Apple cider... Mmmmmmm *sip*

One of the engineering honor societies randomly decided to give out a free breakfast in the engineering school this morning. So I got me a bagel, tiny blueberry muffin, and a cup of warm apple cider, mmmm. *sips*

I had a really good weekend. Played Doom 3, Twyla came to visit, and we got Ben & Jerry's ice cream cake! All three were good, not particularly in that order. =)

Now I have to start work again.. *drudge* Ah well. Only one more week of school, then exams and I'm outta here. My family is having a family reunion cruise thing the week of Christmas. I'm really excited about that. I'll be sure to take lots and lots of pictures. Until then I need to finish my Christmas shopping. My brother wants a DVD, I don't know what my mom and dad want, and you *points at you from screen* what do you want??

*sips* Later.

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Well it is that time of year. So I thought I'd season up my page to match. Speaking of snow I hope it snows a lot this year. I really like the stuff. Even though it no longer keeps me out of class, it's still cool to walk in it back and forth all day. Plus I get to take more snow pictures again! =)

The top picture by the way is a picture I took here at UVA last winter. It's a straight on shot of Old Cabell Hall, which is located directly opposite the Rotunda, if you know what I'm talking about. I have some other snow pictures, maybe I'll change the banner image as I see fit to something new every once in a while. In the mean time I'll keep my fingers crossed that it starts to snow! You should too!

Later.

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Aries:
Not to be out-done by basketball and football fans, golf supporters will become engraged in a heated exchange of words between two professional golfers this weekend. The biting banter will be rapidly quelled by the line judges, but not before Tiger Woods hasa glass of ice-water with lemon thrown near him.

Taurus:
You will realize that hiring Harthanius, the Roman ececutioner, to help you with a bank robbery was a bad idea when you utter the bank-robbery command: "stick 'em up."

Gemini:
This week will seem even more life-like, as Pixar has made several major improvements since Finding Nemo.

Cancer:
Caught up in the joy of Fall you will jump into a pile of leaves. It will, in fact, be a trap covering a tiger pit. You should have known better than to attack the Swiss Family Robinson on their own island.

Leo:
You will leave your home without an umbrella or raincoat and will get soaked in a downpour. This is the stars' way of saying, "Start taking showers again."

Virgo:
Time to take your relationship with your crush to the next level. Next time you see them walking on grounds, run up behind them and punch them in the upper back. Then, as they double over, slide through their legs and surprise them with a hot make-out session and/or chocolate novelties.

Libra:
This week you will realize that all your suitemates are actually demonic spectres bent on your demise. Sucks to be you.

Scorpio:
Whatever you;'re going to do, do it quickly and well. Unless, of course, you wish to be the slow shit-show you've been for the last eight years.

Sagittarius:
Facebook-ing a friend is good. Facebook-ing an enemy is better. Using Facebook as a verb, priceless.

Aquaricorn:
You proudly stayed vegetarian over the Thanksgiving holiday, abd because of your efforts, thousands of turkeys in grocery stores across America are springing back to life.

Pisces:
Numbers are your friends. No seriously, they're your only friends. And they want that $50 you owe them.


Later.

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Hershey bars melt in your pocket. I know from experience. I bought one the other day, and out of my rush I didn't put it in my backpack, but decided instead to stash it in my pocket. A good 30 minutes later I take it out and its all melty. I picked it up by one end and it drooped. I threw it on the table. Then half and hour later I come back and it solidified again, in the shape of a semi-circle. It was sooo cool!!! Eating a chocolate bar curled around. I will now do that everytime, as it is the only way to eat chocolate!

All the computers in one of the computer labs here have the towers sitting on the floor. The towers are on the floor, while the monitor, keyboard, and mouse are on the table. The computers all have this sticker on them that reads "University of Virginia Desktop Computing Initiative." I find it humorous that the computer is on the floor. Sounds like the "desktop computing initiative" didn't have much initiative. I found that funny.

I want to watch a Wallace and Grommit cartoon. Those are the best. And Chicken Run. I will never stop about how much I like that movie.

The girl I'm tutoring in Calculus passed her last test!!! I'm so happy. She had gotten 40s, and 50s on her last 3 tests, but this last one she got an 87!! Yay!! Just one more quiz and then the final for her. She's doing really good.

