Sunday, September 28, 2008
Another Update!
I just wanted to express my disappointment in the Mets not making the postseason this year. For the second straight year, on the final day of the season, the Mets have been eliminated. To all Mets fans, I'm sorry that you guys had to endure another day like today, and another October without Mets postseason baseball.
Congrats Mike Mussina!
Congrats to Mike Mussina for capturing that ever elusive 20 win season. After what he went through last year (being taken out of the rotation even), and coming back and achieving this, he deserves everyone's utmost respect. I hope he returns to the Yankees next season.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Yo.
Current Mood: Tired, but content.
Current Song: The Party Song - Blink 182
Random Thought:
I need to freakin' sleep. My personality gets so bland when I am sleep deprived. All my randomness and humor is taken down five notches.
Okay. Well.
Lets see.
Where to start.
Okay. Last weekend was great. I went home on Friday. I was able to take the train into Newark Penn Station, and my dad picked me up from there. My goal was to be home in time to pick up my brother and cousin from High School. I got there in time. My brother knew I was coming home, but he didn't know I was picking him up, so I suppose I pleasantly surprised him.
After I arrived at school, I decided to go explore the school, see the new additions to the building, maybe run into a few friends.
Wow. The school, even in this uncompleted state, has changed quite a bit. I got to see a new wing that was you can get to via B ball downstairs. The new track was up. Nice. very nice.
I saw a lot of people I knew, a majority of them from track. I didn't realize how many new people I met doing track for one season.
I didn't see any teachers. I saw my English teacher from last year, Miss Storti, form a distance, but I didn't say anything to her. I don't really know why. I'm definitely going to make an effort to say hello to all my teachers next time I visit the school (which will probably be sometime in October).
So after I saw the school, I went home, relaxed, had a home cooked meal, and basically just hung out the rest of the night. I designated Friday night as my "Stay in and do work" night, because I had so much to do, and it would be very difficult to complete if I didn't sacrifice a night. My brother and dad went to the first home football game for Livingston, which I heard was very crowded. We won the game though. Beat East Orange.
Afterwards, when they got back, I went to McDonalds with my brother to get McFlurries. I hadn't had a McFlurry since before I left for College.
Okay. Saturday. Slept in. Did work in the afternoon. Then Family party. Every year, towards the end of September, my family has a party celebrating my birthday (September 13th ) and my brother's (October 4th). It was a great day. I got to spend a lot of time with my little cousin Kaityln. She's two years old, and doesn't exactly understand the concept of yards yet. She would constantly venture into my neighbors yards and go on their swingsets. Even when we would take her out of their yards, she would make her way back there soon enough.
Later on, my dad, aunts, and uncles engaged in an entertaining discussion about politics, amoung other things. Always interesting when this occurs, as many members of my family have very strong opinions regarding many political issues.
After that, we decided to watch some old videos of the my brother and I when we were younger. We watched videos from when I was almost five and my brother was almost two. Always enjoyable.
Later on, my brother and I went for a walk to Collins. Probably the highlight of my weekend. Just to be able to talk to someone about what's going on in your life, and get responses that show that they care and understand is something that everyone needs. With my brother, I get that everytime I talk to him. With my brother, we can have downright hilarious conversations to extremely serious ones. He's only 14, but his maturity level is very high. I am thankful everyday that I have the brother that I have.
Sunday.. hmm. Worked out with my dad. Then went to Verona park. Verona park is beautiful. I hadn't been there for a very long time, I can't even recall the last time I went there. The construction that was going on the last time I saw it was completed, and the park is looking just excellent. I went there with my dad and brother, we had great conversations and overall just enjoyed being outside in superb weather. I took tons of pictures, as I am trying to open up photography as a hobby. I think my picture came out pretty good, a lot of shots of the scenary of Verona park.
I returned to college Sunday night. On the way there, I talked to my grandpa on the telephone for a good while, and I was glad. I really have not talked to him extensively in a long time. He's a very interesting, journeyed man, and I love talking to him.
When I got back to college, I watched the last game at Yankee Stadium. Loved it. I am going to severely miss that Stadium. So many memories.
