Jarretts Blog

My first semester in college is practically over and I am beat. I finished pledging and was initiated November 18th, 2006. I definitly screwed up this semester, but I am learning from my mistakes. I have figured out my ideal class as well. It is a class from about 60-100 people with minimal homework, but required homework nonetheless. I like a good deal of people because I hate being called out, but I like some required homework because it forces me to practice the material. Hopefully next semester's classes are going to be interesting to me so it will allow me to actually get into the material. I can't wait to go home and just rest. My last exam is tomorrow but I don't fly home till sunday. It will be nice not having to worry about coming back to a test immediatly or anything like that. I also need to get away from my hall-mates. As much as I have fun with them, they are really getting on my nerves constantly and I just don't feel like being social with them. It may be that I have been around them too much and just need a break or it may be that they have become almost too comfortable with me and joke around too much. My biggest problem with the majority of them is that I try to add to a conversation or say something and they just make fun of what a say and turn it around to make it sound like I was saying something stupid. I'm sure it happens to everyone all the time, but it just constantly happens. If it keeps happening I'll probably ask them to chill out with it, hopefully they won't try to turn that around.

It's been a couple months since I posted in here so I figured I would post something. I am currently at the University of Pittsburgh. I am also pledging Sigma Chi. It was my birthday yesterday and it was alright. I didn't really get any gifts and didn't really tell many people that it was my birthday. Sigma Chi had a cookout last night with the Chi Omega's, which was fun. The food was pretty good and the girls were good looking. At about 7:50 I left for the cathedral lawn to watch the fight club. Phil and Dave fought, Dave won. Afterwards I just was too tired to do much anything else and fell asleep at about 9. I woke up around midnight and went out in the hall to see what was up. Most everyone hadn't come back yet but I played smash brothers with some of my hall mates. After that they wanted pizza so I went with them. When we came back I chilled for a while but was really tired so I called it a night. Today I planned on going to the game but while I was on the bus to go to the game I got a call from my Pledge President saying to be at the house at 1...the call was at 12:20. So I end up not going to the game and it takes me an hour to get back to campus and up to the house. When I got there I was pissed cause the reason we were called up was because some pledges had a food fight at like 3 am. Our Pledge President felt bad that he had called me up from the game and apologized to me which I thought was cool. I'm now back at my dorm room just chilling and kinda bored. I may sleep the rest of the day, I'm not quite sure. There is a white-trash party up at the house tonight and I have to be there at 7. I may not stay for the party though. This weekend has been kind of a bummer for me, but it's not the worst.

Why does another's optimism kill me so much?

So I have had a lot to deal with the past week and a half. I won't be going into it, but a few people know what I'm talking about. I've had a lot of fun the past week and a half as well, but it was hindered by other things. It was sad to have this be my last YLA. I plan on coming down for the alumni dinner next year and possibly sitting in on some of the general assembly. It was cool to find out I made up a lot of the article in The News and Observer. This is the article. Anyway, after YLA I went to Florida with Angus. It was fun, but I think we didn't really do as much as we could have, but it was hard to decide because everything was so expensive. I became sick over the Florida trip and it really hit me on the trip back up to North Carolina. Right now I'm at home emotionally stressed, I have lots of home work to do, I have lots of booking to do, and I'm sick. Hopefully this week will get better.

It has definatly been a long time since I last posted. Drop Back Booking is now in full effect. I am booking a tour for the summer and I am planning on doing two or three local shows before that. My show for April 7th is up in the air. I had it at The Brewery but the owner of the venue gave the date away for some reason and never told me. So now I'm in desperation to find a venue and keep getting shot down. It is pretty much down to 305 South. If I can't do it there then there will be no show and I will be out of a lot of money. Hopefully I will make it all back from the tour and other shows, but it still sucks a lot. If you can help me find a venue in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area that would be awesome.

So I haven't written in here for a long time. I think the people visiting my site from New Zealand and Australia have gone down, but if your still there just tell me. Anyway, I have officially started Drop Back Booking, but I haven't officially dropped off 45 RPM Booking yet, that occurs in March. I have been writing a few contracts and such out and be expecting a lot from Drop Back Booking in the coming months. I still have to decide what my college decision is, and it mainly depends on where I get in, lol. I need to hear from everyone pretty much. So far I got into Appilachian but got denied from UNC. I just hope I hear soon.

So, tonight has been fairly boring, as the past few fridays have all been. I need to find a party or something cause this city is quickly getting boring to me. It seems I keep hanging out with the same people, which isnt bad, but I like to meet new people and just party it up. But even now these people who I always hang out with arent hangin out with me. I've been to enough sausage parties this past year, I'm just getting sick of em. What happened to me finding a party easily? What happened to me being able to just call someone up and find something to do? All my close friends seem to have found other people to hang out with and have just ditched me. It's almost like I'm just the side-friend for the 'boring' hanging out when they can't find something to do. I don't know how it happened. Its just like I was known as the 'party kid' and all of the sudden everyone else is doing what I used to do while I sit at home wishing it was the summer of 04' again. Arrg.