Kinda weird

So I signed up for this DAT class (Dental Admissions Test) in hopes of scoring well on the test. Well we had our first 2 classes, then last night after our second class I find out the next class is February 21st....So now I have nothing to do from Wednesday at 10am until Monday at 7am...
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P.S. I added a comment board to my path to the NFL site...feel free to drop me an encouraging message or whatever. The Path to The NFL

The broke get "broker"

I'm only taking 2 classes this semester at UNLV, as opposed to the full load of 5-6. I went and bought my books today...

2 classes - $50.00
books for 2 classes - $411.29
UNLV Education - priceless...literally

This is a joke

Last night was my first DAT (Dental Admissions Test) class offered by Kaplan. This class is no joke, its basically a comprehensive exam of every science class you would take in a science major, all that reading comprehension stuff, math up to calculus and some other new things that your supposed to just be able to figure out on the fly.

Anyways so this class, a $1,300.00 class sends me a confirmation email that I have registered, that my payment has been accepted, and where my class will meet. This is where the joke comes in, It says that my class will be at a location on Maryland Parkway across from UNLV. So I decide to get there 15 minutes early to find the place, class was at 6:00pm, I was there at 5:43pm.

I pull into the place where the class is supposed to be but can't seem to find it. The Kaplan sign is on the sign where they put all the other signs on in the front so I kept looking. Finally after asking 5 different people, they say Kaplan has moved to across Gordon Biersch on Paradise, roughly a mile away. I speed over there, and can't find this damn place. Again the sign is on the shopping center but I cant find this damn place. I'm calling and calling...no answer. Finally I go into this back office building and after walking through a maze I find it.

Guess what....the class has been moved from there as well, It's now at UNLV. At this point I almost just said fuck it. I was going to get my money back and call it a day...but finally I get to UNLV, had to park half a mile away, then I had to find where this stupid class is. By the time I got to class it was 6:51pm, I spent more than an hour looking for this damn class.

You have my home address on file, you have my home phone number and cell number, you have my email on file....WHY WOULDN'T YOU SOME HOW LET ME KNOW THE CLASS HAS BEEN MOVED!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so disapointed in myself

I know that I can never take a nap. When I take a nap it screws up my entire sleep schedule, if I nap for 1 hour Ill be up 4 hours past when I wanted to go to bed that night easily. Well today...knowing this...I decided to take a nap. I don't know why I didn't just get up and leave the house or start doing anything to keep me occupied, but at 4pm I decided to take an hour nap.
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I woke up at 12:37am...Now what am I supposed to do?!?!

I had just pulled an all nighter Saturday/Sunday so that I could get my sleep schedule to where it needed to be for school...and now this.
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I feel disgusted

pic(I'M)kle

So I got a letter today from Portland State University (PSU) claiming I owe them $1,287.23 from last semester. I don't know where this charge is coming from. When I call PSU they say it was a portion of your tuition last semester that was not paid, therefor you are being billed for it now and it is accruing interest each month. Here's the thing though, I can show that I payed over $6,000 last semester to PSU, and that was for only 2 classes. Now they want to say I owe another $1300? Where do people get off thinking they can do shit like this. I know for a fact that my account balance was $0 when I transfered out of PSU, otherwise they wouldn't have released my record.

Add this $1300 to the $4000 I owe St. Mary's Hospital in Reno from when I had food poisoning and my "insurance" decided they would only cover $1100 of it and I'm $5300 in debt to NON-FINANCIAL institutions. Just when I was getting over my credit card debt I am dealt a new burden.

I have less than $100 in my bank account, and no sign of significant money coming into my hands any where in the near future. I need a job that pays well fast.

Oh and by the ways...my car is falling apart and needs over $1500 worth of work.

Whoo Hoo!

So school started yesterday and I'm proud to say that I have done something for the first time in about 6 years. If you guessed I went to all my first classes, you would be right. For the past 6 years or so, not only would I not go to the first class, but I would miss the next 5 or 6 as well. It's something I'm not proud of but thats in the past.

The last time I went to all my first classes, I ended up pulling 5 A's and 1 A-, lets hope this time is the same.

Apparently Im taking off like a 747

About a week ago I was approached by some individuals regarding my blog. The individuals were from Bigblogcollection.com and they wanted me to be on their site. Some of you may have noticed their link on the side bar of my page under "Blogs of Interest", I'm sure at least one person noticed it. It's basically just a directory of blogs filtered by category. As of today I am officially on their site, you can find it under "Society & Culture", check it out.

I'm also now on Technorati, an online community of bloggers and blogs, so if you get bored check them out as well, it can be quite entertaining.