This past week at college, largely uneventful. I had very little free time. I was either at class, doing homework, playing frisbee or at a club event/meeting. There's so many things I want to do that require free time. I want to continue the short story I'm writing. I want to write more on this blog. I want to read up on politics and other areas of interest. I want to work out and run a lot more. I want to socialize more during the week. I want to write for the newspaper! There simply aren't enough hours in the day.
When Friday rolled around, things got a little more relaxing. Friday night, I watched some of the debates (which I need to watch again, atleast the parts I missed) and then went to the movies. Saw My Best Friend's Girl, with Dane Cook. I enjoyed it. Yes, it was cliche, yes it was a chick flick, but hey, I like those type of movies. Sometimes I go to movies just to be entertained for a few hours, and I was. After that, I just hung out with some friends in their dorm rooms. It was a good night. I didn't get into bed into 4 am though.
Saturday, I did work (edited my essay due monday, glad I got this over with) and worked out/ran. After that, watched Wanted again in a lounge on campus, and then hung out with some friends again in their dorms. Got to play with playdo. =). Also, we looked through our facebook photos. I realized that, despite my beliefs, I did do SOMETHING at home. I did have a life, sort of. I always have had the opinion that I really didn't do much back in Livingston. It's true. My experiences are limited. But I did have experiences. Not as many as I should have, if I were more adventerous and took more chances (something I would like to do here at college) but I did do something. I had a good night, once again. And once again, went to bed at 4 am.
The delimma I'm currently in that I'm having trouble figuring at things to do without drinking. The group of friends is having trouble deciding different activities to do if we don't got to parties. I mean, hanging out like we have the past few nights if completely fine with me, I'm not difficult to entertain. I have no probably just chilling. But it still would be helpful to figure out some new things to do, besides going to the movies.
Anyway, long post. I should be able to make a post by midweek. Probably going to expand upon my last few points. Right now, I need to get some work done.
I'm out.
Chris
Current Song: The Party Song - Blink 182
Random Thought:
I need to freakin' sleep. My personality gets so bland when I am sleep deprived. All my randomness and humor is taken down five notches.
Okay. Well.
Lets see.
Where to start.
Okay. Last weekend was great. I went home on Friday. I was able to take the train into Newark Penn Station, and my dad picked me up from there. My goal was to be home in time to pick up my brother and cousin from High School. I got there in time. My brother knew I was coming home, but he didn't know I was picking him up, so I suppose I pleasantly surprised him.
After I arrived at school, I decided to go explore the school, see the new additions to the building, maybe run into a few friends.
Wow. The school, even in this uncompleted state, has changed quite a bit. I got to see a new wing that was you can get to via B ball downstairs. The new track was up. Nice. very nice.
I saw a lot of people I knew, a majority of them from track. I didn't realize how many new people I met doing track for one season.
I didn't see any teachers. I saw my English teacher from last year, Miss Storti, form a distance, but I didn't say anything to her. I don't really know why. I'm definitely going to make an effort to say hello to all my teachers next time I visit the school (which will probably be sometime in October).
So after I saw the school, I went home, relaxed, had a home cooked meal, and basically just hung out the rest of the night. I designated Friday night as my "Stay in and do work" night, because I had so much to do, and it would be very difficult to complete if I didn't sacrifice a night. My brother and dad went to the first home football game for Livingston, which I heard was very crowded. We won the game though. Beat East Orange.
Afterwards, when they got back, I went to McDonalds with my brother to get McFlurries. I hadn't had a McFlurry since before I left for College.
Okay. Saturday. Slept in. Did work in the afternoon. Then Family party. Every year, towards the end of September, my family has a party celebrating my birthday (September 13th ) and my brother's (October 4th). It was a great day. I got to spend a lot of time with my little cousin Kaityln. She's two years old, and doesn't exactly understand the concept of yards yet. She would constantly venture into my neighbors yards and go on their swingsets. Even when we would take her out of their yards, she would make her way back there soon enough.
Later on, my dad, aunts, and uncles engaged in an entertaining discussion about politics, amoung other things. Always interesting when this occurs, as many members of my family have very strong opinions regarding many political issues.
After that, we decided to watch some old videos of the my brother and I when we were younger. We watched videos from when I was almost five and my brother was almost two. Always enjoyable.
