My Evil Side

So I got my grades for the last quarter and well I just have a couple things to say...3.8 gpa bitches. Oh yes, So excited that I dropped the B-word. Dont judge me, I deserved that one. That and in order to survive in Phoenix you have to be a little Gangster so you dont get shot. Its funny though about my grades cause before this school I was perfectly satisfied to get average grades and everything, but now its a different story. Now if I get a 98 on something and someone else gets a 99, I freak out and get pissed at myself since I didnt have the best grade in the class. I dont know if this is a good thing or a bad thing yet, I guess I'll just have to wait and see how it develops. Oh so something awesome happened at school besides the fact that I now appear to be a genius:), Me and some friends of mine in class made fun of another kid so much that he quit school. Sounds cruel I know, but he freakin deserved it. He never paid attention and always made really stupid comments. Even the teachers made fun of him with us sometimes...thats how bad he was. Anyways when he was leaving in a car with one of his friends, myself and some others were standing outside and when he left he yelled out the window "Later Fucktards". To which we replied by laughing our asses off, but then the greatest thing ever happened. They blew out a tire while spinning out right after they yelled that so they were broke down almost right in front of me and my friends. So of course we all laughed even more, but then we collected our selves and did the noble thing by going up to them and asking if they wanted any help. Reluctantly he said yes to which we all replied by laughing right in his face for a little while and then walking away saying "later fucktards". It was a good day. I know what your thinking, Im eveil and Im going to hell...the answer is yes. it was evil and I am definitely going to hell. Oh wait I forgot...I am already in hell, at least hell has gotten a little cooler than it was 5 months ago:).

My Run in with the Champ

So when I was in The Gamestop buying my new Xbox 360 I rasn into someone I never thought I would ever see. Who is this person you might be asking yourself, Well he was once one of the greatest boxers in history. Now he just likes beating his wife and snacking on peoples ears. Thats right, The one and only...Mike Tyson. It was weird as hell cause I originally thought that he was still in jail so first thing I did, well I pissed my pants then I collected myself and calmed down a little bit. He may not be very tall, but his upper body was just as wide as he was tall and he was all muscle. I don't know how anyone would ever want to get in the ring with this guy. Besides the whole ear thing, I'm pretty sure if he were to hit me he could take my head clean off my body with one hit. That and the tattoo on the side of his face, he is just a down right scary man. At this point though I was still in disbelief that it was actually him. Finally I got the proof that I needed. I was at the front counter getting my 360 and he walked up to the register next to me. Then he asked a question to the sales guy and I knew it was him. He seriously has one of the funniest voices I have ever heard in my entire life. I had to use every once of willpower I had not to laugh. Cause I knew if I laughed he was seriously going to straight up murder me right there in the store. I kind of wanted to ask him what the ear tasted like, Im curious. I just wonder if it tasted like chicken. I had to leave right after I got my 360 or else I probably would have said something really stupid. So yeah, my first celebrity sighting and it just had to be a freakin convict...gotta love Phoenix...

My New Xbox 360

So I know its been a little while since I have really written anything because I have been really busy working on projects for school and with work so I have had much time for anything. But those projects are done and I don't have to work today or tomorrow so SHAZAAAM!!! I am actually in one of my classes right now...My humanities class. Its a complete joke if you ask me, this is our last day for this class and yet my instructor still feels the need to lecture us on more chapters in the book even though we will never have a quiz or anything over the material. Not only that but the teacher for this class is the most boring person I have ever met. He is one of those teachers that has a monotone voice all of the time. I have never heard his voice change pitch...ever! Other than that he seems like he could be pretty cool, if only he would show some excitement every once and a while or something. I probably wont have him again for a while anyway so maybe by then he will change a little bit. Its funny cause right now he obviously thinks that I am taking notes on my laptop, HA. Me taking notes, now that is funny. I don't need to take notes, I am what you call...a genius. Just playing with you, I am actually the opposite of a genius, whats that called again:) Anyway enough of that crap, On an awesome notes I am getting another Xbox 360 today!!! I am getting the Halo 3 edition Xbox 360 and it just might be the greatest day of my life. And even though I havent gotten a television yet, I am just going to take home my new xbox and just look at the box all night and it will be awesome. I going to get a tv sometime in the next couple days as well though so things are definitely looking up for me. Alright everybody...keep it white, Jason out.

My proof

Me in the Big Dog suit...

My New Costume

So I go to do something awesome yesterday at work. It was crazy slow and I found out from one of the other people working that we apparently have a Big Dog outfit. So I took it upon myself to be the new mascot for Big Dogs. The dog suit was a bit small so my arms would stick out a little and my jeans showed at the bottom of my legs, but other than that it was awesome. I just stood out in the entranceway to the store and it was awesome cause a bunch of kids would come up to me and want to give me five and all that. Some wanted hugs and all that jazz. Even growen adults were coming up and wanting to get a picture taken with me. That has got to be the funnest thing I have done in a while. It was definitely a good pick me up from all that has happened this week. I am actually going to offer to come in early on Black Friday and dress up as the dog again to try and draw some customers to the store. I hope the manager will let me and it will be even more awesome if she pays me to do it. I will tell you though that the head to that costume is really hard to see out of. All it has is the 2 small eyes to see out of and since most of the kids that come up to me are extremely short I have to tilt my head almost all the way down the whole time. WHich is definitely a pain in the neck after I take the costume off, but it is worth it. Well just thought I would let you all know about my mascot days at Big Dogs, until next time...

