Why I hate everything...

Now, I know my speculations haven't always been acurate in the past, like how I always think I dod bad on exams and end up fairing quite well. Well this time there's no way I'm wrong, though I hope I am. I had my Strength of Materials mid-term this morning, and it was heartbreaking. I have been doing so well in this class all year long, and I'm now dreading that I didn't even pass the exam. After leaving the test I was so bummed that I didn't ever want to go back to school. I was so down for the rest of the day I couldn't even concentrate in any of my classes, and some of the time I just played iPod solitaire. I tried doing homework when I got home from school, and I just felt dumb, no confidence. So, now I'm all negative feeling and wondering whether or not I even want to be in engineering. I don't think I've been this bummed in a long time. Luckily I have only got a half day of class tomorrow, and then I have the rest of the day to try motivate myself to finish my pant load of assignments. so, that's my update for now, I'm feeling pretty shite. Peace.

The time draws near...

Well, this week was my reading break, like many of my friends, and what a week. I think I was almost as busy as when I have school. I was able to finally be a decent Young Life Leader by hanging out at the school a few times over the week, I almost tried to get into the Rutland grad picture too, but then refrained, I did get in trouble from some teacher though... oops. I also spent most of my time this week painting my bike. It was an emotional rollercoaster of, emotion. I got so angry sometimes when stuff just wasn't going the way I wanted it to. In the end, however, I figure it all turned out ok. The bike is essentially the same colour as it was originally, but it's a bit darker. I really like the colour personally, which is really all that matters. Check it out.




this is my paint booth extraordinaire, really, it's the reason why sometimes the process wasn't going too well. Yes, the first one is sideways, but that's why you have a neck.




That second picture is all foggy looking from the paint fumes that result from spraying. Pretty much everything in the little booth was covered in green by the end of it all, including a small patch of floor that wasn't covered by drop sheets, which I am hoping I can clean off without getting yelled at. Well, that's my big news for now. Peace out hommies.

No Thank You Sir!

Does any body else totally hate this new blogger thing? Well, I guess I don't totally hate it, but I think it's stupid. Now I have one more account that I never wanted at google, and as far as I'm concerned everything else is still the same, except I'll probably get even more junk mail now. This really grinds my gears, I never heard anyone complaining about the old blogger, so why change it if it ain't broke.

I'm broke.

Well, This week is nucking futs. That's right, I said it, kinda... Well, four out of five days this week I have mid-term exams. My only hope of getting through the rest of the week is looking foreward with anticipation to reading, or video gaming week. And also, it's getting warmer, and dryer, and you know what that means. The green monster will soon be back on the road. But never soon enough. Unless it happened to get really warm and I started riding tomorrow, that'd be soon enough. But other wise, not soon enough, and that's not likely. You can really never imagine unless you've ridden before, but I keep getting these urges to ride while I'm driving, and it's making me crazy. Oh it's gonna be a good summer, back on the bike, getting a new job, making some new money, Harry Potter explosion of madness, and finish it all off with RRC at the end of the summer. It's gonna be freeking sweet!

Well, that's all. Peace out.

Venom

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Since You've Been Gone

Man, I haven't posted on here in a coons age. Well friends, here I stand to write my wrongs, get it? The other day I played ghost in the grave yeard at our church (which in the dark, is just as scary as any graveyard) and it has been a coons age since I've played that game. It was a definate throw back, and we also played sardines, and I had the mother of all hiding spots, because I am the master.
Well, my second semester of school has started up now, has been for a while, and dang! Talk about getting torn a new one. This semester is way harder than my first semester was, way harder. The assignments are just as noumerous and twice as hard. It's definately turning into a struggle, especially to do my homework. It's a constant mountain of assignments. I haven't had a time when I didn't have something due since the first week.
But now for the good... Uh, I don't have time for good... I need to do stuff that makes me happy, cuz right now I really don't. I really want to work on my bike, but again I have no time for anything. So she'll sit until this summer when I get a job and hove some spare time. I can't wait for summer, that will make me happy. I've gone through withdrawl like three times already this winter. I will definately be stoked when I get to go out for my first ride of the season, even though it will most likely be cold as Frostys drawers. It will all be worth it. Then I'll have to start fixing my bike and I'll be complaining about that... It's a vicious circle. Snap.
As far as I can say right now, that's all she wrote, or he, me that is. That's all I wrote. That's all that comes to mind right now.

