I AM LEGEND

So I watched I AM LEGEND with some buddies before bed last night, then I tried to go right to sleep. Let it be noted that I'm currently sleeping in the basement because my room is occupied with my sisters boy friend. While trying to fall asleep, I kept expecting those crazy zombie things to come and jump out me. Freaky

Family Gatherings

I've decided that my mom's side of my family is too big. Way to big. She had 6 brothers and 5 sisters and they have produced a total of 28 cousins of mine not including me and my sister. In addition, some of my cousins have married and produced approximately roughly another additional 10 to 12 children. I find myself explaining where I go to college and where that is

and yes my sister went there too roughly 23947289347298374 times at these gatherings. Ridiculous? Annoying? Cause for a headache? I believe so.

I Miss Coe

So I've been on winter break for over 2 weeks now and I have to say I wish I could go back to college faster. Don't get me wrong, I love not having to do anything such as homework or go to band, but not having to do anything has pretty much made me do nothing. I go to the gym and play tennis pretty much every day and I've read a few books, but other than that it has been a lot of Christmas get-togethers and watching TV. Nobody from high school has called me to do something and whenever I've contacted someone to see if we could do something, the response is always "Oh we'll for sure do something over break! I'll plan something and let you know." Well clearly either people are forgetting about me or just lying to me, either way not a comforting thought. I mean I understand that we probably weren't great friends in high school but I feel like I always tried to put my friends before me because I always thought it would pay off somewhere. I don't know. Leaving Coe where I've made tons of great friends and coming home to this makes me feel like nobody in high school really liked me that much. It sounds overly dramatic I know but I did wonder sometimes and this is one of those times. Anyway I have a massive headache(which has to do with the sour mood) from getting little to no sleep last night and playing tennis all day and I have a family gathering to drive 2 hours to and from tomorrow. Time for a glass a water, a few advil, and many hours of much needed sleep.

The order of the Harry Potter books from greatest to only great

Harry Potter 4, the Goblet of Fire, is undoubtedly the best Harry Potter book. If you have a differing opinion, I'm  here to tell you that your opinion is in this case, WRONG. the order of the other 6 is open to be disputed and I will respect all opinions.

here's the order

4, 3, 7, 1, 5, 6, 2

Throwing a shoe?

Seriously? Why would you throw a shoe at anybody, especially the president. I'll admit he's not my favorite and I thought it was a tiny bit funny at first, but the more I thought about it, the more I was disgusted by it. Seriously, a shoe?

Returning to college

Overall, I would have to say my Thanksgiving break was a little disappointing. Of the kids from my grade who are now at college, I saw 1 friend which was Andrew Reiner at the gym. Aaron Horsager didn't come back home and Jon Slye remained busy for the entire trip, and other than that, I didn't get manage to arrange anything with a single person from my grade. I have to ask myself why it's like that? But then I remember what high school was like sometimes, it always seemed like I was stretching for people, trying to get closer to people yet often getting ignored or pushed away. I wish I could say that it's not a big deal to me, but that would be a lie. I can't say Thanksgiving break wasn't good for me, aside from being a good break, I realized I have made some great friends at college. Friends that really care about me and couldn't wait for me to come back to Coe. On Thanksgiving day I turned off my phone assuming no one would try to contact me and when i turned on my phone at 4:30, I had 21 text messages from people! 18 of those people were people I met at college taking time out of their day to wish me a happy thanksgiving and many of them were personalized meaning they weren't just a mass text. Although I do have good memories of high school with friends, I realized at break that most of them were just high school friends and that that's ok with me now. I think I have found something better.

New TV

26 inch LCD flat screen for under 300 bucks. Fuck yeah.

Going Home

So today is the Sunday before Thanksgiving and I will be returning home to STA either tomorrow afternoon or sometime Tuesday because I have opted to skip accounting for numerous reasons, most of them are because it bores the hell out of me. I have only been back to St. Anthony once since college started and only twice since late July and I find going home seems now even weirder than going back to college. For fall break, none of my friends in my grade were home from college, or so I knew of, and so I only saw a few friends still in high school. This time however, nearly everyone except Aaron Horsager will be home. Even though its only a day or 2 before I depart for home, I've only contacted 2 people to make sure I get to hang out with them. I really wonder how my stay at home is going to be. Will all the kids I knew in high school contact me to hang out with me or will they have forgotten about me? To be completely honest I've lost touch with many of them for a number of reasons but none of them are because I don't want to see or talk to them anymore. It's just weird with everyone at college being excited to go home when I know at least my trip home will be drastically different from the home I remember. Even if all my friends make contact with me(which I hope they do) and everything is fun and isn't awkward, the main street through STA has been redone and my parents have removed 4 tress from my house and replaced them with new ones. This time when I go home, even the appearance of home won't be the same. Although I'm very excited to have a couple days to just relax and not do any homework, I'm anxious to see whether this break will turn out to be any more than that.

