bingo bango

tues. just finished 2 finals. relieved

i didn't have a final monday. chill day. i am legend day. monday. night football day. slash night

anywho got my studying done, and i felt pretty confident. matt, even though we procrastinated way too much, i thought we were prepared. i pretty much flew through my history final. but its one of those finals that you have to know all the information yourself. you write essays. it's no fill in the blank. but i think it went well.

i almost didn't study for my listening final. cuz errthing was so frresh in muh brain. but i did anyway and i blazed through it. also found out i got 15 point extra credit. i wrote a paper that replaced my lowest grade score. boost

anyway, just a filler blog during finals week. i hope everyone's is going well. i have 5 finals this week. fml. but two are done so yea.

after finals is break! ahs vs waukegan (i have family in waukegan) this thursday! isaac's back! kelsey's back! errbody's back! break, break, break, break, break, break EVERY-BODY! break, break,break, break, break, break!

booooooooooooooooooooost!

final ly

so it's friday, that means the end of dead week. which is a pretty scary name for this week. i mean if by dead you mean nothing is different. then ya sure. i felt nothing different. only one of my classes did a review. then we talked about the final. i guess that requires a week to be not alive.
well following dead week, comes finals. oh dreaded finals. i hate you.
nobody likes them. especially when you have to remember the stuff you forgot at the beginning of the semester. ah finals. can't live with them, can't pass without them
i'm not entirely sure when all of my finals are, but i think i should find that out soon. finals are so stressful, but most of the time they aren't as hard as you think.
i find i always feel the need to get real close to my tests when i take them. like i have to lean over. then my back hurts. then i try to counteract that and sit back. but my back still hurts. i might try to twist and make my back crack and now i've become a distraction.
so this next week, i will focus on being comfortable throughout all of my finals. i will try. my instincts tell me that i need to inhale the paper though.
i'll try not to end up like this in my finals...

good luck everyone

seems forced

so i really don't have much to say today. we all barely survived the snowpocalypse the last couple days. my driveway Finally got plowed. and it was fun not going to class
well speaking of plowing, you would think that with all the tuition we pay here at iowa state, they could plow the rows in parking lots. YOU WOULD THINK. i was picking matt up at his dorm, and pulled into one, to turn around. got stuck. had to dig out. missed class. i need to be reimbursed for the money i paid for that class, and the gas i wasted trying to get out. this is ridiculous. i don't want to offend anyone but the only word i can think of is retarded. RETARDED. i'm mad. that was unnecessary. but i'm sorry it's unbelievable. iowa state you suck. wow i'm peeved about this.
anyway i didn't have anything really to blog about when i started and i don't want to rant on this subject. iowa state made me miss one of its classes that i paid for. that's it. screw that
wow. i was in a better mood earlier cuz i took a nap and had my last history class. not cool.
idk what to say now. so here you go.

dead weak

so this is dead week at iowa state. but since it's wednesday. i'm calling it dead weak. but since the blizzard came and went to town on ames' rear end, we don't have classes today! at iowa state they cancelled classes! i can only remember one time where they cancelled classes at isu, but i wasn't a student. this is groundbreaking. the theater closed early yesterday, and today we won't even open! its nuts! walnuts. macadamia
so i'm stuck in my house. got to go dig my way out like an ant if you pushed over the ant hill. but not as extreme. bad metaphor.
so i don't anyone else have cabin fever? i soo didn't want to write my two papers last night but i did. you can never bank on a university closing due to weather. i procrastinated last night like it was my job. but they are both done and now no class. i remember when ames high never used to close due to weather but ever since a bus slide threw a stop sign a couple years ago on an icy day, if it's below 33 degrees you might as well sleep in. but not that extreme. bad metaphor.
well snowed in blog. no class blog. well no school blog. mid weak blog. dead weak blog. overall feeling good blog.
watch us

close that

so this seems double blog worthy
this bliz is here, and it's takin' over. one city at a time
its crazy all up in ames. today i was shoveling the driveway to my apartment, which is what i pay for... hasn't been done yet, but its still snowing. anyway i shoveled the steps too, and by the time i was done shoveling, and going back down the stairs. i could have probably shoveled the stairs again. wow
so i was supposed to work today. liz was afraid of being snowed in so i brought an emergency stay alive kit just in case. as in turned out, we closed the theater early! i came in early to work so ashley could go home, cuz liz and i both live on that side of town. we be lookin' out for each other. alex didn't have to come in, and guess what... we closed before the 7 o clock round. a first! there was about 10 people the first round and when i came in, a few minutes later we got the ok to close. i called security at six and we acted like it was closing time. i shut down everything and made closed due to weather signs and hung them on the doors. i decided to be nice, and wished our customers a safe drive home.
weird thing is it felt like we were actually closing, but it was 6:30. it was just a ridiculous feeling. closing so early. some people came in, saw the sign and were like huh? and i'm like uh huh.
it's pretty miserable out there but i'm a pretty good winter driver i like to think. the only problem i had all day was trying to drive getting a start out of my driveway. and then no problems until i tried to pull into my parents driveway. i got stuck. had to get pushed. thank you friendly neighbors. otherwise no road problems. so have a good safe night everyone. put on your sweatpants. eat some warm food. i'll wake up tomorrow at six and hopefully go back to sleep.


