Here is it - Halloween. I dressed up once again this year. This year I have chosen to dress up as your worst nightmare - a citizen with the constitutional right to bear arms. God bless the USA! Anyway, it's Tuesday, which means I have a full menu of activities. I've been quite a moron and I keep forgetting to stop in at financial aid to get my work study reinstated. I guess it's my fault when I don't get paid. Last night I got home from class and was going to do my reading while watching the game. I got really drowsy, laid down, and fell asleep a little after 9. I woke up at 12, turned off the lights, put on my pajamas, and went to bed. I woke up at about 5:45 this morning, but it was 7:15 before I finally got my ass out of bed. I did some reading and took a shower before catching the bus to campus. Today has to be the nicest weather we've had for Halloween in recent memory. This must be about our fourth summer, but I seem to have lost count somewhere. It was brought to my attention that registration begins in about 2 weeks. I've begun thinking about my classes for next semester, but I guess it's about time that I look at it seriously. While the rest of Minneapolis was partying on Saturday, I wasted away my opportunities and did nothing. Well, that's not completely true. I went to Bijou and Annemarie and I went to the Dinkytowner again. It's a pretty cool place, but a little pricey. After talking to Molly, I'm now really disappointed I didn't get with her to the Blue Meanies show because they played with Weston also. I haven't seen Weston play since I saw them with the Bouncing Souls in June of 1996 at Fun Lovin'. Man, it's been quite some time! Now that I think about it, today is the fifth anniversary of the very first show I ever went to at the Concert Cafe. At that show, Matt, Tony, and I saw Boris the Sprinkler with Teen Generate and the New Bomb Turks. The last time I saw Boris was 3 years ago today, when they played at the Concert Cafe with the Nobodys. Ahh... memories. Stuff to do, stuff to do, so I shall bid you all adieu.

I wish I could get this to update, but because of all of my problems with Crosswinds, it never works to update. Yes, I really will get a pay server one day, just not yet.

It's been a week since I last tried to update. Have I done much in the time? You better believe it! Am I going to take the time to tell you all about it? Nope. Too much to do and too little time. Maybe Crosswinds will actually work for once and you'll get to read this. I know Molly is really prodding me to update, so I guess I'll atleast try....

Quite a weekend has passed and I don't think I could accurately describe everything that happened in full detail, but I'll do my best. Friday I stopped by the film society before heading to St. Paul to help load-in for the Whole show. I had to leave after the meeting to go back to Minneapolis and run Bijou, but I returned after 10 for load-out. We got sidetracked on the way home to a party in Lauderdale, but left before it could begin to get good. I had to do my laundry when I got home, so I didn't end up finally getting to bed until 6am. I slept until 2pm, when I had 15 minutes to get up, get dressed, and get to the bus stop to go back to St. Paul. We were supposed to have a soccer game at 4, but the other team forfeited. We got some people together and just scrimmaged instead. I played horribly and even scored and own-goal. I caught the bus back to Minneapolis for Bijou again, but this time Molly was there to help me out. The early movie went off fine, but the projectionist never showed up for the late film, so I was forced to cancel and refund the money of about 20 people. I went home in a less than jovial mood, but went over to a party at Rhea and Alli's. I hadn't eaten since the Whole meeting on Friday, so I was definitely a lightweight Saturday evening. I live a block away, but I couldn't walk home. I ended up passing out on the floor and went home in the morning. I spent most of the day watching football and then I joined in on the Groutflow chat. I was going to work on my astronomy paper, but I started having big computer problems, so that got delayed. I met with Nichole at about 12:45 this afternoon and we discussed co-sponsorship and marketing of the short film festival in March. After she left, I wrote my paper and now it's about time to eat dinner and go to my astronomy lab. I still have to prepare my presentation on Death in Venice for tomorrow morning's German class. Whew....

Ah... Friday the 13th has finally arrived. Last time I tried posting, I was having trouble with FTPing to Crosswinds. Speaking of them, I guess they have decided that they are going to start doing pop-ups. With that in mind (and the fact that I have nothing but problems with them), I think it's about time I got off my cheap ass and found a decent host that is relatively cheap. This is of the utmost importance, as I am a poor college student. I hope to one day make this site worth visiting, but that won't be able to happen until I get a decent host first. Know of one? If you do, please email me at pimpin_frankiek@yahoo.com. I know there are plenty out there that are relatively cheap if you only want 5mb of space and crappy service and features, but that just won't do. Well, at any rate, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

It's a warm October evening. There is no breeze, but light rain showers are scattered through out the area. The moon is nearly full and occasionally there is a slight break in the clouds so that you can see the moon peek through. Many of the leaves have fallen from the trees or are about to fall, so the rain soaks them on the sidewalk and they stick to the bottom of your shoes. I had class tonight, and I've had every thought run through my head tonight except the important ones. Tomorrow I need to stop by the film society, as I haven't been there in weeks. I need to get to St. Paul to help set up the Whole show and to get our Bijou posters. After running the Bijou movies alone tomorrow evening, I'm heading back to St. Paul for the end of the Whole show. Saturday, I have a soccer game. I also need to re-write my astronomy essay and prepare my class presentation on Death in Venice. I should, that is, if I get a chance, work on reading Berlin Alexanderplatz also. I'm supposed to do a web entry about Jud Süss by noon tomorrow, but the prof hasn't posted the question yet. I can't blame the guy though, because he's been pretty busy the last few days with the university hosting Helma Sanders-Brahms and her film presentations (the last of which was this evening, but I couldn't go due to having class). I'm broke and I have no food. I also need to do laundry really badly, as I am currently wearing essentially the last of my clothes. I'm dirty and tired and disgusting. I want nothing to do with anyone or anything, but I know that's not possible.

