you were the story i tried to tell

ugly

2006-11-15T16:18:00.000-08:00

Last Friday evening, I got done working in my tissue engineering lab around 5:20. I was walking to my car in the school parking lot, and due to the late hour and the fact that it was Friday night, the parking lot was looking very sparse. The broken concrete was bathed in a disgusting yellow light from the overhead lights, and the sky had the general appearance of the end of the world. I was walking and said aloud, "God. This is most likely the ugliest moment of my life," to which God replied by blowing sand into my face and eyes. "Gah!"

fly

2006-11-07T13:06:00.000-08:00

This picture was taken when Sara Oppelt and I were crowned Mole King and Queen in high school. It is concurrently both the proudest and nerdiest moment of my life.

I'm tired. I just failed a test, but I also went out and bought the 2 Patty Griffin CDs I didn't have yet, so the day evens out, or maybe just comes out pretty well.

Patty Griffin may be overtaking Over the Rhine as my favorite music to listen to, but only time will tell who will come out on top.

I've been to 2 Aggie football games this semester, and those are the only 2 games we lost. People don't want me to go to the Nebraska games this weekend.

I'm doing tissue engineering research with a prof, and we're working on subjecting our tissue engineered vascular grafts to a physiologic pulsatile flow bioreactor. I get to autoclave things and make hydrogels.

Stupidest thing I said this week: "They're like vampires. They only come out during a full moon... which is actually werewolves, not vampires."

CJ thinks I'm a bad blogger, so I'll try to step it up a bit.

"Open your eyes boy, I think we are saved.
Open your eyes boy, we made it through the night."

cynic

2006-10-04T18:24:00.000-07:00

School is off and running. My hiccups are out of control. Amos Lee's new CD is good, but not great. I just found out my favorite snow cone place is closed. Andrew and I decided that my inner cynic has taken over and is no longer "inner." I'm happy because my least favorite girl just got kicked off America's Next Top Model. The new John Mayer CD is actually good, despite my cynical thoughts about John Mayer. The rolling blackouts were a disappointment; I wanted some more adventure. Introducing new people to Over the Rhine revives my deepest love for Over the Rhine.

"Broken down, we're all so broken down
Bandages on our wings
I know I don't have to tell you
Only broken hearts can sing
I'm hoping for a sign
Pray that I'm anything but fine."

buzz

2006-09-23T22:22:00.000-07:00

Recently, I attended the 22nd annual Kolache Festival in Caldwell. I felt like I was right in the middle of a Christopher Guest movie (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show). It was wonderful. It was complete with an Original Kolache Festival Band, festival royalty, and adorable dancing children. They also had funnel cake. Jenny, Andrew, and I were in heaven.

"Please slow it down
There’s a secret magic past world
That you only notice when you’re looking back at it
And all I wanna do is turn around"

no reason

2006-09-05T17:21:00.000-07:00

Why a picture of CJ? It's just a really good picture. And she also likes and dislikes words.

Words I like: prowess, largess, embarassing, roil, gaudy, subpar, grey, face, chord, outlandish, dominant, peel, tweed, flask, melancholy, namely.

Words I don't like so much: misled, panties, plus, bang, pus, gray, roof, -wise (adding to the end of a word, e.g. schoolwise), putrid, photograph, rendezvous, prudish, definitely, awkward.

back

2006-09-02T15:40:00.000-07:00

<-- (A picture)

A pet peeve: Minivans with one Jesus-fish per occupant. Big fish for the parents and small fish for the kids.

A hindrance: No washer and dryer in my apartment.

An addiction: Text Twist on Yahoo Games.

A quote: "Oh what marvelous things... but they are giving me the creeps."

best

2006-08-01T19:50:00.000-07:00

This is probably the best picture taken of me and CJ. It shows a different side of our friendship. The side where we're not married with multiple children... the normal side. Wish CJ well in Virginia.

nerd

2006-07-28T16:31:00.000-07:00

I'm pretty sure Sarah will be the only one who can actually relate to any of this:

I just bought X-Files, Season 8, and i'm trudging through all the crap Chris Carter makes me watch to get the few good episodes he had left to tell so late in the series. After giving the show such a strong start, he sure decided to end it without a bang. I'm dealing with the glaring inconsistencies like the writers forgetting critical details from earlier seasons. Ex: Showing another shocking conversation between Mulder and Scully about how her abduction left her barren. Scully sure acted shocked despite the fact that Mulder told her the exact same thing 3 years ago. Other issues, only letting Vince Gilligan write one episode the entire 8th season. Vince Gilligan has been the shows most consistent writer (who stayed for more than just a season or two). Even when Carter does give us a good episode, he throws in ONE terrible actor who just annoys me the entire way through. Chris Carter is lucky he had (despite my last statement) such wonderful lead actors to carry the show through the last couple of seasons. They pulled together a few great episodes at least.

