#theawkwardmoment

#theawkwardmoment when you're up until 4am playing Black Ops with Kris with a K...

#theawkwardmoment when you realize you have no life because you know you'll be doing the same thing tomorrow night

#theawkwardmoment when AI bots kill you on the easiest difficulty

#theawkwardmoment when you are yelling at AI bots for killing you...

#theawkwardmoment when you're playing Call of Duty: World at War with a bunch of hackers who promote you from level 10 to level 65 10th prestige

#theawkwardmoment when players in other matches then accuse you of being a hacker

#theawkwardmoment when your excuse is "I'm not a hacker"

#theawkwardmoment when your (supposed) best friend says that Steve Holt (a fictional character) is cooler than you

#theawkwardmoment when Steve Holt won't stop retweeting you

#theawkwardmoment when your sister says she's a "90s kid" and she was born in 95... -____-

#theawkwardmoment when every night you plan to go to bed early and you always get into bed after 4

#theawkwardmoment when you decide to blog after 4 in the morning instead of going to sleep

#theawkwardmoment when you write a whole blog with hashtags as if this is Twitter


#theawkwardmoment when your laptop dies during a movie #firstworldpains

#theawkwardmoment when a second hashtag was used in a themed blog post


#theawkwardmoment when this isn't Twitter

#theawkwardmoment when you don't follow me on Twitter

#theawkwardmoment when I need to give you my Twitter name so you can follow me @NickGarrity

#theawkwardmoment when Nick whores himself out on his blog for followers

#theawkwardmoment when I'm out of ideas for this blog post

#theawkwardmoment when the blog ends abruptly

#theawkwardmoment when

DONE FOR THE SEMESTER

13 pages of ITW writing, 3 finals, and 2 weeks later (since I've posted on here) I'm finally done for the semester and in the comfort of my own bed in Nashua. I haven't had a single free moment to sit down and write     a blog because of all of the stress and work I've been juggling these past 2 weeks. But now here is my time to sit back at 3 in the morning in my own comfy bed and begin writing this post.

Hey. How's it going?

I'm off to a great start.

Finals suck. The end of the semester was so stressful because I had to pull multiple late-nighters in order to finish writing my ITW paper and/or study for finals. I've been staying up until 4 or close to 5 because my sleep schedule has been so messed up since Thanksgiving break. These past two weeks have just been Hell and I;m just glad I can relax. And by relax, I mean stay up until 3 playing Black Ops with Kris (with a K) Bartol. 

Note to self: Don't ever drink Mountain Dew after 1am ever again. I was up until almost 5 last night because I could not fall asleep no matter how hard I tried. 

Continuing with the theme of late-late-night/early morning happenings, Dominos is 10x more delicious past midnight. Especially bacon-pepperoni pizza. It is the best late-night snack and I will fight anyone who disagrees with me. It is a gift from the heavens when you're a hungry college student at 1 in the morning.

Whose Line Is It Anyway is funnier after 2am also. That, How I Met Your Mother and That 70s Show. All great at anytime though.

I missed my dog. He was so happy to see me when I walked through the door! I walked in and he was jumping like crazy and pushed me while he was jumping and almost knocked me over the couch. I'm just that lovable. 

I'm counting down the days until the Mighty Mighty Bosstones concert rather than counting down the days to Christmas. I see where my priorities are. (12 more days until the show.)

Allie was listening to songs from Kingdom Hearts while she was doing homework. *sniff* I'm so proud of her! :D

I got New Twitter. I like it, it's more organized, cleaner, and just looks cool. I like it a lot.
I don't have New Facebook though. And by New Facebook, I mean New New New New New Facebook. I've heard nothing but bad things about the new Timeline on Facebook though from people who have gotten it so that's why I'm not in any rush to get it.

Club Nintendo, a rewards program for buying and registering Nintendo games and such online, has 2 games that I could get online by redeeming coins I've earned. Hello Fluidity and Super Mario Kart from the SNES!

Sorry this is more random thoughts than fully written out stories. 

I'm hanging out with Kris and Kevin Le. We went to Burger King for FREE FRY DAY. We went through the drive thru and got 3 orders of their new fries. Then Kris took the wheel and went through again for 4 more orders. Badasses? You bet we are.

Arrested Development is the best show on television. Kevin Le, Kris and I are watching it from the beginning. This show is absolutely hilarious.

STEVE HOLT!

STEVE HOLT RETWEETED ME!

I thought about instigating another Twitter argument with @TheRealCathRose aka the feminazi bitch. I tweeted "I don't know why it takes women so long to get ready, how long does it take to put on an apron?" Boom that just happened.

Every time I say STEVE HOLT I have to put my arms up like Steve Holt. Always.

I was playing Words With Friends like a boss when the other player played the word Jeep. For 139 POINTS!!! I debated quitting right then and there.

STEVE HOLT!

The End of the Semester

Another Monday, another blog day.

Life's been busy busy busy with this being the last week of classes. I can sense the stress whenever I talk to someone. My sociology professor asked the class today "Ready for semester break?" and all the sighs of relief and YES's I heard make it clear that we're all ready to go home. Finals suck. I want to go home to hang with all my Nash peeps.

I bought a Nintendo DS! I went on the Keene State Class of 2015 Facebook page (which has turned into Craigslist: Keene with everyone selling stuff) and someone had an original DS, Mario Kart DS, and Pokemon Sapphire for $30. I commented saying "Make it $20 and you got a deal." I was kind of surprised when he sent me a message to my inbox saying "Ok, only because you have a Gyarados as your profile picture." BOOYAH!  I was honestly not expecting that to work. I was expecting him to come back at 30 and I would have accepted. But I gladly accepted! Asked him if it worked perfectly, he said yes. Only problem is that the top section of the DS where the top screen is is sort of broken and falling off. Nothing major, and it doesn't affect the way the games play, so I can deal with it. I went into Harrison's Comic Store and saw a Gameboy Advance for $40 (without a battery cover it was $35) and Pokemon Sapphire for another $20 so I'll be more than happy to take this.

Speaking of Pokemon, I brought a couple of Gameboys back to Keene for Allie and I. She gets Pokemon Yellow (Technically Special Pikachu Edition for those of you who feel the need to correct me saying Yellow isn't the proper name) and I get Pokemon Blue (Technically Pokemon Blue Version...shut up) but I'm going to be playing Sapphire (Version) more than Blue. I've been playing Blue since I was 7. Never played Sapphire. Blue is one of my favorite games of all time. Top 5. But I'd rather play a new version first.

Speaking of Pokemon and repeating segues, everyone check out this web comic called Super Effective. If you've ever played a Pokemon Gameboy game you will love this. There were many times where I was dying laughing. Click this link:

Super Effective

Beat Modern Warfare 3. Great campaign.

In Criminal Justice and we're talking about juveniles and the death penalty at the moment. My Professor is saying "No one under the age of 16 can be subject to the death penalty" which is fine and everything. He then went on to say this: "It doesn't matter if someone under 16 kills the pope...or someone more important...like Lady Gaga." I almost laughed out loud. It was clearly a joke though, and I found it very funny. Side note: Not a Gaga fan. (Thought she had a penis for about 6 - 8 months after I found out who she was.)

I have a goatee now. It's different. Weird. I shaved because No Shave November was over. As I was shaving I wanted to see how it looked. Right as I finished shaving it to a goatee my razor died and I was gonna go back to finish the job after dinner. Allie laughed at me for a good 3 - 4 minutes straight when she saw me. Then Virginia couldn't look at me without laughing. Other people have looked at me, smiled and said "You know No Shave November is over right?" Thanks for the update. I need to shave it off. I don't mind it but if people are just going to laugh at me I don't want it. After No Shave November, I'm gonna be shaving more often. Having a beard wasn't bad but I'm good with being smooth for a while.

I hit 3,000 tweets. Woo.

They played Everlong in the DC at lunch. It's my favorite song of all time. I was a little excited. Especially since it was the acoustic version. I like the original better but it's still amazing.

I've been waking up at 2pm every single day except for today since Thanksgiving break. It's depressing when you're awake for 2 hours then the sun goes down and I can't get to sleep until around 4am. I'm practically nocturnal.

Finally I need to address something. I've been told that my language that I use on here (i.e. using the words 'prick' and 'fuck') is unnecessary to get my point across. I was told the same thing about my Facebook, that I shouldn't use that kind of language on there. I stopped on Facebook. I've been censoring myself and making sure I don't use that kind of language. But this isn't Facebook. My readers, however many of you there are, choose to read what I have to say and what I write. If you don't like the way I write don't read. It won't offend me if you stop reading. I know a ton of people who don't read this, sad but true. I don't care. If you don't want me offending you, don't read this. I'm going to write about whatever is on my mind. That's why I started this. That's the reason why I write these blogs. This is my public journal. I write things that are on my mind because I can. People just choose to read.

