Scattered Thoughts

Graveyard, Classes, New Cell, IU Basketball, Graveyard….

That pretty much summed up my week last week.

Believe it or not, this is the second graveyard that I have worked this semester. I've subbed out two of them because of evening plans I had made. Two weekends ago, it was the Super Bowl. Last weekend was my 21st birthday. But anyway, I'm so freakin tired right now. I will have been awake almost 24 hours when I leave here to go home. I'll only be getting a 4 hour nap today because I have butt loads od homework to finish for Tuesday.

Last Thursday for me was interesting and very busy. I had my usual two classes…10:10 and 11:30. Both went really well. My religion class was the only one that had section that day. My english teacher was so sick that she couldn't make it through a phone call without puking twice. Yea, needless to say, we had a substitute in there on Thursday. All he did though was hand out the assignment paper that for the letter that is due Tuesday. That kinda makes me a bit ticked off becasue she could have done that over e-mail and I wouldn't have had to rush from my Religion and Ethics class (which let out late) to my english class, almost falling on the snow and busting my head open.

After I got my assignment handout, I headed over to the SRSC where I swam for a good 45 minutes at least. I felt really good leaving that place. It was good. I was feeling so good that I was craving a smoothie (sadly the smoothie king in the SRSC was closed). Since I had this enormus craving for a smoothie, I hauled my butt from the SRSC to the Union to the ATM where I got some cash, then down Kirkwood Ave for some good smoothie action.

My afternoon classes went as planned. R170 discussion was pointless. we do NOTHING important in there EVER! Math class, I doze off for a couple minutes, as usual. It just gets to be 3:15 in the afternon and I can't keep my eyes open. Java class….wow….I shouldn't even go to lecture. I already know Java and the class is basically in my schedule to get me my Java credits for Informatics, and for an easy A. It's a 4 credit hour class that is going to make my GPA look nice. A201 (Java) lab section was interesting. Stephen, Chris and I listened to this year's and last year's Marching Hundred CDs. Our lab instructor doesn't teach. It really annoys me. He sits there in his little rolly chair and comes around and asks us to design short little programs that don't do anything important (and they barely illustrate the concepts that we're supposed to learn in class). Having the programming expirence I have, the class is boring, but attendance is a part of it, so I take it as an hour where I can play with a comptuer and get better at some things.

Wow, so there was Thursday. Friday…I worked from 10 am to 4 pm. long day. At the end of my shift, Beth came and picked me up and took me to the mall. I got two new pair of pants form old navy with the $50 that my aunt gave me for christmas. While waiting on Beth to pick me up, my dad calls my cell asking me if he could come down right then and take me to the cell phone place to get me a new cell. So I said yea. I got one of the Nokia 8265s. My new number is 812.325.7884. Give me a call and we'll chat sometime.

My weekend was ok. IU lost to MSU at home. No more Basketball season for us. At least I'll get one trip with the band, the Big Ten Tournament. That's really depressing. But anyway, after the game, I went and had one of the best times I've had in a while at Kevin's place. It was fun. Sunday was probably the most unproductive day I've ever had, I messed around with my computer for about four hours, then played Warcraft III for four hours, then cooked Swiss Steak and Mashed Potatoes for dinner, then had to come to work. That brings us up to the current state of affairs.

That's all I got for now.

Quote of the day "Thank Jesus and Tom. I didn't know Tom and Jesus were buddies." — Tracie after figuring out some Java homework I helped her with.

Mac Fund — no change….$35.12

peace out yo

tm

Continued…

ok, so it's been a long time since I have finished my english story.

To make a longer story short, she wasn't serious. It was her way of starting a discussion about persuasion. It worked, yay for shock teaching methods (I don't even know if that exists or if I just made that up).

So here's the story of my 21st birthday…it's a pretty good one. I'll go through my whole day so you get the picture.

I wake up on saturday (Feb. 1 – the day before) and decide that I'm going to get some homework done. I work on my homework till around noon or somewhere within an hour of noon when my roomates wake up. We decided to play some Final Four 2003 on the PS2 for an hour or so. Following our quasi-tournament, I went to Cingular on Walnut Street to sign a new phone contract. If you're not familiar with this process, it involves photocopying of your liscence and running your credit histrory. Well, my credit history wasn't sufficient enough for me to sign a contract without paying a $300 deposit that I would get back in 12 months. I don't carry an extra $300 in my back pocket (I found out I was in the minority here *you can't convey sarcasm in text too well*).

So after the phone fiasco, I went home and relaxed for a while. I didn't really do anything till we watched Magnolia. During which, I was calling around to find some people to go out with me at midnight. I ended up going out with Rosemary and Ozzy. They came over to see the last 15 minutes or so of Magnolia (some of the freakiest film I have seen). Don't get me wrong, Magnolia is a great movie, just a little on the odd side. Anyway, I digress, we decided to go to Kilroy's on Kirkwood first. We get to the parking lot and we're all finding two pieces of ID so we can get in the bar. I open my wallet…no ID. Check my pockets….no dice. So here I am standing in the parking lot without ID wanting to go out at 12:01am to celebrate my birthday when the lightbulb that floats over everyone's head clicked on. My license was in the copy machine inside Cingular on Walnut Street… Silly Tom, forgot to leave with his license… I switch to problem solving mode… I hae my student ID, which has a picture on it…I don't have anything with my birthday on it… (this is when the small iridescent light bulb turns into a large halogen flood lamp) I HAVE A SMALL CERTIFIED COPY OF MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE!! WAHOO…now if only the bars will accept it.

I walked into the bar and gave the bouncer my ID and Birth Certificate. He asks for a different piece of ID, so I tell him my story about leaving it in the copy machine inside Cingular on Walnut Street. He looks at me kinda strangely and I'm thinking "He's not going to let me in, he's not going to let me in." He says "That's a pretty good story, and since you didn't hesitate, I'll let you in. Happy Birthday." Whew, what a relief. I get to celebrate my 21st with my friends.

To make the rest of the evening short, after Kilroy's we went to Sports (which, if you don't know, is a Kilroy's also). We met up with EBeth while we were there. She left before us to go to Bullwinkles with some friends. By the time I was leaving Sports, I was feeling the alcohol pretty heavily and aparently I agreed to go to Bullwinkles with Ozzy and Rosemary. We got there right before last call, so I had one shot and a beer, danced a bit, then we had to leave. While we were there, we met up with one of the guys that I went to high school with, JC. He invited us to his place afterward for an after party. I was there until a little after 5:00 am when I finally went home, and the rest is history.

Overall it was an enjoyable 21st birthday.

That's all I have for now.

Quote of the day
"How do you spell iridescent?" — me
"I don't know, I'll Google it. I wonder how many people use Google as their spell check." — Jacob
"Probably only super computer geeks." — me
"Or anyone who has a browser open and it's quicker than using word. I'm so hopeless." — Jacob
"I'm the same way." — me

Mac fund update – $35.12
I'm getting there, but slowly

word

tm