Day 6

So I slacked on days 4 and 5, but not too much happened. I went to trivia Monday night at buffalo wild wings in chanhassen. Man I sure do love trivia. I honestly look forward to 20 years down the road when I am an absolute god at pop-culture trivia. It will be so fucking amazing. Now I kinda feel that I am a little aprentice. It really is just a great way to go with your friends, have some drinks, some laughs, and try and beat people. Its also about pop-culture, which is the greatest thing ever. I wasn't wavering from television, movies, etc. one bit, but going to trivia reaffirms my belief that those who don't watch a lot of television or movies are wrong. After all that talking up how much I love trivia I don't know if I will make it out to hopkins tomorrow night. I plan on going to the gophers game so depending when that gets out we will see if I can make it to hopkins or not.

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Continued at 2:50 pm on Friday originally started on Wednesday night.

Went to the gophers basketball game last night and had a blast. It was such a terrible game in the first half. Yikes it was gross. We (Andy, Molly, Dave, myself) sat in the upper level (is it even a deck??) in the corner. I enjoyed the location of the seats. The only bad seats in the barn are obstructed and these weren't obstructed so they were great. They were bleachers made for giants. I felt like a little kid when my toes barely could reach the ground. Because of that my back was killing me. No big deal with the frequent tv time outs for me to stand and stretch me back. The architect of those bleachers though had to be at least 6'3" and getting back at shorter people who made him sit in shitty like seats at all other sporting events. The gophers won by a lot, 24 maybe? My boy Trav Busch got some garbage time, but didnt shoot an open 3. Trav the NBA scouts like gunners, not passers. You sir, are a gunner! I must say the defense of the gophers is very impressive. The team is young and only going to get better. The offense will come with time and colt 45 and the emotionless monster ralphie sampson III are ballers.

Unfortunately this is my last day here at Jan's. It has definitely been enjoyable to have a place to my own and just hanging with wink (always sleeps at the foot of my bed which brings me back to high school with my girl maizy) and just chilling. I found an internship to apply for at general mills yesterday so I did that. I'm not holding my breath but we shall see.

I dont have plans this weekend. My pops gets into town tonight so I will talk with him about some different things and other than that watch the gophers play mankato tonight and tomorrow (still not sure why they had last week off), watch the wolves play a tough lakers and celtics squad, and finish with some superbowl sunday in which I am not particularly excited at all (never am for the superbowl, unless the jets or vikings are there which, I should ad, has never happened in my lifetime) but, hopefully it is a good game. That is all I can ask.

I hope to go on an adventure soon. Any type of adventure, a car adventure, a walking adventure. I just want to go on some adventure. I'll need to talk to the people who are around and see if a midnight adventure could be done sometime soon. They always turn out to be fun. Maybe it should just be spontaneous though. It always seems that planned things never live up to hype because there is always a sense of expectations that goes along with the planning aspect. I guess I will just need to wait for the time when an adventure presents itself and jump at the opportunity. That is all from northeast. I will be back sometime soon, early next week I'm thinking. Cheers friends

Day 3

Well day 3 is coming to a close and not too much is new here. Wink the cat is such an awesome cat. If i go to sleep I wake up with him at my feet. If I am watching tv he comes and lays on my stomach. What a cool, affectionate cat. I should bring the devil jessi over here and let Wink show her how to behave to people who love her.

I have watched the first season of oz and it is a solid show. I'm still waiting for it to get really good, but the character development is definitely unique in the sense that they are prisoners and trying to make it one day at a time.

The sags where tonight. 30 rock killed it again. I don't understand that at all. Alec Baldwin is not funnier than steve carroll. He just isn't, it is as simple as that. 30 rock isn't more funny than the office either. I'm considering just stopping with 30 rock all together. I love tracy morgan though because he is insane. It does piss me off that everyone thinks it is the greatest show ever. Well guess what? It isn't, done and done.

I have started to listen to podcasts. I has listened to bill simmons bs report on and off since it commenced. This past fall I started listening to Stuff you should know which is very informative about all different kinds of enjoyable topics such as "how to live off the grid", "how delta force works", "the best place to get shot", etc. The dudes who do it are cool and seem like they have the greatest jobs ever, probably because they do. I just started listening to "This American Life" which is from Chicago publicradio and hosted by a dude named ira glass. The first episode i listened to was right before the inaugeration so i was already a little obama'ed out, but it held my attention for an hour from their different interviews with average people and also an interesting look at a company that started manufacturing both candidates (mccain and obama) shit back in the spring and how they grew from 5 employees to 500. Obviously now they just have obama shit and are letting people go everyday. It is supposed to be a good little snapshot of america, and since I love america more than most I figured that I would become a listener.

