Woahhh

I'm almost done with college? What?! So crazy & weird that I have spent my whole life in school and now that time is finally coming to an end. My whole life. The whole post-education thing doesn't feel odd. I think I'm ready for that. I could even say excited. It's a world of possibilities out there.

So recent accomplishments I'm stoked about:

• Survived a 4 day zombie apocalypse at Vanguard. One of few remaining humans in the 250+ Humans vs Zombies school-wide game.
• Totally surpassed my expectations and got a 93% on my Media Crit paper. Woooo!
• Been offered a job in Hollywood working on the graphics of movie trailers! My internship is actually turning into a job. Whhaaat? Excellent.

So, current post-grad plans are to take a trip to Costa Rica and then start full-time mid-June and then move up to LA mid-August.

Soo yeah, woahhhh!

Bay area with my lovely lady and one of her best friends

Boom.

I did it.

Can't believe it, but I did it. 40 pages exactly. Finished within a few hours of the deadline. Got sick with 15 hours and 10 pages to go, but made it.

SO stoked.

And now, I feel like I have all the time in the world, despite actually still having quite a bit to do. The difference is just that I actually am filling my time with things that I want to to get done. Editing the first episode of Such Good Friends, pre-production with Dale on a short film, hopefully starting up the Not-So Extreme Sports Club, and other fun things. The end of the year has taken a drastic turn for the positive in the last week.

Gonna be a great end to my time at Vanguard and hopefully a good start to a new chapter in life.

A little glimpse of our whiteboard the week before the paper was due:

Roommates

Living with 5 other guys is ridiculous. Mostly in a good way. The hilarity that ensues when you have this many young men living together is just excellent. Sometime we do awesome things like all go take roommate pictures at a portrait studio and other times we all just randomly end up hanging out on the staircase. Last night, one roommate sharted while just sitting there typing on his computer, 15 feet from the bathroom. So funny (may have been less funny if it actually smelled). Also, one roommate sneakily plugged in a USB mouse into the other roommate's computer and pressed send on 3-sentence facebook message (the message was asking out a girl he had only met once) that he had been writing/reviewing for 30 minutes. Soooo good. That roommate doesnt know yet that he also unknowingly facebook "poked" her. We'll see how that situation turns out soon.

I occasionally film the random happenings in our house, but the videos are just too good for the internet. Well, really they are probably just a little too bad for everyone's image and may in fact just not make much sense unless you knew all of my roommates. Who knows.

Point is that this is a great group of guys. I may hate it when I sometimes walk into the kitchen and its looks terrible (written boldy on our whiteboard at one point: "Gentlemen, we can be assholes as long as our kitchen doesn't look like the inside of one"), but the positives definitely outweigh the negatives.

Oh, and for those of you who counted and realized there are too more guys in the photo, it's because one left and another took his spot, but we wanted to have both for the photo. 7 roommates would be a whole 'nother ballgame.

Fading Days

You know, college has been amazing. Great friends. Great times. Great lessons learned. What's a bummer though is how the great moments with my class (2011! Woohoo!) have just seemed to fizzle out over the last couple years. Its probably because we are slowly transitioning into our lives after college and focusing on other things, but it still doesn't seem like a a good enough reason for us to miss out on what we still have here.

We had a senior smores thing tonight (which unfortunately was really poorly advertised) and there only about 10 people there. It would have been so sweet if everyone just stopped whatever they were doing for an hour and just came out and mingled. Most people are just preoccupied with other things (some of them probably being legitimate). I just wish most of my friends were still down to just forget about homework and obligations for a little while and be willing to have fun as a huge group.

It may be somewhat irresponsible, but these are probably some of the last times that we can get away with putting things off for a bit and we will most definitely cherish the memories that we would make with each other. It just seems like great moments have just slowly been fading away (with concerns to fun major events) over the past 1 or 2 years. I just wish that it wouldnt be like this and that we would all make some time to really finish our last year out strong with regards to being a part of the Vanguard community. I'm guilty too. Well, even if we dont have some epic final event or moments, I will still look back at my time at Vanguard as the best time of my life . . . so far. Great days are still to come.

THE Paper

- THE Paper I have been dreading for 4 years
- THE Paper that must be 40-50 pages
- THE Paper that I briefly thought was just a cruel joke made up to scare freshmen communication majors
- THE Paper that will consume the next 23 days and nights of my life
- THE Paper that has finally arrived

And so it begins...

Bumskies.

Pan.

Why don't I post on here more often? Probably because I feel like my posts should have some depth . . . and depth takes some serious thought and serious thought is something to be avoided when I'm feeling lazy . . . which is far too often.

I think I should do 3 things:

1) Not be lazy

2) Not take this so seriously

3) Do what I want

So yeah, I need to force myself to act, but also be able to screw around and not put boxes around myself. Totally reflective of my life. Well, I think I've got #1 down right now and I'll get #2 and #3 accomplished with this:

Because he's awesome and I want to be him. Actually, I am him. I am Peter Pan.

So excellent. The best. Pan.