I Need You So Much Closer...

That's a line from a Death Cab For Cutie song I've had stuck in my head for a while...gorgeous.
So I had a job interview at Sears last Wednesday! Walked in there, looking pretty professional (I straightened my hair) and found out that all positions had been filled for the electronics department. So they wanted to put me in - receiving. AKA, heavy lifting, seasonal (will fire me after Christmas) and just manual friggin' labor. No thanks. They were making me fill our more paperwork, filing tax papers and the such, and finally, she left the room to get more paperwork. Here was my chance, I left the room as well and snuck out of the back. This guy Nelson called me (who was supposed to hook me up with a killer job there) and was like "Dude! They're looking for you!". Too bad.

Jerod and I went to IHOP to celebrate. Then my good friend Jerod asks our waitress for an application - for me. So I get one, and fill it out. Let me tell you tho - washing dishes for minimum wage at IHOP is not one of my preferred positions. The waitress then informs us that she is the one who sets up interviews. Now just because I'm a nice guy, I told this very attractive waitress I would appreciate an interview. Problem - my interview Monday morning is not with this very attractive waitress. I am told it will be with a "Very large, man hating lesbian named Terry". Sounds like I'm gonna have quite a case of the "Mondays".

Thanksgiving was cool. A lot of people here let me borrow their families for the holidays. I went to Glide and ate at a family's house I didn't know (tho I went to middle school with one of the daughters. Weird). Then I went to Cory's house to eat some of Kenny and Peggie's food. Got to see them, Ashley and Brittany so it was cool.

And then, in true American fashion, everyone met back at the house and had a party. We celibrated how I figure the Pilgrims did on that first day of giving thanks with the Native Americans...assuming the Pilgrims ended up chasing the Indians around in their underwear until some of the Indians got fed up and started threatening to hang the Pilgrims if they didn't put their pants back on; the Indians mostly being sisters, and Bitterman - and the Pilgrims being pretty much the rest of us. And that's right - in fashion true to our reputation, not very many girls who aren't related to us come to our parties. Thought I'm not sure why...

News: Kenny Johnson has offered to teach me how to cook a turkey! I told him I'm planning on starting a family pretty soon here, gettin' me a lady and havin' some babies. After he was done laughing at me and making measure 36 jokes, he offered to teach me all he knew. What a guy...watch out ladies.

The Sound Of Settling

The 27 episodes are finished. Episodes 1 and 2 of the new season have been downloaded, and viewed. Episode 3 goes down tonight at 8. It's gonna be so bad...

So last night I'm hanging out with some buddies after seeing "Saw", and I meet this girl, named Leslie. Turns out, her roomate is the manager of Sam Goody. Weird, huh? Might get better chances of getting hired now, she's gonna put in a good word for me. I think a musical snob emo kid is just what the store needs.

I've been getting homesick lately, which is lame because I'm still not sure what "home" feels like. I love the familiarity of it here, how I know everybody and have so many friends. But when I watch OC, or talk about the pier in Oceanside, In-N-Out, Del Taco, all that stuff. I think we're all going to start this great migration of Roseburgers down there. I do miss my family like crazy tho. This is now the longest I have ever been away from "home". I'm not inclined to put pics on here, so here is a link you can use.
http://www.sphoto.com/photo.php?photo=722&exhibition=14&pass=public&size=default&lang=eng

Pretty, huh? Well, take care for now and please, send your comments. I love reading them.

She's Shakin...

Yeah. It's getting serious.
So Ryan was right. Oliver really was a shady guy with hidden agendas - I hope Marissa feels stupid. Why are girls so friggin' naive? She thinks that just because she views him as a friend, it's harmless. Two thoughts:
1. You trust your boyfriend/guy of interest over random dudes. Guys jealousy is fueled by intuition
2. Besides, why would you want to risk losing the guy you do like over some guy that you "don't"?

So. Seth lost Anna (Pittsburgh). Because he's never had a relationship before and is tring too hard to cover all his bases and is (unfortunately) still liking Summer. So he's hurting poor Anna and now she's gone. Anna is, by my and Jerod's calculations, perfect. I can't wait until tonight, when we put on disc 5 and see if/how he gets her back. Please....Seth...do what you can, brother.

Thanksgiving is coming. Whoo...the one day of the year we pretend is in honor of giving thanks (hence the name), yet we spend it watching football games, and being a glutton. Not sure what I'm doin for the holidays yet...eating a lot hopefully. And since it falls on a thursday, possibly watching the OC. Oh, what a feast it will be.

I'm about to go drop off an application to Sam Goody (pray it works out).

Sleepy

Last night, Joel and I jogged down to Fred Meyer's, and I purchased the entire season 1 of "The OC" on DVD. 27 episodes on 7 DVD's. It is, without a doubt, the greatest show in television history. We put the first one in around 10 or so, and ended up watching the first 8 episodes back to back....ending at 6 in the morning. So much drama! Every plot twist and turn, wrong people there at the wrong time, and it's hilarious too. If you haven't been watching this gem of telivision cinema, you need to get on it. Tonight I am going back over to the house and at 8:30, we are starting with episode 9...I really can't wait. But I'm afraid something bad is going to happen Ryan...he really is trying so hard!
Other news...can't think of anything worth mention. The new Eminem CD is out but I haven't gotten it yet. I heard some of it in Chet's car, and it sounds...alright. Last night I went to Wal-Mart with "the family" (all of us) again, and saw in the CD section a small 6x6 picture advertising that Lindsay Lohan has an album coming out on December 7th. Disapointed I was going to have to wait so long for the album, I took the picture. Agenda for the day: Trying to find a custom 6x6 frame.
That's all for now

