THIS IS NOT A DRILL

You know, I kinda like my schedule for the most part. Those who know me well know that I am not really a "morning person", in fact I remember walking around NHHS like a zombie for the first two periods because I had to get up at 6 a.m. every morning. At UConn, with my earliest class being at 9:30 for one day of the week, and 10:00 for the rest of the week, sleep is pretty abundant.

Soooo tell me why I had to wake my ass up at 7:30 in the morning today?

Basically, what happened was I faintly heard my roomate Pat's alarm clock go off. So now I'm chillen in that limbo between sleep and being awake. The next thing I know, I am hearing the melodious chimes of a fire alarm blaring on all cylinders...

Really? WTF

My roomate and I spring from our beds muttering "shoot, eff, dangit" (censored lol) and throw on clothes before we run outside. It was HELLAAAA cold out. So, you know, nice way to start the day.

Also, the Iron Curtain met our demise last night...we finally upgraded our girls to "able to pass first time" status so we were pumped. Unfortunetly they had freaken Casillas in net and he stopped some pretty amazing shots for a 2-0 loss. We really took it to them the whole game though, and I am proud of the team effort. We would have beat any other team in B with that effort, unfortunate draw for us.

I'm about to head out to some female orgasm thing, should be interesting lol.

Also, my roomate sleeps like a vampire. He just lays there on his back and sleeps lol its kinda funny kinda creepy at the same time, and never fails to startle when he asks me what time it is.

Chem exam friday =/

Saturday

Man these posts are late. I gotta get back on my grind for blogspot haha

Anyways, Saturday was probably the best night I've had at UConn. First, we hit up the UConn-Rhode Island game (fun fact: UConn has played URI more than any other team--94 meetings dating back to 1897) which turned out to be a blowout even though UConn fumbled like 7 times lol. I think the final score was something like 51-10, but we left in the middle of the third quarter with Jimmy's sister and Jill.

Basically it was a huge reunion haha. Billy was up, Conner came up, my cousin Kathryn came up, and Amy came up! It was basically a bonanaza so everyone split up and did their own thing haha. Jimmy and Amy went off while Billy took a nice nap, and I headed over to Tima's to meet my cousin Kathryn (Conner didnt come until later). I chilled at Tima's with KB for a little then headed off with Kathryn to give her a quick tour of the superior big east school lol. We met up with Jim on the way, and hit up all the cool spots around campus.

After that, we head back to the dorms and assemble the group to go out--our destination was Lauren's apartment. Naturally, we pre-gamed and then went out for the night to Lauren's friends party at Hunting Lodge!!!! Hunting Lodge is basically off campus apartments that one has to walk a longgg way to. They had some pretty sick party games there, some involving frisbees, whre you had to knock the bottle off of a stick and catch the bottle or the frisbee, kinda hard to explain. Billy and I lost though, it was tough when feelin it haha. Then we just had a bangin ass dance party and took mad pics, so all in all it was successful.

It's Friday Night, and the feelin's right! Oh What A Night

This weekend has been hellaaaaa busy! So much goin on, I'll stick with Friday for the time being.

Sooo as one should know, I had my Bio exam! It was so tough, even with all the studying, I am going to have to start studying earlier and harder this time. The exam took up all my day up to 2 o clock studying stuff.

Afterwards, I hit up the practice soccer fields with Jimmy, Will, and Jim McG to relieve some stress from the exams. As we walked onto the pitch we met some scrubs that were kicking around, and we asked them to play a game with us. They agreed.

And then I ripped the ball....it dinged the post and went in. Then the four of us proceeded to take rips until they decided against playing. Pussies lol.

But we met up with our French friends + Seye the african from Bridgeport and some kid JJ from Haiti. We split into teams and had a pretty legit game with NH + Haiti vs all. There was some dispute over which ball to use about halfway through the game (the balls we brought were like rocks from being recently pumped up, theirs was as flat as could be) and we switched to their ball.

Fun Fact about playing with flat balls: everyones touch goes to shit.

