It had a pretty good run.

I have lots of things to post about on here but the TSA broke my laptop and I’ve been computerless for this whole week. It’s still at the Apple store as I type this from my iPhone. Gunna have to play post catch up whenever I get it back.

HEY.

A couple minutes ago it was 11/11/11 11:11:11pm.

It would have been cool if I put up this post right then, but I was too busy taking this screen shot on my phone:

It would have been worth it but the iPhone home screen has got to be the worst representation of 11/11/11 11:11:11pm of all time.

So with that giant let down, the second of 11:11:11 did not live up to the hype for me. Good luck to the other time zones.

^That’s the story on the FRONT page of sun-sentinel.com — which just goes to show how huge this is. It’s higher than Andy Rooney dying and some big coke bust.

Cooper City High School is notoriously known for losing football games. We would always go to the games and the team always played hard, but wins were generally hard to come by. Last year they did great though, they won districts. And this year?

St. Thomas is ranked as the number 9 best high school football team in America. Not Broward, not Florida, but AMERICA. Every year, they slaughter the Coop on the football field, and as it says in that article, in the past four CC v. STA games alone, St. Thomas has outscored us 239-17.

This year Cooper City football is doing amazing. They’re undefeated with just one game left in the regular season, and last night they beat St. Thomas and won the district — the first time St. Thomas HASN’T won the district since 1996.

My Facebook news feed went crazy.

I mean, that’s how I and most of us found out about the win. And these weren’t just high school kids and creepy college kids who still talk about high school (like me), but like all the alumni all the way back through like 06 I saw, showing Cowboy spirit. It was really cool, and so good for the school/city. I wish I could have been there.

As James Pagano so elegantly puts it, “Damn St. Thomas sucks to suck… Beat by a white public school lmao.”

Now they’re going for Regional & State! Go Cowboys!

Watch the video on the Sun-Sentinel article, it’s awesome.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-cooper-city-defeats-st-thomas-aquinas-20111104,0,3724067.story 

On Friday night Erin and I when to see a live BriTANicK show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.

The theater, which is this small, dark, underground, crappy sort of place, is actually really awesome and really popular. It was founded by Amy Poehler among with some other legit people who are part of the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy troupe.

The show was great too. Brian & Nick, the two guys of BriTANicK, are both NYU alums. They did some stand up, some improv, and previewed their upcoming new YouTube video (hilarious).

Anyway, they have a show every month, so Erin and I definitely want to go see another one.

WATCH BRITANICK VIDS:
http://www.youtube.com/BriTANicKdotcom
They’re all hilarious, forealz. 

Hi.

It’s been like blizarding today. If someone could enlighten me as to wtf is going on that would be awesome.

The past few weeks we’ve had some really nice fall temps. It’s been in the 60’s, a few rainy days but mostly pretty nice. It’s been awesome! Then, all of the sudden it’s 35 and snowing. How is that even possible?? Usually it doesn’t start getting this cold until like December or even January.

Travis is here from Florida this weekend. And the second he stepped off the plane this morning, it started snowing. So obviously I blame him.

At the same time however, the Floridian in me is still pretty excited… until I try to go out in it.

Places in Manhattan where my AT&T cell phone doesn’t get service:

• In large buildings.
• In small buildings.
• In medium sized buildings.
• In all apartments.
• In all classrooms.
• In all offices.
• On the street.
• On the sidewalk.
• In creepy alleys where you’d need to call 911 from when you’re getting murdered.
• Underground.
• In a car.
• On a bridge.
• Near advertisements that brag about AT&T’s superior coverage in New York.
• Anywhere other people are.
• Places where nobody else is.
• Any and all bathrooms.
• All sporting venues.
• Anywhere north of Wall Street and south of 155th Street.
• Outside of AT&T stores.

Places in Manhattan where my AT&T cell phone does get service:

• Inside AT&T stores.
• Inside of all “cell phone use prohibited” performance venues and movie theaters. (Jk those annoying texters probably have Verizon)
• Florida.

PS. If you’re wondering what that picture is about, see this post.

My parents were up in Vermont visiting UVM for Parents Weekend, and I decided to drive up to see them and my sister (pictured). Problem is, I don’t get out of SNL until 1:30am on Saturday nights, and have to be back at SNL on Tuesdays at noon. So it had to be the shortest road trip ever.

