Wednesday Dec 6, 2000 02:19 AM
Update coming later. I've been really busy lately with exams and such. After tomorrow I should be able to post a lengthy update. About what, I don't know. I'm sure I can come up with something. Oh, and you people need to start posting stuff to my phorum again. It's become rather stagnant. I had high hopes for its popularity after that first week or so, but since then, nothing's been going on there. Maybe I'll think of an interesting topic to put there. Hmmm... an idea just came to mind. I saw this weird thing on PBS the other day. The topic is, umm, well, probably personal to a lot of people. We'll see how that goes later. Check there tomorrow to see if I put it up.

Wednesday Nov 29, 2000 04:28 PM
Despite all the talk of my 'obsession,' I'm not crazy. Yes, I really want to move into the house. Yes, I've been putting a lot of effort into acquiring it, and yes, that requires spending a lot of time on said effort. But I'm no more obsessed with moving into this house than Dave is obsessed with Porcella, or Eric R is with his Palm, or even more than I am obsessed with anything else I put my hand to. If I decide I want something, I go out and get it. I don't sit on my a@@ and hope things work out for the best. If initiative seems like an obsession, then so be it.

Yes, I am willing to pay the $720 (it would be out of my own pocket, not my parents', btw) to live off campus, and yes, it looks like I might be doing that. I just got back from my Housing meeting. It went well; the lady was THE nicest person in Housing, I'm sure. We actually had conversation. However, I didn't get out of my agreement. So she's reserved a quad for me which costs $720 for next semester. I have until Friday to tell her if I want it. But not so fast, this is all contingent upon my friends from church wanting the place. That fact I will find out tonight. All's not lost, but it's almost all underwater. And you know what, if I don't get it, Life Will Go On. I will be disappointed, but I won't, as Dave seems to think, get a gun and go on a shooting rampage. But I guess that's to be expected from Dave. :) No offense, Dave, but you do have a tendency to blow things out of proportion. :)

Hope that clears the air and disperses with any gossip floating around. Btw, this post is in good humor, so don't take it any other way.

Sunday Nov 26, 2000 12:23 AM
Well, my spotless driving record officially came to an end tonight. That's right, I can no longer say that I've never received a ticket. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't doing anything that was dangerous, it just happened to be illegal. I had to return a movie tonight, and, trying to save the wait at a stop light, I decided to make a u-turn. Well, this intersection happened to be a no-u-turn intersection, for understandable reasons--there's normally a LOT of traffic. Those who were here for the FL/GA weekend understand what I'm talking about. Anyway, there wasn't anyone coming in the northbound direction, so I go ahead and make the u-ie. But wouldn't you know my luck, at the light at the intersection is a cop. As soon as I make the turn, he pops out and turns on his lights. I had never been pulled over before, so I was nervous out of my mind. Anyway, long story short, I have a 78 dollar ticket to pay, and 3 points to add to my license, if I don't go to the safe driving class or whatever. Dangit, why didn't I just go to the light???

Friday Nov 24, 2000 06:29 PM
Crap, I didn't close the italics tag correctly. I'll have to take care of that later.

Friday Nov 24, 2000 06:28 PM
Well, Thanksgiving went on without a hitch, though I don't think there's ever been one which I remember having a hitch. My family is pretty uneventful. Especially when it's just my parents and I for dinner. Anyone who knows me knows that I don't talk much, a trait I get from my father, probably. Dinners generally last only like 15 minutes (if that long), with minimal talking. Our theory is that the only purpose of dinner is to eat, not to talk. You talk after you've eaten.

My parents only have basic cable here, which means we get no channels worth anything. But for some reason we get cinemax. Anyway, I'm currently watching a Jackie Chan movie (on cinemax... now you see the train of thought) that I've never seen before. It's the end, so I don't really know what's going on. It involves a computer disk, $500 million, the Save the Children Fund, and actors that I haven't seen in any Chan movie before. It's not really a high quality Chan movie, but it is entertaining.

So I made the mistake of deciding to go to BestBuy this morning, because of some deals they were having. I had never gone shopping the day after Thanksgiving before. Anyone who has as little patience as I should never, ever, under any circumstances, ever go shopping on the day after Thanksgiving. The traffic was crazy--it took about 25 minutes to get there, as opposed to the usual 10. Then, when I get there, people were parking ON THE HIGHWAY ROADSIDE, because there were no parking spaces in the parking lot, which is quite large for a BestBuy. I lucked out and made my own parking space in the lot near the stop light. (ooh, chick kicking butt in movie) This wasn't the worst part. BestBuy was packed to the brim, with the checkout line wrapping to the TV section, and clear back up to the computer section of the store. People had been in line for 2 hours to checkout (we got there at like 10:30). Anyway, the reason I went was to look at handhelds, specifically, the iPaq H3650. Unfortunately, they didn't have them there. They just had the H3630 for $500. oh, btw, it was quite a chore to even look at them, as they had all checkout lines open, and people were lined up in front of them. Craziness. I also looked at the webphones again. AT&T's service plans seem better, as you get unlimited access to their wireless internet, unfortunately, it's not in Gville, but they plan to be there soon.