Later on, my brother and I went for a walk to Collins. Probably the highlight of my weekend. Just to be able to talk to someone about what's going on in your life, and get responses that show that they care and understand is something that everyone needs. With my brother, I get that everytime I talk to him. With my brother, we can have downright hilarious conversations to extremely serious ones. He's only 14, but his maturity level is very high. I am thankful everyday that I have the brother that I have.
Sunday.. hmm. Worked out with my dad. Then went to Verona park. Verona park is beautiful. I hadn't been there for a very long time, I can't even recall the last time I went there. The construction that was going on the last time I saw it was completed, and the park is looking just excellent. I went there with my dad and brother, we had great conversations and overall just enjoyed being outside in superb weather. I took tons of pictures, as I am trying to open up photography as a hobby. I think my picture came out pretty good, a lot of shots of the scenary of Verona park.
I returned to college Sunday night. On the way there, I talked to my grandpa on the telephone for a good while, and I was glad. I really have not talked to him extensively in a long time. He's a very interesting, journeyed man, and I love talking to him.
When I got back to college, I watched the last game at Yankee Stadium. Loved it. I am going to severely miss that Stadium. So many memories.
This past week at college, largely uneventful. I had very little free time. I was either at class, doing homework, playing frisbee or at a club event/meeting. There's so many things I want to do that require free time. I want to continue the short story I'm writing. I want to write more on this blog. I want to read up on politics and other areas of interest. I want to work out and run a lot more. I want to socialize more during the week. I want to write for the newspaper! There simply aren't enough hours in the day.
When Friday rolled around, things got a little more relaxing. Friday night, I watched some of the debates (which I need to watch again, atleast the parts I missed) and then went to the movies. Saw My Best Friend's Girl, with Dane Cook. I enjoyed it. Yes, it was cliche, yes it was a chick flick, but hey, I like those type of movies. Sometimes I go to movies just to be entertained for a few hours, and I was. After that, I just hung out with some friends in their dorm rooms. It was a good night. I didn't get into bed into 4 am though.
Saturday, I did work (edited my essay due monday, glad I got this over with) and worked out/ran. After that, watched Wanted again in a lounge on campus, and then hung out with some friends again in their dorms. Got to play with playdo. =). Also, we looked through our facebook photos. I realized that, despite my beliefs, I did do SOMETHING at home. I did have a life, sort of. I always have had the opinion that I really didn't do much back in Livingston. It's true. My experiences are limited. But I did have experiences. Not as many as I should have, if I were more adventerous and took more chances (something I would like to do here at college) but I did do something. I had a good night, once again. And once again, went to bed at 4 am.
The delimma I'm currently in that I'm having trouble figuring at things to do without drinking. The group of friends is having trouble deciding different activities to do if we don't got to parties. I mean, hanging out like we have the past few nights if completely fine with me, I'm not difficult to entertain. I have no probably just chilling. But it still would be helpful to figure out some new things to do, besides going to the movies.
Anyway, long post. I should be able to make a post by midweek. Probably going to expand upon my last few points. Right now, I need to get some work done.
I'm out.
Chris
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Chris's "Other" Blog
Hey guys. An announcement: In my last post, I mentioned that I will be making blog posts that about various topics, such as the NFL, the internet subculture, and other things. These posts would be different than my posts so far, as now my posts revolve around my daily life.. and these posts will follow the formula of (Topic ex: "The Internet Subculture" ---> My analysis/thoughts on the topic). Just something different I want to try, mainly to help aid my thinking ability and improving my skill of formulating an educated opinion. Plus, I personally love reading many people's opinions on a subject ( I go to forums all the time) and I'm sure many of you also enjoy that activity.
So anyway, my other blog can be found at : netsfan129otherblog.blogspot.com (very appropriated named)
I will be posting on both blogs on a regular basis. There may be gaps of time where I just don't have time to set a half-hour aside to post on one or the other, but I promise there will be no gaps of more than a week.
So anyway, my other blog can be found at : netsfan129otherblog.blogspot.com (very appropriated named)
I will be posting on both blogs on a regular basis. There may be gaps of time where I just don't have time to set a half-hour aside to post on one or the other, but I promise there will be no gaps of more than a week.
