Random Acts of Randomness

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

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Well, not much happened today. After I left last night, I went to Wal-Mart, then I visited my friend Josh. He's doing well. I saw his new house. He wants my American Eagle shirt. Sorry, it's the last relic of my skinny days that I have. Oh, well.

Not much else happening. I'm fixing to watch American Idol. After that I will probably go to bed extra-extra early.

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Mysterious Me

I hate to get all mysterious yet AGAIN, but...

I am having a very tense night. I can't go into all the details, because people I care about are involved, and they may read this blog. But I am feeling a lot of tension tonight. It's so bad that not even the prospect of American Idol could help.

Basically, I am getting criticism from various people, and it's coming from all sides. I have yet to hear an encouraging word from ANYONE today. That's bad. I'm not all that sad about it, but I feel like I want to get out, move around, you know what I am saying.

Hmmm...I think I will do just that.

Laters.

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

More Spam-Dar

Brian recieved this email a couple of days ago, and he forwarded it to me. This is more blatant than the other email I received. Scary stuff.

Dear (no name provided)

Please let this letter not bring confusion to you. I
know that we have not met either before but hear me
from the dept of my mind. It is circumstances
that made me to send this mail to you.

I will introduce myself first to you, My name is Cindy
Coulibally, I lost my mother, my hero and my lord Ms
Monica a year ago. She was poisioned to death
by her associate in business. She formed a company by
one Mr. Philip Brown who poisioned her only to take
benefit of the multi million venture. He
was arrested immedaitely my mother died and he entered
an agreement with my mother's brothers that I and the
immedaite younger brother of my mother will represent
my mother's interest in the company.
After six months I was kicked out of the company
because I said that we have to change the company's
lawyer who I termed was part of the elimination of my
mother. I did not know that they have changed all the
company's document without my name appearing
any where. I will have to let you know more detail on
that but let me move to the point why I am contacting
you.

I have been nick named bastard by my mother's
relations, They have named me all source of names even
calling me outcast because my mother is late,
while my mother was the bread winner of the family.
They have pushed me out of my mother's mansion and
still want to eliminate my life.

I got through the records of my mother account books
three weeks ago while crying and meditating, which I
beleive was inspired by the spirit of God,
I discovered that there is a huge sum of money she
deposited in a bank, which is $6,500,000. The note
attached to the deposit agreement she made
with the bank indicated that, the money was to be used
to purchase machinery for the establishment of a new
company of her own.

Please all I need from you is to do all you can to
help me to get this money out of the bank. I have been
to the bank where this money was deposited
and confirmed the account most deligently. The bank
told me that my mother informed them that the money
was to be remitted to her company's customer
account abroad, which her customer will provide to
them but since then they have never heard from her nor
the customer, now my mother is late. I don't
want the bank to know that my mother is late. I told
them that she is ill and appointed me to represent her
in her affairs.

(1)I want you to provide an account where the money
will be remitted into as my mother's customer.
(2)Make arrangement for me to leave here as soon
as possible (3)How much commission you will take for
rendering me this assistance?

My mother did not marry to any man, She had me as the
only child while she was having an affair with the
person that surpposed to be my father when
she was 18 years and the man abandoned her and
disappeared which forced her to remain single. Now I
am 20 years and never saw my father for a day.I have
no home now and my life is in danger. I don't
have any one to run into. All the members of my mother
family have turned their back on me because l demanded
for my right. They told me that I don't
belong to the family. That I should go and look for my
father, Whom I don't know.
I have made traces to know my father without success.
I want you to hear me from the inner most of my heart
and accord me this help.


God will bless you for saving my life and future.

Best wishes,

Cindy Coulibally.

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Ten Years Ago Today

It seems unreal that ten years has past since the Oklahoma City bombing. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was in my second-hour biology class (I was a sophomore in high school). I walked into the classroom, and noticed that the television was on.

At first I thought it was some kind of fire. The screen showed a bunch of people milling around and stuff. I heard that a bomb exploded from one of my classmates, but from looking at the building, it didn't seem TOO bad.

Then the screen gave an arial shot, and I gasped. The bomb in question took out half the building.

I remember in coming days that I felt anger. How could a couple of guys hate the government so much that he would kill 168 innocent people, including CHILDREN? And why Oklahoma City?

But I also saw many of my classmates giving blood to the Red Cross. I saw people passing around donation buckets to buy food for the dogs that helped find survivors and bodies. I heard Billy Graham say prayers for Oklahoma City. I saw President Clinton vow justice.

And I realized that, with all the bad in the world, there is plenty of good, caring people.

Monday, April 18, 2005

She Lives!!!!!

