Well, this weekend proved to be fun and completely non productive. It was great :) Last weekend like that for a while most likely. Friday I went with a few people to Jefferson Davis Hospital (which has been turned into townhomes, by the way) There was a roof party, which was cool, nothing scary or haunted happened though. Then we went to Humble to another party, where JP proceeded to pass out. So we let him chill for awhile and Eetion and uh...other people? carried him to the car where he vomited on Anne Marie (poor girl) Got home around 530 I think? Saturday was Chaney's (sp?) party that Tyler brought me to. Yay for Tinkerbell. And tall stripper shoes. It was a fun night :) I only have a few pictures right now, hopefully I'll get more soon.






Left to right: Andrea, Brandon, Dr. Dude?, Chaney, Travis, Kim, me, Tyler













Tyler, Kim & Travis. Boob grabbing galore ;)







Sunday was nice and relaxing. Well lazy explains it better. Left the couch-bed long enough to go to IHOP. And when I went home of course. It was a sleepy, comfy day. And now it's Monday and there is much to do.

*~~~~~~~~~~Edit~~~~~~~~~*
I have more pics now, so here goes! :)




Tyler and me. Too bad you can't see the Canadian flag belt...













Kim and her poison apple. It wasn't the alcohol, promise!









Waiting for a cab. It was cold outside, especially for such a scanty costume, no? My wings kept me warm ;)














And of course, the stripper shoes. I didn't fall ONCE at the party! :) Be proud.

*sigh*

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How come they can't make these balanced? Like where they show the good part too? Instead of just "you're fucking crazy"

Dear Lidge-

You're fired.

-Houston


Now that that sweeping disaster is over...Backe is awesome. New favorite ;) They totally don't give him enough credit.

Ok, so now for the not baseball. This week has been kind of nice; not too much to do (comparatively), just some homework and such. The next few weeks though...gah. Doom. I fail to understand why professors feel they MUST schedule all exams at the same time. It fills me with anger. And stress. Apparently a lot of BME's are doing worse than I though. Which isn't good, obviously, but at least I know I'm not in this sinking boat alone. This weekend should be fun, halloween party with Tyler & Co. I'm Tinkerbell teeheehee. It will be probably my last bit of real free time 'til after finals. *sigh* Thinking about that sucks...especially since that is 10.29 and finals are over...12.14? Maybe I'll be able to afford a day or so of leisure during T-day break. And I don't consider camping leisure, by the way. (Though it is "in-tents" hehe, that was a stolen joke) I feel kind of bad because my mum asked me to shuttle them for the triathlon this weekend, but I said I was busy. Which, I mean...I am busy, technically...just more by choice. I also kind of feel bad b/c it's been like...2.5 months since Tyler and I kinda started dating I guess, and they still haven't met him. *shrug* That's a "long time" for them. But it's not my fault they go out of town when I don't have exams. Or that they're too lazy or busy or whatnot to drive down here. So I don't feel too bad about that I guess.

Blah, it's late. And I still have stuff to do. Sadness.

Wow, who makes this stuff?

According to our research, you'll be dead by

January 2063
at age 77
- probable cause -
cancer
YOU DIE: 76.9 years
AVERAGE FEMALE LIFE SPAN: 77.1 years
As you can plainly see, you have no more health & vitality than the average woman.

You have approximately 20914 days left on this earth.
You've already lived 26% of your life.

...You mean to tell me I've wasted over 1/4 of my life with nothing to show for it? Makes me want to take a nice long vacation to Fiji.

Ever get that "used" feeling? It kinda sucks.

Anyway, got 2 exams back today. Biomechanics, the one everyone thought they got a 30 on...well, it was graded out of 30. Heh, so that would have actually been nice. I think the prof closed one eye and squinted the other to grade it. And thinks we're really dumb. No one got below a 60 even though no one knew what they were doing. Fabulous. Did decent there. Then got my fluids exam back. I think my grade was a gift. Like, I didn't do wonderful but I was expecting a 40 or something. A couple people I know got 30's range, I feel bad for them :-/ But it was because they didn't put much/any effort, so I don't feel too bad. I was right at the average. AND, believe it or not, Fleischer CURVED *jaw drops*. Craziness. Apparently this class is just dumb. But I guess everyone being dumb is better (for me) than me failing. So I'll take dumb.

