[2:34 PM] Yesterday was my birthday. 19. I did exactly what I've wanted to do for a while. Absolutely nothing. Roy and I played video games from about 6 until about midnight.

My mom and dad sent me a package full of stuff on Wednesday. It was pretty funny. They sent me some underwear (which I was running on very short supply of), an animal balloon kit, some snacks, other assorted things, and a silly string gun...

Awesome.....

Roy bought me an Edward Scissorhands poster, but that was a while back. The reason for it was because we were talking about how great a director Tim Burton is, but all the movies he has directed have been remakes or don't truly exemplify his style. We came to the conclusion that Edward Scissorhands is Tim Burton's defining movie and definitely his best work. We also concluded that having an Edward Scissorhands poster in our room would be sweet.

I'm getting a supersweet present from Emily sooner or later. I have no idea what it is. She sent it to me straight from the manufacturer, but it hasn't gotten here yet.

[3:00 PM] I know it's been a while, but I've got good reason. These past two weeks have been so so so busy. I had 2 papers and 2 tests last week to get ready for. Needless to say, the things that have happened to me over my absence need not be recounted on this, or any other, day. They are very boring.

One fun thing did happen last week though. Saturday night some friends and I went out and had a "Banquet Alternative" thing (the same night as the freshman banquet). Roy and Tiffany, Chad and Sarah, Lee and Rachel, Melissa and Lindsey, Johnathan, and I all went to Zio's and then some other stuff just happened. We were going to go to a Jazz club after Zio's, but we all had to be 21. That was out of the question. Well, right across the riverwalk from Zio's was a different jazz club that just happened to be open air and just happened to have a live band playing that night. Lucky us. We all talked and had general nonsense outside of Zio's for a while. We walked around the area a little and discovered an empty playground. More general nonsense. Then we walked 500 miles back to our (illegally) parked cars, drove to Tai-Pei, got smoothies, and then went back home. FUN! And now, the coup-de-grace! PICTURES!

 The girls guys are ready for the ball banquet!
(Me, Lee, Johnathan, Roy, Chad)

I'm too sexy for my gas bill.
But, I'm much too sexier for being arrested, so I paid them.

Chad and Sarah
If they were any cuter together I think I'd cry...wait that's nausea, excuse me for a moment.

This is our favorite hang out spot.
That was my lamest line ever.

Have you seen a statue move? I have.

Lee and Rachel being cute....awwwww....

Like hot chicks?! HECK YES I DO!
(Lindsey, Me, Melissa)

A split second later Johnathan was on the ground. Funny stuff.

Tiffany looking very beautiful.
Roy looking very...retarted.

Well, that's it for the pictures, I think that gives you a pretty good idea of how much fun we had. Some other fun stuff happened too. ;)

I've added a couple new art shots to my art gallery from the trip as well. Those were just random pictures that I thought looked really good and I decided to Photoshop them. For the one in the alleyway, Roy was coming back to join the group after having walked down it and I caught him and told him to walk back down it and come back. All of them turned out super cool, but the one I used really stood out among the others.

Sorry for the lack of quality on some of the pictures, I've only got 30 megs to work with right now, and that's not too much considering that I like to put pictures up.

That's it. Have fun in life.

[4:20 PM] Sooner than I thought. Here's what happened yesterday. I'll detail it by hours so you can get the grasp of how much time passed yesterday.

Hour 1: I wake up to a somewhat nice morning and go to Fundamentals. I finish preparing the second to last project on my robot. It's almost done! I play around with it a little, trying to get kinks worked out with the motors.

Hour 4: I can't pay attention to the guy in chapel. He talks to fast. I'm taking a nap.

Hour 6: OH NO! I forgot my assignment for Calc III. I accidentally left it in the room, I'll be right back.

Hour 6.07: OK! *huff* I got *huff* it. Here *huff*...

Hour 9: Physics lab is winding down and we're about to leave. I realize tomorrow is the day to sign up for housing next semester. I'm going back to my room and try to get a hold of Lee, Roy, and Joey. If we want a spot in the new dorms, we're going to need a plan.

