We had a HUGE (in my mind, hahaha) storm yesterday. It was amazing. Jamie said it was like minor hurricane weather. There were dark clouds outside (not as dark as a hurricane she said) and the wind was strong, but the RAIN. OH MY GOSH. It was raining so hard we couldn't see the house across the street! There was debris all over the place too, small branches that had been broken off and such. Jamie is all, "Yup, that's about the amount of debris we get from a minor hurricane." Wow! It sort of thundered and lightning, but not much. Mostly rain.
I've been blessed about the heat. It's not too hot that I can't stand it. Thank God. I swell up in the heat and it makes me absolutely miserable. It's been as Jamie told me before I left, "jeans and a tanktop" weather. The sun is kind of coming out today, but there's still puffy semi-dark clouds.
Jamie was laughing because Florida gets hurricanes, tornadoes (there was a warning yesterday one was forming near (get this) Yeehaw Junction), fires, mudslides, and some other big natural disasters and she said, "God must not have wanted people to live in Florida because we get all these big natural disasters." Course, I pointed out to her she doesn't get frequent earthquakes and blizzards. If they got those along with the others than, yes, maybe so :P
Yesterday night we went bowling. Jamie's mom had a date and the night before she scoped out the guy because they were supposed to go out that night, but he couldn't and...long story.She found out the day before that, first and foremost, he's not a man of faith so that basically ended it right there. Anyway, Jamie's younger (not youngest) sister found out they were going bowling and she wanted to. So, basically, with Jamie's mom's permission because she didn't exactly want to be alone with the guy, Jamie, me, Jackie, and her friend Chris all went bowling with Jamie's mom and her "date." :P It was pretty fun. I played one game and got killed by everyone else. I think I bowled a 63, Jamie's sister a 65, Jamie either was the high 90's or low 100's, Jackie's friend was in the high 80's, the "date" was 168, and Jamie's mom was somewhere near that. I started off really good and then just tanked. :P After one game (we had 2 hours to play and it took us about an hour to play the first game) we all left Jon and Jamie's mom to play another round while we went to the arcade.
Jamie and I played air hockey twice. It was more a game of "copy cat." LoL I'd score and then she'd score and we'd go back and forth till the end. She won both games just by 1 point! The funny part that made it seem like copy cat is I didn't wait till the puck was laying flat on the table before I hit it so it flew off the table. Well, Jamie would do the exact same thing right after me when she picked up the puck! Then, another time in the 2nd game, I hit it too hard against the side and it flew off the table. Well, right after picking up the puck, she did the exact same thing! It was pretty funny.
Jamie and I watched Ghost Rider last night too. It was...odd. I can see why people weren't jazzed about it (heard bad things about it before I saw it). it was just "okay." The storyline was dumb and...I dunno. I wasn't impressed.
(WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD) I had no real concept of what the Ghost Rider was and it was weird. The Ghost Rider becomes it because they sell their soul to the devil and he's basically the devil's bounty hunter (I knew the Ghost Rider dwelled in the living and dead). So the devil's son wants more power than the devil so the devil calls up the Ghost Rider to defeat or bring his son back to hell. So it's like...there's no "good" guy. You're picking the lesser of the two evils and they left open Ghost Rider for a sequel. I doubt they'll make another, though. Nicolas Cage became it because he sold his soul for love. The devil said he can be free of his curse if he defeats his son. So Cage does, but he doesn't want to give back the curse because he wants to defeat the devil now because he, essentially, killed his father when he was younger and "accidentally" signed his soul over. Cage was reading the contract, "pricked" his finger, and the drop of blood just happened to fall on the sign line. The deal was that his father's cancer would go away and he would be well. Well, his father's cancer did go away, but he ended up dying in an "accident" the day after the contract was signed. Anyway, Cage vows vengeance on the devil for all those that are innocent whose blood is spilt (in other words vengeance for his father). Anyway, I could write-up a whole page about the the movie, but, in short, don't see it. :P It's dumb. I didn't like how it centered around the devil too, though the point of love was mentioned and how Cage was different because he sold his soul for love and not greed, but STILL. *shakes head* (END SPOILERS)
Today Jamie had to work from 7am-3pm and then we plan to go do put-put golf in the evening with Jackie, her friend Chris, Jamie, and I. Her mom has coupons for 3 free games and a $1 off another, so that's nice! Tomorrow we may hit either Disney World or Animal Kingdom. We may go to Kennedy Space Station too which is east of Orlando. Course, her mom pointed out that they have issues with Gators. I told her I've come all this way, I have to see a Gator sometime! :P Jamie mentioned a Gator park, but that just isn't the same.
On another Harry Potter note, JK Rowling is going to be doing a US "book tour" in October! She's hitting 3 schools and then Scholastic is doing a reading/signing contest for 1,000 people (any age!) in NY. Contest winners will receive a pair of tickets to see her read from Deathly Hallows, Q&A, and get the book signed on Friday, October 19th at Carnegie Hall. Contest doesn't open till end of July, but I'm entering!!
