Europe Recap: Paris and return

Final post recapping the trip:

Day 11 continued (5/26): On the total of 10 hour bus ride we found out that due to the British Airways strike we would not by flying from London to Baltimore. Half were going to Philly and the other half to Chicago then Baltimore. That put a damper on the whole bus ride, but we made the most of it. We got to Paris eventually and went out to dinner. Rather than going out to these bars a bunch of us just went back to hang out at the hotel bar.

Day 12: In the morning we headed outside of Paris to meet the reps from Disneyland Paris. After the meeting we were able to go into the parks for the day, which was the greatest news I could have hoped for. In the park we went to Big Thunder Mountain first, which had an annoyingly long line. After that I made sure that we went to the Haunted Mansion, or as it is there, the Phantom Manor. The Haunted Mansion was my favorite ride growing up and I still love it. This one was a lot of the same, but a bit different too. The younger ride allowed better effects, but the ride itself wasn't as enjoyable. We then went on Pirates of the Caribbean, which was also a lot of the same. There was an Indiana Jones roller coaster we went on which was fun but painful in the rain. We then went to the other park to go on Tower of Terror: amazing in Paris and Orlando. We went to Rock n Roller Coaster, but by time we got to the station it had broken down and was closing. The park closed around 6:30, and we were on our way back to the hotel. I was pretty beat from the day so that night I went to an Internet cafe and got nice and lost on the train on the way. But I got to see the Eiffel Tower and Arc De Triumph at night which were nice

Day 13: Our morning site wizit was cancelled so we got to sleep in. In the afternoon we went to Microsoft's European headquarters which was really interesting. That night we had a river cruise of the Seine River. Afterwards, we went as a big group to an ice bar in the middle of a terrible neighborhood in Paris. It was 38 Euro cover and my camera died, but 100% worth it as pictured above. We got a half hour in the ice part, and got 5 drinks. Drink 1 tasted like bubble gum. Drink 2 was lemon basil. Drink 3 was oragney. Drink 4 was vodka and chocolate chips and was horrible. Drink 5 was just straight vodka, also rough. But it was a fun time, as was drinking at the hotel bar afterwards.

Day 14: On our last full day we had a free day in Paris. A lot of us took a bus tour in the morning, but about half of us got off at the Eiffel Tower. We walked by it and I harassed the vendors that were harassing us. We then went to the Arc De Triumph and got lunch before heading back to the hotel. At night we all got dinner together and there were some epic speeches made. With a long day ahead we just hung out at the hotel bar with some other American students at the hotel.

Day 15 (5/30): Oh what a long ass day. I'll give it in local times but Eastern Standard Time as well. I woke up at 6am Paris (Midnight EST), got breakfast and checked out. We got to the airport around 9 something (3am EST) and it was a mess checking in. We flew to London and got there after 11 am London (6am EST). The Philly people left and we headed to our gate. We found a TGIFriday's there and it was like finding buried treasure. We left London at 2:30pm (9am EST) and were on our way to Dallas (oh yeah, Dallas is NOT a district of Chicago we found out a couple days earlier despite what we hoped.....). After 10 hours on a plane and 10 minutes of sleep, we arrived in Dallas at 6:30 pm (7:30pm EST). BUT....it wasn't so simple. First we missed the runway because another plane was landing. THEN it was a storm, so we had to wait outside of customs for our luggage.

We got it eventually, around 7:30 pm Dallas (10pm EST) and went to our next gate. Then, once we got there, THEY MOVED OUR GATE. Back on the tram! We get to our gate and finally depart around 9:20 Dallas (10:20 EST). Keep in mind my iPod is long dead at this point. The flight was short cause I slept for a solid 2 hours or so on it. Some woman on the plane was being such a pain in the ass that we almost had to land in Nashville. I would have killed someone if we did... Anyway, we land in Baltimore around 1:20 am Eastern Standard Time, and I finally get back at school around 2 am. For those of you keeping track at home, I was up from 12am Sunday until 2am Monday EST. That is 2 hours of sleep over the course of a 26 hour day. I was not a happy camper.

Crappy return home aside, these were the best 2 weeks of my life. I had a great time with all 31 in our group (28 students, 2 instructors, and Hans), and had fun the whole trip. I made new friends, became closer with old ones, and completely changed my opinions on some people. All in all it was worth any hassles, and I'm so glad I did it. Pictures are on my facebook and tagged as well, so check them out.

