So I am completely done with school forever! I finished up yesterday, when I turned in my last homework assignment. It still hasn’t really set in, but I enjoy not having the work to do. I guess maybe it would seem more real if I had a job lined up. Oh well, I’ll have to keep on trying.

Tickets for Mraz sold out, so that really sucks. I shouldn’t have put it off for so long, but hopefully I can find a way to get everyone in to the show. The guys who are going to Bonnaroo are coming in. I haven’t seen Weeba in a long long time, so that should be a great time. Not to mention everyone else that is coming in. Party at 223 Bosley!

This weekend is going to be nuts. Hopefully Mraz tomorrow along with getting ready for Kim’s party. Then graduation and Kim’s party on Friday. Engineering graduation on Saturday, maybe some boat trip with Kim, maybe a party thrown by my advisor, etc. Sunday is my graduation party at home. It should be a fun one!

Things with Kim are excellent. Next week she will be in Kansas City looking for a place to live. This will give us a little taste of what it is going to feel like. I think it will be fine.

That’s it for now, back to work…

School is almost over. This is getting pretty scary. I guess I really have 3 more days left. Tomorrow we have senior project demo day, where we get judged on our projects. I have a Psych test Thursday, should be easy enough. Friday, I have a database quiz. I like the term quiz and not final, so hopefully that will be easy. I think our Prof for that class is trying to take it easy, she is also our senior year advisor. Then I have like 3 or 4 programs due next week. That will be the worst part of all. It is for my pass/fail class, so I just hope I can pass the damn class.

I guess I’ll be working at ITI until mid June and then from there, I don’t have a clue. I keep sending my resume out, and sending out replies to people, but I rarely hear back on anything. I got one job that I might be able to get, but it pays in the mid 20’s. That is awful. So not much has changed in the job search.

We are trying to finalize a day for this years Pig-Fest, which is the 10th annual. Either August 9th or 16th. On the 9th OAR is playing riverbend with 311, but I will be seeing the same show a week or two before. I’m thinking I could skip this one if need be. On the 16th Fate Hates Us already has a show, so playing at the party wouldn’t work out. That is the one problem, and it all comes down to me. :)

That is really about all that has been happening. Lots of partying for the end of the year, which I’m sure will only increase once we really do graduate. Too much fun!

Pulled an all nighter last night. Our senior project was due today and we had serious work to do with that. Not too much fun, but it is about over now. My hockey game was postponed for tonight, which really sucks because I wanted to go to the bar tonight, but at 10:15 game might ruin that. The crazy thing is, I only have about a week left of school, for the rest of my life! Man, what a great feeling. I better go do homework though. It’s been pretty boring lately…

Interviews are so much fun. Haha. It actually went fine, but what is up with the fact that I only get calls back from consulting type places. Weird. I guess I’ll have to wait until mid next week to see if anything is available for me.

I have an early copy of OAR’s new CD, and it is sweet. Everyone needs to make sure you go out and buy it next Tuesday. You will not be disappointed. They are gonna be on Conan, Letterman, and MTV. Good things are gonna start happening…

I’m hungry, time to find food!

I’ve realized that this is a wonderful place for new girlfriends to get all the dirt on me. I guess I should have realized that before. Oh well, it really doesn’t bother me. Kim said she isn’t going to read this anymore, cause I guess she didn’t like to read some of the older stuff. I told her to just read the new stuff and that should make her happy. Things have been going so good for the both of us, or at least I think so. She found out that she is starting work on July 7th, which is a little earlier than I originally thought, but if we make it up to the point that she leaves, I think we’ll be fine if we both want to continue on with it. I’m not too worried about it, and I guess that is my new feelings about so many things. I’m not worried about a job, I’m not worried about school, etc. School is almost over, I guess we have like 3 more weeks. All I know is our senior project is due next week, and we still need a bunch of stuff to get done. Once again, I’m not worried. :)

Speaking of jobs, I have an interview tomorrow at Cardinal Solutions. Here is a description from their website: We are a full eBusiness service firm specializing in systems integration, web graphic design, application development, and systems and network infrastructure. Our headquarters are located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Doesn’t sound like too bad of a place. Hopefully things go okay tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Well the work day is about over. Time to finish up a few things and go to my parent’s for dinner…

