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Name: Ian
Country: United States
State: Virginia
Metro: Fredericksburg
Birthday: 12/27/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: tornadoes, storm chasing, OU football, hiking, camping, REAL music (i.e. requires talent), doing things with friends that are pointless, random and only funny to us that may include, but are certainly not limited to, quoting funny movies, playing music extremely loud while driving, and burning things, often illegally
Expertise: Let's see...I can get places really quickly when I'm driving (read: obsessive speeder)...I can get things out of high places...I can intimidate anyone...I can make a total fool of myself and not really care, because it's funny
Occupation: Student
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  ianpuffen
Member Since:
2/27/2005
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| First college snow day. Yippee. Two and a half more weeks... | | |
| You Know You Are From Fredericksburg If...
1. You know Central Park isn’t really a park at all
2. You can actually find your way around downtown
3. You wondered where the wooden chef and big Playmobile statues went
4. You consider Rt. 3 to be as bad as Northern Va.
5. You’ve driven the wrong way on a one-way street
6. Passengers not from the area pee on themselves as you drive on the back roads...with your eyes closed
7. The river is just another obstacle to get across
8. You applied to VT, UVA, or JMU...but never Mary Washington
9. There is nothing to do in the entire town if you are under 21
10. If you even go close to a Starbucks, you’ll see most of the people from your high school
11. You know the different high schools to avoid
12. You accept the fact that the entire street is closed weekly for a craft show
13. Confederate soldiers regularly charge across your lawn
14. The South never really lost, and the war is still going on
15. You laugh at the various activities designed to get kids to do things outdoors
16. You’ve participated in the said outdoors activities
17. It takes 30+ minutes to get anywhere
18. Potomac Mills seems so far north
19. Carl’s is the best place in the world on a summer night
20. You see kids driving anything from a beat up Ford F-150 to a crappy
civic to a brand new Lexus, and you don’t think of it as strange at all
21. Rt 3, 17, and 610 are evil roads
22. You lock the doors anytime you drive through Bragg Hill
23. You know of at least three ways to get into Central Park and avoid Rt 3
24. You loathe and make fun of the Free Lance Star, but you still read it
25. You tell people you are from NOVA, because it’s easier than trying to explain
26. You get the FLS, Washington Post, Richmond Times Dispatch, and Baltimore Sun all at your house
27. Flea markets are the normal
28. You’ve been to King’s Dominion so many times that you hate it...but you still buy season passes
29. Everything closes by 6 pm
30. You know about the stuff that goes on in the Ukrop’s Parking lot
31. You claim to despise Wal-Mart, but do most of your shopping there
32. You’ve heard of Dahlgren and Quantico, but never been to either
33. You have friends that do not know what their parents do...its all “Top Secret”
34. You’ve waited in your car for 30 minutes to get across the Rt 1 bridge
35. Spotsy and KG are still cool, but Stafford is getting uppity and thinks it’s a part of NOVA
36. You’ve wished for a car that can float so you can get across the river faster
37. You know the real speed limit on River Road
38. 1 out of every 3 of your friends is in a military family
39. Pick ups outnumber cars 10 to 1
40. NOVA is a community college, not a place
41. You are tired of people pretending to be chic, metro sexual, or any
other type of city-slicker; deep down everybody is a farm boy
42. Everybody avoids certain gas stations and has their favorites
43. Bubba’s truck is lifted so high you can walk under it
44. There is no parking. Ever.
45. You may actually need 4wd to get down the dirt road to your driveway
46. It is just The Burg, or if clarifying between another, then ‘F’burg’
47. More and more cars have the OBX copying sticker saying FXBG
48. The only sidewalks anywhere are downtown
49. There is only one of everything: The French Restaurant, The
Mediterranean Restaurant, The Cigar Shop, The Giant, The Lone Star, etc
50. Before Central Park, you could only go to Target
51. You often see your teachers outside of school
52. The movie theatre takes so long to get to
53. You are now an expert at parallel parking
54. You’ve ever been late to school because of a herd of cows or other animal life
55. You are still rivals with that one kid from TOT or REC soccer
56. Those swim team kids stick together and are weird
57. You’ve had pieces of the school fall on you...while in class (Gayle M.S.)
58. Everybody hates the Falmouth intersection and would give their firstborn for it to change, but it never will
59. Rt 17 is two very different roads, with Rt 1 dividing them
60. Spanky’s will forever be in your heart; and not the “new one” - that’s just bad
61. You’ve ever read books for the local library reading competitions
62. You can get to other places in the surrounding counties faster by back roads than by the interstate or highways
63. You’ve ever taken classes at Germanna
64. You are upset that you have to go to NOVA CC because Germanna doesn’t have the courses
65. Everybody else on the road is an idiot
66. You’ve ever had to put up with film crews using the town as a historic backdrop
67. Four Mile Fork is so far away...
68. You’ve spent more time at the Meadows Farms than at home during the summer
69. You laugh at all the things on the “You know you are from Northern VA if...” list, but you only understand a few of them
70. You think Spotsy Mall is what a mall should look like
71. Everybody complains about gas prices, but 99.9% of the people drive SUVs or giant trucks
72. You remember AND still talk about the “Blizzard of ‘96”
73. Some of the items on this list cause you to laugh and be embarrassed at the same time
74. You find that this list is strangely accurate and can be applied to your own life
75. You will pass this on to all of your friends from F’burg, Spotsy,
KG, and Stafford. But not those Northern VA peoples; they wouldn’t
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| So I got my ticket for OU-saxeT yesterday. The game is the first
weekend of October in Dallas; I'm planning on going down and camping
for the weekend south of Dallas. Not much else going on...school is
crazy, I got about three hours of sleep last night and I'll get
somewhere around five tonight. Life is pretty much sucking, for
numerous reasons. So I can continue to say emphatically that I hate
Oklahoma.
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| Differential equations is the most confusing class I've ever taken.
Here I am taking this lethal cocktail of upper division meteorology
classes and it's going to be the raw math class that kills me.
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