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No time
Posted May 28, 2004
It should be painfully apparent by now that I've been making myself rather scarce at h2g2 for quite a while now. My last journal entry was made more than 3 years ago, before h2g2 sold out to--er, I mean was incorporated into the BBC. Anyway, I'm just writing this "entry" to point out the following:
(a.) I Have for some time been and continue to be almost inactive on h2g2
and
(b.) I have not forgotten about h2g2 and its wonderful denizens. I come back to it 2 to 6 times a year to update my details, reply to any messages I get, and look around to see what's changed since the last time I logged in. I plan to continue this rather pathetic routine for at least the next year, and probably for as long as h2g2 exists.
So I just wanted to make the situation completely clear to everyone. I really would like to visit h2g2 more often. Frankly I think it took a turn for the worse after the BBC deal, but it's still a remarkable forum that I truly enjoy being part of. Unfortunately, I doubt I'll ever have enough time to be a regular again.
I joined when I was a bored high school kid with nothing to do but read Douglas Adams and surf the internet. I'm now about to graduate from college (that's "uni" to my British readers) and in the next year I plan to travel to opposite ends of the country, visit another country, be the editor for a magazine, volunteer in the national office of a group I belong to, transition from my current crappy job to a completely new crappy job, apply for grad school (and take the dreaded GRE test) and much, much more. Sadly, h2g2 doesn't fit into my schedule more than 2 to 6 times a year.
Please feel free to email me if you ever want to talk about anything. I have no time for online forums, but I always try to make time for real-life people.
-Mike
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A Llong long time ago...
Posted Sep 27, 2000
Ever since I was a kid I always loved Weird Al Yankovic and last night I finally got to see him in concert! I went with 3 of my friends and it was awesome! He sang so many of his classics like Amish Paradise, Fat, Like a Surgeon, etc. as well as the ones from his new album Running with Scissors, and he even did a bunch of little improvs like a song about pizza to the tune of the Titanic theme. He changed his clothes for some of them like a fat suit for Fat and a hospital gown for Like a Surgeon. The best was when me and my friends stood up during Amish Paradise and started doing "the wave" and Weird Al looked right at us and motioned for the audience to start doing it and they did! Oh my God he is so funny. If you've only heard his songs on tape or cd you haven't seen half of what that guy has to offer! Weird Al has inspired me to write parodies of my own over the past few years and next Tuesday I sing them for my biggest crowd ever, probably over a hundred people. He was just like me in high school, the weird kid who wrote goofy songs and look where he landed. I still have my mind set on being a historian but if I every get a lucky break, he is my inspiration. But if I learned anything last night it was that wherever I go with my little comedy bit, I will never NEVER outstage the master! I know I sound like a freak talking about Weird Al Yankovic like he's some kind of god, but that man is genius pure genius, and I will remember that night for a Long long time.
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Update
Posted Sep 15, 2000
In the past few weeks I have...
Moved into my dorm
Started Classes
Dropped a Class
Dropped a Calculator (and broke it)
Picked Up a Class
Picked Up a Cold
Went to a Dance Club (twice)
Developed an Obsession for the 9th Floor Girls
Bonged a Beer for the first time
Wandered Around Downtown Kent Drunk, Looking for Campus
Been Forced to Run Down 10 Flights of Steps for a Fire Drill--When I was taking a Shower
Became something of a celebrity for my song parodies
Planned a Concert which is in a couple weeks
Finally found time to log in to h2g2!
So what did YOU do? 
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Wassup! from Kent State
Posted Aug 27, 2000
I'm here! I moved in yesterday. More later. (Maybe).
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Ravings of a Madman
Posted Aug 19, 2000
It's almost time for me to leave for college--exactly one week from tomorrow! This is going to be a big change for me. I'm leaving home, maybe forever. My best friend is getting an apartment next spring and he said I can stay with him during the summers. That way I won't have to go back to living with my mother, who I just can't get along with at all. Hopefully I fare better with my room mate! I talked to him briefly on the phone, and he seems all right, but really I don't know anything about him. I'm going to miss my friends. I only know one person who's going to Kent State with me, and while I get along ok with him, we're not really very close. I've got a lot of concerns, but there's a lot to look forward to as well. I'll finally be away from my mom, and I can make a fresh start. I guess there is an up side to being anonymous there. No one knows me, so no one will prejudge who I am by who I used to be. That's important, because right now I'm really not all that sure who I am myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm not getting moody or depressed like I used to, but I'm still trying to establish a real identity. But hey, what teenager isn't, you know?
Anyway, back to the friends thing, last night I went out to my favorite Mexican restaurant with three of my friends, and it was weird. They all knew I was leaving and even though they were staying in town, it's still a major change for them. Bobbie's going to college here in Youngstown, and other than JR, we all just graduated from high school a few months ago, and he only graduated a year ago. So it's like were just fresh from high school, on our way to taking our different paths in life, and yet all through dinner we're reminiscing about the last few years like they were a lifetime ago. And you know what, it sort of feels like they were. We've been waiting for this time to come for our whole lives, and now it's here, so it's like, where do we go from here. It's more real now that the ceremonies and parties are all over, but sometimes it still seems like a dream to me, like any day now I'm going to wake up and Mr. Carney's going to be lecturing about government or economics and pretty soon he'll go off on a tangent and start reminiscing about his life back when he was in college, like he always does, and I'll be thinking "college: that's so far away". But it isn't. It's in a week! One frickin' week! And that just seems impossible, because the only life I've ever known was at home here in little Campbell, Ohio, where nothing ever changes, and every year is just different classes and different teachers but school is school and it's always the same, summer vacation will always come, and then all too soon fall, and the cycles continues on and on for eternity. But the cycle is broken! I'm going to live in a different town, in a little room in a residence hall with some other guy I've never even met, Mom will just be a voice on the telephone and once in a while an unwelcome visitor from the past come to bitch at me, every time I see my friends it will be like a reunion, and when my four years are up, I move even further away! Pittsburgh awaits, along with a real job and a house of my own, maybe even a wife and family! I mean, sure, I knew this would all happen, but after 18 years of the same boring life, well, it doesn't seem possible that the transition period has finally come. And even though I'm not depressed like before, those questions ARE coming back to haunt me. Am I making the right choices? Will I regret this or that or the other, will it follow me for the rest of my life, will I succeed, will I fail, I feel like my head's just going to EXPLODE and yeah, everyone faces this point in life, where you just can't be a kid anymore, but you don't know how to be anything else, but most people seem to take it in stride, and are they just actors, am I more REAL than them, or is it ME who's life is just a play, just choosing roles in a script that was prepared by someone else, and maybe improvising here and there, but usually just screwing up, but it's LIVE so I can't redo it and every now and then I just yell "I QUIT YOU SONS OF BITCHES! GET ONE OF THE BALDWINS OR SOMETHING! I'VE HAD ENOUGH!" and then my mom pops in with an evil grin on her face and holds up the contract she forced me to sign, and I realize that I can't quit, I just have to keep going on and making the best of it, but it's STILL JUST A PLAY, it's all fake, it's...it's...it's...time I lay off the sugar! Holy crap, I would have made old Carn-Dog proud with that novel of a rant. Someone call Guiness people and have them put me in for most ridiculous ramble, and while their at it they can get me a Guiness, I think I need it right now. Yeesh!
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