Ramblings spanning two days

I realize no one is probably ever going to read this blog. Its almost comforting to know that. Its virtually impossible to just happen to come across it. I basically have to give someone the url to see it. And i like that. I like that i can write what i want without caring what other people think. i like that i can be myself without having to conform to fit into people comfort zones. Now for the miniscule amount of people who will read this, i dont mean that i will be cursing out anyone or making incredibly obscene comments. it just means i am allowing myself to write without hesitation.... meaning i can put an emoticon without feeling bad, or not capitalizing my "i"s or using apostrophes. :) i like that freedom. Society pressures us to be so formal in our writing (esp. if youre in college) yet we speak every day in the bastardized vernacular of this language we call english. My girlfriend's class "theme" or "statement" was "What are we Waiting For?", yet as one of her teachers pointed out it should be "For What are we Waiting".... since a sentence should never end with a Preposition. Normally i would agree but in this blog.... i couldnt care less :) So i hope you few who read this are not offended by my lack of correct grammar and punctuation. thats just how a roll ;)

Sorry that i went off on a bit of a tangent. like most of these blogposts i really dont have much of a purpose. basically i just wanted to explain my place of employment of the summer for posterity's sake. I work at an ice cream warehouse right now. at the beginning of the summer i was working 6:30-5 but now work 8-5 everyday. the days seem endless but i see the end in sight and i cannot wait. this job has taught me many things, as any job should. most importantly it has taught me the worth of a good education, how lucky i am to be getting one, and to work hard at college to avoid working here for the rest of my life. not to say its a bad job. i mean hey... its a job. and in this economy i have to take what i can get. but really i wouldnt be able to do it for the rest of my life. i feel so trapped as it is right now. well ive rambled enough for one post.

Quarters in a Time Capsule

Walking the boardwalk i was instantly transported back to 7 years ago when i last was with my family at the beach. How much things have changed. Yet somethings have not. The wonderful store Only Yesterday stands true to its name, selling all sorts of magazines, comic books and little knickknacks from yesteryear. The two amusment parks, Wonderland and Castaway Cove, still have many of the same rides i remember going on as a kid. Me and my brother have already decided we're going to ride the gravitron just for old times sake (to which my mother rolled her eyes). And oh the classic Jilly's Arcade. Many hours of fun were had in there. The boardwalk brags of many arcades yet none have the selection of Jilly's. The games that alway got me were the pinball games. With a fistful of quarters, my brother and i roam free to play whatever our hearts desire and our pockets can afford. Some games are new. Some i remember seeing long ago. The reason i love the pinball games so much is because to me there is no other game that provides such a wonderful time for such a small price. Three balls for a quarter. My brother and i played House of the Dead for 50 cents each and were dead in 45 seconds. But a pinball game... well, you decide how long you can play. There is always a bit of luck to it but there is so much more skill needed than compared to say Tekken or Wave Runner. I think thats why i was always attracted to them. A game that could go on for as long as you want... if you were good enough. Walking up to my first pinball game in years, i put the quarter into the slot and the screen came to life. It was a LOTR pinball game. Very cool, i thought to myself. It was a newer one but obviously had a little bit of wear to it. Good.... not a maiden voyage. The flippers were smooth. Not much delay to them. The spring could have been a little tighter but nothing really to complain about. I pulled the lever back and let the ball soar. I flicked the flippers maybe a total of 5 times before i lost my ball. Damn... I must have lost my touch, i thought, though i never really had much skill to lose in the first place. Several games later i found i was humming the song Pinball Wizard by The Who to myself as i regained whatever touch i had lost. I also love how a pinball game can fit so many stories and smaller objectives into one game. In the Lord of the Rings game i was addicted to, i had to defeat a balrog, try to collect all the rings of men, dwarfs, and elves, light the palantir, collect 5,000 souls, and many other sub-quests, all while trying to secure a high score. Its just very entertaining to me. Walking away from the game i was challenged to two games of air hockey. The first was against my brother... which i lost.... badly. The next was against my mother, which i won. There was a rematch to both games to which the results were repeated. Its interesting to note though that my mother had beaten my brother on several occasions... so where did that place me? After two hours (it only felt like a half hour at the most), we left from the arcade. I smiled looking back. It was good to be a kid again.

Hansel and Gretel Would Approve

I find it slightly funny that the first thing that comes into my head in what to write as my first post is an explanation as to what this blog is about.... the purpose of it i suppose. Hmmm.... what is the purpose... Well i suppose the main reason i have decided to start a blog is more of a documentation of my life in the next few years. I feel things changing all around me and i want to have sort of a written record... a journal i suppose of the events that will come to shape my future. In a few weeks i am returning to Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster Pa to resume my studies for the beginning of my sophomore year. Im majoring in Physics. Thats the reason i guess when we come down to it.... where am i going to end up? i hope to show the journey a bit through these posts. Will i actually graduate with a physics degree? Where will i go from there? Grad school? Job? Become a teacher? .... all in all the purpose of this blog is to be the bread crumbs that can always lead me back to the beginning.