*yawn* ~ Thursday, April 12, 2001 ~ 3:59 PM
Well, I finished both my lab report and my forum report this morning before class. Our Mechanics presentation went really well! He said ours was the best one of them all. *grin* I knew I didn't do all that with the S.A.M.E. for nothing. Heh - bow down to my superior Power Point Skills. :-)

Now if only I could type. This keyboard I'm using feels like someone spilled a couple of cokes into it, then tossed in some quick-set apoxy for good measure. That and the fact that my small motor skills are practically nonexistant at the moment due to sleep deprivation make typing a far more difficult task that it has any right to be.

Today's Forum class was a symposium for four of our gaduating Honors students to present their Honors theses. The first one was extremely interesting - it was about forest regrowth on Monte Sano in the 1974 tornado path. The second presentation was by Rodolfo, my roommate's boyfriend. He's a finance major with a VERY strong Spanish accent. I didn't understand a bit of his presentation, btu nto because of the accent - dammit, I'm an engineer, not an accountant. ;-) But the third presentation....oh, it was hell.

An honors senior going for her B.A. in Communication Arts did her presentation on the oppression of lesbian groups by the femenist movement. She herself was a lesbian, which was, I think, the main factor in her paper. It was twenty pages of personal opinion. And it sucked. And the worst part was that this senior in Communication Arts got up in front of the class and READ HER ENTIRE TWENTY PAGE THESIS PAPER. She read it. No presentation, no change in format, no eye contact with the audience, no inflection in her voice. She read to us for fifteen minutes about how she felt oppressed.

I wanted to scream. What happened? Did she miss a few of those important communications classes? You know, the ones where they teach you NOT to put your audience into a coma. I could hardly believe that she was allowed to get up there and receive honors credit for something that had no more thought put into it than, "I'm a lesbian, let me read to you about how I feel oppressed." No research, no facts, no presentation. Just her and her stupid subjective paper and the sanity of everyone else be damned. Her only intent was to whine to as large an audience as possible and she relied on her sexual orientation to ensure that no one would tell her she couldn't do her paper because then she could complain to the university that she was being discriminated against. It was one of the more infuriating experiences of my life. It's liberal arts majors like that that give the rest of you all a bad name.

*sigh* I'm so glad for the sanity of my nice engineering world. All facts. :-) You still get to think outside the box, but if you come up with something crack ass, your building falls down or your rocket blows up or something. Engineering is very much grounded in REALITY, a place I am most comfortable living in, thank you very much.

Speaking of the engineering world, it beckons. I have to at least get a good start on my Dynamics project before I go home this weekend. Now is as good a time as any.

La la la ~ Wednesday, April 11, 2001 ~ 5:32 PM
I am having a horrible apathy attack. It came out of nowhere. One minute I was sitting in Linear, paying attention to my professor's nonsensical ramblings, and the next.....boom! Instant apathy. Sudenly, my ability to care about anything was reduced to almost nothing. So I have a mechanics project due tomorrow? So I have homework? So what? I don't care! *chortles gleefully* Maybe I should go home and skip my last class. *ponder*

Erk, I can't. I promised my project group we'd meet tonight. I may not care about this project, but if I let them down, my life would be pretty much forfeit. Ah well. It was a nice idea. :-)

Anyway, aside from the sudden decsent of total and complete apathy, today was pretty much uneventful. I finally got my exam schedual straightened out, rearranging the times so I don't have four finals on one day anymore. Whew. I also got back my linear test - I got an 87 because I made two remarkably stupid math errors, but Jeff got a 95! *cheers* He really wanted an A to pull up his average and he got it. It's about time something went right for him this week - his week has kind of sucked, and to top it off, he's sick with allergies. Huntsville is horrible for pollen and he's getting the full brunt of it.

