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6am woke up
6:45 went to class
9:00 got out of class
9:30 went to office hour
10:00 went to Japanese Students’ class
12:00 went to class
1:00 went to Dr. Rubba’s office hour and waited 30 mins
1:30 met Dr. Asai for Japanese Students’ field trip
2:00 went home for 20 mins
3:00 After eating a hurried Carl’s lunch met Dr. Asai for field trip
5:00 finished field trip, killed time with students til farmer’s market
7:30 left for home to get fencing gear and leave for fencing
8:00 got to fencing
11:00 left fencing exhausted came home and talked to Pam
12:00 or so, I plan to be sleeping

Fencing was fun as always tonight. I got a fencing sweatshirt and two more t-shirts. I’m apparently going to be approached about being an officer in the fencing club. I’ve also been approached about being president of both Ballroom dance club as you know and now of CP Mustang Band. On top of this I found out that there is most probably not going to be a quarter abroad program for next year to Japan. So I am going to look in to the year long study, which I think would be way cooler, maybe a little more work, but way cooler. I don’t think that they will accept me though. I am not exactly the model student right now. Though I did talk with my professor today and I think that I will be able to pull of a good grade in her class. It means however that I have to get all the homework that I have missed done and turned into her by next tues. Then I will also be doing somekind of paper for her on top of taking/studying for the final. So we’ll see how good of a grade. I know that I did really poorly on the midterm that I took, so we’ll see. Hopefully it will be high enough to get me into Business finally. We’ll see. Wish me luck! Now Adieu, adieu (I’m probably going to get yelled at by my roomate for spelling that wrong. Oh well, I can just change it again

It’s exciting, tonight I ordered a bunch of fencing gear. I will be recieving a bag, a pair of shoes, and a jacket. Speaking of equipment, I’m also kind of nervous becaues this weekend’s tournament is electric. That means that I will not be using the weapon that I have been using since I started. Shalanar (that’s a name I just made up, to make this more dramatic) and I have formed a bond. We’re like one. It’s almost like she guides my hand. Ok not really, but I do know that other weapons feel funny. I don’t want to get a weapon of my own yet, because I’m not sure what my weapon of choice is going to be. So I’m just going to wait.

Let’s see also tonight, I made a dumb move, but a fun one all the same. Charm and Sandy came over and we watched the movie “Keeping the Faith.” Very good movie, at first I was very upset at Ben Stiller’s character, but I guess the end resolved that. I also didn’t care for the main girl either. Something about her personality bugged me, but that changed in the end too. A bit of a long movie, but a lot happens and there is a lot of change so that’s to be expected. Now the reason it was a dumb move was because it is now 2:45am and I have class at 8. Oh well. That’s all I think for tonight/this morning.

So as I said, I left for Modesto this weekend. State days was a blast. I got there friday night around 11 or so and we were watching movies on a wall with a projector and really big speakers. That was way cool, then once the movie “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” was over they put on on “Galaxy Quest” (I love that movie) and we had games going on. During the night I managed to float from a chess game, Uno game, volleyball, and blackjack game before the movie got over. By that time they decided that the lights should go out. I was running (much as I am now) on adrenaline and constant activity. I wasn’t able to sleep the entire ride over so I was running on that very little sleep til about 3AM when the lights went off and Gauk told us all a story. The next day, which started at 6:30, we played a lot of games outside. I had way too much energy so I was running around a lot and grappling with people and playing a lot of ultimate frisbee. That was way fun. Then we finally went to dinner at Hometown Buffet (Why is it that everytime I go out of town to where there are really cool restaraunts I got to the ones that we have in SLO?). After hometown we spent probably 30 mins deciding how people went home, and of course there was a big drama about it but that got resolved finally. Then after getting that decided we went to Paul’s house to celebrate his birthday with his mom. His mom is awesome!!! She put me up for the night and then woke me up this morning with a cup of coffee. She’s so nice.

