So I'm watching the Colbert Report, and Stephen Colbert is interviewing David France, author of The Science of Gaydar. The article is about supposed prevalent physical features in homosexual people. I actually don't care about that, honestly, because it doesn't matter to me what someone's sexual preference is, and I'd feel like a jerk trying to see if someone's hair swirls counterclockwise or whatever. The thing that really interested me, weirdly enough, is that apparently, men have longer ring fingers than pointer fingers (which I knew) and women have the opposite (which I did not)? The point of that discussion is that a statistical majority of homosexuals have hands oriented like that of the opposite sex, but I was just stuck on that basic premise. Do *most* women really have longer pointer fingers than ring fingers?
How 'bout that?
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Back up in yo' ass with the resurrection
Philadelphia + San Diego = God yes.
So let's see, what have I been up to. Mid June I went down to Philly for a few days, and that was pretty awesome, as expected. Turns out Citizens Bank Stadium, for all its lack of personality name-wise, is a beautiful ballpark. I say this because we sat in the second cheapest seats in the entire building, about 150 feet above the field, and the view was better than the $70 something seats near the field at the other stadiums I've been to (Fenway and the old Camden Yards). Phillies vs. White Sox... go Phils.
Oh. I had my first ever visit to an actual real gym, which was neat, given the weight loss competition I'm currently in. And kicking Ben's ass.
Also... Redding Terminal Market = <3. Christ, I can't get enough of that place. amazing food, lots of distinctly not cranky people (unlike, say, Troy).
After that trip, I "helped" put on a baby shower for my cousin Jennifer. She's due at the end of the month... woo baby-fever.
The rest of June was the trip to San Diego, which was great. Once we got there. I land in O'Hare Airport outside of Chicago for what is supposed to be a half hour layover. We board the plane to San Diego, sit down, whatever. Then the flight attendants come running down the aisles yelling for us to get off the plane, which as you can imagine is not a great sign. Turns out the ONE FREAKING COMPUTER that they have controlling EVER FREAKING UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT went down, so a couple million people ended up rather irritated. Me more than most, because once the computer came up, they found a problem in our plane that required them to disassemble the wings right in front of us. I ended up being in that God-forsaken place for over seven hours.
But that was that. We got to San Diego, where I spent eight days, and it was really cool. It's a great town, with lots of great food and stuff to do. Did I mention there's lots of food? I didn't finish my meal for the second time in my memory, which is impressive. Then there's the zoo, and the wild animal park, and malls, and... God, San Diego.
The flight back. Hehe. Because United hadn't screwed us over enough, we're driving to the airport when we get a call from my sister who I'd visited in San Diego saying that our flight back to Chicago was delayed. NATURALLY, the connecting flight to Hartford hasn't been delayed. So we get to fly to Chicago, stay overnight in a hotel near the airport, and then spend another fun few hours at O'Hare.
Fucking O'Hare. I never want to go there again.:P
And here I am now. I got a haircut and trimmed my beard two days ago, and I am now four pounds lighter. Think about it.
Def Leppard concert on the 19th... bringin' down the walls of wonderland.
So let's see, what have I been up to. Mid June I went down to Philly for a few days, and that was pretty awesome, as expected. Turns out Citizens Bank Stadium, for all its lack of personality name-wise, is a beautiful ballpark. I say this because we sat in the second cheapest seats in the entire building, about 150 feet above the field, and the view was better than the $70 something seats near the field at the other stadiums I've been to (Fenway and the old Camden Yards). Phillies vs. White Sox... go Phils.
Oh. I had my first ever visit to an actual real gym, which was neat, given the weight loss competition I'm currently in. And kicking Ben's ass.
Also... Redding Terminal Market = <3. Christ, I can't get enough of that place. amazing food, lots of distinctly not cranky people (unlike, say, Troy).
After that trip, I "helped" put on a baby shower for my cousin Jennifer. She's due at the end of the month... woo baby-fever.
The rest of June was the trip to San Diego, which was great. Once we got there. I land in O'Hare Airport outside of Chicago for what is supposed to be a half hour layover. We board the plane to San Diego, sit down, whatever. Then the flight attendants come running down the aisles yelling for us to get off the plane, which as you can imagine is not a great sign. Turns out the ONE FREAKING COMPUTER that they have controlling EVER FREAKING UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT went down, so a couple million people ended up rather irritated. Me more than most, because once the computer came up, they found a problem in our plane that required them to disassemble the wings right in front of us. I ended up being in that God-forsaken place for over seven hours.
But that was that. We got to San Diego, where I spent eight days, and it was really cool. It's a great town, with lots of great food and stuff to do. Did I mention there's lots of food? I didn't finish my meal for the second time in my memory, which is impressive. Then there's the zoo, and the wild animal park, and malls, and... God, San Diego.
