It's been awhile..
It has been a long time since I last wrote for this blog. I’m compelled to do it now because I’m bored of hotel room cable TV. For the last week I’ve been couch surfing at my friend JD’s after leaving the dorms, but now my mom is in town so I’m staying with her in her condo. For last half hour I’ve been watching a show on HBO on homeless people. A woman in the show makes money by pretending to be a prostitute and getting picked up. She then flashes a badge she found in the garbage and convinces the guys to pay her off by telling them she’ll let them off. I certainly don’t feel any remorse for the guys..
My school year in the dorms has officially ended. In between pranks, cops, drinking, breaking things, playing sports in the hallways, accidentally setting off fire-alarms, choking down dorm food, and developing a thorough distaste for the entire on-campus administration, it has been a very enlightening year.
I’ll start with the characters.
Lisa: the outspoken, emotionally high-strung beauty of Puerto-rican and Dominican decent. She has proudly taken the nickname of “Ass of Mass Destruction” coined by Hadyn. Without warning Lisa would hip-check us so hard we’d nearly fall over. There is definitely disproportionate amount of her weight in a particular part of her body, and I don’t say that in a bad way. Lisa consistently brought me home made fried-chicken, beans and rice, and basically any food she had she only ate half of to give the other half away. A brilliant painter, I had her paint me a picture out of one of my war photography books, and I couldn’t be happier with the outcome. Lisa is now going off to Rome to study architecture.
Ezra: Ezra is one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met. His room was almost always immaculate. Unlike anybody else I met in the dorms, he brought in his own leather La-Z-Boy, oak desk, and family bookshelf. His room was decorated with animal pelts and deer skulls. He chain smoked cigarettes and worked on some of the biggest super-computers in the world for the engineering center. With a family history bordering on hereditary genius, Ezra loved to play devil’s advocate for anybody from the Nazi’s to gay people. Basically, if you felt strongly about something, he was more than willing to feel strongly about the opposite. Fluent in German, and loving of the German culture, his girlfriend currently resides in Austria and is the classically beautiful Eastern European. One of the few military persons I’ve met who despises Bush, Ezra will spend 6 weeks of his summer in Virginia doing Full Metal Jacket style boot camp for the Officer Candidacy School, and will spend the rest of the summer in Austria with his girlfriend. I will miss the late nights of wine (or whiskey) and cigarettes under the flame of heated debate.
Sean: Where to begin. Sean has a taste for mischief that will never leave him. With a passionate hate for rule and rulers, Sean spent most of his year in the dorms recklessly making his presence known without revealing his presence. Midway through our hallway was fire-door. When we tried propping it open to make the hallway seem less constricting, the RA’s took our props away. So Sean simply went and got a screw driver and took the hydraulic closing mechanism off the door and through it in his closet. This is how Sean solves problems. Sean got arrested for a couple hours one night when he decided to do donuts on Farrand Field after a couple days of snow. He remains one of the few people who never ever believes he is guilty of any act he has ever done, whether he did it or not. By the end of the school year, nearly every RA and campus police officer new him by name, yet he has never received any serious repercussions for anything he’s done. Sean will spend the summer landscaping in his home town near Denver, and plans on transferring to CU Denver next fall.
Faris: a child of a Saudi-Arabian father and American mother, Faris speaks fluent Arabic and English. Growing up all over the world, Faris has probably experienced more at 18 then most adults I’ve ever met. He spent two years of his high-school years at a private institution in the Swiss alps, where he snowboarded everyday and could ride to the door of his dorm room. Occasionally Faris would come up to you some night and tell you he’d be spending the next few days in Mexico, or Lebanon, or Florida, or, or.. Studying chemical engineering and international affairs, we liked to refer to his major as simply the study of “oil.” Standing out as one of the nicest people I’ve ever met, Faris was a ready and willing to make jokes about his heritage. If you pissed him off (a relative term, Faris was never pissed off), he’d warn you not to go in the bathroom because he’d blow it up. Between being called a terrorist and a Mexican, he took our jokes with a smile that melted any American girl, something he was more then willing to illustrate. He loved to smoke tobacco he brought from Saudi that was named “Get Dizzy,” and is a phenomenal snowboarder. Faris easily wins the most suave award, with his European styling and dark hair and eyes, freshman girls were at his beck and call. Faris will spend part of the summer in Saudi and Lebanon partying like a maniac, and the rest back at CU for summer school.
Hadyn: Hadyn is actually Luke Hadyn McGuinness of Irish decent, if that wasn’t obvious enough. A former CU rugby player, and formerly in the Marine ROTC, Hadyn could drink Jack Daniels like it was water. We spent most of first semester skateboarding and wasting tremendous amounts of time doing things that weren’t worth remembering. Hadyn knows everybody in Boulder, and conversely introduced me to half of those people. Sometimes we would spend hours on the most ridiculous of activities, like playing soccer in the hallway with a dented Sprite can. Drinking beers on top of the Planetarium, hitting the bars in Denver, or driving extremely fast down mountain roads were all examples of how Hadyn and I passed the time while avoid school work. Hadyn is actually surprisingly brilliant, and has a knack for language. Over the course of the school year, Hadyn went to less than 10 Spanish classes (despite it being his major), yet got B’s both semesters. Still unsure of what he wants to do in college, Hadyn will spend the summer working as an apprentice electrician, and will most likely transfer to CU Denver because he prefers city life. Hadyn will go down as one of the most naturally funny people I have ever met.
All these characters influenced me greatly. Though I feel I will seem them a lot less now that I’m living off campus, I know that I will find a way to be a part of their lives because I had so much fun with them.
