guys day to lead up to him sleeping on the floor in the bathroom. I should have interviewed him. I’ve already made a promise to myself that I won’t ever pass up that kind of opportunity again.

ok now I’ll talk about school.

Media writing class is pretty weird, but totally bearable compared to business calculus and all that crap. Our teacher can’t be more than 5 or 6 years older than me, and it shows. She’s really big in to pop culture. She’ll be in the middle of a lecture and just start talking about current reality tv shows that I haven’t seen, like so: “..And this is when it’s appropriate to use a semi-colon. And these are the different uses of a comm…Has anybody seen Jon and Kate plus 8?! What’s up with her hair!?.” Then some sub-par jokester in the class will say “IS THIS GUNNA BE IN THE TESTS??!? BUHAHAHA..”. The funny part about that is that it IS on the test. Or at least there was a question about it on the recent quiz we’ve taken. Name 4 of Jon and Kate’s 8 children. wtf.

Film theory rules so far. Our professor is hilarious. I’d have to do an impersonation of him to convey the humor though. He has this weird phobia of people recording him or taking pictures of him, so I spent the last class period drawing him.

I’ll explain that picture a bit. He’s holding a microphone because he uses a microphone in class even though it’s definitely not needed (which is one of the many hilarious things about him). He’s saying “Zoh” because he has an accent and that’s what he says instead of “So.” The floating head above him is Charles Bronson. I drew that because we were talking about his movies. Also, I need to point out that he tucks his pants behind the tongues of his shoes, which is awesome.

A few of us went to eat a few nights ago. When we came out there was some chalk drawing on the sidewalk that sparked a debate on what the hell it was. No matter how I look at it I see a dinosaur. Chae said it was a plane.

What do you think?

-colin

i accidentally the guitar..

I decided yesterday that I would be much more careful with my purchases because I’ve been working a little less than usual, so naturally I’ve been getting a little less money than usual. However, past Colin decided it’d be a good idea to bid on a guitar on ebay then forget about it. So today I get on my computer and I have an email that says “Congratulations, you’ve just won a guitar that you don’t want right now.”

It’s alright I guess because I think the guitar rules big time. I’ll just have to hurry up and sell one of my others. Like, really fast.

I put a word search book that I got for my birthday in the bathroom by the toilet a few days ago. Now my number 2s take about 15-20 minutes longer to complete.

-colin

as of late

I failed finance class again. What a finance n00b I am. I didn’t wish to take it a third time so I decided to switch my major from Business Advertising to Communication Advertising. Now I get to take cool classes such as Film Theory and Media Writing, both of which I’ll be taking in Summer I, and I’ll still be able to graduate in the spring.

My sister Megan had a graduation party at a park yesterday, and it was a blast. There was some great food and a lot of people, and I got to hang out with my nephew. Then we (Jared, my brother Dylan, his friend, their other friend, and my sister’s boyfriend) found a tennis/basketball/hopscotch court and decided to make up a game. We only had a football, so the game ended up being a hybrid of volleyball, tennis, and football since the court was all weird. The game actually worked pretty well for how ridiculous it was, and I dominated at it. It’s funny that the only sport I’m good at doesn’t exist. Jared called it “Dyna-ball,” because “It’s dynamic…and dinosaurs are awesome.” We played and ate until we were kicked out of the park because it was closing. I came home and played Castle Crashers with two Jared’s and an Eric. We played until about 3am on account of how stupid addictive it is.

I was the blue one.

-colin

May 3rd, 1986

Guess what today is? I’ll give you some hints..

It’s the 123rd day of the year with only 242 days left.
I’m older now.
It’s my birthday today.

If you guessed “Colin’s birthday”, you’d be absolutely correct.

Chae and I had a pretty fun party last night. (His birthday is on the 5th, mine is the 3rd, so we just roll that into one ballin’ party). Justin brought a pinata which ended up being the highlight of the night. We brought it out to the swingset at my apartment and beat the crap out of it. Then I learned how to freestyle swing. Oh, it’s very important to say what the pinata was full of too. Candy? Treats? Toys? Money? A puppy? No. It was full of hot dogs and apples, making it not only hilarious, but filling and delicious.

(freestyle swinging)

Tyler replaced my Boba Fett toy that someone stole out of my car when it was broken into. That was awesome. And Erica had a shirt made with the picture I drew of a giant snake eating planets on it, which was also awesome.

There was a pretty good turnout and I think everyone had a good time. My friend Justin Bossier and his girlfriend Heather came, which was cool because she took pictures and videos of the event then left her camera when she left. So naturally I stole the pictures and videos off of that camera so I could put them on here.