Finally we made it back to SLO (Paul, Gary and I) about 1:30, which was 30 mins late to drumline rehearsal. I ran out of rehearsal right out 4 so that I could go see the “Vagina Monologues.” They almost didn’t let me in but I knew the guy (sorta, I saw him at the interclub council meeting and he knew me cuz I got elected) so he let me in to go sit with the BU. I really wasn’t in any shape whatsoever to be seeing that show.
1. I was tired beyond belief
2. I’m very tender right now
3. I was tired beyond belief
But I saw it anyway, and I let it get to me. The message that I got from the show was that females should never need a man, that females can only be made happy by themselves, and that guys are shit. That was the overall message that I recieved and seeing how one of my primary goals in life is to feel like I’m needed by a female counterpart and that I want to make that counterpart the happiest person in the world, the message of the show really got to me. It took a good 30 mins for the pain in the pit of my stomache to go away and to not feel like I was going to just burst into tears. Luckily I was out with the awesome BU people and we went out to dinner. So that made it better, but unfortunately I was a real downer to them. Oh well, I explained why and I’m over it now. So it’ s all good. Well I really shouldn’t have been up writing this because I’m exhausted, but I wanted to not put it off.

Oh wait i forgot to mention.

After drumline I went to my car to plug in my phone that had died over the weekend and use the car battery to make a call and when I got out I left my keys in the ignition with the battery on and locke the door. So they were in there until David drove me back with the spare at about 7. Also tonight my big bro gave me my nickname M.I.L.F.
Mackerfella (apparently I mack? yeah right)
Ignoramous (Corey’s doing, it’s supposed to be mispelled)
Long (hehe, Myles Long)
Few of my(myles’s) jokes are funny (FOMJAF!!!)

Ok that is it. I’m outta here.

So I did finally finish that huge-o project this morning. About 6 this morning. then I woke up at 7:30 in time to print it off and decided that I could sleep five more minutes, which then turned into like 2 hours and I missed the class completely so I couldn’t turn it in. That gave me enough time to come back grab paper, a pencil, and a calculator and go take a calc midterm. Why is it that no matter how many related rates problems I do I still don’t get them? Gah!!!! Oh well I got the other questions perfect, I think I’ll get a B at least. About 4 o’clock today, I’ll be leaving for Modesto for a Kappa Kappa Psi California chapter’s state days. That should be fun and even better is I dont’ have to drive. I’m going to be riding with Stephanie, but I think that I’m going to pass out for the entire trip. I’m exhausted, and sick. Well that’s all for now, you should check out the horses. They’re tight.

I decided finally that I truly am sick. Gah, I dont’ like being sick. This morning I was planning on going to my early class but when I woke up I felt like such crap that I continued sleeping. I figured I would wake up before my 12 o’clock class. Wrong again. I didn’t wake up til 1:30 and I still felt like crap, but I had to force myself to get up. There were things that I needed to get done. Homework and such. So I had my meeting at 2, finished with that and saw Diana for like 2 mins at the Career Symposium that happened today. Then I helped out at the fencing fund raiser and killed my back some more. Feeling that right now, that’s for sure. I need some serious TLC. So lets see, after that I got some dinner at Presto Pasta (I love that place!!! Thanks Mary ). After which I was so worn out I could hardly stand up. So I laid down and took a 30 min nap before fencing. I couldn’t hardly keep my eyes open and it was painful to move, but I went to fencing. We started off with the lunge game and the progressed to tribal warfare. In tribal warfare I was the first one to fence in the one on one bout that would win for my team if I touched. I was going against Eric Phillips who is a saberist. The bout was a foil match so the on target is a little different the sabre. I took advantage of that and scored the touch. (What Mary will tell you is that I went below the belt to score a touch. Which is 100% completely true, but it sounds like I was fighting dirty, which I kinda was, but it was smart dirty or something. Yeah, anyway) I was so stoked about scoring that touch because the entire club was watching, all eyes focused on the bout and I didn’t want to get schooled, but Eric has been fencing for the last 2 and half years so I thought it was pretty inevitable. I won, I won, I won!!!! hehe. Ok enough of that. The downside of the evening is that I have a huge project due tomorrow that is very time consuming and I dont’ think that I gave myself enough time, but we’ll see. Adieu.

