11 days since my last message

So i am realizing more and more that I am a horrible blogger, and I never seem to get around to updating this thing but here goes.

Today is Christmas, so I did the whole Christmas thing, I think I am finding more and more I am not a huge fan of Christmas anymore... I mean it seems every year my family has issues around the holidays... this year my dad is being an ass, but whats new really?

A girl bumped into my car the other day, I feel quite strange about the entire incident because I really didn't feel stressed out about the entire ordeal, and it seemed to not interrupt my daily life at all. The total damage to my car was about 25 dollars, so I dunno. Maybe my life is alright enough where something small didn't really matter.

Anyways, I got a car GPS unit because my mom thinks I have been driving all over the country and need a little help I suppose? On the other hand I think it has an amazing number of features and bluetooth is nice.

Final Final

In 45 Minutes I have my last final, Albeit I probably should have studied more for this final, I think I am going to be fine in the class. I did a huge extra credit project that really should make whatever I get on this final extra points.

I have turned over my room looking for an old programing exam though that I am trying to let the professor let me redo since i made a stupid error. But if I can't find it there goes 8 percent of my grade... gross.

Anyways, I have not been sleeping well lately, I wish I knew why... anyways 5 more days

waiting and coding

So the past few days have been fairly uneventful except for a few tragedies

First off, its finals week and thats just shame...

Second off, as many of you may know I have a lot of issues sleeping and last night I accidentally destroyed 50 of my sleeping pills (which are a form of Valium)

I have been coding most of the day after my Chinese final today and 423 presentation.... wow that seems like it was a few days ago just goes to show you everything is starting to blur... after I go do my code tomorrow I have the rest of my day to study for another final on Friday and/or sleep.

So right now I am just counting down the days till next Wednesday when I can pick Katie up from the airport!!! I think this Christmas break is going to be fantastic... My year seems to be shaping up so I am doing pretty good.

Carbon Monoxide 3.0

3rd times the charm i guess for carbon monoxide leaking into my house. The landlord replaced my furnace. Its nice to have a more efficient system in but it is a lot louder then the last one.

I have been spending a lot of time lately in the composites lab since its the end of the semester, it came down to crunch time last week when I had to do one of my presentations. I had several failures in the project though, first failure, i forgot the key rule that safety is a factor especially when your hands decide to become pinched between metals, second that foam will melt... I thought this would be fairly evident but sometimes you overlook things, 3rdly even fabric can kill. I have many splinters in my hands right now that I have slowly been digging out.

I was put up to a challenge last Tuesday, so far so good. It is a 2 week challenge that I am sure I can do even if it causes some tension.

Last night was my night to relax after the last week of class, I ended up probably doing some things in excess, but you live and learn. Its only the second time it has happened the first being in Germany, but such is life.

I cant wait till the 19th when Katie flies home, I know its only been since Thanksgiving, but I can't wait!

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Carbon Monoxide

So I am glad that when I was woken up at 7:30 this morning it was to the sound of Jasper pounding on my door. Apparently the Carbon Monoxide alarm was going off upstairs again and we are loving the deathly amounts of carbon monoxide, which might I add was 4 times as concentrated as last time... which means this time we should not have woken up... So I am not sure what to do about this and my landlord. Ironically we were given our renew slip today to decide if we want to stay in our location again... haha... I dunno...

So I feel kinda groggy right now, I dont think the gas helped at all...

My weakness, The Cold

So today I did some work with Habitat for Humanity, the experience was quite wonderful in the sense that it brought me back to doing charity work for those less fortunate. The only downside was that it was quite cold when we first go to the site... but it warmed up a bit when I actually got gloves on. I spent most of my day up about 25-30 feet in the air doing some work on the underside of the overhangs of the roof. This was kinda freaky at first, I used to be up high in the air all the time but somewhere along the lines I must have developed some slight fear of heights but I got over it realitivily quickly...that is until it started to rain. Once the rain started mud began to build up on the steps of the ladder, then water started pouring into my eyes from the roof as I was trying to hammer... at this point I had to stop, since it was unsafe, but oh well...

