I am Jarman.

the single-turn jar-opener superhuman wonder freak

Tuesday, February 13

She's actual size... but looks bigger somehow...

Loyal readers!
crickets: *chirp*

I understand the past *counts on fingers*..2..3 THREE OR SO MONTHS have been without updates! But this post obviously counts as a direct solution to that problem. Now some of you may have been asking yourself "how is Jarman doing?" "what has Jarman been up to?" "WHERE IS JARMAN!?" And I have one reply: I have been truly and honestly fiddling around out here to make my life better.
The good news is that it's working! The bad news is that i'm too busy being busy or keeping myself busy to update this blog. Is that a sacrifice i've been willing to make?
crickets: *chirpdyderp*
Nevermind them, they're HATERS.

I figure that the amount of time i've been gone deserves a recap. And that yes, this is the time of year i'm going to do my "re-cap." (what is re-cap the abbreviation of? recapitulate? recapture? retarded Capistrano Sparrow?) Rebirdless, I'll get goin' with the recap after this little morsel from recent memory.

My girlfriend Jillian and I have been talking about what's to happen after I graduate from this here university. We have both agreed to stay together no matter what happens since we are so mind-bogglingly happy with each other. That being agreed upon, she suggested we move to San Diego, where we could both find jobs that we want, instead of the jobs we could find in St Louis. Interior design jobs would be applied where people are building houses, and San Diego is building lots of houses (so is Austin, i saw that on TV) so it would make sense to look for a job where the job is offered. In MY case, videogames are all based on the West coast and I would be able to at least be physically closer to the job i've dreamed of if i moved closer to it.
I went to bed last night, laying on my back with my folded arms behind my head as if looking up at the stars (uniform "dreamer" posture) and realized that moving to San Diego would easily be the greatest thing i've ever done for myself. College was more a sweeping maneuver made by my parents/coaches in order to decrease the amount of time i spend in the corner with a dunce hat on my head. It worked. Thank you, endlessly. But now I want to do this for myself, not on advice of my parents or teachers or coaches or court-order. I'm doing this for myself to finally wear the suit of armor i've always seen myself in. It's the first time I ever feel like i've done something for myself. It's huge and incredible and it will be fecking difficult, but Jill said she'd go with me so how scared can I be?(I love her lots, beeteedub)


HEY! WITH THE RECAP! ALRIGHT!
As for what's happened since October, I think I should cue up the crickets in order to simulate how many memories my brain has obtained. But instead of a lonely "chirp", it's an overwhelming sea of cracked-up monster crickets with AK-47's. (Call Tarantino)
I'm just gunna spread this out like butter on the smooth, white bagel that is the blog. And just pretend that before writing this out, I had no idea how much butter there is in my noodle, and that it may take a while to write down. (that's 3 food references in 2 sentences, i must be hungry) HEER GOZE!
Halloween fell in October again! banana costume. really fun. i missed being on the team for all the jokes and having tons of friends.
the scooter is incredible. i laaaav it
Novembrah: it's getting cold and I haven't been coaching because of studying and classes. the team is falling away from me and that's fine because it's like a different team now that i'm not in it..right?
the rest of November is a blurrzurd untill my birthday, dec. 1st...which should be singled out as the most blurring moment of my life. The weather was so bad that they cancelled school. the roads were fucked and Jill couldn't come see me. and i already hated birthdays so I drank so much that i didn't remember (thank gahd) pushing my friends around and being a mess and an all around hellspawn. the patience of my friends and roommates to have dealt with me during that night is tremendous. i am very thankful.
dec 2nd Jill and I spoke about what happened.
i am an idiot.
i'm never drinking again.
finals. somehow i make the C's i need in order to keep my head above water in the classes in my major.
go to St Louis for winter break and realize how crappy Lee feels about himself, which in turn makes me feel crappy. i make my crap his crap and he craps himself several times. daipers fail to solve our problems and we have suddenly invested hundreds of dollars on toilet paper.
this metaphor didn't really work out but i'm leaving it anyway.
xmas and new years were really fun and i got to kiss jilly at midnacht.
she learns that i'm an excellent dancer.
i learn how crappy life can be in Lebanon after partying with Chad.
no more crap about my brothers, this blog is about MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Jan-rew-air-E: we play frisbee off and on and the g-force is blooming.
leeman and I invest in a hookah pipe and now are "smokers" hututututut
i splurged on the Time Life Soft Rock collection (11 cds, tons of classics) for xmas and pay... too much per month.
School begins.
i register late (again)
i have to take 4 classes and get A's in 3 of them.
correction made: i have to take 4 classes and get B's in 3 of them
correction #2, instance 3: I ONLY HAVE TO TAKE 3 CLASSES AND AVERAGE A 3.0 TO GRADUATE.
my light schedule permits me to coach more, so i'm at the pool more and realize that i forgot how to coach (update: i'm currently getting better but i still talk too much)
my scooter hates freezing temperatures. it doesn't run well and i get scared a lot.
my 3 classes are great, one of them is a capstone class.
the capstone project: 30-40 page paper on "swimming and diving in the ancient world"
it's fucking freezing cold in this house.
Ferbrurarry: it's SO fucking freezing in this house
after coaching and hearing all the team drama, i'm thankfull for the friends i have here at school that i basically met through lee.
[quotes montage]
"last person to get drunk drives!" -me
"do you think there are as many colors as numbers?" -steff
"maaaan" (Jackie saying this to either sara or steff cracks me up becaue they are women)
"Jill, can I borrow your eyeliner?" -JJ
"Hassamu is red
Suikun is blue
Pokemon is kind of lame
But since I know you like it
I googled pokemon
to write a lame poem
I love you Pikachu."
-Jill's valentine's poem to me hahahaha LARF!
"what if you had the best sandwich in the world, and when you took a dump after eating it, it was whole and apparently uneaten... would you eat it again?" -something Dan Soko never said, but probably thought while working at subway

So I'm not sure what else to re-cap.. it seems i've written down everything i've remembered or tried to remember...
Oh yeah, my Watters side of the family is going to Alaska. We're gunna take the train up from WA and then cruise ship back down along the coastline. I'm super pumped. Also after graduating, I'm planning on moving into a place with Robert Martin. Hopefully in Kirkwood or Webster or something closer like that cuz he helps out a lot at the kwood methodist church.
I won a guitar hero 2 tournament in Jan. as well. :D
JJ is running a marathon, steff got into the same sorority as Emm@, my ex is going out with the guy i thought she was cheating on me with when we broke up, and i really like living with my roommate Nate. I also finished the book i've been reading for over a year now: Dusk by Tim Lebbon. The sequel is coming out in March... titled Dawn. Clever. (actually very appropriate, i'm excited).
I really want to see Pan's Labyrinth.
I can't wait for Pirates 3.
or Casino Royale on dvd
or Fantastic 4: rise of the silver surfer
or castle crashers
or guitar hero for 360
or the Lego Batman game
and basically all of these things require money so the one thing i want more than anything else is a JOB.