This Past Week and Me Last Blog!

So this has probably been the best week I have had in a long time and not just because Coleman Hall got shut down haha. All of my class are finally at that floating point where nothing is due for a long time and work loads have just gotten easier and not to mention Thanksgiving Break is right around the corner. I would have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed not having ANY of my classes this past Thursday, which meant that the first thing I had to do that day was work at WEIU which was at 3. I also got off working the lab Thursday and Friday which was a nice 7 hours I got to have to myself and just relax, which was amazerful. One of my good friends from high school came an visited this weekend. The last time she came out here was a good two years ago. I showed her the stereotypical Saturday night in Charleston and went to the bars. She had never gone away to school and I wanted her to see what a college bar is like, in comparison to what she is used too which is being at old people bars. She had a fun time, as did I and this now concludes my final blog entry. I must say I am glad to do so. Especially since I never had anything cool to say, seeing as all of my blogs were either me bitching about something no one cared about or me just talking about my day, which again is not that interesting. Peace. Hope to be back in Coleman for class Monday.

-Derek

SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS...dumb catchy song...

So i have discovered some oddities in myself when it comes to drinking. Everyone jokes around and calls me an alcoholic blah blah blah. First and foremost I used to consider myself a non-drinker and then once 21 i became an occasional drinker and this summer just changed me a lot i guess and then this semester it has become even more frequent. But back to my main point i was trying to state. Almost everyone i know is exhausted and sleeps the day away after a long night of drinking, yet i find myself waking up early to mid morning being wide awake. My mind is active and i don't feel hung over, although I get this overall depressed feeling for the remainder of the day unless I keep myself busy, but I am a very happy and outgoing drunk.
It makes me think back to the days when my dad used to drink and he would drink a 6 pack every evening (he was not getting drunk) it calmed him, but yet it motivated him, much like it does for me the next morning. It was almost like an energy drink to him. It is just weird and I only know one other person that is like me with whole getting up early thing and she told me that after there is a party at her house she is up bright and early cleaning up and all her roommates get mad at her for making so much noise. Meh, just some random thoughts, I think I am going to tone down my drinking habits for a bit.

-Big D

Mouthgasms x 3

So this weekend has been a terrible weekend for my wallet, amazing for my taste buds, but terrible for my stomach. My old roommate came down for the weekend and we all went to picked him up from Champaign and naturally with my Chipotle addiction I had to stop there. It didn't just stop there, we continued our journey in Champaign and stopped at Coldstone, which is only the best ice cream place, outside of Cookie Dough Creations in Naperthrill. We stopped there and I got to have my cake batter ice cream. Unfortunately I was late in noticing later that they have cookie batter ice cream and I am going have to make sure I try that next time. I cannot think of any greater Chinese buffet than that of QQ Buffet in Mattoon, notice I said the one in Mattoon, NOT Charleston. For those of you that don't know, the one in Mattoon and is twice the size of the one in Charleston. I actually cannot fit all of my favorite foods on one plate there. Anyways, on Saturday we all went there and it was amazing. I basically hit up all three of my favorite food places in the Charleston area all in one weekend and I pissed away tons of money too. Oh and on a side note we did do a traditional late night Taco Bell run which is standard. 

- I Eat Too Much

Sometimes I Wish...

That there was this magical way that you could know that a class was cancelled before going allllllllll the way over to the building in the cold. I have not had this happen to me in almost two years that I can at least remember. Don't get me wrong, I love when teachers cancel class. However, sometimes I wish i could have known about it before getting up early showering, getting ready and walking all the way to class just to find a little note on the door saying class is cancelled.

This is particularly annoying when you live all the way on the south quad and have to walk to Old Main in the north quad at 7:45 in the morning for math, yeah that happened, and my next class was not until 2. Today was different because I live in stevenson and i just walked to coleman...but i was still kind of mad because i could have still been in my bed right now because my next class is not till 11. I know some teachers may send out an email or a message on webct. But lets be honest, most teachers don't and most students don't have time to be checking stuff like that before class. I will say that I had a teacher that would send out a text when class was cancelled or just send a text about things we needed for class. At first I found this to be a little odd, but then it grew on me and I liked that  it was that easy to communicate. Every time he would cancel class we would get a text. It was nice because when i wake up the first thing I look at is my phone and, once i read the text i went right back to what i was doing, which was probably sleeping. I guess there is no magic in texting but maybe more teachers should consider it.

-Student that could slept in today

Computer...How would I live without you?

So I'm sitting here and thinking of what I could not live without, not counting the stuff like food and water and stuff those essentials. I started thinking about how i wrote about my phone and Chipotle, but really how would i live with out my computer? And better yet how about not having the internet? You never realize how much you depend on your computer until its gone getting fixed. You use it to do work, homework, and just to entertain yourself. Stereos? why bother you can just use your computer. How about watching movies? You can stream any movie you want at any time via netflix or another company and not be held back by the hours of operation of a typically video renting store. There is just so much convenience in having a computer. I dont know how I would live. Then there is also the whole internet thing. Basically I dont know what i would do if i did not have the internet. I mean think about how much we use it to check facebook, check to see what is in the dining centers, webct, and just simple things like the weather. I never watch the weather channel anymore because i just go to weather.com. Basically what I'm getting at is that we have become used to this convenience and i really dont know how people lived without it or could ever live without it if it were to go away for some reason.

-Der Bear

my night thus far....

So AJ I had every intention of writing a blog during the day today but obviously I have failed and thus I am writing it right now and to be honest I am a little buzzed and it is kind of hard to type this right now....well at least without typos all over the place, thank God firefox squiggly lines all of my spelling errors so that way this will make sense to you. BUT this weekend is homecoming and I am trying to have as much fun as possible and get still being responsible enough to get up tomorrow at 11AM to work at the food court. I was able to do it today which was good, but tomorrow may be a little hard to do, but i won't fail them and I will be that good dedicated employee that I am and always have been for the last three years. Basically my day today consisted of getting up and going to work 11 to 3 and then going to work at the tv station 4:30 to 5 and then dustin called me to come and hang out with him. We creeped through his wanna almost be a boo's phone that he does not like anymore. Came to find that her boyfriend called dustin a "midget fuck" in a text because he jealous and intimidated by dustin. Dustin wanted me to put this in my blog because he is in the room with me at my friend Jack's apartment. Jack also wanted me to tell you that he is my new life coach. But basically I arrived at jacks after drinking at los pos and then at another friends apartment and now at jacks and then soon stix. I hope you enjoy a day in the life of Derek during homecoming weekend 2010 because well that's all I have to talk about and I have one hour until midnight so i just blogged away my day for ya. BAI

-Big D

Country Music

Working at the Food Court Saturday my supervisor was playing country music and it was the first time in a long time I had been listening to country radio. I liked it and it was a nice change of pace from Hit Mix. I later told my supervisor that I liked this change and then continued to tell me that I was the only person who didn't complain to him about it. So now i'm on this big country music kick. All u haters can hate all u want. Growing up I hated country music, me and my brother both, probably because my dad used to listen to it 24/7. It was probably towards the end of high school that I finally started giving in and giving country music a try because of Travis and Sheri. Now it has grown on me. I am actually listening to it right now on the radio as I write this. There is something about it that is really calming to me and stress relieving. It just kind of picks me up when I'm down and so i've been listening to it a lot lately. It makes me think of simpler and happier times and every country song has a story to it,  its not just words being sung together. Country music is not always a pick me up, because there are sad songs too, but I like them all just the same.

-Der Bear