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!