Planet Panther

Antar Vasi: HAY GUYS IM LEAVING ST X 4 GEWD

LOLOL YES. OR, APRIL FOOLS!!!! LOL BAD APR FOOLS JOKE IM LOL!!!

internet jokes for today

1) Planet Elder??? Lol I bet.
2) YTMND HAS BEEN OWNED LOL JAYKAY
3) Check out Google Gulp... not
4) LOL DICREAM HAZ BEN WnD 2 JAYKAY AGAIN

More to come.

Chris ...: 3/31/2005 1:08:36 PM

Despite the common misconception, i'd like to say that i'm rather intellegent.. I choose to play stupid and dumb. I thrive of the concept of misdirection and love when people who don't know me under estimate me because it gives me the element of surprise.. If i were to actually put effort into my work and turn stuff in on time i'd make honurs easily... I also likje taking the road less taken..if you were to look into some of my seemingly halfbaked ideas and strategies you would find that it would actually work and would have an interesting result... I live to make the best out of any situation even if it requires to play a fool.. as most of my friends have seen. I baffle most of my teachers being able to express well logically thought out answers on test but fail to turn stuff in done right and on time (as expressed by DR. Homelle) Lol it makes martial arts alot more fun because they think that when they fight me it will be victory and i hull of and obliterate any sense of pride they have by toying with them by granting them a false sense of accomplishment but then i turn the tides around on them and humiliate them in the ring with well executed moves that aren't typically used. The element of surprise is a great weapon .

Chris ...: 3/28/2005 5:14:12 PM

Ok people i need your honest opinion on the lyrics of these two songs i wrote ok::::

Now That You’re Gone

BY: C HOP

How could I’ve been so dumb, a thousand words caught upon my tongue.

I couldn’t get out how I felt. When I held you next to me,

Now that you’re gone it is plan to see.

I was too shy, was too young,

Had no idea that feelings could be so strong.

Didn’t know what quite to do.

Never felt like this before.

And now to my remorse

I am alone, here with out you.

Never felt the magic of your lips. The truest beauty I yearned to kiss.

Yet still your eyes I see, haunting me with in my dreams.

I let you pass me by. From this regret I can not hide.

I was too shy, was too young,

Had no idea that feelings could be so strong.

Didn’t know what quite to do.

Never felt like this before.

And now to my remorse

I am alone, here with out you.

But still these feelings I hold. They will not die,

As long as there is hope. Still not able to let you go.

I wished I could have just let you know. Just how I felt,

Before the devastating final blow was dealt.

Just too shy, just too afraid, the fear of what you might say.

Just too shy, just too weak, unto you I could speak. Of the feelings

I held deep inside. Now that part of me has died.

Was too shy, I was just too shy.

UNLOVED

BY: C HOP

All I ever wanted growning up was not to be alone but with each passing day my fears grow even deeper my walls slowly grew steeper. I can’t break through can’t be the person next to you. My isolation in the past has came back and kicked my ass. I can not feel the love, it has been to long, since the last time I had a feeling so strong. Now the only thing that I feel is the fury of the thousand turning wheels of my self deception spinning fast. Love is an obstacle in my way. With my rage, cupid shall pay. For making me the one left out. My revenge shall be swift, cause with his arrow he did miss. I’ve had enough….

Stop me. I need help. Stop me I want out. I don’t want to be, the monster that is me. Please stop me. I need help. Stop me I want out. Help me before I let my rage take control again. I need to be more than friends. The love that I have missed has left me so pissed. I need to feel, something that is real. But all I see is those who have hurt me. Karma will have its revenge on you, my so called friend. And I’m the one left laughing at the end.

My cold arms are stretched out. I need your help. I can’t break this spell alone. Put my misery unto its end. I’m tired of being only friends. I’ve yearned to feel so much more. Now look what you’ve done you little whore. I put my life into your hands, and I caught you with another man. You said, “I moved to slow.” But there is something you should know. My revenge shall be sweet. UH NO it has started turning of the wheels of my self deception to spin so fast. This time it will be a blast, just watching you fall. Cause I’ve had enough…

I’m not that bad of a guy, you will see as time goes by, but my trust is hard to earn because of all the times that I’ve been burned. I’m tired of being all alone. In this world I call my own. I’m looking for the sweetest hand, to give my story a happy end. But to all of you who plan to do harm, there will be a reason to be alarmed. You never know when I will begin my conquest for revenge.

Kenny Hofmiester

$3.25 a gallon? What the fuck? WHAT THE FUCK??

Jordan Hill: 4/1/2005 12:10:06 AM

My first Xanga entry...so exciting. Well it's Spring Break '05 and I'm Ohio. Totally gnarly or w/e those beach bums from Cali say. Anyway, I went golfing and tied with Craig which was a fluke but I'll take it. Hughes couldn't go which is a shame because he missed Alex play....not that him playing is funny or anything. Went to work today that was fun. I get to take my driving test tomorrow and hopefully get my license so I can drive people around since noone else does. Have a good one.

Minh Nguyễn: … shame on me

Ack! While I was sleeping last night, someone must’ve come in and hacked Planet Xavier! It’s all… purple…

Quick Chris! Save my site! It must be another Gene!

You can still see my April Fool’s joke from last year.

Ryan Finan: 4/1/2005 2:58:08 PM

okay. time to write about sb. just so you know... THIS WILL BE A CONDENSED NOVEL b/c its 5 days of weeee in one.

750AM saturday = flight outta Indy to LA... that was pretty nice... nice chairs, good food, drinks, nice having the guy RECLINE HIS GOD DAMN SEAT ALL THE WAY BACK.... a$$.
so we get to LA and im totally not thrilled that i have to live 3 hours of my life over, let alone be there in the first place. we went to this place called "Knott's Berry Farm"... basically its Ceader Point with a country twist and an a$$load of shops. it had some kicka$$ rollycoasters so not too shabby.
we checked into our hotel that night and it was then i realized how much of a god my pop is when it comes to these things... it was just nice.. okay? that night we went to Joe's Crab Shack and i got a pair of boxers that said "bite me" and had little crabs. pop and i started discussing how we're gonna decorate the basement when its finished... and we decided... we're gonna have 3 or 4 of those neon signs for beer companies... and we may put up pics of a bunch of downtown cities @ night. i suggested that we get a license plate from every state and make it a boarder but that didnt click with pop.

