Standard Week = Procrastination

When you have a standard week, with nothing truly out of routine, nothing due and nothing specifically planned for the weekend, you procrastinate. And by you, I mean me. Unless you do too.

** UPDATE in case you read this within an hour of me posting it**

I forgot to rant about President's Day! I don't have it off tomorrow! Stupid Ohio. So I live in Columbus, the one city in the whole country that actually should care about COLUMBUS DAY. Do we get that day off? Nope. They move it to the day after Thanksgiving, so they have an excuse for taking that Friday off. What about President's Day? I just saw a sign the other day about how Ohio is the birthplace of EIGHT presidents. They have a bunch of historic sites for the lives of these famous men (well if you count the Harrisons as famous presidents). Anyway, again if there was one place that should get this holiday off, its HERE!! But NOOOOOO. They put that as like the day after Christmas or something. Basically Ohio hate holidays. As a part time employee, I don't even get to reap the benefits of those holidays, because I'm already off. But I WOULD benefit from a Monday in February. Sigh. OK. Back to the previously posted blog. **

This is what happens after a while week of recruiting. We get a normal week and I don't get anything done. This upcoming is crazy again with more recruiting of our new classmates. I'm even hosting someone in my apartment! It'll be wild and wacky and lacking of sleep I'm sure. Good thing my roomie Shakeweight Ref is chill about it.

I realize I don't talk about Shakeweight much. Compared to living with Brock and Clark and Alejandro and RC Tequila, Shakeweights pretty chill. He comes in, does his thing, I do mine. Our conversations go something like "Sup" "How's it going" "Not bad you" "Oh you know" and then some comment about how freaking cold it is. Sometimes we'll talk sports or some other topical conversation. But he lives with his headphones in and in a sense, so do because it seems I'm always chatting with someone online these days. We don't have any problems with parties or dishes or mold. It's not like we aren't friends, we just do our thing. It's a nice existence.

Do I miss the chaos that our apartment could be? Am I unhappy at this more "adult" relaxed lifestyle? Sorta, and No. Again going with my year of take it like it is, I'm not sitting around sad about things past. I don't really do that regardless. I think in my head I see myself as going back to Cali and picking up where I left off with the antics. So its not over, just on hiatus and being reformatted for age 27. For now, I shall enjoy my blissful existence here. Perhaps less exciting, perhaps full of less conversation, and perhaps all and all mundane. But I'm sure that will change at one point. And I do miss all my friends in Cali. Though I heard they had a relatively drama-free Vegas trip. We must be getting older.

In college, there was usually no need for an occasion to drink. Wanna have a party? Sure. Wanna hit the bars on Thursday? Sure. In grad school, we don't do it like that anymore. We don't just decide, let's drink. Instead, we invent cleverly disguised reasons to drink. For example, last night Powder Climber invited a bunch of people over because he got new furniture. He wanted to show off his new couch and chairs and lament over the table he lost due to sleeping on it. Why he decided this was the only turn of phrase to describe missing out on a craigslist table, I'm not sure. But no, he did not sleep on the table only to have it crumble beneath him and no it was not one of the contests where you have to touch the table until the last person gives up, both of which were assumptions people made when he said "Sleeping on it". Instead, he waited too long and was outbid. Simple as that. So Tall Bear lent his coffee table and we had a grand old time drinking and playing games.

Other guests included Cardmaster Cider, Frenchie's Choice, La Femme Critique, and Brewskie, among others (see I'm slowly adding names for cohort members, but I hate just listing a million). La Femme Critique and Brewskie are both some of the more intelligent and insightful members of our cohort. They frequently have a lot to observe, which Brewskie prefering to comment in class and Femme preferring to critique out of class. The thing I like about talking to both of them is that even if they disagree with something, they are not angry to much as logically disagreeing. Often I assume naysayers are just going to say, no I disagree, and youre wrong. Even though Femme and I have very different political views on life, I feel like we talk about those differences without offending or belittling. Good people to have friends. Also, Brewskie and I are in many sense the same person. Except he brew beer and beer can kill me. But we're going to China!

Femme and Frenchie, who are like cohort BFFs proposed a game where we draw prewritten questions out of a cup and then write our answers and guess who's answers were whose. Naturally this resorted to cohort jokes, gross and ridiculous responses, and a few huh? moments. Questions included things I wouldn't eat on a first date, things I would only put in my mouth in private, and things children are better at than adults. Add alcohol and guess how some of those turned out. We also played King's Cup really quickly as more people came in and out. Overall it was a lovely evening and my walk back from Powder Climbers was much warmer than my walk there.

Other things about this week that were nice: catching up with my mom on the phone, playing games with Drew York, chatting with Cheeky Monkey, and getting bar texts from Pokeboss and Red Button.

Please keep Mother Mapster's dad in your thoughts and/0r prayers as he has surgery this week.

Looking forward to updates from P. Diddy, Pokeboss and Qua Yams sometime soon.

Adieu all!

-James

Listening to: Once Upon a Dream- Sleeping Beauty I was watching That Guy with Glasses review Disney movies. And watched Once Upon a Time tonight, the one TV show I seem to really follow. Also, this is one of my favorite Disney movies of all time.

Hmm, this makes me have to rank my top 5 Disney animated movies: Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, Mulan, Hercules. Hmm Top 10 would be easier then I could add Sword in the Stone, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, Jungle Book and Lilo and Stitch. Huh.. look at that...

Since I'm on this topic, top 5 Disney songs... much harder IMO. Go the Distance- Hercules, Belle- Beauty and the Beast, One Jump Ahead- Aladdin, Be Prepared- Lion King, Bells of Notre Dame- Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Reflection- Mulan. Obviously, there are waaaayy more. Like every Lion King song is good, same for Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast and most of the Mulan and Hercules songs too. Also, I keep Pixar in a special separate category.

Anyway! Reading: School stuff as usual, this time about org theory and culture.

Playing: TOR and LoL as usual.