Europe Recap: Austria & Switzerland

Day 5 (Thursday, 5/20): We left Munich for Innsbruck, Austria, in the morning but on the way stopped in the city of Kufstein and visited the plant for Reidel Glassworks. They make very nice wine glasses and we got to see them glass blowing which was really interesting. The "tour" was weird, it was like a fun house....not really sure what it had to do with glass but oh well. Eventually we got to Innsbruck and that afternoon met with my group's business, the Innsbruck Tourism Board. There is where we signed up for our free day events, which went on two days from then. That night we found some bars, but I spent most of the night at the casino in the hotel. I won 90 Euro in total that first day, so all in all it was good.

Day 6: In the morning we drove to northern Italy and went to the Leitner Ski Lifts factory. My god was that awful. Just boring as hell. Long tour, couldn't hear a thing, just terrible in every way. During the afternoon I went to the casino again and won another 95 Euro, so I was in a good mood to say the least. That night the whole group went on a lantern hike up the Alps. At the top was this little tavern where these two guys played music and we sung and danced and drank. It was worth the hike. That night a couple of us went out to a bar to get ready for the next morning that awaited us.

Day 7: Our free day in Innsbruck was very busy for me. In the morning myself, Steve, Vida, James, Brian O, and Mike M (all pictured above, post jump) went bungy jumping off a bridge near Innsbruck. It was 192 meters, 600 ft....the third highest bungy in the world. It was such a great experience. I went fourth, so I knew what to expect for the most part. Hopefully the video will be up soon. That afternoon half the group went canyoning (pictured above) and the other half white water rafting. Canyoning was pretty difficult, but a lot of fun. All that made this easily the most productive day of my life, and also one of the most fun ever.

Day 8: Not the most exciting day in my life. We travelled by bus to Lausanne, Switzerland, which took like 6 hours not counting stopping. Switzerland was expensive, and didn't use the Euro which made it difficult. After getting settled, we went to this Canadian bar which was one of the few open for the holiday weekend. It was a nice, relaxing night. Only real highlight was that some guy passed out drunk on the table to the point he couldn't stand up.

Day 9: We went to the Cailler Chocolate factory in the morning which was like Hershey's Chocolate World, a fun time. Afterwards we stopped at a rest stop where I oddly ran into Ryan Flannery, one of my friends from high school. That was quite the coincidence. We also stopped by Gruyere, this like medieval tourist town stop. That was fun, but nothing too amazing. That night we all went to a bar under a bridge not far from the hotel, which was another nice relaxing night out.

Day 10: In the morning we went to the Chillon Castle on the lake, which was really nice. We had the afternoon to ourselves, which we too advantage of. A bunch of us went to this park near the beach at the lake. The park had these nice pools and beach volleyball courts, so it was a nice way to spend the day. The pool had a 10m high dive, which might have been scarier than bungy jumping and certainly hurt to hit the water.

Day 11: It was our last day in Switzerland and in the morning we went to the Nestle headquarters. On the way our bus driver, Hans, drove down to a bridge the bus wouldn't fit over. So to get back he drove the bus backwards up a windy, narrow hill. It was the most bad ass thing I've ever seen. After the site wizit we started going towards Paris, and got the bad news about our upcoming flights.

European Recap: Germany

I'll talk about the two weeks in Europe with one post for each country. Just easier that way.

Day One (Sun, 5/16): I got to the airport around 6:30pm or so and there was time to kill. Then the stupid Icelandic volcano delayed the flight another hour. We made good use of the airport bar to get some sleep aid for the long flight ahead. Too bad it didn't work. I got many an hour of sleep over the course of the 7 hour flight to London

Day Two: We arrived in London and then flew to Munich, got there around 3:30 in the afternoon Monday, Munich time. We eventually got to the hotel and had a walking tour of the nearby parts of the city. We all got dinner at one of the beer gardens, and got the night off to a good start. Next we went to the train station for more drinks, because they had them. THEY HAD JACK DANIELS AND COLA IN A CAN. It was my dream come true. So good. Later we all hit up this bar called 23 or something like that, don't remember. Those who stayed got nice and drunk before our return to the hotel. Those who went out to celebrate Rich's birthday had an interesting time, but I stayed put rather than getting lost.

