Ughhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!! The life of a college student! So, I feel for ya'll right about now. I'm still on track to graduate this quarter, but with a slight de-railment. I was scheduled to present on the 20th of this month, but not gonna happen now. I'm a bit behind (but Susan says I'm doing well) on my research and it should be in the finalization stages, unfortunately, I have to re-write the second longest, and toughest chapter of the whole thing. DAMN IT! It seems as though, some chapters work like things that work, and others well there just down right not kewl. I WILL FINISH THIS QUARTER! I owe it to too many people, including myself. Ok, enough ranting, I gotta go drive for an hour to get back home. Peace my brothers and sisters.

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Of roommates and good friends

My roommate is driving me nuts with his passive-aggressiveness, ugh! He is wanting me to go backpacking with him and won't take no for an answer. I understand wanting to go do an overnight trip, but it's nuts. He really has not researched his hikes, and is basing the one's that he wants to do on one's in lower elevations.

The one's he wants us to do are fairly strenuous and require permits when they are in season, which none of them are. As a result of my non-interest in doing these hikes, he is cranking up his music while I'm doing work (which is shaking my walls and everything on them), like a child who is protesting his parents. I clean parts of the house, and it's like, "oh, don't do that I was letting Christy do that to teach her a lesson." Well, maybe, but it also prevents me and anyone else who wants to cook from doing so.

He just does not seem himself. He is embittered, non-conversational, and distant. I just don't understand him, and don't really want to be around him. I have made some changes to my schedule to hang with him a little more before I start work, but I regret it to some extent. I really would have liked to have gone to Nate's Superbowl party, but I hung with B instead who didn't really want to go anywhere, except to play pool, which I wasn't really feeling either. Egh, oh well.

I really wish that I could spend more time with my ESC family, like I did this past weekend (Friday and Saturday), god it was great! I have not had a weekend like that in a very long time. It was fun playing kings, touring the Seattle-metro area, and downtown Seattle. It was really, really fun. I think part of the fun of the whole thing was that it was so disorganized. Yes, we had a template of what we were going to do, but really that was about it. We knew that we were going to eat, go to Pat's, the Wing Luke Museum, and eat again, but not really having any set time (with the exception of the museum, as it closes at 4:00 PM). I think my favorite part of the whole weekend (and there was a lot of cool things) was dinner. The group presented me with a great card to congratulate me on my new job. It was also really fun to see the expressions of excitement on Christine's face over dessert. Ahh, hmm. How fun it was.