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December 23rd, 2004

12:14 am - Snow Like Whoa I thought it snowed alot Sunday. Today it snowed like 6 inches. Well it will definatly be a White Christmas this year. I don't ever remember not having a White Christmas. Christmas in Florida will be wierd. I don't think it would feel like Christmas without there being snow on the ground. We were supposed to get my mom at the airport tonight, but because the roads were so bad, we turned around and came back and she was able to catch an airport shuttle home. I had to move around most of my plans for the night. Oh well I'm glad she made it home safely. I still don't have 2 of my grades for my classes. The system had been down but it's up tonight. My teachers probably didn't put in grades because they were told the system would be down til after Christmas. If you can't already tell I'm not a very patient person. I don't like waiting to find things out. I'm in a better mood than the other night. At least I'm trying to deal with all this uncertainty. The move is still stressing me out, but I'm starting to deal, so its getting better. I didn't feel like I got much acomplished today. Its probably cuz it took me til like 3 to fall asleep last night, even though I went to bed at 1. Because I was up til 3 I couldn't get up today til 1:30. By the time me and my brother got out to get my dad birthday cards, and actually found cards amonst the poor selection in the store, and drove back here in the snow, it was like 3. Then I did took a shower, did some laundry and we attempted to get my mom. So that was pretty much the day. Well I'm going to attempt this sleeping thing, once again. Hopefully I can get my sleep schedule back to me falling asleep between midnight and 1 and waking up around 9. Its one of those confusing things cuz I feel like the day is wasted when I sleep til 1, but if I wake up before 1, I feel like the day is wasted cuz I'm too tired to do anything. Hopefully I can get back to normal sleeping hours, the holiday's should help when I have to be up earlier to do family stuff...but now I'm rambling. Goodnight! Current Mood: indescribable

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December 21st, 2004

01:23 am - Puberty again? So its 1:23 in the morning(time for a deep entry, no I'm not drunk, I'm just a moody girl) and all of today seems to focus on the future. Like, what cell phone provider should I sign the next 2 years of my life over to? It all depends on where I will be in 2 years, and I don't really know that. It seems like my life and everyone in it is heading about a million different directions. It sorta hit me that this is my last time in Ohio. I know I never really see my friends anyways but its more of the illusion that they are there and I will go home and they will be there. This summer is still up in the air for me. I might be in DC, Vermont, State College or even Florida. I guess I don't like not knowing. I wish I could find out about this internship with DHS. I had a good feeling but I'm trying not to get my hopes up. I will probably end up in DC after graduation though if the fact that I applied for all internships in DC is a sign for anything. It's kinda depressing though cuz I was talking to Jon tonight. It sounds like he probably won't be in Maryland when he graduates. I'm trying not to be upset cuz who even knows if we'll be together in a year and a half. I guess I just like to feel that our relationship is headed somewhere. I sorta thought we might get a chance to have a real relationship after we graduated. It's just sucky irony that I'll probably be in DC after graduation and he probably won't be. I realize we don't really know what's going on or how long he'll be in school, where he'll end up after he graduates, I guess I always thought we had a chance though. I guess just with everything being uncertain, now I'm not so certain about this anymore. Although its the last thing on the list of things I want to/have to deal with right now so I'm forcing myself to put it aside for the time being. Well today is my Dad's Birthday. We're going out to dinner with him and my grandparents tommorrow. Mom comes home Wednesday. And it is now 2 am and that means its bedtime. Goodnight, thanks for listening to me in my puberty-like state tonight. Current Mood: weird

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December 19th, 2004

07:16 pm - Snow I made it home just in time! I missed most of the snow that we got overnight last night. We got several inches. Everything looks like a white blanket covered it. I didn't get home til about midnight last night. The drive was pretty good. Alot of 80's music cuz most stations have "Retro Saturday Nights." I always get home pretty late at night which isn't real fun. I started realizing everything I forgot, such as winter accessories (gloves, hats, scarves). I also forgot my MP3 player which is going to make the 2 day car ride and 4 hours I will spend on planes over break very boring. Sorry to cut this short but it is very cold down here in the basement and I must start dinner for us. My mom moved to Florida 2 weeks ago so it's been just my dad and brother for the past two weeks. She comes home Wednesday but until then I get to do things like cook dad and Keith real food ;) I'll try to update sometime soon :) Please leave a comment :) Current Mood: cold

