Morning Updates are Rare

because I using like to do them at night...cuz u know what happens at nighttime.....*snickers*
anyhoos.

I'm not really sure what I'm updating about. I just felt really happy this morning, excited to be alive,
even though Wednesday are my suckiest days ever. But I  am just happy to be here and to be me.

Wednesday morning jam
Don't Stop Believing- Journey



This lead singer guy can blow. Very talented. But I guess I can't stop believing. I gotta keep going. and all that other mushy stuff.

That's basically it. Looking forward to this weekend. Particular Saturday, as the Wildcats face off Purdue Boilermakers (after 4 years I still don't know what that is) trying to go for sixth undefeated win of the season. I'll be there. so excite.

Other than I need to get my life together. Like in general AND what I'm doing after I graduate (oh adulthood), or more so where I'm doing it. (hahahah dirty). I don't know how to decide....

alright that's it. Time to go wash my ass.
Have a fantastical Wednesday!

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!

Driving, the Dentist, and Disaster

Driving

so I gotta big goal set for the next 3 weeks( my actual summer): get my driver license/.This time for real........ maybe. But on Monday I went driving after a long, long, break and surprisingly, I felt pretty comfortable and natural with it. I mean I admit I am not the best driver and I definitely need more practice, but I feel like in an emergency situation, I would be an okay driver to get someone somewhere safely. It would be pretty awesome though to have my DL before going into my senior year of college, then I guess I'd feel pretty grown. But then again it's still not that big of deal if I don't get it suppose. i mean................idk.

Day at the Dentist 
Strange things happens at the Dentist office (remember this post?).

This time I go to the Dentist office and I'm walking up the window and say my name and then the assistant lady responds, "Oh I met your dad and brother already, but I hadn't met you" and I'm like "oh, really", thinking though she was just talking about my actual brother and dad.
And then I get to the dentist chair and she asks me " Do you also play an instrument?" and I'm like "yeah, I play trumpet" but I'm thinking 'How did she know that I played an instrument? My Brother doesn't play an instrument". And then something happens but she's like "Yeah I met your brother Alex" and I'm like "No, Alijah" and she's like "I'm pretty sure his name was Alex" and I'm thinking "Really lady? I know my brother's name", but then I was just thinking she just messed/forgot up his name.
But then she's like "Oh, ya know what I was thinking of another family". And then I put 2 and 2 together to get four to know she's  talking about the Francois, and she thought I was Andrew, a friend of mine from high school. And I tell her "yeah we use to get mixed up all the time". This is so hilarious because people in high school usta to call us each other all the time and some people definitely though we were brothers. I truly think it's because we were black, but then again....idk.

But just that's one thing that happened at the dentist.

so now I'm at the dentist right, getting a filling and you know dentists and people like to talk to you while they are doing stuff in your mouth (that's what she said). and my dentist is a NU alum so he's  talking about northwestern, football etc. Meanwhile I'm like making noises like "uh-uh, mmmm, etc".  But then I learn that the other dentist in the office. Dr. Lacoste was a NUMBalum, and they showed me his NU room, and it had pictures of him in band uniform, I think he's pretty old cuz those pictures were quite looked old. But it just lead me to the conclusion that NUMB is everywhere, but I really want to talk to him now just cuz he's a NUMBalum.

Clean House

Basically my favorite new show now. Started watching it some weekends ago in Denver. It's basically a show where they clean up messy houses, sell the stuff in yard sale, and give them room make-overs. The first shows I watched were the Messiest House in America, which were just crazy, I just couldn't understand how people would live in  those conditions, like it was so disgusting. But then it just made think of the saying "Cleanliness is next to Godliness" I mean I think that true, because the people who often have these messy home got messed up minds, they cling on to stuff instead of clinging on to God, so yeah I think that's true. And I've never had problems with clinging on to mass quantities of stuff, sometimes a lot of times you gotta let stuff go though. But I loved this show. Niecy Nash is hilarious, and reminds me so much of myself.

