"Your not my father", "Your right I am not your father, I'm your roomate"

I had a strange happening occur this past Sunday. My roommate had his girlfriend up this weekend, shes a nice girl and i know very well know that its almost the end of freshman year. I had gotten use to this, although i am one to argue that long distance relationships do not work. Well i had to go to a concert for my music in wester civ class, i left around 3 pm, and i saw my roommate and his girlfriend leaving so i figured that he was taking her back home, and it wouldn't surprise me if he decided to stay home, it seems like every other weekend he's home or has someone he knows up in our dorm. Well at this point I am not sure as to whether or not he will come back. Well the day rolls on and, before i know it its bed time, 11:30, yeah i know its early but i do what i do. So at that point i go to my other roommate, we're in a designed triple, i guess hes not coming back, in a sarcastic tone, since it was obviously pretty late to be on the road. Of course like every Sunday night i have trouble sleeping since i stay up too late Saturday night and sleep in Sunday morning. Well I am tossing and turning, and around 2 am i hear our door knob start to shake, like someones trying to break into our room. My heart skips a few beats and i go from being on the verge of finally getting some sleep to an alarm state where i think I am going to have to defend my room. Mind you i had a final in less then 6 hours. Suddenly the door opens and its my roommate and his girlfriend, i think to myself, what the @#$%, its 2 am, did they decide to leave home at 12 midnight? It takes 2 hours to get from his house to Cortland. This doesn't make any sense, so know i begin to think that something might be wrong. Well his girlfriend stays and he leaves so now i am really confused. I come to the realization they are staying and he is dropping his car off at the student lot, that at least makes sense, everything else doesn't. Well around 2:30 he gets back to the dorm, i live in Degroat, so its a walk from 281. Well at this point I'm not happy, unfortunately past experience as told me yelling at him wont do any good. The next morning i learn, not from my roommate of course, but from a friend down the hall that they went to Buffalo for a concert, My own roommate couldn't tell me he was going to a concert? I wanna talk to him and say that when he's doing stuff like this he should at least give me a heads up. I then recall when one night i was trying to sleep and his desk lamp was on, and i couldn't sleep because of it, i first asked him if he could study down in the study lounge. I kept asking then i finally told him to go downstairs, cause i cant sleep, then he uttered a comment. " Your not my father", and my reply was "your right, I'm not your father, I'm your roommate" My question is should my roommate keep me posted on what hes doing, like a concert in buffalo, and hes going to show up at 2 am on the night of a final exam i have. Cause i am not his father, but i am his roommate.

I love you mom

A few weeks back our coach asked a simple question, had we told our mom we loved her. We all sat there wondering where this had come from, and were quite perplexed obviously. Well he went around and asked us, i told my coach that i had said "I love you mom" a few days ago. Well everyone else answered and said you should always tell your mother that you love her because you never know what will happen in your life. He then went on to explain that while he was at a coaches clinic one of the coaches players died in a car accident. Our coach explained how that player was just like us, on his way to a meeting he thought he would make, unfortunately he never made it. Well i thought you know thats true i should really tell my mom i love you, but didn't think things like that could really happen to me or the people around me. A week later, i get a phone call from someone that goes to Cortland State thats from my home town, and he sounds really somber, and me thinks what is going on right now. Turns out there had been an accident, involving alcohol. He mentioned a name which at first i didn't recognize. I knew the name though, just couldn't put my finger on it. Well a few minutes passed and i came to the horror that one of people that passed was one of my best friends sister. Emotion came over me as i began to think that was his little sister, and began to think how he must be feeling right now and i couldn't take it, so i did something i haven't done in a while, i went for a run. And as i ran through the black night i began to think about what my coach had said, realizing that these things that happen can happen anyone anywhere, Well my mom emailed me later the next day, explaining what had happened, and i never got to say i love you mom, well if you look at the title you see where i went and was going with this. Don't forgot to tell you mom you love her, because you never know when it might be your last.

Fight Club

This past weekend in the wee hours of the morning i witnessed an exceptional film, Fight Club. Starring Brad Pitt, and Edward Norton. The movie follows the main character and his inner struggle as he goes through the rigors of daily life and how he becomes bored and has to resort to fighting in order feel. From this "Fight Club" is spawned. Brad Pitt is the man as usual, and if looks could kill well Mr. Brad Pitt would be a serial killer. I know what some of you may be thinking, shame on you for waiting this long to witness this spectacular film, i apologize, but its better late than never. Back to the movie, Edward Norton narrates throughout the film and don't ask me how but it works, it works really well. Nortons' character loses everything in his apartment, and decides to live in a house that the devil would pass up on for a home. He starts seeing this girl who is a nut and that creates a bag of turmoil. This movie is so great not just because of the lineup of characters and dialog , although both are phenomenal, the movie basically holds a mirror up to society and you realize how material things have taken hold of our lives and how the things you own really own you. It strips the human of material things in the movie. It makes you really sit back and wonder about how the things we own today own us, ex. cell phones, could any of us really get by with cell phones, well at one point we did, but not anymore. And computers, how would you get by without having a laptop in your room, or for that matter without a computer on campus, well there was a time when there were no computers on college campuses, but that time is obviously long gone. Fight Club is an outstanding movie, and if you haven't seen this movie, then you owe it to yourself to witness a landmark in pop culture. Thats all folks.