Sorry. The X-Files rant is over. Sorry no one has any clue what any of that means.

In other news, I have to move out of my house on Monday. Too bad my lease at the new apartment doesn't start until Tuesday. Too bad I forgot (again) to get some wonderful big boxes from Compass to help out with the move. Too bad I have to leave to go to work now.

"Shut up Mulder. I'm playing baseball."

nothing

2006-06-29T11:55:00.000-07:00

Hi all. I have nothing new to say, so I will fill this post with the best of Jeff's old blog-like xanga. "i recently drove through austin and passed a xxx arcade. i became very curious."

" Recently, I've had a friendship degrade quickly solely based on his overuse of smiley faces on instant messenger. I seriously have no personal problems with this kid... I just get extremely annoyed every time he uses one of these . And he doesn't just limit himself to the normal smile with nothing else special. He occasionally uses on of these , or one of these . The problem is clearly with me. I think I'm getting a little bitter ."

"Rita update:
Still alive, of course the hurricane hasn't even hit Houston yet, but whatever... I went to HEB to get the necessities. Everyone was getting all kinds of food and water to last for a week. I got a loaf of bread and a 12-pack of Dr. Pepper. And just in case that wasn't enough to survive on, I picked up a copy of Spinal Tap on the way out."

"My roomies got a dog. It's a small dog. They say it's a mix between a chihuahua and a mini dachsund, but it's not. It's really a small deer. It looks like a deer, and it hops all around the apartment. Coco suspects I don't like him, and it's only a matter of time until these feelings come out in the open."

"The event that Lauren and I have feared for the last year finally happened. Lauren got stuck in a drainage ditch on campus today, and i was not there with my skateboard to help."

"This week, someone paid me with an IOU. That's right...he tried to pretend he just realized he forgot his wallet at home after I gave him his drink. I am convinced he knew he had no money with him. He asked me to give him a piece of paper so he could write an IOU. I was like, "you don't have any money with you?" So... he writes me an IOU as I stare at him completely dumbfounded, and he just takes his drink and leaves me with a little signed piece of paper. I don't think there is any normal business that excepts signed pieces of paper as currency(other than checks...) "

"Nope...you failed Physics, and thus you failed Me. The kingdom of Heaven is not fit for those who cannot understand the ridiculous concepts of electricity."

"A man tried to return a Bible that had already been engraved. Idiot. Of course not."

Sorry for this completely useless post.

seriously

2006-06-23T08:31:00.000-07:00

This is no joke. Two nights ago I had a dream. Somehow, my dog Molly had impregnated my cat Sophie. This is unlikely for at least 3 reasons: 1) Molly is a dog and Sophie is a cat; 2) both are females; and 3) both are spayed. In this dream, both pets walked around and talked like real people. Sophie decided that she wanted Molly to have nothing to do with the cat-dog children, so she planned on running away, but Molly wouldn't have that. Molly wanted to raise those cat-dog kids. They had a big yelling fight about it, and then I woke up. End of dream.

crazy

2006-06-13T13:07:00.000-07:00

It always sounds like it is raining when I'm in my room. I keep waking up in the middle of the night hearing the rain. I open the window and there is no rain. I'm pretty sure it hasn't rained once since I've been in this house.

My boss is not very observant. I found a note taped up near his box in the back today. It was written by me and dated 7/31 of last year. The note is exactly where I put it, meaning he never saw it. I plan on informing him of the note's presence on the anniversary of said note.

I've been waking up for work at 6:30. I was surprised to see that the sun was already bright and shining at that time. Being back at work reminds me that the general populus is stupid.

This post was written at Shannon's request in order to entertain Shannon since she is bored. I hope she finds it entertaining.

"Ha ha ha
Bless your soul
You really think you're in control?
Well, I think you're crazy
Just like me"

appassionata

2006-06-09T10:29:00.000-07:00

When I started my job search, the first thing I said was, "I will never go back to Tuscany's."