Another random thing......hmmmm I could talk about senior year, but that deserves a Whole 'Notha Post. which I probably do later....so until then hope you enjoyed this one.

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!

A Day at a Dentist

Today, I went to the dentist for a check up, I hadn't been in over a year,
cuz of school and stuff. (as a result I now have 3 cavities and my teeth hurt like crap, stupid dentist!)

anywayz
strangely, people just talking to me that I don't even know.
(and yes they were white, my mom says it's because barack OBAMA is president..but idunno..)

they just made me wanna say: "B!%^#, I don't know your life!"
(Total inside joke: check out clip here)

the first person, a woman, was talking on her phone all loud and stuff (i ain't wanna hear that),
and then she got off and was like "I don't like when people talk on their cellphones all loud..blah blah blah.. sorry..yada yada"
"B!%^#, I don't know your life!"



and then when she was leaving she was like "I like the stitching on your pants" ( I was wearing my pants
with pants on them, which I always get complements/comments on....i mean everytime I wear them). I am just like why are you talking to me lady, I really don't care if  you like my pants.

and then this old man (who was apparently over 70, he definitely didn't look like it) was having his teeth pulled.  he just talking to me about how people don't like to come to the denstist, and the weather, and how much I should take care of my teeth, and blah blah blah. and I just wanted to be like "I Don't know you! why r you talking to me!!! B!%^#, I don't know your life!"

and then I finally get to the dentist chair, and the hygentist lady hurt the mess outta my teeth. and she just talking to me  ( getting all up in my business..). and I'm like "We can't have conversation if you sticking stuff in my mouth and stuff" (that sounds nasty...hahaha)

I don't know if anybody got an answer to this but why these people was talking to me? Was they just being nice, and why??? Why they had to be so interested in telling me they business...cuz I really didn't care
I mean, I don't know them at all! I think it was just annoying to me cuz I was up so early (10 am) and didn't want to be bothered.

some other interesting things from today dentist visit:
my dentist actually went to the Dental school at NU before they closed it.
and the other guy dentist actually went to undegrad at NU so that was really kool.
Northwestern's all around...so awesome...

yeah interesting day at the dentist.
maybe I should go more often.

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!

hello AGAIN world

this is ya biz-oy.
so um.
still at NU, final weeks, it's fun! 'cept its not.
I kinda I have a lot to update about. but um
I really don't feel like talking about alot stuff.
oh wait i do...
I currently have that teach ed paper done.
and i basically finished my music tech project, gotta polish it up a lil bit
what's left is I just have to write my comp lit paper, which technically has not page limit.
I'm shoot for no more than 3 pages, doubled space.
and then I just gotta study for my math final.
so it turns out things are not as bad as I thought they would be
(Thank God)

but really I just can't wait to get home.....cuz I feel like I haven't seen my familia y parentals/ hung out with them in forever.
yeah...

oh GOOD NEWS, GOOD NEWS!!!!
this summer I will be going to Denver Colorado, for Breakthrough Collaborative!!.
It's gonna be so awesome. I found out last week Tuesday!
Basically I'm just gonna be teaching for 2 months straight (from June 15 to August 12)...
it should be fun, and exhausting, but I'm really excited to go.
Hopefully I'll be teaching math, I'll find out about all  that in April.

yeah other than that...
wait.....
okay so for my african literature class (i referenced it as comp_ lit above), we have to watch 1 out of five movie for our final paper. I watched Keita: the heritage of a griot. It's an excellent movie (although it's in french strangely). I don't really want explain the movie cuz its crazy!! but um it just got me thinking about my heritage and we I come from. And i was just thinking how awesome it would be to find out exactly where I came from, who owed my ancestors, when did they arrive in americas, what country they came from and even what were some of their cultural practices. I just think that would be awesome.but it's like really difficult to find that stuff actually. But I just might have to a talk with my grandma over break...

okay that's it...
I have something to do....probably not actually...
but anywayz
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!

