spoke too soon

the dream is over, fellas. roommate can't attend and doesn't feel comfortable lending me his car. i am so mad about the things that make me angry. at this point i am unsure of my options besides the most illustrious, that of giving up. ask my parents? demeaning, and they'll probably say no. hitchhiking? a good idea if i want to die. a bus would be prohibitively expensive and would also take thrice as long to get there. i'm in a rudderless ship here dawgs

st petersburg!!!

 well ain't that something! the day after i make that spiteful little post about performers avoiding florida like the plague, i find out JPEGmafia is coming to st. petersburg (petersberg?) in a few weeks. it's a 4 hour drive, but it's one i'm willing to make. btw, just rewatched serial mom for the first time in a while - soooo good. possibly one of the funniest movies of all time

new york texas california

 it seems like every few weeks i see some really cool event happening in new york, texas, or california. it's really somewhat demoralizing, down here in the asscrack of the country - i'm constantly being taunted by tour dates in my hometown, tour dates slightly too far to drive. maybe one day in the near future i'll be autonomous enough to go on a three-day road trip to see some band i like. but not today

last night was a movie fr

 those friends who weren't gonna show up... showed up! a real surprise, they texted me saying they were waiting in my dorm while i was at the video store. we had a pretty good night, went out smoking and drinking and being general public nuisances. we even had some whataburger, which is the taco bell of burger joints. never have i seen a menu that so blatantly caters to stoners. truly beautiful. 

right now i'm lamenting the modern-day computing trend of cutting ports in favor of thinness - everything from the humble 3.5mm headphone jack to USB itself has been cannibalized in favor of a form factor more in line with a manila folder than anything worth punching numbers into. my laptop of 2 years has 3 USB-C ports in the way of I/O - include power and you're down to two. granted, there are dongles and docks and whatnot for USB-A and HDMI, but honestly who has ever been grateful for a dongle?

the case of the mysterious prior obligation

 as expected! despite me bringing it up like 3 days ago and then posting on my instagram story, my two friends who i had the idea with ended up going elsewhere. this always happens. again, i went in with a sort of worst-case-scenario mindset, so i'm not *mad* - but i'm certainly not happy either. maybe i'll turn this around, dip into my emergency friend reserve and switch gears to target a sappier audience

salame

 tonight is the night of my so-called movie night and honestly i might just delight in dumping the whole thing. like, idk if anybody even cares - there's a football game going on and it seems like most people seem pretty indisposed to attend. i would love to have friends over and watch a goofy movie but it seems making A Night of it is what doomed me. i think i'll go into it with the whole entire expectation that nobody shows up, and then if somebody does it's a pleasant surprise

philosophy for dummies

 here is how to be a philosophy professor:

- step one: look like you stepped out of a 2015 mumford and sons concert with your newborn son named hazel. shitty beard mandatory. wife and kids optional

- step two: have an incessant holier-than-thou attitude where every powerpoint is full of little philosophy in-jokes for you and the TAs

- step three: give inscrutable assignments with no rubric so you and aforementioned TAs can just give whatever grade you feel like

step four: presumably take advantage of your position of power by having sex with a grad student