Fencing was a blast tonight. I had so much fun. I think the tournament pushed me over to the 100% sold to fencing side. Tonight, Mary was our female instructor. She worked with me because I was the odd man out (I saw that it was probably going to work that way and was hoping I wouldn’t get gypped). So she did exactly what it is I like to do when learning. We were working on drills and she would break the drill with a different move, then tell me what I should have done. Then she made her own things for me to work above what the drill was doing. Such as footwork, how I lunge, and how I extend. It was so helpful, that might have something to do with the fact that she thinks simliarly to the way I do. After the drills were over she whooped me 5-0 in like 30 seconds, but it was fun all the same. After that I fenced Nicole and got my butt whooped. It was interesting to see such a distinct style difference between the two top eppeists.(I dont’ know if they are actually the top, but I know they’re the top women so that’s all that matter to me). After Nicole I fenced with Ward, got my butt whooped, and then got a Ward informational session. So much stuff to work on, I love it. Then to top the already awesome night off, I got to wrestle with Trevor. Trevor is a huge man, weighing about 80 pounds more than me. I didn’t have to worry about hurting him so it was great fun. I held my own pretty well too, at least I like to think so and it ended on a mutual stop. So I was happy til I found out I lost my earring back, again. I hope I don’t lose this earring, I dont’ have anymore and would have to go buy another one.

Hmmm, mostly productive day today, went to Math and turned in the homework then spent an hour killing time on campus so that I could get paperwork signed. Filled out a whole bunch of paperwork, but I think that the CPBDC will get money. Agenda items all filled out. Sandy and I put up a bunch of fliers on campus for the Rhumba workshop. We need to soon get Waltz fliers up too. At least by Tues next week, preferrably sooner. Well I’m really tired, I think there was something else that I wanted to type about, but I can’t remember. Maybe it’s that Mary and I are talking a lot more and it doesn’t hurt when I talk to her anymore. Yeah that was probably it, I can full heartedly accept the just friendship and it’s a wonderful freedom. Good night all.

I dont’ think that mail comes tomorrow and the office wont’ be open anyway. So the check that has been in the mail since about Tues or Wed will get here the earliest of Tues, which is when I’m supposed to register at 7am. So I can’t pay my tuition and my really good priority gets wasted. GAAHHHHHH!!!!!! Ok to bed for real this time.

Well I broke my streak. It’s been two days now (because it’s after midnight) that I haven’t written in my blog. Am I back up to my old habits? We’ll see…but as for the tournament…

IT WAS SO AWESOME!!! I enjoyed it so much. So the way it starts out is they put me in a pool of 5 other fencers and I got to fence each one of them. The first two bouts I had we had these really nice people that were really crappy at directing. So I was ready to cry after losing my second bout. It’s really difficult to know something and have to swallow that whole to accept what someone else says. GRRRRRR! But then someone smiled on me and a new director was sent to us. Very professional, very good. My next 3 matches, even though I lost one, were complete bliss. My score for pools was 2-3 (is that right order? What I mean is I won 3 and lost 2). After pools comes direct elimination. That is just as it sounds, you lose once you’re out. I won my first one 10 to 3. Easy bout. It was the next one that really irked me. Though I hadn’t been dominating the match, I had been in control. The score got up to 9-7 me. The bout goes to 10. I scored a touch, the judges didn’t see it that way. I couldn’t get another one in. She won. GWAHHHHAHARR!!!!! (yell of agony). I talked to her after the match and she said that I had very definitely landed that touch. Grrr, again. But oh well. I ended up placing 10 out of 25, so not bad after 6 weeks. Especially since the people I had been fencing had all fencing for the last 5 months or so. Yay me. I also made some new friends. God bless road trips, which I must give a shout out that Chelsea’s mom rocks. Same with Patrick’s parents.