Monday, September 15, 2008
What were you saying about Hobbits?
Hello. Today, I will actually be making a post. I know for the past few months I have promised many posts and made none (of substance). I'm hoping that will change, as I am starting to organize my time better here at college, which should led to more time for me to blog.
So here we go, my first real post since March 2nd, 2008.
Remember this?
Current Mood: Proud.
Current Song: Crystal Ball (No, its not a coincidence, I was looking back at my blog for my last long post, and I noticed that this song was playing, and I realized that I had not listened to this song in awhile, so its play was long overdue)
Random Thought:
What a Monday night football game between the Eagles and Cowboys! Games like this remind me why I love football so much.
Amazing stat: Eagles and Cowboys averaged 23.6 yards per minute in the first half. (Thanks ESPN)
Okay!
So College.
Yeah.
I moved in awhile ago... August 21st. Much has happened since then, and I'm very disappointed that I did not get around to posting about my experience at college until this point. I'm sure I'm going to leave out many details about what has happened, but oh well. Oh well.
Racking my memory..
The first week, was Welcome Week. Welcome Week is basically a program that TCNJ created in order to get freshmen acclimated to the college, mostly in the social aspect. Ice-breakers galore.
Most of the week was spent with my floor ( Travers 8). We ate all our meals together, went to events together and showered together. The meals together does such quite corny.. but I actually enjoyed that aspect, it helped me meet and get to know some people on my floor. The only thing that annoyed me was getting up early for some of the breakfasts. During Welcome Week, its a given, you don't sleep, which made getting up by 8 AM challenging.
A major focus of the week was taking pride in your floor, which basically means a lot of T8 chants, and other activities that were set to promote our floor. Not really my thing. I'm not a loud person, so I felt out of my element.
Some activitites that I participated in Welcome Week were Playfair, a Rootbeer Keg, a BBQ, a few presenations on Dating Violence and Alchohal, and um.. I forget.
Playfair was decent. I got to meet a bunch of new people (I especially enjoyed meeting all the people with the same birthday as me). Don't really talk to anyone I met there now though, ah well. For one activity at Playfair, we got to learn some TCNJ chants. I loved during the TCNJ lion (I got to saw RAWR to random people). rawr. Ok.
The Rootbeer keg, was a dance. I don't dance. But I did try Rootbeer for the first time. yay.
Oh yeah! Mike, a friend from my floor who enjoys reading books about random topics such as Chimpanzees.. taught me how to play pool and poker. Yeah, I can do that now.
So Overall Welcome Week was.... O.K.
I did meet some people... got to know my floor better.. tried some new things, but it was just too much in too little time. It was one activity after another.. it got tiresome. I didn't really get a chance to sit back and say "Wow, I'm in College." Also, many of the activites (such as Playfair) were centered around being loud and such.. and as I mentioned, not me.
Okay, I realize that this post will be extremely long and on one will read it if I continue to tell you guys about my college experience with this much detail. I'm going to go for a more brief descriptiin/conceptual approach from here on.
Once classes started, I had a lot more time, therefore I had a lot more time to manage.
The first week.. I spent most of my free time trying to do social things.. as I felt that was what was most important at the time.
College is like a social game the first few weeks. You have to go out and make friends, or life will suck. For a person like me, who abhorres small talk, is not the best initiator, and enjoys time alone, the first few weeks required me to act differently than I was accustomed. You have to go out and talk.. to everyone. You have to continue to throw yourself into social situations. I can't even count how many people I asked "What's your major??", "Where are you from???" I personally love to meet new people, but its different when you HAVE to meet new people.. and meet them at such a high frequency.
I was very proud of how I was acting though.. I was really putting myself out there.. something I didn't use to make a habit of in Livingston. I could finally say, I'm not a shy person.
I went home on labor day, and had tons of work due to the time I allocated to my social life instead of work. I felt bad that I had to spend a few hours each day at home doing work, but it did not limit my activity at home too much. I still spent time with my dad, discussing politics and my adjustment to college, with my mom, discussing an assortment of topics, mainly what was going on at college, and my brother, sharing laughs like we always do (as well as sharing my thoughts on what was going on). We had a family BBQ that weekend also. Got to see more members of my family, like Kaitlyn (my little cousin). It was very hard for me to come to terms with the fact that I won't be seeing her as much as I use to.
