Congratulations Preacherman for graduating from the University of Massachusetts. Good luck with your job and your future.

It must be weird to be done with school. FlyingTim's sister also graduated this year. It makes me feel weird since I too will be graduating soon (in a year). I am three quarters of the way done with school now, so its just weird.

One last thing, regarding the Gatekeeper. Indeed he missed Caniprokis' birthday dinner celebration. There were a few other folks missing, such as LioConvoy. For those who missed it, you can at least watch the time lapse of Caniprokis attacking a 30oz prime rib steak. We had the Outback Steakhouse cook one special.. and I captured it on camera. I will distribute that to those who would like it.

So I had that interview with Hillel House and I'll all set to move in there. Here's the problem. Can't move in until June 3 at 11:00 am. Have to be out of my dorms by May 25 at 6:00 pm, May 27 at 3:00 pm by the latest. Yes, that means I'm homeless for a week. If I had know I was going to have to drag all my shit home one way or the other, I would have registered to take educational psych at Bridgewater State College and just lived at home. It would have been cheaper and I could eat chicken on my rice if I wanted!

Chicken on rice. Yes, Hillel House is Jewish. The Community Kitchen is Kosher. That means, I can keep dairy there and grains, but no meat. If I want to eat rice, cool. If I want to put chicken on that rice, I can't do it in the kitchen. I can eat whatever I want in my room, but no meat and stuff in the kitchen. Bah, not that I'm even that much of a meat eater, but bah.

Back to the housing thing. So I have no place to put my stuff for a week. Stress stress stress. Then, the grandmother of the boy I tutor twice a week offered to let me keep my stuff there and even stay with them for most of the week. Isn't that nice? I've been tutoring this boy since about the end of April, so she really doesn't know me all that well, yet she opened up her house to me because she felt bad. You don't find too many people in this world that are that nice. She's letting me keep my stuff in her garage. That was such a load of my mind, let me tell you! It's nice that there are some people out there who are so giving and generous especially to a population (college kids) that gets stereotyped so badly.

Calliander hunny, what you're singing is the quadratic formula, not the pythagorean theorem. The Pythagorean Theorem is a squared plus b squared equals c squared. But yes, the song may be silly, but you still remember it and that's all that really matters so it worked. It served it's purpose well.

About the change this, oh god, there are so many dumb people out there. Let me just tell you, I worked at a Dunkin Donuts for a few years while I was in high school and I also worked at a local ice cream stand for a few years in high school. I would train people and try to teach them to count the change back from what was charged to make what the customer paid with. For example, if it came to $17.36, I'd say give them the change and say "that makes 18" and then count the two dollars back "nineteen, and twenty" so they know that the change you gave them is the correct change. Some people just didn't get it. My manager even told me not to bother, just tell them to count back the change like "one, two dollars and sixty four cents." This is basic math people. Come on. People that can't count back change, you wonder what else they're messing up cause they're just too dumb.

Which reminds me, I hate dumb people. I mean people that don't try. If you have a learning disability or whatever, then that's something different. I hate it when people just convince themselves that they are not smart enough to learn something. No matter what it is. If you aren't going to have confidence in yourself, who should? The saying goes something like, whether you think you can or think you can not, you are right.

So that girl just moved home. She didn't even say anything else to me after that. I don't know how her test went... hope it went well. She was smart and she knew what she was doing. Oh well.

Well, back to stealing songs and making CDs in an effort to not study physics. 1212 Out.

Well today is Tuesday. I have one more final on Thursday and then I am officially finished with the semester. For all intents and purposes, though, I am done now. The last final I have is physics. It's an optional final. If I don't take it, I have a BC. If I do, there is a chance I could get a B or even an AB. What the hell, I'll take it. I'm not studying for it though. I fucking hate physics and a BC is good enough for me. I don't know the stuff and I don't want to learn if. If I can pull off a B, yay for me. If not, oh well. Glad it's done and I'll never have to take another physics lecture again. I do have to take the lab though...good god damn, I hate this school sometimes.

