sidewalks, Running away from the streets we knew

side notes

2005-01-14T23:11:00Z

so i don't have too much of a backbone and can't stand up for myself. apparently. on the other side I'm a kick ass leader that has many acquaintances. 510 dollars on books for this semester and all time high, for my senior year 2nd semester. Can't believe I'm graduating still!

havin fun

2005-01-12T20:33:24Z

Ron Burgundy: Boy, that escalated quickly... I mean, that really got out of hand fast!
Champ Kind: It jumped up a notch!
Ron Burgundy: It did, didn't it?
Brick Tamland: Yeah, I stabbed a man in the heart!
Ron Burgundy: I saw that! Brick killed a guy! Did you throw a trident?
Brick Tamland: Yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident!
Ron Burgundy: Brick, I've been meaning to talk to you about that. You should find yourself a safehouse or a relative close by. Lay low for a while, because you're probably wanted for murder.

oh many Nicole's profile made me laugh. great movie.

what a good night

2005-01-09T10:00:38Z

I got to hang out w/ laura, george, jason, and danny. That was cool. Plus bryan, val, stephanie and the others that I met were really fun as well. I was there from 7:45-3:45...that was awesome. Plus i watched the Fugutive today w/ hoppe, great movie. Last night hoppe and i saw napolean dynamite which we weren't really impressed with but was funny cuz we were laughing at one another so much. Also yesterday was scott's surprise party that was a lotta fun to see people like scott, julie, and Crocker especially, she's never around.

Tomorrow I'm going home to collect my sister's letter, speak at my home youth group and see Annalisa & Charlie. Monday means doctor to check my bloodpressure (Lets hope its not high). And then back to work at the helpdesk for my 1-5 shift. Hopefully I'll find a time this week to throw a party before school starts ya know? peace

I gotta figure this out

2004-12-06T13:01:27Z

One of my "friends" from last year is really getting under my skin talking about the plans that I had for spring break that just fell through, I was planning to go to Cancun with friends that I know through the Douglass Activities Board, and he kept talking about how bad and innapropriate it was. You know what I think of that? How do you help serve the church? Do you go out and attract new members? Because I certainly do. If I don't "meet people where they are" am I just supposed to wait for them to come to me. If I have simliar life experiences to most students, wouldn't that make it easier to relate to? They say, "you might be the only bible that people ever read" and how would they be able to get that experience if I just stay doing habitat for the 4th straight year? That group of people is already doing Gods Will, and I have done that the past three years.

Also I think for me this is just going back to Highschool and trying to get me to live more like everyone else, I didn't have a post Prom trip to wildwood or anything for that matter, and I haven't had a "college" spring break yet either.

Another thing I want to mention is I'm probably ticked off at this person and some others that are poking fun at me and act like I am not intelligent. For instance, I was watching The West Wing w/ maureen and hoppe at the center and they (not maureen and hoppe, anyother person would come in) would say, "Joe, I didn't know you liked stuff like this, isnt that too intellectual for you?" I think thats as close as I can remember the quote and just other random comments from certain people have gotten under my skin. AHHH.

School, thats a fun topic, working hard to make sure I pass my class, thats pretty much what drives me, graduating. I wish I was more organized so I could fix my Resume and start applying for jobs. I want to soooo bad. Thats my new fear, not finding a job. From now till graduation I will be focused on that.

Guitar, how I wish I could spend every waking hour learning more and practicing. I wish I started playing when I was 5, that would be sooooo nice.

Videogames, I wish I didn't play you so much but it definitely helps keep me calm and my sanity. I can't wait to write my 15-20 page paper on you for Intro to Systems Thinking. Sure it sounds easy but it will be one of the largest tests of endurance (i am not good at writing long papers) that I have ever had, thank goodness the professor made me choose this topic since it was most interesting to me.

Thank you to all those people that do support me. You don't know how much you have helped and been a great influence on my life.

god is up there laughing at me all right

2004-11-17T07:23:29Z

man o man, i thought this year would be simple and easy...(in many respects) Things get so complicated and such when they needn't be. Or at least it seems like i am doomed to be complicated. "Just when i thought i was out, they pulled me back in" If only I had a do-over I could go through and do what i want and then just do-over!

my golly

2004-11-04T13:47:13Z

I procrastinate so bad when it comes to projects, I have one due in a couple hours that i could have started 3 weeks ago i think, and I'm about to start it 2.5 hrs before its due. wahoo i am sooo great like that, pray that I get it done.

Its been a while

2004-10-18T05:58:16Z

So i haven't written in a while. I'm Back! My favorite: Watching movies & playing a little AOE 2:Conquerers. The best way to learn about history. I have to draw 2 maps this week and I have two exams, so I have little time to screw around writing long journal entries. Glad everything is still goin well w/ lauren. Rock on people.

wow

2004-09-18T06:22:41Z

what a crazy week. I am happy with some of the outcomes, despite being astranged from Lauren because of her sickness. New Student Night was a success, more planning though for next time! I really liked going to the bars thursday night because I ran into so many friends I don't normally see all the time.

