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[ news @ sg ] currents archives features versions contributors about [news@sg]	Tuesday, December 23, 2003 / 11:50pm A New Beginning This is it. I took some time to show myself I still knew how to do something. And this is it! I've created some scripts that will run twice daily posting new content as I make it available. And, maybe, just maybe, I'll actually take time to make that content. Such is life. It goes. On. Wednesday, December 24, 2003 / 12:01am One little test If this gets posted at 6:00am, then BOO YAH, I love this game. Happy Christmas Eve y'all. I think this just might be working! (Oh, and I'll work on the contrib, about, and features links next. I know those don't work... yet.) Wednesday, December 24, 2003 / 1:16pm "the list" empty Thursday, December 25, 2003 / 12:01am Holiday Merry Christmas! Friday, December 26, 2003 / 4:37pm The Morning After Yesterday was bunchloads of good times. I ate. I saw the family. All was good. The presents were quite dandy, as well. After a very full day, I really didn't feel like doing much. I slept (relatively) early last night. And only today did I actually get around to responding to some email from last week and touching up news@sg. Well, it should be a quiet night. Then, tomorrow afternoon, I head back to Urbana to work at Krannert for the Intervarsity conference. New Years? Yeah, I don't know yet. Eh. Oh, and I still have some holiday cards to do still. Tuesday, December 30, 2003 / 11:18pm Six Degrees of Amtrak So Saturday, I'm taking the train back to Urbana because I have to work at Krannert because there's a conference coming into town. Since I've traveled back and forth on the train a good number of times, I'm familiar with procedure, how it works and all that. And I usually hold out and hope that maybe some cute girl will sit with me or something. (Like how I'm getting your hopes up?) Well, it wasn't to be this time around. A family guy travelling back to Urbana a day early, ahead of the rest of his family is who I ended up sitting with. So, we're talking about random stuff on the train... I tell him which bus he can take back to his house and whatever, and I say, I know someone who used to live in that area. Well, it turns out that this guy is the guy that bought the house I was thinking about from my friend Matt H. I was like, "yeah, so I guess I've spent a week at your house a few summers ago, before you even owned the place." And that he knows Zach M of the IMC, and the parents of a former full time Kranstaff person I know, and the parents of a kid who went to and left IMSA (and happened to live in the wing that I was the RA for). Total crazy connections, there. Just thought I'd share. Nice guy. And you thought I was going to talk about something list related. Wednesday, December 31, 2003 / 12:11am Urbana 2003 For some reason, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is just the place to hold a super international conference for 15,000 people or something. Perhaps it's because such an event can take over the town and have control over buses, and, really now, the campus is quite walkable. Well, anyways, for the first time in ever, this Intervarsity convention managed to book Krannert as a host site for some of its events. Having no clue what to expect, the whole building was expecting the worst- thousands upon thousands of visitors for three days. I planned all I could even before my little Christmas break. Yet, I still managed to not fall asleep due to personal worry until 4:30am the night before it all started. Worry- that's what I do... but it ended up being so much smaller than anticipated. Not a big deal at all! "It was like working three non-tickets, no-programs, more-than-normal attended School of Music events." And working with everyone was so nice and plesant, it happened without any major incident. If only we had more information in advance about what was going on at Krannert and about the convention in general. Not knowing anything, I ended up scheduling 2 female ushers and 2 female usher supervisors for a lecture double-header about something about men and the computer era where only guys were allowed to attend. Well, that got worked out, but whatever. And it's over now. Yay! Wednesday, December 31, 2003 / 12:28am Campustown Update When I was home a few days ago, I got a letter from the university saying I had an unpaid parking ticket. Of course, imagine me getting a parking ticket- because I drive oh so much. It was apparently for an expired meter from October 2000. (I didn't even have a license!) Well, it was my family's car, and they must have finally run the plates, and I'm the only one in my family that ever had a parking space registered with the University, so I guess that's why they sent me the bill. Whatever. I'm going to bill my mom for that one, anyways. So, continuing the story, I thought I'd pay the ticket in person at Campus Parking on Monday morning. Well, I couldn't. Campus Parking's apparently on vacation until next week. My letter did say I could go to the administration building and pay a cashier over there, but apparently I was told a lie. They couldn't