I haven't posted in my blog since april, and since I'm laboring under the delusion that anybody cares, I figured I'd give everybody an update on what's going on with me.

For starters, I'm unemployed again, because the baseball season ended and they don't need people to sell pretzels to an empty stadium. I can probably get hired again at the start off the next season, but I need money now, so that doesn't do me a whole lot of good. Of course, I'm still living with my parents, so I'm not paying for my own food or rent (just my own clothes, entertainment, and college tuition), but I'm really desperate to move out and get my own place, because my sisters (mostly my 13-year-old sister) are driving me up the wall. I've done some research on local apartments (they were giving out guides to local apartments at school), and I've found an apartment complex that's in the absolute perfect location; within walking distance of both my parent's house and a major shopping center (including a grocery store and a video game store!), and it'sright on the busline, so getting to school and back won't be a problem.The rent's pretty reasonable too, ranging from $400-550 per month. I haven't actually gone to the apartment to take a look at it yet, but the perfect location is enough to override a lot ofminor problems with the apartment.

But until I actually get a job, that apartment all to myself is just a fantasy. I've applied to a couple of places, but so far nobody's called me back. There's a new convenience store opening up near my house in a few weeks (well, they say it's going to open in a few weeks, but knowing how construction in Michigan usually goes, a couple of months is more likely).I am making a few dollars cleaning my friend's house, though; Ten bucks an hour to clean his dishes, vacuum his carpet, and organize his Dungeons and Dragons paraphenelia. It's a pretty good deal, but I only work about ten hours a month. Still, it's income.

In other news, I am still in college. Not a lot to say about that. I go to class, listen to lectures, do my homework/labs, and then go home. Most interesting thing about it is my 2-hour lunch breaks, which gives me plenty of time to go wandering around downtown lansing. Not like there's anything interesting in that part of downtown; it's almost all banks, office buildings, and high-end businesses like suit stores and nice resteraunts. But there is a comic book shop I like to frequent, and the public library is nearby. And yes, I do like to go to the library, and yes, I do like to read. Get over it.

I recently found out that the TV Links website got shut down by British authorities last week. I had noticed that I couldn't get onto the website lately, but I thought it was either my internet connection being cranky or that their server crashed or something. But no, they got formally shut down for copyright infringement and internet pirating and all that fun stuff. It sucks, but there's other websites I've found that do the exact same thing, so it's not the end of the world.

I can't think of anything else exciting that's happened to me last week. Oh, my uncle's cat Zoe had a seizure last week; I wasn't there to witness it, but he told me about it the next day. It's not really surprising, since a chihuahua nearly bit the poor cat's head off when she was a tiny kitten (she had a serious skull fracture, and she's still mostly blind in one eye). But she is recovering nicely, and is back to her usual psycho-slasher self (she likes to bite people). She's cute enough to make up for it, though.

I saw this survey in SMGslayer97's blog and i wanted to do it too. so here goes:

1. ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT? The scar on my left elbow I got from falling down in gym class in middle school.  I skinned my elbow pretty good, but it's hardly noticable now.

2. WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM? Lots of posters. There's one of Jack Sparrow on my door, Gandalf fighting the Balrog above my bed, a sea monster eating a fishing boat also above my bed, a unicorn rearing next to the bookcase, and a herd of wild horses stampeding above my dresser.

3. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DISNEY MOVIE? Sleeping Beauty. I loved the ending with the dragon being slain by the prince, and the song "Once upon a dream"

4. WHAT MUSIC DO YOU LIKE TO LISTEN TO? Classic hard rock/Metal. AC/DC, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Motley Crue, you get the idea.

5. DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME YOU WERE BORN?  12:34 AM. Even as a fetus, I knew how to count.

6. WHAT DO YOU WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW? Ice Cream. Maybe an M&M McFlurry. mmm, that sounds yummy.

7. WHO DO YOU MISS? My cat, Titus. He disappeared last fall, and we have no clue what happened to him. He was such a sweet little guy.

8. WHAT IS YOUR MOST PRIZED POSSESSION? Probably my laptop. It's definitely the most expensive thing I own.

9. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SMELL? Chocolate chip cookies in the oven. 

10. DO YOU GET CLAUSTROPHOBIC? No

11. DO YOU GET SCARED OF THE DARK? no

12. WHAT DID YOU SEE YOURSELF DOING 5 YEARS AGO, TODAY? Frankly, I though I would be a lot cooler than I actually currently am. but nope, I'm still single, still a geek, and still a couch potato.

13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOGNE/ PERFUME? I don't wear perfume. I do have coconut scented shampoo though.

14. WHAT KIND OF HAIR TO YOU LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SEX? Short and kind of spiky.

15. WHERE CAN YOU SEE YOURSELF BEING PROPOSED/ PROPOSING AT? Knowing me and the kind of guys I associate with, probably at a Dungeons & Dragons game. So romantic, I know.

16. COFFEE OR ENERGY DRINKS? Lattes and cappucinos, when I can afford them.

17. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PIZZA TOPPING? Meat. Pepperoni, sausage, ham.

