Opposites Attract

I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit on that. Sure opposites do attract but it tends to be mostly magnetically than anything else. For me, however, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like someone that is the opposite of me, unless your talking gender. Yes I want to date a girl and not a dude and yes I don't want a girl with a penis but I feel that's as far as my for argument goes. Don't get me wrong I can still be attracted to someone who is the opposite of me but at the end of the day I want to be with a girl that's pretty similar to me. I need a girl with a silly sense of humor, I need a girl who's attentive, and I need a girl that can maybe share my love for video games and nerdy things...to an extent of course (I'm not THAT picky). I'm not going to go fall in love with some hot girl who hates technology and doesn't know Africa is a country, that's just not my taste. They say don't judge a book by it's cover but I'm not gonna buy a book if the cover depicted some scene of bestiality, but a book with a color cover and an interesting title might make me want to read it. If we weren't meant to judge books by their covers (I mean that both literally and figuratively) then books wouldn't' have covers. I'm not saying I'm shallow, even though everyone is in their own way, I'm just looking for a girl with a little beauty because lets face it I have to be attracted to the person physically and have to want to see their drooling squinty smelly breath face in the morning. It's a shame though that the older I get the more personality matters because their are a lot of beautiful girls out there that ruin it by opening their mouth and spouting some asinine verbal abortion about the Hills or Twilight. I find myself cringing sometimes when I get a peak at some people's personality, and I don't mean that in a cocky way like I'm this handsome awesome person with a fantastic personality, it's just that some people don't take the time to improve themselves. If only beauty were something to be earned then maybe the beautiful would appreciate it instead of abusing it or using it as a fall back as their meal ticket. When I watch TV late at night I used to get excited about seeing those Girls Gone Wild commercials and now I just feel sad and ashamed which are two weird feelings to go through while having an erection. Being in one of those DVDs is almost like a free pass for a guy to treat you like shit because he knows you don't have enough self decency to treat yourself with respect so why should he? They say dress how you want to be treated, well...you dress like a whore so I guess you'll be treated as such. I suppose when you look sexy as hell life doesn't really call for you to have a personality, I mean as long as your fine only being seen for face value. One day when my generation is well into adult hood things in the romantic department will probably start looking up for me since most women...I'm sorry, girls haven't quite matured yet but to be honest most of them wont' be worth it anyway. I feel bad for women who want to be taken seriously and not be treated as objects when other members of their gender are flashing their boobs for money and offering their bodies for rap videos and pornos and ad's and countless other mediums. Man this post sounds angry, I swear it's not. Smiles all day.

-Chris

New Web Site

I feel like every blog post has to start out with me either apologizing or stating how much I don't write on here. That being said I'm thinking about starting a new website, nothing huge or anything, but I want it to be pretty legit I suppose. By society standards I'm what you would call a "gamer". I read up about video games and the industry, I play a decent amount of games (when time permits), I like to write, I'm minoring in Journalism, and I'm damn good at games--so naturally I'm going to start a webstie about baking. Yes the site will feature all my world famous recipes including my award winning Peanut Butter Carmel Swirl Cheese Cake Bites and Pecan Cranberry Muffins. Ok I'm not, I'm starting a website about video games where I'll write about video games and do reviews of the games I'm playing/played. I'm not sure of the legal issues that might come up since I'm not offical or anything but I'll probably be fine. I'm gonna offer my own review system where I'll rate the game based on if the game is worth buying renting or trashing and I'll also try to give different perspectives of the game for different gamer types...I'll elaborate. If your into first person shooters I'll tell you to go buy Left 4 Dead if you know what's good for you, but if your a girl gamer I'll probably let you now that it might not be a game your into--even though girls should play it. Rating and reviewing it that way will give you a good idea on how YOU might like the game and how I liked the game because most reviewers review for reviewers or for devlopers or for a too broad or too specific group of gamers. The only down side is I have no idea what to call it so I'll have to come up with something and, as always, help is encouraged and much apprecaited. Double-Jump.com is the only thing I could think of so either let me know what you think of that name or help me come up with a better one because that's the hardest part for me sometimes.

