"spontaneity"

Finally. My internet is back in service. I seriously think I was going through withdrawal...and I definitely decided that I take the information superhighway for granted. I was so bored that I ended up borrowing Jen's copy of The Tommyknockers by Stephen King. It's been a great read so far. Within five minutes of my signing on, several people had already IMed me asking where the heck I'd been. *inflates*

Work today was an interesting experience. The "employee picnic," I guess you'd call it, was today. They'd decided to go to Sandcastle (a waterpark). Consequently, they decided they didn't have the funds, and went somewhere that was *not* Sandcastle and got completely smashed (or so I heard.) Not that I minded. I needed the hours, and I didn't feel comfortable enough yet to do any major socializing with the group as a whole. While they were out, the pizza crew from another Hut came in to run the store. I was the only one there that knew where anything was, and so I drew a slight sense of importance from this. The interesting part was observing the different ways they ran things. I may have picked up a few tricks/bad habits, but who knows? I'll probably forget it anyways in a few days.

Classes start on Monday, and I really have alot of work to do before then. I had an appointment with my academic advisor, made two weeks ago, but today was the only slot she had available. As it turns out, my turning up 15 minutes early didn't even matter. The one time I'm actually early, and she didn't even call my name until half an hour after I was scheduled to be there. Then she looked over my file, made a few comments about my transcript (there are plenty of things in there I'm not proud of) and referred me to another advisor. As it turns out, this other advisor didn't have any slots available whatsoever, but agreed to "squeeze me in" (translation: gonna be waitin' a long long time) this Friday at 8:30am. So I have to get up extremely early, and then "hurry up and wait" as they say.

At least the cable's working. I'm currently engrossed in Lost, a TV series on Fox about a group of people shipwrecked on a deserted island in the pacific. Normally I would scoff at the idea, but somehow I got sucked in, and not I'm hooked. I also saw an episode of Dead Like Me, a Showtime series about some people that sort of work for Death. Kinda like assistant grim reapers. Definitely my kind of stuff. Even though those are pretty much the only things I've watched, I managed to jot down a few previews I thought looked promising:

• Invasion (TV series)
  
• Red Eye (Movie)
  
• The Brothers Grimm (Movie)
  
• Transporter II (Movie)
  
• The Skeleton Key (Movie)
  
• Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (Movie)
  
• Doom (Movie)
  

I'm also looking forward to Charmed, and a new season of South Park. Oh! and my friend Bob's wedding! Congratulations, Bob, you sonofabitch! That man is my hero, and I'm honored to be invited to his wedding. Fallfest will be awesome on Monday. Cyprus Hill and O.A.R. are coming. How awesome is that? Very awesome, that's how. I remember hearing O.A.R. for the first time when they played in a little hall next to my college union at Baldwin-Wallace College my freshman year. They still hadn't broken the fame barrier at that time, and there were probably only 20 or so people came to hear them that day. I remember hearing their music floating in through the window of my dorm, and I dropped what I was doing (playing Counterstrike) and ran over there. It was incredible. Oh, how I wish I'd snagged an autograph then. Cyprus Hill is more mainstream, but likeable on some levels. But I'm mainly going for O.A.R.

"It's 3 A.M. and I wanna go to bed..."