Long Time Gone

I realize this is pointless because I never keep this thing updated, but it was a good idea. I hope I didn’t disappoint my avid readers that I know to be 4. Life has been crazy and I really just don’t usually feel like typing what I have been doing and thinking. I do a lot and I also think a lot so both those things make it difficult. I have been on a crazy island trip and have a few drunken afternoons and blackout night but every story is too long to tell or not worth sitting and writing. I only have a week left at Bond and only two tests. I really don’t feel like I went to school so the finals are very strange to me. The cubs are playing great and besides the lack of starting pitching my only complaint is that I have to wake up at 4 am to watch the games. Not to mention the fucking reds. I am looking forward to traveling with my parents but it will kind of be like detox and getting my sleep schedule back to near normal. I really am starting to miss America and some of the people that live there. To fill the time void in my life left between sleep, the cubs, the beach, and drinking I have been reading a lot of Plato. It is great for examination of the self and the world as a whole but it really makes you feel alone and sometimes the very true conclusions philosophy leads to are the ones you don’t want to hear. Religion is always an issue for me and now I have officially renounced it become unaffiliated. I get more worried about America and what we stand for and where the country is going. Also I am not very happy with the way most foreigners are viewing the States and the people that inhabit them. One thing Plato stresses is the problems that come from lying but more times than not the lie was not false words that mislead but words that were never spoken and the lack of truth causes problems the truth would never grow too. I hate his views on censorship of the media, as to not give kids the wrong idea at an early age. I could go through the internal arguments I have every time I read but if someone is interested in the larger concepts of life I am always available for a good conversation. Another quick rant that might get my in from trouble if I have any girls reading this. I don’t know if you are all following what is going on at Duke with the Lacrosse team and its rape accusing stripper. After all DNA was negative, video and photo evidence shows she had the injuries before she got to the party, the second stripper said nothing happened, the first cop found her in a car that was not hers and she wouldn’t get our cause she was passed out drunk. Oh ya did I mention she is black and everyone at the party and at Duke is white. Now I don’t want to say the girl is lying. But KOBE KOBE KOBE, rape is a super serious crime with very few deserving a more serious punishment but if women as a group want men to take them seriously and not shrug off rape allegations you have to start punishing the women who lie or extort for money. Not jail but as a society they need to be shown that is not how to handle things. Well I don’t want to write anymore and I think I said enough. If people are still reading I will post again so please comment.

History of Violence

I just finished a very long day with the movie “A History of Violence” it was crazy. Vego is a cross between Jack Bauer and Chuck Norris with a little Hugh Heffner. The movie as a story is good but the acting and way it is filmed is just intense. Intense is defiantly the word. I drove to Nimbin today with some of my friends and yes I said drove. It was really quite freaky considering how narrow the roads are and the fact you are driving up and down and around mountains. I learned that I am a better drive on the left high just like I am on the right. I end a long eventful weekend with no hope of rest this week and that makes me sad. Looks like Prior is not completely fucked but I am still worried. No rest for the weary…

I am going to bleed Cubby blue to death

So Mark Prior might be hurt and the bear missed the boat on all the top tier free agents. Other than that life is fine bordering on boring cause I have not been doing anything new recently. The Australians don’t drink that much tequila and the selection at the bars is horrible. I have actually been doing some work for school and that sucks. I passes all my mid-terms so it looks like clear sailing from here on out. I have be come much more accepting of bugs now because the gold coast has lots of them and they don’t hurt you if you don’t bother them. I know everyone home is on break so I hope you are having a relaxing week away from oxford. I got sour patch kids and peeps from both the women that know me best and I could not be happier. The only thing they both forgot was Pez and I have been going through Pez withdrawals. I get to register on March 20th which is like way before anyone else so I will have a PIMP schedule when I get back. I am taking suggestions about peoples preferences between just Tuesday and Thursday classes or non on Friday. I am going to do one of those. If I can hold no Fridays till I graduate it will be two years because I don’t have them now. I don’t get any stories from home from anyone but drew so will someone tell me a good story already…

Fantasy Baseball

If anyone wants to play Fantasy Baseball I am trying to start a league please let me know if you are interested. Draft will be the last week of March.

