wow... its been a while since i've been on this thing. I've realized that writing helped me stay the person that i was and stopping kinda made me boring. at least thats how i see it *shrugs* so i'm back on xanga! woo! even though everyone is on myspace now... kinda lame. really lame. SUPER lame. whats more lame than that? I'm on it... yeah i know i conformed... pretty sad. Anyways down to business:

So 9 months have passed since i wrote on this thing. I've completely neglected xanga... and I'm sorry. In the past 9 months I've done alot, witnessed alot, and changed a bit. I havent been as random, funny, and outgoing as usual and i think thats due to a lack of writing. does that make sense? i think so... i havent had my thoughts down on paper (or puter) in a long time.

As many of you know, I'm now going to Penn State University (Mckeesport/Greater Allegheny Branch campus) and it was a pretty good year.

Goods:

• Switched from Architectural Engineering to Architecture cause i realized how much i passionately hate physics. wow.
• Got through my first year classes with a little less than a 3.0 (college /= highschool)
• met a lot of cool people when I was there
• quit my job at coldstone creamery
• realized that i need to take my life more seriously...at least a bit

Bads:

• Got through my first year classes with a little less than a 3.0. yeah... it was in the goods section because i realize that its not bad for my first year but getting a 2.97 is still pretty lame... and thats with all A's B's and 2 C's. gotta do better and actually try for my next semester.
• havent changed my habits much since high school (i.e. slacking... just to name one). Word to the wise kiddies: NO SLACKING IN COLLEGE! bad idea
• became more lame than funny/outgoing. Gotta get back to mah roots!
• not as active/ happy as usual
• Andrew left for ABC and probably isnt coming back... loser.
• collapsed a lung before the feast and then again in February. reeeaaaaaaalllllly lame. on a scale from "1 - Lame" it rates right unter Pirates of the Carribean 3... which was TERRIBLE.

so that was the school year summed up. oh yeah... and i hit a deer but i already told that story. great story btw.

So mike... how has your summer gone? well i'm glad you asked. One word: BORING... for the most part anyway :P there were some cool things that happened this summer:

1. Coolest thing eva: Being a part of the Whitley wedding :) it was really good and both Amy and Sarah looked beautiful. by the way... if any of you girls are planning on getting married anytime soon, Sarah makes some great dresses as she designed Amy's. It was really grood. great and good :) I got to meet their family which is HUGE. not your normal huge... like... "They should rename the town of Mongomery 'Whitleyville'" HUGE. yeah. that huge.
2. Went to marty miller's house and then down to ABC for a weekend. which was cool until some Menanite lady hit me in her Huge Ford Explorer. In case you're wondering, a Menanite is pretty much Amish ver. 2.0. They're amish with the ability to use Technology. For instance: ridiculously huge ford explorers. Which brings me to another ridiculous thought: I was hit on an amish road, because thats where marty lives, Amish country, and the speed limit was 55 MPH! WHO DOES THAT?! I'm pretty sure if you were traveling the speed limit on those roads at night and you didnt see one of those amish carriages, because they're all black and dont have any lights (they should spray paint the horses with glow-in-the-dark paint), it would spell instant death for a few good amish Millers.
   Side note: I had a GPS system in my car that told me how to get to marty's house, or at least i thought so. I get to his road at about 9:10 so its already dark. My brilliant GPS system goes "You have arrived" in that womanly voice that you're just bound to hate after the third "turn left in: 35 miles." RAAAAAH!!!! MUST... TURN UP... MUSIC! anyways. back on topic... so i get to his street and his house number is something like 33725 or something and I'm like "k...well it took me this far... all i have to do is look at house numbers now. this should be a piece of cake." 30 minutes later.... i get to his house. "Why" you ask? Because None of the house numbers were in order!!!!!!!!!! I went up and down that street for 30 minutes looking for his house! I even went to some amish houses and asked them if they could help me out. yes i DROVE up to some amish houses in my Metalic Green Honda Civic and asked them "do you know where the Millers live"... now if anyone knows anything about Amish people, they have one of a total of two amish last names. One of them being, yes you guessed it, Miller! her answer: "oooh well theres alot of Millers around here. do you know the father's name?" ....duh... i dont talk to Marty's dad. I didnt know it was Daniel at the time. Now i do though... She pointed me in the opposite direction of where i had to go. So i turned around and went back and actually resorted to SHOUTING out the window. "MARTY WHERES YOUR HOUSE?!?!?!" no answer. Luckily i saw Mrs. Miller standing beneath a porch light down a long driveway and said to myself "hmm... she's not wearing amish clothing." ... i didnt make the connection that electricity = probably not amish. Yes... thus proves that I actually AM a blonde. Anyways...
3. Got a job this past week! woo! cleaning for Mr. Ingram at our church. Its not too tough... just cleaning offices. I'm pretty much a janitor. only thing that stinks about it is that its at night from sunday to thursday :(. oh wellz.