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November 28th, 2004

02:34 pm - Can't Wait for Christmas! I can't wait for Christmas. Several reasons: 1. Its my favorite holiday and I like getting people things they will enjoy, as well as getting things I enjoy. I'm getting a new cell phone and a digital camera, and probably some other stuff from my grandparents. (I think a wireless router which I'm going to use at my parents and probably my apartment too. 2. I didn't get to sleep as much as I wanted to over this thanksgiving break. Yeah I slept alot the first day and Saturday but it still wasn't enough and getting up at 5:30 tommorrow morning to go back to school is not going to help that. 3. This semester will be over. I won't have tons of readings to do and papers to write and stuff like that keeping me up til 2 and 3 in the morning almost every night and in a perminent state of exhaustion. Next semester might not be any better but there is a chance it will be. That is a chance I am willing to take. 4. My plans for the summer will be pretty much known. I don't like not really knowing where I'm going to be in 6 months. Its even scarier to think that this summer I will start looking at full-time jobs. I feel like I'm getting sick. I've felt like that for about a week now and nothing have developed. Its amazing I've only gotten sick once so far this semester. Its definatly due to the fact that I am not living in the dorms anymore. Thanksgiving Break definatly needs to be 2 weeks long in order to be fully effective. However, a short break was very nice. I'm sad that it is now over. I went shopping today :) I even woke up at 8 to go :-o. I can't really talk about what I bought though because they involve gifts for other people ;-). We were supposed to have an open house today to try to sell our house. But the realator didn't put it in the newspaper so there was drama and it was cancelled. I was going to go see a movie with Dad and pick out my new cell phone during the open house but since it got cancelled I am here instead. Getting some homework-type stuff for school together. I'm trying to download some pictures and since our dial-up connection is wonderfully slow, it is allowing me tons of time to write in here. Well that is all for now. I tried to fix the spacing as Billy requested :-p Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: nothing

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November 25th, 2004

08:09 pm - Thanksgiving Dinner I can't write for long (that will probably be a trend with the entries) but I just finished dinner 1 of 2 :) Yep, luckily they aren't on the same day like when I was little. Being a little person and having two thanksgiving dinners was rough. I am having dinner #2 at Grandma's tommorrow. Haven't seen the family on that side in a while so that'll be fun. I remember Thanksgivings when I was little. I'd wake up, watch the parade, we'd go to my Grandparent's on my mom's side and eat, then a few hours later go to my Grandparent's on my dad's side and eat some more. Then come home and watch whatever holiday movie was on (It was Home Alone for the longest time). Even though today was nothing like that except in how it started out, it was still fun. I woke up at 9 (which would have been early any other semester, but getting up at 6:30 every Tuesday/Thursday this semester is killing me, so 9 is technically sleeping in for me now). I watched the parade, and an Everybody Loves Raymond marathon. We ate dinner at about 5:30 on trays in the living room, cuz we sold our kitchen table (no we're not poor we're moving). It was an intersting Thanksgiving but a good one. Who knows I might be in Florida next year for Thanksgiving ;-) which I can't complain about especially since it snowed today :-O. Well I got to get going, I'll probably update again sometime later on this break. Current Mood: full Current Music: Seinfeld on TV

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November 24th, 2004

07:08 pm - First Update in who remember's how long (I don't) PS. Happy Thanksgiving! Ok, so I got crazy busy and haven't updated in months. So much has happened but writing about it all would take forever and I gotta get going soon, but just wanted to say I'm not dead (not like anyone checks anymore cuz I took the link out of my AIM profile, it is back now though :) I'm at home in Wickliffe currently, being lazy. Yeah I woke up at 2 and didn't take a shower or get dressed til 4:30. It was very nice. I've been watching TV all afternoon. I never watch TV anymore. Just too busy. Getting kinda worried about my plans for the summer. I found out I didn't get 2 of the 3 internships I applied for with the FBI. I'm still waiting to hear on the 3rd one. I think I got an interview with the Department of Homeland Security in a week and a half. So my breaks going to consist of getting preped for that. If I don't get that I'll probably do this emersion program at Middlebury College in Vermont for 9 weeks. I don't think I"m going to go back to Lockheed. Not to mention I've been playing phone tag with HR for just about a month now and my manager hasn't emailed me back. Well I got to go, I'll probably have more time to update later since I don't have too much planned for break. Although my time is getting filled quickly, we'll just have to see. Happy Turkey Day everyone! :-D Current Mood: lazy Current Music: Friends on TV :)

