Vapid Status Quo

Holy shit!  A giant blast of thunder just shook my house.  It sounded more like a car crash than thunder… and I live on a highway.  Lemme go look out the window…

Nope, no car accident.  Nothing out there but a little rain.

I still can’t think of anything to say.

22 months ago I ended a long and fruitful existance as a career college student.  I finished up with an unfinished degree in music, a certificate in audio recording, an associates degree in computer science, and then the big ol’ bachelors in computer science.  I spent something like 80 years in college and I’m still trying to figure out what I learned.  I’m also trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up.

I don’t miss school.  Well, I have to be honest I do miss being surrounded by college girls all day, but I don’t miss the classes and the work and the stress and the Physics and the cs lab servers crashing as I was trying to save my final projects (which happened once a semester during my last year, once in GUI I and then again in GUI II) and I sure as hell don’t miss frogger… damn that little frog bastard.

But lately I’ve been beginning to feel kind of nostalgic for my radio show.  WUML Lowell, 91.5 FM.  I helped put on a talk show for 2 years along with Deena and Joe and Monique and Veronica and Steve the Weather Guy and a whole cast of characters.  It was uber cheesy, but it was fun.  The last year my talk show became a schizophrenic blues show.  That means it was blues most weeks but occasionally it would be 2 hours of Mission of Burma, or some other Boston band that I was into that week.  I think one of the reasons I’m missing the show right now is that Mission of Burma is scheduled to release a new record, The Obliterati, on May 23rd and I’m not going to be able to wear out the station’s copy.  I’ve been meaning to pay a visit to SBS (the Jazz & Ideas show that used to follow me on Tuesday evenings at 6pm) but I haven’t gotten around to it.  I decided that this week I would definately do it… then I found out it was spring break.  Damn it.

My mind is totally empty right now.  Nothing but vapid nothingness spewing outa the gigantic melon on top of my shoulders.

So what the hell is it with me and hockey this year?  I’ve followed three teams.  In the NHL there is the Boston Bruins who aren’t going to make the play-offs and have turned themselves into a pathetic mockery this year.  In the AHL there is the Lowell Lock Monsters who are going to miss the play-offs this year and who will either be sold and move out of town or fold after the season, and in the Olympics there was Team USA who made the medal round despite only winning one game in the round robin and were eliminated in the first game and who couldn’t even manage to beat Latvia.

I still haven’t the slightest idea of what to do with myself.  I’d like to develop some creative idea in this little post but I just can’t get my head outa my ass.

Ok, enough already.  It’s past my bedtime.