chaz720.net - journal

April 24, 2001

When I step into the light, My arms are open wide. When I step into the light, My eyes searching wildly. Would you not like to be sitting on top of the world with your legs hanging free? Would you not like to be ok, ok, ok? When I'm walking by the water, Splish splash me and you takin a bath. When I'm walking by the water. Come up through my toes, to my ankles, to my head, to my soul, and I'm blown away. When I'm walking by the water, Splish splash me and you takin a bath. When I'm walking by the water. Come up through my toes, to my ankles, to my head, to my soul, and I'm blown away. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves. Wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves. Dreaming of things that we might have been. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves. Wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves. Dreaming of things that we might have been. Would you not like to be? I can't believe that you would not like to be. Would you not like to be ok, ok, ok?

so, as I'm gradually getting various tests and what not back things are looking good for me going into finals. Most classes I will have a pretty solid A going into the final, except econ where I think I am borderline A/B. I'm still trying to figure out what's going on in difeq as far as what quizzes he said he would drop depending how many we have taken. because I have two quizzes I'd like to drop and I practically aced all the others, so that can make a difference, that and I still have another test in that class before finals, so it's still up in the air. Overall things look good.

I got an e-mail from my parents, followed by a phonecall and another e-mail from Motorola telling me that I do have a place to work this summer there. That's about as relieved as I've been in a long time about anything. I will not only get the money and the experience out of this, but I think without something of this magnitude to do over the summer I would have gone insane and, through this site and my boredom, taken you all with me.

Well, whether I've mentioned this or not, this is what I do when I write updates now. When I get the motivation to actually write an update, I grab a slip of paper, and the first thing I do is pick a song, then I start writing down a little outline of points I wanted to hit. I do this now because I usually have so much going through my head that I would not be able to get through an update of the size that I have been writing them lately without leaving out something that I really wanted to talk about. Now you asking why I even bother telling you this. Well, I have presented myself with a bit of a problem, you see, I have this little card in front of me that I came up with not 2 hours ago, and one of the points listed on it here is "something larger" and I have absolutely no clue what the hell I was thinking. If I ever solve the mistery (that is if I solve it before the end of this entry than I'll let you know

So I was thinking this morning about the difference between actual sleep and snooze sleep, and why the truely balanced needs both. In otherwords, the rationalization that I can get by with an extra 7 minutes of sleep. When you are sleeping, it is like a requirement. Everyone needs their circadian rhythms, and this means that at some point in your 24-hour day, you gotta sleep if you want to function. This I think we takea as a given, and (most) people don't really make a daily decision if they want to sleep that night or not. However, ahem, some people like to also obtain a feeling of relaxation from having slept. While one can get eight hours of sleep and feel rested afterwords, this does not necessarily mean that they are now relaxed. In comes the snooze alarm... Obviously on top of 6-8 hours of sleep, 7 minutes is not going to tip the scales so that you feel like you can wrestle a bull, however my personal observation, and thus scientifically proven fact, says that that 7 minutes of laying there awake in the morning can relieve tension and generally add to your relaxation well into the morning and afternoon. I want to add a stipulation here, you can't hit the snooze alarm and go back to sleep, that = bad. you should just use the snooze alarm because you wish to lay there and not have to conciously monitor the time.

Why are id card laminants legal on college campuses?

Many of you have noticed (and made use of) my little Annoying Text Box on the front page. I put that there to keep track of the last 10 things that people say, be it about the site, about the current entry, or about nothing in particular. I just put that there as a little "test of interest" really and that won't stay there forever. I am working through in my head the layout and code I want to design/write for a message board system. Which means sorting through the finer points of storage of all the user information, cookies, session ids, and e-mail notification, as well as security and password encryption. The posting thing on the front page is just one of several experimental scripts and thingy-ma-jigs I've been coming up with. I tell you, no matter how recently I just wrote one thing for this site, I just have some other hair-brained idea that I can't let go. Man, what's next?

One thing that I have been doing more lately, is rather than when I would have otherwise eaten at a fastfood place like McDonalds, Subway, or Burgur King, I instead eat at one of the local cafe/bars. Murphy's pub has some of the best burgers in the area and a meal there doesn't cost any more than one at McDonalds. And for the most part, the walk from my apartment is shorter to go to a place like Murphy's or Joe's anyway. In fact next year, we will be living literally next door to murphy's, even more fun!

Speaking of the place we are living next year, there appears to be a store of interest that will occupy the space on the first two floors of our building. The signs read that it will be some form of a technology center, so I'm guessing something resembling a best buy or a circuit city will be moving in there. If such is the case, I might be inclined to get a job there as I will literally be living on top of it, so the commute is non existant. The more I look at the locatoin of our apartment next year, the more glad I am we choose it.

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