The Mates' Reality TV Life

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

NEW YORK IS IN THE MOTHERFREAKING HOUSE

Alright, so this a-non-y-mous person is getting on my last nerve (not really but I'm going to pretend) and so when thinking of how to act like some crazy bee to get this anonymous off my back, the infamous New York from Flavor of Love came to mind. FLAVOR FLAAAAAAV!!!! That B. is crazy, and she's so crazy that I love her. I'm going to digress off the anonymous hater and talk about Flavor of Love for a minute. That show is so bad. I mean terrible and I wasn't watching it until Flav brought New York back and my BFF Tiffany called to let me know. Anyway, New York is great t.v. So, back to the blog. Anonymous, why are you hounding me so much?? If I have something to say then I'll write it, but as of late I've been busy with real things...you know, like WORK. Why aren't you working anonymous?? But, I do have a couple of things to kind of write about. So, this blog thing is getting kind of out of control because a good amount of people are reading it and I had to call and apologize to my friend Landi in New York (that's a shout out) because she found out that I was engaged, via the blog. How sad. And it's like I know there are people that I need to call but sometimes I just don't feel like talking on the phone...you know? I know that's a pathetic excuse, but it's the truth. I do have a funny story but that's another blog for another day but look for the lesson coming out of that blog being, um why are you talking to me BOB?

Here are some pics of the day Mate and I went to the UGA/USC game. Holler. Give it upto Megan doin' the dirty with the funnel. She's the epitome of the Furman elite with the lighter stuck in her tube dress.



And below is the pic of me and the crew, the FLIPCUP champions!!!


POSTED BY ALISON

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Teedy-bopperness


Omigosh I am turning into the biggest pop music FREAK. I want to share with you all the last 5 songs I downloaded onto my Ipod: 1st: Nich Lachey: "We built it up...to watch it fall, like we meant nothing at all". 2nd: Jesse McCartney: "You've got me right where you want me" 3rd: Seether: "Honey, why you callin' me...so late?" 4rd: Jojo "It's just a little too late, a little too wrong..." and 5th: Mat Kearney: "there's nothing left to lose...". Lesson learned about Faris is that she is a complete teedy-bopper and has to download songs that are already played 8 bazillion times on the radio and on 20 on 20 XM station.

In other news, Mate is completely MIA, so everyone in blogworld, including myself is worried about the whereabouts and happenings of this Alison Williams. ET phone home.

I am AS WE SPEAK putting off my long run until tomorrow because of the awfulness that I feel after I do my long runs. I feel like I have the flu and stomach virus and depression all at once. I can't miss work tomorrow because I'm proctoring the GHSWT or something like that (writing test). Whatever, sounds great to me because it's 2 hours that I get quiet kids and I can get a bunch of stuff done. :)

Lastly, I'm looking for a fabulous dress for the Ole Miss/Alabama game. Anyone want to help me?

--FARIS

Thursday, September 21, 2006

XM Radio "Radio of the Future"


OK. Does anyone here have XM radio? Well, I do. When it first came to be years ago, I invested in a "Roady", which was a little device that enabled me to listen to XM radio in my old car. I loved listening to all the different stations...and never hearing commercials. I didn't even mind paying $12 a month or whatever it was. When people got in my car, they always asked what the little black box was. "Faris, what in the hell?...you've got more technology in this car than in a recording studio!?" Anyway, I had a lot of things, because, let's face it, I like technology. I like gadgets. I like iPods, computers, cars (they are technology, right?), scantron machines, projector screens, language labs (exciting blog on language lab to come), etc. So, I was such a happy camper. I never got the XM radio officially installed in my car...so I just ran the antenna thing up on my dash board. It was all very ghetto, but my boy at NalleyLexus in Atlanta made my cords all nice and neat, so I was happy.

Then things changed. I bought a new Honda Accord (see previous blog). It came with XM INSTALLED. How cool is that? I can actually see the song name/artist/whatever on my little screen. I can even control my XM radio as I control all my other radio stuff from my steering wheel.

THINGS HAVE CHANGED PEOPLE. XM radio, the "Radio of the Future" that they advertise...is...going to complete crap. It is full of advertisements that make me absolutely looney. Not normal advertisements. Like advertisements about how to discipline your kid or something. And I swear to the good Lord that I heard a McDonald's commercial yesterday. I paused for a moment of silence in remembrance of how amazing XM used to be.