Jeff has start packing soon. We're both kind of depressed at the idea and consequentially, we've been putting it off. Of course, this means now we're going to be in a time crunch to get everything moved. At least they've given him storage space over in the central campus residence hall (CCRH), so he doesn't have to rent a storage place over the summer. We're getting a new housing director in CCRH at the end of this semester and Steve, current director of CCRH, is coming over to Southeast. He's a fun guy, so I'm considering working as an RA next year. I doubt I will though - I just don't have much free time as it is. As tempting as free room and board may be, I think I may just decide to concentrate on school.

Attack ~ Wednesday, April 11, 2001 ~ 12:22 AM
This morning, after staggering around sleepily for what seemed like an appropriate amount of time, I set forth bravely to conquer the daily challenge of breakfast. Usually, breakfast food is not an issue as it is generally mild mannered and seldom violent, but I knew that after an evening spent basking in 80 degree temperatures, what remained of our food was going to be.....well, scary to say the least. After much thought, I decided that toast couldn't be too dangerous - after all, it's just toast - so I opened the fridge to grab my loaf of bread. I barely escaped with my hand. Something bearing a vauge resemblance to velveeta cheese dip undergoing various genetic mutations reached out and SNAPPED at me. Yes, overnight, our food had developed intelligence and a sincere desire to control world, along with an insatiable appetite for human flesh. I paid another visit to the housing office and this time they agreed that since the danger was not merely to me and my roommates, but to the world as a whole, they would, indeed, have the fridge repaired today. And the most surprising part is that THEY DID. *dramatic music plays* I'm sure that in future studies, this miraculous event will be seen as the herald of the pending Apocalypse, possibly even the major cause. *ponder* But anyway, now that the evil velveeta creature has been subdued by the cold temperatures, it will be safe tomorrow to clean out everything that went bad. And no one had to lose a limb.

Dynamics.....well, I took the test. Or rather, I attempted to take the test. It was kind of like trying to stop a steamroller by laying down in front of it - the end result is about the same. Our prof swore up and down that only Chapters 13 and 15 would be on the test, and he swore up and down that he'd give us an equations sheet. I get there, and oh lookie, what's this? problem 1 is over Chapter 11! *grumble* Bastard. AND he didn't provide us with any formulas from Chapters 11, 13, or 15. Nope, his equation sheet was nigh on useless. *grumble grr ftt*

Sci-fi is finally airing Crusade. But it's weird - they're not airing it in order. They showed the ninth episode first, then the eleventh, and tomorrow the tenth. They're not showing the pilot episode until April 26th. It's very weird, but I think what happened was that TNT screwed up JMS's original order when they mucked with everything else, and now he's getting to show them in the order he wants. Not that it matters - I'm just happy that they're running it at all! :-) It may not be very good, but then again, the first couple episodes of B5 weren't either, and look what it turned into. *grin*

I think I'm going to actually have free time for a while! I can catch up on the book I'm reading for my history report and take care of my forum stuff. :-) *grin* It's nice to have a breather. All I have left to worry about this week is my Mechanics presentation, which should be relatively simple. Ah, life is good. ;-)

Current Music: 'Snow' - Loreena McKennitt

Bad Day ~ Monday, April 9, 2001 ~ 11:57 PM
In three minutes it will be Tuesday and this horrible day will be over.

I woke up at 8 AM Saturday morning and spent the day studying Linear Algebra. Sunday I woke up at 10 and studied linear until midnight. I got up this morning at 7 and studied some more until I had to leave for my first class. On my way to class I stopped by the housing office to notify them of a priority 1 maintenance concern in my room. You see, our fridge had stopped working and they're supposed to fix stuff like that right away, since it's a health concern. Well, they didn't and all of our food has gone bad. AND our air-conditioner is broken too, so our room is about 83 degrees right now, with the sun down, and was hotter all day, meaning that any food which might have kept, didn't.