Sunday... maybe one of the greatest days ever... DISNEYLAND. altho DisneyWorld is better... this was mighty. dudes i wasted 3 rolls of film on this trip and like 33=disneyland. mmm did a lot of shopping like i was a female... pretty standard... OH! i road Mr Toads Wild Ride.... reason why this is so huge is b/c when i was 5 i went to ride it @ DisneyWorld.... scared the SH*T outta me. so i had to see what was so scary. fun ride. hmmmm OH THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY TRIP = Peter Pan is being chased by captain hook so he wont stop for a picture ... i was bummed... so i open the "cast only" door and he waved too me. it was awesome. then during the parade cinderella blew a kiss to me..... she was a fox. hmm i got pictures with chip n dale too woot.
hahaha oh and about disneyland... as we're walking into the park i totally was gettin checked out by a group of like 5 girls probably my age.... and when i noticed, i noticed "hey... daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn" so it was like a mutual checkouttage................. until i ran into a fat guy and fell down. then we lost them. i was bummed.
later that night while i was in line for the tower of terror these like 2 14 year old girls decided when they would pass me in the line, providing mom and pop werent looking, grab my a$$ and giggle. they tapped me on the shoulder during the actual ride a couple times... then they followed me and the family to the rollercoaster... and when they attempted to give me their # ... the gate conveniently opened for me and pop to get into the rollercoaster. (woot).... one of those girls was actually pretty hott... she needed 6 months in braces or so.
disneyland overall = a-frickin-mazing.

Monday...wasnt really looking foward to doing what we had gone out to Cali for REALLY do... college visits. today we were visiting Loyola Marymount Univ. in ... somewhere in the LA area...
aside from the fact the tour guide was hilarious... the campus was BEAUTIFUL and the programs and atmosphere there was amazing. words cant describe it. ... at first i wanted sean to go to college @ Univ of Miami (FL) b/c i have friends down in Miami... but now, i want him to go to Loyola... just b/c that place kicks a$$ x12. hey... even a hott girl winked at me when we were goin thru the campus. the school is a pretty small school tho... 5500 undergrads... but it was still quite awesome. all the opportunities and traditions they have there is nice. and the way the school runs was basically St X on like 40 more acres. which in a way is good.... it guess all Jesuit schools are that way.

i totally forget what happened tuesday. lol.

Wednesday... we drove thru newport beach... i feel that much closer to The OC characters and such. i saw the dock Seth kept his yact in too. neato. then we went to the college i didnt want to go to period... Univ of Southern Cal.... and it was as bad as i thought. sure... theyre back to back national champions in football, sure it was cool to see the National Championship Trophy and all the Heisman Trophys USC players have won (carson palmer, matt leinart, oj simpson, and marcus allen to name a few)..... but the campus was dirty, HUGE, the tour guide just dindt tell much about the school... more its bells and whistles. i will say one thing for USC.... they have... some of the most BEAUTIFUL females on this planet.
later that night we went down to 3rd street promenade... that was sweet... ate good food, saw street performers, i once again got checked out by 3 girls... told homeless ppl to go away, ah it was awesome. until we decided to walk to the peir (pier? peer? lol) and i felt like we were gonna get shot. then some hott chick asked us to listen to her band... thinkin about it i shoulda bought the cd so when i see them on warped tour i could hang out with her... she was a fox.

Thursday... toured the warner bros studios and it was great. i got a lot of sweet pics ... the showed us where they filmed a bunch of diff stuff for their movies... like the spiderman kiss, gun scene in road to perdition, gilmore girls, friends... it was awesome. cept we had a little kid on the tour that me and pop both wanted to drop kick. then we went and did the whole cheesey Hollywood Blvd... that was cool... and we ate at this pizza place that would knock dewey's out of the water. after that it was time to head back to the hotel and get our sh*t and get our red-eye flight back home.
before the flight as even taken off @ 1150 PM .... the guy in front of me leans ALL THE FRICKIN WAY BACK.... the fat lady sittin next to me falls asleep on my arm and is radiating body heat like.... a radiator.... and then they turned the heat on the WHOLE TIME....
oh well sean had bought a Men's Health mag... which was pretty cool... i read 30 ways to spice up my sex life. that was cool. there were other things too.... what buttons she wants u to push... good stuff. all vital to a mans health.

so we landed @ 650 eastern time. which means the flight was like 4 hours or w/e... plus 3 added from time zones. pop was falling asleep so i couldnt sleep on the drive home this morning from indy b/c i was making sure we didnt DIE.
then we got the mail... sean didnt get into Univ of Miami florida, BUT he had gotten into LOYOLA FRICKIN MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY.... so we were both stoked bout that... hopefully thats where he'll go.

overall analysis of the trip.....
california people = awesome. theyre so laid back and calm. NOT conservative.
california scenery = some amazing, most sh*tty... there was no real middle class... the roads were always un-maintained.
california air = SMOG ew.
california traffic = makes me wanna die. each person has like 2 cars. if they could theyd drive them both at the same time.
would i live in cali??? nope. id spend the money to uproot LMU and move it somewhere awesome....er.

goodnight.

John Ariosa: 4/1/2005 2:59:08 PM

2 Days Left...

...and I haven't started to fix my art projects. Meyer is going to castrate me with a cheese greater. Oh well, I did play thorough most of halflife 2 again in a fenzied 6 hour spree. God I love that game. I cant get the console to work though, I wanted to have the boosted up grav gun from the get go. I did fin a Vortigon eating headcrabs though, it amused me so I took a screenshot:

I need to catch up on some sleep.

EDIT: pX hacked? I can only assume so as when you try you acess you get redirected to a planet "elder" in the place of "xavier." They're just fucking highschools people, damn. *remembers the date* oh, ok, nevermind.