My Robbery

I havent experienced that many horrible things in my life, but now I can add one more to that list. On Monday Night my apartment was robbed. I wasn't there, but 2 of my roommates were and they were held at gunpoint while the robbers took over $5,000 worth of Electronics. My roommates lost their school computers, we lost a tv, 3 gaming systems, and our router. Hell they even took the modem for our cable internet. They wiped us out, at least everything that was in the living room, they didnt touch any of the bedrooms. We think it has something to do with our other asshole roommate who we were trying to get kicked out. We are quite certain that it was his friends that did it since they seemed to know exactly what to take. I had never been robbed before, I guess its one of those things where you know it happens but you never think its going to happen to you. Oh well, lesson learned I guess. We moved out into another apartment where it is just the 3 of us so we wont have to deal with the asshole roommate anymore, which is good, but at the same time...we still lost a ton of stuff, so its hard to be happy. I miss my Xbox 360...

My Fight

So yeah. I have been getting into it with my roommate here lately. Every since he moved back in I have been in a pretty shitty mood because of him. It seems that he decided that he was going to just let one of his friends stay over for a couple weeks. His friends has now been here for about a week and a half and I think I hate him as much as I do my roommate. Well some thiongs finally happened a couple days ago that set me off and well....I snapped. His friend decided that he was going to use my laptop without even asking me, while I was out with some friends. I have never even really talked to this a$$hole and he apparently thinks that its ok to use my stuff whenever he pleases. So, like I said...I snapped after I came home and saw that he had hooked up the asshole roommates camera to my computer, uploaded a bunch of pictures onto my computer, and then started to upload them to his Myspace. Upon seeing this I got a little....upset. He wasn't in the room so I decided to "rectify" the situation. So first I snapped the usb cord that connected the camera to my laptop, it broke one of my usb ports in the process, but oh well. Then since he was uploading pictures to his myspace I decided to go ahead and delete everything on his myspace page, but not before leaving some "crude" messages to a few of his friends. Then, I took the camera and deleted every picture he had on there so now no on e would ever get to see those pictures...ever. Funny thing is that I deleted a bunch of his pics for school too. I assumed that all of this would lead to a physical at some point, which, honestly...I was kind of looking foward to. I've wanted to hit these 2 from the moment I first saw them, but as it turns out they are cowards so no fight happened. After the whole camera thing I went into the living room where they were and I said a few things that I dare not say here. But the just of it was that from now on I would make their lives a living hell. One such occasion in which I lived up to my promise was last night when they had some girls over. I walked into the kitchen, where they all were, and told the girls "that gonorrhea can be dangerous so make sure these guys use protection, wouldn't want that shit to spread would we".....the girls left soon after. I have a feeling that sooner or later this is going to get pretty ugly, but hopefully I will be able to move into a new apartment by then. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens...

My new job

Just thought I would let everyone know that I have finally found a job. After three months of applications to just about everywhere that didn't involve me wearing a funny hat and making food, Someone was finally dumb enough to hire me. I have to pass a background test first before it is official, but as long as they don't find out about that one night, I think I should be fine. I mean, I haven't killed anyone since I was a teenager so I think I'm good. lol. Anyway, just thought I would let you guys know. And on a side note, that girl never did call(referring to the last post) but oh well, that just means that I can't go back to that Ruby Tuesdays. Big loss:)

My Message in a bottle

So this weekend Kyle and I were hanging out cause he was up here from Tuscon. We played some pool and a little chess, but the best part was our time at Ruby Tuesday's. First thing it was slow as hell in there and we really have no idea why. It was Saturday at like 6:30 and Chilis across the street was packed. So we were a little confused by this, but whatever. Anyway we went in and sat down and all that and finally our waitress came up. Not only was this girl drop dead gorgeous, but she was actually really cool too. Every time she came back to check up on us she would chat for a little while. We made fun of her cause her cell phone is a razor, you know...just general chat. Anyway me and Kyle were both in pretty good moods so we decided to mess with her a little bit. We put together like four of the straws that we had so it was a crazy tall straw and I was using to drink my water when she walked up the next time. She just looked at me weird for a second and then started to laugh. The way Kyle and I were acting she probably thought we were drunk...but oh well it was fun. After she dropped off our bill we decided to make a flag and leave a little note for her. So I wrote my name and number on the napkin and then attached it to the huge straw. Then we set it into the jones soda bottle that kyle had and our masterpiece was complete. We left it sit there and then left. Was it dumb....yes, but it was funny as hell and if she calls for some odd reason then thats an extra perk. Honestly I'm expecting a bunch of prank calls, but whatever, its all good.

and for those of you who don't believe I was actually dumb enough to do this. Here is the proof:

Yes...I know I'm an idiot, but I don't care. It was worth it.