With that, laters.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Orlando, Florida
Well...it was raining early this afternoon. It's not now, but it was kind of nice, to be honest.
My day yesterday was LONG. My butt doesn't like to sit, either. :P The flight from San Fran to Orlando was good. When we boarded, the captain was saying we may be a half hour late because of all the storms (they wanted to head around them) and lack of tail wind, but they'd go fast to help make up time. We had turbulence a lot of the time, wasn't bad, but it was still shaking a little. We watched two movies, one was called, I think, Hogs Gone Wild or Hogs Wild. It had John Travolta and Tim Allen in it. It was pretty stupid. :P I slept through most of it. We also watched another movie that had Ryan Philippe in it. Not sure what it was called since I woke up after it had started. It was about a guy who worked in the FBI and leaked information to the Russians for YEARS. Philippe was sent in as a spy to get information from him. It was pretty good.
The cool thing about the ride was we were low enough and it was dark enough (to my surprise when I looked out the window at one point) that I could see all the city lights and such. You'd see a BUNCH of lights and then nothing. It was neat. The coolest thing, though, was looking out into the sky I could see bursts of light everywhere. We were right outside the thunderstorms the midwest was experiencing so I could see the lightning lighting up the sky across the way. It was fun to watch and the storm clouds were HUGE!
The plane was mostly full, but I got a nice break since it was me (at the window seat) and an older lady on the aisle seat. There was no one in the middle seat so I could spread out and such to the seat next to me. The older lady didn't say one word to me and she looked really tired and such. So I didn't bother her. Overall, the flight was nice aside from the point my neck, back, and butt are sore. The flight home should be nicer since I fly into Denver, so I don't have that non-stop from San Fran to Orlando.
Anyway, Jamie and I will probably head to either Animal Kingdom or Disney World on Friday or Monday, we're thinking. One park per day. :) We see Blue Man Group on Sunday at 6pm! Should be fun! I slept in today (12pm EST, which is only 9am PST (early for me!)) so there wasn't much point to go out today. We may go bowling though and dinner is at 6pm. So I've got some time to spare right now. I've just been relaxing.
Oh! On another note, for those that like JK Rowling and go onto her webpage. The door is open again and the 3rd and last WOMBAT test is open. I tell you, it's been the hardest one so far. It was magical history, dark arts, and something else. The history part just stunk. I probably "failed" that part. You also lose points if you guess wrong too. *sigh* I guess we have a week or something till we find out our scores!
With that, I'm off as I hear thunder, though it's not raining now (weather! It's amazing!)
My day yesterday was LONG. My butt doesn't like to sit, either. :P The flight from San Fran to Orlando was good. When we boarded, the captain was saying we may be a half hour late because of all the storms (they wanted to head around them) and lack of tail wind, but they'd go fast to help make up time. We had turbulence a lot of the time, wasn't bad, but it was still shaking a little. We watched two movies, one was called, I think, Hogs Gone Wild or Hogs Wild. It had John Travolta and Tim Allen in it. It was pretty stupid. :P I slept through most of it. We also watched another movie that had Ryan Philippe in it. Not sure what it was called since I woke up after it had started. It was about a guy who worked in the FBI and leaked information to the Russians for YEARS. Philippe was sent in as a spy to get information from him. It was pretty good.
The cool thing about the ride was we were low enough and it was dark enough (to my surprise when I looked out the window at one point) that I could see all the city lights and such. You'd see a BUNCH of lights and then nothing. It was neat. The coolest thing, though, was looking out into the sky I could see bursts of light everywhere. We were right outside the thunderstorms the midwest was experiencing so I could see the lightning lighting up the sky across the way. It was fun to watch and the storm clouds were HUGE!
The plane was mostly full, but I got a nice break since it was me (at the window seat) and an older lady on the aisle seat. There was no one in the middle seat so I could spread out and such to the seat next to me. The older lady didn't say one word to me and she looked really tired and such. So I didn't bother her. Overall, the flight was nice aside from the point my neck, back, and butt are sore. The flight home should be nicer since I fly into Denver, so I don't have that non-stop from San Fran to Orlando.
Anyway, Jamie and I will probably head to either Animal Kingdom or Disney World on Friday or Monday, we're thinking. One park per day. :) We see Blue Man Group on Sunday at 6pm! Should be fun! I slept in today (12pm EST, which is only 9am PST (early for me!)) so there wasn't much point to go out today. We may go bowling though and dinner is at 6pm. So I've got some time to spare right now. I've just been relaxing.
Oh! On another note, for those that like JK Rowling and go onto her webpage. The door is open again and the 3rd and last WOMBAT test is open. I tell you, it's been the hardest one so far. It was magical history, dark arts, and something else. The history part just stunk. I probably "failed" that part. You also lose points if you guess wrong too. *sigh* I guess we have a week or something till we find out our scores!
With that, I'm off as I hear thunder, though it's not raining now (weather! It's amazing!)
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Airports
I am on my way to Orlando, FL!
