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Country: Nepal
Birthday: 6/28/1981
Gender: Male
Interests: More Awesomeness, More Climbing, Holy Crap I Am Awesome.
Expertise: Being Awesome;
Rock Climbing;
Knowing Everything About Weather;
Being Awesomer
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
11/13/2002
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| ok. so i haven't updated in a long while, and you know why that is?
because i'm bored with it. that's it. the whole "xanga scene" is just
soooooooo 2003. i know i had a mystery lyric game going on, but that
was kind of a pain to run and i would usually only get a couple guesses
anyway. so...yeah.
here's the last mystery lyric (in honor of st. patrick's day... that's how long ago it was since i updated!)
They threw a rope around yer neck
To watch you dance the jig of death
Then left ya for the starvin' crows
Hoverin' like hungry whores
the answer? FLOGGING MOLLY - SALTY DOG! of course, i had to
do a flogging molly lyric. sarah was the first (and only--see
what i mean?) guess, and she got it right, earning 10 points, plus 5
bonus "last lyric" points. so here's the new standings:
sarah - 27
steph - 24
bobby - 21
todd - 11
bryce - 10
johnny - 10
me - 6 (bonus points from bobby)
brian - 2
hawks - 1
and it looks like sarah is the winner! good work sarah, you win
bragging rights for...well, until i do another Mystery Lyric Game...so
probably forever. sorry, steph.
i've got another blog site for you all to check out if you want, it
will be updated rather more sporadically than this one, and will
probably be more of the "random musings" variety, rather than the
"weekly update" type. it's at
http://www.the-drifters.blogspot.com/
welp, that's it for me and this site! it's been 2 years, 4
months, and one day since i started this page... kinda seems like a
shame to abandon just b/c i'm bored with it, but then...it IS only a
free online journal page. the new one's cooler anyway, it let's
me post pictures!
this is nick V, aka William Quilliam, signing off
PEACE OUT!
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| WOOO HOOO! SPRING BREAK!!! YEAH!
oh, that was last week. sorry. it's cool though, cuz i'll
still give you the old "spring break update" i'm sure you all have been
waiting for. and oh yeah... gots ta do the Mystery Lyric
Game! i KNOW some of you have been waiting for an update to that
one, b/c i've gotten several annoyed IMs.
anyway, spring break! yessss! it was very sweet, if
somewhat colder than typical. kelly's parents have a place up
near gaylord, and they were nice enough (or perhaps foolish enough) to
let kelly invite some friends up there for spring break. insofar
as i am dating kelly's best friend, and that i'm an all-around cool
guy, i headed up there with abbey, kelly, and their friends craig and
john in abbeys mom's suburban. when we left birmingham it was 52
F.
abbey was driving, and although we made it to the cottage safely, some
of us (kelly) had issues with abbey's style of driving. this
style could best be described as "lucky." i'm not saying she's an
unsafe driver...but it's lucky we didn't hit anyone.
anyway, after hitting the grocery store...and the liquor store (hopps
'n' schnapps), we arrived at the house around 730. unpacking and
dinner preparations ensued, and kelly's boyfriend ryan arrived just as
we were sitting down. i won't give you a blow-by-blow of the
whole night or week like this, i just wanted to keep you all up to date
on who the characters are. anyway, we partied a little on monday
night and went to bed.
for the first time in several months, i slept past 11 tuesday morning,
which was excellent. a pankake breakfast/lunch was supposed to
fuel us for an evening of skiing, but when we arrived the place was
deserted. literally no one there. no big deal, it was only
a 15 minute drive (past Michigan Spine & Pain). so we went to
wal-mart so ryan & john could get swim trunks.