So Yeah

2004-09-14T14:48:12Z

This semester has brought a whole lot of (insert fun word here). I'm having trouble starting/running a student organization. Its not easy being president or trying to run a really cool trip which requires sign ups before our first meeting, what kind of bad planning was that! anyhow, I hope this friday goes well with movie night/ new student night. I am extremely happy with other things going on, such as Lauren and my housemates almost all turning 21. Although I hate being sick after going to the bars. Thats just unfortunate, especially when its not from too much booze as it is from the mixing of booze and pizza which apparently I can't handle, maybe if I ate more fruits/vegetables who knows. Im making up for no entries in a while by posting one long one today. I am also worrying about my schoolwork and how that seems like there is a lot of work but not too much that can be done day-to-day. And thats not to mention work where I've been screwing up one ticket after another, where I get emails from my bosses on each one, its like officespace. I almost wish I could quit, that'd be nice, I'd just need to find another way to make money. I am able to pay for the house just based on what I make there at the moment which is superb! but I dunno if its worth it. We'll see later on in the semester. I hope I make it out of this nice simple first semester of my senior year. Oh so yeah I'm not going right to Grad School, so Mapmaking here I come.

Pretzels

2004-09-07T04:56:44Z

Pretzels and (root) Beer are a great way to end a night/day of doing not much. Although I did have a good day and boy did yesterday rock. I'm so glad everything is coming together, now I only hope that the CSA stuff can be pulled off! I wish there wasn't all this pressure all at once for events/ stuff. I wish I had more time for guitar!

rutgers

2004-09-05T07:56:54Z

we have a good football team, I think. Anyway it was good to go to the game and hangout with Will and Lauren. And then a night w/ the guys was nice, its been a while and I got to hear a good Theology discussion. I'm sooooo tired so i'm sleeping now

last day of the week!

2004-09-03T12:58:42Z

wow, what a busy week it has been, I am almost finished reading The Client, and must read The Little Prince by thursday of next week. I'm so happy the Ice Cream Social was a success, there were a lot of new faces I hope stay around to revitalize this place long after I leave. Anyways, I also really find it hard to tell what people are thinking/saying when they don't come right out and say it...does that make me dumb?

school

2004-09-02T12:52:09Z

its sooo early right now. a 9:50, i haven't had one of those in a while! I've been really soooooo busy so far that I haven't been able to do much of anything other than talk to RU people. Working 7 hour days along with spending hours at activities kills the day for free time!

aight

2004-08-28T07:06:13Z

Finished reading Tom Clancy- Teeth of the Tiger. Started Grisham's The Client, 2nd time reading it at least. I've been working at lot more this week than usual. In addtition, the CSA website is up and looking better than ever: http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~catstu The better than ever really refers to the fact that there hasn't been a site there in the past. I'm tired. Sleep soon!

courage?

2004-08-27T08:18:56Z

is needed for leaving a zone of comfort and entering an unknown land. Right now, I'm trying to figure out whats going on with my life, and where do I want it to go. These grad school applications: should I even worry about that? Or should I be looking for my map making jobs. Lately the Helpdesk has been a drag so i don't know if I can really work at one of those which is unfortunate. I coudln't sleep because I have issues I guess so I threw on Super Troopers and laughed a lot! that movie rocks, too bad my allergies started getting bad...my eyes look like i've been on crack and i've been sneezing as well. okay and before i get more pathetic, my brain will shut off.... Oh earlier this week I booked the white water rafting trip...i need to sign up 14 people to go for oct. 2nd...let me know if your interested, you must be from RU to go.

gardenstate

2004-08-24T23:29:54Z

so yeah I saw gardenstate last night w/ sarah. Its kinda funny when you see movies that relate to your life. It really was an excellent film.

retreat weekend

2004-08-22T19:13:31Z

wow, what a great weekend. This looks like its going to be a good year for being a Catholic leader at Rutgers. I have good people to work with and they are motivated as well. I am cheerful, but soo tired that I went to the center with a book to read as the people came back from the retreat but I totally fell asleep and they arrived while I was asleep. I drove back early at 7:10am to go teach training again. I felt better about this one, I was a little more creative!

today was trying

2004-08-16T23:38:37Z

I get to work today thinking its going to be a great day. after all i get to finally get the information off the harddrive sometime around noon time since I only work 3 hours, right??? First, Sarah couldn't find coverage for the morning, 8:30-11:30. So we were shortstaffed in the morning. Furthermore this caused me to realize that I forgot that I was covering the rest of her day. so I was working 8:30-5pm, d'oh! So instead of lunch I drove home, picked up the harddrive so that will can get it from the HD which is close to where he lives. On my way back to the helpdesk aguy pulls next to me at the 4 way stop and has something to tell me, "you have a flat tire in the back" crap! so I drove the 200 more feet to a parking space since I could. And went into work knowing I could deal with it after work. Carl offered to help but will showed up and helped and carl got stuck with the infamous last call. We put on the Donut and then tried to get the HD to work> it didn't. Thought we should try again tomorrow. drove to the garage, got my tire repaired and got home. I'm tired!

