im a slacker, what can i say...
my florida trip:
so ive been back from florida for like a week but i just havent really felt like posting about it cause i more and more forget that i even have a livejournal these days, but alas here i am finally talking about my experiences.
i guess ill just have to begin at the beginning and see where it leads me.
my flight from LA left on june 3rd at like midnight. at that point i'd pretty much been up since thursday morning with about 5 hours of sleep thrown in there at some point. so i worked friday up until the point where ricardo came to take me to the airport and then had a 4 and a half hour flight to orlando. good ole red eyes. so i get there at like 6:30 in the morning and i go to take care of my rental car that id arranged beforehand to get. then i find out all sorts of shit about getting a rental car that no one had felt the need to mention to me on the phone. the led to like 3 hours of bullshit going around to different places and trying to figure something out then finally finding a place. i ended up spending over double what id intended and then to top it all off i found out that a buddy of mine would have gotten the rental car for like half the price and i could have just paid him. but i try not to dwell on that cause the story doesn't end there.
so i have the car and im driving and im sleep happy and i start singing and dancing in my car. the rental by the way is a nissan sentra, which is like a step up from a geo metro. so my big ass 6'5 body doesn't really fit with the greatest of ease but i live. i go to hang with mike in a CAP lab for a bit then we chill with some kids and we sorta rip apart their work. after that we go grab some foodage. at this point i call up the hotel and find out that they cancelled my reservation because i didnt get their on the 2nd to claim it. and for those of you not following the story i didnt leave til the 3rd. apparently when full sail got the hotel they wanted me to be able to do an early check in on the 3rd but the hotel forgot this and thought i was supposed to be there on the 2nd and so no hotel for the malcolm. oddly enough though this worked out cause i went to this other hotel that was closer to where a friend of mine from kentucky was staying at down there for that day. so good times and i got to chill with them. and me and mike saw over the hedge. it was pretty good but i was sleeping occasionally thru it. i finally got sleep at like midnight.
sunday was great. spent the day hanging with the megz and just had a really good time overall.
monday thru thursday was filled with alot of hanging out at full sail. seeing old friends. and i gave some speechs to full sail classes. and apparently i was so scary to one class that a kid decided to switch degree programs from computer animation to something else. i had wanted to make someone cry, but thats waaay better. i made someone change their fuckin life. thats quality. all my speechs had me making jokes and all that sorta stuff, but at some point id break it down for the kids and tell them whats what so they'd know what it took to get to where im at and all that sorta shit.
so thursday ed got to florida and me, him, and kyle all got some food and discussed out gameplan for the speech. we decided that id start it out, followed by kyle and then ed would round it out a bit. so this little auditorium place was packed with a couple hundred kids and it was definitely an awesome event. i made em laugh and i totally hammed it up with the mic and just had a good ass time talking and whatnot. we talked for a couple hours and did a Q/A session and it went over really well with everyone. i was told by the people that organized it that it was really enjoyed by students and staff alike and apparently they want us to come back again sometime and talk again. id totally do it cause it was just a great overall experience for me. and now to talk about the post speech festivities.
so after the speechy thing a bunch of us went to the ale house and got food and just hung out and had a good time. eventually i decided to finally drink something for the first time in my life after 22 years of nothing. my first shot was purple haze bought for me by someone else. after that we hung out at people's houses then came back to drink some more. then we went back and chilled and someone said the greatest phrase ever "im more a virgin then you are" and i will never forget that til my dying day. i could explain but im not going to. so i ended up pretty buzzed and chillin on a couch for a while.
saturday: got to see EA tiburon in orlando. nice building and whatnot. had fun checkin that place out and seeing what EA looks like on the inside and whatnot. it was me, ed, kyle and our old teacher ayberk. we knew about this part at one of our old labbie's houses and we planned on going but somehow we sat at chic-fil-a for like 7 hours. we just sat and talked and talked and i ate a second time and talked. eventually we went over to the party and there was a pool in the back and they were throwing people into it. i threatened to punch people in the fuckin throat. and these were friends of mine, but i would have fucked up their world. after that it was denny's round 3 hanging with old friends and new friends alike.
so it was like 4 or 5 in the morning and my flight was gonna leave at 7:30 am so we said our goodbyes and i went to drop off my rental and go to the airport to fly back out here. get to the ticket counter and find out that american express had cancelled my ticket. so full sail had gotten my ticket so i had no idea who to contact at 6 in the am on a sunday. so i call kyle so he can come pick me up, i call luis and he doesnt know the woman's number to call, i call ed so he can make sure his flight isnt fucked, luis calls me back to say that ed has the number for the woman to call, i call ed back and he gives me the number, i call the woman and 6 hours later when i sleeping in bed in kyle's guest room i get a call back from her. we talk for a minute and then she gets off the phone to try and straighten everything out. she calls me back an hour later and im now flying out at 7:30 pm. she emails me up a couple days later and apparently someone at the travel agency or AMEX fucked up and my name was different then my ticket and LAX fucked up cause they even let me get on a plane to florida. it was crazy, but it all worked out for the best cause i got to hang with the megz for lunch that day and then went on my merry way back to cali.
i ended up being so out of it that i didnt go into work monday and just stayed in bed. and that was my florida trip pretty much. it was fun and besides the shitty fuckin weather im looking forward to doing it again in the future.