Hour 10: I'm going to go eat with Johnathan, Lee, and Marshall. I IMed Johnathan asking him if he was going to dinner. He said yeah, so I told him I'd be over there in 16 seconds. I ran over there. It took 15 seconds. Disappointment.

Hour 11: I'm in Lee's room playing video games. I came over here to do homework, but Roy had a game pause on his computer while he was playing a Nintendo game. It was calling to me, and I'm not one to deny a call.

Hour something: The power just went out. We were honestly just about to do our homework too. Joey's calling, hold on.

Hour something.07: We're going to Starbucks to get coffee. Johnathan, Ryan, Roy, Lee, Joey, and I. Fun.

Hour something else: Rachel Yeakly and Shannon Maloney came to Starbucks while we were there. They said they were going to go to Ihop, so we went back to campus and got our homework and went to Ihop. Johnathan, Roy, Lee, and I went. Ryan and Joey stayed back. We never saw them there, and since we were done we just decided to head back. John Lee called us and told us the power came back on, so there was no reason to stay.

Hour foxtrot: We finally started on our homework. I think it's about 1. We decided that it was best just to stay up all night since we were going to wake up really early to get a spot in line for housing next semester. We're taking our time on the homework. Lee is talking to Rachel, and we're all collectively having a good conversation in general. Homework can wait.

Hour 23: We finally finished the homework. I'm going to head back to my room to take a shower. Johnathan wimped out on us and took a nap. I'm coming back to Lee's room when I'm done.

Hour 25: Going to breakfast.

Hour 25.5: We're in the lobby of the girls dorm that the housing reservation office is in. There was quite a few people here when we walked in.

Hour 26.4: Jessica Estes got here a while ago. Everybody is filling out forms and signing this waiting list to get signed up. All of us are on the second page at the top. We have a long wait.

Hour 27: Waiting. I'm losing my voice for some reason too.

Hour 27.5 Well, we finally made it out. Roy and I have a suite with Johnathan and Ryan on the second floor. If neither of them gets RA, next semester should be more fun than a barrel of slightly decomposing fish. My voice is also completely gone now. This is really wierd.

Hour 28.5: I didn't realize how tired I was. I was really hyper in the waiting line, but now that I'm in bible class, I'm finding it hard to keep my eyes open.

Hour 29: Same chapel guy as yesterday. Sleep time.

Hour 30.5: Quiz in Mechanics, didn't finish it. It was only one problem.

Hour 32.5: Last night, Roy said something I'm realizing is very true. He said that once you reach a certain amount of time awake, you start to hallucinate. Well, I started hallucinating in Calc III. It's a really weird feeling. All of a sudden I'm in Trey world for a second and something really bizarre happens, but I realize it's bizarre and I snap out of it. It was like little brief flashes of what my world would be like. I was leaning my head on my hand, and all of a sudden, I see a flash of the person to my right handing me a piece of paper. I reach out to grab it with the hand my head is resting on and I snap out of it, but I do one of those crazy body spazzes. One of those spazzes you do when you think you're falling and you try to catch yourself, but you're not actually falling, so you end up looking like an idiot.

Hour 35: I just finished updating my site.

That's how it went. Quite possibly one of the strangest days I've ever had on this planet. I don't know when I'll get any sleep. Maybe tonight. Maybe tomorrow night. I HAVE TOO MUCH TO DO! AH!

[2:39 PM] Sorry for not updating. I've been busy, and currently am. This is a preliminary post to the post I'm going to make later. Today and yesterday (today for me still) have been so crazy. I've got assignments to complete before 5, however, so those take precedence. I'll post the story probably around 6 if I'm diligent about it.

[5:37 PM] My motivation to work on this site is slowly diminishing. meh.

Tuesday was probably the highlight of my week (tonight may take the cake, but it hasn't happened yet.). Had a delightful dinner in the caf. Afterwards we all went to the mall. I got this new comic which is pretty sweet. That was fun. Went to Lee and Roy's room afterward and played Super Smash Bros. for a long time (Lee sucks, I'm so much better than him :P ). Wednesday night I went to Braums. That was great. I fit into one of the high chairs there. Legs and all. Kendon took pictures, so I'll see if I can't get copies from him. Tonight, I PLAY! LAN party in Lee and Roy's room. WOO!