It did produce a funny moment though--Jimmy tried to settle the ball, and it bounced away from him. Trying to save the possession, he ripped an off balance shot that veered wayyy to the right. At this point in the story, allow me to backtrack to when we first got there. Lo and Behold the whole softball team was having practice right behind the soccer fields, which made going after missed shots a real pain in the @$$. Literally, as Jimmy kicked the ball, one of the softball pitchers started her windup, and about midway through she totally got slammed in the face with the soccer ball. I would guesstimate that she was down for about a good five minutes, which is about half as long as the time everyone spent laughing at her and Jimmy.

Anyways, from there we headed up to see St Johns, #1 in the nation, vs your UConn huskies in soccer. You already know how ya boi Toni Stahl does, he was not about to let some "scrub" (to his standards) team come up and do him like that. He sent them packing for a nice 1-0 loss, courtesy of a header by Kwame Watson-Siriboe, our resident 6 foot 4, 225 pound of muscle captain defender. Josh Ford was a maniac in goal, actually going completely horizontal at one point about 5 or 6 feet in the air to make a save. Ridiculous.

And the new highlight of my UConn career: after the game we waited for all the players to come out with the goal patrol, and Jim and I had a black hug with Kwame Watson-Siriboe!!!! Literally, the conversation went something like this:

Kwame: (embracing me) "Bro, thanks for coming to the game, you're my best friend ever and I want you to know that any time you want you can party with me."

Me: I know.

...Ok maybe not exactly like that but you get the idea. Goal Patrol FTW

Then hit up Carriage like usual. Ill post Saturday tomorrow haha kkkkkkkkkkkk

3-2

Glorius win for Iron Curtain United! Our intramural team squeaked out a decisive 3-2 win over Best You Ever Had despite adversity!! Basically, the standings looked a little like this...two teams ahead of us had 2-0 and 2-1 records respectively, with our team sitting squarely in third at 1-1. Another team had a record of 1-2 and finally, the team we played today was 0-2.

The way the playoff system is that four of the five teams qualify based on the standings. So, it was a must win. Now we are definitely in with that win, but had we lost we would be sitting at 1-2 along with two other teams =x.

I had a biology exam review at 7:00, but thankfully I had time to play in the first half. The team we were playing were a bunch of scrubs, with the exception of one "good" player. I donned the jersey #10 just like my boi Rooney and the game began. Iron Curtain took an early lead when Pat passed to Jimmy, who took it up the gut and fired a shot at the other teams keeper, who was surprisingly stingy despite his lack of coordination. The shot deflected to yours truly and I buried it for a 1-0 lead. They stormed right back though, when this black athlete totally burned Tima down the line (wasn't a soccer player, just kicked it around her) and scored right in front of the goal. 1-1.

I was a little nervous at this point, because Jim McG, our resident Iron Curtain Member, was sitting on the bench with our defense being "solidified" by two girls, Tima and some other girl who we will just say wasn't Ronaldo level....more like Minotti level.

Our team was locked in their end for much of the remainder of the half, with a dizzying offense between myself, Pat, and Jimmy searching for a hole to attack, while our girls remained unused except to put back in clearances. Despite their lack of soccer skill, they did indeed do a great job of compacting their defense, they literally had 5 people back in front of the goal. Finally, the other team countered up to our third of the field, and this is when we regained the ball. Their good player was caught in the attack and it was just Jimmy and I charging down at this girl. Jimmy played me a through ball that was a great ball, but turned into a 50-50 with the keeper charging out lol. I knew it was going to be a collision, neither of us was going to bitch out on this one. I barely beat him to the spot and slotted it by him, but was knocked off balance when he crashed into me. Thankfully I regained my balance because the turf would have given me major rugburn. 2-1 Iron Curtain.

Much to my dismay (and anger), only about two minutes after this, their good kid brought it down the wing, outran Tima, and passed it to the black kid who was wide open (left open by the other girl) for their second goal. 2-2. Enough of that, I signal Jim McG to come in to make our defense impenetrable, and took out Jimmy for tactical purposes. I put the girl up at forward position where she wouldn't fuck too much else up lol. The ref blows his whistle for halftime.

