i really wanted to start using this again, but i dont have anything to write about. summers off to a good start but no one wants to hear about that.

i need to think of a movie...

When i was walking out the doors for the last time after my final at Moraine, i saw a sign above them that read:

Watch Your Step.

It seemed very appropriate.

So i know that i dont usually update this aside from maybe once a year, but i figured why not?

Right now im sitting in the library at moraine. Heres the thing: I'm really going to miss this place. Its fucked up. I've realized over the last few weeks that i guess i owe a lot to this place, its really the only reason i got into loyola. Its not that im going to miss school here, im just going to miss the actual school. I like it here. i like the atmosphere. This entire semester has been so much fun. Its just kinda been like hangin out with people, then going to the occasional class, where i really didnt even have to try.
I like that over the last two years from working and going to school here i've been able to meet so many people. I guarantee that at any given point in time while here i can say hello to at least 5 people in the hall and then nearly anyone who works here. Its fun. Its welcoming. It makes it okay to be here.

Well thats that on moraine. im done now. Its over. I wont be comin back. Thats not a bad thing, it really isnt at all. I hate the classes. I felt stupid being here, but like i said, it really wasnt about classes at the end.

I've also recently had some very good closure. I mean mind saving closure. I owe a lot of thanks to the person who gave it to me, and you hopefully know who you are. I imagine it took a lot for them to do what they did, and im not sure they know quite how much i appriciated it. Maybe lost and hour or two of sleep, but trust me, it was worth it. So thanks again, i really needed that talk.

I guess it has been 53 weeks since i have last posted on live journal.
Well LJ, do i have a story for you.

53 weeks. 53 weeks. thats almost a year. Do you have any idea at all how much my life has changed in the last year? i dont really even know where to begin. i suppose the end would be the best.

Right now i am sitting on my back porch. Tony is sleeping on the couch out here. God knows why. Tony as been living at my house for roughly the last month or so and it really has been great. Hes always here when i get home from work. The convience of this has gone unchallanged so far. i love haveing tony around, and im sorry corey that i stole him from you, we'll figure out some sort of trade off.
Tony, Brendan, Liam and myself have also...wait. Brendan and Liam. This is where the story is.

Christmas Break: Gobles, Michigan.
This four day period is a time that i promise you i will never forget. This is a weekend that changed the course of things to come. This is a weekend where i became close to a handful of the greatest people that i have ever met in my entire life. This is the weekend that brought me back. there are few places that have ever had as much of a lasting affect on me like this. Gobles, Michigan is where i realized that my friends have the best friends in the world, and in turn so do I. Tony, Corey, Brendan, Liam, Chelsea, Jacob, and Adam. That was the group. four days. Bonding at its finest.

This isnt all though. I have met some of the most intelligent, and sharp witted people, with more talent in there god damn pinky than i have in my whole body. Samantha and Kristin, who in turn came with ryan and james. I owe these people more thanks than they probably know. Good people. smart people. caring people. Good Friends.
Its strange how i came across such good friends. Moraine Valley? who would have thought something so great could come out of somewhere so terribly dismal. But alas, even good ol' Moraine Valley has won my heart. After all, if it weren't for the Valley of the Underachievers, i would not be able to type what is coming next. Hold onto your hats.

Loyola University. Loyola University. One more time. Loyola UNIVERSITY. Bitches. just read that a few times please. Oh wait. Loyola University Law School. Yessir. To think that only three months ago i was ready to drop out of school and become a workin man the rest of my life. If i am going to be 100% honest though i guess i really owe it to a few select people. One of them is Brendan Scanlan. weird huh? But its true, hes the one who told me, "Hey Listen, Loyola is havign a transfer seminar. Wanna go?" Hell yes i wanted to go. Both of us got in ON THE SPOT. i also have received a total of about $16,000 in scholorships so far. wow. I also owe more thanks to someone who will remain nameless for the sake of what its worth. So thanks lady.
I'm living in Rogers Park next fall with Brendan. I am more excited for this than anything that has come along in the last 2-3 years. This is life changing shit.

Tony, Brendan, Liam, and myself have also started to play frisbee golf. That was really it. theres no story to it. It is just a great way to pass time after class. Classes at Moriane this semester are going great. i have A's in every class.

Things on most fronts are looking pretty swell. Life has FINALLY taken a possitive turn. Im around people who i appreciate, and even more so, SURROUNDED by people who appreciate me. I could not ask for anything more. Sure there are people i miss and there are still unsettled differences, but whats the point in dwelling? Whatever happens happens, if things are going to happen then great. I'll be here when it happens. For now though, i'm lookin forward.

This is Life Changing Shit.

The gangs all here.

So this is kinda weird. i dont think ive ever actually used this thing to tell anyone anything or anythign that has actaulyl been going on in my life. but theres a first time for everythign i suppose.

So i start school in two days. thats weird. i start school in two days at a shitty school that i dont want to go to. even weirder.my schedual raelly isnt that bad, i have amostly all afternoon classes. one night class on mondays and wednesdays wich is gonan kidan suck. btu for the most part its kidna like....whatever. it still sucks pretty bad that things didnt work out with columbia. that wold have been really nice. or i wish maybe that i would have thought about how much it was going to actually cost me so i could have a pplied different places earlier. but whatever. its only one year. then hopefully if everything goes according to plan, ( which hasnt so much been the case lately) ill be goign to uic. i guess that will be okay. i never really wanted to go there, but i dont want to live at home any longer than i have to and i certainly dont want to go to moraine any longer than i have to. uic is a good school and its downtown. and who know,s mayeb by that time soemthign raelly cool will happen liek ill win the lottery and i can just buy a place down there. lie ka shit studio apartment. well i guess if i won the lotto i would probably just drop out of school.

