Not much happened today. I woke up and went to the college Sunday school class at my church in Monroe. After the class, we ate some lunch that some old ladies made for us. I came back, did some stuff, packed my things into my truck and headed back to school, because I had track practice at 3:00. I left about 2:15 and barely made it in time. I took a picture of some bikers that I passed on the way back to school cause I thought it was funny. After practice, I hung out in my room until I got hungry. I went by myself to the cafeteria, but it was closed. So I called Judith and we went to Griff's to get a burger. After that, we hung out in her dorm for possibly a half hour, but I'm not so sure about that. Her friend Tyler called and said he was coming over, so she ran me out because she "can't have two boy with her at one time in the dorm." It was a good excuse, I guess. I walked back to my dorm and then worked on my calculus. It seems I got screwed over on my calculus book, because everyone elses is fine, but mine is all fuzzy on the outer half of each page so I couldn't read the problems correctly. So I did my calculus in Patrick's room so I could use his book. Then I came back to my dorm and went to bed. My and my roommate talked a little bit before we actually fell asleep. I guess things are getting better between us. Maybe by summer, we will be hanging out again. I dunno about that though. Time will tell.
MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2003
I was really tired when I woke up this morning to go to my 8:00 calculus class. My alarm went off at 7:01, but I hit the snooze alarm until 7:20. It was cold in my room, so it really sucked to get out of bed and I knew it would suck even worse when I got back from my shower. I went to all my classes.... In sociology class, everyone got into a big argument about the war. I thought most of them were wrong, but I didn't want to speak up, because my throat was clogged up and I would have sounded stupid, and everyone would ask me to repeat myself. I didn't feel like doing that. After class, I went to eat and then headed back to my dorm where...I did some stuff ( don't remember what) and then took a nap til 1:40, so I could wake up in time to go to my English class at 2. After class, me and Kristen talked for a while, but then I had to go to track practice at 4:00. At practice, I noticed Billy has his hair in a pony tail. I was about to put my hair in one too, but before I did, I asked him if he minded if we were twins today. He said we could be twins everyday. One of the twins, Jess or Joy, thought it was really sweet and said, "awww." We did 5x150s and nobody was making the time of 17.5 seconds. I thought something was wrong with that, because we were all running pretty hard. Only when I ran really hard did I hit a time of 17.57 seconds. After, that, I came back to my dorm and played on my computer for a little bit, and then took a shower. After that I went down the hall to see if Jarred wanted to go eat, but he didn't, so I went by myself. Luckily I saw Hannah and Heather there, so I sat with them, and Jake joined us later. Now I am back at my dorm, and I think I am going to start on my calculus early, since I don't have anything else to do.
TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2003
I had my chemistry class at 10:00 today. Some old guy substituted for Deese and told us what we need to know for the test Thursday. After class, I ate breakfast with Jarred and Andrew then went back to my dorm for a little bit. At 11:55, I left to go meet Kristen outside Carson-Taylor at 12:00. She wasn't there, so I went on by myself. I didn't eat anything because I had practice at 1:00 and I didn't want to see sloppy joes again. I was late for practice, but I had a little time to warm up before I ran a 300, 350, and a 300. The first 300 felt alright, but everything after that hurt pretty bad. The last 300, felt like the last hundred meters of the 400 I ran in the meet Wednesday. I couldn't move my legs fast and it hurt. That is why I put "I am dying at track practice right now" on my away message on AIM, because that is what it feels like I am doing. I didn't throw up though. That was nice, and some guys on the team noticed, too. Anyway, after practice, I got some ice wrapped onto my perpetually sore calf muscles and went back to my dorm. About 30 minutes after I was in my dorm, I got a call from Matt (a new guy on the track team) and he said we had weights. I hadn't heard anything of weights, but I went back anyway, and Matt hitched a ride with me. He's a pretty cool guy and has a really deep voice. He's from Idaho. That has nothing to do with anything I was talking about, but anyway, I pulled up to the weightroom, and a girl was waiting for us there and said the coach wanted to see us on the track because we had not hit the times we were suppose to in practice. I got a little scared. Coach had never had to talk to me before. Actually, he wanted to talk to Troy, Anthony, Matt, and me, because we had all run the same stuff together. He was kinda upset that we didn't even get near the times we were suppose to have run. He didn't really get onto me as much as he did Troy and Anthony. I guess because they are older and suppose to be faster or something. Anyway, after he talked to us for, like, 20 minutes, me and Matt went to the weight room and worked out some. The one black dude on the football team looked me over real good, and Matt saw that and looked him over in my defense and the rest of the football team was looking Matt over. I didn't really care for the guy looking at me, but I didn't worry about, so I just ignored it while all them looked at each other in a mean way. After we worked out, I came back to my dorm, took a shower, and waited til it was time for Common Ground. It was pretty good tonight, but something wasn't really the same as it usually was. I guess I was distracted or out of it or something, so I didn't get the full effect or whatever. After that, I went to Johnny's and at with Matt, and Kristen, and two of her friends from high school. I went to walmart and got some kleenex and sunchips after we ate, then came home. Now I am stuck doing calculus and it's really boring and takes a long time. It's raining now.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2003
This pagebuilder piece of crap wouldn't let me save this entry last night, so I am just writing this the next day. I didn't have much to say yesterday, and even less today, since I don't remember as much as I did yesterday. Actually, nothing special happened today, so I don't really see much reason in writing for today. The only thing eventful that happened was I went to a lifegroup thing. It is some thing that the Wesley Foundation does. It was my first time to go today, but I really enjoyed it. I actually remember everybody's name and face. I haven't been able to do that in a while. So...yeah, that was fun.
