What's going on with me?

1-31-05 - I hate letting things get to me. There have been a couple in the past few days that just really irritate me and hopefully the fact that I'm not actually typing what they are on here will help me kinda forget about them.

This morning, I got an e-mail from Kelly Sutton, one of the hosts from the show that aired my fish picture a little more than a week ago. The e-mail read

Subj: where is our picture for this week?

Helllooooo? slacker

I responded

Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I'm no slacker ;-)

I sent you fine people a picture last week (me with my hand in a balloon [it's this picture]) and I heard nothing back, so I figured the laugh was over. Maybe I was wrong...

So what's being done with these pictures, if I may ask? I watched the show a few days last week (Monday and Tuesday for the fish picture and then one or maybe two other times for the second picture) and saw nothing. If they're not being shown on tv and you want more of them, all I can infer from them is that they're serving as office dartboards. Hmmm...this could be lucrative...

I'm surprised that this whole thing is still going on. What the heck? I wonder if anything actually worth talking about will come of it...

1-29-05 - I now have another secret page. I have not placed the link to it yet, but it'll be ready to go by the next time I update this page and there will be a hint ready to go as well. This time there's some good stuff on the page, so it might actually be worth finding.

I tell you what, Thursdays are just not my day. A couple days ago made two Thursdays in a row that I was just horribly depressed. For a few days last week, I was on some kind of roller coaster where I'd feel great and then be terribly upset, etc. Hopefully I'll get over being stupid in the near future.

I went to visit RuthAnn last night and that was good fun. I'm glad we started talking again. There was never any fight or anything to explain why we stopped talking. It just happened...for like 2 1/2 years. She's a good buddy - very entertaining. Anyway, while I was at her house, I noticed a Dilbert cartoon taped to the door in her old room. A few days ago (maybe longer, I'm not sure) we had a discussion in which I said that I feel that I'm somewhat interesting to some new people, but once you get to know me and have talked to me a few times, I'm quite boring. Well, when I saw that cartoon yesterday, she said she was trying to remember what that cartoon said while the discussion was going on because it explained how I felt so well...and it does! I laughed quite a bit. For any Dilbert aficionados, you may know it as the one talking about MTTSF ("mean time to story failure"). I doubt anyone will know it from that. I'll see if I can get her to scan it so I can post it on here for all to see. After I read the comic, I said something about how I have like three stories that are somewhat worth listening to and then that's it. After someone hears them all, they have no reason to talk to me any more because I have nothing else to say...and then I told her that since they're all on my site, people can now avoid me completely. Bah! (Edit: I found it online. It's right here.)

Well, it looks like I'm doing Drama again this semester. For those who don't know, it's a misnomer. We rarely do anything dramatic - it's all (supposed-to-be) funny stuff. We're doing a skit show this semester and we need to write several of them in less than two months. If anyone has a skit they've written or has one a friend written or has any ideas, etc, PLEASE send them to me!

This morning makes the first time that I can remember that I actually got my hair trimmed and not just buzzed really short. I think it looks good. It's been growing for like 2 or 2 1/2 months, so it's not like it's incredibly long. I doubt I'd ever let it go long, but it'll be longer than it's ever been by the time I get it cut. It's already approaching that mark if it hasn't hit it already.

1-26-05 - I know it's been a few days since I've written anything on this page, but nothing's been going on at all. My life's quite boring. Later today (it's very early at the moment) I plan on giving blood with my friend Michelle. She's a good gal :-) I fixed a button on her laptop tonight after she told me I wouldn't be able to. My reward was that she made me help her understand chemistry. Skank.

This will be my 21st blood donation, assuming they let me (they might not since I had my wisdom teeth out last month) and that'll make 2.625 gallons. Yay me!

1-22-05 - Well, me and the guy from Fox 17 in Nashville e-mailed back and forth a few times today. Yesterday, after I got his first e-mail, I e-mailed back right away saying that I just sent it in as a joke and expected nothing to come of it. I asked about seeing the Friday show and if it would be on during the Monday show. He said he would send me a complimentary copy of the Friday show if I gave him an address and he'd do what he can to get it on the Monday show. Hahahaha! This whole thing is just so funny to me, for some reason.

