What's going on with me?

2-28-05 - We'll see tomorrow...

I know it's a few days passed and it's pretty (read "extremely") nerdy, but I got to play with a scanning electron microscope on Thursday. It was kinda fun :-)

I know this is going to seem weird to a lot of people, but this is the complete truth:

For years now, I've been wondering why no matter what, I cannot seem to keep my left shoelace tied. As I get ready to go somewhere, I put on my shoes, tie them both in the exact same way and then go about my way. After so many steps, though, I suddenly notice that my left shoe feels a bit looser and, if I leave it alone, the shoe lace will just automagically untie. Like I said, this problem has been plaguing me for years - and for every pair of shoes I wore during that time. I tried a few different solution: pull the left one much tighter, slide the knot to a different place on my shoe, etc. It never failed - I'd think I found a solution, but my left shoelace would still come untied! I was so aggravated!

It wasn't until last week or the week before that I realized my problem...and I've already stated it. As gay as it is to say it, I had to think outside the box. My problem, in fact, was that I was tying the two shoelaces in the exact same way. Sounds odd, huh? When I was deciding how to remedy this problem, I was telling myself how much of an idiot I was...but I was right. Think about it: I'm right-handed. When I tie my shoes, I create the loop with my right hand and then take the other end and draw it around the loop with my left hand and pull tight. I go to my left shoe and do the same thing, I loop with my right hand and draw with my left. I'm not sure why it's the case, but if I reverse the roles of my hands (and man, I looked like a two year old the first time I tried it!), the shoe stays tied! I've been doing this for a week or so now and I'm usually concious about reversing the roles of my hands, but the times I forget and just tie it like normal are the only times that my left shoelace comes untied. The world works in mysterious ways.

2-26-05 - First I feel that I must clarify something: it, to me, seems like in my last post I pretty much said I didn't care if I wasn't in this person's life any more. I would very much like to be, but if this is what happens then I'm just gonna go about my way and wonder what the person's deal was...probably for the rest of my life.

So I broke down and did it already. My willpower = 0. I bought DDRMAX2 last night at GameCrazy and I ordered a couple foam pads from eBay at a decent price, as well.

Yesterday, I noticed that I've been using the smallest hole (of five) on my belt. A couple weeks ago, I was using the middle one. Yay, I am losing weight!

I watched Napoleon Dynamite for the second time yesterday. I was still thoroughly entertained by it. Someone pointed out something completely hilarious to me while we were watching last night. In the scene toward the beginning when Napolean calls home and is talking to Kip, Kip keeps looking at his nachos, but he never touches them. Just keep watching the nachos - it's hilarious!

2-24-05 - Well, as much as I want to be depressed about something, I'm not letting myself do it. It seems like a couple of my friends have been trying to phase me out of their lives (and I know I could be wrong about that), one more than the other...and it seems like the one that's doing it more would be the other one, but whatever. I guess they've got their reasons. It would be nice to be told why it's happening, but I guess that's how they operate, so I'll just have to accept it. I'm surprised that I'm not more upset about it, but it turns out I have a lot more friends than I thought I had and just being around all of them tonight made my day completely awesome.

I know no one cares about my DDR addiction, but I've decided that I'm more than likely gonna buy two DDR pads over spring break. I can't tell if I've lost any weight this semester, but I don't see how I could be doing all of this working out and not lose any. Either way, I feel a lot better about myself being active :-)

Continuation: I guess it's a bit unfair to say it's two people. While I'm not as close to one as I once was, I don't think that person is shunning me away. We're just not as close and that's that. What I said stands for the other.

2-20-05 - Goodness. It seems like my subconscious has a goal of killing any good friendship I have. This is odd. I sincerely hope that whatever stupid problem I seem to be having is gone by the time I make my big move. I don't need to be pulling this kind of crap on people I don't know (not that I like doing it to people I do know). I hope that the person I talked to today was in a bad mood (and not because of me), which would explain all of the somewhat angst-ridden comments I received. I'm sure I didn't help matters by my replies. I'm just intelligent like that. *crosses fingers* Get over this crap, you're better than this.

2-18-05 - Well, yesterday, me, Annie, Liz, and Daniel were gonna go work out at the fitness center. We forgot about the basketball game at the Hoop, so we ended up having to park far away. When we saw how far the walk was, we said "Screw it," and decided to go get food. How American of us...too lazy to walk to the fitness center. And we were gonna run on the treadmills!

