Conrad @ MindSay 
well im a guy and im really tall and im interested in pretty much everything. Oh and My home language is english. Well i enjoy geography and history as school subjects and have a pretty ok academic mark. iam rather crazy but Im a joker at heart tho. I love music and i wish i could play an instrument. Oh and my spelling is really shocking. Mybad :-) hay i think i can sing but my friend doesnt agree with me.I am anarchist revolutionary. Im a family guy and wanna be a good dad one day. Hope life works out.
My gaming name is GROGGY... well do i have to explain why?(and i like that name. I am a very busy guy if im not busy painting walls for my parents (boring) then im playing sport. Im very active and love all types of sport even curling. At the moment im playing badminton and thinking of playing cricket. I absolutley love anime and reading maps and reading about asiatic cultures cutoms and countries.
Favorite Music Genres
Indie and alternate languge music, Classical, Electronic, Punk, Pop, Latin, Rock, Hip-Hop, Dancehall, Alternative, R&B
Favorite Music
Linkin Park, The Pillows, Orange Range, Arctic Monkeys, Kaizer Chiefs, Eminem, Mika, The RZA, Billy Talent, Vanessa Mae, Gym Class Heroes, Anberlin, P.O.D, Placebo, Relient K, SR-71, Rammstein, T.a.t.u, U2, Evanescence, Alkaline trio, AND EVERYTHING ELSE, I LOVE MUSIC!!!!!!
- Camp starts in a week. That means the boredom is coming to an end!
- Knocked Up was surprisingly funny. I went with Meshia and Justin, and it was a general good time. They were BEYOND excited that the street was paved. I found that hilarious. The movie was a lot better than I expected. ESPECIALLY since I am one of the few people between the ages of 16 and 30 who DIDN'T real like Old School, Anchorman, Wedding Crashers. ... 40 Year-Old Virgin was alright, and Dodgeball I love, but most of the recent comedies have left me...glad I didn't see them in theaters? But this one was pretty good.
- Nicole left me a voicemail that was hard to understand, but from what I understood of it, she found a note I wrote her in 7th grade (so either 1997 or 1998), possibly 8th grade. How funny is that? We're turning 22, and there's 12 year-old me apparently giving her some kind of advice - she said it's hilarious, so we'll have to go read that. I always wish I did that in school. Like, wrote a letter to myself in the future. One of the 6th grade classes did that, and as promised, the teacher delivered them to the class when we graduated high school, and they were so innocent and amazing and poorly punctuated ... and I didn't have one since my class didn't do that. Stupid my class!!
- I just rented the first few episodes of Prison Break on DVD from the video store. I didn't get to watch the second season, so I'm not sure I can REALLY list it as 'favorite tv show' anymore, but...he's too hot. I couldn't resist watching. Especially since I didn't start watching season 1 until later on, so technically, I've never seen these three episodes even though I know what happens in them.
- My little Raddish IS in a commercial! I'm so proud of him! I was watching tv, and I saw a kid in the commercial and I was like 'that mofo looks like my Conrad'...oh IT IS. You can watch it here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=fyeZKBPMAgM. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CONRAD!
- I got into Hunter College finally. I can't believe how long that took. But it's over. I applied to FOUR grad schools for teaching, and I was accepted into all of them: Hunter, NYU (because I am a GLUTTON for punishment...even though I love the ed program there so much, it is punishment), Columbia Teacher's College, and Bank Street College of Education. This also means I owe Ellen a night of drinking because I told her if we both got into all the schools we applied to, a-drinking we would go. : )
- The guy working at the Deli counter whilst food shopping was competent AND fun to talk to. He is now officially my favorite person. Second place is the woman who was on Long Island in NORTH Hempstead (I'm originally from WEST) and Plainview and Westbury last weekend.
- I'M GETTING A NEW BED. Well, technically I should write, I'M GETTING A BED! For the past few summers/winter vacations (when I'm here), I've been sleeping on the futon my parents thought would be a good idea. Well...it isn't. My back is really messed up from it. But we found a nice cheap bed, and my dad and I are going to pick it up in a few minutes and YAYYYYYYY THE END OF BACK PAIN!
