I do not understand why "Service Learning" (which I've personally dubbed forced volunteering) is a requirement for a class with a fee. I should not have to pay to volunteer my time.

My friend Jeremy hanged himself either Thurs.

This was going to be my response to a post responding to a questions about "the pregnant man" that was news a bit ago. (Why was this such a big deal anyway? If he'd had his parts removed & then managed to have the necessary parts added back in it'd be newsworthy. Or if he'd been born a male (as in genetically with male working parts) & then ( Read more... )

This past summer I began taking classes again. I finally re-took & passed (with a 97.1%) Japanese year one second semester. Now I'm enrolled in Japanese year two first semester & Intro to Women's Studies. Unofficially I'm sitting thru & re-doing the coursework for System & Network Admin in order to overwrite a previously hideous grade due to ( Read more... )

And now I have no idea wtf LJ is doing. I haven't switched anything & my LJ layout has changed to this... arg.

Every evening for the past few nights Nightwolf's been riding around the neighborhood with me. Around & around & around. Poor guy. Oddly, I've found making a right u-turn to be much easier than a left u-turn. Part of this little route involves getting on a real street, but only long enough to turn back into the neighborhood.

Today we went to ( Read more... )

I am now the proud owner of a 2007 Suzuki GSX-R600. It's still up at the dealership tho, so later this week we'll go get it & my friend'll ride it home. I really wish it was already down here or that I could ride it home myself.

On another note, lately I've been really missing voluteering (or working) up at PPH. It really pisses me off too that ( Read more... )

After a few e-mails back & forth with the same insurance agency my father's used for years, I've decided to not use them for motorcycle insurance & hopefully I can drop them when we get the auto & homeowners' insurance in our names. I asked a couple simple questions prefaced by my lack of insurance knowledge & received in return a not so nice ( Read more... )

Yippy yippy! Skippy skippy! 22mph! No more blocking the instruments either. Ahhh, wind. Twitchy throttle tho. Touchy touchy. Gonna have to get used to that. At least I'm braking smoothly. :-)

I need to pick up a helmet, but first I've got to find a place that's open when my friend's off work. That means either Monday or Friday evening & ( Read more... )

I've got enough money now to go get a helmet, so I began by measuring my head to find a decent starting point. According to my tape measure, I should begin with a M(edium). My friend's eldest brother recommends only Arai, Shoei, & Scorpion. Everything else is crap (HJC, Icon, Suomy, etc.). I have to wonder exactly how much of that is personal ( Read more... )