Days in the life

Last night I went to this CHEM135 dinner sponsored by my professor. There are six people chosen in a random raffle every week for a thursday dinner. It was at Plato's Diner, and I didn't really know where it was, but my directions were to get to Route One and head south. The walk was about 30 minutes with the sky threatening to fall the entire way. Evidently it was just holding its breath because it poured after I entered. The food was good; I had the rib-eye sandwich. Dinner talk was mainly about what classes everyone is taking, what they thought of it all, etc. After dinner I needed to walk back to Ellicott... in the rain... so that was fun. I just kind of meandered til I got to the building, seeing how I was already soaked. I think I might've gotten sick from that unfortunately. Later I joined in a game of Poker (Texas Hold 'em), but the cards weren't with me that night. I was like the deer in Big Game Hunters (arcade game) that would get shot but still manage to walk off the screen to have you fail the round. I didn't go down easy. There were about sixteen people there, and I made it down to the final seven. Not bad for my first game in a while.

This morning I only woke up an hour late, and could make it to English on time (as opposed to my two and a half hours >.<). From there I went to a Psychology Experiment, where I was to see if I could outsmart a lie detector. I might've done it too, just because I kept answering questions wrong by accident... whoops... Almost fell asleep in my ENES lecture (next to a professor sitting in the classroom) and had a Calc 3 exam. That kicked my @$$. Slept in CHEM (as I told my professor I would from the night before) and came back to the dorm. Interesting times.

It ain't cold yet

I just can't understand why people are wearing long sleeves/jackets and long pants. Well, I suppose that long pants isn't as large of a deal because people wear long pants all the time, even in summer (strange types). Just because the sun is blocked by clouds and the wind is blowing doesn't mean that it's now cold outside. 60 degrees is plenty warm to go out in shorts and tee shirts, just watch me as i whiz by on my bike in said clothes, drinking refrigerated water. Just because it is now 'officially autumn' doesn't mean someone snapped his fingers and lowers the temperature. I highly recommend all of you 'cold' people to get used to these temperatures. This is exactly the same type of weather in spring but you're all wearing shorts and tees then.

I'm willing to bet 9 out of every 10 people asked has not camped in a tent in below freezing temperatures. I have, and I'll tell you what: it's fun. It's a great feeling, sleeping in your sleeping bag all cozy and warm, and waking up to snow covering your tent and everything around you. It's silent, pristine. This is real camping in the woods, I tell you. I've camped in torrential downpours (also fun), slept in a hammock for a week (in torrential downpours (also fun)), backpacked through the mountains of New Mexico (oh yes, its not flat there like in Oklahoma). I must say, the only thing that is more enjoyable than camping in the snow in winter time is camping on an island miles from civilization. Sleeping with the crabs.

Well... holy crap

I procrastinated my English paper (as I usually did in high school) because I can never really seem to focus until the twelve hours before the class its due. So I finished my draft about 3:05 am and was fanatically looking for someone to use their printer. Luckily, there are some people on my floor who have some insomnia issues and I managed to use someones printer. When I say printer I mean half broken piece of crap that can't handle trying to understand printing more than one page at a time let alone having the ability to only have one piece of paper in it at any given time. After this printing fiasco I realize I still need to staple the pages together. Another insomniac's roommate owns a stapler. So I was able to go into his room while the roommate was sleeping and find the stapler. The thing is, I can't see in the dark, so I was blindly reaching around for it. Finally I get frustrated because I want to go to sleep, so I whisper very quietly, "Hey, wake up man." Surprisingly, because the noise of me rummaging through his desk was much louder than my voice, he bolts up, but acts nonchalantly. "Sup?" It pretty much threw me across the room. He showed me where it is, and I finally went to sleep. Mission accomplished... or so I thought.

I hadn't thought that I might not wake up to my alarm in the morning, partially because in high school if i ever missed it my mom would get me up in time. Well momma ain't here. Evidently I had woken up by my alarm, walked across the room, turned it off, and smacked it before going back to bed. Bad move. I shot out of bed at exactly 10:30 (weird) staring at the clock screaming "oh s*** oh s***" in my mind. Now that i think about it, I don't know why the first thing that i thought I had to do was shower. Regardless I managed a 5 minute shower, dressed, threw my books in my backpack, and raced to my bike. I must have averaged at least 16 mph even uphill to get to English class. My hair was wet until the end of the ride, and my hair was sticking up. Fast-walking to the room, I straighten my hair (ish) and pause at the door. Panting, I walk in, notice everyone noticing me, and that ended my adventure.

Moral of this story: if theres a paper due, set both alarms to wake up in time.

Freewriting In English Class Narrative Thing

Well, for my story narrative thing I am going to talk about video games I've played, perhaps some of the more addicting ones in particular. Maybe talk about an event in one of the games, maybe follow though an entire round of a game...
There are too many different types of games I could talk about:
FPS - First person shooter
RTS - real time strategy
RPG - role playing game
TBS - turn based strategy
MMO - massively multiplayer online

There is also of course all the different aspects to each game that can pull one in as well:
Ventrilo - talking online to other people
Guilds - people working together in a mini community type thing
etc...

Well I could edit this to make it longer, but I don't really feel like talking about this in here anymore.