How you doing? (Wendy Williams' voice)

Response: I'm doing good....so many things to update about.....

Let's make it a LIST!

-I feel back, I feel like last week I was kinda outta it, but now I feel back.

- I finally, Finally, got to the white post-it notes in my post-it notes stack!!!! OMG!

- Dreamgirls, the Musical, is coming to Chicago, and I'm going to see it tomorrow. so excited. I love the movie even after watching it everyday for a whole week when it came out on DVD. Ever since I saw it  wanted to see it on stage. Ah. Unfortnately Jennifer Hudson nor Beyonce will probably be in it, but hey.

- NU Basketball. On Past Saturday we won against #6 Purdue, Awesome Game! Unfortunately we just lost against #21 Ohio State. The 'CATS are now 13-5 total and 2-4 in the Big Ten. Will we make the Tourney this year? Only God knows. 


-MLK Day. Was good, it basically took up my whole day. NCE sung for the morning service, with Ramsey Lewis,who was pretty awesome at the piano (although he talked a little too much). Then I went and saw a staged reading of Palmer Park, a really interesting play about interaction of white and black families in Detroit, even though not the full play, it was just as powerful. Then after a quick bite to eat and nap,I attended the Candlelight Vigil. 
It's kinda of Sad that most students don't really participate in the events, but I doubt I would've participate much if I wasn't in the choir. soooo I totally understand.


-Little Shop of Horrors. Did not tryout. I know, right. 
I'm gonna be so mad at myself in 2 weeks or maybe not. It's alright I definitely have to check the musical out, or I'll be really sad. yeha.....


so that's my life, things are going  towards the line of hectic(ness) really soon, but you know I'll be alright, I did it for 2 years. Bring it Junior Year.....


peace & chicken grease! (<----look all in lowercase this time!) 

The Wildcats are Headed to Florida.

The news broke at about 4:30 PM on my B-day
(That day was so special, I heard that all the baby unicorns learned
to fly that day, and rhinoceroses stopped picking their noses, and that for a maybe a second the world was at peace, but I digress).
That the Northwestern University Wildcats would be playing
The Auburn Tigers
in the OUTBACK Bowl in Tampa, Florida.

My Immediate Reaction: OMG!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!! I GET TO GO TO FLORIDA!!!!!!!
YES!!!!!!!! WHEW!!!!!

My Reaction after Immediate Reaction: IT's ON NEW YEAR's DAY!!!! I GET TO SPEND NEW YEAR's DAY IN FLORIDA!!! OMG!!!!!

My Reaction after the Reaction after Immediate Reaction: OMG!!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH, SHIT!!! IT's MY 21s BIRTHDAY!!! THIS IS  SO AWESOME!!!!!

This was a total shock, because we jumped over a 9-4 team (Wisconsin) to go to the Outback Bowl, and the entire time I had be hearing/reading we were going to the Champs Sports Bowl, I mean either was fine with me. But now that we get to go the Outback bowl, I'm so happy we didn't go to the Champs Sports Bowl.
This is gonna be amazing. I'm just excited.  Because:

1. I've never been to Florida,
2. I'm gonna be in some place warm starting out the New Year
3. Free Beach, Plane, Food, Hotel, Money.
4. FOOTBALL!

This should be pretty awesome. This mean I'll be back in E-town around the 28th/29th, which then I'll stay until school starts, so It'll be a good end of winter break.

Did I mention I'm so excited!
Florida here I come!
Whew!

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!!

Randoms.

One Week Left! 
until I am the big 2-1!!!
ask me if I'm excited, cuz I AM!!!!

I honor of my proximal 21-ness, I decided to watch this film entitled 21.


okay so like the first 30 mins of this movie was really weird. it reminded me too much of college life, like including the math and everything (yeha that was really descriptive). Overall though, this move was pretty kool. I give it a 7/8 outta 10. But then I looked it up on wikipedia (a random habit of mine after watching a new movie) and people totally hated it. It was a good film kept me interesting for about 2 hours, that's pretty hard to do, most of the time.