Otherwise keep reading! Even though quite a few people have told me they don't read it, those of you who do, I appreciate it.

Til next time.

Vacation, Vlogging, and Very Annoying People.

I haven't blogged in a while. "I haven't had time" is the usual excuse, and it's true, I haven't. But this time for some reason I just haven't been in the mood to. Whenever I had the chance I just didn't feel like it. It's a Monday night, meaning I'm in Criminal Justice, so this is a prime time to force myself to. A lot has happened over the past few days.

FIRST! Thanksgiving. The day itself was normal. Turkey, family, blah blah blah. The real excitement happened at around 9pm that night. Kris, Erika and I went to Toys R Us to pick up my new PS3. The line wrapped around the entire complex. It took 1 hour 45 minutes to just get in, then another 20 minutes in line at the electronics department to get to the counter.

I heard in line outside that the only way to get an iPod is to get a ticket from an employee inside and the tickets were for iPods only. So I get to the counter and tell the employee what I want and she said "Do you have a ticket?" "Umm no, no one said anything to me about a ticket." She called over to another employee and said "Do PS3's need tickets?" and the other employee said yes. I got pissed and almost went off on her. "No one told me about tickets, I heard they were only for iPods!" and a woman behind me who had been behind me the entire time outside and inside stepped forward and said "He's right! He even asked and they said PS3's didn't need tickets!" I never actually asked but she was helping me out which I really appreciated. The employee looked over at the other one and she said "Just give him one."

I really liked how a complete stranger was helping me out. I spoke to her maybe once or twice in line and she stepped forward to help me out just because I stood next to her for 2 hours. I don't know her name, or who she is, but I like her she's nice. I guess the feeling of the Christmas season is already kicking in, even on Gray Thursday (It was still Thanksgiving when I got my PS3 on "Black Friday" so Erika called it Gray Thursday.)

Throughout the night I decided to try vlogging for the first time. I posted 4 videos on YouTube.

During my vacation I barely spent anytime at home. I spend the majority of my vacation, usually 12 hours out of my days, at Kris's house. Moviefest-ing and playing Call of Duty. We did go outside at one point to drive me home but that's about it. Sunlight...ew... Joking, but we went to the Holiday stroll too with everyone. Started out with 8 of us, then we met up with another group and our group of 8 turned into 24 people standing together in a group on Main St. Those 24 then divided into 4 sub-groups but still a mass of people nonetheless. The Stroll itself was awesome. Went to a church to see Kris's mom sing and surprisingly didn't burst into flames as soon as I walked in which was a plus. It was really weird seeing people from high school. Even though it's only been 5 months since graduation and 3 months since I left Nashua, it was still strange seeing them.

I feel really bad though. I went to the stroll with a group of people but left with Allie and a few other people. I didn't even get a chance to say bye to them :( It wasn't by choice I wish I could have seen them. Even though I'm seeing them all again in 3 weeks I still wish I could have said one last goodbye before we all left.

Yesterday was a terrible, terrible day. First I wake up to my parents yelling at me telling me I have so much to do. Then I find out that even though I told my boss I couldn't work, I had a 3 - 9 shift. I called Shaws and they said I am expected to show up for the shift, late or not. So Allie's mom rushed Allie and I down to Keene to get to Shaws as soon as possible. We got to Shaws at 5pm exactly, 2 minutes into the shift I find that someone replaced me. I told him to go home. He called a manager and they said for me to go home. All of that stress and panic, the rushing around and having Allie's mom drive us to Keene early just to get sent home. They didn't even tell me I had a replacement. They told me to come in for my shift, I did, then they sent me home. Probably getting written up for this.

Here's a funny story. Last night I'm in my room writing a Criminal Justice paper at around 12:15. My roommate Bobby was asleep and Jason laying in bed. All of a sudden there's a lot of hard banging on the door. I get up and open the door and 2 cops, 2 campus safety officers, 2 RAs and our RD are all standing outside my room. "...Hello..." I said. One of the cops asked if he could come in, I said yes, turned on the lights and two cops came in and I shut the door. They said they smelled marijuana. We all gave consent to the search and they searched all of our stuff. I gave consent because I had nothing to hide. I've never smoked marijuana in my life so I had no problem with them searching my stuff. After the search they took down my information and left without bothering me.

I did have a campus safety officer come in after and look directly at me and said "I know you've definitely been smoking!" And he went on for 5 minutes telling me that I should stop smoking in the room because one spark could kill everyone in the building and he "doesn't give a shit about if [I] smoked tonight" but is worried I'm going to burn down the building. His reasoning to call me out? My eyes were bloodshot. My eyes have been itchy and dry all week and I was rubbing them because I was tired when I was working on my paper. Awesome dude, you're a prick. Again, I've never smoked in my life. Honest.

This past week I went to bed around 4 - 4:30 every night just because I was never tired. My sleeping schedule is now fucked. I could not fall asleep last night. I was up until 4:30 again trying to fall asleep for 2 hours and couldn't. After my terrible day I just wanted to sleep but I couldn't. It's gonna take until middle of December when the semester is over for my sleeping schedule to get back to normal. Then it won't need to be normal. Damn.

Baggage is a terrible show. I hate Jerry Springer. But whenever it's on I can't stop watching it. Kris put it on one night and Kris, Kevin Le and I watched it on Game Show Network. We have a habit of turning on GSN and watching it for hours and hours. We watched Baggage, Lingo (hosted by Bill Engvall who I really like), Family Feud, and The $25,000 Pyramid. I love game shows. Except for women on Lingo who think that because their on TV they need to act crazy. Every time this woman won a round, she would make her hands look like guns and shoot in the air. PEW PEW PEW! After that, we didn't care if the other team won we just wanted her and her teammate to lose. Unlike on Family Feud when Cizzle C. was playing. That was the name on his name tag. Cizzle C. He was awesome.

The semester is almost over...this is great! I know when my finals are, I know when I can go home, all I need to do is tell HR at Shaws that I'm going home for a month and I'm all set! I have one more Criminal Justice class after this, no ITW classes this week, and no ITW final at all! Loving this.

Long post because I had a lot to cover. Hopefully my next posts aren't me bitching.

Til next time.
PEW PEW PEW!

Fear.

I've always been afraid of a stranger being in my house and me not knowing about it. But why do I jump into my bed to avoid being close to the edge if my bed thinking subconsciously that someone could be under my bed?

As I'm typing this I know for a fact it sounds stupid and ridiculous and childish. I just don't understand why I have this "monster under the bed" feeling when I'm 19 years old. Another part that makes me feel stupid is that this fear comes out only at night.

I've only told a few people about this fear. Not that there's a monster under the bed, but that my biggest fear is someone being in my house, specifically someone out to hurt me and my family.

Conveniently posted at 4 in the morning. Needed to rant.

Home!

It's good to be back home. I needed a break from Shaws, school, and Keene in general. Nothing wrong with Keene but its good to be back in Nashua.

This is my first blog coming from my iPod. Blogging: Bartol style. I left my iPod home last time I went home by accident and didn't know there was a blogger app. This is kind of hard to type but his will help me blog on the road and write everything I want instead of waiting until I go on my laptop. Not life-changing but cool.

Today I hung out with Aneudys, Leah, Mike an Jake at the mall. I missed hanging out with everyone. In Dicks Sporting Goods Aneudys and I found an "archery lane" to try out bows before you buy them so we asked one of the employees to try even though we weren't buying anything. He was really cool about it. I told him we didnt want to come across as douchy typical kids and he said, and I quote,

"You seem like good kids. Don't worry about this. It makes my day go by faster and it keeps you from stealing shit." So he showed me how to shoot the bow and basically how to feel like a badass.

I'm getting a haircut then I'm going to Friendly's with Meghan, Adam and Allie. Again, I missed this! I wish all of my Nash peeps would go to Keene. Just to hang with me.

Kris, if you read this, I have a devious plan. Not relating to Operation Awe-Sauce. My plan can only be executed after January and needs some planning. I will tell you more soon enough...

Speaking of Kris... He promised me a Mountain Dew Live Wire... He isn't bringing me one until Christmas... He shouldn't bother coming home.

Short blog today. More to come later in the week!

You caught me...I'm sexist.

I was not expecting so many comments on my last blog. Holy crap. 7 comments and many accusations later, the only thing I want to say is that I'm not sexist! Honestly I'm not. For those who think I am, you clearly don't even know me. To the anonymous person(s) who commented on my last post, I never said that all women comedians are never funny, I said that I just haven't found a woman comedian who I think in MY opinion that is funny. And even if someone thinks that women comedians are not funny, that's their opinion. Do you think bitching and whining about someone's opinion is going to change their opinion? No. By disagreeing with what others say, that's all your opinion too.

Fuck @TheRealCathRose. She's the one that started all this. Let's get a bunch of people to go on Twitter, make an account, revive old ones, whatever, and message the living hell out of her account. Who's with me?

