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Glee!

Published by Cody on November 9, 2005 in Personal and Random. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Another survey thingy. I may have done this already, but oh well.

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How much do we actually know about our friends? This is a questionnaire to get to know them better. Read though the comments below about me and then make sure you read the directions at the bottom!
Have fun!!

1. Time now: 1:19pm PST

2. Name as it appears on birth certificate: Cody James Logan

3. Nicknames: Code, Codeman, Codelo, Codenator, Viking, Genius4. Piercing: None.

5. What is the most recent movie you’ve seen in the theater: Legend of Zorro

6. Eye color: Green…ish

7. Place of birth: Hanford, CA

8. Favorite Foods: Taco Bell, anything Chinese

9. Ever been to Africa? Not yet

10. Ever dreamt about someone from your past? Probably

11. Love someone so much it made you cry? Not quite12. Been in a car accident: A fender bender

13. Anchovies? Fish don’t belong on pizza

14. Favorite day of the week: Friday

15. Favorite restaurants: El Gitano, Max Dale’s…a few others16. Favorite sport to watch: Football

17. Favorite drink: Mountain Dew

18. Favorite ice cream: Cookie dough ice cream

19. Favorite movies: Remember the Titans, October Sky, Miracle, Saving Private Ryan, Enemy At The Gates, Finding Nemo, Robots, quite a few more

20. Favorite fast food restaurant: Taco Bell21. What color is your bedroom: White, or mostly white

22. How many times did you fail your driver’s test? I passed it the first time, barely

23. Before this one, from whom did you get your last email: I haven’t checked my email recently

24. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? Best Buy, if I had a credit card25. What do you do most often when you are bored? Muck around on the computer and/or read and/or listen to music, sometimes all at the same time

26. Bedtime: nine or ten in the evening, eleven on weekends

27. Who will respond the quickest to this? Whoever reads my Xanga first

28. Who is the person you sent this to that is least likely to respond? Whatever loser doesn’t read my Xanga

29. Who are you most curious about their responses to this questionnaire? Everyone30. Favorite TV shows? Lost, NUMB3RS, My Name Is Earl, Threshold, AFV

31. Last person you went to dinner with? Lindsay

32. Favorite car? 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302

33. What are you listening to right now? Something on the radio….the DJ didn’t say what34. What is your favorite color? Blue! No,…red!–ARRGH! *is thrown into fiery pit*

35. Lake, Ocean, or River? Lake

36. Favorite Candy Bar? Fast Break

37. Time you finished this e-mail? I’m not finished yet…

38. How many people are you sending this e-mail to? Everyone on my Xanga

39. What time did you get up this morning? 6:20am

40. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds, ‘cuz they’re worth more

41. What did you have for breakfast? Oatmeal, heavy on the brown sugar

42. What food do you dislike? Anything with the word “surprise” in it

43. What is your favorite chip flavor? Barbeque or salt and vinegar

44. What is your favorite CD? AC/DC’s Back in Black

45. What type of car do you drive? ’94 Geo Metro

46. Favorite sandwich? Ham and cheese

47. What characteristic do you despise? Self-pity

48. Favorite item of clothing? I don’t have a favorite piece of clothing

49. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would it be? The Mediterranean

50. What color is your bathroom? White

51. Favorite brand of clothing? Mossimo for cheap, AE or Abercrombie for expensive

52. Where would you retire to? That’s a long way off, but probably Europe

53. Favorite time of the day? Early afternoon

54. What was your most memorable birthday? The one where a sexy magician did her act (I think it was 10, or around there)

55. What fabric detergent do you use? Detergent? Bah.

56. Coke or Pepsi? Pepsi57. Are you a morning person or a night owl? Night owl, definitely

58. What is your shoe size? 11, 11.5 depending on the brand

59. Do you have any pets? Button the Shih-Tzu, Bootsie the cat, and a couple betta fish60. Any new and exciting news you would like to share with your family and friends? Nothing really exciting has happened recently…curse this small and boring little town!

61. What did you want to be when you were little? An adult

62. Any words of wisdom? When you go on a date, have something to talk about. Awkward silences can be really, really awkward.

63. Who sent this to you? I got it from Ron’s Xanga (mrtekkid)Now, here’s what you’re supposed to do. And please don’t spoil the fun.

Copy (do NOT forward) this entire e-mail and paste it onto a new e-mail
that you will send.

Change all of the answers so that they apply to you.

Send this to a whole bunch of people you know INCLUDING the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little known facts about those who know you.