Check it out, I'm on a Toblerone commercial.

One down, three to go.

Well my ladies and my homies, I'm all done my first semester of school. As we say, one down and three to go. The next one starts in less than a week. It's gonna be a ripper. But I got my marks back from first semester now, and I guess I'm fairly well satisfied, considering I really did a lot of slacking, way more than I should have. Most of my marks were in the seventies, I think a few in the eighties, and one in the ninties. i have to look more closely, but I'm satisfied. But I will have to be more diligent in the time to come. So if you see me slacking off, ask me if my homework is done... haha, just kidding, seriously don't, I have enough parents who think I am still twelve...

So, I just made a sweet purchase on eBay, a new external hard drive for my MacBook. It's a sweet drive that they sell on the apple web site, but I found it on eBay for like a hundred bucks less, and it's even cheaper than it would be for me to make my own. Awesome. Besides, it looks sweet. It's called a G-Drive, and it fits with a mac better than any enclosure I could have found. Did I mention how sweet it looks? It's just cool, I'm so stoked that I found it on eBay for a cheap as I did, brand new, 250GB Hard Drive.

I'm tired and angry, i'm going to bed.

Git 'er Done!

Two more exams my peops. Man, I can't wait for school to be over, it feels like a really short weekend every day almost. it's like it's not busy but it's never done. Well, on Tuesday at noon, les jeux s'est fait, translation, the game is up, your ass is mine. Anyone, anyone, anyone at all...? I'll be giving you more after exams. Peace.

Welcome home Allison.

Does This Look Swollen?

Dudes, you know when you're like tobogganing down a hill with a bunch of your friends around, and you're feeling crazy? And you're messing around and you start to do crazy stuff, like taking sleds down slides, like a bobsled track down the tube slide. And you know how you cool runnings down the tube slide on the big sled and come flying out the end, and the you like fully smash you're face right into the end of a big log? No? oh, I guess it's just me.



Yep, that's my broken face after doing just that. Face plus log equals blood and pain. This happened only hours ago, and here I sit to bring you the news; I should get an award, and not a Darwin award like you might be thinking. I didn't even see the stupid log, it was a good fifteen feet away from the end of the slide. (No Tasha, you may not post exactly what I know you are thinking). YOu know what the worst part is. You know nobody plays on that stupid log, it just sits there not getting used, waiting for some unsuspecting bob sledder to happen along it. There's no kids yelling, "Last one to the elevated log is a rotten egg!" or, "Yeah! Let's go play on the elevated log!" Why? Because it's a freeking elevated log. Elevated to the exact height of a face that used to be attached to a body laying on the ground, I might add.



So anyway, now my face hurts, and my nose may be brken. Maybe I'm just paranoid but it doesn't look straight anymore. I can feel the constant swelling, as is to be expected. Obviously it hurt when it happened, I might have even blacked out for a moment, concussion maybe. But it didn't hurt afterwards most likely because my face was really cold. There was a second after when it didn't bleed, but then I felt the first drop dribble out and then it was over, a spatter of crimson in the pale snow. Still I was able to laugh it off, as if Cassie wasn't doing enough laughing for us all. But now that my face has thawed, here comes the pain. Tomorrow morning is not going to be pretty. So I've iced my face once and that felt heavenly, but now I can feel it swelling again. It's like I'm wearing an ice mask.



Afterwards I really wished smeone had a camera and had gotten it on tape, because if you're getting your face smashed you might as well get it on video. That would have been the number one video on YouTube, for real.

Well, at least if my nose is broken, I'll have a sweet story to tell everybody in my old age, back when men were men, and sledding was sledding. Peace.

A week late, a hair short..er

I know I know, it's a week late as per the last post, but a series of unfortunate events, known as life, happened to occur. Anyways, here we go...

and that is the front of my head, confusing thought that may be...


And that is one of me faves.