Then Corey and I decided to go to CompUSA, which is clear on the other side of jax, but they were having some deals too, so we went there. They, fortunately, were not nearly as busy as BestBuy. They didn't have much, and they didn't even have any iPaqs in the H3600 series, only much lower ones, for 600 bucks. CompUSA is a ripoff. Everything they have is way overpriced (except for their harddrives, which are actually competitive). Anyway, my dad said that if I saw a handheld that I liked, that to tell him when I got back, and he'd pick it up later!!!! Sweet!!! I was stoked, but bummed that they didn't have any. I'm sure they'll get them later. Oh, my dad also wants to get a cell phone, so I proposed that he take mine, since it is pretty much useless for me in gville, because it's not digital, and that I could get a plan based in gville, and it looks like he's going for that plan too. It's going to be a merry Christmas indeed!!

Well, I should probably grab something to eat. Sarah and Corey are coming over tonight to watch a movie and play Speed Scrabble, which is a very very fun game. I tried to teach a few people in gville before, but it didn't go over too well. If you guys want to play sometime, remind me, and I'll teach you. It's basically a fast paced word game. (duh) Ciao.


Tuesday Nov 21, 2000 04:34 AM
I hate housing. Housing needs to go to Hell and die.

Monday Nov 20, 2000 02:48 AM
NOTICE:

I am currently looking for people to sublease a house starting in January. The sublease would end sometime from May to July. If either you or someone you know is interested, let me know.

Thursday Nov 16, 2000 12:42 AM
Only one major obstacle left in my road to the whitehouse... actually, the house across from the whitehouse (by the whitehouse I mean the whitehouse on 2nd ave with the cool white picket fence) (another side note, white is a funny looking word). Anyway, that obstacle is UF Housing. We (Eric, Eric, Scott, and I) turned in our release from housing petitions today. If you would have asked me this morning I thought our chances of getting out of housing were, I would have told you 99.9 percent. However, after going to the housing office, and seeing the massive list of people who have turned in petitions, I'm not quite so sure anymore. There must have been at least 200 names on it; there were about 10 pages full of names. Anyway, the committee meets tomorrow, and I was told to call back tomorrow to find out if it is accepted. Everyone cross your fingers...

Tuesday Nov 14, 2000 09:56 PM
FYI, I'm really busy and thus haven't been able to update anything about my page. Tomorrow afternoon I should be able to do something. I think the fact that hardly anyone is updating their sites is a testament to how busy everyone is. I, for one, am more stressed out than I have ever been in my life. Between the housing situation (about 40 percent of my stress), classes (another 40 percent), personal dramas (10 percent), and random things (the remaining 10 percent) such as traffic, the elections, and the complete and utter suckage of the Jags, I'm about to go insane under all the stress. But the housing situation is easing a bit, reducing my stress level, so that's good. After tomorrow, stress due to classes will be significantly relieved, and hopefully by friday we will have a clearer vision of whom our next president will be. Wishful thinking, I know. One can only hope. (I originally typed hop there. Maybe that's more appropriate--it's certainly more entertaining)

Thursday Nov 9, 2000 01:12 AM
or not...

Wednesday Nov 8, 2000 03:21 AM
BUSH WINS!!!!

Wednesday Nov 8, 2000 03:07 AM
I want to go to bed. I need to go to bed. But I just can't bring myself to go to bed. I keep pressing "refresh this page" on CNN's election coverage of Florida to see if more votes have come in.....

This election is crazy crazy. Not just crazy, but crazy crazy. I really only remember two other elections, the one in 92, and the one in 96. I actually stayed up to see who won in those. But in those, it was over before my bed time. If Gore ends up winning, Bush will probably have the plurality of votes in the US. Can we say Bye Bye Electoral College?

Monday Nov 6, 2000 01:44 AM
Oh, one more thing. I absolutely plan on going still. It's just a matter of finding people to go with me. Whether friends from here at arf, or friends from CHE, or friends from church. I'm going to try my hardest to get roommates.

Argh... I'm just so DANG FRUSTRATED RIGHT NOW. I had a lousy weekend, I have a test tomorrow morning, and I find out when I get back that Scott has chickened out, and Eric has downgraded his probability of coming. I just want to go break or shoot something right now. Firing my shotgun would be so stress relieving right now....

