ABOUT TO CAFFEINE CRAAAAAAAAASH!
So, tonight I was walking down to a local diner and as I got to a fairly busy street going through town, I stopped because the light was red. When the light turned green, you would think that I would have crossed the street. But for some reason, I decided not to. Then, not one...not two...but THREE fucking cars ran the red light and would have creamed me had I been walking across the crosswalk as the little green man said it was okay to do. And I'm not talking about cars that were going too fast to stop or something...they were each at least a block away when the light changed and they didn't even slow down, except for the last one which slammed on its breaks and slid straight through half the intersection. Yeah...stupid college kids...
UT (my undergrad university's decades long rival) won the Big 12 championship today. Hooray! I love them as long as they aren't playing against my alma mater, A&M. Texas State (the place where I go to grad school) won the second game in their division playoffs, today. They go on to the final championship game next weekend. I watched most of both games and both were good. Actually, the UT game wasn't that good. They won by like 67 points...it was kind of lopsided.
I didn't get to work until 6:30pm today because I'm a lazy motherfucker. As a result, I've only just now finished grading 52 of the 102 exams that I have to get graded by Tuesday. I'm waking up at 8am tomorrow and spending the whole day grading in my apartment until I get done with them. Then I'm going to go up to the office (I'm hoping around 5pm or 6pm) and spend the whole night working on either my thesis proposal or my final paper for my Cold War class. This doesn't make for a whole bunch of free time in the next few days, but it will save me from the horrible horrible rush of doing everything at the last fucking minute. We'll see how that goes.
Julianne called me today. We're going to hang out on either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week (13th or 14th) before she flies up to Seattle to visit her boyfriend. I'm happy about that...she's tons of fun (not a fat joke...she weighs like 90 pounds soaking wet).
Still talking to Megan on AIM all the damn time. I wonder if this will continue when I finally get over my infatuation with her. I wonder if this will hinder me getting over said infatuation. I'm not worried about it in the slightest. I would like to meet someone new, though. I don't see myself getting over her until that happens, honestly.
Dating prospects are as slim as ever, if not slimmer. According to our TA assignments, there are only two new TAs this Spring. One of them is my friend Ed's girlfriend, Erin. The other is a brand new guy named Marshall that will be learning the trade from me and Krista as the three of us have been assigned to TA for one of those giant fucking freshman history classes (giant fucking = around 350 students) for Dr. Hart. We'll see how that goes. The point is, there don't appear to be any new single girls doing the TA thing. And I'm only taking one class next semester that a new grad student could possibly take, and it's a military history class which means the chances of a girl being in it are slim (well, aside from my friend Elizabeth who is a fellow military historian). That's not a sexist statement, either. It's just based off of experience. Anyway, the point of this too-long paragraph is that my prospects for dating this next semester are slimmer than ever. And that makes me a sad Keroo. I know it shouldn't...I know I shouldn't care and all that bs, so don't say that. I know it, and that doesn't change how I feel one bit.
Oh yeah, so I discovered this really, really badass music site. It's a Flash site, so you'll need Flash. Basically, you just input the name of a band or song, and it starts to play a song by that band (or that song, if you put in a song). After it's done, it picks another song by another band that it feels shares characteristics with the first band you played. It pulls these from the world's biggest fucking music database ever, the Music Genome Project. It will play bands that even the most avant garde music snob has never even heard of. I've been wanting something like this ever since I quit the DJ thing. Since I stopped being a DJ, I'm no longer exposed to random obscure artists anymore. So, yeah...I love this thing. Anyway, it will do this infinitely, building a playlist. You can make as many playlists as you want, I think. The only problem so far that I can see is that after you log off and then log back on, it only remembers the first song from each playlist and the lists are different every time. Luckily, for my first two stations I wrote down in a Word document all the bands and songs that I liked. Anyway, all you need to do is a free registration. Trust me, it's worth it. I made a Nerf Herder station (that means it played Nerf Herder, then introduced me or reintroduced me to like 30 different bands that it feels are similar to Nerf Herder), a Guns 'N' Roses station, an Apocalyptica station, and right now I'm listening to a Journey station.
