13 November 2005 2209 EST
After finally arriving at the armory, though, it ended up being pretty chill. There wasn't all too much scheduled besides some paperwork and a showdown inspection and some unpacking. So with the sparse schedule, there was a lot of time to just chat and catch up with a bunch of the guys. That was really nice. And then there was the regimental muster on Saturday. We got released a little early on Saturday to take the hour+ drive down to Staunton, where I had a chance to catch up with a bunch of guys from the rest of the battalion as well as some of my old OCS classmates. Of course the best part was dressing up in blues and being pretty. The whole thing wrapped up around 9:00 yesterday night, and then we just hung out and did some dancing and bar-hopping and talking with girls until about 0200h in the morning...at which point I tried to drive back to Winchester. About halfway up I-81, though, I couldn't maintain consciousness and ended up pulling off to crash for a few hours at a rest area just short of Woodstock. Sleep in the driver's seat was amazingly refreshing and I was ready to go again when the sun came out.
I made it back to the armory on Sunday morning with about two minutes to spare before our report time. After that, I just wrapped up some paperwork, and loitered around for a little bit until final formation. There really wasn't all that much to do today as we actually worked quite efficiently getting everything done the day before. Anyway, that was that, and I was on the road a little after 5:00 in the afternoon, listening to the skins game on the radio all the way home. Oh, the other random highlight of the weekend includes getting my cell phone back from overseas. Now, I can recover the phone numbers of alll of the girls I used to know.
12 November 2005 0053 EST
For those of you who haven't gotten it yet, it is drill weekend this weekend. It's our first drill since getting back from Afghanistan, so it'll be an interesting one. We'll mainly be doing inventorying and paperwork. But there'll also be a military formal tomorrow night down in Staunton. I actually like those because I feel pretty wearing my dress blues. And when that wraps up, it'll be back to Winchester for a few more hours of work before finally coming home to enjoy the last few hours of my weekend. Hopefully, I'll have something to share when I get back on Sunday night. Until then...
10 November 2005 2328 EST
Highlights for today include a pretty cool Newton's third law lesson this morning with balloons and stuff and then dinner over at the parents' with sister, gram, and cousins. When that was over, and after some careful consideration, I ended up buying a few dozen eggs tonight at Target of all places. They're for a little demonstration in class tomorrow. Hopefully, all will go well.
09 November 2005 2342 EST
On the bright side, I did get my laundry done today. Tomorrow, I will have to get all of my stuff together for drill so that I don't stay up too late on Friday night. I know that it's not going to happen tomorrow, but I'm half-hoping that me blogging it might inspire me to actually do it. We'll see.
08 November 2005 2133 EST
07 November 2005 2341 EST
But yeah, that's that. Today was a pretty busy day. I started at 0500h this morning and spent the day at school before coming home for an hour to finish a paper for my Monday night class at Mason. I had to conduct an interview for this paper too...and time was running out as I only had about two and a half hours before class. So I looked down my buddy list on AIM and picked out one of my students from my first year of teaching and started asking him questions. It was actually very convenient because I was able to write my paper while he thought of his responses and just copied and pasted quotes in from the conversation. After about an hour and a half, I was done and I printed out my paper just before heading over to the parents' for dinner. Everyone showed up today including my three sisters, my brother, and my grandmother. Dinner itself was pretty good too. And then there was class and then I came home to watch myself win another week of Fantasy on Monday Night Football. Good times.
06 November 2005 2252 EST
I'll just sleep on the couch tonight with the game running in the background, I think. Tomorrow is my first of two teacher workdays, so I'll get to sleep in a little. Traffic shouldn't be as bad tomorrow, and I won't have to worry as much about what to wear. Ahh...
05 November 2005 1321 EST
Today has been kind of a lazy day so far. I woke up late, around eleven or so and just sat down in front of the tv to watch the Ultimate Fighter marathon while working out a little in my basement. I just finished my leftover Chinese from a few nights ago too, and it's only a matter of time before I have to start working on my two papers due next week. Tonight will probably be dedicated to the Tech/Miami game and tomorrow to Flag Football in the morning and homework in the afternoon. Sleep is important too. With two teacher workdays coming up on Monday and Tuesday, though, I'm hoping next week will be a little less stressful. Only time will tell.