My Calling

So it would seem that I have actually found something that I am good at. Like I said before I have had my doubts about my choice of schools and everything, but it all seems to be working out fine now. My latest class, my Audio for gaming class, I did receive another "A" in. Also we didnt have class really on Thursday since we turned our projects in the day before so we had nothing left to do. So during the class the teacher held a small tournament for whoever wanted to come to class that day. I did not go, at least until later, cause he said he would count me present even if I didnt show up. But I had to go in later cause I was going to hang out afterwards with some friends. Anyway when I walked into the classroom the teacher told me something really quite shocking really. He told me that I tied for the best final project not only in my class but in the morning and evening audio classes as well. He said that he showed it to a bunch of other students and teachers and they all thought it was the original sound from the game, but it was actually all sound that I had put in myself. It's kind of nice getting some recognition when I do something well. Honestly I have never really had that in a school before...and it feels good. So thats a quick update for my school life.
The Job front is looking a little better at this point. I have an interview with "Big Dogs" on Monday and possibly an interview with a job at the school the week after. Also I am going to be taking some bartending classes soon so hopefully after that I will be able to get a bartending job somewhere around here. I figured that will be the best way to make money honestly. This city does have a huge University in it so I think that will work just fine. I always wanted to take a bartending class anyway so it should be fun. Well that the job update for you.
Now for the personal life update...I am getting married!!! Ha, just messing with you. I bet a few of you just spit some all over the person next to you if you were drinking something. My parents probably had a heart attack. Doing what I can to stir things up a bit...It's what I do.

On a side note.......Cleveland Browns 4 Life!!!

My Determination

Ok, time for an update people. So get something to eat, grab a drink, and get ready for another one of my ramblings. I’ve had some doubts recently about a lot of the things out here. Every once and a while I think that I am not meant to be doing what I’m going to school for. I lose my motivation every now and again thinking that I might not be good at what I want to do. Then I get to see what the finished product is of the games I will be able to create and all that doubt goes out the window. I really do think that this is what I want to do with my life. I can’t imagine any other profession giving me the satisfaction that being a game designer will. Now that the art class is over and I can move on from that I am really starting to get into the whole school thing again. I have and audio class right now and it is awesome. For our last project we had to take a movie trailer and take away the sound from it and then put in our own music and voices and all of that jazz. Mine turned out really good I think. If I get the chance, I’ll post the before and after of the trailer I did. In a week I start my media arts class…that one should be interesting to say the least. I am going to have to learn like 5 different programs in the 5 weeks that I have the class. The main one being photoshop, which I have actually never messed with before so that should be fun. Hopefully soon I will have a class that will start to put all of the things I’m learning to work on a project of some sort. I’m trying to do extra projects on my own just to get more practice with the programs so I can get to know everything about them. We had a guest speaker come by the school who works for a game company in town and he used to be a student at Collins. He told us the most important thing we need to worry about when we graduate is to have a complete and full portfolio. Which means that I will have to spend every moment I have of free time working on my own individual projects to put into my portfolio. I just hope that I will end up being good enough to impress people with what I can do. Cause I know first hand that having the drive to do something isn’t always enough. In the end it all comes down to skill. I’ll do it though…It is my DESTINY!!! HAHA….I felt the need to add some ooomf to the ending and what better way of doing that than to just add the word destiny. It makes any situation feel epic. On another topic I am going to be taking some bartending classes as well. I figured that I am living in a college town which means lots of bars and restaraunts. So be a bartender in this town should be a pretty good job and it will fit around my schedule so it should work out perfectly. That’s it for now, so go read something else. Until next time...

My Everclear

Ok, update time. Well first thing, I finally got my new laptop from the school after them being delayed for 2 weeks. Now that I have it though, I am starting to learn some cool stuff with the audio program that I got with it. It’s nice to actually get to start doing things that are going to actually help me in the future. Plus it’s just fun to play around with when I’m bored. So yeah, its all around nice having the new laptop, its freakin huge though. It’s got a 17” widescreen and it weighs like 9 pounds…hahaha. If I ever need to lift weights I Just grab the laptop and do some reps with that. It’s funny, I’m too poor to buy actual weights or well…..food for that matter, but I just got a $3,000 laptop. It is a very odd situation I got going on, I guess it works though, at least until I die of starvation I guess. Who needs food when you have a sweet laptop, food is over-rated. Anyway, I have been trying to explore Tempe a little more, trying to get myself out there you know. So the first stop on my exploration was of course Mill Ave. Since you all probably have no idea why Mill Ave. is so important, let me tell you. It is the equivalent to Athens’s Court Street or if you don’t know what court street is about then I will put this very simply. Mill Ave. is where you go to lose brain cells if you catch my drift. Also something I found out is that apparently, Everclear, is perfectly legal to serve here in Arizona. And for those of you who don’t know, which probably wont be anyone cause Im mainly talking to my family and they have to know what Everclear is. They are Winnett’s afterall. But Everclear is practically all alcohol….and it’s awesome. Me and my friend Kyle went to the bars last Saturday and we went to a bar that had a bunch of frozen drinks pre-maid behind the bar, one of which was half everclear and half punch. Didn’t get to try that one, I had to drive later that night so I couldn’t drink much. Most of the others were pretty strong and they tasted freakin delicious. It was kind of sad though since the bar we were in was practically the only one without a cover charge. That pissed me off a little bit, but nothing a little alcohol couldn’t fix. Anyway just thought I’d share that with everyone. Until next time…