I got up this morning and got to Monterey's airport. They redid it so it was a bit weird. I haven't been in it since Colin laste visited which was over a year ago. The flight was uneventful, which was nice. It was only 20 minutes! It was also the smallest plane I've gotten on too. 3 seats in each row. We flew out over the bay, so that was nice. It was really neat because the fog bank was coming in so I can see where the fog was and where it wasn't. We flew just a bit over the fog, pretty low. I was on the wing so I couldn't really see out, but we basically flew from the south end of the bay to the north (makes sense). I could see the water and boats. We basically weren't allowed to get up on the plane because it was such a short flight. Oh, they brought out a ramp for this elderly lady too. So we got to walk up the ramp, which was interesting to say the least. Probably the most interesting thing of the flight. LoL. We got to San Fran without any problems. I've been sitting in the airport for about 2 hours now. Our plane just arrived and we depart in about 50 minutes, which means we get to board in about 20. I'm hoping to sleep on the way over (a bit more than 5 hours). There just wasn't time on the Monterey one! I fly into Orlando about 11:30pm.
With that, I'm off to go read while I wait to board!
I got up this morning and got to Monterey's airport. They redid it so it was a bit weird. I haven't been in it since Colin laste visited which was over a year ago. The flight was uneventful, which was nice. It was only 20 minutes! It was also the smallest plane I've gotten on too. 3 seats in each row. We flew out over the bay, so that was nice. It was really neat because the fog bank was coming in so I can see where the fog was and where it wasn't. We flew just a bit over the fog, pretty low. I was on the wing so I couldn't really see out, but we basically flew from the south end of the bay to the north (makes sense). I could see the water and boats. We basically weren't allowed to get up on the plane because it was such a short flight. Oh, they brought out a ramp for this elderly lady too. So we got to walk up the ramp, which was interesting to say the least. Probably the most interesting thing of the flight. LoL. We got to San Fran without any problems. I've been sitting in the airport for about 2 hours now. Our plane just arrived and we depart in about 50 minutes, which means we get to board in about 20. I'm hoping to sleep on the way over (a bit more than 5 hours). There just wasn't time on the Monterey one! I fly into Orlando about 11:30pm.
With that, I'm off to go read while I wait to board!
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Life is Funny
4 days till I leave for Florida
38 days till I leave for the UK
Happy June!
How is it I'm STILL busy and I'm not attending classes? It just doesn't make sense to me! I've obviously putting my energy in other places now. :P
I did get my final grades and they stand thus:
Quantitative Field Methods (QFM): A- (somehow I pulled that one off!)
Ecology: A
Service Learning (SL): A (*sigh* I had a 97.65%, I was hoping for an A+, but oh well)
For my overall cum GPA, it's a 3.86 (still).
It's looking good. I was hoping to graduate with a 3.9 GPA, but it doesn't look like that'll he happening unless some miracle happens and 28 units of A transpires to a 3.9, but I sort of doubt that'll happen. :) Doesn't mean I won't AIM for it, but I'm not getting my hopes up. :P As is, if I graduate in Spring of '08 (it's ALL up to my stupid classes and the scheduling!), they won't be counting those grades anyway for the program and ranking. :D Though, I guess it only matters in the transcript. LoL
I've slowed down my grad school search, but still plan to take the GRE next year. I'm waiting for the new GRE books to come out and then I'll buy those (close to the end of the summer) and start practicing. I'll probably kick it back into gear on grad schools later. I need to hunt around, contact some professors and such, but I plan to take a year off after I graduate with my BS anyway, so I have a while (though not too long). I'm thinking (really tentative right now) of visiting a friend in Maryland and hitting all my east coast schools, which happen to be around there. They're close enough to take day trips to (U of Penn, Johns Hopkins and Columbia to name a few). I've been advised by lots of professors to VISIT the campus and TALK with the lab assistants and professors. Since it's a Masters, I'd have to have a professor to take me on and I sort of need to meet them beforehand. :P But, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. What I really need to do is map out a 2 year plan for once I graduate. I want to go to Europe again after I graduate (you know, see places outside the UK), go to the Kentucky Derby in 2009, visit college campuses, and then there's that thing called "saving" for grad school. :P Something is going to have to get hacked, though, and Europe is looking like it and it's kind of sad, to be honest. Oh well, I still have some time to really think about this all. LoL
I still haven't picked a capstone project. I NEED to do that SOON. I need to submit it to the professor so he can add me to the roster and I won't get docked anything with my scholarship money and all that. I'm all set-up for doing it, just need a project, submit my resume and cover letter to MBARI, get accepted, and go through the orientation at MBARI then I get to start. :) I'm getting paid to complete my capstone, couldn't get much better than that. On top of that, I may be able to stay on working with Judy after I graduate, which would be nice. It's pretty 'laxed there so I can take my time off and such. Plus, I may get to do some traveling for her (some of the other student assistants are going to Washington state for a conference to represent NOEP).
