I still need to work on homework. OMG the power went out at 2:30 this morning!! And the stupid battery back up thing for my PC started to beep. It woke us up... not cool. Anyway, it is pouring at the moment. Fortunately I can hide in my room until dinner time... wait I have soup so I don't have to leave at all if I don't want to. Nice. Timmy called ( Read more... )

I finally got the Epic book!! I HAVE FOOTNOTES! ::worships the Longman text:: Footnotes are the god of translating. I mean I tried to translate without, but the notes are useful. Anyway, that's about it. And I had 2 language classes today. And Erin's loving comment about being silly. Oh well. I still love Erin!! So I still haven't read my book for ( Read more... )

Yeah, school is slowly killing me. I had to do about 65 lines of translation today for tomorrow morning. But it's okay because I've got my groove back when it comes to translating. It took me only about 2.5 hours... but I just finished now. Well I had class and worked on other homework first. How great is that? I've got a short attention span at ( Read more... )

Okay, I just spent $143.96 for 9 books for 1 class. That's right, one little first year seminar class about China. And it has 12 books. And it is expensive. And I still need my history book, my Ovid book, my second Greek book, and the 3 remaining books for the evil class. I didn't get the FYS I wanted... no they closed the Afterlives and ( Read more... )

I'm settled and have everything set up. And I have great quotes from people. And Caitlin will send me pictures of stuff to post in my journal ( Read more... )

So yes, I move tomorrow. At 9 AM in fact. How exciting is that? Now everyone knows that I swing between hyper in the mornings to evil sleep-crazed person; this could be interesting depending on how much sleep I get. I got a new keyboard. YAY for new keyboard! But I still need to get used to it. It's is big and black and all clicky, unlike my old ( Read more... )

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In 1986 (the year you were born)

Ronald Reagan is president of the US

The US officially observes Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday for the first time

The space shuttle Challenger explodes moments after lift off, killing 6 astronauts and a teacher

A major nuclear disaster occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet ( Read more... )

Okay, I watched the swimming finals last night. And all I can say is AMANDA WAS CHEATED OUT OF A GOLD BECAUSE THE ANCHOR ON THAT RELAY STUNK!!!! I mean come on, Amanda gave them a lead and she was the 3rd spot on the team. If she had been anchor then maybe Amercia would have won the 4x100 Women's Free Relay. But she got a silver so YAY FOR AMANDA ( Read more... )

Jacob Michael Anthony Fernandez AKA Jake the Gerbil has passed on Monday July 9, 2004. He died in his sleep curled in his favorite spot in his cage. He was buried in a simple ceremony outside the garage with a large concrete cinderblock to mark his grave. He is joining my other dearly deceased babies: Coco the hamster, Buddy the hamster, Tara the ( Read more... )

Daddy got my computer to work last night!! And it has purple LEDs in it and the side is all clear so it shows... ::watches the lights:: It's so pwetty. And it's all black and silver and I have a DVD PLAYER in it!! That's right DVD. I can watch DVD on my 17in LCD flat screen monitor! ::glomps Daddy:: and it only puts us several hundred over budget. ( Read more... )