I can't wait!

Guh. Sooo what's been going on. Friiiiiday night three transient teens spent a couple hours here. Crazy, yes? Apparently my roomie and his girlfriend met them from our balcony, as they were walking two dogs on the sidewalk below, and invited them up. Danica was over cos I guess I was going to help her pick a graduate school, although we never got around to doing exactly that. But she seemed thoroughly freaked about the transients being over here. The one guy and his girl were nice people, although the other guy was extreeeemely shady, and the other two said as much about him. Then two friend's of my roomie came over and decided to stay. Apparently the three transients were following the Grateful Dead around or something along those lines. We learned quite a bit from 'em. It was an interesting experience, to say the least.

Saturday I watched the Virginia Tech/North Carolina game with Danica. But she seemed fairly involved in looking over graduate schools. She didn't even realize we had won the game. :( But, yeah, we escaped from that one. Wouldn't have been too close if our special teams hadn't allowed that blocked punt which resulted in a TD. Hurrah for beating the team that beat Miami? Was disappointed that Oklahoma escaped from Texas A&M. Later, I got to watch in smug satisfaction as Clemson trounced Miami at the Orange Bowl that night. Then I went over to campus and to Danica's room to bug her until she kicked me out.

Didn't do much Sunday. Didn't do much today. After having the past couple of weeks filled with studying and tests and stuff, it feels reaaally weird to not have anything big to do. Kinda have the feeling that I'm forgetting something, but I doubt it.

Did well on my Public Econ exam. Had my 2nd Environmental Econ exam last Thursday. Our professor said the exam was going to be easier than the first, but I didn't think it was. At least when it came to the multiple choice questions.

Talked to Amanda for a bit yesterday. She might be coming up to campus with her sister, which would be aweeeeeeesome. So we'll see about that.

Nothing too exciting. After temperatures going back up to the 70s, things are cooling off again. It's supposed to be going down into the 30s tonight, so that's nice.

Halo 2 is coming out next week. My friends are planning a huge multiplayer party when it does. And just walking around dorms you can hear a lot of people playing the first Halo... maybe in prep for the second one.

Awesome. Four more years of a completely dishonest administration, a national debt spiraling out of control, and a multitude of other problems! Can't wait.

On the brightside, copied and pasted from elsewhere:
- Obama, sweet sweet Obama
- Bush victory means Republicans deal fully with the legacy of Iraq war
- 54.5 million people AREN'T anti-gay, anti-free speech, anti-abortion, and pro-war
- Even in TEXAS there are almost three million people who feel this way, so the country isn't doing that bad
- Zell Miller is no longer relevant to anything ever again.
- Crazy ass Tom Coburn got elected along with mental case Bunning which provides not one but two opportunities for a Trafficant Republican
- California got the stem cell funding approved

It's been a whirlwind of a weekend, I guess.

Thursday night was our game at Georgia Tech. I had to turn the game off before halftime, since we were down 17-7. So I went back to studying in my room and had the boxscore up on my computer. Eventually the fourth quarter came and there was a roar from the other apartments all over Foxridge. That was when we had that absolutely amazing comeback rally in the last 5 1/2 minutes. So we all watched the end of the game and the win over GT.

Friday was the day of the test. 15 questions in 50 minutes.. kinda sucked. But I think I did pretty well. Talked with a guy in the class beforehand, since he apparently went to the game at Atlanta the night before, then drove back. I suppose all the damn reading I had to due over the week and the four hours of sleep I got took a lot out of me, since I was completely gone Friday night. Danica kept calling me and trying to get me to come to a party, but I was passed out. :( She was none too pleased.

Saturday... I think I played Evil Genius quite a bit. And ate. And talked to Danica. And then went to see my sister in the live performance of the Rocky Horror Picture Show with Danica. It was fun.

Today I did some homework and that's about that, really. Spent some time with Danica, since I don't get to see her very often during the weekday, and watched last week's episode of Lost. Gooood times.

And now, sleep.

This week kinda sucks. Been reading and reading and doing more reading.

Our Critial Reading class started on the various works of Edgar Allan Poe, and our professor assigned us way too much to read (even she said so). It was interesting to discover that Poe's Dupin and his detective stories predated that of Sherlock Holmes. The More You Know!, I guess.