My "work" at the Harry Potter site is going well. I work in the contests so we come up with new contest ideas, judge, etc. We're gearing up for some new things and I'm excited about them. I'm completing a project that's been in the pipeline for a while now, but everyone got busy and couldn't complete it. So that's coming along. It's ALMOST complete too, so I'm excited about that. There's a few minor things that need to be added/changed and it's FINISHED! I will jump up and down for joy when it's officially off the to-do list. It'll make everyone else happy to see it completed too. I'm kind of known as the motivator. Lol I do things that need to be done, I prod people if something needs to be done, etc.
I'm getting excited for all my traveling this summer too. Heading to Orlando, FL on Tuesday. That'll be fun. :) Going to be hot, but fun none-the-less. Europe trip is coming along. We know where we're staying while in London (thank goodness!). The only thing that's really standing in my way of getting super excited is my passport hasn't arrived, yet. With all this Canada/Mexico thing with needing a passport now, it's delaying my passport arrival! I turned it in March 19th, so I'm hoping it'll be here by the end of the month. If not, I'm going to start to panic. Still haven't shopped for Europe either. *cringe* With all my working and getting out of the rythmn of school and getting into the work one, I've just not done well with finding time to DO things outside work and home. LoL
Speaking of work, work is going well. I'm kind of depressed I'll be missing the Harry Potter release at work. It sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun, but it's sort of "work or UK? Let's think about this...Yup, UK." :) So I guess I'm not THAT sad. The weird thing about work is the fact in 3 years, we've gone through over a 100 new employees. There aren't that many people (aside from the supervisors and managers) who have started around the time I did or before that are still around. It's been kind of weird seeing all these new people and working with them. I mean, new being anyone who started at Christmas. The entire IPT team (aside from John) is completely new since I first started. It's kind of sad too. There are some old employees I miss, but oh well.
The Belmont is this Saturday, though I'll JUST miss it because I work at 3pm. *sigh* Oh well. I wasn't going to watch it at first because Street Sense wasn't going to be in it (still depressed he lost the Preakness) and the field was going to be about 5 horses (ridiculous!), but it's grown now and Rags to Riches (a filly!) has been added to the field. So that should be exciting. I think Curlin will win, but I'm hoping Hard Spun will since he ran 2nd in the KD and 3rd in the Preakness. Well, Hard Spun or Rags to Riches. Gotta vote for the filly. Fillies rarely race in the Triple Crown races and usually aren't able to win against the boys, so it's kind of neat.
Anyway, this posted went longer than I thought. Gotta sleep so I can shop tomorrow for Florida (need lightweight clothing) and get my teeth cleaned (bah).
Latas
38 days till I leave for the UK
Happy June!
How is it I'm STILL busy and I'm not attending classes? It just doesn't make sense to me! I've obviously putting my energy in other places now. :P
I did get my final grades and they stand thus:
Quantitative Field Methods (QFM): A- (somehow I pulled that one off!)
Ecology: A
Service Learning (SL): A (*sigh* I had a 97.65%, I was hoping for an A+, but oh well)
For my overall cum GPA, it's a 3.86 (still).
It's looking good. I was hoping to graduate with a 3.9 GPA, but it doesn't look like that'll he happening unless some miracle happens and 28 units of A transpires to a 3.9, but I sort of doubt that'll happen. :) Doesn't mean I won't AIM for it, but I'm not getting my hopes up. :P As is, if I graduate in Spring of '08 (it's ALL up to my stupid classes and the scheduling!), they won't be counting those grades anyway for the program and ranking. :D Though, I guess it only matters in the transcript. LoL
I've slowed down my grad school search, but still plan to take the GRE next year. I'm waiting for the new GRE books to come out and then I'll buy those (close to the end of the summer) and start practicing. I'll probably kick it back into gear on grad schools later. I need to hunt around, contact some professors and such, but I plan to take a year off after I graduate with my BS anyway, so I have a while (though not too long). I'm thinking (really tentative right now) of visiting a friend in Maryland and hitting all my east coast schools, which happen to be around there. They're close enough to take day trips to (U of Penn, Johns Hopkins and Columbia to name a few). I've been advised by lots of professors to VISIT the campus and TALK with the lab assistants and professors. Since it's a Masters, I'd have to have a professor to take me on and I sort of need to meet them beforehand. :P But, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. What I really need to do is map out a 2 year plan for once I graduate. I want to go to Europe again after I graduate (you know, see places outside the UK), go to the Kentucky Derby in 2009, visit college campuses, and then there's that thing called "saving" for grad school. :P Something is going to have to get hacked, though, and Europe is looking like it and it's kind of sad, to be honest. Oh well, I still have some time to really think about this all. LoL
I still haven't picked a capstone project. I NEED to do that SOON. I need to submit it to the professor so he can add me to the roster and I won't get docked anything with my scholarship money and all that. I'm all set-up for doing it, just need a project, submit my resume and cover letter to MBARI, get accepted, and go through the orientation at MBARI then I get to start. :) I'm getting paid to complete my capstone, couldn't get much better than that. On top of that, I may be able to stay on working with Judy after I graduate, which would be nice. It's pretty 'laxed there so I can take my time off and such. Plus, I may get to do some traveling for her (some of the other student assistants are going to Washington state for a conference to represent NOEP).