back at the ranch, we went to the clubhouse of the golfcourse that the
house is on, and rocked it in the pool and hot tub (holy run-on
sentence, batman!). it was hell of cool, but the hot tub only
tired us out more...which was odd since all we'd done all day was sit
around. anyway, ryan and craig had bought a remote-control boat
at wal-mart, and were playing with it in the pool... a little too close
to kelly...and kelly's long hair...and there was a bit of a "snag"
involving her hair and the boat's propeller. i'm talking major,
"get the scissors" type tangle...except abbey apparently is very
talented with hair snags cuz kelly was free in like 2 minutes once
abbey got there. after the pool we went home and showered, then
went to La Seniorita for dinner. post-dinner, we basically went
home and hung out for a few hours before bed. then went to bed.
wednesday was skiing at boyne mountain all day. on our way out,
however, someone accidentally locked the wrong door and we found
ourselves locked out. luckily an upstairs window was open, and it
was up to yours truly to navigate the snowy, icy roof and save the day
(boo-ya).
anyway, we got there around 1230 and skied till about 830. and
that's pretty solid skiing, too... there was maybe 100-150 customers at
any point in the day. abbey/kelly's friend tom had come up for
the day, and we met up with jenny and doc at boyne, so now our number
was 9...just so you know. skiing was fun, i fell a lot but got
better as the day wore on. it was very cold and windy... roughly
15 F with winds up to 30 mph... ugh. ryan and john had never
skied before so we had a good time waving at them from the
chairlift...distracting them enough that they'd usually fall. i
could go on about skiing, but they're basically all "i skied this, she
jumped that, abbey broke her binding" kind of stuff. after skiing
it was a quick shower and then party time. on the drive home from
boyne, the temp was a whopping 2 F, bringing the temp range for the
trip to 50 degrees! yesssssss! that's more than the average
annual range in lansing (44 degrees)!
as there were only 9 of us, and not enough people to call it a rager,
we played drinking jenga (courtesy of miss parks) all night. the
problem with drinking while playing jenga, of course, is that your fine
motor control goes right out the window after a few rounds. add
to that the "shit cup"--a horrible mixture of everyone's drinks--and
various instructions such as "take off your pants" (doubly funny when
we're sitting at a glass table...craig), and you've got potential for
an interesting night. and interesting it was! pen tattoos,
assigned kissing, made-up songs, and dances abounded.
thursday was going to be more skiing at Treetops during the day, then
night skiing (for $1.01, thanks to a radio promotion) at Otsego Country
Club. unfortunately, Treetops was once again deserted.
driving back, my breakfast of eggs/hash browns/sausage began to be
unhappy with its new residence in my stomache and decided to come up
for some air. i was all "no way!" but it was adamant, so out it
came on the side of the road. ugh. anyway, i felt better
after that, and we just hung around till about 330. night skiing
at Otsego was cheap and relatively fun. it's no boyne, and sadly
it was no cannonsburg either, b/c they only had the front two lifts
open. supposedly there's a lot of good skiing in the back during
the day, but only the front is lit, thus limiting night skiing.
anyway, it was a good time for a few hours, then we left. after a
quick soak in the hot tub and pool, back to the house for our "last
night of spring break '05 let's mix it up because it's spring break
party!" tom had left in the morning, so it was just the 8 of us,
and after an interesting round of "the mystery name game" and some
debate over whether we should play drinking hide-and-go-seek (drink
till we find you!), we settled on charades, which got more and more
rediculous as the night wore on. we finally went to bed around
4am, except for craig, who slept on the couch till like 9, i guess.
hang on, i gotta go to class. i'll finish this in a couple hours.
ok! so i'm back. so i left off thursday night after going
to bed...friday was basically hanging out, packing up and driving back
to birmingham. abbey and i hung out at her parent's house till
sunday morning, then headed back to EL, which was, as always,
lame. that's not true, EL is often cool... but going back to
school after spring break is lame.
so now it's wednesday, and burgerama has been moved to today b/c
tomorrow is st. patrick's day! wheee! so we're going to the
riv in a little bit for some dinner and drinking refreshing
beverages. but before i do that, it's time for the Mystery Lyric
Game update you've all been waiting for!!!
