Don't Come Crying to Me

Dear The Virgin Mary,

When I'm done with you, you're gonna need a new title.

Love,
Dan

High School Musical the Game

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The

Wii


Proof that there is a God and that he is quite fond of me!

I am a graduate of Illinois State Univeristy. Icampus today told me:

Because you have graduated from Illinois State University, Progress Toward My Degree information is no longer available. Illinois State records show your degree was (or will be) awarded on 12/16/2006, but your diploma has not yet been mailed. Diplomas are mailed approximately three months after the graduation date.

I about cried when I saw it, cuz it's real now, no more worrying, no more maybe getting screwed. I'm all done!

So after today (and one more half assed paper) I am done with college! I couldn't be more excited mostly because it means I have no reason to stay is this god awful hick town. Mum and Pop are adamant about me movie back up north ASAP and want me to purchase a condo instead of renting an apartment, since they are usually right about everything I'm going to listen to them. I find it more and more difficult to work at the bank and if my interview in a few weeks goes over well then I'll be packing my bags, and every piece of furniture in my apartment and heading home. Wow I am still in shock as to how much time has passed since I got here and really how horrible of a person it has made me... hmm

PS, totally bitched out Jordan last night, god I needed to do that. I am in the apartment for less than three minutes yesterday and I see burnt rolls throw all over the kitchen floor and the two dumbshits fighting about who ate pizza and who made who's life a "living hell for thirty minutes" and "who ahs no friends" and shit like that. I'm glad those two spend so much time together!

Jenny Mac is my hero! I love that girl more than life itself!!

Raise your hand if you live with a drag queen ::RAISES HAND!::

I've been at work for 9 hours so far!

I am so tired!

I'm Will, Brekke is Grace, Jordan is Jack, Andrew is Rosario

Lincoln Bank is a bunch of Rim Jobbers

I asked my co-worker if she's been molested

Dear Match.com
I am quite sorry I joined your service. First off, I don't want to have to pay to read e-mail that people send me, that's freaking lame. I get that you're basically trying to guilt me into shelling out cash to see that one lone e-mail in my inbox which is probably a letter from ya'll telling me I'm still alone. Oh and another, please stop sending e-mails to me actual e-mail account with pictures of models which I'm almost positive are from a library of stock photos that are then selected based on the preferences I was dumb enough to tell you. So now I have pics of guys specifically tailored to my taste with the sentence "He could be waiting for you" written above it. He's not waiting for me, some ugly troll of a man is looking for me, that model is what I'm looking for, well not so much model as adorable guy with blue eyes and a killer smile. So in conclusion, I hate you and I want a man..


Dan

I can't believe I graduate in 2 weeks. I also can't believe Andrew is trying tos tart some sort of livejournal shit by making people think Jordan and I don't do anything around the apartment, you know aside from the fact that JOrdan cleans it and I buy the shit for it along with paying the bills andrew never gives me money on time for. Yep, that's my Andrew, lonely lonely Andrew. Anyways Wii is still amazing, very behind on papers and such, bought So NoTORIous Season 1 cuz I loves me some Tori Spelling. Tonight on Veronica Mars the first major season mystery with be solved! Also sometimes I think that me and Jordan can actually be friends...this is not a thought that occurs often but still he's kinda cool sometimes, though this might just be in contrast to nutso the clown. Eh whatever, did I mention that Father is setting up interviews for me at WGN and the Trib thanks to his many connections. Oh and these interviews are also lunch dates of sorts! I love food, and good jobs, and meeting WGN anchor Robin Baumgarden who just so happens to be best friends with a friend of my Dad. Connections people, connections. That's all for now!

I loves my Wii, I don't remember the last time I had so much fun with launch games let alone actually play games with 3 other people in the room joining and and having a semi good time. I only played a bit of Zelda cuz I'm afraid once I start I won't sleep again, and I need sleep! Marvel Ultimate Alliance rocks hardcore especially when you create a team of C-Level Marvel Characters! Zelda is beautiful and fun as shit witht he controller, Wii Sports Bowling is the best party game ever, Rayman is hilarious, Red Steel made me realize how rusty I am at FPS's. Oh and two words for you, ALTERED BEAST!! God I love my baby!