What really cracks me up, though, is that after I sent him my address, he replied and asked if I wanted the circus tickets as well. I assume that means I won the contest! What the heck?! I told him that if he had no one else to send them to then to just go ahead and send them to me and I'd keep them as a memento of this whole thing. If I can find someone with a video capture card, I'll get the clip(s) of my picture on the show onto my computer and I'll have them available for download on my site somewhere.

1-21-05 - Wow, there's gonna be quite a bit on here for today, so if you plan on reading it all, grab a snack and chug along.

At around 5:45 or so yesterday, me and Annie were watching King of the Hill and a commercial about a circus came on. We ignored it. At the end, though, they talked about sending in a silly picture to the Fox Nashville morning show and if it won, you'd win tickets to the circus. I didn't care about the prize, but me and Annie were in a particularly goofy mood (go figure) and so I said "I'm sending the fish picture!" I typed in the e-mail address, attached the picture, and in the body of the e-mail all I put was "I am the master." I have no idea what I meant by that. We had a good laugh about that, hahaha.

Last night had to have been the worst night of my life. I'm not gonna go into any specifics about anything, but there were three situations (one that I really am not a main player in, but I was kinda sorta involved in) that have been kinda building up for the past week or more that all just came to a head within an hour of each other. I tell you what, I don't know that I'd wish how I felt on my worst enemy. I don't know if it was stress, worrying, or what but it got to me...physically. I've never been so engrossed by a feeling that I felt the need to throw up before in my entire life. It was not cool at all. I was kinda afraid to go to sleep because I had no idea if I would throw up and what would happen if I did while sleeping. I slept with my trash can next to my bed and I woke up feeling the same way. I feel so much better now than I did yesterday, thank goodness.

So I go to classes, come back from class and one of the matters (the one I was barely involved in) gets resolved (as far as I'm concerned) right away. That was good. About an hour later, I get an e-mail. It's from some name I didn't recognize and the subject was "YOUR PHOTO." I thought it had to be spam, because I'd forgotten about sending in that silly picture. Well, here's what the e-mail said:

Tony...

Thanks for photo you sent us for the contest, it has been a great hit around the station---and I hope you caught the show this morning....because you were all over it!! If you have any more pics of you and/or your friends around town....feel free to send them to us!!
Thanks for tuning in and keep the good pics coming!

Jason Carmon
E.P. "Tn. Mornings"
WZTV-FOX17

I just started laughing like crazy and I had to run downstairs to tell people. I thought it was great! Of course, I missed the show, but I e-mailed the guy back asking how I could maybe get a copy or if there was a possibility that the picture would be shown on Monday since they liked it so much. We'll see what happens with that. This is why the fish picture now has that awesome "As Seen on TV" seal on it.

Shortly after that, Liz came up to my room and we talked about things and we decided it would be better for both of us if we just ended what we had going. It was pretty tough on both of us, because we worked so well together. We were just being subjected to a lot of unneeded stress because of this whole thing, so it was a good thing; but we very much like each other and that's why it sucks. I'm really gonna miss that girl, I tell you what. It's probably for the best since I'll be moving away soon, though. This is why life sucks. So yes, I am single once again.

I have joined an Odyssey of the Mind team and we're going to the state competition on March 12. It really looks like this is gonna be a lot of fun! Also, there is a meeting next week about drama and hopefully we'll be doing skits again. One of the gals from the OotM thing expressed an interest in it and she said she'd probably do it and maybe even bring some friends to it, which is awesome. We're, apparently, in dire need of people. Fingers are crossed that we can match the awesomeness of last semester...

1-19-05 - Well, I had myself a decent day. It started off kinda sucky. I like waking up a good half an hour, at least, before my alarm goes off. That way I can have time to go back to sleep and enjoy it a little bit before having to wake up again. Today, I woke up four minutes before it went off. Grrr.

First two classes were kinda "Meh." During my break in classes, I saw Annie and had some interesting discussion with her and then I had lunch with Liz and did the same. If you're having an important conversation with someone, don't eat while doing it like I did. I almost threw up a couple times. It was quite odd, seriously.

