Dorm Watch 2007

I have lived in a dorm room for quite a long time now (2 years) and each year I tell myself OK It's time to go. However, I find myself back in the same room the next semester. This year was supposed to be different. I planned to get myself closer to getting out of school by taking some classes over the summer. Step 2 would be to find a place to live. Originally I had planned on staying one more summer in the dorm and rent an apt or house next fall and celebrate my senior year. Well a friend of mine asked me the other day to live with him this summer and next fall. Immediately i jumped on the offer without remembering that I had already put a down payment on the same dorm room. Now what's the problem you ask? Why can't you just go tell them that something came up and you need to terminate the contract? Easier said than done my friend. It was $150 deposit and basically I won't see that cash again. Telling that to my father is not the thing you want to do. How will I justify that I totally screwed my self as well as him by saying " hey dad guess what you just gave the University money that wasn't necessary". My father is a very complicated individual there are certain ways to deal with him. He hates the way the university deals with the payment system already and to tell a man that he gave them money for no need will just steam him even more. I have a meeting with the dorm area coordinator tom morrow to see if they can help me out .. Stay tuned

1st and 10

A wise person, whom I wont reveal their identity told me to write about something, anything that I can . I have yet to come up with something that has much substance. I can write about myself, which right now is not amusing. The world as I see it, well I really don't see much going on because I dont like politics. However, there is Sports which I base my entire life around. My schedule is set around the happenings of certain teams in the country. I fall asleep to Sportscenter and wake up to Mike& Mike. It's not a passion anymore, but more of an obsession. People have told me that it wont lead to anything. I should focus my attention on things that matter like school, and graduating, but that never seems to work. I constantly find myself trying to procrastinate by checking scores, news or anything that really has to do with sports. My girlfriend once compared it to a crack addiction. She said that If I don't watch it, read it or listen to it I will act "weird" and freek out. Fortunatley I have yet to expierence those symptoms. I don't know where It exactly came from, I didn't know what ESPN was til I got to College because my parents didn't believe in cable. So my sports craze was limited to local television and the newspaper. There are other things that take my time up surprisingly, school which has never been my strong suit, family and friends which at present are about 800 miles away. Other than that Im just your ordinary guy addicted to Crack