-Chris

ps: http://www.hillcrestcartoon.com

Dream Books

I was once told by someone that if you write down your dream as soon as you wake up you'll have a better chance at remembering them, and soon you'll be able to control what happens in your dreams. For a while I was all about this concept because sometimes my dreams have a tendency of getting the best of me and show me my level of weakness. Now, however, I'm almost completely against the idea because those moments of weakness are good indications of my humanity and they help keep me grounded when I seem to carelessly float away. Plus I find it better to let my mind do what it wants because I, nor anyone else, can probably do otherwise. My mind doesn't work like most others (and why should it?) but just to give you an example, or insight, of how it operate it sometimes: I don't know what I want (sometimes) till I have it. Big Secret: I smoke marijuana, when I smoke I'll sometimes get hungry (duh) and then me and whoever I'm with will go somewhere to get food, most likely Wawa. Now me, being the person I am, I have no idea what I want to get--I have a general Idea like that I want something chocolately then something salty and to finish it off with something wet but other than that I'm mostly lost. So being particular and meticulous about some things I start browsing and of course I end up taking forever because I spend most of my time looking at something then imaging how it taste (usually pretty accurately because I've eaten it before) and then trying to figure out if that's why my body wants to eat. I feel like that carries over into many many many other aspects of my life. The question is though, is this a good way to live and I argue that yes yes it is. It might not be the best way for YOU to live but lets get this straight--your not me. I find that I operate good this way because my brain is pretty random and somewhat all over the place so I rely on feeling and emotion with a heavy dose of logic to get stuff done. It takes me forever to think of a topic for a paper because I want to write about something I enjoy or can write a lot about and I take forever to pick what I want to eat because I want to make sure what I get satisfies me. So of course this concept has to carry over into other parts of my life, and I think rightfully so because I need things in my life that satisfy me so that my happiness is rarely on the line. I wish I had more about this to write but I think I exhausted this subject right now, so I'm going to go occupy myself with something else.

_Chris

Mojo baby, yeah!

There's something, I feel, some people just possess and some don't that I really can't name. Call it mojo, grace, equilibrium, whatever you want. It's the little spark in some people that just gives them a special almost indescribable sense of self that just allows to carry themselves with grace and confidence that transcends itself into every part of their life. It's almost like an ability where some can have more of it than you and you can sometimes even have a fraction of what you could potentially have. It's not even like it makes you who you are though, it more or less just allows you to be who and what you are. This is a bad example but it's what makes Allen Iverson good at basketball or Steven Spielberg good at directing, it's just that special sauce--if you will (I mean that as a McDonalds reference so get you mind out of the gutter). Right now, to me, it's such a vague illusive concept that I can barely translate it on paper (aka this blog) so you can even understand what I think I'm talking about. I don't even know the point of this to be honest but I felt like typing about it, kind of like the random conversation I started today about the way people hug you tells you a little about them. How some people can hug you a little cold and some people just give you great hugs like they hug you with their whole body it seems. By the way, I warned you I was weird so don't act like this isn't normal for me. Anyway Mortal Kombat is on T.V. and I'm in the mood for a little nostalgic mid nineties action flick, based on a hit video game of the same name, goodness.

Laters


PS: They should invent a way for pudding to be healthy for you and then get that shit out everywhere; stores, restaurants, random places that sell food...everywhere. Come to think of it they might as well do it with fudge too, I mean kill two birds ya know.

Disorganization

I don't think there is anything more disorganized in my life then my brain. It's essentially the root of all my personal problems that I won't go into here. My sleeping "disorder" (I use quotes because you have to be diagnosed with a disorder) is caused by my brain because I'm up till 5 a.m. every night just from thinking--about anything: life, school, women, super powers...In fact the other night I was up till 7 in the morning just laying in my bed thinking about the necessary real life actions I'd have to take if I won the lottery and what I'd do with it. Another thing that scares me about my brain is it's inconsistency. One minute all I want for breakfast is Coco Krispies then the next day i'll be so turned off by Coco Krispies I'd op not to even eat breakfast if it was all I had to eat which I feel carries over into other parts of my life. Will I quickly grow tire of other things? Like will I wake up one day and just not be attracted to my wife? I know relationships in the early years of my life can't be compared to the women I'll one day marry but it's still a pretty scary thing to think about I guess. On the other end of the spectrum, however, I love my brain. I like how my brain processes things and I like it's outlook on things and sometimes it's quick reaction time woos me. So this love hate relationship I guess is the negative outcome of growing up because it's just eager to grow and learn and be mature way before I'm suppose to and it's a mixed blessing because sometimes you have to enjoy your immaturity. I guess by having to grow up fast I narrowed my choices for a mate down to just women older than I so that we can be on the same page mentally I suppose. Honestly though at this point I think I'll just marry the first beautiful charming women I meet that can make my laugh.