After that, I went to three other classes which took up 5 1/2 hours straight, no breaks. That sucked. So I'm heading to my first of those classes and I see on my schedule that it's held in BN 321, so I think "Ok, it's in Bruner." I walked into Bruner, got to 321 and it's a bathroom. It was then I realized that BN meant Brown and not Bruner. D'oh! Hahaha, I got quite a laugh out of that one!

Went to my next class and bleh. After that was the stupid colloquium for honors. It's "Sustainability of the Environment." Yeah, I'm dropping that class. I have senioritis and my GPA can drop a full point and I'll still get my job at Y-12 and it's a totally optional class. Well, these and a couple other reasons are why I was planning on dropping the class before I even went. I get in there and it's a bunch of tree-huggers and it was quite boring and annoying, so that cemented it. It looks as if I'll still be able to graduate through the honors program, though, because something else is presenting itself as an option, so that's cool.

Liz came up and watched Futurama with me tonight and we had a grand old time like we did watching it last night. That show is so random and hilarious! I wish they would've brought that back instead of Family Guy. Oh, well. To quote Professor Farnsworth in Anthology of Interest I, "A man can dream, though. A man can dream." I really enjoy spending time with her. I hope I'll be able to do a lot of that this semester.

1-17-05 - I wish I could say that I have something insightful to say today, given my vast knowledge of every in the world. Unfortunately, I don't. I've had an interesting 24 hours, I tell you what. I've grown apart and closer to certain people and it was quite unexpected in both cases. No matter how many times I learn the lesson about not taking things for granted, I'm always surprised whenever it shows its face. I guess it's because, even if you don't take things for granted and you really truly appreciate them, things can still change at any given time, with no prior warning whatsoever. Life is odd like that.

24 comes on tonight and I'm excited. I'm going to go watch it with Jodie. I think this might be the first time I've ever watched a new episode with someone. Heh. I'm a dork, go ahead and say it.

If you want your picture in that random picture script, let me know and I'll chuck it on there. If not, but I don't know you look at my site, say something to me about it because I'm surprised by how many people do. Early this morning, I was going to tell Lauren and Whitney the story about the Queer Eye calendar (see 1-13-05 below) and they both said "I read it on your site." It really surprised me and also made me feel good :-)

Continuation: Don't you love when you're wrong about something that gets you down? I do. I was wrong (or maybe just not as right as I thought I was) about growing apart from someone, and that makes me ecstatic. Regardless, I've still relearned the "don't take things for granted" lesson.

Me and Annie went out to eat at Spankie's today (GROUPER DIANNE! hahaha) and we had a smarmy waitress. After she gave us blank menus and we asked where the selection of food was, she took them back and, under her breath, told us that she hates that place. Awesome! I was supposed to get $2.44 in change from my meal of $7.56. I gave her a $10 bill and said I needed change. I was planning on leaving her a dollar tip, but when she only gave me $2 back, I decided that the 44 cents was enough for her. People, people, people.

1-14-05 - It's amazing how someone can enter your life and mean so much to you in such a short period of time. That happened to me with two people toward the end of last semester and it all strengthened over the break. The funny thing is that I didn't figure anything at all would become of either friendship.

I met Liz cuz I was talking to her roommate when she wasn't there and then I just went on Liz's computer and put my screen name on her buddy list. I chatted with her a bit when I saw her sign on and then I went down to meet her shortly after. I was surprised when I saw she wasn't ugly, cuz she seemed really cool when I was chatting with her. Well...look where all of it has led!

After we started dating, I met some of her friends. I figured they all hated me. Corey and Daniel seemed kinda passive the first time I hung out with them, but Annie seemed intent on making me feel uncomfortable, and that upset me. Once she gave me a chance, though, is when she realized how alike we are...I think. Since then, though, we've become really good friends and I love spending time with her. I really hate the fact that I get two really good friends up here right before I have to leave to go to Oak Ridge. Luckily, Cookeville and Oak Ridge are only like 90 minutes apart (or something like that) if they ever wanna come see me or if I want to visit them and some of my other Tech friends.

Don't get me wrong, there are other people here and home that mean the world to me, and I know that I mention these two kids a lot without mentioning other people, but I'm just amazed how quickly they became such good friends. Also, I spend lots of time with them, so they're who I talk about.

