Random

    For most of my life, I grew up with the same group of friends, from middle school up until now. I can’t exactly say that they are all good friends, but they are like family to me. I am known as the more responsible one in the group, but sometimes even I can be influenced into doing something completely illegal, which I will take to my grave. I gave up hanging out with my friends on a regular basis for college. I am glad that I did since three of them are now facing jail-time. Now I hang out with my more responsible friends and stay out of trouble. My perhaps, old friends, are probably going to jail for a while for stealing a race car that was in an enclosed trailer somewhere down in White Bear Lake. To there surprise, a state patrol attempted to pull them over just a few miles away from where ever they got the car so they hit the gas. After a few more patrol cars, a helicopter, and a couple of canine units joined in the chase, they decided to take a detour through a field. Well, with a car in an enclosed trailer on the hitch, they obviously didn’t get too far. Then they ran on foot. One guy got the run-down by the canine dogs and then got taken to the hospital shortly after, the other guy lost his shoe and gave up three hours later after getting severe frost-bite on his foot, and the last guy was found about six hours later. This has to go on the World’s Dumbest Criminals show.

I worked everyday over spring break except for a Thursday that I took off so that I could do homework. It was fun staying busy though. I went to work everday for about 15 hours and then I would go home, sleep for about 7 hours, and then go back to work. I do towing for All Towing and Recovery way down in Centerville. Centerville is close to Forest Lake and Forest Lake seems to be a city that I have become dependent on. I keep trying to move away from Forest Lake but I always end up back there. All of my close friends live there, which are like family to me. It is the only city that feels like my “home town”. I sort-of moved down there over the break. I am staying at a house on the lake with some friends. I usually only see my friends there about 4 hours a week. I am always at work or doing schoolwork and sometimes I sleep but only about 6-7 hours at the most. I had do get a laptop and satellite internet just to keep up with my schoolwork. Satellite internet is only $60 a month and you can go online anywhere you want. I love it.  

I think this essay was quite interesting. I agree and understand how student’s ethics can be related to something as simple as M&M’s. I would have to say that I would fit in a crispy peanut category. I like to challenge myself to try to do something a little more challenging so that I can learn more, but I don’t have the time to do it. Bills don’t pay themselves. I am not a big fan of the plain M&M’s, the ones there just to make the grade or impress somebody. I like the peanut M&M’s, who are there to learn something new and challenge themselves along the way. I can understand the crispies, that mean well, but are too occupied to do well. Some of us just never learned to manage our lives to achieve goals, we only set goals and try to figure out how to fulfill them on the way. I could use a lesson or to on how to manage my life better. I want to be more like the peanut M&M, with a strong middle to feel bolder in what I need to do. 

    I got the nickname Random from my mom, Carrie, because I like to do things randomly. I like to do what I want, when I want to. I usually move about every 6 months. I grew up in Wyoming, MN but I got bored of the town so I moved to Duluth for about a year to finish high school. I realized that all my friends in Duluth were criminals with bad backgrounds so I figured maybe my friends from Forest Lake weren’t so bad so I graduated early and moved to Forest Lake.  I hung out with my friends alot and partied on a regular basis for about 6 months, then I felt like I needed a change of environment, so I moved to Palm Bay, FL. I had alot of fun down there, even though I passed up party after party with some beautiful girls for extra hours at work. That mostly had to do with me being shy and too chicken to take advantage of a great thing. I made alot of new friends down there but I spent most of my time off work hanging out with my boss and his very sexy girlfriend. We would secretly go out, but I don’t get invovled with women who are spoken for, even though I wanted her pretty badly. For some strange reason that I am still unsure of, after about 6 months of great scenery and sexy beach babes, I decided to move back up here, to MN. I guess it was because I felt like I had nobody down there that I could trust. I lived in Forest Lake again for a few months then I decided I wanted to start college so I moved up to Cloquet with my crazy adolescent mother who likes to party more than my friends do. So here I am.

    I think the author had very general opinions about the differences between how men and women view themselves. Most of his opinions had a reasonable amount of truth to them. I agree that in general women worry too much about how they look and most men don’t really care. I think it has to do with low self-esteem or less self-confidence. Take me for example, I have very little confidence, low self-esteem, and a high priority towards detail. Therefore I do not like going out in public where there are women unless I have showered, shaved, brushed my teeth, found clean clothes, and put gel in my hair or found a hat. If I am going to hang out with the guys then I don’t do any of the previous things for days. Since this is true, I must conclude that I am a rough and burly, deer slay’n lumberjack that likes to wrench on anything that I’m destined to get covered in grease from type of guy but when I’m with the girls or a girl I’m more of a sensitive, good listener, just trying to cheer them up or give them advice. P.S. I love to give back-rubs. When my ex-girlfriend calls me I tend to be a little less sensitive to her emotions, or so she says, but I still try to help her out with whatever is bothering her. The author states something similar to the fact that men do not even notice 97% of beauty efforts women make. This general idea has truth to it but I think that women should do what makes them feel beautiful to themselves even if men don’t notice. Women love to look good, so let them do what they love and don’t think they’re just doing it for us guys either.

If a woman asks me how she looks, I would say, “Honey, you would look beautiful to me if all you were wearing was a burlap sack.”       

I am 20 years old. I spent most of my life in Forest Lake but now I live in Cloquet. I don’t really know anyone up here yet so life kinda sucks. I can’t seem to find a decent job up here but if anyone knows of one, let me know. I usually drive down to Forest Lake every weekend to visit friends and family but I stopped talking to my closest friends a while ago. They were always up to no good and sure enough, they all went to jail last weekend for fleeing the police with a stolen trailer with a race car in it. I am glad I stopped associating with them when I did. I, on the other hand, went down to the Convention Center last weekend and checked out the motorcycle show with one of Victory’s top mechanical engineers, my uncle. I had alot of fun. I wish I had more time to go to events like that more often but taking English 1106, Microeconomics, Logic, Psychology, and Algebra II takes up most of my time. For fun I like to hunt, fish, camp, go four-wheeling, go off-road or mudding with my truck, and wrenching on vehicles. I am extremely shy so normally you wont hear me talking unless I know you fairly well. I hope that I meet some new friends up here so I don’t have to pump $50 in my tank every weekend just to get out and do something all the way down in Forest Lake.