random video

sums up everythin goin on right now

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sums up everythin goin on right now

Face Behind The Blog

One of the things that I started noticing on various blogs was the Face Behind The Blog meme, and while no one linked me saying that they wanted to see who was behind this fiery onion, I decided to do it on my own, just for kicks.

I was thinking of possibly throwing a bunch of pictures up on this post, but since I only have a limited set, I’ll only put a few up. Here’s what I’ve got:

(my younger cousin and I circa 2002)

(two of my friends and I, circa 2006)

(a friend of mine and I while at Saint Leo, circa 2007)

Alright, now for the autobiographical stuff:

Blog Title: Spontaneously Combusting Onions

Blogging Here Since: December 2006

Description: Basically just a way for me to write down random stuff as I go through college.

Why Spontaneously Combusting Onions?: It’s an old patrol name idea from scouting, you can read about it more here.

Name: Nigel.

Occupation: Student (hopefully I’ll have a job at a radio station over the summer)

Country: U.S.A.

Email: combusting.onions@yahoo.com. That’s the one I keep for this site, just so it doesn’t get jumbled up in the loads of spam that I get at my other one.

Birthday: 01.01.88 (for the mathmatically challenged, that makes me 19)

Favorite Color(s): Red

Favorite Drink: Iced tea, Dr Pepper

Favorite Fruit: Apples (that is, if they count as a fruit)

Favorite Desert: Anything with chocolate in it

Hobbies: Blogging, being on-air, listenin to music

Some of the blogs I know that have posted pictures of me: None, at least I would hope that there aren’t.

Now for the baton pass: Here’s some of the people behind the blogs that I’d like to see (even if I already know you):
-Akinoluna of Life of a Female Marine
-Noah of Noah Lot More
-Bill of Life On Planet Bill
-Beatrice M of Paisley Chick
-A Silent Sunries of The Moments
-Whoever’s behind Rate Your Students
-Steve Williams of Scooter in the Sticks
-Vince Stevens of Scooter in the Surf

The usual rules apply: Post a short article and include your photograph (or more if you want). If you already have a pic online somewhere, then get creative with a new one. Next, include the link to the other blogs that you read and would want to have the chance to see who’s behind it. If you have trouble tryin to figure out how to create your own meme, just click on the photo up at the top of this post, it should link you to David Airey’s blog, if not, click here.

i know i should be working, but….

so during the newscast today at the station one of the guys whose show we interrupt to do it filled me in on the fact that the specialty show that i had signed up to do next semester was ok’d by management. woohoo! i also signed up to take over the friday morning 2-6 shift since the person who had it apparantly dropped it, and there hadn’t been anyone who volunteered to take it over, so i did. so now you get to hear me 12 hours a week instead of the 7 that i had up until now. woohoo!

in other news, i’ve got a paper due tomorrow morning at 8:30 for one of my classes, so i guess i’ll go do that now.

the video for the day is for the new Holden Ute (an austrailian car):

this is all for now, i’ll talk to y’all later.

thanksgiving break: over

now that i’m back from thanksgiving break, i now get to finish up all the loose ends of the semester. and there are alot of them.

and yet, here i am posting on a blog. yea for procrastonation skills!

i was a bit reluctant to come back, simply because what i really wanted to do is just get away from everything and not have people telling me what to do, where to do it, and when; but i guess i really shouldn’t have gone home if i wanted that.

i had my shift the night before i left, so i naturally pulled an all-nighter, and once i got into my sister’s car after getting home, she lugged me not only off to my parents’ office to have them tell me to go with her to pick up some of her stuff from her dorm and bring it home. because if we didn’t go right then, the world would collapse and all of her stuff would have spontaneously vanished into thin air.

not get stolen, or moved somewhere else, but evaporate. completely.