"The Dream" is moving up in the blogasphere

I'm trying out for the NFL

The rumors are true, its official. I will be trying out for the NFL and you can follow my path there. I have started another blog in which you will be able to follow my every move. Http://thepathtothenfl.blogspot.com. All the rules are posted and I will need your help to strictly abide to them for the first two weeks. Please help me live my dream so that hopefully I can help you live yours.

Old Persian Men are Crazy

So I have this uncle who's in his mid to late 70's...no one really knows and those who do know don't tell. Anyways, I decided to show him my gym that I'm currently putting together in my garage. Thats when it all went down hill. I got lectured for 45minutes on various topics...in classic Farsi, as opposed to modern Farsi...I said 2 words in those 45minutes. Here are the main points of what he said:

1. Weights do not help your fitness, they are bad for your health
2. Run 3 miles 3 times a week
3. By the end of the 3rd month, you should be able to run the 3 miles in under 10 minutes every day
   
4. Always run in the middle of the day when the sun is at its highest, for that is when the tress are producing the most oxygen
5. There are 2 Gods that matter in this world, your mom and dad, you must do whatever they say without question
6. The only thing money should ever be spent on is food
7. You need to be a doctor, if you become anything else, you are a failure in life
8. The only thing you need to do in life is be a teacher
   
9. No matter what anyone in this world says, they don't know what they are talking about, only listen to what I say and don't be afraid to ask me anything
10. The only sport that takes any skill is tennis and basketball, everything else is a game for kids
11. Look at yourself naked in the mirror and determine your goals

The only reason I remembered any of what he said was so I can blog about it. I can't believe what a crock of sh*t my uncle is trying to feed me. I'm sick and tired of my family trying to mold me into what they want me to be. Run 3 miles in under 10minutes? Impossible...I did the research for you and him 12minutes 37seconds is the fastest, when I told him he said thats wrong because 10 years ago he was running it in 11minutes and when he was 30 he was running it in under 8.

I'm laughing so hard on the inside that my thirst has been quenched.

It's Over

School starts on Tuesday so I'm going to just go out on a limb here and say that the holiday season is officially over. In the past years I have loved the holiday season, when the sun starts going down at around 5pm...I'm all about it. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years...what's not to love? Well this year I frankly thought the holiday season sucked. Maybe it was the fact that I was back home again, and it wasn't really a vacation for say. Or maybe it was the lack of amazing food. Or maybe the lack of who knows what...but for me, this holiday season wasn't what I hoped.

As the sun beings to set later and later each day, and the 120 degree days of summer inch closer, I regret to say that I am not already missing the holiday season. In fact, as far as I'm concerned...the holiday season never happened this year.

See you next year?

Disorganization

When you hear the word "disorganization" you think of a child's room, or a pig's pen...some would even say politics. But at a caucus you would expect things to be organized, this was not the case. Nevada had it's first ever caucus today, in fact its going on right now. I attempted to attend such caucus which was set to start at 9am. I got there at about 8:15...at 8:45 there was about 300 people standing around waiting to find out where to go. We moved from the cafeteria of the high school to the gym and back...then everyone was told to go into a room with their precinct number on the door. I went to the room for people who "didn't know" their precinct. Once in there I was questioned about where I live and all that jazz.

After about another 5 minutes of this and that, I was asked to leave because I did not belong at that school. So I left, I don't care to find out where I should have been, and honestly I could care less about caucusing....it's just not for me.

And yes, caucusing is a word.

a legend lost

The greatest chess player this world has ever seen has passed away. Bobby Fisher died yesterday of kidney failure. There is too much to say about what this man has accomplished to list here, one would need a book as thick as the bible to accurately depict this man. If you've played chess you know how tough of a game it is...Bobby Fisher was playing better than you'll ever be at age 7. May he be missed.Bobby Fisher

(March 9, 1943 - January 17, 2008)

No Comment

I just finished watching a movie and am left speechless, a rare occasion. I'm not sitting here thinking if the movie was good or bad, I'm thinking about whether in certain cases...The Code of Hammurabi should apply. The movie is The Girl Next Door, not the romantic comedy from 2004, but a new thriller from 2007. I don't know why I downloaded this movie or what even made me watch it, I'm usually a drama fan, but it happened and now I have to try and stop thinking so I can sleep.

I don't care if you live in Antarctica, If you don't mind watching a movie on your computer, then let me know and ill burn you a copy and even send it to you for free if you don't live in Las Vegas. It's not one of those movies I think everyone should see, I just don't want to be the only one I know who has seen it.

If I had to rate it I would, but I don't so I won't...
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Is it our businness?

