Day 67

I learned something today in my Com 101 class. Creativity can be expressed in a group, but I personally believe it's better solo. A group constrains. It creates a person who has to lead and the rest, who can still equally input ideas and opinions, to trail, thus leaving the final content to their captain. This is not a good path to keep following. True creativity should be original, and start and end with one person. Groups of people, even friends can come and go, input, output, and help it come along, but it should be helmed by the creator... right? Needless to say I loathe group projects.... so many kids are embedded into a safe, in-the-box mindset that nothing new can get past them. They wont let it. Rather than rant, we'll leave it at that. In elementary school, through my life, I hate group work Someone's either lazy, doing all the work, leading without remorse, etc..... Group work weakens the mind. Personally speaking.

After class I got out and went to Meijer to grab the buy one get one deals they had running on organic juices. I also couldn't resist the desires I had for frosted dough, so I went into the bakery and just stared at 'em. Lined equally even, all staring at me. Free will was given to us by God, and we utilize the truth of that in everyday life, from where to move, what college to attend, all the way down to which doughnut to take. I had a Boston Creme. No creme in it. Shame Meijer. Shame shame.......

For the next two hours I rode around from Jenison all the way to Woodland Mall and beyond, hitting different thrift stores for costume pieces for the soon to come Halloween parties I have. I procrastinated on this big time. I went to six different stores today, only finding the treasures at one location. I'll return tomorrow. Went home and re-arranged the room. Hardcore. Threw out old things, narrowed down furniture, got a wooden rug, it's very me. I spent a good portion of the afternoon doing this.

Lastly, it's that Tuesday night again, so out with the drive to Holland for LIB 310. We had a guest teacher tonight, Dr. Lane, or "The Old Man" as he insists you call him. He spent time showing us how to come up with ideas, market them, design them, and sell them. He had more energy and spunk than me. The ladder of the design and marketing was done in groups, but the idea portion, came from the students. Each one of us, which is the way I like it, which makes the monogamous mark on the creativity check list.

- Free will in Donuts -

Day 66

On this surprisingly warm Monday, I got up and went to a surprisingly interesting day at work.
Today at work was the day we did locker recovery, which we found some treasures to say the least. Humans will go to such great lengths to hide what we don't want seen. Sometimes we can't even keep it in our house, so we hide it other places, like my work.

After work I went home where I had just enough time to explore the web, and then departed for school. I was very tempted to skip, and just go costume shopping instead, but I remained a good pupil and made it to both my classes.

After class I stopped at my Aunt's house where she served me some crazy good fish and ice cold wine and we chatted about life, particularly mine and where I'm going in life. All I think of sometime's is Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again on my Own".

Went home and watched Casper with my girlfriend. Tribute to darn good kids films from the 90's.
Did I mention I saw the Northern lights tonight? Yes, they were amazing. I've never seen anything like it, almost a creepish, visible maroon and pink wind that are floating over my house. I felt like I was on a different planet, probably Endor or something....

- Norther Lights -

Day 65

My body hated me this morning for sleeping on the floor, but a bed sacrificed to a friend is a good sacrifice. No, thats no movie quote, that's just me.

Went to church and learned about sin. We sat pretty high up, almost too high up. I felt disconnected at times from the sermon due to the vertical supply of space we had.

After church I dropped Mike off, and I went over to Melissa's for some amazing steaks and food. I played with her dog Bowser but got too rough, which resulted in her getting a scratch across her head, and then later bashing her finger into the wall, to which she screamed in pain / frustration. We then left for my house and met up with Mike and Tanya and then watched Dexter. After that, the night was ending, and a crazy cool storm rolled in, a storm that felt like summer. Probably the last storm of the year. Rain, lightning, and thunder. I loved it.

- I did not take this photo, but its cool -

Day 64

I'm staring to miss the Saturday's where sushi, donuts and coffee were a given, if not a luxury. I made do and did cereal and that was that.

Nothing to special, worked at 2:00, so I picked up a meal and drove to work, only to spend 6 hours on an ok saturday outside. Meh

After work I went to Mike's house and picked him and Tanya up, and we all drove to Chad's house to watch the game, have some drinks, get some food, and make some memories. Gideon and Erica came over too. It was a good night.

Mike stayed the night at my house.

- Mike & Tanya -

Day 63

I woke up at Mike's. He had to leave for work, so I stayed behind and slept an hour longer, before I went to work.

Today was an eight hour work day, due to me taking someone's shift that already stacked with mine. The result was me working like a regular human.... 8 hours. I guess I did it. 10-6. I got a lot done, and was able to catch up with work tasks and interact more with members. I don't think an 8 hour day would kill me if I had to do it again.

Got out of work and went home and showered, and a good shower it was. Soaked my hair in TeaTree mint conditioner and shampoo, making sure I was extra extra clean. Upon getting out, I decided to use no hairspray, but just comb my hair slightly over and go natural. Not bad.

I took Melissa out for dinner tonight. We were both craving steak, and Brann's it was. We both got steak, complete with rolls, broccoli, fries, cole slaw, and a sweet potato, plus 2 margaritas. The weather was cold (34 degrees), and the wind tasted of winter without the main ingredient... snow. I like driving around in my car and being warm inside.... November and December are my favorite months of the year. Although its cold, the snow is little to none, plus there's no nasty slushy roads or grayish skies, just more of a dying autumn if anything. Yes, November means meals, shopping, black friday, and December is my birthday, family Christmases, and gatherings. Once January 2nd hits, I'm reminded how much I hate that day.... January 2nd is my least favorite day.

- Melissa, myself, and Ruby -

Day 62

After my early morning communication class, I went home to, yes, you guessed it, more COD, kitten play-time, and food. I departed for work at 2:00 and worked until 5:00, then went to my friend Mike's house where we ate Subway and I watched him play Batman more...

At night, Tanya, Mike & I all went to Peppino's and Tanya picked up the drinks for us.

I need more exciting posts.... I know. Next week it's changing... I wont keep falling behind on days, I'm doing this thing. No stock images. Real pictures. Real messages. Real stories. Real me.

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- Blah Blah -

Day 61

After a night with still little sleep again, I slept in this morning until noon. It was like someone hit the refresh button on a frozen computer screen. I was good. Felt recharged, re-focused, re-imaged. I ate some Coco Puffs, played more COD, and worked on bits and pieces of a homework assignment that involves me writing out a myth.

I met Melissa for Mcdonalds (yes, I know, its bad.... I'm at one now still), and we talked and I conned her into eating some friends and getting their cappuccino. Mcdonalds, in my opinion, makes phenomenal coffee drinks, just under par to Starbucks. We stayed there for a bit, and then she left, leaving me to finish my homework, and then head off to class on another colder and rainier day than the previous.

I got to class and we discussed bias in news stories. After that I went to Spanish class where more fun and language learning ensued. I like Spanish, it's practical, but I'm leaning towards a semester of French 101 next year. After the class I stayed after for my Spanish lab, which involves me sitting on an imac I wish I had, and watching Spanish movies. I watched El Hombre de Arana, or Spider-Man as we know it. Same movie, different language.

Had to get gas tonight, considering I was on "E' on my fuel gage. I couldn't believe I made it, but I made the mistake of going to the busiest Speedway on Grand Valley's outskirts. I had to wait in a line to get overpriced gas at a station run by crazy teenagers. There I sat, in my car.... cold, no gas, thinking bad thoughts about the slow, pudgy people pumping their petroleum in front of me.

- Melissa "observing" her coffee. She's preeeeety -