Hey!
Well this weekend was awesome. I got to see Fate Hates Us, July For Kings and Red Wanting Blue on Friday night. I’m very excited for the FHU CD to come out after hearing them play some of the stuff all polished up. The weather cooperated, so that really helped the night to be enjoyable. We attempted to watch Vertical Horizon, but soon got tired of them and left. Went back to Peccer’s place and drank all of his beer. :)

The next day we came back home and started drinking soon after. Sarnovsky, Kraut, Peccer, and Tracey all came down for Jammin’ On Main. After hours of drinking (2 cases between all of us) we headed downtown. Mraz was sweet, although the PA was not cooperating. We did some hippie dancing to moe. and enjoyed that for awhile. We then decided to leave, but before we could make it out we heard Mr. Roboto coming from the main stage. We all ran over to watch the Styx frontman play this song. It was awesome, complete with robot dances and everything. We left and went back to Clifton. Everyone definitely had a great time. Some other random things happened as well, and I would post a link to the message board that discussed it all, but I guess Sarnovsky deleted it. :\

Sunday, we went to the Red’s game. I should have caught a ball, but the guy next to me screwed it all up. Oh well, maybe next time. We had front row seats on the 3rd baseline. Great time down there.

I think we need to have a permaparty down here at 223 Bosley. It is always such a good time. I’ll just have to convince people to come down this weekend to see The Roots.

O.A.R. in 2 days!! This is going to be a great time. I’m gonna be able to stay down there at Amy’s parents house. Oh yeah, Amy is Kim’s roommate, I’m not sure if I mentioned that before. There will be a ton of people down for the show, and it will be my 50th show. I’ll have to try and get Tonight played. :)

The job search still hasn’t gone anywhere, but I’ve gotten the resume out to some places once again. Maybe I’ll actually hear back from someone this time, even if it is just to say that they got my resume. There is always McDonald’s…

It got cold out today, and that sucks. I actually considered putting all my long sleeve shirts away, but I had to bust one out for today. Damn Cincinnati weather.

Finding a job, or even looking for one really sucks. I haven’t got more than one callback, and the one that I did get is from a guy I don’t remember sending anything to. Oh well, I’m going for a group interview type of thing today, to learn about this place and what the job entails to see if I’m interested. Maybe I should get a hair cut. Hmm…

School is starting to get busier, but I still don’t want to do anything, just the minimal work to pass my computer graphics class. The others I would like to do well in, and have been getting good grades thus far. I would love to bring my GPA up to a true 3.5, but that seems like too much work.

Things with Kim are still going great, I’m looking forward to what can happen with this. I don’t want to jinx anything, but it truly is probably the best start to a relationship I’ve ever had. We’ll just have to see what happens.

I have some sweet shows coming up. It all kicks of with Big Free this Friday. Up in Columbus of course, and there are all kind of great bands playing. Then there is Jammin’ On Main with Jason Mraz and others. The next weekend is Springfest, which has the Roots and all kinds of other great bands. Wow, I’m going to be busy…

Guess I should try and do some work here. Have a good one everyone…

Well, school has not really been keeping me busy. I’ve been finding any excuse to not do work, although I’m still getting everything done. Senioritis has set in majorly. My job search, well it sucks. There is nothing out there that sounds good to me. I still have over a month, but I need to find something. :) Anyway, I haven’t been to that many shows recently, but there are a ton of them that are coming up. We have mostly been sitting on the porch or going to Murphy’s Pub a bunch. Darts and cornhole have been going non-stop. It is definitely a fun time right now.

Kate and I broke up. It was a very difficult thing to do because I’m not good with relationship type things, especially ending one. But it needed to happen, so I finally did it. I’m sure we will remain friends, it is just a weird time right now. Why is it weird?

Well I met someone new. Well I guess I have known her since we have lived her on Bosley, since she lives next door. Her name is Kim and she is a west sider, dammit! :) She is super nice and very cool, and I have been having a blast with her for the week and half we have been dating or whatever. I guess it all started on my brother’s b-day, which by the way was a very good time. I still think I got more drunk than he did, maybe that was because I was pretty buzzed when Tim and my dad showed up. We hit some bars and had some late night action outside our house and Kim’s. I guess my dad talked to her a bunch about marathons and west side crap. I ended up passing out on a chair in her apartment for the night, but the next day/night we hung out quite a bit. So far so good. The one bad thing is that she is leaving sometime after graduation to go to Kansas City for some job training. I guess she will be there for 9 months to a year. I wish I had more time to get to know her and such, but there is no point holding anything back, because it just seems so right. Oh well, I try not to worry about it, as everyone always says if it is meant to happen it will. She is in San Francisco for work shit, and I’m ready for her to come home, so we can have more and more fun!