I got back from history, went straight into linear, took the test (which I don't feel very good about) came home and immediately started working on the mechanics HW I'd forgetten about. The I went to Mechanics and listened to Dr. Gilbert blabber on about shear and moment diagrams, got out and studied for my dynamics test until TransEng, went to TransEng, got out and continued studying dynamics. I have not had a break from studying in the last three days except for class and a small amount of sleep and I am losing my mind. Add that to the fact that it's hot and I have nothing cold to drink, much less anything besides dry Cheerios to eat, and I think you can see why I am not a happy bunny.

I also have a Mechanics project due this Thursday, a TransEng project due the 23rd, a Dynamics project that my prof has yet to assign, but is due in a week, and a History paper for my honors credit due the 20th. *whimpers piteously* Help me....

Anyways, enough bitching. Other than school, everything is great! Dagorhir is getting better because we have more members now and a couple friends of mine are coming in for the Vampire game on the 21st and satying to fight Sunday. Jeff and I are getting along better than ever, even though we haven't gotten to see much of each other the last couple days, outside of studying. I have chocolate (but no milk) and yummy cake. The weather has been beautiful, if hot, and this weekend I get to go home. :-) I'll get to see my sis and parents and be pampered with homemade food. Ah, home can be a wonderful thing.

I'm going to hell for telling you all about this, but.... *snicker* This is so freakin hilarious, but soooooo wrong. It's a comic I've been reading for a while now - it's pretty disgusting, but funny as hell at times and yesterday's comic was one of thsoe times. *grin* A note: Cone is supposed to be Clone - it's a typo. Warning - if you're offended easily by Jesus jokes, you might just want to skip this part. You might not appreciate this as much as the rest of us damned ones. *evil grin*

*tap dances* It's Tuesday, it's Tuesday...no more evil bad Monday because IT'S TUESDAY!!!!! Woo hoo! Now all I have to contend with is my Dynamics test today. Speaking of, I think I'll go get some sleep so I don't pass out in the middle of the thing. Night!

Current Music: 'The Memory of Trees' by Enya

Weird ~ Saturday, April 7, 2001 ~ 11:17 AM
I have been having the weirdest dreams the last couple of nights. Not nightmares - in fact, most of them are fun dreams - just weird. They all have kind of a strange sci-fi / ghost story type spin on them and I have no clue what they're coming from. But they're cool. *grin*

Oh, and speaking of sci-fi, I wanted Farscape last night basically for the first time since the end of season one. I've seen an episode here and there, but not the entire story, so I had lots of questions and spent most of the episode trying to figure out who was who. But the worst part last night was that THEY KILLED ZHAAN. My favorite character and they killed her off. *grumble* Dagnabit, I hate it when shows do that. ;-)

We had a potluck dinner of sorts over at Deb's house last night. It turned out well, though, because only 7 people showed up. It was wonderful. I'm getting to point where the majority of the Cam people are driving me crazy. It's their stupid melodramatic puny little lives and the fact that they think, for some reason, that I should care. It's more fun when just the small group of us show up. We ate lots and lots of food, watched movies, and just generally had a great time.

Oh, but the funniest part fo the night was when one of the people I can't stand, Jace, came by to pick up Kristie (Deb's stupid roommate). He was standing around, talking about how he'd been in jail (for writing bad checks, although he made it sound like he was convicted of something worse before we finally shut him up by asking) and he mentioned that if he ever had to go to jail again he would never see the inside of a cell. Humoring him, we asked what he meant and in what he thought was a very dramatic tone of voice he declares, "Ritual suicide....I've studied it."

That was supposed to sound impressive, I think, but it really didn't have the desired effect. While I was huddled on the floor, turning purple from trying not to burst out laughing, Jeff looks up at him with the comment, "Ritual suicide? That's a good idea!" and Amy puts in, "Well don't fuck it up. We'd hate to think you were that incompetent. I mean, if you screwed up your ritual suicide, that would really be pathetic." Then we all had to keel over laughing our asses off. Jace didn't seem to think it was funny at all and left in kind of a huff, which only made us laugh harder. My god, we really are horrible people. *chuckles evilly at the thought*

Ah well. Now everyone knows what a terrible person I am. ;-) I laugh at Goths. I scoff at melodrama. I want to exterminate the chronically stupid, and I think duct tape is an appropriate method of child restraint.