ROCK!
Anyway...so wish me luck for the rest of the week. If I can make it to Wednesday then I will only have one more paper due for the semester and one scantron-only exam to give, and then I'll be done until January.
Peace, love, and success,
~Keroo
UT (my undergrad university's decades long rival) won the Big 12 championship today. Hooray! I love them as long as they aren't playing against my alma mater, A&M. Texas State (the place where I go to grad school) won the second game in their division playoffs, today. They go on to the final championship game next weekend. I watched most of both games and both were good. Actually, the UT game wasn't that good. They won by like 67 points...it was kind of lopsided.
I didn't get to work until 6:30pm today because I'm a lazy motherfucker. As a result, I've only just now finished grading 52 of the 102 exams that I have to get graded by Tuesday. I'm waking up at 8am tomorrow and spending the whole day grading in my apartment until I get done with them. Then I'm going to go up to the office (I'm hoping around 5pm or 6pm) and spend the whole night working on either my thesis proposal or my final paper for my Cold War class. This doesn't make for a whole bunch of free time in the next few days, but it will save me from the horrible horrible rush of doing everything at the last fucking minute. We'll see how that goes.
Julianne called me today. We're going to hang out on either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week (13th or 14th) before she flies up to Seattle to visit her boyfriend. I'm happy about that...she's tons of fun (not a fat joke...she weighs like 90 pounds soaking wet).
Still talking to Megan on AIM all the damn time. I wonder if this will continue when I finally get over my infatuation with her. I wonder if this will hinder me getting over said infatuation. I'm not worried about it in the slightest. I would like to meet someone new, though. I don't see myself getting over her until that happens, honestly.
Dating prospects are as slim as ever, if not slimmer. According to our TA assignments, there are only two new TAs this Spring. One of them is my friend Ed's girlfriend, Erin. The other is a brand new guy named Marshall that will be learning the trade from me and Krista as the three of us have been assigned to TA for one of those giant fucking freshman history classes (giant fucking = around 350 students) for Dr. Hart. We'll see how that goes. The point is, there don't appear to be any new single girls doing the TA thing. And I'm only taking one class next semester that a new grad student could possibly take, and it's a military history class which means the chances of a girl being in it are slim (well, aside from my friend Elizabeth who is a fellow military historian). That's not a sexist statement, either. It's just based off of experience. Anyway, the point of this too-long paragraph is that my prospects for dating this next semester are slimmer than ever. And that makes me a sad Keroo. I know it shouldn't...I know I shouldn't care and all that bs, so don't say that. I know it, and that doesn't change how I feel one bit.
Oh yeah, so I discovered this really, really badass music site. It's a Flash site, so you'll need Flash. Basically, you just input the name of a band or song, and it starts to play a song by that band (or that song, if you put in a song). After it's done, it picks another song by another band that it feels shares characteristics with the first band you played. It pulls these from the world's biggest fucking music database ever, the Music Genome Project. It will play bands that even the most avant garde music snob has never even heard of. I've been wanting something like this ever since I quit the DJ thing. Since I stopped being a DJ, I'm no longer exposed to random obscure artists anymore. So, yeah...I love this thing. Anyway, it will do this infinitely, building a playlist. You can make as many playlists as you want, I think. The only problem so far that I can see is that after you log off and then log back on, it only remembers the first song from each playlist and the lists are different every time. Luckily, for my first two stations I wrote down in a Word document all the bands and songs that I liked. Anyway, all you need to do is a free registration. Trust me, it's worth it. I made a Nerf Herder station (that means it played Nerf Herder, then introduced me or reintroduced me to like 30 different bands that it feels are similar to Nerf Herder), a Guns 'N' Roses station, an Apocalyptica station, and right now I'm listening to a Journey station.
ROCK!
Anyway...so wish me luck for the rest of the week. If I can make it to Wednesday then I will only have one more paper due for the semester and one scantron-only exam to give, and then I'll be done until January.
Peace, love, and success,
~Keroo