trippy

2007-07-18T01:09:00.000-05:00

Weren't we all...I believe I have a new life motto (xkcd.com):

2007-01-01T18:32:00.000-05:00

Oink, OinkSo we didn't like Need for Speed, and Nathalie got it changed out for Elebits. Now, Elebits is a great game. It involves trying to capture little creatures by making as big a mess as possible. At the moment, we're working on being able to throw houses around.I ran into Drew yesterday at Barnes & Noble, and we talked for a little bit before having to go once again on our separate ways

2006-12-26T11:32:00.000-05:00

Christmas and the other holidaysSo as we all know, yesterday was Christmas. I post now because I got a new laptop, and I clearly want to spend every moment with it. Nathalie got everybody (my parents, her parents, her brothers, and she) together to all pitch in on paying for the 13-inch black MacBook. I wanted a laptop really all last semester because every bit of my homework was done on the

2006-08-27T11:34:00.000-05:00

New BeginningsAs of noon on Thursday, August 24, 2006, Nathalie and I are engaged.Corny though it may be, I wish to let you know that I asked her in Austin at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. We were on our way down to San Antonio to visit caves and Sea World and a zoo: a last vacation before school started again.

2006-06-04T14:38:00.000-05:00

Of course!In this time of Constitutional Amendments made by people who don't quite understand our rights, I propose another.Proposed Constitutional AmendmentWe shall define sex solely as the act of a male's penis entering into a woman's vagina, when both said man and woman are consenting adults. Henceforth, the analogous acts between two (or more) consenting male adults or two (or more)

2006-03-12T18:59:00.000-05:00

Free WillyTomorrow (Monday) morning at about 6 a.m., Nathalie and I are leaving Arlington and heading down to San Antonio to spend a couple of days there. Two of those days, we'll be at Sea World, and the other day, we'll be at a state park.More as it develops...

2006-03-02T01:34:00.000-05:00

Many GarcíasThis week and next have been/will be busier than past/future weeks. I have had/have a few programs due and I have had a couple of tests/have a few tests coming up. However, I found time last night to try and cook steaks for the first time in my life, and I did not kill anyone; I didn't even make anyone sick.Nathalie got her MacbookPro (new Intel Apple laptop) about a week ago, and

2006-02-18T00:21:00.000-05:00

Joyous Day!Oh, how wonderful the day is now! I was just reading up on the news, and it seems that a vaccine for Ebola has passed its initial tests in humans!Ebola Vaccine!For the past 20 years of my life my biggest fear, the thing of which I have had more fear than any other thing in the entire world, has been Ebola. My older brother explained the disease to me as "bleeding from every orifice

2006-02-13T23:41:00.000-05:00

V-Day on the beaches of NormandyI've always found it incredibly annoying when television sets are turned on and muted. This is because of that nasty, high-pitched frequency that the TV emits and is quite obvious when there is no other sound in the proximity. In recent years, however, it has come to my attention that I may indeed be crazy. Other people just don't seem to hear this elusive "

2006-02-09T00:17:00.000-05:00

Dill PicklesOne of my professors is teaching much, much more slowly than I (and he, according to his lesson plans) had hoped for, and he is teaching to a level very far below me. I'm not sure if this is because the rest of the class really needs this extra "help" or if it's just that he thinks that everyone does or (worstly) if he really is making the class as difficult as he can. I'm sure it's

2006-02-06T00:55:00.000-05:00

I felt I had nothing to post, but I just finished reading SpanishQuizá yo voy a escribir en español aquí. No soy bueno ahora, pero si yo practico, yo puedo escribir mejor algún día.Pero....me gusta inglés, también.

