Kalphite

Guess it's been a couple days since I posted here haha. Well, a few days ago I had a movie night with some friends. It was a pretty fun time, and wouldn't have been anything storyworthy if we hadn't discovered a little gem called Evil Bong 3: The Wrath of Bong. It is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: An alien bong trying to suck people insides of it to conquer the world with alien marijuana. Or something. Simultaneously the best and worst movie I've ever seen in my life. Wednesday I went to Frankenmuth with a girl, which for those who know is a tourist attraction in Michigan that's designed to mimic a Bavarian German town, and is renowned for the chicken. While the meal had some of the best food I've had in a long time (though it was crazily expensive), by the time we finished our meal the majority of the rest of the town was closed. It was still really pretty to walk around in for a while, but we really were victims of poor planning haha. Guess we should have expected that given that we went on a weekday in the winter, but... ah well. Still was a fun day. Today it's looking like I'm going to play ultimate frisbee with some friends. No idea where it'll go from there though haha. Oh, and I just filled up my 160 GB iPod Classic with music. Still kind of crazy that something that small can hold 61 days of music.

Haha, I don't think I went on off-topic before there was a sticky but I remember when the first sticky got closed, a new sticky got put up (back when DeloriaGod was the main advice person here, and while I don't remember many details I remember he had a website called DeloriaGod Inc. that caused some sort of issue... wish I remembered more but this was in like 2006/2007 lol). Then the thread hit like 50 pages and they randomly tossed the first couple pages into the abyss and made DaLatios the new OP for some reason because they said the thread was too big.. If only whatever mod responsible for that could see the place now haha.

Well, I've been having a pretty great spring break so far. Finished all of my homework that would be due when I get back in advance so I get a legitimate week of relaxation. Spent friday night playing smash bros and Risk (well only an hour because that game NEVER ends) with some bros, had a party on Saturday, and saw a FANTASTIC rendition of Les Miserables that some of my friends that are still in high school were in. Like seriously, some of the leads sounded better than the vocalists in the movie. I still can't get over how stupidly good it was, especially for a high school play. I managed to break my phone by dropping it out of my pocket in the 10 second walk from my house to my car and now the tough screen is shattered, so today I have to take it back to the Verizon store and pray that it is still under warranty (I've had it for less than a year so I don't think it should be a problem though). Aside from that, I'm just having a movie night with some friends tonight, should be pretty fun.

This weekend ended up being wayyy better than I expected. On friday I came back home for a night because of a friend's birthday party. Before that, my best friend and I went to check out a new Thai restaurant...and it was FANTASTIC. We then went to the party, and while it was pretty small, it was honestly one of the most fun parties I've been to in a while. There was a ton of incredible food, and there were some friends there I hadn't had the chance to properly hang out with since before college started. By like 11 the whole thing was a dance party, and I was in the right mood for that to be incredible. Eventually, my other best friend who goes to school ten hours away from me showed up, which made it even better because I got to catch up with him and everyone else there. I was a little nervous that it would be awkward because I wasn't THAT great of friends with the chick who was throwing it, but those fears were completely unfounded. The party ended up dying down about 3, and then the two people I had to drive home and I all stopped at Taco Bell to get Frutista Freezes. To ice the cake on this whole night, they bumped us up to larges for free. We all chilled for a bit more, and after I dropped them off I ended up getting home at about 4:30. Easily the best night I've had in months. Yesterday I started my day by getting lunch with that friend who came back from far away. On the way there, we chilled with my other best friend for a bit before going to Chile's, which I had not been to in a long time and was just awesome. After that, I headed back up to college and got Buffalo Wild Wings with my friends up there. I don't think I've ever eaten so much chicken in one day, but I'm not complaining haha. We spent the night just chilling in my friend's dorm, watching Pulp Fiction, Anchorman, and Napoleon Dynamite (ohhhh nostalgia) and playing Cards Against Humanity until I eventually had to leave at 1:30 to catch a bus back to my dorm. Just another fantastic night, and it was especially awesome that this whole weekend was so great while staying sober the whole time.