On to today, or yesterday as the case seems to be. Today was somewhat advernturous, but highly unproductive as far as academics are concerned. I woke up pretty late. I got up and ate some breakfast, took a shower, and sat down at my computer to do some work. Then I get an IM and to go over to Sandy’s and I went over there and we all talked for awhile, then I decided we should go see Daredevil because I had a free ticket (it wasn’t just for X-men 2). So we got a few other ballroom-underground people to go. We also went to dinner at Golden China Buffet. That was way good. Then we came back and I went home to another IM from Mary. She asked if I wanted to accompany her to get fish food and then maybe do some ice cream afterwards. I said sure. So she came and picked me up and it was good. We talked a whole lot and we go ice cream, which is a funny story. See she was asking me what kind I wanted, I told her something fruity and she said she had chocolate chip mint at home. I told her that worked and so she was looking at a strawberry ice cream saying it looked good and reached and grabbed the ice cream right next to it. I didn’t see what that was until we got home. IT WAS ALMOND MOCHA FUDGE!!!! I was way excited, I hadn’t had that in so long and I told her I wanted that instead of CCM. Oh it was so goooooood. Anyway, we watched Disney’s Tarzan and talked a lot to each other and it was good. I really wish that things had worked out different between us because she is really so wonderful but I’m going to take her friendship. She was really awesome to me at the tournament because I was feeling so low and I got sick (I was cold, I only get cold if I’m sick) so I’m going to take all that she’ll give. On the car ride back to my place she asks me these following questions:

If you could date any Disney character, who?
If you could be any Disney Hero, who?
If you could be any Disney Villian, who?
If you could be any Disney supporting character, who?

She’s so great. Errrrrrrrrr. Anyway my answers in order were, Belle, Aladdin or Hercules, probably Hades, and I couldn’t think of who, maybe timon. Give me your answers. After that, it was really odd. It was like she really didn’t want me to go or to leave, but she wasn’t making any moves to tell me that. There was one of those pauses where it was really a good exit, and so I said I should let her go sleep and I went back to Sandy’s because I said I would watch Emperor’s New Groove with them (yes that’s 3 movies in one day). By the time I got there it was about 11:45. I don’t think we actually started before midnight, but oh well. So I ended up being very comfortable during the movie. I had one girl on either arm and was all wrapped up in a blanket and had a pillow for my head. It was quite comfy. The movie was good too. I hadn’t seen it all the way through before that.

After the movie I came back home to my internet being turned off due to my roomate becoming paranoid about security again. He turned on WEP and windows software is apparently really stupid when it comes to WEP so at 2:30 in the morning when I wanted to be typing in this instead of at 3:30 right now. I was trying to get my internet working again, with Sean’s help. Anyway it is working now and all is good. I am now going to sleep because I have drumline at 10am. Good night.

Apparently on the crime round up section of the Mustang Daily (though they dont’ have that section on the online version, grrrr), the theft of our sandwhich board was recorded. On a hopeful note, it was recorded that the board had been recovered, I however did not recieve a call from them, so I will give them a ring tomorrow to see if the rumor is true.

So I splurged today. I was sold by the tempting tactics of corporate bunch. I am a consumer whore. So here what I got. I bought 3 DVD’s. Now in purchasing both “Bourne Identity” and “Blue Crush” I am now able to get 2 DVD’s for only $2.96. Yay!!! The third DVD is X-Men 1.5 which comes with a free movie ticket for X-Men 2. Yay!!! Total spent now 60 dollars for 3 DVD’s. Total cost after recieved benefits, 60 dollars for 5 DVD’s and an 8 dollar movie. Still somewhat pricey, but a good deal if I’ve ever seen one.

Though I rarely get time to talk to anyone online, I do keep tabs on the people and I have noticed lately that there has been no Pam. It’s quite disconcerting to look down and see no Pam. I dont’ know why, but she is just always there and now she’s not. Very disconcerting.

On another note, I got a message from Sammot today. I love Sammot. She is going to be with me for the rest of my life and me for hers. I can say a lot mroe on that, but I rather just tell her. So yeah, I got a message from her. Tomorrow is the Phoenix Pirates District Swim meet. Everyone keep good positve vibes flowing for the team. I’m a legacy and still a feel a strong attachment to the team. So everyone wish them luck!!!!

Today was another productive day. I spent probably an hour in the Epicenter getting paperwork and filling paperwork out and tomorrow I get to go and get paperwork signed by our sponsor. I have about 5 pages that I need her to sign. I’ve also called the the teachers for lessons next quarter, left a message with Bill Loper about Oddfellows, sent out the calendar for everyone’s approval, helped to get a price approved for the dance on March 8th, and I washed my clothes with the exception of my socks a few white shirts. I did however wash my fencing jacket, I’m hoping and praying it gets dry before tomorrow.

