hahaha. ok. heres a letter to my school editor about tonights events....yea....
I think the SIUE campus police has a major problem on their hands. They need to get their priorites straight.
Around 11:45 Friday night, I was leaving the UC after a wholesome night of ping-pong. Yes that's right, ping-pong, not parties and drinking it up on a Friday night, but ping-pong. So as we are walking to my friends car outside, he grabs an old wooden chair that was sitting outside of the UC. So yes, he brought it along with us and we put it in his trunk. We were driving back to Cougar Village and we decide to pull over on University Drive, put the chair in the grass median, and take a picture with the chair, just for fun. So we did, and then we went back to Cougar Village, leaving the chair in the median. We thought it would be funny if people drove by and saw a random wooden chair, maybe add a little spice to this school. But I guess thats a bad thing.
When we parked in Cougar, an undercover cop had seen everything and began questioning us as we got out of the car. He was on the phone with other officers, and two of them came. So now we have three police officers questioning three males for TAKING A CHAIR. AN OLD WOODEN CHAIR. Nah, lets forget about all of the underage drinking that the police knows goes around on this campus, but sure, lets go after three guys, who don't even drink, for simply moving a wooden chair. The police told us we had just commited a theft. But the chair was already outside, all we did was move it somewhere else outside while still ON CAMPUS. The cops said it was stealing because we "transported it from one place to another in (our) car." Uh...we moved it from outside, to somewhere else outside, which is still on campus, in plain sight, not off somewhere in the woods, unlike our Rock. Hey how about you work on that case instead? Rock filled with tradition or a single WOODEN CHAIR. Or maybe you should be working on that underage drinking, instead of requiring THREE policemen to question three guys on moving, I'm sorry for redundance, A WOODEN CHAIR. It is ridiculous that they needed that much manpower to question us for something so insignificant as...a single wooden chair.
The first two cops were nice guys, good cops. But when the third cop came up. He asked us to tell our story to him, and we did. His reaction? "That story is crap, you guys could at least come up with a better one." Um, ok. Hey Mr. Tough Policeman, how about you ask the other officer who witnessed the whole thing and see how close his story is to ours? Oh yes you would find out they are the exact same! But I digress. The other officers continue to question us in a good manner. But then at the end, the same third officer says "Wait, lets just go ahead and write them a ticket, I haven't wrote a single ticket all day." Whoa whoa whoa, so it is BAD to have a law-abiding campus where the police can't even give out tickets? I don't know, I would imagine the Dean would be proud to have a campus full of law-abiding students who do not commit actions worthy of tickets and citations (minus my friends and I of course, we crazy hooligans, who are all on the Dean's List I might add). Mr. Third Policeman should get his priorities straight, is it best that there would be no need to write tickets and to have a good, law-abiding campus, or to have the opposite where ticketable offenses are all around for the cop to write out?
As much as the police believes this was a stupid "prank", it wasn't. They even made fun of us for pulling "such a dumb prank, not even a good one." Oh dang, I guess I better go take the new Rock to get their respect right? Some of the cops really need to get with it. Don't be so hard on three good students if you're not going to be hard on others who do other activities that are much more illegal, possibly much more consequential, and much more common.
Sincerely,
Jonathan R. Lee
Sophomore
To the editor - The police confiscated my camera and they are going to print out the picture. its probably too dark, but just so you know, the police will be printing out a copy.
yea..............how ridiculous is that?!?!?!
got a hair cut today. its a pseudo-mohawk. hehe yes. now if i should dye the top part of it a la david beckham......
ah yeas, i dreary and rainy day. these crazy april drizzles on jonizzle. so i went to see better luck tomorrow with tyler matt and hannah tonight. it was pretty good, kinda disturbing, but yea. i will have to watch it again, sitting behind a woman with big hair wasnt the best, hehe. we watched it at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel Cinema. it was niiiice, when we walked out they had like a butler with a silver tray of mints and chocolates. amazing. hah.
my paper on taiwanese independence is getting a little lengthy. ill post it up somewhere for yall later. ill just need to find the energy to make it good, since i only need a D+ on it to get an A in the class, hehe.
much to do much to do, and too much time is spent playing ncaa football. the lastest gimmick is creating teams made up of ESPN people, like dan patrick as your running back, charlie steiner and bob ley as linemen, michael wilbon and rich eisen as linebackers, stuart scott as a cb, peter gammons as the kicker...haha yea its fun.
must be productive tomorrow, must be....