03 November 2005 2345 EST
I ended up spending my evening at home with Ian and the sis watching a movie that my sister got me for my birthday. It started off as a quantum physics-type movie to something more about psychology and religion...very interesting. It's called What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? It is interesting because we had just finished watching an episode of CSI before this where they were talking about people using science to mislead others. Anyway, I'm not saying that this is the greatest movie, but it does make you think...never a bad thing.
Other than that, I got e-mailed and AIMed by a few random people from my past today. That was nice. They were random female friends that I hadn't talked to for a while, so that was kinda nice. There isn't much more to say about that though. I got a letter in the mail yesterday. George Mason accepted me into their graduate program again. That's kinda reason to celebrate, right? I'll think of something to do this weekend.
02 November 2005 2353 EST
Other than that, I just had a lot of class today...about ten hours as teacher followed by an hour or so back home with the fam before spending another three hours as a student. The quarter is wrapping up, so I'm having a lot of students starting to come after school to salvage their grade. I wish their motivation were different, but at least they're trying.
I'm tired though. I'll write more this weekend when I have more time.
01 November 2005 2312 EST
Yesterday night was just as long. I had my three hour Monday class at Mason, but I hung around at school for three hours working with students before heading over to the parents. Unfortunately, staying at school so late pushed me back to the afternoon rush hour and it took an extra half hour to get to FFX. On top of that, the lights were out when I finally showed up. At first, I thought it had something to do with halloween and then I remembered that my parents had gone north to New York for the weekend. So I broke into the house and searched the fridge for a quick dinner before heading off to class. The rest of the day wasn't so exciting.
And there was this morning. I had one of my sophomores come in before school to my classroom and ask me how to tie a tie. I don't know. It was really cute and it made me feel so grown up to teach him. Even better, it was his tie for his JROTC uniform. But yeah, that was probably the highlight of my day. And now that I have shared, I can now go to bed.
30 October 2005 2341 EST
I woke up this morning to my alarm at around 0600h and was off to DC after a quick haircut and shower. We had one of our best showings at flag football for the 0800h game. We didn't play that great, but I got to play around with Dave calling old TJ pass patterns from the line of scrimmage. We connected once on a #2 pass with a nice little pump fake. We should have scored twice, but oh well. We ended up winning in the end; and besides how we played the game, that's all that mattered.
When I got home, I went back to napping on the sofa after throwing some clothes in the washer/dryer. Then I joined up with Ben and Thuy to watch some football over at hooters. Before I knew it, I was stuffed with nachos and hot wings. Even right now, five hours later, I can feel my belly all bloated and I can taste the hot sauce burning my insides. Hopefully, a good night's rest will get all of that out of my system. Anyway, not much else to report. It's back to school tomorrow.
29 October 2005 0818 EDT
Anyway, yesterday was pretty cool. Lenny got married again (long story) and then I hung out with the sibs afterward at Mark's Duck House before heading over with Jane and Ian to join the boys over at Patriots. Interestingly enough, Ben wasn't really involved in the singing and seemed to be pre-occupied all night. It may have had something to do with the Chinese waitress he met over at Hooters just before he showed up. I don't know. Call it a hunch. He was doing a lot of projecting too, btw. That's why I wouldn't mind embarrassing him here on my page if it came down to it. You see, every time an attractive woman would walk by or sing, he would get a little loud and talk about me staring or something. To be honest, though, after spending a year overseas, I have adapted relatively well coming back to the co-ed environment. Working all day at a high school will help you with that. When you're monitoring the halls, you can't turn your head to follow every high school girl who is trying to mimic the dress of Britney & Co. That would just be bad.
Anyway, since I ate so much yesterday - two dinners, one at Steph's and Lenny's and one at the duck house - I will try to get a workout in this morning before eating some more over at Yenny's for lunch with the family. I've got some studying to do this afternoon and then who knows what for tonight. I'll keep you posted though, as always.
