I'VE BEEN AWAKE FOR 2 DAYS WHY CAN I NOT GO TO SLEEP?????

Does that have anything to do with why I think these two songs would be awesome in a mash-up together?

and

(Some of the Omartion moves clearly have their place in modern dance)

(Pixel Pollock)

VIDEO BLOG #72!!!!!

We're actually video blogging!!!!

Aaron is a jerk, don't read his posts....

Recently Aaron, my one time friend, challenged me to out blog him via text....I know right...text...doesnt even have the guts to call me or say it to my face, anyway, its on now, prepare for a hellfire of blogging...

Live-blogging the Joose experiment...

(part of my productivity to this point has involved typing the search term "funny pictures" into Google Images)

2:30AM: Yes... the title is correct, it is now two-thirty on Monday morning and I am beginning a live-blog of a "Joose" based experiment. The idea is as follows: I need to write an 8+ page paper on a subject I know next-to-nothing about by 6PM tomorrow (technically today). This means that I must rally. As history has shown, nothing makes me rally harder than Joose... therefore I will be attempting to use the artificial grape flavor of Dragon Joose to motivate the genuine and authentic ambition of my mind grapes into successfully completing this paper. I don't like all-nighters so hopefully this doesn't become one of those... only time will tell. Anyway this experiment technically started an hour or so ago and so far the results have been mixed; on the one hand I've completed more work on my paper than in the previous eight hours of attempted working combined, but on the other hand that's really not much. Add to that the fact that for whatever reason I find it a good idea to live-blog my night (despite knowing that no one will read a word of this until I tell them tomorrow that I live-blogged a Joose experiment... and even then I'll be grateful if I even get Kyle) and its hard to call this a success at this point. Anyway I'm pretty dead-set on this right now so be prepared for a fun evenings worth of anecdotes, annotations, and anxieties (plus - most likely - some funny pictures and sweet youtube links!) so wish me luck and away we go...

2:56AM: Seriously dictionary.com just tell me what the word "latency" actually means and we will all move on with our lives and we can just pretend like this never happened.

2:59AM: So after 4-minutes of loading you come back and the best you can give me is "the state of being latent"????? I hate you. I'm taking the old physical dictionary from my house over Thanksgiving break.

3:02AM: (Last jab at dictionary.com before I get over it) Your word of the day today is affable... that's stupid and ridiculous, everyone knows what affable means.

note: I acknowledge plenty of people probably don't know what affable means but regardless it's normal enough sounding of a word that there is no-way you can tell me that it qualifies as a word of the day.

note 2:

affable

\AF-uh-buhl\ ,adjective;

1.

Easy to speak to; receiving others kindly and conversing

with them in a free and friendly manner.

2.

Gracious; benign.

3:25AM: Just finished listening to one of my favorite study-albums of all-time - Systems/Layers by the group Rachel's - here's one of my favorite tunes off of it!

ALSO get this, I just realized that we now have enough posts on this blog that it officially merits an archive and there's even a "previous posts" button at the bottom of the page!!!! Fantastic!!!!

3:31AM: Guess I should go back to the point of why I'm doing this again and make these crucial updates:

1) We've completed the Joose.

2) Productivity is still slightly raised I guess... I've written more and the ideas are flowing... one variable not accounted for is how much I'm enjoying blogging.

Word count comparison: 553 words written on the blog vs. 348 written on the paper. Not tooooooo awful, but certainly telling.

3:40AM: Can't help it, time for another one of the funny pictures I found on Google Images earlier in the night...

(I can only assume this fellow likes meowing)

Okay, that's it... back to business for real; no more updates until 4:15.

3:50AM: So I lied, I probably should have said no more updates until an alphabetical search of Swem's journal database brought to my attention that there is an actual publication entitled "Climacteric: the Journal of the International Menopause Society". This means that not only is there an International Menopause Society (I hope their building has AC) but also that said society takes the time to publish an academic journal (and thank goodness too; it really is refreshing to know that someone else has been doing research on the menopausal experience among indigenous women of Sarawak, Malaysia). Okay for real I'm gone for at least 30 minutes now.