I start back at Tuscany's on Monday.

It shouldn't be too bad though. I think Floyd is out of town for the summer. I'm getting as many hours as I want when I want them.

My job search was hindered when my car wouldn't start yesterday. It died in the Half Price Books parking lot, which is luckily also the Firestone parking lot. I walked over to Firestone and had them jump start my car and replace my battery. 3 hours later I finally got to leave. They forgot to tell me when they finished with my car, so I ended up waiting about an extra hour before I left.

I'm getting serious about practicing piano again. My goal for the summer is the first movement of the Appassionata Sonata by Beethoven. It's tricky.

I recently got addicted to Arrested Development. It is the funniest TV show I've ever seen. Possibly even funnier than Seinfeld.

"Like I should be listening to your marriage advice... Oh, that's right! Your wife is dead!"

hearts

2006-05-25T20:40:00.000-07:00

Summer is here. I got to go to Frontier Ranch. Colorado... yes please. Work was subpar. My job was equivalent to rubbing my hands back and forth on asphalt for a few days. Had some good mountain male bonding time however. Very enjoyable. We slept outside in the troll-infested woods, but were surprisingly and thankfully unharmed.

In other news, nothing. I've been lazily looking for a job, but no results yet. I've read a few pages of a book and watched a lot of TV... mostly Law and Order. I didn't use to like Law and Order, but at one point I realized it was always on TV, so I gave in and became a faithful viewer. Lost and 24 are over for the year. Yikes. Finales were crazy.

The summer house is great. The roomies are fun. I'm suffering a bit of an MTV overdose however. I'm trying to remedy it by picking back up the UNABRIDGED version of The Count of Monte Cristo. Not an easy read.

Plans for the summer include:
- A job I may or may not like.
- More Ken Martin Safari Grille
- Protesting at the Planned Parenthood Clinic next door... Not going to happen.
- Tennis
Regrets thus far:
- Missed Watermark concert in Houston :(

Now I'm off to play some hearts.

"Oh Black River
Gonna take my cares away.
Oh sweet whiskey
Gonna take my cares away."

ingenue

2006-04-24T20:34:00.000-07:00

Most of last week was spent doing engineer things, like designing this here ICMO (intracorporeal membrane oxygenator) to fit inside a 2-3 lb premature baby and function as its lung. I also had 2 tests... one good and one terrible.

Also engineery, I have officially followed everyone else and made the difficult transition from the TI-83 calculator to the more advanced TI-89. It was hard to leave the 83 behind. We've been through a lot together.

I can't stop listening to Sandra McCracken. She's definitely my favorite right now. She and hubby Derek Webb should definitely start making more music together. They sound better together.

This year I've finally learned how to spell definitely.

CJ better start commenting again.

"As dust on the scales
As grass of the fields
So are our days
with the serpent on our heels."

pitch

2006-04-12T17:21:00.000-07:00

I went camping last weekend. I liked it a lot.

Today is my birthday. I've liked it a lot.

This weekend I should get to relax at a lake. I'll like that a lot.

"if you say go..."

suck

2006-04-02T10:49:00.000-07:00

Last night started out like many other nights. I drove over to my friend Jamie's apartment, but was forced to park on the street because her apartment complex has too little visitor parking. The street was completely packed because of a concert going on at the ampitheater down the street. I was forced to park about a block away from her apartment. I didn't pay attention, so I parked in front of a fire hydrant.

I decided to go home after a rousing round of apples to apples, but my car was missing. Lauren and I have some limited experience with towing companies, so we started calling around trying to find my car. Late night towing company employees are not required to graduate from middle school.
"I parked in front of a fire hydrant on Colgate St, across from University Commons apartments and the Wolf Pen ampitheater."
"Where was your car?"
"In front of a fire hydrant on Colgate St."
"Where on Colgate St?"
"Across from University Commons and Wolf Pen ampitheater."
"And where was the fire hydrant?"
"On COLGATE STREET. ACROSS FROM UNIVERSITY COMMONS AND THE WOLF PEN CREEK AMPITHEATER."

That was one towing lady. Some guy from the other towing company wasn't that bright either.
"It's a silver Honda Civic coupe."
"Oh. Your car is on its way here now... wait. What is it?"
"A silver Honda Civic coupe."
"Oh no. We don't have your car."
I had that same conversation with him twice... just about 20 minutes apart.