We went to Cici's and had a marvelous time. That whole ordeal put me in a completely retarded mood that lasted the whole night. We had a fire drill not long after I got back and it was the best fire drill ever! Kris should've died. He was standing in the lobby which was "on fire." Poor guy. We'll miss him.

Not a whole lot happened today. I had lunch with Crystal, Wayne, Dale, and Mike (someone I'll be working for at Y-12 whenever I start there). That was a lot of fun. Dale gave me quite a surprise with a simple statement about Blessid Union of Souls! Hahahaha! Wow...

I played DDR Max tonight at JT's apartment and I beat a lot of songs on standard. I even did one on heavy, though it was only a 5-footer. I did, however, get an A on a 6-footer! That was the highlight of my night. I was seriously kicking some butt.

Right now, I'm talking to Willa on Yahoo! messenger. She's one of my favorite people ever. She can be seen on the random pictures page. She was Anne to my Peter (Paytr?). We've been talking for a while and it's the first time we've talked since June, I think. Oh, how I miss her all the time. We rarely see each other or talk. Our lives are just that non-meshing, I guess. Unless she cancels on me, we're going to hang out Friday night and I'm definitely very excited about that. It'll be fun :-D

2-16-05 - If there was a class on apathy, I'd take it...and I'd probably end up failing. Kinda bittersweet. Fail it and be pissed that you got an F, ace it and care not one bit about getting an A.

I seriously cannot determine why I've been feeling so weird/pessimistic/depressed/whatever the past couple weeks. Bad feelings oughtta be illegal. I think I did, however, pinpoint one of the things that I do that's pretty dumb and could somehow be one of the roots of the problem. This doesn't, of course, mean it's fixed; but it's definitely something I'm going to work on.

Muscles...sore...must...keep...working...out...

My friend Lauren told me that I look scrawnier yesterday, which is odd because I assumed that one had to look scrawny in the first place to look scrawnier. Hmm. Maybe I am losing some chunkiness. If it's true, I don't see it yet. I can't wait to see how I'll look at the end of the semester. So far this semester, I've been very good about working out on a regular basis. And by "very good," I mean that I haven't skipped out on a workout with the exception of one cuz I had a meeting to go to, but I still went and went for half an hour. My (fl)abs are so sore. It hurts to cough, which really sucks because I woke up with a very sore throat this morning and it hasn't gotten better through the day.

I love talking to someone after a long period of not talking to them. Of course the long period of not talking sucks, but it just happens sometimes. My good buddy Laura e-mailed me with pictures of her daughter and we've been talking through e-mail and chat since then. It's good to talk to her and I think I'm kinda sorta helping ease her homesickness. I think I'd be homesick, too, if I lived in Hawaii.

2-14-05 - Wow, today was a much better day than I expected it to be. I actually got a Valentine's Day present! Yay! Liz, the ever crazy crackerette, give me a plastic yellow pepper. What the heck? "Haha, Ronnie! You so crazy!"

Hmmm...good times.

Annie and Kris had a double friend date with me and Michelle. We went to see Hitch, which had its moments, but wasn't completely freaking hilarious. Oh, well. It was definitely worth the money, right Kris?

After the movie, we parted ways with Michelle. Me, Annie, and Kris were walking toward my dorm and I had to save Annie's life. We ran away from Kris only for him to catch us shortly after we scared the crap out of Jen and Nick (kinda funny story, if you wanna hear it). After our little adventure, Annie and I went to Daniel's room where he and Liz were watching Spiderman 2. Why do I find it so much fun to ruin things for people? I apparently ruined the movie a few times for Liz. Aunt May's water broke? What?

I love being able to cut through the craziness and be open and honest with a good friend of yours whenever it seems necessary. Me and Liz have sent a couple nice e-mails back and forth in the past half hour and that rounded out what would've otherwise been a crappy day.

Lovebear turned 3 today, that crazy dog! His battery still works quite well and he sounds the way he did the day he was...born? Whatever.

2-13-05 - Don't you love when you find a new musician that you think is just great? I know I do. I love it even more when no one I know has any idea who he is. That's how things are with Evan Olson.