That's the last thing I'm going to say about this clusterfuck.

My sister Alyssa came up this weekend to visit and see Rocky Horror Show that was playing at Keene. It was great to see her again and just hang out with her, something I haven't done in over 3 months. It's too bad I worked through Rocky Horror though, I was actually looking forward to seeing it. I owe it to myself now to at least see the movie since I had to miss the show.

I skyped with Kris last night. Then we Hangout'd on Google+ with his brother John. We talked about Operation: Awe-Sauce, ugly girls, and how scary Kris's friend Brittany looks in Fiddler on the Roof (completely irrelevant to the 'ugly girls.')

Hangout on Google+ is cool. Better than buying Group Video on Skype.

Operation Awe-Sauce is almost ready to start. I just need to figure out a few more things. Starts over Thanksgiving break. 

Criminal Justice, then 7 hours of work on Tuesday, then home! I honestly can't wait to go home. I want to see my whole family on Thanksgiving, my friends, and my dog. I miss Buddy 8[ The Holiday Stroll

My whole family (parents, aunt, cousins) came to pick Alyssa up and wanted to see the campus. I felt like a shitty tour guide because all I kept saying was "these are more dorm buildings...more dorm buildings...don't know what happens in this building..." Even Allie said I'm a shitty tour guide. As they were about to leave my Dad told me he wanted to take most of the stuff I was going to bring home on Tuesday night that day. He took 2 of my boxes of stuff, my laundry, my Wii and PS3. I was fine with that until I FINALLY HAD FREE TIME and couldn't play my PS3. Oh well, it's two days.

"Sometimes I read the things you tweet and am surprised you have a girlfriend." - My girlfriend
Thanks Allie.

I want Minecraft.

I want to stop wasting my money on scratch tickets. Allie says I have a problem. To that I say that I've only spend $20 dollars on scratch tickets in the past week or two. I can stop anytime I want! I don't want to stop  buying scratch tickets, I want to stop losing and wasting my money.

Still need to tweak my layout, I've had a complaint that the text was too hard to read. Hopefully this is better. As always leave your criticisms and accusations of me being sexist in the comments below or don't hide behind the Anonymous title and tell me what you think on Facebook when I post this. :D

Honestly though I'd like your feedback on either Facebook or in the comments. Much appreciated!

I might be in Kris's film project. He needs a cast and crew, and I'm just the guy for the job. Sign me up!

Let's talk about Twitter. "What? Nick talking about his Twitter on his blog? UNHEARD OF!" I know! But this is big:

The Offspring retweeted me, Gabriel Iglesias and IGN follow me, and T.J. Miller, Kevin Butler (Fake VP of PlayStation) and Mountain Dew have tweeted and spoken to me. I'm as popular as Michael Jackson. Proven fact.

Out of things to say.
Abrupt ending.

New Title, New Layout!

R.I.P. "I'm Hilarious" 9/19/2011 - 11/16/2011

I changed my title! "I'm Hilarious" is no more. Now this is #collegelife. (Read that title however you want, I'm just going to say it as "college life" not as "hashtag college life.") I needed to change it and I feel like this fits the theme of my blog and my life more than before. With a new title comes a different layout. I spent a while trying to fix it to make it perfect, I like it better than the plain black.

The stuff I write in this blog isn't going to change. I changed the title to fit what I was writing. Pretty much the only things that have changed are the title and the layout. The URL is the same too (nickgarrity.blogspot.com.)

Now let's get started.

Feminists suck. (Starting on a high note.) I was watching Whose Line is it Anyway and Kathy Greenwood was on. She's not funny. At all. Kris agrees with me.

@NickGarrity: "Does anyone like Kathy on Whose Line? No? Ok that's what I thought."
Twitter user: "@NickGarrity well like, most women comedians aren't found funny. There are some but...Always seems like it isn't as much. There's a thing.:
Twitter user: "@NickGarrity girl comedians are never funny."

Enter @TheRealCathRose. @TheRealCathRose decided to tweet Kris and I about our tweets.

Here's our whole conversation.

@TheRealCathRose: "@KrisConUnK @NickGarrity oh shut up. And yeah it's sexist."
@NickGarrity: "@TheRealCathRose is this tweet supposed to be funny? Cuz its not..."
@TheRealCathRose: "@NickGarrity @KrisConUnK no it's intention is to tell you to #stfu"
@NickGarrity: "@TheRealCathRose Let me take a wild guess. Youre a feminist?"
@Nick Garrity: "@TheRealCathRose and #whatwasthepointofthehashtag in your tweet?"
@TheRealCathRose: "@NickGarrity let me take a wild guess? You'd get a rib removed just to suck your own dick?'
@NickGarrity: "@TheRealCathRose damn you know me too well, stranger who is yelling at me via twitter. #randomhashtag"
@NickGarrity: "@TheRealCathRose and I wouldn't get a rib removed to suck my own dick, that's a woman's job :O"
@TheRealCathRose: "nah, women have enough. #boring jobs to do already."
@NickGarrity: "Serious question though, how did you come across my tweet and @KrisConUnK's?"
@TheRealCathRose: "it's Twitter. A public domain. How do you think?"
@KrisConUnK: "@TheRealCathRose @NickGarrity how do YOU think?"
@NickGarrity: "@TheRealCathRose Do you get any satisfaction from being a bitch over Twitter? I asked you a simple question and you gave me a bitchy answer. Advocate women's rights. I don't care, but just because someone says something you don;t like doesn't mean you bark at them. If I yelled at you everytime you said something I didn't like, I'd be tweet-screaming at you all fucking day."
@TheRealCathRose: "@NickGarrity just so I've got this straight. You talk sexist shit, get pulled up on it BY ME, and I'm the bitch. That's male logic for you...who made you king dick? I'll do as I please [and] do it. I'd enjoy squashing you."
@NickGarrity: "@TheRealCathRose I'm not sexist. I merely said I don't know any funny women comedians. you're the one who is getting her panties in a bunch. Is there any point to yelling at someone over twitter about this? This just makes me hate you even more than I did before and you talk about how i'm sexist where you're the one saying that what I'm saying is based on "male logic" hypocrite much? Think about that the next time you try and prove a point. that calling someone out for "male logic isn't promoting equality. it's just you contradicting yourself. now hop off my dick.
@TheRealCathRose: "@NickGarrity more male logic..berating sexist comments in response to sexist comments. We've got orselves a bright spark here [and] what 'dick'? That flaccid piece of skin between your legs?"
@NickGarrity: "@TheRealCathRose again why are you calling out my sexist comments" with more sexist comments?"
@TheRealCathRose: "@NickGarrity what, don't like it NOW?"
@NickGarrity: "@TheRealCathRose i'm just pointing this out because youre a hypocrite because of it."

FIRST, I'd like to say that I was proud of myself when I said the comment about sucking dick being a woman's job because her comeback to that was that it was "#boring" but I didn't mean it. I only said it to piss her off and that's not how I feel. It was 2am when I sent that and I normally wouldn't say something like that. Just wanted to clear that part up. SECOND, I think we have a Level 7 BIIIIIIITCH on our hands. I said nothing sexist for her to start this bitch-fest. Saying that there are no funny women comedians isn't sexist, it's pretty much a fact (Except I found two exceptions, Kathy Griffin and Ellen Degeneres are both hilarious. (Ellen used to do stand up))

I'll keep updating you as this train-wreck continues.

@NickGarrity: "Just wanna say that feminists piss me the fuck off"

I had a dream that Kelsey (@kelseyoneshoe) had a baby and I was taking care of him.

In my ITW we were peer editing our 15-page papers. I read a paper that could have been written BETTER by an 8th grader. It was painful to read. The title was "Socio-economic class: The society of Martial Arts" but focused more on naming different kinds of martial arts and giving the history of Bruce Lee. I was cringing at some points reading this paper. This wasn't a college paper this was a more of a "Hey! Let me write down everything I know about Martial Arts that has nothing to do with the title" paper.

For the first time ever I'm doing Black Friday. I found this deal where it's a 160GB PS3,  and not one but two games (Rachet and Clank: All 4 One and LittleBigPlanet 2) all for $200. I'l be standing in line at Gamestop at Midnight.

Kris made a Christmas List on his blog...I want to.

My list:
iPhone
HDTV

...Yep that's pretty much it.

I can't believe it's been over a week since I last posted a blog. Working 31 hours a week sucks. Even all of my friends are saying I've "fallen off of the face of the earth." and that sucks. I miss hanging out with my friends. The bitchy and douche-y customers I have everyday aren't as fun...

Leave your comments on if you like the new layout, hate it, or any opinions you have. Not sure if this layout will stay. We'll see what happens.

Also! I'm up to 998 blog views. After this one goes up it will pass 1000. Thanks to everyone who reads this! It's the reason why I keep writing. If no one read this I wouldn't do it. Thanks a lot!