the lyric was:
I am just a raindrop that accelerates without control
Losing bits and pieces in descent 'til I'm no longer whole
the answer was....PHISH - ANYTHING BUT ME! steph was the first
and only person to get this one right, though bryce and hawks both
guessed "anatomy of a raindrop," for some reason. anyway, steph
gets 10 points and...say...3 bonus points for being the only one to get
the first phish lyric right. so here's the standings:
steph - 24
bobby - 21
sarah - 12
todd - 11
bryce - 10
johnny - 10
me - 6 (bonus points from bobby)
brian - 2
hawks - 1
ho-ha! steph in the lead! brian and hawks are still in line
for a punch from me if i beat them, so youse guys better get on with
it. anyway, that's all i've got for now, there's a new lyric up,
this one's in honor of st. patty's day tomorrow, so give 'er a guess.
dae de dae de dae! i mean...peace out!
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| sunday, sunday, SOMEDAY!
that's right, sportsfans! it's sunday, and you all know what that
means: an update from NIXXX!!!! ok, so i haven't exactly
been regularly updating, but such is life. what do i mean by
that, you ask? simply that life isn't exactly regular or
predictable, and when it starts getting that way it's time for a
change!
anyway, what's been going on in eastlansingtown....
on wednesday abbey, morgan and i went to harper's for 1/2 off
night. we met up with some of abbey's friends there...blah blah
blah, harper's on wednesday. you all know the drill. i
guess many of you DON'T know the drill, not being of age/from
MSU... joke's on you, i'm not gonna explain it. anyway, MJ
from "The Real World" was there... that was the *big deal* of the
night... i'm sure you can all tell that i was just about bouncing out
of my boxers to talk to him, but sadly i didn't get the chance.
abbey's friend dave, however, chatted for a moment and asked a rather
lurid question....to which he recieved an honest and humerous
answer. i won't post such crassness here, but if your brain is in
the gutter, IM me and i'll tell you.
thursday night found me napping, only to awake to phone call after
phone call hounding me to go out. todd wanted to go to Burgerama
at the Riv, morgan was rocking the karaoke at Crunchy's, jacki and
sarah were jonesing for bull riding at Cactus Juice. i was a bit
rude to jacki when she called, being the fourth call in the space of 10
minutes after i awoke... but i'm sure she's over it by now
but the joke was on all of them, i decided to spend the evening in with my lovely lady friend. we watched I 
Huckabee's and had a good old time. i definitely reccomend
Huckabee's, it's a lot like Royal Tennenbaum's, mixed with
Rushmore...but with Marky Mark and Jude Law. and Lilly Tomlin
(who is hilarious...<jumps over sprinkler> "damn!")
friday...oh, friday. i had to work till 9, and when i got home
ninja/jacki/tracy/roomate were playing quarters in the kitchen... so i
knew some kinda interesting-ness was going down. after changing
out of my work clothes i headed out to join them and have dinner.
eventually brian showed up (i don't think i'd seen him since new year's
so that was cool), and the party kicked up yet another notch.
todd and tony rounded out the group, and the party migrated all around
the house, focusing on ninja's room and the kitchen.
back in the kitchen, brian knocked over ninja's plant (by now
ninja/tracy/roomate had left for the riv) and did a piss-poor job
cleaning it up, so we punished him by making him drink more... which
continued while we played drinking poker for an hour or two...until
brian decided he didn't want any more and would just drink
water...which we made him pour all over himself...along with his left
over drink. we started watching 2 fast/2 furious, but i fell
asleep about 10 minutes into it (no surprise there!)
abbey had come back from birmingham to hang out but had missed the
party (by now it was about 330)...when i woke up and went to bed i saw
that *someone* had drawn all over brian's face with a sharpie a-la 10
Things I Hate About You. pretty sweet.
