My Crazy Life
Somebody once told me after hearing me talk about my day one day, that I should go and write a book about my life. Well I don't know if I'm ready for that yet, but I thought I'd just entertain you with just a little of my daily life.
This page was created in the wee hours of the morning on 2/28/98
2/28/98
I was so frustrated that I lost my money in a candy bar machine, that a friend and I tried to kick the machine in hopes of getting the money back after normal measures failed. When that didn't work, we resorted to brute strength and tilted the machine towards us. I had never done this before but like I said I was determined to get my energy that night. So after we tilted the machine and nothing happened, we threw it back against the wall, and it was like I hit the jackpot or something. Before my eyes, about 6 different candies came out including the one I wanted originally. That was a lot more than what I bargained for. Like I told my friend, I hate it when machines try to mess with me.
3/7/98 I was talking to a friend when all of the sudden, somebody from my dorm bursts in and grabs my broom. I'm like Selim what the heck are you doing? And he's like, look. SO I looked and there was this huge cockroach about 4 inches long and reddish. So Selim takes my broom, sweeps the bug, and next thing I know other people are screaming at him because he could have swept the bug under somebody else's door. Luckily that was not the case but I was upset when I found out he used my broom to kill the bug. Then He's like you might want to clean it, because it got the cockroach's yellow blood on it. GROSS!!!!
3/9/98 I went to check my voicemail to get my messages when I was told I had a package. So when I went to get my package I was given this long tube wiht something in it. I was dumbfounded because I thought it was going to be some late birthday present and so when I looked at the area it came from, it said San Francisco. Now I know nobody who lives in San Francisco, so I got real curious. I then took it with me to the computer lab where I did some work and after taking another look it finally hit me that it wasn't just a random poster. It must have meant that I had been a winner in a computer game contest. I figured there would be no way that I would get the highest score in the Timeshock (c) Demo but what do you know, all that hoping and hours of playing the game paid off. I finally won in a big contest! Wait until I tell my roomate hehe.
3/12/98 Well today I almost lost my arm and foot! Nothing too big of a deal.. Anyways I was circle checking the bus I was about to drive that morning and had my hand checking the rear dual tires when all of the sudden some driver got into my bus and started moving it up foward so there would be room for the other buses to get into what we call HH. Well I of course got the shock of my life and tried to pull my hand out of the moving tires. Luckily I was able to before they got caught in there. Don't ask me how but for once in my life, my big feet didn't hit something so they were fine. But it was amusing to watch what happened next. A group of about 5 drivers rushed over to me and asked me how I was because they had seen what happened. So I told them I was fine and then they gave the driver of my bus a little lecture! I just simply added, next time do me a favor, please check your mirrors before leaving! Let that be a lesson for everybody.
3/31/98 You know what I hate about the university of Maryland?!!! THE FREAKING BUREACRACY!!!! I was so excited today. I mean I was going to declare my major and thought well finally I'll actually be able to tell people what my major is. Well here's what happened... I go to Tydings Hall after a class to declare my major and at first they can't even get my file on the computer! I'm like.. So what now, I don't exist or something? Maybe watching all those episodes of "Nowhere Man" wasn't good for me. Finally some supervisor after about three people tried, is magically able to find my file so I breathe a sigh of relief. So everything is going well until I met with an advisor who talked to me about being an Econ major. I found out that somebody is a really twisted person. It turns out that after last semester laboring through a statistics course that was supposed to count for this major, somebody said let's not count BMGT 230 anymore and instead make them take another stat course that is even harder effective 1/1/98 for people who haven't yet declared Econ their major. The only problem is I never received anyword about this change in policy. I mean heck do you think I would have waited 4 mos to choose my major if I knew they were doing this??!!! I only did that to enjoy as long as I could being a long lost student who could take courses here and there as he pleased without having the forced reality of being known by some classification. And I thought I was going to be done with math this semester! YEAH RIGHT!! Statistics for those of you who have never taken it before, is da numero one most borrrriiiinnngggg class in all of time. Anyone who is a stat major is guaranteed to be fried in garlic oil before they have a social life or are able to remotely communicate with you about anything related to your interests. Nothing against Stat majors, but boring classes tend to interest boring people. Well I guess I've been screwed over once again.