Til next time.

I NEED YOUR HELP!

The Kris Bartol and I are brainstorming some more ideas for Operation: Awe-Sauce. We basically know what to do, we just need to figure out how to actually start Operation: Awe-Sauce. We need to figure out how to do it and how to get it off the ground, but we know what we're doing for it. Just a matter of getting it out to you guys, our loyal readers and fans across the globe! Really, I have people reading my blog in Russia, Germany and Australia while Kris has readers in Russia, United Kingdom, Latvia, Germany and Indonesia. Instead of just talking about it, Op:Aw will be put in motion come Thanksgiving break. It will be revealed after. Not sure how soon after, but expect some news during Thanksgiving break and the full reveal at some point in Mid-December at the beginning of Winter break. Op:Aw isn't the real name though. Name is in the works.

My sincerest apologies go out to Brad who I failed to mention in my last blog. He is the man who made my trip to the midnight release at GameStop for Modern Warfare 3 possible. I paid him $5 to give Dave and I a ride. Brad, it will never happen again.

I almost got electrocuted a little while ago. My power strip shocked me as I was plugging my laptop in because my finger got too close. It was fun. And by fun I mean terrifying. It was a small shock, though and I'm fine. 

Speaking of almost dying. The fire alarm went off around 10:30 on Thursday. The entire building had to go across the street in the cold. It was nice out today, why couldn't it have gone off then? Either way we were outside only to find out it was a drill. Congratulations to all of the Randall residents who survived this tragic event. We will recover! 

Procrastination Nation rejoice! I was up at 1:30 last night cleaning my room. I was cleaning my room to get away from my criminal justice homework I should have been doing. That's a new level of procrastination. I thought my procrastination was bad before but WHOA cleaning? That's a new low for me.

My PS3 won't read game discs anymore... it'll read movie discs, but not my games. I think it's because those are Blu-ray. Now if I want to I can send in my PS3 to Sony and get it fixed and I'll have it back in two weeks...for $100. It's out of warranty. Awesome, right? My buddy Aneudys told me that GameStop might have a 160GB PS3 with Uncharted 3 for $200 on Black Friday. So here are my options...

I can pay $100, lose my PS3 for two weeks, have it come back after Thanksgiving and hopefully have it fixed.
Option number 2? Pay $100 more than I would for a brand spankin new PS3, get 40GB more than before and a new game. I think I'll take option 2. Only con to this is that I need to buy an external hard drive to transfer my save files. Not complaining though.

Kristof almost spoiled the end of Modern Warfare 3 for me. He texted me saying one small detail. Crisis averted. He didn't spoil anything. If he said anymore it probably would have. I would have had to fly out to Ohio, shove my foot up his ass, then fly back. Consider this a warning, Kris...

I worked 4 days in a row from Thursday to Sunday, have tonight off, then work everyday until Saturday except for Wednesday. I close and have closed every single night. My paycheck's gonna be sick but is it worth the cost of a social life? I think not. It's not worth the burns and cuts on my arms and hands from the hot case where the pre-cooked food is. Is GameStop hiring? They never are... I want to work at GameStop.

Can I just say it feels good to be writing in my blog. I'm jealous of Kris who posts a new post almost everyday. I never have time to. Writing here is a stress reliever for me. I love writing. Even if no one reads this or cares about this.

Moving on, here's a joke. How many PETA members does it take to change a lightbulb?
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None. PETA can't change anything.

PETA can suck my dick. They are taking jabs at my childhood! They are attacking Mario, the world's favorite plumber, for wearing a Tanooki suit! (For those who have never played Super Mario Bros. 3 or who didn't buy Super Mario 3D Land that came out today, a Tanooki is a racoon/dog like animal. In the game, mario looks like a raccoon and flies around with that suit.) PETA decided to protest that because they claim that by wearing a Tanooki suit, Mario is encouraging the wearing of fur. IT'S A FUCKING GAME! No one when playing any Mario game would think "Hm, I could really use a fur coat right about now." Here's a full article about this shit show. Click here!

A few days ago was 11/11/11 so my friends and I all counted down to 11:11:11 to make a wish. Then after I wished the most epic 11:11 wish of my life, I wished everyone on Facebook and Twitter a "HAPPY 11/11/11 11:11!" Yesterday I noticed the time stamp on both my tweet and status and they both said Nov. 11, 2011 at 11:12pm...That's a fail. I feel ashamed.

I have some life changing news...I want to change the name of my blog. "I'm Hilarious" came from me being too cocky thinking I was funnier than I thought I was. It also was me being ironic because I know I'm not funny all the time. But that needs to chance. I need your help though. To all of my 20 something avid readers that read each of my blog posts, I want your input. What should my new name be? Give me your suggestions via Twitter @NickGarrity, Facebook, in the comments section below or via text if you have my number. Be as creative as possible. I'm not guaranteeing that I will use your suggestion but I might think of a name based on it so please send in some names! I'll check them all.

That about does it for this post. This may be the last post until next Monday and very well could be the last post as "I'm Hilarious." Looking forward to the suggestions if any, and will write soon!

Sociology Bloggity

Operation: Awe-Sauce is well on it's way to being awesome. I'm still keeping it secret, even though Kris has said what it is on a few occasions on his blog what it is. (Damn you and your big mouth, Kris...) Here's a hint: This is gonna be a project that involves more than Kris and I. Could involve many more people. Of course I'll keep you updated. There will be a Facebook group eventually, so we'll keep you updated on our blogs until that is live.

@NickGarrity "Today is gonna suck. Exam in Plant Diseases, forgot to do assignments for the class, laundry, then wasting my time in criminal justice..."
@NickGarrity "at least Modern Warfare 3 comes out tonight."
@KrisConUnK "@NickGarrity that's right, nick, think of the positives. Mw3, that is."
@NickGarrity "@KrisConUnK I'm pumped haha"
@KrisConUnK "@NickGarrity I'm pumped too, but I'm pumped full of sadness, not adrenaline..."
@NickGarrity "@KrisConUnK That is possibly the saddest  tweet I've ever seen"

Kris isn't allowed to have his PS3 at college...it makes me sad. I wanna play Modern Warfare 3 with him...or even Black Ops. He's waiting to get Modern Warfare 3 for Christmas. Hell, even though Modern Warfare 3 just came out and the multiplayer trumps Black Ops, I'll still play it if Kris had his PS3 8[

Speaking of Modern Warfare 3, I went to my first midnight launch for a game on Monday night. My buddy Dave and I preordered it a few days ago. We got to GameStop around 11:20 and the store was packed inside and the line went outside reaching the doors of the Dick's Sporting Goods next door. They had a good system though. Before jumping in line, you went into the store in a second line, go to the desk, pay for the game, get your receipt and go to the back of the line. That way, you give them your receipt, then instantly get your copy and run out. It was fast and easy and we got out of GameStop at around 12:10.

I walked up to get my copy and asked the guy who was giving the game out "So this is kind of a big deal? Because I'm just here to preorder Mario Party..." and he instantly said "You know, The Black Eyed Peas Experience just came out today!" Glad the guys working there have a sense of humor even though they were just mobbed by 150 people and working past midnight.

The thing that made the midnight release worth it though was that I got a Call of Duty Elite dog tag. When Dave and I went up to pay for our copies I asked the guy at the desk how long they've had people waiting in the store and he said "We've had people sitting in the store with lawn chairs since 2 o'clock. It's been crazy. It's too bad, you missed all the giveaways though..." (They gave away a 4000 Microsoft Points card and a $100 Turtle Beach headset, along with other prizes I'm guessing...) "...and now all I have are these dog tags left." Then he tossed them to us. Midnight release = Worth it.

I'll write a whole review on the game after I beat the campaign and try out Spec Ops. If you're interested, keep checking back for that.

My Fantasy Football team is getting worse every single week. I lost to the worst team in our league. The team was 0-8-0 walking into our match up last week. My team was 3-5-0. I thought I had this in the bag. I even had more projected points than them. Turns out 2 of my players turned out to be injured so those were 2 opportunities lost. Now I'm 3-6. I'm in 9th place in the league and my chances of making the playoffs aren't looking too great. 2 teams have already clinched playoff spots. I need to make top 8! 9th place out of 12 teams doesn't sound too hard, but it's not looking good for me at all. Might need to do some major adding/dropping.

I love Spotify. It's like having Pandora and iTunes with unlimited music. I'm fulfilling my nostalgic needs by listening to a lot of 90s bands like Sugar Ray and *NSYNC, Stone Temple Pilots and The Offspring. I love being able to find songs I haven't listened to in 10+ years on Spotify or seeing one of my friends on Facebook listening to them.

I think the best part of working at Shaws is hearing old songs over the speakers that I haven't heard in a long time too. They play a lot of Smash Mouth, Rob Thomas, and a TON of Santana. My only complaint is that I love hearing these songs, but I hear them everyday. They have a small playlist that they play every day. I can only listen to Collide by Howie Day so many times.

