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April 7, 2004 - Been a week. Again.

Right, so I'm bad about updating. Not as bad as, say, Kristi or Ryan, but still pretty bad.
Regardless! It's April, and that means it's amazing outside. The last couple days have been 70 degrees or more, and I've worn shorts around for both days. It's been amazing. SAA had some free food on central campus today, which when supplemented with a couple of friends dropping by, a little bit of frisbee, and an amazing amount of laziness and chilling, makes for quite a good afternoon. The part where I'm sitting in a Coover lab and updating this because I have, literally, nothing else to do right now notwithstanding. Sad how we get let out of my 485 class after about 20 minutes every day because there's nothing to go over. Ah well.
Last Thursday night, Emily, Ryan, and I went to see Rent down at the DMCC. It was an awesome show, and I'm really glad to have seen it. Highly recommended.
Oh, and last weekend, Raina came out to see us! We had a great, if incredibly lazy, time just hanging out and mostly eating. Huge props to her for making the drives!
Let's see, what else? The group projects are coming along, if slowly. I'm actually in much better of a position that I thought I would be at this point; maybe I'll actually get to enjoy VEISHEA in ten days. Tonight is a Try SCUBA event, so I'll be able to get back under the water for at least a little time, which is awesome. Beyond that ... spring's arrival makes everything seem better, so I can't complain too much about anything, really.
Oh yeah, and I ordered a laptop last night! Details pending.
Hope everyone enjoys their week, and check out the brand new March archive. Word.

April 11, 2004 - Happy Easter!

Firstly, happy Easter to all!
This past half-week or so has been pretty awesome. After Wednesday's awesome weather, it's stayed steady at about 60 degrees, which is just fine by me. Wednesday evening's SCUBA event went well (props to Kristi for coming!), and it was nice to swim around for an hour or so. Hard work, though. Then later that night, we had a broomball game; my first one ever, actually. For those who don't know what this is, picture this: 5 on 5 hockey, played lengthwise on half a hockey rink, in shoes instead of skates, with a ball about five inches in diameter, and instead of a stick you have basically a long ice-scraper like you would use on your car. It's amazingly fun, but you fall down and hurt yourself a lot too. So after Wednesday, I pretty much hurt all over.
Then on Friday, I played about 90 minutes of quality Ultimate Frisbee with King and the gang; our first Intramural game is tomorrow at 5:45. I think we'll have a decent chance if we play well. Friday night I hung out with King, Jackie, and Adria and just played some cards and ate some pizza. Saturday, I most definitely slept until 2:45, which ruled, and then played some quality video games with Ryan and Kevin. All in all, a good weekend.
But this week, we have a 362 quiz tomorrow, a 309 test Thursday, and a 308 quiz Friday (Schedule for reference), plus an assignment or three, and the ongoing three group projects. Crap. Three weeks plus finals until all this school crap is done.
And next weekend is looking to be pretty much gone, too; it's VEISHEA, and I get to work security duty for four hours on Friday night, five hours Saturday morning, and four more Saturday night. Ah well.
Anyhow, happy Easter to all, and here's hoping this week is kind to me. Oh yeah, and you too.

April 15, 2004 - VEISHEA is here!

Well, ladies and germs, it's time for that lovely festival of getting drunk, pretending you're not drunk, and watching a parade: It's VEISHEA time again. For anyone who doesn't know, I'm working security this year. What this means is basically, my partner and I walk around in our bright orange "Please Make Fun Of Me"™ t-shirts, tell people to put their beer down, and get laughed at. But hey, we get a t-shirt out of the deal, and we get to feel important and break the kneecaps of people we don't like. At least I think that's what they said; I was pretending not to be drunk.
This week has been full of work and projects. Whee. It's been a decent amount of work, but I think the projects might actually turn out pretty well. Oh yeah, and I had a quiz Monday, a test and quiz today, and another quiz tomorrow. Also whee.
But, with any luck, I plan on hitting the VEISHEA production of Fiddler on the Roof this Saturday and having some fun in the meantime. Here's hoping it goes well.
Oh yeah! And my laptop is in the mail!

April 22, 2004 - The aftermath

Again, a week with no updates. What can I say, I'm a bad person.
I feel like I'm so far behind in a lot of non-school-related things. Specifically, people. I owe a whole bunch of people an email or three (Patty, I haven't forgotten about you, I promise!) and it feels like I'm losing touch with some friends of mine, mostly the ones I only get to talk to now over Instant Messenger and the like. Yeah, I know this happens, and it sucks, and there's nothing you can really do about it, but ... yeah. That's about it.
My laptop came on Friday! It's awesome and I love it. I will never pay attention in class again.
You may have noticed our university in the national news as well as the local news after some 'extracurricular' activities this past weekend. On the one hand, I'm kinda ticked that I wasn't down there watching (how cool would that have been?), but on the other hand, I'm going to be really pissed if they straight-up cancel VEISHEA because of this. I guess we'll see.
I saw Stomp this past week too. It was amazing; if you ever get the chance to go, I highly recommend it. Very Blue Man Group-ish, if you're into that sort of thing.
School-wise, this week sucks, and next week is going to be worse. I have a group project due on Monday. I have a group project due on Tuesday. I have a group project due on Thursday. I have a paper due on Thursday. I have a lab due on Tuesday. I have four finals the following week I'm supposed to study for. Crap.
Maybe this whole Pella thing isn't going to be so bad.