( How 'bout some pictures?... From the dance, silly. )

Things have been goin pretty well recently, I think. Especially ( Read more... )

Yesss, I am now a third degree black belt! It was a pretty good test overall, I think. Messed up a few steps and then my boards wouldn't break so well (my parents got really tough wood), but all in all, I felt good about it ( Read more... )

So we have a final date, location and time for the test! (Jeez I am so nervous.) I will be testing on Saturday, November 26th at 10:00 am. I just found out tonight that I will be the only one testing. This means two things: (1) mortification (2) The test shouldn't take more than 2 hours ( Read more... )

They are mine, Naomi.

Arrrggh! It seems as if the fates have conspired to make this month the busiest it could possibly be. Hmmm, let's see ( Read more... )

Well, my bike ride is tomorrow (and Sunday), and I am PSYCHED! Actually, it seems pretty surreal. Although I have done the ride twice before, it is difficult to wrap my head around it. And as usually happens before I engage in something of this magnitude, I become a bit insecure and start wondering if I am enough in shape to do the ride. I ( Read more... )

Gotta love weekends. So much to do that homework never gets finished. But I have found that I do not care. Especially when there are events like dinner parties where we prove that we can cook. Although it was a bit sad that it took 3 GB-ers to figure out how to get a pan of chicken in the oven. But logistics aside, everything was fun. ( Read more... )

I swear that Xavier
has just one (maybe two)
different curriculums that they teach.
I have been learning
the same damn things in five of my classes.
It's starting to drive me crazy-
I can no longer distinguish which class
I learned what in.
They are making me think
that I am losing my mind.
Aaaaaaaargh.

Does any Great Bookie remember Nejman with the Black Hole of Calcutta thing? I just thought it was one of her great idioms, but I just found it when I was doing history notes: In 1756 the ruler of Bengal shut 146 Englishmen in a room without windows and left them overnight, during which time most of them suffocated. It was commonly known as the ( Read more... )