Let's call it "snot-freezing" cold

Today the tempatures are hovering below zero. Tempature gauges are shattering, wolves are howling, and if you were to cry outside the tear would probably freeze before it hit the ground. As I was walking from Coffman Union to my campus job this afternoon, it hit me that Minnesotans really needed a term for this type of uber-chilly weather - something other than the typical "cold as (insert expletive here)." And it took no less than a minute for me to coin a term. All I had to do was think about the sensations my body was feeling and there was one that stood out more extremely than any others. The feeling in my nose. So from this day forth, the Minnesota days that sit on the other side of the zero are going to be known as "snot-freezing cold." There will be no dispute over this so just go ahead and adobt it now.

As any of you who still might actually check this blog (which could very well be no one) may have noticed, I post at the most random times, with updates being very few and far between. Sorry, that's just the way it's going to be. I forget about having this thing a lot of the time and that probably stems from being far too busy and spending my free nights "drinkin' with the boys." So if you read this and do care to read it again, I'd say check back every 2-3 weeks. Thanks dudes.

Since a lot has gone on since I last posted, I'm going to put together some recent news that I'm interested in and my brief thoughts on them. Here goes...

-VOX Medusa Around The World New Year's Eve party....interesting idea, wasn't quite what I expected. The venue was cool (but not really decorated to theme), it was hard to get drinks, and the crowd was older than my friends and I. Luckily I had a lot to drink that night.
-Turning 22....not that cool. Granted, I had a great time celebrating my birthday (and being alive another year), it just sucks knowing you don't have anything really eventful to look forward to with the birthdays after 21. Wait nevermind, in a few years I can save money on car insurance!!!
-Green Bay's first-round playoff loss to Minnesota....I'm not ready to talk about this one yet.
-Green Bay's hiring of Ted Thompson as GM....it's about time that title was stripped from Sherman. This guy sounds promising. Now we can only hope that Brett will stick around and Thompson makes the right coaching, drafting, and free agency moves. Not that much to ask, is it?
-Graduating in 2005....I have a little over 4 months left in my college career. That's both exciting and scary on a few levels. On one hand, I'll be ecstatic to start making money and not rack up any more debt, yet I'll be weeping to leave the college life when I start the 40-60 hour work week. I think it would help if I got some traveling in some time next summer.
-Music in 2005....it could be a very exciting year of new releases. Personally, I'm heavily ancipating new albums from Coldplay, Limbeck, The Format, Motion City Soundtrack, Brand New, Acceptance, The Mars Volta, Beck, Ryan Adams, The Flaming Lips, Outkast, and hopefully some new Kanye West.
-USA in 2005....okay that just sounds funny but on a serious note let's hope that we can get out of the mess in Iraq, that our contributions to the Tsunami disaster aid might help improve other nations' view of America, and that W. can manage not that fuck things up any worse.

Two fingers,

Eric

CURRENT LISTENING: Green Day - American Idiot (my pick for album of the year in 2004!)