Tuesday, April 26, 2005

- - - - - - - - - - A & S HOURS REQUIREMENTS FOR DEGREE - - - - - - - - - - -
1. BACHELOR OF ARTS HOURS (120)
6 hours remain of the 120 total hours required for a BA degree.

Of course, that's counting the classes I'll be taking in summer and fall.

Thursday, April 21, 2005

coincidence

A few interesting things have happened since my last post...

I saw Chaffin... a few days ago? A week ago? Yes, I think it was last Thursday. At any rate, I had wandered to the Physics building with Luke (he helps out students in the little help lab place down there) and so after chatting with him a bit, he found someone to help... So I decided to explore. The help room connected with some labs, and as I wandered about, I just happened to run into Chaffin and Rob. Twas interesting. I ended up spying on their lab, fiddling with some of the equipment in there (like a glowy kaleidoscopic electron diffraction machine thing), messing up the set-up for the spectrum analyzer, then hanging out with Chaffin a bit afterwards. It was a really interesting conversation. I enjoyed it muchly. Which reminds me, I have a xanga to read...

This all was made more interesting by the fact that a day or so before, I'd gotten an email from Kym where she asked if I didn't see Chaffin anymore. She thought it strange. Which reminds me, I have an email to reply to...

On Monday, I also had a rather coincidental meeting with a couple of people. So I forgot to bring my driver's license home this weekend, and so was unable to bring my car up. Lame. I know, I'm a loser. (Well, okay, Habinsky says I'm not but that's yet another story.) So I took the bus up to Boulder. On weekdays, the system is: parent drives me to nine-mile park'n'ride at Parker and I-25. Bus takes me to Broadway & I-25 park'n'ride. Light rail takes me to Union Station. Mall bus takes me to Market Street Station. Then I bus back up to school. Joy. Well, anyways, so I picked a random compartment to get on for the light rail, and was looking for a seat, and of course I have to pick some stranger to sit by, because there are no completely free seats. I spy a blond head and I think "Hmmm..." And, lo and behold, it's Baylee. "Hello" says Jessa, and sits down. So we chat a bit and I notice that the person standing near us looks suspiciously like an old friend from high school. I want to say it was Amberle, but my memory's so dang bad. Anyways, we all chatted before they got off at the Auraria campus, or whatever. It was nice, to get to see them again. Brightened my day, and whatnot.

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

And as he walked away, not once did he look back.

Monday, April 11, 2005

oh my f***ing god.

Ok, so I'm listening to my roommate and her friend have a discussion about adderol... You know, this really clears up some doubts for me.

I do think I have ADD after all. They're talking about taking this stuff, and they get fidgety and start talking really fast or they get jittery. What the hell?! That's me OFF ritalin. You're not supposed to be that way after you take ritalin or adderol or any of these damn things! You're supposed to be calm, and focused. That's how I am when it works. And when it doesn't, I don't get more jittery. I never get more jittery. How can they take it? How can they talk about snorting it? I'm hiding my damn ritalin.

No, I'm not paranoid.

How can anyone do this to themselves? How can they take speed?? I guess I really do have ADD, because otherwise I'd be like them... I'd start biting my nails constantly or my leg would start shaking after I took my beloved stimulants. With me, taking them makes me stop doing those things. And it's only when they wear off that I get jittery and nervous and distractable again.

Hallelujah! The real proof, for me, that I have ADD. All you other people are apparently just using it to stay up late...

Argh! <pulls out hair>

Mayhaps I shouldn't have had that double shot espresso starbucks thing this morning. I think caffeine makes me more nervous. Errr, my stomach doesn't feel too good...

Well, if caffeine does this to me then maybe I don't have ADD... but... it's not like I'm fidgeting. Just aggravated.

<burps>

Ah, that's better. The world is an okay place. Time to clean my room.

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

disproof

So, I've been thinking... you know how you get those forwards with the friendly advice and such, like... "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world," and "Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to." (Both of which are lovely sayings, which I have no problem with.)

Now, consider the phrase "No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry." Yes, yes, very nice little phrase. The problem with this one is, it doesn't really work when applied to me. Why, do you ask. Well, I cry at almost everything. I cried at the frickin' Flinstones Movie. Now, the first time, it was excusable, I was probably about eight or so and I was scared that Barney was going to get hanged. The second time I watched the movie I was about 14 years old. I cried at the exact same scene, this time because "I could see the disintegration of Fred and Barney's friendship".