PS4 looks completely unimpressive. If I get it I'm going to wait until the slimmer cheaper version comes out, as it always happens with playstations, unless they just have a stellar lineup announced at E3. It feels weird saying this, but I'm actually a lot more interested in the Wii U than the PS4 at this point. I barely got any sleep last night, and as such I woke up with a pretty nasty headache today that I can't seem to get rid of. I'm on my way to a presentation on Race for extra credit for my anthropology class which I'm really not looking forward to but at least it's only an hour long. I also was planning on coming home for a friend's party tomorrow night, staying at my house for the night, and heading back up here the next morning. However, I just learned that everyone in my house is getting over the flu, and while they haven't been in my room at all I really don't know if staying the night is worth the risk of getting sick instead of taking the 90 minute drive back home after the party (it will be all sober so it's not like I'll be risking a dui, I just dont know if I'll be awake enough by that point to make that drive). Speaking of that, any tips on what to get for a seventeen-year-old girl you don't know all that well? I'm decent friends with her but not enough to have any fantastic ideas. I was thinking of just getting one of those Pot of Gold chocolate boxes; would that be safe or should I just go the find a card+$10 route?

Well, there are a couple things I'm currently working on. One of them is my general fitness. At the beginning of this schoolyear I started lifting by doing Starting Strength; I made really good progress within two months (went up to 120 bench, 195 squat, 215 deadlift), but then I ended up stopping when I couldn't find a good gym by my house for christmas break to continue at, and after this months i had unfortunately lost my drive. However, now I've started running instead. I'm not fat (5'4", 132 lbs), but I do have a slight stomach, and I feel like I really need to learn how to lose weight so that I don't end up like my parents (both very overweight with a huge host of health problems, including diabetes). My current goal is to work up to being able to run 5k. Between that and maintaining a 700-calorie/day deficit, I figure that I should be able to take off a decent amount by the end of this semester so that I can start lifting again come summer. In seventh grade I put on a lot of weight because of some medications my parents put me on; I haven't really felt good about my weight since then, and I really want to know what it feels like to not have to worry about if my shirts cling a little too tight or if plad patterns aren't flattering; plus, it'll make it easier to stay motivated when I do start lifting again because there will be less fat obscuring my muscle gains. Right now I'm up to running 2.2 miles; I'm trying to add .1 mile a run, running three times a week. Additionally, I'm really trying to make more friends up here at college. I was able to put together a massive friend group in highschool, to the point where I can still easily get 30 people together at a time on weekends that I'm back home. However, up here it's a completely different story; I didn't try hard enough to get involved early on, so I didn't make many friends. I only have about 5 friends I hang out with and another 4 I talk to aside from that, and 4 of the 5 i hang out with are hooking up so I really need to find another social circle to avoid fifth wheeling. I've made one good friend since this semester started in one of my classes, however I like having options still and she generally isn't around on weekends. To achieve this goal, I've joined the Campus Orchestra, and I'm about to audition for a play here again (screwed up first semester, but this time it's for a less prominent theatre group and it isn't a musical so I don't have to worry about getting screwed over in the dance audition). If that falls through, I'm going to join a service group here called Circle K. I'm hoping between this I'll be able to get better at meeting people again. Aside from those, I generally try to keep my grades high (3.75 gpa first semester and I'm going to try to get it higher), and just to have fun and help the people around me stay positive.

Yeah, like you can get a colored tint over everything, or like a more intense version of what happens when you close your eyes really hard and stare at your eyelids for a while except over everything outside, but never anything like Distracted described with seeing people that weren't there, from my experience at least. I guess I've never gotten that intensely high but I haven't even heard about that kind of thing from friends that have done actual psychadelics... And I don't know, I never really talk about it unless it comes up or I'm making plans to smoke with somebody. It's not exactly something that's appropriate in everyday conversation. I'm only an occasional smoker though I guess and it probably gets worse with people who smoke daily instead of weekly.

Must be nice haha. Being 5'4" forces my filter to be a lot more...stringent, to say the least haha. I don't think height is really that much of a dealbreaker though seeing as the last two girls that have expressed interest in me were 2-4 inches taller, but then again nothing happened there and I have met girls who said they would never date a guy shorter than them. Depends on the girl I guess.

Marijuana has no side effects of that sort, ESPECIALLY not that long after. No need to be condescending because you haven't researched/tried it, lol. I feel like I aced my programming and linear algebra exams yesterday. Today is the first day in about two weeks I haven't had work due the next day, and it feels soooo good.

Yeah it's shitty lol, I've had that kind of thing happen a lot in high school but I've always had enough other friends to get by whenever somebody got too whipped. Now... mnleh. I started watching Breaking Bad last night. I'm both happy I did so because of how damn good it is and upset because I really don't want to put the time commitment into finishing it. Today I'm studying for my upcoming programming and linear algebra exams. I don't think either should be too bad but I'm never making the mistake of not preparing for a test again.