Someone left the balcony door open in my apartment. And the screen door to it as well. While no one was here. That makes me kind of angry for 2 reasons; 1- bugs and 2- dishonest theiving rapists. Especially since it's dark outside when I get home. I'm pretty well pissed off about it. At least enough to say something here without fear or care of whatever the person who did it is going to say to me.

I think I'm going to start doing some kind of exercise. I feel blah. And my cute pants are almost too tight. Bastards. I just haven't decided what yet. Or when the hell I'm gonna find time. Now I see why I swam so much before. Maybe that's why I was so freakin' hyper energetic. Which I think is really weird, even though I understand the mechanism behind it.

The 'stros better pick it up tomorrow thru Thursday. Kick Sox ass while the rules are ours. Like I said, Astros in 6. That means 4 in a row, guys. I know you can do it!

I've been practicing walking in my cute stripper shoes for Halloween. They look like this only they have ribbon that...laces? up my legs.



It was pretty funny when I bought them, the lady was like "are these for Halloween or...no?" to which I said "Yeah, just Halloween." I should have just said I was a stripper. It would have been funnier. To me at least.

Guess I'm always stuck in the middle, eh?

You are a Social Moderate (55% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (38% permissive) You are best described as a: Centrist Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

In other news, fluids exam in 11 hours and 53 minutes. Then Chicago at 2 :) yay! Katie is coming to stay, at least last I heard. And, uh, relaxing after my bout with the uber exams. I kinda sorta get some time off :) But not really. I'm just going to pretend like I do for now. Ok, back for a little more studying.

Fluids sucks. I wish I could take the class but not the exams. It's really interesting, but my GPA is definitely mad at me for taking it. Thermo too. Man, this was supposed to be the "prove I can be a ChemE" semester. Suck. Maybe I should go back to biology. Eww. Can't say that wouldn't be a let down. Especially after all the math I've taken that I wouldn't use. And all the stupid people that I'd have to stab. Yep. Exam tomorrow, 10am.

Anyway, Andrea introduced me to Bowling for Soup. And they're awesome. Awesome. That is all.

Definitely a 'grrr' day...week...whatever

Just in case you were wondering, looking through page after page of hastily, badly done Excel spreadsheet for 80 billion different things....sucks. How hard is it to create a neat spreadsheet? I mean REALLY. It's not. Christ, when will people learn...if you're giving the SAME data just over different time frames...just make it the SAME FORMAT. And don't leave shit out yet expect me to have statistics for it. Dummies. I'd say 'worst spreadsheet ever' but then I'm sure someone would give me one that is worse and make me do something with it. So we'll just say bad. Annoyingly, time-wastingly bad. Oh, and making up your own abbreviations for medical terms is annoying too. They have STANDARD ABBREVIATIONS FOR EVERYTHING! I've known a lot of them for going on 4 years now. That means I learned them in highschool. You're a fuckin' RN. You should DEFINITELY know them. I bet you don't write in your charts like that. Otherwise, I bet every other RN on the floor hates you. Because no one would be able to read what the hell you are saying. Just like me. Thank goodness I'm done with the long one. Now just 2 'short' ones. Short being only 250 people (between the 2)instead of 1 with 420. And that, folks, is my random rant of the day.

Oh, but in other Heather's world news, I FINALLY got my iPod. It's fantastic. Yay me. I introduced Tyler to tapioca tea this evening. I think he liked the tea, but not the whole "chew your tea" idea. But it was pretty funny to watch anyway :) Maybe if it was more tea and just a lil tapioca it'd be better for him :P This week sucks so far. And it's just getting worse. Did decent on my circuits exam. Don't want to talk about my thermo exam. (that probably means don't ask about it) It sucks because I rather like the class, too. Or I did. Now I'm just angry when I think about it. Way to ruin something. Grr. I just need Saturday to come around. After noon. I'm going to see Chicago at 2. Then Katie is coming out at some point and staying til Sunday. I wish I could win cool stuff. Like the lottery, haha.