2006-02-02T22:53:00.000-05:00

OOOOO <-- Olympic CirclesThe Olympics start tomorrow night at 7, and they're the good Olympics: the winter ones! They have hockey, the best sport in the world; and curling, a close second. Wait, wait, wait. Scratch all that. Upon further inspection, the Olympics do not begin until next Friday. My bad.Tomorrow night, then, will be spent as my usual SciFi Fridays: watching the only two shows I

2006-01-31T00:27:00.000-05:00

Nathalie's ApartmentBelow is a panoramic picture of Nathalie's apartment. Her brother came over and took a couple of photos and put them into a program which then put them all together in what you see below very simply and painlessly. I'll ask her brother next time I see him what the name of that program is. Ion, her cat, is on the couch, and you can see our computers in the study (hers are

2006-01-29T23:29:00.000-05:00

L.I.F.EFor some reason, I feel like blogging again, at least for the time being.Things have been. I (don't know if I've said this) have started a second major in computer science (along with my first major of math), so I'm taking lots of computer science classes this semester: lots of programming. Thankfully, I like programming. Also, I like math, so I'm happy to have math as an actual class

2006-01-28T02:22:00.000-05:00

PrimaveraMy schedule for Spring 2006:Analysis II (alas, my only math course)Spanish IIIntroduction to Computer Science (For my second major in Comp. Sci.)Data Structures and AlgorithmsAdvanced Object Oriented Programming with C++Computer Organization and Assembly Language ProgrammingLife's good.

2005-08-24T01:37:00.000-05:00

Probably won't get on this one eithertalk.google.com - it's got instructions for non-windows stuff.I'm TrippSkiggins - of courseEDITI like AIM. Perhaps it's a bit too late for Google to jump into this market.

2005-06-28T16:57:00.000-05:00

Holy Shit! I really can see my house from here!There was nobody swimming in my pool that day.earth.google.com

2005-06-27T22:16:00.000-05:00

Clown Joke There once was a little kid named Billy who loved clowns. I mean LOVED them. He had posters of them all over his wall and pictures of them everywhere. One day his parents took him to the Circus to see all of the clowns. He was so excited! He never saw one up close before! In the middle of the show, a tiny little car came out and out came 20 clowns! He was cheering so loud he couldn't

2005-06-24T23:27:00.000-05:00

So the combination is: 1-2-3-4-5This morning, I woke up extra early to go see Nathalie at the Austin airport when she got here. Her parents arrived soon after (from College Station, where her mom gave some chemistry lecture on Thursday), and then we waited for her luggage to arrive for about 45 minutes (it was on the next flight). After that, we went to see some cave about an hour outside of

2005-06-23T20:56:00.000-05:00

Little Dorm on the DraggieI've been meaning to actually get working comments on here, so that's all done.For those of you not already knowing what I'm up to this summer, I'm doing some math research at UT (in Austin) until July 8th. It's basically about testing numbers for primality, but everybody can choose a different, more specific, topic on which to work. I have been pretty much set working

2005-04-13T11:42:00.000-05:00

Pure, lighthearted humorHere will make you laugh.

2005-04-13T03:16:00.000-05:00

Make it a ... NightSo someone sued Blockbuster because he's either an idiot or a dick; either way, he's still a dick, because it's just another stupid lawsuit. Well whatever reason for the suing they, of course, settled. And now my hours are being very much cut back, and we're even closing earlier on 4 days of the week now. It's not that I don't like having more free time, but right now I do

2005-04-01T16:42:00.000-05:00

New Poll!Would it be funny or morbid if the pope and Terri Schiavo both came skipping out of Vatican City yelling "April Fool's!"?

2005-03-10T22:54:00.000-05:00

Spring Break, Fetus- err..Baby!It's the first day of spring break for me since I have no class on Friday! So I'm spending the night doing my abstract algebra homework. I know it sounds geeky to you, but in actuality, it's...geeky. But at least it's fun! Tomorrow I work from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., but then I'm going out to Dallas with Nathalie for the night. It's the one of the only times we've

2005-03-03T00:05:00.000-05:00

Why my English homework is a waste of timeI just read:"Newspapers, such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and the London Times, along with newsmagazines like Time and Newsweek, are kept on microfilm in a special section of the library. ... Machines are available there that enlarge the tiny images so that you can read them."