My wishful thinking

So I got my grades for the last quarter of classes, yes that includes my art class, and I just gotta say…I must be an art genius. Ok maybe not, but I did do a lot better in that class than I thought I would. I ended up getting a B in it so I was actually quite ecstatic to say the least. I mean as most of you know I am typically a very pessimistic person about, well…everything and so I was expecting a D or a low C at the most. I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited about a B before in my life. I was kind of sad though because I really want to do well at this school and that B dropped my GPA to a 3.6 which is just downright unacceptable. Haha. I honestly want to try and keep it above the 3.5 which means I have to step things up a notch. The only problem with that is the fact that I now have another art-type class for the next 10 weeks. I am not going to have to really draw anymore, but I apparently need to understand art and know what paintings mean. I’ll tell you though; I have no idea what some of these artists were thinking when they painted. Most of the paintings look like finger paintings I did when I was a kid…too bad, if I would have known that that was “Art” I might be a millionaire right now, but oh well. So I am not really looking forward to that class at all. On the other hand my other class is “Audio for Gaming” which is going to be freaking awesome, once we all get our laptops that is, but I still think it is going to rock.
On the other side of things my roommate who I was sharing a room with that hasn’t been back in a few weeks turned up dead the other day. Haha, just kidding, how weird would that have been. He did get kicked out of the apartment though, apparently he wasn’t paying his rent so he owed like 950 dollars. So the rental company just came by and took all of his shit so the next time he comes by…all of his stuff is going to be gone. I can’t wait to see the look on his face when that happens, that will be a great day. Now I am scared who is going to take his place though. Maybe I got the bad one out of the way and I’ll get lucky and for some odd reason they’ll place an interior design girl in my room. If only…If only.

My Disappointment

So, we were supposed to get our laptops on Monday since we are starting our audio class the same day. But apparently “Dell” screwed up and now we have no laptops at all. Now you might be thinking no big deal, well the audio class deals almost completely with our laptops. So now that we have that class yet no laptops we aren’t even doing anything which really sucks cause I was really looking forward to this class. Now we’re going to be forced to do 5 weeks worth of work in like 2 weeks which is gonna be hard as hell. It is kind of funny though since a bunch of the kids are mad as hell, so I bring the laptop that I already had with me every day to class now just piss them off more. The laptop that I have now is about to die though I think…it’s been acting crazy weird lately, but oh well, soon I’ll have a nice shiny new one.
In other news me and some friends went to a cast party for “Americas next top model” hosted by the school. First thoughts….Hellz yes, we get to hang out and party with the people from the show. Now the reason that we believed this was possible is because the school actually hosted the auditions for the show a month or two ago. So we were excited, mainly because we figured we had a chance of being seen on television with models…who wouldn’t be excited about that. Well let’s just say that we were less than appeased when we got there. Not only were there no models, but also no television crews either. Apparently this party was to just sit around and watch the show for an hour while eating chips and drinking punch. They did have a little fashion show during the commercials with some models from around Arizona. You know, I never realized exactly how skinny models generally are. One of them walked by a fan and she seriously fell over, no joke. She literally was blown over by a small fan…and it was awesome. I even think she floated a little bit before hitting the ground…like a leaf in the wind. Another turned to the side at one point and I couldn’t see her anymore, it was like she vanished. Awesome…yes. Impressive…yes. Disgusting…Very much so. Anyway just thought I would share that experience with everyone.

You know what I just realized…I will be the last grandkid to graduate from college, with the exception of Shaun, but hes in the Navy so he doesn’t count. Hell he’ll still find a way to graduate before me though I know it. And Lindsey will be finished about 7 months before me if she keeps going the way shes going. I hate you guys. Just kidding…see ya at Christmas.