Oh, my weekend. Friday night was all right. I stayed here, thinking that we would do something fun, like go to a nice sit down restaurant. Strike one... we did end up going to Maui... but no substitute for a nice restaurant. Bowling was ok, but not fulfilling as it usually is. (did I just say that bowling was fulfilling usually??? I must be crazy) So I go home Saturday for an eye appointment and to attend a wedding. Doc says that I don't actually need a new prescription, just to stop wearing my contacts so dang much. I got a hair cut.... had to wait forever. Wedding... the wedding was outside... at night... next to a pond... in Florida. Put those things together, you get a crap load of mosquitoes. I have bites all over my body. But things are looking up... there's a really really attractive girl there. She goes to UNF. (alright, she's my age, I think to myself) We talk, get to know each other, and we have good conversation. (Sweet... I'm not choking as I usually do when around hot chicks) Then it happens... she brings up her glass to get a drink... I'm blinded by her nice big engagement ring. Shot down once again.

Am I cursed or something??? I don't understand. Anyone who knows me knows what I'm talking about. I'm not going to go into it now for those of you who don't. Anyway. Further compounding my weekend, Marlea was home. She fits into that situation I was talking about. I'm being Anselorish now. I'm sorry. Anyway, I was torn between wanting to see her and not wanting to see her. Seeing her won out, and I'm glad it did. It was still kind of hard, but conditions are better now than they were. She's been an enigma to me... Love 'ya Mar.

So I get back today, and Scott has completely changed his opinion on the house. And Fuster, who was kind of upset that I didn't ask him (because I was told before that he didn't want to go... back when I first brought up the issue a few weeks ago), suddenly has no interest in coming. Makes me wonder what his real motivation was. He didn't want to go... then he wants to go when Scott and Eric are going, and then when Scott doesn't want to go anymore, he has no interest anymore. That's just my interpretation, and it could be completely opposite of the truth. But things like that really tick me off. I don't tend to make decisions on social factors, and I really don't understand how people can make their decisions based on other people. It's a herd mentality... I'll do whatever the group wants because the group is cool. I can't stand that. Make your own decisions. Don't be a freaking wuss.

I suppose all of this boils down to the fact that I'm really independant, which I suppose could stem from the fact that I'm an only child. I do things on my own. I like to eat lunch alone. I like to sit in my room alone. I like having the house to myself. I don't understand it when people absolutely HAVE to go eat with their friends. I don't understnad it when people get upset because their friends, for whatever reason, go out to eat without them. Social dependancy is an enigma to me. Heck, dependancy on anything is an enigma to me.


Monday Nov 6, 2000 12:44 AM
I really don't understand people sometimes, especially when it comes to certain things. Recently, as you all know, I've been looking at the house just across the street, and I have been seriously considering going. To me, living here is NOT an option anymore. Everyday I come home to my small as crap room and think.... dang, I hate this room. Sure, it's cozy, and it's pretty much the best it could be... but it's just not good enough.

It's just incomprehensible to me why someone would choose here over that house, especially if money isn't an issue, which I know for a fact for some people it really isn't. It's not even that much more money--only ~60 more per month. That's nothing.

"but I'd have to buy a bike." For what???? It's like five more minutes away walking.

"but I'm already settled." Lame excuse. I was all nice and settled in the womb too, but obviously staying there wouldn't be a good idea.

"but I would have to buy furniture." You're going to have to buy furniture sometime anyway. Not to mention the fact that you can get cheap furniture at garage sales or at the goodwill, and then, when you're done, you can sell it. And trust me, things like beds sell quickly. So you might even make money off furniture.

The only excuse that I could even find feasible for people who obviously can afford it would be that they're graduating soon, or they don't plan on being here during the summer. Moving for a few months really wouldn't be worth it.

Oh, one more thing. People came a few weeks ago to measure the apartment. They got carpet measurements of every room. I asked if we were going to get new carpet, and they said that they were going to put it in over the summer. That means that we won't be able to live here over the summer. So that means that you would have to move at least once.

I just don't understand. I'll be posting this in my forum too, so you can post your ideas. Please, tell me why living there is bad. Am I missing something? I really don't understand, and I want to know.

Friday Nov 3, 2000 03:19 AM
I really really really want to move into a house that's for rent. It's on 2nd Avenue, right across from the tennis courts and before the law school. Super super close. It's a 3 bedroom, one bath 1250 square feet house. It has a screened in porch, a brick deck (perfect for bbqs), somewhat of a yard, and a shed. It's great. I love it. Of course, it's not in the best condition in the world, but the owner says he's going to fix a few things. Only problem that I can see with it is that it's 1350/month. Yep. Expensive. But it's only 450/mnth per person. Doesn't include utilities, which would put it right at 500-510. Not bad for being soooo close to campus. We pay 425 here at arf. My major impetus was today when I got the housing bill for next semester...1700+ for a semester. That's just crazy for so small a place. Anyway, Scott seems pretty interested, so that's cool. Joe is infinitely indecisive, so he's pretty much out of the picture. So I've just gotta finda third roommate. sigh....