4:32AM: I can only disappear for so long. Anyway, because I'm now officially more dead-set on keeping the integrity of this experiment alive than actually doing my work I should confess that I just did a shot of Banker's Club clear rum (AWFUL GROSS DISGUSTING EWWW) in between sips of coffee to slightly extend both of my buzzes... why? I don't know, no fiber of my being actually wanted to but an odd competitive/obsessive nature required it.

Random:

How I feel about the paper as of now

eh

What am I listening to?

The Decemberists' Hazards of Love album

Why am I doing this?

I have NO idea

Will I regret it?

Yes

What's most harmful to the potential (in)completion of this paper - alcohol or blogging?

Blogging

Come on, there's no way this is worse than Facebook

Nope, it definitely is

Am I at all aware of the pretentiousness and douchebaggery involved in basing my humor in somewhat absurd questions which I am posing to myself on a blog with an extremely limited readership?

"You betcha" - Sarah Palin

Do your work

FINE! I'll get back to it... though I'm first going to seriously consider editing this blog post to remove any references to the music I've been listening to because talking about alternative music and name-dropping artists just for the hell of it is one of the most annoying things anyone can do and implies a totally unnecessary superiority complex... on the one hand though I feel like if I did remove music-related notes from the text I would leave in-place all references implying that I was speaking about music at some point (such as this one) because that kind of thing lends itself to my sense of humor.

+30 points for you if you can make sense of that last sentence I wrote.

5:15AM: Okay, I - for better or worse (definitely for worse) - give up on all this for tonight (both the blog and the paper) but before I go I suppose I should share my final thoughts on the effectiveness of Joose as a studying stimulant... I have none. While I certainly felt the effects of the Joose, they didn't seem to be really that hindering towards my progress and to Joose's credit I actually do think it helped me stay-up later and with more enthusiasm for my work than I otherwise would have - even with coffee. Then again if my actual productivity is any sign it's pretty clear that tonight was nothing special. All-in-all there really is no conclusion to this and I can neither recommend nor discourage one from using Joose in the aide of their work. Personally I didn't have a huge issue trying this tonight as the work I'm doing is an ungraded rough draft (just a completion check-mark), therefore I had no issue setting the bar a little low. Anyway I guess I'm ultimately glad I did this because in my own mind I certainly had a blast and I did enjoy actually blogging; maybe I'll do this more in the future.

But for now...

P.S. Feel free to come visit me tomorrow in the UC study lounge (where I will almost certainly be writing this paper all-day) and congratulate me on the Pulitzer Prize that you just heard I won for "best live-blogger ever".

On this day in Scrabble history...

Aaron Robert Stein had a final score of 403... Anyone who says otherwise is an ecwaxjibugging liar.



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What Makes Me Adventure: Sarah Sheldon

Tequila!

What's a tuesday without a mobile blog post???

Answer... A normal tuesday.
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Its been awhile, but the adventurers are still DTF