(as a side note to those of you who might think that i would/should have slept on the train home, just know that i can’t fall asleep while travelling)

so we left, picked up her stuff, and finally went home. i had planned on going into town just to go on my own, but by the time we had moved everything into the house i wasn’t in any shape to drive.

and then, of course, there’s before i even left for the train. i had brilliantly waited until after my shift to get everything packed and all the garbage in my room brought out to the dumpster in the parking lot. which is never a good idea when your shift ends at 6am and your roommate is still sleeping.

which leads me to another reason as to why i was reluctant to come back; because i had no idea how my roommate would react to how i had left my side of the room, and whether or not res life had billed us for it. but then again i thought that they were doing room inspections during break, completely forgetting that they had already checked the room a few days before.

and speaking of room inspections, i don’t know what y’all have experienced, but mine was pretty easy (and quick), where the rd basically walked into the room, looked around, and left. that was it.

i also found that one of the seams on my leather jacket has begun to tear apart. it’s right on the inside of one of the sleeves near where it is attached to the rest of the jacket. i’m a bit peeved about it, since i had gotten it as a gift a few years ago, and i regularly use it when i go out riding. i’m hoping that it won’t get any bigger so that when i get home it won’t have as big of a repair bill attached to it as there is the hole.

i’ve put some photos of it up on flickr, so if you have no idea what i’m talkin about, check out the photos of it.

ok, i guess i need to start doing work now, so i shall leave y’all to your own devices.

the video for the day is the trailer for the upcoming movie C For Cookie:

this is all, i’ll talk to y’all later.

going home in t-minus 7 hours

so i finally get to go home tomorrow morning on the 11:15 train out of south station. *insert happiness here*

(and it’s 7 hours until i actually leave campus. which would be at 6am, right after my shift, so y’all better listen in).

not only does it mean that i get to get off campus for more than a few hours, but it means that i get to visit people, and eat real food, and riiiiiiide……..and you have no idea how hard it is to go 3 months without even seeing a motorcycle let alone going for a ride unless you’ve experienced it.

so mother nature better not rain/snow on me when i get home.

and, speaking of snow, it actually snowed here at curry for all of maybe 5 minutes, and it was awesome. why couldn’t it be harder, longer, and sticker? hell, why couldn’t have been this morning, when i actually had to haul my ass across campus for psychology?

i also wanted to put this post up so that if my roommate finds this at any point he won’t stumble upon the last post at first glance.

because the last thing i want my roommate to think is that people like me are the reason behind things like this.

i guess this is all for now, the video of the day is the condom skit from The Golden Girls:

i guess i’ll talk to y’all later.

signing up for classes suck, same with people who assume things that aren’t true

i was able to get my schedule for next semester set in stone today, however i’m still a semester behind, and honestly, i want to be able to graduate on time and when i’m supposed to, and not a semester late just because i went to a Catholic-centric school and was miserable. it makes me think of a class discussion my transfer class had a few weeks ago, about how everyone is degree-oriented, and how if you don’t graduate in 4 years you’re told by society that you’re not as good as those who were able to. what makes it that way? yea, i’ll be pushing 23 when i finally do graduate, but does that make me a bad person just because i needed to retake one semester? does that make me lazy, or unwilling to work?

i think people are so worried that unless their kids get a high school diploma at 18 and a college degree at 21/22 then their kids will automatically fail in life. and i think that’s unhealthy, because what message are we sending them? that unless they have a sheet of paper that says that they graduated from college exactly 4 years after their diploma says they graduated high school they’re going to end up working at Wendy’s? to be honest, i think that colleges should require applicants to wait at least a year after graduating high school before they apply, just so that they can get everything out of their systems, and so that they can take a breather from school. i know at least for me that it would’ve probably been a better idea to take a gap year or to go to the local community college and get an associates before going off to a regular 4-year college, because at least then i would’ve been able to at least clear my head and know what i wanted to do without having to risk losing credit on classes that i took because i ended up transferring. which is exactly what happened.

