Confessions of a College Drama Queen...

Help Fight Cancer!

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:00:06 GMT

*GASP*

Two posts in the same day, after a 6 month absence? No, your eyes are not deceiving you.

I wanted to pass along this link to my personal donation page for Relay for Life, which is coming up this Friday March 30, 2006 at the UCF Practice Track. If cancer has touched your life or the live of anyone you know, consider donating to Relay for Life. Your generosity is most appreciated.

http://www.acsevents.org/relay/fl/ucf/alexgarcia

<3
Alex

Look who's here...

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:53:12 GMT

I must say this again, rumors of my demise have been grossly exaggerated. I've just been meh when it comes to LJ. That might change, then again it might not.

N-E-Who...

I wanted to share the new additions to my Sigma Nu Family (Family 4).

I took on a little brother, Tom, and my first little brother, Brett, took on a little brother, Collier (my grandlittle if you are doing the math).

Anyway, I think its kind of cool that family four's lineage will be traced back to me (since no other founder took on a little before graduation).

Top: Me; Middle Row (L to R): New Little Brother Tom, Little Brother Brett; Bottom Row: Grand Little Collier.

Because no one posted about this yet...

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:13:20 GMT

OMGWTFBBQ!!!!111oneoneone

They changed facebook...the world is going to end

Get over it people, not like the information about you appearing on your friends' home pages wasn't there to begin with. What a surprise, you put it there! Here is to people being more careful about the public information on their facebooks!

OH YEAH!!!

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:10:30 GMT

I GOT THE JOB!!!!!!

PAD OPERATIONS BABY!!

I actually also got selected to work with the Solid Rocket Boosters but Pad Operations is the one I really wanted. I will mainly be assigned to the access arms that reach out to the Shuttle.

You have no idea how excited I am.

Semi-real world here I come!

Interview update

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:11:53 GMT

So here is the blow by blow description of the interview process at United Space Alliance (USA) out at Kennedy Space Center.

I got up bright and early and put on a suit. Seeing as the interview was at 10 and I had to badged in and stuff, I left by like 8:20.

I ended up getting to the badging station at like 9:15 or so. Seeing as I'd been there before for class tours, they didn't even have to take my picture. She printed me out a badge only this time it was an unescorted white pass.

She highlighted my route on a map and I noticed the building I was going to was right next to the Vehicle Assembly Building (that big ass structure). As I drove up towards the VAB, it started getting bigger and bigger and bigger. After all, it is the 3rd biggest structure in the world.

So I get there and the first of my interviewers meets me in the lobby.

The first position I interviewed for was ground support systems. It was a very relaxed atmosphere. In fact, everyone I could see was wearing jeans. During the interview they emphasized a lot on Electrical Engineering and Electronics and Pro-Logic Controllers (tiny moving parts). Umm that is not my bag at all but I wouldn't mind getting that job because I'd still be out at the cape.

Then he took me upstairs to meet with the managers of the External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters engineering teams. Now these guys were definate professionals. Still wearing jeans, but more poised than the previous department. Again it was me and three engineers.

The main guy had a whole lot of questions prepared but first he asked me very open endedly to tell him a little bit about my career. Luckily, I had brought several copies of my resume, which I passed out to each person and kept one for myself to read through. We went basically line by line and I expanded on each entry in my resume.

The External Tank manager took out a schematic of the External Tank (to those non space nerds that would be the ORANGE tank attached to the shuttle) and showed me the inner workings of it. How it mixes liquid hydrogen with liquid oxygen to create a combustion. He explains that he oversees the production of it (flies out to New Orleans to check out the tank before it is barged to Cape Canaveral). He is also in charge of mating the External tank to the Solid Rocket Boosters and the Orbiter while they are "hanging" at the raptors of the Vehicle Assembly Building. I would be getting to know the ET pretty well if I worked in his department. He even said he might take me to New Orleans to see the tank being made. Now THAT's cool!

Then, it was the Manager of the Solid Rocket Booster's turn to give his spiel. He too brought out a schematic of the Solid Rocket Boosters and explained the 10 or so parts that have to be put together to build each of the two rockets. He explained that his department is in charge of putting it together and mating the SRBs to the Orbiter while vertical also. I would love to work with either of these iconic pieces of the space program.

The main manager then ran through his prepared questions which included my strengths, weaknesses, why I would be the best person for the job (I highly emphasized technical writing), my biggest accomplishment, and my biggest failure. The failure one caught me off guard so he let me go back to it at the end.

The ET manager then asked a question which I could not believe:

"How sensitive are you? What I mean is, sometimes our environment is somewhat politically incorrect or someone may come out with an off color joke once in a while. Would this bother you?"

I laughed and said, "of course not."

So then we went back to my biggest failure. I explained how I came in as an Aerospace Engineering major and did not do well in calc 1 and 2. I elaborated on how many times it took me to pass Calc 2 and how I finally passed it w/ a B by taking it at a community college. He commented that it is a great sucess story. He thanked me for coming and told me that I handled my self very professionally.