My Caution

So I tried and tried to get out of Athens. Constantly saying that it was just too small of a city to find anything interesting to do, well I may have been wrong. Not about Athens not having much to do, but what it was that I liked to do. It seems now that I am in a bigger city that I am just not cut out for it. I have been faced with some unusual situations that never would have happened in Athens. Maybe I am just not a big city person, or maybe I have just fallen in with the wrong type of people. Me and some friends were hanging out tonight and put of nowhere one of them decided it would be awesome to go to a strip club.......ok, whatever I figured I would tag along. But then they came up with, what they thought, was an even better idea. Since apparently there was a pretty hefty fee just to get into the strip club, they decided that we were all gonna just pick up some prostitutes......umm...what!!! It was just weird how they saw it as no big deal, but to me it was completely crazy. I told them I wasn't going to do that and of course they proceeded to call me the name that everyone knows a guy is called when he refuses to take a risk. For those of you who don't know, it rhymes with wussy. No you all may be wondering why on earth I am writing about this, well, I have a question I need to ask everyone. Is it me that is the strange one, or is it them. Since it seemed like no big deal to them it just makes me feel like the oddball. Like the one who after 22 years still refuses to take any kind of risk. In this particular situation I trust in my decision to not do it, but its not just this situation. I'm talking about taking a risk anytime. Those of you who know me well know that I am generally a very cautious person and I am afraid that being who I am is preventing me from truly enjoying life. I know this isn't one of my usual posts, but I really need some help on this one.

My Surprise

Ok, so I know I haven’t posted in a little while. I’ve been busy trying to finish all the art shit that I need to get done so I don’t fail. I swear, out of all the classes I have to take at this school, Art is my least favorite. I would rather already be taking my advanced calculus class instead of this art class. It’s over next week though so I can finally rest again when that day comes. I have improved a little bit in my drawing…don’t get me wrong I am still down right bad at it, but believe it or not that is an improvement for me. Most everything else down here is the same as it has been for a while. I still haven’t been able to find a freakin job which is still pissing me off, but oh well; I’ll find something…sooner or later. Oh, on a side note, remember that crazy girl that I told you all about and the Dance Dance revolution machine she was stumbling around on at Gameworks. Well I found out that they have since moved that game out of the restaurant part and put it down with all of the other games. Now I don’t know if it was because of her, but I’m pretty sure it is. I still see her from time to time in the halls at school. I love messing with her too cause she definitely remembers me and I think she remembers what happened that night as well. So every time I pass her in the hall or anything I stop and ask her if she has ever been to Gameworks before and then I just smile and walk away. I’m not exactly sure why it is so satisfying, but it really is. Another thing…I am coming home for Christmas, at least I plan to, and when I come home, hopefully I will have a surprise for everybody. And no it’s not a present or anything so you will just have to wait and see. I’m still not even sure if it will happen so there may be no surprise at all. If there isn’t…I’ll just buy everyone some pizza or something and that can be the new surprise.

My broken cart

So I went grocery shopping the other day. Yes I went to Wal-Mart, where else would I go. 90 cent bread…that’s how I roll. Anyway, I noticed something as I was pushing my cart around the store, something that seems to happen to me every time I get a cart. I don’t know about the rest of you, but it seems that whenever I get a cart there is always something wrong with it. Out of the hundreds and hundreds of carts Wal-Mart has I have never gotten one that didn’t have something wrong with it. This last time I went there was without a doubt the worst. I never would have imagined the problems a faulty cart could have caused. And so it begins…the cart I got had a wheel on it that would get stuck sideways at some points. Now you might think that wouldn’t be much of a problem, but if a wheel is stuck sideways that means that the cart will turn every time it happens. And once again normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but what happens when there is someone standing or walking to your side…Who would have thought getting a cart slammed into the side of your foot would piss someone off so much. He was seriously mad, he started yelling and screaming at me to watch where I’m going and all that. I even explained to him that the wheel got stuck and it wasn’t my fault. I guess I was wrong and it was completely my fault, at least according to him. He finally stopped yelling at me and left, except now I was pissed off. I just got verbally assaulted by someone in the middle of Wal-Mart, I was not about to just let this go. So I started to follow this guy around and would periodically just slam my cart into his. He had a full cart too so every time I got to hit it; stuff would fall off of the top. I know, very immature, well I don’t care this A$$hole deserved it. I did finally stop though considering I was getting tired and wanted to go home. But Wal-Mart has a sense of humor cause guess who pulled up behind me in line at the checkout, oh yes it was him. And as they say in wrestling “It was on”…It was on like Donkey Kong. He was still rather pissed, as was I, but at this point I think we were both so tired that we just didn’t care anymore. I did get one last jab at him though. You know the little black divider bar that you put between your stuff and the other persons? Well, let’s just say that when he wasn’t paying attention I put like 10 things of tic-tacs on his side of the bar and since he had so much stuff, I don’t think ever noticed. I got out of there as soon as possible, so he may have eventually noticed, but I like to think that he didn’t. I know what you’re thinking; that I am a badass…well it is true.:) It’s not like I could have punched him in the face or anything, so I issued a more appropriate retaliation instead. Don’t judge me…it’s what I do.

My awesome discovery

Possibly the greatest thing that has happened to me out here in Arizona just happened a few minutes ago. I was surfing the web for, well....places in which I can get my drink on in Tempe. And while I was doing this I remembered seeing a bar right down the road from my school named "Hail Mary's". My dad knows what bar Im talking about.(we used it as a way to remember where our hotel was) Well I looked it up on the internet and it just so happens that it is a Sports bar and not only that, but a "Cleveland Browns" backer bar. They show all of the Browns games on television there. I am so excited right now, I thought I was going to have to deal with the Southwestern teams everywhere, but it seems that someone up there felt that they owed me one:). Anyway, just thought I would share. BROWNS 4 LIFE!!!

