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November 30, 2006

Post Number 400

I feel like I should write something significant for Post Number 400 of my MySpace blog [now defunct]. And maybe I should, but I won't. I mean, what better way to mark a milestone post than to make a completely average, stupid, boring and idiotically mundane post about my life? At least I won't bore you with another survey, my loyal readers.

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Nothing Important

I have a major presentation due tomorrow, and I really should be sleeping. So, naturally, I decided to waste time blogging a survey.

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November 28, 2006

Mortality, the Suburbs and Maggie

Okay, so in some ways it was truly a very bizarre weekend.

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November 26, 2006

Thievery

So main news of the weekend, besides the requisite gorging for the Thanksgiving holiday, is this: Amy's laptop was stolen from my parents' house while we slept!

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November 25, 2006

There's More Than Corn...

Greetings from Indiana, land of corn.

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November 22, 2006

Agreeing with Bill O'Reilly and Geraldo Rivera?

It's been an odd week for popular culture, so far as I can tell. For one thing, Michael Richards, Kramer from "Seinfeld," used a bunch of racial slurs and said some pretty horrible things to some African-American hecklers. It probably would have never been in the news, except that video of the incident surfaced on YouTube. YouTube may yet change the world... Really, this was a stupid and tasteless thing to do. It was disheartening to see my respect plummet so rapidly for a person, who had made me smile so widely in his roles as Cosmo Kramer and Stanley Spadowski.

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November 20, 2006

YAY!

I just got a call from my dad. My mom is out of surgery and is awake. Everything went well. He was just getting ready to go back to see her in a bit. They think everything went great, but they're going to analyze and biopsy (I think?) removed tissue to see what the deal really is. But, she's out and everything's great. They're planning to send her home on Wednesday morning.

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The Good and the Terrifying

It's really been a great weekend, as far as I can tell. Saturday was pretty fucking awesome, because after I picked up Amy from work, we went out to Fairlawn to cash in her birthday coupon at the Coldstone Creamery for their vegan sorbet. Then, we got some supplemental groceries (evil Wal-Mart didn't carry everything we needed...) and drove up to Kent. At Kent, it was Saturday night hockey, which meant our weekly visit to Main Street Coneys for Veggie Chili on not-dogs and their delicious fries. Then, the hockey game, which Kent won in a nail-biting fashion over number-one-in-the-friggin'-country Illinois, handing them their first loss of the year.

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November 18, 2006

I Sold My Own Soul for Cash

Hockey was entertaining tonight, even though Kent State was soundly defeated. They were playing the number one ranked team in the club hockey league (Illinois) and they were beaten 5-1. Kent's one goal came with 41 seconds left in the third, so it wasn't close at all.

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November 16, 2006

Important News!

Today, at 2:24 pm Eastern Standard Time, on the parcel of land containing McGilvery Hall, located on the campus of Kent State University on the northeast corner of the intersection of Summit Avenue and Lincoln Street, in Kent, Ohio of the United States of America on the planet earth:

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36 inches wide and 54 inches wide? WOW.

I put together a poster today for Geography Awareness Day, which is tomorrow. I think around four people will show up. But that's okay, because my poster rules pretty hard. I don't know if there will be a poster competition, but I really hope so. I think my poster would kick everyone's ass.

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November 15, 2006

Surf Wax Philosophically, America!

I've been having one of those marvelous "what does it all mean?" weeks. I've only had maybe two of those before now in my life, both of which were caused by specific catalysts once in October 2000 out of legitimate fear of who I was becoming and the role that various controlled susbtances played in that equation, and once in July 2003 because my life's rug was pulled out from under me and I had to start over.

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So I Went to Make a Mix-Tape

... and I basically made three. See, I figured, I've been working hard this week and I've been getting a lot of shit done. Compile that with the fact that I've got some shit (as mentioned in the last post) that I need to figure out, and I decided to make an introspective mix tape. And then, I basically made three. I love the fact that we have things like iTunes to organize music. I know, it's not as legit as doing it the old fashioned way, but technology isn't a bad thing! This(These) is(are) a(some) mix tape(s) for me. It's not like I'm trying to give them to someone or something... then you could jerk me around for not putting in a ton of effort.

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November 13, 2006

Meatless Bologna

I've opened up my reviews section of my website to the public. Not that you care, but there it is. It has some quirks that I'm still working out, but I'm getting there. And I don't have many reviews up yet, but give me time. And if you don't agree with my opinions, go eat a dick! Well, not really. I don't want to encourage people to eat meat, right?

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November 11, 2006

Kitsch and French Fries

So, happy birthday to Amy. You know, my wife? Yeah, she's 24 now. It's a great feeling to know that I'll always beat her at ages, because she can never catch up. I certainly can't top her in any other way, not that I try honestly.

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November 10, 2006

Honoring America's Military Veterans

Today, Kent State is honoring military veterans by closing campus and cancelling class. It's kind of stupid, not the honoring veterans part. It's stupid that campus is closed today. See, for one thing, tomorrow is the Veterans' Day holiday. I wouldn't know this (or really care) except that tomorrow is also Amy's birthday. Yep, Amy was born on the 64th anniversary of the armistice of World War I, the celebration of which became Veteran's Day after people forgot about the old farts who fought in "The War to End All Wars" because so many more fought in a bigger, nastier war starting like 23 years later.

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November 08, 2006

Yep.

dumb americans



I've seen this before, but I'm glad to have found it online. Aussie TV easily convinces fickle (and stupid) Americans that the Australian continent holds the next great threat.

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Matt Lundy is IN LOVE with Tax Increases!

Okay, here's my election wrap-up. See, the strangest thing happened... now that I moved to an urban area of a state not called Indiana, just about everything I voted for actually happened. Actually, this is about the first time that anything I voted for has happened... gotta love Indiana. I don't directly talk about electoral politics much (let alone give kudos to voters) because all candidates are crap, so read up while you can.

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November 07, 2006

Bulletin I Posted...

Today is election day. I know that most of the time it seems like our country's government doesn't work, and you'd be generally right to assume that.

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November 06, 2006

Odd Addictions

I guess it's been since Wednesday? Who knew?

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November 02, 2006

Derailment

It's been an interesting, although terribly boring, couple of weeks. The time change and sudden 5:45 pm sunset, combined with other factors in my life, has completely derailed my mind. It's easy to derail me, since I already witness periodic shifts up and down. Some more educated people would call that some form of bipolar disorder. I used to control it with medicine. Now, I control it without any such help, not even alcohol. I sometimes smoke cigars, in fact more often than I'd like, to curb some effects. That's all I use.

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November 01, 2006

Using Garbage to Wake Up

I don't know what it is today. My mental health has been suffering lately in general. I haven't felt like doing anything at all, including my own work. I've had spells of staring out into space for an hour or more at a time, with nothing in my brain... just staring. I think I need a vacation. Of course, that means I need money for a vacation. The same thing happened this morning: I woke up and just stared into space. I feel groggy and I need to wake up, but to do so I need something a little interactive. Therefore, you are going to be subjected to yet another survey.

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