I then had to drive over to Launch Pad 39A for my next interview. This was the most casual interview, by far. It was with the manager of Pad Operations. He is a 1986 graduate of UCF who started with USA right out of college and worked his way up. He asked me in detail about my experience with Sigma Nu at UCF. He is a Kappa Sigma and was curious about greek life at UCF right now.

He explained some of the duties of his department, "I own the two launch pads, the fueling stations, the fuels, and the firing rooms (mission control). My department is the last to touch Shuttle before it launches. As soon as it is vertical and rolling out of the VAB on the crawler, it belongs to me. We are responsible for rolling it out here safely, loading it on the pad, enclosing it, fueling it. On launch day, all eyes are on me."

He explained that my duties would be split between working with the access arms (the one the astronauts walk to the Shuttle on and the one that holds the External Tank down.), and working with the cryogenic fueling system (fueling the external tank with the aformentioned liquid oxygen and hydrogen).

What is so exciting about this position is that I would be able to see the entire launch processing cycle for 1, possibly 2 shuttles. I would be able to take pictures of the shuttle as it crawls to the pad, pictures WITH it on the pad, AND pictures sitting IN the cabin while in the vertical position (as if I was about to launch). Best of all, I would be able to be in the mission control firing room on launch day, having the closest view of the shuttle launch there is! OMG I am sooo excited about this one.

So, obviously, here is my rank for the jobs, from one I want the most to the one I want the least:

PAD OPERATIONS!
Solid Rocket Booster
External Tank
Ground Support Systems

but as I said, it would be amazing to get ANY of them.

The admin said I should hear something by the end of the week, if not first thing next week.

So, yep, that was my interview experience at United Space Alliance.

*crosses fingers, toes, and eyes* -- hope u do too

Leave me some love.

Alex

<3 Superman

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:37:12 GMT

Wow...I went to see Superman Returns tonight.

The entire theater, it seemed, regressed back to childhood. There was cheering and laughing, and at a certain part in the movie, there was utter SILENCE. Yay for summer blockbusters!

preparing a post that has been long in the making...some of you already know about him, a lot of you don't

Oh Henry!

:-)

The 6 Garcia Boys...and counting

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:54:07 GMT

(From Left to Right) Andres Francisco, Juan-Francisco, Omar, Thomas Alejandro, Esteban, and Alex

speaking of Thomas Alejandro, he has his own domain...

www.ThomasAlejandro.com

so yeah...Ecuador moves on to the second round of the World Cup whoohoo!

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:14:27 GMT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DRU thedruproject

Sun, 28 May 2006 16:14:01 GMT
I am happy right now...very happy...yet conflicted because I will never take ANYTHING for granted again.

Today I get to go to a wedding for a family friend who I have known since I was 8. He was my two oldest brothers' best friend in high school. They were on the tennis team together. Then they ended up (eventually) at UCF together. Now they are in their early 30s and settling down. I hope in ten years or so I will be attending some of YOUR weddings.

More on the first thought later...all I have to say is WOW...WOW.

out of curiosity

Fri, 26 May 2006 14:35:02 GMT
Anyone know why Cory cory0774 deleted his journal?

Wed, 24 May 2006 22:16:25 GMT
Dear internship gods,

Please let something fall in my lap. I have resumes out on Career Builder and Monster, signed up with the coop office at UCF, and have people within companies slipping resumes under people's doors. I feel thoroughly bummy right now. Although a vacation is quite nice, let's get on with it.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

bday begins

Thu, 04 May 2006 07:09:13 GMT
so tonight I went to Pulse with Rashad. It was like a dream *begin Wizard of Oz moment*

points at thedruproject -- YOU WERE THERE (AND BOUGHT ME A SHOT)
points at Dru's friend the RA at convocation *looks around* - YOU WERE THERE
points at really cute twinky blonde boy named James from Lit class - YOU WERE THERE and I got your number...YESSS! And we are going to get coffee and be pretentious fucks...YESS
umm I am running out of people
$2 long islands rock
~~$2 long island made of below the shelf premixed "Long Island Iced Tea Mix" are teh suck~~
Fags "ruining" Long islands by making them all types of different flavors is hillarious
me knowing HTML and being able to raw code it when I am more than tipsy is just friggin scary

And so begins a week and 2 days of partying...

And I'm Back...

Tue, 02 May 2006 21:21:29 GMT
Well that was the close of another school year.

Thursday is my birthday. 7:30 at TGI Fridays @ Waterford this is your invitation. Comment to RSVP.

I leave for Las Vegas on Saturday. Boy do I need the trip. Although it's not all pleasure (STC Conference somewhere in there) I am still going to party as much as I can. We are staying at the Excalibur.

Hmm I am worried about summer employment. No one has answered my applications online.

I have been away from LJ for so long that it's not a habit anymore which sux! So yeah, comment and catch me up with whats been going on with you because I have a ridiculus amount of entries to read and meh.

Well that is it right now from me. I have the dishwasher running and the laundry. I feel so domestic lol.

