I am still the intern

Dear Reader:

I am an intern at Iowa State's Veterinary Medical Research Institute.  I work hard.  I mean, I work really hard.  I am up everyday at 7 am.  I go to work around 7:30.  I am there until roughly 3 pm.  Then I have lunch.  Lunch has turned into a jam session in my car.  I don't have time to eat.  They give me an hour.  I usually use 15 minutes.  I just drive around Ames.  Then I go back until 8. Then its dinner where I get something that has more chemicals than the agar plates I work with.  I call it fast food. Then return there for two hours or so.  Why?  Because I want to be the best.  I don't know why, but for once in my life this makes more sense than anything I have ever done.  I only get paid for 40 hours.  And not much at that.  I can do 40 hours in 3 days, and most of the time I do. They tell me I need to have fun.  But I have never had a rush like this before.  I am discovering and working on stuff that no one else in the field has even done.  Crazy eh?

I have a lot of time to think about everything from girls I've made out with to past memories I have with some of the greatest friends.  Today I recollected my first encounter with a girl.  The awkwardness, the embarassment, and the sheer enjoyment of going into my car and putting on Blur's song 2.  I decided, that life is fucking sweet. Some people, like myself, never stopped long enough to look back and see what they have accomplished.  I have never actually accomplished a thing in the eyes of history.  I probably never will, but this journey is taking me some place.  Back to the point.  I want the kind of girl who I can just think about and just blast my stereo to song 2.  And to be completely honest, no girl will ever get me off like lab science.  That is why I should just buy World of Warcraft and move into my parent's basement.  Anyways in short, this sacrifice has made me such a better person.  I hope I can say the same in a month from now. There is a big world out there.  I am starting to see it.

I like a girl, but she is no lab science.  She is cool, but she is no avian pathogenic E. coli.  She is no song 2, but she is pretty cool.

SOD -

The Almost - Say this Sooner

Sum 41 - The Hell Song

Wheatus - Leeroy

meandyoucrew - Living Dead

-Luke

I am the intern.

Today, was a hangover.

Where is my mind?  I did nothing today.  Abso fucking lutely nothing.  I like my job. It is mentally tough. I work with everyone who has been in the field for 8 plus years.  Damn I feel dumb.  Monday, the fun begins.  I will be home next weekend.  Just to say goodbye to my big brother, and I need some more t shirts.  I miss Fargo.  Iowans are not the kindest people.  They are all fucking democrats.  Not that I am against dems at all, but I am tired of fucking Clinton '08 signs. 

Also, I have watched Empire Records a few times this week.  I dig that flick.  I also recommend Life as a House.  Peace out my Dakotans and Minnesotans.  Iowans are nice, but not genuine like us upper Midwesterners.

SOD -

My Chemical Romance - Teenagers

The Cranberries - How

The drugs never work; but I contiue California Dreamin,

Luke

Where'd I go?

Dear friends:

I am in Iowa.  It is way too fucking hot here. I am not used to it.  Seriously, it is fucking crazy.  Okay, my job is making agar and streaking plates.  It is not the most glamorous job in the world.  HOWEVER, there is no dress code...except I must wear shoes and pants. THUS, no dress code.  And I make a bacterial lawn like its my job. Wait it is my job.  So anyways, I am working on the extraintestinal E coli genome project and poultry project.  I know absolutely nothing about the poultry one though.  Did I mention my own computer and desk?  Yes I have a desk.  And even a spot in the fridge.  I even got to look at E. coli in dogs today.

 I am missing my job at Dakota Carwash a lot.  I miss Joe.  I know he can be a bit of a hard ass, but he is friend.  I am working now they are estimating roughly 35 hours a week.  Well at least for the next two.  I wish I had a tv or my dvds.  I am bored.  I am a facebook addict now. 

I am surrounded by these cool places within a block or two of my apartment:  Jimmy John's, DQ, Godfather's Pizza, Subway, Pita Pit, pita zone, a gyro vendor, a dominos, a local pizza place, my bank, 3 tattoo places, 6 bars, a thai restaurant, a korean restaurant, a chinese restaurant, 2 coffee places, a catholic church and a kum and go.  Talk about a sweet place hey?

You are not reading this incorrectly, I am going running.  Nothing better to do.  And it is only 91 degrees.

SOD:

Powerspace - Right On, Right Now

Word and time to go enjoy the heat,

Luke Baldwin, Iowa State VMRI Undergraduate Lab Assistant

To the graduating class of 2007

First, if I have met you only two times in my life, I am not coming to your graduation.  I graduated 2 years ago, and I know the only reason why you invite me.  It is all about the dollars.  Second, if you are not in my phone book, I am not coming to your graduation party.  And this is my biggest point!  IF YOU INVITE ME ON FACEBOOK!  I WILL NOT COME!  I had to suffer through the torment and agony of making fucking invitations; now you should have to class of 2007.  So, I am glad I got that off my chest.  Class of 2007, I would rather see a mass text than a fucking facebook group, note, or event.  At least you have my phone number. To be honest, I am not going to any of them, but I will gladly send a check to a few people.  Yes, once again I am making you go to the bank and sign the back just like I did.

Thank you... I would paste that on Facebook, but I think some hike school kid would make a group against me.  I know how the world works. 

OH YA SUMMER IN T MINUS 22 hours.

SOD -

Until June - Sleepless

Cute is what we aim for - Teasing to please

Fuck, I'm out;

Luke

76 inches and 88 keys to get me where I want to be.

Ok, I wrote a little number.

I call it... Boys meets girl; girl leaves boy

so here I go.

It's not easy to walk down this life at night.  Knowing that every word you said came out right.  The problems that I had really were never all that bad. This is not a cry; no this is just me and the piano talking here.  It's nothing special to you, but girl please keep quiet.  I guess you could say it's my duet. Just open your eyes and ears and listen to this guy waste some more of your time.

Chorus:

I'm not hurt.  I'm just thinking too much.  These words are making you wet, and your mascara is running down neck.  We know that's the only way I operate.  That's what the point of this song is suppose to be.  You told me boys like me never get the girl. But at let's be honest for more than a second here. Please don't shed anymore pointless tears.  Let's just move on, it has only been a couple of years.

Excuse me while I sing out of key, because boys like me are only doing this to get underpaid.  But here is the verse that is telling you my curse that I can't hate you anymore. It's easier if I just walk away, stop then start a brand new day.  I told you that you broke me down with logic and those brown eyes. I can't hate you.  I just wish there other girls just like you to break me down.

Chorus

Friends come and go, the wasted words are not coming back.  You can tell me you were my Konstantine, and I can tell you that I don't mean a thing.  I am the boy you knew who would spend hours just telling you, how beautiful you look today.  What should I say?  That I love you more than yesterday? 

I'm just going to say it's a lot easier to walk away.  I will just walk away, because I can't hate you anymore today.  Let's just move on it's been a few good years with too many tears. But I'll admit I loved you once, and that's enough reason for me to just sit here and let you walk away.  Just keep walking away. I'm not waiting, but would rather watch you walk away.

SOD -

Airdate - Enemy 

Cute is what we aim for - I don't care

Luke