- Got to work at 8a on Friday. Impressive considering I was at work the night before until 11p.
- Fat paycheck coming in two weeks.
- Finished all of the graphic design for a show that only features talking heads. Not much you can do with that. I’ll ask PBS, they have lots of shows like that.
- My resume tape is almost completed. I just need to burn a DVD with all of my stuff. Only problem? Graphic design is 4 minutes long. Directing is 7 minutes long. Editing is 5 minutes. Whoops. Maybe I’ll cut it down a little.
- Made TV magic at NewsLink Indiana for the last time. Directed three television briefs, then hung up my ParkerVision hat.
- Partied at the Babusiak/PR-EZ/O’Key residence for most of the night.
- I say "most of the night" for Number 6, because at some point I passed out on the futon. And thus ended the act of "partying."
- Got home at 10a Saturday. Slept until 5p. Accomplished nothing. It was great.
- Finished show opens for The Tim Buckley Show. Actually, it’s pretty good.
- Began attempting to stay awake for a Sunday morning crew call of 3:30a.
Highlights of Friday and Saturday ::: 6-7 January
Highlights of Cancun ::: Part 2 ::: 25-28 December
- Saw a family wearing a University of Kentucky shirt, immediately went into "Time to make fun of the Wildcats for losing to the Hoosiers"-mode.
- *Apparently* hit on a girl from the University of Kentucky. From 30 feet away. While my Mom and Dad were playing nice with her parents. This was under the effects of the 12 Bacardi & Coke’s
- Made such good friends with the bartenders that drinks were ready at certain times of day for me.
- Emptied the mini-bar.
- Found it restocked the next day.
- Proceeded to empty it again.
- Montzuma got his revenge on me.
- Flew back from Atlanta on a flight with Indy weatherman Bob McClain.
- Not that McClane.
- Got home. Slept in my own bed. Woke up to cold. Not really a "Highlight…" but I needed something.
Highlights of Cancun ::: Part 1 ::: 20-24 December
- Flight from Indianapolis to Cancun. Geriatrics Central. I never knew so many old people liked Houston.
- Walked into the Cancun airport and beautiful 80 degree weather.
- Forgot all Spanish, except for the ever important, "Una cerveza mas, por favor."
- Went into the buffet. The waiter asked if I wanted a beer. I asked him, "What types of beer do you have?" He brought me a beer.
- Continued to order beers by simply asking for "a beer." I thought that only worked in the movies.
- Mexican stir-fry. Not as good as sounds.
- Stopped by the Sports Bar in the hotel. Was convinced they soaked the stirring spoons in barbicide.
- Found out it was actually club soda with a hint of blue food coloring. Tasted like barbicide though.
- Had a personal best. Drank 12 Bacardi & Coke’s.
- Had the pleasure of seeing all 12 Bacardi & Coke’s again.
Highlights of Sometime::: 17-19 December
- Celebrated the end of classes and finals. Forever. No, you don’t understand. FOR-EVER.
- Saturday – Spent 5.5 hours at church, with a God-sized hangover.
- Sunday – Spent 10 hours at church.
- With those 15.5 hours banked I can now: Kill a man just to watch him die.
- Got extra credit in a class, that upped my grade from a 79% to an 80.1%. Thank you.
- Back to Number 4, I can also: Shoot the sheriff and his deputy. Take that Bob Marley!
- APRIL FOOLS!
- Decided that the life of a rodeo clown is not the life for me.
- Made someone feel good about the potential for getting a job when I told them "I just don’t understand how corn works!"
- Asked a stranger, "Why do you build me up, Buttercup-baby, just to left me down? You ignorant slut."
- Gave you a bonus to tell you I did not actually do Number 10. And to attribute the above ending to SNL. Please don’t sue.
Highlights of Today ::: 16 December
- Saw a letter sent to the NewsLink Indiana staff asking them to donate money to help NewsLink Indiana stay on the air. It’s a vicious cycle!
- Took my last finals ever. Apparently even passing them all.
- Following a Production Meeting at Teleplex, Reidy dubbed himself:
Resource 69
- I was then dubbed:
Resource Fortyteen
- Directed three television briefs and a web brief. Forgot to clock in. Decided to write it off as a "Charitable Donation."
- The final appearance of Moon at Noon. Tears were shed. But let’s be men about this.
- Austin Reel has a demented sense of reality, not to mention an uncanny ability to work for the United States government in advertising:
Unprotected. Anonymous. Sex. My Anti-Drug.
- The debut of FarkTV, after the break.
- Got paid! Drinks anybody?
- End of my official academic career. At least in terms of reading books and whatnot.
Highlights of Yesterday ::: 15 December
- Started singing Damn Yankee’s "High Enough" at the top of my lungs. Only to realize I wasn’t alone in the bathroom.
- Took a Courts final I really didn’t need to take because the lowest grade gets dropped in that class.
- Spent 20 minutes staring at my shoes trying to figure out why a Doc on my right foot always gets more scuffed than a Doc on my left foot.
- Was really, really bored.