2005-02-28T23:59:00.000-05:00

I told you I'd write moreThis past week was crazy hectic with lots of homework and a paper and some tests, but it's really dying down tonight. I just finished a lot of homework for tomorrow, and I had my last test for a while in partial differential equations earlier today, which I think went well. I got a 94 on my analysis test, but I don't think that the abstract algebra test I took the same

2005-02-19T04:01:00.000-05:00

Bumbles Bounce!I have been really busy this last week (and will be the coming week also) writing a paper (due Tuesday), doing homework for three tests coming up this week (and one in two Mondays), and working at Blockbuster (one person has been very sick and one of the shift leaders is in California for the week).I'll post again midweek after this crazy weekend is over and the week is at least

2005-02-15T10:29:00.000-05:00

The BasicsSo I realize that I have said nothing of the classes I'm taking this semester as of yet. Hence, without further ado, are my classes:1) Partial Differential Equations - w/ AJ2) English (about argument stuff) - w/ Nathalie3) Analysis I4) Advanced Discrete Math5) Graduate Abstract Algebra I - w/ AJThe graduate class was a hard decision whether to take or not, but I decided it best to take

2005-02-14T10:42:00.000-05:00

Hola, Amigos y AmigasEven though most of you who read this site hate the holiday (does anyone still read this site?), Happy Valentine's Day!I have decided in the past few months that being offline and never posting makes me unhappy, so I'll post and be online now.

2004-11-11T21:11:00.000-05:00

97.1 is playing Christmas music now I got a 99 on my latest discrete math test, a 96 on abstract algebra, and a 105 on complex variables. I was really worried about the complex variables test, so I studied more than normal for that one. I got Elf on DVD from Blockbuster (haha...doesn't come out until Tuesday) and I plan on watching it soon. I hear it's really funny. And the main reason for my

2004-11-08T01:44:00.000-05:00

I need to learn Spanish I would have spent a lot more time on and had a lot more fun doing college applications if they had looked like this or this or this.

2004-11-02T11:04:00.000-05:00

'Lection Day I owe my vote to Graham. Thanks for introducing me to the best option. In other news, some guy came in to trade a DVD at Blockbuster the other day, but the system said that we couldn't accept it. So he said that he was just going to leave it out in the parking lot because he really didn't want the DVD. I had been telling him how cool of a DVD it was, so he ended up just giving it

2004-10-17T12:25:00.000-05:00

My liver isn't going to turn into fat I've gotten my first round of tests back from all my classes, and I'm happy about them all. I really like most of my classes this semester. Is anyone else as obsessed with the McDonald's Monopoly game as I am? Ever since I was little, I would wait the entire year for McDonald's to start up their Monopoly again, and then I'd eat McDonald's millions of times

2004-10-01T00:53:00.000-05:00

Rue is such a cool word I got my Abstract Algebra test back on Tuesday, and I got a 100. Out of about 40 people, I was the only one to get a 100 w/o doing the bonus (yay!), but 4 people got over 100 with it. The average was 68, the median was 70, and the mode was 76 (I know...wtf). I like my grade. I have a test in discrete math tomorrow, which should be extremely simple, so I can't bring

2004-09-24T00:53:00.000-05:00

Hands My professors have just finally decided that they want to know how much I have been learning, so I just had my first test on Tuesday in abstract algebra. It was pretty easy, and the professor handed out solutions as we handed in our tests, and in checking over those, I think I got a 100, but I guess I can never be sure. She said she'll have them graded by Tuesday, so I'll post then, too.

2004-09-21T01:42:00.000-05:00

Tuesdays Tomorrow (Tuesday) Star Wars comes out on DVD. Tonight, my manager honestly asked me where I was going to put the VHS tapes for it on the shelf.

2004-09-17T00:50:00.000-05:00

Babies Brooklyn is really smart! My mom kept telling me about how Brooklyn likes to go to Playhouse Disney's website and play the games online, and I kept saying that she wasn't really playing the games, but just telling my mom what to do with the mouse. But just the other day, Brooklyn wanted to play on my computer, so I took her to that site, and she can play some of those games actually all by

2004-09-16T02:05:00.000-05:00

My nose is decongested! The last week has bee so busy with school/homework/Blockbuster/Dune/sickness that I haven't really had any time to post. And I'm really, really tired right now, so I'll post tomorrow. For now, sleep well. And remember, despite what the customer says at Blockbuster, The Pasison of the Christ is not a documentary.

