One day I'll be wondering how...
It's been a LONG time since I've updated... or maybe it just seems like its been forever.
I got Guitar Hero II for my birthday! It rules. I rule!
The rest of winter break was a swirl of me being worthless... drunk every night. Getting so drunk that I was sometimes a jerk, not that I ever remembered it. I probably lost someone out of my life forever... even though I really don't care about that person (at least not any more than I'd care about any random person off the street). There were lots of good times too... I think the highlight was me and my friending sneaking a bunch of underage friends into a 21+ dance club (and when I say sneaking in... I mean we got there, realized there was nobody carding at the door, and then went back for our friends, haha). Flight home was canceled because of weather, so I got to stay one more day. Anyway, I'm not very proud (or at all proud) of some of my winter break antics, but I think everyone had a lot of fun, which is all that matters.
This semester has been going well. I did some schedule swaps, so now my courses are Heidegger (which is mostly reading Being and Time), Environmental Ethics and Public Policy: The Wilderness Act (focusing on the American conception of Wilderness and the resulting Wilderness Act of 1964), and Critical Theory, which focuses on the post-Marxism of The Frankfurt School and the hermeneutical Communicative Action Theory of Habermas.
I'm also helping a prof write an article on the importance of natural history. And, OH YEAH, I'm going to Chile for spring break. For a workshop on ecological sciences and environmental ethics. It will be sweet, for sure.
And I'm a TA for logic again. I just did my semester evaluations (not the university ones, my own ones) and most my students seem pretty happy, so that's always good.
My study habits are getting a little better... I think they are better than they were last semester, but they still need to be stepped up a lot.
ANYWAY... um, for a couple weeks now I have had a crush on... well... the worst possible person (or one of the worst possible people) to have a crush on. And it sucks, and at times I have been bummed out about it. But at my friends party last night, I met this girl who I think I'm hanging out with friday... so... we'll see how that goes. I'm not really expecting or shooting for anything. But she is super fucking awesome. And hot. But even if she wasn't hot, she's so cool, it would probably make her hot anyway.
Anyway, that's my life. Oh yeah, I've been watching Veronica Mars, rented via NetFlizzle. LOVE that show. For reals. AND I'm on the last chapter of the second to last book in A Series of Unfortunate Events. And I want to get a tattoo of the VFD logo (from the book). I probably won't... but I want to.
Hope everyone is well!
<3 Nate
BONUS:
NATES GUIDE TO MAKING THE MOST OF A FRIENDS PARTY!
1) Volunteer to be DD. Assure your friends you will stay sober enough to drive everyone home. Hope they don't realize you are filling a flask with rum as you say this. Drive to party.
2) When host offers you a beer, just take it. Drink beer with one hand. Rum with the other.
3) Stay sober just long enough to realize that annoying girl is stupid. Realize at the some time she is interested in friend, not you. Hooray! Celebrate with rum.
4) Ask your friends you brought with if they are having fun. When they answer yes, inform them that you can't drive for a little while.
5) Finish beer. Trade empty beer can for tasty everclear-fruit-juice mixture.
6) Volunteer enthusiastically for beer pong. Keep drinking while waiting for someone to go get ping pong balls.
7) Get drunk enough to forget that super hot girl is out of league. Ask other friends about her. Text friend, telling him to talk about how awesome you are. Hope he doesn't read it out loud, as he is sitting right next to hot girl.
8) Accidentally knock over cup during beer pong. Nonchalantly chug consequence beer. Decline hot girls offer of water with a manly smile. Hope she doesn't notice you spilled all over self.
9) WIN AT BEER PONG!!! Tell everyone you are the beer pong champ.
10) Allow new friend (who you've known 5 seconds) to sub in for you on the next beer pong round. This shows everyone you are a nice guy, and potentially not an alcoholic. Plus, with a beard that impressive, that man deserves to play beer pong.
11) Make interesting conversation. Find out cool things. As a result of cool things, hot girls new nickname is awesome girl. Remember not to call her "hot girl" or "awesome girl" to her face. Despite respectable intoxication, use her name.
12) Next round of beer pong! Partner scores the first rebuttal shot. SCORE THE SECOND REBUTTAL SHOT AND WIN THE GAME! Loudly inform everyone that you are a two time beer pong champ. Coerce roomate into taking over your beer pong slot. Drink water.
13) Drink water. Resist the drunken urge to be a tool. This becomes easer if you keep drinking water.
14) Get phone number!!! Hooray!
15) Drive home. Realize that roomate is wasted, even though he said he could drive if you were not sober enough to. Be thankful you stopped drinking.
16) Celebrate your masterful life skills with a cheese pizza. Burn pizza because you are too busy facebooking. Eat pizza, read a book, go to bed!