*grumble* We don't have water today. They're installing a water main down the street at the new rec center, so the entire southeast campus is shut off from 9AM-3PM. I really need to wash dishes and clothes too. *grumble* I suppose I'll have to wait until tomorrow. I would just do it this afternoon, but after major construction like that, it's usually best to give the lines a bit of time to clear. No nasty dirt water for me, thanks. ;-) At least I have lots and lots of homework to keep me occupied. Linear algebra time.

Current Music: "As I Lay Me Down to Sleep" - Sophie B. Hawkins

*gulp* ~ Thursday, April 5, 2001 ~ 3:41 PM
Computer labs are weird, no da? They're cold and silent - like libraries, except creepier. I'm always afraid of walking into computer labs because your entrance makes such a disturbance. It's loud and you always bump into the backs of monitors while trying to get a seat. The worst part is how everyone looks at you as you walk in; rows and rows of people staring at you as you desperatly try to find a comp that WORKS. Then, after you turn the damn thing on, it BEEPs at you. Loudly. And everyone turns to see who's making their computer make such awful noises. *shiver* I'm scared of computer labs.....

*sigh* This has been a day for annoyances. I've survived them so far (and so has everyone else), but tonight is our Vampire meeting, and I don't know if I'll be able to put up with even their usual idiocy.

The issues with the concrete canoe competition have been resolved and it appears that I will, indeed, be training this summer to go to nationals. There was a brief scare when the National ASCE called Dr. Gilbert and told him that there had been a mistake and we were not going to Nationals. Turns out someone misread the scoresheet, but I think everyone here in Huntsville was having flashbacks to the horror of 1995. It was all worked out though, and come June 14th, we're going to San Diego! *cheers*

I planned my summer around paddling practice. They insist that they're also going to make me participate in the gym and running times too, but I don't think I'm going to have the time. They'll complain, but this IS NOT a sanctioned sports team - it's just a bunch of engineers who also happen to want to paddle, and I refuse to give up classes for it. Plus, my knees are too bad to go running. I can't think of a quicker way to destroy what cartilege I have left than running day after day on asphalt.

*yawn* Urk. I'm starting to get tired. I think I'll have to go scrounge up some coke money in a little while so I'll be able to stay awake through Dynamics. Otherwise, I'll probably just pass out snoring five minutes in. And they can be so cruel.... *huddles into a ball, whimpering*

Anyways, time to go work on Linear Algebra. Fun fun fun. I normally wouldn't bother, but since I have two tests next week, I'm studying for one of them now. Don't know how much time I'll have this weekend. ;-) On a side note, Jessica's birthday is this Saturday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESSICA!!!!!! :-) :-) :-)

Woah ~ Wednesday, April 4, 2001 ~ 2:19 PM
This is just cool. It's raining completely sideways outside. I have my window open all the way and not a drop of rain has come it because the wind is blowing so hard. *grin* Good hot chocolate / book weather. Too bad I finished rereading the second Harry Potter book yesterday. I don't have the third one, just the first two and the fourth, and I've already reread them all a gazillion times. I need to go buy the third one, but haven't gotten the chance to get out to get it yet.

Jen, I just started on the sequal to the Paradigm of Uncertainty. Unfortunantly, since there's only six chapters, I've also just finished it. ;-) Ah, fan fic can be a wonderufl thing, but now we have to wait for her to finish the next couple chapters. Speaking of fan fic, I need to check back on that SW one we were waiting on.

Every single day, another one of my professors comes up with a way to remind us that we have only three weeks left in the term. I'm trying to decide if I'm happy because it'll be over soon, or if I'm terrified of the coming exams. A bit of both, I think. But the good thing about exams is I'm getting to FINALLY go see Rent in Birmingham, April 27th, which is right in the middle of our string of exams. *cheers* I've been kicking myself ever since I passed up the opportunity to go see it when I was in London, so maybe this will partway make up for it. Kat is a wonderful person for getting us the tickets.

