post # 00354

I think I'm going to discontinue blogging for a while. I'm starting to burn out a bit, losing interest in posting and such. It was fun while it lasted.

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Don't worry, the discontinuation of "Wheels of the World" is not permanent; at least, I don't think so.

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TO BE CONTINUED

2.9 somethin' gpa so far

I was afraid to, but I broke down and looked at my grades.

Calculus: C (hard class, but at least it'll transfer ((NO MORE MATH EVR)))

Art Appreciation: B (shoulda been an easy A, but the papers'll getcha)

World History: A (psht, all it was was memorizing facts and stuff)

English Comp I: B (had A papers and C papers. You win some you lose some)

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So I'm content w/ my grades this semester. The only one I was really worried about was Calculus and I at least passed. I was actually worried about Art Appreciation too 'cause I like, failed the first paper, but I pulled through w/ upper nineties on midterm, final paper, and final. In this next semester, Comp II should be easy 'cause of what Robin was telling me about the professor. The other classes I'm not too sure about, but I'll try my best to get straight A's this time.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst: that's what I always say.

kR4zY K!n9

"Using waves of sound, the true master paralyzes his opponet, leaving him vulnerable to attack."

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"After years of painstaking research by the world's leading sound scientists, we here at the Sound Institute have invented a reliable audio weapons system. Actual movement of musical sound in space is used to carefully attack and neutralize the cellular structure of the human body. The question must be asked..."

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Ha... Linkin Park's funny sometimes. That's on their song Step Up.

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In Other News:

I'm comin' back tomorrow. I know you guys were like, "Man, what are we going to do without Donald??" ... then again... maybe not. Tomorrow's also Christmas Eve; yay or something.

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So um... yeah. I really don't have anything to add, at all. So I'm just going to stop now while I'm behind.

sb emails

morons make Halo so annoying. but there's nothing like booting them from the game and then giving them a bad wrap.

Well... yeah. Not too awefully much happenin' here. Halo, helping grandparents move some stuff, caring for the doggies; you know, that kinda stuff.

I'm off for now, Dave's going to work on searching for a couple more songs to put on Peacetika. It's looking like its going to be a two disc album; and there's nothing wrong w/ that.

It's over!

5.5 hours

Well, it's Sunday, I'm in FL, and... yeah. It's kinda ironic that Austin was coming from and I was going to Florida on the same day. But yeah. I need to make a new Peacetika while I'm here. Peacetika; Quazistatic... yeahhhh. that's got a ring to it. Well, um. until the next time I blog, goodbye.

red's not my color

If you never care, you never get let down.

If you never love, you never get heartbroken.

If you never try, you never fail.

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now where'd that come from?

i don't need a breakdown

not right now

i'm too busy for that

i'm a poet and didn't know it. sometimes i don't show it; don't let me blow it or throw it away

Here's another song guys. I was in the shower and it all just hit me, and so I like, practically ran for a pen and paper when I got out so write it down. And here it is, w/ some editing and revising of course. My best rhymes, rythms, and riddles all come from when I'm in the shower; for some reason I can think better w/ hot water pouring over me. hmm... well, hope you enjoy (or at least pretend like you appreciate) the song.

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Where do I belong?
I wish I had a dollar for evry tear I've shed.
(I should be dead)
It's hard to be strong
I got nothin' but loss for all I've strived and bled.
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When you're (flying grounded)
(it's) all downs
(and) no ups
When you're (running wounded)
(it's) all pain
(and) no gain
When you're (walking blinded)
(it's) all lies
(and) no truth
When you're...
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What do you do?
All they say is turn that frown
(upside down)
It's hard to be true
When evrything you do makes you look like a clown.
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When you're (flying grounded)
(it's) all downs
(and) no ups
When you're (running wounded)
(it's) all pain
(and) no gain
When you're (walking blinded)
(it's) all lies
(and) no truth
When you're...
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Where do I belong?
What do I do?
It's hard to be strong.
It's hard to be true.
(x2)
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When you're (flying grounded)
(it's) all downs
(and) no ups
When you're (running wounded)
(it's) all pain
(and) no gain
When you're (walking blinded)
(it's) all lies
(and) no truth
When you're...
(Lost and Afraid)

~Da'Man, Flying Grounded

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the biggest puzzle evr

life's great...

...life sucks

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...it would be so much better w/o any ppl

and @ the same time it would be so much worse...

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life's a paradox

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*I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

Cause I'm broken when I’m open

And I don’t feel like I am strong enough

Cause I’m broken when I’m lonesome

And I don’t feel right when you’re gone away*

Seether : : Broken

wutz w/ da "myspace?'

so... what's up w/ these MySpace things? I haven't quite figured out what they're for, supposed to do, or their general purpose. Tell me please if you know; if you don't, then you must be clueless like me.

took me long enough

All the Small Things:: Blink 182

that's the comiserating song

I accidentally found out

which song it was

finally

sometimes... you just don't ask

Hurry to McAlister's, we've got limited edition tomatoes!!

but seriously, the boxes of tomatoes we got today say have "limited edition" on them... somehow it just struck me as odd, limited edition and tomatoes together... ¿¿

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Well, other than that rather more or less odd bit of info... I have nothin' really more to say. I am going to my Mom's this Saturday though. From then to the 24th. Austin (the man) enters the Madison area the 17th also. This new years is gonna rock. (theoretically)

