School... Say What?!

Well, it's that time of year again where everyone starts school.  Guess I should be getting my things ready.  Books, pencils, class schedule, things of that nature.  Oh wait!  I graduated and have the diploma to prove it.  (Or so my mother says... Since I cannot verify that it was actually sent to my home in Utah, I will have to take her word for it.)  Either way, I did not sign up for Fall classes.  So to spend my Fall semester, I will still be employed by the Walt Disney Company in one of the more glamorous roles that I can have at the Florida Mecca of Disney.  Being a Custodian is great fun.  I know people might say I'm crazy that I would choose to have it as my job, but what can I say?  I love to clean up Disney's Hollywood Studios!

Although my school career is at a close, I can still learn new things!  (See my previous post about words)  But I also have learned a great deal about Water.  My Mom once made an analogy about water.  "Don't be like water because it always finds the easiest route.  The easy way is not always the best way."

My roommate had this to say on water last night.  Needless to say, it is a lot longer and more cryptic.  (And took me two hours to edit!)

A Water Droplet doesn't know what it wants to be, but it does it the right way.  There are three things in the world Water, Ice, and Steam.  Water is in the middle of both Ice and Steam.  Water turns to Steam because of man finding fire. Then the refrigerator and freezer are discovered, well actually the Ice Box was found first.  Water and Ice are similar - (When you freeze Water you get Ice.) - but Water and Steam hang out too - (When Steam occurs it's all wet and stuff). Steam is like, "Hey we aren't making tea right now so you need to freeze up a bit." Water likes this idea, likes ice cream and all those things and is not sure about life.  Water and Ice have a friendship.  So Water has to see if Steam is OK with this 'cold' idea thing.  "I dont want to be warm, I just want to tell warm what is happening."  So, Water and Steam are hanging out and Ice gets mad. Ice meets up with Snow and says, "Lets hang out cause we are really, really similar; ice storms and snow storms see? Everything freezes"  Now Water is jealous, "I'm friends with Ice and Snow, so maybe I made the wrong choice of hanging out with Steam."  Water decides to see Snow and says that it is wrong and wants to move to the North, where Ice and Snow hang out. Ice is fun and makes Water happy and slows it down in a good way.  Molecules aren't moving and neither is Ice.  Ice is scared because it knows that Summer comes once a year. "I want to freeze with you later," says Ice, "but you need to tell somebody. You need to tell Steam that this is gonna happen."  So Ice is gonna hang out in their cool crib, chillin'. You know, being Ice and all.  Ice wants to know what's happening with Water.  (2 hours later B-T-Dubs.)  "It's complicated", says Water as it is turning to Steam.  Ice knew this was gonna happen, a self full-filling prophecy so to speak and it's OK with it.  Ice's heart is broken though, not because Water and Steam are together.  What truly, and really, upsets Ice is that water told Ice that it wanted to be frozen.  Now Ice went back with Snow.  The moral of the story is sometimes the winter comes, but at the end of the day it's going to melt and the river is going to run.

So to all of my friends that have just started school up again, take the advice of my Mom.  Don't take the easy way out like water.  And if you can find a meaning in Michael's story then you can use that too.  (Don't worry I got his permission to use this.)  Good luck in school my friends!  And may the Odds be Ever in your favor!  See what I did there? (Don't judge, it's 4 AM)

Erudite and Other Words

So after listening to my roommate, Michael, talk and talk and talk about various things, I finally listened to one of them.  I am starting to read Publish This Book by Stephen Markley.  And in it I found this word Erudite.  At the time, the Author did not know what it meant but he still placed it in his book.  You can read this on page 2 if you don't believe me.

     (And Michael is still talking and talking and talking...  He tends to get on these talking kicks late at night.  His conversations do not have any fluidity or any coherence at all.  But I am a good roommate and I listen.  He might not be happy about this post in the morning, but that's OK cause we are roommates and that's all right.  Apparently Michael knows some poem about walking in gold or some other random set of words that happens to rhyme.  He is still talking but I will get back to my original blog now.)

So page 2...  Erudite and not knowing the meaning... I have lost all train of thought, but Michael wants to talk about this book once I finish it in two weeks apparently.  I mostly just wanted everyone to read a quote from the book that is what my blog is all about.  So here it is!

 Once you commit a thought to paper it takes on 

a separate life ... this thought now has a future.

And just to end this, some other words.  Sisyphean, Wistapoop,  Callipygean, Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, Psithurism, Qualtagh, Scacchic, and Nudiustertian.

7 AM, Gotta Be Fresh

It's Friday, and as Rebecca Black would say, "gotta get down on Friday."  I had to get up early to take a friend to the airport and it happens to be 7AM on a Friday.  Imagine the odds of that!  So I figured another post was in order!

Friday is a wonderful thing.  There are so many tweets, Facebook statuses, and songs about this great day.  It's finally the weekend, well for most of you reading this...  My weekend starts in three days, Disney does that to you.  This post goes out to everyone starting their weekend, especially my old crew, the SUU Admissions Office!

Admission's Crew

Today is a day where you can Whip your Hair back and forth, Raise Your Glass in celebration, do a little Backin' Up dance, or even a Scottish Jig to C'est La Vie.  A lot of the references may not make sense, but they will once you listen to the best Friday playlist ever created by a team of college students!  So, it doesn't matter what seat you take, kick it in the back seat as you look forward to the weekend!  After all, yesterday was Thursday, today it is Friday, we so excited!  Tomorrow is Saturday and Sunday comes afterwards!  You gotta get down of Friday.  Fun, Fun, Fun, Fun, looking forward to the weekend! (In three days for me!)

Also, here is said amazing playlist! http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Friday/60543635  Have a listen and Celebrate Today! ~ Ha! Disney reference :)

Trash Compacting - Soothes the Soul

Trash compacting is something that I do on a regular basis while working at Walt Disney World.  But the point of this Blog is not to reveal the many secrets and what-not that Disney has to offer.  This is for me to ramble on and post my thoughts.

This came to me as I was compacting trash, hence the title.  It was Extra Magic Hours at Disney's Hollywood Studios and I was cleaning my restrooms for a few hours and had a few more till I could go home.  Now, there is something you need to know about compacting trash.  It's not complicated at all!  You push the green button to make it go, the red button to make it stop, and the black one is just there.  Not really sure what it is for.

So I am at the chute dropping in bags of trash and for the next five minutes, I press the green button.  The trash disappears and occasionally a bag pops.  My favorite part!  Listening to the plates and cups and other objects slowing cracking and breaking is quite calming.  So what's the whole point of this you may ask? I will tell you!

During my five minutes of button pushing, I began thinking about things and thinking that others might want to know what I thought about said things.  So the idea of a blog began to form!  I decided it wouldn't be about a specific topic, or have any schedule to it.  It will just be something where I can type away on my sleepless nights.  So here it is, my blog - Sleepless Sam.