Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Spring Break; YAY! Finals were a killer, but they are finally over with. I am so relieved. Now there is nothing that I have to do except get a little r&r and learn to waste time effectively. On Friday my friends and I set out to start our spring break off with a little camping trip in Florida. We had a lot of fun pitching up our tents, cooking a little, and having caterpillars fall out of the trees and crawl on us. Very special. The only problem was the the river was flooded, so we couldn't go canoeing or swimming in it. There was some state law that prohibited all water recreation while the warning was in effect. We really wanted to go canoeing. :( But since we had extra time we all took a short trip to the surrounding town where we looked at some used book stores where I got a nice 1983 collection of Heathcliff comics. Then we headed off to the ice cream store. I went crazy and got a vanilla. One of my friends got to take home the rest of a 5 gallon jug of ice cream that they were giving away. Granted there wasn't much left in the canister anymore, but it's still cool to get a spoon and eat out of the drum. Nice.
Later that night we decided to head back to urban nature where we could see a nice pond with some alligators, snapping turtles, and a nice field where there was a bat house. When the sun started to set a whole mess of little bats came out of the house. Very cool. Once in a while the bats would take a dive when they came shooting out to catch an insect. I had always wanted to see a whole colony of bats come out at night like this. I'm glad that we went there.
On Sunday we went to St. Augustine and did all the little tourist things there. It was fun. I liked going to the pirate store and look at all the cheap plastic skulls and shit. I bought some fudge at the candy store and some cool beads that I am going to make some necklaces out of. There was a little store there that just sold beads and materials just to make jewlery out of. I want to go back. I definately didn't buy enough! We also went to this magic store. To set things straight; I really like magic. I like the cheap-ass stuff like rubber dig shit and and those fake guns that only release a red flag that says "bang." The guy at this magic shop was a real loser though. He was really stuck up with the tricks he was performing. He wouldn't tell us anything until we shelled out $29.95 for the "Magic Levitation Kit." The only magic thing about it was the act we would have to pull off to get an extra $30 from a bunch of poor college kids. Anyways, I didn't buy anything from that guy. He had this stupid plush raccoon that he tried to tell us was real. He got a little "pissy" when I grabbed the animal out of his arms and gave it a hug. The "living raccon" fell limp in my arms. He said I killed it. Then he took a squirt gun thing and squirted me in the face with it. He said that the raccoon peed on me. I said that I had been pissed on by a raccoon before and it didn't smell like that. Everyone laughed except for him. Then we left.
Ahh, so much to write. I am gonna skip some parts cause I don't feel like typing. Yesterday was interesting though.
As you all may know yesterday was St. Patty's day. Yes, I got pinched a couple of times for not wearing green. Since I'm down in Savannah this year for St. Patty's and it's a really big deal down here, my friends and I set out to check out the crazies and the drunks. People are so retarded. The whole street next to the river contained the stink of cheap-ass beer and regular ass. I didn't get pinched for not wearing green by anyone, but my room-mate got grabbed by some sailor guy. Aaah! Drunks are so scary. She had plans to get drunk down there too, but I think that the atmosphere got the best of her. She had nothing to drink. Good thing too since she's only 18 and is crazy enough without any beer in her system. When we got bored of the St. Patty's "fun" we set off to the arcade.
I got to play a game called Soul Calibur II. My friends and I were going through a mode in the game called Conquest Mode or something where we get to pick a character to play as, pick an army to join, and fight battles to win territories or something for our side. It's pretty neat because you can actually give a name to your character and a password so you can always have to same character when you go back to that arcade. It works kind of like an RPG, but it's a fighter. Your character gains levels, ranks, and skills as you play more. My friends and I were all taking turns with our characters. I got to play once. Then my friend Sarah was working with her character in conquest mode and this guy came up, practically pushing me out of the way to get to the change slot and stopped her conquest mode so that he could challenge her. It was kind of rude, since she was playing another mode of the game and he stopped it. When he challenged her he won. So he got to keep playing and he picked this 10 minute training mode. So not only did he shove his way up to the machine to beat her, he decided to hog the machine in 10 minute intervals so we couldn't play. The arcade was closing in like twenty minutes, so we barely got to play. This guy was really good at the game. All my other friends tried to take the machine back by challenging him. My friend Karl tried to beat him and lost, which was sad because Karl is pretty good at the game. Then my friend Tran tried to play him and lost too. It was so annoying. I was so mad that this kid just forced his way into the game without even asking if we were in line to go next and now he was practically laughing because no one could beat him. THEN, hehe, then I got to go. I had only played the game once that day, but I wanted a piece of that kid. And what happened? Yeah, I kicked his little video game ass. ^_^ It felt so good to win. I think I broke his spirit a little. Awww... so bad, so sad. I took the machine from him. Whee!