Who you gonna call?

If there's anything I've learned about dating throughout my life is that: If your not going to marry the person your with then it's just a learning experience. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying you can't have genuine feelings for a person you've been with for 3 or 4 years or anything I'm just over simplifying the concept. How do you know what kind of guy or girl your into? Well the way our species does it is by comparison and contrasting, and the best way we do this is by dating. Think about how much you learn about yourself and others by dating, for example: Say you date someone who calls you too much and always wants to know what your doing and who your with and you end up breaking up--well now you know you need a person that can trust you and can give you your space. By dating you learn what type of person you need to make you happy and what type of people turn you off. You have to be turned on and turned off to know your turn on's and turn off's...if that makes sense. When I was younger I used to take break ups to heart and I'd feel down and wonder what was wrong with me till I got older and realized that there isn't anything wrong with me I just wasn't dating the right person and I should just enjoy the time I have with certain people and if I'm in a relationship or dating someone and it goes sour then so be it. The future is vast and dating and relationship trouble is petty. Obviously it's not always so cut and dry and simple, there will be drama and there will be heartbreaks but the only thing you can do is be yourself and hope the pieces will fall into place, you can't force it or it won't be natural and it just won't work. Also, and I mean no offense by this (can't stress that enough) but FUCK "EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON" no it doesn't. Life is random things don't always have to happen for a reason; a guy getting his ass beat for hitting women--that happens for a reason, but other then simple action reaction nothing is predetermined for you. Serendipity and spontaneity. If there is a god he's not up there creating chance opportunities for you to meet people and he's not setting you up with people, take some damn responsibility sometimes--Life is what you make it, doesn't get any simpler than that because life IS what you make it. Life is gonna suck if you think it sucks, get over it. Your not Egon Spengler so quit chasing ghosts. Keep learning, keep improving, and just enjoy yourself. Your not dead so you got that going for ya.


-ChrisDon'tCrossTheStreamsGio


Edit: after posting this I found an interesting article you should read about staying positive and avoiding negativity
(and it has a nice ferris buller quote)

Future Rant

Did you ever have one of those moments where you reflect on your life or parts of it and you become dissatisfied and you feel like you need to change something? Well I've been having that moment everyday now for the past month. Nothing is more unsettling then uncertainty. For the longest time I wanted to be a graphic designer then one instant and one suggestion from a professor and all of sudden I'm on a completely different path that's totally unfamiliar to me. Up until that point I had everything figured out, I was gonna finish up at community college then transfer to Drexel and they would give me a job my last year there...but noooo I had to go and listen to the first person who told me what I wanted to hear "Your a good writer" and now I'm majoring in Radio/TV/Film with a minor is journalism--what the fuck? I don't even know what I want to be anymore, I have plenty of ambitions and dreams but no real realistic goal. So who knows how long i'll be in school for and who knows where I'll be, probably in the same place still wondering what I'm doing. Pretty soon everyone around me is going to have their shit figured out and I'm going to be the last one and I have no one to blame but myself. I like to think of myself as an overall person, I get a long with all kinds of people and I'm pretty decent at a lot of things but I don't really excel to much at anything in particular except maybe video games and reading and understanding people. I'm a decent graphic artist, I'm a decent writer, and I'm a decent everything else--I just want to be sure of one thing so I can run with it and be happy--not that I'm not happy. Well this was more of a rant than a blog.