Damn, I told myself I was going to leave at half...but I can't leave this game. The Iron Curtain's name was at stake, as well as the prospect of playing in the playoffs!!

I decided to have Jimmy count down 5 more minutes until he would sub me out. I had a small time frame to score/create a lead to leave them with. Four uneventful minutes passed. I anxiously looked at the clock. Fortunately for us, the other team had a corner kick. They decided to send everyone but a lone girl back (albeit she was manly) to try to get the go-ahead goal. I knew what to do lol. Jim McG headed it out as far as he could and it came right to me. I turned and sprinted the length of the field at the lone girl. To my immense relief, Pat, my loyal roomate, had sprinted up the field along with me...now I would not have to beat her off of the dribble and I had a passing option. He sprinted by me to my right and I faked a pass to him as he reached the girl, who reacted as I thought she would. She hesitated, putting her weight on her left in case I passed to Pat, and I quickly cut to the left past her. One on One with the Keeper.

Now, I don't know why this guy was so out of position, but for some reason when I looked up he was running to the near post (he got juked out too?). No way could I mess this up, I simply placed it near post and gave us the lead. I promptly left and hoped that the defense would hold.

I should've known, with a name like the Iron Curtain, its a guarentee. 3-2 win!

Bio Exam Tomorrow.

Soccer players will appreciate this post. lolz

My New Home

I have discovered a new home at UConn.

It's name is Homer Babbidge Library.

That's right, I have spent 7 hours there studying/doing homework today, 8 hours studying/doing homework there yesterday, and 4 hours studying/doing homework there the day before that.

And I'm still not ready for the Bio Exam!!!

My exam is Friday, and it is currently running my life lol although I have to say, I have discovered a couple cool things...mainly, that I love Biology and studying it is actually pretty relaxing. I'm not gonna lie I get pretty damn worked up over studying Phospholipid Bi-layers, Macromolecules and the like haha I'm lovin this shit for real.

Anyways, lately things have been really stressful so I am looking forward to playing soccer tomorrow and letting some of it out. It's been tough trying to find time at the gym so I've been resorting to pushups and ab-workouts before bed, which is not getting the job done =/

I'm gonna have to make some time Saturday and on because this week is just to hectic.

The weekend is coming up and I am hella pumped, Kathryn's coming up to party at UConn!! We will show her just how much Syracuse sucks compared to this top notch Big East school lol =p

Billy's coming up too! Might have to keep an eye on him though, as he is hurting pretty bad from his breakup with Maryrose, shit aint right...but we will be there for him.

As for my day today, my 5 classes in a row went by fairly quickly. I managed to make enough time in the 15 minutes I had to cross campus to stop in Student Union to grab some sushi to eat on the go...basically imagine me running across campus stuffing my face with some very stylish chopsticks lol!!

That's about it though, I could write more but I need to get back to studying!! =]

Student Union Husky Ambassador Steve lol

Officially, as of 11:26 am today, I have a job. Finally. I'm slated to be a student union husky ambassador, which basically means I'll be walking around student union, radioing people to pick shit up lol, opening and locking doors for meetings, etc. etc.

Got emmmmmm

This Friday I have my first exam...oh shit. I basically will be hitting the books harder than ever because I've got to master the first nine chapters of biology =/ fuck my major!

A wave of change is coming to my group of friends lol that I for sure didn't foresee. These next couple of days are going to be very interesting...

Also, fuck the jets. lolz

You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?

ATTENTION faithful followers of the blogspot known as "Husky Nation: Tales of the Goal Patrol and more". We have a serious problem. Everyday, for the past week, I have been checking/expecting mail in my mailbox.

