Memorial Day has a new meaning for me this year: it means I have 9 more days of school. Yes, a third of you (the half of those who think my blog is funny) are alread done with school. Another third (the third that thinks this blog is stupid) will be in school, specifically here at NU, three days longer than me, so that makes me smile. If you could see me right now, I'd be straight-faced, but smiling on the inside.
Oh, that last third was for the high school kids I'm still in contact with who will either be graduating Sunday or will end school with finals on the 10th. Clarification made.
I was up yesterday until noon finishing a paper...I then slept til 5...and I have another monstrous paper due Wednesday...not monstrous in size, but monstrous in topic...meaning that I hate the topic and have no idea what to write...I'm glad I'm back to using ellipses.
Northwestern's softball team was knocked out of the playoffs, which is depressing, but next year should be amazing.
Speaking of amazing,
Anyway, there's not much to report here. I'm just bored with school and want to leave it. I could use a few months at home.
Hypothetical question: at what point should I accept that I'm never going to go on a date or be kissed? Consequently, what should my course of action be? Priesthood? Gay Spas? Let me know.
5/30: Greg Maddux pitched very nicely, backed up by Hairston, Barrett, and Ramirez (who's heating up finally) homeruns. The Cubs won their 4th straight, 5-3, but the Cards also won, which is no good. Who am I kidding? This season is over.
Random Factoid: A can of Dr. Pepper has 55mg of Sodium.
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5.31.2005
5.23.2005
41 Skidoo!
That's what I've been cheering all day. It's an old-fashioned phrase meaning "throwback/reminiscent of that year" as in "reminiscent of 1941." Why? Because...
That was the last time Northwestern won a National Championship. Until TODAY!!!!
The Northwestern Women's Lacrosse Team went 21-0 on the season, defeated the reigning champs, Virginia, and clinched the first NU Championship in 64 years! On top of that, it's only the 4th year of the program's existence. I am really excited.
Also, our softball team beat Notre Dame twice today to advance to the Sweet 16. It's great to be a Wildcat.
It's also great to almost be done with choir. I spent a total of about 15 hours of my life this weekend dedicated to a choir I dislike singing music I mostly dislike in a church I dislike. It's over now, though, and I didn't register for the choir for next year, so I have 2 more rehearsals and one more church service until je suis fini (that was a little french for y'all)
What else is new? I'm not asking me, I'm asking you. Please: if you read this post, write something in the Chatterbox to your right so I know people care about me. Muchas Gracias (a little spanish for vosotros)
That's all for today; I'll keep it short.
5/22: Mark Prior pitched all 9 innings, and only gave up 3 solo shots. Luckily, Henry Blanco and Jason Dubois drove in 4 runs with their combined two homers, so the Cubs avoided the Chicago weekend sweep, 4-3, over the ChiSox.
Random Factoid: Dane Cook's new CD, Retaliation, comes out this summer. I've had the opportunity to see him perform his new stuff: it's excellent, buy his CD. You want a preview? "It would really suck to get raped when the song Happy Birthday is playing because you would never be able to listen to that again without crying." Oh, Great Dane (the person, not the dog).
pIp pIp.
That was the last time Northwestern won a National Championship. Until TODAY!!!!
The Northwestern Women's Lacrosse Team went 21-0 on the season, defeated the reigning champs, Virginia, and clinched the first NU Championship in 64 years! On top of that, it's only the 4th year of the program's existence. I am really excited.
Also, our softball team beat Notre Dame twice today to advance to the Sweet 16. It's great to be a Wildcat.
It's also great to almost be done with choir. I spent a total of about 15 hours of my life this weekend dedicated to a choir I dislike singing music I mostly dislike in a church I dislike. It's over now, though, and I didn't register for the choir for next year, so I have 2 more rehearsals and one more church service until je suis fini (that was a little french for y'all)
What else is new? I'm not asking me, I'm asking you. Please: if you read this post, write something in the Chatterbox to your right so I know people care about me. Muchas Gracias (a little spanish for vosotros)
That's all for today; I'll keep it short.
5/22: Mark Prior pitched all 9 innings, and only gave up 3 solo shots. Luckily, Henry Blanco and Jason Dubois drove in 4 runs with their combined two homers, so the Cubs avoided the Chicago weekend sweep, 4-3, over the ChiSox.
