chaz720.net - journal

April 23, 2004

Transport, motorways and tramlines, starting and then stopping, taking off and landing. The emptiest of feelings, disappointed people, clinging on to bottles, and when it comes it's so, so, disappointing. Let down and hanging around, crushed like a bug in the ground. Let down and hanging around. Shell smashed, juices flowing wings twitch, legs are going, don't get sentimental, it always ends up drivel. One day, I'm gonna grow wings, a chemical reaction, hysterical and useless. Hysterical and let down and hanging around, crushed like a bug in the ground. Let down and hanging around. Let down, let down, let down. You know, you know where you are with, you know where you are with, floor collapsing, falling, bouncing back. And one day, I'm gonna grow wings, a chemical reaction, [you know where you are,] hysterical and useless. [you know where you are,] hysterical and [you know where you are,] let down and hanging around, crushed like a bug in the ground. Let down and hanging around.

Well I'm knee deep in a final project for just about all my classes. I've compiled a list of things I have taped to my monitor which serves two purposes. First, it lets me cross things off and see progress (this time when everything is crossed off I graduate.) Second, it is staring me right in the face anytime I'm at my computer and thus promotes working on at least one of the dozen or so things currently on it.

At the end of next week the vast majority of it will be done, but I still won't be in the clear. It won't be until the following wednesday that I'll be finished with all the crap and I'll just have to take finals (of which I have three, one the first day possible, and the other two crammed at the end of the following week) I can't wait to look back on all this and well, think whatever it is I'm going to think about it briefly, and then go off and watch TV or something less stressful than thinking about these last few weeks.

Not too much news in skydiving realm. I'm up to about 140 jumps now, I plan to continue jumping quite a bit the last few weeks to help maintain my sanity. I may have 160-170 when I graduate. And the weekend before and after finals should afford some time to spend the weekend in Vandalia hanging out with the people there for probably the last time in a while.

I sent my canopy in to PD to get a new lineset put on it. In the meantime I'm going to be demoing a sabre2-135 (same size as mine, but a newer version of the design) which should be entertaining. I really liked the sabre2-150 I jumped when I was at perris back in January. Hopefully this doesn't convince me to buy a new canopy immediately. I'd like to get to the middle of the summer and settled in before I get back to buying skydiving gear, which in many ways seems to be a hobby all in itself.

Time to get back to the trenches, I'll see you on the other side.

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