2004-09-07T22:02:00.000-05:00

NEW POST! Ok, so I know I haven't been the best blog host in the last two months, but I just haven't had any real motivation to post. When I stopped posting, there was no real reason to post because everyone who read the site I actually communicated with. And I just got into a small rut where posting just seemed like a waste of time. But now I realize just how much I actually liked writing random

2004-07-18T17:23:00.000-05:00

Caramel Frappucino In a couple of hours, I'm going to head up to exciting Norman, Oklahoma, for the night with Drew so that he can do stuff at OU tomorrow. We're going to spend tonight at my sister's apartment (thanks Steph!) and then head back tomorrow at some point. It should be lots of fun. The last time I was in Norman was about a year ago when Drew went there for his orientation. It was a

2004-07-13T14:35:00.000-05:00

BEEEEEP It's been quite a while since I've posted, but I am really going to try to post more often. I know I say that a lot, but I will. I am all registered for my classes next semester. I'm taking discrete math, abstract algebra, analysis, intro to complex variables, and intro to modern physics. I may take some other class (English?), but I may not. I still have some time to think about it.

2004-06-30T22:55:00.000-05:00

Trigonal Pyramidal Not too much has been going on the past few days. I've just been living life as always so that it can be fun fun fun 'til my daddy takes my T-bird away. I'll post more in the very near future... for now I need an I/O Shield. Anyone have one?

2004-06-21T21:53:00.001-05:00

Letters From Olivia This is Olivia's first letter from Marines bootcamp, typed word-for-word as it is on the letter she wrote to Nathalie and me. Post any comments you want, and I'll tell them all to Olivia in my next letter to her. Nathalie & Chris, I would have written sooner, but, well, I've been just a tad busy. It's been really crazy the past couple weeks and this is like the third

2004-06-16T23:39:00.000-05:00

WTF, Mate I just saw a commercial for a pill to fight "daily fatigue." FATIGUE!!! WTF?!?!

2004-06-16T12:02:00.000-05:00

I'm going to win the lottery I have decided that I did way too much stuff in Paris to post about, so I'll just leave you with the fact that I have lots of pictures of the trip. If you ever want to see them, they're right on my computer, and I can tell you all about each picture then. It'd be much more fun that way, anyway, don't you think? Nathalie and I got a letter from Olivia in bootcamp

2004-06-13T20:44:00.000-05:00

Paris Trip Part II **This is a continuation of the post below** ***************************************************************************** The next morning, we ate breakfast at the apartment (as we did every morning)then went to see the Eiffel Tower. On the way to the Tower, we passed a very large palace (Trocadero) that was made for some aniversary of the Tower. It serves as a kind of "

2004-06-13T16:06:00.000-05:00

Royale with Cheese Firstly, I guess I should explain my lack of posting. Once my brother's wedding was over, I didn't have the internet in my room for a long time. My parents' computer sucks, so I didn't want to have to use that ever. And I was never at a computer at Nathalie's house long enough to post a good post. However, I moved the DSL modem into my room recently, and I have just been

2004-05-26T15:23:00.000-05:00

Not Yet I'm back from a wonderful vacation! I took over 500 pictures which are on Nathalie's laptop right now, so I can't post any of them. And I will be extremely busy the next few days with my brother's wedding and family reunion. Expect an update relatively soon telling all about my trip. Until then: "ACHTUNG!Trippy may actually be a spider-human hybridUsername: From Go-Quiz.com

2004-05-15T22:04:00.000-05:00

Happy Birthday To Moi In less than 13 hours I will be in a plane headed to Raleigh, NC. From there, Nathalie and I will take a plane to London where we will have a 10 hour delay. We plan on taking the subway to Buckingham Palace and maybe seeing the changing of the guards while we're there for so short. Then we'll take a one-hour flight across the English Channel to Paris (pronounced without