A few weeks ago on a site I've frequented for the past 3 years, someone posted several songs he had worked on with a few bands he was in over the past decade, and two songs were attributed to "Evan Olson." I listened to all of the posted songs, liked them, kept them, and then I thought nothing of it. Earlier tonight, David sent me a link to where there were some Ben Folds mp3's. Below the Ben Folds ones were some from a band called Majosha, which I later learned was a band Ben used to be in. I listened to "Video," by Majosha (which if you glance at my Song of the Moment page, you'll notice the Ben Folds Five version was on there quite a while ago) and afterwards, David and I were talking about it, debating whether Ben was singing or not. I said it sounded different, but sounded like him enough to be him (it was, after all, a few years before Ben Folds Five formed). Well, David scrolled down on the page and found a little blurb about Majosha that said none other than Evan Olson was the lead vocalist.

I about had a heart attack because I recognized that name. I started listening to the Evan Olson stuff I got a few weeks ago and man, one of them is so awesome and that's the one that made it to my Song of the Moment page. I went to his site and downloaded a few more of his songs. I talked to the guy on the site and he told me a bit more about him and some other bands that he knows of. I've downloaded stuff from their sites, but I've yet to listen to it. I'm quite excited about this whole thing, for some reason. I guess it's just because I realized the other day that I need some more music to obsess over and most of what's coming out today is utter crap.

2-12-05 - Casper was in town today. I hadn't seen that crazy guy since July, when I ended my co-op. It was good to see him. We went to O'Charley's with Jun and Heather and had a good old time there. After that, we went to Dave's apartment and had some 10 player Halo 2 going on. I'm terrible, but it was still fun at times.

Man, I really can't figure out for the life of me why I keep getting so depressed periodically. It seems to happen like once a day or once every other day. It usually happens at night, though there's the occasional daytime bout. Don't worry, nothing bad has come of it and I don't see anything bad coming of it. In all honesty, I think it just has to do with pessimism more than anything. I just always think that my friends, even really close ones, are mad at me or avoiding me or something. I know it's annoying for them whenever I ask something like that, but I just need to be reassured, for some reason. I know better, but there's just that nagging feeling that's caused by something I don't know how to control.

I think a good chunk of this stems from my approaching graduation/moving. As much as I hate that this is happening, I think I'm somehow preventing myself from getting close to anyone I know up here, with the exception of a select few. If I seem like I'm acting weird to you or someone else you know, just know that it's not intentional. I think I'm just sacrificing my happiness and friendships and what not to make things easier when I have to go. I wish that wasn't happening, but I think that's what's going on.

I honestly don't mean to seem cocky by saying this, but there's no way around it: I hate that I'm depriving people of my friendship. Now before I go on, let me say something else about this: just about anyone I know can legitimately make that statement in my position. I know so many people that I'd hate to not know or not have their friendship, and I'm sure there's a good number that feel the same way about me. Why is that? Well, I get a lot of people telling me how sweet, funny, kind, etc. I am. I do my best to return the compliments, if not to the people that say them, then to others - usually at random times. I know that this paragraph seems disjointed and might not make sense. I'm tired, lonely, depressed, bored, and probably a number of other things.

But yeah, like I said, I hate that I'm depriving people of what I have to offer as a friend. I know I make mean jokes and, to some people, I come off as a jerk. Well, that's true for everyone, but I believe my purpose on this planet is just to make others happy. I love the feeling I get when I cheer someone up or help them figure out a certain homework problem or computer program or anything like that. I don't know why, but there's something in my head that prevents me from doing it to everyone. It's not like there's just a select few that get the benefits. Anyone who's spent any time at all with me has probably heard me start many a thought with the sentence, "You know what pisses me off?" I had someone over the weekend tell me that there are so many things that piss me off that shouldn't and I responded by laughing and saying, "I know! I don't know why!" A couple years ago, I thought about starting a list of things that piss me off. I wish I had, cuz I'm sure I'd have a hefty list similar in style, but much shorter than, my quotes list. Oh, well.

As much as I love my friends here (and even if I barely talk to you, I really do appreciate your presence in my life), I'm very ready to graduate and move on. I just hate the state of limbo that I feel like I'm in. I need to head to Knoxville, start my job, get my apartment, make some new friends, get a new girlfriend, and see what happens from there. I'd love to think that everything will happen quickly and smoothly, but I know how life is...and I know how my life is. Thanks for reading this. I hope it didn't seem too melodramatic, cuz it's not supposed to be. It's all just an amalgamation of my current/recent thoughts and feelings.

As far as the second secret page is concerned, I wanna say that five, maybe six, people have found it. If I forget to list you, I'm sorry. The people that I can think of that have found it so far are Nicole L, JT K, David M, Whitney P, and Lauren I. Seeing as how this many people have found it with the two current hints (actually, a few used none of them), I'll leave them be for the time being. If a few days pass with no one else finding it, I'll come up with another clue.

