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soo i'm at my internship. and i'm pretty bored. keith was supposed to be back from the uk this week, but i guess he's not coming back until next week, and he didn't really leave me anything to do. but i have a funny feeling he thinks i've been doing stuff, even though i haven't. i didn't even come in yesterday. and i was only here half the day tuesday, and most of that time i was helping hope do random stuff like shred papers and update employees' vacations schedules. whatevs.
last friday i went to the goshen diner with lauren, jackie, and kate. after being at rpi for so long, you have no idea (unless you go to rpi too) how nice it is just to hang out with girls. especially for me, because for some reason i think i feel more comfortable talking to and hanging out with girls. i guess i'm weird. i would post a picture or two, but i'm having trouble connecting to the rpi's rcs file space, but i i've been emailing the help desk so hopefully i'll be able to post pictures soon.
saturday was a big family day, and it was actually really cool. my brother ethan came up from queens friday night, and my brother bill and his wife jayme drove up from kentucky. the occasion was my dad's fiftieth birthday, but it mostly just seemed like an excuse to have the whole family together for the first time since Christmas. we boys threw a football around in our yard for a little while (which i hadn't done in years), and then played two-on-two basketball in our driveway, and then my mom and sister ellen joined in to make it three-on-three. after basketball, bill took me and ethan on "a top secret mission." he didn't say where we were going, but ended up taking us to a beer store in monroe and told ethan and i to pick out a six pack each. i don't really drink beer so i didn't know what to get, but i remembered jackie told me the night before that sam adams summer ale is really good, so i picked that. after we got back, the rest of the afternoon and evening was spent sitting around drinking beer and hanging out. jayme came over for dinner at 700 or so, and we hung out some more. we played poker and after my parents went to bed, bill started giving everyone shots of tequila. it's weird drinking with your siblings. after we were pretty drunk, the four of us had a long conversation about our love lives, our parents, moving, and everything. we got to ask questions and say things we probably wouldn't feel comfortable asking and saying while sober. it was interesting and i learned a lot about my brothers and sister that i didn't know before.
i wanted to go to church the next morning, but i was really tired and i knew none of my siblings would be going, so i just slept in. i helped clean up a little, but i spent pretty much all day sitting around doing nothing. i didn't feel like going out that night because i was real tired.
on monday lauren c came over and we played super mario world (for super nintendo) and beat it in about five hours, including dinner. i think that's the first time i've had a girl over for dinner and didn't feel slightly awkward with my parents and all, but maybe that's because lauren isn't my girlfriend. whatevs.
on tuesday i had my internship and got out early. i didn't have to go in the next day, which meant i could stay out late, and i got an invitation from jordyn and lauren to go swimming in someone's pool. it was at this kid pete's house in warwick, so i met him and james and a few other kids. i was shivering the whole time because it was cold in the pool, so we didn't stay in for very long. after that, we went to this lake in warwick (i forgot the name; i think it starts with a c) and brought logs to make a fire and just sat on the dock and watched the fire and talked and looked at the stars and it was nice.
yesterday, ryan picked me up and we went to jeff's house. first we had a reeeaally looong band meeting about our press kits, and then we spent a long time listening to our songs to try to decide what songs and recordings to put into our press kits when we send them to labels. after much deliberation, we decided to go back to ecstatica (sp?) studios in middletown, where we recorded "the history of things to come" ep. we're going to record three songs - two new ones, and redo an older one. when we were done deciding, we practiced, then went home.
early yesterday evening, i was online and jenna from minisink IMed me and she said there was someone she wanted me to meet. it was a girl named lara, who i had seen on myspace, and i wanted to meet her, so we ended up meeting at the mall at 8. we went to h&m because i wanted to get a bathing suit that i saw there, then we went to a brand new ice cream place and we sat down and ate ice cream. then we went on a ferris wheel because there was a random carnival-type thing going on in the middle of middletown. then we went to the diner and got drinks and talked some more. she's real cute and nice and told me about how she had a really shitty first year of college. i had to go to bed sort of early since i had to get up this morning for my internship, so we went home after that. she said we could go to the free concert at coney island july 16th, because she really wanted to go too. also, she said she and jenna might come to our show in poughkeepsie with big d and the kids table on sunday.
speaking of shows, we have three this weekend. friday night is at saratoga winners, which is in latham, near albany. that night we're going to stay at jeff's and/or ryan's apartment(s) in albany and hang out in albany saturday afternoon, then drive down for our show in poughkeepsie on saturday. that night we're playing at some girl's sweet sixteen party because she offered us a hundred dollars to play. then sunday we're playing at club crannel street in poughkeepsie with big d and the kids table. so come to a show if you can make it! it kind of sucks because after i found out i was going to be gone all weekend, my parents told me that they were going to be away this weekend. and my parents never go away. so there goes what is probably my only chance of having a party at my house this summer. oh well.
sorry this entry is really long and boring. tomorrow's friday, so i hope everyone has a good weekend!