I can’t think of anything else that has been happing. Graduation is quickly approaching. Feel free to send me whatever. :)

Well after Marchtober was over, it was time to immediately start planning our spring break trip, following the OAR tour. Liam, Fighty, Joe Vedder, and I packed tightly inside of fighty’s car, drove over 2000 miles round trip. Detriot – Sarnovsky was up in this biatch along with Tracey (and her sister) and Tangus. What a beautiful venue, and great sound. We met some cool people here, including didia and the air instrument guys. It was a good time. The next night the 4 of us went with the other 4 who were in town to IHOP and had some breakfast, and everyone but Tangus sped down to Bowling Green to catch the VACO show. We were a little late, but it was great to see them again. After that, we said our goodbye’s and we were down to 4 again, so we headed to Windsor. We gambled, drank, and celebrated my 23rd birthday there. We didn’t stay too long, cause we needed to be in Milwaukee the next day by the early afternoon for an in-store. Saw some old good friends there, April and Tom. Chilled after the in-store and then went to the show at The Rave. Huge, that is what that place is. Interesting place and expensive for the drinkers. Met Erica there, Jordan showed up with his girl, Jason was there too along with Fries. Of course the other 2 from the in-store. It was a pretty good representation. I spent the entire show making sure my rig didn’t get kicked, there must have been 3500 people there. Nothing too eventful for the rest of the night. The next day was Green Bay, but before we could leave we ate lunch on the lake. Our waiter approached us with, “A round of high life’s to start you guys off with.” Hahah, it wasn’t even noon I don’t think. They love their damn Miller beer there. So Green Bay, we went to the packer’s stadium and put some cheese head hats on. Good times. The show here was in a wedding reception hall. Quite interesting, but a sweet show. Cheap beers, and a good recording. I don’t remember much of anyone being there, well Jason was. :) We spent the night at Jason’s place in Oshkosh and ordered over 20 bucks from Taco Bell. Barf! A big thanks to him though. We rose early again to get all the way to goddamn Iowa. What a long boring drive that was. We saw tons of Llama’s though. :) We get to Iowa and go to Brad’s place. Have a few drinks to get ready for the show, and then shortly after head out. This place was a seated venue, and quite large. Very cool place. We get our tickets for this show (row 6, with VIP passes). Nice! Much thanks to Joel, even though we did buy him a few harley shirts… This show was sweet, and going out to the bar afterwards was even better. Brad setup an after show party at a cool Irish bar in town. Just about everyone from the entire tour came out, and we had a wonderful time. Thanks Brad! The next day was another day off, we talked about driving to the field of dreams, but realized it was closed during this time of year. We instead just drove for awhile and ended up in Galesburg, IL. What a hick town this was, but it was cheap and they had a hot tub! The next day was Crawfordsville, IN. Wabash College or Univ. is there, an all guys school of 800 or something. Interesting. We went to Andy’s fraternity house there on campus. Erica and her friend were there, and Tom showed up eventually as did Noelle and Renee and Fries. The show was in a gym, which left much to be desired. There was an after show at the frat house though, which made up for it. It was a fun and drunk night. Thanks to everyone who helped us out along our way, and it was nice meeting so many more cool and great people. Hopefully we can do it again sometime!
Since then, I’ve been busy trying to get back into the whole school thing. The beginning of my last quarter! This is scary…
More to come later…

What a weekend. Marchtober as we affectionately called it came and went like that. It was one of the best times I’ve had in such a long time. Two wonderful shows with big ass parties whenever we weren’t at Bogart’s. It all started at 3 on Friday for me, when I got out of class. A few people we’re already there like Vedder and Peccer. Soon after however, JStella shows up, I pick Stigs up, etc etc and we have a party on our hands. I have briefly met most of the people that showed up at one time or another, but never actually spent lots of time with them. Let me just tell you how cool each and every person truly was. I am so glad that me and my roommates decided to open up our house, because it was well worth it. From staying up all night with Jordan and Tim, to listening to all of JackStraw’s stories, to poo dollar, to DMX at waffle house, to Corn Whisky, to Swoothie making shirts for us all, to the beerings, to the random people we had on saturday, etc, etc, this was one hell of a party. I summed it up best apparently when I said that I was going to cry when everyone left. I never really did, but I really wish it wouldn’t have ended so quickly. We are definitely going to do this again, it was a blast!