Day Three: We had our first site visit in the morning: the BMW Dingolfing plant. The bus ride over was miserable. Never been so dry mouthed in my life, and I wasn't alone. The plant was huge, bigger than my home town and had more employees than people in my town. It was a nice start to the school part of the trip. Later we went to Dachau Concentration Camp site. I really wanted to see it and it was certainly a moving experience. Most of it was cleared out, but what they had was very informative and interesting. That night we went to the Hofbrau Haus, a famous beer garden in Munich (pictured above). It was a lot of fun. We had a group sitting outside, got some dinner and beers and had a fun time. Afterwards we went to a hookah bar by the hotel called Millennium and were rowdy Americans. This is where we started chanting names and gave birth to the Stenson chant.

Day Four: In the morning we walked to Serviceplan Media, a European marketing firm. They gave us some of the best quotes of the trip including "Wizards" instead of "Visits". That one stuck the whole trip. That was done early, so we had time to kill at the hotel used for napping. At night we went to Hofbrau again, but there were no tables. We went to the place next door called Augustiner, which was just as good. I stole one of the mugs. After starting there we went back to Millennium and had our own room upstairs. As a group we had a great time for our last night in Munich.

A Fond Adieu

Junior year has come to a close, and it was a damn good year. I probably had more fun this year than in the past 2, although living in Butler will always make a strong case. Here are some of the highlights of this year. I think I have my months right, but I'm probably wrong in several places

September

• First Southwell Banger: Mike ends up with cupcake nipples
• Going 4-0 in softball and losing to the last seeded team in the first round of the playoffs
• Probably because we were all still hung over from the black light party the night before

October

• Romo's birthday playing "who sings this" with Andrew
• The start of the MLB playoffs
• Al's coming out party
• Gaslight Anthem in DC
• Smashing Pumpkins
• Halloween...a night of randomness

November

• Yankees win the World Series
• ....Whatever else happened that month didn't matter

December

• This month was also pretty busy with work, all I really remember was Healy visiting and that night being really fun.
• Oh yeah....SLAP BET VICTORY

January

• Born to run FUCK!!!!!!
• Rob's birthday...started out great but the next day wasn't so great
• Pietasters at the Senator Theater

February (The highlight of the year)

• SNOWMAGEDDEON!!!!!!!!!!
• Snowmageddeon write up
• My birthday, great time
• Blacked out Mario Party
• Naked Lapping Rich on my birthday...took him long enough to actually do it
• Rich's birthday.....not so great of a time
• English Beat and Fishbone show

March

• Spring break in Jamaica: Pool Bar! Volley Ball! Beer Drinking Contest! Clothes Pins! Hedonism....yeah....! Solimini and his shrimp!
• Deeg and Healy's birthdays, pretty fun times

April

• Big Kev's birthday beer Olympics
• Laser tag
• Orioles opening day

May

• What better way to end the year than Mike Reynolds' blackout birthday bash?

Remember the "Al"amo

"Guys, this game is great. We should all blog about it"

Or "Don't catch the Al", or "Odd Card Al". Whatever you want to call it, it is the new, greatest game from the people who brought you "Can Defense".

The rules are simple: if you draw a card that is a "3", you must funnel and/or shotgun and/or take a shot. For a more detailed version of the rules, look at what Rob said about it. He beat me to it and clearly put in more effort. But Al said everyone should blog about it, so here we go.

Optional rule: if a 3 comes up, you grab your drink in your left hand, raise it, and turn to the person to your left. You point at them and say "Lo-babies!". Sounds gay right? Well guess who made this rule in "Asshole". Al! Cowboy never fails to disappoint.

Overdue Tribute

To Rob Manning! He turned 21 last week and I promised him a blog post in devotion. I'm too lazy to type it, and don't feel like putting up pictures that might prevent him for future employment, so I'll just say happy birthday last week Rob!



























Mets suck

Tribute to Bomb the Music Industry! and the End of the Fall Semester

How do I pay tribute to both those things at once? Well don't, but I do pay tribute to each with a good segway. Let's start with the fall semester.

This semester had many highs and lows. The lows mainly include my schedule (no free time in the afternoons), my finals, and Financial Management.