So, what's the deal you might say. Well, the deal is this. These photographs above were taken on Tuesday night of yesterweek, so fairly recent. But the big news is, these are the most recent pictures of myself with my most treasured posesion. Well, what used to be anyway. Take a look...


no it's not hidden up under my toque...


It is truly gone

It makes me sad to say it, but it was just time. We had it all me and the locks. Oh man did we have it all. The good times, the bad times, the times when those stray hairs would refuse to do anything but sit in a curly lump atop my cranium. But I shall miss thee, my lovely long companion of gold. 'Till we meet again, in some far off place.

Hey, I sould have made it into a wig...

Two things...

First thing, not so serious. Only this, please check back to this blog on Wednesday evening (pacific standard time) for what may be considered some exciteng news. That's all I can say.

Second thing, serious indeed. My friends, as some of you may know, I have been a leader with an organization called Young Life for a number of months now. YL is a christian organization dedicated to bringing the gospel to high school kids in a way that is real to them, using many volunteer leaders, as well as staff people, to love kids and to teach them about Jesus. Well, just over a week ago, a girl named Jessica, who had attended our club regularly, was involved in an accident and sent to the hospital in serious condition. She was in a coma and had suspected brain injuries. Her condition hadn't changed and after a while and it was decided that she would be taken off of the life support machines. Jessica passed away this last weekend. I ask all of you to take a minute to please pray for her family and friends, as they are dealing with the loss. She had heard the gospel from her friends, and seen it lived in one of her good friends lives, but her recent condition of faith is unknown to us. Thank you all , and God bless.

Howdy Doody... hehe, I said doody

Folk, how yoube? SO this is my screaming eagle cowboy hat (I added in the screaming eagle to make it awesome). I bought it at West Ed Mall for an exorbedent amount of money, but for a real cowboy hat it was quite well priced. Three times beaver blend, oh yes, nothing but the best for me. No, I don't know what a three times beaver blend means... So, now I feel like I should do something cowboyish to earn my stripes as it were, but I mean come on, i live in the Okanagan. So I'll just have to make up an awesome story.

Dang! Listerine is the shiz son. That stuff burns so good. It think the Listerine Advanced is stronger than the regular falvours because it hurts my whole face just about. Try doing the Listerine challenge; rinse for thirty seconds with listerine. Not as easy as one might think. It burns.

I had a bit of a dissapointment today with a music selection. i remembered hearing a certain song earlier and I tjhought I remembered it being really good. Well I recently aquired the CD with said song on it, but it turns out the song wasn't as good as I thought I had remembered. But then a silver lining on my grey cloud. Another song on the same album did tickle my fancy, and it's now pretty much my favourite song. Time & Confusion by Anberlin. Friggin' sweet my hommies.

Well, I think that be all for me this night. Longitude, Latitude, Later dude.

Hi Kim!

I did it again!

Sweet Mary mother of Jesus. I did it again, and I don't know how. The Math exam that I thought I had done so bad on, I ended up getting 76%. Frigg. I thought I was done for it on that exam, and I don't know what's worse, doing bad, or not knowing how I did good. I got way above average. I don't want to brag, but I am amazing. Ok, I wanted to brag. But first physics, and now math? Now I just hope that the exams I think I did well on weren't the opposite case. Materials and Statics seemed pretty straight foreward. For my Statics exam I slept in and showed up over a half hour late. I wasn't too worried because I'm kicking ace in that class right now, and I feel it went pretty well, even though I didn't have enough time to completely finish the last question. I really only had like about forty five or fifty minutes, so if my mark is good on that one too, you're gonna be hearing some mad props to myself. But I'm not counting my mid-term marks before they hatch. Well, I'm staying true to form here, short postings. And I haven't said this in a while so, online public journal. Peace.

Don't take this the wrong way, but...

Bonned! I had my math mid-term today, and let me tell you, I got bent over. I thought I had prepared enough, especially for three dimensional vectors, but alas, I had not. At least we'll see if I did. I thought I knew what was up, but then I got there and I just froze up, couldn't remember anything. I was so bummed. There was a big six mark question on proving a formula, with no numbers or units, just a bunch of variables, and it screwed me up royally. I tried to BS my way to maybe two marks at most, but that's doubtful. I've learned that I need to study more for exams. Not sure if I said it already but after my physics exam I thougt I had done really poorly, but infact I found out the nest day that I nearly got an A. No such mirracles will occur this time though. Tomorrow I have my Materials Technology exam, which is a lot of theory, a couple calculations, and some atomic chemistry. I think I'll do ok, but I have to look over some stuff tonight still before diving into 'er. Well, it's a short one today too, but sometimes that's better. Peace.

