As you know if you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, I'm graduating from Drew in eight days.

Yeah, for reals.

It took me twelve years to do so, but now I'm wrapping up this stage of my education and entering the "real world". I guess now I'll need to find a job, move out, and find a place to live. Yup.

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Last weekend was pure awesome. Friday night jedimentat and I saw Ministry with runstaverun and kikibird. Hemlock and Meshuggah opened for them. The latter I had wanted to see for some time and put on a damn good show, the former was rather amusing. As for Ministry? Woah. Fucking amazing. A great show. Shame it's the C-U-LaTour. Al Jourgenson had said in an interview, "That seems to be my muse; everyone seems to think I write real shitty music when a Democrat's in office. So we'll do that one, and then me and George Bush go riding off hand-in-hand, into the sunset." Though with the way the election's going, who knows if maybe he had at least another four years of music in him...

Burton C. Bell, the lead singer for my second favorite band (Just after Maiden) did some guest vocals for Ministry. I knew that, but didn't know that he would come out and sing for both encores. Holy shit was that amazing. When Al Jourgenson announced it, I had a metalgasm right then and there. Burton C. Bell singing some of Ministry's classics from the nineties? Incredible. During the second encore they played their cover of Roadhouse Blues, still with Burton singing. They closed with Under My Thumb, which was the most random song to end the night with.

The mosh pit was entertaining, but I'm getting too old. I used to jump into the thick of it when I was in high school. By college I was always on the edge, pushing people back in or firmly stopping it from expanding further. Now? I'm moving away from it like the cowardly old fart I've become. There was a huge fat guy in the pit from Hemlock on, who ended up shirtless at one point. His mass seemed to scare off a few people from joining the pit during the early part of the night. Only a stoned looking burnt out old metalhead dared to challenge him, sumo style. A couple of the ladies amongst the security force stood on a chair and cackled at him.

That same weekend we went down to Bahr's for petemagyar's birthday on Saturday, and had dim sum for Dan's birthday on Sunday. We only went to Club KO once, down from twice the prior weekend.

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It's amusing to see the first program I ever wrote in C++ (Mancala for Cheersoft) is still out there.

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EDIT: Picture of mine on Hoboken 411. Yay.

Current Location: Drew University, Madison, NJ
Feeling: working
Listening to: Heidevolk, Wodan Heerst

BSG, Scrubs, The Office, and LOST spoilers - beware! ( It saddens me that a good percentage of my co-workers still have these shows sitting in their TiVos unwatched. )

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I love that ogun can look at my Armory profile and figure out what talent/gear swaps I need to make in mere minutes, what my plans within the game should be for the next few weeks, and what things my guild needs to watch for in that time frame. He really should hire out as a professional WoW consultant.

Current Location: Drew University, Madison, NJ
Feeling: okay
Listening to: Wyclef Jean, Heaven's in New York

One day I'll post about our birthday party, or any of the other awesome things we've gone through since then. Really. One day. As if anyone still wants to read about it.

But here's a short version of the last two weekends, using pictures, that I might or might not explain in detail one day. Probably not.

Last weekend we went to see Iron Maiden with dosboof and mandy_moon. All three of them have posted recaps. Awesome set. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", unf unf. All the greats like "Revelations". Awesome time.


The next afternoon we did Ravenchase with johnstevensaul and daeron. The four of us ran all around the Village figuring out clues and puzzles. We won, getting first place. johnstevensaul was totally our ringer.


Two days ago we booked a trip to St. Maarten, then we went to Pillowfight NYC. We're still coughing up feathers.


Yeah, just look at my pictures to see what I'm doing.

We're out.

Current Location: Warren, NJ
Feeling: sleepy
Listening to: jedimentat making fun of my obsessive nature

Just booked a last minute vacation for jedimentat and I. Incredibly cheap. Why is it so cheap?

1. We fly out early Easter morning. Luckily, her parents are willing to drive us there.
2. This is the beach for our resort:
   

See you in a week!

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Also, having a LJ protest on a holiday a lot of people are off or taking off for? Great way to look like it worked, eh?

Current Location: Warren, NJ
Feeling: excited
Listening to: jedimentat

Spitzer manages to knock McGreevey out of the spotlight with his scandal that leaves the nation abuzz. The comparison between the two scandals is made hundreds of times in the media. Even my dentist pauses before retouching some work to ask his assistant which wife she'd rather be, which of the two scandals is worse. Not to be outdone, Jersey fires back and ups the ante with this gem. Yeah, McGreevey and his wife allegedly used to have threesomes with an aide. They called them their "Friday Night Specials". Every Friday they ate at TGI Friday's before returning to the couple's condo for a threesome. What are the governors, the Spears, having to beat each other in the tabloids?!?

Current Location: Drew University, Madison, NJ

Off to see Iron Maiden with jedimentat, dosboof, and mandy_moon. And I get to see Buddy as an added bonus.

Current Location: Drew University, Madison, NJ
Feeling: excited

"I think caniswolfie is our foodie, and kingfox is our gourmand."
         -mrfantasy

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It's good to see Jodie Foster hasn't lost it.

Current Location: Drew University, Madison, NJ
Feeling: hungry

I feel like the guy person on the right.

Current Location: home after Club KO
Feeling: sore
Listening to: jedimentat