Antar Vasi: 4/1/2005 1:49:16 PM

HA RAnting time! Fun!!!

first thing to note: <b>I think we've all divided from each other</b>

So yeah, Phil and the Halo group (Marvin, Chris?, Frodo, Sammons, Reed, Olding)(im not trying to sereotype, its just what i see often) and the DDR Group (Tim, Sam R.), and then we have the groups of people not many people from the outher grouops notice (Verhagen, Zeiser, et cetera.) My point in writing this stupidity is for all y'all to realize some of us who used ot be best friends are now seaparating from each other. Phil and sam(roden, not bonn, people) used to be friends, now it loks like phil is away from Sam...I like all of you people but only about 4 or 5 return it...what happened soph, year guys....i dunno...a lot of us had good connections and we were all friends at the beginning of the year, i dunno, i feel like we've all fell apart. If you wanna yell at me go ahead, but make it legit, not like "OMG OMG,,,,well.....i seriously think antar....that you...have the wrong....idea you douche...bag.....oh man...waht the world would....be like if....you ruled it..... lol....that would be a sight to see....lol"

Oiut and about. -----ratna-----

Craig Rolf: 4/1/2005 1:52:38 AM

hey people....

today and yesterday and the day before (april 1st, march 30 adn 31) have been the greatest days possibly ever... only one person really knows why but others might learn someday... well take it easy yall

Ryan Finan: 4/1/2005 10:28:53 AM

wow tons to write about... but ill do that later today. ill leave you with this neato thingy.

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name:
Birthday:
Birthplace:
Current Location:
Eye Color:
Hair Color:
Height:
Right Handed or Left Handed:
The Shoes You Wore Today:
Your Weakness:
Your Fears:
Your Perfect Pizza:
Your Most Overused Phrase On an IM:
Thoughts First Waking Up:
Your Best Physical Feature:
Your Bedtime:
Your Most Missed Memory:
Pepsi or Coke:
MacDonalds or Burger King:
Single or Group Dates:
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:
Chocolate or Vanilla:
Cappuccino or Coffee:
Do you Smoke:
Do you Swear:
Do you Sing:
Do you Shower Daily:
Have you Been in Love:
Do you want to go to College:
Do you want to get Married:
Do you belive in yourself:
Do you get Motion Sickness:
Do you think you are Attractive:
Are you a Health Freak:
Do you get along with your Parents:
Do you like Thunderstorms:
Do you play an Instrument:
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol:
In the past month have you Smoked:
In the past month have you been on Drugs:
In the past month have you gone on a Date:
In the past month have you gone to a Mall:
Have you ever eaten a box of Oreos:
In the past month have you eaten Sushi:
In the past month have you been on Stage:
In the past month have you been Dumped:
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping:
In the past month have you Stolen Anything:
Ever been Drunk:
Ever been called a Tease:
Ever been Beaten up:
Ever Shoplifted:
How do you want to Die:
What do you want to be when you Grow Up:
What country would you most like to Visit:
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color:
Favourite Hair Color:
Short or Long Hair:
Height:
Weight:
Best Clothing Style:
Number of Drugs I have taken:
Number of CDs I own:
Number of Piercings:
Number of Tattoos:
Number of things in my Past I Regret:

Brian Hughes: 3/31/2005 9:22:22 PM

its been a while, i long long while.....but honestly i havent had the motive to write in here....or time. exams were beastly, but i shot em down with my glock 9 er whatever. my german exchange student came a while back, like two or three weeks ago. uhm....now im on spring break and thats cool. we went to chicago, then we went bowling, then we went paintballin. it was fun, but i have beautiful welts all over now. nothin else to write, other than things suck....owell

Bill ...: 3/31/2005 9:18:18 PM

so i went paintballin today....that was sweet, i have these weirdass welts with red circles and blue squares around it....kinda weird....but it was totally sweet i kicked so much ass...i mite go back sometime

Chris Schlechter

David Stein: LONG LIVE POPE JOHN PAUL II

(Friday, Apr 01, 2005, 1:32AM)

One of the greatest men of the modern world. May he recover -- he's not done here yet.

Comments

Drew Perkins: 4/1/2005 1:13:27 AM

OK..um i took this quiz as a joke and um well just look at the results.

-Perfect- You're the perfect girlfriend. Which
means you're rare or that you cheated :P You're
the kind of chick that can hang out with your
boyfriend's friends and be silly. You don't
care about presents or about going to fancy
placed. Hell, just hang out. You're just happy
being around your boyfriend.">

well you see... i'm the perfect girlfriend!!!!! who would have guessed!!!!

Drew Perkins: 4/1/2005 12:57:44 AM

You scored as DRAMA NERD

Drama nerd		81%
Goth		75%
Geek		63%
Loner		63%
Ghetto gangsta		44%
Punk/Rebel		38%
Prep/Jock/Cheerleader		38%
Stoner		19%

What's Your High School Stereotype?
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Drew Perkins: 4/1/2005 12:20:04 AM

Fifth Level of Hell

The river Styx runs through this level of Hell, and in it are punished the wrathful and the gloomy. The former are forever lashing out at each other in anger, furious and naked, tearing each other piecemeal with their teeth. The latter are gurgling in the black mud, slothful and sullen, withdrawn from the world. Their lamentations bubble to the surface as they try to repeat a doleful hymn, though with unbroken words they cannot say it. Because you lived a cruel, vindictive and hateful life, you meet your fate in the Styx.

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Fifth Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Moderate
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Very Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	Moderate
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Moderate
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	High
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Very High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very Low
Level 7 (Violent)	High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Very High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Very Low

Take the Dante's Inferno Test

Drew Perkins: 4/1/2005 12:09:57 AM

The Goddess Chaos: Wild, uncontrolled, unpredictable, crazed, represented by the color red and the element fire. Her only constant is that she's never constant. Prone to losing her considerable temple, but her attention span is so short that she rarely actually remembers to punish anyone. A complete hedonist.

which goddess owns you?

Minh Nguyễn: Fool me once…

Wikipedia is undergoing a bit of a transition:

You know something’s wrong when the Edit This Page tab occasionally says Hack This Page and a big yellow smiley face shows up on every page between the hours of 12 and 1.

It’s a great joke that seems to change every time I reload, but it’s driving me nuts: how do I know if that page was supposed to be renamed as part of a joke, or if it was yet more vandalism?

Seeing how crazy the Wikipædia is at the moment, you’d think that my site would be next! Nah…

David Stein: read it

(Friday, Apr 01, 2005, 12:17AM)

an eye-witness account

comments welcome.

