Nice To Know You

This season’s growing cold

I fear that this could be the end
And there’s no sign of hope
We’ve got a crisis on our hands

Crisis - Alexisonfire

If you are friends with me on facebook, you've probably heard me complaining about the man pictured above once or twice. It is former Oakland Athletics idiot -- I mean manager -- Bob Geren. Boy, you don't know how good that feels to say, *former* manager. The guy had no business managing a major league baseball team, period. This is three years overdue. The above lines from "Crisis" by Alexisonfire represent what I felt about the A's with Geren at the helm this season.

Today was the first day of finals. I only had one, Spanish 3, and I would be shocked if I got better than a C. That should keep me in the B/B- range in that class, which I'll take. I have two more finals: Stats, and then a dumb presentation that should be done in junior high. But I digress, because Bob Geren was fired. And that's awesome.

It stuns me that it's already June 10th. It's really ridiculous. I don't even have a 2011 calendar yet. I've always joked that I want to stay a kid forever, but I can't wait for senior year, and eventually graduation. One more year looms and then I can actually accomplish things.

I recently read Catcher in the Rye, and I definitely had a similar reaction as the kids on South Park did. It is a tremendously overrated book, in my opinion. Holden Caulfield isn't some profound individual, he's just another kid who whines about everyone sucking to cover up the fact that he's terrified of reality and losing his innocence. Theme-wise, it's almost To Kill A Mockingbird, but with "goddamn" thrown in there eleventy billion times. It is probably the most annoying book I've ever read, not that that's necessarily saying much. The schtick really gets old after about 10 chapters or so.

A couple weeks ago I put about 200 new songs on my iPod. Always great to have a variety of stuff to listen to. Most of it was stuff I just that I should've had, like some Bob Dylan and Pearl Jam, but I added some new Incubus, Parlor Mob, Black Keys, Silversun Pickups... all kinds of stuff. I love music. Like, seriously. Especially music I haven't heard before that's good. Always makes it seem that much more awesome.

Considering I almost forgot about this, I'm sure that the next time I post, it will be summer. Which will be awesome. See you then.

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I was going to post this anyway because I've been listening to this song ad nauseum for the past week or so, but the title and everything really works with the whole Bob Geren thing. This is Nice To Know You by Incubus. Enjoy!