In a final, much delayed installment of "From whence becometh Aaron Choate his books from amazon.com ... eth" here's where the last two came from!
1. La Vergne, Tennessee
2. College Park, Maryland
In other news, my father, Paul Choate, was born in DC and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, so naturally i have a special fondness for the state.
ALSO! KINDRED FALL'S SPECIAL EDITION PRE-RELEASE OF "SLOW SEASON" IS OUT!!!
i came home to a stack of them piled on my desk. Sweet. So yes, they are available for 10 United States Dollars, and i'll even ship it to you free of charge! So, if you haven't got one and would like one, buy one from me!
i am both sweaty from intramural basketball and supposed to be doing homework now, so bye!
26 September 2005
11 September 2005
September Eleventh
Here i was, sitting in front of my computer NOT doing my homework like i should, and i accidentally paused the cursor over the date and time box in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. "Sunday, September 11, 2005" it says to me.
And i think, wow, second anniversary of terrorist attacks and it's crazy how time has flown by and this hurricane in the south and it's damage are crazy and there's all these other tragedies, both national and international, and so many people die each year and people do horrible things to each other and gas prices are over three dollars a gallon a lot of places and people are probably getting shot at or raped or abused right now--all at once.
Aro and i were talking the other day about how in general we haven't experienced THAT many hardships or "crazy stuff" i guess was how he worded it, and we tend to think that, "Oh people are nice, and yeah they have their baggage, or personal quirks and idiosyncrasies, but so what?"
i was talking with Kyle last night about how i'm so blessed and also such a rarity since both my parents are still alive and married and together and in love with each other.
My cell phone got stolen this morning off my front driveway, since i accidentally left it there for a little while after i was reading for school. Terrible! It rings when i call it, so wherever it is, it's on and not broken. i hope it turns up!
i just got back from the Phoenix Club in Anaheim with some of the people who went to Munich. It's is a German place with a restaurant and also where they host Oktoberfest and similar events each year. That was pretty fun and also a bit strange. The waitress decked out in her dirndle asked me what i wanted to eat. In English. SO weird. "Man hat Deutsch erwartet," sagte meine Profesorin. Ja, stimmt!
So, these are my thoughts for this eleventh of September. Now i really ought to read for this skewl i'm going to.
And i think, wow, second anniversary of terrorist attacks and it's crazy how time has flown by and this hurricane in the south and it's damage are crazy and there's all these other tragedies, both national and international, and so many people die each year and people do horrible things to each other and gas prices are over three dollars a gallon a lot of places and people are probably getting shot at or raped or abused right now--all at once.
Aro and i were talking the other day about how in general we haven't experienced THAT many hardships or "crazy stuff" i guess was how he worded it, and we tend to think that, "Oh people are nice, and yeah they have their baggage, or personal quirks and idiosyncrasies, but so what?"
i was talking with Kyle last night about how i'm so blessed and also such a rarity since both my parents are still alive and married and together and in love with each other.
My cell phone got stolen this morning off my front driveway, since i accidentally left it there for a little while after i was reading for school. Terrible! It rings when i call it, so wherever it is, it's on and not broken. i hope it turns up!
i just got back from the Phoenix Club in Anaheim with some of the people who went to Munich. It's is a German place with a restaurant and also where they host Oktoberfest and similar events each year. That was pretty fun and also a bit strange. The waitress decked out in her dirndle asked me what i wanted to eat. In English. SO weird. "Man hat Deutsch erwartet," sagte meine Profesorin. Ja, stimmt!
So, these are my thoughts for this eleventh of September. Now i really ought to read for this skewl i'm going to.
08 September 2005
More!
Today's crop was comprised of a book sent from McKeesport, Pennsylvania and another from Fayetteville, Arkansas. The latter i can say that i've actually been to whilst on tour with ye olde Fighting Jacks during the Month of January in 2004 Anno Domini. Cool. Now i must read some of these blasted books i've received. i'm off!
06 September 2005
The cool thing about having to order books
Although having to buy books each semester at Chapman can get annoying and extremely pricey, i have developed a system to keep it cheaper and also to enjoy it.
First thing is, i usually buy my books from amazon.com, which not only keeps them much cheaper and saves me money, but it also saves me waiting in line at the bookstore. Sometimes i look on half.com or various other places and will find a cheaper book, but for some reason amazon has always worked out best. What's more is i get all these sweet packages addressed to me, pretty much like my birthday or Christmas in September or whatever (which in reality is more packaged items for me than i EVER see nowadays).
