and so it starts...

beginning of a new semester. beginning of a new major (kinda). we'll see how it goes.

had dinner with jim last wednesday. apparently jim doesn't make decisions either, so... we were kinda driving around for a bit. anyway, eventually, jim bought me chinese (and gave me the leftovers =D), and then lent me anime... yay for jim!

matt showed up thursday... we went to kabuki's sushi bar for dinner, when it was snowing up a storm. seriously, blizzard. matt managed to spill coke all over the sushi bar... too funny.

saturday, we had dinner with sae. invited jim to come along (so matt and jim could meet), but jim was in richmond for something. so matt had dinner with a hot chick and... me. everything there is a two-step ordering process. first, you choose the dish, then you choose the spicyness (normal scale, up to hot, then indian hot). we all got "indian hot," but the dishes came out at different levels of spicyness. matt's was spicy beyond enjoying as far as i sae and i were concerned, but matt loved it. mine was second to matt's, though i could eat it without crying, and sae's was milder... most likely because hers was creamy (either cream or coconut milk... it was damn rich, and damn good).

anyway, matt and i were having my leftovers later (he'd finished his at the restaurant), and he thought mine got worse. well, spicy foods get milder as you store them. it turns out that matt didn't experience anything near what sae and i did when we tried his because he'd ordered a margarita. except, for some reason, their idea of a margarita was half tequila, a third lime juice, and a sixth triple sec (i think that's what the last part was... not sure). so yeah... matt's tongue was somewhat liquored up (he wasn't... the whole concoction was only 3oz total, and served in a martini glass... weirdest thing ever).

yeah, so a weekend plus two days and two half-days with my maffew =D it was great, but it went by too fast. and i won't get to see him for a while... he's starting work this monday. real work. in the real world. so scary.


monday, jess turned 21... we all went to el grand rodeo for her birthday... and she showed up last ("i only had five shots"). it got worse from there. she's so funny when she's drunk. matt and i got her a bottle of goldschlager, which apparently she loves (which we knew, thanks to mike). cake at mike's after the party was weird, too, 'cause 1) it was supposed to be an ice cream cake, and it was really just a frozen regular cake, and 2) jess was GONE. at one point, she was sitting on the table, rocking out like she was high. i'm leaving out some of the more profane things she did (though inadvertantly hitting on the waiters might make the cut)...

matt had to leave tuesday... but not before i skipped my first two classes (don't worry, nothing important) to spend time with him. i had to go to my third because it takes roll (yeah... roll), and your grade goes down with every three classes you miss or something like that... and i'm not going to eat up that buffer when i might need it for when i'm actually sick or something. matt was gone by the time i got back =(. not that i didn't know he'd be gone, but it was sad. he did change my background to a picture of us (a horribly out-of-focus, slow-shutter-without-a-tripod shot, but a happy shot). bye-bye, basketball background. bye-bye nike freestyle (i'm sure you know what that is... it's the first rythmic sports commercial. with jason and vince and lamar and elton and 'sheed...) i don't know how long the picture of us is going to stay up (i'm not horribly fond of the idea of personal pictures as a background, especially pictures of the user), but i did convert the image to a bitmap so i could turn off active desktop instead of changing it back... so we'll see...

my first speech was scheduled for today. i didn't get to give it. actually, i just never volunteered... because i'm a wuss. yeah.

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the hokies were all over the top 10 from beating the wahoos. in basketball. how weird is that?


george karl reported that he's going to be the new coach of the denver nuggets. ew for george karl being on tv, and ew for george karl being a coach again. ew.


tom goes to the mayor pisses me off. who the hell thinks that's funny? no, seriously, that wasn't rhetorical. i want to know if anybody actually thinks it's funny. and super milk chan. same deal. only i think tom goes to the mayor is more perplexing. at least milk chan is cute (kinda).

and have they renewed venture bros yet? brilliant shit. seriously brilliant. they picked up tom goes to the mayor, but they haven't renewed venture bros. adult swim can suck my hairy monkey balls.

you know, i should get some monkey balls so i can actually mean it when i say that. it's probably unethical to buy monkey parts, though (kangaroo scrotums, on the other hand... are made into coin purses and sold as souvenirs...)