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March 17th, 2004

04:03 pm - Happy St. Patrick's Day!!! Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!! Its such a wonderful day...everyone being drunk and all. Classes are definatly more interesting when your friends are drunk and you can make fun of them. Well I'm done with class for the day and don't actually have any homework so let the festivities begin! Hope everyone has a good day! Current Mood: happy

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March 5th, 2004

09:47 am - I wish every class were like this :o) OK I'm leaving for Wicktown shortly for spring break, but I thought I'd update to share some humor with you on this fine morning, My Political Science Dr. Henderson is probably one of the funniest people I’ve ever met. In yesterday’s class he went on a 10 minute sidetrack about being 'real', here’s some quote from his sidetrack: "a student said to me their best quality is being real, I said so you want me to give you points for being real? That's like giving you points for being sober." “And don't get me started on women who say they’re real, then why do you wear all that makeup and hide behind all those accessories? Your delusional.” Then he goes into role-playing, we're talking turning from one side to the other Turns to the right: "How does my hair look" Turns to the left: "I'm not going to answer that and become part of your delusions" Faces the class: "That’s all you women do is try to make us part of your delusions that you actually look good." Turns back to right: "your fat" "I once had a student tell me they think better when smoking marijuana, then they tried to tell me they were smart because they got A’s. I said no your not smart, your stupid enough to think you think better when smoking the reefer” I love that class. You may have had to be there though, I don't know I just thought it was funny. If you have spring break this week, have a good one, if not, I’m sorry. Just think of me laying on the beach in Florida doing absolutely nothing all week long ;-) Current Mood: cranky

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March 4th, 2004

06:13 pm - Post-THON Ok as promised here’s my post THON entry. I’m incredibly busy and still have so much catching up to do, but I wanted to update while the memories are still fresh in my mind. The overall experience had a life-changing impact on me and I think differently about alot of things now. After the initial exhaustion wore off and I was able to think clearly again, I decided it was most memorable experience of my life. I feel for the families who have to go though the day-to-day struggle and exhaustion of having a child with cancer. After meeting them and hearing their stories I realized that standing up and not sleeping for 48 hours didn’t seem like enough for me to fully realize what they go through. Meeting and playing with the kids was probably the best part of THON. As much as I liked playing with the kids, just before family hour (with about 4 hours left of THON) I met a kid named Chris. Only he wasn’t really a kid, he was a teenager, probably around 16 because he was talking about getting his drivers license. Most of the families that I met had little kids but I really enjoyed meeting Chris because he was old enough to actually talk to, and since I was completely burned out at this point that was pretty much all I could do. I also felt kinda bad for him though because I think people were more interested in the little kids than talking to a teenager. He talked about how he had a motorcycle and was studying to get his license, and about how he liked to rock climb, and how he really wanted to go skydiving. All of this before he got sick. I couldn’t believe how brave this kid is, not only to do all that, but to go through what he’s going through right now. I think if I were in his situation, I would not be as brave as he is. I guess the thing about meeting him was that he was only a few years younger than me and had a normal life. I guess reality really set in at that point that something like that could happen to anyone. When we were talking to him, a woman came around and gave him angel pins, and told him to give them to his dancers. He said he couldn’t find the people that were dancing for him, but he gave them to Laura and me and told us he’d rather we have them. That was really touching and I think that pin is something I’ll cherish always. Shortly after that was family hour. First