...but that's not the best part. The best part is getting them and seeing where they came from and looking up the cities on mapquest. i know, i'm a freak about maps, but it's so fun! i get to learn a little of our nation's geography that i would have otherwise been uninspired to research (most likely) and i can dream about one day travelling there and i'll always secretly know that i have my own little connection with at least one citizen there, even when the books aren't always shipped by individual sellers, but rather larger companies. Today's round of books came from:
1. South Bend, Indiana
2. Iowa City, Iowa
3. Bloomington, Indiana
4. River Grove, Illinois
5. Eugene, Oregon
6. Fife, Washington
A nice spattering of middle America and the Pacific Northwest. Washington in particular has been calling my name a lot lately. Must travel.
And! Another round of 'em is probably going to come tomorrow! Yay!
First thing is, i usually buy my books from amazon.com, which not only keeps them much cheaper and saves me money, but it also saves me waiting in line at the bookstore. Sometimes i look on half.com or various other places and will find a cheaper book, but for some reason amazon has always worked out best. What's more is i get all these sweet packages addressed to me, pretty much like my birthday or Christmas in September or whatever (which in reality is more packaged items for me than i EVER see nowadays).
...but that's not the best part. The best part is getting them and seeing where they came from and looking up the cities on mapquest. i know, i'm a freak about maps, but it's so fun! i get to learn a little of our nation's geography that i would have otherwise been uninspired to research (most likely) and i can dream about one day travelling there and i'll always secretly know that i have my own little connection with at least one citizen there, even when the books aren't always shipped by individual sellers, but rather larger companies. Today's round of books came from:
1. South Bend, Indiana
2. Iowa City, Iowa
3. Bloomington, Indiana
4. River Grove, Illinois
5. Eugene, Oregon
6. Fife, Washington
A nice spattering of middle America and the Pacific Northwest. Washington in particular has been calling my name a lot lately. Must travel.
And! Another round of 'em is probably going to come tomorrow! Yay!
05 September 2005
Microshaft
So apparently, along with writer's block and thus a lack of new postings, my site is also experiencing some sort of html code errors which makes the whole site load improperly in Microshaft's "Internet Explorer" browser. It loads perfectly fine in Firefox. i usually never endorse products, and when i do it's not really that enthusiastically, but this is an exception mostly because i'm pissed off. Well, perhaps just annoyed, as pissed off is a little, shall we say, strong language. i spent a lot of time working on my site's new look, and most of the general population can't even view it error free! This is just one of the many reasons why Firefox is infinitely better than Microschaft, and i'm not saying you should go download it right now, but you should go download it right now.
Many thanks to Aro for pointing out the problem, and no thanks to the rest of you for not telling. Ha! Ok, i love you all. Really!
In actual news: Went to Ed's Nana's house tonight in Compton with the whole crew and it was loads of fun. Some selected highlights include:
-playing Blackjack with chips and Uncle Eliot as the dealer, who apparently really deals in Casinos? Not sure of that last bit.
-building with Lincoln logs
-eating an orange off the tree in the backyard (quite delicious)
-listening to Ed, Kyle, and Brandon jam with guitars and Kyle's mandolin and trying to learn dueling banjos.
-eating food. GOOD food, including catfish.
-Singing songs in battle.
-You know those cool viewfinder, or view-o-rama, or whatever they're called things where you put the disc in an look up to the light to see the images and flip the lever to rotate to the next one? Yeah, those. SO SWEET!
-Saying 'sayonara' to Ed's mum who is flying back to Japan tomorrow! :(
-lots of fun.
Ok, i'm tired.
Many thanks to Aro for pointing out the problem, and no thanks to the rest of you for not telling. Ha! Ok, i love you all. Really!
In actual news: Went to Ed's Nana's house tonight in Compton with the whole crew and it was loads of fun. Some selected highlights include:
-playing Blackjack with chips and Uncle Eliot as the dealer, who apparently really deals in Casinos? Not sure of that last bit.
-building with Lincoln logs
-eating an orange off the tree in the backyard (quite delicious)
-listening to Ed, Kyle, and Brandon jam with guitars and Kyle's mandolin and trying to learn dueling banjos.
-eating food. GOOD food, including catfish.
-Singing songs in battle.
-You know those cool viewfinder, or view-o-rama, or whatever they're called things where you put the disc in an look up to the light to see the images and flip the lever to rotate to the next one? Yeah, those. SO SWEET!
-Saying 'sayonara' to Ed's mum who is flying back to Japan tomorrow! :(
-lots of fun.
Ok, i'm tired.
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