I think a lot it has to do with my experiences with people lately. The worst of which is our office situation, which seems to get worse by the day. We have no problems with our officemates for the most part, but there seem to be a few issues that they apparently have with us. The worst part is that instead of telling us that they have issues, they completely avoid us and choose to go straight to our advisor instead. What they don't understand is that we are very understanding and considerate people if they will just talk to us instead of trying to get us in trouble and get everyone to hate us. The other people in the committee as a whole don't really like me that much the way it is, so the last thing that I need right now is for them to start spreading crap about me. I mean, it's pretty sad when they'll talk about us "behind our backs" right in front of us! You know how insulting that is! Give us some credit! Yes, I need to vent somewhere... usually that would be the job of my real journal, but I'm feeling too lazy to pull it out and write right now. With my luck, they'll actually read this and use it against me also. I guess that's why I'm sort of chosing the words of my rant carefully... I know from prior experience that people actually read what I post on the web and sometimes it comes back to haunt me. Okay, I'll leave you alone for now. If you really want to hear me bitch though, ICQ or email me, and I'll go off on you. Thank you.

I finished up my paper at a little after 2 this morning, but I had to wait for the bus to come at almost 3. I finally got home about 3:15 and hit the sack ASAP. I overslept this morning and woke up at a few minutes after 9. I hurried to school, and got to class this morning about 15 minutes late. That class began my movie day. In that class, we watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. In a little bit we'll be watching City Lights in my Chaplin/Hitchcock/Wilder class. After that is Bijou, and then I'm skipping my oppositional cinemas class to see Germany, Pale Mother. It's sure to be a long day, but I kind of like it that way. I still have to do some studying for my astro mid-term tomorrow night and I have to do my reading for German tomorrow. That's my life....

Well, it's been a few days again. To start off, I doubt any of them will read this, but I want to thank Nichole and Radio K for my lunch today. They had catered sandwiches and things from UDS and Nichole invited me up for some food. Onto other stuff... on Friday I saw Dancer in the Dark - one of the best films I've ever seen. It's rare that a film can be that emotionally engaging for me, but this one was. At first I was apprehensive about Björk's performance, but I soon came to embrace her and she only got stronger as the film went on. We had a less than successful weekend at Bijou. We made all of $5 between the 4 screenings this weekend. That won't really help our budget numbers much, but I guess you are going to have some poor weekends somewhere. Sunday I watched the Packer game (don't know why I wasted my time) and then came here to the Bijou office to work on my paper for my German lit class. Unfortunately I was here for almost 8 hours and I didn't get hardly any work done. Today I came here to campus and ate lunch at Radio K before coming to the office. Once again, the plan was to work on the paper, but I didn't end up doing that. We had our SUPA meeting this afternoon, during which we toured Coffman and saw the (lack of) work being done on it. It's definitely been gutted. I had my astronomy lab and now I'm back here in the office to do my paper. I need to work myself into the right mood to work on it, but I'll get there. It's due in the morning, so it really needs to get done.

It would seem that the guy who lives above me (Triumph guy) was getting some action last night. Yeah, that bed was rockin' last night like crazy. I was trying to watch News Radio and the rest of the nightly shows on Fox 29 after baseball got over last night, but my I was acutely disturbed by the rhythmic thumping of my ceiling. Well, atleast he (or she - I'm not sure yet actually) does get action every night. I woke up this morning at 7 and freaked because for some reason I thought I had slept through the entire day and that it was 7pm, not 7am. I looked out the window and then flipped on Radio K and realized quickly that my worries were all for nought. I need to get the new Bijou announcements for tonight's shows recorded soon because I'm going to go to the Uptown this afternoon to see Dancer in the Dark and then it's time to get ready for the party that will be going down tonight at Bijou as we screen Drop Dead Fred and PCU. Keep on keepin' on and I'll keep rappin' at ya.

Oh happy day! I just got out of my Cinema of the Third Reich course, where we watched Der ewige Jude. I don't think I could make such an evil film if I tried! Sheesh.... Anyway, I was up until almost 5am this morning, first doing homework, and then trying to clean my apartment. It's been a hell of a mess lately and I still haven't completely unpacked everything. I can be up late tonight and sleep in tomorrow morning because my morning course is cancelled. I don't have class then tomorrow until 12:20. Since I'm still in a bitchy mood about not having any money, there isn't much on my mind right now except the fact that I'm hungry and the fact that I'm broke. Maybe I'll go home and fix myself something to eat, but that still won't remedy the fact that I have no money. Damn big university anyway.

I know it may seem like I haven't been updating lately, but the problem is that every time I try to update, I'm told that there are too many users. I've heard differing reasons for this, but since I don't know the truth, I won't put the blame anywhere. In other news - I'm broke. Have extra money? Email me to find out where to send it to. Another thing that would work would be to tell the University of Minnesota to get off their asses and get loan checks dispersed. Actually, that would probably help more than sending me your money, but if you're rich and really want to send me money, there's nothing stopping you. I need to run and catch the bus home soon so that I can eat and do my homework. What I'm saying here is bye.