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2003
So I'm a day behind on my journals. I am really tired right now and hardly remember the events of yesterday. All I can really remember is going to Nights at the Well at Wesley with Judith. Then I did my calculus. Maybe I will remember more later and add it.
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2003
Um...I woke up and went to calculus at 8:00, went to eat breakfast. I sat with Brandon and Carlos (couple of guys from the track team) first and then Amanda (lifegroup leader) came to join us. She's a pretty cool person. She was able to make good conversation with Brandon even though she had just met him. I kinda wish I had that skill. Most of the track team was in the cafeteria at that time. They were leaving for the track meet at LSU at 11:30 AM. I couldn't go because my time in the 400 was not fast enough. I am kind of glad that I did not go. I am so worn out from this week's practices that I do not think I would have contributed much. I will not be running in Texas Relays either because that is harder to get into than LSU. Coach Jackson, however, informed me that I would be running the 200 meter dash at the SFA meet. I was really happy to hear that. I hate the 400, but love the 200. I will also be running the 4x400 at that meet too. Depending on how I do in the 200 compared to how I did in the 400, it will decide what I run at the ULM meet. That last sentence doesn't sound gramatically correct, but I'm sure you got the point. I hope I do great in the 200. If I run the 200 at ULM, I will also run the 100 meter dash. My heart begins to beat harder with anticipation every time I think about running the 100 and 200 again. But I am also nervous. If I do not do well in the 200, he will stick me back in the 400. I have trained over the past two summers and my senior year of high school for the 200. I can run up to 250, possibly 300 meters at full speed. That is how I did at the Tech Twilight meet. I got to the 300 point and then my legs stopped working correctly and I slowed down to almost a jog because I could not move them. It sucked so bad. I might not mind the 400 so bad, if it had been what I was trained for. In practice we hardly ever run anything over 350 meters so that does not help me with the 400 much because there is that extra 50 meters I am not ready for. To train for a 400, I need to be doing stuff like 500s or 450s or something. But there is not way I am going to say anything about it. It is enough pain just running 350. I got way off of the subject of today.... Sorry. Uh...Yeah, after I ate breakfast, I went back to my dorm and slept until 12:00. I had told Matt (new track guy) that we could work out together at 12:30. So when he got ouf of class, I went an picked him up and we went and ran some hills. It was nice. A P.E. class was out there and an aerobics class was out there on the track. The breeze was nice, too. After that, Bob the trainer wrapped some ice on my legs and I went back to my dorm to rest while the ice did its work. I then took a shower and came home. I ate some supper and then headed to the theater to see a christian movie called "Time Changer." I got there and asked for a ticket to it, but the guy on the other side of the glass just looked at me like I was stupid. The movie was apparently not playing. I saw some other people there from the BCM and told them about it. They couldn't get any tickets either. We later came to find out that the date had been changed. The people I was suppose to meet there came and I told the the situation. We went and saw Chicago instead. It was just like the play that I saw, but I understood it better. After the movie, we went to Chilis to eat. Then I came back to my house, talked to Lauren, Megan and Amanda on AIM for a while and now I am typing this Journal while talking to my ex-girfriend (the nice one) on the phone.
SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2003
Last night I left a note on my door for my mom to not wake me up. So today, I got to sleep until 12:30, and woke up on my own. I didn't do much today. I think this is the laziest day I have had in several months. I ate lunch and did nothing. I watched TV, watched part 3 of The Band of Brothers series, watched some more TV. I had hamburgers and hotdogs for supper. Around 10:30, I started watching Ghost Ship. It was a pretty good movie. Not really scary, even with me sitting in a dark room by myself, but it was interesting. That's my day.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2003
It is April 4th right now, so I don't really remember much about this day. I did some stuff, went to track practice since I do that every day. I went to my Lifegroup at 8:00. It was fun. I like it a lot more than FCA. I think I said the same thing in an earlier journal. I find it easier to speak in my lifegroup. After Tony talked to us for a while, we just hung out. Somehow the topic of conversation got on naked stories. Everybody started telling these stories. Tony had the most. They were all really funny. I don't really remember many of the details. I'm sure you noticed. I'm not even going to try writing about April 1st or March 30th.
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2003
Today I was awakened at 8:30 by my roommate comming into the room. It kinda made me mad because my alarm wasn't going to go off until 9:01. I had had a lot of trouble going to sleep last night too. I even took some sleeping pills. I had never taken any before, but about 20 minutes after I took them, they did the trick....until 8:30 today. It was about 2:00 or 2:30 when I finally went to sleep. Anyway, I went to my chemistry class and after that I walked over to the Wesley foundation to eat their dollar lunch. After that, I went to the BCM for chapel. I finally came back to my room and played my computer until track practice at 3:30. We ran five hills; it wasn't that bad. After practice, I came back to my dorm. When I opened the door, my key got stuck and wouldn't come out. I jiggled it for a few minutes, but it didn't come out. It sucked for a while, but then I figured out that I had to lock the deadbolt and then unlock it again, and then my key came out. Anyway, I grabbed my towel and shower bucket and went to take a shower. Nobody else was taking a shower, so I opened up the curtains on two showers adjacent to each other and turned them both on so that they focused on me as I stood in the middle of the aisle between the showers. It was the best shower I have ever had. The guy came in one time to use the bathroom, but I never caught him looking at me. I know he did, though. I would have, if I had seen someone doing what I was doing. I stayed in there about 30 minutes, then came out, got dressed and went to some of my friends' softball game that they were suppose to have. I WALKED all the way over there, but the game had been postponed til late tonight. I walked back to my dorm and chilled there til I went to my Bible study at Wesley. After the communion that is after the Bible study, I walked back and called this girl, Catherine, who is in my lifegroup. I asked her about this guitar she offered to sell me for pretty cheap. She is going to bring it for me next week. Then I can start learning to play the guitar...and it'll be awesome. I got back to my dorm and played Battlefield 1942 on the Local Area Network for a while, until I decided to go study calculus since I have a test tomorrow. It's about 1:15 now and my calculus class is at 8:00.
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2003
My alarm went off at 7:01 this morning. I hit the snooze alarm like I usually do. Something was different, though. For some reason, in my sleep state of mine, I thought it was chemistry day. Those days, class starts at 10. I had forgotten I had a calculus test at 8 this morning. So, anyway, I kept hitting the snooze button until around 7:45 it clicked in my mind that I had a test in 15 minutes. I flew out of bed and landed at the foot of my bed. Thoughts flew through my mind as to how I should go about getting ready. I could leave my glasses on, I could go without a shower, use mouthwash instead of brush, etc. So I got to class in time. Everybody was just going in. I got my test, and of course it looked rediculously hard at first glance, but after I looked it over, I remembered a lot of it from studying the night before. Anyway, I am pretty sure I got one wrong, but I think I did pretty well on the rest. Then I went to sociology class. After that, I ate breakfast and went back to my dorm to take a shower. I tried doing the two-shower thing again (where I have two showers spraying on me at once), but in the middle of it, a guy came in wanting to take a shower, so I had to move my stuff out of the way of the other showers. It was kinda weird.... Then I went to Chapel, then to eat lunch with Amanda, Hannah, Jenny, and Jake. I wasn't going to eat, but the pizza that Amanda had was really good, so I went and got some. Luckily it had time to digest before track practice. After I ate, I went back to my dorm. Right before I walked in the front door, this guy named Davis was touring some people around and asked me if I could show the people my room. I really didn't want to, because my room is really messy right now, and pretty much looked like crap. I went up to my floor, I went and knocked on Patrick's door, but he wasn't there, then I ran to Jarred's door, but he wasn't there. I finally gave in and told them they could see my room. I was so embarrassed. They got a nice look at it, in all it's crappyness. My roommate just came in...I forgot what I was talking about. Um, yeah, then I went to track practice at 3:30. We ran 15 hundreds. Now I am back in my room and am about to go take a shower.
