Vaughn

Hmmmmmmm, summer is almost here; really looking forward to it! Finding a job has been pretty ridiculous so far, not sure whats in store with that. O_o I really wanna stay active and hang out with as many ppl as possible. Even though im behind school wise in terms of graduating, this is basically the last summer before most peoples last year of school. The following summer will be busy with every one going out into the real world moving to new places and getting an actual job and embarking on a new chapter in their lives. I'm actually interested to see how that all works out in terms of staying in touch with every one. I think with the arrival of social networking sites and them sticking around it wont feel like ill be saying good bye for ever to any one. Every one will be a few mouse clicks away when ever I wanna see whats up with them. But any who back to this summer! I've talked to Alec a little bit about it, but I would really like to not sit around by myself, even if I'm with friends id rather sit around and just talk and do nothing then be sitting around by myself, haha not saying Tori wont be around but I think most of you whom might read this get the idea, haha. In addition to staying social with every one, gonna be different having the new ability to go out drinking with friends, looking forward to that. I also wanna join a gym this summer. I say every summer that I'm gonna work out more and what not but never do, but this semester I've been hitting the gym 3 times a week and seeing and feeling an improvement, its helped me stay focused and motivated to keep it up and to work it into my lifestyle. I really want a new pair of head phones, this pair I use for gaming has a really nice quality of sound but id like something with more of a kick. So I have my portfolio review coming up next week, working on a final project to place in it which has eased a good amount of stress about passing it and what not. Wellllllllllllllllllllll yeah, more updating to come. I think if I write on here as a way to look back on my own personal thoughts months from now rather then writing to let people know whats up with me i'll be more dedicated. I'm in the mood for change this summer and maybe keeping an up with live journal will be apart of it. So cazy to think most of us used this so much back in junior high and now its comparable to that old shirt that we used to wear and thought was cool at the time buts now all gross and full of cat hair O_O haha.


O_____________^ Vaughn out!

I'm enjoying the break from the cold weather.

Ah this week has been boring...don't think Ive left our apartment in days! >_> <_< Only 2 finals for me but both on Wednesday night. This hasn't helped much do to how I like to study, I work very well under pressure...and having so many days to study isn't helping since those days have been dedicated to 50 min study sessions then back to re beating Half Life 2. I guess in general i haven't taken this semester super seriously. Not that i enjoy slacking off, just that being easy 101 classes to complete my gen eds doesn't help me when I want to work on classes that go twords my major O_O...its killing me, but next semester is almost here, along with harder work for some actual time arts classes. Gotta do some awesome work and pass the portfolio review O_O On a side note i cant wait to see tori again, sure its only been like a week and a half since i saw her last, but i got so used to it for that week. Well any ways back to studying Geography O_O

My break from studying for my Geography test. Its odd having a test today and another tomorrow...and depending on how good I do on those two tests will determine if my grades are good enough how they are with out the final O_o Finishing off my gen eds this semester'ish seems to have been a good idea, since most of them are all basic 101 classes and being lectures as well, its just go to class, take notes, take test and repeat! I've been starting to get annoyed with some people in terms of them seeing how easy/ lack of major papers this semester is for me and think my major is a breeze! From what I've seen from Adams work he's doing in Time Arts I can easily say that I'm gonna have my work cut out for me. Its one thing to read a book, then write a paper on it. But to be given a vague concept from a teacher for a project then to have to use a new program and be graded on standards that change for every single project; and to be creative yet with in the realm of what is expected is hard work. I'm not even fully taking classes towards my actually major yet besides a few and all ready I can see the gut busting work ahead of me. I'm not saying writing 20 page papers and doing a lot of other time consuming things are not hard, I just get annoyed with people who judge something with out understanding it.

*sigh* I think my living conditions are starting to slowly kill me from the inside O_O. It's hard to live in an apartment with some one who at the time didn't seem like a such a bad person to live with but now is just plain annoying the heck out of you. So much crap to complain about him, not enough space on her to type it all. I have no problems living her with any of the other guys, just him. And i know for a fact I'm not alone in my feelings for him. And I might as well say the person that I was complaining about before with my the whole dissing my major is the same person, so that's another log on the fire O_o. I mean, I'm a very patient and understanding person, but its just every one of my pet peeves is being expressed here.

