Backwards kcapkcaB

In Spanish class today a guy came waltzing in wearing his backpack backwards (ie - on his chest). First off, I’d like to make the observation this man is probably single.

Second, why in the wolrd would you subject yourself in the public to this? I figure one of the following was applicable: he is stupid, he wants people to think he is walking backwards, or he actually has a frontback, which is hard to differentiate from a backpack.

If the last is true, then the frontpack company should take efforts to make it easy to differntiate the two types of backs, so people such as this man are saved from embarassment.

Iceberg!

Studio is great, but I’ve been procrastinating a little bit. Oh well, no more of that. Next friday our final project is due, which means this weekend I’ll work in studio a lot. Though Sunday is reserved for a canoe trip down the Illinois River.

I’ve never been. Have any of you? Was it good? How much was it?

Update: Of course since we decided to go canoeing, God countered the plans with rain. Last time He countered our plans with “the worst colorado blizzard in 100 years.” We sat in the car for 15 hours until the national guard could come move jack knifed semis out of our way.

Bowling Greatness

Bowling for Columbine was wonderful. Everyone should watch this. It toys with you - some moments are funny and others are the most sobbering stories or events ever seen.

After hearing the responses of roommates and other, I believe most people miss Michael Moore’s point. One of which is his blaming of the media, though not the sole focus. He actually spans a large area of possible problems. Go rent this.

On a side note I’ve been watching Reno 911, which is very funny. And reruns of “I love the 70’s” and “I love the 80’s” on VH1.

Does anyone remember Shrinky Dinks? Those were awesome - color them, put them in the oven, and wahla! They came out shrank!

Degrading Week

My week started off with great plans, all of which fell through. Perhaps this weekend will be different? Acoustic Peace is playing in Tulsa and JadeOfJuliet is having a birthday party. Maybe I’ll actually get to hang out with a real live person other than roommates and their guests.

Aren’t those weeks annyoing when at the beginning you’ve got big plans, but then the Pope cancles his appointment, and Air Force one is delayed due to weather, and then Bono has to help the Pope pick sunglasses, and pretty soon no one is around.

And Then I Found $5

The only problem we suffer from for which there is not yet a drug is “Bad Story Moment,” which is where you tell a story only to discover you couldn’t tell a funny story to save an orphange from being ignited with napalm and you were their last hope.

The solution? Add the phrase “And then I found five dollars” to the end. Or, if you want attention from the start, make sure someone in the story gets naked for some reason. Sadly effective.

This will not be a common format for sermons any time in the future.

On a side note, Jason truely did find $20 in the parking lot this week.

Scalp Me, You Savage!

Orange Peel is quickly approaching! I have an extra ticket if anyone would like to go along.

Mixing Colors

Andrew put a blue toilet cleaner in the bathroom. Now, everytime I use that bathroom I see proof that yellow and blue make green. Science before my very eyes! This could be implemented in schools to teach children properties of colors. Lets not expand on this idea too far though, or we’ll all be grossed out by the comments.

Blow

I know we’ll walk into Spanish one day and the teacher will say “I don’t want to be here and neither do you. So half the time I’ll teach you Spanish and the other half I’ll teach you drug smuggling.” Or “Seth, my Columbian niece needs a date - did I mention she is Shakira?”

Bowling For Columbine

In case you aren’t aware, “Bowling For Columbine” is a documentary about gun control in America. Directed by Micheal Moore, it really is a genius work. Jason rented it, and though I’ve not had time to watch the whole thing, I was impressed with it.

Has anyone else out there seen it? We’ve got it until Thursday if someone wants to come watch it with me tuesday or wednesday night.

For the record, I suck at bowling.

Parental Unit In Proximity

Tomorrow my Mom is coming up for a long list of reasons. Hopefully it will include lunch and or dinner out and maybe a sponsored trip to go shopping. I could use two more pair of pants, which would raise the grand total to five.

Earlier this summer a large population of my pants met doom in the form of a pilot pen left in a pocket thrown into the dryer. It was horrible - ink everywhere. “I’ve never seen anything as terrible in my entire career on the parental force. Those jeans were a few days from retirement.” stated Mom, a 33 year veteran of child raising and clothing washing.

Someone needs to design a device that detects and removes things such as pens, grenades, and small children from washers and dryers. Espeically those pens!

Two Is Company

Two is company, if there are two people. Anyways, lunch didn’t work out as planned today - though for the record I did wait until 1:00 at the SU phone.

Giant Vending Machine

Vending machines work on a basis of terminal velocity of flavor. The food doesn’t taste good until it is dropped from a high distance and smashed into pieces. That is why I think Willham should be converted into the world’s largest vending machine.

I Make Buildings

Jesse (idiotfacotry) was talking about pick up lines. Instead of “Can I buy you a house?” I can say “Can I make you a house?”

In the SU I saw some friends. Someone asked if I was busy, and I said yes - as a professional hitman in architecture I am very busy (note, i was wearint the ever famous hitman shirt). “You can make the perfect building to shoot someone from?” a guy asked, to which I responded “Yes, I make perfect book depositories.”