Due to a semi hatred of everyone I know right now, my Wii controller total will drop from 3 to 2 and instead I will be purchasing another game, cuz I hate people and they let me down and I don't feel the need to share with them. Ruining my Luanch Weekend!

The title of this blog is in reference to what my mom said when I told her I was excited to pick up Red Steel today. Though she gets uber points for informing me that the PS3 was having backwards compatability issues which I did not know about, see, she's the best! So I went to EB to pick up Red Steel and when I entered the store EB Katy was like "Dan, Marvel Ultimate Alliance is in today!" Then she impressed me by actually spelling my last name without any help or even asking for it, see we're very close me and her, I think I may actually try to date her....hmmmmm Also some lsoer came in while I was there and asked her if he could Preorder a PS3, she laughed at him and was like "ummm no"

So now after work I will go home and read the instruction manuals to Red Steel and Marvel: UA!!

Looks like I won't be finishing XII by Sunday... that's gonna blow big time, but I will return to it as soon as I can after Zelda is out of the way....sweet sweet Zelda

Wii comes out in six days, I will be purchasing the system which comes with Wii Sports, then I will also be purchasing an addional wiimote/nunchuck set, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Red Steel, and of course Zelda. I am uber fracking excited for the system and the only downside is the amount of actual school work I have to do over thanksgiving break.

I am trying so hard to be a good roommate and to not freak out over the little things but tonight for example was proof that I have issues with people that I need to resolve. I was in my room and Jordan was watching G4 the videogame channel which nobody knew about til they saw me watching it and loving it. Well now Jordan watches it all the fucking time and I made a comment about how I hate one of teh new hosts of the show cuz she's pretty but brainless and retarded, and Jordan said she was funny and insightful and I about shit my pants. Then I tried to sit and watch it with him and he talked about how graphics are the most important part of videogames (at this point I should have gotten up and left) and I pointed out that in each generation it was the console with the least amount of processing power that ended up on top. His response "Gamecube was number 1?" Then I had to inform him that GC was in fact more powerful than the PS2 which confounded him. It's like watching a kid be told there is no Santa Claus as he is sitting on the Mall Santa's Lap, that look of utter confusion and mild down syndrome. So then he had me list gamecube games with good graphics and I mentioned Wind Waker which has amazing cell shaded graphics, well apparently to Jordan, art direction and effects and such don't mean graphics are good, but rather how photorealistic a game can look. How odd is it that I could easily make a logical progression to how he views the world. He's the kind of guy who would rather the cookie cutter hot guy than one who is hot because he goes his own way and is creative in how he looks. See videogames teach us about life. Then I tried to explain how graphics aren't everything because when for instance I'm playing FFXII for several hours at a time, I tend to lose sight of the graphics and focus on the numbers involved, hit points, weapon strength, selling loot. none of which relies on the graphics engine. Even the storylines of the games I play are more important than graphics. Then again I had this whole conversation with the guy who never made it out of Midgar in VII because he got bored. Anyways...

Melissa's wedding was really nice, she looked pretty as hell but my Brekke was the prettiest girl there, no joke! Weddings make me really depressed and this one was no different. maybe it's because I'll never get married or maybe its because I have just get bitter when I see others so in love. Brekke has 2 boyfriends now, which bugs me to no end, I mean it really just twists me up inside and I don't quite know why. Maybe because I know deep down that I need Brekke more than she needs me. I dunno.

I took the day off work and was able to just chill out today. Starting tomorrow my work attitude is going to be "I am better than you all, I know that, and now I'm just counting the days til I say FUCK OFF HILLBILLIES!"

I am going to try so hard to watch Sunset Boulevard tonight, but will probably end up watching cartoons and going to bed.