So to change the subject, I went back and read all my old emails from like 2004-2005, and its crazy to read something and to have your memory sparked and suddenly remember tons of stuff that had been lost. Haha I also read some early emails between myself and tori from 2005-06, and in them we would talk about how our 3 month anniversary was huge! And now its 2 months shy of 3 years, so that made me laugh. Just to think how I really didn't have the slightest clue of where my life would be at in this current point in time. I mean its not like i didn't have an idea, but yeah...you know. I feel like I want to write more on here, but i just spent the last few mins staring blankly out the window, and having nothing coming to mind of what to write about. So I'm gonna end this for now.

The Holiday season is upon us O_O Break cant come soon enough!!!!

So I checked the mail today and received another bill from Com Ed. I began to read over the thing and thought how funny it will be to get a new bill each and every moth of my life from this point on-ish. Yeah. Thanks giving break was decent, on the days where I wasn't hanging with tori seemed to drag on a bit. But I mean, basically one more week and a few days of finals, and its break once again. So over break I began having these dreams where I move deeper and deeper into some level of dreaming... It's hard to describe but it occurs quite often now, leaving off from the night before. But what ever it may be, trends like these usually spawn off and on randomly. To pick a more general topic, the snow is here and it felt nice last night with the snow falling as I was nice and warm watching tv while look out the window and seeing the snow coming down. Besides the pain of driving back to NIU from Cary do to the crapy'ness of the roads. I like the snow in small amounts or maybe even yet I like the snow when its falling, but the aftermath that leads to the days after suck. So I def believe I'm rambling here. I've decided that im going to stop reading our schools newspaper after this semester. I've come to realize that the editors of our paper are to judgmental, wither its writing reviews for movies or trying to write about some argument that they think is interesting. On another note, my ceramic mugs and bowls were brought home today. They didn't turn out as well as I would hope, but I will drink from them any ways even if they are hideously glazed with obscure coloration's. Hmmmmmm I really wanna take a nap before class but I usually feel all weird when i wake up and have to function again. I want to have a massive day of lanning some game or gamming all together, and I enjoy how alec put it into one of his posts or maybe it was on Aim... "We shall game like Kings!"

I'm in the Student Center comp lab, it smells like really buttery popcorn in here....that is all.

Undead Journal..clever.

Ah so nice, no class till 3:30 on Tuesdays. Been trying to find ways to be more active lately, been very lazy in terms of extra curriculum activities. To much of the same weekly routine is starting to get to me...i think im basically waiting for fall to arrive, or more or less the cooler weather associated with fall. Been hearing allot of thoughts about joining the navy from my brother as of late. It's weird to think about my younger brother going off and doing stuff like that, not that he's not capable of having it work out, just that i still see him as how he was when we were like in elementary school. Coming home from maple wood and playing video games or messing around with other ppl outside. Had my dad come out last Saturday which was fun, being the first of my fam to see my new place, he approved. Went and got lunch with him and Adam, to this pizza place down the street and got the biggest slice of pizza ever...3 times the size of a rosaties slice...only 5 bucks and that includes a can of pop O_^ So im really looking forward to this Friday, get to drive 2 and a half hours south to visit Tori for the weekend. Been missing her for quite a while now O_O On a different different note, I've been finding myself thinking wither this is what i thought of college when i was younger, or if im living it out the best that i could be. But i think i wont know until the end of next semester when summer comes due to finding out if ive been excepted into the Time Arts program. I don't think there's week where i don't think about it. Its gonna make or break my college plans. So basically the day i find out im into the program...im literally gonna fall to my knees and thank God. Ugh...almost 1...should prob get around to get ready for the day, but its so nice to lounge around and enjoy the time off on days like these.

So it seems this is my first post in a long while, I was weary of going back on do to the long absence but reading alecs recent post it has gotten me motivated to rewrite in here. Anyways, I also thought how its nice to come back and reread my posts from like 2004-05, alot has changed. So yeah! Been playing allot of Forced Unleashed, its a great game...pulling star destroyers out of the sky is hard work, but all worth it. Schools been going equally well, its nice living in an apartment but my cooking skills are not that developed yet so soup and sandwiches are what ill have to live on. Courses wise, this semester is equally well, basically blasting away any remaining gen-eds so course work isn't that hard with 101n classes, just allot of reading O_O But im happy to say life is going well, still edgy about the future and what not with where im going but each day things become a little bit clearer, or maybe I'm just caring less about the small details. Got allot of tests this week, but things to look forward are visiting tori who I haven't seen in like 5 weeks O_o and eventually going to visit alec downtown.