GA

Well, I was going to make a post recounting this past weekend, but being as I can sum it up w/ two words: disc golf, and hiking (ok, three); I decided to just leave it at the sum up and move on. I did get to have way more "sweets" that I might otherwise normally have been allowed considering my "hypoglycemia." (that's always a plus) There was also this uber cute dog! Adam, David, and Dad were playing disc golf. I was w/ Karen and Sarah in the cabin, and they saw a dog out the window. With a little calling, he (I'm not actually sure of the gender, I'm just using "he" speaking in generalities) came up. For starters, he was a beautiful white and black australian shepherd. His eyes were really cool too, they were this like, almost white ice blue. Really cool; and a sweet dog too. oh well. i'm over my word quota already. bye bye.

today's vehicle story:

dude! there was this guy today on my way back from school: he didn't know how to drive! well, I guess technically he did. but that's besides the point. I end up beside this guy (a really old black [not that color has to do w/ anything] guy in a Honda Accord) on the exit ramp off of the interstate and onto Wall Triana. He's sitting in the lane next to me on my right. When the light turns green and we start to go, he starts coming across the centerline into my lane!! I'm like losing room fast and I can almost see me being forced to choose to just slam his stupidness into his own lane ('cause I'm driving my parent's monster-of-a-truck) or go head on with the Nissan stopped at the light. Thankfully he didn't continue too much and I had enough space to sqeeze through; that's just what I would need, another wreck and another of my parent's vehicles down. But the thing is, he didn't even want to be in the lane I was in!! When it ended up that I was following him down the stretch of Wall Triana to my house, I realized that this man shouldn't be driving: he apparently thought that your driver's side wheel had to be on the yellow center line at all times. ... moron. That, kids, is why there should be a second driver's test when you get old. And maybe even some reaction and competency checks and tests. It's dangerous, man. Oh well. I'm going to do some reader's notes, an "outline" for the paper that's pretty much already written, and then read, maybe chill doing nothing in particular. Who knows. But then it's school: art appreciation, then comp, and then calculus. And then after school I'm going off to the Mobley's for some video entertainment; provided, of course, that it's not cancelled tonight for one reason or another. Anyways, have fun guys. Don't hurt yourselves. Be good examples. Make good grades. I'm out.

the pressure nvr faded

The "Bowling Incident*" is so totally going to be my narrative essay (the final for comp). Not only is it already almost complete (since it's a post on my blog), it's already up onto four pages; and that's w/o having really touching it yet, just slapping it into a Word file. This is gonna be good. I can feel it.

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Man, it's 12:00, I'm tired, I don't want to go to bed, and I'm going to regret having stayed up this late in the morning.

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*(first post in the January '05 issure of WOTW, entitled "bowling alleys")

ArtAppPpr.doc

THE PAPER IS FINISHED!!!

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Yes, it is exciting.

or something

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Well, today's been a day. Yep. I accidentally hit myself (if you know what I mean) w/ a box while I was breaking it down for a trash run. Yeah, I had to take a breather before I could help take out the trash. The cold outside helped though. ANYWAYS... actually, I don't got nothin' more.

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~reppiks retsam

that's "master skipper" backwards

if you didn't already figure it out

w00t

due to my excellent visual-learning/psuedo-hacking skills, i have now decifered how to put a link into someting using only html... i'm the man... except not. any person w/ any knowledge of html would laugh in my face right now; but that's ok, 'cause i'm a know-nothing that's feeling his way in the dark, and alas! i finally figured another html puzzle!

and so... yeah...

I'm tired. And hungry (weird for me). & I still have to write that paper. urgh. Hooda thought that you'd have to write for Art Appreciation... but then again, is there any subject (aside from [most] math classes) that you don't have to write in? ... Oh well. I'll live. It's not going to be too bad I don't think.

~mstr skppr

11 days til this semester ends

13 days til i visit my mom

21 days til christmas

27 days til new years

685 days (give or take) til i'm 21

... i could keep going

no injuries

the toyota... need i say more?

rubber band + ponytail = ouch

2 more weeks then DONE...

...until next semester of course

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yaeh. I'm really looking forward to new years this year... it's going to be alotta fun.
Let's see, other goings on:

• next weekend (fri-sat) going to Cloudland Canyon St. Park w/ family to camp (if a cabin counts as camping) and play disc golf.
• Beginning the week after that (17th-24th) I'm going to be in FL w/ my mom visiting.

Things to get done between now and next weekend:

1. write a paper for art appreciation (and study for final on the 15th)
2. write a paper (and some "reader's notes" for comp)
3. study for and take the final for calculus
4. study for and take the final for world history
5. somewhere in all the school find time to buy and put in a new power steering high pressure hose and bleed the air out of it (thus completing the work on my truck and getting it off jackstands)
6. somehow in the midst of all of that I have to buy Christmas gifts
7. there's more I know, but it's not comin' to me

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well, that's all the posting for now. see ya chums.

~master skipper

i've realized that Skin Deep

by Trapt

is a really good song

word from the wise(er)

Don't leave the lights on in you car when you go in for class. 'Cause if you do you have to walk across campus (which isn't really that far) and ask campus security to help you jump start your car so you can drive home.

...not that I would no this from anything I did today.

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there's a marvelous selection of drinks in the Harris Hall coke machine @ the Calhoun campus in Decatur. Let's see... Coke, Vanilla Cherry Dr Pepper, Sprite, Mellow Yellow, Dr Pepper, Dr. Pepper, Dr. Pepper, Diet Dr. Pepper, Dr. Pepper, Dr. Pepper. Hard to make a decision let me tell ya... unless of course you want something other than DP.

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~5k!pp3r