It's been ages...
But none of you really care how long it's been, right? Thought so. :p
School has started! Which means I have delightfully much less time on my hands than summer. Once school started, I didn't really believe it even while sitting in my first class because I've only left Eugene 3 times since summer started! Now that I look back it makes me sad, because I didn't do jack. I did go to dextor reservoir once (which is only 30 minutes from Eugene) and had a lot of fun out there, including wounds to prove it. :) Hurray for diving into a big body of water with sharp rocks just 2 feet down, and being drunk and not caring. Other than that, I went up north twice. Once to visit Rachel and Chris and see my new nephew Wesley (that kid does not stop smiling, just like his mom) and the other to drive to Mt. St. Helens with my mom for a mini-vacation. That week sucked cause I hadn't been sleeping well, and never got 8 hours of sleep in a two week period. Then I had to drive 500 miles in two days after getting like 4 hours of sleep each of those nights. FUN! But the mountain was fun, though uneventful since I didn't get to go on a helicopter ride over the mountain ($114 PER PERSON...ripoff). And it didn't blow up which is also what I was hoping for. :) But nevertheless a nice relaxing trip. Almost fell asleep on the ride home since I was so tired, but didn't want to drive us into a ditch or another car while on the freeway so I managed to stay awake. It's just REALLY hard to do when your only company is passed out, and you have to be courteous so I couldn't turn on the radio loud or nothin. Lame.
As for school, well I'm taking some really stupid classes, and some fun ones. My two geography classes are boring (one is 100 level...damn requirements) and the other is at 8:30 in the morning which means Willie is not awake yet to care. I do have a history of rock class though, and all we do is listen to music and talk about it, and it's a lot of fun. I really want to take the follow up class next year, cause the one I'm in now covers the 1950's-70's (Blues/Folk, Beatles, Elvis) while the next one covers the psychedelic era (otherwise known as the GOOD music era) up to the 90's. Other than that, I'm also in a physics lab class, which I didn't get into until Thursday night. I found out Friday night, that our lab was supposed to be due Friday morning, and seeing as how I didn't go to the class yet cause I wasn't signed up for it, I missed the first lab. I e-mailed my prof, but he wrote me back with a two sentence reply that basically said, "Sorry, if you can't sign up for classes ontime, that's your fault." Dick. How is it my fault that I can't sign up for a class that's full because EVERYONE AND THEIR DAMN DOG think they want/need it, then decide AFTER the first lab that they don't? At least I get to drop my lowest lab grade, but that's just shitty that it has to be the very first one (which is of course the easiest one). Alright, I'm done with school.
Work has been fine. Definitely slowing down, which is not necessarily nice, but at least now I can do schoolwork there. I'm trying my hardest to get my birthday weekend off (which I SHOULD be able to get, considering during the summer, the busiest time of the year, my coworker Mike took the WHOLE WEEK off). If I don't get it off, I'm going to be so pissed. There's nothing I hate more than planning something forever, and letting your boss know a month in advance, and they decide the day before that you can't have the time off. After all I've done this summer (endless hours of work) all I ask is two friggin days off to spend time with my best friend a long ways away from here. Is that too much to ask? I think not...
Speaking of my coworker Mike, he flipped out on me the other night at work! I have no idea what was going on, it was just a long Sunday that wasn't really busy at all, then like a half hour before we close we were kind of talking. I apparently 'mumbled' something under my breath (which yes, I do tend to mumble but not mean things, just me saying stuff that's probably dumb coming out of my mouth so I don't want others to hear lol) and he just goes ballistic like I was saying shit about him. He said something about fighting which I of course took as a joke and said "aww i could take you. I'm bigger than you." which I say to pretty much everyone (including my boss Marc who is probably 100 lbs more than me, and has a lot of muscle, plus he's taller, so obviously i'm NOT bigger) and thats when it shitstormed. This boy is wound way too tight. He was giving me shit because I didn't understand what he was talking about, and he kept saying "I know your type. You're the quiet type who's always sayin shit under their breath. blah blah blah". I was royally confused, then a customer came in. Once they left, instead of me just dropping everything, I demanded that he tell me what the hell his problem is because he's obviously got some screw loose that I don't know about. We worked everything out, but it was just odd, and I don't know what it's gonna be like working with him later. But I was probably 3 seconds away from having to beat the crap out of him before that customer came in because he was really mad! It was insane! After that whole deal, I haven't been able to drop the thoughts in my mind that the world has gone crazy. Hardly anyone I know is acting the way they did a year, or even maybe a few months ago! (No Joce, I'm not REALLY talking about you...maybe a bit. :p) It's driving me insane, because now I don't know how to act around anyone without setting them off since they've changed. Oh well, life goes on.
I should start wrapping this up, but I just want to say...Fred Meyers parking lot is a bad place to be if you own expensive stereo systems. Gavin was at work the other day and when he went out to his car for his lunch break he noticed that his drivers side window was smashed in, and people had taken EVERYTHING IN HIS CAR. He drives a giant chevy blazer, and the divider between the passenger and driver seats was his sweet sound system setup, including the gigantic amp in the back. These are not little things, but huge boxes of stereo equipment that weigh a shitload. I know cause I helped him put em in there. So these people managed to steal ALL that stuff (including the amp which was in the very back, and they took it out the front door which means they had plenty of time) in a short period of time. What's funny is this was done IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING DAY! He went out for lunch at 4pm. We're thinking these people HAVE to have known Gavin's schedule and what was in his truck because the box setup doesn't look like anything special. What's even MORE of a coincidence is that all the outside cameras at the store were in just the position that you can't see his vehicle AT ALL! Interesting the way that works...I blame the security guards.
Alrighty, I'm off to do more homework/reading. Have a good day kids! Write me more journals!