All of that being said, Annie, Daniel, and I hung out a bit tonight. It was quite a bit of fun. We went to Mall and played at the Fun Tunnel for a bit. Right as we were leaving, I saw a string of eight tickets just sitting on a chair. I took them out and then we were trying to decide what we were gonna do with them. I think it was my idea to give them to one of the thug mexican guys that was playing a racing game. Annie took the tickets from me and went right up behind one of them and dropped them in his crotch and said "Hey, I found these tickets for you buddy," and then she just took off running. I got a picture of it, but my stupid camera deleted it as I was trying to get it onto my computer. I got some other good ones, though.

After that, we went to Dairy Queen and I almost made her shoot hamburger and chocolate and ice cream (all three were in her mouth simultaneously) out of her nose when I ate a crumb off her pants. 'Twas quite the funny.

Note to anyone that takes silly pictures or gets silly pictures taken of them: send them to me so I can put them on here! I love pictures and I want to get an awesome picture page going. I shrink them down a lot and I've got tons of storage space, so I can gets lots. I'm going to start giving people their own separate pages within the "Pictures of Friends" page, starting with Annie since she does a lot of dumb things and people take pictures.

1-13-05 - Boy am I glad to be back in the dorm! Why? I don't know. One more semester here and then I'm off to Oak Ridge. The whole way here, I heard alerts about a storm coming through and all that junk. Luckily, I stayed ahead of it the whole time and I got all my junks in before the storm hit. I tell you what, it's so nice to have pseudo-broadband again. Yeah, ResNet sucks but at least it's not 56k!

When I got to my room, the first thing I saw was a "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" calendar tacked to my closet door. It was also the first thing I noticed when I walked in here at the beginning of last semester, but it was on Cole's door. Well, he's rooming with a friend from home this semester, but since I checked out before he did last semester, he decided to leave me a little present. I'm guessing it was because I always made fun of him for having that stupid thing :-)

Well, knowing what room he was moving to, I went and shoved it under the door and into his room earlier today. Hopefully when he gets here, he'll decide to give it back to me and then we can give it back and forth to each other like that. That'll be fun.

I spent a couple hours with Annie today. We're so dumb. I really like her pink hair, but apparently I'm close to the only person. Poor gal. I'll post a picture of it in a bit, but it may be late tonight.

Yesterday I saw my friend Ryan for the first time in three years. That crazy cracker's married with two kids now and he's only 6 months older than me. Crazy!

In case you somehow didn't notice when clicking on the link in my profile, the quotes are back. I have enough to fill several profiles, so keep checking. I've been saving them for a month!

1-11-05 - A few days ago, I had a conversation with my friend Lauren from school in which she said "You know, if Elvis was alive, he'd be [however the heck many] years old today." That prompted me to ask why people feel so compelled to say that every year? Big deal. Why don't people say that about people that DIDN'T die before I was born? People made a big deal about John Ritter when he died, but that was quickly forgotten. Maybe it's the whole music thing, I don't know. Well, they don't do it for Johnny Cash or Sinatra. What's the big deal about Elvis? I know he had a huge impact on music, but so did B.B. King and Little Richard. I know they're not dead, but people aren't gonna do it for him. What about Lennon? People mention the fact that "he died today," but they don't say "Wow, he'd be [however the heck many] years old today. That's so weird!" No, it's not. People die.

I sold my soul and bought a cell phone yesterday. *hangs head in shame* At least I bought it from a friend. She wouldn't let me get TOO screwed over.

Yesterday was Liz's 19th birthday. I went to her house and saw some of her friends (who I'd like to think are at least KINDA becoming my friends), some people that ARE my friends, and then some other people that I hadn't met before. A good time was had by all...even Rachael and Shelley, who we took snipe hunting, heh. Thirty freaking minutes it took them! Hahaha! I took some good pictures (I think) while I was there and I'll post some of them in the near future. I might wait til I get to school (which will be Thursday) just for the sake of convenience. There's a much better connection there.