Also this thanksgiving break, I watched way more sports (there was nothing else on)
like at any sports game, I stopped and watch it for at least a minute.
I watched 2 NU football games (repeats of our wins against Illinois & Wisconsin). Couple of NFL and NBA games. 1 NU women's basketball (did you kno we were 4-0, until that game? also we beat #10 DePaul, when did they get good?). 2 NU Men's basketball (against Norte Dame & Iowa State, both which we won, making us champions in the chicago inviatation challenge thingy, awesome!).

why is this relevant?

Because this is coming from a guy, who has a kid, I distinctly remember this, I believed that all sports were stupid, all you did was kick that ball around back and forth (I think this was because I didn't play any sports). and to imagine myself about 10/11 years later watching basketball and football like all thanksgiving weekend pretty much just weird/impossible.

But I think this entrance into the "sports world", comes from my love of NU football, which all comes from NUMB, interesting how one decision to be in the marching band changed my life completely, although I'm sure any other decision in college would have been just has life changing.

okay that's it...........

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!!!!

Bowl Bounded 'CATS!

so if ya don't know (which means you musta been living under a rock with Patrick Star <= he's a pink star, craziness!)
'CATS WIN!!!! 33-31 against #16 Wisconsin. The Wildcats have defeated another ranked team.
The 'CATS are now 8-4 and are heading to a good bowl: which means warm.
I'm excited! Bowl Trip should be awesome wherever we're going.
Also the game was the last of the regular season, and what a great finish!
WHEW!

but um other than that, 3 days before thanksgiving break, which means I get to home back to the kank, for a few days at least. get to see my family, and get to eat a whole bunch: this should be pretty fun. I hoping to get relaxed enough to come back a finish these last couple of weeks of the quarter STRONG, then celebrate my 21st BDAY! WHEW!!!!!!!! LESS THAN TWO WEEKS!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

but um yeah that's about it.
i'm just living........
aight
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!!!!

Homesick.

I am Homesick. And I don't like it.
Ya kno, you would think I would stop being homesick by my junior year, but no, I'm not.
I think this is pretty usual for me though. Like I haven't my family in such a long time, and I only talk to them occassionally. Yeha I just can't wait till Thanksgiving, I'm definitely looking forward to more than the food this time.


BUT, HOW 'BOUT THEM 'CATS, Y'ALL?!
WON 17-10 to an undefeated #4 IOWA!
Pretty much awesome-ness. Really kinda upset that I did not go, but it's alright.
Still a great win...
We are now 6-4, which means bowl eligibility, we need to win next weekend against Illinois,
which I'll be at with the band. And it'll be my 5th time going to this stadium (whatever it's name is....)
so not that excited about that, AT all.....



Just watched the Terminal,



starring Tom Hanks (his son btw goes to Northwestern now...) as a foreign guy from some country (Krakozhia, fictional place btw), so basically he's just stuck in an airport, literally. I won't give away the movie, but um....
It's was an alright movie. Probably Definitely wouldn't watch it again. Yeap.

so by updating, (and publishing these here words) I am procrastinating, I really need to be working on
my CS class. I'm like so behind in that, but I'm just seriously tired of the thought of classes.....uhhhhhhh

but anywayz.
I'll Holla!

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

Time Keeps on Slippin Into the Future

well, DUH stupid! 
everyone knows that.
Here's the video, the song's actually called Fly Like An Eagle





 (this is the Seal (Heidi Klum's husband) version that I remember from Space Jam for some reason)

but seriously Time Keeps on Slipping into the Future, seeing as how it's already November 1st! CRAZINESS!!!!
I feel like it was just September (well it was...kinda). this quarter gonna be over soon AND I'm gonna be 21 really soon 35 days (COMMENCE COUNTDOWN!)............

yeha dude I'm gonna be so freaking old, but that alright, it's life.

