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7/30/2003

Dallas today...

Nathalie, Olivia, AJ, and I got there around 2:30, 2 hours after we had originally wanted to. Once there, we ate lunch at Subway, which was more expensive than in Arlington (known thanks to AJ). Then we went to this cool store like Sharper Image for home furnishings, but we were soon kicked out ("OK, you've all enjoyed the air-conditioning long enough. You have to buy something now"). Then we went to - save my soul - the Apple store. Yes, Macs. Thankfully, that was short-lived, and we quickly made rounds around the block to all the home-stuff stores. There are so many pointless things in those stores. Tiny silverware, pre-antiqued furniture, and even rubber cord-holders. Then we drove down to the West End for dinner. On the way to the restaurant, we met a guy selling roses.

Yada, Yada, Yada.*

Thus, the girls now had roses. We ate dinner, walked aimlessly around Dallas for a little while ("Be careful! Someone was shot here once"), and ultimately decided to rent a movie. Punch-Drunk Love is a very good movie. Great lighting, cinematography, acting, and cool plot. The only bad thing is that it moved a little too fast, but still was very good.

*to whom it may concern: I know...I suck...
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7/27/2003

While searching for calculus jokes online, I ran across this geek test. Yay! I’m a geek!

1) Do you spend, on average, 5 or more hours on the computer per day? approximately
2) Are you addicted to AIM or another messenger program? I can quit anytime I want, OK?!
3) Have you ever written a computer program? yes
4) Do you know 2 or more computer languages? ...sure, why not...
5) Do you enjoy debugging programs? not for prolonged periods of time
6) Do you own a TI graphing calculator? yes
7) More than one TI graphing calculator? *sniff* no
8) Have you written programs for your calculator? no
9) Do you download games for your calculator? I bought a link, but Windows XP sucks
10) Do you own a rubix cube? yes
11) Can you solve your rubix cube? no
12) Do you enjoy calculus? of course
13) Do you know the fundamental theorem of calculus? the derivative with respect to x of the integral...and so on
14) Do you understand binary? yes
15) Have you ever written messages to your friends coded in binary? not that I remember, but probably
16) Do you wear glasses? no
17) Do you like corny math and science jokes, such as: math and alcohol don't mix: don't drink and derive? very much...but not that one
18) Is your IQ bigger than your weight? I hope so
19) Do you understand these terms: gigahertz, BIOS, batch files, and html? yes
20) Do you have lines memorized of the movie Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail? lines...whole movie...who‘s counting?
21) Do you know pi past 5 decimal places? yes
22) 30 places? *ashamed* no
23) Are you impressed if someone knows pi past 30 places? yes
24) Does the words "quantum physics" spark your interest? yeah
25) Do you spend your Friday nights on your computer instead of developing a social life? ...instead of...?
26) Do you find conversation on AIM sometimes easier than in real life? all the time
27) Do you play computer games? *checks* yes, I‘d say so
28) Do you know the name of the first internet system? no
29) When you think of the word "mole", do you think of an animal, or 6.02 x 10^23 units? 6.022 x 10^23
30) Have you watched Star Wars more than 6 times? of course
31) Do you own Star Wars toys (at your age!)? of course (even some from ’77...oooo)
32) Do you visit slashdot.org on a regular basis? yes
33) Do you have your own website? yes
34) Do you agree with these words: "Will work for bandwidth"? I’m on dial-up...what do you think?
35) Do you wear a digital watch? no
36) Have you ever tried to "use" the Force? who hasn’t?
37) Do you believe that deep down, you do have the ability to use the Force? who doesn’t?
38) Have you ever fantasized that you were a Jedi? I am a Jedi
39) Have you ever watched Star Trek? regrettably, no
40) Have you ever said "lol" out loud? multiple times
41) Do you get calculus jokes? I do
42) Do you enjoy mixing chemicals? yes
43) Have you ever drunk dihydrogen monoxide? yes
44) Do you wonder how everything you use works? all the time
45) Do you like to sit in the front row in class? yep
46) Have you ever corrected a teacher in class? yep
47) Have you ever had grade averages above 100? yep
48) Does antimatter make you excited? YAY!
49) Have you ever wondered if the atoms in your body were once in a dinosaur? I do now...
50) Have you ever dreamt in binary code? no
51) Have you ever timed yourself when you take apart your computer and put it back together, attempting to break your record? no...I’d screw something up
52) Have you cancelled a date because you had to wash your ewok? If I had an ewok or a date, then yes...
53) Do you believe that humans are only the 3rd most intelligent beings on earth, preceded my mice and dolphins? fuck mice; go dolphins!
54) Do you understand the significance of the number 42? yes
55) Instead of arm wrestling, do you math wrestle? yes
56) Have you ever held an AIM conversation with someone in the same house as you? many, many times
57) Do you know what those little plastic things on the ends of your shoelaces are called? I think they may start with an a...are they aglets? *checks dictionary*...yep. Aglets.
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7/24/2003