We eventually call the police department and find out that they had my car towed by some different company in the nether-regions of Bryan (the Red Light District if you will). The new towing guy told me that someone would be out to meet us in about 20-30 minutes, so Courtney, Greg, and I arrived on the scene 25 minutes later, but no one was at the lot yet. We end up waiting for about 25 minutes for the guy to come meet us so I can get my car, and we got to wait in a creepy dirt lot off the highway surrounded by a few creepy trailers.

Towing guy finally comes and meets us and I get to pay $141 to get my car back. I guess that wouldn't be so bad if I didn't also have to pay the parking ticket for $125 that was on my windshield. Wait! College Station has a really nice judge that you can appeal your ticket to and usually get it significantly reduced! That would work if parking in front of a fire hydrant wasn't a criminal offense. The only way I can appeal is by going to trial. That's $266 for parking in front of a fire hydrant for a few hours. I guess I can no longer go to Ohio, but at least I learned my lesson.

The picture was taken in the crappy town of Rockport, TX, but it reminds me of where the towing company in Bryan was located.

jump

2006-03-24T13:44:00.000-08:00

I didn't do a lot this week. Here's proof.

This is a list of classes I missed this week:

-Monday: Elen recitation
-Tuesday: Elen
-Wednesday:Math, Tumbling (cancelled by prof)
-Thursday: Bmen, Elen, Physiology lab (cancelled by prof)
-Friday: Physiology (cancelled by prof)

That's right. 8 classes. That means I only went to 7.

"the world can wait.
i'm wide awake,
and the world can wait."

lady jean grey

2006-03-21T09:03:00.000-08:00

Last night I had a dream about my friend Sarah. For some reason we were sharing an apartment. Like most people who live together, we had some slight roommate issues to work through. My problem with Sarah was that she was one of the X-Men. She was Storm. My problem with Storm is that she can control the weather.

I had a friend over late after Sarah was already asleep in her room. I guess she was having a nightmare because a terrible storm descended upon our apartment. My friend and I were running around scared because everything in the apartment was blowing around, and there was also some lightning extremely close to us. We ended up on the balcony and almost died either from being struck by lightning or falling to our doom. Then Sarah woke up and the storm stopped.

The next day, I was sitting with my friend drinking coffee, and he said, "You really need a new roommate. She almost killed us." I just said, "Well, everyone who lives together has problems at some point." He said, "Yes... but she almost killed us."

That was seriously my dream.

leavin'

2006-03-10T13:43:00.000-08:00

That's me and Katie at the BMEN ball. I'm wearing my pretty new suit, and she's wearing her pretty dress.

The test is over. It was as bad as expected. I'm shootin for a 50 (fiddy).

We had the BMEN ball last night to celebrate the end of said test. Good food and a fire. I got to wear my awesome new brown pinstripe suit from Goodwill.

Spring break is now. I'm happy. I'm almost on my way to Austin to watch 24 and hang out with Taylor. I'm not gonna lie. I'm pretty excited about watching 24. I guess I can handle Taylor too.

South Padre isn't gonna happen. Huggie, Anna, Elena, and I were gonna go and help Susan sell some coffee down there, but apparently people only want alcohol. Hopefully we'll make it somewhere.

You know you're in a weird mood when you download Patsy Cline.

"If you've got leavin' on your mind,
tell me now. Get it over.
Hurt me now. Get it over."

break

2006-03-07T09:33:00.000-08:00

I got dropped on my face in tumbling yesterday and have an impressive scrape on my nose. That was fun.

I have possibly the worst test of my entire life coming up on Thursday... Biosolid Mechanics. It is one of only two tests the entire semester, so it's worth a significant chunk of my grade. Wonmuk Hwang is not the greatest teacher. We went and talked to Dr. Humphrey, who is one of the greatest teachers I've ever had, about what Wonmuk was teaching us, and he told us he would never try to teach undergrads what we are being taught. So, I essentially have a graduate-level biomechanics test on Thursday. The test should be impossible, so we should all fail, and maybe something will finally be done about this class.

Over the Rhine is coming to Austin next Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I'm going.

"All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out."