E> colinsweet.
last friday i went to the goshen diner with lauren, jackie, and kate. after being at rpi for so long, you have no idea (unless you go to rpi too) how nice it is just to hang out with girls. especially for me, because for some reason i think i feel more comfortable talking to and hanging out with girls. i guess i'm weird. i would post a picture or two, but i'm having trouble connecting to the rpi's rcs file space, but i i've been emailing the help desk so hopefully i'll be able to post pictures soon.
saturday was a big family day, and it was actually really cool. my brother ethan came up from queens friday night, and my brother bill and his wife jayme drove up from kentucky. the occasion was my dad's fiftieth birthday, but it mostly just seemed like an excuse to have the whole family together for the first time since Christmas. we boys threw a football around in our yard for a little while (which i hadn't done in years), and then played two-on-two basketball in our driveway, and then my mom and sister ellen joined in to make it three-on-three. after basketball, bill took me and ethan on "a top secret mission." he didn't say where we were going, but ended up taking us to a beer store in monroe and told ethan and i to pick out a six pack each. i don't really drink beer so i didn't know what to get, but i remembered jackie told me the night before that sam adams summer ale is really good, so i picked that. after we got back, the rest of the afternoon and evening was spent sitting around drinking beer and hanging out. jayme came over for dinner at 700 or so, and we hung out some more. we played poker and after my parents went to bed, bill started giving everyone shots of tequila. it's weird drinking with your siblings. after we were pretty drunk, the four of us had a long conversation about our love lives, our parents, moving, and everything. we got to ask questions and say things we probably wouldn't feel comfortable asking and saying while sober. it was interesting and i learned a lot about my brothers and sister that i didn't know before.
i wanted to go to church the next morning, but i was really tired and i knew none of my siblings would be going, so i just slept in. i helped clean up a little, but i spent pretty much all day sitting around doing nothing. i didn't feel like going out that night because i was real tired.
on monday lauren c came over and we played super mario world (for super nintendo) and beat it in about five hours, including dinner. i think that's the first time i've had a girl over for dinner and didn't feel slightly awkward with my parents and all, but maybe that's because lauren isn't my girlfriend. whatevs.
on tuesday i had my internship and got out early. i didn't have to go in the next day, which meant i could stay out late, and i got an invitation from jordyn and lauren to go swimming in someone's pool. it was at this kid pete's house in warwick, so i met him and james and a few other kids. i was shivering the whole time because it was cold in the pool, so we didn't stay in for very long. after that, we went to this lake in warwick (i forgot the name; i think it starts with a c) and brought logs to make a fire and just sat on the dock and watched the fire and talked and looked at the stars and it was nice.
yesterday, ryan picked me up and we went to jeff's house. first we had a reeeaally looong band meeting about our press kits, and then we spent a long time listening to our songs to try to decide what songs and recordings to put into our press kits when we send them to labels. after much deliberation, we decided to go back to ecstatica (sp?) studios in middletown, where we recorded "the history of things to come" ep. we're going to record three songs - two new ones, and redo an older one. when we were done deciding, we practiced, then went home.
early yesterday evening, i was online and jenna from minisink IMed me and she said there was someone she wanted me to meet. it was a girl named lara, who i had seen on myspace, and i wanted to meet her, so we ended up meeting at the mall at 8. we went to h&m because i wanted to get a bathing suit that i saw there, then we went to a brand new ice cream place and we sat down and ate ice cream. then we went on a ferris wheel because there was a random carnival-type thing going on in the middle of middletown. then we went to the diner and got drinks and talked some more. she's real cute and nice and told me about how she had a really shitty first year of college. i had to go to bed sort of early since i had to get up this morning for my internship, so we went home after that. she said we could go to the free concert at coney island july 16th, because she really wanted to go too. also, she said she and jenna might come to our show in poughkeepsie with big d and the kids table on sunday.
speaking of shows, we have three this weekend. friday night is at saratoga winners, which is in latham, near albany. that night we're going to stay at jeff's and/or ryan's apartment(s) in albany and hang out in albany saturday afternoon, then drive down for our show in poughkeepsie on saturday. that night we're playing at some girl's sweet sixteen party because she offered us a hundred dollars to play. then sunday we're playing at club crannel street in poughkeepsie with big d and the kids table. so come to a show if you can make it! it kind of sucks because after i found out i was going to be gone all weekend, my parents told me that they were going to be away this weekend. and my parents never go away. so there goes what is probably my only chance of having a party at my house this summer. oh well.
sorry this entry is really long and boring. tomorrow's friday, so i hope everyone has a good weekend!
E> colinsweet.