Bitchin'

I just like that word. It's bitchin'. So, I had my first of about six mid-terms on Thursday. I thought I had totally blown it on a question worth 8 marks; I was sure I had gotten maybe two if I was lucky. I was pretty sure I bonned myself, but alas, all was ot lost. Our professor was on the ball and had our exams marked by today and we were able to pick up the results. Turned out I almost got an A, 83.something percent. I got 5 out of 8 on that one question, and only one mark off on the rest of the test. Bitchin'. I was really relieved to be going into the weekend without a bad exam hanging over my head.

Watching Jay Leno right now with the animal guy on. Right now he's got a nut busting parrot, a big blue one. He's got a really powerful beak to break open nut shells, and he'll live to one hundred years old. That's a lot of nut busting.

So I have a new hobby now. Electronics. More particularly, DC electronic circuits. I'm attempting to make an LED taillight for my motorbike. I think I've got all the calculations done right, bought all the stuff I think I'll need, resistors, circuit boards, wire, and the LED's are on the way. I really hope it works because I'm really into this whole thing right now, but it's also pretty expensive. I did pretty good wit this stuff when I was in high school physics, yeah I said wit.

Well I really don't have much more to talk about. School is still really busy. As I said before I have many more exams coming up over the next couple of weeks. I'm glad we gots the long weekend now, I'll be doing homework and studying for pretty well all of Saturday, if I can set myself to it that is. I've found it hard to get down to the grind lately.

Well, it's a short one this time. Peace out everybody.

Waiting on the World to Change

What up? Well, I'm officially in the thick of it now. Something like five or six school assignments this week, crazy face. I'm headed upto RockRidge this weekend for a YL Leader/Campaigner weekend so I had to get all my homework done before the weekend. Awesome part, now I don't have any assignments duefor another week, I'm done through next Thursday, except for one computers assignment which is due I think Monday, but I'll go finish that today before I leave.

... I just took myself to the gun show, and allow me to be modest for a moment, but I have awesome muscle definition. I may not be thick, but I'm lean and defined. Tell your lady friends.

So school is getting pretty busy. I imagine soon (when stuff stops being high school review and starts being new learning) the work is going to get really piled on. I decided today that I have to teach myself Materials Technology because our teacher just isn't a good teacher; some people just weren't meant to be teachers, like those with a language barrier. And now the weather is getting pretty cold, down to like 7 degrees in the morning, so it's pretty much to cold to ride the bike, which blows.

It was a pretty short riding season it seems, maybe cuz my bike was in the shop so much. But this weekend is supposed to be back up in the twenties, and I won't be here to ride at all. Though even if I was my bike is again in repair. Nothing vital, I pretty much decided to just take it apart and do a bunch of body work on it, like fill prime and paint all the fairings. Not a small undertaking. It was rainy for a week when I started, and I think I may have inadvertently ended my season early. Sucks. But at least she'll look like a beaut. Then you will all see pictures when I get it finished.

So, I think it's understood that John Mayer is a complete tool. But I don't like to hold someone's personality and humanism against them. Waiting on the World to Change is my new favourite song. It's just so enjoyable to me. Good solid beat and the chorus is a catchy tune. I like to crank it to eleven and do a little, snap the fingers with the arms over the head and shake the hips a little, dance while I listen. Yeah, i said it, I like to shake my bon bon.


I started reading the latest Harry Potter (for the second time) near the end of the summer. I think this might have been a mistake. Not because I don't like HP, quite the opposite. The thing is I am the kind of person who can't read two books at once, I like to finish a book and then I'm done. I don't like stretching the read out over a long period of time. My brother has been reading The Oath since grade Twelve I think. Yeah, I know... But anyway, this is my quandry. I'm in the midst of the The Half Blood Prince, but alas, here is my new material for bathroom perusal...