Hmm...the lightning is really picking up. I think I'm going to shut down my comp just in case.....*stares out the window* God, I love storms. :-D

Current Music: None, because I couldn't hear it over the storm if I wanted to. :-) Yay, thunder!

Today ~ Tuesday, April 3, 2001 ~ 10:27 PM
Today was sooooo much better than yesterday. It was all nice and stormy with pretty lightning and lots of thunder. I got to hear a rather interesting talk today in Forum about the fourth dimension. It was presented by a group of honors students from the general seminar. They did a good job and even brought in software that simulated rotating a tessaract about the wx, wy, and wz axes. It was cool, even if I didn't understand all of what they were saying. My grasp of fourth dimensional theory is somewhat weakend by the fact that I have enough trouble with three dimensional space. ;-)

I've almost finished my TransEng project, which is nothing short of a miracle. If it hadn't been for John and the software he had access to, none of us would have finished even half of it. We all owe him.

Anyways, what's bothering me today is that everyone tells me that I overreact too much. This is an insult. I am, by far, one of the most rational people on this campus. I don't get mad often. I'll argue, but usually not seriously. The few times I do get mad, it is merely because I just hate it when people inconvenience me because of their own impatience or incompetence. But the fact is that I don't overreact. If people would shut the fuck up for two seconds, they'd realize that if I AM arguing, it's usually rational and coherant and based off something I find important. *pause* That must be it. They realize I'm coherent and logical, they just don't consider what I think to be important. *grumble* Omnicide is looking better and better.

Yumm. Ashley, Jeff, and I went out to Krispy Kreme and got us a bunch of Hot Nows. Yummy goodness. That made my day better, although Jeff and I were really supposed to be cooking dinner for our year-and-a-half-of-putting-up-with-each-other anniversary. We don't celebrate anniversaries usually, but it seemed appropriate. Well, at least to me...Jeff decided he'd rather have a peanut butter sandwich and doughtnuts than cook dinner with me. *sigh* I'll miss him this summer, but only if he survives to leave.

Well, I'm going to go get ready for bed. Tomorrow is a busy day! ;-)

Current Music: 'I Know' - Save Ferris

*snore* ~ Monday, April 2, 2001 ~ 6:10 PM
Maybe it's Daylight's Savings Time. Maybe it because last week was Spring Break, spent relaxing. Maybe I'm just crazy. I don't know. But whatever it is, today I absolutely, positively COULD NOT get out of bed. It was like there was this cloud of exhaustion hanging over my bed and every time my head got further than three inches above my pillow, I'd inhale it and pass out again. I had to get up at 6:30 this morning to finish my History paper in time to make it to the advising office to get in line to register before 9. I didn't make up until 7:30, so I was rushed all morning. Or I would have been if I could have moved faster than a sloth in a tragic molasses accident. I feel asleep in the shower, at my desk, in the registration office, in History class, in Linear, and I just woke up from my little nap in Mechanics. My eyes just can't seem to stay open. the only reason I'm not asleep right now is because this lab is so freakin' COLD. ;-)

*yawn* I just have to make it through four more hours. Then I can pass out once and for all. 'Course, by then my body will have decided I mean to stay awake for the next day or so and I'll have insomnia. Ah well.

Not much is new here. I registered for Summer and Fall today and got my file transferred to the Department so I'll have my very own advisor come Spring registration. I'm taking some very time-consuming classes this summer - I hope I'll have time to relax at least a little bit. But then again, maybe it's just better if I keep busy, since it's going to be so lonely here.