Random Factoid: Dane Cook's new CD, Retaliation, comes out this summer. I've had the opportunity to see him perform his new stuff: it's excellent, buy his CD. You want a preview? "It would really suck to get raped when the song Happy Birthday is playing because you would never be able to listen to that again without crying." Oh, Great Dane (the person, not the dog).
pIp pIp.
5.19.2005
Highlight Reel
So, it has been forever since I looked at my blog...I forgot how funny-slash-weird I am. I encourage you to read some of the previous posts, especially the most recent, though they're all good...I decided to publish a highlight reel each week of some of my best blog comments.
Oh, and be sure to read the post right below this one: it's my actual first post in 8 months...you won't want to miss it.
--September 2, 2004--
"Um...Septemberfest is coming up. I'll tell you guys all about it. (Are there usually ostriches? It doesn't really matter. You won't be there, so anything I say you'll have to believe.) Yeah, I'm pretty sure Schaumburg went with the Ostrich theme this year. Ostrich performances, Ostrich crafters, Ostriches in the pond, Miss Septemberfest is an Ostrich, and they're serving Ostrich meat, the other, OTHER white meat. Actually it's red.
There, you'd better believe it was the most exciting and unusual Septemberfest ever.
Or it will be, when it occurs."
--August 25, 2004--
"So, why am I updating at 2:33 pm on Aug. 25 in St. Charles? Very simple: the college kids told me to. And you have to do what college kids say, or they'll trip you on the sidewalk, tear your backpack off your back, throw your books into a puddle, step on you, force you to swallow roofies. True story. Darn college kids...frazzle-tazzle-gran-drazzle-varmint college kids (my best yosemite sam impression)."
--July 4, 2004--
"Was just listening to my 30th Anniversary Dr. Demento Album bought in Ohio (#1, just like anyother normal 17 year old, #2, does anyone say "album" any more? not like photo album or "i'll bum along" but like a music album) and I realized how perfect the lyrics of one song's refrain are for me..."
--June 21, 2004--
"Sue me, what can you do me? I haven't blogged in 13 days. But really, what's in 13 days besides 312 hours? (no, i didn't use mental math...there's this little thing under accessories called "Paint." Right above that is "Notepad."
You haven't read any posts from me lately for a very good reason...I haven't posted...but today, that changes...not the you not reading it part, but the me not posting part.
So why am i posting now, of all times? Well, I sup-post-ed it's because i left a post-it to post it today, it meaning my completely zany randomness at 1:50am.
By the way, what I was getting at earlier was that right above "Notepad" is "Command Prompter.""
--March 27, 2004--
"The mail came an hour ago (which is a whole nother story...that i'll tell you mid sentence to leave you in suspense...8 months ago our mailwoman of 7 years was relocated...since then we have had a variety of mailmen, but they all deliver the mail at 3:30....our mail used to come at 10:30...i understand that someone has to get the mail at 3:30, but if you are used to getting the mail at 10:30, someone else must be used to getting it at 3:30, so why switch things around? Just follow the same schedule as your predecessor) and I got an acceptance letter from Northwestern! I'm ecstatic."
Oh, and be sure to read the post right below this one: it's my actual first post in 8 months...you won't want to miss it.
--September 2, 2004--
"Um...Septemberfest is coming up. I'll tell you guys all about it. (Are there usually ostriches? It doesn't really matter. You won't be there, so anything I say you'll have to believe.) Yeah, I'm pretty sure Schaumburg went with the Ostrich theme this year. Ostrich performances, Ostrich crafters, Ostriches in the pond, Miss Septemberfest is an Ostrich, and they're serving Ostrich meat, the other, OTHER white meat. Actually it's red.
There, you'd better believe it was the most exciting and unusual Septemberfest ever.
Or it will be, when it occurs."
--August 25, 2004--
"So, why am I updating at 2:33 pm on Aug. 25 in St. Charles? Very simple: the college kids told me to. And you have to do what college kids say, or they'll trip you on the sidewalk, tear your backpack off your back, throw your books into a puddle, step on you, force you to swallow roofies. True story. Darn college kids...frazzle-tazzle-gran-drazzle-varmint college kids (my best yosemite sam impression)."
--July 4, 2004--
"Was just listening to my 30th Anniversary Dr. Demento Album bought in Ohio (#1, just like anyother normal 17 year old, #2, does anyone say "album" any more? not like photo album or "i'll bum along" but like a music album) and I realized how perfect the lyrics of one song's refrain are for me..."
--June 21, 2004--
"Sue me, what can you do me? I haven't blogged in 13 days. But really, what's in 13 days besides 312 hours? (no, i didn't use mental math...there's this little thing under accessories called "Paint." Right above that is "Notepad."