The Good News: I memorized my locker combination for the mailroom =)

The Bad News: I have recieved zero letters, packages, parcels, and anything of the like. =(

So, just in case the word hasn't gotten out, my mailing address is:

Steven Brown

303 Russell

Storrs, CT 06269

Do Something. lolz

Aside from that I would also like to bring another thing up that has been bugging me. Our cafeteria does it's patrons the great service of offering milk and cereal at all times of the day (gotta have my lucky charms at 10 pm), in addition to serving the rest of the "kinda-good-sometimes" food served throughout the day. Unfortunetely, they only have a very limited amount of cereal bowls. Or, at least that's the way it seems...because every time I want cereal I go on a veritable wild goose hunt for the bowls (EFF!)!

The comedian Julian McCullough came to UConn and we put his show on via the Comedy Committee (SUBOG! Holla). This dude was wayy better than Sebastion Manisculo lol. Check him out, check him out

Also, I got a great chance to talk to my amazingly hot/funny/cute/witty/my dream girl R.A. today. Unfortunetely, it was because I had locked myself out of my room, and with Pat away for the weekend I was S.O.L. until I saw Leah. Thankfully, it only took about ten minutes for the people to come unlock my door (turned out to be some italian guido yappin away on the phone) so my embarrassment was short-lived. I'll have to dedicate a post to Leah one of these days lol. That about wraps it up, let the party get started for this weekend!!

Random-nicity

Yooo Blogspotters what's going down, I've been away for a bit, but ya boi's back.

I saw some weird things around campus today. Some guy was vaccuming rocks and dirt near the steps of Northwest. Three crows were chillen on top of Hanks building, I wonder what kind of omen that is?

We had our first intramural soccer game!! Our team is pretty stack, it's me, my filthy roomate Pat, Jamba, Jim McG, Jeninho, Tima "the mace" (she carries around pepperspray at all times lmao) Vinca, and Jackie. Unfortunetely, we lost 5-3 which is bullshit hahaha! I vow to train harder and run shit.

This weekend was interesting to say the least, got to see my favorite girl from NH, but apparently Jimmy's gf had a terrible time. Which I found out via facebook status lol. Which is great because I hung out with her this weekend, thanks a bunch!

I've spent the last couple hours chillen with my new friends Tamara and Amanda, two funny ass black girls! We've been dancing to nigga beats and rappin and shit and its basically the bomb haha not gonna lie it's been a fun night. I'm pretty tired right now, but I really needed to update this thing, maybe I'll put up the football post tomorrow. Pce!

Finding Steve-o

Basically, Geoff proposed a competition of sorts to myself and Jim: who can get more jacked by the end of first semester. Therefore, I have been going to the gym every day, and I have to say I'm noticing the improvements lol, watch out Geoff. The secret to my training (which I realize will no longer be a secret after this blog post) : swimming every day son!

Yeah, that's right.

UConn hooked ya boi up with his own personal swimming pool.

Ok maybe not my own personal swimming pool, but still. I bought some goggles so I'm gonna be a motha effin fish, kinda like Finding Nemo minus the "special fin" lolz.

Also, hit up the "Involvement Fair". Nothin that great, my roomate joined the German Club (Der Deutschland) which is pretty sick, I wish I had some European ethnicity besides English so I could join one of those haha.

So, that's about it for this week. Heard some pretty terrible news about back home (where I will be heading Friday actually just for the day), but yeah that's it. Stay tuned for the freakin' weekend

Donde Esta Mi Amigo

So, today I awoke, after a long night of partying, to the sound of the UConn fight song--my ringtone. It was none other than Tim, and he was wondering where Conner was. Conner by all rights should have been in my room sleeping, as we had made prior arrangements for him to do so, but somehow we split up during the night and I assumed that he would just room with Tim instead. I passed out (not from any substance, from exhaustion) and apparently he sent me many texts that looked something like"you up? Plz be up" about thirty minutes after I fell asleep.

Houston we have a problem.

Where the heck did he stay? After a quick call to each of his probable locations, which no one answered, I got a call back from Jimmy's phone, he had crashed there for the night. Phewwwww

Anyways, pretty uneventful fun day. Went to the gym with people, played a little soccer, went for a swim, etc. etc.