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Right. So, we’re into our four day weekend (glee!). Unfortunately, I have quite a bit of homework, as well as craft fair set up Friday evening and the craft fair, Vet’s Day parade, and Burlington-O’Dea football game all on Saturday. Yay. Actually, aside from the parade, I volunteered for everything I have to do this weekend. What can I say? I’m a dedicated band geek. Anyways, if anyone cares, the football game is Burlington’s first match at State and we’re going up against O’Dea. I don’t know their record, but it’ll probably be a good game. Unfortunately, because Lynden lost to Shorecrest last night, the game will be at Memorial Stadium down in Seattle, at six, no less. Well, I hope it’ll be a close game. Or a shutout on our part. While I’d prefer O’Dea to put up a little fight (unlike Cedarcrest last night…51-0…sad, sad, sad), a stomping would be nice for us as well. Whatever keeps us in the tournament, I say. Now, to bribe the refs…

Hurray for sweater vests

Published by Cody on November 6, 2005 in Personal. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

You know what I said about us going against Cedarcrest in the playoffs? Well, I lied. It’s not a playoff game, but the winners do go to state (the playoffs). So, here’s hoping we win on Tuesday!

I took Lindsay to see Legend of Zorro today. It was a blast! That movie is one big long adrenaline rush. A fitting sequel to the first one (which I have yet to see).

Also, I’m off to Blaine on Monday for SJMEA with Becca, Ashley, and Theodore (if he wears a sweater vest, I’m going to hit him, just kidding). I’ll be gone from 7:30am to 10pm (or thereabouts). Fun. I’m thinking maybe I’ll let the other clarinetist have the solos. I haven’t practiced at all. Perhaps I should do that…

The Week of Happiness approaches. Repent, and ye may be saved! Okay, I suppose you don’t need salvation to enjoy two half-days and a four-day weekend.

Excellent…

More on why I hate whiners

Published by Cody on September 17, 2005 in Personal and Rant. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Don’t you hate it when someone complains about something but doesn’t do anything to fix the situation? Take this small group of freshmen in band at the football game Friday. One is a trumpet (sits right behind me) and the other is a clarinet (right in front of me). The whole time–and I mean the whole time–the two are talking back and forth about how stupid the game is (we won 69-7, so I suppose the futility of it all on the part of the opposing team might have accounted for that), how much they hated band, and how it sucked sitting in the cold playing pep band music for home football games. I was tempted a few times to turn around, smack the trumpet player and tell him to stop bitching about what he can’t change. It bugged me that much.

It’s the assholes–I mean kids–like him and his buddy that make band no fun. All the people who provided all the fun times have graduated, my class has one or two people who measure up to their predecessors, and all the underclassmen–to put it bluntly–suck in many ways. Band is no longer as fun as it was when I was a freshman. Of course, I try to make what I can out of it, but I’m not the type to be, as the drum major my freshman year put it, en-THU-siastic. I mean, I clap along with the cheers, but it’s really, really hard to be engaged in the game when surrounded by whining freshmen and sophomores.

Other than that, things seem to be fine. School is going swimmingly, with the exception of calculus, in which I’ve procrastinated so much with the homework that I’m sure to sink like a rock once the end of the quarter rolls around. I hate busy work. Physics is exactly the opposite. It may be challenging, but I understand it and can actually do the problems (mostly because the book explains it). Nothing to report on the rest of my classes.

Now, to finish working on my UW application…

Darn puking babies

Published by Cody on July 4, 2005 in Personal. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Oh man, it’s only two in the afternoon and I’m wasted! As in, super-tired. I get drunk only after five on holidays. Just kidding. Earlier, there was the annual Fourth of July parade in Sedro, which consisted of horses, logs, Bigfoot, more logs, and a whole lot o’ tractors. And us, the combined Burlington and Sedro marching bands. Fun times, for a hick parade. And currently we have a few relatives over for burgers, beans, and pistachios. No clue where the pistachios came from, but they’re there. My cousin Jordan recently had a baby. I can’t remember his name at the moment (it’s Graham or Randy or something like that), but he is mesmerized by my new hat. It’s the weirdest thing. He’s so hooked on it that he completely misses my famous eye-vibrating trick that always gets babies giggling. Oh well. At least he didn’t puke on me. I hate it when babies do that to me.