Highs on the other hand, there were many more of. Gotta love bulleted lists!:

• Going to Pub Dog, that place is really nice
• Being done with accounting and Spanish finally
• The Gaslight Anthem in DC
• Westbound Train in DC
• 21st birthday videos from Chaci, Romo, Dylan and Rich via facebook
• Keystone (not ice, not light, just normal Keystone)
• SLAPPING THE SHIT OUT OF CHACI FROM WINNING OUR SLAP BET. (Video to come soon)

Now for that segway. While I often love the social life at Loyola, I often hate it too. Specifically certain "bars". They suck. They're not fun, and yet people for some reason think the are. Well, Bomb the Music Industry! has a song "Stuff That I Like", and much of that song reminds me of those bars, and what sucks about them. So, why not show off the awesome lyrics of that song, and highlight the parts that I can relate to.

You can download the song, and amazing album, "Scrambles", and all of the BTMI! albums for free right here

The city subway stations never glisten.
The gates rise up like they belong in prison.
And my balance is low. I better pick a good place, I got one ride to go.
Your fucking cocaine party fucking freaks me out.
When did Scott Weiland show up? How long’s he stickin’ around?
I guess this new fare hike means that I’ll ride my bike,
play video games and do other stuff that I like.

And in the morning cleaning up, we found these plastic bags
with a little bit of party left and started to laugh,
“Man, I’m glad I passed out from the booze and the weed
‘cause the house stayed up ‘til 6 AM doing speed.”
But now it’s 1 AM and I’m quite a few in
and I can barely make out where the bathroom line begins
and it’s been moving five inches every fucking five minutes.

I wanna ask the over privileged kids if they would fucking mind?
I gotta take a piss in the cocaine room.
What is this? The line for lines? It’s a long line for lines.
I’m getting claustrophobia from the twenty-something set with bleary eyes.
What is this? The line for lines? It’s a long line for lines.
I, I, I don’t wanna be part of this Friday night or Saturday night.
I, I, I don’t wanna be part of this line for lines, long line for lines.
I, I, I don’t wanna be part of this night.

When I’m out these days I do is complain about the booming bass
and the shitty DJ because if I wanted to go to a dance club,
I’d own a bottle of Brut, a closet full of Christian Dior, and I’d be in a different room.
Cause we can dance to Otis Redding, P.O.S, and M.I.A
and if you’re on Serato Scratch don’t call yourself a DJ.
Beat detecting’s got no attitude, your tempo maps can’t feel and room,
but lemmings all have dancing shoes and I’m just freaking out.

You’re assaulting me with thrusts like I’m an asshole.
You’re sweating to the sounds of Billboard’s Hot 100 like a total yeah bro dick.
Man, I thought that we all lived here ‘cause we’re different
I guess I was wrong this time, and time after time
I, I, I don’t wanna be part of this
Friday night or Saturday night.
I, I, I don’t wanna be part of these cokey times
and eight dollar wines.
I, I, I don’t wanna be part of this night.

The city subway station never glistens. The gates rise up like “What’s up?
You’re in prison, confined by alcoholism and lack of better decisions
for having fun on the weekends.” But this shitty atmosphere keeps bumming me out.
Don’t want my Club MTV. I hate Downtown Julie Brown.
I guess these new prices hikes will make me grab my light
and climb the fire escape to the roof for a book that I like

Scoreboard!, Mount

This is a tribute to my fantasy baseball team, who became victorious today for the whole season and playoffs. This is my second time in this league (run by Andrew) and my first time winning it. My team name for most of the year was "Scoreboard Mount" because after the first week he was the only Loyola person I was beating. I kept it for good luck until the finals of the playoffs, but it came back for the last couple days.

Here's the team at completion of the competition

• C-Brian McCann (5th round)
• 1B-Albert Pujols (1st round and 1st pick overall, sorry Hanley Ramirez)
• 2B-Felipe Lopez (18th round)
• 3B-Aramis Ramirez (4th round)
• SS-Michael Young (14th round)
• OF-Matt Holliday (3rd round)
• OF-Michael Cuddyer (Mid-year pickup)
• OF-B.J. Upton (2nd round....FML)
• OF-Brad Hawpe (16th round)
• Util-Derek Lee (10th round)
• Bench-Ryan Theriot (23rd round)
• Bench-Yadier Molina (Mid-year pickup)
• SP-Ryan Dempster (13th round)
• SP-Joba Chamberlain (picked up this week)
• SP-Doug Davis (Mid-year pickup)
• SP-Scott Kazmir (picked up this week)
• SP-Jared Weaver (19th round)
• SP-Ricky Romero (picked up this week)
• SP-Javier Vazquez (11th round)
• RP-C.J. Wilson (picked up this week)
• RP-Mariano Rivera (6th round)
• RP-Joe Nathan (7th round)
• RP-Francisco Cordero (12th round)

