Thoughts on Holy Broken Spine Batman!!

First:

 IT'S ALIVE

Second:
Alright guys... I know I messed up bad this time. It has been at least a month... I am genuinely sorry for failing this hard. In my defense I did fracture 3 vertebrae and partially collapse both of my lungs, in an "accident". I guess what it really comes down to is in those Parkour movies where it says "Do no try this at Home, These are professionals." In the past warnings like this feel in the same category as "Read All instructions before use." But alas I vaulted over a railing by ol' Steenbock Library and here I am a month later, in a neck and body brace blogging from my temporary home in Eagle Heights. The Family Housing area for UW. On a positive note at least I didn't end up in Family Housing because I went to Vegas and accidentally got married right? <----- see that, I am learning to do the whole glass half full thing!

I know it's a few days late but still.....

1. I am thankful that I can walk.
2. I am thankful that UW hooked me up with a sweet apartment
3. I am thankful for having my own room and shower, and mom's cooking again
4. I am thankful that my friends have not completely forgotten about me
5. I am thankful that I am recovering, and finally have enough energy to type and study and listen to music
6. "you get the point" for my rediscovery of Citizen Cope, it's been a while man....
7. "" for my sweet new Monitor/TV replacement and hopefully soon new computer
8."" even partially handicapped I am still doing well in school
9."" that I might get my neck-brace off before Christmas

Look at me being all not cynical, I am damn proud of my new found mindset. Maybe the next hospitalization can rid me of my sarcasm...

Here is your tune... Thanks for reading!



-KGM

Thoughts on Doing Same Changes Around Here

As you might have noticed this whole one past a day thing has been failing pretty hard. I guess you have a lot less free time when in College than when you live in a retirement community in New Jersey. So long story short I probably will not be getting around to the daily posts.
Onward!
Turner Kronshage House (my dorm) got second place in the KroCS Olympic games. I, along with most of the house, did our darnedest to win. It was a 2 day event, with several games yesterday and then a scavenger hunt today. We owned all our games yesterday, which basically amounted to taking one scavenger picture. I am rambling about this but I honestly rode my bike around the entirety of Madison, Wisconsin taking pictures in front of important buildings and landmarks. I went there, I was willing to look like a total tourist fool, for the sake of Turner house. The house that did not even show up for Ultimate Frisbee, Jeopardy or the relay race did more scavenging so they won. I was pissed. Otherwise college is going swimmingly, I have good friend and am getting into the routine. I talk like I am in college but we have honestly only had one day of classes. It is a lot of fun now, but pretty soon I will defiantly be buckling down and doing some serious work. Gonna be a long road too that PH.D, but we will make it. HIV better watch out!


HAHAHAHAHAAH

-KGM

Swimming in Dat Lake

Jumped in Lake Mendota in the pitch black and pouring lake, with like 20 people from the dorm. It was quite the bonding moment. Community involvement, friendship building, all that orientation freshman type stuff. I felt pretty proud since I led the charge in getting people to come. Apparently people are very afraid of pneumonia around here, got some strange looks from people. I must say though, UW is so damn awesome. It is going to be a damn good year.


-KGM

Thoughts on Being Snobby About Music

So it has always been the running joke with a few of my more hipster friends, mainly Twitter, that the less people to have heard about a band is directly correlated to how cool said band is. I have seen some extreme examples of this, like one time I was given some Cd's by a friend, before giving them up he made me swear to not tell other people about the band or let them listen to it. Pretty ridiculous in my opinion, but honestly I think a lot of people out there truly believe that if a band is popular they must suck. This whole thing came up on the UW facebook group, I had to chime in to defend Skrillex because I don't care how popular that boy is, he is freaking beast. Anyways I sorta met this kid who is an incoming UW freshman who makes some dubstep, mash-up, remixes ect ect. I came to an amazing conclusion that I could earn serious fucking hipster cred by using on of his songs in my blog. So yah...
Today's song is by this guy, you have probably never heard of him...he is pretty obscure... For real though show him some love, he has some sick remixes and he is a UWisc student, meaning he has to be a super genius badass. Also show the new URL some love, and tell your friends and stuff. Pictures from Virginia trip be up tomorrow night I swear on my monkeys grave.

DJ Britt - Fish don't Fry in the Kitchen.
Check this boy out! DJ Britt on Soundcloud

DJ BRITT - Fish Don't Fry In The Kitchen by DJ BRITT


-KGM

Thoughts on "Back Home"

So I got back to Jersey this afternoon. I am exhausted times ten and have work tomorrow morning. Yes life is good. The trip to Madison was absolutely amazing, and I am working on uploading all like 40 of the shitty cellphone pictures I took. But before that I just wanted to talk about Madison / UW and how I feel about it. I have never been one to have "school spirit", and wouldn't be caught dead in high school team shirt or anything like that. Not to say I was uninvolved, I just wasn't going to cheer on the football team as they lost everything.  All that aside, I am wearing my Red Wisconsin T-shirt right now and I am damn proud of being a Badger. The college is absolutely amazing. I have not even been to one class but I am already in love. The campus buildings are all incredible and the architecture / landscaping is beautifully spread across the massive campus. You will see in the pictures but yah. It is just an all around great place and the people there are all polite, helpful and kind. None of them are from New Jersey haha... Lake Mendota flanks the whole campus and it is breathtaking. My dorm is what I would call "lake-front" property and I think I am going to join the sailing club. As for academics I will be majoring in Microbiology with a certificate in Computer Science...hopefully. I just can't freaking wait to go!
Pictures will be tomorrow I promise.

Fortune Teller - Forest Fire (THANKS TWITTER)


-KGM