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February 21, 2002

El Scorcho, Rock n' Roll! Goddamn you half-Japanese girls, do it to me every time. Oh, the redhead said you shred the cello, and I'm jello, baby. But you wont talk won't look won't think of me, I'm the epitome of Public Enemy Why you wanna go and do me like that? Come down on the street and dance with me. I'm a lot like you so please, hello, I'm here, I'm waiting. I think I'd be good for you, and you you'd be good for me. I asked you to go to the Green Day concert, you said you never heard of them. How cool is that? So I went to your room and read your diary. "Watching grunge leg drop New Jack through a press table" And then my heart stopped: "Listening to Cho-Cho San fall in love all over again." How stupid is it? I can't talk about it I gotta sing about it and make a record of my heart. How stupid is it? Won't you gimme a minute? Just come up to me and say hello (to my heart.) How stupid is it? For all I know you want me too, or maybe you just don't know what to do, and maybe you're scared to say, I'm falling for you. I wish I could get my head outta the sand, 'cause I think we'd make a good team, and you would keep my fingernails clean. But that's just a stupid dream that I won't realize, 'cause I can't even look in your eyes without shakin'. And I ain't fakin', I'll bring home the turkey if you bring home the bacon.

Hey, hope you're all still alive but if you're reading this than there is a pretty good chance you are.

Despite a bumpy couple of weeks there I'm feeling okay about this semester in school again. I'm understanding my analog signals class and homework again, and my random number theory work has gotten easier now that I use office hours and classmates to help me understand it all. Physics and music are the same old same old. Attend class -> do homework -> attend class -> take test -> repeat

I have fallen into a pretty predictable sleep pattern as of late and it has held for at least the last week or so. I've been going to sleep in the area of 10:30 and waking up at 6:30. The reason being, since I have class starting at 9 almost every morning, this schedule gives me a couple hours each morning where I literally have nothing to do but work on homework. No one's awake to talk to, and I can't play video games or watch TV cause that would wake everyone up. So I have homework to keep me occupied. Then, I go to class, I'm done around noon, and I'm free to do whatever the hell I want to until I get tired of being awake without any homework looming over my head all afternoon. I usually get tired again around 10:30 after being up for 16 hours, so I go to sleep and the cycle repeats. It makes my days much more enjoyable and I get 8 hours of sleep every night now. Plus I get a lot more out of my classes if I've been up for a couple of hours prior rather than rolling out of bed and going right to class. I must say it's working out better than my old sleeping plan, which was to say, no plan at all.

Hans tells me I'm insane and that my plan would in no way work for him, and that he prefers the "finally get to work on homework at 10pm and get done at whenever and sleep until 10 minutes before class". I guess if it works better for him than okay.

I've been in a very good mood most of this week, mostly do to the being well rested, but also the difference this week that I completed all my homeworks with the feeling that I understood everything and wasn't merely following the motions that were required to produce something, anything that I could throw on the pile when I walked into class and then forget about.

My mp3 collection... for a while I was considering putting each artist of songs into it's own folder so that I could easily create playlists including all of certain artists' songs. This plan has been scraped in favor of the following one. Everything goes into one giant mp3 folder, nothing is allowed to have id3 tags because half the time the id3 tags are all busted and fucked up anyway. I put all the songs into one general playlist and hit shuffle and play. Anytime I hear a song that I don't feel I would want to hear given any mood, I remove it and all the other songs by that artist (often all the other songs by that artist) from the playlist and save it. I leave the songs in my mp3 directory however in case someone ever wants to make a cd on my computer and they want that song on it so they don't have to redownload it. Hell I have 187 gigs of hard drive space on this computer, and I've always been a data packrat so why not? I mean c'mon, at 4 megs a song or so, what's deleting a hundred going to do? As long as they are off my playlist, out of sight out of mind.

Speaking of this computer, I'm proud to say I haven't added anything to it save the Live! drive in about 6 months and counting, yay, I think it's done now. Though I have nothing in plan whatsoever, I think when I'm forced to I'm going to buy an intel proc because they tend to run a lot cooler than athlons and right now my computer doubles as a space heater in it's current location. I'll try and put that off for as long as I can though. Because it requires buying a new motherboard and I'm not sure what that will do to my RAID arra-

Okay this is getting to jargony, I better quit while I'm ahead.

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