Alex

Pick a picture

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:15:51 GMT
The rumors of my demise have been grossly exaggerated...I've just been busy as hell.

Ok so here are four pictures that I have to choose from for Sigma Nu's founding father composite. Help me choose!

1)

2)

3)

4)

I'm personally leaning towards #2 and #4. Let me know what you think.

Alex

Hell week begins...

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:55:05 GMT
DUE: Wednesday 11:55 PM - C-Programming Assignment 6
DUE: Thursday 1:30 PM - Tech Writing Style Portfolio
DUE: Wednesday 6:00 PM thru "the end of the week" - Lit of Pop Culture Essay #2
DUE: Friday 11:55 PM - Senior Design Mid Semester Report

I have to finish a book for Lit of Pop Culture that is written in the style of Hunter S. Thompson-you dig-so every paragraph has more that 10 meanings.

I also have to deal with SGA and the FTC Las Vegas conference bill (two meetings)

~~Exec on thursday night~~ after the senate meeting.

Someone kill me now!

I feel soo...violated

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:15:48 GMT
So I was on DEADAIM this morning in the tech lab. And then I signed off. I guess the program saved my password cause I get this random call from Amanda makemeabeliever while at Subway:

Amanda: Hey, Alex its Amanda
Me: Hey whats up
Amanda: Someone just IMed me from your screename
Me: *blank stare* giggitty-giggitty---schwaaaaaaa?
Amanda: Yeah they said you left your screename signed on at UCF.
Me: Hmm I'll have to kick em off...thanks for lettin me know

So I finish my meal post haste and head over to the UWC (I am picking up a 3 hr shift tonight for Antony). Here I am, and I signed on to my other screename and talked to him. His name is Gavin and my screename was signed on. Whatever...not only was I on ADMIN...but I signed off the screename. Weird weird stuff here. So then Amanda posted this conversation on her journal. *cue the twilight zone music*

