1/29/04, 10:50PM; Day 2 of Hell
Song: Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Not much to talk about today. The 2nd Circle of Hell wasn't too bad for me, I got pretty lucky on some of it. I kinda remembered him doing the first problem, and the second one I pretty much just tried stuff, and it worked. But tomorrows is going to be harder, and the day after as well. Today my car hit 83,000 miles, and it still sucks. Hah, I just realized I had the "Day of Hell" things messed up. I guess I just got too stressed out and thought it lasted longer than it really has been. It's getting late, bye.
1/28/04, 9:55PM; Day 1 of Hell
Song: Transatlantic - Suite Charolette Pike
3+ hours of calc, 40 mins on two problems, and 0 correct answers, depressing isn't it? It sure is. I'm not one to cuss, but calc is pushing me, it is too frustrating, I don't know what I'm doing in there. [Song: I Want Out] I do, but I'm not going to... enough of the depressing part of the day, which is most of it...
Like I said before, but it is now official, Jessica did beat me in the challenge, which is ok I guess, but I have to learn the music again this time on second part. English was actually pretty fun today. We got into groups and discussed Godot. My group is "Habit is a deadener" which I totally agree with and is easy to come up with stuff from the book. I was on a role, and I also made some stupid/profound things up too. After school I gave the Shirt Shop the size of my shirt. Then went to Madison for trombone chior stuff, that music is pretty easy yet some people have so much difficulty on it... I don't know what it is.
At lunch there is almost always something funny that happens. Today it was Spencer. Scott pushed him over into a very wt spot on the ground. He got mud all over his white shirt, it was really funny.
My room walls are pretty bare. I have only a few posters so the other day I decided I'm going to "make" something to put on it. There is this really awesome picture that I just love. Here is a crappy rendition of it
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Anyway, I'm going to be putting that up on my wall sometime, after hell week probably.
1/27/04, 10:10PM
Song: John Vanderslice - Confusion Boats
Sleeping in goes under appreciated I think. Today I slept in for a few hours, but my cat was being annoying, oh well. I'm in a kinda depressed mood right now, nothing at all seems to matter, and school tomorrow won't be fun. Calc quiz/test, get the English pop essay back, and it'll be school which is never very fun. All I did today was play some games, set up a small webpage, and some calculus. Oh, I also registered for the ACT. Today has almost been a waste, but I think it was beneficial. My stupid '/" isn't working very well either, I want to kill it, but still want to be able to use it. I didn't even play in the snow at all, tisk tisk, oh well. There wasn't much anyway. Nothing else to talk about now, bye. Yes there is here. If you go there in say... the next few days, I'll bold the one's I've heard of.
1/26/04, 9:40PM
Song: The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl
Yay, school is cancelled for tomorrow. I'm not really sure what I'm going to be doing, but there are several things to be done on a snow day. First and foremost, catchup on homework that may need to be done (calc), play games such as Halo and StarCraft, bum around the house playing music, call, and not to mention sleeping in. I've been meaning to post the past few days but I've been caught up watching TV till it was late and didn't feel like staying up past 11 typing up an entry (sorry). All I've done the past few days is play StarCraft, and lose. Oh well, it's just a game, I still have a better computer than Mike, and I can beat him at Halo so I win.
I guess for the most part everything is going normal, could be better, could be worse, but such is life.
I just got done posting a lot of Transaltantic lyrics to someone, they have so many "good" ones. I might start putting a few at the end of posts. Anyway as I was reading the lyrics to some of the songs I started to notice other song titles within them. Such as "There's a time to come together," "Will you ride off in the distance like some highway star," "Never paint it black by numbers," and "So they tried to pull me under" all that in one song. Then in a later song they sing "calming the beatle inside." I'm probably making too much out if it, but it's kinda cool nonetheless. Enough typing.
1/24/04, 1:40AM
Song: Porcupine Tree - The Rest Will Flow
Today has been a good day, it's been fun, entertaining, and stress free (since after school). I went to see Daniel's band The Aftermath, they were good. While there I also played Ping Pong (Table Tennis) and talked with some people it was fun. After that hung out with Sean, Brian, and Cassandra. We didn't do much except play Mario Kart which was fun. Around 12:15 I came home and challenged Brian to some StarCraft. The first game I won in 20 mins, the second took 30 but I could have probably finished it faster. He'll get better though, I did, and he will eventually as well. I also found a really cool flash game to play Hit the Pengiun it's really fun.
