Yell into the night...

So, anyone else just see the 4x100m men's freestyle relay?

American anchor Jason Lezak made up almost a 1 second deficit in the last leg of the race against a French swimmer who previously held the 100m world record to win gold for U.S.A. by 0.08 seconds.

Pretty much one of the greatest moments in swimming history.

I can't wait to get back to school, I'm really motivated to start swimming again.

[/swim nerd]

So for those of you not in the know, this summer I'm back working at Costco, this time out in the lot pushing carts (yeah promotion!)

So I see this huge black Escalade pull into the parking lot, optioned out, chromed out, huge rims, the works. The Front license plate said "BLACK PANTHER" on it.

It was being driven by a 50-something-year-old white woman -.-

I can't tell which hypothesis is funnier: that she's some woman with a black guy fetish, or if she just thought that was a cute pet name for her truck and has no idea what it means.

Either way, she'd best not drive that thing up into Philly.

Kinda funny....porn set to "Never Gonna Give You Up" is oddly fitting.

Yes, I'm still alive :insert 'Portal' reference here:

Just passed Run To The Hills expert drums on Rock Band.

Bitches.

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but Rock Band is fucking awesome. Also, I would like to note that after owning the game for less than 9 hours, my roommate Rich beat Foreplay/Long Time expert on drums. Dammit, I'm not the best as drums among my friends anymore :(

Debate wrap-up: Giuliani won.

Dammit, one fantastic away? Can't I just ** a 10 already?

;_;

Places I'll be from Tues. 11/20 until Mon. 11/26: Delaware.

Book your tickets now.

Man do I miss this song...::points to music tag::

I get lazy with this thing...to everyone I'm friends with, I do read your LJ's, don't worry. I just never update my own XD

I might get back into the habit sometime.-

Back in Boston. Classes are pretty good, although physical chem is gonna be intense. My new dorm room is massive and nice as shit, and I'm rooming with Brendan D. so that's cool. I'm getting really into IIDX now, so after effective playing it for about 2 weeks I can pass most 5's and have a few 6's down as well. I hung out with Rob and Brandon yesterday and it was pretty sweet. That's the past week summed up, hope you enjoyed it.

For those of you who had followed my quest for epic Java Monster, I GOT SOME!!!

Tastes like a bottled frappuchino without the shame of drinking Starbucks.

Finally bought all of my textbooks for the semester...all $385 worth of them. And that was with buying as many as I could for cheap online. Ugh, the last thing I want is another 1200-page orgo book ;_;

Superbad was superawesome. Go see it. NAO!

So apparently nowhere in Delaware has the new Monster Java, which I've been dying to try. I've literally quested for it, searched Wawas, 7-11s, and other stores, and it's nowhere to be found. Even more dissapointing, Wawa's Mach W energy drink sucks D:

Joe, Matt, and I got to witness a double-fight break out at People's Plaza on Friday. Delaware's ghetto as shit, ya'll.

I'm off work tomorrow, who wants to do stuff?

My left wrist is sore, and I'm suspecting excessive masturbationstepmania is the culprit. Totally worth it though, I broke 1000 marvelouses on Strangeprogram. I rule.

About 2 weeks after its release, I finally finished the last Harry Potter book, and managed to go that long without the book beoing spoiled for me. I win, internet. I win.

...but is Drew Carey really the right personality to take over The Price is Right? I just don't see him as a game-show host, especially for such an iconic show. Then again, it's not like anyone could really fill Bob Barker's spot, so maybe change isn't bad, it's just...change.

I'm still looking forward to the first show with him as host. This should be interesting.

It took me over a year after its release, but I finally saw Little Miss Sunshine. Thoroughly enjoyable, although I feel as if the characters could have been developed a bit more. Very interesting characters, and 2 hours really doesn't do them all justice; however, that doesn't take away from the over goodness of the movie.

1) Kelpie Seaweed Ale is oddly delicious, yet unfortunately unavailable in America.
2) Mountain biking seriously hurts your ass.