And now it's late and I have to be up early. Dammit. Oh, and I freakin' wanna see Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Tell me if you want to go too. Ticket stuff is on the site.

sweet delete.

Late-night blogging

seems to be quickly becoming a trend for me. One that should probably stop, since I have PLENTY to be doing. Yet here I sit, not really with much to say, with even less to say publicly, and with the hope of sleep soon settling in my mind. I saw A History of Violence, which I thought was pretty good. Weird, which added to the good. It had the guy from LOTR in it....Viggo Mor..somethin. It was definitely pushed to the graphic side, like in the first 5 minutes. Fluids is getting harder. Luckily I'm catching it in time to fix it. Get some help and whatnot. I hope. I started writing a little again. Not a lot, just enough to fill a few more pages.

A new beginning is just the end of an old one.

I want to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra when they come on Dec. 18th. I think that would be pretty awesome. Tickets aren't crazy expensive, and they're having 2 shows that day. I guess it's just the Christmas thing. The music is always pretty, and TSO just adds... "freakin' awesome" to it. *shrug* We'll see I guess.

I saw the solutions to my circuits exam. Bitchin' awesome. I don't remember what I did for the 1st question, but my answers are the same or extremely similar for the rest. Which is great. Maybe this time around I'll kick class ass instead of the other way 'round. Then again, it might not matter if I don't need it, eh?

Saw another play this weekend. On campus. I was a bit wary, but it was really good! Funny funny. Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. I must say, I was pleasantly surprised. Only 2 plays left to see this semester. Maybe 3 if I find time. That one's a little iffy. I want to see Chicago too. Might get some not-so-freakin-expensive seats to that one and go see it sometime soon. Haven't decided yet.

I'm not looking forward to my thermo exam. I will be taking it 12 hours from now. :( Nobody knows what really to expect from Dr. Economou...nobody. *sigh* Such is life I suppose. Today was an unhappy day. Not really a bad day, just unhappy. I think I irritated people without meaning to. :-/ Good intentions, bad follow through I suppose. Guess I'll see tomorrow.

This made me laugh though. Just one more reason people from Rice are super plus nerdy. But it was worth the non-studying time to read it. I recommend clicking. I found another interesting site, but the link is not handy and I don't feel like looking for it right now. It was a cool zero-grav water drop thing. Complete with video. I'll look for it some other time maybe.

Andrea is going to be coaching a Special Olympics team. I thought that was cool, though something I could (or would) never do. Crazy awesome dedication to something like that. So happy birthday (yesterday) and mad props to her for being super awesome.

I can't wait for the 22nd to come and go so that I can almost have a little time to relax. Exam after exam after exam make Heather go crazy...crazier. Whatever. :-P I was promised an instant 'just add water' degree. Waiting for that one. :) In just over a month is Thanksgiving break. The most looked forward to and necessary non-break of the semester. Coming back unwillingly to many end-of-semester-tie-it-all-together-projects and then finals. Its a little saddening that like 40-50% of my grade comes from a 3 week span. Oye. My parents want me to drive out to BFE and go camping for T-day. Not so keen on that one. Kinda sucks. We'll see if these make believe plans really develop. Here's to hoping not. But I'll play good daughter if they do anyway most likely. Unless the to do list gets past my eyeballs. To the eyeballs is doable. Past...well then I can't see anymore ;-)

