my girlfriend rules. so does stewie.

i've been looking for a wall calendar for a while now. i need one A) so i know what day it is (many calendars are used in this fashion), and B) so I have something to put on my wall at work. My cubicle at work, while not too shabby, is completely barren and void of all decoration, which is just depressing after a while, especially when I realize that I'm going to be in that cubicle for a very, very long time. I need a plant or something. and some pictures. but for starters, why not a calendar? the problem here is that late february is not exactly in the heart of calendar season. have you ever tried to buy a calendar in february? they don't exist. enter meg. today in the mail I got my somewhat-belated Valentine's Day present: a Family Guy calendar. not only do I get a calendar for my cube, but every day I get to look at hilarious pictures of stewie doing funny things and saying things like, "what do you know about the machine!?" If you haven't seen Family Guy you need to. If you have and you don't like it, you're probably stupid. Stewie is the greatest cartoon character ever created. and holy crap! There's a Family Guy book! I just found it when I was making that link. "Family Guy: Stewie's Guide to World Domination." I am filled with happiness and joy.

Anyway...back to the point. I have the best girlfriend ever. Meg is so good at the little things, and she always comes up with the best ideas for me. We never make a big deal out of Valentine's Day. We buy small gifts and usually we end up postponing it and having our own Valentine's Day because we're not in the same state when the real one happens. One of the joys of a long distance relationship....it's a little crappy, but she's worth it. I realize I'm making a big deal out of a calendar, but the point is meg always manages to find something creative and perfect for me, and it amazes me every time. she's too good for me, but I'll never complain.

The Fugitive is TV right now. I love that movie. It used to be my favorite movie before I saw Shawshank. I always forget how good it is. Also, Quizno's is delicious. On that note i bid you goodnight. Maryland is playing clemson tonight....should be an easy game but they already lost to them once so who the hell knows. I have to go prepare myself. goodnight.

oh. pictures of chuck the wagon are up. check him out. he is a work of art.

we did what??

This is a couple days late, but Virginia Tech beat Duke in basketball Thursday night. I need to double-check, but this might be the funniest thing that has ever happened. i watched the game at home by myself....a little pathetic, but at least I had beer....and I was freaking out. we certainly play some ugly basketball at times, but somehow this was actually a good game. Maryland has always been my real college b-ball team, but of course i have to root for my own school too. it's a proud moment seeing your alma mater (wow...that's the first time i've ever called VT my alma mater and it was the weirdest thing ever) pull such a huge upset, and even prouder when the team they upset is the Duke Blue Devils. Duke is easily on my top 5 list of sports teams for which i have the most inexplicable hatred. Allow me to give you that very list, in no particular order:

1. Duke Blue Devils basketball
2. Miami Hurricanes football
3. New York Yankees
4. Dallas Cowboys
5. UVA
   
6. Dan Martin
   

Those on the above list have no business existing on this planet. I wish I could hit them all in the face with a stick.

It's been a good season for my teams against Duke. Maryland beat them twice, despite being tools and sucking in most of their other games. You may have heard something about VT getting obliterated by 35 points in their previous meeting with Duke, but you can ignore that crazy talk because I decided that game didn't actually happen. Thursday's win is the one that matters. end of story.

stupid maryland just let UVA take them into overtime. i'm going to watch. if they lose i'm going to cry. pictures of chuck the wagon are still on the way. weekends are sweet.

chuck the wagon

ok. first order of business: everyone needs to know about chuck the wagon. chuck is a 1988 white subaru DL wagon, purchased for $50 by myself and John for the purpose of learning to drive a stick shift. yes, the car was actually $50. I didn't leave off a zero or anything. we bought him off some dude in chapel hill who didn't want him anymore. i'm pretty sure chuck's sound system is more expensive than chuck. chuck has 90 horsepower and he is white, extremely ugly, and even more awesome.

the plan is to let chuck take the inevitable beating every car with a manual takes from a first-time driver, and then use my mad stick-shifting skills to buy a new 2005 Mazda3 SP23. John's buying a 2005 Ford Mustang convertible.....he wins....but mine will still be sweet. i'm already getting a lot better at driving chuck, so the plan seems to be working. if I can drive an '88 subaru wagon I think I can probably drive anything. at the time of this posting there's not much there now, but go to www.chuckthewagon.com to see chuck, one of man's all-time greatest creations. i took some pictures today so they'll go up soon. it would be sooner if I hadn't left the camera in my car, and if my car wasn't so far away from this couch.

side note: i just learned about google's new map site and it's awesome. go to maps.google.com. it's still in beta, but it's going to put yahoo, mapquest, and every other map site i've ever seen to shame.

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so i've been saying i was gonna give in and do one of these things for a long time now and i thought i'd actually do it today. i'd really like to make my own website one day instead of letting google do it for me, but this will have to do for now. i can't promise there will ever be anything interesting here, but it's here if you're bored and curious about the current state of the life of matt. i'll try to actually post things on a regular basis, but everyone says that and it never happens, so I don't see why it will be any different for me. anyway, read, comment, say hello, whatever. enjoy.