Annie gave me a great idea yesterday. Well, I had a great idea because of her, anyway. If any of you have stupid pictures of yourselves or any of your friends, I'll put them on a pictures page if you want. If they're just random pictures found on the net, then I'm not interested. Whenever Annie sends me the picture that gave me that idea, I'll post it on my home page in the "What should I put here?" spot. It'll stay there until I find something else to put there.

1-8-05 - Man...yesterday was the second time in like five days in which I really needed a cell phone and didn't have one. I decided that I'll be making a bunch of money soon (heck, I have a bunch now), and it's getting to the point where I think I can justify spending the money now. I went to see my friend Amy this morning while she was working (she works at Verizon) and I asked her about things and there's a nice phone for $10 that I'm gonna end up getting tomorrow or Monday. Grrr...this is the second thing that I've broken down on since the beginning of the break - DDR was the first. I broke down on another a couple months ago. (I wasn't wanting to date at all this whole school year so I could wait til I got settled down after graduation and find someone there...and now I have a girlfriend!) So far, I'm quite happy with the two I've already gone through. Here's hoping I'm the same way on this next one! Sometimes it's nice to be open-minded.

Last night, I went with Chris to his Uncle Russ's house. It's the first time I've seen the new house and MAN it's nice! I also watched Chris play Half-Life 2 for a short bit and MAN that was nice, too! After that, I met up with Nicole (after using a stinking pay phone from which I probably procured scabies) and we went to Applebee's and saw Danielle, then to Wal-Mart where I bought part of Liz's birthday present and then back here and played Mario Kart: Double Dash. She'd never played before, so we played through all 16 courses on 50cc. My goal on every race was to try to beat the last place guy by at least a full minute. I did it on a couple tracks, but on one track in particular I beat him by (are you sitting down?) almost 19 full minutes! Hahahaha! I don't know what the heck happened to him, but I took a picture of the screen! Whenever I upload it to my computer, I'll post it on here. I love that picture!

This morning, in addition to seeing Amy, I saw my friend RuthAnn whom I hadn't seen in like 2 1/2 years. She cracks me up! It was great to see her again and BS with her, even if it was at JJ's. My favorite part of that visit was when someone called her asking for the number for Stroud's BBQ, hahaha! She got smart with him every so subtly. That's awesome.

Nothing really happened after that except talking to Krista online for an hour, which I thoroughly enjoyed. She cracks me up so much. She told me that she was gonna stand in my wedding, even if I marry someone other than Liz. She might have to be a groomsman, if that's the case.

News on my cousin Todd (first mentioned on 12-27-04): he's back home and has had a couple surgeries and requires at least one more. Marti (his wife) sent out a few pictures of him. I'll post them or link to them some time soon. Not tonight, though.

I try to keep this page interesting - I try not to just say "I talked to so and so, I did this, blah blah..." but sometimes it happens. I'm now talking to my friend Kristin who I haven't talked to in a couple months and I always enjoy talking to that gal :-) I can't wait til my first high school reunion!

1-6-05 - Holy schrap! I'm updating and it's not 2 or 3 am! What's this world coming to?!

I went to my dentist for what was probably the last time today. Six months from now, I'll be in Oak Ridge. That's upsetting, cuz I really like my dentist and my hygienist :-( I tell you what, though...it takes a lot of trust to allow your dentist to drill in your mouth when you're not numb. About 5 or 5 1/2 months ago, I got a tooth filled (well, I got several filled, but there's one in particular) that didn't get sanded down all the way, so a couple teeth didn't completely set against each other. I got that taken care of this morning and it feels so much better now!

Is January 6th "National Drive Like You Have 47 Chromosomes" Day? If so, why wasn't I told? I could've driven like an idiot along with everyone else I saw today! Man, I always miss out on fun things like that :-/

This one's just for fun: What's the opposite of Christopher Reeve? (highlight below for the answer)

"Christopher Walken" Yeah, I know it's terrible...but it's BRILLIANT!

1-4-05 - I got to see my friend Amber today, which was great. I hadn't seen her in quite a while. We ate at Applebee's and had a great time. She's engaged now and I'm quite happy for her. It just sucks that she'll be moving up to Indiana after she gets married, which is slated for August. Oh, well. That's life for you.