Of the 36 hours this trip lasted, I spent 10 of them driving, 7 of them sleeping, and the remaining 19 actually there. And it was all totally worth it.

The last time I went to Burlington, VT, I flew there. It’s like a 40 minute flight from JFK, but getting to JFK takes like over an hour, then you have to deal with security, and waiting to board, and boarding, and waiting on the tarmac, and waiting to take off, and then landing but waiting to taxi to the gate, and then waiting for your bags, and then waiting to be picked up from the airport.

So I just wanted to drive. 

Plus, I’ve never driven in the northeast before and it’s fall! So I rented a car and did it (because the whole “you have to be 25 to rent a car rule” doesn’t apply to New York for whatever reason).

Hey guys, there’s this place, it’s called Upstate New York. It’s BEAUTIFUL. You should check it out.

Seriously, the drive was amazing. On the way up I went through New Jersey, into upstate New York, and drove all the way up and then crossed over into Vermont. On the way back, I drove down through Vermont, through Massachusets and Connecticut, and then back into New York.

I also drove in Manhattan/Harlem/The Bronx for the first time which was crazy but exciting and not as scary as I thought it would be.

Anyway, the point of the story is that I can never drive in Florida again. I wish I could have taken pictures of the mountains and hills and leaves changing colors, but ya know, I was driving. I do, however, have a few pictures from Vermont which is what’s scattered through this post. Seeing the fam for a few hours was nice too.

I’ve seen some cool celebs around NYC over the past week:

This is Guy Fieri and Mario Batali (in the convertible) right outside of my apartment. I could literally see this from my window. No idea why they were shooting on my residential street in the Village, but I’ve been told it was for Diners Drive-Ins and Dives. I was on my way to class when I noticed this so I wish I could have stuck around to watch for a while.

Then, as I was leaving NBC on Tuesday I saw Simon Cowell out front. I was amazed at what a nice guy he is! Like okay, he walked out of the main door at NBC. He didn’t have to do that. There are plenty of other more discrete exits that he could have used and chose not to. Then, he didn’t go running for his car. He stopped and chatted with all the people on the street who immediately recognized him. Made some jokes with people, took some pictures, signed some autographs. Totally not the Simon we all know from American Idol.

I mean, I didn’t talk to him, but I could have if I wanted to. That picture isn’t zoomed in.

I’ve purchased one iPhone in my life, and that was the first one that came out in 07.

Every year since then, when Apple releases a new iPhone, I buy it, then sell my previous phone unlocked on eBay. The first time I did it, I actually made a profit, and the other two times I just about broke even. So it’s awesome because I get the new iPhone every year, without actually having to pay anything (because I’m a broke college kid lololol)

It’s kind of crazy actually but I guess in some foreign countries, you can’t just go out and buy an iPhone like you can in the US. Or you can, and it’s just super expensive. So what a lot of people do is they’ll buy used, unlocked American iPhones on eBay so that they’re still getting a good deal, but also paying enough to cover the cost of my new phone. eBay can be annoying because you usually have to deal with people trying to scam you, but once you find a real buyer, it’s always totally worth it.

So anyway, as everyone knows the iPhone 4S was announced this week and pre-orders opened up today.

Pre-orders were supposed to start at Midnight Pacific time, which is 3AM over here on the East Coast. So I stayed up till 3 and waited, even though the site didn’t actually go live until 3:45. When it did, it was overloaded with customers and didn’t work right (this happens every year fghksjgdksdghkjgd). It just hits you with errors or would sit processing forever. At 4:30, I gave up and went to sleep.

A mere 3 hours later I got back up, and tried again. This time, the system was working, but it was only willing to ship my new phone to the “billing address” on my account. Well, first of all, my grandparents own the account, and second of all, the listed address was their old house from like 5 years ago. Nobody lives there anymore! And it doesn’t let you change the address. So. Frustrating.

So I tried to call Apple, but all the lines were clogged. Then I tried calling AT&T and amazingly I got through, and the guy was able to set up an order for the phone to be sent to me here in New York. Hopefully that all works out. 

Then I had to rush to be in class by 9:30. It lasted until 4.

Overall, not a great day. But new iPhone in a week! Whatuppp