So here we go again. First baseball now celebrities...lists are being released on individuals using steroids. Now there are certain cases in which one is required to admit to the public on account of doing something illegal (i.e. A convicted child molester informing his neighbors in many states that he is moving into the neighborhood) but when do we draw the line. Does it need to be made known who has taken steroids and when? Now in baseball and professional sports I can see the reasoning...it is looked at as cheating, and God knows any reason to not like Barry Bonds and I'm there. But come on, everyone knows celebrities are notorious for drugs and alcohol, you had to know some where using roids....but the recently released list may shock you. The names are in and being that they are celebrities they are guilty until proven innocent.

• Timbaland
• Mary J. Blige
• Wyclef Jean
• Tyler Perry
• 50 cent

Personally I wouldn't accuse 50 cent of anything but hey thats me!

P.B. (Post Blog) Vote on the left

Oh Hell No!

Anyone who knows me knows I love the cold...heat get the hell out of here. I'm talking winter time I like it about 20 degrees at night, about 40 during the day. Summertime is a different story, I've been unfortunate to live in Nevada for 22 of my 23 summers, but realistically I like it no hotter than 80 in the day and it has to at least hit 50 in the night...how many times has that happened in this state....maybe 10 and all when I was in Reno. That's why I cant live without Air Conditioning. But now...I might have to...

California, that state to the left, has begun to piss me off. They have begun talking about regulating the publics thermostats in their home. However they decide to do this it just doesn't seem right to me, and if they do do it to my area ever, The first thing I will do is buy a window unit, and if that fails...you better believe I'm moving.

Read about this travesty here

G2

If you've been watching any TV lately you've seen the commercials for the new Gatorade coming out, G2. We'll I'm here to tell you that G2 is out and it's good. At 40 calories a bottle, how can you go wrong? And in case your wondering where to get it, I'm sure your local neighborhood convienince store can accommodate...but if not, Wal-Mart is stocked to the rafters.

Download speed

Remember when you first found out that you could download songs onto your computer for free? Remember when it would take upwards of an hour or more to download those songs...that was only what...maybe 10 years ago? Well last night I downloaded a TV show at 400mb (full audio cd's are 700mb) in under 4 minutes. This was the fastest I have downloaded any single item. I've never felt so amazed!

A Tough Morning

I had to get up at 7am to take my mom to the Dr's. Now usually this wouldn't be a big deal but since I didn't even get home till 4am, and then for some reason I stayed up another hour and a half eating some left-over fired rice and watching some episodes of Jericho, so getting up early was quite difficult.

I dropped my mom off and went to grab some Starbucks for a little hot cocoa. This is where I just lost it. I'm walking up to the door, I'm about 30 feet from the door walking on a straight line when this half-bred Asian woman spots me at about 20 feet away from the door. She glances me the look and speeds up her walking.

Now if you were to make a list of my "pet-peeves" this would be up there for sure. I'm no more than 8 feet from the door when the half-bred opens the door about literally about 3 inches, to the point where everything shes wearing rubs against both the door and the frame and she almost gets stuck. She finally budges through the crack as I approached the door, runs into line and then shoots me back a glance as I got behind her in line.

So I started thinking, maybe she is late so I GUESS it might be somewhat understandable....but NO. She gets her drink and proceeds to sit down in one of those big comfy chairs, you know the ones that you don't sit in for less than 20minutes, and starts relaxing.

I can not tell you how much restraint it took for me not to go to town on this individual. And to think that had I have got to the door before her, even if she was still 15 feet away, I would have held the door.

Panera Bread

The verdict is in...Panera Bread is legit. Almost didn't even have to pay, from the free bagel samples and pizza samples being given out for free, could have packed the old tumtum for less than a pack of gum. I'm not talking about little Costco sized samples...I'm talking full slices of za and as many pieces of bagels that you could want. The food...not bad itself, the fact that its "healthy" even better. So from now on, anyone who wants to do lunch...meet me at Panera.

American Gladiators

After last nights second "episode" of American Gladiators, I was left somewhat unsettled. The interviews are really starting to sound scripted...as everything is now a days on all these "reality tv" things. Now I don't have a problem with this but I'm starting to think if the "competition" is scripted as well.

For some reason it doesn't matter if a person has a 2 second lead or a 2 minute lead when it comes to the gauntlet at the end...there has been 3 instances in the 6 races so far in which the person with the lead gets way ahead but can not for the life of them get up the "travelator" and then of course the person who was behind catches up and somehow...makes it up the "travelator" to a stunning, dramatic, impossible, all-odds against them, you cant write endings like this victory. Leaves me wondering...

