I am (sometimes)

Today was freakin' sweet. It started out with me having an awesome dream about Heroes of Might and Magic - I'm kinda disappointed I don't remember more about it, but that's okay. So, about 0850, I'm woken up by my roommate, Andrew, who reports that the internet's down. See, our ip address likes to be dynamic and change a lot, and for some reason that messes up our mid-sequence router. I don't know why. Anyway, my bedroom door is locked - quite unusual, so Andrew doesn't get to do what he would normally do, just come in and reboot the router. Instead he bangs for about a minute until I give up trying to convince myself that it's a dream. I get up, reboot the router, and get back in bed. But then my curiosity gets the better of me, and I check the time. "Holy shit!" I had a final at 0830! So I throw on clothes, greatful I had taken a shower the night before, and run out the door, shouting a thank-you to Andrew. I ran most of the way to class, realizing I was out of shape in the process. (Have I ever been in shape?) So I get to the final forty minutes late, my prof greats me with a "nice to have you." I take my seat, kinda worried about time, and kinda out of it at first, but the test goes well. It seemed pretty easy. Similar to the midterms, on which I think I got the high scores (at least on the last one). My prof was pretty ammused that I ended up finishing early, and everyone else was still working. So that was awesome.

As I was walking home, I noticed the LaRouche freaks setting up their tables and decided to argue with them. I ended up talking to one guy for forty minutes or so. I beat down most of what he was saying, though he kept agreeing with me on things. He said that helping Africa industrialize shouldn't be done as charity. He said the most important resource was man's mind. Though he still had all these other ideas like government should be in charge of everything. That infrastructure needed to be nationalized. That America was founded to help mankind. I tried arguing against that, but didn't know my histroy well enough. Anyway, it ended with him telling me about these math and physics lectures that they had people come and give. They sounded pretty cool, so I actually might end up going to some of them.

Lunch was awesome. I discovered an episode of Gargoyles which I had not seen before! And I thought I had seen them all! Though it wasn't an official Gargoyles episode (Greg Weismann didn't participate in the third season), it was still pretty good.

Work today was weird. Boss wasn't there. Forgot my keys, which was irritating.

Went up to Best Buy, though my mp3 player's batteries died. I was unable to find company, so I kept trying to get it to continue. I could turn it on, and it would play with what it loaded on that disk spinup, but once the buffer was empty, it didn't have enough power to feel like trying to spin up again, and would shut down. Then I would turn it on again, and it would repeat. This went on for an hour or so until I gave up. The thing still said it had an hour of battery left. I don't know what it's measureing, but I'll have to keep that in mind. Anyway, I got to Best Buy, but forgot that one of the dvds I wanted (The Incredibles) comes out tomorrow, so I'll have to go back. Blarg. Well, it may not be so bad, I did get to flirt a bit with a cute cashier. Maybe she'll be there again when I pick it up.

"I... I.. don't know exactly how to put this sir; but are you aware what a serious breach of security that would be? I mean, he'd see everything! He'd see the big board!" - General Buck Turgenson