So the end is near. I got a B in differential equations which isn't what I wanted, but I won't complain. I'm hoping for an A in stats and an A in proofs. I am thinking AB or even A for bio. Hopefully a B or AB in econ. And hopefully a B in physics. That's all six classes. I should be able to get out of the semester with a 3.0 average which isn't too bad at all. I was aiming for a bit higher, but hey, I slack like nobody's business so I really can't complain.

Summer session is starting soon and I'm looking forward to that. I'll only have one class, educational psych, so I will be happy with nothing less than an A. I'm also looking forward to next semester. I'm just glad to be done with this one. Not that it was bad or anything, it's just near the end and I want to cut the cord, just be done with it already, rip the bandaid off, say goodbye.

As of this Friday at 6:00 p.m., 66 hours from now if my calculations are correct, I will be homeless. I still have no definate place to live and I have to admit that bothers me a bit. For weeks I've been worrying about how I was going to pay for housing and how I didn't want to have to use my savings from this year. Now I know I'll be able to pay for it with the tutoring I've been doing and with my tax return, I already have all my rent for the summer (assuming I can get ones of the places I'm looking at). Well, I have my interview with the place I really want tomorrow (Wednesday) at 2:00, so hopefully I will have good news by then. Otherwise you'll all get to hear about it!

Okay, now for a small rant. I don't know how many of you are math people and if you'll understand or even care about what I'm saying. It seems that you're mostly English people, but I'm assuming that you've taken some calculus. Most schools require it. Anyhow, so I was tutoring this girl for math 127 (calculus for like bio majors and stuff, not for math majors or people that will need a whole lot of complex math in their careers). So she hasn't been to class in a while and she doesn't take good notes. She couldn't tell me how far she'd gotten and what's she's supposed to know and what she hasn't been taught yet. [I didn't want to confuse her by going further than the class covered.] So anyhow, we went over her exams and the practice exam for the final. I did all the problems the way that I was taught and the way most people who know calculus would do them. I showed her what I was doing, explained things until she seemed to have a good understanding. Blah blah blah. So I worked with her from about 7:00 until midnight (and keep in mind that I had an 8:00 am final the next day). So we worked for about 4.5 hours (at $20/hours that's $90 for me - ca ching). By the end of it, she seemed to know what she was doing and was hoping to do well on the exam. This was all last night. So I get up this morning and there is email from her. She says she's a little upset because I taught her "the wrong way" to do everything. After she left me, she studied with her roommate who had gone to a review session. Apparently, for all the integration problems I had taught her, the professor had taught them to use F(int). Instead of teaching integration, the professor had taught them to use their calculators to integrate for them. That's fucking useless. That's like your English teacher telling you how to download a paper from the internet (or telling you to have Stone write it for you) instead of teaching you how to write. Anyway, she was all mad at me for teaching her the wrong way to do the problems. I wrote back and told her that I wasn't giving her any of her money back. I taught her calculus, not math 127. Doing it the way I showed her would get her the correct answer with a better understanding. Whatever, it makes me mad that people take the easy way out. It makes me even madder when teachers JUST teach the easy way. Hey, I'm all for shortcuts and tricks and whatever, but there is something to be said for knowing how to do it the right way too.

So Crapster sucks now, but AudioGalaxy is good. I like it, I like stealing music. I don't like paying for things that I can somehow steal, or "borrow". I'm cheap, I prefer thrifty. I don't care.

I'll be posting over the summer too cause I'll be in this ghost town taking a class. Well, at least until July 13ish. Then who knows where the hell I'll be.

Had dinner tonight at the Outback with Wilson, Pappy, and Preacherman. I hate DC food, it sucks so bad. I like home cooked meals. Restaurants aren't bad either.

Nothing else useful to say. 1212 Out.

I just want to remark first, that baseball is a dorky sport. Its a bunch of weird dudes in tight pants who somehow inspire many thousands of people to talk about these weird dudes in tight pants that like to touch eachother.