[11:17 PM] I just finished watching, quite possibly, one of the best movies I've ever seen in my life. Fight Club. Some of you may have heard of it. Now, I watched the first half of it over spring break on TV, and I really enjoyed it. Today, since I had some free time, I decided I'd watch the whole thing, since I knew Marshall had it. I liked what I saw over spring break. I love what I saw today. I LOVE it. I'm going to say something twice now. The reason I'm going to say it the first time is because I was shocked. The reason I'm going to say it the second time is because it was completely incredible. Fight Club has a happy ending. Fight Club has a happy ending. I am Jack's complete surprise. End.

I also watched this movie called Warriors of Heaven and Earth which was extremely cool if you're into the whole Chinese sword fighting thing. It was along the same lines as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, and The House of Flying Daggers. It's rated R, but only because the MPAA has some weird rules about violence in movies. Things like blood being in a single scene for more than 4 seconds or something of the sort will get a movie an automatic R rating, even if the rest of the movie would have gotten a PG. You may say this is stupid, but it's actually a good thing. This allows film makers to get an easy R rating for movies that are aimed at an adult audience. This makes the movie more attractive to their target demographic because there won't be as many kids and teenagers going to it. The reason this movie got an R is because the people who paid to localize the movie to America made the decision to not cut any material from the original. Since China has different rules for their film rating system than we do, most movies brought across the lake from there get an R rating. Just thought I'd share that with you. I am Jack's useless bits of knowledge. 

[8:28 PM] The past two days have been in-freaking-sane. Yesterday I spent  9 and a half hours doing homework for mechanics and then another two or so hours for physics II. That's 11 hours and 30 minutes of homework. I'm going to say that one more time because the sheer magnitude of that amount of time bears that it be repeated. 11 hours and 30 minutes. I finished it though. All 3 problems of mechanics. 5 out of 6 problems on physics. The physics really didn't matter though because my body decided to not wake up in time for class. I woke up at 9:03, class ended at 9:00. Oh well. Yesterday was also a lot of fun though. At about 10:30 Joey, Roy, Lee, and I all piled into my car and made a Starbucks run. Then Roy and I watched this movie called Run, Lola, Run. That movie is incredible. If you don't mind foreign flicks, watch it, it's amazing. I got to bed around 3. That's why I overslept.

Today was pretty good too. I went home after mechanics (which I had a quiz in that I would like to forget) to pick up my t-shirts and my poster that I accidentally left at home (the Episode III one). I'm wearing one of the t-shirts and the poster is hanging up on my wall. Pretty sweet. I just got done eating Tai Pei takeout and watching Russian Ark with Roy. That was fun.  Russian Ark was pretty amazing. It's a 96 minute movie all shot in one take. AMAZING.

Oh, I forgot. Something funny happened last night. As I was getting back into my car after leaving Starbucks, I hit my head on the corner off the door. It left a noticeable little whelp on my forehead. Thankfully I have long hair, so I a little bit of a shield against my idiocy becoming known to the rest of the world.

[10:32 PM] Today was AWESOME! *I have secretly replaced the meaning of the word awesome with the meaning of atrocious*

I'm not entirely sure why it was so bad, but it was. Oh well, Maybe a good nights sleep will make everything all nice and tingly in the morning.

[4:23 PM] I'm getting back into the swing of things now. Work is piling up again and I'm getting busier and busier. I don't really have too much to say right now, so I'm going to go wallow in self loathing for a little while then head to dinner possibly.

3-21-05

[6:30 ish PM] I've got a city named after me! Check it out [here]!

[6:06 PM] Gosh, I want to do something cool and innovative on the site, but I can't think of anything. Hmmm....*this is me thinking*

[10:35 AM] I want to do something new on the site. I think I'm going to add a review section where I give my opinion on music, movies, books, and games. I don't know if I'm actually going to do this, but I may.

