These Are the Days

Today I started my 1^st summer session class. This may be the best concept ever. 13 classes, 3 hours long, & you have a full credit. Does it get much easier than that? One week of classes equals 5 weeks of regular semester work. 1 paper, 2 exams, & you are done. I was fairly excited to say the least. They one upped it though. 1 day is canceled already, 1 day is a field trip to Milwaukee. Yea, it’s college & I get to go on a freaking field trip!

The class I am now enrolled in is social geography. Not only is it a required course for my major, broad field social studies, but seems to be pretty interesting. We were asked right off how much traveling we have done. I was surprised to find out I was one of the better traveled in the class. It kind of gave me an opportunity to think about all my trips around the Midwest. I have been to Detroit, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Cleveland, & of course Milwaukee. The 1^st thing that came to mind was a trip I took Chicago at this time last year. The moment I always flash to is my time on the observation deck at the Hancock building. It’s the 2^nd largest building in Chicago & looks out over Lake Michigan. You can see 4 states as you look out. I saw it at night & it was absolutely breath taking looking out over the city, completely lit up. I looked down & was amazed that there were over 3 million people below me, just living their lives. It was a lot like looking down on an ant hill…I guess you had to be there.

One other thing to come out of my class…. I was amazed at how boring people’s lives are. There are 6 people in my class & everyone was talking about how all they do is work & sit at home. I work a lot, by choice mind you, but how isn’t their time to have fun? How can’t there be people to chill with? When I was in high school, I thought all the ‘cool’ kids had all the fun. Not all, it is the dorks like us. We are pretty much the definition of dorks. If you know html outside of viewing the source on a web browser, you are a dork. If you love on Star Wars, Chris, you are a dork. It is just fact. We all are. We still party more & have more fun than anyone though. (I should have prefaced that by saying out of people that actually accomplish & do things in a life. Druggies & hippies are excluded.)

On a completely different note, Indianapolis is only a week & a half away. This will be my 16^th year, J’s 3^rd, Chris’ 2^nd & I think we are all stoked. I haven’t had a chance to see anything on TV, but I do try to keep pace with it on the internet (Unlike NASCAR, Indianapolis takes a month top get ready for the race. 2 weekends of qualifying & 1 week of racing.). Over the weekend, all the buzz has been over the woman driver there this year. In the past, they have just put woman in the seat to get publicity. None of them were qualified & crashed out early taking out good car with them. This year is 100% different. There is a driver by the name of Danica Patrick & I am hella excited to see her race. She is qualified for the job & has earned her way through the ranks, something affirmative action has ruined in all other aspects of life. Yesterday she was a little nervous & almost wrecked her car on the 1^st qualifying lap (They average 4 laps rather than taking the single fastest.). Had she not, she would have had the pole (1^st spot) as she ripped off the 3 quickest pas of the day after that. Hopefully she does well on race day, she has 100% earned every opportunity she has right now. I will go on record as saying she is my favorite IndyCar driver now.

Right now I am absolutely hooked on Day One Symphony. Their CD, a Vicious Circle, kicks a lot of ass. It is way unique & just jacks me up whenever I hear it. On the subject of music, I was reading an interview by dredg bassist Drew Roulette & he proved why I think any one of those guys could be one of my boys.

"We dont breed them ...we fuck them."
-His response to being asked, “Why do penguins feature so heavily in your works? Do you breed them in your tour bus?”-

I found a bunch of their new shit on Ares. Check it out for the download. Way rambling entry, I hope you heart!

Currently playing….
Catch Without Arms
By dredg
“Sang Real & Not that Simple”

Posted by D. Schwa on Monday, May 16, 2005 at 10:57 PM | Permalink