help me until parking actually billed my university account for the ticket. And they hadn't. They hadn't forwarded the charges yet. Punks. I guess the university will have to wait until next year to get their money. It's not like I'm going to run out of the usual 2-3 day grace period to pay the ticket before the fine goes up, since that expired, oh, over three years ago... Oh, yes, "Campustown Update"... since I'm walking around and taking care of business, I also took the opportunity to drop off some film at Walgreens. I also noticed that a new dining establishment will be opening at the former Steve and Barry's clothing store. It's called "Soylent Green Street"- where people go to eat and be eaten. Doesn't that sound yummy? And, as a final note, Figaro's, the classical music store above Record Service, will be closing forever today. (Record Service is slated to close at the end of the Spring semester, I think.) There was a story about it in the Daily Illini. You can probably find it in their archives around December 10 or 11. Wednesday, December 31, 2003 / 12:42am Out in the Real World I'd just completed watching Sarah kick another Real Worlder off of the MTV Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet. So, I'm getting ready to hang out with some people at Legends Monday night, and I leave the TV on and there's this MTV News Special about Paul. Who's Paul? He's the blurred out guy from Real World 9 - New Orleans. He was blurred out because at the time, he was dating one of the guys on the show and he was serving in the military. Don't ask, don't tell. Well, I was already in the Real World mindset when Anna Z called and asked if there was ever a Jamie on Real World or Road Rules. So, I say "yeah, there's a Jamie on Real World 9 New Orleans... yeah, I think he's from Chicagoland". And Anna Z says thanks... I'll tell ya later. Well, below is "later"- IMs I got while I was out... (11:24:04 PM): hey there...sorry for that random phone call...you were a great help! (11:27:34 PM): basically we were sitting in this cafe (some high school friends of mine and myself) and this guy walks in...so my friend jackie and i are staring at him because we both recognize him but cant figure out from where. so then my friend tom asks the guy his name and if he lives in skokie (cause that's where we thought he was from), but he says that he's from wilmette and he went to new trier and his name is jaime. and then my friend jackie realized that it's probably the guy from new orleans, and i didnt believe her so i called you cause you're the expert at that stuff (11:27:37 PM): so THAANKS! Wednesday, December 31, 2003 / 12:49am Trivia Tuesday, December 30 Jen, Glen, Paul, Melanie, and Chris enjoyed in the festivities of the final Trivia Tuesday of 2003. Good times, of course, except for the everyone doing horribly to close the Showdown game. On the upside: I have now exceeded the 750,000 Player's Plus Points threshold, which demonstrates to everyone that I really do spend a whole lot of time playing trivia over there. Along with that achievement, my "Plus Sign" next to my name will now be purple instead of red. Woohoo! Wednesday, December 31, 2003 / 12:55am Illinois at Illinois-Chicago (Men's Basketball) The University of Illinois (Urbana) (8-2) beat its cross-state same namesake (Chicago) (9-4) at the United Center in Chicago Tuesday evening 75-60. They've won, like, tons of times in a row there now. Okay, ten times. It was nine times, as that comes before ten. Nine times. (Oh, Ferris.) Unfortunately, the game was on at the same time as Trivia Tuesday so it was quite the distraction. Although, really, we just didn't know the right answers today. There was even a period of about five minutes at the start of the game where the local Champaign channel lost the satelite feed it was getting from WBBM-TV in Chicago. All of Buffalo Wild Wings booed. That was probably just as well, anyways, since I forgot that we were actually the visiting team, so I mistakenly cheered for white (them) for a minute or so at the beginning. It was cool. Anyways, next up is Illinois State - the only school to lose to Illinois football this season. How exciting. Wednesday, December 31, 2003 / 1:08am "the list" empty... what a wonderful new year's Wednesday, December 31, 2003 / 1:29am Day of Gr-eight-ness According to the records, I turn 8,888 days old today. No fun or exciting plans, though. Anyways, for fun, here's a historical listing of what past New Year's Eves in the last 1,500 days were like: 2002: Worked the morning in Urbana, got home in Hillside with two hours to go. Watched people sing. 2001: At the Funky Butt in New Orleans, on the eve of an Illinois football loss at the Sugar Bowl. (Should have been the Rose Bowl if it weren't for that BCS Championship game rotation.) 2000: Wandering back and forth between two parties blocks away from each other in Urbana, while listening to a top 94 countdown in an attempt to try to win a radio contest at midnight. 1999: Hung out in front of the ABC2000 cameras on Miami Beach holding up a plastic pink flamingo I borrowed from Krannert storage.
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