2-9-05 - Despite the crap things that happened today (just stuff involving classes and what not) I had such a great day! Holy crap! I feel like I got closer with three people today: Annie, Joel, and Liz. Joel is my boss from when I was on co-op and I never really talked to him that much while I was up there, but he took me to Outback Steakhouse tonight (he's in town to interview people for next year's co-op) and we were there for a good hour and it didn't seem awkward at all. I just assumed it would've been, for the reason stated above.

Not a whole lot more happened. I have a really busy day tomorrow. Class from 1:30 to 6, review session 6 to 7, my EXCEL tutorial from 7 to 8, and then Drama meeting from 9 to ??? I hope Friday will end up being as good as today was. Something tells me it probably will be :-)

2-8-05 - A big thank you and a big apology to both Kate and Chris. If it hadn't been for the two of them, the fish picture wouldn't have been taken and I neglected to put them in the special thanks section of the fish video initially. Chris, I know you said it was no big deal, but it was to me. Also, Daniel, you told me not to worry about putting you in there, but I did cuz you took the Annie picture. Again, I'm sorry I forgot to put you all in there.

Ah, good old "Sick Cycle Carousel" - I forgot how good this song is. Though what I'm feeling has nothing to do with any particular person, this song describes so well how I've been feeling lately. I've been on a series of extreme (not "extreme" in a sense that it's very, VERY bad, just that the jumps are big and instantaneous) ups and downs lately. Basically, I've just been realizing lately how much physical contact can help one's mood. Just as little as a hug from a good friend every now and again is really all it takes. Whenever I'm home, I get hugs all the time and I love it. Up here, I know very few people who I get hugs from and sometimes the ones I get aren't really hugs at all, they're more just taps on the arm (you know who you are...that's ok, I hug you in your sleep, hahaha). What really bugs me, though, is that the number of hugs I'll be getting will greatly decrease in the coming few weeks for a reason that really upsets me - you have no idea to the extent of it, honestly. Oh, well. That's why life sucks. You get something good going in your life and it gets taken away. Before I know it, I'll be rejected for my government clearance for some odd reason and I'll be without a job.

2-7-05 - I am thoroughly pissed off. I have the fish video made and the link to it is on my home page. I am very pleased at the fact that the music in the intro synched up as well as it did. There are, I think, two things in the video that didn't turn out as well as I wanted them to turn out, but I don't care. Anyway, what thoroughly pissed me off is the fact that I cannot compress the video, so it's like 28 megs. Also, WMP thinks, for some reason, that it needs to download some non-existant codec. I'm enlisting the help of some online friends to help remedy this problem. Once it gets solved (assuming it does), I'll have the smaller version available for download.

Despite my crappy classes, I had a decent day today. I love my friends. That's really all I have to say for today, I think.

Continuation - Grrr, I figured out the problem. Stupid ZoneAlarm. If you don't understand what the heck is going on, no biggie. You're probably better off that way. Download the video!

2-6-05 - I tell you what...I wore myself out last night. I went to Annie's and played DDR for a couple hours and then after I left there, me and JT went to two Wal-Marts and then IHOP (where I got the usual: an oh so good Sampler) and then back to his apartment where he forced me to play GunBound before he'd let me play DDR again, which we played for an hour. That was a long sentence. Annie and I pwned (I can't believe I just typed that, Annie :-/) AfroNova on Max2, as well as some things on standard. I'm getting kinda decent at it. When I was at JT's, I tried double mode and that was not a pretty sight.

Speaking of GunBound, JT sucks at it. I hadn't played since summer and I beat him in a couple games before he could beat me. What a loser.

