Flagstaff

It was too early. Alarm set for 4:45 and barely slept at all. It makes me wonder how in the world I got up at 4:20 every day for crew when I was doing that. I was on the way to the airport by 5:15 and my dad was taking me to avoid the hefty parking at Hartsfield Jackson for 10 days.

Now, dont get me wrong, I'm not scared or anxious flying but I hate it. The measures that need to be taken for me to be comfortable in an airline seat require getting an exit row or upgrading. It'd be worth it if I had the money to do so or the seats were available but, alas, this is rarely the case. The flight from ATL to PHX somehow arrived 50 minutes early. Aren't these things supposed to be carefully planned out and fairly accurate? I mean, it's usually "this flight will be 1hr37min" and it's right on the money. Not so for both of my flights. The little turbo prop plane from PHX to FLG was supposed to take us that distance in about an hour but it took 35 minutes and was, by far, the roughest flight I've ever been on. I'm told it's typical and that some flights are cancelled due to the high winds at times.

Here's a little video of what digital cameras on cell phones do to moving propellers. This, I've heard, is because each frame of video is taken by scanning form top to bottom. This takes time as opposed to tradition video cameras taking snapshots of that exact instant of each frame.



In the airport there is no one at the Hertz counter. After a delay and not having the right rental car for my I stupidly upgrade. Hey, free upgrades dont come every day, right? Well, I end up with a HUGE 9 passenger Chevy Yukon. Looking out the back window I feel like I'm driving a school bus. Since gas is expensive (though not any worse out here than GA. $3.65 today)and this beast gets about 15mpg I return it later than night after taking a trip almost all the way to Sedona. Traffic was terrible. Here's a couple of videos from my drive out there in the bus.

**the other will be added once it uploads**

Pics from the drive up to the Lowell Observatory

A few pics from around the Oak Creek Canyon/Sedona area

After a tasty dinner at Beaver Street Brewery (good pizza and house stout) I headed back to the hotel. Given the time difference and exhausting day of travel bed time was about 9:30 despite my best efforts to not be lame. This meant that I woke up about 2am and had a hard time getting back to sleep. Finally got up around 7 for the amazingly disappointing continental breakfast at Days Inn I40. Tiny bowls for cereal, non-working toaster, no bananas. Meh.

The drive from Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon itself is about 80 miles (78.5 by Google Maps but who's counting?) and the scenery getting there is amazing. Long stretches of open roads, Kaibab and Coconino Nation Forests as well as a big snowcapped mountain that I cant find the name of at the moment. I've been to the GC before but it was on a limited time frame. I wish that I could hike it or take a helicopter tour but I'm not an experienced hiker and didnt have the moolah for the choppah ride. Not too much to say about it other than no pictures or videos can to the scale of this place justice. The views were spectacular and remember, the Colorado River is between 5000 and 6000ft below the rim and it was a few miles away so I couldnt get a decent shot but see if you can spot it in some of the other pics.

Procrastination

The Mother of All Evils. It's currently 12 to 3. wtf. Do home work they said.
Make Switzerland, they said. 1848 - Switzerland became a Federal state.
Happy 240th, neutral nation.

Signs of Change

The other day, we'll this day "Monday", I was walking around campus and I noticed something. The air was different. Sure, school was back in session. The hustle and bustle of the masses moving from A to B has a general white noise to it but this was different. The slightest hint of some crisp, clear Fall air surrounded me. Feeling this brought a smile to my face. Perhaps this summer wasn't quite as bad as it could've been and it isn't completely over, not just yet, but fall will be a welcome change.

On a different note, I hung out with and old aquaintence last night. Karaoke with her was the first actual time we had ever hung out together but even since high school we were only seprarated by one degree. Said degree has changed over time and expanded into just more than one person but never more than one was present. I must say it was quite enjoyable. Her and her friends are good, genuine people and they understand my sense of humor which is something rare. Some may laugh at my jokes but I wonder if they truely comprehend the depth of my wit at times. Example:


There it is in all of it's glory.