-Faris

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Funneling and Flipcup

Well, oh well. The Mates time traveled back to 1999 and our college days this past weekend in Columbia, SC. It all started out in the apt of my lovely sorority sister Whitney. We piled into an SUV and quickly realized that the car was full of Furman grads. Blog readers, I cannot tell you the last time I was in the car with all Furman people. I mean, I live in Athens now. So many of my friends went to Georgia. They could care less...they say "Furman, shurman". Well, not really...but you get my drift. Anyway, so we finally make it to our parking spot and mosey over to the REAL tailgate, which consisted of a butt-load of Furman grads...all younger than us...but all fabulous. There was a nice array of Adpi girls, Chi o girls, and Sigma chi boys. Back in MY day, where you would find Adpi and chiOs, there would be SAEs...but this was their tailgate, right? And I have a love for the sigmacheeees as well. So, we chowed down on some barbecue, wine, beer, whatever was there...OH LORD...these things called "Gooey Butter Bars" that Emily Geer brought. Slap my momma good. Then FLIP CUP commenced. All I know is that I went to the bathroom and when I came back, my mate (Alison French Williams) was playing flip cup like a frat boy would. She was so into it...and GOOD at it! This is Alison speaking: nobody but mate knew this, but I had never played flipcup before and I didn't even know what it was!! But I just pretended I knew what I was doing and then all of a sudden, I rocked at it. Word. Back to Faris: It reminded me of the good times that we had at Furman playing drinking games like flipcup, quarters, jackass, cornhall (well I was always drinking when we were playing, right?!). Then, as if this gathering couldn't get anymore like college...THE FUNNEL came out. At this point, I thanked the good Lord that the E-bags were NOT around, as they expert funnelers, shown by BetaSig performances. We got crunk (or at least tried) and wandered across the COCK valley in search of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. After returning from the visit with my padres, we had a slight panic attic when we realized that the parking space previously inhabited by our car was empty...luckily cell phone service resumed and we were able to get someone to come pick us up. Part II: We get back to Whitney's house and everyone from the tailgate was having a "party" at her house. I knew it was a party from the minute I walked in from the glorious smell of pot smoke. Alison again: I believe our exact words were, "Ewww, mate what is that smell? Is that weed? Gross. Well, just follow the smell and we'll be at Whitney's. Pot is so 10 years ago, everyone knows coke is the drug of choice" We all proceeded to watch the Dawgs stomp USC. Whitney found out today that one of the sketch balls that came to the party actually credit carded his way into her apt, causing her to have to replace her lock. If you have any information about this incident, contact Whitney Smith at www.facebook.com. When I walked out of the apt at 10:00 the next morning, there were various randos strewn throughout the loft. I was just happy that I got to sleep with my lover, Whitney. She loves me so much that she slapped herself in the face in the middle of the night. Love you Whit.

PS--Can't get pics to work, as usual. Have great ones, though. Will post soon.

--FARIS BUELLER

ALISON WRITES--I just want to give a WHAT WHAT to matetv reader Becca B in Charlotte. I'm so proud that the word of mate tv is getting around and even though we don't know each other that well, you know about my life :) Leave a comment. Thanks.

Monday, September 04, 2006

Did you miss me?


Hey, it's me. Faris! Hope all the Faris-haters are okay with me blogging on the mate blog. Well, I first want to apologize for neglecting all of you for the past month or so. I am going to blame it on several things; and in the blaming I will attempt to catch you up on my life! I am a high school Spanish teacher (which I'm scared to claim based on the previous blog), so my school year started about a month ago. So, the start of the year has been great. I teach 3 class periods of kids, Spanish II CP. My kids are absolutely hilarious...you should hear some of the topics they try to get me off subject with...and sometimes they're successful. Go RAMS (hence the pic). Anyway, I'm also in grad school. I leave work when I can and drive back the 42 miles to Athens where I go to my classes. Side note: I hate UGA parking services. Why is parking in life always such a bitch? And why is it that speaking to the manager, or her manager, or her manager's manager's manager never helps? Anyway...I'm also in a fairly new relationship, which is really fun. I flew up to Virginia to meet the parents last weekend. Mate, remember when you met the parents? Or at least when you went to Colorado? CRAZY. So, life has been filled with lots of exciting things...but for all those reasons I've been neglecting the blog. MY NEXT BLOG WILL BE MORE EXCITING AND SCANDALOUS I PROMISE. Well, Mate and I are going to Cola this weekend for the UGA/USC game, so we're sure to have a blog entry when we return. Love all you haters.

-Faris

People get on my nerves and that's it.

This is going to be a short blog until mate gets her stuff together and starts blogging, but until then it's all about ALISON. So, last night our friends Leigh and Kyle had a small fete for the day of Labor that is today. And at the last minute they invited some friends of theirs whom we know but we don't know that well. So, the girl is a spanish teacher at a local magnet school and everytime I see her she's always talking about how dumb her students are and it just pisses me off, like our schools aren't in enough trouble? Some teachers are walking around talking about how stupid their kids are? Now I know I haven't been a teacher and I never will be but Aaron is a professor and never once has he been like my kids are so stupid with a high and mighty air about him and Faris never has either, which is why I respect them as teachers. Anyway, so that got on my nerves and major strike against her. Then she starts going off about how she's learning french and proceeds to tell everyone she's only taken 3 french classes and can parler le francais tout la journee long. Like seriously she was walking around conjugating verbs and trying to talk to Kyle and I in french. Kyle is a lot more patient than I am and finally i was like, "oui, je parle francais mais seulement quand c'est necessaire et ce soir a CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA, CE N'EST PAS NECESSAIRE." even her husband laughed. I wish people didn't get on my nerves as much as they do. Thanks DAD. (I got that trait from him) but I think the rest of blog world would agree. Amen and Amen. Adelaide, I hope you're laughing as you read this.

Saturday, September 02, 2006

WOOOOHOOOOOOO

Those were my sentiments yesterday when my new employer called me to tell me that I was "drug free and not a criminal" and could start working whenever I wanted to. I said, how about Tuesday? I'm not giving 2 weeks notice at my current job because I don't have to :) Omg. Most of y'all know that this past year at a certain bank located in Fort Mill, SC has been a FREAKING NIGHTMARE. For some reason the powers that be, decided I did NOT need to be working there and I kept experiencing one problemo after another. And, to make matters worse, I kept getting in trouble. Now, I don't get in trouble...I just don't. I believe that rules are there for a reason and so when I kept having to talk my way out of things with my ass of a manager I knew that God must be drunk or something and I needed to get the snell out of there. So, now I'm going to another bank that has a much better reputation and leaving all of the bullshit behind me. Sigh of relief. Last night Aaron and I celebrated and went to a new restaurant we've been wanting to try and then saw Little Miss Sunshine. We liked the move, especially the last part. I laughed more at Talledega Nights but Little Miss Sunshine was probably a better movie in terms of scripts and a plot, etc. I digress. I looked for a picture of me to put up here, but couldn't find that aptly descriped the mixture of hatred for the old job and joy for a new job. So, just imagine me flipping off the camera and laughing at the same time.