The Interweb Generation

It feels like only yesterday when I was on my Gateway family computer with windows 95 logging onto American Online for the first time. Back then not that many people had a computer with a 56k modem hooked up to a phone line that they could use to surf the vast desolate information super highway. Back then you were lucky to get a cell phone by the time you could buy cigarettes. Now every mother fucker and their fucking moms has a high-speed internet connection and a cell phone, everything is point and click instant gratification, instant messaging, instant meals, instant instantness. Slowly the world is becoming this super fast impersonal cold ball of super conducting metals and fiber-optic wiring. People used to have to talk face to face with people or sometimes over the phone but now all that's gone; all you have to do is text, IM, or message someone what you want to say. While this is an amazing advancement in technology it's a severe decline in human interaction, it's a couple steps back actually. Because of texting and IM'ing and social websites like Myspace and Facebook kids now a days don't get as much human interaction and learn about body language. Children are getting cellphones at a younger and younge and while there are many arguments that say it's a good idea (some of which I would most certainly agree with) it still thwarts the child's body language lessons and regular language lessons for that matter. For god sake my mom even texts me now and uses abbreviation for words that are only four letters long! Instead of going out and playing jailbreak or tag or manhunt or kick-the-can, kids are trying to get more friends on myspace or sitting inside and just texting each other. When and If I have kids, I'm sure it'll be a way different time then it is now, I'm gonna kick their asses outside and limit their consumption of technology. You wonder why your kids are bratty fat ass social retards it's because you let them sit on their computers and cell phones all day eating chips and drinking soda. Slllloooowwwwww dddddoooowwwnnnnn--call someone instead of texting them, hang out with someone instead of IM'ing them, or go out and meet people in a normal social setting then just leaving comments and adding new people on myspace. Sure I spend a decent amount of time on my computer too, and I text a lot too, but I didn't start till I was way past my adolescents and have had plenty of social experience. Get some exercise and making friends in real life, your only hurting yourself.

I'm about to start sending letters to friends in the mail, bring that fad back.

-Toph

"Spare me your money, I want some change baby."

I like to think of my brain was a sifter and all my thoughts are tiny pieces of sand, most of my thoughts just slip right through but every once in a while I'm left with a shell or coin and sometimes even a pearl. Sadly, though, I sometimes mistake pearls for big shiny pieces of sand--this is probably a big piece of sand. There are different kinds of factors that effect us as people internally, which then push us to adjust ourselves mentally and behaviorally. Most of the time, at least for me anyway, they change you for the better almost dynamically usually brought on after an epiphany of some kind. These effects can be dramatic or subtle, either way we're usually quite different from the way we were before it. Of course we all experience this different and at different times and some people just don't learn at all, but I call these moments "growing moments" (I just made that up) because really your just growing up a little, advancing to the next level. With that logic, though, wouldn't that make those moments quintessential parts of life, learning experiences that are necessary to become the best "you" you can be? And if that's true then wouldn't you WANT those moments and EMBRACE those moments? After all the most grippingly personal moments that no one else shares; sure you may have had a similar moment or even shared a moment with someone else but that's not the meat of the lesson--it's what you take away from it and how you allow that to effect you positively. Knowing that I can totally understand why old people hate young people...we're fucking pricks. Think about it, you live for like roughly 80 or 90 years and I know me at 18 is completely different from me at 20 so I can only imagine what shit I'll go though from now till then and all the crap I learn from it. So after I work my ass off in college and struggle paying back loans and finding a career then working my ass off in that career and get married, have kid,s start a family, buy a mini van, do soccer practice, karate, make sandwiches, put my kids though college, get stabbed for my velcro wallet, get divorced, spend most of the week with my kids then try and meet people on weekends even though I'm way too old to start dating again, retire, use my retirement money to but a sweet place, loose it cause I have no money for medicare, and then move into a small town home of course I'm gonna hate young people. Boo hoo grandpa I didn't make the cheerleading squad--Fuck your cheerleading squad I need an extra person in the bathroom to help me shit out the nasty mushed up crap I ate 30 minutes ago...cheerleading squad. I can't wait to yell at people who are on my lawn cause my lawns the only thing I got--that a reruns of some sitcom for old people in the future.