Yes, I am alive. And no, I haven't abandoned the blog in disgust. To tell the truth, there isn't that much to blog about.

Can you believe I am wearing a DRESS right now? I got it at Target yesterday. It is black with white flowery-looking stuff. Very fun.

But WHY am I, the person who made wearing black slacks and occasionally JEANS to church a fashion statement, wearing a dress, you may ask? Well, tonight is the Donor dinner at the library. And I am helping out. I made some pico de gallo. I tried a bit of it, and it's OK, I guess. It has tomatoes, cilantro, onions, garlic, jalapenos, black beans, corn, avacado, and lime juice in it. Wish me (it) luck!

Yesterday I got to spend some time with Misti and Brian. We went to eat lunch at Taco Cabana, then we hung out at Brian's. It was a lot of fun. We made a list of people who we would like to play us in a movie. I picked Drew Barrymore. I think Brian's gonna be Ethan Hawk. (I guess...there was another name he came up with, but I don't remember at the moment.) I told Misti she needs to be Jessica Simpson, but she didn't go along with that. Rich would be played by David Spade, Booker by Rob Lowe, and...who else? Leigh Ann would be played by the lady that played the happy nun in Sister Act. Hmmmm.

Friday, April 08, 2005

Listless

Sorry about the lack of update of late. I haven't felt much like posting recently, for some reason. I don't know what the deal is. Of course, I haven't felt much like doing anything. I've been feeling a bit listless, for some reason.

Last night was Misti's birthday party. I had made her a scrapbook. I worked so hard on it...and I messed up on the most important part (the personal letter!) I wrote, "I'm so glad God brought me into my life." Yes, that makes a lot of sense. But the scrapbook itself wasn't bad, if I must say so myself!

But the party itself was a lot of fun. We put on a dance party. We danced to most of the usual...Thriller, Billie Jean...very cool. Brian had bought candles that were supposed to have colored flames. The three out of the six that worked looked pretty cool.

Today and tomorrow are going to be long days here at the library. The good news is that I will be able to catch up on my posting.

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Spam

Here is a letter that set off my Spam-dar today. I received it in my email "Junk Mail" box.

Hi there

Did you get my last email?
I saw your ad on Match.com and thought I would write.
I'm new here and I'm looking for a friend to get together, do fun things and such. I just moved near Edmond from Colorado about a month ago andI must say I really like it here.
I don't know anybody here, except for my roomate who moved here a while back. He's made some friends through the internet and he says there's a lot of nice people I might like here.
I don't have an email connection yet so I am using my roommate's. I am generally a happy person. Friends say I'm funny, casual, and easy going...makes me sound as exciting as pudding don't you think?
My roomate James thought I should email you and he showed me how to send it but nowI can't figure out how to attach my picture here. My friend and my picture are at www. Select a friendly match.com where he put them. You can locate my number 3043582. If it interests you, you can call me on my cell phone tomorrow at 65250791I am very easy to get along with. I am just an adventurous guy seeking even more adventurous girl
Any way we can talk and see what we have in common and maybe get together if you would like to. Bye,
Andrew

P.S.
It would be nice to hear from you
I don't know if we'll be using this address anymore so call me and let's see where it goes.


On the surface, not a bad letter. I mean, it seems plausible...IF I hadn't received a very, VERY similar, if not identical, letter from a guy named "Mark" a year ago.

The stories seemed very similar: Guy is new to town, has no Internet connection and is borrowing his roomies, has profile on selectafriendlymatch.com, found me on match.com...even the PS..."I don't know if we'll be using this address anymore so call me and see where this goes."

This reeks of spam to me.

Friday, April 01, 2005

Welcome to American Idol...

where the excitement never ends.

First there was the "cruel" first results show, where Judd Harris was PUNK'D into thinking he was safe.

Next Mario Vasquez quits for "personal" reasons.

Then the whole phone-number mixup from last week.

Now, Scott Savol is revealed to have assaulted his girlfriend a few years ago. Apparently, he threw a phone on her chest, breaking it in the process.

I'm...stunned. Not sure what to say.

Announcement

Well friends, I have made a major life decision.

In a few minutes, I will be leaving for Los Angeles. I already told a couple of folks.

See, I have a friend that I have been communicating with over there. Some may call him a celebrity. Well, we've been getting really close in recent weeks. Now, I have decided to take the next move.

Yes, I am going to marry him. I figure this is my one chance of getting away from it all here in Oklahoma.

I won't give the celebrity's name. I will say he is relatively close to my own age. So no Anna Nicole Smithing here. But you can read about it in the tabloids if you want. I'm sure there will be plenty of candid shots of me and him taken out of context.

See ya soon!