2004-05-12T19:55:00.000-05:00

Temp Title I'm home, and I have been for a while now. I just haven't gotten around to posting because my computer, which I set up in my room, is not hooked up to the internet. I will have to network the computers in my house now, but it'll be fun. The drive back home with AJ was really fun, and it took a little more than 16 hours. It usually only takes 15 hours, but we stopped a lot. And I

2004-05-05T19:25:00.000-05:00

2 more days Quiz taken from Blake: I am an Asteroid. I am a drifter. I go where life leads, which makes me usually a very calm and content sort of person. That or thoroughly apathetic. Usually I keep on doing whatever I'm doing, and it takes something special to make me change my mind. What Video Game Character Are You? I'm driving home on Friday! And AJ's plane gets here at 11:09 a.m.

2004-05-03T21:13:00.000-05:00

Elephants and Walri Today I sold back half of my books: my organic chemistry book and student manual and linear algebra book. I sold the linear algebra book (bad book) for $20, but the organic chem book (good book) and manual sold for $122! That's good, too, because I needed a new mouse since mine has been kind of screwy recently. So I went out to Best Buy (there is no Fry's here), and I

2004-05-02T20:01:00.000-05:00

Dinosaurs! Roar! Today I downloaded Mozilla Firefox 0.8, and I set up all my preferences and cool stuff like that. I really like this browser. It's got a cool feature where I can type in the address bar 'define < word >' and it will go to dictionary.com for the definition or 'google < term >' and it will google the term. And it has cool skins you can choose from. You can also open a

2004-04-29T01:21:00.000-05:00

IX Dies! Today was my last day of classes, and I couldn't be happier about it. I'm so close to getting to come home! Just a few finals stand in between me and the rest of my life! I also have one last homework assignment due for chemical engineering tomorrow (Thursday) at 5:00 p.m., and I've done about half of it. I've spent the last at least 4 hours doing this homework! Each problem is so

2004-04-25T19:43:00.000-05:00

Life or Death This is a very, very important question for all of you, and I will keep the results on the sidebar over there *points*. Pick Only One: Sine or Cosine. Also: e or p

2004-04-23T23:23:00.000-05:00

Blah Blah Woof Woof Tonight has been a pretty relaxing night. Weekend looks to be pretty nice and relaxing, too. That's really good because finals start not this upcoming week, but the week after, so it'll be nice to just relax. I do have a big project due this Wednesday, though, in my chemical engineering class. I have to write a flowsheet for the kidney dialysis process (with a small group

2004-04-20T23:02:00.000-05:00

It sure does pay to update As I was going to update my blog for the day, I noticed a little box on blogger where I normally click to get into my site: SPECIAL NOTICE As an active Blogger user, we would like to invite you to be one of the first to try out Google's new email service, Gmail. Would you like to give it a whirl? YES / NO YYYYEEEESSSS!!!!!! Of course! Thank you email gods! My

2004-04-17T14:28:00.000-05:00

I like these colours better The Stars are playing right now in what could possibly be their last game of the season. They need to win all their next three games or else they're out of the playoffs! I hope they do well... I have three tests (yes, three) on Tuesday. Organic chemistry, differential equations, and linear algebra...I'm not too worried about differential equations, because all my

2004-04-15T11:58:00.000-05:00

There no way this can go bad! I noticed the following on a few other sites, and I think I want to do it, too. I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more no less. Ask me anything you want. Then I want you to go to your journal [blog, xanga, etc.], [and] copy and paste this allowing your friends (including myself [I'm your friend...right?]) to ask you anything.

2004-04-13T23:53:00.000-05:00

Boredom I felt like I wanted to change the colour scheme of the site. I don't know... I like it, but I'm not sure if I like the other one more. I don't know why I felt like redish and purplish colours, either, but they seemed to have turned out pretty nice. AHH!! A GNAT JUST FLEW INTO MY EYE! Ok, I think it's out now...