Alex (3:09:54 PM): hello
Amanda (3:10:04 PM): hey
Alex (3:10:13 PM): hm
Alex (3:10:15 PM): hmmm
Amanda (3:10:21 PM): lol what are you hmmming?
Alex (3:11:13 PM): i am serinading you
Amanda (3:11:25 PM): awww thats nice, thank you! lol
Alex (3:11:42 PM): welcome
Alex (3:11:46 PM): but u don't know me
Amanda (3:12:17 PM): okay...
Alex (3:12:22 PM): lol
Alex (3:12:30 PM): i am not 'alex's sn' - whoever that is
Alex (3:12:46 PM): he left his screen name on and i thought i would say hi to you
Amanda (3:12:56 PM): where are you?
Alex (3:13:03 PM): guess
Alex (3:13:06 PM): at UCF
Amanda (3:13:07 PM): UCF?
Alex (3:13:14 PM): who is 'alex's sn'?
Amanda (3:13:36 PM): his name is Alex
Alex (3:13:47 PM): alex what?
Alex (3:14:03 PM): my name is gavin
Alex (3:14:09 PM): u at ucf now?
Alex (3:14:44 PM): hello?
Amanda (3:14:58 PM): no I'm not at UCF
Amanda (3:15:01 PM): i dont go there
Alex (3:15:25 PM): ic
Alex (3:15:29 PM): where are you?
Amanda (3:15:33 PM): merritt island
Alex (3:15:53 PM): nice!
Alex (3:15:57 PM): i live in melbourne beach
Amanda (3:16:01 PM): lol oh cool
Alex (3:16:05 PM): age?
Amanda (3:16:09 PM): 24
Alex (3:16:22 PM): 26 here
Alex (3:16:24 PM): nice
Alex (3:16:31 PM): nice to meet you amanda
Amanda (3:16:39 PM): you too i guess
Alex (3:16:57 PM): lol
Alex (3:17:08 PM): i would talk on my SN but i don't have one
Amanda (3:17:30 PM): why dont you make one instead of using alex's in attempt to pick up chicks?
Alex (3:17:46 PM): lol
Alex (3:17:51 PM): that's not fair
Alex (3:18:05 PM): it was on the computer when i got on and someone messaged me
Alex (3:18:12 PM): than i saw ur name
Alex (3:18:16 PM): mmmmmmmmmmm amanda lol
Amanda (3:18:27 PM): oh geez you're crazy lol
Alex (3:18:35 PM): i know
Alex (3:18:58 PM): hmmmmmmmm
Alex (3:19:03 PM): da da da deeeeeeeee dada da
Alex (3:19:10 PM): lalalalala la
Alex (3:19:27 PM): face it
Alex (3:19:35 PM): you like talking to me more than alex lol
Amanda (3:20:25 PM): i don't talk to alex all that often, really
Alex (3:20:26 PM): ur calling him now aren't you
Amanda (3:20:31 PM): no
Alex (3:20:35 PM): good
Alex (3:20:43 PM): i can just see him coming here to kick my ass
Amanda (3:21:01 PM): lol no alex wouldnt do that even if he did go there
Alex (3:21:58 PM): u married?
Amanda (3:22:04 PM): nope
Alex (3:23:02 PM): bf?
Amanda (3:23:46 PM): nope
Alex (3:24:00 PM): lets go on a blind date
Amanda (3:24:14 PM): lol wtf
Alex (3:24:20 PM): lol
Amanda (3:24:43 PM): i dont even know you!
Alex (3:25:17 PM): and me you!
Alex (3:25:22 PM): who cares
Amanda (3:25:28 PM): lol
Amanda (3:25:32 PM): thanks but no thanks
Alex (3:25:42 PM): lol
Alex (3:25:43 PM): okok
Alex (3:25:46 PM): fine
Alex (3:25:48 PM): have it ur way
Alex (3:25:52 PM): tell me why though
Amanda (3:26:01 PM): just not interested.. too weird
Alex (3:26:40 PM): exactly
Alex (3:26:45 PM): might be cool
Amanda (3:27:18 PM): might be
Amanda (3:27:27 PM): but i dont really go on blind dates
Alex (3:27:33 PM): me either
Alex (3:27:37 PM): never been on one
Amanda (3:28:18 PM): make your own screen name and lets talk more later
Alex (3:28:28 PM): ok
Alex (3:29:09 PM): can't right now
Alex (3:29:46 PM): in class shhhhhhhhhhh
Amanda (3:30:04 PM): lol
Alex (3:31:58 PM): wish i couold see ur face
Amanda (3:32:03 PM): wow..
Alex (3:32:11 PM): what?
Alex (3:32:17 PM): i never chat to people
Amanda (3:32:21 PM): i do have to admit you make me laugh
Alex (3:32:23 PM): this could be cool
Amanda (3:32:30 PM): lol
Alex (3:32:31 PM): and smile at that
Amanda (3:32:39 PM): indeed
Alex (3:32:46 PM): and it's ur smile i wanna see
Amanda (3:32:53 PM): soooo cheesy
Alex (3:33:03 PM): i suppose
Alex (3:33:11 PM): lol
Alex (3:33:14 PM): BARF
Amanda (3:33:21 PM): exactly lol
Amanda (3:33:27 PM): do you live in orlando or melbourne?
Alex (3:33:28 PM): =-O BARF'
Alex (3:33:31 PM): melbourne
Alex (3:33:37 PM): getting my masters here
Amanda (3:33:54 PM): cool
Alex (3:34:07 PM): and you? what do you do?
Amanda (3:34:20 PM): nothing right now
Alex (3:34:30 PM): must be exhausting
Amanda (3:35:00 PM): it really is
Amanda (3:35:05 PM): nonstop partying
Alex (3:35:42 PM): invite me
Alex (3:35:44 PM): lol
Amanda (3:36:48 PM): i dont even know you
Alex (3:36:57 PM): here we go again
Alex (3:36:59 PM): lol
Alex (3:37:09 PM): oh please
Alex (3:37:15 PM): how well do you know anybody
Amanda (3:37:21 PM): lol
Amanda (3:37:28 PM): well i'm gonna go now
Alex (3:37:54 PM): k bye
Amanda (3:38:28 PM): bye
Alex (3:38:39 PM): bye
Alex (3:38:45 PM): :(
Amanda (3:38:56 PM): awww
Alex (3:39:12 PM): ur not going anywhere
Alex (3:39:17 PM): i bet ur smiling
Alex (3:39:23 PM): are you?
Amanda (3:39:32 PM): halfway
Alex (3:39:43 PM): i bet you smile when i count to three
Alex (3:39:45 PM): 1
Amanda (3:39:48 PM): lol stop!
Alex (3:39:49 PM): 2
Amanda (3:39:53 PM): you're cheating
Alex (3:39:53 PM): don't smile now
Alex (3:39:56 PM): 2.5
Alex (3:40:00 PM): 3!
Amanda (3:40:03 PM): when is your class over?
Alex (3:40:52 PM): mmmmmmmmmm ur intrigued?
Amanda (3:41:07 PM): i have to admit that i am a little bit
Alex (3:41:34 PM): lol alex just mesaged me from another name!
Alex (3:41:37 PM): oh shit
Alex (3:42:14 PM): BUSTED
Amanda (3:42:17 PM): yep
Alex (3:42:18 PM): u ragged on me
Alex (3:42:24 PM): u snitch!
Amanda (3:42:32 PM): hehe
Alex (3:42:44 PM): jerk
Alex (3:42:48 PM): i still like you
Alex (3:42:56 PM): io'm writing down ur name
Alex (3:42:57 PM): bye
Amanda (3:43:04 PM): bye
Alex signed off at 3:43:13 PM.

So yeah...WTF people piss me off sometimes. Who knows who else he talked to...hope DeadAIM kept the transcripts.

Cleaning fun!

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:05:11 GMT
So my parents are coming up for the Sigma Nu parents event. So my brother and I spent sometime cleaning this place up, and damn, it looks good. (I even have pics to prove it!)

