So I know it have been over a year since the last time I wrote one of these, but John recently posted a link to one of his old blog entries and that got me thinking and I thought what the heck I might as well. So there are a couple of things I wanted to talk about. The first being that I graduated from college again last weekend. Thats right I now have to bachelors degrees. Now the hard part begins, finding a job. Its kind of scary, well to be honest it is really scary. For the last three years I have been working on becoming a teacher, and while it was hard I really enjoyed it. The thing is being a student is safe, there is always someone telling me what to do, the expectations are clearly defined. Now however it is on me to find a job and while I know that I am going to be an amazing teacher, probably one of the best my students are ever going to have, I have this fear, this rock in the bottom of my stomach fear, that I am never going to find a job. I have the grades (I was on the deans list for 3 of the five semester I got a grade at Bowling Green), I have the awards ( I scored in the top 10% of the nation on the tests you need to get your teaching license), and I went to the right school (Bowling Green is in the top 20 nationally for undergrad in education) I’m still afraid I wont be able to find a job. Yeah so by the way if any of you know of a High School Social Studies position thats available let me know.

So as some of you may know one of the family dogs died a couple weeks ago. Rocky was the best little dog in the world. I seriously don’t know a single person person who has ever seen him that didn’t want to take him home for themselves. And while I still miss him alot, my parents and sister have caught puppy fever. My sister bought herself a puppy that she is picking up on Saturday, my parents bought two that they are getting in June. I mean they were talking about getting another dog well before Rocky died, but I don’t know it seems that they are just trying to replace him. I don’t know where I am going with this, it just seems too soon to me.

Is it just me but are there no good movies coming out anymore? I mean Iron Man are you kidding me? I liked comic books for about 3 months 20 years ago and I promise you Iron Man wasn’t one of them. I can’t believe how much people like that crap, I will for sure be waiting until it comes out on HBO before I see that.

Seriously how much are the Lions going to suck again this year? I gave up any hope for a good team when we drafted Mike Williams a couple of years ago, but seriously is Matt Millen even trying any more? What does it take to get fired? I am not even going to try and write the two guys we drafted in the first two rounds names, but I can tell you I have never heard of them before. I was actually kind of surprised we didn’t draft Devin Thomas the wide receiver from State (also from my hometown of Canton by the way) I mean with Roy Williams in the last year of his contract we are going to need a receiver after he goes anywhere but Detroit next year. My prediction the Lions will go 5 and 11, Millen will keep his job but Marinelli (the head coach) will get fired.

State should be good next year though, at least we have a good shot of beating Michigan and thats always a successful season when that happens. I’m guessing 8 and 4 maybe 9 and 3 if we get lucky. Yeah in case you couldn’t tell I can’t wait for football to start again. I can handle no football while college basketball is playing because then I have State to root for, but from the time State gets knocked out of the NCAA tournament until football starts I really don’t watch that much sports. For some reason I can’t get into the NBA (if the Pistons go to the Finals I will probably watch that but thats about it) baseball is only good if I am at the game and half in the bag, and hockey shouldn’t even be considered a sport.

One last topic before I end this, what happened to HBO? HBO used to have the best shows The Wire, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, Rome, Band of Brothers, and of obviously The Sopranos. Now they got nothing, well not completely nothing there is still Entourage thats a pretty good one, and there is another one coming out this summer about the Iraq War from the guys that made the Wire that looks pretty good but I can’t think of the name. Thats about it. Showtime on the other had is really hitting
some homeruns with their programing; Weeds, the Tudors, Dexter, Californication, and probably my favorite Brotherhood. If you haven’t seen Brotherhood I suggest you check it out (its about two brother from Providence Rhode Island one brother is a state senator the other is head of the Irish mob) Its like the Sopranos with politics.

What’s up everybody, it’s time for another Uncle William Speaks. I know it’s been a long time since I wrote one of these, but hey I am lazy and that’s the reason I stopped writing my own blog. I don’t really have a topic in mind right now but I guess I could mention that as I write this the cops are in my apartment. (more…)

Whats up people? Its Uncle William, coming at you with another uncle William speaks. So I told John I was gonna write this thing like a week and a half ago, but a funny thing happened that day, my roommate Rob bought a Xbox 360. See the thing is I don’t have cable yet, and I’ll be the first one to admit that tv runs my life in the evenings. There is a good 4 nights a week where I got certain shows that I watch. And I seem to lose track of time when it isn’t broken into half hour and hour increments.

