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Today is April 4. I'm really disappointed in my hair. (more later...it's 9 AM and I'm supposed to be getting ready for class. I'm brushing my hair and reading blogs. My hair is tangly, and it seems not to grow anymore. So every time I cut it, to get rid of the split ends, it just *stays* that short, and never makes any attempt to grow back. Just sits there generating more split ends. Lovely.)

Today is April 13. Good day at work today; it went pretty fast and we were all acting a little silly. Randy even joined in on a rendition of "Summer Nights" from Grease. That was funny.
Last night, Chris and I went over to Jon and Sarah's and played games. We played "Cell Damage" on the GameCube, and I got to be a gangster duck. Then Jon helped me move into their neighborhood in The Sims. It was fun building the house, and then entertaining other sims with hand puppets. For some reason.
Right now, I'm hanging in 106B with my honey. He's the best. I'm pleasing him with my knowledge of random UNIX commands. We even found a new one; leave. You can type in when you want to leave, and it will automatically log you off when you said you wanted to leave.

Today is April 15. Got a Com Sci homework turned in on time, running exactly right, and well-commented. For the first time in weeks. It is exciting!
I tend to remember things as being better than they actually were. I wonder if this is human nature, or a disfunction.
Speaking of disfunction. I have this speech thing where sometimes, after speaking some words aloud, I will mouth them silently immediately afterwards. As far as I know, I have done this ever since I learned to speak. I do not do it all the time, just occasionally. My mother noticed this trait in my speech at a young age, but I do not believe it alarmed her since my dad does the same thing, also occasionally. I do not believe it is related to stuttering, since it is not something I do when I am nervous ; rather, it happens at random times in conversation. Lately I noticed that I was doing it around Chris. I started thinking that my mom probably didn't think it was weird that her child repeated words silently after speaking them aloud, since her husband di d the same thing. But I bet if she had never heard of such a thing, it would have weirded her out when her firstborn began mouthing words after speaking them. No matter how rarely it occured. I wonder if this behavior has a name, if it is considered a disorder, and how many people have it. It really hasn't caused me any difficulty in life, or at least no one except my mother has ever noticed me doing it enough to make fun of me and thus cause difficulty.
Just one of those weird little things about me. Like my hyperactive salivary glands and the giant birthmark on my back.

Today is April 16. It's freaking hot here. I have both fans on and the windows open and I'm still stifled beyond belief. Perhaps after this posting, Larry will get a well-deserved rest and thus stop kicking out massive amounts of heat.
I'm rocking the suburbs...actually I don't believe I've ever spent much time in a suburb. Not a residential area, certainly. The suburbs of Des Moines do offer fine shopping though. Hey, something just occured to me. In the video for "Rockin' the Suburbs, " the genial Mr. Folds wears a Rush T-shirt with the man-in-star logo. And Rush, of course, have the kickass tune "Subdivisions." Dig it.
Rush: They were geek rock before geek rock was cool.

Today is April 17. About five minutes ago, a Kawasaki-type motorbike crashed into a car pulling out from behind the Student Health center. There was a terrific smashing sound and then it was deadly silent. Soon DPS came with their sirens, followed by a fire truck. Then just a minute later, Chris took a chunk out of his face while shaving. It's like a freakin' Bermuda Triangle around here or something.

Today is April 24. Yesterday, Chris and I had a fun adventure to Des Moines for Transformers DVD Tuesday. The lesson is, always call ahead. We went to the West Des Moines Best Buy store, only to discover that they were sold out of the aforementioned product, a 4-disc set of the first season of Transformers. So we quickly phoned the other store where the DVD-VHS section lady told us there was one copy left, and she couldn't hold it for us. So we high-tailed it over to the SE 14th Street location, foregoing plans to stop at CompUSA and/or Half-Price Books. Once inside, Chris and I searched high and low for the box set, and when we couldn't find it we asked the clerk. She inferred, correctly, that we were the same people who had called before, and guided us right to it. She had even turned the DVD around so that we would have a better shot at getting it. That made me happy.

Today is April 29. Concert went well yesterday. I played the "hard" stuff, that I was all worried about (West Side Story, Movement 3 of Kentucky Harmony) just fine and perfectly. The only thing I really messed up on was like I just didn't play things, like a gong hit or a triangle whack. Weird, eh?
Here are the things I have to do, before Tuesday at 2 pm.

. Then there's the stuff I don't really HAVE to do, but it taunts me, saying "come on, clean your room! It's fun! And much easier than homework!" And as for moving home in less than 2 weeks. I look around at all the crap here and cannot imagine it fitting into any finite number of chicken boxes. (Chicken boxes are the boxes I use for moving. In the deli, our fried chicken comes in boxes, 4 bags/box, 24 pieces/bag. So they're pretty good sized boxes).
So right now, I'm watching the Weather Channel (the only TV I will allow myself to have on, as it is hopefully the least distracting) and writing this journal entry for you people. It's gonna be an interesting couple of days.