Welcome to #35's NEW Waste of Space!!!

Cutter's Log - Stardate 7002.71.80
Current Song - Dirty Work (Steely Dan)

Hello everyone and welcome to my NEW Waste of Space, otherwise known as a blog. I have been writing blogs for a couple of years now, and my kind of blogs are unlike the traditional ones. I treat it more like a journal, with blog-like things. The last two years were spent at CJB, the same people who hosted my NISB Message Boards.

Here is my old blog, since infested with advertisement garbage:
http://blogs.cjb.net/CodyCutter35

Since I am starting over at a new blog site, I may as well tell a little bit about myself.

I am Cody Cutter, high school sportswriter/convienence store "jack of all trades". I was born and raised and have lived my entire life in Sterling-Rock Falls, IL. Sterling and Rock Falls are two seperate cities bordered by the Rock River. I was born in Sterling on April 28, 1986 and lived in RF, then Sterling, then RF and now in Sterling. I have a lot of pride in my childhood that I spent up until I was 11 years old. I'll sometimes refer to the "good 'ol days" which were my years in Rock Falls (1993-1997). But it's not like everything went downhill after I moved away from RF. I wouldn't be a sportswriter if I were to have stayed in RF.

However, I fell in love with a girl for the first time while living in Rock Falls. Then another one.
Then another five or so while I lived in Sterling up until graduating high school. Of all 7 girls I fell in love with (I'm not crazy, it's just me), the two girls who are now the nicest are the two girls I fell in love with in Merrill School. However, you can't go back and relive your past. One still lives in town, and another is a girlfriend of one of the Yankees (Class A).

I am a 2005 graduate of Sterling High School. I went from sports management (boys and girls basketball, football and volleyball) to high school sportswriter in those four years at SHS. I was waterboy in Max Gaumer's final year coaching football at SHS and I (and others) like to consider myself a cult figure on that particular team. I now attend Sauk Valley Community College.

I began my journalism career with Prep Sports Online, then "interning" at the Daily Gazette and Dixon Telegraph before creating Northern Illinois Sports Beat, the high school website I operate on my own.

Unfortunately, NISB doesn't churn in any dollars or cents. I work at BP, the gas station on Lincolnway and Freeport Rds in Sterling. I work three nights of 11-7 late nights as well as Sunday mornings. One of only three men working there, I get handed the maintence chores and tough guy chores. I've never fallen asleep on the job, I've never been robbed or shot at, and I've only had one drive-off (gas-and-go) in the 11 months I've been working there.

Last but not least about myself: I am different than you. That's not a made-up statement, but rather I act and think differently than others. This is because I have Asperger's Syndrome, a condition where childhood cases of mild autism "just go away." Well, they don't. After puberty, the autism begins to show in particular situations. *Limited or total lack of verbal communication ability *Reoccuring thoughts of the past *Believing that the world is different that what others think *Social isolation *Specialized knowledge of only certain interests *Clumsiness.

The Asperger's Syndrome is why I appear shy. When I say that I loved 7 girls, this doesn't go noticed by most others because I am afraid to admit it to not only the girls themselves, but to others. You may think it is easy to set up a relationship with someone you love, but for me it is very hard with the characteristics of A.S. that I have. I've tried to build a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship at times, but I have failed because I am not as swift and quick as every other boy who trys to do the same thing. Sometimes I feel like I have to life with a label of "un-workable" when it comes to relationships.

If you would like to know more about me, just feel free to comment.
My MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/CodyCutter35