Comments

David Stein: the beginning of the end

(Friday, Apr 01, 2005, 12:09AM)

before long, our country will rue the day when the courts claimed the power to order the dehydration of one innocent human being at the request of another.

those responsible in terri schiavo's death are guilty of a particular kind of murder - murder of an innocent, helpless, dependant person - like murder of a child. they should be treated as such.

and may God save America

Comments

Drew Perkins: 3/31/2005 11:59:14 PM

Your dating personality profile:

You matched the following traits:

Wealthy/Ambitious - You know what your goals are and you pursue them vigourously. Achieving success is important to you.
Religious - Faith matters to you. It is the foundation that you build your life upon. You trust that God has a plan for you.
Funny - You laugh often. People never accuse you of lacking a sense of humor. You don't take yourself too seriously.

Your Top Ten Traits, Ranked

1. Wealthy/Ambitious
2. Religious
3. Funny
4. Traditional
5. Intellectual
6. Athletic
7. Adventurous
8. Practical
9. Big-Hearted
10. Conservative

Your date match profile:

You match with women who have following traits:

Funny - You consider a good sense of humor a major necessity in a date. If her jokes make you laugh, she has won your heart.
Adventurous - You are looking for someone who is willing to try new things and experience life to its fullest. You need a companion who encourages you to take risks and do exciting things.
Athletic - You aren't looking for a couch potato. You seek someone who is active and who keeps her body in top shape.

Your Top Ten Match Traits, Ranked

1. Funny
2. Adventurous
3. Athletic
4. Practical
5. Conservative
6. Traditional
7. Outgoing
8. Sensual
9. Intellectual
10. Religious

http://www.datingdiversions.com/

I'm not so sure i agree.

Kenny Hofmiester: Fuck Driver's Ed.

Driving school sucks. I've learned two things:

-No one actually learns anything. As most of you know, just about everything is common sense. It has to be some sort of conspiracy, someone has to be making money, because it serves no other purpose.

-Many people die on the roads every year, and people blame lots of different things: alcohol, bad road conditions, speed, etc. However, I can tell you that they are all wrong, because I have discovered the true killer in car crash fatalities: utility poles. Everyone who has been through driver's ed has seen that damn car crash video, you know, the one from the 60's with enough bad music and fake blood to double as a Vincent Price classic. Anyways, in that movie they always show pictures from the crash scene, and what do we always see? A car wrapped around a utility pole. Clearly, if the utility pole hadn't been there, then there wouldn't have been anything for the car to crash into, and hence the driver would not have died. The well thought out and fairly inexpensive solution to this problem is to simply do away with the utility pole. No more pole, no more car crashes. Besides, when was the last time a utility pole did anything for you?

Tyler Verhagen: 3/29/2005 12:31:46 PM

Ok the thing that just really pissed me off was that when I wrote down that I felt like leaving the band everyone exploded on me. this is my xanga and iI can write down my thoughts but whenever I do, people blow up. why do you gotta take like it was set in stone. I was never gonna leave the band, yeah I've thought about it and and I've come close but I knew I was never going to and I;m sure all of us have thought about leaving...why do you guys blow off everything else I say but when I say I'm gonna leave a high school band, you go crazy. I mean some of you can't even take a honest to god compliment but you go fuckin nuts when I say I'm gonna leave a band. to me that makes no sense. and just to let you know, just because I write something on this xanga doesn't mean its true, I mean, look at the things I write on it, and you have to take this one so seriously? I'm sorry I don't get it.

Tyler Verhagen: 3/24/2005 11:48:17 AM

wow! I finshed my english exam in 30 inutes flat!

Jordan Finke: 3/22/2005 1:47:14 PM

And the man lived happily ever after

the end

Jake Wilhelm: 3/20/2005 8:42:20 PM

been a whole week huh?

i bet peopple want me to post i guess ill humor them and tell about my week.

alright well monday started us off and whoever decided to start off weeks with a day like monday hould be shot. pretty much mondays are horrible days to kick off your week with. started my OGTs those just managed to make me feel silly for taking them. i wrote a letter to the govenor and told him that they were a bad idea adn that the test was too easy in the writing section. pretty ok nothin really astonshing happened this day that i remember

tuesday slightly better than monday hmm well OGT's again no big deal TX! i felt totally worthles though i didnt really do anything at all but its ok cause me and allie had a ball doing nothin and i hid in the costume shop and scared lauren and erin (or was that thurs day i dont even know)anywho pretty bland day i think i failed my chem test too right after the math portion of the OGTs.

humday nothing good happened i dont think...

thirsday pretty ok day TX was aball astin died in the hallway all over thailand which is a peninsula south east of india! any ho i was totally worthless thursday too but you know its what i do.'

friday was alet down i had to go to work and didnt get to hang out plus i didnt get paid!

saturday was good at tx me and allie bonded and got somestuff done (ugliest vest ever let me tell you)(poor carson) any way that day was stellar and me adn the chitlins got to play some hardcore video games and i still didnt do anything except call austin and jaimi(those two are nuts in the wee hours of the night)

today was super stellar rolly myalmost most productive day in a while worked on that vest all day and kinda got nowhere on it (looks alot better now) i ate entireley too much pizza then dissapeared for a while and talekd to andrea. after that me and austin chilled for a decent length of time in the green room it was really rather nice ( i didnt even flip out when austin AK Xena ripped the vest into two) she fixed it and we had a good talk which is rareww cause we talk like mad men on line or the phone but we like avoi each other in person.

Rubber Ducky Im awfully fond of you!

Jake Wilhelm: 3/13/2005 9:18:51 PM

Can you get aids from a beef and cheddar?

wow what a stellar weekend. it was sweet i wasnt home for a complete 50 some hour period! i hate that word home. its loaded it implies a place where you feel welcomed and where you want to be. im not going to use it any more. howsabout the place where im sleeping this week will be called my "bed". anywho if yuou couldnt already tell im feeling rather depressed. normally TX masses cheer me up but this one has just made me contemplatove and moody. on top of the fact that my BED life is never any fun and is esspescialy unfun at the moment. pretty much i am feeling esspecially unloved every where i go. i feel liek an akward third whell everywhere i go( this really means everywhere) that on top of the fact that i cant even figure out who like even though i feel like it doesnt matter who i like because ive become increasingly sure that im destined to always be a friend and nothing more

oh btw trina wanbts you all to know that "trina and austin are on fire" *sizzle*

Drew Shick: 3/31/2005 5:53:52 PM

I just got back from rugby and I don't feel that bad! I broke the plague! I say "plague" because I gave it to the rest of my family and a good deal of my extended family (and a few other people). Atleast I saw some good movies, which amounts to pretty much evertything I have done over break, besides bowling here and there. At Justin's house last night I realized that I just may be more sarcastic than Max George, which is cool because even though others might think you are an ass, sarcastic people make the world function.

