“You can’t just give up on the world…..of warcraft.”

Michael Jackson is dead….What can you say?

King of pop! I’ve got so many memories listening to Michael Jackson. My parents loved Michael. I LOVE Michael…oh ho humm…

I think its that time of year again. Yes, that time of year where I begin to add to my college tips section. Now, anticipating college freshmen can have a clue as to what this entire college game is about. I mean sure, your parents have been giving you there opinion, and some of your friends have been giving you the half-assed friend version of what college is, but wouldn’t you like it from someone who doesn’t know you?

Ok…I’ll admit that sounded a bit weird.

In case you don’t know me by now… some people call me Dar, and I’ve been going to a University (for a while now). If you’ve got ANY questions feel free to ask them, and I’d be more than willing to answer them. I’d keep rambling on about myself, but there is an about page for you to learn all about me.

So to start the summer of tips off right I thought I’d google college images, and give you tips from the photos I see.

Watch Out:

With a campus full of a mixture of lunatics, immature idiots, drunkards, and almost every other type of stereotypical class of  people you’d better watch out. Don’t be too surprised , the moment your parents have left, to see some of the most random things you have ever seen in your life. Prepare yourself for prankings now… n fact, arm yourself with a few pranks of your own.

Don’t be this Girl

You’ll get to college and their will be many parties, but make sure you’re not the idiot who parties the hardest. I know there will probably be many people getting drunk all around you, but that doesn’t give you the excuse to attempt to out drink them all. I’m not saying don’t drink, but KNOW your limit. The last thing you want is the reputation of the guy/girl who was passed out in a garbage can in front of the History Building. You also don’t want your parents having to bail you out because you are a minor in posession or a drunk in public. If you’re going to go to a party be smart:

1) Bring a friend or a few friends.

2) If you’re going to drive designate a driver who takes sober driving seriously.

I’m so serious…The person who is driving should not be the drunk person who is the least drunk.

3) The designated driver should be wary of all drinks handed to him/her at party. Bring your own water and keep it with you.

4) Designate a time to stop drinking alcohol and start drinking water. Like an hour before you want to go…So you can sober up a little bit.

Next week, I’m going to try to write a party-tips section.

Professors are Weird

Sometimes your professors are the weirdest of them all. Some have been in college longer than you and I have been in school. When they do something that is on the nutty side (and many of them will),don’t  be too weirded out by it…just go with it. See, how that kid taking notes isn’t phased by what is going on.

I’d like to note some of the cooky proffessors I’ve encountered:

One professor hated more than 3 questions within 15 minutes. She would get pissed off at the class after three questions, call us spoiled, and say we didn’t want to learn. She would then stop talking, walk to her desk and sit down. Creating an oddly uncomfortable silence between the class and her. It was always the 4th question that pissed her off, and yet even after I explained this to the class… some students just didn’t understand her 3 question weirdness.

My friend had a proffessor whose office was nothing but stacks and stacks upon paper, the papers had a small little pathway to the professor’s desk, if his office chair was angled in the right direction he would be able to sit at his cluttered desk. There was another tall stack of paper pathway leading to the seat in front of his desk. If you were skinny enough to fit between the tall stack of paper pathways and make it to the desk, you would notice that the office smelled like smoke. Professors aren’t allowed to smoke. Which made me wonder if he filled the office with paper so he could smoke, or the tall stacks of paper were un related to the secret smoking.

I had a professor who had been recently promoted from Grad student to professor and was offered a desk in the department office (where all of the professor’s offices are). Upon being offered a movement of office he began stuttering and shaking his head. He’d been a grad student to long. He simply just couldn’t move from his beloved grad student office. So, he has his same crammed desk in the corner of the grad student office now for about 10 to 20 years after he became a professor. I’d like to note…that I think its time for him to move.

The Original Daronline Post:

 I think Ms. California was Slighted

Thanks Ms. California for sticking up for yourself! As I’ve been saying since this disaster first started, someone should not be punished for sticking up for something that they believe in. Even if someone doesn’t agree it is unamerican, to not accept someone’s answer because it is different from your answer.

At the same rate, Gay America has also been given a disservice, let gay people have the same right as straight people do. The whole country doesn’t have to agree with a right for it to be an inherent right to the people. There have been gay people since the beginning of time, does that not suggest that “gay” is alot more than being a fad. 

I’m just saying you can’t fix a disservice with another disservice. You can’t violate someone’s rights because you feel as though yours have been violated. We don’t get anywhere with that kind of behavior.