Thats pretty much sums it all up. Life's kinda boring right now but if i think of anything i'll be sure to letcha all in on it :)

-Meeks

first news first:

Zelda = amazing

I've gotta get my grades up before the end of the semester in a few weeks... im doing pretty crappily in chemistry and online landscape architecture (words of the wise: NEVER take online classes if you wont be motivated to go to class. ever.) and i cant drop any classes since it'll take me out of the full time student range...and i have loans that require me to be a full-timer. But i am glad that landscape arch. isnt required for my major though i am hating the fact that my GPA is gunna have to take a huge hit . I need prayers that my Landscape Arch. teacher will cut me some slack and let me turn in an assignment that i got when i was recovering from my trips to the hospital, and so that my chem teacher will give us some serious bonus or that he'll curve the test that we just took like mad...

...in other news:

*A word to those whom i know and love so much and have the ability to apply for ABC 08 (especially my roomates...) DO IT NOW!

*Louisville is going to be AMAZING!

*for those in my room:

7 people + 1 bathroom = not so bad
7 people + brett + 1 bathroom = horrifying

Scotty will surely take the G-Bomb to the chest (short for Guatamalan bomb)

Mt. Stinkmore will be bigger, badder, badger, and better than ever

brett will eat yogurt. its the only way he survives

Flashalong's "appearances" will skyrocket

Scotty will come equipt with plenty of RW and MW in store

...and randy will get all the girls. the norm.

****** Celebrating the 1 year Anniversary of the Waffle House 3 AM Crew******

Rachel ... i expect a comment!! you too molly!! i know you've been looking foreward to this! You too Taggy - - oh wait you dont have a xanga anymore because you're lame

have a good'n folks. can i get an update on how many days are left until louisville??

Currently Listening The Legend Zelda Ocarina of Time (sound track) see related

 Thy Meekle hast returned! Thou might be wondering why mine xanga theme has changed from Bob Ross, one saucy fellow, to one such as this, Link, hero of time. One might think,"Hey, that guy in the background is such a stud," or, "Man, I wish I look that cool," or for the ladies, "Man, I would love to be saved by that hunk," or maybe "Man, that looks alot like meekle!" Well my friends, in 2 days I shalt be camping out for Nintendo's newest system, Wii. Which I will buy at 10 AM on Sunday. Along with this sleek and new system, I will be purchasing possibly the best game ever created "Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess." ...k I've run out of uses for the olde english, but if I find somewhere to use it, be warned, it'll pop up. Fasten thy Bucklers and sharpen thy blades for this tale of epic proportions (k it kinda popped up a little earlier than expected)! I've been so pumped about this game for months!! AHHHH!!!! but anyways... in other news and to recap on the last 2 months:

2 days before leaving for the Feast -

I was just doing my normal packing fot the Feast when my lung decides to rebel against the rest of my body and pop on me. later that night i'm stuck in a hospital bed with a tube in my side (i had to be awake for the surgery and wow was it painful, even with the little bit of numbing that they gave me). I was stuck there for a week, so i missed the first half of the Feast.

the Monday of the Feast -

 I get to finally go home. Doctor said that he wouldnt allow me to go to Jekyll Island, Georgia for the Feast and to just go home and stay in bed. Soooooo as soon as I got out of the hospital we packed up the car and left for Georgia and got there at 2 AM on Tuesday. heheheh, silly doctor. We get down there and I cant do much because of the stinkin lung problem but i got a nice warm welcome from taggy, toomie, nick bizic, gary lutz, and Dan Miller when they were using our driveway as a Airsoft arena. I felt light headed and not myself the whole time I was down there.

Thursday after services -

Kara Foraker and I decided to do some homework together and since I needed to use the Internet for the assignment I headed on down to her condo since they got free Internet. So we're doing our homework and all and the parents left to go out to eat. So Kara and I were there doing homework for a few hours and we decided that we were getting kinda hungry so she called her parents to see if we could walk down the street to get a bite to eat at the restaurant that was near by. They said "no, its getting dark outside and you'll get ran over by a car"....which totally didnt make any sense to me because im pretty sure there was a sidewalk. so they said we should just take a break from homework and watch TV or something. Well, you see, Kara's little brother was afraid of his room upstairs because it was overrun by spiders in the walls and the ceiling and such, so they let him sleep on the fold out couch, where they set up his covers and his pillow and such.... which also happened to be the place closest to the TV in order to watch it.... So heres Kara and I sitting on a "bed" watching the Blues Brothers on TV. She turns it over to Seinfeld (which i never saw a full episode in my life btw...) and then we just started talking about the crappy relationships that we've had in the past few years, so she turned off the TV.