Signs

She's everywhere. In every familiar lock of hair, recognizable skin tone, a strut worth remembering, even in my dreams. Are these signs I should be following? If they are then it's a path I would rather not go down. Went down there before and got lost for 2 years. Cant afford that again. Even new friends have some characteristic of her. The worst is the name. Perhaps I'm just destined for those first 4 letters so similar, so smooth when they roll of my tongue but leave a bittersweet aftertaste. The times of yore are gone. Time to press on into a bold new world.

Light weight

No, i'm not refering the mojito incedent, just the fact that I'm sore from working out. Not counting the calf raises because I'm not sure what the number correlate to actual pounds hence they were negated but the number I came up with for total amount of weight moved just in the exercises to 42,660lbs. And thats just with 4 different exercises: squats, leg press, leg extension and leg curls.

Anyways, after a decent first day and some good people in my classes and good classes (the two are sometimes mutually exclusive) I'm looking forward to this semester. Love the fact that there are plenty of cute girls to talk to. I'm constantly rubbing it in the afce of my old roommates who went to tech but then i remember that they're both done with school and making $50k+ a year :( self fail

Going to go make a PB, honey and banana sandwhich. Must feed body

When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object

I have succeeded. It only took 5 tries but the experience that is Batman: The Dark Knight in IMAX has been witnessed.

In other news, I start school tomorrow. Yippy :-\ Should be ok though. Going to work hard, try to make some good friends, maybe meet a girl or two. Gotta be positive or else times wont be good.

I was going to post something longer about "what i did this summer" in memory of past school experience of post-summer education but i'll save that for tomorrow or something.

1 mojito, 2 mojito, floor! Just doesn't have that same ring

Alcohol flush reaction is a condition in which the body cannot break down ingested alcohol completely, due to a missense polymorphism that encodes the enzyme, acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) [1], normally responsible for breaking down acetaldehyde, a product of the metabolism of alcohol.[2] Flushing, or blushing, is associated with the erythema (reddening caused by dilation of capillaries) of the face, neck, shoulder, and in some cases, the entire body (except the feet) after consumption of alcohol.

Great...NOW my male asian friend tells me. Damn Asian Flush. I find my position somewhat frustrating at this point. In a way it could be considered my fault. I invited her but she drank. I did make her next drink but that was like over an hour later. Here it is not even 11pm and i hear snoring. Glad I got the damn wireless working so I could bitch about this. On another note, I'm hungry.

My appetite can be insatiable at times but not now. I could just go for a little something. PB and honey sammich perhaps? In a minute, though. Too busy wasting time.

Speaking of wasting time I've developed somewhat of an addiction. It hasn't quite dug it's inapropriate little hooks into me like a tick and I plan to keep it that way/ Balancing on the edge of the outsider/OP line. What is this, you ask? 4chan.

Fucking 4chan and whats even worse is that it's the /b/ board. The most random, dememnted, inapropriate, pornographic place on the internet. I almost akin my time spent there as a social study of human behavior when the 1st amendment is taken in it's most litteral and annotated form, "free speech". Besides having to pick up an almost entirely new vocabulary I subject my other online buddies to the shit on there. As for an example of the new words i've had to learn just to get wtf is going on in there I'll make a list.

OP:original poster. The guy that started the thread.

ITT: In this thread. Usually followed my a colon then the subject i.e. ITT:Your most intimate thoughts about your favorite pet

newfag: term for people new to 4chan who haven't quite made it all the way up the learning curve

sauce: The money shot at the end of a hentai or porn collection. basically used when someone posts a pic and other people like to please themselves to. If it's not a nude or sexy pic that could potentially be nude or sexy the the response would be "sauce?" or "sauce plox"

plox: an acronym for please but used in such a way as to make fun of people who say "plz"

fap: The onomatopoeic representation of masturbation. Often used to suggest that something is attractive.
Did you see those Natalie Portman pics? *fap fap fap*


That is all for noa...damnit, 4chan.