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I just finished reading Greg Dean’s account (the guy that does Real Life Comics, one of my favorites) of the Serenity premier, and all I can say is that it sounds like a lot of fun. Remind me to create a website popular enough that people invite me to the premiers of awesome movies where I can talk with famous people that read my site sometime. Anyway, I don’t know how Greg didn’t like Angel. Buffy is more understandable, it wasn’t as dark and it’s, I don’t know, more feminine (I guess that’s pretty obvious)? I got into Buffy because I started watching Angel first, and wanted to see how the story lines intertwined. Sometimes I feel bad for liking Buffy, but most of the time I’m secure enough in my masculinity to just enjoy it. I’d say that seasons 2 and 5 of Angel and seasons 2 and 3 of Buffy are the best. Anyway, Firefly rocked. It sounds like Serenity will rock. I can’t wait to see it.

*Update: I knew his name was Neil Patrick Harris. In fact, his name came up in a conversation between me and Andrew just the other day.

Hey Hey! Hoo hoo hoo hah hah hah! **/Krusty’s Voice**

I’m back. Turns out there was a little snafu in getting internet at our new apartment; it took them a week to get out here since it’s so busy right now. At least it gave us time to wire the apartment with CAT 5e. We got jacks and everything- that’s how we roll here at… Well, we’ve been trying to decide a new name for this apartment. First there was The Future, so we could say “Hey guys, I’m gonna head back to The Future now.” Then there was Helvetica, because I think we were drunk and Mikey (or was it Justin?) has a photographic memory for font names. For this one the candidates are:

• Reality. As in: “Hey guys, I’m gonna get back to reality now”.
• Conquistador. Because our case worker (that’s what I call her) here at the apartment complex (Jill) didn’t know what a conquistador was when we asked her if they were included in our lease. I forget whether we asked if Conqistadors were allowed as pets or if we asked about just who was liable in case of Conquistadors annexing our apartment in the name of Spain (or, to a lesser extent, Portugal). If I remember correctly we are only liable for infractions by the portuguese variety.
• Spain. Because that’s where the good Conquistadors come from.

I liked this article.

Oh boy do classes suck. Actually, only one sucks. My math class. It’s so far above my head I think I can see my house from there. My math book? First copywrited in 1953, last copywrited in 1976. ~330 pages long, but still cost me $150.00 because I had to buy it locally since we needed it the second day of class. We just jumped right in, no review. Take a look inside, if you dare! Bwahahaha, etc. I’m just hoping that if I can stick it out a few weeks, everything will start to make sense (like the first reviewer’s experience). I’m encouraged by the number of people that seem to have used this text book at the undergraduate level- the class I’m in is technically a graduate class. Alright, enough complaining.

I’m growing a beard. Not sure if I like it or if I’ll keep it yet, but I’ve gotten several complements. It itches sometimes, but not as bad as you might think.

Crystal got to go to the game on Saturday. I still haven’t been to one. I couldn’t even watch it on TV since we didn’t have any cable and couldn’t watch it elsewhere since I was waiting for the cable guy to show up between the hours of 1:00pm and 5:00pm. (He finally showed up at 7:30pm.) So I listened to the game on the radio and finished wiring the house with the aforementioned CAT 5e.

I want several things right now, one of which to go out drinking and have some fun. I haven’t been drinking (really) since Mikey was here, because we moved away from campus and I’ve been the one driving whenever we went out. Plus we put our bar night on hold last week since school started up. Hopefully we’ll do something this week and hopefully I’ll get my homework done so I can go and hopefully Marc will drive so that I can take full advantage of the fact that I don’t have class until 10:30am on Thursday.

Well since this blog entry is pretty much stream of consciousness I think I’d better get some food before I lose said consciousness. See ya!

Wow. I went running tonight and I went pretty far. Allow me to demonstrate using several links to Mapquest (I need several links to show the route I took since I ran in a loop). I ran:

1. Here
2. Then Here
3. Then Here
4. Then Home

For a total of… only 3.54 miles. Man, it seemed longer than that. Oh well. I’ve run 5 miles on a track before (on a regular basis), but that took too much time for me to do more than once a week, and I think 3.54 miles several times a week is better than 5 miles once a week.

