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!