Things I Want/Need to Do

1. Learn enough (X)HTML to edit my blog
2. Finish school (two weeks left!)
3. Go through all the boxes of my stuff in my parents' basement (and donate most of it to the Salvation Army)
4. Pay for the Jeep's auto insurance
5. Find a job
6. Maybe then find an apartment
7. Get my new living room from John "The Hotness" Levock as soon as his new furniture comes in
8. See my grandmother in St. Pete, which would also entail going to the beach and getting a tan for once

I Wonder if This is Telling Me Something.

American Cities That Best Fit You:

70% New York City

65% Boston

60% Chicago

55% Philadelphia

55% Washington, DC

Which American Cities Best Fit You?

We are Cool

This is just a reminder to everyone that Jason and Katy know how to have a good time and that they aren't geeks.



We later got up to number five. Guess the Google = Best game ever.

Experiment

This is a photo Aaron took of my Dad and two of my brothers at my house. Dad was showing some of his old slides from Vietnam.

Aaron developed it using PMK processing. And I'm still trying to figure out this whole photos on the web thing.

This Weekend

Friday was the most fun I'd had in a long while. Friday I went into work later than usual since I got the morning off to recover from Mason Day on Thursday. Got off at 4 and got ready to take Aaron out for dinner. My knee had hurt the day before--it actually kept me from doing Apartment rounds for Mason day, but somehow on Friday, I woke up and it was fine. Weird. Aaron got it into his head that he wanted to go to a Ruby Tuesday's in Vienna. Why there, I don't know (there are two in Fairfax). So we start driving down 123 towards Vienna and when we get down there I point out the Toilet Bowl building and Aaron makes the point that that's where we're eating: at the Tuesday's in the Toilet Bowl building. Oh, no, honey, that's a Friday's, I say. Aaron was disappointed nonetheless, so we drove back (cos neither of us really like Fridays') and stopped at Famous Dave's for Bar-be-Que. It was good, I had never been there, but the restaurant wasn't exactly very comfortable. Definitely good food though.

We got back to campus and I thought I'd let Aaron call it a night since he was leaving for Buffalo, NY in the morning to celebrate Passover with his Dad's family. I called Jason to see what was up and Theresa and I ended up meeting Jason and his gang at Il Lupo's. It was nice to see Adam again and I finally got to meet Gurdeep! We had a great time, but Lupo's was kinda empty. We left Jason and Theresa talking at the bar and Adam, Gurdeep, and I walked down to T.T. Reynold's to check that place out. We felt sort of out of place. I mean, I was in a suit jacket, Adam's in a ball-cap holding a Budweiser, and here's Gurdeep in all his goodness. Everyone else had either something pierced, or tatooed, or Mohawked. So after a drink, we left and went back to Il Lupo's till we shut the place down. Then we went to Denny's.

After a great breakfast, we got back to Il Lupo's to pick up my truck. I'm so embarrassed. I'm really a good driver, but my truck is old. It sometimes doesn't go into reverse the first try. So it was in neutral and I kinda rolled a bit before I hit the breaks and hit the clutch again to roll the gears and to get it into reverse. I really can drive. It's just that things like this happen when I'm in front of boys. The end. Theresa and I got home in one piece. We had a great night. Thanks guys!

I spent the rest of the weekend at home. Thought I could get some writing done while my family was out of town. Yeah, right. I ended up coming back this afternoon with only two new paragraphs written. Went to Viet House for dinner with Aaron. I love pho. It's one of my favorite foods. Just don't ask me what's in it. Later we came back to his house and Aaron put PhotoShop CS on my computer, so hopefully now I can put pictures up on el blog. Just as soon as I take some.

Music

Anyone up for karaoke sometime this weekend? I've had it in my head all week. Let me know!

Funny.

"Is that Peter-fucking-Frampton?"

Activity

So, I've decided to go to the gym regularly. Not just going when I'm mad or depressed or anything, but going for my own sake. It's important. Activity is good. It makes me feel good. Sweat is good. I think I have a schedule: MWRS at 4:30. I have to be at work in the mornings at 8, so going in the AM isn't possible or else I would.

I have a biology test tomorrow. I have to make an A on it-- I have to. I did poorly on the last one, so it's obviously going to be the one that gets dropped. My lab grade is fine, I just got my pig practical back. I made one of the four As in the class. The average was a 63%. But I studied my butt off for that one.

