March 2004
3/30/04
I think today was decent, but I think that was only due to me getting both my tests back today in both my classes and doing well on them both. Even though I did have my 8 o'clock class, it wasn't too bad. We spent the first 20 minutes going over the test then the final 50 or so minutes going over problems, so lots of easy stuff. I was surprised to get a good grade on my Functional test, so that was good. I think he grades the tests really easy, so that's why I did well, but I'm not complaining. I'm fine with him doing that completely. Then we just worked on writing a few functions during class. So nothing too major. We have homework in there though which is to write some functions to hand in on Thursday. Nothing too hard. I don't think at least. I haven't really looked at the three of them to actually see if that's the case. I guess I'll find out tomorrow night when I sit down to do it. I don't feel like going to classes tomorrow. I'm starting to dislike Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays because my classes those days aren't my favorites whatsoever. I'm glad there's only 3 and a half weeks left. Well 4 with finals. I'm hoping that I'll be exempt from y functional final. My stats final will be cake as well as my french. So that leaves my software final and my architecture final. I'm not looking forward to those though. I am looking forward to this summer and the beach though. I thought I'd add that tidbit in. So back to the day, work was uneventful. I played Euchre for the most part. I came home after that and made myself spicy chicken fingers and watched Final Destination 2. I suppose it was an alright film. I mean the idea of the two films is orginal, but still, it's ridiculous in a way. I'd say it's worth at least one watch though, but not more than that. I've seemed to notice that I've been using the work "ridiculous" a lot lately. I'm not really sure why, but I seem to. I think I'll make that my word of the month or something. Sounds good to me. I also attempted to play America's Army some more today and I've gotten better I believe. I actually killed some more people today, so that's cool. Other than that, I did my french homework and watched tv. Oh yeah, Ashley called around 4 and I talked to her for awhile, so that was enjoyable. It was a ridiculously alright day...night
3/29/04
Can you believe I spent all day Sunday inside?? Yes, of course you can. I would have liked to have gone outside and messed around with my soccer ball, but my dad yells at me when I wear my spikes when the ground is soft, which is because they tear up the yard, so since I didn't do that, I stayed inside working on my one homework assignment and watching tv/playing video games. I have been trying to play this computer game that I got up at Cranberry, but it lags sort of bad with my slow connection, so it's sort of hard to do anything, like actually shoot someone. I've only killed one person, and that was with a grenade, so I suppose I'll still play it but not too often. I guess I was going to maybe get my bike in at the shed at my grandma's and fill the tires with air, but I never got around to it. I planned to do that then ride over to a place where's there are these big rocks and just stay there for awhile. Needless to say, that didn't happen. It's alright though. I can do it some other time. Today wasn't too bad I suppose. We had evaluations today in my software engineering class and I made sure to comment on how the prof. doesn't teach very well. Not like what I think will really change anything, but I made sure to say that. So that took up about 20 minutes of class. The rest of the time was spent in the lab messing around with the game project. We achieved our hurdle, even though we have lots of other problems with the game now. Oh well, I feel that since it's only 10% of our grade and I'm sure that I'll get at least 70% or better, then nothing too bad can happen. And being that we're spending the rest of the year working on it, then it'll just be like a nothing class I suppose. Architecture was boring like usual. Not even my awesome prof. can make that class interesting for me. But good news with him, he told me today that he was going to start practice for his soccer team this Saturday from 10-12. So I'm thinking that should be pretty fun. I think it's supposed to be sort of cold though, but it's alright. I'm looking forward to getting out there and getting into somewhat of a decent shape. It's up at the Clarion county park. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. We listened to some bad song today in french. It wasn't good at all. I hope I don't have to listen to it again. Mmmmm, spaghettio's for lunch, and french fries from Wendy's after. I'm so healthy. Mmmmmm, lasaugna for supper... I don't think I can spell Italian food correctly. Anyways, after work I spent about 2 hours in the lab working on the game project. We sort of got somewhere, but not really. We aren't even doing it right. All we're doing is editing a previously made game to fit our description. Cheating is fun. Tonight I did nothing and I felt good about it. I get my test back in stats tomorrow. I'm thinking it will be good. I doubt I'll get my test back in functional tomorrow. I don't think I did so good...night