Life sucks, everyone knows that, the sooner you come to terms with that the sooner you can start enjoying yourself
Your alive, smile.
It's all about your perception, how you perceive things. If you look at the tower of Pisa, what's wrong with it? NOTHING! it's all how you look at it, tilt your head a little and looks fine--now apply that to your life.

-Toph

No one ever gets my eccentric analogies

Imagine chocolate has been banned from consumption and no one is allowed to eat chocolate anymore. Now imagine someone came up to you and asked you what chocolate was. How well could you describe it--could you even do it? Try explaining color to someone who is completely color blind. No matter how effective you are at conveying your point or argument, it's frustratingly difficult to get someone to see just what you mean without experiencing it. That's the weird thing about life, no matter how much you explain or teach someone nothing is more effective than experience. Imagine, if you will, life (or some parts of it) was like baseball. First you have to learn the fundamentals of the "game"--hit ball with bat run bases and score. Then you have to learn and understand the rules and regulations of the game: outs, fouls, innings, homeruns, etc. Sounds easy right? Then what's next? playing the "game". First you get your hands on a bat and you try hitting a few balls around--little awkward and intimidating at first but then you get the hang of it and start getting cocky swinging wildly aiming for the fences, mocking people who say the game is hard or can't hit the ball or the people out in the field that can't catch the balls you hit. You think your the shit, then someone gives you a glove. You get put in the outfield and watch how other people bat and see how hard it is to catch the ball and throw it to the right place and your running all over the place doing lots of work and not having much to show for it, and balls are flying over your head and they come at you fast and it hurts to catch them but feels good when you do but hurts worse when you drop the ball. After a while you realize baseball isn't a game at all...it's a sport, and people take it seriously (sometimes too seriously). Even though it's a sport it's still a game and you should have fun, but there's a level of seriousness needed to succeed.
I could go on and on with this analogy, but the bottom line is how much do you really know about the game until you play it hard and lose a little so you know how to win, and understanding the game and people so you know how to manipulate the system and maximize your potential.

I hope you grasp that concept.


"How great of a winner can you be if you've never lost"
"The greatest winners are losers"


PS: Life, it's all about perspectives--get a few.


-toph

Who cares

Not caring what people think of you is a trait, or ability, we all wish we possessed from time to time. Nothing artificially mimics this feeling better than having a girlfriend or boyfriend. I think we can all admit that most of the things we do like get our hair cut, take showers, and shave our genitalia are for the opposite sex. We try to dress nice and act a certain way to attract a potential mate, or in some cases a one night stand, but having a girlfriend fixes all that. Don't get me wrong it's still necessary to shower and look nice for your significant other, but when your not with them you don't give a shit about anyone else and you can actually be yourself which is why we attracted more people when we're already in a relationship. Oh no this chinese food court meal made me shit my pants in public but it's ok cause I have someone that still finds me attractive. I find myself using this phrase more and more everyday: WHO CARES? who cares? wwwhhhoooo cccccaaaarrrrreeessss? Who cares if you look like shit today, who cares how many push ups you can do, who cares what color your skin is, who cares if some dude wants to marry another gay dude, who fucking cares. When you were a young child, which I'm sure you were one day, don't you remember someone saying to you "You know [your name] the world doesn't revolve around you" but we all seem to forget that. I have to go to class so this isn't going to make much sense since i rushed though it, but...I DON'T CARE!! ha!

and you shouldn't either cause no one reads this shit anyway, and if you do just say hi via comments
or don't
who cares