Last night was pretty great. I went to see a Bad Books, the Front Bottoms, and Weatherbox concert about an hour away from my college with a friend, which was fantastic. However, by the end of the show it was blizzarding like crazy, so we ended up heading back to my hometown instead cause it was closer... only for it to not be snowing whatsoever there. We ended up hanging out with another friend from back home for a while and ended up calling it a night around 3:30. This is the first time I've had a ton of time with nothing to do in a while, so I figured I'd write up the rest of those stories I mentioned in my last post. I apologize in advance, this is about to get pretty long. My First Time Throwing a House Party A couple weeks ago, my parents went out of town for a weekend for a work meeting. This isn't the first time this has happened; however, it is the first time this has happened without my parents paying off some cousin to stay at the house with me. Our exchange student was staying at another family's house, and my parents told me I was free to come home and finally have the house to myself for the weekend. I thankfully had the sense to keep things rather small, so I had about ten people come over and stay the night. While we were waiting for other people to get there, my best friend and I hit the liqour cabinet and her and I each did about six shots before anybody got here. When my friends did get here, however, they brought a bong, a bubbler, and a quarter ounce of weed to go with it. We went through all of it that night. That was probably the highest I've ever been, to the point where I apparently explained to a friend how I felt connected to the letter "F" and thought it was my spirit letter. Ended up going til about 6 am when everyone passed out; nobody puked and everything worked out marvelously. My First Experience with Vietnamese Food A couple days later, a friend who was also home that weekend asked me to get Vietnamese food with her. That was probably the most interesting experience at a restaurant I've ever had. I knew that it would be different than most other Asian restaurants I had been to when I realized that I was the only white person there for once; however, it did not hit me how authentic the place was until I had to place my order. My friend was trying to get me to order a dish called pho, which is like a kind of beef soup with noodles inside. That's all fine and dandy, but it also had cow stomach and tendons in it. As much as I try to be appreciative of other cultures, I couldn't man up and order it so I got a different version of the dish without those in it. That was one of the best meals I've ever had. It was served with a plate full of herbs and fruit and another plate full of sauces that you could add to the broth to customize its flavor. A suicide run of the various herbs and a hint of lime later and I had the best soup I have ever tasted. If any of you have an authentic vietnamese place around like that, I honestly thing the dish is something everyone should experience. My First Cop Chase Another day that I was home, I was going to a music store with a friend. On our way there, she pointed a cop car just sitting at an intersection. I tried looking for it, but I couldn't see it so I just continued driving. However, as said search had distracted me, I completely misjudged an upcoming yellow light and proceed to blow through a red light going 5 over the speed limit. Naturally, I freaked out, as there was supposedly a cop right there. I turned down a couple streets and pulled into a Meijer's parking lot for about five minutes. Thankfully, no sirens came on so the cop probably didn't even notice what I did. It was still a thrilling five minutes of live-action GTA for this suburban college student though. My First Time Coming Close to Blacking Out The next weekend, I went out with a couple friends that I did not normally do so with. We ended up pregaming in one of their dorms, and to put it into perspective, I drank the least out of any of them and I did 5 shots, and out of the eight people there were only two guys in the group. As we were drunkenly trying to find out way to the party, one of the girls that had drank about twice as much as me got a bit... trashy. I don't slut-shame, but she was wasted to the point where she was basically complaining about how horny she was and ended up mooning us all in the middle of the street on the walk there. Upon getting there, I had another shot and two beers before realizing if I had any more alcohol that night I would probably black out (8 drinks basically in 2 hours, plus I'm only 5'4" and 130 pounds). I somehow ended up dancing with two girls that night without consciously making an effort to do so before my friends managed to get me to leave and put me on a bus home because two of the girls were puking. Despite the hangover, this was another fairly great night. My First Time Getting Caught The next weekend, everything started off rather normally. A couple friends decided to just stay in and drink in one of their dorms. We had about five shots each, but we had mountain dew in between so I didn't feel too drunk (I have zero caffeine tolerance and didn't realize how counterproductive mixing it with alcohol is). Anyways, we were just playing Cards Against Humanity with a couple other people when one of the guys goes to leave the dorm and use the bathroom...and stumbles right into a campus police officer. He said for a first offense he wouldn't give us MIPs and we would just have to have meetings with our hall directors, which we were all thankful for. However, we still haven't heard anything about these supposed meeting and it's been nearly a month, so we're hoping he just didn't write up the report because we were all super polite to him. I guess I'll see what happens with this in time. My Current Dosage of Stupid High-School-Esque Drama Alright, so early in this semester my friends Jake and Kyle and I started hanging out with a couple girls from my high school, named Ally and Andreea. Both of the guys have long-term girlfriends (3 years and one year, respectively), so at first it was just cool having a bigger group of friends than I had first semester. Well of course, things got a bit more complicated. Andreea and Kyle and Ally and Jake both started liking each other a lot, leaving both of the guys confused with what to do about their current girlfriends and leaving me feeling like a fifth wheel whenever we hang out. They've already started to stop inviting to do things, which I don't normally care about, but they're the only friends I really have up here, and I really don't want to go through the shit I went through first semester again (basically I got really depressed for a while because of how horrid my social life here is compared to being able to go home and throw together a 30 person get-together on a days notice). I guess I'll see how this turns out. This was really long, but, this plus a rather difficult 18-credit courseload is why I haven't been on here as much. I guess I'll just see what happens with all this stuff. Not much else to do, haha.