Inside joke: my middle name also happens to be Oswald.

Coffee Talk

Saturday Morning Alan, Andrew, Jason, and I headed to garage sales looking for a coffee table for the living room. We eventually found a good one for $5. Come by and check it out.

After making our purchase, we headed to thrift stores to look around. We stumbled onto “Uncle Mike’s Market” which is an antique store that also will sell you illegal weapons. There was an ARS-15 with Grenade Launcher on the wall, and when I asked they said “Its for sale. But its not for sale. If you know what we mean.”

A Seth Original Date Idea

While roaming around Good Will, I came up with a great date idea. Thrift Shop Date. Here is the deal…

We start the evening by going to the thrift store to shop for the clothing to wear for the night. For instance, I’d buy a cheap suit jacket, shirt, and tie. Then we go somewhere we can both change into your new atire.

Next, we head to Taco Bueno or some other fast food restaurant. When we arrive, there will be a table with a table cloth and candles on it waiting. My friend Andrew (who has said he will do this if I can get a date) will be our waiter. Placing our orders at the counter and bringing them back, refiling drinks, etc…

Has Beens

“Singer Bobby Brown Arrested” read one headline at google’s news. Shouldn’t it be “Loser Bobby Brown?” Do you really count as a singer if your last hit was 12 years ago? Does anyone remember the words to “My Prerogative” and “Every Little Step?”

Most newspapers take boring stories and sensationalize them, but here at OSU the O’Colly takes a different approach. An article the other day was “Girl Survives Night Alone.”

First off, I know a lot of women who survive multiple nights alone in a row. Second, it was an interesting story: a 6 year old girl was lost in the mountains on her own for 24 hours. Brave little girl.

“I Know Kung Fu”

Went with Terin and Marty to watch “The Matrix: Reloaded” in the SU Little Theater. I think it was a version downloaded off Kazaa.

Sweaty Night

Friday night a group of us went to Murphy’s on the strip. It was around 100 degrees inside and outside. I sweat easy, which means I spent the whole time feeling as though I were in a sona.

On the way back I saw kitten in the parking lot. I tried to catch him but he disappeared inside an SUV. It would have been neat to have a kitten for a day or two until I could take him to a shelter or give him away.

Pathcin 404 - Party Not Found

Last night I hung out in Patchin 404 with Kylie some non-xangans too. Benooo(sp?) is a really cool girl and it turns out she works at the pizza place in the Market. For lunch today she made a pizza special for me. I’ve promised not to blog about the happenings at the party… gathering, I mean.

Quote:
“I’m going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won’t be back for TEN MINUTES.” - Homer Simpson

First and Down

Today is Friday! Not only that, but the first friday of the first week of school. Only 17 more to go people! Lets keep up the class attendance. Studio, as always, is sucking up my social life for the most part.

I’m in Fatts section, which is the green section. Not only that, he lives a little ways down the hall from me. We’ve got the Dean Seitsinger (yes, the dean of architecture) as our current crit for this project, which is basically a hodge-podge collection of 8 strange rooms with each one having strange requirements. Not only that, the entire thing has to be built on a site with a 60 degree angle. Steep people!

Social Relief

Last night I cleaned my room up and hung out with roommates. Around 11:30 or so Jade of Juliet and PaintedToes came by with a few friends (who also have Xanga sites for the most part). Vesuvius and Embryo Project, who live across the parking lot in Wentz came by too. We all hung out outside. To think, I cleaned my room for nothing! Just kidding - it needed to be cleaned anyways.

It was great to meet Stephanie (Jade of Juliet) because she has fallen in love with Minneapolis, so this is one of the few times I’ll probably meet her. Though tired, she was as much fun in real life as she is when we chat!

And today I had lunch with Idiotfactory’s favorite person - her. We meet in the basement of Stoud. The lunch was good, and she became addicted to the italian sodas they serve. If you need to get a hold of her she is probably there getting her fix.

Uncomfortable Sexuality

OU is of course ripping off Orange Peel this year with “The big red event.” Why does OU insist on calling themselves “RED!” They are CRIMSON AND CREAM! Two of the most girlie colors ever. I believe OU has insecurities with their sexual prefrence. The event should be renamed the “Cream Fest.”

Voice Mail Contest

My voice mail was finally turned on, but the usual dilemma of what the message should be has surfaced. Right now it is a bland “This is Seth. I’m Gone….” kind of message.

Here are my challenges….
Challenge #1.) Who can leave the most entertaining message on my machine?
Challenge #2.) Who can come up with the best message to replace my current message.

You may only enter each contest once. The message must be left between 1:30 and 5:30 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday of this coming week. The winner will get something cool from me, though I haven’t decided what. Oh, you can’t suggest messages that are quotes or you downloaded from the internet and played to my voice mail.

