:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 ::

It's already 2004?
Its new years eve. I don't really know what to write. I'd like to say this has been a banner year--cause that always seems like a positive-outlook-kind-of-thing to say; but seeing as how I have neither a positive outlook nor any banners with catchy phrases on them I don't think i'm gonna lie. I did successfully weasel my way out of the community college ghetto. Got me an Associates. I guess in perspective thats kind of fancy for most high school dropouts; but I'm holding off on the pride thing at least until I have something substantial like my Masters or something. I think i'm glad i'm at Davis. I've been playing second guesses lately. I'd probably be a better student if I had gone to UC San Diego; i'd probably be sleeping on a floor in East LA if I had accepted the offer from UCLA. But i'm glad I stuck around. My step brother was born this past august and its been a unique experience to watch him go from blank stare to the more cognitive kicking and screaming machine he's become.

I guess I should do a top ten of stuff for the year. Why? Cause everyone else does... and i'm not very original....

ten best albums (I bought this year) in no particular order:
1. Rancid Indestructible
2. Nofx War on Errorism
3. The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site
4. Anti-Flag Terror State
5. Miles Davis Kind of Blue
6. Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
7. Paul Westerberg Come feel me tremble
8. Dashboard Confessional A mark, a mission, a brand, a scar
9. Subhumans 29 29 Split vision
10. Rise Against Revolutions per minute

Some of the other highlights: A new Manson album; the underground rap cd I got from these guys--I was drugged on sleeping pills and didn't know who I was they were probably pretty amused; new Courtney Love stuff via The Distillers.

Lessons learned:
Ambien is not the drug for me
I hate psychiatrists
Sleeping on a park bench in front of the capital is one of those things you do once in life... once...
the human experience is quite baffling
I need to improve my understanding of economics to better refute people
I need to improve my grasp of philosophy to better refute myself
I need to learn to write....

Best movie this year: Mona Lisa Smile

Highlights:
I put an RSS feed on my blog; so that I can now have regular readers... where you at people?

:: Jim Nichols 12/31/2003 05:26:00 AM [+] ::
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