Put Me Out 'Cause I'm On Fire

So my car has this problem, right. Not only does it not go in reverse, it over heats when it sits in idle for longer than like, 2 minutes. So yesterday there I am in the McDonald's drive thru (with this random guy, Johnny) around noon, and big surprise, they're lagging. My temperature needle starts redlining, so I turn the car off. The cars ahead of me move, I restart the car. They stop, I turn off the car, etc..only on this particular day, just as I am about to get my food, the car decides not to start. The battery is dead. So every girl - and I swear there must have been 30 of them working this shift - start yelling at me to move my car. I can barely open my car doors, let alone push myself out. So I make the screaming girls come out and help give me a shove. The funny thing about not having a car, is you throw yourself at the mercy of anybody who happens to have access to an automobile. Yesterday was no exception. So apparently this guy who was with me has connections to a car. So picture this..an overly obese woman who, on our 10 minute drive, smoked enough cigarettes for all 6 of her teeth. In the driver's side, is this guy(?). Apparently his wardrobe influences were Bjork...if she was a sexually frustrated gay man. Yeah. And I'm crammed in the middle of two brothers. On the left of me, is someone NOT NAMED MARCO (I am pretending to change his name because if he knew I was writing about him I am sure he would kill me). So Not-Named-Marco is telling me in his left ear how he spent 5 years in the pen for beating a "black person" with a bottle. In my right ear, Johnny is telling me about his woman problems. Oh yeah, and Luniz "I got 5 on it" is blasting on the one stock stereo speaker that is working. It was seriously like a scene from a movie.
Got a new battery. 69 bucks wasn't too bad. Now I'm mobile again.

Band news? Enh? I got some developments but I'm too lazy after typing that story to fill you in. Just keep praying and prepare for the mosh.

Oh and one last thing - I slept last night on Cory's Lazy-Boy. And I had the best dream of my life. I swear it was long enough to have been a movie, I think I spent like a week in this alternate life. I'll explain later. It was rad...

Title And Registration

Today started pretty normal. And yeah I blew it yesterday, nothing too cool happened worth really writing about. I'm at Cory and Jaden's house right now on their 'net, trying to think of somethign productive to do. It looks like I'm gonna have to get a job pretty quick here, and that's always fun. I have a few options, such as Dell. People who work there love it, people who used to work there hate it. So...I dunno. I think I would be good at it, but I would rather have more interaction with people I am selling to than just on the phone. It's a paycheck tho, and I'm not really planning on building a career here, right?
Anything worth having has to be worth waiting for. I'm still confused right now being back in Fishbowl. It's like I still feel like Oceanside is home, and talk about "yeah I live down the street from Howie" and then the next minute I'll be telling somebody "hey I'm gonna go home and take a shower real quick". It's like I have this distorted view of what "home" is. Zach Braff said in Garden State it's nothing more than a place for us to put our crap, and maybe he was right. The physical "home" and the emotional ties we have to our surroundings aren't always the same thing. This isn't even the longest I've been away from home (my family) but knowing that this will be the longest I'll be away, I miss them so much more already. It's amazing how supportive they are in this whole process. So as this confusing, and often discouraging experiment goes on, I know that it's better than me being stuck at my old job, every Monday exactly like the last Friday.
Good things are coming, and I'm having so much fun being here tho. Yesterday I went grocery shopping with the people I have been staying with. Jerod, Dustin, Bree, Curtis, Hannah, and even Bitterman came. There was like 7 of us running all over Food World throwing frozen entrees in the cart, it was so much fun. It really does feel like a family at that house. Well, that's all the nonsensical rambling I will do for today

Yeah

So yeah, nothing too new. Watched "Original Sin" with Jerod and Joel last night, that movie was just lame. I guess it got raiving reviews but I'm not sure why. Anyways like I said there's nothing too new going on. The word from some of the Issachar guys themeselves is that they are on more of a sabbatical, or break. Like they just want to figure some stuff out and see what can happen in the future. Most of the information I get changes from time to time so I will try to give the latest updates and not misinform you.
Soon I will have to get a job. I have a few different options so it shouldn't be a big deal. Then I'm gonna have to find a place to stay. I think I'll try and find myself a hot roomate. Like Joel.
I'm finally getting after this friggin' cold I've had the past week. Started out with a sore throat that could kill a llama, and now it's down the whole "blow your nose every 12 seconds" phase, which we all know about. Vick's vapo-rub is the greatest invention of all time, next to Ny-Quil, and maybe the wheel. Geez here I am on this huge excapade and I don't have many interesting things to say. I guess today I'm gonna have to go do something really cool. Later

Update of the Mosh

Issachar has broken up. One member made a mistake (dumb, but nobody knew about it). Regardless, one member was asked out of the band, at least for now. So, the other 4 obviously can't do it without him. So this band is "broken up" and doesn't seem to be doing anything about it other than dodging questions and being bitter at at least one other member. I'm not sure when or who to approach first because I hate just seeing them sit and not do anything. As the details unfold I will update more. I saw Coheed and Cambria on halloween night, good concert. Now tonite I am going to see Jimmy Eat World. Great band, get the new album.
Give me comments of encouragement! I risk falling into what everybody else has. I can get a decent job, make decent money, get a decent place, and live her forever. But that's not good enough for me. It's like Christopher Walken said in Envy..."You gotta shake things up". I'm out for now...goin' to Eugene. Woot.