Wow. too long. going to condense.
The last few weeks of college have had their ups and downs. I'm starting to fall into a group of friends, while still meeting new people. A few aspects of my social life I am still concerned about, but that is for another post.
I'm starting to organize my time much better. Let me tell you, writing out a goals list is INCREDIBLY helpful. Do it.
I've been playing Ultimate Frisbee, I joined the club team. To tell you the truth, probably the only thing I don't look forward to on a daily basis. I'm new. I suck. They are all experieced. It makes practice not very enjoyable. But I will continue to go, because I know from my maturation from High School that I can't always have instant gratification and enjoy everything I do. It will be worth it in the end. I mean, I already learned how to do a pretty good backhand. yay.
My classes:
General Psych: Very interesting! Love what I am learning about. Professor is funny ("If you aren't home, guess what, your parents are probably having sex"), but runs the class somewhat lethargically.
Calc: The only class I dislike. Professor is meh. Material doesn't seem too bad. I have trouble understanding the professor, but she teaching right from the book, so I should be okay.
Living in a Virtual World (Seminar) : I can't believe I wanted to switch out of this class. (I let the stereotypes of who would take a class on the internet get into my head, I am not perfect, sometimes I can be judgemental) I love this class. I love the internet. Its part of who I am. That's why I put it on my list for my seminar selections. I know that now, that is all that matters.
Also, Great Professor. Best one this semester. Lovely lady.
American Government: Interesting class. Perfect to take with the election coming up. Professor is intelligent, but monotone. Seems like a great man though. Had a nice convo with him today after class.
Okay. I'm done. Finished. It's almost 1. I have a 10 am class tomorrow. But I'm glad I did this. It's imcomplete (I mean, a whole month in college, people could write a book), but its sufficient.
I am going to continue to blog, but they will not be as long as this. Not even close.
Some things I will blog on in the near future (besides my life, of course):
-The Yankees Season
-Stumple Upon
-Politics
-The NFL
-The Internet Subculture
-Rutgers Football
-Chris
(Oh yeah, and the title of this post refers to a conversation I had tonight with a kid on my floor. yes, we were discussing hobbits.)
So here we go, my first real post since March 2nd, 2008.
Remember this?
Current Mood: Proud.
Current Song: Crystal Ball (No, its not a coincidence, I was looking back at my blog for my last long post, and I noticed that this song was playing, and I realized that I had not listened to this song in awhile, so its play was long overdue)
Random Thought:
What a Monday night football game between the Eagles and Cowboys! Games like this remind me why I love football so much.
Amazing stat: Eagles and Cowboys averaged 23.6 yards per minute in the first half. (Thanks ESPN)
Okay!
So College.
Yeah.
I moved in awhile ago... August 21st. Much has happened since then, and I'm very disappointed that I did not get around to posting about my experience at college until this point. I'm sure I'm going to leave out many details about what has happened, but oh well. Oh well.
Racking my memory..
The first week, was Welcome Week. Welcome Week is basically a program that TCNJ created in order to get freshmen acclimated to the college, mostly in the social aspect. Ice-breakers galore.
Most of the week was spent with my floor ( Travers 8). We ate all our meals together, went to events together and showered together. The meals together does such quite corny.. but I actually enjoyed that aspect, it helped me meet and get to know some people on my floor. The only thing that annoyed me was getting up early for some of the breakfasts. During Welcome Week, its a given, you don't sleep, which made getting up by 8 AM challenging.
A major focus of the week was taking pride in your floor, which basically means a lot of T8 chants, and other activities that were set to promote our floor. Not really my thing. I'm not a loud person, so I felt out of my element.
Some activitites that I participated in Welcome Week were Playfair, a Rootbeer Keg, a BBQ, a few presenations on Dating Violence and Alchohal, and um.. I forget.
Playfair was decent. I got to meet a bunch of new people (I especially enjoyed meeting all the people with the same birthday as me). Don't really talk to anyone I met there now though, ah well. For one activity at Playfair, we got to learn some TCNJ chants. I loved during the TCNJ lion (I got to saw RAWR to random people). rawr. Ok.