My Hallucination

The worst has happened…my greatest fear has just been realized. I am in Arizona, the temperature right now is 103 degrees and the air conditioner has just broken. As I right this I am pretty sure that I am starting to see hallucinations. I’m pretty sure the care-bears were here just a little bit ago and apparently my walls are now painted neon orange. I am going to assume that the heat is starting to get to me. I am seriously considering sleeping in the bathtub filled with ice cold water…yeah right, ice cold water in Arizona…HA!!! This definitely proves that the air conditioner is without a doubt the best invention ever made! I don’t know how anyone could survive down here without one. Since mine broke, I am pretty sure that a little part of me died as well. Have you ever been so hot that you just don’t want to move, but at the same time you just can’t get comfortable no matter what you try? Well that is my situation at the moment, not to gross you all out, but I think my body just ran out of sweat. And seeing as I haven’t really moved for a while, lets just say I think my sheets are ruined. Well, It looks like I have to go, the care-bears are back and they look pissed.

My Bragging Rights

So…my first 5 weeks of class is over along with one of my classes ending. Now I am not usually one to brag, but lets just say that I kicked this classes A$$. In the Intro to Game Design class, which is the one I’m talking about, I got a 99% as my final grade. Oh yes, it’s true, I got an “A” in school… “I’d like to thank the Academy, being that this was my best performance of B.S. in my life”. Well not all of it was bullshit, but whenever I could throw in that little extra to make it look like I knew what I was talking about, I did and it apparently paid off. I was actually kind of upset about the fact that I got a 99% instead of a 100%. I had gotten 100% on every assignment I had done in the class until the last day. We had a final project which happened to be a group project, which I have always had problems working in groups. I knew it was going to ruin my perfect score, but there was nothing that could be done. I guess I will just have to make do with my 99%...GOSH!!! I am also receiving an “A” in my college success class and I completely tested out of my Math and English classes. So take that 82 IQ…I spit on you. Maybe all this reading has raised it a few points to where I’m not actually considered mentally challenged anymore. This will probably be the last time I get to boast like this since my next class is a drawing class. And I think everyone knows how “good” of an artist I am. If you don’t, let me make it clear as to my abilities in the Arts. Just look at this picture and see if you can even guess what it’s supposed to be…

Give up…the answer was a Cow, that’s right…a Cow. Now if you could stop laughing at my awesome drawing abilities we can get back to it. I SAID STOP MAKING FUN OF MY COW!!! He never did anything to you guys, poor cow…I don’t even know how he stands with those skinny legs. So yeah, this drawing class is going to open a can of whoop ass on me and it is not going to be pretty. But I’ll deal with it, I always do and I’ll come out the other side victorious once again. If I don’t, then I guess I will just have to blackmail a “certain” teacher that I know to make them give me a better grade. Hey…don’t judge me, I do what I have to do to get the job done. I know, your going to judge me anyway. Well you know what I have to say to that…Screw You! And to add insult to injury, I found out that while you guys are going to be freezing you’re asses off this winter, I will probably be swimming in the 70 degree temperatures out here. Oh yeah, whatcha gonna do about that one. Crap, I just realized I’ll be coming home for a while this winter…touché Ohio…touché.

My dating disaster

This is going to come as a surprise to most, hell, it was a surprise to me even. But I had a date last night. No joke. Now I know your wondering…how the hell did that happen. I know, I asked myself the same question about 50 times. As most of you know, well at least my friends know, that I am absolutely terrified of asking girls out…even if I am intoxicated, I just can’t seem to do it. Well, it would seem that luck was on my side this time since I did not have to ask her out, she asked me instead. Which a lot of guys would now make fun of me for being such a wuss, but oh well, I got a date out of it so suck on it. Anyway…So it turns out this girl is actually a professor at the school…I keep forgetting that I am 22 years old now…so this was really strange at first. But then I remembered that I was and it was cool. Now I know what your thinking…Jason has a date with some old college professor and that’s gross…WRONG. First of all she is only 25, so that’s only 3 years older than me. Secondly, and not to sound crude, But she was for lack of a better word…Hot as hell. There was really nothing “teacher” looking about this girl. And no she didn’t teach any game design classes, she was one of the professors for The Interior Design program. Which from what I’ve seen might as well be a modeling agency since it is practically all girls and they are almost all gorgeous. So anyway, back to the whole date thing. Why this girl asked me out in the first place is still a mystery to me, but at that point I didn’t care.
So we went out last night. Had some dinner, saw a movie, had some drinks. The DDM date as I call it…simple, but generally effective I hear. I wish I could say that it worked for me and we had an awesome time, but if it was like that, I probably wouldn’t be writing this right now…if you catch my drift. It was a horrible date, but the night wasn’t actually that bad for me. And it wasn’t me that screwed it up, she was just a bitch. See here in Phoenix there is a mall where you can drink, have dinner, and then watch a movie all in the same general area. We went to a place called “Gameworks”, her choice by the way, and it is a restaurant, a bar, and it has a bunch of arcade games and such. It’s a pretty cool place generally…unless you happened to go there with her. Lets just say that she can’t hold her alcohol very well. After like one martini she was pretty much completely out of it. Now most guys would be saying “Jackpot” right about now, but I am apparently not one of those guys, Who knew? She is also not a very “good” drunk. So after watching her push through a crowd, shove a kid off of the “Dance Dance Revolution” game and then began to drunkenly stomp around on the mat…I absolutely lost it. I haven’t laughed that hard in my entire life. And after a while pretty much the whole place was watching her and laughing right along with me. I just ignored her for a little while after that and went to sit at the bar. Later she headed back over to me except now she had another guy with her. I knew how this was gonna go and I honestly didn’t care. She said his name was brett and that he was goona give her a ride home. Now slightly laughing about the new situation, I told her goodnight and Brett good luck and I proceeded to walk away. Little did she know that I had told the bartender and the waitress to put everything on her tab and that she was going to pay for it all when she came back over. I was honestly quite proud of myself for that little maneuver. So was it a bad date…Hell yeah, but was it a good night…yes it was. I just can’t wait to see her on Monday and maybe remind her of some of the events that took place…That is going to be awesome.
I really don’t know how this shit happens to me. There has to be something about this town cause things like this never happened to me back in Athens. I don’t know, at least they make for interesting stories. Depending on whether or not I get to talk to this girl again, there may be another story to follow…I’ll keep you posted.

