current song: The Cranberries - Dreams
I like this song so much more now... Funny how that works. A song gets a new meaning and suddenly it's good again.
It's like listening to The Strokes that summer. I'd heard them and dismissed them; they were overplayed and overrated. But then I heard them in someone else's car and they suddenly meant summer nights and for some reason I couldn't get enough of them.
Do you ever hear a verse that just calls out to you, or a chorus, and you look up the lyrics and it's not as good in its entirety? Like... if you could have taken those few phrases, that sentence or two, and built a new song around them, it would be perfection...
I love conversations when they're good. When they go well... When you say something and you say another and the thoughts just tumble out there... And then you watch in amazement as the same thing happens for the person you're talking to. It doesn't always happen like that... sometimes you struggle for the right combination of words to trigger that torrential overflow of thought... But sometimes it just comes to you. And all you have to do is soak it all in.
What is the key to my motivation? Will I find it before I am consumed by apathy?
Perhaps... until then, there is work to be done.
Monday, January 31, 2005
Saturday, January 29, 2005
yokatta
current song: Moody Blues - Driftwood
.... I refuse to believe that Chaffin made up "crumble"... I demand a... recount. That's right. Just like Florida.
Given my boyfriend's last name, I hear quite a few crumble jokes... And you should see what it says on his mailbox in the engineering center. The horror...
Ok, so, now that I'm off that tangent... As for that math book I got from Luke, it seems quite nifty, even though I've just read the first article so far... It's basically this collection of articles by the recreational math columnist for Scientific American. It's called The Colossal Book of Mathematics by Martin Gardner. Hey, you know what's cool? That was practically from memory. I just didn't remember the guy's first name right. Thought it was Matthew or something.
So, yeah, it's fun. I'll have to post the math problem from the first article.
I played racquetball again today, so booyah. Err, well, maybe "played" is a bit strong. I dragged Cam off to a vacant court and proceeded to swing at the ball for about 45 minutes. Oif. It was quite a workout. Fun, too... Hopefully I'll actually start improving. It's fun to have one of my friends as the instructor, though.
Swizzle is a cool word. Reminds me of "sweet" in ebonics. Oif, I should ask Luke about that, he's the one who studied Ebonics for a semester. Those crazy linguists.
... Hmmm... what else...
So, since today is a Friday, and the group's new thing seems to be watching Battlestar Galacta, I forewent anime and instead rode with Cam (and Sarah, Cam's girlfriend) to Spencer's house. It's strange though... In some ways I think I get along better with Justine, Spencer's girlfriend, than I get along with Spencer. Ah well. The night was thoroughly enjoyable - we partook of Spencer's mother's Jambalaya (not spicy, but still tasty... I want my Mommy's jambalaya now), and played pinball, clue, risk, and this odd card game Guillotine. I fiddled around with Spencer's jukebox machines (yes, he has two! I tell you) and chatted with Justine and Sarah and generally had a good ol' time.
Tomorrow is SciFi. Daniel probably has work but Cam and Sarah will probably be there, and it looks fun. You know... I should probably drag other friends of mine to SciFi sometime.
My father plays in On The Spot on Friday, February 25. I'd like to see him play... He emailed me a coupon where it's buy one get one free. Does anyone (from up here) wanna hitch the B bus down to Denver on that Friday night? The more the merrier and I can probably weasel my dad into paying for the tickets, as long as I use my BOGOF coupons. It's an eight o'clock showing, and if you take the BX it takes 40 minutes by bus to get to Downtown Denver. The Bovine Theatre is just a few blocks away from the Market Station bus stop, at 15th and Champa. Let's see... time for Jessa to design a bus route... <thinks> And it's right near the 16th street mall, which is fun...
Fo swizzle!
.... I refuse to believe that Chaffin made up "crumble"... I demand a... recount. That's right. Just like Florida.
Given my boyfriend's last name, I hear quite a few crumble jokes... And you should see what it says on his mailbox in the engineering center. The horror...
Ok, so, now that I'm off that tangent... As for that math book I got from Luke, it seems quite nifty, even though I've just read the first article so far... It's basically this collection of articles by the recreational math columnist for Scientific American. It's called The Colossal Book of Mathematics by Martin Gardner. Hey, you know what's cool? That was practically from memory. I just didn't remember the guy's first name right. Thought it was Matthew or something.