Thursday, is Mason Day. I will be working all day with my bio exam thrown in there at 1:30. I'll be wearing my RA t-shirt, so watch out! Thursday night, Theresa and I are going to work on our board for the Innovations Conference on the 27th (11am-4pm in Dewberry Hall). We have to present our fellowships. Fun times.

I'm not quite sure what I'm doing this weekend. I have a lot of writing to do. I have to punch out at least ten pages for my Tulsa project in Scott's class and I have to finish my creative project for Prof. Fuchs's film class (I got an extension). So with all this writing, what do I want to do? My family is going down to Newport News for the weekend to see my brother's spring concert at CNU. It's an overnight trip and my friend Tiffany says she'll take me out while I'm down there...but I have so much writing that has to get done!

So, yes, everything for this weekend is up in the air. Plus, this weekend is Passover. Not that I celebrate, but happy Passover. Can you say happy Passover?

Doves

Oh, and I bought two tickets to see Doves at 9:30 club on May 23rd. Why two, I don't know. But I am going.

Monday

I asked my dad whose 'klutz' genes I got. Were they from him or my mom? He asked me what kind of klutzyness I was experiencing: "Oh the usual, you know, runnning into things, not knowing my corners, tripping over my own feet..." Dad said I get all that from him. Good to know.

This weekend was somewhat uneventful. Danny came over for Friday. We watched movies and went to IHOP. I didn't really have anything planned for us to do. Saturday we went to lunch and then to the mall. Why is it that fifteen year-olds love Hot Topic? I don't get it. I got some shopping out of my system, too. I needed to.

Saturday afternoon I drove Danny home and hung out with my parents for a bit. They were gardening-- ripping out sod to make new beds, digging holes, etc. All kinds of fun. I still can't wait to have my own garden. If I move north enough, I can have some lupines.

Sunday I woke up. I took my camera outside and took some pictures of these red tulips. I don't know why. They were pretty. I guess I like pretty things. I took my film to get developed. Of course I took it to his work. I said Hi. He asked for the mix tape, so I gave it to him. Why I did that I don't know.

Last night was my last go at Expulsion. I quit. I was copy editor for about a year and some. I just grew out of it I think.

Huh.

The same day I finish his mix tape. Took me over a year to make, too.

Thinking

I haven't taken very many pictures in a while. It's strange because it's something that I enjoy. Recently, Aaron and I switched lenses on our Pentax cameras. For some reason, my lens would work on his camera and his on mine, but my lens wouldn't work on my own camera. Funny thing is that its the same lens that my mom bought on the camera when she bought it 25 years ago. Weird.

This is one of the best photographs I've ever taken. I processed it myself and did the developing.




I'm going into DC this weekend with my brother, I'll take some photos there, I hope.

What a Week

It's been a while since I've posted. I've been working at the library and this week I did my conferences for the Conflict class I'm fellowing. It was a very busy week. When I wasn't at the library, I was in Sub 1 tutoring my students and when I wasn't there I was doing homework and working my RA job.

Last week we did a couple programs. I had my RAP meeting on Sunday night and on Tuesday I did a sleep-deprivation program with Edi. Wednesday I was stressed out cos I had writing to do for my nonfiction class, or at least I thought I did, and I had to watch La Haine for my film class. I took Wednesday afternoon off from the JCL and spent the rest of the afternoon doing work with Aaron and BR. Didn't end up watching La Haine until Thursday morning, but I'm so lad I did. I think it's one of the most powerful movies I'd ever seen. Powerful in the City of God sense, maybe. My heart was pounding when the silent credits came up at the end. I had to sit there for a couple minutes.

This weekend was RAP. I had fallen asleep at Aaron's house Friday night, so he had to drive me back to school at 6 in the morning. We stopped at Dunkin' Donuts and I got a cake donut and a huge cup of coffee. Saw some other RAs there too. We had to be at work at 7am to set up and then room selection began at 7:30. RAP was supposed to run until 4pm but everything closed by Noon. It was crazy. After RAP I had to come back to the TAP area and open the desk till 2.

Aaron called at around 1:30, my new computer had arrived! My brand new 12" Apple iBook is beautiful. I got extra RAM and all my files are transferred from my stupid Dell. Only problem is that I was hoping to use the trial Microsoft Office to do my work so I wouldn't have to hassle my brother into sending his so I could use one of his licenses, but it doesn't let me print or send files which I need. Now.

My project for today: Get Microsoft Word and send in my paper!