On tap for tonight/tomorrow is watch some oz, listen to some aussie open on the comp (no espn2 here) and possibly watch some my name is earl. Does anyone else watch that show? I feel like it is a show that people just don't watch even though it is very enjoyable. I can find joy in many things though, so maybe it isn't that good. I will say if ethan supplie's character Randy can;t make you laugh then give up on life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtI_lPIWwzk i love you randy.

Well that is all from basecamp alpha. If you are ever in northeast come and visit me, as that is where seanslittleworld is posted up right now. Cheers friends!

Day 1

So it is early Saturday morning and -9 out. Jesus it is frigid. I just got in from Chris and ills house that they are house sitting for until June. No disrespect to them, but I feel that the house that I am managing has much more to offer. Great location, ummm ummm ok their house is rather incredible. I like Jan's little house but the thing that they are in is out of this world. Wow how some people live is crazy.

Anyway things are going well in Northeast. Wink the cat is a friendly kitty who enjoys being pet and sleeping on my feet so there is no complaints about that. I have watch 4 episodes of Oz so far and it is very engaging and interesting. It also instills in me what I have believed for a good while now; I never ever ever want to end up in jail. Yikes that is a scary thought. I really cannot wait until March and it getting warmer. This cold weather is really not working. That is all for now. I need some sleep, but not before an episode of Oz of course. Cheers friends!

Change is here!!

This isn't a political post, i just needed to start with some thoughts...

Well I guess change is here. We have a new, young president who happens to be black and has two adorable daughters and according to Gallup polls some crazy number like 73% of people who think he can make a difference. That's a little funny because bush had a 23% approval rating when he left office. So basically those polls flipped which I find a funny. Blacks are going crazy that there is a black man who is now the leader of the free world and now everything will be fixed in this cruel world for blacks and minorities because Obama has the power and means to help every black person in this country. I am happy he won, but I'm not an idiot. Politics are politics and I am extremely cautious about what the future holds. It seems like people are in such a dreamworld that the end of our problems are here now that he is in office. Hopefully he will live up to a little bit of his hype and change some policies such as stem cell research, climate change, and get out of Iraq. That's really all I'm hoping for. Other than that we shall see. I do enjoy watching him speak because he does have a massive presence and is very charismatic. I hope he does well, but I'll believe it when I see it.

back to your regularly scheduled post...

I start a house sitting stint on Thursday at Tom's mom's house in northeast Minneapolis. She is going to Kyle's wedding until the following Saturday and asked if I could house sit for her. I jumped at the opportunity because first and foremost it is Jan and she is extremely nice and always awesome, second it was a chance to keep wink (cat) company while she was at the wedding, and third it is a chance to know what it is like to live in Minneapolis for 10 days. I went over on Saturday afternoon to go over what I needed to do and all that stuff and most of the stuff is rather basic. She has a cat, cable TV, Internet, and heat. There isn't much more I could ask for. Maybe people could come over and hang if they want. I know its a little bit of a drive, but whatever. I'll be close to Andres so that will be cool.

Jan also informed me that she found a job at work (works at north memorial hospital as a nurse) that was for a surgical assistant that sterilizes surgical utensils and stuff like that, but that it requires a 6 week course at mctc to get the job. That sounds like a sweet job to me, but its lame that I would need to take a class. I find it funny that with a 6 week course I could get a job at a hospital that pays rather decent, but with a 4 year college degree and over $16000 in student loans I can't find shit. I have started to think of some other options because it seems this Minnesota option isn't working out like I hoped it would.

1. Applying to officer candidate school for the air force to try and become a pilot. I am not sure if I would get accepted for medical reasons, but being a pilot is something that I would love to do, and the military has intrigued me since I was young and would go to west point with my dad. I need to talk to a recruiter, but am a little apprehensive because once I give my phone number I would get calls nonstop. The candidate school is a 12 week long course and is supposedly very tough to get into, but it would be worth a try.

2. I have also looked at different federal agencies such as the u.s. marshalls, the FBI, DEA, AFT, secret service, etc. Much like the military, law enforcement on the federal level seems like something that would be enjoyable to do.