Make fun of me, and I go after your eyeballs with a taco bell spork.

No, I'm not violent... <whistles innocently>

Anyways. So, if I cry at everything, including the Flinstones, how am I going to find a guy who never makes me cry? I ask this. My daddy makes me cry all the frickin' time. Are you saying he isn't worth my tears? Huh?! What if he died, am I not supposed to cry at my funeral because he yelled at me?!

Yeah, take that, handy phrase. You suck. There's a difference between a guy who makes you cry because he's imperfect (and therefore human and not just some figment of your imagination), and a guy who makes you cry and deserves to be stabbed in the eye with a spork.

<continues whistling innocently>

The exception is Chad Michael Murray, who would never make Nikki cry and would make a wonderful boyfriend.

Friday, April 01, 2005

spring break

So it's been a long time since I updated. The most interesting thing I'd say has happened is my trip over Spring Break.

On Saturday I came down to Denver, did some stuff. I can't remember now. I really can't...

On Sunday I went to Robots with Nikki and my parents, then I drove up to Boulder to pick out stuff I needed to take with me, and to get Daniel's stuff.

On Monday I had a dentist appointment. In the evening, Mom and Dad and I went up to Denver and Daniel came down. Daniel and I went to Dinner and then we saw the Hootenanny at the Bovine, which my parents were a part of.

On Tuesday I had a doctor appointment, so I dropped Daniel off at Border's and then after my Mom and I met him and browsed a bit. Then we... did something.

On Wednesday Daddy drove Daniel and I to the bus station and we took the bus to Grand Junction. Daniel's father met us at the station and drove us to the house. We... did stuff. I was allergic to the cat.

Daniel's dad was interesting. Stout, and tall, with a big beard. Apparently he's trying to be a "natural Santa", meaning that he grows his hair out and dies it instead of buying a wig and fake beard. He's building a critter house for all of the critters he owns. He has rats in the den, chameleons in the dining room, and snakes in the bathroom. The snakes were quite cool; one of them, Nefertiti, was an albino labyrinth patterned ... boa... or something... that was maybe 8 feet long, and about 50 pounds. I got to hold her, and later I got to see her feed. She was yellow and white (because she was albino) and really pretty. And apparently also quite expensive.

Lylamae, Daniel's stepmom, seemed nice, but I didn't talk to her as much, I don't think... Hmmm. She gave me her "breathe-easy" tea after I reported that the cat was causing my throat to close up a little. She also apparently refuses to eat actual sugar. She's got bright red hair which seems a bit too startling to be natural, but I didn't ask.

Daniel and his father and I ended up watching The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, extended editions, and Daniel picked out Robin Hood: Men in Tights to watch as well.

We had spaghetti and meat sauce for dinner. We also tried to go out to Cold Stone for icecream, only to discover that it was closed, so instead went to Safeway to buy sherbet and ben & jerry's.

On Thursday we went down to Daniel's undergraduate college and he visited with his old professors. We went out to dinner with friends of his from the anime club. It was a pretty big table. 13 people. Later we went to Barnes and Noble, and Daniel's father picked us up and drove us back home.

On Friday Lylamae drove us down to Hasting's, the local bookstore (plus music and movies) then we met Terry (Daniel's sister's boyfriend) and he drove us down to Delta (40 miles away). Where we got to Daniel's mom's house. Where we proceeded to do yardwork.

In all of this excitement, I noticed that I missed a call from Eric on Thursday, and though I was sorry to not have been able to hang out, it didn't really matter, as I was, like five hundred miles away at the time.

We also watched Return of the King, extended edition, with Daniel's cousin Ian. And I beat Daniel's little brother William at a game of chess.

On Saturday we hung around the house, then went to a birthday party for Daniel's grandmother (his step-dad's mom). It was hectic. Then we went to his uncle's house where my music was summarily stolen and ripped to his uncle's computer. Meanwhile, Daniel and I met up with his friend Marilyn (and her husband and baby) at Dairy Queen. Mmm, Dairy Queen.

On Sunday, we were fed breakfast, driven to Grand Junction, and from there rode the bus back up to Denver. Then, Daniel had to put up with a ravenous, cranky Jessa on the ride up to Boulder, since there wasn't any acceptable fast food place open. We ate at Subway once we got back to Boulder.

And then... back to work. It's a bit depressing actually. But, you know.