2008: The Retrospect
So, I missed out on posting 'Martin Sargent's Tale of the Magic Christmas Quilts' this Christmas, but that won't stop me from trying to do my retrospect. I really wish I wouldn't have let myself limit my blogging as much as I did. This is going to be kinda tricky, considering there's stuff I'm not going to remember.
So, without further ado...2008:
---
- The Great Shed Adventure
- Finally realizing that CMU>Greenville
- Roommate leaves without telling us. Takes TV with him. Asshole.
- First night back at Central, stayed the night at a girl's apartment. Signs of a good start to the semester.
- ...Unfortunately, I leave my wallet there, along with my meal card, and I'm unable to retrieve it for a while. Signs that the universe likes to keep itself balanced.
- Hang out at Cat's apartment, get a knock on the door from a REALLY drunk girl named Bridget at 3am. She's out in the cold in a miniskirt. I take her back to her room on campus. Fun random night.
- Having math courses sucks...AND THAT'S COMING FROM A MATH MAJOR!
- More Wesley Movie Night fun.
- My roommate Alan and Sam Hess, a girl he knew from school, and I hang out and discuss religious beliefs and establishing a cult.
- Mike Lindsay comes to Greenville with me to see Districts. He's found to be "like Chris Coston, but better." >_<
- The First Church of Michael Lindsay established
- Becky, Mike Lindsay, and myself at Meijer, buying Free Willy and talking to Nick
- Saw Juno with Alan and Sam. Awesome!
- Pancakes and Porn... gotta love the fact that the novelty shop in Mt. Pleasant is right next to IHOP
- Found the best Date Movie to be The Re-Animator
- [Scene: Mike and my room. We both wake up roughly the same time]
Mike: Ugh...
Me: Hi, Mike Lindsay!
Mike: Oh, hey, Chris...
???: Hi, Mike Lindsay!
Mike: ...wait? SAM?!
[Followed by Mike Lindsay leaving to get food. Comes back to see a sock on the door]
Mike: SON OF A BITCH!
[Nothing happened, but I wanted to hear his reaction... ^_^ ]
- Played a card game called Bang! and spent the next 10+ months trying to find it at different stores I go to.
- Sibs Weekend: Trever comes and spends a couple days at CMU. He exploited his cuteness to get my friend Nichole to see Rambo with us. He enjoyed innocent people blowing up.
- Locked my keys in my car. James had to drive up from Greenville to get me my spare set.
- Shannon comes up to see Mike Lindsay. A lot.
- 19th birthday! How to celebrate? GOING TO TORONTO WITH JAMES! Bars, zombie musicals, Second City, and James throwing up on himself...good times...
- ...But not before having to drive to CMU with Nikki to get my birth certificate. Then, Nikki explains to my roommate, Pat, why I enjoy her company over Sam's...
- Losing at Padiddle...while driving.
- Slowly realizing I'm not going to be a teen in 2009...
- Speeding Ticket. ;_;
- James comes up to hang out. He sleeps on my couch, I sleep in an entirely different building.
- Tried a cigarette. It was Clove (aka DISGUSTING)
- Wesley makes me a belated birthday cake. Not knowing about it, I didn't go. I hear it was good, though...
- Pulp becomes one of my favorite bands, even though they are rather silly.
- TJ and Kayla come up to Central to hang out. Kayla passes out, everybody freaks, TJ and I think, "Oh, not again..."
- "TJ's a bit of a dick, but he's a cool dick. So pretty much he's only a douchebag." - Shubes, drunk
- Grilling hot dogs for people on our floor. Good stuff. Especially when I had to run to McD's and borrow tongs.
- Change in character: Pushover, to...well, I'm still a pushover, just more of a dick, now.
- First time tailgating...not during a REAL football game. Managers from work giving me and my roommates drinks is still one of the coolest things to happen that semester.
- Teacher: "...now, Carter was our president during the Iranian Hostage Crisis. We had 53 hostages at the U.S. Embassy, taken over by a few hundred Iranian students. If you guys were Carter, what would you do first?"
Me: "GROW PEANUTS!"
Alan: *raises hand* I'd have a big, sweet Black Hawk helicopter full of Special Forces agents land it on top of the building and raid the Embassy! It'd be so awesome!
- Different Drunken escapades
- SHEPARD MAPLE SYRUP FESTIVAL!