You haven't read any posts from me lately for a very good reason...I haven't posted...but today, that changes...not the you not reading it part, but the me not posting part.
So why am i posting now, of all times? Well, I sup-post-ed it's because i left a post-it to post it today, it meaning my completely zany randomness at 1:50am.
By the way, what I was getting at earlier was that right above "Notepad" is "Command Prompter.""
--March 27, 2004--
"The mail came an hour ago (which is a whole nother story...that i'll tell you mid sentence to leave you in suspense...8 months ago our mailwoman of 7 years was relocated...since then we have had a variety of mailmen, but they all deliver the mail at 3:30....our mail used to come at 10:30...i understand that someone has to get the mail at 3:30, but if you are used to getting the mail at 10:30, someone else must be used to getting it at 3:30, so why switch things around? Just follow the same schedule as your predecessor) and I got an acceptance letter from Northwestern! I'm ecstatic."
Forgive me, people, for it has been 8 months since my last post
Well, 8 months and a day.
I'm sorry it's been so long, friends, old and new. None of you probably check it anymore, but I'll be sure to spread the word and have you back on the Mortonson brainwaves. I hope you missed me, because you're about to get a heaping dose of random ranting Ryan, and the use of words like "heaping." (Incidentally, JoeMac's sudden reblogging has been my inspiration...we're still very competitive).
So, when I last blogged, I was four days into the school year. At that time, I was enjoying myself but still preferred high school. Eight months later, with still a month of school to go (that whole "not in school until mid-September thing has come back to bite us...big time) I am still enjoying myself and still prefer high school. I know, you're thinking "gee, a ham sandwich would taste really good right now" and maybe "why does he still like high school after experiencing college?" Well, friends, you can read the rest of my train-of-thought blog to find out why I still like HS before going to the kitchen for that ham sandwich (I reccommend putting mayonnaise and barbeque sauce on it in regards to condiments).
College has been wonderful for me, with a ton of new friends and great experiences and a lot of relaxation. However, it's tough to leave home, and it's tough to not be king anymore (cue the song from The Producers...if you don't know what I'm talking about, you're a bum), and it's tough to not have the same schedule everyday. Change is evil.
That leads into my next topic: What liberalizing effect? I'm just as conservative as ever, if not more so, after meeting a bunch of Republicans here who band together and strategize for future arguments against the 87% of Dems on campus (and one of the Repubs is cute as a button...that's an inside-joke college-style for any of my NU friends reading this)(if you SHS friends feel jealous, just be consoled by the fact that no one here calls me Mortonson). So, getting back on track from my Faulkner-like deviations, I still hate change, progress, society, olives, amorality, and modern music. (did you do a double take on that? yes, I threw olives in there just so you would...aren't I a character?)
Alright, so this is going to be a big-butt post...I recommend taking it in dosages...surf the web, then come back, etc.
Let me start with college life. My dorm is the Public Affairs Residential College. There are about six rooms that share a suite area, and four suites per floor. My suite borders another guys suite, so we call the "big suite." Actually, it's the purple suite because my suite is the red suite and theirs is the blue suite. Get it? I've met a ton of great people: my roomate, Kyle; his girlfriend, Brittany; the guys across from our room, Nate and Kyle (we call my roomate, Kyle Adams, Kadams, and the other guy, Kyle Eck, Keck, as if you needed to know that); the conservative pundit down the hall, Guy; the racist/poor sport/ good guy next to Guy, Cary; and many others. No love interest, yet, though...it's only a matter of time...i'm assuming "matter of" translates to "30 years."
I'm really involved in the radio station here...I finally have my own Broadway music show...at 4am Saturday mornings, but it's on the air! 89.3FM. I also do a ton of sports stuff...I've down color for women's basketball games and play-by-play for baseball...I'm in two choirs, one I get paid good money for and one I love the director...but both I hate...I'm not doing the pro-bono one next year.
I decided to make this shorter, actually...I'll go into more depth on things later.
Let me recap some exciting things that have happened in the past 8 months that I haven't posted about that I should have and maybe will some time: THE RE-ELECTION OF GEORGE W. BUSH!!! (come on, you know you love him)(I actually went with 6 of the people in my dorm to DC for the inauguration...it was amazing); the selection of Pope Benedict XVI; My sister Cheyenne's Reconciliation and First Communion (Sarah's 8th Grade Graduation is next week); Sarah as Annie in Annie; My Grandma Morton died (a story in itself) and my Grandma Heitz was put in a nursing home; I got to see Al Sharpton and Dane Cook (separately) while on campus; any many other things I'm sure I'm forgetting.