sooo the 'CATS lost to Penn State :-(. I mean everyone kinda expected it, but I was praying for an upset. We were getting there in the first half, then Kafka randomly left the game (apparently from a hamstring injury thingy) and he didnt return to the game, leaving Persa, the second-string quarterback, to try to keep the momentum going. FAIL. but that's alright. We still got another chance for an uspet against Iowa next week, who is currently 9-0, and us beating them would be major awesomeness.

not much else is going on. I'm trying to coordinate/do this NCE publicity, it's like all I've been really thinking about. and I have a midterm on tuesday, that I'm not studying for right now........
but everything's gonna be alright.......

sometimes ya gotta just keep telling yourself that , even if it won't, you gotta believe that, or your gonna be stressed about crazy stuff. there's no need to worry, like seriously things work out. not always like ya think, but they will. yeha i kno right i'm SO FREAKING deep..........

i'm gonna get back to my procrastination
that's it
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!

Midterms.....SMIDTERMS!

SONG of the DAY: (i hit random on Itunes). The Love You Save by the Jackson Five.

so I should probably be studying for my midterm that's on friday...
but I'm not...I'm writing this post (clearly!)....

but this is around the time of the quarter that I anticipated/dreaded,
business 24/7. Everything is kinda overlapping, and so many things must get done:  classes,
band, work, sleep, organizations, homework, eating. Yes, eating.

but ya know this is the college life, specifically the Northwestern life, we are all running around
doing 50 bijillion different things, mainly because we're CRAZY. I'm taking it all in though,
cuz before ya know it college is over, you got a REAL job, and your life is over, and all you do is reminisce on the days of college life when you had so much freedom (well, sort of).

I'm taking it all in though, esp this season, I love fall,

AND when I think of fall I just feel like automatically relaxed, it's a fresh of breath air  i mean a breath of fresh air, I think that has something do with the leaves blowing in the wind........{blah blah blah, what I love about fall....blah blah blah}.......

this weekend is exciting though, the 'Cats face off the Indiana Hoosiers (what the HELL is a Hoosier?)

[picture goes here: I googled Hoosier{s} and the result was inconclusive.

 If Google doesn't know, who does?].

they are 4-3 like us. And of course it's homecoming. I'm banking on all these factors, and considering we lost to them last year, that we should win.  I'm excited, but it's gonna be a long weekend.

yeha that's about it,
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!

I Know You're Wondering..

DUDE!
how did your weekend go?
well here's the scoop, the short version, cuz I'm trying to go to sleep REALLY soon...

John Legend concert,
was amazing! Dude can actually sing, well I knew that...., it was a really great concert.
It was all worth it in the end, "running" to my dorm in 12 mins (a new record I tell ya),
changing clothes quickly, waiting at the arch for 30 mins for a bus, all worth it.
here's some photos I took

(the last one here is Vaughn Anthony, John's brother)

(btw I was in the second row (thanks God for friends!))

At this concert, I realized that actually my favorite John Legend song is Everybody Knows, which is currently on repeat in my head....


And 
'CATS WIN! We are now 4-2 as we go face Michigan State this weekend. It's an away game, which means another two weeks without a football game : (. Which I have to admit (and I don't mind doing so) was very fun. I really enjoyed myself, I hadn't laughed so much in a long time. yeha....

It was actually a pretty good weekend...
but when I wake up tomorrow it's gonna be monday (even though it's already Monday).
God knows how much I hate mondays!

Anywayz
Hopefully this week I'll get some

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!

P to the R to the O to the....oh I finish the rest later....

yes,
third week of school...
but finally I have free time (Thank the Lord, like I'm serious)
but um...this is an updation....about what?, I don't know
but that doesn't really matter cuz I'm not doing homework at this moment..

therefore this inquires me to ask myself "Self, what's really goings on?"
"well gotta couple of things to look forward to this weekend: ".

