Crumpled Notebook

Joe Normal
43 % Nerd, 47% Geek, 21% Dork

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being
smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or
subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social
expectations/interactions.
You scored less than half in all three, earning you the title of:
Joe Normal. This is not to say that you don’t have some
Nerd, Geek or Dork inside of you–we all do, and you can see the
percentages you have right above. This is just to say that none of
those qualities stand out so much as to define you. Sure, you enjoy
an episode of Star Trek now and again, and yeah, you kinda
enjoyed a few classes back in the day. And, once in a while, you
stumble while walking down the street even though there was nothing
there to cause you to trip. But, for the most part, you look and
act fairly typically, and aren’t much of an outcast.

1. Blow leaves in their yard.
2. Steal their newspaper.
3. Let your dog poo in their front yard.
4. Moving your fence 10 feet into their yard.
5. Threaten to “wipe them off the map.”

Yeah, not the Cubs of course, but hey, after 88 years who cares?
White Sox sweep World Series

A bit of trivia: The Cubs and the White Sox met in the 2nd official World Series in 1906 (the first unofficial one was in 1903, and the first official one in 1905–with the 7 game series as we know it now). The White Sox won that series.

From 1921-1923 the New York Giants and the NY Yankees meet 3 consecutive times in the World Series, with the Giants winning the first 2, and the Yankees winning the 3rd one.

Teams from the same city have met 13 times since them (if you count Oakland and San Fran as one, even though its technically not the same city). Most of those teams were NY teams (Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers, Mets, and NY Giants), and a couple from St. Louis (Cardinals and Browns).

Here’s a great site about World Series history.

Has anyone read that book? I don’t think I have. I always confuse it with Catcher in the Rye which I have read. I guess its the whole “catch” that confuses me. Anyway on to the point. I feel like I’m stuck in a catch-22. I feel this way because I’m pondering what to do when my Vista year is up. See, I’ve almost decided that there isn’t anything really compelling here to make me stay. I mean, I like it and all, but once I’m not a vista, I kind of lose most of my social connections. Yet, on the other hand, I don’t want to go home. Its basically, I don’t want to be here, I don’t want to be home, but I got no place else to go.

Here’s how I feel about being here. Before, last year, when I was thinking about staying, I was trying to take the “people” factor out of it, but then I realized, after someone told me, that the “people” was the most important thing to stay for. I don’t feel that way anymore. I still agree with the statement, but I’m not pulled her by a group of friends. I mean, I have some friends here, non-vista friends that I care about a lot and would miss. But who knows how long they’ll be here. Also, I don’t want these few friends to be my only source of friends here. Right now I have a good mix of those friends and vista friends. I’m not totally dependent on either group. I’m just thinking how much I would actually like it here without that connection. If it was just me, how would I feel? I just don’t know if its enough to stay. I don’t know if finding a job that I might enjoy is enough to stay.

There there is Kentucky. I love my family. I love my friends there, but its not where I want to be. Its not where I’m happy. I can be happy there, but overall, I deal better when I’m away from certain things in my life. Besides, the only place I’d really even want to live would be Bowling Green. But yeah, I’m just not ready for that. I’m not ready to go back home. I don’t know if I will ever be ready.

So overall, I’m just not feeling connected. I have some connections here. I have some connections in Kentucky, but I don’t have a sense of “this is where I belong.” I mean, I really do love it here in Monterey, but I just don’t know if I have anymore reasons to stay.

So I got the expected reaction to my prank. I’m still alive, so it was worth it. But of course, if a picture is worth a thousand words, video is worth ten thousand. So here it is–the video reaction to one of my better pranks in the past couple years.

High speed

Low speed

Update: Okay, I’m starting to think now that it wasn’t such a great idea. Maybe I should hang up my prankster hat.