To make a long story short I get back from class and play 360 all night and by the time I realize what time it is I am to tired to write this thing. All is well, however, because we are getting cable tomorrow, well hopefully we are anyway, the cable guy is supposed to be here sometime between 1 and 5, the problem with that though is we all have class at 2:30 so that dude better be here right at 1.
Subject change
Classes have started up again and it’s a new year of classes. I got this one education class where I can’t really tell if my prof is cool or a dick. He jokes around a lot in class, and if you know me at all you should know that I am not one to keep my mouth shut. Especially here in Bowling Green ccuse the classes are so small and its easier to converse with the prof.

Anyway, Monday before class I was talking to this girl I know and we had a question about the quiz we were about to have. I couldn’t remember his name so I said “dude I gotta quick question.” Well he jumps down my throat a little bit about callin him dude. He said something like “first of all you aren’t going to get anywhere in this class calling me dude.” So I hit him back with a “my bad, I just forgot your name and didn’t know what to call you” so he told me his last name and said I could call him Kevin, which I thought would have ended it. But the rest of the day on Monday and all day today whenever he would call on me he would call me dude. And I talk a lot so it comes up quite a bit. Its like get over it already dude. (yeah I noticed I ended that sentence with a dude, its just one of the things I say like, right, or ura spoon).

I have another education class this semester but it only meets Tuesdays from 6 to 9, well its supposed to go to 9 but we get out at 8. Well anyway the first weekend I was down here I went out to a party with my cousin and some of his friends. Ok and to have this story make sense I gotta let you in on some background information. Me and my friends from State we are nicknamed the “Stoddard boys” but it really comes from the guys I hung out with in Emmons. Travis, D, John, and Double 0. True they all ended up living at Stoddard but so did some other people.

Anyway we used to do this thing when we were drunk where you slap a cup or a drink out of someones had. You always had to be outside but if you got your drink knocked down you just got caught slippin. Everyone would laugh and then you spent the rest of the night trying to do it back to the person that did it to you. Back to the party, well I was pretty drunk and ended up doing it to one of my cousins friends. Not thinking that it would be taken any other way than the joking nature I had intended. The guy I did it to didn’t get really pissed at me, I think he was more shocked than anything else. This other guy that was standing next to us though got a little beer on the back of his legs, and he didn’t find it very amusing at all.

At first I apologized to him cause I felt bad, I was clearly in the wrong I didn’t mean to get any beer on him though you now. This faggot guy keeps up with the attitude though. I started to cop a attitude back at him but we left for the bar shortly after it happened. And at this point you are probably wondering what the hell did all this have to do with the class on Tuesdays from 6 to 9. Well in this class we do about a hour of small group work and watch a video for a hour. In my small group that will meet every week and do all the projects together is this jackass that I spilled beer on at that party. He wasn’t being a dick or anything in class though and actually was the person I got along with the best in the group.

Well I think this is long enough and I have let ya’ll in on enough of my life for one blog. College football starts this weekend. My buckeyes are opening up with Northern Illinois. And MSU starts off with Idaho. Football season is here and it is my favorite time of the year. I am predicting a national championship for the Buckeyes this year, but then again I say that every year. The offense is unstoppable and Jim Tressle always puts together one of the best defenses in the nation year after year. Its not like he didn’t know this was coming losing all these players on defense he has been recruiting accordingly. If they can get past Texas at Texas I don’t think there will be anyone that can stop them. As for Michigan State, we are gonna go 3-0 or 4-0, lose 4 or 5 straight then go .500 the rest of the year, just like every other year. Drew Stanton will ball a couple of games but eventually he will get hurt because he is 85 percent of the offense.
That’s all I got. Peace

So me and Uncle William made an unofficial agreement that he would be a guest writer on my site a couple times a month. Because of that, he gets his own title, because guest blogs are more of one time things. I am kind of glad that he decided to do it though since he chumped out on his own blog. But all is good, because “Philly State of Mind” always has room for the homies.

So how this will normally work is, for the future ones, I won’t even say anything for an intro. The blog post will be all his, and if I have a response, then it will be in the comments. So anyways, here is the first post of “Uncle William Speaks.”

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Hello loyal readers of John’s blog. About a week ago, around the time we got back from Sarah’s place up north, john IM’ed me with the idea of writing guest blogs for him more often since I stopped making my own page. And since I was actually thinking about asking him if I could do that very same thing I said of course. Since then however I have gotten pretty lazy and am only now sitting down to actually write one.

Now that I am here though, I am not really sure what to write about. If it was my blog I would start off with the whole mid-east crisis Israel bombing the crap out of the Gaza strip and Lebanon, but John’s blog isn’t very political so I don’t think I am gonna get into a deep discussion about it. The next thing that comes to mind is some deep philosophical crap like what is reality? Or what awaits us in the after life, but to be honest I have more questions than answers when it comes to shit like that, and I think I am smart enough to know that no one can know for sure. So that topic is out.

