Aaron Gillespie

Motto: Always Make SURE Your Column Gets Posted Before You Close Out of it Without Saving

 >  I  Already Updated This Once. Sometimes, I Just Need to Check to Make Sure that This Gets Online Before I Close Out of It. I Could save Myself from Writing a Lot of These Paragraphs. The Good News is- I Got a Practice Run In. This One Should be AWESOME. Plus I’ve Got a Few Hours to Kill. That Means a Few Things. I’m going to Address This in a Top 5:. I’ll Switch the “Numbers” back to the “Top 5:”

 > Yeah…. I’ve Gotten Quite a Lot of What I’m going to be Getting for Christmas. It’s Plugged Into my computer Right Now Actually. Windows Mobile Powered Moto Q Action. I Could Go on for a Long Time about all the Cool Nifty Things I can do with It. But I’ve Learned Recently that those Finer Details Aren’t Really the Most Fascinating Subject to Constantly Talk About.

 > The Column Doesn’t have Enough Pictures- I’ll Change that in ONE Paragraph.

 > I got a Hair Cut- a Big One. I Went from Shaggy from Scooby-Doo to Aaron: Age 12. What do You Think? Feel Free to Comment in the form of a Comment. Hopefully that Will Help Me to Pull Off the New Hat I Bought I Looked Kinda Goofy in it Before… I Thought Everybody Looked Goofy in It- But Christine (almost) Proved Me Wrong. The Last Picture I Saved for This Paragraph, the Picture Paragraph. Here’s Me with My New Link to the World. I’m Sure You Were Interested in Seeing It.

 > Speaking of Christine. Our One Year Recently Past, She is by far the Best Thing that’s Ever Happened to Me. Which is Saying Something… I’ve Had a Pretty Good Life. She’s the Cherry on Top.

 > I’m having a Really hard Time Maintaining a Stream of Thought that can be Navigated without the Help of a Sherpa, GPS Navigation System, Compass, Google Maps, or a Backseat Driver. Do You See where I’m Coming from Now? This Could be Due to Many Factors. It’s Most Likely Due to the Massive Helpings of Mt. Dew I’ve Had Lately. Yeah…

 > My First Round of Classes at KU is Over. I’ve Got 3 A’s and 2 B’s… Which I’m Happy With. I Ended Up Getting the SECOND Letter in “Calc” as the Grade for that Class. I Was Almost Sure I was Going to get the First Letter. (did anybody follow that action right there?) I’m Looking Forward Next Semester Still. No Classes on Saturday. I Still Have Class Late at Night. It’ll be Okay. I’m Going to Need to Get a Job.

 > Anybody Know a Place in Lawrence that Pays You Over 10$ an Hour for Doing Something that I would Do for Fun? Possibly, Watching Movies, Playing with Cool Stuff, and/or Throwing Balled Up Pieces of Paper in Trashcans from Varying Distances Away.

 > Yeah, I’ll Call this Good.

Top 5: Things I Plan on Getting Done in the Next 3 Hours   

5. Wrapping the Presents I Got for Everybody4. Backing Up My Computer Onto some DVDs3. Play with My Phone More2. Get My Shtuff Straight1. Finish This Bad Boy Up

Quotes:

” Mt. Dew Game Fuel is Better than Life “
         - Yeah…. Sure….. -

” So I’m Officially Jealous “
         - Both Jon Sliter and Christine Fraker, Maybe Not those Words Exactly….. but Essentially –  

Motto: Don’t Turn that Dial! (It’ll Cost You $120.00)

 >  I Don’t Have an Excuse for Why it’s Been a While. You All Should Know that My Updates Occur on a Seemingly Random Basis by Now.

 > Okay- Main Topic Introduction Time:

 > I Got Pulled Over Two Days Back. I Was Driving with My Headlights Turned Off in at 11 O’Clock at Night. Pretty Stupid, I Know- But I Have a List of a Few Things that Should be Noted in My Defense:

1. I Didn’t Get Very Far from Where I started Before I got Pulled Over

2. The Streets were Lit Almost the Entire way There

3. It wasn’t My Car, so I Hadn’t Developed the Habits of Turning the Lights On (to be honest, my habit of twisting the thing to turn the lights ON may very well have been how they got turned OFF in the first place… maybe not, we don’t know)
4. The Ground was Wet, So The Street Lights were Reflecting Off of the Pavement, Giving the Appearance that the Lights Lighting the Pavement in front of Me were, in fact, Traveling with Me

5. I Hadn’t Met a Single Car Until the Policeman, Which is TERRIBLE Luck (I’m sure anybody else would have flashed their lights and called me a dumbass under their breath)

6. Because I was Trying to go the Short Way, Which I Hadn’t Went before, I was more Focusing on HOW to get to the place I was going than the Actual Act of Getting There.

7. I Hadn’t had ANY Trouble at ALL Seeing the Road or Where I was At.

8. I DID have Parking Lights On- Not Very Bright- but They are at Least Lights.

Anyways, I got Pulled Over and the Policeman Gave me a Ticket which Turned Out to Cost $120.00. I Understand How NORMALLY somebody driving at night with No Lights On Would be Stupid Enough to Warrant Giving Up $120. But, Given My Particular Circumstances, It Seems a Bit Excessive. I’m Not Really Complaining Though, Because I Understand that the System Doesn’t Work Like that and I Probably Could have Contested the Charges or Whatever to Plead Why I’m not a Complete Idiot, but It’s Easier Just to Cut Your Loses and Move on at That Point in Time. Which is Exactly what I was Wanting to Do. You Know My Luck, Though. Before Going to Pay My Fine I did a Balance Inquiry on My Debit Card- $121.72. I Think to Myself “YES, Just Enough to Get this Over With,” or So I Thought. As it Turns There’s an $18 Technology Fee if You want to Pay a Fine from $100 to $200 with a Card, So I’ll Come Up Short. Luckily I Knew of an ATM 2 Blocks Away. So I Went to It- I Said I wanted $120.00. I was Getting Ready to Press “Enter” When I Remembered “Oh Shit, Isn’t there a $2 Transaction Fee?”  So I think to Myself- Well, That’s Only 28 Cents Difference, I’ve EASILY got 28 Cents in My Car! Come to Find Out- You Can Only Make Withdrawals in Increments of $10. So I Can Only get Out $110.00. This Leaves Me $10.00 Short. I Look in My Wallet (There’s Good News) I’ve Got Zero Dollars of Hard Cash. So I Take Out $110.00 and Hope to God I had 10$ in My Car. As it Turns Out, I Had EXACTLY $7.70. So I Had to Call Nick and Get a Big Favor from Him. When He Found Me, He Called me an Idiot and He Gave Me $5. So Now I Owe Him $5 and a Huge Favor and I Just Paid $120.00 to the City of Lawrence because I Twisted a Dial on a Lever to the Left of the Steering Wheel.

 > That was the Story of My Weekend.

 > Christine Got Me “Hot Rod” as an Early Christmas Present. She’s Pretty Sweet, What can I Say.

 > I’ve Only Talked About 3 Things, But This is Possibly One of the Longer Updates Already.

 > Nick was in the Newspaper. Seven South. Yeah.

Numbers: 

28 – Cents that Caused Me to be Short $101 – Ticket I’ve Ever Gotten5 – Finals I have0 – Quotes I have0 – Zero.