- Considered what learning to read would do for my academic career.
- Didn’t study. At all.
- Ate free food at the Teleplex Holiday Luncheon. Considered standing on the table to confess my undying love for Scott Swim to the entire crowd.
- Remembered the time Swim opened a door and hit someone in the face. Snickered a little bit, on the inside.
- I think Rick had a really good birthday, considering Number 10.
- As we left Puerta’s, after Dave had exited the bathroom:
"The sink was filled to the brim with vomit."
Highlights of Today ::: 14 December
- Woke up only to realize I had a final in an hour. I had only studied 30 minutes for it.
- Took my Research Methods (CJC 220) final. 50 questions. 15 minutes. When I left the room people looked at me like I was crazy. Maybe I missed the second half of the exam.
- Think I actually did well on the CJC 220 exam.
- Thought long and hard about what random thing to write for Number 6. Can you feel the suspense?
- In 6-7 hours designed an entirely new NewsLink Indiana site, that everyone seemed fairly pleased with. Unless they’re just being nice.
http://www.sethkeever.com/nli1.htm
http://www.sethkeever.com/nli2.htm - Contemplated what life would be like if computers ruled the world. Then remembered that the Wachowski brothers killed Jesus, twice.
- Explained to an NLI producer why "Safe and Salty" was not a good idea for a caption on an OTS graphic.
- Had a convergence pow-wow with other TCOM and J student groups. Went fairly well. They’re probably reading this now, since the NewsLink Indiana mock-ups are hosted here.
- Went for coffee with Spokey, Jack, CBav, and AI. Ran into McKenna and Erin Walker.
- APRIL FOOLS!
Highlights of Yesterday ::: 12 December
- Dreamt about where this Internet thing could go if it really took off.
- Funniest thing overheard at 811 last night. Delivered by Scott Swim:
"I could have friends!"
- My phone rang at work. The theme from Magnum P.I. started playing. I went looking for T.C. No. Not the new Athletic Director.
- Laughed for quite some time at the fact our new Athletic Director is an alcoholic beverage. Tom Collins. His friend John Ancoch will be joining him. He goes by "Jack" though.
- Searched Monster.com for "Custodial Arts" as a job. Came up with the California School of Culinary Arts. ‘Nough said.
- Second funniest thing overheard at 811 last night:
"You know, Charles Manson was the inspiration for Charles in Charge."
- Decided, at that point, I did not want Charles in charge of me.
- Heard that you didn’t laught at the last part of Number 4. Allow me to explain. "Ancoch" would sound like "And Coke," and he goes by Jack. Get it? Damn. This is awkward for both of us. It’s like being back in high school again. Except without the leg slappings.
- Karl told me, yet again, that I am Jewish.
- Tried to figure out what it would be like to have two left hands. Typing jisdt goyt much hardwerdt~!
Highlights of the Weekend ::: 9-11 December
- Decided as a birthday present to myself I would only write 9 "Highlights".
- Beer pong. With skank beer. That I had just bought from the liquor store. We kept playing…
- At the Pacers game:
The stats guy who works for the Pacers when Croshere shot an air ball:
"Man, I bet he hopes there weren’t any pro-scouts in the crowd!"
- One of the guys from the Memphis crew took a cab literally 50 yards because:
"It was too cold."
- Referring to Number 2:
"The foam shouldn’t move like that."
- Dreamt about the good ol’ days, when I was a young lad of only 20.
- Birthday.
- Changed that dream and reminisced about the good ol’ days, when I was a young buck of only 21.
- Golf clubs. In the snow.
- Went back on my gift to myself, and wrote this. Though it’s not really a highlight.
Highlights of the Week ::: 5-9 December
- Sat around the house for a day to try to create my own type of alcohol. Apparently all the good ones are taken, even malt liquor.
- Ate ribs. From QL’s. Townies understand.
- Walked a mile in 10-minutes. Which is 5 minutes better than my run time.
- Took, like, a 100 hour nap.
- Thursday my Corrections professor walked into the classroom 20 minutes late, with an aroma lingering behind him that can only be described as a Jimmy Buffet concert.
- Got a letter from Ball State telling me to, "Get the hell out!" Actually it said something about the fact I’m eligible to graduate, as long as I pass all my classes. Well, they’ve got another thing coming!
- Was told that for Number 4, I actually took a coma.
- No more projects for the rest of the semester. A whole weekend of only studying awaits now.
- Ran over a friend’s cell phone. With my car. For the second time in my life, Dave Jones’ phone being the first.
In my defense there was a lot of snow… and he was drunk.
- Celebrated 22 years of being an American citizen. Or was it just my birthday?
Highlights of the Week ::: 27 Nov – 3 Dec
- Tried to decide which would be more beneficial to society:
A Toys for Tots program
or
A Hookers for the Homeless program - Was told The Ice Harvest isn’t about a family of Kansans living in Siberia trying to farm winter wheat 365 days of the year.