yaay got the apartment for u of i next year! woohoo! so yeas. went to class, booked it to u of i, got the apt, came back, ate with dad, went to steves, and then went to raschkes. hehe yea raschkes was cool, a lot of people i havent seen in awhile. a large mix of people too...classes 2000-2003 of shs, some pleasant plains folk, and some griffinites, and then random people ive seen around. haha yea. SADNESS. AND UNJUSTNESS. ashlee isnt a semi-finalist for the cosmo thing :( . but yea, saw sojo and april and a multitude of others. happiness :) yaaaay. tomorrow work... booooo ... but hopefully ill see a lot of people at the mall since EVERYONE is home. yes!
hurrah. tkast got in to uiuc too. everything is set. now to just get the apt....
everyones fonna be home this weekend too, yay!
young life training was good.
oh and yes. traumatic. i almost didnt know who i was yesterday.......so i got a message back from the social security dept of the USA after filing my taxes and it said it didnt complete because my soc sec # and birthdate didnt match my name. um ok...so i call them up and apparently ive been using the INCORRECT social security number for the past 4 years. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE??? i mean EVERYTHING ive ever had official has had that #, how has it gone unnoticed by everyone?? my drivers license is wrong, my student id is wrong, all my bills are wrong......what in the heck?!?!?! and whos # have i been using then?!?! this is all funked up. ill fix it all friday. but in the meantime, ive had to write my SSN down on like 3 things...what do i put!?!?!? the old one where i have everything under...or the new one which the national government has me listed as??!?! WHAT DO I DO?!?!? WHO AM I?!?!?!?!?!?!?
what a healthy weekend! haha yeeesss....aside from the fourteen tacos, the 2nd trip to tacobell the next day, the 11 donuts from krispy kreme, and the hot wings....
ok yea....not so good for the body.
but hey i was active...broomball saturday night. my non-yellow team won, woot woot! we had a deadly combination in goal (which yours truly was 50% of) and some potent offense. woot woot! my knees are all bruised up now though, as i would quickly drop to them to make saves, and well the ice isnt too soft for that. and my booty hurts too, cuz my wallet was in the back pocket and i landed on it multiple times. poopy.
and tonight, sand volleyball!!! heck yea it was fun. but the sand was really really cold without the sun to keep it warm. haha yea...but my team won best of 3 again! go beth tyler and me. hannah ajit and matt aint got nothin'. BOOYAH.
my just hit my knee against the bottom of my desk. owwee :(
ok now this day was good of course with the news of my acceptence, but it sure didnt start off good (yea yea i know thats bad grammar and it should be "well")
so im sleeping. its 730am. i went to bed 3.5 hours ago due to a late night of studying. and then there are these knocks on the door. and more knocks. my head lifts, eyes still closed, not really know whats going on. i hear tyler come out of his room and go to the front door, hear him open it, hear some voices. dont really know who it is in my state of half-conciousness, but i guess its beth hannah or marci over at our apt. then i look at my clock and realize its 730. i dont realize that they would never be over here that early.
so who was it!?!?! well i was about to drift back to sleep, since it was tough with sunlight peering through my windows into my face. but before i could rejoin lala-land. i hear a buzzing noise. a loud buzzing noise. WHAT?!!?! why is someone in my apartment making the noise?!?! i still fail to remove myself from my cozy bed however to discover what is going. anyways, the noise is just to f-ing annoying to be able to fall back asleep, especially since they are making the noise in the bathroom, which is only about 3 feet from my head on the other side of a thin door. yea ok whatever. so its been about, id say a good half hour and there is still noise. then theres a knock on my door. OH YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME.
-"Maintenance here, we need to check your light"
-"Um...the light is right above my bed and im trying to sleep..."
-(opens the door and peers in) "Oh hey i can get to that, you can just stay in your bed"
-"..." "um, no thats ok ill just get up..." (as opposed to having a strange man on a ladder over my bed while im laying in it...)
-disgruntled, blind, and 12% concious Jon walks to the living toom to just stand.
so now im out in my living room. the light fixture on the ceiling has been taken down, all the lights in the apartment are on, and apparently there is another lady there checking out something in our kitchen, i didnt really know since i was blind, but i later figured out it was the switchbox. but yea, i ask her what they are doing and she says they are going around and checking the wiring in the apts. right...i ask her for a letter informing the tenants of this. theres a phone number on it. good. i will yell at them. the guy finished in my room, and then proceeds to tylers room. matt was "lucky" enough to have woken up before all of this and gone off to work. so yea, i go back to my room. there no way im gonna be able to sleep so i just sit and go online and blah blah. they leave. i go out, tyler comes out too. we discuss the stupidity of what happened and what the other missed etc. I called the number. i, rather politely, told them that it is ridiculous and stupid to schedule HOUR LONG maintenence checks in apartments at a college at 730 in the morning. ESPECIALLY since its the month of april and students (ergo myself) have hard quizzes the next day. and i kept reiterating the 730 part. and my lack of sleep.