- I've decided/realized that it would be absolutely HILARIOUS if Jay kept a blog/journal whatever you want to call these things. It would be fantastic to get a daily account of how many people he punched "in the botch" or just how many "CHETS!" he could work into a normal paragraph, or a random "ETCH!" thrown in there. To read exactly what new way he'll torture Kalman's Mother (or Kalman's Mother's Vagina), how many half-beers he drank to get that drunk, how many new superpowers he's developed since he started watched HEROES, how many times he can quote Heroes... and no one save about 8 people on this planet would REALLY understand half of what he was saying. I love Jay. I would love to understand half of what he says! I'd love to have it on the internet for the average person to try and decipher!
**** UPDATE ****
- New bed is good, old futon was apparently broken, that's why it sagged and was way uncomfortable. Drawback: Bed is higher up than futon...possibly as tall as parents' bed. This means dog can no longer climb up there and have a nice place to nap. Poor puppy.
- In the parking lot, I found these really crazy red bug things. I need someone who is an entymologist to help me figure out what they were - small, pretty red, orange dot on the back, probably 6-legged (I'm thinking some kind of beetle). There were a few wandering around on their own, but they mainly hung together in these giant clumps to the point that when I first saw them, I thought they were either flowers or berries from a tree. I'm highly intrigued by them.
- We just got TOTAL VIP treatment at the restaurant that opened next to our store. We got a complimentary plate of mussels (so now I can say I have eaten 2 mussels in my life...crazies), bleu cheese slices with the salad even though it said those were 2 dollars extra, and then when we said no desert, he sent us a slice of apple pie thing to share. Entire visit was DELICIOUS. Who knew my parents could get VIP anything?
I have a stack of books, beautiful books, to work through for a class that starts this month--Dickens, Melville, Emerson, Conrad, Hawthorne, and a host of others are clearing their throats and shuffling their notes, waiting for me and my cappuccino-conducter's-wand to begin the show. woot woot woot! I love new books. They are like drugs. Like . . . *muses for a moment* caffeine! The long wait in the Cave of Registration was totally worth it to find my little mound of djinn-books. major woot!
so, my friends are done spelunking in the Cave of Registration (those that walked with me anyway) and now we are enjoying the Harry-Potter-Christmas-Holiday-ish feeling checking out our new books. J.K. Rowling did quite an excellent job of describing the before-school-anticipation and the post-Christmasness feelings. But, I digress.
I am ready to go hide in the movie theatre and nap during a movie, and then go home and make a pot of tea and cackle over my pile of treasure, because in another two weeks they will be curses and filthy little trashy novels, if I know my mood swing patterns . . .
*hums the 1812 overture*
and--woot!--i get to see a good peppering of my friends today. I am ent-- . . . Some beanified punk acoupla computers down keeps yabbering on about neutering people with toenails. Does he mean toenails as a tool or toenails as a criterion? Nevermind: I don't wanna know. *blinks intelligently and returns to more cheerful subjects* . . . What was I going to say? It's gone now. Drat him and his be-plaid-ed companion.
*mumblegrumblefrickamutterchuckle*
now, to surf the blogs until People get off for lunch hour . . . I'm so glad to be back.
A reply to sayhedgehog
Ah! Thrift store books! I love them, and i do for many reasons:
1- They are cheap!
2- They may be old, like an old treasure that you are the lucky discoverer of...
3- They have a story... I always wonder who bought them before me, who read them, how many times they were opened and read... It's just such a mystery...
4- They may even hold another treasure: an old bookmark, a piece of paper with the handwritting of the previous owner on it, a phone number, a name, a sweet word to a loved one, and other unbelievable things!!!
... I just love it!
... Ans i should even add...
5- They always find a spot on my bookshelves!
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Some books that i got from the thrift store last time i went:
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Tragedy of Macbeth by Shakespeare
The Portable Conrad, Joseph Conrad
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
Understanding Movies, by Louis D Giannetti