Other players I had during the season

• SP-John Lackey (8th round, dropped only for the last couple days)
• SP-Ervin Santan (9th round, lasted until June-ish)
• OF-Johnny Damon (15th round, lasted until this past week)
• 2B-Jose Lopez (17th round, didn't last long)
• OF-Carlos Gomez (20th round, didn't last long)
• SP-Joe Saunders (21st round, lasted until July)
• SP-Gil Meche (22nd round, didn't last long)
• OF-Delmon Young (only there for a very very short time)
• OF/1B-Kendry Morales (didn't last long, should have kept him longer)
• SP-Andy Pettitte (picked up very early one and was dropped this past week)
• SP-Scott Richmond (there for one start this week)
• SP-Randy Wolf (picked up mid year, dropped this week)
• SP-Joe Blanton (there for one start this week)
• 2B-Alberto Callaspo (also didn't last long)

The reason I stockpiled pitchers this week was to get more credit for wins and strike outs.

Team Awards

MVP: Albert Pujols. (.329, 47 homers, 135 RBI)
Close Behind: Michael Young, Brian McCann, Derek Lee

Cy Young: Javy Vazquez. (15-10, 2.87 era, 238 k's)
Close Behind: Mariano Rivera, Joe Nathan, Jared Weaver

Sleeper Draft Pick: Michael Young in the 14th round

Draft Bust: BJ Upton in the second

Finally, I'd like to thank my team for kicking ass all year. More importantly, I'd like to thank everyone who lost, especially Andrew, Vida, Romo, and Call the WAAAAAAMBULENCE friend of Andrew's.

Loyola's Shuttle Service

I haven't had a good rant in a while, so here comes a good one.

Today I forgot my prints for photo in my room, my fault, I know. My professor said I can put them under her office door after class, which ends at 1:55. My next class was at 4:30, so those 2+ hours is when I actually have time to use the gym. I decided I'd got back to my apartment, get into my gym clothes, go all the way back to her office (in the Fine Arts Department), then take a shuttle up to the FAC.

To save time, I got to the Lange shuttle stop to take that to Maryland Hall. So I wait for 5 minutes, and a shuttle finally comes by...and drives past me. Whatever, I walk over to her office, and drop it off. By now its 2:15. I go back outside and decide to wait for a shuttle going my way, to the FAC.

Three (3!!!) shuttles pass me the other way. After about 10 minutes, I start to walk down to the Sellinger shuttle stop, to kill some time. More time passes. THEN A SHUTTLE FINALLY COMES. Now its 2:32.....17 minutes later...waiting for one shuttle. A proff......professor (HIMYM shout out!) gets in with me, she's going to the cathedral for her car. Shuttle driver takes off...

...And goes right past the FAC and to the Cathedral first. She also lets about 4 cars cut in front at various times. I get to the FAC at 2:47.

Now, I never take the shuttle. I took it for a total of 2 round trips last year. This was my first time this year. I guess the moral of this story is to walk and not use the shuttle service here...because it sucks.

Peace Path, 9/11/09

Yesterday I participated in the Baltimore Charles St Peace Path, run by Women In Black, Baltimore. The goal was to get a chain of demonstrators to go from the beginning of Charles St. in the Inner Harbor and have it continue all the way up to the Beltway in Towson (10.42 miles). It was from 4pm-6pm, but I didn't get there until 4:45 ish.

Someone was advertising it on the quad during the week, and right away it seemed like something I wanted to do. In all honesty, if it wasn't running right through the middle of our campus I probably wouldn't have taken the time to join. But it was, and I was very proud to be a part of it. I was happy to stand out in the rain for an hour and a half trying to get passing by cars to honk for peace.

The demonstration at Loyola had a decent turn out (rain kept plenty of people from coming I'm sure). Most of the signs were the official ones of the demonstration, but a good amount of people had their own self-made ones, mostly peace in other languages. It was mostly students who participated, but there were a couple GRCs and several professors.

The reception by passing cars was overwhelmingly supportive. At every time people were honking, giving peace sign in their car, and a good amount of thumbs ups and fist raises. Every time it really meant something to me. Just to know that that one person took just one second of their drive to show support for a great cause. That's all they needed to do, just acknowledge. Even though its a nothing gesture, I felt like they really cared every time.

