Wednesday, January 31, 2007

RIP

by the time you read this, it'll probably all be over, but as I type, Shvown is taking his last fishy gulps of water. He's dieing. It's kinda sad. He hasn't been eating normal for about a month and the conclusion was that held "get hungry and start, or die". well... judging by the large bump on his side and his preponsity to floating to the top and laying on his side, I think this is the end.

As a matter of irony, my fish family expanded two nights ago with the purchase of two gold fish, promptly named Oscar and Wilde. For the record Shvown hated them and while the plan was to share a tank, seeing as he tried to rip them apart through the glass, we decided otherwise for the health and wellbeing of Oscar Wilde.

A few last words about Shvown, a "eugueguly" if you will.
He was a good fish. A small fish. An angry fish, but then again he was a fighting fish. Shvown I will miss you bright red color and unnecesary shows of aggression, and I know it will make you unhappy Shvown, but I'm sure that the goldfish will be happier without you around to scare them.

Shvown, rest in peace, and sleep with the fishes.

Monday, January 29, 2007

I'm still alive : )

Good news world, I am still out there, alive and well. I keep getting e-mails from people asking me if I'm still around, and the answer is yes, I'm not dead yet!

I don't know when the last time most of you got an update was, but after my job with the city ended, I took up residence in the basement of my girlfriend's parent's house and painted it while I waited for Chris to finish with her final exam (this was last December). Then rounds about the new year I took off and headed out to California where I met up with my brother and dad. We chilled and went to Whistler, Canada to ski for rounds about a week. Here's a pic


That was cool except I missed Christine, and my brother doesn't like skiing, and by day 4 it got so warm it was raining instead of snowwing, so not only could you not ski, but walking around sucked because it was 2 inches of slush.

After returning from that trip (and smuggling an apple through customs. "Ha, take that American Security!"), I spent a few more days with Christine and my fam and stuff before having to come back to Kalamazoo for school.

And now I'm here. I'm taking 20 credit hours, so my life is studying. The list consists of: Calc II (honors), Linear Algebra, Foundations of Modern Worldview, Jogging, Physics I, and Engineering 2020- service learning in design. Its not to bad though, I like all this stuff. Chris and I are together perpetualy too, which makes it okay, because she has to work as hard as I do, so we get to not have social lives together.

I got a fish too, his name is Shvown (pronounced sh- like "sh.. be quiet" -von like "von maur") this is him


and I got a whole bunch of plants. I like plants, and so does Chris's mom so she got me the hook up. This is shvown and his cactus


and yes, shvown lives in a mason jar. I also got a plant here on my desk which is growing in one of Christine's coffee mugs (I wasn't thinking when I grabbed that mug). If Ben Phol still reads this, can you guys in St. Paul bring back my cactus from the second floor some time? that'ld be cool.

We go to the campus catholic church which is very hippie. The "halleluia" is definitley not right, seeing as thier version has verses and in the third one all the instruments cut out and everybody starts clapping and swaying. They also have a picture of Jesus in the lobby that looks suspiciously like Bob Marley, I'll have to take a picture of it and post it.

But I'm rambling so here's one last pic from campus

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

LCC is back.

woo woo.

Only one day a week, hopefully.

I guess that is, I will update later; if LCC becomes the bomb or something.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Comment dit-on...i hate french...en francias?

Yeah pretty much...I am totally confused in this class. Instead of teaching us French like a normal teaching class where you teach stuff, the professor is using the class like a refresher for people who already took French in high school. Which was about half of the class, before the other half of the class ( the non-french speakers) dropped out. Today she was going over some grammar stuff like we already knew it and she was just reminding us. Well hey, how bout all those French speakers join the class ahead of this class....gahhh I am going to have to study for this class a bunch and that makes me angry. Other than that I hope that I get good enough grades in my other classes... I think that I might p/f this class so that it doesn't show on my GPA ( I can do that for two UP classes).