American Gladiators

Who can forget those words:
Contestant ready?!?
Gladiator ready?!?
::Whistle::
After 12 years its finally back. Of course the gladiators have changed, some of the female gladiators are gorgeous, and now they play for $100,000.00. Leila Ali and Hulk Hogan host this "revival" but the theme has not changed, one in-shape person and one everyday Joe going against crazy mofos.

Ill be the first to admit that some of the interviews sound 100% scripted but who cares, thats not why we tune in. Glad to see it back and I can't wait till they announce a celebrity edition...can you imagine T.O. out there? or Mike Tyson? or 50cent? or anyone else they can get...I'm getting excited just thinking about it!

It's set to run Monday's at 8pm...NBC...don't miss it again if you missed it tonight!

2007 "Rap"-Up Video

I heard this on the radio last night and thought it was funny as hell. So heres the music video for it which provides just the right amount of visual to understand everything being said. Enjoy, and remember apparently its the year of the robot.

New Slang

I was playing some poker on Facebook with this fine little thing from Wales when she started unknowingly introducing me to her "slang". Ive decided that I love this slang and I'm going to start using it...so if you hear me use it, you know where I got it from.

• Lush - Instead of saying something is cool or nice or good...you say its lush. (i.e. Roscoe's chicken and waffles is lush.)
• Proper - Used to intensify. (i.e. That girl is proper hot. or That hat is proper.)

Proper thanks go out to Abby and her lushness. If your ever in Vegas, hit me up...we'll get some proper drinks.

(post blog) Driving

The drive back to Vegas from Burbank took some time. We got caught up in the traffic of the Rose Bowl and then some extreme winds running through the San Bernardino Valley. After all was said and done, We made pretty decent time. Unfortunately for some truckers however they didn't. You see when a sign says "High Profile Vehicles not Recommended" when your going through a valley, it means lifted trucks and Semis, just park on the side and wait.
Those are 2 different semis tipped over from the strong winds. We also witnessed a tunnel cover go flying off a truck and across the road.

(post blog) New Years

Went back to Roscoe's to get the real thing, the place was packed!MmMmMmMm look at that. Fried chicken, Belgium Waffle, Butter, and Syrup...what could be better. Thats what it looks like when they bring it over. And this is what it looks like when they take it away.

(post blog) New Years Eve / New Years

Ok, girls in California have nothing on Girls from Vegas...I mean it's not the difference in how they dress...its just the girls...they don't compare. But if it wasn't for 2 girls from Australia there, I probably would never remember this night.

For some reason I decided to start dancing, not real dancing, not freak dancing, not ballroom dancing...just stupid "hey look at me" dancing. Joel, sitting on the couch laughing his ass off decides to throw me a bottle which I caught like a champ, you would think i played tight end for the Packers. For some reason though I had to be fancy with the throwback, a simple toss wouldn't do. No I had to go behind my back. My dumb ass hit this poor Australian girl right in the forehead.

I spent the next 30minutes helping her clean up the blood and her wound. I've never felt so bad in my life...yet it still remains hysterical. That poor girl now has to live with a gash over her eye for the rest of her life, and every time she does her hair or make up...she gets to think of me (I guess thats not that bad)

Moral of the story...Not even I can be bad ass all the time.

(post blog) New Years Eve

Take yourselves back to that day before New Years, that would be New Years eve. Now imagine 3 fresh young men on their way to Cali...you just imagined MMG, Joel, and myself.

We made the drive to Burbank to hang out with some of MMG's old friends and help them ring in the New Year's Vegas Style. Now let me be completely honest, I had no problem staying home alone and just chilling, but with the promise of Roscoe's on the line, I had to go, for those of you who don't know what Roscoe's is, I feel bad for you.

Roscoe's...the house of CHICKEN and waffles just happened to be out of chicken when we rolled in at about 5:30pm. So what do 3 resourceful Vegas guys do? We headed over to KFC and brought some chicken over...KFC chicken with Roscoe's waffles...not bad.

My Beard

Wow, in less than a day there are 7 votes, 5 in favor of cutting it and 2 for keeping it. Let me be honest here for a second, I'm loving the response from this so lets up it to the first to 10 votes wins. I'm also debating "lining-it-up". Let me know what you think about that.

Lack of blogging

Ive been out of the blogging mood as of late, but here we go. I need some votes on something that actually matters this time. My beard has been growing at a steady rate for the last 2 months and now that I can shave it, I don't know if I want to. So here we go...who really cares about wether or not you want to watch a movie about a gay superhero. I just wanted a poll on my page, now heres a new one and one that matters...answer the poll to the left...the first to 5 votes wins!

P.S. Post blogs are soon to come