Anyway.. yes, the Physics exam. I didn't cheat on it, and therefor I was punished. Bah. I am not out of the running yet though.. there is still the final. I think I learned a lesson.. cheating is the way to go. I don't even know how Levres did what she did, but its pretty zany.

I was more prepared for this physics exam than any other exam I have had in physics, yet my grade is lower than any other physics exam I've taken. Why? I went through my answers with teh answer key and I got fucked with my close-call answers.. like, depending on the formula I get answer B or answer D.. I bubbled in the wrong one in every instance where it came down to choosing between two then. Also, some of the early ones I thought were cake because I recognized them from reading the classtalk answers earlier that day.............. well, I fucking must have remembered wrong because I got those wrong too.

Ah well.

As long as I get a C or better on everything else, I am happy. It's sad how much I want to just get a C.. I really don't care for higher. I hate my major, but love school (which is why I am still here). My major sucks because of the smelly assholes in the major.

I want to go to the beach.

I don't know, part of me just doesn't like the idea of final exams. It could be because I am a lazy fuck and I don't want to study. But also, I think it's most ... I don't know, more betterer to have assignments all throughout the semester and evaluate my progress over the 3 months rather than give me one shot to prove that I have learned enough. I hate it when finals are worth more than like 25%. I mean, I think my stats final -- the one that Pappy and Wilson already took, is worth 40%. I have done all my homework and done it well. I did well on the midterm. If I do well on the project, but not on the final, it would mean the difference between an A and a C. That's shittastic in my opinion.

Bah. In other news, I took the physics exam and by some miracle, some divine fucking intervention, I got an 87, possibly a 91. (Is it blasphemous to use the modifier "fucking" with the phrase "divine intervention"?) Anyhow, by divine intervention, I mean that I learned to cheat well. I have learned nothing more than how to cheat the system and get a good grade and learn nothing. Ha ha. I showed you!

Yes yes, college, pursuit of knowledge, I've only really cheated myself. I know all this and unfortunately I don't give a rat's poop. If I can get out of this with a BC or even a B, that would be fucking fantastic. If I can't and I have to retake it, I'll learn it then.

So I'll bore you now with some discussion about my grade and why I'm a little pissed that I did so well on this exam. See, if I had failed this last exam miserably like I did with the other two exams, I would know that I can't do well for the semester so I would know I'd have to retake the class and I could just skip the final. Now, however, there is a possibility that if I do well enough, he'll drop one of my bad grades, and the rest (two exams, classtalk, and owls) will average out to a B. So now, I really have no justification for not taking the final. Argh. I just wanted to be done with school!

Can anyone teach me microeconomics before Saturday at 10:30. Hmm, I should learn that. Damn, 8:00 am classes suck shit. I don't know what I was thinking...

In other news, I have found that I can mix alcohol with my medication if I only drink 1 bitch beer. 1 (or 2) of my happy pills + 1 bitch beer (Mike's) = happy little tipsy feeling. This is a new thing for me since I used to get heartburn and a belly ache before getting any buzz from drinking, now 1 beer is good for me.

Wait wait, nevermind, this was supposed to be about school. Yes, finals suck and I don't want to take them. I'd rather do my homework all semester and take chapter tests or quizzes or whatever.

In the math class that I am a TA for, there are three exams and the final, all weighted equally. There is homework for every night that counts for absolutely nothing. Attendance gives you 2 bonus points if you miss less than three classes. So you have 3 bad nights in the entire semester and you could fail math. Whether you pass or fail is all dependent on 4 exams. Three months work could be for nothing if you don't do well on the exams. That sucks.

Life is unfair, wah wah.

Speaking of unfair, Pappy busted his balls doing the physics Owl homework and everything and thought he'd do well on the exam. I mean he even read part of the book, read part of the book! I didn't even buy the damned thing. He worked relatively hard and it didn't pay off as well as it should. I did nothing but cheat in any way that I could think of, and I did better. That's hardly fair.