- Had a final moved, and two classes cancelled for next week…
- Had a professor, a college professor, spell the word "escape" on a PowerPoint as, no joke:
EXCAPE
- Found a whole pie left in the fridge from Thanksgiving. Ate it. All.
- Got paid for working at the beginning of November. Here’s hoping for a Christmas bonus!
- My Narcotics Enforcement (CJC 430) professor asked the class "How do you unarrest someone?" The correct response:
Quickly and politely.
Remove the cuffs. Say, "Have a nice day." Get into your car. Drive away. - Thought about selling my idea for a Wonderboy and Young Nasty Man television show, where they run around and solve crimes… with Mr. T.
- Pitied you so hard!
- GD Party. At the GD House. With everyone’s favorite, Scotty Hums.
Highlights of Thanksgiving Break ::: 23-27 November
- Didn’t finish an entire plate of food, was informed there are people starving in the streets. Decided to do my share and eat 7 or 8 plates of food a day.
- Found out one of the funniest blogs on the Interwebnet has ceased to be. Shed a little tear. Fare-thee-well Casual Friday.
- Was told Number 1 does not, in fact, help anything but my waistline.
- Ate pie. Not a piece, but the whole thing.
- Dreamt about a world without ribbons. That way when people get depressed around the holidays they have one less thing to hang themselves with.
- Sunday went to church. Twice. I’ve got enough churchin’ banked I think I can cash in and kill a hobo.
- Decided it was time to break the Hobo Code.
- Had a "Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout." It wasn’t as good as the Quaker Oats brown sugar and cinammon oatmeal though.
- Saw Wedding Crashers. Again. This time in the most jank theater ever. Dusty, Swim, and I could have literally stolen the screen. And the scaffold it was on.
- Was informed that Samuel Smith is, in fact, a beer. Whoops. No wonder it didn’t taste good heating it up in the microwave.
Highlights of Somtime ::: ?? – ?? November
- Couldn’t come up with a good song lyric to hide in the Highlights.
- On Tuesday cleaned out part of my closet at my parents’ house. Did not listen to Eminem’s "Cleaning Out My Closet."
- While cleaning said closet, found $70 in cash from birthday and Christmas card in 1997.
- Tuesday evening was asked to run clock and score for all five IHSAA football finals at the RCA Dome.
- Finished a 6-page minimum term paper at 3:30 in the morning, 6 hours before it was due. It was complete bull.
- Thought about adopting a mile stretch of highway, like Kramer did. No soup for you.
- Decided to recreate the landing on Omaha Beach in my bathtub.
- Decided it was time to call the drywallers to fix the ceiling beneath the bathtub.
- The fact that I’m almost done with school hit me. Like a ton of bricks.
- Realized that, in fact, it was only one brick. Thrown by a small child.
Highlights of Today ::: 8 November
- Went to Policing class for the second time in 10 class sessions.
- Was going to write something about my Corrections class, until I realized that teacher has my website address from the signature line of my e-mail.
- Debated, yet again, about what protesting on campus, yelling about how college students and homosexuals would burn in Hell, would do to the University.
- Discovered the response was being asked to leave the Scramble Light.
- Was very upset that Stabler didn’t kick the old-guy-with-pancreatic-cancer’s ass. (SVU)
- Can you say, "tintinnabulation?"
- I thought you could.
- Hated on the number 8.
- Definitely didn’t study for the CJC 220 exam I have in the morning.
- Had the following conversation at the liquor store when we saw the bags for 6-packs with the Bass logo on them:
Employee: "Yeah, I don’t even know why we have those, it’s not like we have Bass here."
Me: "You don’t have Bass?!"
Employee: "I guess we just don’t have room for it or something. I mean these college kids drinkin’ shitty Keystone Light."
Awkward pause
Me: "That’s why God invented the Heorot."
Highlights of Yesterday ::: 27 October
- Had a professor, during class, say:
"There are some things I like to do that I can’t even spell."
- Successfully edited nothing. It was a great piece of art.
- Wondered what mischief I could get into if I had a third hand, and maybe eleven toes, too.
- Heard a Criminal Justice student say:
"Man, I haven’t been in jail since June."
- Realized I never told the faithful readers if I made it back from Florida alive following Hurricane Wilma. I guess you’ll never know.
- Passed a group of students in the Atrium, one said:
"Today we’re going to steal Jim’s identity. He’s a 37-year-old mechanic…"
- Did the Mario!
Do the Mario! Swing your arms from side to side. Come on it’s time to go.
Do the Mario! Take one step and then again.
Let’s do the Mario. All together now! Come on now! Just like that! - Hummed the song from Level 2 of Super Mario Brothers for 2 hours at work.
- Fell asleep after drinking all the "shitty beer" in the fridge in the garage.
- Had this closing conversation with the lady at First Wok while placing my order:
Me: "Can I charge this?"
Her: "Cash?"
Me: "Charge."
Her: "Check?"
Me: "Charge."
Grundy: "No one says ‘Charge’ anymore."
Her: "Credit Card?"
Me: "Yes."
Me: "Why don’t people say ‘Charge’ anymore? I say ‘Charge’."