My "work" at the Harry Potter site is going well. I work in the contests so we come up with new contest ideas, judge, etc. We're gearing up for some new things and I'm excited about them. I'm completing a project that's been in the pipeline for a while now, but everyone got busy and couldn't complete it. So that's coming along. It's ALMOST complete too, so I'm excited about that. There's a few minor things that need to be added/changed and it's FINISHED! I will jump up and down for joy when it's officially off the to-do list. It'll make everyone else happy to see it completed too. I'm kind of known as the motivator. Lol I do things that need to be done, I prod people if something needs to be done, etc.
I'm getting excited for all my traveling this summer too. Heading to Orlando, FL on Tuesday. That'll be fun. :) Going to be hot, but fun none-the-less. Europe trip is coming along. We know where we're staying while in London (thank goodness!). The only thing that's really standing in my way of getting super excited is my passport hasn't arrived, yet. With all this Canada/Mexico thing with needing a passport now, it's delaying my passport arrival! I turned it in March 19th, so I'm hoping it'll be here by the end of the month. If not, I'm going to start to panic. Still haven't shopped for Europe either. *cringe* With all my working and getting out of the rythmn of school and getting into the work one, I've just not done well with finding time to DO things outside work and home. LoL
Speaking of work, work is going well. I'm kind of depressed I'll be missing the Harry Potter release at work. It sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun, but it's sort of "work or UK? Let's think about this...Yup, UK." :) So I guess I'm not THAT sad. The weird thing about work is the fact in 3 years, we've gone through over a 100 new employees. There aren't that many people (aside from the supervisors and managers) who have started around the time I did or before that are still around. It's been kind of weird seeing all these new people and working with them. I mean, new being anyone who started at Christmas. The entire IPT team (aside from John) is completely new since I first started. It's kind of sad too. There are some old employees I miss, but oh well.
The Belmont is this Saturday, though I'll JUST miss it because I work at 3pm. *sigh* Oh well. I wasn't going to watch it at first because Street Sense wasn't going to be in it (still depressed he lost the Preakness) and the field was going to be about 5 horses (ridiculous!), but it's grown now and Rags to Riches (a filly!) has been added to the field. So that should be exciting. I think Curlin will win, but I'm hoping Hard Spun will since he ran 2nd in the KD and 3rd in the Preakness. Well, Hard Spun or Rags to Riches. Gotta vote for the filly. Fillies rarely race in the Triple Crown races and usually aren't able to win against the boys, so it's kind of neat.
Anyway, this posted went longer than I thought. Gotta sleep so I can shop tomorrow for Florida (need lightweight clothing) and get my teeth cleaned (bah).
Latas
Friday, May 25, 2007
School's Over and Pirates Rocked!
WOOHOO!
I've been finished with school for about a week now. :) Turned in my final paper (22 single-spaced pages at 13,484 words) for SL and all last Sunday. That was not a joyous experience, I tell ya. I thought the paper was due at noon on Sunday, so I stayed up till 4 am finishing the paper. I got up around 10am (after falling asleep around 5am and not sleeping well) to turn my paper in, but I got this email from my prof saying it was due by MIDNIGHT. I almost died. I'm dead tired and my mom walks in wanting to know if I was going to church. I explained the whole situation (was about to fall apart from being tired) and she said to go back to bed, sleep some more, get up and finish the paper. So, that's what I did. Lol
Anyway, I got an A, for sure, in ecology since I got a 28/30 on my final paper. No clue about the other classes since they haven't finished grading anything. Grades are due the first of June, so they have some time.
Preakness was depressing. Street Sense lost at the wire! AT THE WIRE! By a SHORT head! *sigh* Makes you wonder about Street Sense. He's lost 2 other races doing, basically, the same thing. He BLEW past all the other horses and then Curlin catches him at the wire. Oh well. Curlin looks good, but my heart just isn't in it. LoL
PIRATES!!! I SAW PIRATES LAST NIGHT!!! OH MY GOSH! It rocks! I went with a friend Tori and met up with 2 co-workers (Stephen, Dusty, and Dusty's friend), we went to the theater at about 5:20pm for the (hahaha) 10pm showing. :) Or, well, Tori and I went at 5:20, the guys showed up later. :P
I'm going to copy paste my evening from another place I posted about the movie so I don't have to retype it all. :)
Tori and I got to the theater about 5:20, I went to the box office to see if they had any 10pm showings and they didn't. So I called Stephen at work. I told him and went ahead and bought him a 10:05 ticket, you never know. The time before they didn't check tickets at the door and we smuggled Dusty into the theater at the wrong time! I told Stephen I didn't have enough for his friends, though. He said that's fine and he'll let them know what's going on. Okay, that's fine. So I got my ticket and his. Tori and I went to Chipotle. She got a burrito and I got a burrito bol (a burrito without the tortilla, for those that don't know). We went back, around 5:40pm to start a line. There were some people there, whereas before NO one was there. So we went outside and was sitting down next to the wall when Tori brought out her LotR Trivia Pursuit game. There were two other girls sitting next to us and I offered if they wanted to play. So we were playing and all, two of us went inside to tell them they should put a line NOW or there are going to be unhappy people when the mob goes indoors. Anyway, that got us basically nowhere. So we've been sitting outside for about an hour and they start letting people inside to line up. They didn't tell us ALL that. Ashley figured it out on her own. So we went inside and instead of being 15th or so in line...we were like 30 or 40. I don't know, we got pushed back anyway.