Not all the of the reception was positive. A couple of people went out of their ways to be dicks about it, which I do not get. All the signs were pro-peace. There were no anti-war signs, yet some people still seemed to think we were demonstrating against soldiers. One guy in particular, while stopped at the light, gave us non-stop thumbs down. He only stopped to give a double flip off as he drove away. I don't get it. If only the irony-karma gods could shine down and he get jumped....but I feel bad even wishing for that.

Overall, it was a really great experience. Peace is something I am very very supportive of. I'm against not only the current wars, but just war in general. The point of it was to support the people who lost their lives 8 years ago yesterday because of lack of peace. Peace is something as simple as treating others how you want to be treated to something like not having wars, where not only everyday people get killed in battle, but civilians also suffer. 9/11 ended 3000 lives. Sadly, in Iraq over the past 6+ years, about 32 times the number of civilians of who died that day have died (http://www.iraqbodycount.org/). I just don't see why that needs to be. With soldiers its the same thing. U.S. soldiers do not need to be dying for this. Foreign soldiers, the "enemy", don't need to either.

Just remember: Peace, Love, and Unity

Pie for Pie, Ranting, and anticipation

So I went to Loyola this past weekend (well, Friday and Saturday) to start to move in because I don't like waiting to do it all at once. The visit was a lot of fun, however there was a lot of things (mostly driving related) that pissed me off. Out of respect, I'll start with the good things

1. Seeing Speca, Tony, and Dylan (before he leaves us for a year!)
2. Seeing Jess and Glenn
3. Seeing the Orioles beat up the Angels
4. Felix Pie (If you don't know who he is, it is because he isn't good) of the Orioles hit for the cycle! Very rare! And he got a pie in the face for that
5. Oriole Park at Camden Yards Fireworks, included with a 6$ student ticket
6. 3$ 24-oz cans of Budweiser outside of Sliders
7. Swallows
8. Swallows with alumni
9. Seeing this commercial hammered at 3 am http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR5mnhR44I0
10. Chipotle
11. Getting 265.5 miles on 11.71 gallons of gas, much of which was in traffic

Now for the old-man style angry ranting. These are the things on my trip that REALLY pissed me off

1. Traffic
2. Heat
3. The Orioles scoring a lot of runs against one of my fantasy pitchers
4. My swipe not working at Chipotle
5. Traffic in the heat
6. People who don't signal when changing lanes at 93mph
7. People who ride right on my ass when I'm going 78 in a 65
8. The piss-poor job Delaware tax dollars do to accomplish any remote form of progress on construction that has been going on for years
9. The piss-poor excuse of a state, Delaware. Those 10 miles of road are the biggest pain in the ass
10. Police escorted funeral procession on the Turnpike that include over 15 motorcycles, 6 cars, and a Military Truck with NJ plates that simply said AWOL
11. Random traffic not caused by an accident nor the shore, just people who suck at driving I'm sure
12. The bird who shit on my car
13. Loyola......University.......
14. Moe's thinking they have the right to get rid of Salsa Ricos....who do you think you are?
15. People who do the wave at a baseball game. If you're so bored, GO THE FUCK HOME
16. Stupid flat-brim hats
17. People who now think Felix Pie is good
18. The Sliders security staff for not carding but throwing a huge hissy fit if, god forbid, you step off of the curb.
19. Traffic in the EZ Pass express lanes
20. People who drive 65 in the left lane in a 65

I'm sure there are more, but I'm tapped out at the moment. Now for something fun, all the different license plates I remember seeing!

1. New Jersey
2. New York
3. Conneticut
4. Massachusets
5. Vermont
6. New Hampsire
7. Pennsylvania
8. Maryland
9. Virginia
10. West Virginia
11. Washington, DC
12. North Carolina
13. South Carolina
14. Georgia
15. Florida
16. Missouri
17. Utah
18. California
19. Onterio
20. Quebeck
21. Tenessee
22. Indianna
23. Ohio
24. (I forgot Delaware...must be because its a piss-pre excuse for a state)
25. ....I know I'm missing at least one

Now for the anticipation part! Tomorrow I'll be in Asbury Park to see The Mighty Mighty Bosstones play at the Stone Pony with Catch-22 and the Pietasters!!!! Also tomorrow, the Man Men season 3 premier! Tomorrow should be a good day.