No class tomorrow =]

Hella Spicy

Friday night was pretty nuts, I’m not really going to go into details, but suffice to say that everyone there was feelin’ good early on in the night and maintained that feeling throughout =]

Yesterday, despite my lack of inebriation, was highlighted by some of the funniest moments college has yet brought about. First, we hit up the goal patrol and were literally ten feet away from Maya Moore!!!!!!!!!! It was so cool to see the national player of the year just immersed in the game as if she were an average college student and not a soon-to-be-if-not-already iconic sports figure lol. Anyways, after UConn lost 3-0 (it was 1-0 going into the 80^th minute, lots of blown chances), they had an autograph session with the team!! We got this freshman’s autograph, Greg King, the talented left back hailing from Austrailia, and then went over to get Toni Stahl's autograph. To give you a brief overview of what the scene looked like, it was just Jim McGrath and I amongst all of these 5-10 year old kids getting autographs lmao. Finally, as Toni Stahl neared us not two people away, we hear the cop come up to Toni and all of us and say “Ok guys, Toni needs to get to the locker room now, one more…”

Jim and I cast each other a frightened glance—our worst nightmare was unfolding before our eyes.

We frantically call out “Wait just one more! Please!” There must be a God because Toni kept signing papers, got to us, and then right after he signed both of our posters he hit the locker room. Crisis Averted. The poster is currently hanging up in my room!

Anyways, we hit up carriage (like usual) with Conner, Tim, Jimmy, Steve, Jim, Zoli, etc. We didn’t get there in time for much stuff, so we just used our pregame to carry us through the night. At about 1 a.m. we all headed over to Seargent Peppers for some grub, and upon arrival split up. Jim and I decided that we could use some wings so we headed over to Wings Express. A little background info. on Wings Express—the wings are straight FIRE! Jim and his roommate got 50 wings, flavored “hot” and were under the sink crying for twenty minutes after eating only four lol. It took a little while to find the place because we usually just order them for delivery, and when we were going around to find it, we heard a rustling by the garbage. We looked over and lo and behold a skunk jumps out only 5 feet away from us! Jim and I look at each other and book it as fast as we can out of there haha. We decide to take another route, and finally found it. We headed into Wings Express and find that there are hella arab guys working there. I realized then that that must be the cause of the extreme spicyness. I order 24 mild wings, thinking that mild is a step down from hot. To my temporary dismay, really mild is the lowest on the hierarchy of spicy, going

1) Mild

2) Medium

3) Hot

4) Armageddon

Thinking that the wings are probably wimpy, we open them up. A wave of spice hits us right in the face and we realize that even mildly hot wings are spicier than I can handle. As we are eating at Wings Express, just me and Jim at 1 am, suddenly the Arabs turn on the tv. This does not deter us from eating until we both pause between wings and hear the words “…and the first plane hit the North tower at 9:05 am.” We glance at each other uneasily lol and then silently finish eating and leave.

Earlier in the night we hit up “puke house”, and Tim, Jim, Pat, and I went on the porch in search of beverages. In the process, we met up with Lou Landolfi, who was talking to two girls. We introduced ourselves and exchanged names. The conversation went a little bit like this:

Girl 1: “Hi!! I’m Amanda, what’s your name?”

Me: “Hi! I’m Steve, nice to meet you.”

Girl 2: “Hey!!! Nice to meet you, my names Gina.”

Now, do not be mistaken. Although you may read the name “gee-na”, what she really said was “gye-na”, as in Va-gina lmfao. I asked her what her name was again, thinking I had misheard her, and then hear her introduce herself to Tim. He responds with “What was your name?” at least two more times, and then Jim follows suit. Tim and I just looked at each other after the introductions and started cracking up harder than I have at my whole time at UConn, it was priceless.

Morale of the story: Think before you name your kids.

