Random Ramblings

Uh Oh. I was afraid of this. My blog has lost interest!!!

Ok a story to keep everyone interested: So last weekend, I was like sooooo hammered and I was dancing with these four girls and we were passing around the bottle of Smirnoff like water....

Wait no, we don't want to start lying on this blog, mainly because I'll look at that in eight years and think it was actually true. To be honest the weekend was fun if not a little slow (as slow as coming home after 3:00 AM can be).

Alright, I already know that this post will be true to form and just fall into an incessantly poorly written train of thought post unless we go into list form, so that is exactly what we shall do!

1. First and foremost, I've started to get into this blogging thing and have found a few very interesting reads including stefanclaypool.com, which is the blog of one of my classmates here and back at school. Stefan is one of the few outright republicans at Midd and I'd heard some stories referring to his blog, but frankly I enjoy reading it. cbtfw.blogspot.com, a good read from one of the Marines on the ground in Iraq. This is an idea that frankly I think would make a great book, why doesn't someone set out collecting the most interesting blog posts of the entire campaign and put them together, sometimes they can be soldiers, sometimes journalists, sometimes politicians, and finally simply citizens both US and Iraq. The only key would be to avoid leaning left or right too much. I think you could get the most interesting perspective on a war that is too often polarizing. Finally I can't find the articles but, Thomas Friedman of the NYT wrote an editorial explaining why he wouldn't vote for Guliani as well as the Newsweek article (maybe Time?) praising Bloomberg and Scwharzenegger for micro-managing their respective governments (small government works when applied correctly). Also really idiotic: http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3671172&page=1. Atheism = atheism, not religion. Idiots.

2. We found THE bar of Hangzhou this weekend, 7 Club, complete with a bunch of imported beers and a great lounge setting. Here in Hangzhou a bunch of the students don't start class on Wednesday until later in the day so we've started a little traditional 星期二酒吧儿 (xingqi'er jiuba'er) or Tuesday Night Bar, unfortunately I can't do it most weeks as I take 8:20 classes everyday. Nevertheless these guys every week end up going dancing and partying until the wee hours at Hangzhou's mega clubs. After finding 7 Club this weekend I don't think I will be returning to SOS or its similar knock offs. 对不起 but I really enjoy the lounge scene. Hows the saying go, good conversation makes good company? Well count me among the believers, maybe we can follow the atheists' lead and start mass meetings or something...

3. The girl situation is still lacking as there aren't many options within the CET program, I get the sneaking suspicion I am at best a number 2 choice, just like in hockey, second line D. That's cool with me, means I'll just have to step up the efforts.

4.　I'm considering getting the family tattoo, a shamrock, but am also thinking that maybe the family crest would be even cooler...Thoughts? Not from my mom preferably.

5. I've got to get out of my rut, I'm letting myself get into a groove, which would be a good thing in a normal semester, but here I never actually want to get comfortable here, I want to always play outside the comfort zone (man lot of hockey and athletics references in this piece.) Until next time, play like you practice, give a 110%, and just be happy with the Org-a-NI-zation.

-#6