Have a Public Economics exam tomorrow over 3 chapters covering about 230 pages of material. Yeeeees, fun. I guess I'm not that worried, since I did well on the previous exam and it wasn't too bad. The last class he had us write questions we think should be on the test, then he went over each on and told us if it would work and/or how he would word it, since he hadn't written the exam yet. We'll see.

Pressured by friends into signing up for that Thefacebook thing and got my profile somewhat made up. It was a more than welcomed diversion from reading copious amounts of material. Probably should have started on it after I'm done with my exam.

Finished my goddamn Frankenstein paper this morning at around 4am. God that sucked. I gave up what I was working on Wednesday because I wasn't very happy with the thesis and didn't think I could come close to getting six pages worth of material out of it. Plus I watched most of the Red Sox/Yankees game, whoops. So I spent yesterday working on how bad parenting was in Frankenstein. Spending half an hour around 3am talking to Kate about Sherlock Holmes probably didn't help matters much, but at that time of the night I was dazed and confused.

Blah blah blah.

Well, this week started off wonderfully (heeeaaavy sarcasm). Over the weekend I sent an email to my Director of Undergraduate Studies detailing my DARs problem. She merely forwarded it to the undergraduate advisor, the same person who didn't fix it the last two times she told me she would, but this time she did fix it. And then she sent me an email ten minutes later telling me that I'm now missing one econ elective. Yes, apparently my ECON 3104 was counted twice on by DARs, even though it was red-flagging it as not having been completed, so when it was finally fucking fixed I'm now down an in-major elective. It's absolutely amazing. I couldn't graduate because DARs was red-flagging a course that I completed and now I can't graduate because DARs fucked up again. My advisor and the undergraduate advisor both looked at my schedule last semester and told me I'd have enough credits to graduate after this fall, but apparently I now do not. If she fixed the problem last semester like she told me she would, I wouldn't be having this problem as it would have presented itself in enough time for me to fix it. So... we'll see what happens. It looks like they actually want me to stay another semester to take one class that I was told I didn't need. Fuckers.

Have six to eight page essay to turn in this Friday. Hurrah.

Dad is coming down Friday till Saturday. Mom is coming down Saturday till Sunday. Fun stuff.

It looks like Jess and Matt broke up. It kinda surprised me, since I didn't really expect it to happen after everything that's happened. I talked with Jess a little bit yesterday and she seems okay. But I worry about her. I hope she'll get through her midterms and things will start looking up. And I hope her Red Sox beat the damn Yankees. I don't even like MLB, yet I hate the Yankees.

Saw Garden State at the Lyric with Danica and some of her friends. It was a really good movie and I enjoyed it a lot. It had a really good soundtrack, too. I didn't completely like Zach Braff (he played Largeman, the main character). I think he may have done a little too much by writing, directing AND being the main star of his film. He didn't seem very comfortable as an actor, especially opposite Natalie Portman, but I guess that might have been more of a trait of the character. Who knows. It's still a really good movie.

Nothing of much importance happened this school week. Wednesday I had my Civil War exam and it went.. okay. Wasn't quite as I expected it to be. But whatever. Friday I missed my two morning classes as I slept right through them. Didn't get much sleep that night.

Danica came over yesterday. We talked for a while about things. Had her watch the four episodes of Lost that have aired. Hopefully she'll now be addicted to the show like I am. Then she stayed the night. I'm not exactly sure what is going between me and her. I dunno what's going on in her head, so I'm just approaching things slowly. Cryptic, I'm sure, but details would be for a private entry. :P But I feel quite happy around her; she's fun to be with and to talk to. Braved gameday traffic to drop her off at campus. Wasn't that bad, actually. Although maybe Southgate bares the brunt of traffic.

The Virginia Tech homecoming game was today against Florida A&M. Since we're not in the top 25 and Florida A&M is.. well.. Florida A&M, the game wasn't televised at all. So I just periodically checked the live boxscore on CNNSI while wishing Kansas State to beat Oklahoma. So we beat them badly. Apparently, at one point, FA&M had a first down on our one yard line. They couldn't get it into the endzone on first, second, third OR fourth down. Amazing. They went scoreless against VT.

And I finally made myself pancakes today. Hurrah.

The Wake Forest game was.. interesting. I was hoping it wouldn't be that close of a game, towards the end. Hopefully we'll play better against Florida A&M next weekend. Texas-OU was disappointing; I was hoping Texas would finally trounce OU.

