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These last few days have been rather unusual. Perhaps. Maybe just more boring, but even that would qualify for uniqueness.

Tuesday morning I accomplished an incredible amount of tasks. Went to the gym. Shower. Got a haircut. Went to the emporium for studying. Got groceries. And was back before 11:15. That’s insane. The worst part, however, was that I had completely wiped everything from my list to-do. So the rest of the day was simply drab. I sat around studying without any break or relief and I tried reading… in vain because…well because something. Somehow Tuesday really killed me mentally.

And today was just sluggish. It rained Tuesday and today. I need summer now. These 40 degF temps are vulgar.

On a sunny note, I ::heart:: dark chocolate KitKats. I got them a couple weeks ago, but I’ve been letting them chill in my refrigerator. Cold chocolate is optimal.

They’ve ridded our campus of Pepsi iTunes bottles. I suppose the contest ends a few weeks early for us. Although, the grocery stores around here still have a few left. Oh well. It was great fun while it lasted. Good fun.

I’m really shot right now so I’m not expecting to come up with anything brilliant to go on about. I could use some sleep. And a Frappucino. And five hundred dollars. And then sleep.

::sigh::

Day one of my organized life was rather fulfilling. I used my Clié on several occasions to remind myself to do things later. Rather, to get specific things done later because the current moment was filled. Regardless, I feel better knowing that I don’t have to fool myself into thinking I can remember all of this random stuff that runs through my brain desiring a spot in my hall of memory.

People who bash iTunes and iPods are often very ignorant and foolish. On several occasions I’ve heard people going off on the iPod because it only plays music from the iTunes Music Store. How lame! First, get a life, and then get informed. Now I watch this and am even more upset at the caliber of Americans today. For those of you not utilizing a broadband connection, the link is a video of a man who vandalizes dozens of iPod street ads on tape after he calls an Apple Support center and is told the replacement battery costs $255. First, he couldn’t have called the Apple Support people because no Apple rep is not learned enough in the basics to know that an iPod replacement battery is $99. Arg. Senseless bashing against Apple is so 1998. At least there wasn’t any Y2K with Apple…

So I’m trying a new design that I’ve continually put off launching. More/less due to my studies here at Tech. Simply no time to take care of business. But it’s up now and here for the world to love. And hate. In equilibrium I hope.

The Discovery of Heaven is so good. I’m ever-so-slowly progressing through it at my elementary reading rate.

Life should taste as good as a Ryan Harne.

Friday night some of Abigail’s friends went out to get ice cream. They brought back the requests people had made. Abigail requested this one type of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream with chocolate fudge, caramel, marshmallows, and these chocolate fish embedded into the mix. Woah. Woah! That is the best ice cream ever. Apart from homemade, vanilla ice cream, that is. So yeah, I liked Friday night.

I must, however, explain my reason for splurging with that wonderful bliss of iced cream: I had just gotten out of my Physics 2305 test. This would imply that my week of studying, sleepless nights, and my horribly restless Friday afternoon was over. Thus, I had ice cream. This also means that I missed valuable laying-out-in-the-sun time on Friday afternoon as well (70 degF weather was nice). That last loss made me angry, but the ice cream was my reward. And the test wasn’t that hard anyways.

Saturday was spent en locatione in Roanoke. Lucy, Maggie, Abigail and I went to Valley View Mall for the afternoon. That was great fun. I got some shirts from Express (The Sale) and a shirt at the GAP. After our slightly fruitful attempts at finding good deals (and good clothes) we left for some dinner. Our wait was moderate, but our service exquisite. A lady from my MultiVar class was our waitress. So she gave us endless supplies of breadsticks. Infinite breadsticks.

Next was a random run to B&N for some Starbucks. Then an even more impulsive decision to go see Starsky & Hutch. Perhaps in a tie with Zoolander, S&H is the best Stiller & Wilson film. And it’s always nice to somehow add in the original characters themselves for sentimental value. Definitely a DVD buy; but I also need to get Zoolander too…

I have made a point to myself that I need to be more diverse in my blogging to appease more than myself with this journalling. The clear reason why my self-correspondence has become so staple is that I haven’t been carrying around my Clié to note what other topics I want to mention during blogs. I.E. things that get discussed in class, things that people mention off-hand, etc. and the like. So I will be sure to throw my handheld in my backpack on my daily routine. Sounds good.

And this week will be the launch of the new site. Sorry for delays, but I do need to study for tests and such.

I’ve also made note that I need to get a haircut. I have quickly discovered a distaste for long hair on me. On the contrary, however, I have a new love for Ben Jerry’s ice cream, and will make more notes, both mental and physical, to keep a close stock of it on hand.

Today has been extraordinarily long. I’ve been studying all day. Yesterday was spent doing homework. Tomorrow night I have my huge physics test. Still more studying to do. No sleep to go on. No sleep. At least not yet. I’ll get some tonight.

It’s suddenly warmer here. Today was delightfully in the 60s. Although the B-burg breeze tends to knock the temperature down a few, it was still sunny and enjoyable. But as mentioned, my unfortunate schedule did not allow me any free-time today to spend outdoors. Perhaps tomorrow will be more available for earthly interest, perhaps not.

Anyways, I have much studying to do.

Oh, and I’ve decided to apply for a mentorship for the fall semester next year. It will be some good experience I believe. I hope. So yeah.

I’m really tired and need sleep, so I sleep now.

“Human beings are smaller than the universe in approximately the same proportion as the smallest particle is smaller than the human being, thus man is the center of the universe.” - a paraphrase of a very startling theory in The Discovery of Heaven

Only such a word could be used to describe today. It has consisted entirely of calculations done by me or a calculator that I’ve somehow implemented in some form or fashion.

16 - the number of exercises I did at the gym this morning. It’s been a while since I’ve done a complete workout, thus my time of completion was rather extensive. But it’s done and I felt great post-working out.

4 - the number of hours I spent at the Math Emporium today. All for studying and actually taking my second linear algebra test.

3 - the number of hours my iPod’s battery lasted before it nearly stopped working at the emporium. Admittedly, I am very slack about charging it ever, so the 25% of battery power it had getting there lasted longer than I had expected.

100 - the number of points, out of 100, that I received on my test after 4 hours of studying

30 - the number of seconds it took me to escape the math emporium

4 - the number of guards stationed at the entranceway of the emporium. Since it is not expected for students to ever leave this portion of Tech’s campus, the exits are a bit tricky to come by. But I am really cool and sneaky so I got out.

15 - the number of minutes I had to go from the emporium to my multiVar calc class. Somehow I made it, and had time to get food.

11 - the number of free songs I’ve won from the Pepsi iTunes giveaway.

9 - the quantity of unfinished multiVar problems I have left in my homework.

19 - the number of credits in my courses I am taking next semester (fall ‘04). However, that’s actually about 22 hours of work; one particular lab is 3 hours but counts for only 1 credit…lame.

26 - the most rockin’est number of all.

I’ll likely be awake for about another 7 hours doing work and such in preparation for another long day. Just too much to do. And I’m looking into the possibility of being an engineering mentor for next year. I think that would be fun, or something related to fun. Anyways. This has been my blog. Goodnight.