New England, why you so crazy? This weather here is so messed up. Two weeks ago we have 8 inches of snow, it all melted within two days, yesterday morning it was around 20 degrees, and today I'm walking around campus without a sweatshirt. Who wants to go to Hampton Beach around Christmas time? I'm sure it'll be fine seeing this kind of weather happening.

Alright that's about all I got.
One last hint about Operation: Awe-Sauce
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It'll be funny.
Til next time.

Mixing Things Up This Time

I think I have a

creative idea for this

A blog of haikus?

My inner poet

is coming out for this one.

This should be kinda cool.

Kinda cool or very bad.

Sometimes I write these things wrong,

or they don't make sense.

So Kris and I have

A cool plan. It's called Project:

Just Wait and See, Guys.

Kris has said it in

his blog. Check it out to see.

It's gonna be awesome.

To see his blog now,

Click this link that I post here

Here's some blog views, Kris

Here's a hint. It has

both of us. That makes it cool.

It just does, okay?

Seriously though,

I'm really looking forward

To it. You should too.

Here's a second hint.

It will go together with

our blogs. Hand in hand.

Moving on, this is hard.

That is, in fact, what she said.

Not what I meant, perv.

This is really hard

writing in nothing but these

haikus. It hurts my brain.

I'm just afraid these won't

make sense when I write them.

The name's Bond. James Bond.

I pre-ordered my

Modern Warfare 3 copy.

Goodbye, social life.

Work kind of sucks now.

I'm still the new guy to them.

They talk down to me.

My boss even calls me

the new guy. I've been working

there for a month now.

I applied to be

an RA next semester.

I can't be one though.

I couldn't get 2

recommendations. My boss

says that I'm too new.

Her excuse was that she

doesn't know me well enough.

And there goes my chance.

I don't know who I

could get recommendations

from now. This kinda sucks.

On the bright side I

won't have to move twice this year.

But no free housing.

On that depressing

note, it's 3 in the morning

and I'm tired as hell.

Its actually more

like 4 in the morning 

because of the clocks.

Damn you, changing clocks

and the daylight savings time.

You're messing me up.

Good night, blog readers!

Or good morning when you read

this. Until next time!

Remember, Remember, The Fifth of November

Happy Guy Fawkes Day! Time for 3 new songs. First one isn't like the others I post but it still works.
Enjoy.


1812 Overture; Scene from V for Vendetta
(You might have to watch this on YouTube, not here though)


Is She Really Going Out With Him? - Sugar Ray

Days of the Week - Stone Temple Pilots

Humans VS Zombies: Final Thoughts

After a long action-packed, paranoia-filled week, Humans VS Zombies has come to a close. Last night was the last mission of the game and would decide the winners. 14 humans went up against the rest of the zombies and the zombies came out on top. Zombies have won Humans VS Zombies again!

HvZ was the funnest thing I've done since I got here at KSC. Right from 12:01 am that cold Wednesday night, I had fun doing it 24 hours a day. I would always be cautious going outside, whether I was looking for zombies to defend myself against or to see if I needed to haul ass towards a human and pray to the HvZ Gods that their gun misfired. At 4am walking back to my room or sitting in my room protecting myself from the zombie infestation checking the official site to see how many humans and zombies there were. It was always fun for me.

After surviving 48 hours almost exactly, I got infected. I'll admit, I was pissed. But as soon as I got my first tag, the game was fun again. I ended the game with two tags, and oh did they feel good. Nothing feels better than running up to and touching a complete stranger from behind and surprising them...should I word that differently?

The missions were the most exciting part of the game. It was literally every human against every zombie completing tasks to earn bonuses throughout the game like less/more stun time for zombies which could make or break the zombies' plans to infect every human. During one mission, the humans needed to protect 3 "scientists" holding "biogel" (big boxes) and if they got the biogel out of the building safely they win the mission and zombies were stunned for 20 minutes instead of 15 until the next mission.

My absolute favorite part of the game was the people though. Every single player that played the game. They are the reason why I got so much out of this game. This wasn't only a game though. In all seriousness, it was a bonding experience among 90+ of us. It was a community based game. I felt like I was a part of a community. The HvZ community.

I would walk down Appain Way when I was a human, dual-wielding my Mavericks, and I saw another human who I didn't even know with a Nerf gun, we made eye contact and both of us would salute each other. We were complete strangers and just the fact that we were both Humans instantly made us allies and acknowledged each other's existence when normally we wouldn't. Allie would laugh at me every single time I saluted someone but it was an occurring thing that happened throughout the week, human or zombie.

On the other hand, anytime I saw someone with a headband, I would nod at them. You know, the 'Sup' nod. Then I would go over and introduce myself and talk about the game. I was fascinated by this. The fact that all of us, who would have never known each other, are making friendships by walking up to these kids we don't know and striking conversations instantly with no awkwardness that comes with meeting someone for the first time.

Facebook was a huge part of the game, surprisingly. There was a beginning Facebook group Called Keene State College Humans VS Zombies where every player was added to it. Then there was KSC Zombies were all of the zombies coordinated together and rallied to get all of the humans.

I've made so many friends throughout this entire experience this way by just walking up to people playing and striking up a conversation. Now I know the majority of the people playing and I can wave to them when I see them or say hi when we walk past each other with just the knowledge that we survived the zombie apocalypse or tried spreading the infection together.

The last mission was Tuesday night. The last 14 humans needed to walk all the way down Appain to Butler Court which was their safe zone, then walk back to the very beginning of Appain. If they did, the humans would win the entire game. The zombies surrounded the humans and rushed at them. After that, 1 human survived. Justin Smith. Justin Smith was able to get away from the zombies and make it to Butler Court safely. To make it fair, 3 of the Moderators joined Justin to try and help him down Appain. The zombies banded together to surround the humans, intimidate them, pretend to charge at them, etc. After a stare-down that lasted what felt like an hour, the humans started walking. The zombies waited patiently and walked with the humans. The second they stepped foot on Appain, the zombies bum-rushed them and tagged them all. The zombies had won!

In my opinion though, the fact that Justin Smith was able to last until the last minutes of the game, surviving a whole week of paranoia and infection, I believe Justin won. He was able to outwit every single zombie when they all had a bounty out for his head. His roommate Ryan even posted his class schedule on Facebook so the zombies could lurk outside his class's buildings. Justin outsmarted them and was able to last the entire 7 days.

The single best moment of the game for me, was after the game was over. As soon as Justin was tagged, the zombies threw their arms up in the air and cheered all together "FOR THE HORDE!" which was our battle cry that we decided to use. "FOR THE HORDE! FOR THE HORDE!" Ben Piche, a moderator and the man who made this game possible, told everyone to walk to the front of the Student Center once it was all said and done. We walked together, giving high-fives to both our zombie brethren and mostly to Justin.

We got to the Student Center and surrounded Ben Piche. The group started chanting "FOR THE HORDE!" Then Ben started talking. Ben instantly brought Justin to the center of the circle and everyone cheered for him. No one was mad that they got tagged within the last hour of the game, there was no hostility, there was only cheering. We weren't humans and zombies anymore. We were players who had one of the most fun weeks of our lives.

"Justin! How did it feel being the last human that lasted the entire week?"
"It was fucking exhausting!"

Ben took the center of the circle and thanked all of us for playing. He thanked the moderators for making this all possible. At that moment, one kid shouted "BEN PICHE!" and we started chanting "BEN PICHE! BEN PICHE!" He thanked the moderators, then all of the players for making this the best game of HvZ he's played since it started at KSC last semester.

After the rally that took place outside the student center, half of the group went into the student center. We were there for almost an hour just talking about the game. Kyle Virgin worded it better than I can:

"You may say the best part of this game is shooting down 6 zombies, or maybe that delicious feel of brain cards on your fingers. I personally think the best part of this game is when everyone sits down after, and enjoys their new friendships, formed from alliances between brothers and beasts."

This is why the aftermath of the game was the best part for me. New friendships were formed, and people who would have never gotten to know each other on campus were standing there laughing and telling stories about the game. I think that it takes something big to get almost 90 people to bond like this.

Humans VS Zombies is one of the most fun things I've ever done. I know it was just a game but it honestly was. I'd like to thank Ben for bringing this to Keene State, all the mods that helped make this so big, and every single player who made this so much fun. Second semester is coming fast, get your Nerf guns ready, your bandanas tied tight, and get ready to start quoting Zombieland constantly again. I'll see you all as players in the Spring, but I'll see you all on campus as friends.

Until next time,
For the horde!

Snow is the work of the devil.

I should be in a movie or a TV show because I just gave a 10 minute presentation about Global Warming in my Plant Diseases class and acted like I actually cared. I acted SO INTERESTED. Keyword: acted. I was actually pretty impressed with myself.