Here are a couple videos I found to be pretty funny..

click here
(She wouldn’t stop videoing me..haha)

and here
(Chae playing keyboard for Andrew W.K.)

And here are some more pinata pictures..

Good birthday.

-colin

8

I just learned that I have 8 classes left to take before graduation. I’m pretty happy about that, but a little less happy that all the classes I have left to take are ones that I really badly don’t want to take. However, I just got a fortune cookie that says “You life will be happy and peaceful,” (yes, that is typed correctly) so I guess that means these last 8 won’t be so bad.

Last night I was on my way home from work and it was raining heavily, and it had been for a few hours before I left. I was driving down a road and realized that it was pretty flooded so I thought “Hey, I’ll take this other road and outsmart the floodwaters.” When I did, water went up all over my hood and my car started making a noise like this: RRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrruuuuuuUUUUHHHHH. So then I pulled into a hotel parking lot that was slightly elevated. I tried probably 4 different ways of getting to my house but everything seemed to be pretty badly flooded. I pulled into a median and got blocked in by a few other cars, including some that were just sitting in the water with their lights off all freaking out and stuff. I sat there for a little while, then just decided to brave the waters. I made it home after about 30 minutes of driving, and it normally takes about 5 minutes to get from my job to my apartment. The entire time I was driving I was singing I’m on a boat featuring T-Pain. I got in my car this morning and it smells like mildew. Sonoma bich.

My birthday is coming up. I’m gonna be the big 23. Just like Michael Jordan.

I went through a lot of old pictures on my laptop the other day so I’ll share a few highlights with you..

mustache party ‘08

seaweed at the beach

Tyler and Jared hanging out at work

That’s it for now

-colin

He maybe did

Well, I have some good news and bad news.

The bad news is that I interviewed for a marketing job and found out recently that I didn’t get it. The good news is now I can talk about the interview without fearing they will type my name in google and find this journal.

First of all let me say that I haven’t been in an interview in like 3 and a half years, so I’m a little rusty.

I show up feeling a bit nervous, which I think is natural. After waiting in the lobby for a while I get called into a room where there are 4 ladies ready to interview me. At the same time. My initial reaction was to say “OH SHIIIIII…” while running out of the room and flinging papers out of my hands. I stayed though. I think it went fairly ok, considering I’m not very good at bragging on myself and that’s what interviews are all about. They’d ask things like “What makes you a better candidate for this job than anyone else we’ve interviewed so far?”…and I’d be thinking “um…probably nothing.” They also asked “What’s you’re most comfortable situation dealing with communication and what’s your least?” I said “Most comfortable would be a one on one situation. Least comfortable would be the situation I’m in right now.” It made them laugh, but they were probably thinking “lol, I wonder if he actually thinks he might get this job.” Which I did. Oh well, if nothing else I got some experience being interviewed, which I found out I desperately need.

I haven’t been sick in a while so I guess it’s my turn now. I have had some kind of throat problem the past couple days, but I’m not sure what it is specifically. It’s the one that feels like someone has shoved a knife down your throat and twisted it around a little bit. Yesterday it was feeling pretty bad, so I decided it would be a good idea to go for a run during the hottest part of the day. It turns out that idea wasn’t so good after all.

I found a fun game on a forum recently. You take a movie, song, show, or book, and describe what it would be like if it were done backwards.

here are some examples:

If you watch Rambo backwards, Sylvester Stallone is healing people with his magical bullet vacuum.

If you watch the Star Wars Trilogy backwards, it’s about a successful jedi knight who decides to become a poor farmer with his aunt and uncle who have recently come back from the dead.

If you watch Benjamin Button backwards, some kid grows old and dies.

If you watch Donnie Darko backwards, it still makes no sense.

If you watch Neverending Story backwards it’s still only an hour and a half long

wanna play?

love,
colin

the internet is serious business.

I’m continually learning new things on guitar recently. I’m trying very hard not to suck anymore.. If you see me within the next few days with a guitar in my hands and you say “Hey Colin, play a descending G Minor scale,” I will be able to do so. I can also play some arpeggios, but I’m not very good at those yet. I think I have a few potential buyers for my firebird and I think I’m gonna get a Gretsch electromatic instead. They’re kind of big in person, but I think I’d get used to it. Here’s a picture of one..

