poker

I just spent 2 hours playing online poker with Marilyn. Awesome.

spring registration status

I will be eligible to register for my spring classes on November 1st at 5:30pm. Clearly, I am only posting this to make others jealous. How the heck am I going to know what classes I want to take so far in advance? I'll probably end up registering sometime in mid-December and not getting into any of the classes I want. Speaking of which, I wonder if Jude's taking Physics 1 next semester, or if perhaps Spencer is taking Probability... Hint, hint. Eh, Spencer doesn't read this though, so I'll have to actually torture him in person about my early registration time. He's the only one who seems to care about it, anyways.

I realized, too late, that I should have entitled my last post not "Jean Holes," but rather "Holy Jeans". Holy Jeans, Batman! I need new pants!

jean holes

So you know how I just made that entry about throwing away my favorite jeans because they had holes in the thighs? And how "I can hold off on buying the Old Navy jeans until I throw away another pair"?

Looks like I'll be making a trip to Old Navy to use those giftcards.

The jeans I'm currently wearing have a hole in them. In the crotch. Right at the seam at the bottom of the fly. It was much tinier earlier this evening.

Dangit, I hate throwing away clothing. It feels like such a waste.

Then again, on this same pair of jeans, one of the belt loops has also ripped, leaving a belt... tag. Or strip of fabric. Or whatever.

So, currently, I think I have maybe three pairs of good jeans. Dangit. I need more than that if I want to avoid doing laundry for months at a time...

dinner

Oh, man, chicken caesar salad and mandarin oranges - yum. It feels good to eat healthy(er) for a change. The gumbo soup was not as good as I remember though. I was probably hungrier with lower expectations the first time I tried it. Still good, though.

every step that you take could be your biggest mistake

current song: Coldplay - What If

I bought Coldplay's new album (X&Y) at Sam's Club last time I went there with Cam and Daniel. The CD cost $12. The jeans I bought cost more than that. But less than they would have at Old Navy. You could say "But the jeans you buy at Old Navy don't cost anything." Which is true. Because I have gift cards. But now I can buy free Old Navy jeans, and still have these $17 Sam's Club jeans. Or better yet, I can hold off on buying the Old Navy jeans until I throw away another pair.

I threw away my favorite pair of jeans a couple weeks ago. They were the ones with the pocket above the ankle (I never used it, but it was still cool - the clank of the button against my shin always gave me a feeling of comfort) and the cloth belt (that I stopped wearing because, for one, I don't usually wear belts, and for two, it was starting to unravel). They were dark blue. I loved the way they fit... But they got holes where my thighs rub together. I wonder, if I were thinner, would my jeans still get holes there?

I have class in one hour.

I went to the grocery store with Jude yesterday. We bought $112 worth of groceries. $28 of that was mine. He let me drink one of his sodas though.

We bought various goodies. My spoils:

• Two cans of whip cream. (They were buy one get one free.) One for my apartment, one for Daniel's, because he has a cappuccino / hot chocolate maker. HotChocolate.push(WhipCream). Yum.
• One can of hot chocolate. Jude got the other one. (Again, BOGO.) I took mine to work this morning and sipped a mug of hot chocolate whilst I worked on modifying this year's Senior Survey.
• Various six-packs of soda. I got Root Beer, Cream Soda, Lemon Iced Tea, Orange, and half a pack (3 cans) of "Blue Razz Blast", aka Blue Raspberry flavor. Jude got a bunch of six-packs, plus four cases of Ginger Ale. Some of which he plans on bringing to GameDev.
• Snyder's flavored pretzels, which were also on sale. They're buffalo wing flavor - how could I resist?
• Three TV dinners. Swedish Meatballs (which I ate last night at Jude's apartment after we got back from shopping), Cheese Enchiladas, and some other mexican food TV dinner.
• A six-pack of plain bagels. I was disappointed not to find any egg bagels.
• Soup. An easy-eat travel bowl of Gumbo, and the metal can equivalent for dinner at home some night, and another easy-eat bowl of Chicken Tortilla Soup.
• Crescent-rolls-in-a-can. They were on sale, again, so I bought another tube to complement the older one I have. I was thinking I'd make ham-cheese-crescent rolls tonight. 16 of them... eat two for dinner, and put the rest in a gallon bag in the freezer for easy breakfast/lunch/dinner/feeding hungry Daniels.
• And the entire point of the trip - cheesecake. Jude and I split a Sarah Lee cheesecake. We didn't eat the whole thing last night, though. Maybe half.

I should try to catch the 3:02 bus. I'll probably miss it anyways.

chill

It was cold today. I forgot my hoodie. I'd thought I'd left it in math class, but when I returned home I found it hanging on the back of my computer chair. My hands still feel brittle, almost. As if the cold makes the joints less elastic, the tendons harder to flex. Or maybe I'm just getting carpal tunnel.

I have math homework due tomorrow, a computer assignment I haven't started, an overdue essay for Japanese.

Google was today. I snagged a shirt for myself, a shirt for my coworker, and a black shirt with the female sign, or whatever, on it.

Picture the following with long sleeves:


And the following with a larger logo and "I'm feeling lucky" button on the back:


The shirt I got last year looked like this:


And I snagged the green version of the following:


As well as some computer-shaped post-it notes.

However, I did not win in the raffle that followed:




... among other things.

Sam won the speakers, though, I believe, and Marcus (a friend of Luke's) won a zip-up fleece hoodie-ish thing (not pictured).

I'm tired. Not quite content... My life is nagging at me, telling me to get certain things done. Maybe I just need a little time to settle...

to do

current song: C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\images\title.wma

It's a cool song. Follow the filepath and you too shall find it...

Perhaps it's better to title my posts after I've written the entire entry. I'll see how that works out.

I'm quitting Dracon Games. For a while at least. It's another thing to make me feel guilty about not spending enough time on. We'll see how things go...

I still need to finish my email to Hari, my Japanese epal. She last emailed me over two months ago.

I need stamps. I've written my thank you letters, printed them out and everything, but I need stamps so I can mail them. I also need to remember to give them to Gretchen Lee. She's the scholarship coordinator person around hereparts. And lucky me, her office is in the Dean's office. Like, not even 10 feet away from my cubicle. I just need to remember those stamps... and to put the thank you letters in my backpack, since apparently they're not in there anymore.

I've managed to get most of my laundry done, which is nice. Still need to put it all away though; one of the loads is sitting all clean and neatly folded in my laundry basket. No, I haven't been throwing my dirty clothes in there with it. They've been going in the hamper. It's pretty full right now, though, because two thirds of it are taken up by the black comforter I stuffed in. Now my floor is clear for my new rolly chair! Hooray for rolly chair!

I set up a user account on my desktop for Cami to use, since we're having a lot of trouble getting internet working for her desktop. Hmm. I should probably tell her about it...

Once I get my motivation up I'll organize my room.

You'd think I'd think of something better to post than yet another todo list...