I know, I know...it's stupid. Jeff will only be gone for three months and he'll only be out of touch for a month. That's a SHORT amout of time. I will still be able to call him and e-mail and stuff after he gets back from Costa Rica. It's just that I'm used to having him here all the time - I've never been a student at UAH when Jeff wasn't here too. He's my absolute best friend here and the idea of him not being around is depressing. No one else at UAH really appreciates my sense of humor, either - so many amusing things are lost on everyone else. Jeff also keeps things interesting with his own brand of wit and his usual goofy pranks and stuff. I hope this summer isn't too dull. *grin* I'll have to make people come and visit me, so I don't wither away from boredom! ;-)

Well, I'm starting to drift again, so I'm going to go prop myself up out in the hallway and hope that Jessica wakes me up when she gets out of class. Hopefully tomorrow I'll at least be concious for the majority of my day. We'll see. *grin*

I'm back! ~ Sunday, April 1, 2001 ~ 9:39 PM
Well, I guess it's pretty obvious that the trip worked out. Ashley's friend came out the coma, so we were able to leave town. Last I'd heard she was off the ventilator as of Wednesday, so Ashley was able to spend a happy break.

We had so much fun!!!! I cna't really go into much detail because I don't feel like typing that much, but here's a short summary: We spent Saturday night in Frankville, with Clint's family. His grandmother forced more food down our throats in the day we stayed there than I'd eaten in the entire week before. We got to go play out in fields in the middle of nowhere and commune with cows. We spent Sunday and Monday in Mobile with Jeff's parents, then drove down to Gulf Shores on Tuesday. It was rainy, stormy, and cold almost the entire three days we stayed on the beach, but we had fun. We had Clint's aunt's condo all to ourselves so we just sat around being lazy and eating even more food. The last day, I decided that I absolutely had to go swimming and ended up playing in 40 degree water, but I had a blast. Noble came down Thursday night and stayed with us for a while, so Jeff and I got to see him. All in all, it was too short of a break.

I spent eight hours in a car Friday coming back to Huntsville only to turn around and hop in my dad's car for another two hours to get home to Nasvhille. I was sooooo sick of cars, but I got to go home and see my parents, sister, and cats. We celebrated my dad's b-day and went out to eat. I had fun and actually got work done. I also managed to get some shopping done that I needed to do before April 21. And of course my mother sent me back with tons of food. ;-)

Now I'm just playing the catch-up game, trying to get everything that's due tomorrow done. I've almost finished my history paper, but that TransEng project is still looming over my head. I also have to get up and go register tomorrow. *sigh* Back to work, it seems.

Current Music: 'Come Undone' - Duran Duran

Finally! ~ Friday, March 23, 2001 ~ 5:41 PM
It's here!!! Spring Break begins today!!!!!!! Today was the absolutely perfect day to start off Spring Break. I could hardly make it through my two classes - I kept wanting to run outside to play. After linear, Jeff and I went and ate a picnic lunch in Big Spring park. We had a lot of fun and got to just sit around and talk. It's been a wonderful relaxing day.

Unfortuantly, just as Jeff and I were getting home from the park, Ashley came tearing out of Jeff's apartment and told us as she flew by that there was problem and that we might not be going on break. Turns out, a very good friend of hers, basically her second mother, tried to commit suicide this afternoon and Ashley was on her way to the hospital. The woman's in a coma right now and on a ventilator, so she's in pretty bad shape. Right now we're all waiting on Ashley to call us back and tell us if she's still going on break. If she isn't, we can't either because she's our ride. I guess we'll know what's going on pretty soon. Poor Ashley - she's had a really horrible week as far as loved ones go.

Don't know what I'll do if we're not going to Gulf Shores. Probably just stay here and work for a few days, then go home for the last half of break. I've definitely got enough work to keep me occupied! Projects and papers and homework and tests. *grin* I've got my work cut out for me. There might also be a trip to Montgomery or Atlanta planned. We'll see.