i also should have taken a gap year because, well, i’m not the most street-smart person in the world. i’ll admit to the fact that my sister and i grew up with alot of things that we didn’t need, and not having the kind of parent who would force us to buy a car or walk wherever we needed to. one of the things i hate doing is telling people where i’m from simply because of the fact that it’s in fairfield county, ct. i hate telling people because i can’t stand the stereotype. i can’t stand the fact that there have been people and there will be more people who will automatically assume that i’m richer than god simply because of where i grew up, and therefore try to trash everything i do. if you don’t like it, then fine. i don’t like it either, but it’s what my parents decided to do; not me. don’t take your anger out on someone who had no say in what happened.

i guess all i’m tryin to say is that i’m not particularly proud to be from where i’m from. everyone assumes that money solves all the problems, but they don’t. everyone assumes that people with money get everything they want, and they don’t. materialistically speaking, yes; but if you were to trade lives with someone in a different socio-economic class with someone, you’ll find that they have what you don’t, and that you have what they don’t. you have the strong relationships, we have the fancy cars and the big houses.

and i’d do anything to be able to have the kind of relationship with someone else that i see other people have with their friends.

random video

this is the coolest video i’ve seen in a loooooong time

very, very confuzzled

so today has been one of the busiest i’ve had in a while. i had a presentation and paper due in psychology that i had totally forgotten about, i had to get my schedule for next semester submitted to the school, and i also had to figure out when a group project session for my communications class was actually meeting. luckily, however, my speech class got let out after about 45 minutes, so i was able to get to the project session and finally figure out what on earth we’re doing tomorrow.

in terms of my classes for next semester, i’m fucked until 3pm tomorrow. since today was the day that i was supposed to have my sign up sheet signed by my advisor and have my webpin login thinger ready to sign up online for classes, i was already behind the eight ball when i went over to the faculty building to see if i could possibly get him to sign the thing and get the login. i ended up going to one of the admin assistants to see if i could just get what i needed, but she filled me in on two very bad things: a) the fact that my advisor was on his way to a flight to somewhere outside of boston, and b) i’d have to academic advising to see if i could get it.

so i went over there, and the woman politely told me that i’d have to come back at a later time and do everything by the book like all the other students who have already done this; which was what i was trying to do minus the whole advisor-on-a-plane predicament.

and so, now i’m headed to the advising building tomorrow at 3 so i can get everything settled.

i’m also starting to get ready to go home for thanksgiving. room inspections are tomorrow and friday, so i need to get my room squared away and all my crap either thrown out or organized. if i left it as it is right now, the school would probably end up calling up Homeland Security to figure out which terrorist organization bombed my side of the room, and then charge me a shitload of money for having to call them. because that’s just how res life is here at curry.

and while on the theme of going home, the video of the day is of Naked Justice, one of the bands from my high school performing at the local teen center. the song’s called Ride the Fire:

i guess this is all for now, i shall talk to y’all later.

ps- i’d like to give a shout out to my parents, since it’s their 37th wedding anniversary today.

one of those obligatory keep-the-site-running posts

so Veterans day weekend has passed, and like usual, pretty much everyone here at school went home. even my roommate, which was nice. to be honest, i like having my own room, it’s always nicer to be able to wake up in the morning and not have to worry about someone else seeing more than the two of you would want them to see.

it’s not like i have anything against my roommate, he’s a cool guy and all, it’s just that i’m one of those people who like to have their own space, especially since i’m coming back to the room at 6am at least once a week. plus the last time i shared a room with someone else where we were waking up on the opposite side of the room from one another was back in kindergarden. this year is definately a new experience for me.

speaking of walking into the room at 6am, things at the station are going pretty good. the computer didn’t freeze at all last night (the first time in who knows how long), and the guy who’s on before me and i were able to get the specialty show form filled out and put in the programming director’s mailbox, so all is good in the land of college radio.

i guess this is all for now, since i have to start getting ready for a group project meeting in about 20 minutes or so.

and since i’m feeling a bit anti-Bush right now, the video for the day is the live version of Pink’s Dear Mr. President:

this is all, i shall talk to y’all later.