It's kind of strange, because I stop by here every day and lurk this forum like crazy, but I only actually post about once a month without even realizing it. I have some pretty great stories since my last post but I'm not sure if anyone would care by this point, lmao. Anyways, I've just been going through the motions of this semester. I somehow managed to scrape an 80% on a physics exam that I was expecting to bomb pretty hard (to give you an idea, the average was a 55% and an A is set at 86% in the class), and I'm glad this past week of stress paid off there. I ended up coming home this weekend to see a play some friends from high school were in, then threw a small party with some other friends once I was back. Overall it was a pretty fun weekend. I also finally managed to finish Pokemon Black 2, and as much shit as I'm probably going to get for this, I think that it was probably the best game in the series. I now finally picked up a 3DS and Fire Emblem: Awakening, which will now happily take up the rest of my alone-time for the next few weeks.

Yeah I'd LOVE temperatures like that compared to what we got here today, haha. Today was pretty mediocre, but at least I finally got my housing figured out for next year. Now I'm just waiting for my stomach to recover from particularly sickening dining hall food so I can finally make it back to the gym tonight...

I accidentally haven't posted here in a very long time. Figure I'll fill everyone in on what I've been doing. First, I had a pretty fantastic christmas break. I hung out with people every day and had a few successful parties, but I feel like the highlight of the break was Flavor Flav opening a fast food Chicken and RIbs place a mile from my house. Not only is it far and away the best fast food I ever had, but I got to meet Flav himself and got a picture with him. He is every bit as ridiculous a person as you would expect. The rest of that night got pretty crazy too - definitely the highlight of the break. Since then, I've started up at my University this past week. I'm taking 18 credits this semester - hopefully I won't hate that too much. However, I made it into the campus orchestra as a percussionist this semester, which I am excited for as it means I finally will have an extracurricular with which I can meet some more people. Aside from that, I'm taking Physics II (Electricity and Magnetism), Linear Algebra, Intro Programming, and Intro to Anthro. The only one of those that really seems difficult is Physics, but I can tell I'll have to work my ass off in that class enough to make up for the easiness of the other ones. Last night ended up being pretty fantastic as well. Went to a house party with about 10 friends, half of them left pretty quick but it was a pretty fun time. We then went to another friend's dorm, did some more shots, then came to another friends and smoked a bowl and played Cards Against Humanity. That game is [bleep]ing fantastic and is everything Apples to Apples wishes it was; if any of you have the option to play it then HOP ON DAT SHIT. Today's been pretty lazy as I've been completely worn out from last night. Not really much else to talk about, haha.

Thanks for the advice everyone, haha. Most of the responses were pretty much what I expected but I guess that it's good to be reassured.

Not to be impatient but my post seems to have gotten brushed by by everyone, anyone have any tips on this stuff or are my questions really that stupid lol?