Sydney and Birthday

For me to even try and tell you about everything that happened in Sidney I would write for two pages. If you want all the stories you will have to ask about them later because some will be kept secret. Every night was just drunk beyond belief with hundreds of people from every country possible and beer and shots I have never heard of. We walked all around the city everyday. Sydney has great shopping and there are places where it is so high class I felt underdressed just shopping in a polo and shorts. A t-shirt from any American brand and almost any other t shirt is in the range of 50-75 Australian dollars so about 40-65. The brands are obviously completely different but the way the stores are set up are really different. We toured parliament and the opera house. Went through the aquarium where I got to see a duck billed platypus. And Nemo. The Mardi Gras parade was insane and they said there were over 300,000 people attended. For those of you who don’t know it is a Gay and Lesbian parade and one of the biggest in the world. I enjoyed the atmosphere and people just letting loose all over but I was getting a little sick of all the half naked gay men on the floats and doing dances in the parade. After the parade on Saturday night I got drunker than I have been in a while because my Hostel roommate from Norway and I keep doing Zambooka shots. The week was a complete success until the two of us got jumped about a block from our hostel. Six guys came out of an alley and told us to get them our fucking wallets. I asked him what is said and as soon as he started talking about I took off down the street and told my friend to run. I got away but they tripped him in the street. I ran to get the bouncers from the bar up the street and when I brought them back the kids ran. My friend was kicked a bunch and they took his wallet but not this phone or camera and he only had 15 in cash. It was a crazy experience and life has just been insane since that time. We checked out of the hostel the next morning at like 9 am and went around for our last day in Sidney and while we were on the bus to the airplane they called and said our flight had been canceled.  We had to get a hotel and wake up at 5 am to get one a flight back. The only reason I was mad was because it was my birthday night. When I got back on Monday I relaxed and got ready for the night. My friends and I went out to dinner and drinks at the tavern and I got fucked thanks to Angus and his crazy shots. We went back to my buddies and after a couple of bongs and a handful of honey ‘shrooms’. I was good to go for my Birthday at that point. When I got back I opened my door to see my room covered in balloons, streamers, and confetti. There were tons of balloons and the streamers were strung back and forth across the room, but the confetti was the worst because they put it in my bed and it stuck to my feet everywhere I walked.  My Australian friends were the ones responsible for all the mess but they made up for that by getting me a cricket bat and wicket set. I got some fun home stuff in a box from my mom and I really appreciate everyone who sent a happy birthday my way. I know it is really easy to forget when someone isn’t their and am glad people cared enough to remember. I can’t wait for baseball season to start. This will be the Cub’s break out year. I know it was long but I have more that I just don’t feel like typing out.

Test Week

So I should be studying right now but I will do anything to avoid that. Yesterday I went to the Rugby game in Brisbane. It was a great game and the action was brutal. It took us longer to travel then we were their but that was due in large part to the fact we planed nothing and missed just about every form of transportation we tried. I have three tests this week and then I’m off to Sidney for Mardi Gras. We did a century club last weekend and it was an absolute shit show. I have picks and video that is absolutely hilarious. Just over a week till my birthday and I am sad to say I’m not really looking forward to it. It will be heaps of fun I know but not getting to do it at home is sad and it is very anti-climactic cause I have been drinking in the bars since I have been here. It will be nice to come back and be able to drink however I really feel bad for the people that have to go back and are again not legal. If anyone know about registration please let me know cause I don’t want to miss it. Thanks and I will talk to you after the tests are over….

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

Sorry about the delay I have been busy and fucked up a lot. Thanks for leaving a story drew and that is fucking great. Fosters is not here at all. We drink Toohey’s, XXXX, and VB but there are so many different kinds of each. The beer is good but nothing great. For anyone traveling here when you order a ‘light’ beer it has the same calories but less alcohol. I never checked before about the amount of booze in the beer but now I look on every bottle. American beer is like $16 a 6-pack. The spirits market is a lot bigger here and they have rum called Bundaberg that I am in love with. I have already killed 3 bottles to myself pre-gaming.  The bars can be expensive if you black out but they don’t usually accept credit cards.
Respect is something that I have been thinking a lot about and how when people perceive you differently they outwardly show you different types of respect. Being in a place where everyone and everything is new you can really tell how you are coming off to some people by how much respect they show you. That’s my rant for the time being…stay tuned.

V Day

I don’t know what to do when the girl you are talking to picks a girl over you. I love the threesome idea and have been working for one since my first taste but I feel a very strange sensation after a girl clearly chose another girl over me. I have been playing it very casual here and that will continue after tonight because if that is what I’m facing I don’t have a choice.