27 October 2005 2347 EDT
Anyway, before that, I kinda attended about five minutes of a lecture with Jane. You see, I was really tired this afternoon. And instead of coming home right after school to take a nap, I spent a few hours with some students. So by the time I got home, there was only maybe 20 minutes to nap before heading back out. So I set my alarm on my cell phone and crashed on the sofa. Before I knew it, though, it was an hour later. I guess I was so tired that I changed the alarm but never actually set it. So I'm running around crazy and head straight for the car to catch up. Unfortunately, traffic and parking put me another half hour or so behind and I didn't show up until the lecture was almost over. Luckily, Jane was nice and saved multiple spots for me before finally giving up and just hanging out to wait for me by the door. So to make up for it all, we just ate and hung out watching the Tech game afterwards.
The other highlight of the day came when I pretended to kirk out in class and yelled at one of my students to sit at the desk in the front of the room and put his hands flat on the table. Apparently, he grew up in catholic school or something and got really antsy when he though I was going to hit him on his hands. So I played along for a little bit before doing the demonstration. Anyway, that was fun and tomorrow is Friday. This weekend equals sleep. Done and done.
27 October 2005 0007 EDT
Class was relatively uneventful today...but I did do a little demonstration with two of my classes where I pretended like I was going to hit one of my students. That was kinda fun. I hope no one goes home and tells their parents about it. I mean, it was for a good cause. I was teaching about Newton's first law of motion.
Anyway, that was class. I went over to the parents' after school and napped over there for an hour or so before heading over to Mason for class of my own. Surprisingly, that cute girl who'd been missing for a few weeks showed back up tonight. That was a pleasant surprise. The rest of class was pretty bland though. But hopefully, some online discussion this next week will spice things up. Who knows.
Other than that, I still don't have anyone going with me to the lecture tomorrow. Last chance, people. Give me a call.
25 October 2005 2308 EDT
Oh, and if you missed my birthday, that's okay. I will be accepting wishes and presents through the rest of the week...which reminds me. Is anyone up for a science lecture in DC on Thursday night? Robert Hazen will be giving a talk entitled Genesis: The Scientific Quest for the Origins of Life starting at 6:45. I know it's short notice, but you can't have much of a social life if you are a regular reader of my page. Give me a call if you're interested and want to carpool or meet me there.
25 October 2005 0101 EDT
Other than that, though, it's just the same old stuff. Class was average...but oh! The walk to my car from class...you see, you don't carry umbrellas in the military. I've grown used to that and so I didn't even consider grabbing the umbrella from my trunk when I started walking to class today. But when class let out, it was pouring outside; and after a fifteen minute walk through the parking lot to my car in hurricane-like conditions, I've decided that the anti-umbrella practice would be one that I'll end soon. That's all I have to say about that.
23 October 2005 2103 EDT
When morning came, I couldn't stay asleep. Once the sun rose, I had to fight for unconsciousness, eventually giving up around 0900h. I got up at that point and went to the basement, where I did some last minute homework for Sunday's games with various political talkshows on in the background before heading over to the coffee shop for some groupwork with one of my classmates. We "worked" for about two hours or so before I came home. We got about an hour's worth of work done and spent the rest of the time talking about various topics, from socializing to roommates to teaching and working out. From there, I came home for another hour or so, which I used to lift some weights and watch football. Then I caught up with Ben and Thuy over at the Glory Days in Reston. There, I had a cheesesteak and cheesefries while I watched my teams as they went on to their worst week of the season.
So now it's 9:00 on Sunday night and I've got plenty of time to sleep. Instead, I'll probably lift some weights and try to get a chapter of homework in before going to bed. When I wake up, it'll be my birthday...yay.
22 October 2005 2348 EDT
So instead of going out tonight, I warmed up a couple of frozen burritos and plopped my bottom on my sofa while I put on some old DVDs. That's so much easier, isn't it?