…Get Fun-Ayyyyyyyyyyyyy Yahhhhhhhhhhhhh

The Internets been down getting it fixed =/ so fewer posts as of late. anywaysssss

Well, a lot has happened in the last couple of days…specifically the first assembling of the goal patrol!!! It was just completely insane, I would say about two thousand students (if not more) all piled outside the east pavilion of Gampel CHOMPING AT THE BIT to cheer on the soccer team! Let me backtrack a little for a second, two of my friends were actually picked to be a part of the collection of people that chest-painted themselves with the letters “G-O-U-C-O-N-N-H-U-S-K-I-E-S-!” (they, who shall remain nameless out of respect, were the ‘G’ and ‘O’). Chills ran down every true-blue husky there as all two thousand people shouted in unison the Husky Cheer (Uconn! Huskies! Uconn! Huskies! Uconn! Huskies! Huskies! Uconn! WOOF!). After that inspiring chant, the masses of goal patrollers followed the lead of the "letters", some of which were running around at the front waving massive white and blue flags. The rest of the game, which we won two-nil vs St. Peters, was spent harassing the opponents team Carlos in every controversial way possible. We went after his Hispanic heritage (“I need someone to mow my lawn!”), questioned his manhood (when he was groveling on the ground in pain at a collision with one of our beast players), and bashed his girly attributes. It was a fuckin’ blast. The only downside is Toni Stahl didn’t play, hes too good for St. Peters. Next Up: # 24 Boston University

Today (Thursday) was hella fun too. Since Jimmy and I joined the Comedy Committee, we got a free t-shirt and helped put on “Subog Presents: Sebastion Manisculo”. Basically, Sebastion came to UConn and did standup for about an hour…the guy was mad funny haha. He had some good original Italian Jokes too, I encourage you to check him out lol. I’m starting a tradition, I will get the dvd/poster/picture of every comedian to come through UConn and have it autographed like I did with Sebastion's dvd today. That way, if they get famous I can say that I met the guy and prove it mwahaha

After that, we attempted to set up the loft for my bed in the room. Heres a picture of the room completely being restructured while trying to fix it.

Note to the reader: This is before we realized that the loft was meant for beds in North and unusable for beds in Northwest. The pegs were too far out!!! So we spent two hours taking the beds apart and moving them around for nothing. Luckily, Jimmy and Zoli and Jim mcgrath showed up and we bunked our beds so now we have a ton more space. Its gonna look great. Edit* It does look great lol

Finally, I just came back from the gym with Jimmy. We worked chest today, benched, dumbbell pressed etc etc. Also did a bitchin ab workout. The real story though is that we ran two 100’s at 12:15 at night. Now you might think…hey that’s really really really easy. However we almost threw up from the working out etc etc lol it was murder. That’s about it, party city tomorrow at carriage street =] ill keep ya posted

Loft- Loft- Loft it upp!

Classes started!! I'm writing this a day late (classes were Monday, today is Tuesday/almost Wed.) so I could take my first impressions and sleep on it. What I have come up with is a couple of things.

-My biology teacher is the fuckin man.

-Class sizes range from 250 kids in Chem and Bio to 20 kids in Calc and English.

-My gaydar is picking up some traces from my Calc teacher, but he might just be a bigtime nerd/weirdo.

-He also seems like a great, understanding, sensitive teacher lol.

-The most boring class is definitely English, those 75 minute classes are killer.

On my way from class to class I had only ten minutes to find where Calculus was held, and I got lost and ended up in some nanomolecular laboratory of sorts lol with like this weird tints of infrared lights (radiation testing?)...the researchers there were like wtf and pointed me in the right direction haha.

Also, with the help of my roomate Pat and my boi Jimmy, we jacked this loft from one of the hallways in North; it was just lying outside someones door lol. We had to carry the frame across both the North and Northwest Quad and sneak it past my R.A. without drawing too much attention lol which was kind of hard to do in bright daylight!! I plan to set it up tomorrow and continue pimpin out my room (its hard; my roomate doesnt like to decorate =[ ).

Tomorrow is the first soccer game vs St. Peters!! Let the goal patrol begin baby!!