John Legend concert (Gotta get myself excited about that..I don't think it has hit me yet)
I know he's gonna sing my favorite song beside Ordinary People, Green Light ft. Andre 3000
check out the video.
(wouldn't it be crazy, if Andre 3000 randomly showed up?)

also heard his brother, Vaughn Anthony (shouldn't it be Anthony Vaughn??), is gonna to open for him, and I've heard one his songs randomly off of some black gossip site (theybf, i believe) and he sound exactly like John Legend....so.....we'll see....

Football Game (Kinda excited about this, esp. after coming off the win against Purdon't)

it's against Miami (OH). 11 am kickoff, and I will be wide-awake (or at least mildly) to see the 'Cats lead us to victory.

besides the weekend stuff,
yesterday, I went to HOTR, the black christian group on campus, and I really enjoyed myself. I was very apprehensive (oooo big word) about going cuz  usually it's really long. But as it has seems lately every time I go to church or some religious thing I always feel like everything is directed right at me. Thing last night,  it just really inspired to keep goin and keep pressing through THROUGH God's mercy and love. but yeha..

which reminds me, songs of the day: "I Yield My All to Thee" & "Everybody Praise the Lord" songs by O'landa Draper & Associates , of which I posted videos of in a previous post. Also found out that Draper died in like 1998 from kidney failure, and that's sad. but yeha.....

I guess that's it.....
guess I'll get to some H to the O to the M to the E to the..........you know the rest....

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

'CATS WIN!!!

YESSSS!!!!

The 'Cats came down from a surprising and devastating 21-3 score to comeback and beat the Purduedon't Boilermakers 27-21, making it their first Big Ten win of the season. We are now 3-2. Things are looking up. Hopefully we can keep this up next week against Miami (OH), we will. I'm just really exciting we don won the game ya'll.

Yes....

Other things:

HAHAHA! Chicago didn't get the 2016 Olympics. Dang Oprah, guess you don't have as much pull as ya thought, right it's because your black.....this means the whole world is racist or something like that...I haven't figured that out exactly...but this video is funny...


hahaha....

My life is turning into a mixture of classes, band, work, and sleep. this equals NOT fun. What's even more terrible is that this is probably not gonna change anytime soon, it's pretty much my whole quarter.
but ya kno what? it's fine. It's my life as a college student.

that's all for now.

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

Ummm......

.....so I guess I should update, I've felt like that for a bijillion days, but you kno sometimes I am over-comed with uber-laziness, also known as procrastination, but whatever........

so let's see, 
NU FOOTBALL

we lost (AGAIN) yesterday. We're now 2-2...umm... I'm not sure what's going on, but the 'Cats are disappointing me BIG TIME. They need to get their act together Soon, but of course I still support them whether they win or lose, cuz they're my 'CATS (ahhhhh...).

kool, random thing was Steve Urkel 
(yes, "Did I do that?" Steve Urkel, also known in real life as Jaleel White)  was at the football game, WHY? I have yet to figure that out but I could come up with something....give me a second....okay:

so Mr. White is friends with one of the player's father, they go way back like high school, like they used to pick their noses together and play hopstoch all the time until White landed the Family Matters gig, then they kinda had a falling out, cuz the player's father had no one to pick his nose, and then he almost committed suicide from his devasting booger-filled snout-sniffer, but after Family Matters went off the air, White realized that the father guy  was is only true friend, so to make it up to him he game to the football game to support the Wildcats.

yes that's why he was there....does that sound probable? I think so....

what else did I want to update about?


ummmm
nothing really....I guess.....oh Heroes started again on the 22nd, but that's not blog worthy......
I mean nothing interesting going on (yet) I'm just back at NU, doing all kinds of stuff.....FUN!.....yeap.....

Okay
Random Picture Time! (It's MY FAVORITE!!!!   shut the hell up!)


(omg! this is hilarious...I love how the sister is just looking down at it.......omg! craziness)

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!

Dorm Life...

is kool, but in actuality it sucks.

so many limitations not enough freedom.

but I'm not complaining I'm so glad to be outta the Kank.