I am sitting now waiting to take a shower and get some of this mud off of me and get a little warm, and hopefully have time for a nap!

My Deep Dark Secrets

Alright, its going to be a list that probably gets edited from time to time so here it goes:

1. When I get nervous and start talking fast, I slip out an asian accent, and stop using all verb tenses. It really embarrasses me.

2. I don't think I am really allergic to Strawberries, though I am too afraid to test it out

3. I am not sure if I even want to be an engineer anymore, I want to design windmills and start my own company, but its just a lot of stress.

4. The most important things in my life seem to always be at a distance to me. The more I want them the further away they are. I guess I just have to chase them, but they are worth it. [ok that one isn't really a secret].

5. I want to go back in time about 6 or 7 years, and give myself a few bits of advice.

6. Am I sure I have made the right decisions? I ask that to myself all the time.

7. I think I lie way too often.

Spider Spider

So, as usual when i sit in aerospace controls i tend to space off a lot. Today was different though, I ended up watching a spider on the chair in front of me weave part of its web... so it makes me think of the simpler things in life... out of aerospace, I still think I would make an awesome teacher... but the one thing that I really want to do in life doesn't involve being a teacher right now... I know what I want to do... but can I do it?

Anyways...

This weekend was TRASH regionals for quiz bowl... ours took place in Rolla, Missouri... wow I remember why I chose not to go there... but damn its so far away from anything... I spent over 14 hours in a car this weekend... and at the very least we took second place... which means we are going to TRASHionals, aka TRASH nationals... I have been trying to figure out where it will be held but there is no real way of knowing for sure, it could be held at Case which would be awesome... Since I would be able to see Katie more often... anyways... I have to get to class soon

Well, here it goes again!

I am leaving in roughly 2 hours for another tournament in Rolla Missouri... Been a long time since I have been through that town, well I guess not. I was there a couple years ago right after I got my kayak to test it out on the waters of a river near Rolla. Many years ago I thought I might like to go to Rolla, only problem was its location, and well I decided against going to Rolla for several reasons, some of them may seem stupid now. As I think about it I may have come to Iowa State for the wrong reasons, BUT if I know then what I know now... I would probably make the same decision. I might have chosen a school a little further to the East, but Such is Life, No?

Less then 1 week from today I will be embarking on another adventure to Ohio, which i'm sure will be an amazing week.

Now to the down side of life....
this morning I was woken up at 5 AM my friends that live in the second level of my house... They rang my door bell for like a minute... needless to say I was pissed at first wondering what the hell was going on... but now that I think about it I was very sluggish to get out of bed, but it was 5 in the morning... Well turns out that our furnace was leaking ALOT of carbon monoxide... if they hadn't have woken me up because their alarm was going off, I may not be writing this post... weird, I am glad all the close calls with death are out of my system now, first the deer over the weekend and now the near CO poisoning, but strangely enough I am not fearful at all. I guess if you read my previous post, you may think i have gone crazy...but life gives you what you have, you can deal with it or not. So I am alive, and I am going to go with that.


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Alright Day 2 of actually updating...

I feel like a bad person sometimes, that I joke about death. The weird thing is it seems like its the only way I can coup with the idea of people dying. There have been several times that people close to me have died but, I am sure they would not like to be remembered by people feeling bad about them all the time, I say we honor them but remembering the better days, no? Am I so wrong about this idea? Either way I do have my conscience on me saying I should not joke about someone when they have died.

On to lighter subjects. Today was the continuation of the jeopardy tournament of champions, you would think these people would be the best of the best, but there was a lady that could not even make it to final jeopardy because she negged out. I wish I could have passed the jeopardy field exam, I think I may have rocked out that show.