So, yeah, it's fun. I'll have to post the math problem from the first article.
I played racquetball again today, so booyah. Err, well, maybe "played" is a bit strong. I dragged Cam off to a vacant court and proceeded to swing at the ball for about 45 minutes. Oif. It was quite a workout. Fun, too... Hopefully I'll actually start improving. It's fun to have one of my friends as the instructor, though.
Swizzle is a cool word. Reminds me of "sweet" in ebonics. Oif, I should ask Luke about that, he's the one who studied Ebonics for a semester. Those crazy linguists.
... Hmmm... what else...
So, since today is a Friday, and the group's new thing seems to be watching Battlestar Galacta, I forewent anime and instead rode with Cam (and Sarah, Cam's girlfriend) to Spencer's house. It's strange though... In some ways I think I get along better with Justine, Spencer's girlfriend, than I get along with Spencer. Ah well. The night was thoroughly enjoyable - we partook of Spencer's mother's Jambalaya (not spicy, but still tasty... I want my Mommy's jambalaya now), and played pinball, clue, risk, and this odd card game Guillotine. I fiddled around with Spencer's jukebox machines (yes, he has two! I tell you) and chatted with Justine and Sarah and generally had a good ol' time.
Tomorrow is SciFi. Daniel probably has work but Cam and Sarah will probably be there, and it looks fun. You know... I should probably drag other friends of mine to SciFi sometime.
My father plays in On The Spot on Friday, February 25. I'd like to see him play... He emailed me a coupon where it's buy one get one free. Does anyone (from up here) wanna hitch the B bus down to Denver on that Friday night? The more the merrier and I can probably weasel my dad into paying for the tickets, as long as I use my BOGOF coupons. It's an eight o'clock showing, and if you take the BX it takes 40 minutes by bus to get to Downtown Denver. The Bovine Theatre is just a few blocks away from the Market Station bus stop, at 15th and Champa. Let's see... time for Jessa to design a bus route... <thinks> And it's right near the 16th street mall, which is fun...
Fo swizzle!
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
pulling the pieces back together
I feel like I'm running out of things to say.
I guess I feel that way for everything these days. Like all I have left is listening, and after a while I lose my focus and I can't do that right either.
So Luke gave me a mathematics book. It seems nifty; I'll make a concerted effort to read it. It's a survey of mathematics type thing, pretty big and with lots of pages, but hopefully it'll be fun.
I'm officially double-majoring in Math now, at least, as far as forms go. I've handed in my Intra-University Transfer form to the good folks at Woodbury and now I've just got to wait for a confirmation. You need a semester's worth of classes at CU with a 2.0 GPA. I think I'm going to fulfill those requirements. It'll be interesting, double majoring. I'm going to have to get an advisor at some point, so that I can figure out what to take and how to balance everything. Since it might be a challenge, with two majors.
I have 80 credits now. I thought, at the IB thing, that I'd only got a little over 50 credits, and then got the horrible feeling afterwards that it was actually 48, and I'd been lying. But when I printed out my unofficial transcript for the IUT form, I discovered that I'd actually gotten 65 transfer credits. That's ungodly. 40 of those are from IB, and the other 25 are from AP. How is that even possible? It's horrible, I tell you...
I need to figure out how many credits it takes to be a senior, and whether having an excess of credits will reduce my scholarships. That wouldn't be so good.
I played racquetball with the boys today. It was... interesting. I suck at the whole hand-eye coordination thing, so much of our time was spent with Spencer or Cam going "Hit it!", me swinging wildly and someone else actually hitting the ball towards the back wall. I think Cam is going to make me do suicides. I'm afraid.
That's all, for now.
I guess I feel that way for everything these days. Like all I have left is listening, and after a while I lose my focus and I can't do that right either.
So Luke gave me a mathematics book. It seems nifty; I'll make a concerted effort to read it. It's a survey of mathematics type thing, pretty big and with lots of pages, but hopefully it'll be fun.
I'm officially double-majoring in Math now, at least, as far as forms go. I've handed in my Intra-University Transfer form to the good folks at Woodbury and now I've just got to wait for a confirmation. You need a semester's worth of classes at CU with a 2.0 GPA. I think I'm going to fulfill those requirements. It'll be interesting, double majoring. I'm going to have to get an advisor at some point, so that I can figure out what to take and how to balance everything. Since it might be a challenge, with two majors.