Current Music: 'Building a Mystery' - Sarah McLachlan

YAY!!!!! ~ Thursday, March 22, 2001 ~ 4:55 PM
ONLY ONE MORE DAY!!!!!! I don't think I can wait! Every time I think about break, it makes the time seem to pass even slower (if that's possible). I hope this next week goes as well as I keep imagining it will. Ooh, I keep getting visions of us all lounging around, eating good food (hopefully we can con Clint into cooking for us), walking on the beach, and just generally having fun. I wanna go now!

Today was beautiful. It was warm and sunny and breezy. I have been dying to go outside and play all day. I already conned Jeff into eating a picnic lunch in the park with me tomorrow. ;-) The fact that today was so beautiful was only made worse by having to be indoors for almost every second of it. The only time I spent outside was when I was in transit to and from class. And you know, I would really like to go home. I've been in Tech Hall since 1:30 and already I'm dying to leave. But even after my last class (Dynamics), I'm staying here to meet with my project group at 7. Dunno how late we'll be here - hopefully not past ten. There's only so much I can take of engineering before my brain explodes.

Jen, I finished that fic last night, and I'm about to start on the sequel. *grin* It's like crack, except...well....it's not.

Anyways, it's almost time to head downstairs for Dynamics. Gah. *makes a face* I can think of about a thousand other places I'd rather be and at least ten thousand more productive things to do. *cheerful grin* Tomorrow's going to be hell, it being the last day before break. I figure we can all drive the profs crazy with out restlessness. ;-)

Current Music: None, but Jessica is babbling at the computer next to me. *grins and waves at Jess*

Woo hoo! ~ Wednesday, March 21, 2001 ~ 10:41 PM
I made the Dean's List!!! *cheers* Damn, but that made my day when I got that little letter from the Engineering Department. *BIG grin* 'Course now I have to a stuffy Honors Convocation, but at least they're giving me a pretty piece of paper for my time. :-)

Oooh, and another happy thing: my dad found the CD key to my Word CDs. :-) See, what happened was that I lent them to Jeff, who lent them to Clint, who promptly lost the booklet that comes with them and has the CD key on it. I was going to make one of them buy me a new copy of Word, but now I don't have to! That's a happy thing, right? ;-)

But the best - and I mean the very very best - thing today was that Jen got me hooked on ANOTHER Harry Potter fan fic called The Paradigm of Uncertainty. You're right, Jen - this one is awesome! *drools*

Well, I couldn't find any chocolate yesterday, btu I made up for it today at the store. Not only did I get a whole bag of Hershey's Kisses, but I also got a pint of Cherry Garcia ice cream! *grin* Jeff had better get here soon, or he's not going to get any. :-) I wonder where he is. He said he'd come over after his RA meeting and I want to tell him my good news. :-)

The only thing that wasn't so good today was where Clint and Ashley told me they want to leave town on Saturday instead of Sunday. That means I'm going to have to call Kimberly and tell her not to bother coming down. She'd only be here for one night and there probably isn't any point in her driving down her to stay for that short of a time. :-( Maybe she'll be able to come back soon.

*grr* Jeff just called me. He's nto coming over because he and Spencer decided to randomly benchmark his computer. The boy KNOWS I have a class tomorrow morning and have to go to bed soon. *grumble* I already told him not to bother coming over if he doesn't make it in the next fifteen minutes. *sigh* Some days I just feel like I really can't compete with his damned computer. I personally prefer real people to video games and stupid computer junk, but apparently that's a preference we differ on. Gah, he KNOWS I have something good to tell him, it's just that when compared with a computer, I seem to matter very little.

Ah well. I'm in too good of a mood. :-) I'm going to go eat my ice cream now and read more Harry Potter! *grin* Life is good.

Current Music: 'The Sound of Silence' - Simon and Garfunkel

Happy Sarah! ~ Tuesday, March 20, 2001 ~ 7:39 PM
I was right. Today did turn out to be a wonderful day!!!! Jeff and I made lunch together and got to spend a lot of time with each other this afternoon. *grin* I finished my Dynamics. Oh, and even better, I sweet-talked the Dynamics prof into postponing our next huge assignment until after spring break and got him to move the test date up to the Tuesday after the week after break, instead of that first Thursday back. Damn, I am so good!!!!

