| Monday 13 January 2003 2:14 am Grrr. I was a visitor short this weekend. Jen didn't make it down due to a misunderstanding about when her mode of transportation left. I got the call at about 6 on Friday, and was pretty bummed out. I mean, she was bringing my gifts! Lol. Plus I had such cool things planned, since the last time she visted it was horribly hot and we didn't do as much as I'd have liked. But for shame, things didn't pan out. I was actually going to go ahead and do what I planned on without her (like visit the Freer Gallery), but yeah... I can wait. On the plus side, though, I got to sleep in! While one friend didn't come down to visit, another decided not to leave. Luisa'd been ready to move down to VA Beach on Saturday. We had one last hurrah at some bar on Thursday, and I figured that was that. I get the call tonight that she's sticking around (job didn't work out the way it was supposed to) for at least the semester, rejoined our gym, and all is well again. Yay. Classes start on Tuesday. Yep, avoiding that world of work for at least a few more months. It pains me to even think that I have to wake up at least four hours earlier than I've had to this entire past month: 8:30 am, man... the pain! I'm taking a refresher math course that had better get me back into pristine mathematical shape for the GMATS, which I plan to take later this spring or early summer. I'm also signed up for this Spanish class, but I'm going to drop it because it interferes with my basketball schedule. Heh. Well, that and I think a refresher English course in grammar will help me out for the GMATS, also. Other than that, I signed up for a marketing class and the Annandale chorus, which will hopefully get my voice back into shape. Perhaps through that I'll be able to find some permanent choir or something to join, because I'm wasting my talent. Heh, I've wasted it so much that most people don't know that I sing. Welp, I'll find out on Tuesday what I can do about that. I'm making some great progress on one of my new years resolutions: reading at least 2 books a month. In the past couple weeks I've finished Confessions of a Shopaholic, Tuesdays with Morrie, and Brave New World. Three very different types of books, let me tell you. The first was a very easy to read funny book about a woman with some major issues (overspending, lying, and being way too concerned about what people thought of her), so much so that she actually annoyed me halfway through, but eventually redeemed herself. I actually started to reread it right away because it was so fun, but then I lent it to my mom. I highly recommend the second book to every person with a soul. It's a moving account of a dying man's take on what's important in life. I'll admit it, I cried at some parts. It was partly because the story's so touching, partly because I was reminded of friends past, partly because it openly discussed some things that I try to hide from myself, and partly because I wondered if I'm doing things right in my life. It shouldn't take more than a couple days to read, so go borrow it from a library or something. The last was good, too, though slightly disturbing because of how true it could be. I never had to read it in high school (I was in the honors classes, lol), and think that it would have been fun to disect at that age. I also think that this was the book that inspired "Lenina Huxley's" character name in Demolition Man, but I could be wrong. Anyways, I'm still on my quest to find new and interesting books to read, so if you have any suggestions, let me know. |
| howl call it a journal, or something like that |