So remember Bitch Addie from last post. Well my boss had a talk with her today, and she cried and thretended to quit so somehow everyone else was to blame and she got to go home early and her boyfriend walked out early as well, first they went to talk to my boss to threaten to quit, then they left and the rest of us were stick with a shit load of work to do and way behind schedule cuz our boss made us have a meeting so Set and Addie could, and I kid you not, PERSONALLY attack each person in the room. This came after weeks of Addie saying how much gay people disgust her and then calling me and everything I do gay. Guess who might bring up that little human rights issue to upper upper management. I'm guessing that'll turn some heads. Otherwise I now feel like shit, hmm stress and recently diagnosed ulcer....good combo!

Bitch Addie at work kept telling me that my desktop background was gay (it's a freaking tree!) early in the day my boss offered me the job she wanted and implied she was not going to be with the company much longer. I like my job!

In other news things with the roommates are pretty settled down where as we do our own thing and try not to get in my way...I mean each other's way. Doesn't help that those two have given me a freaking ulcer!

I am never going to finish FF XII before Zelda comes out!! This may lead me to either dropping out of school or sleeping about 3 hours a night for the next 9 days in order to finish the game. Not to mention I still have JL Heroes and Bully getting might pissed off that I haven't popped them in the PS2 in a good long while.

I never speak a word in my American Lit class yet I can't sut up in my Film Crit class...Also Mama says if I don't create a TV show by the time she dies she'll give my inheritance to poor people... I love positive motivation

Melissa's wedding is Saturday! Free Food and Booze...aside from the whole having to give a gift thing... otherwise FREE FOOD AND BOOZE!

Kris have you started it yet?! Let me know what you think when you get going.

I am currently about 18 hours into the game, storyline is freaking amazing my only complaint is that they shouldn;t have made the side stuff so addicting and leveling up not a chore cuz I spend a bunch of time doing it and then kinda forget what was going on in the story. I got my first esper who kicks ass, and Balthier is damn lucky I let him have control of it otherwise he would have been kicked outta my main party in favor of sexaliscious Fran. Anyways the game is still fracking awesome!

Dear Lance Bass,
you did not come up with a new term. The only one getting "lanced" as you put it is you, by your boyfriend, in your poop factory!

Love Dan

Doogie Howser MD is gay?!?
Neil Patrick Harris has confirmed that he is indeed a happy and well adjusted gay man with a long term boyfriend, actor David Burtka. While this isn't really a shocker to me I am still really happy inside that all these actors on hit shows are able to come forward and show the world just how normal they really are. Bravo Guys!

I awoke this morning from a rather restless sleep. For you see much of the pre-dawn hours were spent tying to have Duncan Sheik drown out the sounds of televisions blaring and general a general ruckus throughout my humble abode. So I get out of bed and leave my room to find that Jordan has begun to put up our little christmas tree. Now many of you might try to guess that my reaction was negative. Many of you don't know jack shit about me though so whatever your guess is means nothing to me. Needless to say we are in full Christmas swing well over a month and a half before the actual holiday and Jordan and I couldn't be happier. Though we both are going to be quite sad when each morning we wake up to find no jolly jelly bellied man has left us presents under our tree. Speaking of, Andrew doesn't like it and say it's pretty gay and we're gay and god does he like to call things gay. Bah Humbug to that scrooge and may even the muppet ghosts from a muppet christmas carol simply pass him by this holiday season.

Conversation of the Day

Me: I wish we had something to hang on this tree, something christmasy with some sort of hook shape at the top, something edible perhaps yet they simply scream out Christmas!
Jordan: Oh, you mean the closet full of candy canes!
Me: ...No that's not it...

the delivery of that last line was flawless as usual, not to toot my own horn but um, toot!

8 Hours in FFXII, I love when my ass gets handed to me by a mob of skeleton warriors!

Can I just say that I fucking love Final Fantasy XII, I'm only 5 hours into it and my characters can barely cast cure but I love it. I especially love the fact that the battle system looks like it's all real time where you're always moving and the creatures appear on screen but it's still turn based as all hell which makes me happy. I also love that Vaan is voiced by an actual 18 year old which makes him sound like he's actually a teenager! Oooh and I love the European feel of the characters and their designs which are outstanding and downright sexy!! OH OH OH and Fran kinda has a lisp which Jordan and I both love (see Final Fantasy XII is so amazing I don't even mind Jordan watching me play it...mostly cuz Brekke would just fall asleep BOOYA!)

Andrew thinks I have some sort of mutant power whereby I know if there is mail in the mailbox without looking... how wierd is that?

So Final Fantasy XII comes out tomorrow! EB was supposed to have a midnight release party but the mall wouldn't let them do it, mother fuckers, so they're opening at 8am and I will be there to collect my wonderful passport to a whole new fantasy..or something profound...it's been a long day. Stupid me bought Justice League Heroes yesterday which is surprisingly fun and even more fun two players not that I have a second player down at school to play with, but you gotta love when Huntress and Aquaman team up to take down Gorilla city, fucking INSANE!

Andrew called like 8 times at 4am Sunday Morning to tell me how he was mean to Jordan at a party and Jordan went Berserk and threw keys and maybe it was because I heard this at 4am, but I don't really give a rats ass. Those two constantly put themselves in social situations together and then fight about it. For the longest time I denied that maybe they were lovers, but now I'm not so sure....

Another Halloween Party tonight, this time with Wesleyan Theater People which is kinda scary cuz they're cliquey, I think the metaphor was they were a pack of tigers and Brekke and I are bears and while they won't attack us, they won't welcome us into their tiger flock.

I had the strangest dream last night in which I ran away from a crooked mall security guard, hid with a bunch of punkish looking kids, fell off a roof and grew wings and also fought a military fighter jet bare handed... Weird as shit.

Obsession with Brothers and Sisters is growing every week, I have downloaded all the eps so far and can't stop watching them.

Seth at work called me Wii-Tarded

Saw The Pirate Queen this weekend, was fucking amazing, I heart theater!

The Quote of the Weekend

"So I guess Callie really wasn't George's type"
~My Mom, upon hearing who George is dating in real life.

So today one of my roommates who shall remain nameless, knocked our bulletin board off the wall, and rather than putting it back on the wall, he left it in the middle of the hallway and went on his merry way. Now I'm no expert on human decency but I would think that if you did that you would take the thirty eight seconds to put it back on the wall... unfortunately that isn't the case when you live with people who actually shit their pants so they don't have to get up and walk to the bathroom... I just love having this added to all the other shit that is currently driving me to take a razor to my wrists!

I have this intense fear of death. Honestly I am afraid of death more than anything, I can't handle it. I've only experienced the death of my grandma and even that still weighs on me, not quite knowing what happens afterwards. Perhaps it's becasue of my lack of religous conviction that leads me to wonder what truly happens after we die. It is just as likely that instead of going on or reincarnating, we just die, that all we truly are is composition of atoms and electrons and water and shit like that. But even so, the entire idea of death makes me uncomfortable. For example I was watching an episode of Angel the other day and there was a death of someone, I don't recall who, some incidental character, and I just wondered, how on earth do people deal with that kind of pain. Aside from the "they're in a better place" bullshit, how do you deal with knowing they aren't here, where they are supposed to be. Do we truly meet up with our loved ones, or do we never see them again after they die? Knowing that there will be a final moment with my friends and family is too much to handle.

I have become one of those people I have always pitied. The people in school who you just looka t and go, "do they realize that they are so outside it all" the people who never date anyone, and don't seem to show any interest at all in the world. I have come to realize that no matter what my future is going to be so different from what I always hoped it would be. I am learning that the world is much different that I imagined at first. The things I do, I regret seconds after doing it, and I don't mean just fucking around, I mean a lot of what I experience I regret, just in general. What is it that I'm supposed to do to change who I am? The insecurities had in highschool still plague me to this day, and it kills me inside that the hopes I used to have are slowly fading away. My life is changing, I'm changing, but the person I'm becoming and the world i'm creating for myself is not what I am supposed to be. I am losing the will to do anything, the inspiration to write has left me and even the inspiration to jsut get up and live my life. I disguise it as laziness, but in reality I am not able to handle what is happening around me, the changes that are happening.