School has started! Which means I have delightfully much less time on my hands than summer. Once school started, I didn't really believe it even while sitting in my first class because I've only left Eugene 3 times since summer started! Now that I look back it makes me sad, because I didn't do jack. I did go to dextor reservoir once (which is only 30 minutes from Eugene) and had a lot of fun out there, including wounds to prove it. :) Hurray for diving into a big body of water with sharp rocks just 2 feet down, and being drunk and not caring. Other than that, I went up north twice. Once to visit Rachel and Chris and see my new nephew Wesley (that kid does not stop smiling, just like his mom) and the other to drive to Mt. St. Helens with my mom for a mini-vacation. That week sucked cause I hadn't been sleeping well, and never got 8 hours of sleep in a two week period. Then I had to drive 500 miles in two days after getting like 4 hours of sleep each of those nights. FUN! But the mountain was fun, though uneventful since I didn't get to go on a helicopter ride over the mountain ($114 PER PERSON...ripoff). And it didn't blow up which is also what I was hoping for. :) But nevertheless a nice relaxing trip. Almost fell asleep on the ride home since I was so tired, but didn't want to drive us into a ditch or another car while on the freeway so I managed to stay awake. It's just REALLY hard to do when your only company is passed out, and you have to be courteous so I couldn't turn on the radio loud or nothin. Lame.
As for school, well I'm taking some really stupid classes, and some fun ones. My two geography classes are boring (one is 100 level...damn requirements) and the other is at 8:30 in the morning which means Willie is not awake yet to care. I do have a history of rock class though, and all we do is listen to music and talk about it, and it's a lot of fun. I really want to take the follow up class next year, cause the one I'm in now covers the 1950's-70's (Blues/Folk, Beatles, Elvis) while the next one covers the psychedelic era (otherwise known as the GOOD music era) up to the 90's. Other than that, I'm also in a physics lab class, which I didn't get into until Thursday night. I found out Friday night, that our lab was supposed to be due Friday morning, and seeing as how I didn't go to the class yet cause I wasn't signed up for it, I missed the first lab. I e-mailed my prof, but he wrote me back with a two sentence reply that basically said, "Sorry, if you can't sign up for classes ontime, that's your fault." Dick. How is it my fault that I can't sign up for a class that's full because EVERYONE AND THEIR DAMN DOG think they want/need it, then decide AFTER the first lab that they don't? At least I get to drop my lowest lab grade, but that's just shitty that it has to be the very first one (which is of course the easiest one). Alright, I'm done with school.
Work has been fine. Definitely slowing down, which is not necessarily nice, but at least now I can do schoolwork there. I'm trying my hardest to get my birthday weekend off (which I SHOULD be able to get, considering during the summer, the busiest time of the year, my coworker Mike took the WHOLE WEEK off). If I don't get it off, I'm going to be so pissed. There's nothing I hate more than planning something forever, and letting your boss know a month in advance, and they decide the day before that you can't have the time off. After all I've done this summer (endless hours of work) all I ask is two friggin days off to spend time with my best friend a long ways away from here. Is that too much to ask? I think not...
Speaking of my coworker Mike, he flipped out on me the other night at work! I have no idea what was going on, it was just a long Sunday that wasn't really busy at all, then like a half hour before we close we were kind of talking. I apparently 'mumbled' something under my breath (which yes, I do tend to mumble but not mean things, just me saying stuff that's probably dumb coming out of my mouth so I don't want others to hear lol) and he just goes ballistic like I was saying shit about him. He said something about fighting which I of course took as a joke and said "aww i could take you. I'm bigger than you." which I say to pretty much everyone (including my boss Marc who is probably 100 lbs more than me, and has a lot of muscle, plus he's taller, so obviously i'm NOT bigger) and thats when it shitstormed. This boy is wound way too tight. He was giving me shit because I didn't understand what he was talking about, and he kept saying "I know your type. You're the quiet type who's always sayin shit under their breath. blah blah blah". I was royally confused, then a customer came in. Once they left, instead of me just dropping everything, I demanded that he tell me what the hell his problem is because he's obviously got some screw loose that I don't know about. We worked everything out, but it was just odd, and I don't know what it's gonna be like working with him later. But I was probably 3 seconds away from having to beat the crap out of him before that customer came in because he was really mad! It was insane! After that whole deal, I haven't been able to drop the thoughts in my mind that the world has gone crazy. Hardly anyone I know is acting the way they did a year, or even maybe a few months ago! (No Joce, I'm not REALLY talking about you...maybe a bit. :p) It's driving me insane, because now I don't know how to act around anyone without setting them off since they've changed. Oh well, life goes on.
I should start wrapping this up, but I just want to say...Fred Meyers parking lot is a bad place to be if you own expensive stereo systems. Gavin was at work the other day and when he went out to his car for his lunch break he noticed that his drivers side window was smashed in, and people had taken EVERYTHING IN HIS CAR. He drives a giant chevy blazer, and the divider between the passenger and driver seats was his sweet sound system setup, including the gigantic amp in the back. These are not little things, but huge boxes of stereo equipment that weigh a shitload. I know cause I helped him put em in there. So these people managed to steal ALL that stuff (including the amp which was in the very back, and they took it out the front door which means they had plenty of time) in a short period of time. What's funny is this was done IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING DAY! He went out for lunch at 4pm. We're thinking these people HAVE to have known Gavin's schedule and what was in his truck because the box setup doesn't look like anything special. What's even MORE of a coincidence is that all the outside cameras at the store were in just the position that you can't see his vehicle AT ALL! Interesting the way that works...I blame the security guards.
Alrighty, I'm off to do more homework/reading. Have a good day kids! Write me more journals!