So it snowed in Keene...and all of New England...a lot. We got like 8 inches, trees were breaking, huge branches falling everywhere. And after a day and a half its almost all gone. It snowed 8 inches before Halloween. That's all kinds of wrong. I had to walk home from work in the storm, walk down Main St., then walk back to campus so I could do the Humans Vs. Zombies mission. It was snowing the whole time. I hated it.

Trick or Treating was postponed in New Hampshire until November 6th. What the hell? GOD DAMN IT SNOW! I don't trick or treat, but the fact that it was moved a week, that's just crazy. I'm not blaming them for postponing it, I'm blaming the WASTE OF SPACE I CALL SNOW. Snow can suck it. In the words of Kris Bartol. "SUCK MY NIPPY NIPS!"

Speaking of Kris Bartol I saw him post pictures of the original Super Smash Bros. on his bloggity. I wanna play Super Smash Bros. now. 

So if I buy an Xbox 360 with Kinect I get Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster for free...I'm sold. Free Sesame Street game? I'm going to Gamestop anyway! Hell to the yeah.

That's a joke. I am going to Gamestop though. I need to Pre-order Modern Warfare 3, renew my GameStop PowerUp subscription, and redeem my coupon for a free download of Crash Bandicoot. Yay spending money...

I got my Gameboy Advance emulator working. Finally trying Pokemon Sapphire! I'm playing that and the Pokemon Trading Card Game online during my Criminal Justice class. This is what I call a good use of  my time.

One of my new favorite foods is the Toasted Chicken Bacon Ranch sub at  the Hoot N' Scoot. It's heaven in a sub roll. Comes with waffle fries. Can't ask for more. Just got some because there was a 10 minute break in class. Got Mountain Dew and Doritos. Can't ask for much more.

One one more final serious note, Kris also posted on his bloggity, and I quote: "Nicky Nickelson is the man.
I love him like a brother." That made my day. He's my best friend and I love him like a brother too. Simple as that.

I died...

Or should I'm UNdead!

I got tagged...it was a cheap shot too. Two steps out of Randall and someone jumped from the bushes and tagged me. Cheap shot.

As of Friday, 10/18, Day 3 of HvZ at the time I'm posting this, there are 47 humans and 36 zombies. 4 zombies have already starved.

But I've gotten over the depression of being a zombie. I do miss the paranoia though...strange but true. But I'm embracing my zombified blood! I've already gotten one tag. Here's the story in two parts.

First, I'll explain how I know the kid. On the first day of orientation this big hefty kid walks over to Allie and says "Wanna hear a fun fact?" and she said "Sure! I love fun facts!" then he went straight-faced and said in a creepy monotone voice "1 of every 10 guys you meet will masturbate to you." WHAT THE FLIPPITY FUCK?! Who says that? What a creep. Since then we call him "Masturbation kid."

So I tagged masturbation kid. Allie and I were walking down Main St, off campus by the way, and Fatty runs up next to me. I have my bandana around my neck saying I'm an inactive player since I was off campus. He stares me down and says "Are you a human?" and after much hesitation I said "...yes..." He caught me off guard so it was hard to lie and I thought he was gonna see right through me. His response? "Ok good. I can't trust anyone here! I can't even trust my roommates!" So I played along like "Oh yeah, same here. I'm always so paranoid." and the SECOND we stepped back on campus I put my bandana on my head and smacked him. He looked at me all dazed and said "Bitch!"

My message to him: Take your own advice. Don't trust anyone.
That's what you get for talking to my girlfriend that way.

In other news, I have made 2 terrible, terrible mistakes. First, a few blog posts back I was talking about getting Sarku with Lindsay. I did, however, fail to mention that Katerina Sweeney was with me when I got Sarku for the first time. I'd like to apologize for that, Kat. It will never happen again. (Can't wait to get Sarku with you and Lindsay over Thanksgiving!)

My second mistake! I said that the only games Allie likes is Spyro and LittleBigPlanet. Oh how wrong I was. I'd like to make a correction to that statement. She also likes Mario and Kingdom Hearts. My sincerest apologies.

Side note: Arkham Asylum is great.

Tonight I'm going to a costume party with Allie. I'm gonna be Scott Pilgrim and Allie is Ramona Flowers. I even have a Sex Bob-Omb shirt that she made me! It's gonna be sick. Kris Bartol would be proud. Pictures to follow on my next post!

-Insert abrupt ending here because I still can't think of a good way to end these-

Alive and Kicking!

Night 1 of Humans VS Zombies was a success. At 12:01 am this morning at the athletic fields the Moderator's Nerf gun was shot in the air signifying the game has begun and it was a mad dash away from the fields. The original zombie (O.Z.) was among us. I didn't wanna be that guy that gets tagged at 12:01 so I hauled ass away from everyone. As of right now I'm only packing one of my Nerf guns (I have 2 Mavericks) because there are only 7 zombies among 80 humans. I think 6 shots is good enough for now since I doubt they are already planning together.

Allie keeps laughing at me because I act so paranoid when I'm outside but I don't care! I'm staying alive and that's all that matters. It's gonna be a long week for both of us if she's already laughing and judging me. It's only gonna get worse...

Walmart is a magical place. I went with Allie last night to pick up a jacket and shoes when I walked over to the games section and laid eyes on something beautiful Batman:  Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition bundled free with Arkham City, both for a grand total of $60. Guess who is going to Walmart after my classes? This guy. That's a deal I can't pass up. I was going to buy both anyway so why not get Arkham Asylum for free with all of it's DLC on the disc. It took a little convincing from Allie to get it but she convinced me. The selling points? 1) Its 2 universally acclaimed games for the price of one new game. 2) Allie wants to play it. She doesn't even like playing video games except Spyro and LittleBigPlanet! This is amazing!

I got an 84 on my Sociology midterm that took me 10 minutes to take, 25 multiple choice, and I didn't even study. I wanted to and I planned on it but I had better more productive things to do. Like killing Nazi Zombies. And sleeping. Either way I passed.

I've been playing this game lately. A new kind of game. No reward or anything. I just check to see how many times I see my name in Kris Bartol's blog. I show up at least once in almost every post. It should be a new drinking game. Every time my name appears on his blog, I take a shot xD. But I like that he talks about me on his blog. He calls it "best friend privileges" so I feel privileged. Kris Bartol, my best friend. This is one of your best friend privileges. I'm not saying I'm going to throw his name randomly into each one of my blogs (or will I...?) but I'm just giving him a shout out because he's my buddy, my pal, my chum, my wingman. The list goes on.

I leave you with this. It goes along with Batman: Arkham City...in a way...kinda...even if you dont play video games just take 45 seconds and check this out.

Thanks Lindsay for the link!

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffc02.deviantart.net%2Ffs70%2Ff%2F2011%2F255%2Fe%2Fb%2Fbat_cat_by_neoslashott-d49iof2.swf&h=zAQELbbiZ

That's it. I wish I could figure out a better way to end my blogs. Instead of abrupt endings I want it to actually "fit" instead of just stop.

The end.

Speaking of segues...

One of my earliest posts about a month ago that "I vow to not buy any more games until I beat/100%/Platinum 3 more games." But I'm preordering Modern Warfare 3 and buying Uncharted 3 after I beat Uncharted 2. Sue me. IGN.com gave Uncharted 3 perfect 10s across the board. The last few games to get perfect 10s came out almost a year ago. So I will definitely need to play it.


Speaking of games, Justin and I played a game of Zombies on Black Ops on Der Reise. We got to round 31 because we kick ass. That's pretty much it. That, and we were getting drops like Max Ammo, Carpenter, Nukes and Insta-Kills like crazy. At least one every two minutes, not exaggerating. Just got a Max Ammo? Here's another one just for S's and G's.


Speaking of zombies, Humans VS Zombies starts Wednesday morning at 12:01 am. There's a rally at the athletic fields on Tuesday night at 11:45 and if I get tagged at this rally once the game starts I'm going to be beyond pissed. I've been looking forward to this for weeks and if I get infected immediately I just might quit. (Totally joking. If I get infected humans are gonna have to bring the heat because I'm coming after them full force... Here's your warning.) 


Speaking of running out of segues...I found this band called Say Anything (Thanks Carolynn and Stewy!) and the first song I heard is Alive with the Glory of Love. I can't stop listening to it. I have listened to it upwards of 20 times since Saturday night. It's addicting. Surprisingly it's about the holocaust but its great.


Link below!


Long post yesterday, short one today. Ran out of things to talk about x__x If I think about anything else I'll post is ASAP


Say Anything - "Alive in the Glory of Love"

*NSYNC, Almost dying, and love.

On Wednesday, October 19th, via Twitter, I guaranteed 2 blog posts for that day.
...about that...