2004-04-11T01:29:00.000-05:00

squash + rats -> carriage I just got back from the Cinderella Ball (a charity ball with 20 high school girls making money for the Boys & Girls Club of Arlington) with Nathalie, and I feel the need to post because it was just so much fun! In fact, I'm posting this from her house. I can't even wait to get home to post...though I will probably install the DSL tomorrow. We ate a realatively nice

2004-04-09T09:31:00.000-05:00

*1960s Batman music* Going home today...I'll probably update at some point

2004-04-07T00:22:00.000-05:00

Hehe...This post made me happy I feel like I should post so that I can keep myself busy, so I will. This is more for me, so you guys don't have to read it if you don't want to (not that you ever have to, of course). Random things to make me smile:Nathalie love home for summer (and beyond) in just one more month home "for Easter" in just a few more days family AIM/friends Brooklyn shot glass in

2004-04-04T21:43:00.000-05:00

Damn...Anger is one of the seven deadly sins I don't like people telling me what I like to do. I do what makes me happy. And, yes, I do know what makes me happy. I don't do things that I'm going to be pissed off or emotionally wounded doing. And if I happen to do something like that, then I try to fix it so that I'm not horribly depressed (e.g. South Carolina). If sitting in my room and

2004-04-04T01:18:00.000-05:00

Hello. My name is Tripp, and I have a problem. First of all, this reminded me of Arlington. Oh, how I miss passing by different churches and reading my weekly "good thoughts" from church signs. "Life without God is like a dull pencil: pointless!" has always stuck in my mind for some reason. Now onto my problem: I'm obsessed with webcomics. As my list of daily (hourly?) blogs grows larger, so

2004-04-01T22:26:00.000-05:00

One Week Later Wow...it's been a week since I last posted... Anyway. For those who don't know (and I think that's a lot of you) I went home this last weekend. Before you start freaking out and asking "Again?!" you have to keep in mind that I found a really good plane ticket back for the weekend...$139. Every now and then AA will have cool weekend fares like that. Going home for the weekend

2004-03-25T23:10:00.000-05:00

Ok, so there's one reason to buy DVDs Family Guy has been officially un-canceled and will start production again next month! You may have to give a year of birth and gender to view that (no email address or name or anything like that though). I figured you would all enjoy that news because of the greatness of the show. Should I get dreadlocks? Shave my head? Grow it out really long? Sounds

2004-03-23T13:44:00.000-05:00

Two Already? I was just walking to lunch, and on the way there I passed by a group of little kids (maybe 2nd grade). One little girl looked at me and said "HI!" so I turned and said "Hello!" and waved. She started yelling (as if in awe) "He waved! He waved!" and some of the other kids joined in. I could hear them for a while behind me still screaming it, and I felt really happy. Ya gotta

2004-03-19T00:51:00.000-05:00

Kubrick is Cool IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY YET AND PLAN TO, DON'T READ THIS I was talking to someone here who has read a bunch of Arthur C. Clarke's books (the guy that wrote 2001), and I asked her what the hell the movie meant. She explained it, so now Stanley Kubrick isn't quite as insane as I thought he was: Drew: so what's the explanation Me: it apparently has to do with the

2004-03-15T19:50:00.000-05:00

Beware the Ides of March Well I'm back in South Carolina after the best spring break of my life, and I guess I'll deal with it because, well, I have to. I'll write about stuff later, but I don't really feel like it now, not that anyone will read it anyway...you all have spring break. I just really wanted to just use this post's title before I forgot what day it is.

2004-03-08T00:35:00.000-05:00

Home Again, Home Again I'm sitting at Nathalie's computer right now (one of them), and I realized that I hadn't updated since I've gotten back. We (I don't know if I can really consider my input useful, though) just finished doing some computer science, and while she finishes up a biology lab, I'll write. I apologise beforehand if any of this seems boring to you...it's basically just a recap of

2004-03-05T10:30:00.000-05:00

Giddy I am I'm leaving now for classes then the airport. I have to turn off my computer and unplug it all. I shall update at some point...