School: English was alright, calc almost killed me I really bombed the test, com-sci was fun as usual, physics was too, but now for spanish. Spanish was bad too. The second part of the test was so weird, I wasn't sure what to put where or anything. But the other two I feel I did alright on, I hope so anyway. Also in band I had to play my challenge which I believe I lost on. I really messed up one of the parts. My eyse are starting to hurt now, good bye/night.
1/22/04, 9:35PM
Song: Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
I thought of what I was going to talk about the other day today. But I'm not sure if I'm still going to since I thought of something else today. I think I'll stick with the new one, it's less opinionated. Today have I have been calling them "Auto Responses" to myself. Not the away message things, more like things you say without even thinking of saying. Like today, just as an example, I was talking to Mike on AIM and this is what I'm talking about:
Kashu42: hey
Paladinn42: hey
Kashu42: what's up?
Paladinn42: cleaning my room a little
Kashu42: cool
Paladinn42: eeh, not really
Kashu42: yeah, i know
See what I mean? He said "cool" even though he knew it wasn't. Later in the convo he said it was sarcasim that can't be heard through text, but still, he could have tried a little hard to make that more obvious. I feel he said cool, just out of habit of always saying it, like in real life people usually say "how are you?" or "what's up?" and you hardly ever pay any attention, you just automatically respond to what they say. I'm not trying to say that Mike just responded out of habit, just that at the time it didn't seem sarcastic at all. This also happened with Brian about the same thing today. He made it seem a little more sarcastic just with word chioce, I'm not really sure on how to explain it though. They aren't the only ones that do this, nor am I saying I don't do any of this; I'm just saying that I don't particularly like it. I try to make responses about how I really feel about things, and if I can't think of what I want to say I might just say "ah" or "oh" or something like that.
/rant
Today was horrible at the beginning, but it got better. Waking up at 6:40, going to sectionals, then another pop essay in english. I read the reading but I didn't understand it so the essay was total bull. I didn't do too well on it, it was short, poorly written, and probably didn't even answer the questions. Calc wasn't too bad, com-sci was pretty fun, and then pizza at Travis' house. Physics was alright and in spanish I actually did some work, but I'm not too prepared for the test, we'll see how that goes.
1/21/04, 10:40PM
Song: John Arch - Relentless
There was something I was going to put in here last night, but when it came time I had forgetten so I didn't make an entry. Today has been a pretty good day, other than the fact I did almost no homework. It started off better than Tuesday which started off at 7:30 and without my keys. The play we are reading in english is kinda cool, it actually seems real, unlike most of the other things we've read. It's also pretty easy to understand, although I'm probably missing the important message in it, but that's ok, that's what the class is for. ComSci is also really fun so far. A whole lot better than Gov't was. Spanish has also been a little better lately. I need to talk to the counselor at school reallybad about college stuff, I signed up Tuesday, and I still haven't gotten a slip to go... Why does calc have to be so hard...
1/19/04, 10:00PM
Song: The Beatles - Thank Your Girl
Time for Part 2 of my blog, this time i'm not going to make it such a chore to update it everyday and to try to make this more fun, not only for me, but also for you. I'm not really how this is going to work, but I have better expectations for Part 2 than 1. Let's start off with the 3 day weekend. It was fun. Ther were several things to do, several things happened, and several games were played. There was a LAN where we played Quake, that was F-U-N. Even though I was one of the worst ones it was awesome. After that went to Mike's where played even more games. Halo mostly. That is another fun game which I now have on my computer for some big games of funness. Not a whole lot else happened this weekend. Good night.
1/12/04, 9:45PM
Song: Victor Wooten - Justice
I don't know what it is, but the past few days I've really not wanted to update. I think I'm going to take a break for a few days. I've kept this up almost daily since October, so I think I deserve it. You never know though, I might breakdown and update anyway. Not much is going on in my life, all I write about in here is my boring life or random things that annoy me. If you would like me to keep updating tell me and if enough people do I'll keep going, but for now I'm taking a break. See ya sometime.
1/11/04, 10:50PM
Song: Ian Anderson - The Habenero Reel
Yesterday was my birthday and it was kinda boring. I didn't do a whole lot but I did play more Halo, that is one awesome game. For dinner we went to Owasso to eat at Schlotsky's which was very good. Before that I opened presents which was mostly money but I also got a new watch. Today was been pretty much the same, birthday at my dad's. All I got there was money, which will be good since $500 is due for insurance this month. Today my excitment was watching Aliens, it was the first time I'd seen it, I liked it. I really don't want to go to school tomorrow, I guess I have to though.
