Limbo and Graduation

This past week I finished college. Graduation is in about a week. This post is devoted to the effects of college on me and my friends. What we've learned (not necessarily in the classroom), what we've seen, where we're going, and so on.

1. Staying up all night kills brain cells. Apparently this is completely true, exhaustion is equatable to being drunk and it kills brain cells. I pulled several all nighters, and got A's on every project that was worked on through the night all 4 years. Also, staying awake for over 72 hours causes one to dream while awake. Almost make it there... but not quite.

2. How to talk like an adult. It's so much easier to get your point across when you actually know words that mean what you're trying to say.

3. Just because you are friends, doesn't mean you should be roommates. I lived for about a year and a half with some friends and it didn't really work out so I got randoms and I love them. Not that that's true for everyone.

4. There is no substitute for gameday tailgating. Three national championships in 366 days. Enough said.

5. [adult swim] = best thing on TV. Next to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of course.

6. Everyone knows everything about the economy (and the future). People watch way too much news commentary. They don't take them the time to generate their own views, the steal those of others, whose flamboyant news shows are annoying at best.

7. There is nowhere to park. Ever. Unless for some dumbass reason you want to valet your car in "downtown" Gainesville, in which case you're in luck! They've blocked off 7 of the 22 available spaces for you!

8. Pizza. The 8th food group. Good for every meal, hot, cold, leftover, fresh, sober, breakfast, and midnight snack.

9. High heels Are only for dressy presentations and interviews, and falling down in downtown clubs.

10. Your favorite show will be canceled and then brought back again. IE Futurama and Family Guy.

11. Grocery shopping is a numbers game. Beer takes precedence over vegetables, and energy drinks and potato chips are irreplaceable.

12. (from my friend Jay) Nucleophiles are prone to attacking the carbon in a carboxyl group that will move the double bond up to the oxygen.

and finally,

13. Life is as easy, difficult, troublesome, fun, exciting, tiring and as ludicrous as you make it to be.

So here's to those moving on, and those moving up. Good Luck my friends!

Side Tracked

As of late I have been cramming every second of my life into my last class to graduate college. No need to explain, just late nights and long hours with my team. This week M-F I probably only slept about 7% of the time.

The good thing about it I guess is that I know what it feels like to be awake every hour. Don't know if that's useful or not, but I know now. It's been quite an experience. Between late night pizza, early morning hash browns, energy drinks (I refuse to drink coffee), and second, third and fourth winds, the team's been getting along well.

In between sucking down Adrenaline Rush and trying to put together sections and plans for our giant book/ project, I have been playing Soul Calibur II. I rediscovered it at the video game store after playing it constantly freshman year in my then-boyfriend's dorm room. I want to play Tetris but I am afraid of the crazy Tetris dream's I'll start having again... Then again, it can't be any crazier than the strange, nonsensical dreams recently due to a severe lack of sleep.

I'll finish up my music post later this week when I am more inspired. My favorite alternative station switched to playing mainstream rock like Linkin' Park and Staind. It's severely depressing. But I am looking forward to a good week with everything finishing up for the most part.

Radiological Distruction

Once upon a time, I started listening to the radio. I'm not sure when, but I did, sometime after those children's books on tape got boring and country music got cool in the 90's. I listened to Tim McGraw, Brooks & Dunn, Little Texas, Trace Adkins, Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride, and several others.

Somewhere around middle school I grew into 'pop' music. What a terrible name. I digress. I can't complain about getting into pop because it has led me in several different directions musically, but it is the main factor that single-handedly destroying the music industry.

Pop music is for the masses. Masses of people who can't think for themselves or find music that fits their taste. They willingly take what songs Top 40 stations deem 'popular' and don't bother to switch the station when then same "Hey There Delilah" song comes on 12 times a day (when most of us would switch the channel or punch a hole in our dashboards).

Eventually, for those who even occasionally listen to pop, we hear the same songs over and over again. And this is what is ruining the industry. This constant repetition does not allow lesser known artists music to be heard, and only allows for more popular bands to get lost because no one wants to hear their music every time they turn on the jams. So in this day and age, there is no great American musical artist because no one stands out.