I went to the beach with Morgan, Jeffrey, Josh, and Justin last Tuesday even though I felt like I could barf hundreds of times. I was a bit sick from Monday night. I had a few drinks and tried to fit in a drier and spilled stuff all over my tv and hit my head on some stuff etc etc. Anyway, like I said, I was feeling pretty bad the next morning but Justin was able to talk me into going, which was awesome because I ended up having a great time. When we got there we found a dead boar on the beach. Then we went back to the cabin and a few of the guys started pulling out Rock Band, so Justin and I went and hung out at the beach and climbed a tree and stuff.

I’ve been kind of wanting to ride my bike more recently, but the entire end of this spring break has been really rainy and gross. Bummer. I think I might try to go this upcoming Tuesday or something. I bought a tennis racket and a football so I can talk myself into going outside a lot more. Once I played tennis for around 5-10 minutes and my elbow got all swollen and I couldn’t really bend it for like a week. Luckily, Chae knows what he’s doing and has taught me proper technique so I don’t look and feel like an idiot as much.

Eric is in New York right now. I wanted to go with him pretty bad, but of course school got in the way. Plus it seemed like he kind of wanted to go by himself. Ah well. Maybe I’ll become a world traveler some other time, like after school is over or something.

I got some glasses recently. I can now see unbelievably well when I’m driving at night. For the past year or so it’s been really dangerous for me and everyone around me when I drive at night. Also, I can see the board really well at school now. And I went and saw a movie for the first time with glasses it it was crazy awesome. It’s weird how much of a difference they make. And I think I’m kind of getting used to the way they look on me now. I’m so excited about them that my sentences have become really short and stupid sounding.

I think that’s all for now. As promised, here’s this post’s .gif

-Colin

s’okay

Not much to post about recently. Mostly just working and going to school. However, in my 3D graphics class we’re doing some pretty cool stuff. We’ve started working with Adobe Flash and I’m having a lot of fun with it so far. The projects our teacher is giving us have been pretty cool. Hopefully I can post the finished projects on here sometime soon. I’ll advise you not to get your hopes up as far as artistic ability goes…it looks like I drew everything in Microsoft Paint. I think it makes it look funny though, so I don’t mind it.

I finally got a cd player installed in my car after driving around without one for close to a year now. I don’t even know how to handle all the awesome music I’ve been listening to. It rules.

I’ve been finding a lot of gif images randomly on the america onlines, so be expecting at least one per post from now on.

ya’ll come back now, ya hear?
Colin

flight

Flight of the Conchords are/is coming to Houston on May 6th. I’m really excited about it. I’m talkin’ big time.

The new episodes so far have been hilarious. Murray has much bigger speaking parts which makes it rule even more. Here’s a site I found that has all the new episodes if you’re interested in seeing them..

http://tv.blinkx.com/show/flight-of-the-conchords/c_IB7wjsLTeFT34T847d4gy2W2KK6LS7WwuiNg

Sorry this post isn’t very big. I just wanted to throw that stuff out there.

love,
colin

Oh yeah, Blink 182 are officially back together. That’s pretty cool. I’m interested to see what kind of jams they’re gonna pump out.

…all up at the club on a Sunday

Vacation is over. I’m working 5 days a week again which doesn’t seem that bad, but work teamed up with business calculus and finance classes are a team that can easily kick my ass. It’s like a bear and a giant dragon fighting a blind child covered in bacon with salmon stuffed in his pockets. I got an interview at a temp agency in beaumont. I’m kind of uneasy about the uncertainty of it though. I would have to work at a job for a month or so, then move on to another one, if there is another one to be had. I don’t know. I should probably give it a shot. It might rule big time. It can’t suck any worse than the job I have now.

I was an usher at my cousin’s wedding recently. I found out that being an usher is easily the most awkward job in the wedding cast and crew.

I thought I was going to be extremely late to the rehearsal dinner due to some misunderstandings in the directions I was given. It turns out I was 45 minutes earlier than every single person, which was cool because I like sitting outside churches in the ghetto when it’s 30 degrees outside. I finally got let in and I went to the restroom. It wasn’t much bigger than my body…I maybe had a couple feet of wiggle room. About halfway through my business, I heard “KSSHHH” above my head. I looked to see what was going on up there and was met with potpourri scented air freshener in my eyeballs from an automatic air freshener dispenser. That marked the first time I can remember cursing in a church.

The wedding itself went well, minus the confrontation I was forced to have with every person that came through the door. I guess it wouldn’t have been so bad if I was a little more outgoing. But anyway, I got to eat a lot of good food and hang out with my parents and my cousin. So it was a pretty good time.

I watched the Super Bowl with Justin and Josh the other day. It was intense. I got to see some funny commercials too, which is my favorite part. One of the best included this:

That’s all I’ve got for now guys.
love,
Colin