My Return
Tired as usual.... but I'm back, yay!
12 days spent in Vegas... not all that great, hung out with friends, went bowling, saw a movie or two, got a lot of reading done, and watched the Godfather trilogy for the first time. I've not posted in a while because I was on dial-up, which is painful after campus i-net, and because I would get kicked off randomly every 0-3 minutes for no apparent reason.
Bowling: Averaged a little over 120, which is good, considering I was aiming for 99 a game...
Reading: I read over 1500 pages in my 12 days home.
Ben & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop - a really good book of how B&J made it to the top of the superpremium ice cream world, and if you've had Marketing, you'll be all like, I know what all this is called, whee!
The Buffalo Creek Disaster - A book my mother gave me from one of her law classes, an easy read about this disaster in.. I think West Virginia that killed 120 women and children, and wiped out 7 towns. A lawsuit that followed suing the people responsible (a coal company, which is/was apparently huge business in West Virginia. Anyway, fast read, and interesting to see all that took place to get them from disaster to settlement.
Leadership, by Rudy Giuliani - A pretty good book about how Rudy turned NYC around, his guiding principles, influential people in his life, and how he handled September 11th. Good read.
Timeline, by Michael Crichton - Which is a movie that comes out in late November. - Fuckin' awesome book. I couldn't put it down. 490 pages that I ended up finishing in a 6 hour stint that wouldn't let me sleep until 5 in the morning. I am definitely gonna see this movie... and then be disappointed at how it failed the book.
And various other things, like Fortune, Time, Entertainment Weekly, etc... but those were the big things.
The Godfather was total pimpage. Definitely see it if you haven't. At least the first one... you've just gotta! (And do it before you read Giuliani's book, it helps make sense of some references)
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Dull summation of events follow: (Don't say I didn't warn you)
Thursday, I flew from Vegas to Boulder. What a long day that was... Up at 5am, at the airport by 6:45am, flying at 8:50am, into Denver at 11:40, on the bus at 12:20, into Boulder at 1:30. Checked in, rearranged my room, started moving stuff, got all my stuff set up-the way I wanted by 4pm, and went around and met some people. Ended up going to the rec center; ice skating and wall climbing with half of the freshman population. In bed and sleeping soundly by 1am.
Woke up at 9:30, took a shower, and ended up watching "World's Deadliest Snipers"7 on the History Channel. I need to rent "Enemy at the Gates" now. Went to work shortly after 11am, got treated to lunch by my boss at The Olive Garden (yummy cheese ravioli) and worked until 5pm. Cha-Ching. 6 hours of work, paid for all my groceries. After 5pm, I got together with Mari from summer school, and we went shopping for those groceries, went to her apartment and had tacos. Yummy, home-made tacos. Mmmmm. Came back at 11pm, met some people, tried going to bed, but couldn't sleep. I didn't fall asleep til 4:30am.
Woke up a little after 10am, got my ass in gear, and went to the book store to buy my books. $610.39 later, I had 40 pounds of text to carry back to my room. I dropped them off, downed some gatorade, and went looking for folks to go to lunch with. Ate and finished lunch, wandered the dorm, ended up back at my room at 2pm, and crashed until 6pm. Watched some films from BMW Films.com and decided to finally blog here. Maroon 5 is "concerting" in 30 minutes, so I'm gonna check that out. But I bet the evening is pretty dull seeing as how I'm a lamo... =) S'okay, though, at least I got that nap in. So I won't fall asleep at the concert.
12 days spent in Vegas... not all that great, hung out with friends, went bowling, saw a movie or two, got a lot of reading done, and watched the Godfather trilogy for the first time. I've not posted in a while because I was on dial-up, which is painful after campus i-net, and because I would get kicked off randomly every 0-3 minutes for no apparent reason.
Bowling: Averaged a little over 120, which is good, considering I was aiming for 99 a game...
Reading: I read over 1500 pages in my 12 days home.
Ben & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop - a really good book of how B&J made it to the top of the superpremium ice cream world, and if you've had Marketing, you'll be all like, I know what all this is called, whee!
The Buffalo Creek Disaster - A book my mother gave me from one of her law classes, an easy read about this disaster in.. I think West Virginia that killed 120 women and children, and wiped out 7 towns. A lawsuit that followed suing the people responsible (a coal company, which is/was apparently huge business in West Virginia. Anyway, fast read, and interesting to see all that took place to get them from disaster to settlement.
Leadership, by Rudy Giuliani - A pretty good book about how Rudy turned NYC around, his guiding principles, influential people in his life, and how he handled September 11th. Good read.
Timeline, by Michael Crichton - Which is a movie that comes out in late November. - Fuckin' awesome book. I couldn't put it down. 490 pages that I ended up finishing in a 6 hour stint that wouldn't let me sleep until 5 in the morning. I am definitely gonna see this movie... and then be disappointed at how it failed the book.
And various other things, like Fortune, Time, Entertainment Weekly, etc... but those were the big things.
The Godfather was total pimpage. Definitely see it if you haven't. At least the first one... you've just gotta! (And do it before you read Giuliani's book, it helps make sense of some references)
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Dull summation of events follow: (Don't say I didn't warn you)
Thursday, I flew from Vegas to Boulder. What a long day that was... Up at 5am, at the airport by 6:45am, flying at 8:50am, into Denver at 11:40, on the bus at 12:20, into Boulder at 1:30. Checked in, rearranged my room, started moving stuff, got all my stuff set up-the way I wanted by 4pm, and went around and met some people. Ended up going to the rec center; ice skating and wall climbing with half of the freshman population. In bed and sleeping soundly by 1am.
Woke up at 9:30, took a shower, and ended up watching "World's Deadliest Snipers"7 on the History Channel. I need to rent "Enemy at the Gates" now. Went to work shortly after 11am, got treated to lunch by my boss at The Olive Garden (yummy cheese ravioli) and worked until 5pm. Cha-Ching. 6 hours of work, paid for all my groceries. After 5pm, I got together with Mari from summer school, and we went shopping for those groceries, went to her apartment and had tacos. Yummy, home-made tacos. Mmmmm. Came back at 11pm, met some people, tried going to bed, but couldn't sleep. I didn't fall asleep til 4:30am.
Woke up a little after 10am, got my ass in gear, and went to the book store to buy my books. $610.39 later, I had 40 pounds of text to carry back to my room. I dropped them off, downed some gatorade, and went looking for folks to go to lunch with. Ate and finished lunch, wandered the dorm, ended up back at my room at 2pm, and crashed until 6pm. Watched some films from BMW Films.com and decided to finally blog here. Maroon 5 is "concerting" in 30 minutes, so I'm gonna check that out. But I bet the evening is pretty dull seeing as how I'm a lamo... =) S'okay, though, at least I got that nap in. So I won't fall asleep at the concert.
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