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Today is January 7, 1:22 in the AM. Chris, Aaron, Brent, and I are all hanging out at Brent's. The guys are playing NHL Hitz 2K3. I picked the game out at Hollywood Video because it had Chris Pronger from my beloved Blues on the cover. Chris is being a good boyfriend and playing this season as the Blues. When I first got here, they were playing the evil Dallas Stars and ended up beating them. (BTW shout-out to Brent for letting me use his laptop for this update)
For the curious, I also spent my New Year's with these same three people, at this same location. Then on the 3rd, Chris and I went to Sharon's house for cookie baking. It was a good time. Saw lots of my old high school friends and basically got re-acquainted with them. Remembered why they are my friends in the first place!
Have been working a lot of course, since it's break. Sunday night, Chris, Alicia (not my roommate, a different one from Sioux City), Chris's roommate Kurt, and I went to Chuck E. Cheese in West Des Moines. I played some fun games like the Simpsons, Spider Stomp, Skee-ball, and this virtual bowling thing where you fling a puck and it hits pins on the screen. The pizza was pretty good too.
Last comment for this entry (sorry it comes right out of nowhere) but when we went to Sioux City last week to get Chris's car, we also went to Toys R Us. They had some dolls/action figures from The Lord Of the Rings. They had a fairly large doll of Legolas, but he had MOLDED PLASTIC HAIR. I was so angry. The Eowen and Arwen dolls get to have fiber hair, why can't he?? I was like, what is the point. He has that beautiful flowing blonde hair and then the doll has molded plastic crap. I was so sad. Another disappointment was the "Vacation Smithers" Simpsons doll, who should come with little plastic pineapples (if you have seen the episode where Homer takes care of Burns while Smithers goes on vacation, you know what I mean) but instead he comes with a little plastic duffle bag with just the tops of the pineapples sticking out. Kind of a bummer. But I have my Hello Kitty pineapple stuff to fill the void.
Well sorry it took me so long to get this year a-journalin' but I am a bum.
The hockey announcer on Hitz 2K3 just said "The Blues find themselves Lords of the Rink"

Today is January 13. First day of school for spring 2003 semester.
Friday, Chris and I made a run to Blair to get him moved into his new place. It's not a bad little apartment. I hooked up the "entertainment center" which is TV, DVD, VCR, PS2, and N64. Chris put his desk together. Then we drove home via I-80 and had dinner at the Olive Garden in West Des Moines.
A week or so ago at work we were all trying to remember Dan Mathis's wife's first name. Andy, Meyer, and I were all stumped. Then Sunday (yesterday) we were talking about the Bee Gees since one of them, Maurice, had just died. I knew one of the other brothers was Barry, but the third name escaped me. A few minutes later I yelled "ROBIN! That's the third Bee Gee and YOUR WIFE!" (I said thie pointing at Mathis) He was glad I finally remembered her name. I thought it was a weird coincidence.
After work I came home and said my good-byes to Chris. Then he headed off for Blair, for good this time. He'll be coming back to visit often but it's still sad! Then I went to sleep at about 3:30 pm. I woke up a little before 4 am today. That's a lot of sleeping, even for me. So I laid around watching TV, then I took a shower and got some Hy-Vee breakfast at 6:15 am. It was weird to be in the store so early yet not on the clock. I had on my sneakers which felt strangely light compared to my work shoes. I'll go to my classes at 1 and 2 pm, then head in to work again.
I'm hoping to be in band this semester again. I saw my friend Kim at Target and seeing her and taking about band stuff put the idea in my head. Plus she told me when it meets, and it is compatible with my schedule. Yay Kim! Shout-out to you for being cool