3/27/04
I like to say once again that school really sux, but there's nothing I can do about that right now, or ever pretty much. Besides that though I guess things aren't too bad, not great though. Hmmm, I cleaned my church on Thursday being that my partner for my game project didn't show up to work on it. So I messed around with the code for about 45 minutes then left for my church. My test in my functional programming class sucked. I didn't like it at all, but hopefully he grades this one easy like he did with the last, otherwise I might not have done too great on it. We'll see though. Friday was better for the most part though. I didn't know what was going on till maybe around 1 in the afternoon. Tyler said that he and a few others were going up to Cranberry for a video game contest, so I thought I would tag along. I was supposed to pick Ben up before I headed out there, but I had to wait outside his dad's apartment for him to get there. Well it turns out that the manager of the place called the cops because she said I was looking suspicious. So I had to deal with that, but it wasn't too bad. The cop was cool about it. He seemed more pissed at the lady for calling than at me. So anyways, Ben got there about 5 minutes later and we headed to Tyler's to get him. Then out towards Knox to pick up Justin and then finally to Cranberry. So I didn't think I was going to be able to play at first, so I wasn't very happy about that, but then it turned out that the guys couldn't all play on the same team, so I did get to play. It was a pretty good time, and it was all free, free shirts, a free copy of the game, free food, and free pop. That was good and we also made it to the semi-finals which I thought was pretty good for never playing the game before. Afterwards we headed out to Subway which turned out to be a complete waste of a trip. We dropped Ben off out there though then took Justin home. Then Tyler and I just hung out at his place. We watched some porn that was on one of the movie channels there, and then South Park before I left. As I was about to leave I got a call from Ashley, who was ummm, drunk, which turned out to be bad in the end, but I believe that was all taken care of as far as I'm concerned. I suppose today wasn't too bad either. I got up fairly early for a Saturday though, 9:30, and messed around with the game I received yesterday. Then I had to go to a cemetery and help my dad clean up big broken tree limbs and other brush. So it wasn't too great, but the weather was nice, so I suppose it was alright. Afterwards I just came home and talked to Ashley for about an hour and a half on the phone. Then I got showered and stuff before Keith came out around 5:45. We had a good turkey dinner. Afterwards we spent a good deal of the night playing ping pong in my basement. Mole never showed up, so we just messed around and didn't really play a game. Then we watched tv the rest of the night. So I suppose it's been a decent weekend. On tomorrow's schedule, trying to BS my way through this damn assignment in architecture which I think is a complete waste of my time, but I guess I need to get it done. Yes, I hate school because of stupid things like this, and there's not a damn thing I can do about it...night
3/24/04
Another entry, but only 2 days apart this time. Wow, I'm on the ball. So school is starting to suck pretty bad like it usually does when we get into the last third of the semester. It seems that I'm getting horrible assignments that are hard, but are just a complete waste of my time. So bad things there, but good things, the weather is getting nice, and hopefully, just hopefully it will stay that way from here on out. I talked to my Architecture prof today and he said he was planning on starting his soccer practices sometime in April, so I'm looking forward to that. Not only for the fact that I can coach again, but also because I can get outside and get back into somewhat better shape, and also I get to teach little kids about soccer, as well as the prof himself. I think it's going to be a good time. Hopefully at least. I'm sure it will. I don't see how it wouldn't be. It turns out though that in his class, which is usually pretty good, I have an assignment which I feel is pretty useless. So I don't know. I just don't feel like doing it, but I'm sure I won't just not do it, maybe just half-ass. Hmmm, so yeah, school "me casse les couilles", thought I'd toss a little french into the mix. Ummm, also I've been all stressed out about this medicin and stuff my doctor gave me when I went last week. I just want that to be all over. What else?? I can't really think of much. I guess I have a test tommorrow in Functional Programming which shouldn't be too hard. I got a 96% on the last one, but things can always change, so I guess I'll see how this one goes. I'm not too worried about it. Tommorrow is probably going to be long. I have my classes, work, then I don't know if I'm meeting with my other group member to work on this game project. Who know's. If he doesn't get ahold of me, I'll probably just go to the lab and work myself for awhile to try and get something done. I wish there was more for me to do during the week that doesn't have to do with school. It gets boring sitting here at my house all the time. I need a change, I just don't know how to get it done...night