Well, I suppose it's back to watching anime and wasting time. Talk to you kids later!
"Make like a tree and get the fuck out of here!"
Later that night we decided to head back to urban nature where we could see a nice pond with some alligators, snapping turtles, and a nice field where there was a bat house. When the sun started to set a whole mess of little bats came out of the house. Very cool. Once in a while the bats would take a dive when they came shooting out to catch an insect. I had always wanted to see a whole colony of bats come out at night like this. I'm glad that we went there.
On Sunday we went to St. Augustine and did all the little tourist things there. It was fun. I liked going to the pirate store and look at all the cheap plastic skulls and shit. I bought some fudge at the candy store and some cool beads that I am going to make some necklaces out of. There was a little store there that just sold beads and materials just to make jewlery out of. I want to go back. I definately didn't buy enough! We also went to this magic store. To set things straight; I really like magic. I like the cheap-ass stuff like rubber dig shit and and those fake guns that only release a red flag that says "bang." The guy at this magic shop was a real loser though. He was really stuck up with the tricks he was performing. He wouldn't tell us anything until we shelled out $29.95 for the "Magic Levitation Kit." The only magic thing about it was the act we would have to pull off to get an extra $30 from a bunch of poor college kids. Anyways, I didn't buy anything from that guy. He had this stupid plush raccoon that he tried to tell us was real. He got a little "pissy" when I grabbed the animal out of his arms and gave it a hug. The "living raccon" fell limp in my arms. He said I killed it. Then he took a squirt gun thing and squirted me in the face with it. He said that the raccoon peed on me. I said that I had been pissed on by a raccoon before and it didn't smell like that. Everyone laughed except for him. Then we left.
Ahh, so much to write. I am gonna skip some parts cause I don't feel like typing. Yesterday was interesting though.
As you all may know yesterday was St. Patty's day. Yes, I got pinched a couple of times for not wearing green. Since I'm down in Savannah this year for St. Patty's and it's a really big deal down here, my friends and I set out to check out the crazies and the drunks. People are so retarded. The whole street next to the river contained the stink of cheap-ass beer and regular ass. I didn't get pinched for not wearing green by anyone, but my room-mate got grabbed by some sailor guy. Aaah! Drunks are so scary. She had plans to get drunk down there too, but I think that the atmosphere got the best of her. She had nothing to drink. Good thing too since she's only 18 and is crazy enough without any beer in her system. When we got bored of the St. Patty's "fun" we set off to the arcade.
I got to play a game called Soul Calibur II. My friends and I were going through a mode in the game called Conquest Mode or something where we get to pick a character to play as, pick an army to join, and fight battles to win territories or something for our side. It's pretty neat because you can actually give a name to your character and a password so you can always have to same character when you go back to that arcade. It works kind of like an RPG, but it's a fighter. Your character gains levels, ranks, and skills as you play more. My friends and I were all taking turns with our characters. I got to play once. Then my friend Sarah was working with her character in conquest mode and this guy came up, practically pushing me out of the way to get to the change slot and stopped her conquest mode so that he could challenge her. It was kind of rude, since she was playing another mode of the game and he stopped it. When he challenged her he won. So he got to keep playing and he picked this 10 minute training mode. So not only did he shove his way up to the machine to beat her, he decided to hog the machine in 10 minute intervals so we couldn't play. The arcade was closing in like twenty minutes, so we barely got to play. This guy was really good at the game. All my other friends tried to take the machine back by challenging him. My friend Karl tried to beat him and lost, which was sad because Karl is pretty good at the game. Then my friend Tran tried to play him and lost too. It was so annoying. I was so mad that this kid just forced his way into the game without even asking if we were in line to go next and now he was practically laughing because no one could beat him. THEN, hehe, then I got to go. I had only played the game once that day, but I wanted a piece of that kid. And what happened? Yeah, I kicked his little video game ass. ^_^ It felt so good to win. I think I broke his spirit a little. Awww... so bad, so sad. I took the machine from him. Whee!
Well, I suppose it's back to watching anime and wasting time. Talk to you kids later!
"Make like a tree and get the fuck out of here!"