Which is a perfect segue to my next topic. Tomorrow at about 5:30 I leave for the first fencing tournament that I will compete in. It’s at UC Berkeley and has a section just for beginners or people with under a year of experience. I’m way excited. If I make it into the top 8 I get to fence electric. Woohoo!! I’ve never done that before. Though my hopes of getting that are very minimal because of the simple fact that most of the intermediate class, whom I will be fencing, can whoop on me pretty well. So we’ll see how it goes. Adrenaline is a beautiful thing and has helped me out well in the past.

And looking at the time, a Happy S.A.D. to you all. That’s Singles Awareness Day. The one time of year where everyone in the country makes it more and more acutely obvious to you that you are single. Luckily, I will be driving in a car talking computer talk with Patrick in the evening time and will keep myself busy in the day with the fencing fundraiser. My mom sent a heart of “Mon Cheri” chocolates for me to give to our Landlady.(She is so cool, she knows our apartment on sight, if not by name, and she has parrots, which today I learned are of the breed African Grey. Supposedly one of the smartest breeds out there. Anyway back to my story) So I have taken this heart and in fact in a couple of minutes will be placing a note on it saying Happy Valentine’s day from Apartment 80, and then setting it out on her porch. That way I dont’ feel awkward giving her a valentines gift and my mom’s goal is still accomplished. Yay!!! Well that’s all now. Good morning.
Posted by cthrax at February 14, 2003 12:50 AM
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Hey there cutie! Sorry I haven’t been ‘online’ (a.k.a. leaving my screen name signed on for you to leave messages to, though I never receive them and ALSO, sir, I never receive e-mails from such man who is disconcerted about how I am never online, pssh!) but my computer got stolen by Russian pirates and I got it back today, luckily unharmed but in need of a little repair.

Argh

So I told this guy earlier in the day jokingly “No more talking for you.” Later in the day we’re sitting in the car and I’m in the front seat, he says “Myles, open your door.” Unfortunately, everyone but me had seen the biker coming down the side of the street next to the car. With my normal luck, I managed to open the door just in time to hit the biker and potentially cause serious harm, but also with the other side of my luck there was nothing more than a few scratches on the bike, a few chips in the paint of bubble, and some mental anguish. It was really like something you see in Jack Ass or something like that. I couldn’t believe I did it. Everything was alright though, and is actually in another week or so going to be a rather humerous story. Right now, I can’t believe it happened though. Ah well, no harm no foul.

Today was a really long, but rather productive day. I left the house at 1 (after having been back for a few hours from class) and then didn’t get home til about 12:30. The ballroom officer meeting was slightly productive today. It was more productive after the meeting, but oh well. It looks like I’ll have a finalized schedule for next quarter by friday. That would be way cool, because then I could tell Bill Loper when we need Oddfellows.

Also today I went to a meeting in place of Stephanie. The “Interclub Council.” It just so happens that the meeting was really very useful. It also just so happens that it was election night for officers. You’re now reading the blog of the new Vice-Chairman of the Interclub Council. Yay me. Or not. Luckily the club only meets once a month.

Tonight we had a ton of guys show up to Madonna. In fact, we had Dan show up for the first time since like spring last school year. He also brought a long a few friends of his. One of which was very gung ho about helping the ballroom club and figuring out marketing campaigns. Way cool!!! We can always use help. I’m kind of iffy about it, but I think that I want to run for president for the next term. I also want to nominate Sandy as my VP. She’s a great publicist, but she is too hands on to be limited by publicizing. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to count on the new Sean guy (Dan’s friend) as an officer for next term and put him in as publicist. My first impression of him is very business-like and professional, also seems like he is a man of action. Action is always good to have on an officer board. So we’ll see how that goes.

After Madonna a bunch of us, including Chris and Jeff, went to Hudson’s and we had a very motivating talk about changes that could/should occur in the club. I think that it is mostly these ideas that have made me want to run for president of the club. I want to see these things through, and know that I would really enjoy it. I think that my involvements with other clubs is going to be going down dramatically next school year. So taking on the (added?) responsibility of president will be something that I can handle. Well that’s all for tonight.