3/22/04
I suppose the rest of the weekend was alright. I woke up and got around on Saturday before I headed to clean my church. Once I was done there I made my way up to Clarion to the mall, where I found pretty much the entire parking lot to be full. I didn't know why, so I parked fairly far away and walked to the mall in the rain. When I finally got inside I was pretty much walking into big groups of people. It turns out that some girl scouts thing was going on so the entire mall was filled with people. I guess it made it feel like a real big mall in that sense, but in the end it was just annoying trying to get around people. I finally got the the cinema where I bought my ticket, and I talked to Ashley for a short while before she was busy with getting food for people. I sat and waited when I got a call from Tyler who said he was coming and shortly after that Keith showed up. I ended up getting a big bag of popcorn and I guess you can get little buckets when you do that, so both Keith and Tyler got one of those. The movie, Dawn of the Dead, wasn't scary at all. It was more funny than anything which is alright I suppose, but I was looking forward to a scary movie, not a comedy. If I had wanted to see a comedy I would have watched Starsky and Hutch. Oh well, not much I can do. After we were done there, Keith was hungry so we went along with him to McDonalds then killed some time at Walmart. After, Keith and Tyler headed out to Tyler's house, while I waited around at the mall, a not so great part of the evening. Ashley and I sat on a bench while I waited for her to decide on soemthing to do. That never happened, so I called Tyler and said we were just going to come out there. We spent the time there watching tv. Around 10 we left and headed to Ashley's where we just layed on the couch adn watched tv among other things. And that was that. Church was fairly interesting Sunday morning. We had a fill in pastor who was very good. I spent the rest of the day sitting in my room, the usual Sunday routine. Today was less than to be desired. Software engineering was spent in the lab working on our assignment although we got nowhere, which doesn't help. Also, the one kid who was in our group dropped from the class, so now we have a 2 person group which isn't helpful at all. Architecture was cancelled which might be good, might not be in the long run. I'll have to see about that. French was a waste like always. I attempted to rectify my accounts today at work, but they were off by about $120. I suppose that's not too bad, but there's no way to really tell how much money was already alotted to us because it's never really accurate. So who knows. I'm not worried about it. Hmmm, so anyways, now I really need to work on an assignment for software engineering, but the problem is I don't know how to do it. I'm stuck wiht it though being that I volunteered to do it for the group. Stupid me, although I would have had to do it anyway being that the one kid is gone now. I did nothing tonight really. I'm not sure why I always waste my time instead of getting things done. I personally think it's human nature because I'm sure most everyone does the same...night
3/19/04
My test in stats was fairly easy on Thursday morning, so I was pleased with that. So I'm assuming I will receive a good grade if our tests are returned on Tuesday. After the test I headed out and saw Mole, so I stood and talked to him for about 20 or so mintues. He figures he will be working when we go on vacation so more than likely he won't be able to come along. I don't know if there will be anyone else to come along now, so it may end up just being Ashley, Keith and myself. I don't want Keith to feel left out or anything though, but he doesn't seem to mind, or so he says, so I suppose that's good. Hopefully something does come up though. I'm sure something will. Ummm, not too much happened the rest of the day at school. I did finally get my chocolate lollipop, and my daffodils as well. Once I was done there, I headed to the mall to meet up with Ashley and have her follow me home to spend the rest of the day there. It was a good time. We just sat around and relaxed most of the time which was fine with me. I had no problems with it. She ended up leaving around 11 or so. I slept pretty well last night, and when my alarm went off this morning, I could have sworn that I went and set it for another 15 minutes, but I guess I didn't because when I woke up again, another 30 minutes had gone by. I had to rush around to get ready for school, so that wasn't much fun. I wasn't too pleased with school today. The only good thing was that French only lasted 15 minutes because our proffesor wasn't there, and we only had to take our quiz. So that was about it. Work was pretty dull, but I wasn't too focused. I had other things on my mind. I made