That leaves us with just writing about the crap that goes on in my life. Today I had to paint the chairs and tables we keep on the deck. It wasn’t that hard actually but I bitched about it a lot. I really don’t know why I just sat in a chair in the garage with the radio on and painted shit, it was actually kind of fun. Mostly cause I got to listen to the radio while I did it. I love music, but only a certain type of music I like the stuff the play on 96.3 or 93.9. I don’t really know what to call it. It’s not really rock, maybe alternative, I dunno but that’s the stuff I like to listen too. Don’t get me wrong I like other types of music too but that’s my favorite.

My mom was at the store for most of the time while I was painting and so the puppies were left inside by themselves for awhile (which usually means trouble). They aren’t really puppies we just call them that cause they are so small. Rocky is 5 and Sadie is 8. Well anyway when my mom was leaving she called the puppies to the door so they could see that I was just in the garage and they weren’t home alone, but that didn’t stop them they still pissed all over the carpet. Usually we lock them in the back room when they are left home alone because they have a tendency to crap and piss everywhere otherwise. I say they do it out of spite for being left alone, my mom says they do it because they get nervous. Whatever their reasons it is still a pain in the ass to clean it up cause all the carpet in this frickin house is white.

Lets move backwards now to my weekend. It was pretty cool, not as good as the weekend before that (but that weekend would have been pretty hard to top). On Friday I went over to John’s place to play some NCAA football on his Xbox 360. He won 2 out of 3 games, but overall I think I will be the one who gets the most wins between the two of us. First of all he won the first game, he has had the game for a week I just started, I won the second game, then he made me pick a different team and he won the third. I am sayin from now on I am only gonna be Ohio State, no one else. And there is no way you get more victories when I get to be Ohio state. It is kinda unfair though cause Ohio State is the number 1 ranked team in the game, but that’s not my fault I would be running them as my squad if the were 25 I said way before the game came out that ohio state is my squad no matter what they are ranked. And truthfully I always am ohio state in every college football game I ever play. So that was Friday.

Then on Saturday I had the house to myself cause the rents went down to Ohio for a high school reunion. I mostly say around watching tv all day and then went over to Tran’s uncles house that night to play some poker. That was pretty tight except for the fact I lost. I usually lose when I play poker but that’s mostly due to the fact that as the night goes on I get drunker and drunker and I finally go all in on some stupid shit. I couldn’t blame my drunkenness for my losses this weekend however because I didn’t end up drinking.

See last weekend I ended up drinking 2 and a half fifths in 31 hours while I was up at Sarah’s place up north so I figured I should prolly take a break this weekend. Speaking of Sarah’s place that shit was fun as hell, I know John already wrote a blog about it so I wont go into that much detail but that shit was fun as hell. And don’t get me wrong being on the lake was tight and Sarah’s folks hooked it up real tight for us but I think we would have had a great time no matter what we are doing.

Our group of friends is pretty special and the best part of the weekend for me was the talking. We have some great conversations and to be honest I couldn’t tell you what they were about any more. One good thing that came out of that weekend was we all agreed that we should all make it out the bar at least once a month we have too good a time with each other not to hang out more often. Me John and Tran were talking and we also wanted to go up to Sarah’s place once more before the summer was over. Her rents offered a few times while we were there saying we should come back sooner rather than later and it was an awesome time we just don’t really know how to bring up to Sarah. Its gotta be soon too cause the summer is almost over for me. I only have three more weekends before I move back to Ohio.

I am really looking forward to school starting too. It’s not like I don’t love my parents but damn they can get on my nerves sometimes so it will be nice to move out. Second I genuinely like going to class now. I know its hard to believe me uncle William liking class but its all history and political science with a few education classes thrown in. Plus this year my apartment is gonna be tight. I am living with my cousin and two other guys I know in a place that is getting built over the summer. So hey, maybe this year some of you faggots might actually make it down to visit, since the total guest count from last year was 0. I am telling you bowling green has a pretty fun bar scene, and the guys won’t be disappointed cause there are a ton more girls than guys that go there (the two programs that the school is known nationally for is education and nursing). Anyway I think I have rambled on enough here in the coming months I hope to write some more guest blogs for John, until then peace out playas.

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Damn Bill, that was extra long. But the longer the better! In response to you being excited to go back to school, that’s tight. Once I get into web stuff, I loved the classes and it was never a drag going to them. The passion is obvious yet for people like us. I will also agree that we do have a tight group of friends. It’s the Stoddard Alumni!!

Anyways, thanks Uncle William, and welcome to your little corner of my site. Hopefully you will write a tiny bit more. Now we just need to get Paulie to stop being a lazy ass and write as well. Maybe Bill needs to do a guest spot on his too to get it jump started.

peace