I have 80 credits now. I thought, at the IB thing, that I'd only got a little over 50 credits, and then got the horrible feeling afterwards that it was actually 48, and I'd been lying. But when I printed out my unofficial transcript for the IUT form, I discovered that I'd actually gotten 65 transfer credits. That's ungodly. 40 of those are from IB, and the other 25 are from AP. How is that even possible? It's horrible, I tell you...
I need to figure out how many credits it takes to be a senior, and whether having an excess of credits will reduce my scholarships. That wouldn't be so good.
I played racquetball with the boys today. It was... interesting. I suck at the whole hand-eye coordination thing, so much of our time was spent with Spencer or Cam going "Hit it!", me swinging wildly and someone else actually hitting the ball towards the back wall. I think Cam is going to make me do suicides. I'm afraid.
That's all, for now.
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Oif. I'm tired.
Cam's right, I do need to stand up for myself. It's difficult though. To find the words to say, without becoming vulnerable in the process.
I'm looking forward to eating lunch with Sarah tomorrow.
I feel like I'm missing something, and it makes me want to eat. I should just go to sleep instead.
Cam's right, I do need to stand up for myself. It's difficult though. To find the words to say, without becoming vulnerable in the process.
I'm looking forward to eating lunch with Sarah tomorrow.
I feel like I'm missing something, and it makes me want to eat. I should just go to sleep instead.
Thursday, January 20, 2005
whatever I feel like doing!
I had something to say, I swear.
What's going on in my life? I don't know. Life seems uneventful.
On Monday I drag myself out of bed in order to get to class at eleven. Since no one shows up in the engineering center before then, no point to get there early.
So I sit through comp sci, alternating between doodling on my notebook and glancing over at Spencer and/or Cam's computer screen... And we all file out and sometimes I'll say hi to John and feel bad that I don't go over to Kitt anymore.
After that I go with the boys to Farrand. Food is good. But I generally want to leave early, so I don't get to Japanese too late. It seems to make Spencer nervous. I suppose I'll have to stop hovering and just leave once I'm done with my food.
So around 12:30 I've been trying to leave for Japanese. This is so that I can get to the Humanities building before the previous class gets out, thus giving me the chance to say hello to Tsutsui-sensei, and Chris. He's not been coming to both classes the past few days, which isn't surprising, since he seems to be suffering The Cold From Hell (trademark). He's been put on Codeine, though, so that seems to be improving his mood at the very least.
And, from 1 to 2, I suffer through the joy of Japanese. I feel lost in a lot of ways... It's fun, though. I enjoy it. I sit near Eno and Chen-san, and there are a few people I've talked to who seem pretty nice: Lili, Megan (Casey-san), Joshua, and a few others. And Michael (Knudson, or however you spell it... the one from last semester's CSCI 1300 class) and Phil (of Kitt fame) are there too, though they sit across the room and I don't really talk to them.
So around 1:50 or 1:55 I tromp back to the engineering center and wait for Daniel to show up... Around 2:55 I head off to linear algebra and by the time I get back, at 3:55, I find Daniel and Jude chatting amiably. So I go with Daniel to his four o'clock class and go back to find Jude and hang out with him till our class at 4:15.
The Gamelets class, though we've only had it once so far, should be interesting. Eric (the president of GameDev), Michael (Knudson, again... I think he's in three of my four classes, it's odd), and Jude are all present. Plus there's a girl Gabbie, who came to GameDev this week, who seems quite nice. And I hear rumor that Cami, also from GameDev, is set to join us next week.
So last Monday after gamelets I ran off with Jude to dinner then we rode the Buff Bus together, and he trekked back to his dorm as I trekked over to Daniel's. That was entertaining. Next week, apparently, Genny will be coming over to have dinner with Daniel and play such fascinating card games as Nerds and Spoons (and Crazy 8's if I have any say)... So I'll be skipping the dinner-with-Jude part and just hopping on the Buff Bus as soon as class gets out.
Tuesdays are even more fascinating. I roll out of bed in time to get to the Engineering Center by 10:45 (hopefully fully showered and full of breakfast), where I hang out with Daniel till his class at 12:30, at which point I head off to Japanese. Joy.
