Hoppy New Year!!!

Auld Lang Syne, baby.

Important things have happened since my last post.

Namely, my birthday.

Yes, now I enter the third decade of my life. I am 20. Yes, a very big deal. What did I get for my birthday? More DVDs. That's pretty much all I got this year. Lots and Lots of DVDs. Whatevs.

I spent my birthday at Don Pablos with a few select friends, and then watched the third Pirates of Carribean (which still sucked) and then we all left. I went over to the house my other friend was housesitting, and we chilled for awhile. We got bored, so we went and hung out a bit at the 24 hour Kroger they have in Sylvania. We bummed around there for quite awhile, touching meat, examining cheeses, looking wistfully at beer that I am still to young to purchase. We finally decided to pick up a 12 pack of Jones Soda (Made from Real Cane Sugar!). I had three of them starting around 1 AM. I was up until 8.

Kinda had a bit of a freakout around 5. I drove to this abondoned park by my house and watched the sun rise over the trees. And then I drove home and crashed. Memorable birthday, I suppose.

And then tonight there should be some drinking, I believe...


HAPPY 2008!
-Barry

P.S. 2007, you suck!

Is There Life After Nog?

Yes.

Not to be bitter, but Christmas kinda sucked this year. Not much more than usual, but still sort of disappointing. Got some gift cards, some DVDs, cologne, and a nice coat, which was pretty cool. Also, next year I'm definitely mentioning somewhere that I want NO pajama pants. I now have four pairs. I don't care if they're easy to size.

And then I started thinking, well, Barry, maybe it's not about the presents, maybe it's about being together with family. And then I saw that my sister was crying because she thought she didn't have enough presents. I wanted better presents.

Like a Wii. And Guitar Hero.

But I did get the Planet Earth DVD series. That was cool.

Hopefully Christmas Round II (aka my Birthday) will be better.

Happy Boxing Day!
-Barry Christmas

Christmas Wishes

What do I want for Christmas? Not much, really:

-Some DVDs
-A decent pea coat
-A new car
-A girlfriend
-Stable family
-Better friends
-A dependable income
-Less depression and/or more prescriptions
-Not to have a heart attack before I'm 38
-Purpose, if there's enough time

Yeah, pretty standard I bet.

Happy Holidays,
Barry

**Actually, this is based off a rant my friend went off on at a party that I thought was worth repeating

Since I've Been Back

Dulcimer your heart out, old lady.

Pretty intense break so far, chitlins.

Got back Monday, and left at 10 AM with buds to go visit my friend Emily at Kenyon College near Mt. Vernon, Ohio. It was pretty fun. She has some neat friends, and we partayed pretty hardy. A lot of jumping from apartment to apartment and Keystone beer. Free Keystone beer.

I take what I can get. My one female friend always gets really excited about Kenyon, and I figured out why: kinda a big sausage fest.

No matter. It was still tre bon.

Thursday I went with the fam to Holiday Funtimes at Greenfield Village near Detroit. Basically, it's walking back into 1903 and Christmastime Merriment. There were rides in a 1916 Model T (high speeds reaching 15 mph), lots of old music, horses, reindeer, Santa, and a 1913 carousel. And, fireworks. Of course.

And then today, did some mad holiday shopping and got pretty much everything for anyone that matters. And now I have very little for myself. Boo.

Bells will be ringin,

--Bizzle.

Last College Weekend, 2007

I did absolutely nothing remotely productive today.

My roommate left at like 8 this morning, so I had to help him move his furniture six inches away from the walls in accordance with Loyola policy, all while still a little drunk. Then I slept until noon, made a really big breakfast (I'm trying to polish off as much food as I can, because I don't want it too just rot here, don't judge), took a shower, walked around and smoked the last cigar I had here, and ended the day with watching Natural Born Killers, The Departed, and Volver. I kinda figured Volver could maybe count as studying for my Spanish exam tomorrow.

This weekend as a whole has been entertaining enough. Big partay Friday at the soon-to-be-former big theatre party apartment. Lots of booze, people, music, and dancing like idiots.

Saturday was alright too. My roommate somehow convinced me to go to one of his frat parties, which involved walking around during a midnight blizzard. There I drank with some bros, listened to college boy classics such as Sublime and the occasional Dave Matthews, and watched my roommate get destroyed in beer pong, all the while honing my game-spittin skills. I ended up with pictures of me and this girl posing with the Nativity statues. Oh Christmas.

In the end, I was drunk and listening to Daft Punk in the middle of a snowstorm. For some reason I was really freaking out at that point. Who knew.

Adious,
El Barry

Three Days

That is how many days I have until I am back home, chilling with some Christmas cookies.

Finals are pretty much done, just have my Spanish 101 on Monday. It will suck.

Just got back from a big theatre going away party, pretty sweet. Danced like a moron for a large portion of it. There was actually a time when two friends and myself were doing our rendition of "You're Just Too Good to Be True" while people were making out. What can I say, love just drips from our voices. Classy.

Oh yeah,
Barry

So

I survived.

Directing scenes went up Saturday. I was in three of them. Two of them I had my hair slicked back into a pony tail.

Apparently people thought I did alright, although I tell them I don't want to hear it (although, secretly, I do....believe it or not).

Now a little over a week here, two finals, one skit, one acting scene, and I have to build a model set for an opera. Good times.

Did I mention I was cast in Guys and Dolls? I did? Well, hear it again, loser.

Ka-Boom,
Barry

Suits and Boobs

Got into Guys and Dolls.

I am the same part I had in eigth grade.

Harry the Horse. It is awesome. Every line I have is marvelous.

I'll be happy if I get through tomorrow. Two papers due. As of now, one is finished.

Why do I talk in fragments? Unknown.

Getting drunk as soon as my classes are over tomorrow.

Oh, wait, I have a bunch of directing scene rehearsals, which go up Saturday.

Getting drunk soon after those are finished.

It's good to have goals,
Barry

Something to Ponder

A dream I had recently:

Coming back from Thanksgiving, I noticed that over the days more and more of my food was missing than what should be. Then I figured out that my beloved sheep from back home snuck into my suitcase and now was loose in my dorm. And I was like, "Great! I love my sheep. She'll fit in awesomely. Bet she'll be a total chick magnet too." So I decided to keep her around, take her on walks, shear her for clothes, etc...

And then I woke up and realized that I have never owned a sheep.

I think it means that subconciously I really want a pet sheep.

Or more sweaters.

It snowed today. Hardcore.

Baaaaa,
Barry