I feel like I have failed to keep up my end of the deal. I write funny, witty, giggle-inducing blog posts with the  occasional serious post, and you uphold your end of the bargain by LOLing, ROFLing, and Ling your AO. But with the lack of blog posts. You have gone without these things. I say BLASPHEMY!

Finally I found the time to write a new post. I've been busy with school and work on the days so I've had a really hard time finding time to sit down and write a blog post.

I'll start out with this. I listen to all kinds of music. Judge me as much as you want. Superbass by Nicki Minaj? Who doesn't like that song. OutKast? Remember them? Was listening to Roses and The Way You Move earlier. *NSYNC? It was only my entire childhood, no big deal. I heard Space Cowboys last night so I HAD to look it up on YouTube today. I felt obligated, you know, to listen to it for the inner 90s kid in me.

So I found this tweet on Twitter (shameless plug: follow me on Twitter @NickGarrity) and I saw this tweet. I quote:  "#TheresNoWayInHell people are in love after a few months of dating..cut the shit, you don't even know what love is" Yeah, about that. It took me 11 days of knowing Allie to know that I was madly in love with her. 11 days. I knew on July 1st, 2010. I even know what time of day, where I was, and what I was doing when I realized I was in love with her.

I was at her house, we had been going out for 3 days, and as I was leaving her house, she walked me to my car, we kissed and said goodbye after a great night of spending time with each other, laughing, talking, watching TV and just hanging out. As she said bye and walked away from my car. I opened the door, sat in the drivers seat and said to myself "I'm in love with this girl."

11 days. I knew her for 8 days before we started going out. So, yeah. I know what love is. I was going to say it hasn't changed since then but it has. It's gotten more powerful. I've grown more in love with her since July 1st, 2010, around 10pm that night.

I posted a shortened status about this on Facebook: "So I saw a tweet that said, and I quote: '#TheresNoWayInHell people are in love after a few months of dating..cut the shit, you don't even know what love is' I knew after 11 days of knowing her. So...yeah."

17 people liked it. I got comments like "so cute." and "D'AWWWWWWWW" which always makes me happy that Allie and I are a cute couple not one of those gross couples that are mushy gushy 24/7 (with the exception of the novel I just wrote about her above) but then I get this one comment from my project partner in my Bio class about when we need to meet up for our project and that it's due on the 31st.

Why not post this on my wall instead of being extremely irrelevant to my status and say it there? My friends Justin and Ryan were laughing their asses off when they saw that comment. Justin commented "Yo dawg you  hungry?" and Kris wrote "BROski" just to be random and write something completely off topic. Love my friends!

So in more exciting news I was almost hit by a car a few days ago. Some old lady who was talking on her phone and wasn't paying attention to the road tried to drive through the crosswalk as I was walking through it. I was two inches away from getting hit by her mini van. So I did what any person would do and I screamed many obscenities at her. After that I was really shaken up, honestly. I sat down and had to catch my breath and calm down because I was literally shaking after it.

I went on Facebook and Twitter and posted a status about how she was a crazy bitch who needs to get off her fucking phone before she fucking kills someone. I meant that in the most polite way possible. I got many likes and a few retweets. Got into this huge 26-comment conversation about it and other things. Then I get a text from my mom saying that I need to take the status down because I was swearing and there are kids on Facebook (I'm friends with one 'kid' and she's in high school...) No one swears like that in my family apparently and I'm an embarrassment because of it. I embarrassed my family by posting about how I almost got hit by a big car going almost 30 mph through a crosswalk. Makes sense. So I deleted it. Gotta pick your battles I guess.

I have many more things to talk about that I'll write in my blog tomorrow/technically today during Criminal Justice.

See you tomorrow night!
As Kris calls me,
-Nicky Nickelson

 Here's my planning process for my blogs. Some stays, some get cut, some get postponed til the next post. You'll just have to wait and see!

I CAN'T STOP! (WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUBBBB)

I think this was a good idea, just posting a few songs I've been listening to. Check them out.


The Skeleton Song - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Cough Syrup - Young the Giant

Flux Pavillion - "I Can't Stop"

Wanna hear a joke? I have free time.

Not one of my best one-liners. What's up guys?

I'm working 28 hours this week...on top of all of my classes...this sucks. I asked for less than 20 hours a week and they pile me with 28 on my second week. Lucky me, I have midterms coming soon too. The worst part of it all though is that I won't have any time to play Zombies with Justin and Ryan!

I know what you're all thinking. "Nick, how could the world be so cruel?" I know, I know. It'll be rough but I think I'll pull through. I'll find time to kick some Nazi ass, because if I make school and work my priorities, the Nazis win.

So Shaws...not that bad actually. Fairly simple, easy work, but I just need to get used to using the equipment like the slicers and the scales for the food. Biggest problem is probably going to be learning all of the codes for all of the items. It's just going to take some practice but that's it. I'm just glad I have a job. It sucks having less than $40 in my bank account. College life, am I right? Never thought I'd be perfectly happy with minimum wage since I've been making upwards of $8 an hour for over a year and a half. Money is money, so fuck yeah minimum wage!

Bad news though: I'm working Friday and Saturday all day long. How is this bad news? It's Pumpkin Fest. I don't work til midnight or anything and I should have time to go out at night, but I'm not sure how much energy I'll have after working such long shifts. Mountain Dew may be my partner in crime this weekend keeping me awake.

I've been craving Sarku for so long now. I used to always go to the mall with Lindsay, get my number 1 (chicken teriyaki) with white rice, no vegetables, and sauce. Is that too much to ask for? The stir fry here at Keene with chicken teriyaki just isn't the same. Don't get me started on the talks Lindsay and I would have! You know that line that people are afraid to cross when talking with someone that could be considered inappropriate? Yeah that line doesn't exist between us. That or we literally cross that line every time we talk. But that's just us and I wouldn't change it. I can't wait until November break so when everyone goes back to Nashua, I can go to Sarku with Lindsay and hang out. I miss that.

I'm actually looking forward to going back to Nashua for Thanksgiving break so I can see Lindsay, Kris Bartol, Kevin Le, and all of my other Nashua peeps. I miss them. I miss going to the movies with Kris and Kevin then staying up until 2 am playing Rock Band, having movie marathons with everyone, Sarku with Lindsay, Zombies with Kris, and just hanging out with my friends. I'm making a lot of friends here at Keene but I do miss my friends in Nashua who have all gone away. That's why I'm excited for Thanksgiving. The turkey is merely a perk.

Alright that's about it for this post. I'm thinking I'm going to post another post today since I've been spamming Twitter. I'll probably take my thoughts I said on Twitter and transfer that here. So if you don't follow me you can still know what's going on. That's what I usually do but I haven't really mentioned anything I posted on Twitter in this post.

I'll end this with a shameless plug
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Til next time

I'm not a coward I've just never been tested. I think that if I was I would pass.

In 1997, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones released a single called "The Impression That I Get" and history was made. I was 5 years old then and I remember that song coming on the radio all the time and I loved it. I remember little 5-year-old Nick dancing in the kitchen as it played on the radio. I would make my mom leave it on that station and turn the volume up. I couldn't get enough of that song.

In 2010. 13 years after that single was released, I went to a Mighty Mighty Bosstones concert in December after Christmas at the House of Blues in Boston. It was their 13th annual Hometown Throwdown. They played that song and I still absolutely loved it.

Its amazing to think that after 13 years, I'm still listening to the same band, and the same songs that I was when I was 5 years old. I find it so cool because there's not much else in my life that I've liked for 13+ years. I do <3 my Super Nintendo still though. Also, I love the fact that I am still so into the Bosstones, I like them enough still after all these years to go see them in concert over a decade later.

I'm writing this listening to the Bosstones sitting here as a college freshman thinking back to little 5-year-old me, not even in Kindergarten yet listening to this song in the car, singing along. I'm not just writing this to say how much I love The Mighty Mighty Bosstones though. I'm writing this because I find it fascinating how music can have such an impact on someone like this. There isn't any other song that I know that I will gladly listen to today from when I was 5.

I'm glad I still love the Bosstones. I'm going to Hometown Throwdown 14 this December. I told Allie after we went together last year I want to go every year. It was that good. They have a great stage presence, great energy, and love what they do. I've grown to like them more and more over the years and they and their music are why I keep listening to them.

No excuses

There is no reason why I haven't posted a blog. I have 2 drafts of blog posts that I started but never finished. I act like I don't have free time to write a blog post. That's not the case. I don't have classes on Tuesdays, Thursdays, or weekends.Also, it seems like my only "free time" is during my Criminal Justice class. It's this class and my Sociology class where I'm able to sit all class with my computer open. I should be getting these blog posts out more. It's gonna happen. I'm going to try and get at least 2 out a week. That's my guarantee. 

Now that that's out of the way, what's up Internet? Missed you guys. 

I keep forgetting that I need to be funny in this blog because of the title. Might need to change it. Or just tell bad jokes when I'm not feeling funny.