On a whole OTHER note, related to Ms. California:

 Trump Decision on Ms. California’s Scandalous Pics

Ms. California, those photos were topless. I don’t care how you say it, you had no top on. Sure its a more “modern” time and those photos are definitely ”risque.” Some would say that other crown-holders have been punished for such photos. Some would say you weren’t punished  to shut you up about how your rights were infringed at the pageant they let you get away with your scandalous photos.

But most others would agree, your conservative values are now seeming a bit hypocritical.The fact that you defended a picture that WAS SCANDALOUS. That everyone can see could have been on playboy makes me assume, having morals only applies to the gays.

So, I’ve been spending alot of time alone lately, and came up with this amazing idea of a me-date. A me-date is where you take yourself out and have a completely suprising and incredibly fun time with yourself. For once in your life, you do everything you want to do with you without holding back. So, here’s how my me-date went out.

I decided it was important to satisfy all 5 senses.

Touch: Closed my eyes, went to a redbox, and put it on a page with some movies I wanted to watch and some movies I didn’t want to watch. Just closed my eyes and touched, until somethiing was rented. My pick: Cake Eaters (that movie with Kristen Stewart)–I found myself suprisingly liking the movie. I enjoyed that it didn’t try to be anything more than what was represented on television. A girl can really appreciate a pure film like that. It was sweet, and if I hadn’t closed my eyes and picked I wouldn’t ever think of Kristen Stewart as anything past Twilight or Speak.

Taste:A few days ago,  my former roommate’s new roommate introduced me to something magical, and it only took one spoonful to take me to heaven. Mr. Snow, which happens to be the love child of the old raspa stand nest to my former  highschool, bahama bucks, and bluebell…I had the wedding cake love nest which is wedding cake flavored snow cone with blue bell…mmmm…  I’ll put directions on the internet once I figure out the proper streeting. Aside from the me-date, I can see my summer consisiting of a massive amount of Mr. Snow.

Sound: I listened to my favorite cd road mix, on the way to mr.snow, which consists of bits from Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, my friend’s friend’s band The American Masquerade, Jack’s Mannequin (always), Dashboard Confessionals, Switchfoot, and Joshua Radin. On another note, I liked the music played in the movie Cake Eaters–I need to figure out that playlist.

Sight: I live in waco, where do you think I went? There are so many places to entice my sense of sight, it wasn’t hard for me to take some time to go and find the dam and scribble a few shitty lines down while I was there. I would describe it to you…but its so damn beautiful it would take pages more than anyone would be willing to read off of my blog.

Smell: So, I totally dipped my nose in that Mr. Snow Love Nest, and let me tell you it smelled good…I know you thought that there would be more, but no…Mr. Snow says it all.

Yes, this blog is basically an advertisement for Mr.Snow, but I suspect all summer you’re going to hear my greatest moments going down at Mr. Snow so you might as well get used to it.

I have  hit the half-way point in the book that was issued to me via the Waco Public Library 2 or 3 days ago.  (By this I mean that there are 25 chapters and I’m on chapter 15) I’m in the middle, and I still feel as if I’m waiting for the book to begin. The only reason I haven’t put this book down is it is saved by the funny little incidents and Holden Caufield’s take on everything. Holden Caufield is an ingenious narrator. He reminds me of Nick Twisp (from the youth in revolt series), but less of a pervert and more depressed. I could listen to either Nick Twisp or Caufield narrate all day long, but if it wasn’t Caufield narrating I think the book would be so dry that I’d set it on fire, and return the ashes.

I suspect I haven’t gotten to why the book is supposed to be insanely depressing, or I’ve missed the point entirely. But, I’m holding on because I’m just that curious as to why.

So my opinion, is that its interesting…not Twilight or Youth in Revolt addicting…but interesting.

As an attempt to make it seem as though I haven’t totally abandonned my blog and my writings. I’d thought that it is time I posted something more. So, this summer I’m going to make it my own summer, once again, and do research on more vampire folklore, psychics, and classic literature. Basically, the same stuff I do every summer. I’m telling you guys my summer book list because I think it’d be cool of you to follow along in the reading, or add a book I might enjoy.

Last years reading list is linked here:
Summer Reading: Books I’ve Enjoyed
So far the books on my booklist are the following (because I’ve already bought them or checked them out from the library):

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Angel by Cliff McNish –(This is a YA novel, for the YA crowd, and me who can’t seem to grow out of YA)

1984 by George Orwell

Dubliners by James Joyce

A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald