I'm tired of all this bipolarity. During school, I work my ass off, and at home, I do nothing. Why can't I do a more moderate amount of work for a longer period of time?

The plans for the camping trip are slowly falling apart, dissolving like a tablet of alka-seltzer. I guess Macy and I will figure something out to do this weekend. I REALLY WANT TO FINISH MY SIGN COLLECTION! And all I really need to do is go to Jersey County, southern Illinois (all over the area south of I-64), Goodenow, East Dubuque, Quincy, and North Pekin. Most of the signs are in southern Illinois, and those are the hardest to get too. I really hope I can go down there for a couple of days.

I think the next time I post, I'll put up a collection of other dumb stuff?
I need to get more important people to this page.
You know what- screw the collection of dumb stuff.
Life is too easy and issue-free now for me to have important things to talk about. That's just how summer works.
This blog is made for me to talk about myself. But what about you? I want to know what you have to say too. Tell me some of your ideas. It's constructive and it's fun to learn what other people have to say.

Today's feature...STUPID YOUTUBE CRAP!

That's right fellas! I'm talking about stupid youtube crap today! I'm going to share with you all the dumb crap on that site for all of you to enjoy.

I think we've all seen this first one at some point. It's the annoying commercial for the Flea Market in Montgomery, Alabama, with that creepy black dude with the scary, googly eyes.
I've got a funny story about this, actually. I looked for this place on google maps just for shiggles (knowing me, right?), and I found the place! I also found reviews of it. In one of the reviews a shopper reviewed the commercial "catchy" (I'm guessing she was referring to this one). Catchy? Maybe in a hypnotic sort of way, because he repeats the SAME SHIT OVER AND OVER for two minutes. I know the Backstreet Boys and a lot of other late 90's pop artists used hypnosis in their music. Take something catchy, repeat it more than 3 times, and then it's stuck in your head. Why bother buying the CD if you're going to be listening to it in your mind for the week after you hear the song in the first place? I think they should stop worrying about losing money to people pirating their music using the internet--that's probably the REAL reason they didn't make as much money! Actually, if they wrote something that wasn't as goddamn repetitive, people like me would appreciate it more and be even more inclined to purchase it.

ANYWAYS...the second piece of youtube CRAP is this old commercial from a Baltimore car dealer. Zexi showed me it and I cracked up. Ah, the wonders of swearing in different contexts.

This next one is actually a fad. It's the dramatic chipmunk fad. I don't get it. What is so wonderful about a chipmunk turning around with its eyes wide open? I see squirrels who do this in front of my car every week! (No animals were harmed in the making of this ...statement? I guess? =P) Here's a video that puts a lot of versions of the dramatic chipmunk video...Would you even call it a video? Let's call it a clip...it's only like 5 seconds long.

Number four is stupid but hilarious. It's really hilarious. I found this a long time ago. It's time for POTTER PUPPET PALS! It makes me want to laugh and beat myself over the head at the same time. Have at it.

THIS ONE TAKES THE CAKE. THIS IS THE DUMBEST THING ON YOUTUBE. AND IT GOES ON FOR A FUCKING HALF-HOUR!
The demented cartoon movie. Clip after clip after stupid crappity-crap-crap. Watch the whole thing just to say that you did and so you can complain to the whole world that you forced yourself to do it and so people can think "wow, you're complaining about it but you were still stupid enough to keep watching it as painful as it was."... orrrr don't.

That's it for now!

And now for an addition to the top-ten list of the best things ever:

Japanese gummi candy.
It tastes like real fruit because it's made from real fruit.
It comes in 11 flavors.
And every flavor is oh-so good.
Go to the Asia supermarket on Naper Blvd. just north of US34, or H-mart, or Chinatown.
IT ROCKS!!

This is a summary of all of the virtual land I own on the web:

Well, there's this...
And my website with all of my road signs
My facebook
My myspace...which I pay just about NO attention to

I had a livejournal back in the day, that's around somewhere.
That's all the stuff I can think of!

Well, how's this for neglecting to write? Three and a half friggin weeks. And in summer. I should take a post-it note and write LAME on it in really big letters and stick it to my forehead.
But if I did that now, I wouldn't be able to see what I'm typing...and I might make a really bad typo like forgetting the "R" in shirt...because I've done that before...wow, maybe I should make another post-it note with "SIR RAMBLES-A-LOT" on it since that's what I'm doing...

ANYWAY

The big news is that my IMSA friend count is up to twenty-seven! I've been keeping track of how many friends from IMSA I've seen this summer. I've even seen Valerie, Macy, and Colin, all of which live 4 or more hours from my house! *FF7 victory blurb plays*
I've actually never played FF7 but I think all of us who play/have played copious amounts of video games know that sound blurb.

Let's see that list of IMSA friends I've seen:

My graduation party, June 1, 2008:
Zexi, Macy, Ashwin, Erika, Chris, and Aya (6)

Macy stayed at my house until June 7

Macy and I hung out with Dean on the 7th (7)

Went to Janelle's on the 8th (8)

Went to Kirk's graduation party on the 15th (I think?), saw Connor too (10)

Martin's graduation party, June 16th:
Martin, Ju, Adam, Phoebe, Asya, (15)

Went to Zexi's apartment in Evanston on the 20th/21st (I think?)
Macy, Steven, Jake, C-Li and Martin (18)

Went to Connor's house in Rock Island for his grad party, June 28-29:
Connor, Dani, Neelam, Colin, Rachel, Ritchie, and Julie (24)

Valerie came up and visited July 1 and we went to the Taste of Chicago (25)

I visited Sulochana last week, and the next day Luke and I visited Chris, so I saw Luke (27)

And no, I didn't count anyone twice. -_-

I was thinking of starting a videolog/blog/whatever-thingy, except every entry has to be in a different state. The Illinois one would be the first, serving as an introductory video. I plan on being in New York and Vermont this summer (and ONTARIO!)...which means driving through Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. I've never been to New York, Vermont, Ohio, or Pennsylvania before (not to mention ANYWHERE in Canada) so this should be exciting.
I still don't know what's up with the big-ass camping trip next week. Tyler and I need to work this out.

In listing out the friends I've seen this summer, I've pretty much gone through all the cool stuff I've done this summer. Because it's not the things you do that make it cool. It's the people you do it with.

(That's like a fortune cookie...haha)

((If you didn't get the fortune cookie thing, I'll spell it out for you: add 'in bed' to the end.))

I've finished writing 4 of my 12 pieces into the computer and summer's already half over...better get cracking =D

My third song is stuck in my head...isn't that weird?

I'm really incoherent and stuff. You can tell that by how I jump from idea to idea, and by counting how many times I switch paragraphs. Like this:

I'm working on a nice map now. I think I'll take a picture of it and post it.

When I was contemplating the awesomeness of the internet, I was thinking of how amazing the internet is for making it easy to access information. But I never thought of how the internet makes is easy to share who we are with our friends and with the rest of the world.

And Chris showed me the SCARIEST YOUTUBE VIDEO ON EARTH. It's a video of Ronald McDonald. Ever heard the phrase, "can't sleep; clowns will eat me"? It's like that.
You can watch it, but you've been warned. It's here.

Leave me a comment so I know that there's somebody alive out there =)

Geez. I've been to Joy Yee's three times this month.
I haven't really been up to a lot of things that are special...I've been working with my dad a bunch. He owes me for nine jobs now--I'm counting, because I'm sure neither of my parents are.
My IMSA friend count is up to 16-and by Tuesday, I expect that number to have soared, for two reasons. The first is that I'm going to the quad cities the 29th-30th to visit Connor (and I hope Jacque?)...and the second is that I'm going to the Taste of Chicago on the 1st. PLUS, I'm going to visit Zexi on the 28th. That makes 4 days in a row of chillin' with IMSA peeps.

I'm really hoping to lock in plans for this 6-day camping road trip of pure awesomeness on July 20th-25th. It goes around the rim of Illinois. I made a google map of it: click here to see it.

I'm hungry. Maybe I'll boil some of those pot stickers =]

So I've divided my poison ivy into 8 regions. 4 are on my right leg, 3 are on my left leg, and one is on my right arm. And now I think I'm developing a ninth spot to the right of my belly button. Isn't two weeks enough time for it to stop spreading? Son of a bitch!

I'm going to look for what I can do about this shit online. Hopefully I can get some help.