Warm Weather

We are finally getting rid of old man winter! The past week's weather has been exceptional, and i have taken advantage of it. Iv spent the week playing whiffle ball in the quad, playing catch and using lacrosse sticks for the first time, my high school did not have lacrosse i played baseball. Not only did i play in the sun, i worked in the sun. I took the time yesterday to study for a biology test out in the quad. Our campus feels like a real campus, you know, the ones you see in movies where kids are playing ultimate Frisbee and sitting with there laptops, books and blankets on green painted grass under a shadow of a tree. I wonder if the spring time effects our overall performance, exams, papers, relationships, roommates, dating the whole nine yards. Its strange to think spring has come to this fast, seems like yesterday i was reporting to football camp in the middle of august in the sweltering heat not knowing what to expect, and now were on the verge of prepping for exams and May is less than a month away. Hopefully with exams coming up i can get out alive and in one piece.

Arlington Road

I saw a great movie the other day, Arlington road. Its interesting because the movie came out in 1999 and its on terrorism from within the united states. The move stars Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins, Tim Robbins is the main guy from Shawshank Redemption. Its based on the main character, Jeff Bridges, suspecting his neighbor, Tim Robbins, is a terrorist. Its got so many twists and turns your head will want to spin. The ending is quite the shocker. Well anyway i guess the reason i cared to mention the movie is the eerie timing of the movie, how it came out only two years before 9/11, yet the paradoxical theme is that instead of having terrorism come from some far away place, its actually right in our backyard. I mean today people want to stereo type and say that just because that guy looks Muslim he is a terrorist, well if were going to start throwing these assumptions around, you might as well suspect the guy that delivers the mail every afternoon. There are people born and raised in this country with a long lineage of family from the U.S that are just as capable, remember the Oklahoma City Bombing? I agree that we should obviously be wary of our borders cause there are a lot of people that do not like America. But we should remember that a lot of those people live and have family that lived in America for a long time. Maybe its a cliche that is passed around too much but i feel like these times right now are truly frightening, considering the global climate crisis, the economy and the actions the United States has decided to take considering global affairs. Hopefully with elections coming up things will change for the better in the following years.

Fitness

Well my metabolism has finally met its match, after spending almost 2 semesters at college iv finally got the picture. I need to eat healthy. Yesterday at spring football practice i found myself short of breath when i generally wouldn't be. I was upset at myself and took a look in the mirror after practice and realized i wasn't satisfied with what i saw, so its my intention to correct my wrong ways for starters, no more bacon. I realize that my diet as included bacon in almost every meal, well no more bacon im cutting that out of my diet. And second one of the worst things probably to eat on campus is the grande at the dragon grill, it is a double bacon cheese burger, just looking at it makes u feel out of shape, of course it is delicious. For now on its pbjs instead of cheeseburgers, iv been making sure to take my vitamins now, and at least try to complement a fruit or vegetable with each meal, of course carbohydrates and proteins have always been apart of my diet, and they still will, im just going to change how i get those, so instead of getting my protein from a burger, its from peanut butter. So thats it, I am @#$% pissed and fed up, iv increased my strength in the off season but it's time to improve my fitness. Of course this wont happen over night, it will take some time, so you if you see me on campus breaking my diet by eating a cheesburger, feel free to walk over and lift the burger from my fingers and drop it in the garbage.

Womens sweatpants

The other day while shopping, yes shopping, with my roommates at the college store we can across some black sweatpants, they said Cortland on them and were soft, we all thought it would be neat if we got the same kind. The lady at the counter looked at us kinda strange when we were checking our sweatpants, well we get back to the room and first notice something strange that there is a string for the waist, something we haven't seen before in sweatpants, and trying them on was odd and very uncomfortable. Well we look at the receipt and it turned out they were for females, needless to say we were baffled. My thing is the other pair of sweat pants that we were looking at which turns out were guys were not as soft as the girls, why? Why cant guys have sweat pants with a nice soft fabric, i just don't understand, could someone please enlighten me on this topic cause i seem to be at a lost