a doctor's appointment today around lunch time to go in at 4 today. I was really nervous about it, and was sort of dreading the appointment all day. So that means I wasn't really focused on much of anything else and was in my own little world all afternoon. I guess it turns out that things seem to be alright, although he's not 100% what's wrong. Hopefully his diagnosis was correct though, so I'm hoping. Being that I was already down towards home, I didn't feel like going back up to Clarion. I wouldn't have been able to make it to the matinee of Dawn of the Dead anyways. Instead I just came home and made myself dinner and watched some more documentary stuff from the appendices of the The Two Towers. I called Keith to see what he was up to, but it turns out he had some girl coming over to watch movies with him. I guess we're going to watch Dawn of the Dead tomorrow at 2:20. I told Tyler too, but he didn't really say anything about it. I don't know what's going on after that. I do have to clean my church before I head up to Clarion though, so that will be a treat. No real homework this weekend, so horray for me...night
3/17/04
The rest of my weekend was very boring. I took some time to work on my Functional Programming, but didn't get it finished. I couldn't figure out the one part of it, so I just let it go. The rest of the day was spent playing games and watching tv. A whole lot of the same old crap. So that was the end of break, and it was back to school on Monday. I guess it wasn't too bad of a day for coming back from break and it being a Monday. So I guess that was somewhat good. So we actually started our group project in software Engineering. We just have to write up a sketch of what the game is going to consist of, nothing too hard. It's due for Friday, but we finished it in class, so we pretty much have nothing to do the rest of the week in there. Architecture was boring as well as French. I can't really think of anything too exciting that happened on Monday. I suppose I came to the conclusion that I should stop moping around, and at least try to be as happy as I possible can be while at school. So hopefully that comes along. I think it's been going good so far. It seems to be so anyways. So Tuesday was brought in by yet another snow storm. How horrible is that?? I was completely disgusted at the weather changing so drastically so often. It's just plain ridiculous. But apart from that, the rest of the day wasn't too bad. I figured out the rest of my Functional Programming, and I also finished my french essay that was due today. So the day at school was fairly constructive. Work was a bore, but it usually is. I then had to wait at my mom's office untill 3:30 when I had to go to this meeting that is about some Majors Fair, in which I was nominated to represent my major at. How exciting. The bad thing turned out to be that the meeting was cancelled due to the weather, so I pretty much sat around waiting for nothing. So I wasn't too pleased about that. Not much I could do about it though. So once I found that out, I went down to my car and spent about 10 minutes cleaning it off and defrosting the windows which were pretty thick with ice. I proceeded to make my way to the mall where I sat in the parking lot for maybe 30 or so minutes in which I talked to Nicole on my cell for awhile to keep myself occupied. Being that it was cold out and I turned my car off to save my gas, I got chilled pretty quick, especially because my shoes were soaked from the snow. So I headed in to the mall where I sat in the lobby of the cinema, waiting for Ashley to get off from work. She worked a little over, so I was sitting there a little longer than I expected, but that's alright. I got to watch previews for all the upcoming movies, Hell Boy and Dawn of the Dead being the two movies I would like to see when they come out. So I'll see if I get out to see them. So then I just drove Ashley home since the roads were bad and her mother doesn't let her drive when it snows. The night was pretty good as far as I'm concerned. We had some good pizza for supper and salad, although my salad did have carrots in it which is my least favorite vegetable. So I worked my way around them. Then we watched tv the rest of the night. We watched some of Ashley's pirated version of Big Fish, but it didn't work so great at parts, and the sound wasn't the greatest either. Oh well, it was something to do, and I enjoyed myself. Then we just talked the rest of the night which made me quite content. So it was a much better time than this past weekend. I'm not sure when we finally did go to bed. It was pretty late being that I had to get up for class in the morning. It was a little rough sleeping on the floor, but it wasn't too bad. I got up around 7:15 in the morning and got ready. I left at 8:30 for my 9 o'clock class. I was pretty tired throughout the day, so it was a good thing that we really didn't do much of anything in any of my classes. Work was long though. I'm glad I had nothing to do in there as well. And I finally made my way home at 5. I sort of couldn't make it up my one hill out by my house, but that was due to the stupid