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| i walk back on to xanga and all i see are mice running around and a few people stabbing at them with old fire pokers....
all online journals will end up like this...
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| The Patmoor is currently racing towards thier new cd. the name is still unknown but the music is diverse and, might i say, awesome. go check out some of thier stuff on www.myspace.com/coventrypatmoor and dance.
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| Obscure Sports
by Mike Zill
Many activities that are acclaimed obscure sports are handed down though out the generations to be enjoyed by every one. Families for generations have either embarrassed their kids by having no creativity what so ever or have made them the village idiot by being to creative, thus following the family line. Mine however is a different story all together.
It all started when my dad was back in college. He did not talk about it much for the reason that he thought I might actually have been misled in what fun actually is. Little did he know that my version of fun was nowhere near where he thought. It was much more developed and further bent around dangerous, needless to say stupid, ideas.
There’s something to be said about the people that will willingly step into a hallway wearing only minimal padding, carrying rackets, while a gasoline soaked tennis ball is being rocketed back and forth between them. Now that you have a vivid image in your head imagine them playing this with the lights shut off. There have never been any fatalities from this game but there were probably a lot of personal injuries involving third degree burns.
Their thirst for adventure and risk was satisfied, and their legend was passed down to be told to their youngest of kin, which happened to be me. Now I it is I who find myself attempting to out do my father and his father before he.
My plan involves a large fenced in field full on tall brown grass, a bright green and pink suit, some one to wear the suit, and my self place on a wooden tower in the middle holding what would appear to be a potato cannon. Cruel and unusual I know, but then I did not tell you the rest of it; there are about thirty really angry beavers caged in around the legs of my wooden tower. I’m pretty sure by now you figured out that it was a game of speed, to see how many times I could hit the person (who probably wont be able to move much less save me from the beavers) with the potato cannon.
And there you have it, the true story of family oriented games.
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| Obscure Sports
By Mike
It has never come to the point where any one thought eating was a sport; save for the thing we know as “lack of eating” we learned so long ago in health class. That and extremely disorienting binging of the carnival food we know as pie. I didn’t win that contest.
What I have discovered here in the heart of Memphis is a different kind of sport involving food. It actually focuses on eating healthy for as cheap as possible, sometimes just for as cheap as possible. It’s called College.
The average college student hardly ever accomplishes the careful art of spending money and eating healthy. Most of what they eat consists of Ramen Noodles and Easy Mac, which in fact a second ago I traded another one of my colleagues an Easy Mac for
a Ramen. Beef to be specific.
In such a game every one can win or lose but yet no one is triumphant over anyone else. Except for my roommate Ty who just a few minutes ago won a weeks worth of food to a smiley face placed very conveniently on the back of his hand out.
Now I know what your thinking. And yes there is a way to beat the system. I have taken notes on it thus far which I shall let you read some, but not all.
The notes go as follows:
- Switch one thing at a time: unhealthy for healthy.
- Go to the health food isle at Kroger.
- Stay away from eating disorders.
- Watch for the signs.- Sleep deprivation holds serious consequences
- Get sleep!!!!!!
- Go to bed early!!!!!
- Don’t question me boy!!!!!
- Oh yeah, and don’t drink coffee. It increases stress…
- So what you have to do is get enough sleep.
- Work off your sleep debt.
- Go to bed earlier and earlier.
- Take naps too.
- They good.
- I promise you…
In conclusion the first week of this sport wraps up with me falling behind greatly in my responsibility to keep up my physical and mental health.
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