First New Entry

Have not figured out if I am backing up my entries this time on diary X or just on my own computer. I'll probably just plug it all into a big word document and keep them that way for reposting in case I lose everything again. Let me just describe how much that sucks! Screw the hackers! So anyways...
Life is OK in my world right now. Things would be going perfect if I could only get my butt in gear on these law school applications and personal statements. Basically I think I am going to write a special closing paragraph for each school to put on the personal statement so that it personalizes each one a little bit. Of course I have to write said personal statement first. We had a law school fair today and ALL 8 of the schools I am considering applying to were there. That was so cool getting to talk to admissions officers from each school all at one time. For those interested, the definitely applying to list is U of Chicago, Northwestern, Ohio State, and Michigan. I will probably apply to 2 of the following 4 as well: Notre Dame, Case Western, Indiana, and Cincinnati. In other words I will be spending my next 3 years in Chicago, Indiana, or a big city in Ohio. Wish me luck and any advice is appreciated!
Since I last talked to you my Buckeyes have ruined and then reclaimed some joy in their football season. Dropping to 0-3 in the Big Ten was rough, but our play merited just that. I went to the Iowa game and visited family so that was fun going with dad despite the Bucks getting killed 33-7. Got to see us play Indiana and Penn State though and we look fundamentally better. We shall see with road tests at a pissed off Michigan State this weekend and a slumping Purdue next weekend. I think we will get the big win number 6 this week, but not by much as MSU is playing sharp. Only 2 and a half weeks till THE MICHIGAN GAME yay!
The election had some surprises for me. I voted for Bush and I am very happy he won the election as he earned a shot to fix his problems in office in my opinion. Not to mention how awful Kerry was as a presidential candidate...can we get Edwards or even Howard Dean please? My two states Iowa and Ohio ended up being the critical states come election night, and the lines outside our Columbus franklin county polling places had the feel of a 2000 florida recount disaster written all over it. But in the end Ohio did elect Bush and considering the 3 million margin in popular vote he deserves the job. gore at least had a legitimate claim to fight 4 years ago, Kerry just lost in every sense. And today he made a classy exit without draggin the country in the dumps again. We will see if Bush can reunite the country and regain respect in the world...it will be tough. Also Issue 1 passed 2-to-1 to ban gay marriage in Ohio. While I am happy to see our state has a lot of people with the same moral values and beliefs as myself, I feel the bill was too strongly worded and I am stunned it passed. I, as a dead-red conservative republican, voted against this bill. Based on the percentages alone, 20-25 percent of the voters in Ohio voted to ban gay marriage and put Kerry into office, and that seems like an odd couple of decisions. Oh well at least it is over and while I'm happy Bush won, I really hope he can become a better president in the next 4 years.
Life at school is well. My grades are better than usual, but I do have a pretty easy schedule barring my one lab class which is the toughest ME department has to offer I hear in undergrad anyways. I could get a 4. for the first time in a few quarters and after last quarter's mess, I'd love to get it back on track. I still stress out over getting everything done, but at least I seem to be getting results for hard work and going to class. We shall see as I have 3 projects this quarter which just started up and will be occupying my time. As for extracurriculars, I really have plugged into Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship more than the last two years while pretty much neglecting everything else. I occasionally make it to a Block O or NSCS meeting, but I can barely call myself active in those.
Got a random email today from a Columbus businessman who owns his own company and wants interns for next summer from OSU. I'm going to go see what it entails in an info session but I'm not too worried about it because I do have my Prosonic job to take again if I want it. This one pays about 75 dollars more per week than Prosonic so it seems worth looking into. I will keep this updated to see if this pans out. I love random internship opportunities OSU sends us.
Things with Kelley are so good right now. I feel bad because I called her tonight after she went to sleep but I did not know that because she was home and had no AOL message up. I get to see her tomorrow and all weekend as we are vacationing in Indy for HS Band Nationals. We'll see if Marietta can pull a miracle semifinals berth out of a broken season. I doubt it but we'll see. Kelley has went off birth control to try and get her weight down to use the patch and get ready for the wedding, but it will be slow. She is considering a tummy tuck I guess but she has not talked to me about it much in a while. I guess I understand if she wants to do it but I worry about any surgery complications. I just want to spend 50-60-hell 80 more years with Kelley (as long as we both shall live) and don't want to lose her to something silly. I'm sure it is safe but then there are the disadvantages like going out to eat will suck. In the end I understand because I am too overweight as well and cannot get my metabolism to make it up right now...I wish I could get things back on track myself. That's another project though.
My mom got in a car wreck last weekend and is just now stabilizing emotionally and still hurting physically. She calls me every night just to hear my voice, so I know this is tearing her up inside. Pray for her healing and easy settlement with insurance. At least that finally started working today as she is driving a 2005 Cadillac Deville for a couple of days until they can get her a smaller rental car. Speaking of car wrecks, one of the approximately 50-55 students in all my ME classes died in a car wreck this weekend. I do not see any open lamentations or anything but I am sure his closer friends will miss him and it sucks to lose one of our classmates. I'm just happy I did not lose my mom or anything like that.
Looking forward to Christmas break already as classes are kind of winding into projects or boring stuff leading into finals in 4 weeks. I get to spend some time with Kelley and I cannot wait. We are seeing each other a lot now that HS band season is wrapping up. She has a sex drive again (something she lost on depo) and that is cool...but without birth control it means we have to be very careful. I know that;s TMI already so I'll leave it at that :-)
I finished Stephen King's Dark Tower book 6 today and am starting book 7. The final book in the series is very long, and I cannot wait to get into it. I even got Kelley to read the series and so it is a great read for anyone who likes an epic story. It's a mix of horror, western, and lord of the rings. I played some Magic in the State Championship a couple weeks ago and then at the Pro Tour in Columbus (side events) last weekend. That was cool as I had never seen a pro tour and my goal is to play on one before I retire from the game. Tom won states and was the first of my friends to Q for the tour and specifically for the Columbus one. He lost horribly though. ChrisP is Q'd for the next PT in Japan and he is making the trip so that's cool. The next PT is a team event in Atlanta and hopefully Tom, Shep and I can break through to the PT this year. Part of that will be doing well at Grand Prix Chicago in December, another great fun road trip. Of course I will not be wasting the trip as I plan to visit Northwestern and Chicago Law Schools on that weekend as well and head to Iowa for a week of christmas after the GP ends on Sunday. Speaking of Iowa, it was so cool to see CJ play soccer for her school as I really have no way to get out there and see the kids play in their school sports normally.
Note to self: if December rolls around I don't know the guitar...it's time to buckle down and use my break wisely. Especially after I get done with law school applications, then I'll have less to do and worry about.
I've written more than enough for now. Please let me know how you are doing out there! Have a good weekend as I will not update this again until Sunday after we get back from Indy.