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You're only a day away

Tomorrow, I come home. After my last class ends at 1:10, I'm going to get a smoothie (probably not peanut butter) and begin my drive to the Charlotte airport, which is about an hour away from this dorm. My plane leaves Charlotte at 4:59 and arrives at DFW at 6:51, at which point I will get to leave the large hunk of stapled-together metal that just flew me 1000 miles in 3 hours (those of you doing the math, don't forget to account for the time difference) and be in the arms of my one and only love. Yes, it seems like an overused plot to a sappy romantic movie, but I assure you that it's an extremely great feeling. I want to see everyone who will be in town at some point during the holiday, and I'm even going up to Lamar (*memories of the before time*) to visit all my wonderful teachers on Tuesday. I come back to South Carolina on the following Monday at 6:44 in the morning so that I can make my 12:20 class (we have a big project due that day). I'll then come back sometime during the week of December 8, but I can't say when. Even when I do find out when I get to come back, I won't tell you (I have a reason). Just assume that I'll come back on December 13.

Anyway, I should probably go study for my organic chemistry test tomorrow. If I get a 75 or better on it, then I get a 4.0 in the class and don't have to take the final. Woo hoo!

If I can't see it, it's not real...

I signed up (reluctantly) for classes next semester and came out with the following schedule (18 hours):

Monday

1. 11:15 - 12:05: Vector Analysis (Vector Calc II?)


2. 12:20 - 1:10: Introduction to Chemical Processes (or something like that)

Tuesday

1. 8:00 - 9:15: English 102


2. 9:30 - 10:45: Organic Chem II


3. 11:00 - 12:15: Elementary Differential Equations


4. 4:30 - 5:45: Linear Algebra

Wednesday

1. 11:15 - 12:05: Vector Analysis


2. 12:20 - 1:10: Introduction to Chemical Processes


3. 2:30 - 4:30: Lab for Introduction to Chemical Processes

Thursday

1. 8:00 - 9:15: English 102


2. 9:30 - 10:45: Organic Chem II


3. 11:00 - 12:15: Elementary Differential Equations


4. 4:30 - 5:45: Linear Algebra

Friday

1. 11:15 - 12:05: Vector Analysis


2. 12:20 - 1:10: Introduction to Chemical Processes


3. 1:25 - 2:15: Recitation for Organic Chem II

I could change Linear Algebra to Modern Geometry (non-Euclidean geometry), which would be really fun, but I've heard that the teacher is sort of bad and can't speak English well at all. I also wanted to take some physics classes, but I didn't have the prerequisites, and the prerequisites for the classes I wanted weren't offered next semester.

mmm...

I just had a peanut butter smoothie, and it was good. So good, in fact, that it deserves its own post. My day was pretty mediocre up until I drank said smoothie. Liquid peanut butter...Vanilla ice cream...Chocolate syrup...Maybe I'll start to get one of those for lunch every day.

The "End" is Nigh

I realized that I just get unhappier here as the days progress rather than more used to it.

Anyway...the last day of lab is tomorrow. Yay.

It's Stephanie's (my older sister's) birthday tomorrow, and she'll be 21! Now she can buy me all the alcohol I want!
No, I can't keep a straight face while I say that...

Christmas is here!

I went to Best Buy today to buy floppy disks for English. Yes, I know I could have borrowed one from someone off my floor or bought them somewhere else, but I felt like going to a computer store. I miss Fry's so much, and Best Buy is the closet thing to it. Anyway, on the way back from the store, I popped the South Park Christmas CD into the CD player, thus officially starting the Christmas season. And I get to go home in just 11 short days for Thanksgiving. And then like a week after Thanksgiving break for Christmas. And then again on Spring Break...

If you do nothing else today, do this

Alex sent me a link for a petition to stop Fred Phelps (a reverend who hates gays) from erecting a momument in hatred of Matthew Shepard, a college student brutally murdered a few years ago for being gay.
Sign this petition to help stop Fred Phelps.

College would suck without the classes

Two and a half hours of sleep last night (AIM and phone) and I'm actually feeling really good. Classes have been pretty fun so far today; got to discuss a lot in English and answer a bunch of questions in chem. I'm even considering not even taking a nap when I get back from my 12:20 class this afternoon, because I really don't feel tired enough to sleep right now. And it's finally cold today, so I get to walk around campus thinking of Thanksgiving and Christmas! Just two more weeks...

Anyway...I shall move away from depressing subjects. I'm in the process of getting Halo from bit torrent, which I started using yesterday. I went to go get the game from the guy down the hall, but he said not to get it from him but from someone down on the first floor in room 128 or something like that. Being me and not wanting to go all the way downstairs, I came back to the computer to search for another means. It has moved from 250 hours remaining to 7 and a half hours remaining in the course of my night, but it seems to have stopped getting faster, so I think it'll take about 7 more hours to finish. Which means that I can have it by dinner (or when I wake up from a nap, if I take one)!

I get my calc test back tomorrow...It will hopefully be good, or else I had all that fun for nothing.

I saw the Matrix this weekend. All I'll say is that I didn't like the first or last 20-30 minutes, but the middle was pretty badass. Worth the $5.25 I paid.

Thursday night is party night!

I saw Pirates of the Caribbean last night (no, I haven't seen the Matrix yet). Johnny Depp is very good in it, and it's a pretty good movie. I also took a calc test today, and it went well. Then I came back to my dorm and finished all my homework due up until Wednesday. During lab, my experiment was really good; the product was distilling prefectly, and I had lots of free time to play snake on the phone (new high score: 1833), talk to other people, and even send out a text message (which I actually do kinda regularly during lab). I then took a separatory funnel (a funnel-looking thing with a stopcock to stop anything from spilling out while you mix different liquids) and poured my wonderful product into the top ("Yay!" I thought. "Finally a good percent yield!"). As I poured the last bit out of the graduated cylinder, I noticed that the stopcock was still open! I was basically just pouring my cyclohexene all over my notebook and lab procedures. I AM SO BAD AT LABS! Now I should find a good way to explain a zero percent yield...

I think I'm gonna go get Halo and play it all night...Some guy down the hall has been offering it to me since it came out, but I've been too lazy to go get it from his room.

"One and One and One is Three..."

Ok, so that quote really doesn't fit here, but it's not like the Beatles had any deep symbolism behind it anyway. It's just the first thing that came to mind when I started to title the post. Anyway (I seem to have a bad habit of digressing from points)... Nathalie and I have been dating for three months today, but it really seems like it's been more like three years. And that's a very good thing. Those of you who knew me in high school probably assumed (I know I did, too) unless you saw me around Brooklyn that I had no capacity to love because I saw no need for it...I was always happy enough. It's such a much greater happiness than I ever imagined, though, when you know you're in love with someone who loves you back. Never undervalue that.

For those of you still reading this, here are the reasons why three is my favorite number today:

• Three months with Nathalie


• Three more labs to do before the class is finished for the semester


• Three more weeks before Thanksgiving break

Heh...look at that. Three reasons...

Aww...

Before I start anything, here's a picture of Brooklyn on Halloween (that's Nathalie's hand and it was taken with her digital camera...like my parents will ever get a digital camera...well they might now that they see its wonderful benefits...)
Anyway (if this picture isn't working, then I have no idea why...just go to its properties and follow the url):



I KNOW! So cute! And Tabitha made that skirt...quite good.

There's nothing else really...just thought you should all see that so it would brighten up your day.