| Free time, what's that? |
[Aug. 24th, 2006|04:41 pm] |
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| |  frustrated | ] |
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| | Commuter - Young Hearts | ] |
I thought this semester wasn't going to be too bad. I had 1 class I knew was going to give me trouble, so I already set time aside to study and do homework in it every day. What I didn't know was that all of my other classes were going to be giving out tons and tons and tons of homework. The best part about the tons of homework is that I don't even have the books for one of my classes. I bought they original book they said I would need. I even bought it early so I would have all my books when classes started. Then, 2 days before classes start I get an email saying they changed the book. Well, I lost my receipt for the book and I don't have the funds to purchase the new book until I can sell my old one. Yay!
The full magnitude of homework I've been given this first week is staggering. I have a 5 page report due every Thursday for my statistics & probability class, plus about 15 homework problems due on Tuesday (15 may not seem like a lot, but each problem is probably going to average around 30-40 minutes a piece). In my fundamentals of material science class I have a 2 page chapter summary due (to ensure that we're reading the chapter) for each chapter which will probably mean 1-2 summaries per week, on top of the ~20 homework problems per chapter. Chemical processing principles is going to be an interesting class (once again with lots of homework), but the professor will explain something in class, then say "well, this is how we do this, I guess." He said I guess 18 times yesterday. I'm sure he knows what he's talking about, but that's an awfully bad habit to say something like that to a class you're lecturing. And now, for the coup de grace, physical chemistry. He only assigned us 2 problems to do for chapter 1 homework. I've spent about an hour and a half on the first problem and I'm not done. He also said he was going to give us 2 more hours for lab time so that we finish each lab on the day we start it so we don't get behind. I love 5 hour labs /sarcasm. I'm the only chemical engineer in the class too. It seems other people knew not to take it from this guy cause he's a real hardass.
I don't have room to play around with my schedule and drop a class to retake at a later date. If I don't take and pass the classes I have in the order I have them arranged, I don't graduate on time. That's not something I want to even consider, so I have to suck it up and stay the course. Which is basically going to translate to pulling many all nighters in the engineering/chemistry building working on projects and homework. My heart is already having palpitations in preparation of the mass quantities of coffee that must be imbibed to stay alert/awake for this most heinous of semesters. |
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[Aug. 17th, 2006|07:41 pm] |
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| | Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) | ] |
I am going to join a gym. The way I see it, I'll be more inclined to go to one and use their facilities if I'm paying for it. I've gotta do something. Some people have washboard abs. They're great. I have washboard abs... only mine have a pile or two of laundry on them. So, tomorrow, in celebration of the grand opening of a new fitness complex, I'm going to join the Rush fitness center. Supposedly they have charter memberships that are reduced membership costs for the duration of your membership with their gym. I think the price is less than half of what it normall is, so I should go for it. Fo reals.
Enough of that lets get onto the boring business of the day. I watched the Brothers Grimm. It was ok, glad I didn't pay to see it in the theaters though. I also went to see Pulse at the theater (got in for free!). I wouldn't have bothered to see it if Kristen Bell wasn't in it. Oh, Veronica Mars, how you've stolen my heart.
I've also been downloading Good Eats seasons 1-8. Alton Brown makes cooking fun and interesting. Plus, he has a show where he did a home brewed beer, which I really wanna check out. Speaking of home brewing, I'm still in search of a decent stainless steel pot. I think I'm gonna run by Sears and see if they have one. I really need to get it soon, because I was planning on starting my brewing tomorrow! It's gonna take like a month for this thing to go through fermentation, bottling, and the carbonation process. I wants my beer as soon as possible!
I'm looking forward to classes starting on Monday. I didn't get much of a summer break, but the week I've had off I haven't done anything productive. I feel bad about that. At least when school is in session, I'll have plenty to do. Especially if I get that environmental engineering internship at TVA. Everyone cross their fingers, think happy thoughts, and send them my way so I can get the job. I'll lurve you forever if you do. |
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| Mmm, mmm, mmm, beer! |
[Aug. 16th, 2006|05:28 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  geeky | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Bravery - Fearless | ] |
I hate Walmart; cheap plastic crap being sold at unreasonable prices. Not to mention the fact that they drive off smaller businesses. With that out of the way, I went to their piece of shit store in search of a large (~4-5 gallon) stainless steel kettle/pot/cauldron. I have this brand spanking new home brew kit that is begging to be used, but I need something to boil the malt, hops, and other flavorful things in. It can't be aluminum either, or I'd be set. Anyways, Crapmart didn't have what I was looking for, so I didn't have to support that evil empire. I am at a loss of where to get one though. I've looked around. Maybe I'll have to go a restaurant supply store and pay and outrageous (I'm assuming) price for one. Boo to that I say, boo!
On a brighter note, I did find a little hole in the wall beer and tobacco place that had some decently priced better than average beer. I picked up a six pack of Sierra Nevada Porter. Now, I know a porter is a dark beer, but what I wasn't expecting was it to be so stout. Don't get me wrong, I could handle the beer, but it was almost on par with Guinness.