The flight back. Hehe. Because United hadn't screwed us over enough, we're driving to the airport when we get a call from my sister who I'd visited in San Diego saying that our flight back to Chicago was delayed. NATURALLY, the connecting flight to Hartford hasn't been delayed. So we get to fly to Chicago, stay overnight in a hotel near the airport, and then spend another fun few hours at O'Hare.
Fucking O'Hare. I never want to go there again.:P
And here I am now. I got a haircut and trimmed my beard two days ago, and I am now four pounds lighter. Think about it.
Def Leppard concert on the 19th... bringin' down the walls of wonderland.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Busy, busy
I can't get over how much people will pay for books I bought for a buck when I was like eight years old. It's pretty neat.
So tomorrow I get to wake up at 5 and sit on a plane for six hours. Yay me.
That's pretty much it.
So tomorrow I get to wake up at 5 and sit on a plane for six hours. Yay me.
That's pretty much it.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Ah, the life I live.
Yep, crazy week of craziness mark two.:P
Sunday was graduation at St. Bernard (congrats, all), and that made me feel old as hell. I haven't accepted that I graduated yet, so it'll be a while before I realize the class behind me has graduated.:P So that was neat; got to see all my friends who are still in high school, as well as the other losers from '06 who had to show up because they had siblings graduating. The great part was the party afterwards in Old Saybrook; lots of food, and hugs, which I love, and I made some new friends, too (I swear to God I let her win at foosball. Really, I did. I promise).
And now I'm in Philadelphia visiting Kate and Albert. Yesterday we went to a Phillies game (my third Major League ballpark, after Fenway and the old Camden Yards), which was pretty awesome. Kate's coming back to Connecticut with me on Friday, because we're having a party for our cousin who is having a baby. Whoo babies. And next week I take off to San Diego for eight days to visit my other sister, Sarah, so I'll have been at home for a total of like six days this whole month or something.:P
And yes, sibling acts. Jerk.:P
Sunday was graduation at St. Bernard (congrats, all), and that made me feel old as hell. I haven't accepted that I graduated yet, so it'll be a while before I realize the class behind me has graduated.:P So that was neat; got to see all my friends who are still in high school, as well as the other losers from '06 who had to show up because they had siblings graduating. The great part was the party afterwards in Old Saybrook; lots of food, and hugs, which I love, and I made some new friends, too (I swear to God I let her win at foosball. Really, I did. I promise).
And now I'm in Philadelphia visiting Kate and Albert. Yesterday we went to a Phillies game (my third Major League ballpark, after Fenway and the old Camden Yards), which was pretty awesome. Kate's coming back to Connecticut with me on Friday, because we're having a party for our cousin who is having a baby. Whoo babies. And next week I take off to San Diego for eight days to visit my other sister, Sarah, so I'll have been at home for a total of like six days this whole month or something.:P
And yes, sibling acts. Jerk.:P
Monday, June 4, 2007
Whooo
I'm just now starting to recover from my crazy week of... exploring southern connecticut-ness.:P
So. Tuesday, I awoke to the gentle sounds of my mom yelling in my ear at 6:45 AM. Which was great. Really. We went down to Three Rivers, where the Physics and Networking classes from St. Bernard were taking a field trip (before heading up to Six Flags). That was cool, because I still know most of the juniors and seniors at St. B's, and also not, because none of our demos worked the first time and I was half asleep the entire time.
Wednesday... what happened Wednesday. Oh. My buddy Tim Gaudette's older sister Stephanie, who graduated from Bryant out in Providence this year, put on this "Hero Dinner" thing that I volunteered at. All the proceeds from the tickets were to fund a new playground at the elementary school that Mrs. Gaudette works at... it's to be handicap accessible, which I thought was neat. So anyway, I spent a good 4 hours serving food with a girl whose younger brother I went to middle school with. Which beats my previous record of time spent with her by about three hours and fifty minutes.
Thursday. Coffeehouse at St. Bernard... it's always a good time, but this one might've been marginally less interesting than the first three. It was good to see a bunch of people I haven't seen since high school (and some of the acts were neat; I liked Jill and Maddie Mador's tap dancing, because I'm partial to sibling acts, and Emma Savitsky might be the best singer I've ever heard). And that was that.
Friday was pretty intense. Tim's band played at a show in Mystic... so I drove to Tim's house in Montville a while before everything, so I could help pack/move stuff/whatever. Little did I know that we would then have to go to New London to pick up the vocals/backuo guitar/sometimes drummer, and then drive out to Mystic. I thought I was getting a ride from Tim, and I had no clue how to get to either of those places.:P So I ended up following him about 40 miles all told... too bad the audience of the show consisted of the other bands, three people that worked there, and me.:P
And that's my life. Next week I go to Philly to visit Kate for three days!