Intent vs Impact

I've come to realize that although a person's intentions are important to factor in when you judge their actions, they aren't as important as they used to be. After all, even though a person may want to help to friends work out a problem, they may make things far worse by helping where their help isn't wanted. I'm not going to go into specific examples in my life in case certain people ever find their way to my blog but I will elaborate on one example. A certain college friend of mine, one Ethan Olson, ventured onto the 5th floor of our dorm which is inhabited by all girls late on Saturday night. After a long night of fun, we decided to go visit some friends hanging out on fifth. One of our friends(female) went into the bathroom to go clean out her water bottle of the residue of a certain substance(alcohol) and Ethan, who had been taking funny pictures for several minutes, decided to take a picture of her washing out her water bottle. A little strange yes, but crossing no lines. Than, apparently a girl walked out of the stall that we did not know and walked past us to her room. Let me note that I considered this detail so unimportant that I hardly remembered it when questioned later. Let me also note that boys are not allowed in the girls 5th floor bathroom. The next day, Ethan received an email from the residence life director and the vice president of the college the next day saying he was required to have a meeting with them because of "sexual harassment charges". It turns out the girl walking past us considered our intentions to be sexually harassing and reported Ethan to the school. Upon entering the meeting, Ethan was cleared of all charges because of the ridiculousness of the accusations, but it just goes to show that Intent does not always result in the desired impact.

The day that changed the world

Whether you agree with what happened yesterday, you can't deny that the world is about to change. It's just weird to think that a normal evening ended with me glued to the TV for hours watching event of the night being reported and projected on CNN. After 2 years of nearly constant "Vote for Obama" ads and messages being thrown at us, it's finally over, in one night. A single night, you'll never see those messages again, until he runs for his next term of course. Everyone remembers where they were when the World Trade Centers went down, will someday people remember when the first black president was elected. Am I going to tell people that I was at Coe College, Armstrong hall, in Micah Nardini's room pretending to be studying for accounting with kids while all we wanted was an excuse to be able to watch the election and pretend we worked on homework? Was yesterday really one of those days?

Election Day

Everyone freak out! That's pretty much what's going on now at Coe College and undoubtedly everywhere else. FREAKING OUT! Calm down people. It's a big day but yelling at people voting for the opposite party is not going to help your cause.
Jesus!

My weekend

So Friday afternoon, I walked into the cafe without high expectations for the quality of food there. However, I noticed some shrimp at one of the stands and decided to have a try. To my surprise, the shrimp was actually quality and I enjoyed it a lot. However, after about 2 hours, I noticed that my checks had begun to swell and I could no longer swallow. Clearly something unnatural was happening here. I finally determined that I had an allergic reaction to the shrimp, much like the reaction I had when I was in Taiwan. And so this weekend, I spent mostly in my dorm room, trying to relax, drinking salted lemonade for my throat, watching movies, and overall, sleeping a lot. I thought I'd let you guys know.

About Me

Hey I'm Jon Roger and I can't believe I made one of these. I'm 18 years old and grew up in St. Anthony Minnesota. I currently attend Coe College in Cedar Rapids and I love it. I spend a lot of time playing tennis and I have become a serious college player in the process. I also have played a lot of trumpet and I really enjoy music. I also enjoy running, soccer, singing, and hanging out with friends and meeting new people. I'm kind of shy but once I break a certain barrier with people I'm quite talkative and not shy at all. I just have to feel comfortable with talking to you. At Coe, I also joined a fraternity. Lambda Chi Alpha and I really like it. It's not one of those fraternities where everyone gets trashed all the time and doesn't do anything. We have a wing on the all boys dorm, instead of our own house, and only about half the members currently live there. Although we do enjoy having a good time like all college students, we also get a lot done too. Well that's all for now but hopefully some people actually read this and maybe I'll become a blogger more often.