I think I am going to go fight crime as "Nocturnal-Winged-Rodent-Man" (avoid getting sued by batman again, i think we all remember last time)

Antar Vasi: Gah...

Um...in the latest news i got a 75 in Am Hist and a 86in Trig... man...i am not getting into college....ever... my grades are so craptastic...iam such. a mess? i can't even type right. dan, jen, pals, etc. anyone reading this(as i know everyone spends time on Minh Nguyễn's Planet Xavier) all day.

In other useless news, Timroark is getting a '97 Grand Prix that's tricked ouuut. and ok so lol.

Parting Words and Pic...MAKAITAITEI FERNANDEZ PNS j00r S0u1!!!

John Bell: anger/disappointment/self-doubt/WHAT?

Oh my sweet Lord! Why can't I get into college??????? What the hell does everyone else have that I don't?? It's because I'm fat isn't it. Sorry. Just had to get that out there.

Brad Haines: German Phrase Book

Link to an old US Army German phrase book. I have not had a chance to really look at this because I am currently running my pc in Safe Mode with Networking while defragmenting my hard drive, but it looks like it has some funny phrases in it, and the phonetics are great as well.

LINK

Bill ...: 3/31/2005 9:55:12 PM

you all should start writing your names after the shit you say if you arent me

like who the fuck is talking about going paintballing do you think i or anyone else cares what your welts look like you stupid piece of shit if you are gonna write something atleast make it interesting or amusing not just fucking retarded

Craig Rolf: 3/31/2005 3:58:11 PM

HEY YALL!!!!

Yesterday was like the best day I've had in a llllooooonnnnggg time... just a bunch a good stuff happend.... and today aint bad either...(see below)

JW is headed to XU... the wolf pack is gonna tear up the A-10 neXt year... all you UC fans need to give up now... and get behind Johhny Wolf as he balls it up with XU... oh yeah!

take it easy yall

..::|The Czar of the Web|::..

David Stein: U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

(Wednesday, Mar 30, 2005, 8:09PM)

The third and final spot on my itinerary was UI. Yes, that's the same UI as the one that just got into the final four. (Go Illini!) So ppl were pretty excited. Anyways this is a killer engineering school, sort of like a "state ivy." But it's WAY too big and scary, and I didn't like it as much as Carnegie or especially as Notre Dame. But I'll be applying.

But first I'm (FINALLY) coming home. ^_^

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David Stein: terri schiavo

(Thursday, Mar 31, 2005, 1:33AM)

One of the things they teach you in survival lessons is that people can live around 3 weeks without food and 3 days without water. Not 13 days. Especially if you're already badly brain-damaged and in poor health.

My hypothesis: someone must be helping Terri, a nurse or police officer or someone. Perhaps they are giving her very small amounts of water. All totally illegal, of course.

Whoever may be disobeying a government command in order to save this woman's life earns my utmost respect.

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Colin Widmer: Cold, so cold

Our water heater decided to break, so we've got no hot water.

So anyway, I still need to shower, right? So, not being one to shy away from a challenge (well, a physical or mental challenge, at least), I took a shower anyway, in freezing water.

I now know what the term "invigorating" really means.

Of to Miami in the morning for a little visit, since I now need to do work on college deciding again. Here's what I'm thinking: I already know I like Ohio State, so I'll see if I like Miami any better. I'll try not to use the money as a deciding factor. Although it would make things easier.

Today's OKness: 4 - Boring again.

Dan McNerney: 3/30/2005 11:23:57 PM

Collage time before I finish with my story about my vacation (IE I typed "Owned/Own3d/Ownt/Pwned variaties of the aforementioned into the google image searcher)

Horendous Video Game Moments

I think Phil will like that one ^

Everyone likes Zelda

Rectocranial?...dont wanna know

Flava Flav!

God Bless you video games

Matt Weinkam: wisdom

i'd like to thank everyone who has come to visit me during the past two days of my recovery. all the friendship and support and ice cream ... it was amazing and i felt loved. thank you very much.

i'd also like to thank clare for being the only person to ever say they were going to burn me a cd and actually do it

Drew Perkins: 3/30/2005 10:38:23 PM

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF - BLOOD PRINCE!!!!!!!!

available July 16, 2005!!!

40% off if you reserve you copy today at borders!!!

Brent Gulasey

So I was gonna make last week on my birthday, but it just ended up being lame as hell. Nobody visited me OR made out with me, that's some shit. Exams are over, it's spring break. Uhuh....

So yeah. This is dumb as hell.

Drew Perkins: 3/30/2005 1:38:50 PM

OK....here goes. I am going to explain my new idea to you all. It is ....." that most men in TX (soon to be extended to the world ) are whipped." I know some of the guys reading this might be like HELL NO I'M NOT! I DON'T EVEN HAVE A GIRLFRIEND TO WHIP ME! and i telll them. your whipped. And i mean like REALLY whipped. I get this from the realization that the guys in TX are so happy to have girls there that they will do whatever to girls want them to do. For example at TX one day i saw one of the girls ( not useing names for their protection ) order one of the guys to tie her shoe and low and behold he bent down and tied her shoe! I was in awe! where is the grandure the male race once held. WE are now a poorly developed slaves for the female race. it's really sad.

But then again i still see some who are resisting. some who arn't yet slaves to the female race and to those few. I SALUTE YOU!!!!

and here's the part you all have been waiting for...or atleast danny cause he's one like 14 dews off this...THE DEW QUOTE: "bring it on, BITCH!"