A seal walks into a club.

*ba dum tssshh*

"Aww Nick that's not funny that's terrible!"

It's a joke.

So I got a job at a grocery store. This is my second job at a grocery store job. My other job? Walmart. I work the worst jobs in the world - retail. Can't I just get a paycheck every week? Just for sitting around. I'd like that. No work involved. My ideal job at the moment would be becoming an RA. Free housing, guaranteed housing, and you get paid to be an RA and to desk attend. Not saying I'd be sitting around as an RA, I know there is a lot of responsibility that comes with the RA job, but it would be completely worth it. I am definitely going to apply for an RA position for next year. Not sure if it is possible to get a mid-year RA job as a freshman. I'm going to try to become an RA though. 

Retail sucks. Customers can suck it. Of course there are some customers that are really nice, but 70% of customers are dickheads. I say that in the most polite way possible. I've had so many rude customers I've had the urge to quit both previous jobs I've had because they get bitchy because I can't find the teriyaki sauce they so desperately want or I asked them a simple question.

Real life example.

A woman comes through my line as I'm bagging. She has three items, 2 small items and a half gallon of milk.

Woman: "You don't need to bag the milk."

Me: "What about the other two small items?" Thinking she might want to hold on to those in her huge Coach knock-off purse she could fit a computer in.

Bitch: *glares at me* "Don't. Bag. The milk."

What a bitch. I bag your groceries and you treat me like shit? I know its a stupid job but I'm doing you a favor. Appreciate it or don't say shit. I can handle it if no one thanks me, but if you treat me like I'm the stupidest person in the world, I have a problem with you. Ok, ma'am. Do you want me to take this plastic bag I didn't use and shove it up your ass?

Didn't think so. Move along.

I'm Sick

2 tissue boxes, a bottle of cough syrup, 1 all-nighter, 10+ water bottles and 6 days later, I'm still sick. I've had a cough, sore throat and I've been congested up the ying-yang and yesterday Conjunctivitis decided to in-vitis-self into my body. (Get it? Invite itself. Even when I'm on the brink of death I still got it) I haven't puked in 8 years. I don't feel nauseous or anything, but I feel like the way things are going, vomiting is going to want to try and join the party.

I went to the infirmary and they had a meeting to go to so they couldn't take me. I see where your priorities lie, Infirmary... They told me I could either spend tons of money at a private practice or spend more tons of money at the ER...or come back tomorrow. I chose the last option.

*Inception noise*

I was privileged enough to witness the greatest ad I've ever seen. It was the new PlayStation ad from their "Long Live Play" ad campaign. Witness it for yourself.

Michael...

TO MICHAEL!
Gives me chills. Makes me wanna turn on my PS3 and isolate myself from all of my loved ones.

Sorry for not posting lately. This whole "brink of death" thing has kind of kept me occupied.
Will update more often since I don't have class til Monday.

Oh, and Kris. Transfer to Keene.
That is all.

We smooth as hummus on fancy toast

These are the songs I'm currently addicted to. They're amazing, I suggest giving them a listen.

Can't Stop Won't Stop - "Stop, Drop, Roll"

Coheed and Cambria - "Deranged"

deadmau5 - "Some Chords"

Slowbros Before Hos

I didn’t wanna do this, but this is gonna be a little “gamer” post. You’ll see.

So I can’t find my damn Pokemon cards! What the fuck?! All I want to do is play Pokemon cards with Allie and maybe Justin and Ryan if they get decks. But NO I CAN’T.  Pissed. I guess I’ll just have to stick with playing the card game online or stick to playing Magic.

Speaking of Magic, I’m into Magic now. College changes people. When I visited Keene last spring, Justin, Ryan, their roommate Andrew and another kid were plaing Magic: The Gathering and my thoughts were “Psh, Magic. Lame.” But it’s so much fun. It’s addicting. I went like 3 days without playing the guys and I was having withdrawals. We called it Manarexia. You need to play Magic to get why that’s funny. But it is.

I got the Rezurrection map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops, or as I like to call it, Blops. It’s awesome. 5 zombie maps including the 4 from World at War and a new one, Moon. Moon is insane. It’s ridiculously hard. You start off at Area 51 in “No Man’s Land” where the Pack-A-Punch machine is and after about 45 seconds a buzzer goes off and any zombies slowly walking around you for the easy kills go, how you say, BAT SHIT CRAZY. It’s impressive if you last 3 minutes in No Man’s Land before you teleport to the moon (if you survive that long.) I can last pretty long on the other maps. My record is 26 on Kino. But I start getting stressed out on round 6 on Moon! The biggest difficulty for me on Moon isn’t just surviving, but surviving after the Nova crawlers start appearing. Why? They teleport.  WHY? I don’t know. But they will be crawling and they teleport 10 feet and they’re at your feet hitting you and you go down. Um, fuck that shit!

I have so many games I need to play. I have $20 on my PSN so I’m going to spend that but after that I vow to not buy any more games until I beat/100%/Platinum 3 more games. Then if I have the money I’ll buy another. But I literally have almost 80 games downloaded on  my PS3, 50 I’ve never touched, and another 12 games on disks I haven’t touched or have barely started. Like all of Metroid Prime Trilogy, Assassin’s Creed 2, Fallout 3 (if I start that there goes 100+ hours of my life), Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection, Rachet and Clank Future: A Crack In Time, I want to platinum Infamous (76% there!) and dozens of others. Every time I go into Walmart or Gamestop I’m always tempted to buy more but I can’t.

More blog posts to come! They won’t all be me nerding all over the place. But I might make this a weekly thing. Thanks for reading! 

Back in the 603. Feels like I never left.

Cuz I didn’t. How’s it going internet? Last night I came back to Nashua because I needed to do a classroom observation for my Sociology class so today I went to my high school to observe my AP Psych teacher. Did that for about an hour and a half. I took 5 pages on notes on everything that happened in the class. 5 pages?! If I EVER did that in any of my high school classes I would have been such a better student.  Then I spent another hour hunting down old teachers. I got a lot of “Hey!! How are you? How’ve you been? How’s school?” with the occasional “What the hell are you doing here?” (Thanks, Rodriguez) But overall it was great to see all my old teachers again. It was really different talking to them when I’m not a student there anymore. It’s a lot more casual and I felt like I could speak more openly about whatever I wanted. They’re adults, they were our age before.

My freshman social studies teacher and I were talking about how college can be crazy because people don’t know how to control themselves. I said I know that Keene is a party school, in which she replied “Every school in New Hampshire is a party school.” Truer words have never been spoken. But the fact that people feel the need to go out literally every single night and get drunk, regardless of whether they have classes or not (and especially the ones that go out and get drunk then need to go to their 8am class) is absolutely ridiculous. My teacher also said she went to an all teachers conference and there were teachers hooking up and having affairs with each other.

Um, what?

These are our educators and they are knocking the boots with each other. It’s as if they think its college again. It’s not.  I know this is kind of unoriginal and kind of lame but they should act as role models for students, honestly. I know they have their own personal lives and they can do whatever they hell they want (or whoever the hell they want, though frowned upon) but you’re not in college anymore. That’s what we college educated members of society call a “no-no.”

Speaking of sex! As I was talking with my former Journalism teacher, Rodriguez, he was with a substitute who I’ve had a few times who would let us call him by his first name Kevin. After I told them I was at Keene, Kevin told us that Keene State where the most number of sexually transmitted diseases are contracted in New Hampshire schools. To which I calmly replied “OH MY GOD! AH!”

As I’m writing this I’m on my way back home, happily accompanied next to my guitar. I left it home when I first left for college because I wasn’t sure if I’d have room. I didn’t. But since I changed rooms from my old room I actually have room now so I’ll find a place to stick it. I’ve been having withdrawls from it. I’ve wanted to play it for so long but I haven’t had it in over a month.

So I asked my mom one of the most awkward questions I’ve ever asked her since “Where do babies come from?” and that was “Was I planned?” The way the whole conversation started was as follows:

“Mom I have a really awkward question and…”

“Oh god…”

“Don’t worry it’s not too bad and I think I have a right to know. Was I planned?” She immediately said yes. I’m honestly not sure how I would have felt if I wasn’t planned. She did say that there was a time after my parents got married that they never wanted to have kids. They waited 8 years to have me, but I was planned.

I know this is a long blog, but it’s been a few days. Don’t complain, you signed up for this.

On one final note, I was texting Allie and she asked when I’d be back at Keene. I told her “I don’t know when I’ll be home” and she said “You’re not home?” I realized I called Keene “home.” Whoa. Not sure what to say about that. I have been living there for over a month and I’m loving it, but I was not expecting to call it home. I almost have a few times before but always caught myself because I know its not home.

That’s about it for this entry. Thanks for sticking around. I love you. I would say in the least awkward way possible. But no.