I don't hate my parents. However, many, many of you who read this site do. Or you just don't talk to them, or you pretend to like them and then yell and scream at them behind their backs. Someone please give me a reason why. Yes, my parents piss me off sometimes, but I find that talking to them, even if it turns into a fight, will always help out the situation. And given recent situations, it seems that other people do well when telling their parents what they think, too, instead of hiding behind the idea that "I'm just a kid; they know better." The fact is that most of the time, when it comes to your life, they don't know better. And the only way that they'll come to respect you as you should them is by talking to them.
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7/22/2003

This picture brings back so many memories of my brother. He used to read Milk & Cheese (a comic book), and I always thought they were cool...because he did. They were "dairy products gone bad" who always flicked people off in the British way, which I have decided to begin doing instead of just the middle finger...because one finger looks odd.

Have a Nice Day

Looking out my window at 8:40 at night, just after it rained, the whole world has a yellow tint. It's times like this that I need a digital camera.
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Haven't updated for a while...

More recently, I've been hanging out with Nathalie and AJ, though moreso at night rather than sunlit hours. Bowling has become a horrible habit that I need to break myself of before it takes away all my money. But it's so much fun to roll a heavy ball at ten wooden peg-things to make them all fall down. A score of 300 doesn't seem so hard when you write about it...oh, well. As a consequence of tonight (and I just know subsequent nights), I'm learning Spanish from both Mexico and Argentina. The double-L should be pronounced as a 'Y', right? Not in Argentina... And wouldn't you think that 'S's in the middle and at the ends and beginnings of words would be important? Not entirely true in Argentina... Doesn't matter. The Argentinians can't fight to win worth a damn in Risk, anyway.

Brooklyn will now throw things down the stairs and begin to slowly go down after them. Not a good thing when she has really no idea how to go down stairs. Word of advice: babies need to be watched at all times. Don't have a kid if you don't have the extra three years to watch them.

It's too hot in Texas.


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7/18/2003

I just got back from Norman, OK, about 30 minutes ago. Went there with AJ (for registration) and Drew (some Latin thing), and we stayed at my sister's house where I met college folk...ooo...She took us to see Anger Management (funny shiznit) at the dollar theatre, and then we ate dinner at Olive Garden. We came back and played pool on her cool pool table, then went bowling for $1 shoe rental and $1 per game! SWEET! If there's any place in Arlington with prices that cheap, I MUST KNOW ABOUT THEM! We finally went to bed around 1:30, at which point Drew and AJ and I had some...*ahem* interesting...conversations. All in all, quite a fun trip which left me about $35 poorer and with more of a craving to bowl than I left with. Thanks again to Steph (my sister) for shacking us up and taking us all around Norman.

In related news, who sees themselves as the type of person to get homesick and transfer home as soon as you get to college? I know I won't be. Too put it in my sister's terms, I've "always been really independent." But I just hope that no one has to deal with homesickness on top of other college problems in a month.

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7/16/2003

Thoughts of a dentist, the perfect profession for a sadist:

"Let's see now...Enamel is pretty hard, right? I think that'll be fun to drill through. Now what should I do with this gaping hole I just made in the top of this tooth? OO! I'll poke it with this large, curved, pointy thing. Eh, that's no fun anymore. What's this? Air and cold water all at once?! Yeah! Shoot those up into those nerve endings! And how are you, patient? You doing ok? No? Deal with it."