Today is January 15. Last time I journaled I forgot to give a birthday shout-out to my dad, Mike. So happy belated birthday to my pops. He's 53
This morning I ran some errands. I went to the post office (Welch Avenue Station) and my friend Mailman was there. This is a guy who would always come to Hy-Vee for 1/2 price chicken on Tasty Tuesday. He came after work so he still had his uniform on, that's how I knew he was a mailman. He told me sometimes at the post office they get mail for the bar Welch Avenue Station...I guess that means it gets put into their pile or something. Anyway after I left I remembered I wanted to buy some stamps out of the machine. So I went back in and I heard him telling one of his co-workers that I was "his favorite little Hy-Vee girl." So that made me smile.
Good first day of clarinet choir. There was one song without a contra-alto part, but it was fun to listen to anyway. The only bad part is that we don't get out until after 5:30 and that's when the brown route bus comes to Friley. So I waited for a Cardinal and walked the rest of the way from Towers.
But then I got home and my first Netflix were here!!! Alicia and I watched The Emporer's New Groove. I also got a disc of Oz, and Hedwig. Thanks to Jill for recommending NF. So far, I do too.

Today is January 20. A few minutes ago, the Jerk Store Called. Apparently they are running out of you.
First week of school went fine. I have a cool group fo CS 309. We (me, Jen, Laura, and Chris) are gonna be a fembot group or something.
Work was fine. Cheryl (annoying girl) is back from Australia. I'm pretending I didn't know she worked here before. It's not going very well.

Today is January 22. I walked into CprE 308 and greeted two of my friends. I said "Hi Tam, Hi Matt." Then I realized that their names are almost the reverse of each other. So next time I see them, I'm going to say:

Aloha, Tam!
Matt, ah, hola.

which will be the world's first trilingual palendromic greeting. I'm very proud. Matt was telling me about a dream he had where he was in Lord Of The Rings, and he was Frodo. He was fighting a battle against giant teddy bears. Then he got hurt, and he said it actually hurt. And his elf friend healed him, and he felt better. Then I showed him today's Foxtrot comic and he thought that was funny. THEN there was a clue in the NYTimes puzzle that was "Fictional ring bearer," five letters. FRODO. Dig it.
This Explodingdog reminded me of "Your firearms are useless against them!" from Tommy Boy.

Today is January 23. It's freakin' cold here.
I completed my very first, very challenging Cpr E 308 lab. We just practiced using UNIX and compiled some programs. Yah.
Yesterday I saw Nancy Walls's Martha Stewart. It's from the episode with Danny Aiello (ya know where he keeps asking for Hi-C and turkey) Anyway Danny plays Martha's cousin who pesters her about being from Jersey, and about her Polish heritage. She finally flips out and yells "I'm Martha FREAKIN' Stewart!" and stuff. So I decided that while Ana Gastayer's version is better (she nails the voice and look, and her crafts and things are bizarre and surreal), Nancy is better for "flip out and kill people" Martha.

Today is January 29. Here is a story about how I am smarter than the Scooby Gang.

This all relates to the episode The Diabolical Disc Demon. I saw the beginning of the episode where the weird phantom guy was chasing the songwriter all over the studio. The songwriter wrote some notes on a piece of paper with the music staff on it. I thought "That is a message." Then later the Scooby gang came to the studio and met the rock singer. (The songwriter had "disappeared.") They introduced some people and one was named "Ace Decade" and I was like HE'S THE PHANTOM. Since all those letters in his name are note names! And the songwriter guy had written those notes on the paper. Then I went to take a shower. When I got back, there was some stupid stuff (I don't really like Scooby-Doo) and Velma finally figured the music-message thing out.

On monday there was a fire in Lebaron and so we got to leave 15 minutes early from Cpr E 308.
The other drummers in band are being nice to me. I think that's cool. Especially since I am kind of isolated from them, the bells and stuff being away from the other instruments. There's a fence of chimes separating us too. So there's some nice ppl there.
And here is the big news. They had the Guy that's protected from three-inch bees on Conan again last night. I taped it. Max brought his pet two-inch bee. Then everyone panicked. Some people wanted to shoot Max or throw bricks at him. Then the two-inch bee landed on Max so the people threw stuff at him and the band played the song and the guy danced a lot. I'm convinced Conan decided to bring back the guy that's protected from 3-inch bees just because of me and my obsession. And the obsessions of all other good-hearted people on the web. I was so psyched!! And I've got it on tape baby.

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