whe, it feels good to be back and blogging again. its been what, 2 weeks, somehting like that at least. actually looking at the main page in another tab, its been since the 21st, so yea, 2 weeks and 1 day. since the last post relevant to the point of this blog.
so yea in those two weeks, i had 1 test for a very hard psych prof, a few essays (one of which was 10-12 pages and kinda hard to write) and probably some other stuff i can't remember now, so yeah, thats why i was gone from this blog.
But yea. not much happened in those two weeks outside of work sadly, ntohign epicly awesome to report. just my usal life here: work, classes, collecting figures and being a generally socially awkward nerd. I've gained weight back since being back here, minaly form that 2 week high-stress period where i didnt do much exercise at all. so i think i'm up to 190lbs again. i'm doing trying to lose weight here cause every time i apply myself to do so, i always over eat or just outright fail for whatever reason. Maybe its my lack of self-control manifesting in that part of my life now as opposed to in my transformers collecting. My goal for now with my weight is to maintain my wieght where i can. Then during the summer, if i can drop down to where i should be, (170-175lbs) i can attempt to maintain that during my gap year. so yeah, i originally wanted to be around 170 by May, but idk if i can push myslef that here at college, when part of my issue is getting full on cafeteria food and gettin meals that may be too big when i eat in the coffeeshop.
wow, that was a longer tangent about weight than i was expecting. umm so lets see, i guess the only other thing is that i'm finally realizing i'm shit at telling stories to people. examples: lats friday i was at a friends birthday party and i had been drinking and i was reminded of a time on my Berlin may term (shout out to my firend Kaitlin who reads this blog) when i had drank very heavily at a movie and had somewhow ended up at my host family's place safe and sound. I was telling the story, which in my defense is a respectably funny story about me drinking at that time, and right after, one of my firends playfully jabbed at me and said, "yeah that story sucked." granted it coulda been worse because i was pretty inebriated, but yea. the other example is actuallly from last ngiht when i was watching a freind play Red Dead Redemption (google it) and at one point he, instead of hitting the command to talk to someone on the side of the road, he accidentally hit the "draw your gun" button to interatc with said person and everyone laughed hysterically at the in game NPC runnin away screaming. Now, whenever soemoen else came into the room and i tried to explain what had happened in the game, i always butchered the story of what happened and drew it out too much. I think thats my problem with telling stories, is that i'll drag them out too much. I'm gonna work on that. there's a motto we're goign by wiht our senior psych projects (expect a full write up on that here around mid-december) that goes soemthing like "Keep It Simple Stupid" or K.I.S.S and i think thats what i need to do with my stories. I need to save my verbosity for my academic essays, as long as i can back it up.
in other news, i;m more 50/50 on if i prefer my glasses or my contacts. i like the look both give me. additionally, i'm thinking i may grow my hair out again. idk i like having it short, mainly cause tis a pain when its long. hell it doenst even get long in the sens wher ti grows down to, and beyond, ponytail length. it just grow out and gets layered so i look like i have very moppy, shaggy hair. I grew my hair otu sophmore year of high school and while it was nice, i really hated walking to school with it because it was like insulation on my head that winter. I am nautrally warm, so yea.
still in other news, the baseball 2010 postseason is set. it starts today actually. we;ve got the Yankees facing the twins, the Rangers facing the Rays in the american league. we've got the braves facing the Giants and the Reds facing the Phillies in the National league. below are my biases and such.
Biases: hate the Yankees, Hate the Phillies. theyre the perennial powerhouses who have overpaid superstars. They always bring in the big named pitchers every offseason too, because apparently both teams still need pitching to this day. I know each seaosn is different, but i thought the Phillies rotation they had back in 2008 was just fine, they had no need to expand on that and get better. They won the world series with that rotation, which now has seen half of its members be traded or let go. Pitchers are some of the hardest workign players in the game and something about the Phillies and Yankees just tossing "youngish" arms out for proven seasoned veterans who they'll dump a truckload of money onto over 7-9 years just rubs me the wrong way.
I'm a big causal fan of the Rays. They play in Tampa bay, which is right next door to St. Peterburg in florida. If i hadnt decided to apply early decision to Earlham after falling in love wiht it as much, i would gone early action to here as well as Eckerd College in St. Pete. in fact they Rays were the underdog team back in the world series in the fall of 2007, when i was a freshman I can only imagine how electric the atmosphere in St.Pete and Tampa musta been after having the rays pretty much suck since their franchis was born in the mid 1990s. I really like what the owners of the Rays did with their organization.
It seems this years underdog team is the Reds, everyone expected them to suck this year, but they broke out of their shells and there's a lot of well-oiled parts meshing together for them this season. Their offense got better and their pitching improved from respectable, to pretty damn good if you ask me. Thier GM really knows what he's doing. I'm happy to see that franchise turn around now after it was wrecked by Jim Bowden after the days of the "Big Red Machine" in the early to mid 1990s.
oh and briefly, i really want the braves to at least go to the the NLCS if nto all the way this postseason. It's their manager, Bobby Cox, last season and he's such a great manager.
ok so my picks for each series (this is based off my mediocre knowledge of each team): Twins over Yankees in 5 games, Rangers over Rays in a neck-to-neck series that coems down to the wire in the 5th and final game. Braves over Giants in 5. and Reds over Phillies in 5 (reds will lose when phillies start Roy Halladay and Roy Oswalt, btu will rock house the other 3 games).
so that gives us an NLCS of Braves v. Reds and a ALCS of Twins v. Rangers. In the AL, i give the rangers the slgiht edge against the twins, mainly because a big part of the Twins' offense(Justin Morneau) is out this postseason and i dont thinkg they can handle not having him beyond the YAnkees series. The Rangers do have young ptihing after Cliff Lee, so that could hurt them. This series will go at least 5 games. Rangers win the series
for the Reds-Braves series, its hard to project out. both teams have solid pitching, and the offenses are btohe great, The Braves seem to have slightly better defense, so i'll give them the edge here. Braves win the series.
So that gives us a Braves v. Rangers world series, which probably wont happen (i'm shit at predictions). If it comes to this though, i think that while the Ranger's bats will give them plenty of offense, their pitching will pale in comparison to the Braves. But due to the offense prowess of both sides, expect at least 5 games. In Bobby Cox's last season, the Braves win the World Series. i'm not predicting in how many games.
so yea, thats my update. see you all next week. Comment below.
--Zack
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