In related thoughts (it was playing in the dentist's office), Since The Eagles came out with a new song, is it ok to play it on 98.7? It's not oldies, but who else is going to play it... Also: new favorite Madonna song...Papa Don't Preach

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7/14/2003

Went to Fry's with Drew today to finally buy a flat-panel monitor, and I saw Aroon, Nick, and Alex there, at which point I was informed of a free after rebate 64 meg USB storage thingy. Found a cheap monitor, had the USB thing in my hand, and I realized that I hadn't enough money for both, or at least, I didn't trust my balancing of my checking account enough to leave it with less than $20 in it. Damn you to hell mail-in rebates! At least I have much room on my desk now for more important things than a gigantic monitor with a huge scratch in it. Now I need RAM...and an internal light...and a DVD-ROM drive...etc.

UPDATE
I now have an internal light...link to the monitor when I'm not so lazy


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7/13/2003

Today Joe and Tabitha went to church together, stayed out for many hours with Brooklyn and just them, told each other they loved each other when Joe left to go to work, and now Tabitha is staying at our house while Joe is at his (they're still 'apart'). If anyone has any idea on what is going on, the comments are wide open.

In other news, my rock-hard abs are covered with ant bites...at least nine. And they all itch. Anti-ant-bite-itching lotion would be greatly appreciated...get to work engineers.

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7/12/2003

Saturday...what a wonderful day. Easliy one of the longest days I have ever spent doing outside labor.


1:30 am - go to sleep thanks partly (100%) to Nathalie's cd burner...at least I now know exactly what all of Europe looks like

5:30 am - wake up and shower...yay! now I'm clean

6:20 am - arrive at Drew's to go to work at his dad's boss' farm for the day for money

8:30 am - get a graduation gift from Drew's dad of 24 bottles of Dublin Dr. Pepper...wow what a good day so far
- arrive at the farm

9:00 am - load lumber from cut-down trees onto a trailer and unload them on the top of a hill

10:00 am - load fucking railroad timbers (at least 100 lbs. each) onto the same trailer and unload (i.e. throw to the ground) at the hill's top

12:00 pm - railroad thing falls on leg
- vomit (yes, I'm a pussy)

12:45 pm - lunch

2:00 pm - tear barbed wire out of the ground after finishing with the railroad things

3:00 pm - help (as much as I still could) build a manger-type shade thing for the horses

5:00 pm - manger not done yet

7:00 pm - manger not done yet

8:30 pm - leave farm (manger not done yet, but good enough)
- no longer clean

8:45 pm - more vomit, barely out of the car
- first taste of Dublin Dr. Pepper (unrelated to the vomitting)

10:30 pm - arrive home to sleeping baby...why not wake her up? you ask...yeah, I don't know, either
- shower SHOWER SHOWER!!!!


On the bright side, I got paid $125 to do all this...well on my way to finally owning a flat panel monitor

I appologize for missing the SSB party thing, but I know I was there in spirit, getting my pika-ass kicked. I would have gone to the end of the party, but I'd rather sleep after today...sleep...

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7/11/2003

AP scores in the mail today:

US History 3
Chemistry 5
Calculus BC 5
AB Subscore 5
Physics Mech 5
Physics E&M 5

All in all, I'd say I like 'em.

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7/10/2003

After seeing that everyone and their respective dogs has a blog, I've decided to make one, too. That and there's nothing else to do in this hotel.

While sitting at the business center in the Hampton Inn in Midland, wondering what I'll do if some businessman needs to use this computer for whatever sort of emergency he would have, it comes to me that I'll be off in college in 5 weeks, and I still don't think that the reality of that has quite set in. I'm not scared or worried, and I haven't even really thought about how I'll be able to live without Brooklyn (or other people that matter) for months at a time. My plan right now is to leave on Aug 16 and make a new plan from there. I'd like to think that it doesn't bother me to leave all this because I'll still have the internet (minus the dial-up w00t) to talk to people on a nearly daily basis, but I really think that it just hasn't hit me yet. Oh, well. At least I'll be able to come back periodically if I ever begin to hate college and everyone in it, and I can always read a book to escape (screw homework).

Speaking of college, Joe and Tabitha (my brother and his fiancee) are in the middle of a very large fight which has left Tabitha staying at our house for the past few nights. I, of course, am not there right now, and it's a very strange feeling learning about what's going on at your house and with the people you love via the telephone maybe twice a day, something most all of us will have to look forward to during college. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing to be away from all the battles that take place between my parents and Joe and Tabitha, but it's just strange to be a spectator that can't get involved.

I must leave now to go help my dad at his work. I should be back on Friday, so if anybody has any idea how to do anything on blogger, I'm open to all suggestions.

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