(405)-332-0474

Quote:
“Maybe if Jesus had ankle support they wouldn’t have caught him.” - Homer Simpson,

Meeting People

Things are going great for me. I’m eating lunch or hanging out or meeting all sorts of people off Xanga, which is nice seeing as we’ve all read about each other for a while. I enjoy this because it gives me proof the people I know the most about aren’t imaginary.

Quarky Professors

Everyone, meet my Physics teacher Milton Waddams of Office Space.

Sure, the teacher might not actually be Milton Waddams, but he has the same charecteristics. Lets put the two to a test…

Bad Schedules

Between moving back to college, classes starting, and Xanga being down because of DOS attacks and then down because of the power outage my Xanga schedule has been hurt. Tonight is the first night in two weeks I’m going through and reading everyone’s pages.

Xanga being down is like being impotent you get used to the ups that only last a little while. And in the end you aren’t happy but accepting of the fact.

Women are beautiful.

Good Schedules

My class schedule 9:30 to 5:30 everyday with a one hour lunch break at 12:30. College breaks down to the following: we pay other people to tell us what to do. I am officially starting my own college. You pay me money and then I tell you to do stuff like clean my room. When you do a bad job I hike up the prices and tell you you’ve failed and have to retake the classes. Sound good?

I saw a text book called “Learning C++ by Dissection.” The problem is they misspelled the word. It should be disection with one “S.” With two “S”s it becomes the word “Dis-section,” which is not the same at all.

History of Baroque Architecture - Good with a funny professor.
Physics - Good with a less funny professor.
Spanish - Wonderful. Senora Dora is our teacher. She is from Columbia. She likes to drink coffe when she isn’t selling cocaine.
Architecture Studio - We already have our first project started with lots of deadlines and things do this week. I spent 6 hours there today, but most of it was setting up. I’m Green section on the second floor - bring me pizza!

Unwritten Laws

Studio is basically a great plain filled with studio desks. I staked a great desk out on Sunday, and when I came in someone had moved my stuff. I was pissed - you don’t break the unwritten laws of architecture like that. I wasn’t really mad. I moved my stuff back and took over the desk, so all is okay.

We got our first Architecture assignements. I love drawing bubble diagrams because circles are fun to draw. But NOOOO, we have to draw bubble diagrams using squares? What in the hell kind of fun is that? NONE, because squares are relatively more hard to draw.

“Relax, I’m on lunch break”

I wore the Professional Hitman shirt today and got wonderful comments from everyone. This shirt was a great investment.

Pictures Someday

I’m setting up a little websever to host Xanga pictures and such for myself. If you would like a little space be sure to ask me and I can set you up with some space on the extra computer in here. We’re not talking hundreds of megabytes, but you know 10mb or so for free.

Not much has gone on yet. I keep promising pictures, but the schedule is all dependent upon some cords arriving first that I won off the worlds largest thrift store… e-Bay.

How was class for everyone else? Anyone want to get lunch at 12:30 sometime?

Geeks Unite! Badspellers Untie!

Service…DENIED

Is there anything more pathetic than a stupid person? No, and stupid people are directly responsible for all of us going into comas due to lack of social life when Xanga was down.

I’m not sure about everyone else, but I actually had to interact with real people! Can you believe the audacity?

Everytime I wanted to post in the last week Xanga has been down. I’ve a huge, long, wonderful post with pictures regarding Chris’s party. Most of us know him better as I_Could_Be_Wrong.

My grandfather passed away on the 9th of August, so I’ve been very busy at home with family guests and such. But come back tomorrow for big posts with big pictures. I’ll make my Xanga rounds later. And there is a LATE BIRTHDAY PARTY for me tomorrow thrown by Tegan and company. Everyone is invited - BYOBFM (bring your own beer for me).

It is great to blog again.

Drop By and Let Me Bore You

I moved in tonight. It was great. Being a hall president makes me feel important. Anyways, I’m in 418C, you can find my phone number in the directory (Seth Hardiman). Drop by if you are bored.

I am bored. I don’t know who is here yet and who isn’t… or where anyone lives. All I know is people’s xanga names, and damn it - the phone book doesn’t list those.

Having high speed internet connections again is worth it. Oh how I’ve missed thee sweet ethernet connection! But crickets are already moving in. Isn’t that crazy?

How in the hell do crickets get to the 4th floor within minutes of me moving in? These are lightining fast ninja crickets too. You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to kill the bastards.

Hall Training

Every year, those of us in hall leadership positions (from fps to any other position) have to move in early and do community building and networking. It is okay, but of course isn’t the most fun thing… Especially since it is the same thing every year. Remember, whenever they ask you why we are here say “To learn how to build a better sense of community.” They will love you for it.

Kirk came over and helped me move in. It was wonderful. He even hooked up a bunch of my electronics. Saved me some time.

Deposits of All Kinds Accepted

Feel free to deposit birthday gifts in my living room when you come.

On a different subject, but dealing with deposits, the apartments don’t come equipped with toilet paper. I almost learned this the hard way.

I had to have Matt bring some over, since it is past midnight and my ID won’t open the doors here are Jones! Ahh! I have a curfew in a way!

I want to write a book called “Everyone Popes”