18. IF YOU COULD EAT ANYTHING RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD IT BE? A McFlurry. Gosh, that sounds really good.

19. WHO IS THE LAST PERSON YOU MADE MAD? My little sister. I was watching TV, she wanted to watch something else, I told her I wasn't getting off the TV, so if she wanted to watch TV, she was watching Mythbusters with me.

20. DO YOU SPEAK ANOTHER LANGUAGE? A bit of spanish, a couple words of french, and I can say "no" in about five different languages.

21. WHAT WAS THE FIRST GIFT SOMEONE EVER GAVE YOU (OF THE OPPOSITE SEX)? One of my dad's friends gave me this neat little heart-shaped glass bead when I was about five or six. I still have it somewhere.

22. DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?  This one guy at school, unfortunately for him the feeling is not mutual.

23. ARE YOU DOUBLE JOINTED? Not that I'm aware of.

24. FAVORITE CLOTHING BRAND? I don't really look at the labels, so i don't know.

25. WHAT'S YOUR DREAM CAR? A 1972 Dodge Challenger, like the one Tully drives on Drive. Oh, that's a pretty car.

26. HOW MANY SONGS DO U HAVE ON YOUR COMPUTER/MP3 PLAYER/Ipod? About 100 on my Ipod. 200-300 on my laptop.

27. WHAT IS ONE OF YOUR DREAMS? To work for the Geek Squad. As I've mentioned before, I'm a geek.

28. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NUMBER? 1024

29.FALL OUT BOY OR PANIC! AT THE DISCO? I don't listen to either of them. Daughtry is the only current band I listen to.

30. SAY A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 100: 98

31. WHO IS BETTER, BLONDES OR BRUNETTES? Brunettes, because that's what my whole family is.

32. WHAT IS THE ONE NUMBER YOU CALL MOST OFTEN? My dad's cell, because he's in charge of driving me places and buying me stuff.

33. WHAT ANNOYS YOU MOST? Stupid people. Not retarded people, just people who refuse to acknowledge or use common sense.

34. HAVE YOU BEEN OUT OF YOUR HOME STATE?  Many times. Florida, Illinois, and Ohio are the three states I visit most (I have family in Chicago and Miami, and Sandusky, Ohio has the best amusement park ever).

35. YOUR WEAKNESSES? Procrastination, general crabiness, and laziness.

36. WHERE DO YOU WANT TO LIVE? Miami, because I hate snow.

37. FIRST JOB? Copying DVDS for my uncle's video production company. It paid pretty good, too.

38. EVER DONE A PRANK CALL? Yes.

39. WHAT WERE YOU DOING BEFORE YOU FILLED OUT THIS SURVEY? Updating my profile description and mouthing off on the boards.

40. DO YOU READ FANFICTION AND IF SO WHAT KIND? Sometimes, but it's so hard to find the few good fanfics in the multitude of bad ones.

41. WHY DID YOU FILL OUT THIS SURVEY? I was reading it on my friend's blog and I wanted to answer it too.

42. WHAT DO YOU GET COMPLIMENTED ABOUT THE MOST? My hair. I have very long, very thick, shiny brown hair. People like to play with it, and it drives me nuts.

43.WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF ALCOHOL BECAME ILLEGAL? Throw a fit. I'm looking forward to being old enough to drink alcohol, and I'd get pretty mad if the stupid government told me I couldn't.

44. WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY? I usually ask for DVDs and books for my birthday, so probably whatever books or movies recently got released.

45. HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU WANT? None. I like kids when they're well behaved, but I can't stand crying, dirty daipers, or trying to wrestle them into bed. So no kids for me.

46.WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? I don't think so. Nobody i know anyway.

47. DO YOU WISH ON STARS? No, although I do like to look at them.

48. WHICH FINGER(S) IS YOUR FAVORITE? I don't know. My thumb is pretty useful, I guess.

49.WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? A couple of weeks ago, when I watched Daughtry's "It's not over" video for the first time.

50. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? I like my handwriting. Nobody else does though. They think it looks like chickenscratch. 

Well, that didn't last as long as I expected. Only two weeks of boycotting and Sanjaya's out the door. But I shouldn't complain, because I did miss Blake and Mindy and all the other good singers. So I'm going to catch up on the last two weeks (thank god for DVR), and then life can get back to normal. Oh, and if you're wondering what I watched on Tuesday night instead of AI, I watched Die Hard for the first time. Yes, shocking as it is, I'd never seen the entire movie before, although I did catch the last half of it on TV a couple of years ago. But what with Live Free Or Die Hard coming out this summer, I figured I should watch the first three movies, so i rented Die Hard and recorded Die Hard with a Vengeance. My dad said there's no real point in watching the second movie though, because it sucked. I'll take his word on it for now. But I really wish I hadn't waited this long to rent that movie. That was the most awesome action movie I've seen in many years. I especially loved the catchphrase "Yippee-Ki-Yay, Motherf****r". I so wish I could use that in regular conversation, but I try not to swear in polite conversations, so I'll have to settle for putting it in my FilmSpot siggy. Anyway, glad I can watch American Idol again. I gotta go, class just started. 

                                       love, Dragon