Watched the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka last night. It's a great track to hold a grand prix. After an earthquake and typhoon hit the area over the weekend, the race ended up being held in the sunshine with a completely dry track (other than a puddle under the bridge). It was also the first time in Formula 1 history that qualifying was held on the some day as the race. Michael Schumacher extended his various records with a first place finish, but it was disappointing to see Barrichello taken out of the race after a collision with Coulthard that took them both out. And it was Panis' last race as a full-time competitor, so that leaves Schumi as the oldest driver out there.

Got a letter from Jess yesterday. Sooo I need to write her back asap. It was great getting a letter from her. Seems that she's moving out of her apartment to another one, so I wish her the best of luck in that and that the rest of the year will be better off for her. I'm looking forward to seeing her again, but it probably won't be till Thanksgiving.

Was also looking forward to making pancakes now, but I have the wrong pancake mix. So that idea is nixed. On to making something else.

Another lovely week. Decided to check my DARs report and the problem with my ECON course still hasn't been fixed. So it looks like I'll have to schedule an appointment with someone next week (since they've yet to get a new advisor to replace mine that left) and yell at them about it. Ugh.

We got our Environmental Economics exams back last Thursday. Out of 101 points, the average was 70.3, the highest grade as a 96 and the lowest a 33. 6 people got a 90% or better, 22 got between 80% and 89%, 26 got between 70% and 79%, 24 got between 60% and 69%, 17 got between 50% and 59%, and 4 people got below a 50%. You could hear people moaning when he started writing and telling us the distribution of grades. He was disappointed with the grades and expected most of the class to get an 80% or better, as past classes have, so he decided that the exam was indeed too hard, dropped the overall points from 101 to 99 and said the next test should be better. He doesn't like grading hard because the class isn't designed to weed anyone out, so why stress everyone out. I got an 80/99, so, if the class had ended then and there, I would have been a point shy of an A. But with all the extra credit he has given out, I would get that A. So I'm not very worried about the subsequent exams.

Been reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley for my Critical Reading class. For someone who has only seen the B-level horror movies based on the story and things like that, the book is very, very different. But I suppose all books and movies generally are. I really hate the character of Victor Frankenstein. He spends months creating the creature, gives it life, and then freaks the fuck out when it lives. He just takes off and hides in his room, while the creature is still in his lab, and... TRIES TO GO TO SLEEP. What!? So he can't sleep, wakes up and the creature is in his room, he freaks out again and hides in another building until morning. Instead of trying to find his creature, Frankenstein walks around Ingolstadt and happens upon his childhood friend who came to visit. He then collapses due to a "nervous fever" and spends a couple months under his friend's care. He then recovers from this "nervous fever" and, instead of then trying to find his creation, Frankenstein spends another couple months studying foreign languages with his friend. Meanwhile the creature is beaten by villagers, shot at after saving a woman from drowning, and then spends months hiding beside a cottage and learning the French language and whatnot before suffering again at the hands of humans. The rest of the story is the creature exacting his revenge upon Frankenstein, while Victor bitches, whines, moans, spends more months afflicted by a "nervous fever" which I'm sure is all in his head. I'm guessing my paper is somehow going to be about how much I hate Frankenstein and how he blames everything on his creation.

Also finished reading The Ultimate Hitchiker's Guide. The ending in Mostly Harmless was not what I was expecting. I couldn't believe what had happened. I kinda like the first two books the most, what with all the characters generally together. Then everyone just goes off their separate ways, Zaphod Beeblebrox just disappears, etc. After doing a little looking online, it seems Douglas Adams wasn't too happy with </i>Mostly Harmless</i> either (his editor moved in with him to pressure him into finishing the story?) and just might have been thinking of continuing the story. It's too bad he died, however. It would have been nice to see the story end the way he really intended.

Might be doing something with Danica... sometime this weekend, I think.

Hmm

Had my Environmental Economics exam last Thursday and I got sick the day before. So I wasn't feeling my best when it came time for the exam. There was about twenty minutes left in class and most of the class was still there taking the exam, which illicited a remark from our professor along the lines of "it's kind of making me nervous that you all are still here." Apparently he thought the exam was easy, but it wasn't what I, nor I imagine everyone else, expected it to be. So we'll see. Got my Public Economics exam back and I was right about getting those three questions wrong. I also got half off another question that I thought I nailed. So I ended up getting a B, along with a majority of the class.