3. I have talked to Bob about possibly moving out with him (to California) for a little bit to try and look for a job and enjoy the nice weather while I am still young and have nothing holding me back (see: no girl, no kids, no jail, no job). I think about this more and more as it would be something totally different from where I have been and living on the beach sounds amazing. Plus my dad is already out there and mom will be out there soon enough. I would not want to live with them, but having them within an hours drive is not a bad situation.

4. Go back to school to get a graduate degree and just take out college loans so I will have years and years to pay them off. I haven't really put much thought into this because I would have stayed at FDU if I wanted to still be in school. I am sick of school though. I don't feel like going back to school and paying a shitload of money again.

5. Kick footballs in the NFL. Another dream of mine that I think could possibly happen if the right things happen. One of Gary Anderson's good friends who he went to school with in south Africa was my soccer coach and I really need to call him up and se whats with that. I have his number, i just haven't done it yet. Obviously kicking a football is something that would be amazing.

I just signed up for a marathon that is June 20 in Duluth. I needed a challenge in my life and I thought that running a marathon is a nice challenge to start with. I eventually want to do a triathlon and then an iron man, but we will start nice and conservative with 26.2 miles. I'm a little jealous that Andres did this 2 years ago. You are a champ my friend. It is a staggering number when you look at it 26.2 miles. (insert Morgan freeman narration from shawshank) "that's just over 419 football fields". If Andy dufrene could do this (freeman voice again): "Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit smelling foulness I can't even imagine, or maybe I just don't want too. Five hundred yards... that's the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile." Then running 26.2 really isn't that bad right? Right!? I'm once again cautiously optimistic. I guess that's how I live my life these days. Some people would call me a pessimist. You know what I say to that? Fuck em! Allie is running it with me (actually she was running it with a girl from school when I told her I was running it, but whatever it will be nice to at least see someone before and after the race (gonna beat her ass during it though! sub 2:15 here I come bitches!) and have her to talk to for the next 4-5 months of training and someone to relate to). I tried to talk tom into doing it, but I don't think he is. I can't blame him since he is in school and in a party environment. That would be tough to wake up on weekends and go run anywhere from 13-20 miles, let alone training during the week too. Does not sound fun, but someday Tommer we will run one together.

I'm going to start keeping a training log either on this blog or just make a new one so I can track progress and different stuff like that.

I am also going to start as of Thursday a little journal for my house sitting stint.

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(Thursday night 6:45pm central)

I took a break Tuesday night when I was writing my blog and then I never got back to it until now. You know how busy I am researching so many different things for work and school and my future. anyway where was I? ahhh yes...

So I will start a house sitting mini journal/blog for the next 10 days or so. I have the complete series of OZ and will hope to watch all of that and I have 3-4 books that I will have with me: I am America anso can You! By Stephen C., A Pirate looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffet, Dewey by some lady, and why we suck by Tommy Gavin er Dennis Leary. I am in the middle of all these books so I should be able to finish mos, if not all of them over the next week and a half. Hey I guess I'll bring On The Road by Jack Kerouac just for Tyler and the hopes that our book club can start up this year.

I saw slum dog millionaire the other day and I thought that it was such a damn good/clever/entertaining movie. An awesome montage featuring "Paper Planes" is on there and it is extremely sweet. I recommend the movie to anyone though. It has some great humor and also shows the life of a boy growing up in a slum in India.

I ended last year reading about 7 books in the fall alone. I forgot how much I enjoyed reading and how much books make you use your imagination. A few books I hope to read soon are "Team of Rivals" a book about Lincoln's cabinet because of how he basically put everyone who talked shit about him on the campaign trail in his cabinet which turned out being one of, if not, the best presidency in history. I also look forward to reading "American Lion" which is about Andrew Jackson and how crazy smart he was. If you haven't known by now I kind of enjoy history, especially American history.

Well we got trivia tonight at the main street tavern in Hopkins. I would enjoy if this turned into a weekly thing with my friends. Its always fun competing in anything and the chance to win money/gift certificates from pop culture trivia is just a bonus. Hopefully we can be top 3 tonight, but honestly other than 1st is bullshit. So lets take it home fellas.

I will try and post more this year. I look forward to this year like every other year. The unknown is great, although is can be overwhelming and frustrating its still enjoyable. I'll see you from Tom's mom's house tomorrow. Bye friends

-Sean

p.s. I'm in love with The Veronicas.

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