That's right, sorry Hermione Granger, my new love is Covelent compounds and atomic structure of crystal lattice. And a spiteful mistress she is. I actually plan on taking my text book with me this weekend because I actually need to get some real reading done on this thing.

Being a college student is something totally new to me, and while it's not a bad fit there are aspects that I may have overlooked. Like stingy-ness. I have come to realise that I will be, moreso than I actually am right now, really poor at the begining of next year. And for me to survive I am gonna have to be stingy beyond all reckonning. Which is difficult for me because as I posted on Drew's blog, I am prone to impulse purchases. That's a good way to decrease your money in a hurry. I really didn't want to borrow any money for my schooling, but there's no way I'll have enough money to pay for this semester and next semester without any working time in between. But after my winter/spring term I get the rest of next year to work, so if I am really stingy I may have enough money to pay for two terms of schooling, and if all is right in the world, buy myself another sweet set of wheels (something newer and bigger). If that happens I'll be absolutely insanely happy, and you won't get the smile off my face with anything short of a punch in the nards.

With that throw back to old school genitalia nick names, I gotta go pick up some bike parts. I'm outta hur. Peace.

I be learned

Well, I'm back at school, and everyone is always asking, "how's it to be back at school?" Well, it's aight.

Okay I'll expand on that a bit. I thought going back to college would be really brutal and I would feel out of place because I haven't been in academic institution in four years, and I was sure math would suck. Well, counter point, it hasn't gotten brutal yet, I don't feel out of place at all, I feel as if it was my time to come back, my time to shine. ANd I think math will always suck, in my opinion, but I'm also oddly stoked about it. I'm excited to get better at math, because I've already learned much of it once, now I'm learning it again and I can't do worse, and I want to get better, so I'm oddly stoked. But I still don't like it, I'm still not that good. All the physics type classes are cool, pretty much grade 11 and 12 again, nothing really new so far. I'm pretty sure I'll own Engineering Principles and Statics classes. Computer Applications is a joke right now, they have to start so low level because they don't know where people will come from, so he's like, "this is your my documents file", and I'm in the back of the class like coding my newest web site or something stupid. I'd have to say drafting class is probably where I'm learning the most right now, wait, back tot hat in a second. Materials Techno;ogy is where I'm learning the most. It's like sensory overload. I call it Migraine Technology. It's a new course to everyone at this level, so it's just like information overload after information overload. Working with graphs and stress and strain and yield stress and ultimate stress, and now I'm stressed. That's a crazy one. Back to drafting, second most learning class I have I guess. I've never taken any sort of drafting course before so it's all new too. Right now we're doing drafting by hand before we do auto CAD stuff. It's pretty interesting, but it just proves how stupid the Americans are to still use the imperial system, and not only that, but they tried to mix the two systems, by making this one that's inches and decimals. That's not how it works, just use freeking metric you boners. METRIC RULES!!!

Now, lately I've been spending some good time updating this mother, but I haven't gotten the same courtesy from you people. All you gotta do is leave a few words in the comments, it's not that hard. I feel like no one reads this thing, and you should read it because it freeking rules. So just leave me some comment or something, it doesn't have to be deep and meaningful, just a little, "sweet dude, good to hear. (enter some small reference to said post here)." that's it, like 12 seconds if you are the slowest typer in the world.

Anyway, I gotta bounce yo. More expensive ass text books to buy. this one is gonna run me 130 bling notes. Me + a chair / being bent over = college. Good times. Later.

PS: if you find my other blog please do not post anything on it as it is for one of my school classes. Thanks.

A Moment of Silence

As you read this I would ask that you please observe a moment of silence for one of my childhood heroes. Yesterday while filming a nature documentary on the Great Barier Reef, the great Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, was in through the heart by the stinger of a sting wray. He died on the scene. Steve Irwin was a fearless Australian who awed many, including myself, with his feats of animal interaction and many animal rescues. I remember I did a high school public seaking project on the great Crocodile Hunter. He was an increadible TV personality and animal activist. He was pretty much just awesome, and for a couple of years in my younger age he was one of my heroes. So, raise your glasses, to the late great Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin. May the wolrd be a more animal friendly place because of him.

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