4/1/98
Well today went pretty well not including my math exam. I was hoping it was just going to be an april fools day joke but that was the last thing it was. I think I got a C on it but knowing the math exams here I find that generally I get whatever I thought I got minus 30 percent! Actually this whole week has been good. Maybe it's the weather or something I don't know. Well anyway today I went to the a bake sale that my friend was having to support her class. They were selling some brownies and cookies and ect for only $.50 so I decided while taking a quick break in the middle of work, to buy a brownie. Then the girl there was like oh we're closing so if you want more go ahead. I said are you sure? Well let me tell you this for those of you who don't know. Never ever offer me homemade food like that for free especially when I've been driving the last two hrs! I basically ended up to make a long story short, wiping out their food supply by a considerable margin! Well the craziest thing just happened now. A friend of mine who doesn't even go to my college, just told me after I saw him on instant messenger for the first time, that he saw an article that I wrote in the diamondback that came out last Monday. If you want to see it, it's at the diamondback page. He said that his dad who works at UMD, brought home the paper and he just happened to be glancing through it. I guess it's a small world out there.
6/29/98 Well you know what would be really good? If this university was as good as their parking ticket crew they'd be rated the number one university in the world!! Today I got a $40 ticket because I came home from work and parked the car in front of my apartment. Now it was after 4:30 so I knew I was ok with the time. So I got out of the car and everything was fine at that second. I came back about 5 hrs later to find that I had just gotten a ticket 10 mins ago!! It was because there was a sign in front of my car that said service parking. Of course it was about 7 ft high so I didn't see it when I parked and even weirder it was for the second spot over not the first!! Well if that wasn't bad enough I also found out that a tire on the car needs replacement which is going to cost a lot and a friend was supposed to call me and didn't so I guess I've had a rotten day. Must be the humid weather who knows.
7/9/98 Well I learned two very important lessons today. #1 NEVER LEAVE YOUR CAR WITHOUT CHECKING TO SEE IF YOU HAVE THE KEYS! and #2 WHEN YOU'RE BUSY 1/2 HR=1 HR, SO ALWAYS ALLOW FOR MORE TIME! Well I learned the hard way. I was going to go to work and because my brother left the keys somewhere, because I didn't have them. I went to go get it only when I tried to start the car, it didn't work. Turns out the new keys only opened up the door. So I tried to start the car in all sorts of weird manners with the key, twisting it jamming it, everything. It didn't work, so I thought well I'm screwed because at this point I was already 10 mins late for work. I then went back to where he left the keys and thought maybe he left one that did work. Sure enough after searching under tons of papers I found it. Not soon enough though. My boss did not look happy when I got to work. Well so you think this is bad right. Well later on in the day I went to take a lunch break from work thought I'd go and grab some lunch, check to see if my internship crdit was approved and deposit some checks. So I parked the car in Parking Garage 2 at UMD, and just as I shut the door when getting out I realized I didn't have all of the keys needed to get into this forsaken car! (A Homer Simpson-like Duh came out)
So I ended up waiting an hr or so for the pit crew to try to break into my car. Took them long enough considering it's an '88 Chevy Nova. Well at least I know now that I have a pretty safe car. I then looked at my watch and realized I was already very late getting back to work. I figured what the hell I hate this job if they want to fire me go ahead! So I went afterwards to see if the credit for my internship had been approved. What do you know, the answer was no. Even though the undergraduate advisor for economics said it was ok for me to get credit for an internship when I had less than 56 credits, the stupid Career Center didn't! So I'm screwed. I won't even say what my boss's face looked like when I showed up back to work over an hr late! Well maybe this is because of all the chain letters I didn't respond to! Who knows.