because hopefully classes will be cancelled.

the girl next to me smells amazing

so its like really really snowing. and its projected to keep snowing. like blizzard like. and i'm nile, and the blizzard is coming.
so i saw this sign on campus today and laughed. the united way just gave up. and i think the "thank you" sounded a little bit sarcastic, if you know what i mean...

anyhoot, i decided i would talk about whistling, since its dead week, and after this storm comes-a-blowin' we will pretty much me dead. btw i work tonight, when the storm comes-a-blowin' i might have to sleep at the theater...
so whistling. it's like one of those things that the longer you think about, the weirder it seems. like, the longer you stare at a certain word, the more sense it doesn't make. like gauge, pronounced "gage"
so how do we know how to whistle? supposedly you just put your lips together and blow. well that just makes like a farting noise. some people can't whistle. but how did those people find out who can? its hard to think about. it's just something that you learn. i don't know if you can remember when you learned to whistle. unless it was like last month or something. but just think about this, if i suggested the tune of the flintstones, could you whistle that? go ahead.
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yea that's it. but if you didn't really whistle the tune while reading this, i'll give you another chance
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k? good? alright. how do we know where to move our lips to make a different pitch? that's like crazy! i bet if you listened to a song that you never heard you could whistle along with it. how do we figure out how to whistle these notes? well, i have a friend who thinks he can whistle but it all sounds like the same note. you loooove the monotone whistle.
whistling is very weird when you think about it. blowing air through your mouth to make a different pitch. and we can control the pitches too. i guess its like learning to play the trumpet or something. idk i thought about it too much and now whistling seems like a crazy thing. like if you read this post saying hwistle.
To Isaac:
Love, Drew

don't die

so i was giving plasma the other day, and i was in the Gold section. i was was waiting for a giant needle to be stuck into my arm, and i noticed the sign hanging from the ceiling faced the other direction. so i saw it from behind. i took this as a sign... to blog

so lets just talk...

this weekend matt and i drove to iowa city to pick up isaac. we had a fun road trip. on the way back we stopped in the williamsburg at the gap outlet. i got my gap jacket. now the trio is complete. we also all got glass coke cups from mcdonalds. they are soo cool. we all hung out that weekend and had a good time. also iowa state is also going to the insight bowl! that's so awesome! i can't believe they beat out missouri for that one. it's going to be in tempe, arizona on new year's eve. i'm not sure if i am going to that yet. we will have to wait and see.

this week is dead week here at iowa state. the week before finals week. the week before the week before break. boost. except we have to take finals first. i am really only worried about one of my classes for finals, and that's history. i just don't get along with that class very well. idk it's just a boring lecture too. but gotta get that studying in so we will see how it goes.

if you have never had dead week, it's really nothing to worry about. the only thing that really affects you is that you can't blast your music in your dorm and groups can't meet on campus. that's pretty much it. the rest is basically reviewing in your classes. no big deal. and if you get a professor who gives an assignment during dead week. well then wow... wow them.

so that's pretty much it. um, i mean just an informal informative blog today. not trying to do anything fancy here. just here to speak, i guess. so you have a good day, i guess.

well one more thing, on campus there were some christmas carolers singing outside the library, i thought it was really nice. i put a quarter on the cement in front of them and they all started laughing, some even stopped singing completely. i thought it was funny too

rant

long awaited blog about student tickets.
so here is my thesis statement. Never purchase students tickets.