waking up saturday was great, especially since it occured at 8am.
for no reason. i didn't have to work until 4. but i woke up
at 8. ugh. nothing like getting 4 hours of sleep for an
excellent time! ah, well. i hung out with abbey in the
afternoon till work...and then i went to work.
saturday night was just a chill night, todd came over and we watched
Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinkin' Your Juice In The
Hood...which is not great. funny, yes. smart,
noooooo.... it's a wayan's bros. movie, so you know what you're
getting into at least.
anywho, today was another working day, and here i am once again
updating my site on a sunday night! i'm in a good mood, listening
to a sweet phish show, full from a good dinner, and just being
sweet. but i'm not quite done yet, we've still gotta do Mystery
Lyric Game results!
the lyric was:
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither while they pass, they slip away
and i'm sure most of you know that the correct answer is...THE BEATLES
- ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, off of Let It Be! i got lots of responses
for this one, and lots of people were pleased to see it. in fact,
bryce even offered me 1/2 bonus point, he liked it so much. i
won't be accepting it, however... i don't feel i deserve it for an
obvious lyric such as this one. it's a great song and a great
lyric, but i don't think i deserve bonus points for posting it.
anyway...who was the winner, you ask? well it was a tough one to
call...sarah answered first but said "across A universe," which is
basically the same but not quite right. she did however know the
album. bryce was next with the correct title and album...and like
everything else about the damn song. i feel bad totally slighting
sarah since she obviously knew the song, but at the same time she
wasn't RIGHT... so she gets the Album Bonus Points, and bryce gets the
full 10 points. other late guessers, in order, were hawks, snora,
and luke. so the new standings are as follows:
bobby - 21
sarah - 12
steph - 11
todd - 11
bryce - 10
johnny - 10
me - 6 (bonus points from bobby)
brian - 2
hawks - 1
so there you go again, on your own! going down the only road
you've ever known... like a stranger, you were born to guess your
lyrics alone!
too much? yeah... okay, peace out.
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| hey HEY hay! nick is back with a brand new edition.
so this week's Mystery Lyric got WAY more responses than the last
one! good work, all of you, for not allowing Mystery Lyric Game
to die (yet)! we'll get to the results in a bit, but first it's
time for my usual "what nick's been up to" section. i mean, this
site is referred to my "ramblings" page, i should at least ramble a
little bit.
thursday night abbey, morgan and i went to crunchy's for some excellent
beverages and karaoke-ing. we got there around 930, and
thankfully there was no line, cuz it was COLD! jacki and tony
eventually met us there, along with adam and some others. it was
a very good time, we basically were the party at crunchy's for most of
the evening. abbey sang "something to talk about," as usual, and
tony/morgan/abbey/i sang blues travellers "run around." the only
problem with "run around" is that when they started the music, the
lyrics didn't play! so they tried to fix it, but to no
avail. "no problem", says abbey...."i know all the words
anyway!" i know pretty much all the words too, so it was
basically abbey and me singing the whole dang thing from memory, and
tony and morgan singing the chorus. it was sweet though.
after crunchy's, we went back to abbey's and got dressed for a "dress
to get screwed" party. you may recall the concept from the movie
"the rules of attraction," and if so, you would have been dissappointed
at this party. few people were dressed for the theme, and there
was little dancing (or refreshments, for that matter). we stayed
for an hour or so and bust back to abbey's.
the weekend was fairly uneventful, i worked friday/saturday/sunday, and
pretty much just hung out the rest of the time. it was snowing
pretty hard for most of sunday, and i hoped we'd have some sort of
school interruption, but of course we only got like 4 inches.
apparently the east side of the state got like a foot, and had a snow
day... ugh.
anyway, i'm gonna head to the riv, i'll do the Mystery Lyric Game update later tonight or tomorrow.