Theyre LUCKY i was able to fall back asleep. the secretary was amused by me. not mocking, but yea. she said shed pass the word along to the housing director. i told her i would glady talk to him about the ridiculousness of the situation. i galdy gave her my name and phone number as well. however, i forgot to mention that this is why people leave this school, BECAUSE THE STAFF IS INEPT. and later on in the day i got in to UofI. SO SCREW YOU SIUE HOUSING/MAINTENENCE STAFF. you guys really need to get some more training.
well ok. now i have yet another story to share! 1130, tyler and i make a late wendys run. i order chicken nuggets and fries. my total is $2.43 and i give them a 20 dollar bill and 43 cents. so yea. i dont get my change back. um ok. so we tell the girl that i gave her a 20.
"you did?"
"yes"
"oh"
"..."
so she gets the manager, and well, i guess they must have not trusted us, because they recounted ALL the money in the drawer, and then finally after that gave me my 18 dollars. we sat there, food in car, line behind us, waiting for my change. I gave the girl a single $20 bill and change. OF COURSE YOUR GOING TO HAVE TO GIVE ME BACK CHANGE IF I GIVE YOU ONE BILL. dont count $2 bills. noone uses them. ;asdk;lak;ldsk;aslkasd;. i shake my head and go dot dot dot at these people.
hopefully i will have run ins with more intelligent folk starting tomorrow and at u of i.
woohoo!
Traci is on prom court! yaaaaaay!
and i got in to U of I! yaaaaaaay!
yes. still busy. ill be glad when this week is finally over. i still have a tough quiz ahead of me tomm, and the rest of my 6 page paper due friday. sleep a long time, and then begin work on my taiwan paper. oh the excitement.
im glad, well actually very happy, to see iraqi ppl on tv happy and cheering as they take down the statue of saddam. but do the ends justify the means in this war? well it is still too early to tell....
new title. yay!
yyyeeeesss. EVERYONE GO TO RALLY'S IF YOU HAVE ONE NEAR YOU AND GET 2 BACON CHEDDAR DOUBLE CHEESEBURGERS FOR $3 oh man, what a good deal. mmmmmmmmmm. im going back for more tomorrow.
in other news, margaret says shes going to TAC! and im going to TAC too! yaaay! and i hear others tafers might go! taf at tac! recruit kids for taf! make taf big and awesome! but remember, dont be cliqu-ey there!
and busy busy busy. so why am i blogging at 231am. idunno-and-iduncare.
oh yea just in case, i am going to state it right now. I WILL BE AT TAF2003. no ifs. i will be there. and you better be there too! so yea, give me confirmation. i'd like to read it with my own eyes. woot woot!
JH!
hurrah! another survey! courtesy of Waynes blog:
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Global Power.
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Target of Historical Fervor.
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our sad sad country. stupid stupid stupid war. yea. read some articles at margarets blog. If youre american, go read the articles, take advantage of freedom of press. Bush needs to read them. One wish right now? I wish i could sit down and talk to bush, and i would ask him to tell me why this war is justified, when we have a lot of opposition from many countries, why he thinks saddam is a clear and present danger, why we arent focusing more on the forgotten war in afghanistan. You do all realize the United States is in two seperate wars right? Yea we are.
crap this all is. oh hey now the bush administration thinks this war will go "longer than expected". oh good job, way to be arrogant and think iraq will be a pushover. hmm, interesting, were afraid that saddam and his regime are strong and scary enough to carry weapons of mass destruction and rule with an iron fist, yet we think they are going to be a pushover in war. thats some high-quality common sense right there. but hey who am i to judge? seriously, im just a regular 19year old american citizen, not a high ranking goverment official. But hey, y'all hear about all the british officials resigning? good for them. get some nuts tony blair, tell gw to shutup, maybe he will listen. ok too harsh. but yea. please gw, come eat dinner with me or something so we can talk. i dare you to.
what i would like to do now though, is find some pro-war articles, so like i get both sides ya know? it is supremely important that we all keep open minds and dont get too enraged like anti-war protestors getting violent (ridiculously dupid), or me telling blair to get some nuts and tell bush to shutup, cuz yea, bush has to have SOME intelligence right? i hope. May cooler heads prevail. and open ones as well. if anyone knows, SEND ME SOME PRO-WAR ARTICLES. i need to read them.
senator byrd would be a cool grandpa. and yea, in all reality, im sad to be an American right now. im sad that our executive administration is making all of America look arrogant and cocky. Im sad that it seems like we are all gun-ho about war. im sad that we feel the need to "shock and awe"...i mean really, were shocking and aweing by dropping bombs into cities of people. sure they are government buildings etc, but you tell me there isnt an innocent janitor in there. wow, arent we SO COOL that we can SHOCK AND AWE people with BOMBS that KILL? man oh man, blowing up stuff is awesome! like blowing stuff up at columbine high school! OH WAIT NO THATS STUPID. "Now kids dont go blowing stuff up even though your country does" :) .