You know, its kidan funny, casue everyone is so worried about everyone goign away and stuff, but i really dont have that problem. shits fucked.

its really funny how thigns work out.

fk

im abotu to leave to go downtown. but for now im talkign to lizzy. its nice. im not using my E key whiel talkign to her becuase hers doesnt work so i figured i would be fair. im jsut really nice like that you know? tomorrow im hanging out with corey. its gonan be super cause i love her. for new years i THINK we might be goign to stedmans new house, that would be pretty super cause by then he will have a pool tabel and such.
ANYWAY. downtown. it will be.....nice. cold. fun. cold. pretty. fucking cold.


EAS

bye bye.

LOVE ME.

Hey, this guy got a new job at snackville. im pumped.

Dear Me,




I love you.


Love,
Dominic

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman

wow, its been so very very long since ive done this. i was looking at it, and the last thing i wrote was about those fights and when meg got jumped. kinda weird casue we're dating now <3...goin 2 months strong.

I feel kinda bad cause the only reason that im doing this is because they blocked myspace on on the school computers. yeah whatever, im a loser and i use myspace, shut it.

This weekend was pretty super. Friday was six flags and that was awesoem cause there werent any lines or anything. the drives there and back kinda sucked cause there was really bad traffic and i was tired. saturday i got to work in megs moms shop. it was pretty cool cuase it was just me and meg running it, and for like a half hour i got to run it all by myself. they trust me way too much. how do they know i wasnt goign to take the register and run? crazy flower shoppers. the rest of the day was pretty fun i guess...lots of close calls. sunday. Sunday, sunday, sunday. Well lets see. i know we went to go see Waiting, which i still havent decided if i liked or not. I mean i love ryan more than anyone, but there really wasnt much story to it, and so much was left un answered. lets see, what else happened? OH YES. Ann got drunk and hit on my brother and kissed him cause shes a skank. um...other than that i dont think we really did anything. We DID however go back to baker's square. we, for some time, were banned from there becuase we didnt leave "big enough tips" and "left messes." yeah whatever, we left huge tips. on sunday, the bill was 30.65. we left a 7 dollar tip. Take that JOHN THE WAITER. Monday was a kinda quiet day. we didnt really do too much. watched some movies, smelled like old people, attempted to walk home. i dunno. and once again i was used by the wirtz sisters to get food because they are all overweight. yes, all of them.

recap.

six flags
flowers
drunken slut/ movie
wake up call.

the fuckin last two nights have been insane. fights both nights, and last night meaghan got jumped by three fat ass bitches. very fat ugly looking bitches. ooooo if only i didnt have morals. their ass would = mine.

job= mine.

so. i think i might get the job at county fair...thats pretty cool i guess, i gotta go in for the interview in liek a half hour. i guess that would be pretty cool, id get to work with beth sometimes, and i knwo a lot of people there. meeeeh. jobs = money = food & rons = happy.

Hm. pretty fun day i suppose. and by day i am refering to yesterday. me stedman castle and the jew went to visit lauren anaya at work....it was awesome cause all her bosses were on vacation so she was the only one there. we got to steal so much crap and play hide and seek and stuff, it was awesome. then we went to go meet lauren l. at hucks. castle bought me some chicken strips cause hes my god. then we had to hit the rode and lauren went to work where we would later end up. me stedman castle and the jew then got abby and sarah and we went out to noodles for like 2 hours cause we had to wait for murphy......then we all went over to courtneys cause she got back from brain surgery..what a little trooper. today though should be an awesome day....castle, courtney, domi-fresh and myself are haveing a movie day..and its going to be a fricken blast.

Yesterday was one of the most packed days of the summer so far. at like 10 in the morning meaghan and abby cam and picked me up and we went to meaghans house for breakfast, then murphys and castle came over and we all went to the zoo.....it was a good time. i gave a dollar to a deaf mute, who im almost positive was faking. it got really hot there so we left.....called beth and stedman then went to go see charlie and the chocolate factory. WOOOOW. amazing movie. BUt of course it couldnt go smoothly and on the way castles front tire blew out so we had to fix that. but we met this awesome guy who helped us out with it, possibly the nicest man put on earth, he very well could have been the messiah.
so then we saw the movie, and then wentto meaghans house for a while then mike kean, murphy, abby, meaghan and myself went to borders for the release of the harry potter book. it was okay, i went home early casue i didnt even have one reserved, but it was fun i guess. long long day. very long.

so ive been in michigan for the last forever, and it was so awesome. spending every day on the beach and not having to worry about a thing. sure i missed people, but now that im back, i wanan go up there so bad again. ill probably go back up in a couple days. Murphys cottage is easily thr greatest place ever. i heart it. let me knwo if you are interested in going, youre more than welcome to join. again.....i haveto give mad props to ms lauren, becuase she acted as the greatet mother of all tiem to let some friends spend the night. thank you dear. i owe you big time. ifi learned anything while up there though......the stars are beautiful things....but you cant always count on them. and with that deep thought, i part.

well, here i am. i joined the live journal crowd. all thanks to the lovely and talented lauren. im sure ill become addicted and write every little thing that happens in my day...i apologize ahead of time.