Dan McNerney: 3/30/2005 12:29:16 AM

holy crap, i cant deprieve you guys of this, just watch the breakdancing its amazing.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/195296

Kenny Hofmiester

I <3 YOU!
YOU ARE THE LOVE OF MY LIFE =D

Dan McNerney: 3/29/2005 11:12:52 PM

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/227808

Its like watching a cow give birth to siamiese twins... yeah you know its worth it

David Stein: Notre Dame

(Tuesday, Mar 29, 2005, 11:08PM)

I spent most of the day at ND; I ate lunch in its dining hall and then took an awesome tour of the campus. The campus is absolutely magnificant and the academics are excellent. And I LOVE the atmosphere and the student life. This is SOO a place I would like to spend 4 years... It was really exciting. I actually wasn't sure about ND at first until I took the tour. Now I'm really pumped. I don't know if I can afford to go there though. It may also be not as good of a school as Carnegie, though. Hmmm...

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Colin Widmer: I went to a funeral today...

So, prior to today, my college search had been narrowed down to this:

UC
~~Miami~~
Ohio State
~~Purdue~~

It seemed like I was done, and I didn't need to worry about deciding anymore.

But now it got changed to this this:
UC
Miami
Ohio State
~~Purdue~~

This is on account of Miami out of nowhere giving me a ton of money. So now I need to decide: go where I had already decided I wanted to go, or give in to the system and go for the money.

Today's OKness: 3 - I really don't know how to react to death.

Dan McNerney: 3/29/2005 10:28:13 PM

Ok, on the last post, I ran outta time, so instead of doing shit again, i just posted it, so i don't know what it says...thats cool.

Abraham Lincoln once said "If your racist I'm going to attack you with the North" thats the attitude that I like to keep. -God bless wherever i got that from.

So lets go over my vacation!!!
-Thursday-Waiting
Ok, so we have exams...yipee, deal with it, its over, aggravation averted, then I have to skip out to the airport really fast, so on the flight, once again I'm "that family". Oh yeah, the one with the wailing bitch of a child, the baby that doesnt shut up, and gets traversed up and down in the rows in an effort to calm its screaming, but really it just lets more than the radius of 5 rows to be pissed at "that family", instead moving the bastard lets the entire plane get mad at the fucking wailer. Its really not as bad when your related to the kid, you accept the inevitability of it, babies cry, thats what they do prior to being eaten or having their corpse incorperated in some bought of hilarity, we can accept that, but for the rest of the plane its hell. So I arrive in San Fransisco, I havent done anything for about 10 hours today that I've been conscious, so I opt to go wherever my bro's going, unfortunately thats shopping with his fiance and my sis.....fuck.....so we get directions and head out to this mall. and i guess the guy thought by mall we meant the ghetto, because thats where we ended up. man these guys spend a fortune on spray paint, as styled on the walls, tjhey also park on the side walk, and by on the side walk, i mean all 4 wheels on the side walk, thats just bad ass. So we take our trip outta the ghetto (the Ghetto!) and off to this mall, lets do some math mall+San Francisco= X, where X is a mad number of queers, really, hilarity garunteed. Overall it was boring other than the gays, god bless em, i mean i had to wait due to my bad decision to follow my brother around, so I had to wait as they tried on clothes, and by wait i mean listen to the guy organizing the shoes "Oh My God! I just love it when the doctors knock all the shoes down and I get to organize them!!!" yeah, thats what he said, god bless you San Francisco.

-Friday-Sick
K, go out on the Pacific crabbing, wake p early, not too bad. The trip was cool, but the actual crabbing fucking sucked. I just sat there grabbing them before they could grab me and measuring and counting them. The only fun part was when they were too small I tried to skip them across the ocean on their backs (I didn't succeed). I don't even like to eat crab, I just wanted to spend some time with my dad, he tries to do stuff with me a lot often just ends up annoying me, I decided its been long enough. So I'm sick feeling, and crab makes me sick just to think about it, then we go to lunch and what do we have, a plate of 10 crabs that we jsut caught...great. crab cooked looks a lot like crab caught, just with the middle most part missing, plus im sitting next to a crab mauler, my cousin william. Jesus christ, it was like a war scene or a car accidental, absolutely brutal and gut renching, but you just couldn't look away no matter hwo hard you tried. juices flying everywhere and into your eye and shit, long story short, I puked up a storm that night in my hotel room, and damn I've got good fucking aim when I'm puking, all of it got into the bucket. I was so sick and delusional, I kept having delusions/dreams about crabs...that was a long night. More or less to come tommorrow

Minh Nguyễn: Two more weeks…

If you’re looking into getting a free account with f2o, your wait may be almost over:

… we will have more info on new account applications in the next 7-10 days.

(Read the rest of the forum thread.)

I’ve discussed before why some of you might be interested in f2o’s free hosting.

But if you’re anxious for a free account anytime soon, just wait; don’t hold your breath. Back when I beta-tested for Atmosphere, the beta-testing community would always get on the edge of our collective seats for the next beta build.

The usual timeframe that the Atmosphere developers always gave us: two weeks. Always, two weeks. We took it as a synonym for the much more descriptive When It’s Ready™ that the Mozilla core developers always used leading up to 1.0.

Like I said, wait for it and grab it when its available, but don’t hold your breath. Also, subscribe to the newsletter so they can notify you when new accounts are being accepted, so you don’t have to obsessively check their website many times a day, like I do.

Danny Sammons: 3/29/2005 9:23:08 PM

Okay I got something amusing this time.

Grand Theft Auto. For those of you who don't know, this game appeals to me, very much so. Mostly I use it as a second reality (where I can kill the entire city) and so far it hasn't grown old. I release a lot of my anger in the game...I specifically have Vice City for Xbox, I want GTA III (but since it's old, I'm not in a hurry) and definately want the San Andreas game. Anyways...thats my view on the game, that it's too fake to be a "threat to society" and yet so realistic that it serves as an anger management thingy.

I am writing this xanga to tell you my family's reactions to me as I play (Today I was playing when everyone returned from golfing and Cypris Gardens, so pretty much just about everyone sat and watched for a few minutes, and shared their opinions on the game). Below are conversations that aren't exact but close to the real deal.

*Mom- Age 43 (give or take a few years)*
Mom: Oh, what's happening? The cops are after you?!
Me: Yep, I'm a criminal.
Mom: EW you just ran over that guy!
Me: He was in the way. *proceeds to purchase screwdriver*
Mom: Oh, Danny, that's gross.
Me: What? I'm just beating him to death with a screwdriver...
Mom: *turns to family member with a recollected story* Oh, I asked Nicole what you do in this game and you know what she said? 'Kill people.'
Me: Yep!