So there's something about being away at college that seems to make every chick still in high school much more interested in you than they were before and I love and hate it deeply. Seriously, two chicks that I was mildly interested in during high school have approached me in the last week, and I don't want to start anything because long-distance relationships are stupid in such a case and I'm heading back to my school in four days. I mean it's definitely a good confidence boost but it's pretty frustrating at the same time. There's always summer though I suppose, haha. I know it's been a while since I've been here, but I feel like going to college has really led to an increase in confidence for me. I've made an incredible new best friend who finally pulled me out of my self-esteem issues, I started working out and actually began making decent gains, I learned a lot more about fashion, and I made a decent group of friends there while still maintaining really good grades. All of this has finally paid off it seems; you guys all know I've been facing five years of "friend zones" (I know it's a bullshit term but it's the best way to describe it), and now I'm finally out of that rut it seems and it feels amazing. One of the main things I had been self-conscious about was my height (I'm 18 and only 5'4"), but one of these girls had a good four inches on me and was still pretty interested, so I finally don't feel like I have to give a shit about that. I know I can still improve myself, but that's half the fun and I don't let it bother me like I used to. Though, I just had a couple questions now that I'm finally getting into situations where they can be applicable: 1. Is asking a girl on actual dates more productive than just asking them to hang out? I feel like forcing that distinction is kind of awkward as opposed to just hanging out more and letting it...develop I guess, but I also know that one of my low points is actually broadcasting my interest to girls. I feel like I've at least gotten better at flirting casually, yet this still seems to be a bit of a problem lol. 2. Any tips on, well, making the leap into a first kiss with a girl? I just never really learned how to initiate this kind of thing, but I know I have to do this in order to really get anywhere lol.

Ended up acing calc 3, Engineering, Philosophy, and my Physics Lab, but got a B in my actual Physics class (missing a B+ by about a tenth of a percent). More than happy to end my first semester with a 3.75, haha. Last night all of the apocalypse parties to which I was invited were canceled, so I ended up just having a pretty great time with a close friend who goes to college pretty far away from me and is leaving again for vacation tomorrow. At about 4 AM he got tired so I left and hung out with another close friend in a while and ended up playing Amnesia with her. Or at least we tried; as hyped as that game is we couldn't even figure out what to do and she's a pretty huge horror game fan. I ended up leaving there at about 5:30. All in all it was a pretty fantastic night. Finally got into going to a gym again since I've been home and don't have free access to my university's gym. Now I just need to figure out a way to actually eat enough to build when I don't have access to all you can eat buffets for every meal.

Somehow ended up with an A in calc 3 I..I don't even Depending on how much of a curve there is for physics, it's looking like I might 4.00 my first semester. Feels so crazy. I still have to take my last exam today though for my Engineering class, should be pretty easy though.

I feel this so hard. I used to devour books but I haven't found the time to start one since high school ended :/

I feel like I did really well on my Calc exam today, but I'm not quite sure how how I did on Physics. I know for sure I got 3 wrong and I could only get 4 wrong to get an A in the class, but if I end up getting an A- thats obviously still fine lol. Just one exam left on Tuesday that shouldn't be too bad, and I'm going home for the weekend in between at least to see some of my friends I haven't gotten to see in a couple months. I just can't wait until this semester is completely over though.

Multivariable Calculus and Physics exams tomorrow. I've been alternating practice tests for both of them throughout the day and I feel like I'm in good shape but I'm freaking out too much just due to nerves and not really leaving my dorm in a while. Whatevs, just one more day of this at least, and some friends are coming over later to destress a bit haha.

God, reading all these stories makes me nervous about my first programming class for my own Computer Science major next semester, haha. I'm sure it'll be fine as I've had about two years of experience, but god that professor seems TERRIBLE. I have my final presentation for a synthesizer and transcriber program I designed with a group for my engineering class tomorrow. It seems like it's going to go over really well, and it will be such a relief to be done with it. Speaking of which, I did something kind of stupid. The presentation is formal, as in I have to wear a suit. I have my suit up here...but I left my dress shoes at home. Borrowing some from a friend in the class that already presented, but that means beforehand I'll be walking to class in a suit and converse. #yolo #swag

Went and saw the Wonder Years and Yellowcard with a friend yesterday. God, such a great concert. I ended up crowdsurfing for my first time, haha. After that I went out to eat with him, dropped him off and stayed the night at some chick's house with another friend. We ended up blazing and playing Pokemon, lmao. It ended up being a really fun night overall. However, since we celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday I don't really have much to do today. About to see Lincoln, then I'm going to chill with a couple friends. It should be a pretty decent night.

Last night I learned exactly how amazing having a 24 hour cookie delivery place on campus is when you're blazed off your ass with your friends. Tonight I'm going to a free metal show at a frat with some people. Should be a pretty good night, haha.