I hate when I think that theories people have are way out there and then they turn out to be correct. Annie calls Wal-Mart "the government." When I asked her why, she said, "That's because it is the government! If you need something and Wal-Mart doesn't have it, then the government doesn't want you to have it." When she first told me this, I equated her in my head to Dale Gribble (Rusty Shackleford?) from King of the Hill. What kind of crazy conspiracy theory is that? Well, before I went to her house yesterday, I went to the government in Algood, looking for some paper. Alls I wanted was a single pack of 8 1/2" x 11" loose-leaf, college-ruled paper. "I'll be in and out in a minute," I thought to myself. Well, I got to the paper and bent down to pick up some college-ruled loose-leaf paper and as I was pulling it off the shelf, I glanced and saw that it was
8" x 10 1/2". I audibly said, "Nope," and threw it back into it's spot. I looked around a bit to find some correctly-sized paper, but to no avail. I found some woman that worked there and I asked her if they had any 8 1/2" x 11" loose leaf paper, because that's what I needed and all I could find was 8" x 10 1/2". That stupid woman talked down to me! Well, she was on a ladder, but that's not what I meant. She said that what they have is the standard and they don't carry any weird sizes, or something like that. Now I'm no authority on paper by any means, though I did work for Weyerhaeuser making the stuff for 14 months, but I know that 8 1/2" x 11" is what's the norm. What the heck? I wanted to knock that skank off her ladder for being so dumb. The government didn't want me to have real paper, so I didn't get any of it. Wal-Mart is the government.

Annie and I took some cool jumping pictures, similar to the one of her jumping from Liz's car on this page. We attcked BOB with some of her weapons. I'll post them some time. If I forget, someone will probably remind me.

As mentioned earlier, JT and I went to two governments last night. I showed him the stupid paper controversy at the Cookeville one. I like taking pictures of stupid, funny, and/or random things whenever I'm at a government. When JT was buying drinks, I saw a couple cases of TAB and I took a picture of them. I'm dumb, I know. I was just upset that I found nothing to take a picture of when I was there, so I had to take one of something.

Gus and Liz are cooperating on getting the tape of Tennessee Mornings with my picture on it to me today. Both of them are great and I'm very appreciative of it. I can't say it enough, cuz I know it's been a hassle for both of them. I'm gonna get the video on on my computer and then on my site as soon as I can.

Tonight, I'm going to the Wesley house to watch the Super Bowl with Liz, Annie, Daniel, and probably lots of other people. Well, I'll probably be just sitting around and talking most of the time, anyway. It should be fun.

Hmmm...some of you are probably wanting another clue to the second secret link, huh? Well, there's one in this post and not in this paragraph. One word oughtta stick out a little bit.

Conitnuation - The stupid mall in Cookeville is simply called "Mall." As my friend Anna H. informed me way back in the day, it used to be called Mall*. No one knew what the asterisk stood for, it was just there. Then, one day, the asterisks were gone. I told JT about this a while ago, apparently. I don't remember this. I tell that to everyone. Anyway, a couple weeks ago, his job required him to ride around with the mayor of Cookeville for a while and JT asked him about the asterisks and he said something to the extent of "Yeah, they were dumb. We had them taken down a long time ago." Hahaha, so pointless.

2-5-05 - Wow, it's early Saturday morning. It is currently almost 4 am and I just got off the phone with my friend Amy. I've known her online for quite a while, but we've only recently (in the past 8 months or so) become friends and recently we've gotten to be good friends. We were both bored, so we decided to talk and we ended up rambling for a good hour and a half. Things like that just make ya wanna smile sometimes, you know?

It looks like the tape will be getting here tomorrow. I keep telling my mom how easy it is to make a copy, but I dont think she wants to try at all. She seems kinda upset about not being able to show it at the Super Bowl party, and I kinda feel bad about it, but then I think about how she has put no effort into trying to make a copy (she just assumes it can't be done) and then I don't feel so bad any more. Oh, well :-/

Don't ask me why I remember this, but yesterday made exactly 10 years since I bought Dookie by Green Day. I bought it on tape and the tape is still in my car at this very moment and it still works. I still listen to it quite often, as that's a great album.

I spent 5 hours with Michelle and two people that I just met tonight named Corey and Beth. We had a grand old time. We played Cranium and Corey and I were the masters! Somehow, during a charades clue, I ended up guessing "passion fruit" at the last second, after repeatedly saying "kiss berries." Then on a sculpture one, I guessed "grape vine" within like 5 seconds of his starting to make it and I was accused hard of being a cheater. Beth = skank. Apparently my Robin Williams impression was awesome. "Yeah, he does have hairy arms!" Hahaha, classic. Corey and I made it all the way to finish before Michelle and Beth were halfway through, so we attempted to lap them. We were two spaces away from doing it when they finally finished.

I'm going to Annie's later today and we're gonna play some DDR. Awesome. You've gotta feed your addictions, sometimes, and it's been a month and counting since I've last played. I'm pumped! Might as well make the rest of my body sore, since I'm heading that way in the places where I worked out on Tuesday.