It's a lot later in the day now. After my shower, I headed home and ate at Outback with my parents. Then I went to a college Coffeehouse at my church. It was the first one we have had. I got there kinda late, so I missed most of the first band. A band named Proofrock played next, and they were really good. The drummer and the lead singer in the band go to Tech and to the Wesley Foundation there. They were pretty cool. After the coffeehouse was over, this guy named Scott came up to me, Samantha, Kelsey and Heather and asked us to put out e-mail address down on a piece of paper so he could e-mail us. I didn't really want to, so I didn't. Then he gave the paper to Kelsey, who signed it and he thanked her a whole lot. It made me feel really bad, because he seemed really desperate. All I had to do was put down my e-mail address and it would have made him happy. Heather didn't sign it either, but she didn't seem to care. She was knitting something, so maybe she was too busy to think about it. Anyway, thinking of it kept me feeling bad for the next 45 minutes or so, cause he looked so sad. I felt like a big jerk. I got over it later, though. After Proofrock had packed up their stuff, they hung out with us for a while, and I talked to Jamie and Weston (drummer and lead singer) a little bit. They finally left, so I decided it was time to go, too. I grabbed one last Black Cherry Soda and headed out. I got home and came to the computer. My parents hadn't been able to get on the internet for a while. It seems like every time I come home, I have to fix the computer. Anyway, it seems to be working now since I am able to type in my journal. All I did was restart the computer.
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2003 (LITTLE BIT FROM APRIL 16-17)
I haven't written in here in a while, so I thought I would go ahead and write about my day today. I woke up at about 7:15 AM because Melissa had invited me to come on the river with her and some other people (mainly family). Her mom's friend had a house boat, so that is where I was most of the time. Mel's boyfriend brought his Jet ski, too. After Mel rode with Daniel, Charlotte rode with her ex, Matthew, then I got to get on it. At first, I rode by myself, I prefer it that way, cause I don't have to worry about throwing anybody off with the way I drive...not that I worry about it anyway. Mel's 10 year old cousin got on with me later. She got scared because I was driving too fast. I didn't do any quick turns with her though, but I took her back to the house boat. Then her mom, Aunt Teresa, got on with me. I did a couple of fast 180s with her going about...40 mph, I think. She said I drove like the guys in Oklahoma drive on their windy lakes....crazy. She apparently got scared too, because she asked to get off about a minute or two into the ride. Then this older lady, maybe in her 50s, got on because she had never been on a jet ski before. I drove fast and stuff with her too, but everytime, I went fast and spun around, the jet ski would capsize. I think it was because she did not know how to shift her weight properly, but it might have also been because there was not much gas left in it to keep it stable. I dunno, but it flipped 3 times, which bothered me. After three dunks in the nasty Ouachita river, I took her back to the house boat. I drove around for a little more, then I handed the jetski back over to Daniel. The rest of the time on the house boat, I "sunbathed" with my friends up top. I however didn't turn tan like they did. I just got red. After we docked the house boat, I took Melissa and Charlotte home. My engine got hotter than I prefer again, like it has been doing the past week. ~Flash back~ - Wednesday during my life group, we had a scavenger hunt. I was the only one with my truck there, so I drove. A ways into it, my truck engine started getting really hot. It's pretty embarrassing. It got a little too hot in the Walmart parking lot, so I ran and got some water from the bathroom and put some in my radiator after waiting for it to cool down. Needless to say, my team lost...because of my gay truck. Last night, I went to one of my friend's houses, and when I got there, smoke was coming out from under my hood....my truck's hood. So my friend, Sarah, wound up driving all night. That was pretty embarrassing too, that my gay truck kept crapping out on me. I had just filled it up with coolent the night before. After we got back to her house after all the stuff we did, I got a pitcher of water and lifted up my trucks hood. Wednesday night, after the coolent had been put in, somebody apparently forgot to put the cap back on the radiator. So I had been driving around for a day with my cap off. so I put the water in my truck and headed home for Easter break. ~End of flashback~ So I hung out at Mel's house for a little bit until about 5:30, then I came home. I was really tired from the jet ski drive. It made my hips hurt the most, I don't know why. My dad and I had to then help my mom by carrying a couch out ot the garage that is already cluttered with stuff. It was pretty heavy and hard to get through the doors of my house. After that, I layed around some more, then played on the computer. Then I went to get Fazoli's for my family around 9:15. I finished and now I am on here typing in my journal. So now that I am up to present, all I can talk about are whats going on now and the thoughts running through my head; most of which I prefer not to write down. You might say I am kinda bored right now at 10:50 on Good Friday night. I'm just talking to a couple of people on AIM. I am tired, so I am going to get some sleep for my rough day of sleeping late tomorrow.