Went by Lisa's room yesterday to pick up something from her and Danica was there. So we headed back to her room and talked for a bit before she had to go to services. Afterwards she came over to my apartment and we spent six hours talking and watching television with Nathan and Stacy. We never really got on the subject of what happened. I imagine we'll eventually touch on that sometime. I did find out that she broke up with her boyfriend (or he broke up with her, I'm not sure) and now he's dating her roommate. That piqued my interest in just how the hell that happened, but I didn't want to broach the subject since I wasn't sure if she really wanted to get into it. Seemed like she didn't. So... I guess things are better between us. I was edgy about the whole thing, but turned out the opposite and I had a nice time. Any animosity I still had just disappeared around her.

Watched some of the VT-WVU game today. I loved the blocked punt returned for field goal by Fuller and then Fuller sealing the game by intecepting the ball in WVU's last-ditch drive. But I turned off the TV and went off to do something else when Randall through the interception for a WVU touchdown. That hurt. Our offense wasn't doing all that well, with all of our points coming from field goals and the defensive touchdown. Happy to see the defense doing well, though. Hopefully the rest of our games will go well.

Blah blah blah what's been happening this week.

Was up till about 4am on Monday night/Tuesday morning working on my Critical Reading paper. It eventually ended up being a seven page paper on how Shakespeare weaved an anti-Marxist agenda into the characters and/or plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Meh, whatever. I'm kinda looking forward more to the next novel we're reading, Frankenstein.

Friday I had my Public Economics exam. It was over nearly 200 pages of material condensed into twelve short answer questions. And the professor wasn't even there to hand it out, as we flew to London on Wednesday. But the exam went fairly well, I think (jinx jinx jinx jinx). There was only about two and a half questions I wasn't entirely sure I got right. And with 50% of the class getting A's and B's when curved, I think I came out ahead. We'll see.

Unblocked Danica a couple of days ago. She sent me an email wanting to spark up our friendship again, shortly thereafter. I dunno. I'm sort of torn on the issue. Part of me would like to pick up some semblance of a friendship, while another part keeps nagging in the back of my head about things. Just approach things cautiously...

Had a party over here on Saturday night from 8pm till around 2:30am. Imagine my surprise when Anthony showed up in boots, short shorts, a way too small child's Darth Vader top, and a Darth Vader mask. We got him to answer the door like that when the pizza guy showed up. Ahh.

Watched the Chinese Grand Prix. Poor Michael Schumacher. But a great win for Rubens Barichello. Wonder how Japan will turn out now.

It was in the 40s this morning. I thought twice about getting out of bed and attending my History of the Civil War class, but I made it anyway. Looks like fall is here and it's not going to get any warmer, at least in the mornings, for the time being.

Friday the remnants of Ivan blew through. Wasn't too bad as the rain came in spurts. I did hydroplane past a stop sign as I was coming back from campus, but I was luckily in a position where I couldn't hit anyone unless there was a car in front of me, which there wasn't. Then later I was coming back to Foxridge and hit traffic on Price's Fork. Apparently an 18-wheeler was attemping to turn left onto Price's Fork from the off-ramp of US 460, so he'd have to cross two lanes of traffic to do so. Well he made it halfway before someone in a black car decided to lodge his or her vehicle underneath the trailer. So the trailer was left blocking the entire portion of Price's Fork heading towards Foxridge. We had to drive across a sidewalk to get around the wreck.

Spent Saturday watching college football. Virginia Tech trounced Duke, as would be expected. Here's hoping to a similar result against North Carolina State next weekend. Saw some of LSU's loss and was hoping for a similar upset against USC against BYU, but it didn't happen. I hope OU gets there ass kicked sometime soon. I hate OU and their QB. Also saw the last few minutes of Florida vs. Tennessee. What a bullshit call from the refs against Florida. There should have been two penalties called that would offset each other and Tennessee would never have been able to get into field goal range. Florida was robbed.