So I have almost a little free time in the midst of my uber busy day today. So I thought I'd post. My circuits exam went...eerily well. I'm kind of scared about that. You shouldn't walk out of an exam all...confident. Bad news bears. We'll see. My professor takes off points for existence, so even if I did well I could still do bad...if that makes sense. The last week or so has been really busy and the next few are looking to be even moreso. And then I get a break in December. Kind of. Maybe. At least it will be a month or so of something easier. Oh, and a new request. Since I tend to forget "important" things when I get busy. When you see me, just every so often, not every time because then I'll go nuts...ask me the last time I ate real food. I might not answer...or remember, it's just more to make sure I don't forget to eat for a few days. Cuz we all know that it isn't at the top of my 'remember-to-do' list. Yeah, I'm forgetful. Maybe I should write it in my planner. Then I'd remember. Maybe.
Going to see another play tomorrow. Yay :) Another exam Tueday. *eek* Nobody knows what to expect from the professor. Not good. Not good at all. But, I suppose we shall see soon enough, eh? My cool shirt got shipped out. It's gonna be here soon! Sooner than my iPod. *sigh*

This time tomorrow my circuits exam will be over. Man, am I ever worried about it. I already took this exam once...but Dr. Dave is going to prove to be a much more difficult professor I think. Which sucks. Circuits is just really dumb to me. I hate studying for something and feeling like I'm wasting my time. It makes me want to go do the other, more important 20 billion things I need to do. But I have to do well in this class this time. Bastards. They should have let me through the first time. I was close. Ok, well I guess that's enough bitching from me.

Andrea's b-day is Monday. I don't think she's doing anything, but I never know. hehe, people don't tell me what's going on, they just tell me to show up. It's great. I guess they think I'm too absent-minded to actually remember what I'm doing or why. This semester has finally and officially been proven "overly busy". When your friend calls you and asks is she can come chill for a few days...and you say "hold on let me look in my planner" you know you're way too busy. And next semester is going to be even worse I think. Except I'm not taking ECE classes. Unless they make me. Which they won't, because no one has any idea what is going on and they just pretend they do. My fluids exam got moved back a week. That makes me the happiest person ever. Except that my circuits exam is tomorrow and that makes me the saddest person ever. hmm, I wonder how those combine :P

I want to change my major. Normally, one would say "isn't it a bit late for that?" and I would agree, but somehow I've figured it out to where it will only add 1 year on to my life in hell...I mean college. I haven't decided if it's worth it yet, I need to talk to some people. Some people who are more informed and less biased. I also need to do well in the would-be in major classes I'm taking. That's the important part. I think the biggest reason I want to switch is all the ECE classes. They're so DUMB. Like not even hard, really, just DUMB. Like conceptually, really really easy. But then they go out of their way to make it reallllly hard. Unrealistic tricks to make 50+% of everyone fail. Because they aren't ranked well and think that the key to better ranking is failing everyone. I think maybe if they...oh say... did research? or something like that, maybe they'd be ranked higher. But I don't know what I'm talking about. I guess that really is what weed out classes are for. Should probably keep that in mind.

Well, my "Please let me pass my exam" post has turned into a bit more. So it's got some bitching in it, deal. It's my blog. Pshh. But i heart you all if you really made it this far. :-D Here's some food for thought (care of Andrea): What if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the same way?

Oh, and I ordered the most awesome shirt last night :P Just have to wait 4 to 7 days for the mail now. Hopefully it won't end up like my (lack of) iPod.

Lindsey's make up birthday party (the original was to be during the "hurricane") was Saturday. Out to eat then movies. Good times :) Got a few pics from her Jason, apparently I don't know how to keep my eyes open for pictures... *sigh* But the others were still good, so I'll still put 'em up :)


Me and Tyler at Olive Garden. Yes, the flash was bright. I'm squinty. One might say almost Asian squinty.


There's some REAL Asian squinty. And a growl too, perhaps?


Birthday girl and her boy. I think she just got done hitting him for a lewd comment. :) Probably shouldn't bring that one back up, eh?


Linds giving the cake a good ol' blow job. We all had some after ;)


Like I said, we all had some after...with ice cream too!










There were more pictures, but I don't want to write commentary for all of them, and what fun is it to just look at pictures??? EXACTLY.

Serenity

...was awesome. Definitely. Though the series might still have been better. Hope they either make another movie or bring the series back, somethin. That is all.