I've been meaning to add another entry since about Weds this week but just haven't been able to get around to it yet. I was actually surprised when I went to make this entry since I have a new comment. I guess I'm just shocked that people read this. I'm at the grand total of 2 now, whoooooo! Thanks for the comment Christy, it looks like quite a few people have stumbled in through GeoURL. When i signed up I took a browse through alot of the local sites and yours was one of them! Anyway your comment reminded me of something that I did this week.
Now its still pretty early in the semester and I've been more often than usual, but thats still not saying alot for me. I've been busy and had some stuff to do so I skipped my one class on Weds so I could stay at work. When I went to bed Weds night though apparently I set the Tuesday/Thursday alarm time. And I rolled it back another 15 because of the cold and snow so I'd have enough time to park and fall a few times walking up. I parked and went on to class and was there about 10 minutes early, not too bad for me. I noticed there weren't many people but I figured that was because of how cold it was. Then someone I didn't recognize walked up to the front of the room. The instructor for the class mentioned she might have jury duty coming up and she would try to find someone to come in if she couldn't so I figured thats what had happened. She then pulled out a book I didn't have and began asking questions about an assignment out of it. Ahhhh yeah I must have set alarm 1, the MWF alarm instead of alarm 2, for Tuesday & Thusday. Ooops. I briefly considered just sitting in the room and waiting since the chair was comfortable and I would avoid the embarassment of being in the wrong class but decided against it incase she would call on me. Instead I went and bought a hot tea out of a vending machine, being careful not to make eye contact with anyone along the way. On a side note the tea tasted like coffee, does a 2nd nozzle cost that much to include?
I'm also getting sick, so thats like the 2nd time in 3 weeks or so. I hope its not as bad as last time though. I pretty much sat for about 3 days in my apartment alternating between fever and chills. I've got the same spacey kinda' feeling in my head now that I always get as I'm getting really sick. Yay. I took my temperature and its about 100F now so hopefully its a shortlived thing and will be gone by Monday so I can get some stuff done this week. I hope I'm not even too bad tomorrow so I can get some homework done and try to get some financial aid paperwork going on the right path.
I went out this afternoon and headed to Best Buy to pick up The Bourne Identity. While I was out I decided to also go and get groceries for the week. Wal Mart in the afternoon is hell. I really hate going in there then because of all the seemingly incredibly dumb people. My favorite is always the people that block the aisle. There are so many ways to do it too. Having your kids walking down the middle very slowly with a cart was pretty popular today. Although my personal favorite is the people that park their carts across the end of the aisle competely blocking it, stop to have a conversation, and then look at you like you're an asshole when you say "pardon me." Carts need horns. And a forklift or some flipping mechanism to move people from your path. I was also going to pick up shoes while I was out. I've been debating Airwalks, Vans, or a pair of Doc Marten's for some time and had decided on the Airwalks. I just didn't feel like hitting the shoe store though so I'll have to order some through amazon or something.
For dinner I had some shredded Jimmy Dean BBQ Pork stuff that I bought today. It mostly tastes like BBQ but has a somewhat eerie aftertaste of Jimmy Dean maple syrup sausage. Anyway I picked K-19: The Widowmaker off pay-per-view to watch during dinner. Over all I would say it was pretty good although not my favorite submarine movie. Harrison Ford makes a good Captain although not as good as Gene Hackman or Sean Connery did in their sub movies. It isn't meant to be an action torpedo-exchanging movie, but instead just tells the story of the sub crisis. It stayed entertaining throughout, although I think I could have been a little more liberal with the editing. I would say my only major complaint would be that many people seemed to switch between bad Russian accents and none at all through the movie, that was a little distracting. Watch it if you get the chance, but don't rush, and I don't think I would buy it to add to a DVD collection.
Posted by johnm at January 25, 2003 09:18 PM