1/10/04, 12:15AM, My Birthday
Song: Halo
I have two things to say:
1. It's my birthday.
2. Halo is a truely awesome game.
1/9/04, 6:55PM
Song: The Beatles - Something
The first semester of Calculus is finally over. I think I did alright on the final, but I don't think I can raise or lower my grade much. I'm guessing Bs in all my classes execpt Band and Gov't which is alright with me. Other than tests today was good.
On the way driving home I was thinking about what makes me like a song and not like a song. I thought of a few things. Some things that help a song are musicality and overall "funness" in the song. If a song is musically boring with nothing happening such as a drum loop being played over and over again, I don't like it. A song should also sound "fun" which sounds weird. Sure not all songs are fun, nor are they all meant to be, but to me it helps. Songs like Gibberish (Spock's Beard), Knots (Gentle Giant), and Mystery Train (Transatlantic) all sound fun to me. They do their own thing and make it interesting. Another things that I like in songs are what I have begun calling "Lyric solos" (I'm not sure if that is a good term, but it works for me). I noticed last night actually while trying to go to sleep with the TV on and Big O was just starting, and I just thought "stuff like that is really cool." Some other songs that have these solo things in them are Danger Zone (King's X) and We All Need Some Light (Transatlantic). I'll try to describe what I'm talking about now: A vocal that comes out of nowhere, sounding totally different, and not the same as any other lyrics in the song. I don't know what it is about these that are so cool. Now for the bad stuff. Monotoniy, this gets really boring. Lyric based songs. Not to say all instrumental songs are good, but if lyrics are the main focus and the only interesting thing I usually don't like it. A good example of this is the music going around now, and recent past. Stuff like N'Sync, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, hip-hop (what I have heard), and nearly all radio stuff to me is lyrically based. The big music stars don't even play instruments, do they write any of the songs, I honestly do not know, all they do is sing. I realize I'm grouping quite a few things together, but that is meant as a general statement, and there are exceptions to it. Enough ranting. Tomorrow is my birthday.
1/8/04, 9:40PM
Song: Aerosmith - Kings and Queens
I may have done it, I may have gotten an A in physics. If I make a 100% I come out with a 90.07% which is good enough for me. The Spanish final was pretty bad, but doable I guess. I had trouble with a lot of words and was a little rushed.
Today I have spent the most time actually studying than I ever have. Calculus for about and hour and a half, that is a lot of calc. After that I went to Dink's. *Drool* Dink's is soooooo good. I ate way too much, I always do. Still can't get my computer to work... added a few "new" links to the right side of the screen. Time to get back to studying finally.
1/7/04, 10:20PM
Song: Radiohead - Myxomatosis
Finals are not very nice. Today all I had was English which I feel I did decent on. I wrote a lot, but I got off topic a little, but I did explain all the elements to some extent and supported what I said, but I didn't focus on his state of mind very much. The rest of the day was studying for other finals and talking. Tomorrow shouldn't be too bad, but in physics I need the notebook to be 40 points and to get 100% on the final to get an A, which I think I might be able to do (at least I hope so). Hopefully tonight I'm also going to go to bed earlier. Tomorrow I'm not going to be online as much as usual too. I really need to study for Calculus. I'm out...
1/6/04, 10:30PM
Song: TV
What all did I do today...? Rushed to school while freezing in my car, normal school stuff, have a ride for a Hoover kid to downtown, tried out for jazz band (which I think I did pretty well, I got really high on the scale part), went to Mike's to study calc, and finally come home to try to fix my computer (which still isn't working). That's about it for today. Tomorrow's final is english, that's all I can remember that I take tomorrow, and there isn't really much that can be done to study for it. Oh well, time to get some ice cream.
1/5/04, 10:45PM
Song: TV
Eeeh, today wasn't too bad considering what it was; the first day back to school after a 2 week break, early morning sectional for band, and the day I got my new CD/DVD drives. School went alright, not a whole lot really happened. After school went to study at Payam's then to the library for English stuff. Finals are going to be hard. After I got back from the library I started to install my new drives, but they aren't working. I've been trying for the past 2 hours to get the computer to recognize them (and my old one that used to work, but isn't anymore). I keep getting the same error message thing no matter what type of configuration I use with the IDE cables: Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41). I mean really, what's up with that? Windows has loaded it, but it isn't there? ASDF!!! So yeah... I have no CD drive as of now, I can't load new drivers since they are all on CD-ROM discs. Good night.