My Job Hunting

So I have been looking for a job for a while now and I still have not managed to find one yet. Granted it might be because after I put in a bunch of applications I then decided to change my phone number. After realizing this when I woke up this morning, I pretty much snapped. I used so many profanities in the next 30 minutes that I even offended myself. Didn’t even think that was possible. So I might have had a job right now had I not been so stupid, but as most of you know my IQ is somewhere in the region of 82, so I have an excuse. So I went job hunting again today to see if I could get anymore applications. So I went to the place where I could get the most I could in the shortest amount of time…The mall. A huge mall at that, this place takes like a half hour just to walk around it. It had a plethora of stores to try and get a job at…HAHAHA I used the word plethora; I love that word but have never gotten to use it. In your face High school English class. Anyway…after being laughed at when I asked for an application at Gamestop, I realized that I was about to have a bad afternoon. Since I am getting rather desperate for a job at this point, I was willing to go into any store to try and find one. After being told that they weren’t hiring at a few more places I found myself in an awkward position. The only places left were stores that I would normally never go in, but desperate times call for desperate measures. So the next thing you know…I was strolling into a woman’s clothing store. I walked up to the lady at the check out counter and asked if they were accepting applications. And not to be mean, but she was huge, like the mother in the movie “What’s eating Gilbert Grape” huge. After looking around the store for a second I realized that this was like a women’s big and tall store and she must have been the owner. She looked at me as if she was trying to figure out if I was actually a girl…I don’t think a man has ever asked her for an application before. (Remember I am not in the best of moods at this point) In a very “mean” tone she then asked if I was seriously that desperate for a job to which I replied, “I don’t know, are you seriously that fat” (bad decision) I don’t think she appreciated that too much cause she just stood there glaring at me like I was about to become her dinner for the night. So I backed up slowly and then ran like hell out of there. I don’t think that they will be hiring me any time soon. So needless to say, I still don’t have any good job prospects yet. Now that I have calmed down since this afternoon, I would like to go back and apologize to her, even though she started it. But I also want to live so I think that I will just keep my distance from the mall for a little while.

My annoyance

Have you ever known someone who was so annoying in practically every way that you seriously just want to just beat the hell out of them. I had dealt with plenty of annoying people before, but this kid must be the leader of all the rest. I seriously think that he spends his days thinking of annoying s*** he can do to me. Lets just say that he is a “curious” person. He never stops asking questions…NEVER!!! I will be playing a video game, which used to be my stress reliever, and he will be sitting right there firing questions at me non stop. Idiotic questions at that. I have come so close to just launching the game controller at his face, but then I look down and see my W.W.J.D. bracelet and I think…What would Jesus do?...so I lit him on fire and sent him to hell. Just kidding…I don’t even have that bracelet. So anyway, it seems like every move I make in the game, he needs an explanation for why I did it. If I turn my character left, “Why did you go that way”, “can you go the other way”, “what’s over that way”, “why didn’t you go that way”. Like nails on a chalk board, I can’t stand it. So by this point I start thinking about how this kid might “accidentally” fall off of the balcony. I know what you’re thinking…that would never work. I know it won’t work, but I can still dream can’t I? Don’t take my dreams, they are all I have!!! I have even tried completely ignoring him, but that doesn’t even stop him from asking more questions. I just sit there staring at the screen and no matter how many questions I don’t answer…he just keeps coming with more. I’m pretty sure he’s a robot. Cause only a robot could be so persistent as to keep asking questions hours on end without getting answers. I’m hoping that one of these days he will just short circuit and I can finally play my games in peace.