was the tribute to those we lost. It was a short 10 minutes video, highlighting the lives of the Four Diamonds children who died in the past year. It was touching to watch at first, but something I will never forget is, when they got to the second child. It was a girl and her name was Katherine. The second picture they showed of her was a picture of her and her sister. There was a girl sitting on her mother’s shoulder next to me, and when they showed this picture she turned to me and said “that’s a picture of me and my sister.” At first I felt really bad and thought that this girl didn’t realize what had happened to her sister, she looked about 3 or 4. But later on in the video she started talking to me about her sister, and how she had died last year. I don’t know if I’ve ever really felt for anyone as I have at that moment. It must have been really tough for those families to go through their daughter having cancer and then losing her battle. That was special because I can watch a video of the children who died and feel bad for their families, but to actually see the family first hand and hear her sister talk about her was very sad. After, the tribute to those we lost, they had a tribute to those that are still with us. Here is where some of the families get up and tell their stories. All the stories were memorable but the one I that hit me the most was this one. On 9/11 the little girl of a family had a doctors appointment because she had been tired and her legs were sore for a few weeks. The father worked in New York, and when the terrorist attacks happened his office relocated and was helping the victims get in touch with their families to let them know they were ok. He had called home a few hours after to let his family know he was ok, and his wife told him that they told her their daughter had a flu but they did some blood work just in case. He told her he didn’t know when he’d be home but he was glad she was ok. A few hours later he got a call from his wife who told him the results of the blood test were back, and they instructed them to take their daughter to Hershey Medical Center immediately to meet with a pediatric oncologist and start her on treatment for cancer. The father didn’t think twice and jumped in his car and he said as he was leaving New York he looked back and saw smoke coming up from where the towers used to be, and he realized the magnitude of the attacks, but he didn’t want to turn back. He realized that the families of those that were in the buildings would never get be with their loved ones again, but that his daughter is still here now, and he was going to go be with her while he still could. I guess the biggest thing that I learned was to realize what you have and don’t take for granted anything, because it doesn’t take much for your entire life to change quickly. That was only the last four hours of THON, however it wasn’t all like that. The first part that I can remember was really fun. The food was excellent (compared to what I had been eating), I got all the free massages I wanted, I got a backpack full of stuff, and gifts from my moraler. Overall it was an amazing experience that I can’t even put into words, because I had a very difficult time writing this and expressing what I was trying to express. And although I started becoming delusional, got lost for an hour, and was so sore by the end I couldn’t even walk to the car, I’d do it again in a heartbeat and plan to my senior year. It feels so good to give to others and be completely selfless for 48 hours. At least I wasn’t like some of the others who saw Winnie the Pooh and thought people were chasing them so they actually escaped Rec Hall only to be caught somewhere by Willard. Sorry for the really long entry, I am working on something really short for tomorrow with quotes from Political Science teacher who’s just a riot. He went off on a 10 minute tangent/comedy routine today and it was the best class I’ve ever been to. THON ‏2004‏ Always Believing For the Kids Rock the Rec A portion of the Line Dance lyrics: Courage, to take them there, Wisdom, to see them through, Honesty, to show we care Strength, We’ll stand by you The time is now Thon unite We will win this Cancer Fight! WE ARE PENN STATE!! ALWAYS BELIEVING!!!! THON website Oh! and go us for raising $3,547,715.48!! I will post a link to pictures as soon as I put them up on my website(as soon as I create a webisite). Current Mood: tired Current Music: When I look the the Sky-Train