I hope to get some nice comments! :D

Alex

Thanks for the entertainment

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:52:09 GMT
K so I got to the lab today at 9:55 and noticed the doorstopper walked away overnight. Luckily the deaf little old man from the physical plant randomly walked in to *literally* look around the room (checking lights?) and I asked for a new one. He looked excited, and brought one in a half hour later. I think I made his day/gave him a purpose in life.

So yeah, I didn't check LJ since last Friday and came back to over 100 friends page posts. and I made it through all of them (well skimmed most of the super long ones). Good job guys.

Last weekend I put 825 miles on the Mazda (!) went to Jax, Miami (to the Royal Rumble and stayed with my friend Todd at UM), monday I stopped by to see JC on my way back up, came home showered and changed, went to the Citrix open house at the tech lab, left early, picked up my brother and went to the TD Waterhouse Centre for a 4.5 hour wrestling show (two shows actually, back to back). An exhausting weekend, but one that I totally needed to get destressed. I took a lot of pics at the wrestling shows...and ~~some videos~~ captured the entrance of the Undertaker which is always classic, as well as the Raw pyro opening.

I will post pics later.

WTF?!

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:53:14 GMT
RIP UPN AND THE WB 1995-2006

So it was announced today that come fall, UPN and WB will merge into one network, bringing together their highest rated shows into a new network called CW...which stands for CBS-Warner or something. This is a sad sad day for television. Less networks is not good for TV. sure, we have cable and satellite, but there are a lot of people who still only watch network tv, because of a combination of not reaching cable lines or no money. I wonder if Friday Night Smackdown! will survive the "merger." I put the quotes around merger because its more of a business agreement err joint venture between rivals (ala Boeing-Lockheed joint venture United Space Alliance).

The new model will call for 13 hours of TV 6 nights a week (presumably Sun-Friday). This might be overanalyzing but here are a list of both networks' current shows: (comment to say which will make the cut and which will cease to exist):

The WB

Monday: 7th Heaven; Related
Tuesday: Gilmore Girls; Supernatural
Wednesday: One Tree Hill; Beauty and the Geek 2
Thursday: Smallville; Beauty and the Geek 2
Friday: What I like about you; Living With Fran; Reba; Twins
Sunday: Charmed; Charmed

UPN
Monday: One on One; All of Us; Girlfriends; Half & Half
Tuesday: Girlfriends; Eve; One on One; All of Us
Wednesday: Southbeach; Veronica Mars
Thursday: Everybody Hates Chris; Love, Inc.; Eve; Cuts
Friday: WWE Friday Night Smackdown!

Ok so...looking at that, neither network is specially healthy, definately not UPN. 11 seperate shows, 8 of which are half hour comedies, 1 which is 2 hours of wrestling, and finally 2 dramas.

As far as hour long dramas goes, WB does not lack in that department. 7 seperate 1 hour dramas, 4 half hour comedies and a reality show.

Lets not forget the FRANCHISE reality shows that NEED TO STAY: America's Next Top Model & High School Reunion.

OHH and we can't forget Big Man on Campus (I keed I keed!)

It shall be interesting to see how the new network shapes up. Will some shows be cancelled and new ones created? Doubt it or the new network will fail. A night of comedy might look like this:

What I like about you
Girlfriends
Everybody Hates Chris
Reba

I would put it on the vaccuum that is Tuesday Nights.

Thursday vs NBC's supposed return of Must See TV Thursdays I would put Smallville and Gillmore Girls

Monday Nights I would leave 7th Heaven in the time slot its had for 10 years (Mon 8 PM) and follow it by some other crappy family show.

One Tree Hill and Veronica Mars could work together, on Wednesdays.

Friday Nights I would keep smackdown because well why not.

Sunday I don't know. New Shows anyone?

This post became longer than expected but oh well. Comment away.

Alex

LMAO YESSS my icon is finally relevant! Haha!

LOOK AT THIS...

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:20:56 GMT
IMAGINE YOU ARE AT A PARTY....

YOU'VE BEEN DRINKING.......

AND THEN YOU HAVE TO VISIT THE BATHROOM....

You open the door....

NOW, REMEMBER, THE FLOOR IS JUST A PAINTED FLOOR!

KINDA TAKES YOUR BREATH AWAY..... DOESN'T IT?

It's my current desktop. Whoa!

Movie Thing ganked from Jen champagnexdream

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:13:08 GMT
1. Take this list and post it into your own LJ, and mark the movies you've seen (in bold).
2. Add five more movies to the end of the list.
3. Count how many you have seen. If you've seen more than 70 movies, you are a Movie Whore. Post the score of how many movies you've seen in the subject line.
4. Use a LJ-cut since you've got at least one LJ-friend who doesn't really want to see an ungodly number of movies snaking its way down the computer monitor
5. (optional) Question your friend's taste in movies (cuz you can).

