Daniel Seidel’s Weblog

thank you for this wonderfully awkward night.  i was already worried about awkwardness knowing the event would probably be a bunch of good friends watching a movie and then me the outsider but it was really nice of you to blow all of that away by having me show up as the first person even though i was 10 minutes late.  it was even better that you had the event at a single girl’s apartment and the real cherry on top was that all the rest of your members decided not to come leaving us together alone.  at least we had something to distract us “nick and nora’s infinite playlist” cuz that movie isn’t awkward enough to sit through.  you guys forgot a few things that would have made the night even better though, i could have really used some candlelight instead of those flourescents. and also a disco ball would have been a good touch.  maybe it would be good too if next time you get rid of all the furniture except like one small couch and blanket that we have to share.  just some things to consider, i am just brainstorming.

INSTRUCTIONS:
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AUDIO BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION – LUKE CHAPTER 01 (Audio Bible)

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Bombs Over Baghdad  (Outkast)

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
1 2 3 4 (Feist)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
In the Light (DC Talk)

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Stepping Stones (G. Love & Special Sauce)
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Not Much To Do (?)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN?
Miss Independent (Kelly Clarkson) – how else am i going to be a stay at home dad?

WHAT IS 2+2?
Maxine (John Legend)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Fun For Me (Moloko)- so true P Nuuuuttyyyy

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Ghetto Musick  (Big Boi) – ayay yay!

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Got to Be a Love (Greyboy)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Georgia (Hanson)

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
When Your Mind’s Made Up (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova)

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Influenzia (Moon) – dissapointing, i was hoping for “slow motion for me”

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Day by Day (DC Talk) – flippin AA

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
“Out of Control (State of Emotion)” (Kenna)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
You Are (Low Budget Soul)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
(I’ve Got To) Stop Thinkin’ Bout That (James Taylor)

WHAT’S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Shed A Little Light (James Taylor)

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Mr. Hurricane (Beast) – oh no.  the wizard is going to get me?!?!!!

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
This Thing (D’Nell)

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Complexity (The Roots)

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Creepin (Golden Era of Sound)

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Every Ghetto Every City (Lauryn Hill)

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
West Savannah (Outkast)

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Where Did My Baby Go? (John Legend) – How to put this lightly?   Ummm… HELL NO!!

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Weird World (Backstreet Boys)  – i always think outside of myself

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
DUI (Har Mar Superstar)

if you think i wasted time putting these here then well…you better also realize that…well…it is kind of ironic for you to think that.

i hope you can read the large print it says “Glenn Beck.”  i honestly don’t know if it is the glenn beck that i am thinking of and i don’t care too much i will gladly misinform you all.  the plot of this book is “a boy learns from his disappointment with his mothers gift,” which sounds very wholesome and even kid friendly.  but if i know glenn beck there will be some terrifying plot twist where the mother’s gift held the secret for this boy to somehow take out an anti-American terrorist organization.  and the boy will also at some point come to a moral cross-roads where he has to choose between wrong and right with no gray area in between and by chance he will look down at his WWJD bracelet and remember what the right thing to do is.

all that to say don’t be deceived by this seemingly heart warming book.  i have a good feeling glenn has some real excitement up these pages, just in time for the holidays.

well i’ll start with some good news: i am done with my finals and i probably got hella A’s.  this is good news because my parents pay for my school and though they may seem kind and compassionate on the surface mother ruth,  father dave and especially grandmother florence  pile on the negative reinforcements if i don’t achieve their standards.

the bad news is going to be a real shocker, and when i say real shocker i mean you all know about it already.  our american higher education system exploits students for their money!  i know it is hard to believe but it is true. their are plenty of examples to prove it.

multiple editions with little to no revisions that simply make old copies of textbooks in-valuable (not as in invaluable but like not valuable).

textbooks often require special online codes that cost extra in order to take their tests online even though there are free programs that do the same thing.

even the bookstores are in on it.  they keep themselves slightly overstocked so students can’t even sell their books back for a decent price.