Seeing as how I’ve already over-extended your ability to read this, I will save my personal updates for a later entry. It is my goal to pick the habit of writing this blog back up again, and with more free-time this summer it should be more than feasible. So here is me signing off at 4:00 AM, still not tired, waiting for my girlfriend Kaytee to get up for work in an hour so I can talk to her for a few spared minutes. More on that in my next post.
-Nate
My school year in the dorms has officially ended. In between pranks, cops, drinking, breaking things, playing sports in the hallways, accidentally setting off fire-alarms, choking down dorm food, and developing a thorough distaste for the entire on-campus administration, it has been a very enlightening year.
I’ll start with the characters.
Lisa: the outspoken, emotionally high-strung beauty of Puerto-rican and Dominican decent. She has proudly taken the nickname of “Ass of Mass Destruction” coined by Hadyn. Without warning Lisa would hip-check us so hard we’d nearly fall over. There is definitely disproportionate amount of her weight in a particular part of her body, and I don’t say that in a bad way. Lisa consistently brought me home made fried-chicken, beans and rice, and basically any food she had she only ate half of to give the other half away. A brilliant painter, I had her paint me a picture out of one of my war photography books, and I couldn’t be happier with the outcome. Lisa is now going off to Rome to study architecture.
Ezra: Ezra is one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met. His room was almost always immaculate. Unlike anybody else I met in the dorms, he brought in his own leather La-Z-Boy, oak desk, and family bookshelf. His room was decorated with animal pelts and deer skulls. He chain smoked cigarettes and worked on some of the biggest super-computers in the world for the engineering center. With a family history bordering on hereditary genius, Ezra loved to play devil’s advocate for anybody from the Nazi’s to gay people. Basically, if you felt strongly about something, he was more than willing to feel strongly about the opposite. Fluent in German, and loving of the German culture, his girlfriend currently resides in Austria and is the classically beautiful Eastern European. One of the few military persons I’ve met who despises Bush, Ezra will spend 6 weeks of his summer in Virginia doing Full Metal Jacket style boot camp for the Officer Candidacy School, and will spend the rest of the summer in Austria with his girlfriend. I will miss the late nights of wine (or whiskey) and cigarettes under the flame of heated debate.
Sean: Where to begin. Sean has a taste for mischief that will never leave him. With a passionate hate for rule and rulers, Sean spent most of his year in the dorms recklessly making his presence known without revealing his presence. Midway through our hallway was fire-door. When we tried propping it open to make the hallway seem less constricting, the RA’s took our props away. So Sean simply went and got a screw driver and took the hydraulic closing mechanism off the door and through it in his closet. This is how Sean solves problems. Sean got arrested for a couple hours one night when he decided to do donuts on Farrand Field after a couple days of snow. He remains one of the few people who never ever believes he is guilty of any act he has ever done, whether he did it or not. By the end of the school year, nearly every RA and campus police officer new him by name, yet he has never received any serious repercussions for anything he’s done. Sean will spend the summer landscaping in his home town near Denver, and plans on transferring to CU Denver next fall.
Faris: a child of a Saudi-Arabian father and American mother, Faris speaks fluent Arabic and English. Growing up all over the world, Faris has probably experienced more at 18 then most adults I’ve ever met. He spent two years of his high-school years at a private institution in the Swiss alps, where he snowboarded everyday and could ride to the door of his dorm room. Occasionally Faris would come up to you some night and tell you he’d be spending the next few days in Mexico, or Lebanon, or Florida, or, or.. Studying chemical engineering and international affairs, we liked to refer to his major as simply the study of “oil.” Standing out as one of the nicest people I’ve ever met, Faris was a ready and willing to make jokes about his heritage. If you pissed him off (a relative term, Faris was never pissed off), he’d warn you not to go in the bathroom because he’d blow it up. Between being called a terrorist and a Mexican, he took our jokes with a smile that melted any American girl, something he was more then willing to illustrate. He loved to smoke tobacco he brought from Saudi that was named “Get Dizzy,” and is a phenomenal snowboarder. Faris easily wins the most suave award, with his European styling and dark hair and eyes, freshman girls were at his beck and call. Faris will spend part of the summer in Saudi and Lebanon partying like a maniac, and the rest back at CU for summer school.
Hadyn: Hadyn is actually Luke Hadyn McGuinness of Irish decent, if that wasn’t obvious enough. A former CU rugby player, and formerly in the Marine ROTC, Hadyn could drink Jack Daniels like it was water. We spent most of first semester skateboarding and wasting tremendous amounts of time doing things that weren’t worth remembering. Hadyn knows everybody in Boulder, and conversely introduced me to half of those people. Sometimes we would spend hours on the most ridiculous of activities, like playing soccer in the hallway with a dented Sprite can. Drinking beers on top of the Planetarium, hitting the bars in Denver, or driving extremely fast down mountain roads were all examples of how Hadyn and I passed the time while avoid school work. Hadyn is actually surprisingly brilliant, and has a knack for language. Over the course of the school year, Hadyn went to less than 10 Spanish classes (despite it being his major), yet got B’s both semesters. Still unsure of what he wants to do in college, Hadyn will spend the summer working as an apprentice electrician, and will most likely transfer to CU Denver because he prefers city life. Hadyn will go down as one of the most naturally funny people I have ever met.
All these characters influenced me greatly. Though I feel I will seem them a lot less now that I’m living off campus, I know that I will find a way to be a part of their lives because I had so much fun with them.
Seeing as how I’ve already over-extended your ability to read this, I will save my personal updates for a later entry. It is my goal to pick the habit of writing this blog back up again, and with more free-time this summer it should be more than feasible. So here is me signing off at 4:00 AM, still not tired, waiting for my girlfriend Kaytee to get up for work in an hour so I can talk to her for a few spared minutes. More on that in my next post.
-Nate
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