For any of you that still have finals left, I feel your pain and I wish you luck. For those of you who are already done, eat poop. For those of you just starting a new summer semester or something, I'll feel your pain in about 2 weeks when I start mine.

1212 Out.

Well, While most of you were finishing off your semesters... I was Starting my latest one. The week started off shitty when in the middle of my first class I had a seizure, they had to call 911 and lug my ass down 3 flights of stairs. Now as any good sport would do I dusted myself off and went to class the next day. My acting class mates were handling it surprisingly well. Then I went to Karate class. Now I love the the fact that I'm doing a PE class that I love, and that isn't bullshit, but I was already sore from the seizure and this didn't help matters. Even now every muscle below my rib cage aches. Then I had English class, which blows and health, which also blows.

Ya' know... it's a goddamn shame that school force these bullshit GenEd requirements on us. I mean, I'm not going to be a better person for taking these classes. These classes are not going to help me in my future vocation. So instead of staying at home, earning money, and chillin' with my boyz, I have to keep hemmoraging money to this shit heel university... DAMMIT!

Till All Are One...

LioConvoy out...

I have done my statistics exam.. I still have to do a project in there, so check back here in an hour for details on that (I need your participation).

The exam wasn't bad.. the first part was sort of weird because there was a question that turned into more of a trick question that the professor thought was simple... whatever. It's done with.

Next week I have more exams... AI, OS, one more Physics, and my chinese history final. I haven't had this many finals in a looong time.

I am in the edlab now, but I think i'm going to leave soon because it's farking cold in here. Really chilly.. only after I write the thing for my stats project will I leave though.

Man, finals suck. I have had four so far and a paper. I was up to about 5:30 am, went to sleep, got up around 10:30. Then I revised my paper, took my Greek examination, wrote another paper. Had Chinese food with my professor. One more exam tommorow. I have five frigging exams in total, and a paper. Too many classes. In two weeks I will be in Tokyo. That will be great. I'll be there and in Kyoto for about a month. Just have to go and write one more note card for one more examination. And I voted to not use the note cards in class. It would have been so much easier that way. Just learn the basic information that you need and regurgitate it onto the exam. I want to be done with the semester. Oh well. Hey, there isn't enough profanity in this post to justify the level three rating. I don't really feel like changing it. Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck. Sexual intercourse. Alright.

Well, I'm finally done with my incredibly hard course load of two classes. Yay! At least I'll be going full time again next semester. I took my final for Italian today, which I was fretting over a bit, but did excellently. I didn't blank out on any questions and there weren't any vocabulary matching problems, so that was also good. I can do fine if I'm just going to write a sentence about something, like what I did today. I just have trouble memorizing scads of vocabulary words. I'd rather learn them the same way I do in English - just write and try to find the word I need for the situation. It's a good way to extend your vocabulary. But yeah, the lowest GPA I'll be getting this semester is a 3.5, which is fantacular.

Good luck to those of you still taking your exams, especially Pappy - you sound like you're totally frustrated. Just keep your head up, it's almost over, dude. Lean back and just enjoy the melodies. You can come home, chill with us by a pool somewhere, and get a tan. Get served by hot women in bikinis, floss our ice all day long, you know. =)

Just a word of warning: don't fuck with The Association.

That test was a pain in the ass. Bleh. I hate it. Now I have another test tomorrow. I hate tests. The physics test wasnt a pain in the ass, I just couldn't find a formula here and there, but I probably did okay. I want to do well tho.

I am watching Voyager now, slightly pissed off I guess. I just.. well.. I don't know. I am angry.. I am not so sure why. It's sort of a new feeling.. it's enough to make me want to get totally drunk.. although, that isn't new. Bah. Tests just suck.

The thing is that I only feel this way if the test is important. Few are. But.. I didn't do too well on the previous two exams.. so the third one does matter.. and the final will matter too.

Wilson and Levres came by.. Levres had left some hard lemonade in here, so they came to pick it up. I was rude. Ah well..

This rant is going nowhere.