The Week That Was...

Welcome back. I will have to run through things quickly as I do not quite remember details so well and it has been a while since I talked on here. The past week and a half went well. The Indy tip was fabulous...a great time and some good HS band music. Our alma mater did not make semifinals (top 30-34 out of 95 bands) but oh well they are not as good as they used to be. Went and saw "The Incredibles" that weekend too, it is great. Go see it if you have not because it is actually worth that high cost for a ticket. The City Center Mall there in Indy was fun to walk around...Kelley's shopaholic father and grandparents walked out of ONE store on two days combined with 12 bags of stuff...big bags. Even I bought wine glasses for Kelley at that store. The only other purchase I made was an Indy Hard Rock Cafe bear. I now have 12, 10 of which I went to in person. Las Vegas (one I did not get in person), Paris, London, Kuala Lumpur, Memphis, Washington DC, Denver (the other not in person), Cleveland, Chicago, Indianapolis, Orlando, and Berlin. Quite a spread of worldwide cities...so pissed the one in Nassau in the Bahamas was boarded up when we went on the cruise. Oh well. Anyways, off on two tangents now.
1. If I want another HRC bear form the Bahamas...I guess I'll just have to go back on another cruise :-) And speaking of, I guess the current plan is to go right after my graduation again this summer. Kelley is going to run with me around the world again but it is so much fun! And we are considering a spring break trip to Boston, somewhere I have never seen.
2. I mentioned those wine glasses...well they are the tip of the iceberg. Kelley and I now have a complete starter bar basically and have been mxing our own drinks some nights. It is a blast. Anyways, we have like5 different types of glasses for different liquors (wine, champagne, beer, hurricane, etc). and about 13-14 bottles of good hard liquor. If only my Christian group could see me now. ;-)
So anyways back to the story. So finals at grand band nationals was amazing, as the bands are so big and the concepts so cool. Then we drove back to Columbus, and I was struggling the last 30 minutes of the trip but we all made it back OK. Then Kelley and I did not do much on Sunday but we relaxed and had a lot of alone time. She finally made her way home Monday and I had another stinky lab report to crank out in a day. I wonder why I always wait until the day before it is due to crank those out? It sucks...but I get it done anyways. So then the normal humdrum of classes this past week. I had to hold office hours for the class I grade papers for since there was some bitching or questioning over my grading of their misterm exam. We got it all cleared up though and it was better than I expected initially. I am doing so well in all of my classes, definitely have gotten an A on every midterm so far and have a 4. at this later point in our quarter. I could still mess it up really badly though...but it's better than usual even for me at this point. So I'm not worried about my bad work habits...I am organized enough to get everything done. Now if I could just fit in some guitar practice and law school application paperwork...oh wait I remember I played Halo 2 all week. OK maybe not all week, but definitely Wednesday and Thursday night on Xbox Live. It is so much fun. But anyways, classes are moving out of midterms and going into final projects and finals...I actually have 3 projects to muster this quarter. I'll explain more in later entires, but it is not all that bad.
So Friday I have this information session job interview with a relatively unknown company. Turns out they are a stupid pyramid scheme and I would be the middle link between the painters (hard labor) and the masterminds. Umm no thanks...although I would be interested in painting and being the low man on the totem pole. They earn 10 dollars per hour just like I would as their crew leader. We'll see as I would love to stay in Columbus for the summer but I'm not turning down Prosonic if they have the best offer on the table again. Kelley would love to move in with me for two months in the summer too...but I do not know how that would fly with my roomies even though she would pay her way. And don't even get me started on parents and landlords...ugh! At least in the summer work generally doesn;t chase me home to ruin my fun time :-)
Kelley came up on Friday and we had a sort of date. It turned out to be us going out to the closest Nextel store (in Newark, a damn hour away from OSU!...no wonder my phone roams here) to get our phones exchanged since they were broken. So now it works again...let's hope it stays that way. We had dinner in Newark at Olive Garden and I got the usual Tour of Italy with a frozen Tiramisu as a dinner drink/dessert. So good. Then we went home for a little while and then later went to see the late showing of Friday Night Lights. Eh, not so good...kind of slow and pretty predictable. Then we came back home and had a LONG sleep to make up for all the time we lose in sleep over the weeks at school. Speaking of, she's done with her quarter this week basically...how lucky!
Kelley left Saturday (boo...I hate that we have to leave each other, only 940-some days until it will be done) and Shep showed up within a half hour of that. We watched the first half of the OSU game (which of course they lost to Purdue and they earned that loss) before going to my Christian group's Halo 2 launch party. This wa snot advertised well at all and turned out to be only about 16 guys. Shep squeaked out wins over the best Chi guys all night so I guess his group is slightly better than our Chi Alpha group...but I suspected that. I've gotten a lot better as well which makes it a lot more fun. I love that game. But I'm not addicted like some of my friends already are. I guess I have a life or schoolwork or something like that. Today (well yesterday by now) Tom Shep and I played in the GPT for Chicago in Columbus. We wanted rating points to qualify for the pro tour that way, we wanted and needed experience playing this set together, and we wanted to win another bye in the Grand Prix in December (we had one on rating but if you win a trial you get 2). Well we won the whole thing to keep a long story short, and it is the first thing I have won since the Darksteel team pre-release event. Magic has taken a huge backseat over this season, but winter quarter will have a few more intriguing tournaments thanks to my favrotie formats being in season (Team Limited and Extended). Then I came home and worked on stuff. Another lab report but this one got started on Sunday...I just did hardly anything so it's like I'm starting on Monday again. At leas tI have the grading done and all I have to worry about other than this lab report is the my final midterm exam I have on Tuesday right before lab. Should be easy but I need a review. So it's back to the old grindstone. Have a good one!