Fries, Glee, Conchords, and Jobs

Another week, another Taco Bell cup I add to the pyramid. Tomorrow, I'll have collected my sixth cup, which means I can now have a 3rd level on the pyramid. Yay for accomplishing something.

Anyhow, Just finished homecoming week here at ISU. A huge range of emotions throughout the week. A high when I got extra fries for dinner the other day. Yet, a low when our football team lost 32-7 in the big game against Northern Arizona. So... maybe it wasn't the best week of my life.

I mentioned in a blog post last week that I was hoping I'd remember everyone's name on our frisbee team. That clearly hasn't happened. I think I have about 75 percent of the team memorized now. So we are making progress.

On the good side though, Glee premiered this week. Definitely enjoyed that. Certainly enjoyable to watch. I enjoyed watching it with the gang at ISU. (If you can't catch a hint, I enjoyed the show) Certainly a lot of drama, lets hope it makes for a good season of glee. So how can glee get any better? How about we animate some cast members and put them on an episode of The Simpsons? Yeah, that sounds good, right? Well it gets better. Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie from Flight of The Conchords are in the episode too. And let me just say, I love those guys. Unfortunately, I missed that episode of The Simpsons. Though I will watch it online as soon as it gets posted. Something to look forward to in the near future.

One final note, since I'm such a good former employee, I'm gonna tell all of my readers who live in the Boise, Meridian, and Kuna area to head down to Linder Farms for a fun and affordable day with the family. It opened for the season on Friday, and it's a huge supporter of Boise State. So for all of you out there who bleed blue, that's the place to be. 7165 S. Linder Rd. (p.s. To the Linder Farms management who might happen to be reading this: please give me a good recommendation. I really need a job.)

Anyways, guess homecoming week wasn't as exciting as some of us would of hoped it would be. It might of been for some people, but I guess I just hang out with the wrong group of friends (sorry to my ISU friends who actually read my blog). So my next post will be either when something exciting actually happens to me, or next week...ish.

So from the 67 degree basement,
Tim Davis

Homes, Explosions, and Other Abnormalities

Alright second blog post. Lets get started.

So, as I mentioned last time, I had some homework to do. I had to write an essay in English. We had to write a descriptive essay about someone, something, or some place. I chose a place that changed my life. And it didn't just change my life. I know many lives were changed at this home to joy and happiness. Anyways, here is the essay that I wrote.

The Home Away From Home

When a group of friends hang out a lot, they usually have one spot where they hang out almost all the time. For example, if you've ever watched That 70's show, they're always hanging out in Eric's basement. I had a place just like that— the den of Kennedy's household; the happiest place on earth for me.

I have been going to that den since 8th grade. I first went there when my friends Sean Kennedy and Conner Wesselman and I realized we had to work on a presentation outside of class. When I first went to their house, I never hung out with a lot of kids outside of school. So I wasn't sure what to expect. As I first entered their house, I noticed the many pictures of their family. I noticed a half finished puzzle in the living room and tons of food in the kitchen (which I would soon come to love). Then I walked down the stairs to the den. I was amazed with what I saw: couches, tvs, snacks, video games, and everything a nerd like me could ask. Needless to say, we pretty much got no work done on the project. We just hung out down there playing video games and listening to music.

I started hanging out there all the time. I would spend at least 5-6 hours a week there, and that was just because I could only go when my parents could give me a ride, or my bike didn't have flats. However, as the years passed, I would hang out there more and more. When I got my license, I drove down to that house multiple times a week. It was awesome.

Slowly, the house started to evolve too. Eventually, they got Tivo, new gaming systems, new games, laptops, and wi fi. Seeing as I was a huge nerd, I couldn't imagine a better haven.  This house had everything I wanted. I especially loved it because my house had nothing like this. My parents were more into nature and travel, while Sean's family preferred technology and modern stuff. It sometimes felt like more of a home than my own home, and I always had to something to do there.

The other thing I loved about it was the food. They always had snacks and drinks that I could have whenever I wanted. Unfortunately, I ate a lot of their food, and I mean a lot. It got to the point where they had to start putting restrictions on how much I ate there. In retrospect, I probably ate about few thousand dollars of their food, but they still loved me. I was the happy little friend of the family.

In my junior year of high school, my visits to their house almost became a regular thing. I would for sure visit every Monday because our group of friends had a tradition called Taco Bell Monday, where we would go to Taco Bell on Monday. And he lived the closest to a Taco Bell, so we'd meet, hang out at his house for a little bit, go to Taco Bell, then return to his house, and hang out for the entire afternoon at least. It was a happy time.

This last summer, I hung out there almost every day. Occasionally we'd go to my house or someone else's house, but it was almost always Sean's house that we went to. I knew I had to cherish my time there because I was leaving for college soon and I wouldn't see much of it anymore, so we hung out whenever we could at that house. Most days, we would just play video games, watch television, and surf the internet. Just doing all the stuff a regular nerd would. It may seem simple and stupid to most people, but it was probably the best summer of my life thus far, because hanging out with my friends like that was the most fun thing I can imagine doing, and we always had a great time.

Now that I'm at college, I miss that house an awful lot. I hope to return there soon, because that place is like home to me, and yes, like most college freshman, I am homesick.

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 So that was fun to write. The essay isn't due till Thursday so if you see any ways to improve it, have any comments, or just want to tell me how (awesome/dull/average) it is, just leave a comment.

