Subject: Wow, what a night..
Date: Saturday 11/23/02 7:05:00 AM
Music: Black Velvet-Nikki McKibbin-American Idol August 27, 2002
Tags: queer: clubbing, travels: buffalo, university: undergraduate
First night at Marcellas with Alice…it was awesome.
Subject: Research Papers Must Die
Date: Wednesday 11/20/02 8:18:00 PM
Music: Lady Marmalade – Moulin Rouge Disc 1
BLERGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, 8 pages and 2 and 1/2 sections to finish. I’m going to make soup in the microwave and finish this paper tonight…then tomorrow I’ll go to the library to get the rest of the “mandatory” sources so the paper doesn’t fail on a technicality.
Subject: hmmm…
Date: Wednesday 11/20/02 7:10:00 PM
Music: Lady Marmalade – Moulin Rouge Disc 1
As one person said to me “you’re writing your doctoral thesis freshman year?” or at least that’s the way it seems with this research paper I’m doing. I already have seven pages and I still have more to go (it’s a 7-10 page paper) It look slike I’m going to have at least fifteen pages. It’s going good tho, and I’ll probably finish it tonight, edit it tomorrow and add touch up’s Saturday.
Anyways thanksgiving soon :-)) YAY!!!
::goes back to writing the paper::
Subject: My Amazing Weekend
Date: Tuesday 11/12/02 10:15:00 PM
Music: Dummy Bears Rocks!
Okay, so Friday I leave an away message up saying that I was going to be out late down at a local Buffalo hang out…secretly, I go fly in to JFK, NYC. Dad (on the pretext that he was going to settle something with a client, which he does often so it wasn’t out of the ordinary) goes to pick me up. I arrive and Dad and I drive home (Dad had a bad cold which sucks). Dad walks inside and goes to Mom (while I wait downstairs) “honey, I found an old friend at the clients house, are you decent” Mom goes “define decent, bring them on up” so I go up and the look of surprise on Mom’s face was great, we hugged for a long time and then we talked and hung out. I gave them an update on all things Buffalo and then I went and picked up V (Ben at the time couldn’t come out and play). I chatted with V’s parents and brought V home with me, talked with her and my Mom and caught up on everything :-). V had to go home early so I dropped her off and then drove back…it felt *REALLY* good to be behind the wheel of a car again.
Mom and I were talking and Sam rang the doorbell, and when he saw it was me through the glass and I opened the door he did a flying leap and hugged my neck and hung on like a monkey (okay, all together now 1, 2, 3, awwwwww…). It was good to see him, he’s doing amazingly well which just makes me so happy.
Mom and I decide that we’re gunna wake up early tomorrow to go do stuff (Dad was still sick so he wasn’t going to wake up early with us).
Saturday:
We wake up early-ish and Mom drove me to the Doctor (I had a cold and a cut on my back that needed taking care of so while I was home we decided we might as well just get it taken care of) then we went to the mall to go shopping at William Sonoma for Thanksgiving stuff…let me just say…wow…this years Thanksgiving is going to be off the hook. We then went to an Art store and I got some drawing pads, and Mom picked up some stuff she needed and then we head over to Barnes and Noble and I get a bunch of books. Then we come back and drop of my script’s at the pharmacy and who do we run into but my old boss, I say hi, she comments about my hair and earrings and that I don’t write often enough, I don’t call often enough (daily wouldn’t be often enough…)…the usual. We then go (as per a request from Dad) to PC Richards and get 2 DVD players for the house (which is good because it means I can finally finish Cowboy Bebop) so now we can watch DVD’s which is cool.
Mom and I come home, Mom takes a nap and then we Gather up V and Ben, Sam, Mom and myself (again…Dad’s still sick…:-(…) and head out to Sluggos for dinner. We convince the waitress to sing Happy Birthday to Mom (even though it was no where near her birthday) and have a wonderful meal with real food (and a Birthday desert for Mom…).
Sunday:
Woke up late (ahhh sleeping in on my couch…how I miss it… I don’t own a bed) had breakfast, and then the Grandparents came over (which is always cool). Had lunch at a diner with them which was great and I packed to get ready to go to the airport! Took a cab to the airport because Dad didn’t feel well enough to drive. I get to the airport, make my way through security and get to the gate and who happened to be there but my World Civ Professor! I said hi to Mr. Sussman and then we boarded the plane (late) and made our way to back to Buffalo.
It was a great weekend and I can’t wait to see my parents at thanksgiving.
– Matan
Subject: One of my favorite words…
Date: Sunday 11/3/02 4:59:00 AM
Music: THE REAL FOLK BLUES
ab·squat·u·late vi (archaic humorous) (regional)
1. to leave, especially in a hurry or under suspicious circumstances
2. to die
3. to argue
Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Subject: O-M-G!!! I ❤ MY ADVISOR!!!
Date: Thursday 10/24/02 5:05:00 PM
Music: I’m a lumberjack and thats okay…
I ❤ MY ADVISOR
Subject: Week in review…
Date: Sunday 10/13/02 7:30:00 PM
Music: Live Your Dreams-Save The Last Dance
1 – I stopped spazzing out and worrying that I was going to fail out of college, roll down a hil, bump into a camel and then subsequently fall off of a cliff. I have more than enough to geti nto the Photography program, ’nuff said.
2 – Girls were dealing, and I kid you not, suppositories, in the lounge today, somehow, I just *DON’T* want to know.
3 – I’ve been up for over 24hrs.
Anyways, almost time for me to nodd off so I can wakeup early and do some more homework, I still havent done laundry, but I have slacks underwear and a sweater to hold me over tomorrow.
Hugs,
Love Y’all
~ Matan
Subject: My Week…
Date: Friday 10/4/02 9:14:00 PM
Mood: empowered
Music: Black Velvet-Nikki McKibbin-American Idol August 27, 2002
Wow, finally Friday, not that I’m not enjoying school, but the weekends are a time when I can just sit back and relax and just recharge.
Anyways, today went pretty smoothly. I had Mythology at 2pm (no, we still haven’t gotten our grades back, but our grader says that we *may* get them Monday), Health and Human Services went fine, I’m going to do studying for that class this weekend as well. We talked about alcohol and it’s medicinal purposes and the debate that surrounds them. I believe the majority of the class will be testing the medicinal hypothesis tonight, as it’s Friday…
This weekend I’ll be doing some of my own work as well, getting things up and ready, I have a phone conference with a client who wants some consulting work on Sunday, but that’s about it.
There’s a big surprise for our family, so check back here for more details…
Well Mr. Swanson passed away today from a heart attack. I did some work with him for a while during the later part of my Junior year, he was the walking talking personification of eeyore, and he truly was a good man.
Good luck Mr. Swanson, and God’s speed, as you enter a new adventure.
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
RIP
Mr. Swanson
10-3-2002
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
~ Matan
I’m REALLY excited about Health and Human Service, I got a 90% on a test that counts for 1/3 of my grade! What’s also cool is that if we attend class 100% of the time we get a 100% averaged into our grades, so right now I have two A’s towards my name.
Right now I’m on the free UB wireless internet, which is really neat, and I’m sitting in a fluffy chair at Starbucks. It’s funny, Starbucks tries to sell you wireless internet in their store when you can get free internet in their store from the UB Network that covers campus.
I have class at 3:30 and it’s only 12PM now, so I’m probably going to get myself organized a bit more: go through my date book and make sure everything’s in order, and start planning for some upcoming projects like my research paper for English.
Peace
~ Matan
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