- Wisdom teeth pulled. Funny, we listened to The Beatles on the way there and back; the way there was all the drug-related songs, and on the way back while I'm still loopy, it's all the innocent songs...
- Car has problems, needs fixin'
- Weekend in Waterford: Best Weekend Ever
- "So, my mom's planning on buying drinks for us if one of us blows into her PBT."
- MCC English class....what a joke...
- What to do when the parents are away? Invite TJ and Nikki over for drinks and strip pool!
- TJ: *picks up paper bag* What's in this bag?
Me: I think Green Tea.
TJ: Ugh. That stuff tastes like grass.
Me: There's other types of teas in there, too, though...
TJ: OOOH! *dumps contents of the bag on the ground*
Me: ...and tacks. *tacks scatter across the floor* ...in fact, I think I threw all the tea away. Sorry.
- Becoming, as my dad put it, a scumbag who takes innocent girls into his basement
- Michigan's Adventure trip with people I don't really associate with. A bit weird.
- Started getting sick MUCH MORE FREQUENTLY
- Ibuprofen + empty stomach = Dad going into work for me for a couple hours while my insides feel like they are tearing apart
- Mt. Pleasant Trip: Introduction of BEAR JAIL
- Trip to Muskegon to go to a drive-in theater.
- Cooking w/ Grandma: NO-BAKES!
- Stepmom is pregnant...again...
- $6000 Scholarship. College becomes slightly easier to afford.
- Sophomore year.
- Shakespeare Abridged: The only way to handle early English literature
- Signing my TRIPLE MAJOR
- Mike Lindsay on chemicals = scary
- Mike Lindsay's Shoe Burial
- Too much homework to go out this semester. ;_;
- The invention of 'Homework Juice'. Just add vodka!
- Three majors, and I still can't complete school without taking ONE random bullshit class
- Shubes drinks himself stupid. I play babysitter
- TJ comes up to Western Weekend, along with Waterford people. Hilarity ensues.
- Six $1000+ hours at McD's for CMU vs. WMU gameday. Ugh...
- Signed our lease for 2009/2010 apartment. Mike Lindsay owes me $100 still.
- Amount of posts on blog drops to about 3 per month.
- Fixed two computers since I've been home
- Let The Right One In: Weird vampire flick
- Coolest Christmas Present: TUPPERWARE w/ SCREW-ON LIDS!!!
And that, my friends, was 2008.
Simon
So, without further ado...2008:
---
- The Great Shed Adventure
- Finally realizing that CMU>Greenville
- Roommate leaves without telling us. Takes TV with him. Asshole.
- First night back at Central, stayed the night at a girl's apartment. Signs of a good start to the semester.
- ...Unfortunately, I leave my wallet there, along with my meal card, and I'm unable to retrieve it for a while. Signs that the universe likes to keep itself balanced.
- Hang out at Cat's apartment, get a knock on the door from a REALLY drunk girl named Bridget at 3am. She's out in the cold in a miniskirt. I take her back to her room on campus. Fun random night.
- Having math courses sucks...AND THAT'S COMING FROM A MATH MAJOR!
- More Wesley Movie Night fun.
- My roommate Alan and Sam Hess, a girl he knew from school, and I hang out and discuss religious beliefs and establishing a cult.
- Mike Lindsay comes to Greenville with me to see Districts. He's found to be "like Chris Coston, but better." >_<
- The First Church of Michael Lindsay established
- Becky, Mike Lindsay, and myself at Meijer, buying Free Willy and talking to Nick
- Saw Juno with Alan and Sam. Awesome!
- Pancakes and Porn... gotta love the fact that the novelty shop in Mt. Pleasant is right next to IHOP
- Found the best Date Movie to be The Re-Animator
- [Scene: Mike and my room. We both wake up roughly the same time]
Mike: Ugh...
Me: Hi, Mike Lindsay!
Mike: Oh, hey, Chris...
???: Hi, Mike Lindsay!
Mike: ...wait? SAM?!
[Followed by Mike Lindsay leaving to get food. Comes back to see a sock on the door]
Mike: SON OF A BITCH!
[Nothing happened, but I wanted to hear his reaction... ^_^ ]
- Played a card game called Bang! and spent the next 10+ months trying to find it at different stores I go to.
- Sibs Weekend: Trever comes and spends a couple days at CMU. He exploited his cuteness to get my friend Nichole to see Rambo with us. He enjoyed innocent people blowing up.