My bad traffic

Being here for a few weeks now I have noticed a few things about the people here in Phoenix. They are, without a doubt, the worst drivers I have ever seen. So of course I do fit right in, but that’s not the point. I don’t understand how these people got their drivers license, it’s like they were just handing them out at a chucky cheese or something. Chucky Cheese is awesome…anyway…Some of the things that I have seen are making me lose my faith in humanity, at least here in Phoenix, cause not only are they bad drivers, but they put the dumbest things on their car windows. I saw one lady today that had a big sticker on the back side window that said “Drive safely, Baby on board”. Now it was a little difficult to see this since she flew past me going about 90 mph, not too safe especially since it was on an eight lane highway in the middle of rush hour. Another guy had one of those sun deflector things that you put in your windshield, still up in his back window and he was missing his two side mirrors. So there was no way he could see who was behind him or even to the side of him. Yet he just kept on truckin it like 80mph down the road. It scares the hell out of me to drive down here…now I know how everyone else felt when I lived in Athens. And traffic is always horrible it seems, I’m not used to having to wait in traffic jams pretty much everyday. The other day it took me 45 minutes to get home from school, and I only live 5 miles away. When you combine traffic jams with bad drivers…it makes for an interesting ride anywhere.

My distraction

I think I am really starting to get myself setup here. I am making new friends, figuring out where things are, all that Jazz. But there is one thing that does bother me a little bit about this school. So I know it was my choice to go to a school that is dominated by male geeks, but I figured there might be at least one or two girls here...well, it would turn out that I was very, very wrong. Finding a girl at this school is like trying to find a straight person in San Francisco, you know there has to be some, but finding them is damn near impossible. I do have one girl in my class, but...not to be mean or anything, but I actually thought she was a dude the first time I saw her. True story...and I wasn't the only one who thought that either. One day a guy in class reffered to her as a "he"...she took it rather well to be honest. She only cried for a little while. He...well, she is definitely a trooper. I'll give her props for that. Anyway...Back to the point of not being able to find any girls at school. Even though there is the "one" in my class, I know there must be more fo them out there. I mean women do outnumber men 52%-48%...so odds are there has to atleast be a few of them going to this school. Honestly I don't even really care that much right now. The last thing I need is to be distracted from my studies, which happens really easily to me. I actually got distracted from reading the other day by the wall...I was reading my book and then out of nowhere just started staring at the wall instead. There wasn't even an ything on the wall, it was blank. How bad is that. Now if a wall distracts me, just imagine what a girl would do to me...I am so screwed...

I love this school

So Im sitting here in my "Intro to Game Design" class and I just realized by looking around the room that this is the best class ever!!! You might ask "why", "why is it the best class ever Jason?" Well Im about to tell you. In a normal classroom people would be studying or taking notes right now, but not this class. I look around and the only thing anyone is doing...is playing videogames. Seriously, Our desks have huge televisions on them. How sweet is that! I just wanted to let people know that this class rocks.....That is all.

The beginning...

This place is pretty much how I pictured it: Hot as hell, barren as hell, and confusing as hell, which can only mean one thing…I must be in hell. I knew I shouldn’t have taken that left turn at Albuquerque. Stupid New Mexico…Has to be the most worthless state there is, next to Florida. Anyway, I’m getting off topic. I was talking about my new found home in Hell. It’s not as bad as you would think. Sure it is 117 degrees outside as I am writing this, but that is beside the point. It’s a DRY HEAT!!!! Believe it or not the no humidity factor is definitely nice. The fact that I break out into a sweat just by walking out my door means nothing… “At least there is no humidity” I say to myself over and over again. It helps…so shut up!!! In all honesty though, I think I am going to like it here. There is tons of stuff to do, the school seems awesome, and my roommates so far seem cool enough. My apartment is pretty far away from the ASU campus though, which kind of sucks. That seems to be where most of the cool hang out places are…and yes, by cool hang out places I really mean bars and other places in which I can get my drink on. I’ll find a way though, it’s how I roll. But back to my apartment…it might as well be a resort as far as I’m concerned. A very cheap one, but a resort none the less. All the apartment complexes out here seem to be really nice, I guess cause no one wants to go out in the heat so they want their apartments to be kick a$$. But it’s awesome, there is: 2 pools, a weight room, little fountains and streams everywhere. I know, extra water just being run throughout the complex, crazy isn’t it. I didn’t think they would have much water to spare. I do feel the need to inform everyone out there though that do to the heat and the fact that it is always sunny…There is a very slight chance that I, Jason Winnett, might…..get…..a tan. I know, its never going happen, but don’t ruin my dreams of one day no longer being able to hide against a white wall. It was cool at first, but now, it’s just getting old. It’s really strange though, of the few white people I have managed to find here…they are all almost as white as I am. It doesn’t make any sense, but I will figure out this mystery of how people out here manage to stay so pale…It is my destiny!!! It’s shaping up to be an interesting couple of years here, but I am ready for it.