Sugar High-Five

Posted on 22nd April 2011 in Something Daily

Last night, I was in the mood for chocolate. So I put on my slippers and walked downstairs to the Duane Reade and bought one of these.

And then I went back up to my room and on the way up shared the elevator with two girls, each of whom I offered a truffle. They both took them, of course, because who can resist chocolate, especially when it’s offered by a dude with a strange mohawk on your dorm elevator? So I took the rest of the bag up to my room and ate the whole thing in ten minutes while listening to Earthless, who are a cool blues-metal band who kind of sound like a more rocking Black Sabbath. Let me just say that eating the whole thing in ten minutes was a very bad idea. I couldn’t sleep from the sugar rush, and also my stomach was killing me as a result of it being filled with mostly dark chocolate. Seriously, bad idea.

Apart from that, yesterday was a bit weird. I did make a ton of progress on the Wonderleague website, taking the time to implement the foundation of a small-scale content management system that will allow whoever it is that ends up maintaining the site to easily edit the content. The blog section will be WordPress-based, but the rest of the site will essentially be a pretty frontend for my CMS built around a database of music, video, and upcoming tour dates. So far I’ve built the system by which entries can be added and edited by the administrator. It just occurred to me that I still need to implement a deletion function as well. That’s coming soon. This really isn’t as difficult as I thought it would. I’m getting a lot of incredible PHP practice, and building something really usable that I can put into my portfolio. Keep in mind that it’s really my first time doing something quite like this on such a scale. It’s going well though!

Sweet, rad, everything is awesome.

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Eat Chocolate to Gain Energy

Posted on 20th April 2011 in Something Daily

If you have trouble keeping your eyes open, typing correctly, or thinking in clearly delineated thoughts, just eat some chocolate. It’ll give you the extra boost you need to keep doing whatever it is that you need to be doing. I’m eating a bag of M&Ms right now, and seriously, it’s doing amazing things for my ability to think clearly. That combined with listening once again to Radical and then Bastard will help me get over my extreme fatigue after staying up until 3 AM two nights in a row.

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This is how my sleep schedule works. I need to go to bed before 1 and wake up before 9 to feel well rested; anything else and I’m a little off. I know some people who are ok with pulling multiple allnighters per week – I just could never do that. I mean I know that they’re not really ‘ok’, but they can function. See I wouldn’t be able to. I did one all-night for the hackathon, and by the end of that, I felt like I was drunk. I couldn’t really walk straight, and Eric, who I was with, definitely noticed that my thoughts and speech weren’t really making sense. I slept for like 14 hours after that. But you knew that.

Also, i just learned that the half of my SNES collection that I was given by my friend last year is now being reclaimed by his older brother. Never has a text message murdered my buzz so egregiously. This is a sad day. I lost Yoshi’s Island, Link to the Past, all 3 Donkey Kongs, Mega Man X, Power Rangers, and Mario Kart. Isn’t that messed up? I’m told that I’ll get them back at the end of the summer, but oh man…it might be a slowish summer.

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Sleeping in Train Stations

Posted on 24th December 2010 in Something Daily

Let me begin by saying that I don’t really know why I scheduled a 7:30 PM bus from New York to Philadelphia on December 23rd. That strategy probably would have worked awesomely if I had my own car, but since my parents are still my drivers, it wasn’t that great of an idea.

So since I had a late bus to catch and nothing to do yesterday, I spent my time squeezing in some last minute New York-only activities. I woke up far too early (for some reason, maybe it was the sun and the fact that we have no blinds on our windows) and immediately wrote the last post, then skated to Stuyvesant Town. This was at about 9:30 AM, after going to bed at 3 the previous night. Needless to say, my last New York skate of 2010 didn’t go very well, as my fatigue was throwing off my balance and stamina, bringing me close to injury a few times. I didn’t last very long. Even so, I’m glad I took the opportunity to go out that one last time.

So I packed and hung around with Eric and Justin for a while, and got myself some lunch at Yummy House (12th and 3rd) – General Tso’s Chicken: The Spicy Version. Yummy is a little bit expensive to eat there regularly, but every once in a while I find it very hard to resist. I also accompanied my friend Jen to a chocolate restaurant (bistro?) called L. A. Burdick where we got hot chocolate made from milk and melted dark chocolate shavings. This is not an exaggeration: absolutely hands down the best hot chocolate I’ve ever had ever. Of course it was rich and very filling, but apart from that I feel like it’s exactly what hot chocolate is supposed to be.

Check it out: after watching some Arrested Development and feeling a bit like a Mary without a Peter and a Paul, I caught my 7:30 Bolt Bus from Penn Station, and contrary to my expectation, we actually made the trip in under two hours – unheard of even for a Sunday night, let alone Christmas eve eve. So of course I get to the regional rail station in Philadelphia expecting to get right on the train that I’m now just in time for, and I see all of the scheduled departures on the board changing: “10 LATE”, “11 LATE”, “12 LATE”, “22 LATE”, “CANCEL”. Apparently some trees fell down on the tracks and made it impossible to get trains through, according to a stranger who was also in my situation and talking to someone with internet access. So I had to hang out at 30th Street Station and wait for my parents to drive the 45 minutes and pick me up. I listened to all of XO by Elliott Smith (what a great album) and did some reading, as well as some sleeping. And of course I bought my parents donuts for being so nice to pick me up.

So now I’m home and chilling out. I’m going out to buy some last minute presents, and then I’ll eat dinner with some family friends. Sounds good.

Since I’m home, check out the uncharacteristically detailed gingerbread men my family made in my absence:

We’ve got Will Ferrell from “Elf”, Goku, a penguin, a panda, the grinch, the phantom of the opera, a soccer player, Cleopatra, and some kind of mummy or zombie guy.

Also, I missed my kitty even though his hair makes me sneeze. His name is Carrot.

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