Last night, Ben and Thuy actually ended up hanging out after I went out with Ben and a bunch of his friends at Cafe Asia. It was an interesting night. I had fun and all; but there were definitely some awkward points. So instead of staying out longer, we just circled back around to my place where we lifted some weights while falling asleep watching a couple of really bad movies: Envy and Poor White Trash in case you were wondering. Thuy and I fell asleep and got a good few hours rest during the movies, but Ben stayed up and watched the whole things through for some reason. Nothing else too exciting happened. We played a little poker and that's pretty much it.
Tomorrow is dedicated to studying and football. Maybe I'll have more stories to tell after that. Interesting note...the two most popular songs at the dance for the few hours I stayed were the Electric Slide and Cotton-Eye Joe. Imagine that.
20 October 2005 2348 EDT
Other than that, homecoming week is just wrapping up. I still don't have a date, so it looks like I'll be going stag to the dance on Saturday. I think I'll be alright though. I'm still considering whether or not to show up at the other halloween party I was invited to on Saturday night after the dance. I would go, but I'm not really a fan of wearing togas. What's up with that, anyway? Oh well. Tomorrow is probably going to be spent napping and then socializing a little at Cafe Asia with the buds and various others. I'll tell you how it goes. Oh, and I bought a mega millions ticket for the drawing tomorrow. I'm really counting on the 100+ million to help me out with the bills. Wish me luck, okay? I bought it at the gas station by my house off of exit 52. Get this...since they are switching from Mobil to Sunoco, they have a grand opening thing up for the next two days and gas was down to 2.49 there today. Can you believe it?
20 October 2005 0014 EDT
There was something else that I wanted to talk about, but I can't quite remember what it is right now. I spent a lot of time ironing yesterday. That wasn't it though. Other than that, Wednesday night classes haven't been as exciting any more because the one really cute girl that I was talking to hasn't shown up in three weeks. I'm thinking that she dropped the course. Other than that, I'm just chillin'.
Oh, I remember now. There's this girl on our flag football team. She's probably one of the toughest people I've met in a long time. Anyway, during our game on Sunday, she got a finger caught in a flag while she pulled it off and dislocated her finger. So after the play, she's looking at her finger and holds it up for everyone to see. It's just bent sideways. She doesn't scream in pain or cry or anything - both things that I think I would probably consider. Instead, she just makes a random comment and starts walking calmly to the sideline. Dave eventually pops it back into place and then a girl on the other team taped it up. Anyway, if that weren't enough, Tina even comes back into the game maybe 5-10 minutes later. It's too bad we lost. Otherwise, it would have been a much better story. But yeah, I'm very impressed.
18 October 2005 0002 EDT
Oh, and then I ended up buying gas on my way home from class. I had a hunch about one of the stations on 29, so I took a slight detour on my way home and hit the jackpot. $2.69 - that's right, baby!!! I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it myself. With some luck, we might actually start inching back to the low twos in a few months.
I forget what else I wanted to talk about today; but now that I wasted the last hour and a half in front of the tv watching football and ultimate fighter, I think it's time for bed. I'll have more tomorrow. Things to look forward to in the next week include birthday and the homecoming dance.
16 October 2005 2023 EDT
Let's start with all of the wedding festivities. We started off early on Saturday as the crew went over to Stephanie's place to buy her from her family. This was the first time I'd gone along for the fun - a Chinese tradition - but the whole event was a little more than what I expected. I won't go into too many details, but let's just say that there was a lot of embarrassment and way too much guy-on-guy action for a heterosexual wedding.
After that, we brought the bride back to the house, where a huge amount of family was lying in wait. It was really cool seeing everyone again...uncles, aunts, cousins, everyone. We went through some formalities there before heading off to the church for the wedding. We got there a few hours early...so while they were setting up, I had a chance to pace back and forth inside and outside of the church, writing and rehearsing my best man toast. When the wedding finally started, I had a little snaffu when I seated my grandmother in the wrong row. I really didn't know where she was going to go because we didn't rehearse it the night before. Oh yeah...there were some issues with the rehearsal dinner the night before and we didn't really practice everything. But it wasn't bad by far. The whole weekend was a extremely good time and I can't remember seeing my family so happy before. It was just a great feeling seeing all of the family together, laughing and smiling. We were just feeding off of each others' excitement the whole time. It was great.
