I'm kind of going through a shitty time right now. I'm not at all satisfied with my academic progress this semester, which more or less stems from never really internalizing good study habits and time management. During the spring semester last year, things went well and I started kind of getting into the groove of doing things the right way and ( Read more... )

The guy that plays "Joe" on Family Guy actually talks like that during every day life, especially if he's drunk. I sort of met him at the Melbourne International Film Festival. We were both eating delicious fondue. I got a picture with him. I saw a couple of the most atrocious movies in existence (especially "Hoodoo for Voodoo"), and also a ( Read more... )

$100 magically appeared in my "webrevalue" account on my UCF card this morning. I have absolutely no idea where it came from, though a cursory investigation revealed the source was a credit card. Hopefully not mine, though I definitely didn't try to do it, because that would overdraw my checking account. My card did vanish earlier last week, but ( Read more... )

Today, I had the pleasure of fluently exchanging blows. I love grappling, but sometimes one feels a longing to experience the primal nobility of pugilism. "Stand-up" sparring for me has become either a chase or a decisive loss. In the former case, my opponent refuses to engage and I'm forever running after him. My agitation is expressed in my ( Read more... )

The death of my cell phone has been crippling, not because I need the calling functions, but because it served as my alarm clock in the morning. During high school, I possessed some precious sixth sense that told woke me up at a.) 6:30, AM or b.) exactly whenever I needed to wake up, whichever came first, and rarely failed. That vital sense ( Read more... )

There have been a lot of alcoholics in my family, but the one closest to me was my father. He got things under control, but soon after fell ill. I can't say I'm amongst the many in this generation who are angry with their father or never had a father figure, but he was gone a lot of the time, working night shifts at the powerplant and sleeping ( Read more... )

Today, Andre, patron Sensei of the UCF Brazilian jiu-jitsu club, told us that his life is "jiu-jitsu, barbeque, and sex." He's a short, hairy, middle-aged fellow that kind of resembles a caveman, in my opinion. Having grown up on the streets of Brazil, putting food on the table by winning brutal no-holds-barred vale tudo matches, he radiates an ( Read more... )

A question from my medical terminology class self-mastery exam ( Read more... )

I used to know a guy named Ernesto. He had a great side kick he used as a counter. I wonder what happened to him? I think he joined the navy or something.

John Priest put me out of commission for a while yesterday. I should've known better than to think I could get a good clean double leg drop on him. He put me in some armbar variation that I "knew" no one would ever catch me in and I felt gears grinding in the joint, so that's done for a while. There's a sharp but tiny pain medially on either ( Read more... )