peace and much love.
malcolm.
so ive been back from florida for like a week but i just havent really felt like posting about it cause i more and more forget that i even have a livejournal these days, but alas here i am finally talking about my experiences.
i guess ill just have to begin at the beginning and see where it leads me.
my flight from LA left on june 3rd at like midnight. at that point i'd pretty much been up since thursday morning with about 5 hours of sleep thrown in there at some point. so i worked friday up until the point where ricardo came to take me to the airport and then had a 4 and a half hour flight to orlando. good ole red eyes. so i get there at like 6:30 in the morning and i go to take care of my rental car that id arranged beforehand to get. then i find out all sorts of shit about getting a rental car that no one had felt the need to mention to me on the phone. the led to like 3 hours of bullshit going around to different places and trying to figure something out then finally finding a place. i ended up spending over double what id intended and then to top it all off i found out that a buddy of mine would have gotten the rental car for like half the price and i could have just paid him. but i try not to dwell on that cause the story doesn't end there.
so i have the car and im driving and im sleep happy and i start singing and dancing in my car. the rental by the way is a nissan sentra, which is like a step up from a geo metro. so my big ass 6'5 body doesn't really fit with the greatest of ease but i live. i go to hang with mike in a CAP lab for a bit then we chill with some kids and we sorta rip apart their work. after that we go grab some foodage. at this point i call up the hotel and find out that they cancelled my reservation because i didnt get their on the 2nd to claim it. and for those of you not following the story i didnt leave til the 3rd. apparently when full sail got the hotel they wanted me to be able to do an early check in on the 3rd but the hotel forgot this and thought i was supposed to be there on the 2nd and so no hotel for the malcolm. oddly enough though this worked out cause i went to this other hotel that was closer to where a friend of mine from kentucky was staying at down there for that day. so good times and i got to chill with them. and me and mike saw over the hedge. it was pretty good but i was sleeping occasionally thru it. i finally got sleep at like midnight.
sunday was great. spent the day hanging with the megz and just had a really good time overall.
monday thru thursday was filled with alot of hanging out at full sail. seeing old friends. and i gave some speechs to full sail classes. and apparently i was so scary to one class that a kid decided to switch degree programs from computer animation to something else. i had wanted to make someone cry, but thats waaay better. i made someone change their fuckin life. thats quality. all my speechs had me making jokes and all that sorta stuff, but at some point id break it down for the kids and tell them whats what so they'd know what it took to get to where im at and all that sorta shit.
so thursday ed got to florida and me, him, and kyle all got some food and discussed out gameplan for the speech. we decided that id start it out, followed by kyle and then ed would round it out a bit. so this little auditorium place was packed with a couple hundred kids and it was definitely an awesome event. i made em laugh and i totally hammed it up with the mic and just had a good ass time talking and whatnot. we talked for a couple hours and did a Q/A session and it went over really well with everyone. i was told by the people that organized it that it was really enjoyed by students and staff alike and apparently they want us to come back again sometime and talk again. id totally do it cause it was just a great overall experience for me. and now to talk about the post speech festivities.
so after the speechy thing a bunch of us went to the ale house and got food and just hung out and had a good time. eventually i decided to finally drink something for the first time in my life after 22 years of nothing. my first shot was purple haze bought for me by someone else. after that we hung out at people's houses then came back to drink some more. then we went back and chilled and someone said the greatest phrase ever "im more a virgin then you are" and i will never forget that til my dying day. i could explain but im not going to. so i ended up pretty buzzed and chillin on a couch for a while.
saturday: got to see EA tiburon in orlando. nice building and whatnot. had fun checkin that place out and seeing what EA looks like on the inside and whatnot. it was me, ed, kyle and our old teacher ayberk. we knew about this part at one of our old labbie's houses and we planned on going but somehow we sat at chic-fil-a for like 7 hours. we just sat and talked and talked and i ate a second time and talked. eventually we went over to the party and there was a pool in the back and they were throwing people into it. i threatened to punch people in the fuckin throat. and these were friends of mine, but i would have fucked up their world. after that it was denny's round 3 hanging with old friends and new friends alike.
so it was like 4 or 5 in the morning and my flight was gonna leave at 7:30 am so we said our goodbyes and i went to drop off my rental and go to the airport to fly back out here. get to the ticket counter and find out that american express had cancelled my ticket. so full sail had gotten my ticket so i had no idea who to contact at 6 in the am on a sunday. so i call kyle so he can come pick me up, i call luis and he doesnt know the woman's number to call, i call ed so he can make sure his flight isnt fucked, luis calls me back to say that ed has the number for the woman to call, i call ed back and he gives me the number, i call the woman and 6 hours later when i sleeping in bed in kyle's guest room i get a call back from her. we talk for a minute and then she gets off the phone to try and straighten everything out. she calls me back an hour later and im now flying out at 7:30 pm. she emails me up a couple days later and apparently someone at the travel agency or AMEX fucked up and my name was different then my ticket and LAX fucked up cause they even let me get on a plane to florida. it was crazy, but it all worked out for the best cause i got to hang with the megz for lunch that day and then went on my merry way back to cali.
i ended up being so out of it that i didnt go into work monday and just stayed in bed. and that was my florida trip pretty much. it was fun and besides the shitty fuckin weather im looking forward to doing it again in the future.
peace and much love.
malcolm.