I'm not big on choosing favorites of anything. For any case, it's hard for me to decide. This is because I hate those people who have new "favorites" every day. If you have a favorite and you change it right away, then you weren't quite attached to the first, huh? Stick with it, man. The Simpsons was my one and only favorite show for a good 13 years. The Smashing Pumpkins were my favorite band for 8 years. Yesterday, without thinking about it or pondering incessantly over it, I decided on my favorite line from any song. It comes from "If" by Butch Walker:

If I could be your pain I'd run from you, so far away.

I'm not one to call something poetic, as I hate poetry, but this is. It's such a great line. Butch Walker is a brilliant lyricist, oftentimes.

2-3-05 - So yeah, little Miss Nicole found the secret link before I gave a hint (I just told her that I had placed the link) and she found it immediately. I moved it and made it harder to find and changed the URL and she found it within minutes, again with no hint. It just goes to show that you just need to know how to look and it's easy.

Today was pretty good. I got a call from my dad during lab and he told me that the video from the show came in. May parents asked permission to open it and watch it and it was granted. I called back a few hours later and my mom said it was hilarious and that my dad laughed like crazy. The picture was shown twice and they loved it! I'm not going home this weekend, but Gus is and then is going back to Murfreesboro where Liz will grab the tape from her and bring it to me. Well, that's the plan anyway. My mom wanted to show it at the Super Bowl party, but Gus is leaving Saturday. I suggested to my mom that she just make a copy and send the original with Gus. I sincerely hope she does, cuz I'm so anxious to see it! Once I get the tape, I'll be heading to JT's apartment and using his roommate's video capture card to get it on computer. I'll then edit and compress it and I'll make it available for download on my site, so anyone and everyone can see it! Yay!

I went with Annie, Daniel, and some chick named Brittany to work out today. I've been doing pushups and stuff for a couple weeks now and I tell you what, I'm seeing results in my arms. I'm too nerdy to have muscles, what the heck?! Of course, as we were walking toward the fitness center, we passed Julianne and Lauren and they made fun of me. Like they had any business going there :-�

2-2-05 - Wow! Today has been the best day in quite a while! I'm just very happy with how things went today. Something that has kinda been bugging me for the past couple weeks is, as far as I can tell, completely behind me!

What? New secret page? Yeah, so I had it placed and Nicole found it withing seconds of my telling her that it existed. She used a nifty little trick that was actually a clue for the first secret. That doesn't work here. Just aim high. I had to make finding it slightly harder (though it's still not that difficult). You can thank Nicole for the fact that it's harder! I think this is how I'll do my secrets from now on, unless I can find a better way. Hehehehe ;-)

I know that there are some people that are sick of hearing about this situation, but I'm sorry! I just think it's too funny! The whole "me riding on a fish" thing won't die, but I don't want it to! I'm having so much fun with it! So I mentioned on 1-31-05 that Kelly Sutton e-mailed me. I e-mailed back within an hour. Well, as of this morning, I had still not gotten a reply, so I decided to have some fun with her. I e-mailed her (no, not while in the middle of class *shifty eyes*)

Subj: What gives?

I responded to your e-mail in about an hour. It's been two days and I've gotten nothing.

Helloooooooooo? Slacker

Yeah, I called her a slacker just as she did to me. I'm the master! (Right, KWAK?) A few hours later, she replied and said

I am a slacker... but I thrive at it. I haven't seen the other pics... send them to me. I will make sure they make the air. I have the power.

I quickly replied (again, with the picture I sent last week)

Well, having discussed the situation with some friends, we think the reason the fish picture was aired was because it was taken in
Nashville. One or two of them have said that I should probably get some "around town" pictures and send them to all of you. But, alas, I live not in Nashville.

I kinda agree with them, because anyone could take a dumb picture anywhere (even in their dorm room, like I did last night) and send it in just to try to get on tv. Let me know what you guys are looking for and I'll see what I can come up with, because I love this whole situation. It's fun!

Ok, I've attached the picture that I e-mailed last week. The only explanation I can give for the picture is that I'm an idiot. Yes, my
hand is inside the balloon. The thing hanging down from it is one of those little dealies where you squeeze it and the eyes pop out and then go back in...though I squeezed too hard. The eyes were sticky so, logically, I stuck it to the balloon. Then I yelled at it. This is how I and my then girlfriend spent Valentine's Day 2004.

Slacker *shakes fist*

I have the VCR ready to tape the show tomorrow. Fingers are crossed! I'd like to add the "As Seen on TV" sticker to as many pictures as possible! Hahaha...