So. Tuesday, I awoke to the gentle sounds of my mom yelling in my ear at 6:45 AM. Which was great. Really. We went down to Three Rivers, where the Physics and Networking classes from St. Bernard were taking a field trip (before heading up to Six Flags). That was cool, because I still know most of the juniors and seniors at St. B's, and also not, because none of our demos worked the first time and I was half asleep the entire time.
Wednesday... what happened Wednesday. Oh. My buddy Tim Gaudette's older sister Stephanie, who graduated from Bryant out in Providence this year, put on this "Hero Dinner" thing that I volunteered at. All the proceeds from the tickets were to fund a new playground at the elementary school that Mrs. Gaudette works at... it's to be handicap accessible, which I thought was neat. So anyway, I spent a good 4 hours serving food with a girl whose younger brother I went to middle school with. Which beats my previous record of time spent with her by about three hours and fifty minutes.
Thursday. Coffeehouse at St. Bernard... it's always a good time, but this one might've been marginally less interesting than the first three. It was good to see a bunch of people I haven't seen since high school (and some of the acts were neat; I liked Jill and Maddie Mador's tap dancing, because I'm partial to sibling acts, and Emma Savitsky might be the best singer I've ever heard). And that was that.
Friday was pretty intense. Tim's band played at a show in Mystic... so I drove to Tim's house in Montville a while before everything, so I could help pack/move stuff/whatever. Little did I know that we would then have to go to New London to pick up the vocals/backuo guitar/sometimes drummer, and then drive out to Mystic. I thought I was getting a ride from Tim, and I had no clue how to get to either of those places.:P So I ended up following him about 40 miles all told... too bad the audience of the show consisted of the other bands, three people that worked there, and me.:P
And that's my life. Next week I go to Philly to visit Kate for three days!
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Sup y'all.
So here's the lowdown on my summer so far:
1. I'm too lazy to get a real job, so I'm working for the people my mom works for (the New England Board of Higher Education)... $10 an hour, which is awesome, but I sit in a room and transcribe hours and hours of videos for some ungodly scheme they've cooked up. Boring as all hell, but I need the money. I've also put about a decade's worth of old books into boxes and am selling them on amazon.com (I've made over $100 already).
2. I'm apparently not as lazy as I claim, because I've been riding the exercycle about 20 miles a day (serious), and I've lost 6 pounds since I got home (May 13th). This is neat because I'm into the whole having self esteem gig.
3. Movies. Sooo many movies. I've seen three so far (Spiderman 3, 28 Weeks Later, and Shrek the Third) and there's approximately forty nine quadrillion coming out in the enxt few weeks that I want to see. Yay for $5 Tuesdays at Groton Cinemas.
That's about it. I'm fairly bored a lot of the time, but apparently not bored enough to remember to update my blog.:P
1. I'm too lazy to get a real job, so I'm working for the people my mom works for (the New England Board of Higher Education)... $10 an hour, which is awesome, but I sit in a room and transcribe hours and hours of videos for some ungodly scheme they've cooked up. Boring as all hell, but I need the money. I've also put about a decade's worth of old books into boxes and am selling them on amazon.com (I've made over $100 already).
2. I'm apparently not as lazy as I claim, because I've been riding the exercycle about 20 miles a day (serious), and I've lost 6 pounds since I got home (May 13th). This is neat because I'm into the whole having self esteem gig.
3. Movies. Sooo many movies. I've seen three so far (Spiderman 3, 28 Weeks Later, and Shrek the Third) and there's approximately forty nine quadrillion coming out in the enxt few weeks that I want to see. Yay for $5 Tuesdays at Groton Cinemas.
That's about it. I'm fairly bored a lot of the time, but apparently not bored enough to remember to update my blog.:P
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Know what's fun?
Car alarms. Especially car alarms that go off FOUR FEET from your window. And car alarms that go off at 2:43 AM on the Thursday of freaking Finals Week. And ESPECIALLY car alarms that go off for 20 minutes and counting, that Public Safety (USELESS) comes to investigate and then leaves in shame and disgust.
And when you wrap all three of those things together, Matt just feels so peachy-keen.
Bah.
Car alarms. Especially car alarms that go off FOUR FEET from your window. And car alarms that go off at 2:43 AM on the Thursday of freaking Finals Week. And ESPECIALLY car alarms that go off for 20 minutes and counting, that Public Safety (USELESS) comes to investigate and then leaves in shame and disgust.
And when you wrap all three of those things together, Matt just feels so peachy-keen.
Bah.
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