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October 14, 2002

I'm born. I'm alive. I breathe. In a moment or two I realize, that the sphere upon which I reside, is asleep on its feet. should I go back to sleep? You stare at me like a vitamin On the surface you hate, but you know you need me. I'll come dressed as any pill you deem fit. Whatever helps you swallow truth all the more easily. We orbit the sun. I grow up my open eyes see... A zombified, somnambulist society. Leaving us as vitamins for the hibernating human animal. Do you, do you, do you see what I mean? And I wonder, will you digest me? Into the sleep machine I won't plug in, in fact I'd rather die before I will comply. To you, my friend, I write the reason I still live, 'cause in my mind it's set the vitamin is ripe to give. Coming closer to another 2000 years, you and I will pry the closed eye of the sleep machine.

One of the three songs I would have liked to see them play in addition to what they did. (Vitamin, New Skin, and Deep Inside, all from SCIENCE) But beyond that it's hard to say anything bad. They played just about everything else I wanted to hear and they mixed it up with the set bringing out couches during one part for the acustic Mexico. When they came back out for the encore they spent about 5 minutes just kinda having a funky jam session before Brandon came back which was really cool. The opening band was called "Home Town Hero" whom we purposely showed up late to avoid.

The parents were in town and we had dinner a couple times (mmm, duck) and saw the Illinois-Purdue game. It was a really good game and we ended up winning in overtime. Which has a hidden bonus in that I don't have to go to my micro-bio class tomorrow. While they were in town they picked up several illinois t-shirts because most of the ones they have are from when Lauren was a freshman and are getting worn out. I managed to sneak a couple in for myself while they weren't paying attention, shh, don't say anything. But yeah, overall a fun weekend.

Saturday night I started to go out with some people but that ended up falling apart because Murphy's was packed and was charging cover to get in because of Dad's weekend. So half the group went to go meet someone that we didn't know, one of Andy's brothers, so we didn't really want to just be tagalongs. Later I think Hans went to an afterhours which I opted out of as I predicted, correctly I am informed, that it would be kinda boring.

I went to a review session today for my ece229 test on tuesday. I feel pretty good in general about it, the review session didn't offer anything surprising and it was made up of going over previous exams. I think I'm going to put my crib sheet together tomorrow as I have all afternoon to do so. And then depending on how I feel there is another review session tomorrow evening that my professor is holding to answer questions. I don't think this test is going to be as hard as some of the tests I've had in, for example, ece290 or ece210.

Starfox Adventures is turning out to be a really cool game despite the fact that if you stand back and look at what's going on you realize you are the pawn in a demeaning treasure hunt. The worlds you go through, the visuals, and the cool fighting system make the game fun to play, however. It's also really nice because you can save it at any time if you need to, oh I don't know, get to class because you suddenly realize your class starts in 5 minutes and you've been playing the game the last two hours.

My amount of energy I've had, and my patterns of sleep have been completely unexplainable and generally bad the last couple weeks, I hope I can fix it in the near future. Hans suggests we get up early and run before we have class to get blood going to start out the day, which might not be a bad idea. It is starting to get a little cold outside so we'd prolly have to run in sweats, but if it'll curb my "I'm tired so I sleep now" irregularities then I'd be all for it. Now where did I put those running shoes...

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