*Grandpa-Age 70-something*
Gramps: Ahhh what are you doing?
Me: I need more armor. *climbs into helicopter and jumps out, allowing it to crash as he lands atop a building with a sniper rifle. proceeds to aim at the public*
Gramps: Oh what are you doing, shooting at people? Those cops are going to get you. *ambulance noise is heard* Ahhh there they are I hope they get you.
Me: It's an ambulance grandpa.
Gramps: Oh, ok. Shoot a torpedo at it.
Me: *laughs at 'torpedo'* I can get some, hold on. *jumps off building and runs toward hotel he owns to get a rocket launcher*
Gramps: Oh he doesn't die by jumping that far down a building? Look he's running in the middle of the street with a gun and no one does anything. This is the most ridiculous game I've ever seen, it's worse than that Japanese movie your mom got.
Me: JU-ON?
Gramps: Whatever the hell that movie was. *I crash into a police car* Oh get him! GET HIM! I tell you boy, if that was me after you, you'd be toast. *I kill police officers and take a police car* Now you're driving the damned car. Get him! GET HIM! *I now have the army after me and am driving around an apache helicopter* Your engine's broke, look it's smoking. Land or you're going to blow up.
Me: I can't land, the army's after me.
Gramps: Ahh I don't see no army!
Me: *I fly lower so the army is loaded into sight* Look, tanks!
Gramps: Ah I see.

*Chris-Age 14*
Chris: Danny you don't know how to drive.
Me: I do too this car has horrible steering.
Chris: Yea, true, that car does have horrible steering.
Me: *pulls out giant machine gun* I love this gun, it looks sweet and IS sweet.
Chris: Dude you just blew up that boat with 10 bullets.
Me: *nod* I know.

*Dad-Age 44 (or something like that)*
Dad: *I'm shooting strangers* Why are you shooting them?
Me: Because that girl didn't hold still when I aimed at her.
Dad: Eh maybe I should take this game away from you.
Me: I AM legally allowed BY LAW to own and play this.
Dad: *continues to watch* *FBI come after me* What is that the FBI?
Me: Yea.

*Alex-Age 11*
Me: Watch this, Alex. *steals a bus and starts doing donuts*
Alex: *laughs*

*Nicole-Age 5*
Me: *aiming a shotgun at a lady* Nicole, should I kill her?
Nicole: No. *I shoot the lady*

Well...that's how horribly evil my family is. Wonderful times. See ya guys later. *MEAT'z CLEAVER'd*

Drew Perkins: 3/29/2005 3:24:25 PM

Ok all i just wanted to say. I'm through, done, finished, tired, and i'm seriously fed up. And most of it has to do with myself. I noticed this past weekend that this is break and i still feel pissed off and annoyed by school. like it's still breathing down my neck, and now i'm done. I AM GOING TO try TO ENJOY MY BREAK. sadly i really never enjoy my breaks. I usuallly sit at home and curse myself for not being more active while i sit on my computer doing something useless and pointless. I'm feel the need and i'm going for it!

Who wants to hang out this week. right now i'm free.....all week. . Oh and if anyone has wordrobe suggestions i could really use them cause i'm clearing my closet this week and I need advice on filling it up again....cause i'm a guy.

DEW QUOTE: (note: this dew quote is pretty hard and i feel generous cause it's spring break so whoever gets it right gets a 12 pack of dew) "Mr. Havelock! Anybody! Everybody's lost but me."

Minh Nguyễn: Working out the kinks

Yes, yes, the old Xanga entries are back on top. I cleared pX’s cache, which should solve most of the problems the site was having Sunday after I upgraded. I also had to desyndicate Phil Todd’s wonderful Xanga, because it was making Planet choke for some reason. I’ll try to get him back in sometime, since I know all of you love the wonderful images he provides this community. ;^)

Once again, I’m asking Xangans to find out if Xanga automatically strips HTML comments from your posts. This is what the commented-out code looks like:

… but for testing purposes, you can put anything in the comment, unless you really want that post excluded from pX.

Some of you have undoubtedly noticed that I’ve also rigged Planet to display times in our local time zone, EST… sorta. For some reason, the Last Updated widget on the side is one hour behind, and I can’t track down the line of code that’s causing that to happen.

Thanks, by the way, to Alvaro Mera del Castillo for the code which I adapted for this fix.

A funny side-effect of this issue: often, the newest entry listed there has a newer timestamp than the page itself – it must be from the future! Must be poetic justice for bringing up the logic errors in Peter Rother’s calendar implementation.

Next on my ToDo list:

Fix the one-hour time difference, so that people don’t start coming to school one hour late on accident. ;^)
Figure out how to make Planet read the non-standard dates that Xanga puts in its post titles.

And maybe get Planet to look for the post titles that Xangans includes in their posts, like the ones that John Ariosa uses on his Xanga.

Adapt Jamie Zawinski’s Cheesegrater script to screenscrape St. X’s website, so that I won’t have to update their feeds manually like I do now.
Import the Rollcall list into my Movable Type installation, so that I won’t have to manually maintain it in a plaintext file and upload it via FTP like I have been doing, and so that I can get others to help maintain the list.
Figure out a way to automatically update Planet. Yes, I still do it by hand, because wget doesn’t work on my account for some reason.
Finally start working on the redesign.

As you can clearly see, I’ve got enough to fill my time between now and graduation…

Max George: Out There

Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone
Gazing at the people down below me
All my life I watch them as I hide up here alone
Hungry for the histories they show me
All my life I memorize their faces
Knowing them as they will never know me
All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day
Not above them
But part of them

And out there
Living in the sun
Give me one day out there
All I ask is one
To hold forever

Out there
Where they all live unaware
What I'd give
What I'd dare
Just to live one day out there

Out there among the millers and the weavers and their wives
Through the roofs and gables I can see them
Ev'ry day they shout and scold and go about their lives
Heedless of the gift it is to be them
If I was in their skin
I'd treasure ev'ry instant

Out there
Strolling by the Seine
Taste a morning out there
Like ordinary men
Who freely walk about there
Just one day and then
I swear I'll be content
With my share
Won't resent
Won't despair
Old and bent
I won't care
I'll have spent
One day
Out there

NOt our Lady Peace, but lyrics from a song the Disney Film Hunchback of Notre Dame, which is the best Disney movie since Beauty and the Beast. But then again, I am impartial to outcast stories.