-toph

Passing Judgement

If there's one thing that most of the world collectively does as a species it's judging. I don't mean black coat wooden mallet judging, I'm talking about drinking haterade. People drink gatorade when they're thirsty, and people drink haterade when they're feeling down on themselves. Now I'm not saying judging people is bad--hell I do it as much as the next guy, it's just how you do it and how you perceive it that's the unhealthy part. Far be it for me to be someone to tell you how to live your life, but before you judge someone or better yet while your judging someone just remember that as long as that person and his or her actions doesn't directly affect you then who cares what they do. If what something does makes them happy then where is it your place to say it's weird or dumb or any simple negative comment you might or I might have. For example: Right now there is a young female sitting across the room from me in this public place knitting--now my first thought was "why the hell is she knitting here? is she expecting grandkids at 20 something?" but then I thought "wow she looks pretty happy doing that...relaxed and complacent. On the opposite end, however, if someone said they liked to drink pee from 5 year old adolescent school boys, feel free to pass guilt free judgement on that person because that's insanely gross. I guess what I'm trying to say is that a lot of people are selfish and they judge people and put other people down to feel better about themselves when all that wasted energy could go to improving your self esteem issues that I know practically everyone has. If your going to be selfish then why don't you just worry about yourself, worry about what your doing and not about what other people are doing if it doesn't effect you and you don't like it. The grass is always greener on the other side--especially if you wear green tinted glasses. Life sucks, as soon as you get passed that you can enjoy it. By the way people watching is totally different from judging. If me and you were both going to drive to california we'd probably take totally different roads to get there and who's to say your way or my way is "better" or "safer" because it doesn't matter if we both end up in the same place...right?


Ps: Listening to music and writing isn't the best combination

Romantic Comedies

Call me gay, but I enjoy romantic comedies. I don't know if it's the stories they portray, or the humor, or maybe it's just the feeling I get after watching one that draws me to it. Have you ever went to the movies and watched an awesome kung fu movie or a movie with a bad ass super hero? As you were leaving the theater did you feel like if a gang came up to you with weapons, surround you, and wanted to fight you one at a time you'd know just what to do? I guess it's kind of like that for every movie--kung fu movies make me want to talk out of sync and fight the guy who killed my father, action movies make me want to shoot a couple guys and jump out of a burning building that's about to explode, and romantic comedies make me want to do some elaborate plan to get a girl to realize she loves me. It all sounds fruity I'm sure, but you can't tell me you honestly don't get a little warm when you watch a good romantic comedy. Here's a homework assignment: Go watch When Harry Met Sally or something and if after you don't feel good, or want to find someone or be with someone, then I'm pretty sure your either too macho to admit it or you may or may not have a soul.

Ps: beer, contact sports, cars, boobs, beards, guns, and building stuff.


-ChrislikeswomenGio

Dear Saturday Night Live,

What happened to you? You used to be so young with your humor being so witty and natural. Now it seems that you've gotten older and your did not age well it seems since now your humor seems forced and your wit has lost it's well timed feyness. I remember watching you light up the televisions and faces across the world, every word hung on to like a baby to it's mother--every joke met with an appropriate laugh or chuckle. Those years I spent looking up to you, wanting to be part of your glory and prestige, are but distant memories one can never venture to. You were on the fast track to greatness where you built your home using your bare hands and raw talent only building steam as you went on--Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd. Gilda Radner, Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus,Billy Crystal, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Kevin Nealon, Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler, and Mike Myers-- all were comedic legends and went on to have successful careers even after their SNL days, sadly the rate of excellence went down after that. Will Ferrell, Darrell Hammond, Cheri Oteri, Chris Kattan, Colin Quinn, Chris Parnell, and Tracy Morgan were all funny, don't get me wrong, but they were really the last great cast era of SNL with the likes of Jimmy Fallon, and Horatio Sanz bridging the gap to next era. I don't know what happened, if it's the writers or the cast to blame but, sadly, the new SNL is marginally unfunny in comparison to the old SNL. Again don't be mistaken I do find a lot of the new cast funny including but not limited to: Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers, Fred Armisen, Will Forte, Tina Fey (originally a writer for SNL), Bill Hader, and Andy Samberg, but they're hardly anything close to anyone I named prior to Will Ferrell. Maybe it's not the cast (because they're all pretty funny), and maybe it's not even the writers, perhaps it's the outrageously fast evolving society that really is to blame for SNL being "unfunny" in a sense. SNL just isn't as big as it was before and it's glory is slowly fading like Britney Spear's career/life. SNL used to be a lauching pad for comdies and was the reason why many of the comedians became huge stars after almost like a trampoline--but after a while trampolines aren't as bouncy and they turned out to be kind of dangerous, some people threw them out or just left them out to become part of nature. The only thing worth watching are the digital shorts that are put out by SNL anymore, other than that you won't catch me coming home on a saturday night to watch SNL or even "DVR'ing or Tivo'ing" it--and I gotta say, it's kind of sad. I miss my trampoline



Ps: I really do miss my trampoline, it was sweet.