2004-03-04T00:08:00.000-05:00

*Yawn* I never update anymore...can't think of anything to say. I'm kind of tired right now, too, so if there are any typos or the topics seem really stupid I apologise. Home last weekend was very cool, like always. The seats for the Stars game were just 10 rows back from the goal (visting, then home, then visiting), nearly directly behind it. They won 4-1 and even had an added bonus of a

2004-02-26T21:02:00.000-05:00

*scream* IT'S SNOWING!!!!!! more on this as it develops ....now back to math. And later... Upon closer inspection, it's not snow, but ice falling from the sky. Freezing rain, if you will. Not worth getting all freaked out about, but I guess it's nice nonetheless. I put my clothes in my car (for Arlington tomorrow!) and went to park my car, and on the way back, I decided to get a nice hot

2004-02-22T20:35:00.000-05:00

I'm Alive? Yes, I know that I never update anymore, but I just can't think of anything to write. I've been sick all weekend, but I'm finally feeling better now. Most all I did for this weekend because of it was just sit around and watch TV. Though I did finally get to see Shrek yesterday. It's a pretty good movie, but I can't say that I'm really looking forward to aptly named Shrek 2. I've

2004-02-15T19:04:00.000-05:00

Snow! Everyone in Texas got snow on Valentine's Day. I only got rain. But I did get some wonderful pictures from Nathalie yesterday and then some from my mom today which helped cheer me up from missing the snow. Two pictures I just thought I had to share with you all. First, look at how cute Brooklyn can be. This is her when she's happy and excited for whatever reason (most likely is that I

2004-02-13T01:08:00.000-05:00

Nothing Week I haven't posted any this week because I've been really busy with school. Lots of tests and a whole lot of homework that is finally finished. It feels like I'm much more free now than I have been the past few days. In fact, I feel GREAT! Minus school, my life has been pretty uneventful for the last week. I had lots of fun back home over the weekend, but I don't think I've had

2004-02-05T13:26:00.000-05:00

An Apple was the reason humans were kicked out of Paradise. I'll start this post by saying that Nathalie and I have been dating for 6 months now. It makes me smile to even just type that, much less realize that it's true. I'd write something here about how great love is, but I'm sure that most of you (all?) are sick of that by now, so I'll just continue. It's cold outside, and I'm actually

2004-02-01T20:43:00.000-05:00

Uber-Bowl Sunday I'm writing this as the superbowl is on in the background of my dorm. I don't like football, but my roommate does, so we're watching it. This weekend started out really good. I was really happy early Friday night for multiple reasons, but then stuff happened that I won't talk about here so as not to upset too many parties involved (No, Nathalie and I did not break up or

2004-01-29T00:50:00.000-05:00

Oh, you knew it was coming I've pretty much decided that I'm not going to major in chemical engineering anymore. But don't tell the chemical engineering department here. I'm going to stay registered as a chemical engineering major here until I leave next semester. And yes, I am also transferring much closer next semester, though I'm not quite sure where to yet. I'm pretty positive I'm going

2004-01-26T01:00:00.000-05:00

Happy Australia Day! It froze here yesterday (Sunday...it's technically Monday right now), so the University has a two-hour delay on classes. My first class isn't until 3 hours after school normally starts, so it doesn't affect me. I didn't really want school to be cancelled, though, so while I'm sad that it "was", I'm happy that it doesn't affect me at all. <update> School was actually

2004-01-25T01:38:00.000-05:00

I still hate weekends I'm sick. At least, I have a cold. My nose is running, and I've been sneezing all day. I bought some Advil cold & sinus today (the non-drowsy kind), so that should help make me better relatively soon. When I went to buy that medicine, I also went to get a haircut, because it's getting long enough to annoy me. It was closing, though, so I have to go back on Monday. I

2004-01-19T22:06:00.000-05:00

Link's Awakening I've added a few links over to the right (AJ and Drew). I've also (very reluctantly) taken Nick's site off the links and changed the link to Bryan's site to his new one. Also, Graham, is your site still up (please say yes)? The list is now alphabetized for easy reference, too.

