So, I found out riding a bike with your eyes being dilated beyond belief is not a fun thing. I had an eye doctor appointment at 1pm, where I found out my left eye got a little worse. The office was on the southside, so it was about a 35 block ride.
I hung out with Mark until about 4ish. Cocytus is in the proccess of recording two new songs, soon they’ll keep on recording and I’ll be helping put out their full length. Mark wants me to go up on Friday and meet the guys, possibly work out a business type deal. Like have him refer people to me for CD duplication, if anyone asks me about recording they go to him.
At 6:15ish my parents picked me up for a birthday dinner. We were going to eat a Vila de Carlos, but we all forgot they’re closed on Tuesdays, for some reason. So we ate at the Boathouse, it wasn’t bad.
At 8 I met up with Jackie and we hung out until about 11, then headed to our respective places.
This morning I had a dentist appointment, then I ran to the cigarette outlet. I’m backing to rolling my cigarettes, it saves so much money. Plus this way I can actually smoke American Spirit tobacco. Organic, and environmentally friendly. They’re tobacco has no extra stuff added, plus they use a lot of wind power to power their operation out of Sante Fe.
Yesterday was my birthday, I turned 19.
Sunday night Boomer came over to hang over a bit, so Mark, Liberty, Boomer, and I walked over to the gas station because Mark and I needed cigarettes. Well, as we are just walking up to the house, out came Katie and Guidry from Guidry’s car. They drove down from Madison to come see me for my birthday. They stopped off at my parents house and woke up my dad, who was probably just as suprised as me, and gave them directions. I guess before they even got that far they saw a bonfire somewhere in Sturtevant near my house and started yelling my name at them, thinking I was there.
We all sat around, JCorn had popped in by then. We watched Ace Ventura, all passed out around 3:30am. I went to work at 11, which I was almost late because I was busy talking to everyone. Guidry and Katie got a sandwich before they hit the road. Work was lame.
I got home and Boomer and Ver Bruggen stopped by. Liberty made us dinner, Boomer had left because he was bored. The day was pretty laid back, was nice.
I have to ride over to the south side today for an eye doctors appointment at 1pm; I figure I’ll just leave at 12:30 and hope I’m there on time, I should be. At 6 I’m eating dinner with my parents, a little birthday thing. Then at 8 I’m meeting Jackie at Marina.
Should be a nice day.
I went to bed last night around this time, midnight, and ended up waking up at six in the morning. I made it to work, which was interesting.
The north store is so much different than the south store. There isn’t a really big divide between morning and night shifts, or any cooperation. Oh well, whatever.
I saw some people I haven’t seen in a while, like Blair Meeker. He deffinately never changed since I last saw him like…3 years ago or 2, whatever. Pete ended up coming in, too. He was in my freshman english class at ITA, and then transfered to Tremper. I saw him last summer this time, too, at the south store.
Once I got off work I ran into Franky, we planned to meet at Subway but his phone died, so it all worked out. We met Ver Burggen and Brian (not Boomer) up at Franky’s.
We rode our bikes around and ended up pretty close to Zion, IL before we sat on some rocks and chilled by Lake Michigan. It was around 7:30 and we headed back.
We’re biking tomorrow after I get out of work, this time we’re going to head north instead.
Well, I just woke up from my first nights sleep in my new apartment down in Kenosha. And it feels great.
I was actually supposed to be home around 5pm or later today, but plans changed. Tuesday my mom decided she’d rather come get me on Thursday night instead of Friday night, which ended up turning into my dad going up and getting me at 12pm since he didn’t take a call.
Check out of the dorm sucked, we finished moving pretty quick, but AJ checked us out, the biggest ass in Baldwin Hall. He kept pulling “white glove” type crap on us in random places.
I got back to Kenosha around 5pm and headed out to move into the apartment, at which point only a few people knew I was back already. I grabbed Ver Bruggen and we moved my boxes in, moved out Mike’s old bed and fish tank.
I turned in my apartment application, signed the lease, got my bed, set things up, I’m pretty much settled in.
Going to go bicycle shopping around 10/11am and errand running with Liberty, and meeting up with Ver Bruggen when he gets off school.