But I wish it wasn't so cold in the E, wait I meant the D, but that wouldn't make sense at all.....nevermind......

anywayz I'm back in the dormitory. My room is larger than last year, probably cuz it's a total different dorm.

It's pretty kool. I'm looking forward to having a great year (a totally getting trashed every weekend..hahahah jk). I only got two year left (YES) so I mi'es well (that's ebonics for might as well) enjoy 'em.

cuz soon I'll be teaching some bad ass kids how figure out x, and quadratic equations and such (idk)......and def won't be as fun as college life..

oh yeha. NU football, we won against Eastern Michgan (barely, 27-24). WTF? what was going on. I'm hoping and praying the 'Cats come back crazy (and I mean CRAZY!) against Syracuse (whose mascot in an Orange or some shit like that..... see...)

(Wtf is this? a basketball...and any orange that has feet is just weird)

But it's an away game so that makes it difficult. We'll see though.....

ummmmmmmmmmmm

yeha that's about it.

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!

GO 'CATS BEAT THE EAGLES!

So band camp is officially over. (finally)

it was a tough week, but I made it through (thank God)...

felt really crappy the first couple of days but later felt okay (probably because I got more sleep).

so tomorrow we (by that I mean NU) play Eastern Michigan (btw last week we beat Townson really, really, REALLY, bad...UNDEFEATED BABY!) anywayz...we should win. but what's really special about this is the band is going to be there (including me). it should be exciting for halftime we're doing a Michael Jackson/Motown show, the songs are pretty awesome. The thing is we'll be doing it with a ton of high school musicians.(interesting right?)....

anywayz I'm excited for NUMB's opening game.

hopefully you will be there (or seee it on TV, BTN I believe)

aight that's it.....posts coming later...maybe.......probablly.....

GO 'CATS

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE

Random Updations (whew)

So Monday, was Big Ten's Media Day, where each football coach talked and answer question. sounds pretty crazy. well not really. I never saw Fitz speak, but luckily LTP posted the video of Fitz. here it is (on LTP, = Lake the Posts btw). Couldn't get the vid to load (slow wireless connection). check it out though.
so here's a photo.

(ahhhhh)

Can I just say I love Coach Fitz (of course I can). And for the umptenth time I am so excited about football. It'll be nice to who's gonna be on offense. I think our defense should be solid. So hopefully we'll have some people who will score points. I'm sure we will.

so excite about football!.

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Random Note:
speaking of NU, i'm on a NU calendar for the month of January (just call me Mr. January <---so lame!) for NCE at MLK day thing....still can't believe I'm in it. I mean like I do with any calendar I just flipping through it, looking at the pictures and I see myself, and I just like OMG!. For one, I didn't know people were taking pictures of me, but I knew they were taking pictures, of course. And that means that someone thought that photo was good enough to be on a calendar. Idk, just makes me even more happier to be at NU, even if I'm just on a calendar.

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BB Updation

so Jessie is HOH. um Michele won POV, took herself off, and now Jordan and Casey (offbeat clique, who's a 5th grade teacher). I don't like this, like Jessie had no real reason to put him up, like dude's not coming after him. I just think Jessie's really scared cuz Casey has come really close to winning some competitions. Hopefully, people will not vote Casey off, I like him, I think he's kool, although I must admit Jordan's ditzyness is quite hilarious and entertaining. but whatev, it doesn't really matter.

it's pretty shocking that Ronnie has not been put up. This might've been a mistake on Jessie's Part...idk we'll (me & my other personalities) see.

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Overall, I'm good. Summer's not eventful, but I'm so enjoying it because before I know it, I'm gonna be so busy, it'll be pretty difficult to find time to chill, and I'm not going to like that. So, I will enjoy my break while it lasts.

other than that,
I'll holla atcha later!
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

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BB Updation

so ol girl, umm Laura , from the Popular clique went home. Ironically I thought she would be the most likely to win (see how wrong I was), but this was before the first episode. cuuz there was vids of all the cast online, and I watched them. She just seemed the most determined, and was like she came to win soo I thought she would. But she went home mainly becasue she ran her mouth too much, she was talking smack about the HOH, Ronnie, not such a good thing. So she went home, NOT Russell. I think that may come to bite back Ronnie in the butt, actually I think he might be going home next week but who knows, crazy big brother.