So, you think that wouldn't be too bad; yeah, well, we got stuck next to the high school girl club. They were SO irritating. It was about 10 of them and through the 3 hours of sitting next to them they played twister in the theater lobby, they talked about some of the MOST unappropriate things to talk about (sex, orgasms, "true" sex stories, etc). Just talking about sex in general isn't bad, but the stuff they were talking about some some of the girls would want "details" and it was just, not fun to listen to. They were LOUD too. Tori and I would almost have to shout at each other to hear each other and we were sitting right across from each other.
So after about an hour, maybe 1.5 hours of sitting next to them, we started taking breaks to go outside and regain our sanity (the people next to us even said they were irritating!). It was after 8pm, so I called Dusty to see if he was coming now or a bit later and he was coming later. Then I called Stephen. The girls we were sitting next to playing Trivia Pursuit with decided to switch show times from 10pm to 10:10pm. So they were going to go and exchange tickets. So I swapped them a 10pm ticket for my 10:05 ticket. So I had to call Stephen at work to tell him he got a 10pm ticket, yet his friends had 10:05 or 10:10, I forgot, but we said we'd figure it out later. He said he wasn't going to go get something to eat since he took his lunch break (LAME! Dusty and Stephen worked 3 hours, had a 1 hour lunch break, worked 1 hour, and were off. *rolls eyes*). I was telling him about the girls and he's all "maybe I should come now to relieve you two." I told him it didn't really matter. Called Kristi and saw an old high school friend. It was fun to see him (graduated a year after me).
Anyway, Tori and I ended up standing in line, line moved, yaddy, yaddy. I called Stephen and texted him a million times trying to figure out where he is, where are his friends, etc. His friends decided that he should just go without them, so he ended up sitting with us and no friends. As it was, they were checking tickets outside the door and...lo and behold, two of the HS girls couldn't find their tickets! (I must admit I was amused.) We got seats two rows up from the girls and they were pretty good. We saved two seats for Dusty and his friend.
So we were just sitting there and talking and someone brought two beach balls! It was SO much fun! This girl had dressed up like a pirate (there were some VERY elaborate costumes) and had brought a pirate flag so she was waving it back and forth every so often and running in front of the screen. It was pretty fun. The beach balls, though, were REALLY fun. We were all hitting them around and all that. Dusty showed up, about 10 minutes before the movie started. So then our video projector guy was down at the bottom taking tickets and such and told us if we could keep the beach ball (one of them, not both) going for 5 minutes straight, he'll start the movie 5 minutes early. So it became a lot of people's goal to keep it going. Didn't last a minute. Lol It was fun, though. He ran around the theater REALLY fast with the pirate flag and it was just overall a LOT of fun.
Movie previews were fun too. LoL. People cheered during the beginning and end of them (National Treasure this Dec looks GOOD!), except Transformers was hilarious. When it finished, it was SILENT in the theater and then a few seconds later everyone started to cheer! Transformers, surprisingly, looks pretty good. So it surprised us all.
The movie itself was MUCH funnier than the 2nd movie. Johnny Depp was FAB! If possible, better than the first two. The ending felt a bit long (the big battle scene we've seen clips from) and I have some issues with some of the storylines introduced in this movie and some other stuff, but other than that...it was good! It had just about everything for everyone. I was a bit surprised at some points and the ending was interesting...I won't say anymore or I'm liable to give some clues away no matter what. :) I WANT TO GO AGAIN!!
I've been finished with school for about a week now. :) Turned in my final paper (22 single-spaced pages at 13,484 words) for SL and all last Sunday. That was not a joyous experience, I tell ya. I thought the paper was due at noon on Sunday, so I stayed up till 4 am finishing the paper. I got up around 10am (after falling asleep around 5am and not sleeping well) to turn my paper in, but I got this email from my prof saying it was due by MIDNIGHT. I almost died. I'm dead tired and my mom walks in wanting to know if I was going to church. I explained the whole situation (was about to fall apart from being tired) and she said to go back to bed, sleep some more, get up and finish the paper. So, that's what I did. Lol
Anyway, I got an A, for sure, in ecology since I got a 28/30 on my final paper. No clue about the other classes since they haven't finished grading anything. Grades are due the first of June, so they have some time.