- Locked my keys in my car. James had to drive up from Greenville to get me my spare set.
- Shannon comes up to see Mike Lindsay. A lot.
- 19th birthday! How to celebrate? GOING TO TORONTO WITH JAMES! Bars, zombie musicals, Second City, and James throwing up on himself...good times...
- ...But not before having to drive to CMU with Nikki to get my birth certificate. Then, Nikki explains to my roommate, Pat, why I enjoy her company over Sam's...
- Losing at Padiddle...while driving.
- Slowly realizing I'm not going to be a teen in 2009...
- Speeding Ticket. ;_;
- James comes up to hang out. He sleeps on my couch, I sleep in an entirely different building.
- Tried a cigarette. It was Clove (aka DISGUSTING)
- Wesley makes me a belated birthday cake. Not knowing about it, I didn't go. I hear it was good, though...
- Pulp becomes one of my favorite bands, even though they are rather silly.
- TJ and Kayla come up to Central to hang out. Kayla passes out, everybody freaks, TJ and I think, "Oh, not again..."
- "TJ's a bit of a dick, but he's a cool dick. So pretty much he's only a douchebag." - Shubes, drunk
- Grilling hot dogs for people on our floor. Good stuff. Especially when I had to run to McD's and borrow tongs.
- Change in character: Pushover, to...well, I'm still a pushover, just more of a dick, now.
- First time tailgating...not during a REAL football game. Managers from work giving me and my roommates drinks is still one of the coolest things to happen that semester.
- Teacher: "...now, Carter was our president during the Iranian Hostage Crisis. We had 53 hostages at the U.S. Embassy, taken over by a few hundred Iranian students. If you guys were Carter, what would you do first?"
Me: "GROW PEANUTS!"
Alan: *raises hand* I'd have a big, sweet Black Hawk helicopter full of Special Forces agents land it on top of the building and raid the Embassy! It'd be so awesome!
- Different Drunken escapades
- SHEPARD MAPLE SYRUP FESTIVAL!
- Wisdom teeth pulled. Funny, we listened to The Beatles on the way there and back; the way there was all the drug-related songs, and on the way back while I'm still loopy, it's all the innocent songs...
- Car has problems, needs fixin'
- Weekend in Waterford: Best Weekend Ever
- "So, my mom's planning on buying drinks for us if one of us blows into her PBT."
- MCC English class....what a joke...
- What to do when the parents are away? Invite TJ and Nikki over for drinks and strip pool!
- TJ: *picks up paper bag* What's in this bag?
Me: I think Green Tea.
TJ: Ugh. That stuff tastes like grass.
Me: There's other types of teas in there, too, though...
TJ: OOOH! *dumps contents of the bag on the ground*
Me: ...and tacks. *tacks scatter across the floor* ...in fact, I think I threw all the tea away. Sorry.
- Becoming, as my dad put it, a scumbag who takes innocent girls into his basement
- Michigan's Adventure trip with people I don't really associate with. A bit weird.
- Started getting sick MUCH MORE FREQUENTLY
- Ibuprofen + empty stomach = Dad going into work for me for a couple hours while my insides feel like they are tearing apart
- Mt. Pleasant Trip: Introduction of BEAR JAIL
- Trip to Muskegon to go to a drive-in theater.
- Cooking w/ Grandma: NO-BAKES!
- Stepmom is pregnant...again...
- $6000 Scholarship. College becomes slightly easier to afford.
- Sophomore year.
- Shakespeare Abridged: The only way to handle early English literature
- Signing my TRIPLE MAJOR
- Mike Lindsay on chemicals = scary
- Mike Lindsay's Shoe Burial
- Too much homework to go out this semester. ;_;
- The invention of 'Homework Juice'. Just add vodka!
- Three majors, and I still can't complete school without taking ONE random bullshit class
- Shubes drinks himself stupid. I play babysitter
- TJ comes up to Western Weekend, along with Waterford people. Hilarity ensues.
- Six $1000+ hours at McD's for CMU vs. WMU gameday. Ugh...
- Signed our lease for 2009/2010 apartment. Mike Lindsay owes me $100 still.
- Amount of posts on blog drops to about 3 per month.
- Fixed two computers since I've been home
- Let The Right One In: Weird vampire flick
- Coolest Christmas Present: TUPPERWARE w/ SCREW-ON LIDS!!!
And that, my friends, was 2008.
Simon
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