So at 4, Liz calls me and says that she and Krista are gonna go to the Cool Springs theater to see Phantom of the Opera at 7 and that I could meet them up there. So I leave and get there about 10 minutes before the movie starts. I checked to see if they were there yet and when I saw they weren't, I went ahead and bought three tickets and sat outside waiting for them. About 20 minutes after the movie started, I was getting worried. I knew that they wouldn't have gone in without me, but I figured that they might have, for some reason.

I asked if there were any pay phones around and, of course, there weren't. Some nice guy let me bum his cell phone and I called Liz and got her voice mail saying that I'd been waiting for about a half an hour and that if she was in the movie to come out and let me know she was there. Nothing happened. After about another 20 minutes, I was ready to leave. I bummed someone else's cell phone and called her one more time, thinking to myself that if I didn't get ahold of her that I'd just leave. She frantically answered the phone and said that they were almost there and that they got lost cuz they got bad directions from some moron named Tyler that's, apparently, obsessed with her.

Right before I called her the second time, I went to the window and asked if I could sell back my tickets. The woman was like "Why?" being all snooty. I told her that my people didn't show up and she said "Hold on...Cassie?" and had to ask her and that woman said "Yeah, that's fine," in a "duh" manner. I waited a bit more and Liz and Krista finally showed up and then Michelle and Sean (the sweetest guy ever, according to Michelle, hahaha...man I'm running that into the ground) walked up behind them.

Liz was quite mad at getting bad directions from Tyler and was so upset that I had to wait around for so long, but I was just happy that all of them were ok. I had no idea what had happened to them. We ended up going to T.G.I. Friday's and eating there and we had a great time.

Afterwards, I went to Mike and Jen's house and played DDR a bit there (I'm addicted...time to cry). Me and Gus are gonna go to the Fun Tunnel later today and burn her tokens on DDR there. Man, I'm so ashamed. Why is that game so fun? Bleh.

1-3-05 - Oh my goodness...yesterday (and a bit into this morning) was so odd. Things were so great and then just took a huge U-turn. The day started off pretty boring, like normal. Drew kalled me tu return my call from Saturday night and I ended up spendimg around 4 1/2 hours with him, his girlfriend, and Brigham. Man, that was fun. We sat at Arby's for like two hours jusf remembering all the stupid things we did when we were younger and I laughed so much, it was ridiculous!

Then I get home and my dad told me that someone called. I called her and then I got dragged more into a situation I briefly mentioned on the 30th, I believe. I hate this situation. I want it to get resolved and go away. Then I talked to Hilary (someone I've known online for about 4 years) foi the first time in a couple weeks and things were kinda upsetting there. I just don't know what tu think about these two things at the moment. I so need a break from things.

Me and Kate are a third of the way through season 3 of 24 and I hope she can find time to finish a bunch more before the season premiere which is on Sunday/Monday - four hours in two days!!! Of course, Liz's birthday is on Monday, so I'lI have to tape those two. She's coming over Wednesday, so that'll be fun :-D

To everyone who reads my site, let me know what you think...seriously. I've heard a couple people say that they like it, but that's it. I have no idea who reads this thing or looks at other pages becouse there's no way (that I know of) to log visitors.

All errors intentional.

The third person has found the secret page. Hahaha, what's in there is nothing special. I just think the idea of a secret page is fun. I need to make another and put something worth seeing in there, huh?

1-1-05 - Yesterday was so much fun! Me and Liz went to Annie's house and there were a few other people there. Much fun was had! We played DDR quite a bit. Yes, I finally gave in and actually tried playing and I was upset by how addictive it was. I've yet to spend money on it, though, and that'll continue to be true.

As of yesterday afternoon, Liz and I are officially boyfriend and girlfriend. I know pretty much everyone thought we were already. Well, now we are. Now there'll be a good memory tied to New Year's Eve. That's good cuz the last memory I really had about that day was a bad one four years ago. (And no, I don't still hold it against the person involved, it's just something that's been kinda tied to New Year's Eve since it happened.)

It really seemed as if I had more to say about last night, but apparently I don't. I kinda surprised myself! I hope everyone had a good New Year's Eve. I'd like to hear about anything cool that happened. Feel free to say hi and just chat. I'm always up for that!

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