001. Napoleon Dynamite
002. Saw
003. White Noise
004. White Oleander
005. Anger Management
006. 50 First Dates
007. Jason X
008. Scream
009. Scream 2
010. Scream 3
011. Scary Movie
012. Scary Movie 2
013. Scary Movie 3
014. American Pie
015. American Pie 2
016. American Wedding
017. Harry Potter
018. Harry Potter 2
019. Harry Potter 3
020. Residential Evil 1
021. Residential Evil 2
022. The Wedding Singer
023. Little Black Book
024. The Village
025. Donnie Darko
026. Lilo & Stitch
027. Finding Nemo
028. Finding Neverland
029. 13 Ghosts
030. Signs
031. The Grinch
032. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
033. White Chicks
034. Butterfly Effect
035. 13 going on 30
036. I Robot
037. Dodge Ball
038. Universal Soldier
039. A Series Of Unfortunate Events
040. Along Came A Spider
041. Deep impact
042. KingPin
043. Never Been Kissed
044. Meet The Parents
045. Meet The Fockers
046. Eight Crazy Nights
047. A Cinderella Story
048. The Terminal
049. The Lizzie McGuire Movie
050. Passport to Paris
051. Dumb & Dumber
052. Dumb & Dumberer
053. Final Destination
054. Final Destination 2
055. Halloween
056. The Ring
057. The Ring 2
058. Harold & Kumar
059. Practical Magic
060. Chicago
061. Ghost Ship
062. From Hell
063. Hellboy
064. Secret Window
065. I Am Sam
066. The Whole Nine Yards
067. The Whole Ten Yards
068. The Day After Tomorrow
069. Child's Play
070. Bride of Chucky
071. Ten Things I Hate About You
072. Just Married
073. Gothika
074. A Nightmare on Elm Street
075. Sixteen Candles
076. Bad Boys
077. Bad Boys 2
078. Joy Ride
079. Seven (SE7EN)
080. Oceans Eleven
081. Oceans Twelve
082. Identity
083. Lone Star
084. Bedazzled
085. Predator I
086. Predator II
087. Independence Day
088. Cujo
089. A Bronx Tale
090. Darkness Falls
091. Christine
092. E.T.
093. Children of the Corn
094. My Boss' Daughter
095. Maid in Manhattan
096. Frailty
097. Best Bet
098. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
099. She's All That
100. Calendar Girls
101. Sideways
102. Mars Attacks
103. Event Horizon
104. Ever After
105. Forrest Gump
106. Big Trouble in Little China
107. X-Men 1
108. X-Men 2
109. Jeepers Creepers
110. Jeepers Creepers 2
111. Catch Me If You Can
112. The Others
113. Freaky Friday
114. Reign of Fire
115. Cruel Intentions
116. Hot Chicks
117. Swimfan
118. Miracle
119. Old School
120. Ray
121. The Notebook
122. K-Pax
123. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
124. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
125. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
126. A Walk to Remember
127. Boogeyman
128. Hitch
129. Back Door Sluts 9
130. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
131. The Fifth Element
132. Star wars episode I
133. Star wars episode II
134. Star wars episode IV
135. Star wars episode V
136. Star wars episode VI
137. Troop Beverly Hills
138. Swimming with Sharks
139. Trainspotting
140. People under the stairs
141. Blue Velvet
142. Sound of Music
143. Parent Trap
144. The Burbs
145. SLC Punk
146. Meet Joe Black
147. Wild Girls
148. A Clockwork Orange
149. The Order
150. Spiderman
151. Spiderman 2
152. Amelie
153. Mean Girls
154. Shrek
155. Shrek 2
156. The Incredibles
157. Collateral
158. The Fast & The Furious
159. 2 Fast 2 Furious
160. Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow
161. Closer
162. The Sixth Sense
163. Artificial Intelligence
164. Love Actually
165. Shutter
166. Ella Enchanted
167. Princess diaries 1
168. Princess diaries 2
169. Constantine
170. Million Dollar Baby
171. Life Of David Gale
172. 25th hour
173. Vanilla Sky
174. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
175. Boogie Nights
176. Braveheart
177. The Anarchist Cook Book
178. How To Deal
179. Mallrats
180. City of the Lost Children
181. Run Lola Run
182. Dazed and Confused
183. 13th Warrior
184. Super Size Me
185. Dark City
186. Jurassic Park
187. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
188. Jurassic Park 3
189. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
190. Apollo 13
191. It Came From The Sky
192. The Net
193. Jaws
194. Speed
195. Speed 2: Cruise Control
196. The Land Before Time
197. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
198. Any Given Sunday
199. Friday Night Lights
200. Net Games
201. The Terminator
202. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
203. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
204. "O"
205. Thirteen
206. The Craft
207. Poltergeist
208. Poltergeist 2
209. Poltergeist 3
210. Twister
211. Boondock Saints
212. Elizabeth
213. Man in the Iron Mask
214. Labyrinth
215. The Dark Crystal
216. MST3K: The Movie
217. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
218. Bambi
219. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
220. Perfect Blue
221. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
222. Beauty and the Beast
223. Sleepy Hollow
224. Spirited away
225. Fahrenheit 9/11
226. The Producers
227. The Ladies Man
228. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
229. Blazing Saddles
230. American Beauty
231. Radio
232. Princess Bride
233. Clue
234. The Wizard of Oz
235. The 10th Kingdom
236. The Green Mile
237. Dirty Dancing
238. The Last Unicorn
239. FernGully
240. John Q
241. Girl with a Pearl Earring
242. Last Life in the Universe
243. 28 Days Later
244. 28 Days
245. Breakfast Club
246. Radio Flyer
247. The Rules of Attraction
248. Hackers
249. West Side Story
250. The Color Purple
251. Princess and the Warrior
252. Last of the Mohicans
253. Pirates of the Caribbean
254. Fight Club
255. Chasing Amy
256. The Hunt For Red October
257. Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
258. Titan A.E.
259. Zulu
260. Wings of the Apache
261. Fiddler on the Roof
262. Mary Poppins
263. What Dreams May Come
264. Annie
265. What's Eating Gilbert Grape
266. Silence of the Lambs
267. Hannibal
268. Red Dragon
269. Monsters Inc.
270. The Passion of the Christ
271. Gallipoli
272. Peter Pan (not Disney)
273. Remember The Titans
274. Pearl Harbor
275. Titanic
276. Last Temptation of Christ
277. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
278. Life of Brian
279. Dead Alive
280. Dream A Little Dream
281. Blade Runner
282. Grease
283. Grease 2
284. Gladiator
285. Dream for an Insomniac
286. The Way We Were
287. Waiting for Guffman
288. Center Stage
289. Circle of Friends
290. Dead Poets Society
291. Real Genius
292. Arsenic and Old Lace
293. The Maltese Falcon
294. The Birds
295. The Talented Mr. Ripley
296. Princess Mononoke
297. Dogma
298. Snatch
299. The Matrix
300. Blast from the Past
301. Romeo must Die
302. Shot In The Dark
303. Animal House
304. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
305. Continental Divide
306. Secretary
307. Casablanca
308. Casino Royale
309. 84 Charing Cross Road
310. Amadeus
311. Freebie and the Bean
312. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
313. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
314. Nell
315. A River Runs Through It
316. My Life as a Dog
317. Black Stallion
318. McClintock
319. Red Pony
320. Bruce Almighty
321. Star Wars III
322. Aladdin
323. The Return of Jafar
324. Aladdin and the King of Theives
325. The Ref
326. Kingdom of Heaven
327. Clueless
328. Sweet Home Alabama
329. Save the Last Dance
330. Legally Blonde
331. Now and Then
332. Sandlot
333. Big Fish
334. Real Women Have Curves
335. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
336. Moulin Rouge
337. The Prince & Me
338. HeartBreakers
339. The Phantom of the Opera
340. SWAT
341. The Flight of the Naviagator
342. William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
343. To Wong Foo: Thanks for Everything! - Julie Newmar
344. Harry Potter 4
345. Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
346. Robin Hood [Disney version]
347. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
348. The Hudsucker Proxy
349. Ma Vie En Rose (My Life In Pink)
350. Local Boys
351. Stand By Me