If you'd like to write something about yourself and have me put it up on my friends page, I'd be more than happy to. Just tell me and I'll put it up. If you have something else you'd like to contribute to the site, please, tell me. I'm all up for new content.

[10:12 AM] I got part of the me section up. I took those pictures this past Friday, so they're very recent. I may put some more up in there tonight. The second half of this page is going in the archive now, it's getting too large.

New Link on the left. If you've ever wondered what it looked like to pop a water balloon in zero gravity, check it out. Two new thoughts. Kenna rocks my face off. That's what I've been listening to a lot lately if you haven't caught on yet.

P.S. SIGN MY FRICKIN' GUESTBOOK!

3-18-05

[2:10 AM] I added  three new links on the left there. The third one is pretty cool if your a trendy software nerd like me. The first and second ones is a MUST for everyone who sees this. I'll take a second to explain the concept of the second, then the first..

ElectricSheep.org is all about visualizing the collective dreams of computers. What it is is a screensaver that shows really really really trippy animations for you (the site has some screenshots). Whenever your screensaver goes up, your computer connects to a server and the server harnesses the idle processing power of your computer to help generate new sheep (the animations). A new sheep is generated every 15 minutes. This is all based off a novel by Philip Dick called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" I cannot stress how cool this is to me. That's it.

The first one is a Nutrigrain commercial. I'm not sure how to describe it or what to think about it, but it's freakin' HILARIOUS. You'll be saying I feel great for weeks after you watch this, not even joking.

3-17-05

[9:30 PM] I'M GONNA REDESIGN THE SITE!

Just kidding.

I AM going to do something different that may take a while to implement. I'll explain it for those of you who care. If you don't care, then go stare at a rock or something for a few minutes while I explain.

OK! I have this page set up so that this cell is actually a separate HTM file than the rest of the page. I got the genius idea earlier today to do that with EVERY page, so that I can have one HTM file be the layout for the page. This way, I could easily change the layout of the whole site whenever I wanted. This would also make for easier updating and make putting up new pages and sections a lot easier. I'm going to test it out to see if it will actually function and look the way I want it to before I start putting it into effect.

[9:28 PM] *BORED*

[8:54 PM] Today was good. Watched Anchorman and This is Spinal Tap over at Barry's house with Barry, Emily and Gregg.

I updated the links page with friend's websites and Xangas.  Last night I got all the artwork I'm going to put up, up. I had more, but some of it was too hard to photograph and/or I was embarrassed for people to see (I wasn't always mediocre).

I've been realizing something about myself over the past few days. I've started noticing the reason I'm happy most of the time, and it's kind of depressing ironically. I've been listening to this song by Kenna called "I'm Gone." I love this song and it never ceases to make me happy when I listen to it, but one of the lines says, "happiness is being numb." That's why I'm happy a lot. I'm an optimist wrapped in a cynic's body. I always have been, but I've reached a point where hardly anything bothers me anymore. I've seen the truth in things for so long that the truth no longer depresses me. I've become so numb to the things in my life that suck, and all that's left is my inner optimist. So from now on, ahoy optimism!

I feel weird writing about some things in this, because I want to say things that may hurt (or help) my relationships with other people. I need to sort out some things in my mind before I can be completely open about my feelings, which is a problem I've always had, on this *thing*. I say thing because it's not exactly a blog and saying site in that sentence really doesn't feel right.

Seeing how long this thing is getting, I think I may start up the Archive.

Does anyone else feel weird about taking pictures of people? I really want to take pictures of my friends, but I feel weird for some reason. Maybe I need to be more apathetic and just have some fun.

3-16-05

[4:47 PM] The writings page now has some meat in it, so head on over there and check that out.

I went on a buying spree today, sad to say. I bought 3 movies and 2 t-shirts. I bought Dawn of the Dead, Dumb and Dumberer, and Big Fish. The 2 t-shirts were from threadless.com. I got [Emotional Trip] and [God Hates Techno].

Expect some much due art to show up in the art gallery tonight. I'm going to take digitals of my drawings from my drawing class at Cameron. I think that's all that'll be going up tonight, I will notify you if I change my mind and decide to put more up.