People Watching

I think one of my most predominate habits has to be people watching. Regardless of where I am, or who I'm with, I always watch or observe other people. For example, if I go to the mall I can carry on a normal conversation with whom ever I'm with but chances are I'm not looking at the person I'm talking to I'm more likely looking at everyone within a couple yards of me wondering what that person is there for or what's in their bag or why the hell they're wearing they're pajamas out in public--honestly you have the time to put on sneakers you can put some god damn pants on. Even right now I'm sitting in the student center at Rowan typing this but at the same time I'm looking at other people wondering what that girl in the hat got from the cafe and who that older looking lady is talking to on the phone or why that unattractive couple is thinking it's ok to cuddle on one of the couches and be all gross together--but hey far be it for me to judge them, I mean they look pretty happy even though they might be making some people uncomfortable with their gross, smell, ugly happiness. This kid in front of me has amazingly flexible arms and keeps showing me this by stretching constantly by the way. In any event, I guess being this bad of a people watcher has it's upside--it keeps my imagination up to par with the crazy stories or dialogues I make up for each character in this place or anywhere else i'd be. At the same time however it probably doesn't help my A.D.D. since a portion of my focus goes to the constant people watching I'm doing. At the end of the day, though, I wouldn't want to change it because I think it teaches me a lot about people, like their mannerisms and their body language--I guess I owe a lot of my ability to read people and socialize particularly well to crazy amount of people watching I do. So thanks over active imagination you keep me interesting and weird and possibly clinically insane--but at least I'm not boring.

-Chris People-Watching-isn't-creepy Gio

Valentine's Day

Some believe Valentine's Day was invented by the Roman's because Feburary 15th was Lupercalia, the festival of Lupercus The God of fertility. Others believe Geoffrey Chaucer was probably the first to link the Saint's day (Saint Valentine) with the custom of choose "sweethearts". Which ever you beleive I think most of us can beleive that this holiday is a joke glorified by the Hallmark greeting card industry. It's just another important day for lonely, down on their luck, men and women to kill themselves. You should be doing nice things for you significant other all the time not just one day out of the entire year. You can't just screw up you whole relationship then on the 13th go online and order a Vermont teddy bear with overnight shipping--You know that one that kinda looks like you becuase it's wearing an outfit you'd probably wear and the operator on the phone suggests the message to put in the card: "Here's a Teddy Bear that looks like me so you never have to sleep without me by your side."
AWWW
When you have someone this day seems to be important so you save up your money to get your girl or guy a gift and then go out to dinner because you made reservations at the Olive Garden two weeks in advance to beat the rush.
All I'm saying is if your going to embrace the holiday be unique be original don't get her a teddy bear and take her out to dinner--make the dinner, put some thought into it do something a little more special because any idiot can order a teddy bear and pay for dinner that's not romantic.

Happy Valentine's Day

A Baby's First Step

I don't know what it is about laying in a bed with the lights off that makes my brain race like a man on a bike with one testicle but it's a burden I've come to accept. One of the many many things I've been thinking about is how I'm majoring in writing for television and film, with a minor in journalism, yet--I NEVER WRITE. Maybe it's my ADD maybe it's my inherent laziness, but whatever the reason I guess starting a blog is my way of combatting this horrible habit. This isn't an online diary or journal where I'm going to cry about girls or complain about my problems all the time, it's more of just an outlet to stimulate my brain and to regularly practice writing as much as possible. That being said I'm not held responsible for my own hypocrisy since I'm sure I'll post about a personal issues or rant about certain things pertaining to my existence but I'll more than likely leave out names and details to avoid any complications since that's not the purpose of this--thing. So if your reading this feel free to comment on my insanity or perhaps expresses your opinion on whatever I post about from here on out.

-Chris


PS: First example of my hypocrisy: I don't like blogs.