PEACE OUT! (9:30 pm)
....AAAAAAAAAAND i'm back. (1:15 am)
so the riv was fun, ninja and i met todd there around 945, and had
several wonderful beverages. abbey met us there around 1030, and
we all partied down for a couple hours. i am now back home,
trying to burn some time until the second showing of Adult Swim comes
on. anyway, until then, let's bust out the Mystery Lyric results!
the lyric was:
And if the world does turn, and if London burns
I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar
the answer? well, it was RADIOHEAD - ANYONE CAN PLAY GUITAR, of
course! it's off the album Pablo Honey, and this lyric was
well-recieved, overall... i had several guesses, but the first correct
one was STEPH! steph gets 10 points, plus one "sexy bonus
point." sarah was the next guesser, but she was incorrect.
her guess was "playing my guitar again," which was of course
incorrect. brian was our first guesser that knew the album title,
so i'll give him the two "album points," which will get him on the
board (finally). other correct answers were given by billy (no
surprise) and hawks (fairly surprising, given his relatively young age
for this album--he was four years old when it was released).
neither will get any points, however, as they were both too slow on the
buzzer. so here's the CURRENT STANDINGS:
bobby - 21
todd - 11
steph - 11
johnny - 10
sarah - 10
me - 6 (bonus points from bobby)
brian - 2
hawks - 1
all right! good work, kiddos! till next time, this is your
host, alphonse picasso, saying "be excellent to each other...and:
PARTY ON, DUDES!"
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| man oh man, do i suck at updating lately! it's not that NOTHING
has been going on, it's just that i haven't cared to updated at
all. also, i'm relatively bored with the Mystery Lyric Game
already. last time it was an immediate hit, drawing responses
from all corners of the globe; now i'll get maybe two responses per
lyric. i'll try it for a few more lyrics, but if nothing picks up
it'll be soyanara!
so what's been going on with me, you ask? let's see...not much
out of the ordinary, unfortunately. work and class, mostly.
i went home a few weeks ago to help clean out my bedroom for the
upcoming "basement remodel 2005" that my parents are having. the
weekend after that i went to birmingham with abbey to hang with her fam
for a bit, which was also fun. see what i mean though? the
"unusual" things that have been going on lately aren't even that
exciting! oh well, it'll pick up, i'm sure. it always does.
i DO, actually, have some interesting news! i recently became an
uncle! my older sister, patrushka, and her husband rich had their
first child, Phillip James on valentine's day! they tell me he's
a big baby (9#, 2oz), but he looked pretty tiny to me. abbey and
i went to kalamazoo on monday to visit them in the hospital, my dad of
course took a million pictures. i don't have any yet but when i
get some i'll post them up for anyone who cares to see.
as monday was valentine's day, abbey and i went out and had a lovely
dinner at the Golden Rose, on okemos road... very good food, nice
atmosphere, etc etc, i highly reccomend it. other than the
strangeness of going to see a little baby all afternoon, it was a very
nice valentine's day.
welp, on to the "possibly doomed" Mystery Lyric Game! this one
was very, very easy...which may have been why i only got a few
responses! here's the lyric:
Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do
So well it's a spell, hell, makes me wanna...
the answer of course, is SALT & PEPPA - SHOOP! off the album
Very Necessary. again, this was super easy, so i'm hoping that
the responses were few b/c everyone thought that the lyric had been
guessed already.
kimmy was the first to guess, but she was way off! she guessed
ashleigh simpson - la la, and even quoted the whole dang chorus!
wow, way off. todd was the first correct answerer, so he'll get
10 points. hemkaii also guessed, but was too late by about 5
hours. so here's the new standings:
bobby - 21
todd - 11
johnny - 10
sarah - 10
me - 6 (bonus points from bobby)
hawks - 1
steph - 1
ho, HO! see how easily todd moved from 5th to 2nd in only one
lyric? that's right, you can too! so keep guessing and keep
this game alive! until next time, i'm your host, William Quilliam.
PEACE OUT!
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