"There's nothing here to take for granted, with each breath that we take"

Every few weeks, a Friday is ruined by a mindblowingly hard Calc III exam. That day is today, at 1:00 PM.

I'mma get rocked.

New theme and stuff, what do you think? I don't really know about it yet. I do like the header though.

Dude, holy shit.

I think I actually might like a chick.

Andreux told me I should put something up for this tour, even though I haven't been here for very long yet, but if anyone new is reading my blog, I suppose they'd like to know a bit about me and possibly become future blog readers? :]

I'm Alex, I'm currently a Sophomore at Georgia Tech, majoring in Industrial Engineering.

I'm 19 years old, and depending on the day will definitely act my age. I'm usually more mature than my age lets on, but I definitely enjoy having fun the way kids my age do. I'm really big on music, I'd go as far as to say that I'm obsessed, but nowhere close to a bad way. I listen to all kinds of stuff, you name it, I'll give it a listen. [well, maybe with the exception of most generic country music]. I'm a big concert goer [I love to mosh!], and can throw a pretty awesome party too.

Some other interesting tidbits to know are that I'm a drummer and guitarist, and sometimes write some music, though I wish I was better at it. I'm also really big on sports, and have a TON of school spirit. You'll rarely miss me at a GT football game, and I try to watch any sporting event I can from the teams I support [Mostly the LA Lakers and the GT Yellow Jackets].

Besides that, I'm not exactly very different from the norm. I'd like to think I have an interesting perspective on things, and I think that's why a lot of people I know around here come to me with their problems. I'm a great listener, fairly social, and always enjoy meeting new people.

I can't really think of much else to say here, so I guess I'll leave it at that. I hope I get to meet some cool people this week! If there are any more questions about me, or you just want to meet me, drop a comment! :D

P.S. +10 points if you can translate my blog title without using Google.. though I have no way of proving it. Haha.

It's cool to see this Mindsay Reunion Tour deal going down. I hope to see a lot more activity here, though I shouldn't really be talking, I've been pretty bad about keeping up lately.

I have two roommates who have/had Swine Flu since Tuesday or Wednesday, it's pretty unpleasant considering one of them seems to be in denial about the whole situation and walking around in the open without a mask on, and hanging out with his friends. Nathan on the other hand has been doing pretty well quarantining himself in his room, and I think he's actually almost better at this point, which is good news. I went home this weekend with my healthy roommate in order to avoid being around a Swine Flu infested apartment. I'm doing okay so far, surprisingly not sick, so I'm hoping I got off easy with avoiding catching the flu. By the way, Swine Flu makes people pissy, just going to throw that one out there.

On a side note, wow I think it's been about a year since I started this blog. Too bad it's mostly filled with boring whiny posts from a bummed out [currently] 19 year old kid. Hahaha, hopefully I'll figure out a way to make my blog posts more meaningful to my readers in my next year of blogging.

So I sent a message to an old friend of mine who moved away 4 years ago, and we've kept up decently, but I hadn't talked to her in a few weeks. She wasn't really responding, so I went to sleep. She was my best friend when we were in school together and stuff, and now she lives across the country, and is at Arizona State. Anyway, after getting offline yesterday, she sent me a lengthy message saying she was sorry she wasn't being talky, cause she was with her boyfriend and stuff, and he gets jealous of me sometimes. Well, she also sent some stuff about old memories and stuff, and she kind of summed it up at the end saying this:

"I miss you, you're an amazing friend and I don't think I'll ever meet anyone quite like you, and I'll never forget the wonderful times we shared. I hope you're having a good day and I look forward to reading the letter whenever you mail it :P"

That kind of made my day. :]

I'm fucking happy lately, and while my mood has been down some days, I like the fact that more often than not, I'm in a good mood.

Wow, the last two weekends have been absolutely nuts. On Friday I went to The Dear Hunter concert with The Fall of Troy, and it was a fantastic show. This was the second time I've seen both bands, and The Dear Hunter is by far the best live performance I've ever seen, they really are phenomenal live. The Fall of Troy was absolutely crazy, the moshing was nuts. I got shoved all the way to the front, into the barricade, but I was relatively in the front in the first place so it wasn't that unexpected. :P

After the show, I bought a Dear Hunter shirt, and chatted with The Dear Hunter's drummer a bit. One of my friends wanted to get something signed by the Fall of Troy's singer Thomas, so we ran into him and he got his shirt signed. I went and chatted with Thomas really briefly, and just told him "I didn't come here to get anything signed or anything, I just wanted to tell you you're a fucking badass." He immediately proceeded to hug me and thank me, I could tell he was a bit tired of signing everyone's shit. Felt good to make him smile and stuff.

Yesterday was absolutely nuts too, I watched the Georgia Tech game in the afternoon, which we managed to win. Virginia isn't exactly a powerhouse team, but we hadn't won in Charlottesville since 1990, so this was a big win for the program. Afterwards, Nathan and I made our way to the Tabernacle for the Atreyu/Hollywood Undead show which was spectacular. Both bands put on an amazing show, Hollywood Undead had some of the sickest stage prescence I've ever seen. Absolutely nuts.

I think after all the craziness I'm just going to take it easy today, probably won't even leave my apartment. Fantastic weekend overall though, that's about all my fun for the semester. :P