ok maybe thats a little out of line. dont go thinking im sad to be an American really, i mean i am right now, but i always love my country. I tell myself if there was ever a need to have a draft, i would go to war. i wouldnt run and flee away. i would die for my country and the people for which is stands. i say that, and i hope i would. but yea, i love America, but im ashamed. i feel the need to talk to people from around the world, tell them not all of us are arrogant and think this war is great. but hopefully, hopefully, they all know this already. Hopefully they have the open mind to know we arent all supporting the decisions and actions of our president and his administartion (sometimes i feel sorry for george w, he really does get all of the blame for this and it might not all be his). They probably already do though, so thats good.
wow, high quality venting.
and of course, i support our troops. I watched We Were Soldiers today for a paper. at the end it showed a marine coming hope, bandaged up in a wheelchair, no one waiting for him at the airport, no family no friends. A mom pulled her kids away when she saw him coming. they were disgusted by him. and that really was how vietnam vets were treated. That made me really really sad.
why is my favorite country so stupid sometimes?
oh and yea, go watch Bowling for Columbine. Michael moore, hes cool too.
we need to find taiwanese-american kids for taf in:
- Wisconsin
- the pittsburgh area.
- anywhere in Indiana.
i mean foseriously, anyone think its weird that TAF is in Indiana, the 3 states bordering Indiana on the east west and north bring in the most tafers, yet we dont have ANY tafers from indiana itself???
in other news...i dont think i have anything else. hah. well week one of march madness was pretty darn good. although all my teams pretty much lost. sad.
Go SHS Kids! First there is Ashlee and her cosmo thing, then I see Kathy Whitlow on cbs as a cheerleader for siu during their game against mizzou, and then nicho got an intership to NASA! woohoo. cool times. but sadly, with nicho off doing nasa things, where will the originals hang out this summer?!?!?!
must remember to:
check tuition balance
write letter
talk to hana about phone call
and im sure im forgetting something. thats why i need to make lists like this more often.
and tomorrow, gonna see tafers at the tpc!
Two things we should all do:
1) Eat meat. Cattle belch out 12-15% of all the methane (a greenhouse gas) released into the atmosphere. Quickly, do eat a steak.
2) Vote for Ashlee on the Cosmo contest. Seriously, if you vote for her and she wins I will try my hardest for you to meet her if you come visit me in Springfield. The link to vote HERE. Now GO VOTE!!!
http://ivillage.divinems.com/cosmopolitan/cover/modelsearch/vote.htm
vote ashlee voracheck!!! Why should you vote Ashlee?!?! Because she went to high school with me! VOTE VOTE VOTE! ASHLEE ASHLEE ASHLEE!!!
Randomness!!!
- War. poo. Anthony Fillipiak-Sanner and John Watson are over in Iraq. John and I always hung out in our 6th grade class, fun times as innocent kids. Now he's off in a war. ok sad.
- Happy thoughts now. its March Madness time!!! our living room is so good. THREE tvs. stadium seating. a big bracket on posterboard. this is going to be good. unless theres a war...then i'll just GET PISSED.
- JH is coming together! YAAAAAAAAY! :) :) :)
- Got 3 good pool cues out of the dumpster tonight. someone also threw out a pool table. this i do no understand. Pool table was too smelly and heavy to get out of dumpster though, plus there was damage.
- Good weather today, i wore shorts!
- 4 ITASA pics came in the mail today. three are already in frames (i bought 10 this weekend at the kmart closeout sale, 40% off!!). It looks like andrea is my girlfriend. so romantic that black and white is. haha.
- lillian is making me a starburst wrapper anklet. yay :)
- Ashlee in Cosmopolitian tomorrow! Woot Woot!
- New voicemail message. oh the excitement.
- busy-ness is consuming me.
- Youre Great.
- Holla.
- And most importantly, Peace.
yeas. fantasy baseball prospect draft tonight. it sucked, all the top cubs were taken right before me. i hate you all. haha. ok since many xx chromosomes read this, i wont bore you with more baseball details...
in other news, nothing much. haha yea. well the ashlee thing is news, BIG news, but already posted. elizabeth smart was found. sketchy....jake and ajit came over tonight, adrienne came with brownies, mmmmm....then lori and steph came over, adrienne left, and then off to steak n shake. ah yes. i spend too much money. i need to stop.
taf is already keeping me busy, but hey, its fun, and its only going to get better. woot woot!
uiuc tomm night. taf peeps, hometown peeps, itll be good times :).
conference call for taf at 11am. haha yea i better go to bed.