But yeah, the whole ceremony started on time and even finished early. It was almost unreal standing next to Lenny the whole time, through the vows and the music. It was a strange feeling watching him grow up like that right before my eyes. And he seemed so happy and everything was going so well yesterday. The weather was perfect and everything else just kinda fell into place. I was very proud of him, and I couldn't help but smile throughout the ceremony when I looked at his face and saw the joy that was radiating Of course, I was thinking about my little part the whole time too. I had Lenny's ring in my left breast pocket and Stephanie's in my right. I just didn't want to stumble and cause a delay. I did the whole thing perfectly considering how simple the task was. But hey...there are no small actors, right?
Anyway, we went from the wedding to the reception. I drove Lenny and Steph, and we ended up showing up nearly last due to all of the extra pictures people wanted to take at the church. It was probably a good thing that the pictures took so long though. We were so far ahead of schedule with the short ceremony that not all of the food was ready yet. Anyway, at the reception, I snuck outside for about twenty minutes to finish practicing my little speech after they announced everyone in the wedding party. I went through it three or four times, making a few small changes here and there before I was finally happy with it. I had a few hours left before I had to speak, though, and the extra time was good to calm my nerves a little. Anyway, the toast went well...I got the laughs and the oohs and ahhs that I wanted. It was curiously similar to one of my blog entries if that gives you any idea.
The rest of the night went well. Apparently, my grandmother was shopping me around all night. I got a bunch of random cousins coming up to me asking if I knew that she had asked them about single girlfriends who would be good for me. Oh, and since we are on the topic of girls, there were a lot of good looking ones around this weekend. Granted some of them are somewhat off limits being family and all...but still. If I wasn't so busy with the whole wedding and all, it would have been nice to talk to more of them. Something about being in a tux with a pretty flower pinned to your breast can give a guy a lot of confidence, you know? Also interestingly enough, the few times that I did find myself talking to girls, I would usually have a cousin or sibling watching me closely. All of that pressure just made the whole situation much more complicated than I would have liked. But hey, I had a really good time.
For the post-wedding festivities, I just went out with my sisters and Ian to the IHOP in Fairfax, a staple for any late-night gathering in NoVa. It was cool catching up with them and comparing notes on the whole event to see how everyone else saw things as they unfolded. Anyway, that went on until one or two in the morning. Then by the time I got back to my house, I had about six hours of sleep before having to get back up to head to the parents' for the post-wedding wrap-up/brunch before seeing the rest of the family off. That was this morning. I had a chance to see more of my cousins on my mother's side. Unfortunately, with all of the military stuff over the last few years, I had missed numerous weddings and hadn't seen a lot of them in 3-4 years. But today, I got a chance to catch up with a bunch of them as their kids enjoyed my old Teletubbies and Powerpuff videos I had left at my parents' place.
From there, I actually cut out a little early to give a couple of my cousins rides down to the bus station in DC before heading off to join my flag football team for a disappointing loss on the ellipse this afternoon. My lip is swollen a little and I have a few cuts inside my mouth from a few plays involving me getting elbowed in the face and whatnot. But I had a good time still. On my way back from there, luckily, I remembered that I was supposed to return the tuxedos from the day before. So I stopped by the Men's Wearhouse in Fair Lakes for a few minutes to take care of that. In the parking lot, I kept the engine running for few minutes to catch the last few plays of the Skin's game on the radio. It was almost a repeat of last week's disappointing finish. But hey, if losing football games was the worst part of the weekend, then I can't be doing too bad, right?
14 October 2005 0034 EDT
Anyway, when Lenny showed up, we had a bunch of wedding discussion and eventually some conflict. Now, I'm not a psychologist, but I'm in the middle of taking an educational psychology class, so that means that I'm almost completely unqualified to meddle in people's business. However, these aren't people we're talking about. It's family. So I butted my head in and we ended up spending a few hours sitting around the table discussing some deep-rooted issues. I'm not quite sure how useful all of the talk was, but we ended up hugging in the end...so hopefully, the discussion was more helpful than harmful. Only time can tell, right?