ramblings of Joe

2004-08-15T17:46:04Z

So whats going on? I got Futurama season 2 dvd, i dunno if anyone cares but it rocks. Oh Ad-aware SE came out, I just downloaded it, it seems to be better. I hope to get the HDD problems fixed soon. I got a jumpdrive (256mb) and a memory card for my digital camera(256mb), totally not related. I read Disclosure by Michael Crichton yesterday and today I'm starting on Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Call to Treason. And yes I know that Clancy doesn't write these but they are still good. Later this week I'll probably start Tom Clancy's The Teeth of the Tiger, which looks good. I've been playing me some starcraft, realized I'm not the greatest but who cares. Also Age of Empires (2??): Conquerers expansion. I hope to get a lot of CSA stuff done this week or else I'm dead. I need motivation, why can't I get motivated.

sussex county fair

2004-08-13T03:55:29Z

so it definitely went much better than I thought. It was pretty cool even though I didn't buy a sword or a wooden replica of something (they both looked super cool). After we left we ate dinner at a nice Italian restaurant w/ friendly staff in Ogdensburg. and then it was on to Bob's Apt in Parsippany where we watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The secret of the ooze. Oh it was fabulous. Excellent film. Drove back to will's i got my car and drove home. Oh just saw on http://www.tvshowsondvd.com that Futurama season 4 is coming out later this month, I think I might have to catch up on getting the first 3 seasons though.

so busy day

2004-08-11T05:31:01Z

went to work, back here, catholic center, drove fellow worker to a work meeting, then I drove to the short hills bank and summit for allergy shots, then springfield for dinner and after dinner went to my uncles in west orange, then back to springfield en route to New Brunswick. where I played starcraft and then almost wrote a song based on Sirach 2. I dunno about the song though, because I have a good couple of riffs but i've been playing them with my joke of the helpdesk song. Also found a virus on my computer, and updated some stuff not sure if its part of SP2 or not.

a long day

2004-08-10T04:07:01Z

with a long headache. Work has become a huge headache. I hadda waste 20 bucks on gas and hadda drive up to boonton for the 2nd night in a row (tiring) but I love the poeple. It makes it worth it. We ended with the wonder song, it was great, but my headache prevented me from getting too into it. Hopefully I can come up with a pretty decent looking website for both wonder's that way we have some kind of legacy left for people to see. Pray for that! and so as Sirach says, "To fear the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom." (1:14)

what the heck???

2004-08-08T22:33:49Z

why do I procrastinate so much. I have to have research done for 8pm tonight...and i have to deliver it 30-45 mins away from here...so that means an hour left. I had notes from the last meeting in a notebook that I left at home when moved some stuff from home to school yesterday. I suck.

big day??? Accomplished

2004-08-07T05:23:55Z

So, today was a huge day, present in front of 100 new hires for training. Guess who rocked the crowd???? I think that was the person before me, but I did pretty good. Got a bunch of laughs and I think they may have learned something. The only problem is I wasn't sure who was a hire vs. waitlister vs. resnet hire vs. resnet waitlister vs. ccf hire or ccf waitlister. I hope that some of the cooler people out there were the HD hires. If they are it should be a lotta fun.

And then it set in. My final exam for World cultural regions. I sat down in my seat for that class and suddenly I felt stuffed like I ate a lot (I hadn't eaten all day). I felt so sick that I really didn't get to work on the bulk of the exam until many of the students already finished their exams. It was really bad. I also started coughing so it was like a crazy panic attack. But I was able to finish so instead of going to hang out at training, I went home and rested on my bed.

Then the doorbell rang and my Digital Camera was there! I was thrilled. Played with that for a bit, then Installed Age of Empires - Age of Conquerers Expansion pack and played that for a bit, needless to say I had fun. Then I did my laundry, took out the trash and watched my dvd of Whats the Worst that Could Happen?? Good movie, thats probably why I bought it.

Was talking to Laura and Jamie online for a while and then cooked up some hamburgers at 12:30. It was the only real food I ate all day, previous to that I had 1 lemonade drink, 2 cookies and 1 poptart.

Not in tip top shape belly still feeling uneasy (hamburgers help that I think...lol) and my throat is feelin better.

Oh and Laura told me that Kevin, Kate and her, were all at a concert with Danielle who is my other LJ friend that I met at RU. How small of a world is that!

Randomness

2004-08-05T06:31:21Z

bryan found this link and its freaking funny.
http://www.thatwasrandom.com/video/frickinwickin.php

check it out.