June 21, 2005 1:38am

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All right. Enough of the random image posts, my apologies.

I graduated Thursday during an afternoon ceremony. Merle, my parents and grandmother attended. Food was eaten. Alcohol was drunk. Gifts were given. A million pictures were taken. A good time was had by all. That glossed over a lot but yeah. Hooray for me, I’m no longer a student, just an boneless mass of graduate goo. Lately, it has been hard to keep panic from creeping in over my job situation. I haven’t heard back from any companies yet and my semi-self-imposed deadline to find a job of August 30th is closing in. But that is boring and worrisome and always on my mind. So something else.

Today, as I was skating through campus on my way to work, I noticed a big row of trucks and trailers lined up beside the Physics and Astronomy building. People with plastic I.D. cards were scurrying about, crowds of people were standing around, and there were uniformed officers beside the Natural Science building, guarding it apparently.

So I was skating on the sidewalk, past the row of trailers, moving pretty fast and dodging little stands and equipment when a woman with an I.D. card around her neck jumped in front of me, barring the way. She announced importantly, “You can’t go this way, we’re filming a MOVIE.” She said movie just like that too, all in caps. So I said, “OK”, and started to head around the area where I thought they were filming. She chased me down to say, “No. You can’t go that way either.” So I backtrack a little and try to go down another road. I’m grabbed by another handler and she makes a crowd of us lowly academics wait until the director is done yelling stuff before we can move through our campus. What a pain in the ass.

So, I make it in to work and check with excitement to see what big movie stars are in the film. The big name? Zachery Ty Bryan. Who the hell is that? 

Yeah, him. Brad from Home Improvement. What a fucking disappointment. Held up for a movie starring Tim Taylor’s oldest son and that hideous mushroom hair. 

So they’re trying to make UWO look like WestPoint Academy. Well, I’m off tomorrow with nothing better to do and it just so happens I got a spiffy new high tech digital camera as one of my graduation gifts so… Maybe I can sell some Zach pics to Teen Beat or something. (Or at least post and make fun of them here.)

2025 me here: I removed a couple missing pictures and broken links. Pretty sure this movie was 2005’s Code Breakers about a Football cheating scandal at WestPoint Academy.

0 thoughts on “June 21, 2005 1:38am”

  1. we were in the same ceremony… cool..
    i don’t recall any other film projects around campus, but with the exception of Social Science and Weldon, it’s pretty nice looking for movies.
    aug 30 is still a while, but good luck.. i’m in the same situation, it sucks.

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  2. Congratulations again!    I wondered if Merle was in town when you posted the spider picture…things any better there?
    You’ll find a job.  Hopefully you are finding a way to network face-to-face and are contacting people in the field you want to work in and not just sending resume’s.  I hear just sending the resume doesn’t work so well.  But then how would I know, I got my last job by sending  a resume and the one before that by being a temp first.  But those were the days when I wasn’t picky either (nor did I have any particular specialty). Either way, you’ll find something, you are smart.

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  3. Congrats! And Mmmm… Zachery… you’re so lucky! Okay.. that didn’t sound convincing. The kid can’t act! =P Please do take some shots with your new camera and make fun of him!!

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  5. yeah, beatles regrooved is an awesome awesome awesome album. it has been my sole source of contentment and pleasure for the last couple of days. get it. i would seriously burn it and send it to you if i had to because the world needs to know the beauty that is Beatles Regrooved. my fave tracks are Blackbird by Eros, Lucy in the Sky by Joseph Jaime, and Hey Jude by Chokocheeky.lol, good old zach. its comforting to know hes still around. or maybe frightening. not sure. the owl man, the owl! a name yet?

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  7. I like your new background. What kind of lame movie is the Home Improvement kid in? That’s disappointing.
    I’m also jealous of the contents on your desk. Much better than mine.

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  9. Congratulations!  I’d give anything to trade places with you right now.  I just got out of my beyond shitty three and a half hour night class.  Guh.
    Don’t worry about the job.  Things will fall into place.  I got my first and only five or so gray hairs thus far in the few months after I graduated college.  Things are A-okay now.  And you have an actual degree; I was an English major.  I know you’ll be just fine, cowboy.  Now celebrate!
    Oh, and screw Brad from “Home Improvement.” I walked through and was similarly reprimanded for interrupting a movie filming scene while I was studying at Oxford.  It was “Quills,” or “Quill,” or whatever.  That hiedous movie with Kate Winslet and…someone else, don’t remember, about the Marquis de Sade.  You think if they’re gonna film a movie somewhere as cool as Oxford it would be something worthwhile.  My only brush with fame.

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  12. I like the new look… love the title bar… so much.
    Zachery Ty Brian… lol… what do you say to that? I mean really… no words.
    I like the pics from the last couple of days… and RYC… yeah.. I have been far to obusy lately, and it was nice to see you noticed.

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