There will be many posts from now on, I promise.
Do you remember the standards of my posts? The Cubs Update and the Random Factoid. Here they are:
5/19/05: The Cubs did not play today. They're 18-20 and play the best team in the MLB this weekend, the other Chicago team.
Random Factoid: George Eastman founded the Kodak company.
Pip Pip!
I'm sorry it's been so long, friends, old and new. None of you probably check it anymore, but I'll be sure to spread the word and have you back on the Mortonson brainwaves. I hope you missed me, because you're about to get a heaping dose of random ranting Ryan, and the use of words like "heaping." (Incidentally, JoeMac's sudden reblogging has been my inspiration...we're still very competitive).
So, when I last blogged, I was four days into the school year. At that time, I was enjoying myself but still preferred high school. Eight months later, with still a month of school to go (that whole "not in school until mid-September thing has come back to bite us...big time) I am still enjoying myself and still prefer high school. I know, you're thinking "gee, a ham sandwich would taste really good right now" and maybe "why does he still like high school after experiencing college?" Well, friends, you can read the rest of my train-of-thought blog to find out why I still like HS before going to the kitchen for that ham sandwich (I reccommend putting mayonnaise and barbeque sauce on it in regards to condiments).
College has been wonderful for me, with a ton of new friends and great experiences and a lot of relaxation. However, it's tough to leave home, and it's tough to not be king anymore (cue the song from The Producers...if you don't know what I'm talking about, you're a bum), and it's tough to not have the same schedule everyday. Change is evil.
That leads into my next topic: What liberalizing effect? I'm just as conservative as ever, if not more so, after meeting a bunch of Republicans here who band together and strategize for future arguments against the 87% of Dems on campus (and one of the Repubs is cute as a button...that's an inside-joke college-style for any of my NU friends reading this)(if you SHS friends feel jealous, just be consoled by the fact that no one here calls me Mortonson). So, getting back on track from my Faulkner-like deviations, I still hate change, progress, society, olives, amorality, and modern music. (did you do a double take on that? yes, I threw olives in there just so you would...aren't I a character?)
Alright, so this is going to be a big-butt post...I recommend taking it in dosages...surf the web, then come back, etc.
Let me start with college life. My dorm is the Public Affairs Residential College. There are about six rooms that share a suite area, and four suites per floor. My suite borders another guys suite, so we call the "big suite." Actually, it's the purple suite because my suite is the red suite and theirs is the blue suite. Get it? I've met a ton of great people: my roomate, Kyle; his girlfriend, Brittany; the guys across from our room, Nate and Kyle (we call my roomate, Kyle Adams, Kadams, and the other guy, Kyle Eck, Keck, as if you needed to know that); the conservative pundit down the hall, Guy; the racist/poor sport/ good guy next to Guy, Cary; and many others. No love interest, yet, though...it's only a matter of time...i'm assuming "matter of" translates to "30 years."
I'm really involved in the radio station here...I finally have my own Broadway music show...at 4am Saturday mornings, but it's on the air! 89.3FM. I also do a ton of sports stuff...I've down color for women's basketball games and play-by-play for baseball...I'm in two choirs, one I get paid good money for and one I love the director...but both I hate...I'm not doing the pro-bono one next year.
I decided to make this shorter, actually...I'll go into more depth on things later.
Let me recap some exciting things that have happened in the past 8 months that I haven't posted about that I should have and maybe will some time: THE RE-ELECTION OF GEORGE W. BUSH!!! (come on, you know you love him)(I actually went with 6 of the people in my dorm to DC for the inauguration...it was amazing); the selection of Pope Benedict XVI; My sister Cheyenne's Reconciliation and First Communion (Sarah's 8th Grade Graduation is next week); Sarah as Annie in Annie; My Grandma Morton died (a story in itself) and my Grandma Heitz was put in a nursing home; I got to see Al Sharpton and Dane Cook (separately) while on campus; any many other things I'm sure I'm forgetting.
There will be many posts from now on, I promise.
Do you remember the standards of my posts? The Cubs Update and the Random Factoid. Here they are:
5/19/05: The Cubs did not play today. They're 18-20 and play the best team in the MLB this weekend, the other Chicago team.
Random Factoid: George Eastman founded the Kodak company.
Pip Pip!