Alert: Jake Not Dead, Just Really Slow.

I know that it has been forever since I posted something new on here, but well...nevermind, I am just lazy and haven't done it. I know that before I have been really long winded in my posts and it was not really intentional, I just start and it goes and goes and goes. But I am really going to try and make this one a somewhat decent length. Seeing as how I have already wasted this much room writing about crap, I don't think that I am going to be successful. But here goes.

What is and has been going on in my life since the last time that I talked with you people? Where do I begin. I don't really know where to begin because, partly, I don't remember where I left off the last time. I think that I was talking about Christmas or something. I suppose I will start with the boring stuff like classes.

Classes are all going ok. I mean nothing is really just making me super excited. I like them, really I do. The only thing is that I am not really following through on the plans that I made before school started back. I had planned to not get that involved with clubs and extracurricular activities, but boy didn't that plan fall apart at the seams. I am not only going to school full time and taking some courses that require time spent out side of class, I am also in the school one-act play, the community wide musical, and still involved in all my clubs. What was I thinking. I am so overloaded. But hey, as Miguel would say, "Makes life fun. Always having to be somewhere, doing something!" Um, no. Not really the case for me. I like things to be relaxed and not that loaded and stressful. Anyway, on to the next topic. The plays.

Like I said, I am in the two plays. One is a one-act that runs like 10 minutes at the most and it is funny and simple and doesn't involve much. It is called Arabian Nights and I play the interpreter. It really is funny and we are performing it in March. I am in it with Sam and Lee and Miguel is directing. I will try to get some pics and post them on here, if I learn how to. The other play, is a community musical and I am in the chorus. I play a character called Yellow-Foot. He is a native american guy, as if the name didn't give that away. Oh, the play is Annie Get Your Gun. Yee-Haw! Just my kind of show. I don't do anything really except sit in the wings and wait to go on and make over exaggerated facial expressions. FUN!

Aside from that, not much has happened. Well, I attended the GCPA this weekend in Macon. That is the Georgia College Press Association, for those of you who don't know. "Gosh!" -Napoleon Dynamite. I went there with Some peeps and we had a good time. The sessions and workshops were boring, but the place was full of cute guys and the kicker is that most of them were gay. Happy, of course. Kyle got hooked up with this one guy, but bless his heart, if I hadn't convinced him that the guy was into him, he wouldn't have ever known. I mean come on, the guy was taking pics of him on his camera phone. Really Kyle, get with it. You got him, BEARly. The South Georgian won eight awards, four of them were first place. They were as follows:

1. Campus Community Service-Features-1st.
2. Campus Community Service-Editorials-1st
3. Layout and Design-1st (Miguel rocks, but doesn't want to hear about it. Well listen bitch, you rock!)
4. Advertising Excellence-1st (thanks to Tyler and his wonderful ads, and me and my salesmanship! HA!)
5. Website-2nd (stupid SCAD, with all its hot gay guys. I hate it. They had to be artsy and win! blah.)
6. General Excellence-2nd (oh yeah, we got beat by those stupid chicken lickers from ABAC! What?)
7. Best Editorial-2nd (Miguel's soapbox. Yay for Miguel. Isn't he precious.)
8. Entertainment Feature-3rd (It was for that comic on the Sept. issure by (Britney?). Love her. Boo!)

Oh yeah, just to clear something up. About the whole general excellence thing, I do have something to say! To begin with, the judges were told to judge the whole paper and assign a first, second, and third label to each. The guy that was judging was from the Atlanta Journal Constitution and he gave our paper the first place label. Then he was told that he had to do it by points and so when he went back and did the point system, he found that The ABAC Stallion had like two more points than us. So whatever. We were the real first place winners. You better be glad that they started doing the points thing. Freaking pig biters. Ugh!

Now that I am over that, the experience was cool. I am so proud of all of us and I think that we rock and each deserve something big! Not going to happen. Yeah I know! It was a fun day. After the awards ceremony, we all went to Barnes and Noble and got some stuff. Well, actually, I spent 50 freaking dollars, partly because I didn't use Miguel's employee discount. Darn it! Then Frier, Alicia, (Britney?), and Lee all went home and Miguel, Kyle, and I stayed and went to the movies and saw Boogieman! I won't tell you what happens, beacause I don't really know what happened. But I do know that I would not go back and watch it again. I went to sleep people and started snoring, so bad that Kyle had to wake me up. And wait, speaking of Kyle. OMG! The boy totally spazzed out on some kids that were sitting behind us. They were loud and talking and being stupid and I was like "Wait, they have one more minute to stop talking and I am going to tell...!" and before I knew it, Kyle had turned around and was yelling at them! "Some people have payed to see this movie and you better stop talking or I am going to have you thrown out!" Go on boy, with yo bad self. Now what!

After the movie we went to, well we didn't really go anywhere. We were going to go eat, but Kyle wanted to go to some store to look at video games. It was called GameStop and he told us that he had been there before, but I tell you what, it took us like 2 hours to find the place. So you tell me, I don't think he had been there since like 1993. We finally found it and he went in and was in there for like 3 minutes and came out with NOTHING. NOTHING PEOPLE! After all that searching. I wanted to hit him in the face. Then we started to find somewhere to eat. And we had seen like 18,000 Applebees around town and we wanted some cheesesticks. Well, when we started to find one to eat at, they had all disappeared. We couldn't find one to save our lives, we got directions and finally made it and waited outside, in the cold for like 40 minutes. But it was sooooo good!

We left Macon coming home and we were singing in the car, or Miguel was because I had no voice. I was mad that I couldn't sing so I asked to stop a store and get some water and cough drops. Miguel pulls off an exit and I promise it was the most isolated and desolate exit between Macon and Douglas. There was one store so I went in and half the store was like a room full of chainmail and medieval weapons. And the people were so freaking scary! There was one guy at the table and he was actually wearing one of the Chainmail hoods. What the Freak? Then we came on home.

We got home and then I slept till 3 on Sunday. Such good sleep. So here I am at today. Wasn't that a fun story. I am so surprised that you people read this long mess. But whatever. I guess it is interesting. Until next time, watch out for bears, women that look like men and lead roundtable discussions, and husky black women taking craps in bushes. Jewell-OUT!