still virtually waiting

*****Cubs Rant Alert, Cubs Rant Alert*****


Welcome to the Chicago Cubs Virtual Waiting Room!
2005 single game tickets on sale now.
Customers are being randomly selected to buy tickets.

And with those few sentences the hopes and fears of a simple Chicago Cubs baseball fan rose and fell like the waves on a cold, windy Lake Michigan. Hey all. Most of my day today was spent in my dad's "den" in front of 2 computers. You see, today was the first day that single game tickets went on sale for my beloved Cubs. I know what you're thinking...pathetic. Look at the baseball junky, so desperate to get his fix that he sits in front of computers all day in faint hopes of getting tickets to the best games at Wrigley this summer. And I would resent that...if it wasn't so utterly and completely true.
I fact its so bad I actually requested the day off....just in order to sit in front of those computers...and wait, and wait, and wait. I got lucky last year and got tickets to the Cardinals/Cubs game both in Chicago and St. Louis last summer and I was feeling pretty good about my chances.
I got up early this morning to get everything ready and to make myself ready so I wouldn't have to wander away from my obsession for very long during the day. At 10:30 I got the 2 computers downstairs into the Cubs virtual waiting room and dug in for a long day. As I waited I saw the list of sold out games continue to grow...including all 3 games with the Red Sox at Wrigley (which I really wanted to go to...but so did all of Chicago apparently.)So I put all my energy into getting as many Cards/Cubs games as I could manage before they were gone.
Well I know you are all dying to know what happened in my great baseball quest. Four hours of Star Trek on SpikeTV and thirty minutes of research later (yeah yeah)my eyes caught a magic flash on my Dad's computer. THE SCREEN HAD CHANGED TO A CALENDER!!! I WAS IN!!! I could barely contain my excitement. My fingers may have been shaking slightly as I forced myself through all the steps to get my game. And each step only gives you a minute or two to complete or back you go into virtual hell! So the tension was palpable. Three tickets...upper deck infield...Friday August 12...Cardinals vs. Cubs....$69...SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I may actually have jumped up in victorious joy, but not sure. What a great feeling. I even managed to get three hours of research done waiting to get back in for more games before I went to Jen's for dinner and West Wing.
The day was not a complete success however. I completely struck out on tickets for the Red Sox series. I also haven't been able to get any more tickets to Cards games....and yes I am even as I write this once again stuck in virtual Cubs hell...waiting, and waiting, and waiting...wish me luck. later!

nothing

Hey all. Umm....I got nothing...absolutely nothing. My writers/academic block has apparently spread to every creative inch of my deteriorating mind. I can't come up with anything to update this silly blog. No Cub rants, no needless whining, not even any gimmicks I could come up with. NOTHING. I was hoping that writing about writing nothing would suffice...but not working. Can't even BS this one. Nothing at all. Open to any comments and/or suggestions. PLEASE. nothing...later!

knowledge brings fear

Hey all. I hope all is well with everyone....all two of you that actually read this useless thing anyway. Sorry I've resorted to so many gimmicks just to post on here lately. I am not sure what to write (a common complaint of mine) and I seem to be retreating even more into my mind lately.
I haven't been sleeping very well at all. I'm not sure what it is, its been going on for weeks now. Very restless sleep, where I wake up a half dozen times over the night and just lie there. My bed is godawful and uncomfortable...could be part of it (thanks to Jen I have atleast a decent pillow for once). But my bed has always sucked and I use to sleep like a baby. I'm just restless. As a result I am much grumpier during the days....even more than I normally would be. I have a sharp, sarcastic humor...but it has a new mean edge lately that I don't really intend it to have. I worry I might be turning into someone I don't like.
And I don't know if you've ever felt this way before, but I almost keep expecting something to happen. I have no idea what, it could either be good or bad. But I have this sense that something critical to my life is going to happen soon. But I have no earthly idea what it will mean or when it might come. Its really hard to describe. I think I welcome it though...I've been living in this weird state of limbo for the last three years. It would be nice to have SOMETHING happen....I think. I want to know what will happen to my life, though it kinda scares the hell out of me. (the post title is from Futurama, it was the motto of a college...makes me laugh and very appropriate to this post) I don't know, its a very unsettling feeling and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do about it. Its not that I'm unhappy or anything, far from it. In fact things have been better than they have been for years lately, for obvious reasons. I know I just need to get all this goddamn work done so I can atleast get my MA done and then figure out what to do with my life.
Hell, maybe this is just all silly birthday depression come a few weeks early. In that case please just tell me to shut the hell up. Anyway, things will be better as soon as I'm sitting in Section 106 Row 7 Seat 20 watching the Hens charge onto that green grass. :-) yeah yeah I know...addict. ok, enough whining. later!

Adam's good songs: "Yellow" -Coldplay


Great quote from Futurama (Jen will appreciate this): "Please, Fry, I'm a professor, I don't know how to teach!"

rare political talk

Hey all. You won't see much in the way of political commentary on my blog (far too much whining about baseball for all that) but I'm including this email from Chief...just cause its funny (and liberal). later!


A succinct summary of the election -
- The Democrats' mistake was in thinking that a disastrous war, national bankruptcy, erosion of liberties, corporate takeover of government, environmental destruction, squandering our economic and moral leadership in the world, and systematic Administration lying would be of concern to the electorate. -
- The Republicans correctly saw that the chief concern of the electorate was to keep gay couples from having an abortion.

not bi....maybe metro though

Well I guess that takes care of that particular rumor....maybe :-) (though this quiz may have been set up for only girls...so what does that mean?)

You are 33% Bisexual

How bisexual are you?
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what the hell?

Hey all....hope everyone is well. Sorry for the long delay, but I haven't really had anything to write about on here. The funny thing is that I get annoyed when I click on other people's blogs and there is nothing new to read. But then mine hasn't changed in atleast as long. Yay for hypocrisy! hehe
Had an awesome time up at Chach's for the Super Bowl. Thanks guys, glad that came around when I needed it to. Sorry to my pal Chach who went to so much damned work, as always, to make everything for the day and then his teams loses. Well...at least you got to get completely smashed. Yay for beer...the true winner.
this is very weird though....
actual words uttered last night by two "friends" (you know who you are fellas)
Friend #1: "You wouldn't want her to leave a big, steaming pile on your chest?"
Friend #2 "And wash it down with a nice golden shower?"
Yeah, I wish I could tell you why or what the hell the context was for that witty little exchange, but I have no earthly idea...sickos.

So I am apparently addicted to a new video game of my brother's....the first game I can ever say that about. And yes, its the Playboy Mansion game. I know, I know...how very caveman of me. But its very cool. Its basically the Sims....but with hot, almost completely naked computer girls who do anything you tell them to do (wow, that looks very pathetic after I typed it) You get to be Hef, maybe the coolest man on the planet. You set up your mansion, publish issues, and scam on any girl who walks through the doors. It even has a very cool soundtrack. And I CAN'T STOP PLAYING IT!!!!!!!!! Just what I needed as I'm trying to come down the homestretch of my master's degree, an addiction to a playstation game. Real great timing, you dipshit!! (hitting my head on the desk) Ok, thats all from me....back to Washington's papers...or that blonde in the pink thong. later!

Adam's good songs: "Chemical" -Start Trouble (from predictably enough, the Playboy game)