Then I run back to the Center for an hour and a half of fun, from 2 to 3:30, until the boys and I wander over to our comp sci recitation. Last week was entertaining, we were challenged to find the millionth prime number, and Spencer wrote a program that was faster than the TA's. Granted, it took the TA about 3 minutes to type up his program, and it took Spencer 3 hours... Speaking of which, we didn't get out of there until 7 last time (the recitation ends at 4:45 for chrissake!) So we ate at Wendy's afterwards, and I was twitching nervously as Cam screeched to a halt besides the engineering building at 8:05. Oh well, I was only 15 minutes late to GameDev, at least.
On Wednesday I again roll out of bed for class at 11, and wander through my day. This Wednesday, as Spencer and Cam and I were filing out of computer science class at eleven (Jude was apparently ditching), someone called my name (and I have the feeling it wasn't the first time, as by the time I heard it, it sounded rather insistent), and so I turned around, and lo and behold! There was Chaffin. It was ... surreal. And cool. I'll call him sometime soon, and maybe we can hang out, catch up on old times, something like that.
Wednesdays are much like Mondays, except, there's no 4:15 class this time. Instead, Spencer and Cam and Jude and Jaime and I hang out in the engineering lobby until 5:15, when Daniel gets out of his class, and we all head over to Jaime's place to watch Firefly. And yesterday, as Daniel and I were wandering about after Firefly ended, Amy called and so we ended up working out. I'm glad, I feel much healthier now. Exercise is good, and I know it is so, even though you may not think it from how much I whine about it.
Thursdays I have only one class, so this week and last I hung out with Daniel both before and after Japanese. Very exciting.
Fridays I'm a bit fuzzy on, as I've only had one so far. Last week, it ended up much like Wednesday, except there was no Daniel (he has work instead of class on Fridays) and instead of heading off to Firefly, we all went to Spencer's house and watched Battlestar Galactica. I had class at 3:00, when Spencer and Jude left, so I waited for Cam to finish exercising with Jaime so he could drive me. I spent most of my time talking to Amy (big Amy) while I waited. Hopefully in subsequent weeks I'll be able to go to Anime.
Last Saturday I finished my World of Warcraft download and got on long enough to say bye to my mom before running off to meet Jaime and Jude. And we all drove off to Cam's party. Which was quite fun.
Last Sunday I went over to Daniel's and met Marilyn and her husband (and baby!) and we all went to Denny's. And I played WoW with Mom.
Last Monday I hung out with Daniel. We... did stuff.
And... that's it. Pretty much.
Tomorrow hopefully I'll get to exercise with Amy again and go to Anime. And on Saturday I'll have lunch with Sarah, and then go to SciFi with Daniel...
Hey, we'll have been going out for two months come Saturday. That's pretty nifty.
Oh, and of course I'll have to play with my Tauren hunter some. Don't want Mom's Tauren character to get rusty or something.
<wryly smiles>
What's going on in my life? I don't know. Life seems uneventful.
On Monday I drag myself out of bed in order to get to class at eleven. Since no one shows up in the engineering center before then, no point to get there early.
So I sit through comp sci, alternating between doodling on my notebook and glancing over at Spencer and/or Cam's computer screen... And we all file out and sometimes I'll say hi to John and feel bad that I don't go over to Kitt anymore.
After that I go with the boys to Farrand. Food is good. But I generally want to leave early, so I don't get to Japanese too late. It seems to make Spencer nervous. I suppose I'll have to stop hovering and just leave once I'm done with my food.
So around 12:30 I've been trying to leave for Japanese. This is so that I can get to the Humanities building before the previous class gets out, thus giving me the chance to say hello to Tsutsui-sensei, and Chris. He's not been coming to both classes the past few days, which isn't surprising, since he seems to be suffering The Cold From Hell (trademark). He's been put on Codeine, though, so that seems to be improving his mood at the very least.
And, from 1 to 2, I suffer through the joy of Japanese. I feel lost in a lot of ways... It's fun, though. I enjoy it. I sit near Eno and Chen-san, and there are a few people I've talked to who seem pretty nice: Lili, Megan (Casey-san), Joshua, and a few others. And Michael (Knudson, or however you spell it... the one from last semester's CSCI 1300 class) and Phil (of Kitt fame) are there too, though they sit across the room and I don't really talk to them.