Natalie's home last night was fun. Enjoyed the Army of Darkness and that awful Seal movie.

Home come with our group of friends, whenever someone gets uncomfortable about an issue pertinent to our group, they try to change the subject and then everyone joins in. Nobody ever tries to talk or solve any problems so they will just lie around and eat at the roots of peoples minds. People need to talk about things or they will never feel relief or have anything solved.

I want ot talk about anything that someone out there finds important. I want to talk about something that people feel and care about. I'm sick of digesting artifcial crap and being forced to look like I care about it. I want to talk even iff it makes people sad, depressed, mellow, or whatever. Despite popular belief it is ok to feel sad and often times it is very good for you. Through sadness, I have often times found a state of mind to reflect on my life and what I am doing. But people fear sadness because it is not happiness, but through sadness, a greater state of happiness can be achieved because you now know you are capable of handling these feelings.

Now with a quote from the said movie about. Max Out.

Take it from an old spectator, life's not a spectator sport. If watching's all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.

Kurt Olding: 3/29/2005 1:02:54 AM

STORY TIME!!

Okay.. real story.. this happened yesterday (monday)..

My mom planned for her and I to go through all the clothes in my closet.. so we did.. and then she began to clean it and such, I didn't mind.. then she went on to say "Alright, lets start on you drawers." At this point I've been in my room with her for 2 hours.. since I got up.. Not to mention that I've been with my family since friday because I got myself grounded (what possesed my parents to ground me for the first time all year on spring break I have no clue).. so I'm sick of everyone..

I explode on my mom saying that its all completely redundant as was life and such.. that was a dumbass choice on my part.. cuz this lead into a philosical discussion regarding the point of it.. and eventually my mom declared me suicidal.. this thoughroly (I can't spell, deal with it) pissed me off.. she gets up to leave to take my bro to his friend's house.. as she leaves my room she says "Your suicidal, don't do anything drastic when I'm out.. I'll be back in 5 minutes and call the psycologist."

..so.. in my utter rage.. I leave a message on the microwave (it has a record feature.. it pwn3s) that goes along the lines of "FUCK YOU! I'm gunna go vent so I don't hurt you, be back by 5." With that I grabbed my helmet.. hopped on my bike (that had 2 flat tires) and took off through the backwaters of my neighborhood.. I thought ahead though, grabbing a St X directory, my cell phone, and wallet... When I made good distance.. I called Kluener.. my trusted companion.. Our conversation went along the lines of

"Hey Danny, wanna come find me?"
"What? Where are you?"
"Well.. you know that street that you go on if you pass my street, Rio Grande?"
"Yea"
"Well.. instead of turning left on that, turn right.. I'm somewhere back there."
"Okay.. I'll call Daush and we'll prolly come find yeh"
"Thanks dude"
-click-

So.. I sat on a wet curb for 20 minutes in the cold and rain in the middle of a bunch of condos waiting for my friends to find me.. They came through... From there we went to Skyline.. then to Danny's.. at Danny's we almost watched Mulan.. but decided to watch Aladdin(sp?) instead.. so we kicked back and enjoyed some good quality Disney goodness.. example: (real quote from movie)

Juhfar(sp?): I can see that your speechless, a good quality in a woman.

Welp.. then came the dropping Kurt back off where they found him part.. I did get my tires pumped before hand though.. I rode back home expecting the worse from the parents.. I found the house empty.. this cued the sequence when I run around the house dancing, and jumping on beds while eating popcorn screeming "I made my family dissapear".. apparently they went to Sam's Club..

They didn't seem upset at all.. they asked where I went.. I told 'em I rode down to the Cleves library and sat there for a while.. They beleived me.. I eventually got to apologizing to my mother for being an ass.. and my dad didn't say anything about the whole ordeal.. except for the mom disowning him from helping me find a car.. but whatever.. it could be worse..

..so that was my adventure for the day..

::copies Brandon's way of ending a post::

::hand motions:: GRINGADINGADINGADINGA!!!!!!!!11!11oneone

Shane Marsan: 2/1/2005 3:08:14 PM

Been very busy with school lately and killing zombies, thats basically my entire week. School and zombies. However during the weekend i come alive, i get to hang out with kristy hip hip horahh

Shane Marsan: 1/29/2005 2:26:14 AM

Spent the entire day/night with risty, and I love her very much. Were very lazy too. Anyone who tries to pick up a pepsi with his feet needs help.

Shane Marsan: 1/26/2005 7:01:23 PM

Yea so killing zombies is pretty much my proffesion now. Spent 3 hours playing Resident Evil 4 today and im hooked. Blowing a zombies head off with a shotgun has never felt so good. However when one is battling zombies one tends to forget about homework, because whats more important homeworl or saving the world from almost sure zombie infestation........I rest my case. Anyways this week has just dragged freakin on, cant wait for friday so I can hang out with the ristinator. New song too, if you can tell me what its from, not who did it but just where the songs from I will give you somthing of your choice.

Kenny Hofmiester: 3/11/2004 11:02:42 PM

don't expect any posts, because the only reason i have this account is to comment on other people's xangas.

Daniel Amiott: 3/23/2005 10:16:04 PM

Ok guys, I know i scared you with my last post, so here is something that is either sad or ulifting, depending on who you are. I have hyper tension, a high blood pressure condition most commonly associated with obese people. This, fortunately, is not the case with me. I, as most of you know, have an anger problem, possibly bipolar. this would cause a normal persons blood pressure to fluxuate at bad levels. But on top of this i have something like an over active adrenal gland, so my body is almost always full of adreniline and in constant fight/flighbt mode. these two things coupled togethefr can be very unhealthy, and may possible keep me out of football and wrestling in the worst case scenario. However, before you all satrt cheering at my tragic demise, there are many treatment options that i am exploring. My doctor prescribed beta blockers, a blood pressure lowering medicine. I also am going to up my running regime, because even though exercise can exaserbate the situation, my doctor said it can help mine. These, combined with a form of korean meditation that im going to take, will hopefully keep me harassing you all for many years to come