2004-01-18T03:07:00.000-05:00

This time last night I was still on the phone... As some of you know and some of you don't, a good friend of mine here at college was recently coming back from dinner with my roommate around 11:30 pm. Right in front of one of the dorms in a pretty well lit area, a man came out of the bushes screaming random cuss words, punched him in the jaw, and left without taking anything (money, ID, etc.)

2004-01-12T18:53:00.000-05:00

First Day of Classes -- Again Classes started today, so I get to have another distraction. I only had two today, though. Tomorrow I have four classes, so it should be much more exciting. My first class tomorrow is 8:00 a.m., though. And I have three classes in a row so I don't get out until 12:30. I'm planning on eating breakfast before the first class starts so I'm not horribly hungry

2004-01-10T18:31:00.000-05:00

Not Good I was just unpacking all of my clothes and noticed that I had left a few things at home. Upon this realization, I began to cry. I couldn't help myself nor stop. It wasn't, of course, that I had left some clothes at home, but rather the thought of home itself that sparked this. I'd been trying to keep busy all day so I wouldn't have time to think about anything (not that it worked),

2004-01-08T20:55:00.000-05:00

Last I'm going back to South Carolina tomorrow. I'm leaving around 7:00 in the morning, so I should be in that piss-poor, redneck state (no offense...Texas is almost as bad) by 10:00 at night. Anyone is welcome to call me anytime I'm driving, but I know that none of you will (with the exception of a very few). Feel free to prove me incorrect. 929-8945. Bye. Wish me luck so I don't die on

2003-12-31T14:37:00.000-05:00

...Oh yeah... I forgot to tell you...I went to Missouri on the 26th to see family and stuff. I'm back now, though, so don't worry. I got a digital camera for Christmas, so I'm sure I'll have lots of pictures of my dorm and college and stuff soon. Got a cool watch, too. And candy and clothes. And Candace (my sister) gave me condoms, but I don't have sex, so I didn't know what to do with them.

2003-12-23T11:09:00.000-05:00

Two Days 'Til Christmas No time to talk... I still have about half of my shopping left to do

2003-12-15T20:50:00.000-05:00

About a Week I've been home ever since late last Monday night (Tuesday morning), but I haven't posted about it partly because I'm on dialup at home (eww...) and partly because I'm lazy. The 15 hour drive back wasn't nearly as hard or as boring as I thought it would be. You'll all be proud of me, too...I did it all in one day. It still hasn't snowed yet since I've been here, and it's been a

2003-12-07T17:20:00.000-05:00

The Stars aren't doing too well this season My roommate is watching the Miami/New England football game in the room right now, and it's snowing like hell up there. It's making me realize just how much I'm looking forward to Christmas this year. I need some time away from this school stuff to just do what I want and have fun. I really want snow this year, too. I know that probably won't happen

2003-12-04T12:24:00.000-05:00

A Week From Thanksgiving I just got back my calc test. 24/25. That means that I get to exempt the final with an A in the class! This week I've turned in my final essay for English (which I'll post eventually), done an entire presentation (written and oral) on a solar-powered pump project we had in intro to chemical engineering, worked on my final English project (a group website due this

2003-12-01T17:33:00.000-05:00

I'll be back home in a little less than two weeks The week of Thanksgiving was spent (in no particular order) playing with Brooklyn talking to family and friends helping put up some of Nathalie's Christmas decorations going to Lamar and seeing teachers going to UTA to one of Nathalie's classes with 100 people in it and being put in one of the groups of six people each to build a water tower out

2003-11-23T20:31:00.000-05:00

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

2003-11-21T19:05:00.000-05:00

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): Monday11:15 - 12:05: Vector Analysis (Vector Calc II?) 12:20 - 1:10: Introduction to Chemical Processes (or something like that) Tuesday8:00 - 9:15: English 102 9:30 - 10:45: Organic Chem II 11:00 - 12:15: Elementary Differential Equations 4:30 - 5:45:

2003-11-19T15:06:00.000-05:00

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.

2003-11-17T16:14:00.000-05:00

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...

2003-11-13T23:37:00.000-05:00

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

2003-11-12T01:51:00.000-05:00

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.

2003-11-10T11:43:00.000-05:00

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