Hey fellow adventurers, I know its been awhile and believe you me I have wanted to tell all of you about the incredible times we've been having, the new ideas we've been incorporating etc etc...but the demands of senior year of college have rendered me unable to post in quite sometime. I m not saying that I ve necessarily been doing homework or studying this entire time, im just saying that academia had devoured my soul and made me incapable of finding my muse, which has pleasantly made an appearance now. Anyway, I guess i should begin by saying that Ocracoke Fall Break '09 was a great success. For those of you who don't know a majority of our core group along with some new comers made a trip to Ocracoke in the Outer Banks for fall break over Columbus Day weekend (for those of you not a fan of a certain genoese merchant that would be el Dia de la raza). Early Sunday morning Oct 11th (probably about 1130), we decided to load up the cars with an inordinate amount of supplies, including things like cornhole, a volleyball net, and a ghetto blaster ( I am 100% sure most of the things we took went unused). Anyway this resulted in the fact that we didnt have enough room in the vehicles, so we had to take my car, the scion XB which i must say is the adventure workhorse ( once carried 10 people to a bowling alley). After our first debacle of packing we came to the second, of liquor store availability. Apparently on Sunday, liquor stores in the Commonwealth of Virginia do not open until 1 o'clock but in North Carolina they close at noon...WTF. Anyway, crisis was averted, we actually had more than enough liquor already which seems to be a growing trend for us. After that things seemed like they would be smooth sailing all the way to sunny North Carolina, that is until we realized the value of good caravan communication. Our fearless leader, Scott "the stickiest of the icky" Zickefoose likes to cut off the road without informing his followers, this resulted in several near accidents, probably some road rage, and a guy with a stroller in the middle of the road...dont ask. This all culminated in our arrival at the ferry to take us to ocracoke island. Not without its own drama, the third car in our caravan had to do 80 in a 25 to make it to the ferry that wasnt going to leave for another half hour......its the driver, only to be referred to as schatzi works excellent under pressure, especially while listening to jock jams. I digress....While on the ferry we committed perhaps one of the greatest heists of all time and added a new totem to adventurer mythology...i feel as though i should let aaron tell that tale...there will be more to come on fall break shortly...until then ...Be Real.


Kyle

Condensing

Mobile Blogging!

You bet your sweet ass we can.

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We came naked and barefoot

Hello, Although my distinguished colleague may have beaten me to the first post I feel as though my insight will be notably different and deserves its own inaugural post... sorry Aaron. Anyway, I begin with saying that there is a lot of stupid shit on the internet, I mean a lot. In response to this, i believe that me and my friends can produce something at least moderately less shitty and more entertaining. Secondly, I would like to consult the idea of adventuring. Most importantly none of the events that you may read about are in the least bit planned, which is a mortal sin if I do say so myself. It must also be said that despite their seemingly adolescent nature, these adventures are fueled by the high minded goals of fellowship and knowledge of the most human form, or some bull shit like that. (I should probably take this time to note that I will be the most pretentious of all the commentators on this site and may have a tendency to dribble about the greater meaning of our escapades and ensembles; you've been warned.) Either way the basic rules are that each weekend we will head out with unclear intentions, encounter unknown accomplices, for an unforeseeable outcome. This should have all the drama and suspense of a Victorian novel, but with the added twist of incoherent interlocutors which will make it sound more like James Joyce...
In all seriousness though, I hope that if nothing else these adventures will help us enjoy each other, make some new friends, and ultimately result in some fun/excitement that can extend beyond their own physical bounds.

Happy Trails,
Kyle

HEY ADVENTURERS!

Welcome friends!

You are now reading the inaugural post of the soon-to-be critically acclaimed blog "Relatively Naked Pioneers". A lot of people often ask me: why start a blog? Well the reason is quite simple actually; two weeks ago myself along with a collective of fellow adventurers found ourselves on the roof of a local home creating a "Gin Bucket List" - which is a list of things to do before we graduate from college. Included on this list was the commandment to "start a blog". That my friends is as good a reason as I can think of to start a blog... because the "Gin Bucket List" told me to.

Now that the blog exists, what next? Well a blog isn't a blog without purpose (okay it probably is) and this is no exception to that rule. Every week myself and a lovely smattering of my fellow adventurers/pioneers will post the adventure relevant details of our lives as well as insights into the greater meanings and influences that they have upon our being. Personal voices will flourish and lives shall unfold right in front of the reader's eyes as we meet new friends, make new discoveries, and of course complete the "Gin Bucket List".

So please, join us on this greater adventure and prepare yourself for laughs, thrills, tears, cheers, and indecent exposure. It'll be a hell of a year.