I had a Chinese Quiz today, I think I actually did better then most of my previous quizzes. I wish I had a lighter load so I could actually try to take the class a lot more seriously, and give it the time it needs, but alas I have all my core classes to worry about all the time. It has driven me to a state of insomnia I guess. Stress is a funny thing...

I miss being able to travel around Europe on the weekends, and having a light class load. This weekend I will be going to Rolla, MO... A school that I promised myself to never go to once I realized a few things about it. But its only a Tournament, and a TRASH tourny as well so it should be some fun. I am not sure exactly who is going to the tourny, but it seems like we have a full crowd... eric, warren, logan, brandt, and I. 5 people in my car is going to be intense, but I have got to call dibbs on my front seat while driving since I have to work on a paper while driving and all...

Next weekend is Thanksgiving time, and that means after 15 hours on the road I will get to see Katie, which seems like forever since I was able to be with her. It would normally only take 11 or so hours to get to Cleveland but I am making a sidestop to get rid of Mitch in Cinnicinati. But I get to have an ENTIRE week with her! I am not going home for break, but oh well. If i did go home I would just have to put up with family as always, and since there is a lot of tension this year in the family no one is talking so its all good.

Anyways, I will probably update more tonight.

Long Time no see

So wow, I decided tonight I needed to get back into the blog world... its been quite a while and I know you are all dying to know what has been going on in my life right??? or not... either way I need an outlet to vent once again, or at the very least talk about my days... So first Off I think I will update a little on my life lately, maybe go into more detail later as things progress but whatever...

Today... Lets see... I seem to be having trouble transitioning to the new time change, I am not sure if it was the staying up for 3 days or daylights savings time... but the past few days I have been tired sooo much...

Well onto life, I spent 6 month in Holland and it was absolutely amazing, I want to go back really bad, but you know how that can go. I traveled around for a month which now that I look back on it seems like a distant memory. I am going to try to go back for spring break this year, I have the miles, the euro, and the friends to crash with, but I could think of something better to do that week.... speaking of which, while I was in Europe I met a girl... which is to say, I did not meet her there persay, but more along the lines of I actually got to know her while I was gone... Its a weird thing the Internet has created, A seamless way of communication that knows no distance? weird no?

I have been super busy this semester at school, I decided since euroland killed my graduation by a year I should pick up a minor, so I went with Chinese... I feel like I am way too late to pick up a language, but I have to start somewhere. I have been staying up quite late lately, but thats probably due to the massive amounts of homework I have been having all semester, I try to stay ahead of the game, but you know its hard so often. Next semester is probably going to be pretty tough as well, I really slacked off on one of my projects, but the only upside is I have 2 years to work on it.

My laptop is a piece of crap, I really mean that it blows. Its been a problem ever since I have gotten it I am pretty sure I should have pulled a lemon Law book out at circuit city, but alas when I was having the largest problems I was in Europe and HP nor circuit city would cover it WTF.

Well, now for the news on the girl :p, as I mentioned before I met a girl while I was in Europe. Funny thing is she was never there! I guess I started talking to Katie shortly before I left, but I really was not interested in her. Another Funny sidenote, the first time I met Katie, I thought she was so annoying, BUT then again the circumstances were very different back then, wow back in 2003... that seems so long ago but I guess it's not. But anyways, we started talking a lot while I was gone, and for some reason I think we just connect perfectly with each other. I really wish she or I went to school closer, because the long distance kinda sucks... oh well such is life, there are sometimes sacrifices we have to make.

I have been feeling my call towards the PeaceCorp more and more as I get closer and closer to graduation, I have a fear that they may not accept me and I don't know what I would do with myself if I was not accepted... Katie is also interested in doing the PeaceCorp, which makes things that more amazing between us... There are programs for couples to do in the PeaceCorp, and I think it would be amazing if that were possible... we shall see though...

I guess I should try to update this all the time, but you never know... Maybe if people post questions to me I will have more motivation, but until next time!