Anyways, last couple days have been pretty dull. Nothing super exciting has happened. I had soda blow up in my face yesterday, and not like you would expect it to. I was at one of those nozzle dispensers and I grabbed a cup, placed it under the dr pepper, and pressed the button. As soon as I hit that button, the nozzle flies off the machine, and soda flies everywhere within a three foot radius. I am rather soaked in it. They guy standing next to me just looks in shock... needless to say, after I cleaned up (and didn't tell anyone working there what happened. Sucks to be you, guy who got dr pepper right after me.) I got pepsi. It was a good choice in the end.

So that's the most exciting thing that happened to me so far this week. Btw, counted the alrights again of my bio teacher. 240 today. but he ended the lecture about 7 minutes early. So this might be slightly off. And looking forward to the premiere of glee tomorrow. Probably the best part of my week. So I don't know when my next post will be, but I'll probably have one by the end of the week.

oh yes, one last note. A shoutout to my friend Matt Bird. He is a pretty funny guy who goes to BYU (aka mormonville). He has a blog that's about as humorous as mine. So check it out at collegetheblog.blogspot.com.

So, until next time, from the still freezing basement of Turner,
Tim Davis

Pyramids, Issues, and Orgies

      So, after seeing the blogs of a couple friends of mine, and various other forms of talking to random people on the interwebs, I decided a blog might be a good idea. I suppose, Matt, you can take credit for this if you want to.



    Anyways, I've been at school for 4 weeks now. I know this cause I go to Taco Bell every monday (It's a tradition with a rich history) and I save the cups so one day I can make a great pyramid... out of extra-large taco bell cups. Anyways, in that 4 weeks, I've meet tons of people. So many, that I can't remember almost any of their names. It's become an issue. I've joined an intermureal frisbee team full of people in my frisbee class, but I can't remember half the teams name. My goal by the end of this week is to figure out everyone's name. So hopefully, by next week, I'll be able to tell you everybody's name.



    In other news, classes are going well. Obviously, my favorite class is my frisbee class, but second to that is biology. The reason for this is because of the teacher. One day, while we're in class, I notice my sister (yes, my 5th year sister is the same class as me) had a little tally going in the corner of her notes. I asked her what it was about and she said she was keeping track of how many times our teacher said "issues." At the end of the 50 minute lecture, he had said it around 45 times. We thought that was an issue. We were sorely mistaken. This is because that night, i brought it up with my bio lab class. They said I should count how many times he says "alright" at the end of the sentence. So I tell my sister about it right before class. After that 50 minute lecture, he had said alright 402 times. It was astounding. And we thought issues was an issue. So I've been keeping track since then. He hasn't come close to 402 since that first time we counted. Since then, I've counted 350, 291, and 275. He is steadily decreasing. My hope is that he will say it 500 times in one day, but that dream is a long ways away.





     Dorm life is pretty interesting. I live in turner hall, which has been a rather interesting place so far. The most interesting thing was the orgy story. I should first explain that 3rd-5th floor in Turner is all guys. 6th-8th is all girls. I live on 3rd floor. And the most important thing to remember is that 4th floor is the party floor. So I have some friends who live on 7th floor, Felicia and Alecia. One late night, last weekend, apparently someone scattered a bunch of notes on the 7th floor that said...

"The biggest orgy of the year.
4th floor midnight
Condoms will be provided"

     I've heard rumors that one girl actually went to this, but I'm not here to spread rumors. Though I don't know who did this, or how he got caught, he was caught. According to my friends who live on 4th floor, Dallas and James, he has been evicted from the building, and in a final act of defiance, decided to make his room really messy for the people who had to clean it... What a rebel.

     Finally, I'd like to take moment to explain why I was listed as in a relationship last week on facebook. So I've sort become friends with this group from Kuna. (For those of you who don't know, I'm from Boise. So I know where Kuna is.) One of the people in this group is Joan. And her parents were in town. So I'm eating dinner with some of the people in this group and Joan walks in with her parents. Almost immediately, Amberlee tells me I should pretend like we're dating. Though reluctant at first, I decide to do. Something you should know about me, when I decide to do a joke, I commit to that joke. So after arguing with Joan for about ten minutes (right in front of her parents) about how I thought she loved me, I storm out of the room. I decide to head down to the basement (which is where the computers are) and get on facebook and change my status to "in a relationship." Right after that, I get a call from Amberlee telling me that I should make one last desperate attempt at winning Joan's heart in front of her parents. She and her parents are in her room on the 8th floor and I should go woo her. Being the committer I am, I head to my room, grab my ipod player, and head to the elevator. Coincidentally, everyone from the gang was in the elevator as I got in. So I get to the 8th floor. The door to her room is already open. And her and her parents are inside. So I set the ipod player right outside her door, turn on 1, 2, 3, 4 by the Plain White T's, and run to Amberlee's room (who happens to live right next door to Joan). So after the song is over, I head back to Joan's room, and I had this whole speech prepared about how this song expresses everything I feel for her, but as soon as I look inside her room, I see her dad, and he is staring right  back at me. Needless to say, I was terrified. So I grabbed the ipod player, and ran back to Amberlee's room, and didn't leave till I was sure he was gone from the building. Anyhow, that's the story of my latest "facebook relationship."

     So that's the most interesting things that have happened to me in the first few weeks. Though I'm sure to have plenty of stories to come. Monday is September 20th. Which is an important date to me. So that should be interesting. Glee starts on Tuesday. Definitely looking forward to that. And this week is homecoming week at ISU. So that means I should have lots of interesting stories about the people at ISU. My next post will probably be tomorrow. Cause I have 3 big homework assignments due by tuesday that I've been procrastinating. However, one of them is a paper about something that will always be close to my heart, that I want you guys to read. Spoiler Alert: It has something to do with the Kennedy Clan.

Anyways it's been fun.
From the basement of Turner where it's always 67 degrees, but it always feels way colder,
Tim Davis