like seriously

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:29:17 GMT
cryptic as this may be (or not), but if you submit something, and don't remember to send in an update as soon as you know, and that person has to basically start over as a result, *SORRY* doesn't cut it.

CL117

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:41:32 GMT
Ok so I have had 4 classes in that room. It just seems like the English Dept. has that room picked out for every class. It's seriously weird. Out of all the rooms and all the sections I had Comp 1 in there Freshman year (waaaay back in Fall 2001).

Then I had World Lit 2 (Spring 2003)

and this semester I have two classes in it:

Lit and Pop Culture
Tech Writing Style!

Seriously, am I living in a sitcom? If so, please notify the executive producer to build another classroom set that is not CL117, The Tech Writing Lab, ENG2 103, ENG 428, ENG 388, or ENG2 182.

Thanks much

Style

Fri, 30 Dec 2005 04:05:24 GMT
So the past two days or so I have been watching "Clean House" on Style. And I've been taking notes because I need to get rid of the clutter around here. This apartment has been home to each of my brothers at some point for 11 years. And each has moved out and left stuff here. Stuff that is in the closet under the stairs taking up space. As God is my witness, I will get this place uncluttered, specially my room.

The first stage is to "purge." I need to throw away things I don't use. That will help with the other step- organize! I am COMMITTED to do this! I will post pics when I am done.

ANY suggestions are appreciated.

Bret Hart DVD: A Review

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:57:56 GMT
So I stayed up watching the documentary portion of the Bret Hart DVD. AMAZING...yet so sad at the same time. His story is one of sabotage - whether at the hands of Hulk Hogan (1993), Shawn Michaels (1995-1997) or Vince McMahon (1997) Bret struggled to gain footing when the rug was constanly pulled from under him.