Preakness was depressing. Street Sense lost at the wire! AT THE WIRE! By a SHORT head! *sigh* Makes you wonder about Street Sense. He's lost 2 other races doing, basically, the same thing. He BLEW past all the other horses and then Curlin catches him at the wire. Oh well. Curlin looks good, but my heart just isn't in it. LoL
PIRATES!!! I SAW PIRATES LAST NIGHT!!! OH MY GOSH! It rocks! I went with a friend Tori and met up with 2 co-workers (Stephen, Dusty, and Dusty's friend), we went to the theater at about 5:20pm for the (hahaha) 10pm showing. :) Or, well, Tori and I went at 5:20, the guys showed up later. :P
I'm going to copy paste my evening from another place I posted about the movie so I don't have to retype it all. :)
Tori and I got to the theater about 5:20, I went to the box office to see if they had any 10pm showings and they didn't. So I called Stephen at work. I told him and went ahead and bought him a 10:05 ticket, you never know. The time before they didn't check tickets at the door and we smuggled Dusty into the theater at the wrong time! I told Stephen I didn't have enough for his friends, though. He said that's fine and he'll let them know what's going on. Okay, that's fine. So I got my ticket and his. Tori and I went to Chipotle. She got a burrito and I got a burrito bol (a burrito without the tortilla, for those that don't know). We went back, around 5:40pm to start a line. There were some people there, whereas before NO one was there. So we went outside and was sitting down next to the wall when Tori brought out her LotR Trivia Pursuit game. There were two other girls sitting next to us and I offered if they wanted to play. So we were playing and all, two of us went inside to tell them they should put a line NOW or there are going to be unhappy people when the mob goes indoors. Anyway, that got us basically nowhere. So we've been sitting outside for about an hour and they start letting people inside to line up. They didn't tell us ALL that. Ashley figured it out on her own. So we went inside and instead of being 15th or so in line...we were like 30 or 40. I don't know, we got pushed back anyway.
So, you think that wouldn't be too bad; yeah, well, we got stuck next to the high school girl club. They were SO irritating. It was about 10 of them and through the 3 hours of sitting next to them they played twister in the theater lobby, they talked about some of the MOST unappropriate things to talk about (sex, orgasms, "true" sex stories, etc). Just talking about sex in general isn't bad, but the stuff they were talking about some some of the girls would want "details" and it was just, not fun to listen to. They were LOUD too. Tori and I would almost have to shout at each other to hear each other and we were sitting right across from each other.
So after about an hour, maybe 1.5 hours of sitting next to them, we started taking breaks to go outside and regain our sanity (the people next to us even said they were irritating!). It was after 8pm, so I called Dusty to see if he was coming now or a bit later and he was coming later. Then I called Stephen. The girls we were sitting next to playing Trivia Pursuit with decided to switch show times from 10pm to 10:10pm. So they were going to go and exchange tickets. So I swapped them a 10pm ticket for my 10:05 ticket. So I had to call Stephen at work to tell him he got a 10pm ticket, yet his friends had 10:05 or 10:10, I forgot, but we said we'd figure it out later. He said he wasn't going to go get something to eat since he took his lunch break (LAME! Dusty and Stephen worked 3 hours, had a 1 hour lunch break, worked 1 hour, and were off. *rolls eyes*). I was telling him about the girls and he's all "maybe I should come now to relieve you two." I told him it didn't really matter. Called Kristi and saw an old high school friend. It was fun to see him (graduated a year after me).
Anyway, Tori and I ended up standing in line, line moved, yaddy, yaddy. I called Stephen and texted him a million times trying to figure out where he is, where are his friends, etc. His friends decided that he should just go without them, so he ended up sitting with us and no friends. As it was, they were checking tickets outside the door and...lo and behold, two of the HS girls couldn't find their tickets! (I must admit I was amused.) We got seats two rows up from the girls and they were pretty good. We saved two seats for Dusty and his friend.
So we were just sitting there and talking and someone brought two beach balls! It was SO much fun! This girl had dressed up like a pirate (there were some VERY elaborate costumes) and had brought a pirate flag so she was waving it back and forth every so often and running in front of the screen. It was pretty fun. The beach balls, though, were REALLY fun. We were all hitting them around and all that. Dusty showed up, about 10 minutes before the movie started. So then our video projector guy was down at the bottom taking tickets and such and told us if we could keep the beach ball (one of them, not both) going for 5 minutes straight, he'll start the movie 5 minutes early. So it became a lot of people's goal to keep it going. Didn't last a minute. Lol It was fun, though. He ran around the theater REALLY fast with the pirate flag and it was just overall a LOT of fun.
Movie previews were fun too. LoL. People cheered during the beginning and end of them (National Treasure this Dec looks GOOD!), except Transformers was hilarious. When it finished, it was SILENT in the theater and then a few seconds later everyone started to cheer! Transformers, surprisingly, looks pretty good. So it surprised us all.