So here's the situation:

Foraker parents have never met this unknown teenage guy until a few hours ago and Kara, their daughter are sitting on a "bed" with the TV off, they arent doing homework, noone is home besides these two. Parents went out to eat and took the little brother with them. Older brother Kyle is elsewhere in Jekyll. (dont worry... it gets better)

JUST as you think the situation couldnt have gotten anyworse looking... dear ol' Daddy Foraker walks in and sees these two sittin on the bed with the TV off, they arent doing homework, and he says "so what are you two doing... on Little Brother's Bed??" and Kara says "We were watching TV" (tv was off...). So Father Foraker says "Oh, What were you watching," and I say "Seinfeld" (why?!?!! WHY DID I SAY SEINFELD?!?!?! IT WAS ON FOR 2 SECONDS BEFORE WE TURNED IT OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!). "Oh," says Mr. Foraker (and heres where this becomes the most awkward moment of my LIFE), "What episode was it??" I say "uhhhh..... i dont really watch seinfeld so i donno... well I'm gunna go now since you guys are home. I was just staying to keep Kara company." And then he tells me that shes capable to stay home by herself as I was thinking, "well sorry for being considerate...man" and then he offers to drive me home which i knew wouldnt go well since the situation kinda blew up in my face. So i just walked over to Jasmine Johnson's party. Twas fun. Definatly the most awkward moment of my life. My question: why the heck would he leave his teenage daughter home alone with a guy anyways? I mean i know i didnt do anything i was gunna regret later down the line (besides the fact that I have no clue how i'll ever be able to talk to that man when I run into him again...which'll probably be louisville), but really... who does that??

The Friday night of the Feast -

We went down to the choppy choppy restaurant with Brittany Hart and the Pittsburgh crew. Britt's birthday was in a week so i decided to go ahead and tell them that it was her birthday. They came out and made her do the Chicken dance, in which taggy got up and danced too. It was alot of fun except later that night I got really sick and couldnt sleep the whole night. I had a fever in the morning on the Last Great Day and so we had to come home early because they didnt want me winding up in a Georgia Hospital and they'd rather have me at home. So i missed both Holy Days... i was pretty depressed. It wasnt my favorite Feast of Tabernacles ever, I'd say.

October 24th, 2006 - The day I whacked a deer -

So I'm coming back from school, its like 11 o'clock on a rainy, cold Pennsylvania night cause we were studying for the Chem test the next day. I'm driving up by my highschool going 40. 40 MPH. 4tizzle. So I'm cruizin at 40 at 11 o'clock at night (now, Pennsylvania has a high population of old people, taxes, Steeler fans, and Deer) when 3 deer ambushed my car. So im slammin the breaks...schlamming (for the Germans) the breaks. Really slammin' them. They jumped off of a hill top, right down onto the road to jump out and surprize me like it was my birthday or something. So they jump out and im like "cool, its my birthday,"... and thats when it hit me: my birthday isnt until March 4th. Its in fact, not my birthday, it IS in fact, the 231st birthday of when the British fleet attacked Norfolk, Virginia. Now it is obvious that all deer Role Play as the British on this day in history, and expected me to Role Play as the Patriots (not the new england patriots...they suck... sorry jeremy). So I did, and just as the Patriots did, I made the first 2 deer take off running, whilst the third one i hittest in thy facial region. As its head and neck flopped onto the hood of my car, I shouted, "FOR LIBERTY!!!!!" and as its side careened into the side of my car (.... i say "mine" meaning "my dad's") i thought... wait a minute... my dad is going to kill me if this british soldier Deer doesnt... oh. crap. "BOOM" It slammed into the side of the car and i was just like ... great... now im gunna have to get out of the CAR in the freezing cold RAIN to look at this CARNAGE that has just happened on the front of my dad's CAR!!!! He's gunna KILL me when he sees the DAMAGE!!

...and thats when the deer got up and hopped away... and when i said "WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED?!!?!" so i kept driving...didnt even stop the whole time this happened. i figured "meh... no sense in me stopping... no carnage... plus its cold outside. If i can drive home im doing it without getting out of the car." 5 minutes later, Teri Haney calls me and i tell her what happened. She thinks i'm on drugs now. When i got home i checked for damage. NONE!!!!! NO DAMAGE!!! i was the most pumped kid in the world. So I checked again in the morning, and yes...there was a teeeeeny tinnny dent... you have to REALLY look for it in order to see it. The proof that i hit a deer though: Deer hair is sticking out from the front right wheel. right behind the headlight. I gots myselves a trophy!!!! I guaruntee that deer is right now telling all its friends "yeah... i just hit a CAR and LIVED!!! Look, I have proof. A patch of my butt hair is gone. The car just took a bite outta me. I am your leader. Call me 'the Great Deerdini.'"

Well lads, thats all I have time for today. Thou shalt surely comment on my newest post. Thou comments are much-eth appriciatedeth. good day. I might not post for a while, until after Louisville because i'll be tooo busy with school...and by "school" i mean "too busy finding this ==> ."