Watched Donnie Darko, yet again, and Kill Bill Vol. 2 on Friday and Saturday with Nathan and Stacey. On Saturday, around 1:30am, there was some fight outside in the parking lot behind our apartment. There must've been some thirty or more people out there in the parking lot watching this two guys go at it. One was some white wigger with his shirt off trying to act tough and the other guy was some hick in a cowboy hat. Ah, the south is awesome. Nothing much happened, some blows were traded, lots of verbal barbs thrown back and forth, some girl was trying to break it up, and finally the cops came and everyone ran like rats. A lone cop was left on the sidewalk underneath our kitchen window; he shone his flashlight around, shrugged his shoulders and left.

Have a Critical Reading paper on A Midsummer Night's Dream due this Thursday. Have to do a rough draft for tomorrow and I haven't even started on it. Then I have a Public Economics test on Friday, which I have over 150 pages to read for. I have no idea how he's going to structure the test. The last two classes, and Wednesday's class, have been review, yet nothing much has been reviewed. Today he spent like twenty minutes talking about secession in regards to Chechnya and the American Civil War. So weird.

Skipped my Intro to Critical Reading class today. We finished watching A Midsummer Night's Dream, so I imagined that today would've been filled with wonderful busy writing work and other crap I didn't really feel like doing. So I decided to skip.

Went to my Environmental Economics class with my sister today. The professor opened class telling us about how, around the time the Unabomber was still sending bombs to college professors, he received a very beat up package with no return address. He called an associate up and the guy told him to poke the box with a broom handle while he was still on the phone and if he heard it explode he'd call the police for him. Turns out it was just a box full of surgical gloves for his wife.

Working on a Public Economics homework right now. It's horrible.

Not much going on... yet again. Spent most of last weekend watching college football games. What a difference four years makes. Came in my freshman year not caring at all about college football and now I watch the televised Hokie games and some games of other teams. Our team crushed the Western Michigan Broncos in a 63-0 victory, bringing the 3-game tally against them to something around 124-0. We played very well against #1 USC in our first game of the season (and were originally scheduled to go against LSU the week immediately afterward), so I'm having hopes that the team won't self-destruct towards the end of the season. But it seems to happen, anyway.

Ordered the Onkyo HT-S670 home theater system (in silver) last week. Got here in roughly two days, which was nice. I had to help the FedEx guy carry the 112 lbs. box it came in. I'm very pleased with the receiver and speakers. Went with Nathan the following day to Home Depot to get nine cinderblocks to use as speaker stands (since I wasn't about to shell out even more money for over-priced stands). Got everything set up and then yesterday there's another FedEx delivery... apparently Onkyo sent me two free speaker stands. I was pleasantly surprised. So now the living room looks like this:

Those speakers pump out a lot of power and sound. It's niiiice.

Saw Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Apparently it was Alexander Witt's first movie as director and I hope it stays that way. Resident Evil wasn't exactly the greatest movie, but it was very decent. RE:A falls short of the first movie. Lots of quick camera cuts, scenes that don't make sense except to set up some trite action sequence, etc. The premise of the movie, being trapped inside Racoon City with zombies and the Nemesis, had so much promise, but they fucked it up. I don't know if Paul W.S. Anderson could've done better (he turned down filming this movie to do Alien vs. Predator) since he wrote the script or if the script just that bad and the first movie's script/direction was a bit of a fluke.

In the area of classes: don't have a Civil War exam till the middle of October. Nice. The professor is great. Environment Econ has an exam in the next week or two, and I'm really enjoying that class still. Intro to Critical Reading is going okay, but I think the professor is having us do way too much, way too fast, and even she conceded that point. Public Economics is as boring as ever. And then there's the first exam in my Public Relations class tomorrow which I haven't studied for. So I simply dropped the class. I don't need the class to graduate, I thought I'd learn something new and interesting in that class but I haven't, and the professor is horrible. And I mean horrible. I wouldn't be surprised if the reason he's teaching here is because he was fired from whatever unforunate public relations company originally hired him (since he keeps going on and on about the places he's worked at in Florida).

Aaaaand it's been a while again. Classes have been going well, so far. Even though the History of the Civil War class is at 9:05am it's actually interesting and doesn't make me (or anyone else that I could see) fall asleep. So I'm thinking of sticking with it, since it's been going well and, because it's an early morning class, I can actually find parking easily. The class after history, however, is a different story. It's my Public Economics class which I need to complete to graduate. The professor is a nice, old gentleman and means well, but the class is so incredibly boring. Hell, the book hasn't been too bad so far, but the lecture is just horribly boring. But I gotta stick with it.

