Before the world moves on
The beginnings of summer have seen all kinds of twists and turns. Some chronicling is in order for me and you.
Firstly, in importance not chronology, Amy got in a pretty serious car accident last Monday. Her car flipped and everything. I was on the phone with the police at about 10:30 P.M. checking for accident reports (she had been gone much too long) when the hospital called. Walking in to the trauma suite to see her with a neck brace and a blood-covered face brought a feeling I'd like to avoid hereafter.
She's fine, just a pretty serious concussion. I spent the first few hours with her answering the same questions in a ceasless and endless cycle. By about 4 in the morning, she seemed to be holding on to facts and ideas. She's been getting better every day, sleeping lots; we're just waiting for some pretty ugly bruisess to fade. I told her this is her one chance to almost die. No more. She can't escape me that easily.
We have to get a new car now too. Uch. We're thinking about a used Echo.
Onto other stuff.
I did pretty well in my official second year of university. I think I'm going to take a course this summer along with a full course load in the fall. Should be interesting. I'll be very ready to return after a summer-full of my current job: assembling bikes for Walmart. It's a good job, just really dull. I get paid by the bike (and end up getting paid much more than any chump like me deserves to) and I get to listen to my ipod as I work. I'm currently listening to the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, something I never got around to after finishing Tim's copy of the first book (which is sitting right in front of me actually) I'm enjoying it. The whole concept of listening to books is actually really cool, especially with something like an ipod. I do so during menial tasks like bike building or cleaning the apartment, and it works quite well indeed.
you can find all kinds of crazy audiobooks on your torrent site of choice. Or at least mine.
I've joined a martial arts gym. It's pretty good. It's the most I've ever been dedicated to exercise. I'm currently taking a beginners' striking class which is alot of cardio and basic boxing and kicking technique, and a Brazilian Ju Jitsu class which is a hell of alot of fun. You just have to get used to being mashed chest-to-chest with complete strangers, rolling around on the floor, for minutes at a time. All-in-all I'm going in about three or four times a week. It's something I'd really like to keep up during the fall and winter.
I think what inspired me to do so was my newfound interest in mixed martial arts. I'd seen a bit a few years gone, but it just seemed to be guys lying on top of each other without much progress. Boredom. But the big leagues like Pride and UFC (and in my impression the sport in general) have really seen alot of speeding up, with refs pulling a fight to its feet if no real progress is being made. It's an amazingly technical sport with all the ferocity and intensity of gladitorial combat. It's funny. I've never had an abiding interest in any professional sport. I never figured I'd start here.
I remember
Fred is into this stuff. I hope to see you again sometime so you can show me what's what.
I seem to be on a videogame drought. I was working my way through all the recent FPS's then interest for that just sort of dropped off. Pretty much just been playing Civ 4 lately, but there's only so many times the vikings can storm the shores of Babylon and France before looking for something... more. I think I need a really solid single-player rpg again. Oblivion was good but... I dunno. All the dungeons seemed to run together. I need something with both style and a really fucking solid story. Mayve I'll go back and play through Planescape Torment. I keep hearing that when it comes to a rich setting, you look no farther than that one.
I went interior camping in Algonquin at the end of may. That was super-good. Really relaxing.
Well I should go have a shower. I'm all stinky from learning to kill men with my bare hands. Be well.
Firstly, in importance not chronology, Amy got in a pretty serious car accident last Monday. Her car flipped and everything. I was on the phone with the police at about 10:30 P.M. checking for accident reports (she had been gone much too long) when the hospital called. Walking in to the trauma suite to see her with a neck brace and a blood-covered face brought a feeling I'd like to avoid hereafter.
She's fine, just a pretty serious concussion. I spent the first few hours with her answering the same questions in a ceasless and endless cycle. By about 4 in the morning, she seemed to be holding on to facts and ideas. She's been getting better every day, sleeping lots; we're just waiting for some pretty ugly bruisess to fade. I told her this is her one chance to almost die. No more. She can't escape me that easily.
We have to get a new car now too. Uch. We're thinking about a used Echo.
Onto other stuff.
I did pretty well in my official second year of university. I think I'm going to take a course this summer along with a full course load in the fall. Should be interesting. I'll be very ready to return after a summer-full of my current job: assembling bikes for Walmart. It's a good job, just really dull. I get paid by the bike (and end up getting paid much more than any chump like me deserves to) and I get to listen to my ipod as I work. I'm currently listening to the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, something I never got around to after finishing Tim's copy of the first book (which is sitting right in front of me actually) I'm enjoying it. The whole concept of listening to books is actually really cool, especially with something like an ipod. I do so during menial tasks like bike building or cleaning the apartment, and it works quite well indeed.
you can find all kinds of crazy audiobooks on your torrent site of choice. Or at least mine.
I've joined a martial arts gym. It's pretty good. It's the most I've ever been dedicated to exercise. I'm currently taking a beginners' striking class which is alot of cardio and basic boxing and kicking technique, and a Brazilian Ju Jitsu class which is a hell of alot of fun. You just have to get used to being mashed chest-to-chest with complete strangers, rolling around on the floor, for minutes at a time. All-in-all I'm going in about three or four times a week. It's something I'd really like to keep up during the fall and winter.
I think what inspired me to do so was my newfound interest in mixed martial arts. I'd seen a bit a few years gone, but it just seemed to be guys lying on top of each other without much progress. Boredom. But the big leagues like Pride and UFC (and in my impression the sport in general) have really seen alot of speeding up, with refs pulling a fight to its feet if no real progress is being made. It's an amazingly technical sport with all the ferocity and intensity of gladitorial combat. It's funny. I've never had an abiding interest in any professional sport. I never figured I'd start here.
I remember
Fred is into this stuff. I hope to see you again sometime so you can show me what's what.
I seem to be on a videogame drought. I was working my way through all the recent FPS's then interest for that just sort of dropped off. Pretty much just been playing Civ 4 lately, but there's only so many times the vikings can storm the shores of Babylon and France before looking for something... more. I think I need a really solid single-player rpg again. Oblivion was good but... I dunno. All the dungeons seemed to run together. I need something with both style and a really fucking solid story. Mayve I'll go back and play through Planescape Torment. I keep hearing that when it comes to a rich setting, you look no farther than that one.
I went interior camping in Algonquin at the end of may. That was super-good. Really relaxing.
Well I should go have a shower. I'm all stinky from learning to kill men with my bare hands. Be well.