Time for the CTcon report:

-Friday: left my house around 10:30, didn't get to Hartford until 4 pm (the drive should have been no more than 5 hours, 'sup 11-mile backups in southern Connecticut?). Got to the convention center, found Brendan, and found Joe P. in the reg line, which at that point was around 4 hours long. Groaning at the possibility of another 4 hours of standing around after the 6.5 hour drive, Joe P. helped me execute an epic line cut maneuver to where he was standing, 10 minutes from the front of the line. I still owe him something big for that, like a car or a blow job. At that point we checked into the hotel, got settled in, and started out the con in typical con fashion by checking out the game room, which was pretty decent, but very crowded. Since I'm not big into FPS or fighters, the room didn't really hold much for me, save the two whole rounds of DDR I played all weekend (excluding the tourney, more on that later). After that, Brendan made the obligatory booze run and picked up the staples: Captain and Smirnoff (actually Smirnoff =/= staple since we usually drink better quality). Actually, since I've been sticking with better quality liquor lately, I couldn't even stand the Smirnoff. Too spoiled by mid-to-high level stuff D: Oh well, by midnight Manny, Brendan, and I were drunk enough to get ourselves lost in Hartford for about an hour. Hartford, by the way, is a pretty sketchy place. Not fun to be lost and drunk there late at night. We got back, partied a little more, and then I fell asleep on the floor since bedspace was gone by that point. I woke up around 5 am, shivering since we didn't realize the hotel room thermostate was set to 60°. I promply relocated to the closet, since it was slightly warmer in there (trapped more body heat). I just wanna restate that: I slept in a closet for a convention. I crossed the threshold of hardcore con-goer.

-Saturday: Slept in a little, since the closet floor didn't offer the most restful sleep possible. At 11:30 I headed down, ran into Rob, chatted for a bit, and then went to the game room to qualify for the DDR tourney. I got a 9.37 on Centaur (not bad for having never played the song before...not bad at all), and qualified in 5th place, I believe. I played my first prelim match against Derek, who promptly slaughtered me (apparently he bombed the qualifier, despite being a top-tier player). But here's where things went nuts: they wanted to only move the top 8 players to the tourney finals, which were held in the main event hall. Well, they scrapped that, and moved the whole top 16 bracket, and brought back in other players who had already lost their "prelim matches," all of which were scrapped. Except for me. I was left out of the bracket, despite being one of the highest qualifiers. I talked to Javier, who was trying his best to fix the awful job that the main event host was doing of running the touney, and he slipped me back in to the bracket in a no-show players slot. I ended up winning the first match (this time against Javier), and then got a bye through the quarterfinals since my would-be opponent was the other no-show. Yay free trip to the top 4. I ended up playing Derek again, and came a lot closer to winning, but still lost. Oh well, for only placing 4th I ended up getting $20 to Gamestop, a shirt, and a free copy of dothack:GU for PS2. Very nice. After that, we went back to the hotel, got drunk again, and then went to the rave around 11. The rave was actually very good! I stayed for about an hour (almost until the rave ended), and then went back with a large group to Javier's room for poker, pizza, and drinking soda out of bowls and coffee makers (you have to improvise when you run out of clean cups XD) Stayed until around 3, and then crashed.

-Sunday: spent the day wandering the dealer's room, trying to find final-day deals. Brendan and I went in on and got a few e-amuse IIDX cards (oh man we're nerds) and spent a long time drooling over Desktop Arcade's new combination Pop'n/IIDX controller (both controllers in one big, giant package, omgawesome) and unfortunately missing the chance to tell Steve Handleman that we were the ones who stole his social security number last spring (long story, don't ask). Brendan, Fonzi, Jav, and I then went to Dunkin' Donuts to get food, where we found out that the Dunkin' Donuts near the center is one of the test locations for new Dunkin' Donuts PIZZA. That's right, pizza from a donut shop. Yeah, it was pretty mediocre. If they every introduce it for real, don't bother trying it, it tastes like microwave pizza. We got in our final hang-out time, and then I left Hartford around 4. All in all, I went yet another anime convention without watching a single screening of anime. Go me!

So what now? I'm off work Friday, and Manny wants me to day-trip it down to Otakon, but I don't feel like spending another $40+ for a one-day reg there. I might go down just to hang out in the inner harbor though and maybe sneak around a bit. If that doesn't happen, anyone else have plans for Friday?