buti have recently discovered the most disgusting practice of all.  students have to pay for scantron sheets in order to take tests!  there are a few levels to this thing.  first of all they are like one piece of paper so how much could it really cost! second of all they make you buy  freaking bundle of them so instead of paying a nickel for one you have to charge your card for a bunch that you will never use.  thirdly you are paying to take a test!  that is simply wrong.  and worst of all scantrons are only used by teachers when they want to be lazy.  So basically the 35 people in the class pay the bookstore an undisclosed amount of money to sponsor our professor’s 20 minute coffee break while he or she “grades papers.”

so i have decided that i should be in a band a couple weeks ago but i am already running into problems.  i thought that craigslist.com would solve my probs but it hasn’t because everyone seems to think they are good singers and so no one will take my word for it.  they want recording and proof and stuff but i don’t have time for that nonsense.  also i don’t really think i have time to be in a band, or at least not to practice 3-5 times a week.  what is this jv basketball for the 6th year in a row?  and ten some are even more picky, they want someone with choreography experience.  they said if you can’t step then step. and i was feeling like “but i can step.  i just don’t lock down said steps into mundane patterns and routines.”  so it is a big dilemma for me right now.  just thought i would share.

an interesting list of things that happened before we elected a black man as president:

1. astronauts got wireless internet in space

2. we put 2 rovers on Mars

3. the Catholic Church updated the seven deadly sins

4. Three 6 Mafia won an Oscar  

5. a new spork was invented

6. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura were elected into office 

7. the Red Sox won a World Series…or two

And most ridiculously of all.

8. Hell Boy 1 & 2 were made, released, and successful…apparently

So i would like to think that i have finally learned an important lesson: listen to your mother.

I thought that i had learned this already but unfortunately i was wrong.  Growing up she was always the one who would warn me to check both ways when crossing the street.  Over and over again she would tell me it and for a long time i thought she was waaaaaay overprotective.  I had such good ears i knew that i would be able to hear any approaching vehicles.  so with her i would comply but by myself i would do it the fast way, by ear.

somehow i didn’t die which is great but years later i remembered this belief i had and was shocked and confessed it to my mom.  and then i repented of my foolish prideful ways, or so i thought. but history repeats itself.

Another lesson my mom was keen on reminding me of was of making sure to mark down credited purchases to keep track of them.  but i said “nah. i will just remember what i bought in a month.”  what i fool i was.

recently i was having money issues, as in i thought i should have more money in my account than i did.  upon more exploration i found some charges that i didn’t remember.  some were even from the time when i was in Ethiopia and wasn’t using my card.  after google-ing it i found out that these charges were coming from some scams.  so i reported it to my dad and he looked into it and found that the charges went back to 2006.  They came from some scams from when i bought flowers online (which were worthless anyways) and when i bought airplane tickets.

so all this to say.  don’t get scammed!  and listen to your moms.  she is smarter than you.  and she is waaaaaaaay smarter than me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5JfsQoALMY

So i met with an advisor at my school today to figure out what classes i should take and our conversation went sort of as follows.

She: so you are taking some science classes would you say you are more science oriented?

me: yeah i am better at math’s and sciences

She: well let’s get you on a transfer program for science then

me: no i kind of hate science.  i am good at it but i don’t like it

She: okay well what do you want to major in?

me: i am not really sure

She: well what kinds of classes do you like?

me: i am not really sure nothing stands out, thats why i am doing all these different classes

She: well what do you want to do as a career?

me: i don’t really know

and then i realized that i was wasting her time, and possibly my own.  and not just wasting my time by going to see the counselor but also in being in school at all.  so i made an appointment to meet up with her next week after i had done some research on possible jobs or majors i would want to do.  And after twenty minutes of surfing around the internet i am losing my mind because of the stuff i am finding looks really stupid.  i don’t want to do anything with communications or using computers or learning about economics.   all the jobs and internships i found were for communication and PR stuff and marketing and i think i hate all that crap.  so please help me in my brainstorm.  Here is what i want to do:

i want to do actual relief work.  working with actual people who need help.  i want to physically provide a service to them in some way.  i don’t want to be a pastor.  and i whatever my job might be i don’t want to be in school for 6 more years to do it.  is there anything that fits that or should i end it all now?  please let me know.  comments or emails or whatever will be appreciated.