So a month ago, I decided to change my major from graphic design to animation...yet I feel like I've wasted an entire year on my first major since only 1 class goes over into the animation major. So now I'm wondering if i should try and get my associates still in art for graphic design since I'm half way there while at the same time try and get as much of the classes for animation done. Meaning cram like 6 classes a week, or just drop one or the other O_O

Loving the death trap that is going to MCC on a day like today :)

Why do I have a painting project due in Drawing II class? O_O

Face book has to be one of the best things for college life. I don't know about the whole messaging wall thing but just seeing pictures of every one we at one point saw daily defently brings a sense of closeness sorta. But at the same time as I looked at the members of the CG 06 group, i couldn't help but get down on the fact that every one even the ppl i never talked to are gone. And i realized that since we all don't go to cg any more we don't share a simmular aspect in our lives. And when i see ppl having life's of their own, experiencing college in different states and city's enjoying life, i just have the small notion of wishing i could experience's it all. Just the experience's of living in different states and meeting new ppl. MCC is a death trap i think. It taunts u with its college ways but experience's in life are short. My life the same as it was in high school and i think by living the same life i'm stuck while every one else has moved on witch might make it easier on every one else. Idk, life dosnt seem like an adventure any more. I feel trapped.

I feel as though theres another level of Christmas that I have yet to find. Agreeing with many ppl on the whole "dosnt feel like christmas thought" O_O
I dont think I got sucked into the holiday season as I should have, haha I belive I was overwelmed with the fact that it was indeed Christmas at last. Yay for random side notes! Hope every one had a great Christmas!
Hope to see some of you strangers before you all go back to school O_^

So ive spent little over an hour trying to beat cell with hurcle....impossible I tell you, impossibleeee O_O

Its that time of year again...

So Much SNOW O_O !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eh, not the bestest of days im afraid, even though I had an awsome weekend full of Wii'ness, haha weenis Wii'ness any whooooo, I woke up kinda late then had hoped and then forsome reason was running late, rushing around and then finaly getting into my car. It isnt till then that I notice I do not have my bag with my books in it, rushing about to locate it I find and run back outside witht he bag. It is at that moment I forgot I need to get gas still, since I dont know if ill make it to MCC and back with out a fill up, so I put my bag on my car and ran up and got money. Rushing back into my car thinking of how this shall be a close one with getting gas and all I speed off down my street heading twords gorge town. It is then that I notice somthing slide down my back window.... O_O I stop the car, run out and grabb my luckly for the msost part empty bag, and ran back to my car. Speeding away, I finaly arrive at the shell in crystal lake, filling my car up I get distracted with the "discharge your static energy here to prevent a spark" sign O_o then it hit me that I only have 20 bucks on me so I look at the pump and its 29:40 so not thinking first impuse told me to pull it out, so I did, but it was still pumping for a second, so gas goes on my shoes some on pants, and the rest on the ground! I look at the pump and like 35 more cents came out! I get in my car, look for some change and run inside. I then tell the lady that im 20 cents short, and she gives me a lecture about how I should pre pay and all that. Getting in my car and waiting for the light, angry that she was mad because I get gas there alotttt and 20 cents isnt like stealing 5 bucks worth! Also I begin to notice I smell like gasoline..... O_O Rushing to school with heavy traffic, I finaly get there not caring how I smell, id just exsplain to the ppl sitting near me the source behind the smell. So I run up the stairs just feeling lucky its my only class today, its 5 till 1 so im safe, I walk to my class and see a sign on the door that says...todays class is cancled. O__O


The end, I died on the spot :)

Soooooo tonight has been very eventfull, attempting to go see Happy Feet with Tori and her friends in barington, we miss the show we tried to see. Then after a steak and shake break headed back to catch a later show. While enjoying a nice ride home, I some how forgot to turn onto 14, so we end up in Wickanda, and long story short we got out of it. But it's times like these that on my own i'd freak out, yet for some reason with Tori there, I kept calm...even though we wernt like lost lost. And I feel good about it. yep yep! Wii tomarow, along with Follllies haha