The movie itself was MUCH funnier than the 2nd movie. Johnny Depp was FAB! If possible, better than the first two. The ending felt a bit long (the big battle scene we've seen clips from) and I have some issues with some of the storylines introduced in this movie and some other stuff, but other than that...it was good! It had just about everything for everyone. I was a bit surprised at some points and the ending was interesting...I won't say anymore or I'm liable to give some clues away no matter what. :) I WANT TO GO AGAIN!!
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Finals
*does the dance of joy* I got a 91/100 on my ecology final! :D That solidifies my A in the class. YAY!!
I have no clue about my QFM grade. It's up in the air with a final project paper, lab paper, and final still not graded.
SL I should pull an A, but I have this stupid paper to finish. *Sigh* It's 85-90% finished, I just don't want to re-read 18 single-spaced pages on this issue. It's all subjective, mostly, with me supporting why. It just doesn't INTEREST me!!! I need to reread it, though, take out some duplicate stuff (we wrote the body of the paper in 4 parts over the semester) and write an overall intro and conclusion and then it'll be done. I SHOULD go through his comments and edit too, but I probably will only change the big stuff, my environmental issue of interest (I changed it in part 2), and I need to finish "writing" part 4. I left off some things or things that need to be expanded. It's probably a good 4 hours of work left. It's not due till Sunday at 11:59am, though. :) So I have a few days. I have to get a 30/30 on it to retain my *cough* 98% *cough* in the class. I can get a 22/30 on the paper and still retain an A (90%), though. And, I think, as is, it's probably a B to A-. This prof grades differently, so the semester (and all our work) totals 100 points. A30 point paper is 30% of our grade and a HUGE assignment based on points. We had 1, 1.5, 2, and 5 point assignments most of the semester, so you can see how 30 is big. :P
Well, with that. Must be off to finish that paper and go to SLEEP.
PREAKNESS IS THIS SATURDAY!!!!!!
I have no clue about my QFM grade. It's up in the air with a final project paper, lab paper, and final still not graded.
SL I should pull an A, but I have this stupid paper to finish. *Sigh* It's 85-90% finished, I just don't want to re-read 18 single-spaced pages on this issue. It's all subjective, mostly, with me supporting why. It just doesn't INTEREST me!!! I need to reread it, though, take out some duplicate stuff (we wrote the body of the paper in 4 parts over the semester) and write an overall intro and conclusion and then it'll be done. I SHOULD go through his comments and edit too, but I probably will only change the big stuff, my environmental issue of interest (I changed it in part 2), and I need to finish "writing" part 4. I left off some things or things that need to be expanded. It's probably a good 4 hours of work left. It's not due till Sunday at 11:59am, though. :) So I have a few days. I have to get a 30/30 on it to retain my *cough* 98% *cough* in the class. I can get a 22/30 on the paper and still retain an A (90%), though. And, I think, as is, it's probably a B to A-. This prof grades differently, so the semester (and all our work) totals 100 points. A30 point paper is 30% of our grade and a HUGE assignment based on points. We had 1, 1.5, 2, and 5 point assignments most of the semester, so you can see how 30 is big. :P
Well, with that. Must be off to finish that paper and go to SLEEP.
PREAKNESS IS THIS SATURDAY!!!!!!
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Kentucky Derby & PotC
HOW COULD I FORGET?!
The 133rd Kentucky Derby was ran on last Saturday. It was AMAZING!!! Street Sense won and he went from 19th to 1st. A KD winner I actually wanted to win actually won. It's been 6 years, I think, since I've really been watching and paying attention to horse racing and it's the first time this has happened. I got worried before the race because Street Sense was the favorite to win and favorites typically don't win (I think he became the 51st favorite to win the Derby). I got worried, again, because he was 19th in the beginning. Boy, I should learn better to than lose hope so early.
Now...it's onto the Preakness in less than 2 weeks. Triple Crown mania won't end till the Belmont 5 weeks from this last Saturday. You spend about 5-6 months talking about the KD and TC and then it just...ends! It's so weird when it happens..
Oh, Pirate of the Caribbean looks really good too. Can't wait to see it. Planning on going to the midnight showing. :D Now...to make sure all my co-workers go too...
The 133rd Kentucky Derby was ran on last Saturday. It was AMAZING!!! Street Sense won and he went from 19th to 1st. A KD winner I actually wanted to win actually won. It's been 6 years, I think, since I've really been watching and paying attention to horse racing and it's the first time this has happened. I got worried before the race because Street Sense was the favorite to win and favorites typically don't win (I think he became the 51st favorite to win the Derby). I got worried, again, because he was 19th in the beginning. Boy, I should learn better to than lose hope so early.
Now...it's onto the Preakness in less than 2 weeks. Triple Crown mania won't end till the Belmont 5 weeks from this last Saturday. You spend about 5-6 months talking about the KD and TC and then it just...ends! It's so weird when it happens..
Oh, Pirate of the Caribbean looks really good too. Can't wait to see it. Planning on going to the midnight showing. :D Now...to make sure all my co-workers go too...
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