Maybe I'm naive, or maybe I'm just too optimistic.....but I really thought tonight would be different than high school. It wasn't. There was me, and then there was that other group. The group that I really wasn't friends with in Choir, but was just kinda there. It's not that they don't include me or accept me, it's that I just don't fit in. They have all of their inside jokes and all of that stuff.......and then there was me. me. So needless to say, I got out of there as soon as it would be respectful to Tom and Jenna Barsness and wouldn't make me seem weird.
Ya know......as I sit here and think about it.......college is actually the same way. My friends are not from band......they are from the dorms and people I've met in classes and people from our weekly "get togethers". So when we have band bonding and banquets and whatnot, I don't really have that friend group to hang with. It's the same situation all over again. Only it doesn't really bother me as much in college as it does with High School folk. Ghetto Bowler, I KNOW you know what I'm talkin about.
So yea.....it was a nice wedding and I think Tom and Jenna were quite happy.............I just wish I hadn't had to go alone and I wish I had some of my "real" friends there to chill with. bleah.

I was going to write something in here like 3 hours ago, before I started talking to Ghetto Bowler...............but now I totally forgot. And I don't think it was about S.A.......then again, maybe it was..................at any rate, I'm gonna go to bed.............or at least read for a while and then fall asleep in a pool of my own drool..........yummmm........wait. no. wait. what was I saying again. shoot. nevermind.

sonofawhitemanfromtown.......................I just scratched a sceeto bite and now it itches like a banshee...........

It's 3:30 a.m. Do you know what your children are doing?

In other news, I have continued the quest to find a new gaming name. Some of you have no idea the importance of this, and some of you don't care and use multiple aliases. At Wartburg College, many of the gamers are known by their aliases. They have one and only one gaming name, making it easy to know who you are playing with that particular evening. My present name is "Coffee Nazi." Rather orginal, if I do say so myself. There's a problem though: If we are playing a WWII-style game, then it's kinda confusing for me to play on the allies side. See the problem? Thus, I've been trying to think up a new one.
It's harder than you think. Before I was Coffee Nazi, I sported the name "Eat it." I will never live that one down. At an attempt to be funny, I was "is stupid" (or words to that effect).....so when I was killed, the computer would say Preyingdeath-->is stupid. I thought it was funny............but everyone thought I was saying that I was stupid. Hmmmm don't want to let that cat out of the bag..........So here's my idea for a new name. Either "D1SCO" or "~D1SCO~" I use the 1 to replace the "i" because when I leave ~disco~ as my calling card, I write the "i" in a special way. (For those of you who don't know, I use "disco" for two reasons. One, I'm trying to get it to replace "cool" or "awesome" or "groovy" as a new slang term. Secondly, it is my calling card---whenever I had a really hard test or anything in college, I would take a break and carve ~disco~ into my desk (it looks a little different in real life, I'll show you it sometime). So I figure that by the time I leave Wartburg, my calling card will be all over the desks and ~disco~ will be well-known. Thats the plan anyway.) So thats all I've come up with.....and that name doesn't look very good on the game I've been playing recently.....I should see what its like on CS. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanywhoo.........I should get to bed. peace out.

What began as a little shopping trip, ended as a $256 splurge. My mom and I went to the Mall of America to find me new black dress shoes. The ones I had been wearing were bought the summer before 10th grade and they were what I had used for dress shoes and marching shoes. Needless to say, they were far from worthy to be worn with my new band tux. So we wandered in to Nordstroms and left with a nice pair of $90 shiny black dress shoes. The trip would've ended there, but when I was trying on the black shoes, I noticed an intriguing pair of Skechers............so we went to the Skechers store to investigate. I left there with a trendy pair of brown shoes with the price tag of $65. Now we really WERE leaving.........but we passed the A&F store on the way out. I couldn't pass up a new pair of jeans, a pair of "fun" khakis, and a belt. Thus spending way more than I should have.
It was all worth it, though. I needed the black shoes so I could look cool at Tom Barsness and Jenna Michica's wedding on Friday........and the jeans, khakis, belt, and brown shoes will just make me that much more irresistable to the ladies. awwwww yea!

I pretty much made the decision to not choose either of the fabled "pathes". Narrowly averting disaster, a warning sign popped up today and I steered clear of the "old path". As far as the "new path" goes........I'm not quite sure. I would love to go down it, but I'm just not feeling it anymore and I don't think it would work anyway.
Meanwhile.....I need to go to the bathroom reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally bad.
*aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh*
Speaking of going to the bathroom, something humorous happened to me today (sunday). I had to play the trombone for all three church services. The first one, I sat all the way through next to my mother. The next, I sat with Suz Gerjets' family (no comment) for the first little bit and then left because I had to duece really bad. So I'm sitting there doing the business, trying to figure out what time it would be when I would have to be back in church.......when suddenly it hit me: that service ended at 10:15, NOT 10:30!!! AIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!!!! I finished up as fast as possible, ran downstairs, ran to the other side of the church, went up the backstairs, and walked out just in time to grab my trombone and play. Talk about close calls! That could've been disastrous..........and I would have no good excuse either. Whew.
Hey! I just did a post that had nothing to do with S.A.! yay!
As a parting word, I saw Kelly Spitzner today. In high school, many guys complained that she was too skinny. Well fellas, she gained just enough this year at college to assume her maximum hotness. A few of you.....actually only one of you.....know about Aaron Berg and mine's H.C. chart. Well, it has finally become true.................ask me about that sometime...............

I've been working with this kid for about two weeks now, and every time I work with him he reminds me of someone. Today I finally figured out who it is. Picture Erin O'Brien as a guy......thats him. Weird, huh?