a history of me

I've got a tricky situation on my hands. As part of my Acting class, I'm supposed to keep a journal of my experiences, lessons, etc. But that's what this blog is for! What's a man to do? Well, I made my first entry today in my Acting journal, standard introductory stuff. I suppose the advantage of the Acting journal is that only one person is going to read it, so I can use that space to be a little more open and direct about shit that happens to me. I'm using one of those little composition books with the marble cover, just like John Doe in Se7en. Indeed, she encouraged us to include photos, poems, or anything else that might be important. So I've already started cutting the skin off of my fingertips and taking amateur photographs of prostitutes. See you in Hell!

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...but not necessarily good news. It's been a long school week, my first full week of the semester. I would say that I feel a little better about all of my classes, although I'll feel really good when I get some grades back next week in Japanese class. I had some homework this week and a kanji "review" test. I'm not worried about what I know, but I'm a little worried about my penmanship. Early indicators indicate that my professor is a stickler for detail. Did I "cross every radical" and "catch every jump stroke"? Time will tell.

The food certainly isn't getting any better. Tonight my dinner was onion rings and clam strips (I passed on their always-dry chicken wings). The last decent meal I had was, no joke, at the campus Burger King. That Angus burger is good eatin'.

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The magic and merriment of getting back to work is over. Now I'm just working. I'm not super busy yet, but my schedule this semester is a lot more rigorous than last semester. I have classes five days a week, and three classes Monday through Thursday. No evening classes and nothing too early, but Tuesday and Thursday are pretty long days (10:15-16:05) so I'm beat.

Not helping matters is the food. The dining hall fare was pretty decent for the part week but tonight's menu was an all-too-familiar smack in the face to remind me that the food here sucks. It was "Oriental Night" (insensitive much?) featuring rubbery noodles, dry chicken and bland fried rice. I was only able to consume it by applying generous amounts of Tabasco sauce. That stuff has become a real life saver this year; my own personal panacea for crappy food. I never used to use hot sauce on food until I got to Albany and found myself encountering dull tastes everyday. Now I really dig it, although I find Frank's Red Hot even tastier than the Tabasco-brand. Maybe I should keep some in my fridge and smuggle it in to meals.

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According to the NY Times, some homeless fuck-up set a fire that severely damaged the A and C lines. This pisses me off on several levels. First of all, if anyone thought that the MTA was prepared for any act of terrorism, you're an idiot. One crazy fuck accidentally caused so much damage they say it might take three to five years to fix, not to mention millions of dollars. Can you imagine what someone could intentionally do? Of course, they failed to apprehend the man (?) who set the blaze. They think he lit the fire to stay warm which begs the question, who the hell needs the subway to be warmer? It's at least 80 degrees down there, even in winter.

Now I'm starting to think about this incident. How do we know this was really an accident? Maybe this was a deliberate attack and they're trying to pass it off as a random act of a looney homeless dude. After all, if you were the MTA, would you rather be embarrassed by a independent "accident" or humiliated by a calculated attack?

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Today's special presentation is a flood of new photos from recent events, plus a few from last year that were sitting in my ol' camera. First, check out these pics from my ten-year high school reunion. Second, here's an unsorted assortment of pictures.

I didn't post yesterday as it's been a very quiet weekend here in Albany. Like most cities in the Northeast, we got a lot of snow this weekend so I didn't really venture outside much. Good time to spend indoors scanning pictures and coding HTML, I suppose. Oh, and study, of course. ^_^

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