2/8/99 Well here I am, not having written in a long time, having the nerve to do so now! Well I guess, it's just that I've been really busy, but I pledge to try and keep you laughing. Hopefully one day they'll make a movie out of this! In anycase lets see what happened recently, yeah about a week ago I tried chasing a shuttle bus down with my car trying to let the driver know she was doing the route wrong but as it turned out the dispatcher told her to do that, so I felt pretty stupid, and now have to try and hide whenever I see that driver! Hmm, yesterday I missed getting hit by a granny who was probably dreaming about her long lost sewing kit by about 2 inches. I actually lost it and yelled, "What the #@$^ are you doing?" I kind of feel bad about it now but then again I lost one of my nine lives! Hmm, I guess I'm probably down to two or three now! You know what stinks in life? It's when you think people are your friends, but then you realize they're not. I think the world would be a lot better if everyone actually bothered to be open. Just some philosophy for ya. In anycase, I forgot all of the wonderful things that happened to me over winter break so I guess this will be it for this chapter! Oh yeah, I forgot. How many of you would dream of having a future NBA star in your class? Well it happened to me officially as of today! Won't say the name, but he is commonly seen on the highlight reel for his dunks!
6/7/99 Today defined a typical August day in Maryland, at least the metropolitian area! But life ain't fair, it's only early June!! It was a scorching 95 degrees with wayyyy tooo much humidity! I think I would be the best judge of this after having to drive summer circuit for 4 hrs on a bus with no a/c, no break, and a whooping 21 stops not including traffic lights for each 30 min run!! To put it mildly, I think there was a puddle of water underneath me after I finished! Alright what other crazy thing happened. Oh yeah yesterday, actually make that the past two days, I drove charters for the special olympics. It went fine until there was this girl who I think didn't have any control of her hormones. Not make fun of her or anything but it became unbearable when I had two choices. One, stay in the bus without a/c while they finished bowling, or two, try to duck it out in the bowling alley. Well of course I didn't want to fry, so I went into the alley. Then the girl comes up to me yelling at the top of her lungs, "BUUUSSSDRRRIVVEERRRR!!!!!" At that point I knew I was dead! She had found her latest victim, a 21 yr old student-bus driver, and promptly grabbed my arm and started tugging me until she decided she was going to try to hug or kiss me, I don't know and I really don't want to know! I just smiled, and was like, "hi" Thank goodness her mother came to the rescue, but that was the first time I ever was scared of going into a bowling alley. Then later after checking with the dispatcher in the bus about me staying in the bowling alley, I somehow managed to sneak past her. So I quickley walked to the water fountain and hung out there waiting for the awards ceremony to finish. When they were finished, I walked out of the side entrance and found out to my horror that the second door that led to the parking lot was locked in chains, and then as soon as I realized it, wham the first door shut. Guess what, I was locked between two doors and I had to drive 40 people back to campus!! The worst part was, nobody would see or hear me over the pins crashing unless they went to the water fountain or were attempting to make the same mistake I did! I watched in horror as I could see the large group going to my bus wondering where the heck I was. I kept banging on the door in vain and began to think about how I'd hand in my resignation! Luckily after about 15 mins somebody found me and got me out of the mess, needless to say I was embarassed. But then I realized maybe that wasn't so bad after I got back onto the bus and saw guess who running up to me yelling her favorite words,"BBBUUSSS DRRRIVVVEERRR!"
Oh and did I mention just about the most ironic thing happened to me. Someone tell me what the odds of your ex g/f's brother who goes to Cornell univ. in NY, coming down to MD and living with you in the same apartment out of all the apartments in the world!!!?? As soon as I found out the name of the person who was living in the same aparment, I thought I was a goner! Luckily he seems pretty nice and I don't think he knows yet who I am!
10/26/99 Yesterday I drove the charter from hell. First of all the charter manager gave me totally wrong directions for getting to the hay ride we went on. Then a huge gust of wind almost knocked the bus out of my control and that scared the crap out of everyone. These things don't really happen to a car because they're a lot shorter and nowhere near as long. Then when I finally got to the hayride, the back door of the bus wouldn't shut and if it doesn't shut it means u can't move the bus!! Then going back home after a nice relaxing hayride and campfire with smores, I got lost again! I once again scared the crap out of everyone withne I had to go into this residential neighborhood and make a turn around a circle. the only problem was the circle couldn't fit my bus on it, so I had to ride on the curb a bit and pull up to a car and back up. people actually thought I Was going to hit the car because they couldn't judge the bus as well from their seats as I could. Finally when I think everything is going ok, I dropped off the passengers at their dorms which in itself was a nono but I did it because I didn't want them walking in the cold. Well anyways the dispatcher called me up after I did that and I was like oh sh-t someone saw me!! But it turned out that she just wanted to let me know that the fuel pump was broken and if I fueled it and reset the total gallons she'd have my head! Also I saw the scene where there was a big car crash right by where I worked that three potential students died in.