1/4/04, 8:10PM
Song: Gentle Giant - The Advent of Panurge
Complaining is fun especially when it is to someone that agrees with you. Time to complain a little more, about stuff I've mentioned before. People not updating their blogs very often. I don't mean this to be mean or offensive but it will probably sound like it. It's the reason why I got a blog. A few people had blogs at LiveJournal and had been updating them prety regularly. Let's look at this now, "Live," which has several definitions such as: Having life, Of current interest or relevance, and Full of life, excitement, or activity; lively. With any one of those definitions use it would seem like it should be updated more often than once a week. Now "Journal," which is: A personal record of occurrences, experiences, and reflections kept on a regular basis; a diary. Let's see here, record of occurrences kept on a regular basis. So by definition a LiveJournal is a regularly kept record of occurrences that has activity or has life. (Definitions from Dictionary.com) Again I'm not trying to make anyone angry at me, just expressing something that has been bothering me. And some of you might have good reasons why you don't update it, but since none of them have been revealed to me, what should I assume? Assuming your life is more boring than mine is a lot to assume, but if it is let me know how boring it is. It was you having a blog and me reading it that made me want to start one. Oh well. Of the people I read at Xanga their journals are mostly kept up-to-date. And if it wasn't I couldn't use the definition of "Xanga" against it since I don't think it is even a real word. Enough ranting, onto what I did today.
Today I slept in way too much. My mom came in and woke me up at 2, I did not want to sleep that long, but oh well. Got up, watched some TV, fiddled with my computer some, and eventually got online. Sat here surfing the net for a while, found that my CD drives aren't being found by the computer, which is really weird because when I start it up it says they are there. I tried to fix that for a while, messing with different wire, but nothing helped- so I gave up (I should be getting 2 new drives tomorrow anyway). I also tried to study some for calculus, tried. I think I unlearned everything during the break there are plenty of days before the test to learn some of it back. That's about it.
1/3/04, 12:30PM
Song: Spock's Beard - The 39th Street Blues (I'm Sick)
By the way my birthday is one week away, just informing you all.
1/3/04, 12:50AM
Song: Radiohead - 2+2=5
Today (yesterday) was a pretty lazy day. Played a couple games of StarCraft with Mike. The first game I didn't stand a chance, the next was rather close one thing changed the course and allowed him to win; he destroyed my Nexus. It was almost a draw but that one thing set me back so much I could hardly do anything. But I think I'm getting better. After that went to Garfield's hoping to get a change to talk with Daniel just because, but he wasn't there, oh well. Well that's my day, now for a rant about something that will seem very vague, but that's going to be how it is.
Some people are just starting to annoy me with certain little things they do (which I won't disclose). They aren't meaning it to be annoying, but it is to me. The annoyance is also probably due to me being the way I am, which is something I need to change, and I have been trying. New Year's Eve helped me to realize how long it has been, and that very little has changed. That little bit has really helped though. I'm also not going to be telling those people that they are annoying me or how they are because it is also like a reminder to me of what I need to do. Perhaps I will get more done this year. That's clear isn't it?
1/2/04, 3:00PM
Song: Fates Warning - So
Wow, that was a lot of sleep, more on that later. New Year's Eve wasn't too bad, but a few hours after 12 started to get pretty bad. Being around so many kids for 14 hours was horrible. Some of the kids have worse language than the NHS students and are more perverted to. I don't think I was ever as bad as them, and if I was I have changed a lot. Not all of them were too bad though, the really young ones weren't bad, the older ones could have been a lot worse, but the ones the middle that were about 12-14 years old were the worst. They had to be "cool" and break the rules, back talk, and hassle everyone. If they are anything like they were the other night around their parents they need to be disciplined amore than they are if they even are at all. Oh well, it's over, I have my NHS points, I can even skip a meeting or two. Now to the sleep part.
After I got home I had a little something to eat then I went to bed around 10:15. I then slept until about 6 when my mom woke me up for dinner. I got up, ate, and watched some TV. I went back to sleep around 8 I think and woke up around 1:30AM. I tried to back to sleep then, but I couldn't so I watched TV until 5, which is when I fell asleep yet again. Then today I woke up at 11:30ish, for a total of about 19 hours of sleep. I'll post again later about today.