township not plowing the hill, and due to the UPS man coming down the hill as I was going up it. Being that the road wasn't plowed I stopped in the middle of the hill to let him pass so that I wouldn't end up in a ditch although that stopped me from making any more progress up the hill. So I had to back the whole way down it, and then make a good start at it to make it up. I don't know why my road has to be the only road that's not plowed in the whole county. It's really ridiculous. It pisses me off. Tomorrow, the plan is to be on campus till 1 and then hopefully Ashley won't have to work and can come to my house when I'm done. I'm hoping for the best. Other than that I have a stats test at 8 in the morning, but the rest of the day is pretty routine. I'm already looking forward to my Easter break. April 8th, just come quicker...night
3/13/04
And spring break is pretty much over. I can honestly say that it wasn't that great, but I suppose being off from school is well worth it. Most of my time off was spent sitting in my room at home. So I can call it a really boring time for the most part. I did a very small productive thing over break which was to work on my Functional programming assignment, although I didn't even finish it. It's not due till this upcoming Thursday, so I have plenty of time. And that was it. I started a new character on C.O.N., a warrior to play with Tyler and whoever in our game since I just imported my like lvl 32 ranger. So yeah, that was not productive, just a good time killer. I also spent a lot of time dl music from a band called Never Heard Of It. I think they're pretty good. I burnt the cd to listen to when I drove up and back from Meadville on Thursday, then Friday afternoon. So the time at Allegheny was decent. I can't say it was the best time I've ever had. Most of it was spent in Ashley's dorm room. We went to supper and got wings which were pretty good although I didn't order that many, 12, so it didn't really fill me up much. So then we just spent the night in her room drinking. I drank rum and pepsi which didn't really taste that good. Rum isn't a favorite of mine, but vodka was my other choice which I won't drink. So then we headed to Perkin's which I really didn't want to go, not for the fact that I didn't want to go to enjoy it, but because everyone was drinking and I'm not comfortable driving with myself or others who have been drinking. So that wasn't a good trip for me really. The time at Perkin's was alright, although I did get hit on by a gay guy which freaked me out. It didn't make me feel good about myself at all. So that sort of made my night shitty from then on out. So we eventually headed back to the dorm where everyone ran back to the dorm from the car while I walked along. It was a nice night I though so I enjoyed the short walk by myself. It felt nice to be secluded in the dark with snow falling all around me. Reminds me of a poem I wrote, but I won't go into detail about that. So I sort of got lost, but not really. Being that everyone went ahead and Elsa stopped to talk to a friend, I didn't really know where I was going so I just guessed. I almost walked past the door when they came out and got me. So we got back and just went to bed. Although I couldn't because every time I closed my eyes my head would spin. So while everyone else slept, I spent another hour and a half away just thinking about stuff. It eventually came to me how alcohol has never been beneficial to me whatsoever. Now it may have made me happy for the short time of drinking it, but in the morning, nothing ever good has come from it. I've never gained anything from it. So I pretty much decided I don't need to drink anymore. I pretty much see so reason for it. I spend my money on it when I don't need to. So in the end it'll just put more money in my pockets. So yeah, the night sucked from Perkins and on. The morning wasn't that great either athough I spent most of it sleeping or just laying in bed. We left pretty directly after I got up and got ready. It turns out that it snowed really bad over night so that when I got to my car it was covered in some pretty deep snow. I froze my hands cleaning it off in just a t-shirt and a little wind breaker type coat. I followed Ashley home, came close to getting into an accident with her, but other than that the ride was uneventful. I spent the rest of the day up there. We went to a fish fry at her church around 5. Then we came back. I played cards with her parents and grandma, then we watched the movie Radio which was decent. Then we just layed around all night. Nothing really exciting. We didn't ever really get a chance to talk which wasn't much fun, being that I enjoy it. I suppose she was tired, so I let her rest. I don't know, I didn't have that great of a time. I won't lie. So it's Saturday, and here I sit, and here I'll be sitting for the rest of the day, or at least in my room. I don't feel much like going out. If anyone would want to come out here they could, but I'm staying here today. I don't have much motivation to go out. I don't feel like driving anywhere anyways. This is long enough...later
3/07/04