"I'm sinking, I'm drowning.
So afraid of losing.
My head's been spinning round and round.
Since you've been around."

foreleasings

2006-02-26T13:17:00.000-08:00

I just spent a very enjoyable weekend at a friend's lakehouse for another friend's birthday. Weekend was complete with good books, good music, rocking out, good food, olympics, and good people. I finally got to see The Emperor's New Groove, and it was hilarious. It was the first weekend this semester that I've been able to do absolutely nothing, and it was fabulous.

The olympics were hilarious. I watched someone do his figure skating routine to "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt. Good song, but hilarious for figure skating. Also watched Spellbound, a documentary about the national spelling bee. It focused on 8 kids who made it to the national bee. Pretty embarassing. If i had 2 of those kids lives, I would kill myself. Another kid from India came from a relatively wealthy family. His grandfather who still lived in India told him he would feed thousands of starving Indians if he won the spelling bee. Too bad he lost.

I've made a resolution. After last week's cake, I always want a baked good in this apartment. Well, this is all random. Hopefully a more thoughtful post will be forthcoming.

"Don't cry for me Marge and Tina."

misled

2006-02-15T20:32:00.000-08:00

Once again a completely unrelated picture to start off the post. Lost was on tonight, and it was amazing again. I thought the last few weeks kinda lagged a little bit. Good thing we planned to watch it at Jamie's place, because the power at my apartment freaked out today. One of the lightbulbs burned out, and took half of the living room and kitchen out with it. No TV, fan, living room light, or kitchen light tonight. Since Sergio and I both have slight electrical engineering experience, we had a terrible idea. Maybe our living room power supply is all connected in series. If that's the case, then a burned out lightbulb would create infinite resistance, and thus cut power to the rest of the circuit. The only way to fix this problem would be to replace the burned out light bulb with a new one. We did it. We lost. I guess our apartment's power supply is connected in parallel...

2 tests down. Not so bad yet. 1 left on Friday, but it's a Physiology test, and no one knows better than Jamie that Physiology tests have the tendency to induce random nervous breakdowns in me. That's why I plan to study with her tomorrow and not alone.

On the tumbling front, I almost successfully completed a front flip (aka punchfront or something) in class today. I never thought I could do anything like that. I've also mastered multiple styles of cartwheel, round offs, handstands combined with all sorts of rolls, and dive forward rolls. My ninja training is nearing completion.

"If there's no one beside you
when your soul embarks,
then I'll follow you into the dark."

ellen

2006-02-11T09:14:00.000-08:00

In my electric circuit theory class, I feel like I've gone back to high school. This class is complete with teacher's pet, incompetent teacher, and gossip.

Teacher's Pet:
Awkward big guy with tattoos who sits up front. Answers every question the teacher asks, even the rhetorical ones. The other day, Dr. Su asked a simple math question, which Lauren answered correctly, multiple times, but no one seemed to believe her. Teacher's pet says, "Yep. She's right." As if she needed his approval. Soon after, he continued answering every rhetorical question mentioned by Su with an annoying, "Yes, sir." or "No, sir." Su told him he didn't need to call him sir and answer every single question. Teacher's pet said, "Well. No one else is answering questions..."

Incompetent Teacher:
"It's on the syllabus. I think I finished the syllabus."
"Anyone know how this class works. Neither do I."
"k before a unit means kilo-. m means milli-."
"I think your final is on WebCT. I guess it's online."
Su: "So. This should help with your homework." student: "this isn't what the homework is about." Su: "Oh. Wrong section."

Gossip:
This class is intended for electrical engineers and computer engineers, but now biomedical engineers are forced to take it. I guess the ee and ce people are mad that the BMENers have to take their spots in class, so they don't like us. Courtney, Lauren, and I walked in on the first day, and little clumps of non-biomedical engineers all stared at us and started whispering about us. Maybe they're just scared that we're gonna ruin their curve.

Random: Taylor just called me to tell me that she just passed a car with the license plate 666-JRK. Yikes. If that plate was randomly given to me, I would be terrified, as my initials are JRK.

Quote:
"but tension is to be loved
when it is like a passing note
to a beautiful, beautiful chord."

egg

2006-02-02T19:43:00.000-08:00

This picture is completely unrelated to anything in my post. Just the best bumper sticker I've ever seen in my life. It was on a huge handicapped van.

I went to the red cross blood mobile on campus yesterday to give up some of my precious blood. Honestly, the tiny prick on my finger was the worst part. As I'm leaving, the blood lady tells me to keep my bandage on and dry for the next 5 hours. Soon after, I leave the engineering building to walk to my car and the rain gets crazy. With no umbrella to keep my bandage dry, I had to cover it with my other hand for the next 5 minutes of getting completely soaked everywhere else. Luckily, I did succeed in keeping that bandage dry.