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February 19th, 2004

07:20 pm - pre_THON For those are you who do not go to Penn State and do not hear about THON all year round I’m going to take a moment to explain what THON is and why it is important especially to me. THON, which is short for dance marathon, is one of Penn State’s greatest traditions. It is the largest student run philanthropy in the world. Over 4,000 students participate in some way and 700 of them dance for 48 hours one weekend in February (this year its this weekend Feb 20-22). Its 48 hours of no sitting, no sleeping (no kidding). The money raised throughout the year and on THON weekend benefit the Four Diamonds Fund at the Hershey Medical Center and the money is split between families of children with pediatric cancer cover treatment and research in the hope that one day a cure for pediatric cancer will be found. Over the past 31 years over $23 million dollars has been raised for kids with cancer and has helped over 2,000 families. Last year 3.6 million dollars alone was raised. The results this year will be released in the ceremony culminating THON. The theme this year is Always Believing. People asked me why I’m doing this. Why would you do this to yourself, stay up for over 60 hours (yes I am going to all my classes tomorrow and waking up at 7:30a.m. THON ends at 7:30 Sunday night.) Part of me has always wanted to help out those less fortunate than myself. I didn’t plan on dancing this year. I just wanted to help out in any way I could on a committee or something. But I started to read and hear the stories from the families and I realized that I could do more to help. They go through so much just to get their child treatment, not to mention the poor child who must go through all that treatment. At the dancer kickoff meeting 2 weeks ago, a family came and spoke to us. Their daughter who was cute as can be has had cancer since she was just a baby. She’s 2 now. But the parents seem so overwhelmed and told us her story and I knew that I was doing the right thing. Just yesterday I received an email from a friend, attached was a letter that a parent wrote and asked to be sent out to all the dancers. I can’t even do the letter justice but basically she told her story about how her child died from cancer about 5 years ago, but through treatment at the Hershey Medical Center was able to live longer than they ever expected. She knows of people whos children are still fighting cancer and know that we are very important to them. Just the way that the children are treated like kings and queens when they come up THON weekend means a lot to them. She went on in the letter several times to call us angels. I’ve never been called that before but its so rewarding to know that you can make that much of an impact on someone’s life. I’m keeping this letter in my fanny pack this weekend as my inspiration (fanny packs are only cool during THON). Today I was buying socks and the guy ringing me up started talking to me about THON. He went on to say that he thought it was a really great thing we were doing and the entire community is proud of us. I’ve had my parents tell me they’ve been proud of me before but to hear it from a complete stranger really touched me. So people ask me why I’m doing this. I’m doing it for the kids and to help to make a difference in their lives and make them forget about all the pain and hardship they are going through just for a weekend. When put in perspective of what they have to go through on a daily basis (the letter the woman wrote me talked about all the needles and painful bone marrow transplants her son had to go through, and how he didn’t eat for 9 months) having to be on a diet for 3 weeks and stay awake for 48 hours is nothing. I wouldn’t trade this experience for the world right now. My friends have been asking me all week if I’m nervous. I try to take things one day at a time so I really didn’t start thinking about it until this morning when I saw I had an IM from my moraler (she’s really the best) saying THON was tomorrow. I started thinking about it during class and when I went out to buy socks and had that conversation with that guy was really when I realized that it was coming up. I don’t know if I’m nervous I’m just feeling so many emotions right now. I’m excited to be there and meet all the kids and families. I’m scared of what this will do to my body. I’m starving, can’t wait to eat good food this weekend. But most of all I’m really looking forward to it. People who have danced in the past have given me lots of advice like “bring tennis balls (for your feet)”, “it’s a myth you get called for food by dancer number as soon as the tables are brought out run for it”, and “wash your hair often it keeps you awake”. Something I”ve been hearing a lot is also to take pictures. I probably won’t remember most of THON. The part people seem to remember is the last 4 hours when the families get up and tell their stories. That’s the part that sticks with you they say. I don’t doubt it. I can’t wait. I’ve never been so excited to not sleep, but I know I’m going to feel so good about myself when its over. I’m going to be really busy next week though. My teachers have decided not to give me any extensions so after not sleeping all weekend I’ll probably only get a good nights sleep on Monday night but I’ll worry about that next week. I’ve been incredibly busy and neglecting my friends, but I’m hoping especially after reading this they will understand why. I’ve also been kinda a bitch lately to people, I don’t mean to come across that way but I’m under a lot of stress (I had 2 exams this week on top 2 projects, next week I have 2 projects, an essay, a quiz, an exam and a 15 minute presentation in Arabic) so as you can see I had to get all that work done on limited sleep, which makes me extremely moody. Don’t take my ignoring you or snapping at you personally, when this is all over and I have my spring break relaxation/recovery in Florida I will be back to my pleasant self. Sorry I haven’t responded to comments that have been put up also. I’ve just been too busy. But I will do that eventually. I also plan to follow up with a post-THON entry, so look for that whenever things settle down. I hope if anything I have encouraged you to be self-less and give either time or money to help those who don’t have it as good as you do. I know several of you have donated money, and if not written me dancer mail which I can’t express how much it will mean to me to know that you guys are rooting for me this weekend. For more information on THON and the Four Diamonds Fund visit our website www.thon.org. If you haven’t donated money you can donate this weekend online or over the phone. Information will be on the website. Also, keep an eye out for news stories on THON, we’ve had MTV and CNN coverage in the past, they will tell you what you can do to help futher. Sorry it was so long but I’m glad you took the time to read about this. You being informed truly means a lot to me. THON 2k4 Always Believing For The Kids Rock the Rec IST 0100 THON Current Mood: excited Current Music: I'm so Excited