So around 1:50 or 1:55 I tromp back to the engineering center and wait for Daniel to show up... Around 2:55 I head off to linear algebra and by the time I get back, at 3:55, I find Daniel and Jude chatting amiably. So I go with Daniel to his four o'clock class and go back to find Jude and hang out with him till our class at 4:15.
The Gamelets class, though we've only had it once so far, should be interesting. Eric (the president of GameDev), Michael (Knudson, again... I think he's in three of my four classes, it's odd), and Jude are all present. Plus there's a girl Gabbie, who came to GameDev this week, who seems quite nice. And I hear rumor that Cami, also from GameDev, is set to join us next week.
So last Monday after gamelets I ran off with Jude to dinner then we rode the Buff Bus together, and he trekked back to his dorm as I trekked over to Daniel's. That was entertaining. Next week, apparently, Genny will be coming over to have dinner with Daniel and play such fascinating card games as Nerds and Spoons (and Crazy 8's if I have any say)... So I'll be skipping the dinner-with-Jude part and just hopping on the Buff Bus as soon as class gets out.
Tuesdays are even more fascinating. I roll out of bed in time to get to the Engineering Center by 10:45 (hopefully fully showered and full of breakfast), where I hang out with Daniel till his class at 12:30, at which point I head off to Japanese. Joy.
Then I run back to the Center for an hour and a half of fun, from 2 to 3:30, until the boys and I wander over to our comp sci recitation. Last week was entertaining, we were challenged to find the millionth prime number, and Spencer wrote a program that was faster than the TA's. Granted, it took the TA about 3 minutes to type up his program, and it took Spencer 3 hours... Speaking of which, we didn't get out of there until 7 last time (the recitation ends at 4:45 for chrissake!) So we ate at Wendy's afterwards, and I was twitching nervously as Cam screeched to a halt besides the engineering building at 8:05. Oh well, I was only 15 minutes late to GameDev, at least.
On Wednesday I again roll out of bed for class at 11, and wander through my day. This Wednesday, as Spencer and Cam and I were filing out of computer science class at eleven (Jude was apparently ditching), someone called my name (and I have the feeling it wasn't the first time, as by the time I heard it, it sounded rather insistent), and so I turned around, and lo and behold! There was Chaffin. It was ... surreal. And cool. I'll call him sometime soon, and maybe we can hang out, catch up on old times, something like that.
Wednesdays are much like Mondays, except, there's no 4:15 class this time. Instead, Spencer and Cam and Jude and Jaime and I hang out in the engineering lobby until 5:15, when Daniel gets out of his class, and we all head over to Jaime's place to watch Firefly. And yesterday, as Daniel and I were wandering about after Firefly ended, Amy called and so we ended up working out. I'm glad, I feel much healthier now. Exercise is good, and I know it is so, even though you may not think it from how much I whine about it.
Thursdays I have only one class, so this week and last I hung out with Daniel both before and after Japanese. Very exciting.
Fridays I'm a bit fuzzy on, as I've only had one so far. Last week, it ended up much like Wednesday, except there was no Daniel (he has work instead of class on Fridays) and instead of heading off to Firefly, we all went to Spencer's house and watched Battlestar Galactica. I had class at 3:00, when Spencer and Jude left, so I waited for Cam to finish exercising with Jaime so he could drive me. I spent most of my time talking to Amy (big Amy) while I waited. Hopefully in subsequent weeks I'll be able to go to Anime.
Last Saturday I finished my World of Warcraft download and got on long enough to say bye to my mom before running off to meet Jaime and Jude. And we all drove off to Cam's party. Which was quite fun.
Last Sunday I went over to Daniel's and met Marilyn and her husband (and baby!) and we all went to Denny's. And I played WoW with Mom.
Last Monday I hung out with Daniel. We... did stuff.
And... that's it. Pretty much.
Tomorrow hopefully I'll get to exercise with Amy again and go to Anime. And on Saturday I'll have lunch with Sarah, and then go to SciFi with Daniel...
Hey, we'll have been going out for two months come Saturday. That's pretty nifty.
Oh, and of course I'll have to play with my Tauren hunter some. Don't want Mom's Tauren character to get rusty or something.
<wryly smiles>
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