Jen, that fic you posted about kicks so much ass. Unfortunantly, I had to leave for class right before Chapter 5 and now the server is having fits and won't load the page. *pout* I hope it gets itself straightened out soon because I want to know what happens!!!

Some first day of spring this was! It's too bloody COLD to be anything but miserable. But the infamous 'they' say that it's supposed to be in the 60s tomorrow. We can always hope. ;-)

I've just realized that I need chocolate. I don't think I have any, though. I could wish for ice cream, but I don't have any of that either. *ponder* I think I have some brownie mix squirreled away somewhere. Time to go! *dashes away to un-squirrel the brownie mix*

Current Music: 'Windy' - The Association

COLD! ~ Tuesday, March 20, 2001 ~ 11:34 AM
It is snowing at Morton Hall.

But that's okay becuase it is raining everywhere else. It has been raining here since about 3 PM yesterday afternoon and hasn't stopped yet. Most of the campus is under a foot of water. Today, it is also windy - too windy, in fact, to use an umbrella. The wind just turns it inside out. It's a moot point anyway because it is raining sideways. I don't have a car, meaning that this morning I got up and walked to my forum class on the other side of campus. Well, it was closer to swimming than walking and you wouldn't know the difference from looking at me - I look like I fell in the duckpond. Class turned out to be only five minutes long today, so I immediately headed home, only to discover that it was, indeed, snowing at Morton Hall. *shakes a fist at Mother Nature*

Other than freezing my ass off to get to and from a class that lasted 5 minutes, today looks like it's going to be a good day. I only have 5 more problems left on the dynamics assignment due today, so there is actually hope that it will be completed on time. Poor Jeff was out having to deliver housing forms to the on-campus houses, but since he's back we're going to make lunch together. See...today is a good day. :-)

Current Music: 'Verdi Cries' - 10000 Maniacs

And so it begins ~ Monday, March 19, 2001 ~ 11:46 AM
Ah, another week has begun. Again. *ponder* When I rule the world, Mondays will officially be removed from the calendar. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but this IS my stated goal. ;-)

This is the last week before Spring Break. I have kind of mixed feelings about that because while it means I get a week of no work soon, it also heralds the approaching due dates of several papers and projects. The Gulf Shores thing worked out! We're going to Gulf Shores for March 26-29 and staying in Clint's aunt's condo on the beach. It's not going to be warm enough to swim or anything, but it should be really nice to just kick back and enjoy our short vacation. I also have a friend coming in to visit this weekend. Kimberly's driving down from Nashville Friday and staying for two days. It looks like it's going to be a great weekend....assuming I survive the week! ;-)

Jeff's been mad at me on and off this entire weekend. I'm not sure why, but he started out Friday just looking for a reason, any reason, to be upset with me. I've decided not to pay much attention, which isn't that hard because most of the time I don't even know that we're "fighting" - I have to find out from his roommates. I just don't know what's wrong with him and, quite frankly, I'm getting kind sick of everyone around here being moody. Maybe it's something in the water.

*grin* I've gotten Jessica hooked on the Honor Harrington books! Muwahahahaha. There is now another who recognizes exactly how impossibly cool David Weber is! ;-) Next, I have to get her to read his trilogy: Mutineer's Moon, Armageddon Inheritance, and Heirs of Empire. *drools* I have never met another author (with the possible exception of George R.R. Martin) who is so detailed and concerned with backstory and so...realistic. When David Weber writes about governments, militaries, and technology, you can see that he knows what he is talking about and that thought has been put into every single aspect of every single topic. That can't be said for a depressingly large number of authors.

Anyways, it's almost time to leave for linear algebra. *makes a face* Back to work! *grin*

Current Music: "Not a Pretty Girl" - Ani DiFranco