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 Today is November 1. The purpled-out color scheme is because November contains my birthday, and I wanted to do something "for me." Anyway, my discussion question for today is, why are there so many fine-ass guys on this campus? I swear, if I want to get *anything* done, I'll have to transfer to St. Grendel's School for the Appearance Challenged. Or somesuch.
Today is November 4. Happy Birthday Kory Pence (a nice guy I have known since 2nd grade). The Cake show was so, so awesome! They played lots of good songs, and I especially enjoyed "Stick Shifts and Safety Belts." Since it was GenAdmin, we got really close to the stage. The lead singer guy, John, looks a lot like my friend Joel G. It was so funny to see him up there, singing all those songs, and remembering doing my Algebra homework listening to Fashion Nugget. He has a very cool voice. And he seemed to enjoy making the audience chant/sing stuff, like "Sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell," and "Satan is my motor." Afterwards we went to Perkins and had a very weird and incompetent waitress, who made me the largest Chipper sundae I had ever seen.
Work was also pretty good this weekend. Today since it was slow, we hard-core cleaned the cooler. It was so disgusting, but it looks much better now. Tomorrow: One test, then kumla, then another test, then FUN!
Today is November 6. Yesterday was a great, great birthday. Highlights included e-cards from my friends, kumla dinner with Grandma, Jonno, and Gig, and hitting "Welch Avenue Station" with Alicia, RGN, and Alicia. I learned that pineapple juice is a very common mixer, and also tasty. We had some good times and didn't get arrested or run over or anything. So I guess there's always the weekend ;-)
Rgn and Alicia gave me a super-cool SPONGEBOB shirt from Hot Topic. I'm wearing it now, and I'm watching the show too.
A few thought after visiting the HT web site. What if they some day decide that Rush are "cool" enough to warrant making shirts for them, like they do Floyd, Zep, Beatles, etc. That would be pretty funny. There'd be all these Goth kids walking around with the man-in-star logo, or the big owl from Fly By Night. I would laugh and hope that the guys got some money out of the deal.
Apparently Jessica or (Jesh) thinks she is mean. Everyone e-mail her and tell her she's nice.
Today is November 7. I think I would like to be seduced by that Enya song. "And who can say if the something something..."

later My official response to tonight's South Park episode. At first I was pissed at them for ripping on my Stevie. But then I remembered how funny it was when they mocked Phil Collins, and I felt better.
Today is November 11. 11/11/01. Pretty run-of-the-mill weekend, except that I was surrounded by cool people for most of it. May I please plug Smirnoff Ice again? It's soo good. Only one more week before Thanksgiving break, and I'm looking forward to that week off. No exams or anything this week, just the usual programming and lab fun.
I think I'm going to like this whole "being-21" thing.
Now for a funny "trying to buy booze" story. Lori (one of the cool people I got to hang out with this weekend) told me of a scrumptious concoction made of orange-flavored vodka and Capri Sun. [As I am typing this, it occurs to me that this sounds like a drink the "Boston Teens" on SNL would make] Anywho, we ventured to Cub foods to procure said ingredients. The total for the two items came to 12.51, but I only had 12 bucks on me. I asked Lori for 50 cents, but the cashier lady was like, how old were you again? Because she had just ID'ed Lori buying smokes, and knew she was >18 but was unsure on the >=21 part. I laughed and realized that if she gave me the 50 cents, she would have been techincally buying alcohol. So, i put the whole thing on my atm card. Although now that I think of it, i could have just paid for the vodka, then had her ring up the juice separately and bummed the 50 cents for it. Oh well, it was funnier this way. I told the clerk she should have got some kind of award for being vigilant in that manner.
Today is November 12. I just wanted to say "Happy Birthday Neil Young"
Today is November 13. I think my plan of action should be to seduce that pretty boy from the Dell commercials. I would have my way with him, then show him the wonders of the Macintosh, especially ones named Larry. Then the next time he would do the ad, he would say, "Do0d, you're getting a Dell. Sorry, bro, maybe next time you'll get a Mac."
Today is November 17. We are officially on break. It's a good, relieving feeling. First off, I had some guests over last night, and yada yada yada, I'm really tired today. Then, had an interesting trip to DSM with downstairs Brent and Chris. I'm sleepy and I'm watching the Facts of Life on TVland. Later, David and I are going to look at the Leonid meteor shower.
Today is November 21. Hello, my lovelies. (lovlies?) Work was kinda blah today. Have to be back in ~13 hours, wondering if I should go home at all. Sort of wishing I would have taken the week off of work. Then remembering I need the money. Go take some fun online tests. I particularly enjoyed my assessment on the "Metal" test:
YOU ARE 68% Metal-Head.
You rock just as hard as the rest of the thrash set, except when no ones looking you like to get down with a little "More than a Feeling."
It's funny because it's true. Chris and I were jamming to that very song today, trying to irritate our deli boss Dan "Stan" Meyer.
Today is November 18. Meteor-wathing went well, as did the dye project. For the curious, toothpaste is an excellent sink-cleaner. I'm going home for awhile now; there's a possibility I won't be online again until next Sunday night. (Hah, who am I kidding, I will be back starin' at Larry Tuesday night after work) I was just trying to be dramatic, and lament that fact that we no longer have internet access at home.
Today is November 25. Break was really satisfying. Yeah, so I blew a lot of it working, but will get a fat check on Friday, complete with OT. So now it's good-bye to the deli for 6 days, and back to the glory that is homework, heh.
In other news, went to the Barn Dance Saturday night with David. That was a good time. They didn't do "Swannee" or any of the ones I knew from RSHS square dancing with Dallas "Dal" Kray, but it was still a lot of fun. Prog Nerd Moment (even at a squaredance). The band, the Barn Owls, they had a new song called the 17/14 something. I got all excited, thinking that was the key signature, as in "Apocalypse in 9/8" from Foxtrot. Then I remembered. 17-14 was the score of the football game played earlier that day, with the Cyclones defeating the Hawkeyes.
Right now, I'm watching Star Wars (Episode IV, A New Hope). Such a good flick, and Han Solo is super-fine. Han just said "I've got a bad feeling about this," and I suddenly wished I had someone over here to play the Star Wars drinking game. (hell yeah I'd start drinking at 1:15 in the afternoon....if I didn't have all that homework to do.) Maybe another time, when we can start from the beginning and do it right!
Today is November 26. "And I just hit you over the head with a muddy 2x4" Oh, how I love Conan. He can cheer me up anytime.
Today is November 28. Canada Loves New York. Featuring my good friend Geddy Lee. Of note: a bag of peanut butter cups all to oneself is a very dangerous thing.
(Later) Saw a beautiful girl at the library. She had long stick-straight hair and was wearing a black tunic-like sweater. I went and found more items to check out just so I could go through her line. She even commented on one of my items. It made my day =)
Hydrobots!
Today is November 30, last day of the month. (In Historian voice). 2001 will be remembered as the year everything decided to suck. We lost Nancy and Daisy (see April), thousands of innocents in the WTC and Pentagon attacks, and George Harrison. Plus, we almost lost Lori.
Well there's only one month left of 2K1. Just try to stay alive and focus on the positive.

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