Well, I just finished cleaning as much stuff as possible. Desk is all straightened up, fridge is cleaned up and thawing, stereo cleaned up and moved onto my desk. Yep, everything is coming together for the end. I found out Sarah and John are leaving tonight and tomorrow morning. Sarah is working in Massachusetts for the summer, while John will be over in Milwaukee. Most of the people I know are leaving on Thursday.
It’s been muggy and overcast all day, not too nice. I think I’m going to shoot over to the bookstore are return all of my books today, which I’d have to do pretty soon. I think the store closes at 4:30pm.
I’m also trying out this new software called BlogDesk. It is a desktop blog publisher, which means I can be lazy and don’t need to open FireFox. It’s a pretty nice program, very simple.
And to combat the crap weather, a picture.
I was in Madison on Friday and am pretty surprised I didn’t head about this. A UW-Madison student was riding his bike down Division St and had his head ran over by a delivery truck. All he received was a concussion, nothing more. His helmet is crushed, though, but he suffered no major injuries, so it goes.
“I didn’t see it coming, but I sure felt it roll over my head. It feels really strange to have a truck run over your head.”
His helmet was a Giro, which I am sure is going to make major profit off of this story. I mean, a truck ran over a guys head, and it protected him.
(From BoingBoing)
Here’s an email the Chancellor just sent out:
Dear Members of the Campus Community,
In light of recent events, the College of Natural Resources Building (CNR) on the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus was evacuated at 2:30pm this afternoon. Around 2:25pm a faculty member observed a man entering the CNR Building with what appeared to be a gun case. The faculty member reported this incident to the dean of the college. The dean immediately notified UW-SP Protective Services. The Stevens Point Police Department was called to the campus. Law enforcement personnel ordered an evacuation of the building and conducted a room-by-room search. The man was found and law enforcement determined that the gun case contained only scientific equipment.
Students whose exams were disrupted at 2:30pm today that were to be held in the CNR will be contacted by their instructor via e-mail. Exams scheduled in the CNR at 4:45pm will continue as planned.
Linda Bunnell,
Chancellor
Everything is cleared up now, the guns are gone, and so are the police. It all started around 2:55pm when I recieved a text message from Colleen saying there was a shooting scare. Casey and I drove down there, cops have all the doors on guard, police cars were at all the major street corners.
We heard through all of those in the outside area that there was someone who either walked in with a gun, or a gun case and that the police were doing a room by room search.
Things seemed under control and not panicky so Casey and I headed back. Although, I headed back again with my camera. Over by the library and it’s little drive there were two police vehicles. I snapped a few photos of a police officer wielding, what appeared to be, a tactical shotgun, a very nice one at that. By 4ish everything was clearing up and people were walking to the building and cops were leaving.
As everything was ending I noticed two cops walk back holding two m4 Carbines, I tried to get a good photo but didn’t succeed.
Won’t know what really happened until tomorrow.
1pm on Monday Katie returned after 5 months of being without her presence. It was interesting, she really hadn’t changed too much. Every guy seemed twice as attractive as they once had to her. She was spastastic, and over the top. Yep, Katie was back.
Monday we all hung around, ran into people, just chilled pretty much. The same was for Tuesday, except that we went disc golfing. Katie left around 8:00am on Wednesday so no one really got much of a chance to say goodbye. She’ll be back down Friday though for Copperfest, or whatever it is called.
This has been an interesting time since Saturday. Colleen’s mom drove a long eighteen hours from Pennsylvania to come visit her.
Saturday we all went to the Portage Multicultural Fair, which I have some cool pictures of Celtic dancers that were there (haven’t uploaded any yet). It was pretty interesting.
Later that day Colleen’s mom took us (Colleen, Guidry, Casey, Myself) went down to a drive-in near the Dells. First we stopped over at Pizza Pub and got the buffet. It was…amazing. The movies were good, too. We saw Spiderman 3 and Ghostrider, along with playing Frisbee with little kids.
I guess I’ll have to finish this story about Katie’s return (she was in Australia for 5 months) later. SGA committee meetings are happening soon and I need to grab Guidry’s phone from his room.