I like planning stuff more then I like doing stuff. I just realized that. I would rather spend my whole day planning how to spend my day then doing the things I planned to do. This could lead to very circular days, spent planning how to catch up, only to spend the next day analyzing how I got so far behind. Perhaps its better I not plan and just do. That's a good idea. I'll plan to do that tomorrow.

I see so many people here that remind me of other people. Like they look almost identical to someone else I've seen or know. It makes sense. There are over 6 billion people in the world. A face can only be configured but so many ways. There are bound to be some duplicates. I wonder where my duplicate is? Probably a deep sea fisherman off the coast of Sweden... Figures.

Words I want to hear George W. Bush say:
-- Spectroscopy
-- Anthropological

When you were little did someone ever pose to you the hypothetical question, what if you didn't have a butt? What would you do? How would you sit down? All these questions to think about. And I could never answer them. Only say, "... I don't know, I hope I never don't have a butt." But now I realize that its a stupid question. How can you not have a butt? I mean seriously. What, there's just a void there? A vast emptiness where your derriere used to reside? Its not possible, its a stupid question, move on.

Why do moths all congregate around lights at night? I mean what do they hope to get out of the light? Not food, as once you've buzzed around a lamp long enough knows, you can't eat it. Not protection, as all the predators know that moths hang around lights. Not very smart if you ask me. What do the moths think this light is? And I wonder how they must feel when we turn the light off at night. It must be a huge disappointment. And why aren't moths attracted to the sun? Why don't we see thousands of moths flocking toward the sky at high noon? The answer eludes me.

Later.

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Hi, my name is Timmy. Today was fun. I walked to class AND then went to rowing practice. I broke my OR over some guy's head. Hehe. Nah, I didn't do that, KARNAUGH I wanted too. People make me bad. FLIP-FLOPing back and forth.. Stupid LATCHes. I hope they die a MEALY bad death. Just JK. Ah well. Little Timmy has to go to lab. Where he lived happily ever after, forever NAND ever.

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Everyone at one point believed in Santa Claus. I know I did. All I'm wondering is why or how you eventually stopped believing in him. At what point did you sit yourself down and say, "You know.. I don't think there's really a Santa.." It's a defining moment in a child's life. When years of dreams and fantasy comes crashes down to reality in one swift strike.

I can't remember the exact year I stopped believing in Santa. But I do remember when it happened. I was living at Fort Lee and Christmas was only a few days away. I was exicited like every other kid about what I might get. So one day my parents went to the store and I decided to look for presents. I had never done it before, never gone in search of hidden presents. Well, I checked all the usual hiding spots and came across a dresser drawer that was stuffed solid. Taking out a few clothes I realized there was something behind those clothes. I found a CD, it was the James Bond CD I had been wanting. I excitedly put it back and replaced the clothes. Then a few days later Christmas came and I saw that CD, this time placed out with all the Santa toys. I picked it up and asked my mom, "Did Santa bring me this?" "Yes he did," she answered back. That's when it ended for me.

I'm wondering how it was you stopped believing? Or maybe you still do.. I don't know. But I mean what did it for you? What specifically happened to make you stop beliveing?

I don't think not believing in Santa has any less on the holiday spirit. Sure its devastating when you are a kid. I'm still not sure how I feel about telling little kids there a Santa running around. On one hand it gives them something to believe in. And lets face it, a lot of kids desperately need something to believe in. If nothing else to amaze them with the notion that someone is secretly delivering toys to them in there sleep. I mean, how awesomely cool is that when you're a kid?!

But on the other hand, should you really be filling these children's heads with lies? I mean they're going to find out soon enough and think about how devastating it is to finally figure it out. I know it was for me. I know I questioned everything my parents said for a long while. "Well they might be lying about this just like Santa." The Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy are the same way. I know I believed in them far more than I should have, but my parents wouldn't lie about it would they? I remember one time I asked them "There's no way that the Easter Bunny could deliver all this candy to all the kids" and my dad said, "I don't know, there are some pretty amazing things that are possible."

Oh, I trust and believe them now. But there was a good little while where I took everything and I mean everything with a handful of salt. I didn't take anything for granted, especially from anyone who had alluded to the existence of Santa and any other "being" that seemed too good to be true. Like when the minister of the church we used to go to in Germany, after a Christmas Eve service, told all us kids to "hurry home, you want to make sure to be asleep when Santa comes." ...

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