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April 10, 2001

I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl. Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with this black-haired flamenco dancer. She dances while his father plays guitar. She's suddenly beautiful. We all want something beautiful. I wish I was beautiful. So come dance this silence down through the morning. Cut up Maria! Show me some of them Spanish dances. Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones. Believe in me, help me believe in anything. I want to be someone who believes. Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales, stare at the beautiful women. "She's looking at you. Ah, no, no, she's looking at me." Smiling in the bright lights. Coming through in stereo. When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely. I will paint my picture, paint myself in blue and red and black and gray. All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful. Gray is my favorite color, I felt so symbolic yesterday. If I knew Picasso, I would buy myself a gray guitar and play. Mr. Jones and me look into the future. Stare at the beautiful women. "She's looking at you. Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me." Standing in the spotlight. I bought myself a gray guitar. When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely. I want to be a lion. Everybody wants to pass as cats. We all want to be big big stars, but we got different reasons for that. Believe in me because I don't believe in anything, and I want to be someone to believe. Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio. Yeah we stare at the beautiful women. "She's perfect for you, Man, there's got to be somebody for me." I want to be Bob Dylan. Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky. When everybody loves you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be. Mr. Jones and me staring at the video. When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why and we don't know how, but when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as can be. Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars....

Another song that when I heard it today could not give you one good reason that it wasn't in one of my entries yet.

Okay well, a lot has happened since last friday, so I guess it's from the top. A ton of people visited this weekend so friday some people were over and we played cards for a while and just kinda wondered around having a good time. My only class, Difeq, got canceled because my professor wanted to see this, "really fucking cool expose" that was going on for just that hour, so no quiz or even class. I also saw Castaway as well as The Man Who Knew Too Much

Saturday, Hans comes to me and tells me that the mod chip has come for his Playstation 2. And so I, being the nice guy that I am, took his soldering iron from him and installed the mod chip. The first go around, someone had failed to take the game out of the machine while I was working on it, and so that got all stuck and screwed up, so on the third trip back to my desk it was working beautifully. What can I say it was something to take up an afternoon. So we went to Dave's room again and sat around doing nothing and playing cards. Hans suggested we go to block buster and rent a bunch of playstation 2 games to copy, so we walked over there and picked up a few games to copy and figured out just exactly how to use the mod chip (there is a bit of a process, but now that I've done it several times, it's really easy, and basically involves using a gameshark to play the games) and how to get the games to burn properly. Well, once we got that working, we left to go to SAE's afterhours that night. That, I must say, was some of the most fun I've had in a long time. I almost forgot how great dances were, particularly if you know as few people there as possible. That way you can dance however the hell you want, with whomever the hell you want, and you won't run into anyone you know :D. But, perhaps you can run into some of those people again ;).

Sunday, we fully realized the wonders that is SSX snowboarding. The graphics in that game are crazy, the two player mode is addictive, and you can do moves like the "flying squirril" and "the swiss cheese" if that's not a selling point, I don't know what is. Hans mentioned he liked two player games on consoles better cause you are right there with the person you are playing and I'm starting to agree with him. SSX helped a lot there.

Monday, I signed up for my classes for next semester and I also know pretty exactly what I'm taking in spring as well. Next semester I have

Philosophy 100 - Intro to philosophy, advanced composition. This meets a huge requirement for general graduation, and it's philosophy, I saw it browsing through classes and I'm like "click".
Math 315 - linear transformations and matricies. Your guess is as good as mine with this one folks, it's the next class in the lineup, and it can either suck, or it can be not too bad, but if I want to be a EE major, it's getting taken. Besides, after I'm done with it, I can take one more math class and I'll have a minor.
CS 125 - Intro to computer science. I have no clue why I'm taking this class as people tell me I could take CS173 and I would be absolutely fine with it, but I decided I don't really care. It will give me 4 more hours, and it's on the little list that says "take these classes to graduate as a EE" so I'm game.
Physics 112 - Electricity and Magnetism. Yay! Physics

Well you get the idea, the following semester I will take more physics, some more math, and some more electrical design classes, so Philosophy will be my only non-technical class next year unless I decide to tack something else in there in spring. I'll see how I feel in november.

I got a hellish week coming here. I have a diffeq quiz tomorrow, an econ paper due monday, an ece test a week from tomorrow, and a physics test a week from thursday, oh and I'm going home this weekend, so I doubt a whole lot of work is going to get done there :P, I will definately have to bring my ece book home to read while I'm at home, and I konw I won't be doing things all weekend, so I'll make time.

Until next time...

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