On the other days, my Intro to Critical Reading has been going well. We haven't even finished A Midsummer Night's Dream, but I'm getting tired of it. I've seen the play put on by my sister and the drama department last year and enjoyed it, but the olde English is kinda grating on my nerves. Can't wait to move on to one of the other novels. Environmental Economics is simply awesome. The professor is fantastic and, to put it in persepective it's an hour and fifteen minute class while my Public Economics course is just fifty minutes, yet the former feels like it goes by in thirty minutes. It's just a great class. Not so sure about my Public Relations/Communications class. Don't really like the professor and his Powerpoint presentations are terrible.

Other than that, been out with friends, talked to people, yadda yadda yadda, whatever. Been watching the Daily Show's presentation of the Republican National Convention. This election is.. quite a spectacle. The faux caskets paraded through NYC was a powerful image, especially when the Bush Administration has actively prevented the media from presenting the public images of the real caskets of soldiers killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan. "What you can't see, can't hurt you", thanks Bush Admin. And Zell Miller is a fucking lunatic.

( Apartment pics! )

It's beeeen a while. Pretty much moved everything into the apartment. Nothing too exciting. I suppose pictures of my room and the apartment will be forthcoming, once I can obtain the digital camera from my sister. The apartment is quite nice and I almost can't imagine how four people could fill up a four bedroom apartment. It doesn't look like the den here is going to see much use as it is currently just being used for the odd piece of furniture and no one ever goes in there.

Classes haven't been bad, so far. Commuter parking, on the other hand, is horrible. Trying to find a space after 10:30am is almost a joke. Parking Services probably sells as many parking passes as possible with no relation to the number of spaces available on campus. But I signed up for a history class on Monday/Wednesday/Friday at 9:05am, so parking won't be a hassle then. Tuesday and Thursdays look a bit sketchy; managed to find a space on the other side of campus from where I wanted to be last Tuesday and we'll see what happens again tomorrow.

My schedule (so far):
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: First class is History of the Civil War at 9:05am. Just added that in yesterday for the hell of it. Helps out with parking and the professor's rating is pretty good. I believe he's a fairly famous Civil War historian who does a lot of interviews and consulting on the subject. Second, and last, class is Public Economics. Once again the professor has high ratings. Doesn't seem like a bad class so far and has mostly been on the subject of theory rather than mathematics.
Tuesday & Thursday:
First class is Intro to Critical Writing. My writing intensive course I need to graduate. The professor is really nice and it seems like it'll be a fun class. We're reading A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the collected works of Edgar Allan Poe. I enjoy and have previously read some of Poe's work, I don't mind Shakespeare at all, and I've already read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Class feels quite a bit like my honors english class my freshman year here, which is good since I really enjoyed that class. We'll just see how the critical writing bit goes, though. My second class is my second econ elective I need to graduate and I'm taking Environmental Economics. Not quite sure what to make of the class. It's a 4000 level course, yet the class is consists of over one hundred students, not all of whom are econ majors. Last class he was talking about how much market value one could place on a killer whale. Hmm. And my last course is Public Communication. Don't need to take it, but it seems like a fairly valuable course to help me in the business world which I'll soon be delving into. The professor seems a tad arrogant.

And I guess that's about it. Try to get some pictures taken of this place shortly. Wondering when Jess will get back and online so I can talk to her. It's been a couple weeks since she left. Hope everything went well, although I can imagine there were some.. difficulties in the trip and stay at Texas.

Been shopping mostly the last couple of days. Went back to IKEA, yet again, as they had a shelving unit that I wanted but didn't have in stock the last time we went. They still don't have the coffee table I was looking at getting, so I settled for this cheap, black plasticy/wood table thing as a temporary piece. And I've still yet to find myself a desk to use for my room.

Saw Jessica last Saturday before she left Sunday morning. She's going down with Matt to Texas and then flying back nearly two weeks later, so Saturday was the last time I'd see her till whenever we have a break that coincides, I guess. That and I probably won't get to talk to her till she gets back to ODU, which'll be about two weeks from now. Learned some more crazy relationship stuff involving her. Makes me feel bad for her, since she doesn't deserve being treated badly.

More family drama and problems flaring up earlier today. Tomorrow through moving in to Tech is going to be.. interesting. Ugh.

Hope things are going okay for Amanda (baaaates) with Hurricane Charley.