so this year, i wanted to be a part of iowa state university's student section. so i purchased student tickets. i bought student tickets for football and for basketball. i bought them at the same time and i got a free cy's pass, which gets me into all women's basketball, volleyball, soccer, and wrestling games. pretty good deal, but let's face it, i don't really go to women's basketball games. volleyball though. whew!
now here is where things get dirty. when the basketball student tickets became available i went to go pick them up at the ticket office. everything was fine, until i noticed a blip on my tickets. there were six tickets labeled, "not a valid ticket" when i saw this i was like "WHAAAT?" i went back to the ticket office and demanded an explanation.
explanation is as follows: students who purchase student tickets are not given tickets to those home games, which fall on dates over breaks. being that isu is not in session during those times, students will not be admitted with student tickets.
well i am a student. i am from ames. i'm not going "home" over break. i am a huge iowa state fan, and i want to go to those home games that i paid for. i was told that these tickets are sold to other fans during break. for the student section. which is open seating. they sell our seats.
let me break down the logistics...
student tickets cost $125. as i have realized. these student tickets, allow you inside the building. these tickets do not get you a seat. you see, to have a seat, you have to be a part of cyclone alley. to be a part of cyclone alley, you need to have a tshirt, and to get a tshirt you need to be in the student alumni association. to be a part of the SAA, you need to pay $30. you also get a discount on a bunch of things, but you need the shirt to sit. $125 to get in the building, $30 to sit down. but you miss out on six home games. i asked, how much would it cost to buy tickets to those home games? $15. Let's do some math. $15 x 6 home games not included with my student tickets. that equals... let me pull out my asian... $90! wait, what's that over there? on the floor! there! oh! season tickets for $99? that only $9 more than six games! and what? you get to go to all of the games?
i could buy season tickets for $99 and go to all the games. i can also get into cyclone alley for $30. they don't check tickets to get into the student section. they check to see if you are wearing your shirt. if i wanted to go to all the games i would pay for my student tickets: $125. my tshirt: $30. those six home games: $90. asian where'd you go?... that's $245.
you would think that a student ticket would benefit the student somehow. nothing is included with the purchase of a student ticket. the shirt is separate. the girl at the ticket office tried to justify me paying that much because the people at the same level have to pay $400 for their tickets. i don't care if they pay with their children, i want to go to all of the games! i argued with her at the office. probably made a scene. i argued with an old lady usher at one of the games. probably raised her heart pressure to dangerous levels. i'm arguing with people that have no control with this. to those people, i apologize. now, finally bloggin' about it, i think i feel better.
on a lighter note, you can purchase upper level tickets for $10 over break. i did, and i attended both games. during the game, since, NO ONE is there, they invite those people to come down INTO THE STUDENT SECTION, where i SHOULD be sitting. i argued with this guy, why i couldn't go down until they announced it. why wouldn't i be able to sit in the completely empty student section. i frickin' paid to sit there, i don't want to wait for an announcement!
oh and another thing. they kept promoting this 4-pack deal where you get a hot dog and a drink with your ticket for $11.50 each. frickin not advertising it's only available via online order. frickin' wow... wow iowa state athletic department.
i'm never going to buy student tickets again. you can save so much money with season tickets. and go to all the games! this is true for football too! and don't tell me how iowa student tickets are cheaper. it's cuz the football team is going to have more wins than the basketball team.
conclusion: Never purchase student tickets.
notice how i didn't post any videos? lol jk

mid weak

so today is wednesday. mid weak as we know it here at blaaahg! so for mid weak i thought i would mix things up a bit and go with the right alignment. just for mid weak...
coming up soon is finals and even though is ridiculously stressful i'm happy they are soon. that means it's almost winter break. i like the in between time of thanksgiving and winter break. you know break is imminent. i'm gonna miss this schedule though. i still have to work out the kinks for next semester.
i'd also like to bring up something that has been grinding my gears like the giant of the beanstalk does to bones to make his bread... excessive amounts of video posting on blogs. yes its fun to share videos, but this is not ebalmsworld. if you want to share a video go ahead, but if that's it, i'm not even gonna watch it. get a vlog. it's not youtube. if you want to share a video, post it on your facebook. i want to know your "THOUGHTS" or what's going on in your "LIFE" not a video that you have an inside joke with your friend. now i'm not trying to be hypocritical here because i also post videos. this is mid weak. but, have a higher standard. embed and log off. not cool. remember to actually blog here, on your blog. or whatever. do what you what. you know my opinion.

videos, but i blogged, so they are ok


take this minvan

let me tell you what i think...

let me tell you what i think...
today i was really really tired. my sleep schedule is soo messed up and i haven't been able to get a good night's sleep since break ended. today, in my art history class, i was fairly certain i was just going to relaax and nap it out. to my surprise/pleasure we were watching a film today. booost. something about buddha. slept through that. i've developed the sleeping sitting up technique pretty well. i think this was because while taking music 102 last year, listening to music in class first thing in the morning is not good for waking you up. i got pretty good at sitting up and falling asleep.
BUT! gilman hall is where my art history class is. i'll finish this thought in a bit. after the movie i was awoken by the person next to me. thanks david. we were filling out the course evaluation sheets that you fill out at the end of semester to express your thoughts of the class. now i thought this class was boring. but i did end up learning stuff. i found myself pointing out things i learned, ex. architecture on buildings in movies and whatnot. eh still a very boring class. why do you think i was planning on sleeping during it?
so this class is in gilman hall, as stated earlier, what a terrible auditorium. its actually a chemistry lecture hall, but we cram 250 art students in there to look at slides of pottery. booorrring. fog horn. boooorrring. not like digging a hole in the ground. the seats are terrible too. they are mounted to the floor. the desks are ridiculously close together. it gets so hot in there. i feel like i am rubbing shoulders with the person next to me. i can't sit comfortably there. but my expertise in sit sleeping allows me to sleep anyways. but my chair still hurt my butt. it's also too dark to take notes in there. it's also dirty and there's this loud sound that pounds in the back of class everyday. i don't know if it's a door slamming our two walruses jack-hammering a concrete sculpture of jeff goldblum. seriously this place sucks. and i let them know what i thought about it. the class... not great but not bad. the classroom... hated it. there was a sheet to write your thoughts. and i filled it up ranting about the badness. some people threw it away and some people drew pictures and turned them in. i let gilman have it. sorry gilman. you need a make over.
let me tell you what i think...
what has happened to thoughts of isaac o. strohman. i'm not seeing any thoughts anymore. i thought there were supposed to be thoughts. case in point, tired tuesday. ya don't be telling me about spell check.