Yes, I Am Alive

HELLO, BLOGOSPHERE! CD IS BACK!!!!!!

Well, it's been an interesting week. Semi-Intelligent Thoughts is once again coming to you from Syracuse University in beautiful central New York. Pennsylvania failed to eat my soul, and now I'm back where I belong. Let's get to some updates.

First of all, in the Incredibly Good News Department, my audition was frickin' awesome, and I am now a snare drummer in the Syracuse University Marching Band. WOOHOO!!!!!

...Yeah, that's how I felt on Friday. But as of right now, I'm sunburned, my feet hurt, my back hurts, my hands are screwed up, and I'm exhausted. Hooray for band camp.

In all seriousness, I do love marching band, and the SUMB Drumline is better than a lot of other college drumlines, so it's awesome to be a part of it. And in case you're not a marching band person, let me fill you in: Everybody in the band wants to play drums, and everybody who wants to play drums wants to play snare drum. They may not admit it, but it's true. We're the elite musicians within the elite section. Snare drum rules!

The rest of the band is really good this year, so we should have a great season. Our first show is quite possibly the best marching band set ever. Are you ready for this?

The Video Game Show.

That's what we've been calling it. It consists of the theme songs from Super Mario Bros., Tetris, and The Legend of Zelda.

DOES THAT NOT KICK SOME SERIOUS F**KIN @SS?! WE'RE PLAYING VIDEO GAME SONGS AT HALFTIME!!!!

...As you can probably tell, I don't have much to say. I haven't had contact with the outside world since last Wednesday, so I have no idea what's going on. Unfortunately, it's probably going to remain that way until Friday afternoon. I'll be at band camp all day on Wednesday and Thursday, and when I'm not there, I'll be setting up my room. I actually haven't had time to unpack yet, but I went through the incredibly irritating process of registering my computer with ResNET so I could give everyone an update. I don't know why I bothered after I only got 2 FOTHERMUCKIN' COMMENTS on the open thread, but this blogging crap is addictive.

On a semi-political note, my roommate for this year is cool. I know it's not really proper netiquette to quote people's e-mails, but I have to share this line from the last one he sent me:

...if you happen to have a Bush/Cheney sign to put on our door, that would rock...otherwise we can print one out from the internet, only if you want to though. Some loony liberal might rip it down...

This should be better than last year, when I roomed with the World's Biggest Yankees Fan. Check out some posts from around last year's World Series to see what I mean. I know I mentioned him a couple times.

Finally, let me tell you about my morning. Today was the second time I got to see my dorm room for the year, but I actually moved in for good, so I was able to look around for a little longer before I went back to band camp. Anyway, to make a long story short...remember my old friends, sac spiders? Well, guess what was on the ceiling when I went into my room?

That's right: A FRIGGIN' SAC SPIDER!

It's dead now, but still...that may be a bad sign. This room was full of spiders when I got here, but I'm pretty sure I destroyed the majority of them. And their stupid webs.

I hate spiders. And I'm out of blogging time now, so I'll make this another open thread until I get a chance to write a real post.

I'D BETTER SEE SOME COMMENTS WHEN I GET BACK HERE!