The Rootbeer keg, was a dance. I don't dance. But I did try Rootbeer for the first time. yay.
Oh yeah! Mike, a friend from my floor who enjoys reading books about random topics such as Chimpanzees.. taught me how to play pool and poker. Yeah, I can do that now.
So Overall Welcome Week was.... O.K.
I did meet some people... got to know my floor better.. tried some new things, but it was just too much in too little time. It was one activity after another.. it got tiresome. I didn't really get a chance to sit back and say "Wow, I'm in College." Also, many of the activites (such as Playfair) were centered around being loud and such.. and as I mentioned, not me.
Okay, I realize that this post will be extremely long and on one will read it if I continue to tell you guys about my college experience with this much detail. I'm going to go for a more brief descriptiin/conceptual approach from here on.
Once classes started, I had a lot more time, therefore I had a lot more time to manage.
The first week.. I spent most of my free time trying to do social things.. as I felt that was what was most important at the time.
College is like a social game the first few weeks. You have to go out and make friends, or life will suck. For a person like me, who abhorres small talk, is not the best initiator, and enjoys time alone, the first few weeks required me to act differently than I was accustomed. You have to go out and talk.. to everyone. You have to continue to throw yourself into social situations. I can't even count how many people I asked "What's your major??", "Where are you from???" I personally love to meet new people, but its different when you HAVE to meet new people.. and meet them at such a high frequency.
I was very proud of how I was acting though.. I was really putting myself out there.. something I didn't use to make a habit of in Livingston. I could finally say, I'm not a shy person.
I went home on labor day, and had tons of work due to the time I allocated to my social life instead of work. I felt bad that I had to spend a few hours each day at home doing work, but it did not limit my activity at home too much. I still spent time with my dad, discussing politics and my adjustment to college, with my mom, discussing an assortment of topics, mainly what was going on at college, and my brother, sharing laughs like we always do (as well as sharing my thoughts on what was going on). We had a family BBQ that weekend also. Got to see more members of my family, like Kaitlyn (my little cousin). It was very hard for me to come to terms with the fact that I won't be seeing her as much as I use to.
Wow. too long. going to condense.
The last few weeks of college have had their ups and downs. I'm starting to fall into a group of friends, while still meeting new people. A few aspects of my social life I am still concerned about, but that is for another post.
I'm starting to organize my time much better. Let me tell you, writing out a goals list is INCREDIBLY helpful. Do it.
I've been playing Ultimate Frisbee, I joined the club team. To tell you the truth, probably the only thing I don't look forward to on a daily basis. I'm new. I suck. They are all experieced. It makes practice not very enjoyable. But I will continue to go, because I know from my maturation from High School that I can't always have instant gratification and enjoy everything I do. It will be worth it in the end. I mean, I already learned how to do a pretty good backhand. yay.
My classes:
General Psych: Very interesting! Love what I am learning about. Professor is funny ("If you aren't home, guess what, your parents are probably having sex"), but runs the class somewhat lethargically.
Calc: The only class I dislike. Professor is meh. Material doesn't seem too bad. I have trouble understanding the professor, but she teaching right from the book, so I should be okay.
Living in a Virtual World (Seminar) : I can't believe I wanted to switch out of this class. (I let the stereotypes of who would take a class on the internet get into my head, I am not perfect, sometimes I can be judgemental) I love this class. I love the internet. Its part of who I am. That's why I put it on my list for my seminar selections. I know that now, that is all that matters.
Also, Great Professor. Best one this semester. Lovely lady.
American Government: Interesting class. Perfect to take with the election coming up. Professor is intelligent, but monotone. Seems like a great man though. Had a nice convo with him today after class.
Okay. I'm done. Finished. It's almost 1. I have a 10 am class tomorrow. But I'm glad I did this. It's imcomplete (I mean, a whole month in college, people could write a book), but its sufficient.
I am going to continue to blog, but they will not be as long as this. Not even close.
Some things I will blog on in the near future (besides my life, of course):
-The Yankees Season
-Stumple Upon
-Politics
-The NFL
-The Internet Subculture
-Rutgers Football
-Chris
(Oh yeah, and the title of this post refers to a conversation I had tonight with a kid on my floor. yes, we were discussing hobbits.)
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