Jeff S

now gone

I'm now reppin the 212 (previously 402) and here is how it is done kidz

here is my dorm

not to brag, but its pretty sweet most of the kids around campus aliken it to a james kinkade painting, but to me, its home

when i left there was not that much fanfare, but i needed none. if you want to hear crazy antics involving last minight shifting of shifty things routines, ask dave about that story. I went to lunch with the infamous todd shown here attempting to imitate my lanky posture.

i have a bad feeling that said posture gives me a bad name so maybe I'll try harder

here is the ever camera ready erica. she stole a lot of my shirts. among them are the junglist and beck (donkey) shirts. halls of fame most definitely, but I guess I can retire them to continue in fame in omaha.

so starts new york. it is a lovely lovely thing. its interesting to move in to the dorm with protests raging down the street (10th and broadway [brittany hall] vs. 14th and broadway [union square]) . here is a sampling, of the crowd which was carefully looked on by new york city cops (who remembers the strokes).

a new rule that i shall enact is to be allowed to use "Only in new york" once in a long while as I have a feeling this could occur often.

additionally, the other night I was passing through washington square park (the equivalent of the quad here as there is no "real" campus) and there were street performers, circa about 11 p.m. this is not an uncommon performance. however I was delighted to provide some of my terrible vocal stylings in the falsetto range to "Let's Stay Together" by the wonderful Al Greene. Here is the guy, not al greene, who was the leader of the pack.

it was mad fun. or hella fun. these are the words of my roomates. I have a roommate from long island, san francsico, chicago, and jersey. they are quite possibly the best ever, like quirks are good and all although mabes secretly I wished I had farell. more on this at a later time
what are good only in nebraska-only words? I could only think of "janky" but that I use more than many more people.

later I will put in my two dimes for the routine facts of college blog, but it shall be postponed for now.
here is some sweetness for all the ladies out there, though

the stylings of david harper courtesy of erica's yearbook

hopefully I dont' die here, but I'm more street smart than dave J. but I'm eating right, sleeping tight, though its hot, rockbot

mentos...it just doesn't get any better!

so here we are approaching the last week in omaha, and i am less whiny than I was before. I have many gems to show you tonight, so be prepared, because I am prepared to blog hard and blog long until I achieve all of my goals.

the first, a brand spanking new addition to my new (old) site:
The Buddy Icons of Mr. Kingston.

I hope that you enjoy this for the rest of your days. I will update my main site in due time, plus I have other activities of craziness which I hope to create soon!

I have come to terms with my sick, disabling addiction to shoes. I don't remember when or why it started, but I am just finally beginning to control it. This is key. In the past when I visited cities such as New York (where I will be spending many of my days in less than a week) I got new shoes just because that is the place to get them. Living in a shoe haven may not speak so good on someone with a student budget, it is like the greek legend of Tantalus. I have never worn a loin cloth though

one of the things that I have done here in Omaha while some of you kids out there have already started school, is participate in the Seventh Annual Pig Pickin'. This can be equated to the "company picnic" but it is so much more.
Anyone remember Todd Wyatt, beer and pop maker extraordinaire? I'm sure Karl S does. Oh, he was there. Stephanie, proprietor of the Blue Flamingo was there. Erica hart, maker of the infamous Dylan Thaemert drawing? OH YEA! she was there too. To steal the words of one of the wordsmiths here whose name that starts with B (forgive me for my forgettance), "It was a rockin time"

After the drunken debauchery and reverie died down, many quotables were collected for later use and reuse. When Todd asked what I will tell kids in New York who ask what Nebraska is like, or perhaps the more obvious but less obvious where it is, I came up with "Just a country Mile south of Canada!!!!". Its submission to the Nebraska State Commerce as a state trademark is pending review. I'm sure auteurs and appreciat0rs of local ads will all bark and shout!
By the way, did someone get my title? It is somewhat inspired by the random eruption of joel and rob at a dance party to a song which sounded like the mentos beat, at which point they spontaneously sang the mentos song. But then I bee bopped and scatted with it at another function (I honestly don't remember where?) and added the other part, you are all in hysterics already. I don't usually use self reference when writing, because it bugs me, however I can make exceptions.

Another issue of the Pig Pickin was when Todd was describing the experience of buying a Hot Tub, apparently a cuthroat business not unlike used car sales. The vendor showed him a "secret" back room, in which were located several of the competitors hot tubs, which looked beat down, the logical conclusion being that his were far superior. Todd, being employed at the med center, alikened this to him saying "See those dead people? They went to Methodist hospital. That's what happens, folks"

Did any of this work out?
This is certainly not how I write a blog
hopefully there was something for everything
tommorow I get a haircut, disobeying my rules similar to Joel's that one should give a grace period before a haircut and any important event of about a week. I promise it will be sexy though, jeez trust me

this could be neat

this blog was brought to you by erica hart. and by those icebreaker activities where you have to play bingo with attributes of other classmates, like "Has been to europe."

absolute cellphonefunk

such a weird time!

ms. liz zach was the first to go of my friends, and it was a sad event. it will become very weird very fast, dave 5000 and I won't be leaving until the end of august, so we will get to watch most people leave. I don't need to elaborate on related emotions because whatever I would say has been said already.

this saturday is erica hart's birthday. she's probably the only non combatant to have followed combatrhino since the beginning, albeit secretly! anyways you really should wish her a happy birthday. activities planned but its not my place to say so you can just wait

here is the anecdotal aspect of this, such a gracious entry to modern literature
at our store we keep a box of free things. the decision to put any item in the box is fairly random, I'm sure there are "valuable" items in there, its just we have very little room.
but the other day, the days of the free box are LOST FOREVER!!!!!!!
at about midday on Saturday the 30th, someone took the free box. TECHNICALLY speaking, this is legitimate by the rules (see my post on the porch people, it was a high profile member of them). I think he sold some of it at a shop down the street. I find this both hilarious and weird. while not everyone likes to thrift shop, everyone loves free things. Todd Wyatt believes omaha is obsessed with free things, in fact.
I have no grool conclusion, but be wary that I will be watching if you steal the free box.