HOORAY!
I got Guitar Hero II for my birthday! It rules. I rule!
The rest of winter break was a swirl of me being worthless... drunk every night. Getting so drunk that I was sometimes a jerk, not that I ever remembered it. I probably lost someone out of my life forever... even though I really don't care about that person (at least not any more than I'd care about any random person off the street). There were lots of good times too... I think the highlight was me and my friending sneaking a bunch of underage friends into a 21+ dance club (and when I say sneaking in... I mean we got there, realized there was nobody carding at the door, and then went back for our friends, haha). Flight home was canceled because of weather, so I got to stay one more day. Anyway, I'm not very proud (or at all proud) of some of my winter break antics, but I think everyone had a lot of fun, which is all that matters.
This semester has been going well. I did some schedule swaps, so now my courses are Heidegger (which is mostly reading Being and Time), Environmental Ethics and Public Policy: The Wilderness Act (focusing on the American conception of Wilderness and the resulting Wilderness Act of 1964), and Critical Theory, which focuses on the post-Marxism of The Frankfurt School and the hermeneutical Communicative Action Theory of Habermas.
I'm also helping a prof write an article on the importance of natural history. And, OH YEAH, I'm going to Chile for spring break. For a workshop on ecological sciences and environmental ethics. It will be sweet, for sure.
And I'm a TA for logic again. I just did my semester evaluations (not the university ones, my own ones) and most my students seem pretty happy, so that's always good.
My study habits are getting a little better... I think they are better than they were last semester, but they still need to be stepped up a lot.
ANYWAY... um, for a couple weeks now I have had a crush on... well... the worst possible person (or one of the worst possible people) to have a crush on. And it sucks, and at times I have been bummed out about it. But at my friends party last night, I met this girl who I think I'm hanging out with friday... so... we'll see how that goes. I'm not really expecting or shooting for anything. But she is super fucking awesome. And hot. But even if she wasn't hot, she's so cool, it would probably make her hot anyway.
Anyway, that's my life. Oh yeah, I've been watching Veronica Mars, rented via NetFlizzle. LOVE that show. For reals. AND I'm on the last chapter of the second to last book in A Series of Unfortunate Events. And I want to get a tattoo of the VFD logo (from the book). I probably won't... but I want to.
Hope everyone is well!
<3 Nate
BONUS:
NATES GUIDE TO MAKING THE MOST OF A FRIENDS PARTY!
1) Volunteer to be DD. Assure your friends you will stay sober enough to drive everyone home. Hope they don't realize you are filling a flask with rum as you say this. Drive to party.
2) When host offers you a beer, just take it. Drink beer with one hand. Rum with the other.
3) Stay sober just long enough to realize that annoying girl is stupid. Realize at the some time she is interested in friend, not you. Hooray! Celebrate with rum.
4) Ask your friends you brought with if they are having fun. When they answer yes, inform them that you can't drive for a little while.
5) Finish beer. Trade empty beer can for tasty everclear-fruit-juice mixture.
6) Volunteer enthusiastically for beer pong. Keep drinking while waiting for someone to go get ping pong balls.
7) Get drunk enough to forget that super hot girl is out of league. Ask other friends about her. Text friend, telling him to talk about how awesome you are. Hope he doesn't read it out loud, as he is sitting right next to hot girl.
8) Accidentally knock over cup during beer pong. Nonchalantly chug consequence beer. Decline hot girls offer of water with a manly smile. Hope she doesn't notice you spilled all over self.
9) WIN AT BEER PONG!!! Tell everyone you are the beer pong champ.
10) Allow new friend (who you've known 5 seconds) to sub in for you on the next beer pong round. This shows everyone you are a nice guy, and potentially not an alcoholic. Plus, with a beard that impressive, that man deserves to play beer pong.
11) Make interesting conversation. Find out cool things. As a result of cool things, hot girls new nickname is awesome girl. Remember not to call her "hot girl" or "awesome girl" to her face. Despite respectable intoxication, use her name.
12) Next round of beer pong! Partner scores the first rebuttal shot. SCORE THE SECOND REBUTTAL SHOT AND WIN THE GAME! Loudly inform everyone that you are a two time beer pong champ. Coerce roomate into taking over your beer pong slot. Drink water.
13) Drink water. Resist the drunken urge to be a tool. This becomes easer if you keep drinking water.
14) Get phone number!!! Hooray!
15) Drive home. Realize that roomate is wasted, even though he said he could drive if you were not sober enough to. Be thankful you stopped drinking.
16) Celebrate your masterful life skills with a cheese pizza. Burn pizza because you are too busy facebooking. Eat pizza, read a book, go to bed!
HOORAY!