11/23/99 This has been a very bad month for me with a few exceptions. Just to give you an idea, in the last week or so, I have had my brand new Raleigh m50 bike stolen, my parking permit STOLEN, my boss who I liked resigned, I bombed an exam that I totally forgot about, I missed a hearing aid appointment and had the embarassment of being woken up by them telling me so, followed by an angry mother, and then today, I got two jammed fingers in one day, for a total of three for the month. In all my years of playing basketball, I have had maybe 2 jammed fingers in total! Then how would you feel if a girl you liked and knew for a long time, suddenly had a b/f that you never knew about and you found out about it from a friend? Shocking to say the least. Anyways if you have read up to this point on this page, you are either a nut case or a true friend. Either way, you deserve a medal!!
4/9/2000 Ok this has got to be the craziest day. Yesterday I participated in the roadeo, made a total ass out of myself, and drove like a maniac to the point where I left skid marks all over lot 11 here at the university. At one point I lost control of the bus because I was turning the wheel all the way to the right but the bus kept going straight! Luckily, I'm not one too panic and put on the brakes but it was cool, I loved the smell of burning rubber. :) And better yet, I now have left the hated campus parking group with a big dent to their newly painted parking lot :) And here's the strangest thing!! During the roadeo at about 1 pm it was about 82 degrees. You know how cold it is now less than 14 hrs later? Try below freezing and SNOWING!!!!! I kid u not!!
8/9/02 You know, I just read through this whole thing and it just really hit me hard how much of my life has flown by and ect. It all started when I was working on my new webpage for my stock business and I came across a message left in the new guestbook there. I thought, hmmm I wonder if anyone in the last year or so has left me a message on this site. So I came to my site, yes my own website that I've abandoned for so long, and the memories just started hitting me, like I remember the time I sat in my old room at college making this very section. I was using my old roomate Mbako's computer and well needless to say I started a journey into my life that very early morning. I think I got sidetracked for a long time from paying attention to my own creation. I guess you could say life got busy for me. I graduated college, spent a few months trying to adjust somewhat to a new life by working a bit at Shuttle-UM and then leaving on somewhat bad terms unfortunately. Reality has a funny way of hitting you sometimes harder than a two ton brick. It's how you deal with it that makes you what you are. I then went working as a temp at a temp agency and let me tell you, that is only a job for the desperate. I was reduced to finger ripping, brain numbing, conscience shocking, demeaning jobs. Whether it being told to search for porn words on yahoo.com and see how many times google came up as the search engine provider, or registering domain names in south american countries, I learned a little about life then. I then had the best job probably of my life come out of nowhere when I got to work as a webpage designer for a company in the comfort of my own room, safe temporarily from the psycho african american female roomate I had to share the apartment with. That in itself is an experience I will never forget, especially the ultra repetitive, expletive, foul mouthed, 14 word variation, tirade thrown at me because I might have not totally cleaned the sink out after using it to perfection like this individual demanded. Whenever I get asked in a job interview what experience I have with diversity, this living experience easily comes to mind. From my webpage job and form living in hell, I moved onto a job as an internet sales specialist with Fitzgerald Automall. That was pretty stressful but despite the long hours and what not, it paid pretty well. At least now I have nice roomates and a very nice room.
2/18/03 Over Presidents Day weekend including Monday, we got 2 feet of snow, making it probably the biggest or one of the top 3 biggest snow storms of my life, including when I was at Millbrook. The snow was so high that I had trouble finding my car in the parking lot. I spent over 2 hrs shoveling but it all seems pointless since they haven't really done a good job of plowing the roads around my apartment. There is just no where to put the snow when people are digging there cars out so one person's snow blocks another person's car. It has been a welcome distraction though since we haven't gotten any decent snow before this winter since 1996 and I was getting sick of hearing about Iraq. I'll be surprised if any of the schools are open before Friday. I also somehow managed to have my glasses break just by wearing them!! I just put them on and then the lens popped out!! Go figure.
I completed this page at 5:45 am! Shoot I forgot, I have to drive a bus tomorrow at 1.