Last semester, I had the most hated teacher of my life for my Statics and Dynamics class. His name is Maggard. He looks like an egg... a hairy, sweaty, disgusting egg... maybe Humpty Dumpty. Every class (that I went to) featured Maggard front and center with a small patch of sweat on his shirt that would grow to enormous proportions by the end of the horrible two hour long class. Apparently, this dislike was not just on my side. He started talking about me "hypothetically" in front of the whole class.
"If you wanna be that kid in the back row who always leaves early... go ahead. As long as you don't come whine to me about your grade, that's fine with me."
"If you wanna be that kid in the back row who's always reading during class, that's fine with me..."
"If you wanna be that kid in the back who just sits there and does the crossword all through class, that's fine with me..."
Each time, he looked at me and described exactly what I was doing, but I got an A in his class. I won. But last night, he struck back in my dreams. I dreamt I was staying in a hotel with my brother, when some crazy person broke into our hotel room. It was none other than Bryan Maggard. He stole our money and shot us. I'm just glad that class is over. Now I just have to survive the likes of Chin B. Su and Wonmuk Hwang... Dang.

"Feels like I'm fiddling while Rome is burning down. Should I lay my fiddle down and take a rifle from the ground?"

nuns were praying

2006-01-28T19:43:00.000-08:00

The family of Huggie, Huggie, and our various children has grown again! We're up to three! So... it's Saturday night, so what fun events am I partaking in? Well, I'm watching a movie alone, I'm wearing pajamas, and I'm putting lots of effort into perpetuating the facebook lie that I am a father of three, and it's not even 10 o'clock. What a life I lead...

"If I try to pray, it's like a game of red rover.
I take a real good run at it, but I can't break through.
Don't matter anyway. I'm so redhanded.
The game is over. I'll just tell the truth."
-otr

noir

2006-01-24T18:17:00.000-08:00

This is my cat Sophie. She's pretty. She's also really sick. Pray for her.

She has severe fatty liver syndrome, which means she doesn't like to eat anything because she won't hold it down for too long. She currently has a feeding tube into which my mom injects lots of food for her every day. But the happy thing is she's doing a lot better now. She's only 5 years old, so we're hoping she'll pull through.

funniest thing said to me over Christmas break: "Our cruise was so long that gangs had time to form. Lance got in trouble with one of the gangs. I saw a large group of big teenagers circle around him, so I had to find an older guy to go help."
- Lindsay McMullan, in reference to her very long and violent Christmas cruise.

genius

2006-01-23T20:49:00.000-08:00

This is a picture I took at Lake Bryan. Possibly the best picture I've ever taken...
I'm a nerd. My biomechanics textbook came in the mail today, and I started reading the introduction by Jay Humphrey (the most brilliant teacher I've ever had) and I couldn't put the book down for quite some time. No reading is even assigned yet, but I'm reading it. This book may compete with The Picture of Dorian Gray for my favorite book ever. We'll just have to wait and see.

First day of my Beginners Tumbling class with Courtney was today. So much fun. I learned how to jump today.

24 was on tonight. Amazing. Jack's new girl was interrogated by Jack's old girl who thought he was dead. Sure this exact thing happened in season 1 when Nina interrogated Teri, but whatever. 24 is still awesome.

"Intracranial saccular aneurysms are balloonlike dilatations of the arterial wall that tend to form in or near bifurcations in the circle of Willis."
- Jay D. Humphrey (An Introduction to Biomechanics)

rain

2006-01-22T12:39:00.000-08:00

Huggie tells me that xanga is for babies, and after a year, I'm finally starting to agree with her, so here's my first non-xanga blog post:

Thoughts on the semester so far... Classes seem deceptively easy, so I'm sure that won't last too long. Beginners tumbling should be a blast. My electric circuit theory prof seems very slow, as does most of the rest of the class, so I should end up above average at least.

Today: It's cold and rainy. I don't have much homework yet. I just made me some AMAZING coffee, and I'm watching batman begins in my warm apartment. Perfect sunday afternoon.

Since blogger lets me post pictures, here's a random pic I took at Frontier Ranch in Colorado over the summer. Enjoy.