Even though he was pushed to the backburner in 1995 during his run as champion while the Clique (Shawn Michaels, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, Triple H, and X-Pac) booked themselves into main events with each other, and forced to wallow in an endless feud with Jerry Lawler and his merry band of midcarders (A pre-Kane Glenn Jacobs as the evil DENTIST Isaac Yankem DDS, the Japanese fake-tattooed warrior Hakushi, and the French Canadian Pirate Jean Pierre Laffite).

And even eight years later, I don't know whose side I stand on as far as Survivor Series 1997 goes (Vince McMahon, Shawn Michaels, and referee Earl Hebner plotted to change the ending of the match to screw Bret out of the World Title). It is an event that has been looked at so much the past 8 years that anything said about it is a moot point. Hmmm but at least Shawn Michaels finally admitted that he was in on the double-cross (and the "secret" meeting held at 3 am in the hotel the night before).

The DVD was a step in the right direction. It begins the process of mending wounds that will probably never heal. Bret will never be part of the WWE again...I don't blame him. I do hope that he accepts to be inducted into the Hall of Fame though...I think he owes it to his fans as much as to himself to be inducted...just as he owed us this DVD.

A few months back, Vince called Bret and asked him to be part of the DVD. Then he shared the working title:

SCREWED! THE BRET HART STORY

Bret then reminded Vince of the promise he had made at Owen's funeral of one day doing a career retrospective fitting of the Bret Hart legacy. After some silence, Vince immediately renamed the DVD

BRET HART: THE BEST THERE IS, THE BEST THERE WAS, AND THE BEST THERE EVER WILL BE

I for one am glad that Bret and Vince could put their differences aside and put together this DVD...only if out of therapy. The toughest segment of the DVD has Bret talking about his brother Owen, who passed away in a Pay Per View entrance stunt gone terribly wrong in 1999. You could feel the emotion in Bret's words, the hurt that still lingers. "To this day I still hoped I could have been with this company when Owen had his accident. Because in a family of 12 children, with Owen and I being the two youngest boys, I looked out for him. I feel I wasn't there for him when he needed me the most."

See part of the sabotage and the heartache that Bret experienced in his career followed him right into WCW. In late 1999, he had finally won their title (It had unbelievably taken him 2 years to wade through the creative hellhole that WCW was). During a match with Goldberg, he got hit with a stiff kick in the face, which was misplaced. This one kick gave him a severe concussion which ended his career on the spot. Fitting, yet unbelievably sad, that he would retire as champion.

Although it's also fitting that the departure of Bret Hart from in ring competition and the departure of Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, and Perry Saturn from the company (to the WWE) began WCW's downward spiral that resulted in the company's bankrupcy less than a year later.

In 2002, Bret suffered a stroke, at just 45 years of age. His doctors said it was a direct result of the damage caused by the concussion. That is why this DVD is so important. Bret wanted to get his story out there. As he told Vince on the phone: "My story, my career, goes beyond the screwjob in Montreal. There was 20 years of being the excellence of execution. Of traveling 300 days a year non stop working double headers for 12 yrs straight with no break. Of facing personal tragedy, and overcoming it."

The Hart family are wrestling royalty. Their legacy must be acknowledged, their story told. Specially Bret's. For 20 years he toiled in the WWE and ushered in an era where a 6 foot, 234 lb champion was believable. Bret's father Stu trained many of todays top wrestlers in the famed basement of his house in Calgary, nicknamed "The Dungeon", including: Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, Lance Storm, Edge, Christian, Justin Credible, and Jushin Thunder Liger. Look at that list. It reflects a dying art: technical wrestling.

Personally, I looked up to Bret when I was growing up. When the WWF was touting Lex Luger as the second coming of Hulk Hogan, I saw right through the sharade and knew that Bret, not Lex, was going to carry the company. And he did, and Luger was gone within a year and a half. A failed experiment that now remains just an asterisk. I stayed with Bret through the horrible year that was 1995. When Kevin Nash took a *FIGURATIVE* dump on the title belt and elevated Scott Hall and Shawn Michaels with him while Bret dealt with the aforementioned midcarders. Soon he won the title at the end of the year, only to lose it to Shawn Michaels a mere four months later. Again, throughout his reign, the clique maintained main event billing. In my opinion, Bret's career did not end in 1999, or even in 1997 at Montreal, no it ended in March of 1996 at Wrestlemania 12 when he lost the 1 hour match to Shawn Michaels. Even though he returned later that year to tear the house down with Stone Cold, Bret Hart was damaged after that match. I can still remember the bad taste watching a Bret Hart segment left in my mouth around late 1996/early 1997. He sounded bitter, not like the Bret Hart of old.

So yes, Bret Hart was sabotaged but his legacy will live on in this DVD. I have not enjoyed something so much in a while. And I nearly peed my pants with excitment when I was fiddling with the PS2 controller and accidentally found the music video they made for him back in 1996 - "You Start the Fire". Looking through the extras, it was conspicuous by its absence.

Well, there you have it. A little look inside my fandom, inside a part of myself that has been so big for most of my life. And for a while, Bret Hart was a constant in wrestling.

All comments appreciated

Alex