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February 7th, 2004

04:51 pm - First Impressions I thought I’d do an entry on the first impressions all of my teachers and classes have given me. Last semester I got a good feeling from several of my teachers that I did not have at the end of the semester. So after 3 weeks of classes here are the thoughts about them. Mootacem (Arabic 497 [Special Topics]): My Arabic teacher. Now I had him last semester so first impressions of him at this point are rather unfair. Last semester he was ok. It is a small class…only 7 people so I get a lot of individual attention. I don’t particularly care for his teaching style (I liked Badis’s better (for those who don’t know Badis was my Arabic teacher last year)). Mootacem just kinda gets up there and talks and he doesn’t stop to really explain what he is saying. So basically its all foreign to me. The class itself is more on culture this semester and there’s more writing and presentations. I kinda like that better because doing exercises last semester was not fun. We’d get 2 a night and they took like an hour each to do. A paper takes just about that but he only assigns one sometimes 2 a week. The thing that scares me most is the 15 and 20 minute presentations I have to give. On Feb. 27th I have to give a 15 minute presentation in the form of a newscast. Now if this we’re English I’d be all over this, but I really don’t know if I can talk for 15 consecutive minutes in this language. Maybe if it was Spanish but this stuff is difficult and my vocabulary is limited. Also, as part of my final I have to give a 20 minute presentation. We’ll see how the 15 minute one goes and I’ll get back with ya on that. Dr. Plutzer (PL SC 001 [Intro to American National Government]): The guy kinda impressed me the first day. I mean his exams seemed easy and he even cracked a few jokes in class. In reading over his syllabus there’s even a few in there. So I’m like this guy won’t be too bad. Well he probably has cracked one joke since the first day of class, this coming after our 2 hour delay on Monday morning, his class was the first after the delay “I’m so glad you all came out today, with the snow and the delay and all. Its nasty out there but I’m glad you could make it. Now for coming to class you will be rewarded with the most boring lecture of the semester.” And it was defiantly really really boring. Gretchen: She’s my PL SC 001 TA. Now she is cool. A bundle of energy defiantly and I like that in a teacher. They got to be able to make things interesting as she does. The thing I probably like about her most though is she basically tells us exactly what is going to be on the exam. This I like. This makes my life a hell of a lot easier. Dr. Henderson (PL SC 014 [Intro to International Relations]): This is by far the funniest teacher I’ve had up here. He has a lecture but you have to pay attention because he randomly calls on you. He’s funny though, for example the first day of class reminded me of a stand-up comedy routine. I would be really surprised if he has never done stand-up before. He reminds me a lot of Damon Wayan’s, kinda looks like him too. He’s really practical though. He’s written a book which I’m considering reading because he’s an interesting person and I think his book will most likely be interesting too. I like him though because in a lecture of about 200+ people he knows a lot of students names. If you participate once he learns your name and I think that’s really cool (well except for the girl who looks like that other girl he pointed out in class today…went off on a 5 minute hysterical tangent about how they looked like each other). Ms. Ghosn: She’s the PL SC 014 TA. I don’t know if I like her. She’s kinda a bitch. And the readings for that class are hard and she doesn’t really explain them. She calls on people in class to explain them but I honestly do the readings and don’t understand as does the rest of the class. I don’t know about her… Fonseca (IST 240 [Intro to Programming Languages]): He’s a really good teacher. I can tell he knows his stuff. We are working on a semester long group project of making a game similar to the Sims. He also seems really helpful. He’s hard to understand at times and I didn’t like how he picked the groups but I’m hoping that after talking to him he’ll take my opinions about groups into consideration. So he’s still a questionable one. Mudget (IST 230 [Logic]): Honestly what can I say about him. His class might be the easiest class I’ve taken since 8th grade yet I get the feeling I will still learn a lot about logic. The first day of class he told us we did not have to memorize anything. That’s just fine with me. It was more important for us to learn the material. Now he can be boring especially because he just reads his notes. But I’m excited about the labs we are going to be doing in that class because they seem really cool, especially the ones about cryptography. Mudget’s a good guy. I like him so far. Well that’s all for this edition of my Live Journal….stay tuned for the next installment…TBA! Also, I will post a final impressions of teachers at the end of the so be on the lookout for that. Oh and please please please comment. I noticed no one commented on the last one. I'm trying to start our here so leave me some encouraging words. Current Mood: hungry Current Music: um...some Mary J. Blidge song (Napster Radio baby)

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February 6th, 2004

04:28 pm - First Post My b/f is really into his livejournal, so I thought I’d see what all of the hype is about and get one of my own. I’m kinda new to the whole concept since none of my friends from Wick-Town or PSU have one, but hopefully they will see how “cool” this one is and get one of their own ::wink wink nudge nudge::. Or at least get one out of pity so I won’t be the only loser with one. Well most of my friends probably don’t know what a livejournal is since I didn’t really know til I read Jon’s. The best I can really describe from what Jonathan’s told me and what I’ve gathered from reading his is that is a online forum, crossed with a online dating site. Its somewhere to rant about things and people will rant back but you can also meet people from all over the world with the same interests as you. I know its not much but this being my first entry, I’m not sure what else to say except if you don’t have one get one, cuz it’d be much cooler for me if you had one (its really easy just go to www.livejournal.com). Hopefully I’ll start some sort of trend or something. Even if you don’t want to get one, please still leave me a comment, if no one seems interested I just won’t waste my time, so at least let me know what you think. I might not update tooooo often, especially if this semester is as hellish as last was, but I’ll try to keep some sort of regular schedule, most likely a weekend. Current Mood: optimistic Current Music: Stupid Napsters being retarded so none

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