So the weekend wasn't too bad. It was pretty pleasing for the most part, nothing I can really complain about. About the only bad thing was my test in Software Engineering. I didn't like it too much, and there were questions I wasn't sure of, so I wasn't pleased about. But the rest of the day at school was really uneventful. So about 2:30 I headed out of that damn place and went out to Tyler's house. We spent quite a bit of time playing my game, me, Ben, Tyler and Keith. We did go outside and threw the football around. We watched some ping pong on tv which was sort of funny. I suppose it was interesting though. So the rest of the night was spent playing my game, which we stayed up till about 4 in the morning playing. So yeah, pretty much the same thing all night long. It wasn't too bad, but it made me pretty tired. So in the morning we got up and got ready to head out to the movies. We saw Club Dread which wasn't bad, but it wasn't that great either. It was funny, but the storyline was pretty stupid. It killed time though, and it was better than being at home. So after that we headed back to Tyler's house where Dusty showed up too. We played some cards until Dusty and Keith started arguing over stupid stuff, so eventually Keith became unpleased and left. So the three of us played X-Box till about 6 when I headed over to Ashley's house. I ate supper with her family and then we played Euchre which I realized I still suck at. Oh well, I guess I can't help it. Then Ashley wanted to watch some country singer live, and being that I'm not a fan of country I decided to just go to sleep. So whenever that was over Ashley and I just talked till I had to go home. So it was good to finally get to see her. Three weeks is too long not to be able to see her, so I was really happy to get to last night. So me, my dad, and my little brother were the only ones to go to church this morning. It wasn't too bad of a service, and the rest of the day was spent doing nothing worth mentioning. So I'm hoping this week isn't too boring. But at least there's no school so it'll be alright. I think I'm going up to Meadville Thursday and Friday, but I'm not 100% sure just yet. Hopefully though. Well I'm spent...night
3/04/04
So I haven't posted in a couple of days. Not that anything really important happened anyways, so that's pretty much the reason for the lack of entries. School this week hasn't been too great, the week hasn't been too grand in general. I didn't do too much Monday although I made up some of my time that I missed at work last Thursday. I started to play Euchre online, first with Ashley, then by myself the rest of the week at work. I'm getting better at it so I suppose that's good. Ummm, one good thing is that I got my refund check from the university which was $150 so I'm pleased with that, although I had to put $100 into my checking account so I can pay off my taxes, stupid church check that doesn't take out federal and local tax so I have to pay it. Oh well, I'll live. I didn't have too bad of a time picking my group in Software Engineering although I still don't think I'm going to be too into this whole group project that is going to last for a long time. I guess I'll have to deal with it the best I can. I have a test in there tomorrow which I'm not looking forward too being that I really dispise his type of tests. It's not they're hard, they're just really annoying tests. So I guess it won't be too bad of a day once I get that over at 10 a.m. I'm sure we won't do much in my classes being that spring break has pretty much started for most people and a vast majority of the campus already left for break today. So it won't be too bad. Also, I get to work early, so I won't have to stay till 4, which is somewhat of a plus. So I cleaned my church today which wasn't too bad. I finished pretty quickly, so I came home and typed up the rest of my scholarship essays that I'm handing in tomorrow. I'm glad I'm finally be finished with all 5 of those. Hopefully I at least win one of them. If not then it's a lot of work for nothing. Once I got those done I had to go help my dad in at our shed although it was pointless because I went in there and stood around doing nothing. Oh well, nothing I could have done about it. I did a small amount of studying, but not very much. Maybe 20 minutes worth. So I was sort of trying to decide what to do this weekend, but in the end I decided to just stay around here and hang out with Tyler and Ben. I don't know if we'll get ahold of Keith and see if he comes out. I'm sure he prolly will. I was maybe planning on going up to see Ashley and maybe see if her parents wanted me to take her car key up to here, but I decided it wouldn't be such a great idea, being that her one friend she hasn't seen is up there now and I wouldn't want to intrude on that, and also because her parents are bringing the key up on Saturday. And besides, I haven't seen her for this long, so what's some more days added on to it?? I'm sure I'll have a good time hanging out with my friends anyways. I'm crashing at Tyler's tomorrow night, then we're going to watch Club Dread around 1. So it'll be a fun time. Well I'm going now...night