Speaking of dark beers, did you know they're better for you? Nutritionally, beer can contain significant amounts of magnesium, selenium, potassium, phosphorus, biotin, and B vitamins. Typically, the darker the brew, the more nutrient dense. That little tid-bit was stolen from wikipedia.org. I didn't feel like going into the research involved in explaining further. There have been recent studies showing beer to be just as good for you as a glass of wine. Also, for you binge drinkers out there, drinking about 4 cups of coffee will help reduce the likelihood of forming cirrhosis. Which I find to be odd, because I thought the diuretics from the caffeine would make the liver and other related organs work harder. But then again, what do I know, I'm certainly not a scientist. |
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| je t'aime the valley OH! |
[Jun. 13th, 2004|12:19 am] |
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| | Pennywise - Now I know | ] |
So, I was eating at Chili's tonight and you'll never guess who I heard on the radio there. Concrete Blonde. Really! I couldn't believe it either, but yeah, Johnette was serenading me while I ate. I was pleasantly surprised. And after that, the Gin Blossoms started playing, and I enjoyed my meal even more. Which is good, because I was eating alone. It sucks to eat alone.
Right now I should be doing something constructive. Exercising, reading, masturbating, something, but I'm just too lazy. Maybe I'll watch a movie. |
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| I was talking to Peachy Peach about Kissy Kiss |
[Jun. 12th, 2004|02:10 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | annoyed | ] |
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| | Pavement - Conduit for Sale! | ] |
To the extremely cute girl I kind of talked to tonight:
I'm sorry a retard. When you apologized for the weird make-up, saying you were experimenting with different styles, I wish I would have said anything up, "I've seen weirder things." About 30 seconds after I said that and you left, I was kicking myself for being so stupid.
I wanted to say something to the effect of, "It looks good on you" because it did. Instead my uneasiness and social ineptitude kicked in and I was made to look the fool.
So, why didn't I go back and talk to you? Because I am stupid and cowardly. Will I ever see you again? Probably not, much to my chagrin.
In other news. I haven't been around for the past few days because my old computer blew up. Well, not really, but it was overheating and it burned out the processor. So I went out and bought a new system. Now I'm $800 poorer, but much better off computer wise.
I got all the parts yesterday, and put it together today. It took me forever to install all the software and get all the updates (and I'm still missing a few of those). But at least I'm back in action again.
I guess that's it. not much has been going on. I did get a bunch of cds. 5 pixie cds, 2 yo la tengo cds, 6 descendant cds, a !!! cd, and a bunch of others. No no no, I didn't but all of them, a friend at work made them for me. My favorite is Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted. That's a really good album. Closely followed by all the Pixies stuff. Yeah, good times. |
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| Bleaarghhhh |
[Jun. 10th, 2004|12:08 am] |
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| |  discontent | ] |
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| | !!! - Feel good hit of the fall | ] |
What's my problem? I mean, really. Not only am I shy IRL, I'm also shy on forums, blogs, emails, etc... Why can't I enjoy the anonymity of the internet? I lurk, read posts, journals and the like, but I hardly ever participate. I've noticed a lot of people will say something completely random, and then everyone else will jump in and continue with the derailment of the topic. That's cool and all, I wish I could do that, but nothing like that ever comes to mind. I always sit and stare at the monitor, thinking about what I could say, on or off topic, and it's like my thought process shut down, until I skip the thread and go off to read another one. Bleh.
And like I said, this happens IRL too. I can't hold up my end of a conversation. I listen well enough, but well, that's not too fun for the other person(s). And I feel bad for this, so I try and avoid people, conversations, confrontations of any kind. But that drives me crazy, because I need hu-man interaction.
Heh, this really is a blog sorta thing. Reminds me of the "Get a blog" threads I never participated in. Hell, I'm lurking on boards right now. Ok, enough of this. Time for some comics or something. I can't look at this screen any longer. |
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| How could you have known? |
[Jun. 1st, 2004|10:01 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | sympathetic | ] |
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| | DieRadioDie - The Bartender | ] |
A friend of a friend killed himself the other day. My friend, he's taking it kinda of hard (who wouldn't in this kind of situation?). Though I'm trying to reassure him that there probably wasn't much he could do.
I know when I was feeling suicidal, that I went out of my way to act like nothing was the matter around friends and family. If they thought something was up, I knew they would try and stop me/help me. When you want to kill yourself, you don't anyone offering advice or trying to help. You just want to kill yourself and be done with it.
I talked to people about how I felt, but only to online friends. And only those who didn't know where I lived, or didn't have too much information about me in general.
I'm can feel pretty sure that this is probably what happened in the friend of a friends case. Because everyone says they thought everything was ok with Michael. He seemed like he didn't have a care in the world (and really, once you've resigned yourself to this train of though, you don't have any cares).
So, I'm trying to convince my friend that there probably wasn't anything he could have done. There were no signs for him to follow, he's not psychic, there just no way for him to have known. I don't think it's much consolation though, and I'm not going to push the idea on him. He'll either realize it or he won't. |
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