Yeha, he might not go home, because Jessie is HOH (again, ughhhh)..and they're supposed to be in a alliance, but who knows well see. Most def on Tuesday.

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VBS Updation

Last day was on Friday, it was an okay program, not as many children came back that was there doing the week. That seems to happen every year, but what can you do?. ummmm it was good though. I'm definitely glad it's over, cuz it was kinda stressful, but not THAT stressful. It was also TIRING. but now I don't have nothing (ooo double negative) to do per say...but I'll figure that out. I'm thinking about joining the choir thing for a musical at my church, but I don't know if I want to...we'll see....but for VBS that's it....

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Eagle Eye

Saw this movie today, one word: CRAZINESS!!. Omg! This movie was ridiculous in the beginning, got kinda boring, predictable towards the end. I won't reveal to much of it. but Shia LaBaeof and this other lady (Michelle Monaghan...???) are seen as terrortists, and are basically running for their lives. Basically it's a set up. But by who? Pretty good movie, got and kept my attention.


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Black In America: Part 2.

Watched the first part of this. and I guess it was better than the last one, can't remember what "Part 1" was like. But you know there was def a theme this time: Tommorrow Leaders. Basically showed people who are preparing and those becoming those Leaders. There was a small shout-out ,if you will, to NU. One of the people from the show who was of main focus, is (went?) to Kellogg, so that was really kool to see. I think it also gave a more diverse specturm of what it means to be black in America than what I remember from the first one. pretty kool, I guess.

They're supposed to be doing a Latino in America also....interesting.....my question is should they do a White in America? Or do we all already know that story!

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NU Football Season

Just wanted to say I am so excited for the upcoming football season at NU! (for the 70th time). triggered by a football game. the Big Ten Network showed the game '08 against Illinois (our rivarly, and interestingly the nearest Big Ten School to my house). We won this game. and It just got me so excited to watch the game and see our football team winning (all that purple), and also to faintly hear the band in the background....it's just way to amazing. I saw a clip of the band once, like 2 second clip of the band, and I went crazy!

Here's highlights of the game, awesome!



Just mucho excited! AHHHH!
GO 'CATS!!!

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VBS Update

2nd day completeo! yeha! pretty kool, alot like yesterday, but still had fun nevertheless. We pretty much had the same children from yesterday, so I was really trying to know their names & charactersitcs now. There's a couple of "bad" ones: one that just wants to talk all the time, and the other is just like crazy...

It's kinda hard, to me, to teach kids about God, well not hard, but just really difficult, unless you really make it at a level where they can understand, but I think most of them get the basic concept, they just don't seem like their paying attention. I don't know. pretty kool day, today.

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Tyler Perry Trailer

For his movie, "I can do bad all by myself" has been released. Starring Tariji P. Henson, Mary J. Blige (we'll see), Gladys Knight (we'll also see). & Some guy Rodriquez can't remember it exactly oh, and Tyler Perry. Of course I'll go see this, and I'm expecting mucho drama, which is what I love! so I'll probably like it. You can find the trailer here.

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WTF?!

I don't think dudes should have words in their hair, but whatev. I think this is a dude from Pretty Ricky on the set of their new video "Tipsy". Funny thing is I saw this pic earlier today, and I didn't notice the word tipsy till I saw it again. Just a mess tho.

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Pat Fitzgerald, Hall of Famer

The Coach of the Wildcats was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, not for coaching, but for being a player @ NU in '95. He wons some awards that I don't want to look the name up. But anywayz dude was a beast on defense. This once again makes me excited about NU football season. AHH!

yeha that's it.
Update tomm about BB & other stuff...

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!