Really bad eggs

Published by Cody on May 22, 2005 in Personal. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Just got back from Spokane. It was actually pretty fun, for such a long and tiring trip. The being in Spokane bit, not the actual 680 mile round-trip bus ride (only about 340 one-way, but still way too long even for a charter bus…oh my buns…). We didn’t even watch Monty Python like I thought. But at least we watched Pirates of the Caribbean…again (hence the “really bad eggs” in my title). I never get tired of that movie either. Originally, Dodgeball was up on the lineup of movies to watch during the ride, but after some sexual innuendo made by Ben Stiller’s character (I can’t remember which, there are so many…), Q turned it off and stuck in Shrek 2 instead. The man is crazy, I tell you. But then, it only got worse after that (the inflatable “bulge” and the humping the pizza parts…you all know what I’m talking about).

It’s only after we get to Spokane (and after the bus driver drove around for ages trying to get out of the red-light district, which turned out to encompass all of Spokane except for the Gonzaga campus, and even part of that), that we find out that the dumpy hotel we stayed in changed our room arrangements around. That was only the beginning. Fast forward to this morning when we’re checking out. They start complaining that we’re stealing room keys…that they never gave us. Okay, back to Saturday. Dinner at the mall. One of them. I don’t quite remember the name…North-something. Man, it was huge. Two-stories, enough floor space to fit a couple Astrodomes inside…man, I was surprised there wasn’t an ice rink inside. Didn’t compare at all to the Katy Mills Mall in style, but it dwarfed the Mills in size. There was a sweet store that had all manner of odd things in it (no, not Spencer’s). The thing that caught my eye was an interesting little sign that said “World Religions” at the top and then proceeded to list all the major religions. That wasn’t exactly a knee-slapper. What was funny was how it went like this: “Christianity: Shit Happens. Catholicism: If Shit Happens, I Deserved It. Islam: If Shit Happens, Take A Hostage. Buddhism: If Shit Happens, Is It Really Shit?” and so on. Hilarious.

The highlight of the trip happened around this time. Either going back from the mall or going to the mall (can’t quite remember which, all the hot girls sitting around me on the bus muddled my mind), we passed by a street corner. I happened to be staring at this particular street corner just as a guy jumped on it. At first, I thought he was jumping off something, like a bench or concrete thingy. Odd in itself, but when I looked back, he did it again. And again. The dude was just jumping in place for no odd reason! It was hilarious. I would have pointed it out, but it was too late by the time I stopped laughing. Then we passed by a sign that said “Traffic Fatalities in 2005: 00″. I nudged the person next to me and said, “But only on this intersection.” Yeah. Fun stuff.

After that we headed to the hotel to get changed into our uniforms. I find out that my cape is inside my hat box which was under a pile of instruments locked in the cargo compartments of the bus. The downside: rushed cape attachment action at the staging area. The good part: least wrinkled cape in the band. Then we did the parade, yada yada. Do I really need to go on about that? I’d rather not. I’ll be forever scarred. Okay, it wasn’t quite that bad. It was cold and rainy though. And the junior high marching band with wizard costumes and fairies that played the Mickey Mouse song disturbed me greatly. But other than that, not too bad. My uniform is still wet, though. And that’s after I blow-dried it a couple times.

Next stop, the hotel. Not too bad for being on a backroad that had enough potholes to be dubbed Swiss Cheese Avenue, but the rooms were still all weird. There were some rooms with nine people in them. Nine! Of course, those were the rooms that had four beds and a rollaway, but still. My room wasn’t too bad. Two queen-sized beds and a rollaway made for a midget. I got the midget bed. Pretty bad stuff right there, but the philosophical discussions between Scott and Alvin more than made up for it. We were one of two rooms out of a grand total of eight that didn’t get in trouble that night. Probably because we talked and slept instead of ordering pizza and jumping on beds. Now who’re the cool guys?

Then there was the ride home. Not much different from the ride there. I listened to music, slept for a bit, and watched The Italian Job until we arrived home, at which point my bladder was at the point of maximum fillage. And Q wouldn’t let us into the band room (and thus the school, including bathrooms) until a rogue blanket was returned to the bus. Turns out someone thought the blanket was someone else’s and took it with them. It was soon recovered, much to the joy of myself and anyone near enough to me to know that I was in dire need of answering the Call of the Wild. I stood at the urinal for a whole minute. And I still need to go. Accursed half-gallon water bottle.

Overall, I thought the trip was fun. Last parade of the school year. It’s all good. Now I need to see to those 200 emails I got over the weekend…and homework. Yes, of course. How could I forget the major research paper due on Tuesday? The research paper that I haven’t even finished researching…I’m so bad.

Oh yeah, and my birthday’s tomorrow. Go me. Big One-Seven. Now I can work at Blockbuster.

 

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