Well, ever since labor day weekend there has been a feeling on campus that autumn quarter is already upon us. Summer classes have finished and football has started. After a fitting send-off last thursday and friday to both our friend Mikey and our time living on campus, Roshan and I moved out of our apartment on Lane ave. I’m now living at home for 10 days before I can move into the new apartment on the 15th. So it’s a transitional time and it feels like the night before school starts- even though that feeling is 3 weeks early. But, there is a difference in my attitude this year. This morning I was riding the bus to work from the parking lot and I saw the band practicing, including (for his blond hair was unmistakable) Jonathan Bradshaw, a freshman in my trombone squad my senior year of high school. It took me back to thinking about those times, and after this summer I actually feel like a college student for the first time. And not just any freshman college student, for this year (God willing and the creek don’t rise) I will graduate. Yes, though Bluto Blutarsky and I have spent a similar amount of time in our respective institutions, I will emerge with a degree. Also unlike him, I will not go on to become President of the U.S.

So, as my sixth year of Ohio State education (and third straight year of Ohio State employment) approaches I feel like I own the place. As famed a famed music producer once said, I’m “The cock of the walk, baby!” The feeling is good. The feeling says that I can tell that I’ve been an undergrad long enough because the freshman are looking younger and younger. It says that I’ll do fine in my graduate level Math class hell this autumn simply because I’ve lasted this long and another class isn’t going to kill me. It says that after I graduate you’ll still find me at Out R Inn next summer hanging out with my friends. And it says that in 20 years when I come back for a football game I’ll still remember the path that the Campus Loop busses take through campus.

Yes, my friends, the feeling is good.

Well well well. Look who got a domain name? That’s right! No more http://s89418668.onlinehome.us/, although that will still work, but you are now viewing the brand new http://www.bryansweb.net/! I know it’s kinda lame, but I couldn’t think of anything better that wasn’t already taken, and Yahoo Small Business was having a sale on domain names- $2.00/year, so I got it for 5 years. Would you believe there’s a turkelson.com? There is. And, they’re from Wisconsin, which makes me wonder if we’re related somehow. I glanced around their site for a while, but didn’t make an account, and I don’t think I’ve ever met any of them. I don’t know, though. I’m not too familiar with all of my Dad’s cousins outside of those related to the cottage in some way. Oh, the cottage. Were we really there only 5 weeks ago? It seems like it was last summer already.

So August of 2005 is gone and now we’re into September. The weather these first two days of September has been beautiful. In fact, right now I’m enjoying the cloudless skies and 81 degree weather from my front porch with my laptop and wireless internet, which is why I’m in such a good mood and you’ll probably find this entry to be long and rambling, while covering a variety of different topics. Anyway, the best thing about September (besides the good weather) is perhaps the beginning of Buckeye Football season. An honorable mention goes to my good friend Matt Ball’s birthday, which is today. He’s 24 today, and I’ve known him since we were in sparks together, back in like kindergarten. So that’s like 19 years ago. Mikey came back to visit us this summer, and now it’s your turn Ball.

Speaking of Mikey- he’s scheduled to leave Monday for China. He was going to go back to Dayton today but I think we convinced him to stay another night. Last night I had a great time. After dinner at Uno’s, Crystal, Roshan, Matt Bain, Andrew, Marc Magill, Mikey, and I went out to Out R Inn, which has become our bar of choice thanks to its proximity to our apartment (which Mikey named “Helvetica“), and carried on as college kids do- namely by imbibing large quantities of beer. We saw Matt Barber there- he was certainly having a good time. After that most of us came back to Helvetica and just talked for a while. Apparently the kids have decided that the best thing to do when I’ve been drinking is to chat with Megan. I first noticed this phenomenon on the night that I refer to as the “Four Steel Reserves” night, and it was Justin doing his best to weird her out. Last night it was Andrew pretending to be me, and then kind of giving up and just trying to be funny.

Moving on (you’ll noticed the brilliance of that segue in a second), this may very well be my last post from Helvetica because we’ll be moving out (see? hehe.) this weekend. That’s something I haven’t started and am not looking forward to at all. I’ve got a lot of junk. Plus we’re moving further away from campus, which wasn’t such a big deal when I was in classes but now that it’s summer time and we’ve been going out to bars and stuff I think I’ll miss it more.

Well, this post is already pretty long so I’ll spare you all from much more. I did want to mention two articles, however, that I thought were excellent. The first is here (scroll down a bit to see the full text), and was originally published in the New York Times. The second is here. Both have to do with the “Intelligent Design” controversy (or rather, the lack of any controversy) and I found both to agree with my views on the subject. I’d present some articles in favor of the other side, but I don’t want to and I don’t have to (and now to tie this whole post together) because this site is http://www.bryansweb.net/, and not some other website.