But yeah...the wedding is on Saturday with the rehearsal dinner scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. I really should have taken a day or two off work, but oh well. I started really working on my best man toast the other day while proctoring for the PSATs, but I'm still far from a final draft though. It needs to be much more profound and witty than its current state. So maybe I can find some time to work on it during my planning period. It's always a tough call though. You see, they have copies of the Washington Post in the teacher's lounge, so I usually waste a good 10-30 minutes working on sudoku while putting off work. Maybe I can forgo that tomorrow.
12 October 2005 2323 EDT
Anyway, today was an interesting day for sure. School didn't so much happen as today was PSAT day. So class lasted for about three and a half hours, with all of it consisting of taking the PSATs. Due to this exciting and monumental occasion, I decided not to wear a tie to school today. That was a first for the year. I don't have enough data points to really see what kind of an impact this has on class, but I always feel like it might have a slight psychological impact on the kiddies. Like today, near the end of the last section of the PSAT, one of the kids in the class asked if I was going to homecoming. Being that there is no talking allowed, I probably should have just told her to be quiet. But being me, I had to let out a smart remark before placing my finger to my lips to motion her to stop talking. I said that I needed to find a date first. Of course, I should have known that all of the kids would start running with that. So as the PSATs wound down, instead of actually concentrating on the test, the kids were starting to think of a list of teachers I could ask out. Their consensus was one of the vice principals.
Of course, when they shared their idea with me, I had to ignore them and not comment. They claimed that I was blushing when I turned away. They were probably right.
Other things I accomplished today include finally buying sheets for my bed. I figured that I should do that since I would be having company over with the wedding and everything. I mean, sleeping on a poncho liner is fine for me. But if my aunt and uncle slept in my bed, they would probably want sheets of some sort. I guess normal people tend to be picky like that. I came home a little before 4:00 this afternoon, giving just a few minutes to straighten up before an investigator came in to interview me about one of my fellow guardsmen for a security clearance. I was very straightforward, but it didn't last as long as I thought it would. After about ten minutes, he was gone and I just puttered around online for a little bit before heading over to the parents' and eventually class.
12 October 2005 0017 EDT
Other than that, I just did a little bit of exercise and watched Dodgeball when I got back home. Tomorrow is PSAT day, so school should be relatively unstressful tomorrow. That's what I'm hoping at least. Plus I did all of my laundry and my ironing this past weekend, so I'm not all stressed about what to wear. It's funny how much time I spend on picking out my clothes for school. I think I spend more time on it now than when I was going through high school myself. But yeah...that's pretty much it.
Don't worry. Tomorrow's update will be better. I think Jane bought a condo today.
11 October 2005 0101 EDT
Also, last night, I ended up staying up until about three in the morning because they were airing the debate between our two main state governor candidates. I know that I consider myself a conservative, but I must admit that I was much more impressed with Kaine's performance last night. I know that he'll raise taxes, but I'm actually okay with that because he seems like he'd actually do something with our money. Also the topic of gay rights came up too...and that is probably the biggest issue that swung me. Anyway, just my two cents. I'm sure there's still an interesting race left for these last few weeks. It's nice to be making an informed decision for once when it comes to local politics.
10 October 2005 1358 EDT
As a quick side note today, I was on the toilet this morning and flipping through a back-issue of Psychology Today when I ran into this interesting little gem:
Personality Truth Online - What can you learn from a personal Web site? More than if you met the person for a few minutes and about as much as from a glance around their bedroom, according to a University of Texas, Austin study. Subjects who rated the personalities of 89 strangers via personal Web pages most accurately assessed the person's curiosity, creativity and friendliness. Least apparent online: emotional stability.
I liked that last little statement. I wonder what you all think about me...
10 October 2005 0145 EDT
I talked to a lot of people today. I'm kinda proud of myself for that. It started off this morning when I decided to wake up around 0900h for some reason. About a half hour later, I got a call from Thuy and we met up at IHOP for breakfast. It just so happened that it was his birthday too, so that was cool. I hadn't seen him in a little while. Then I caught up with my sister for a little bit as we carpooled over to that parents' together. It just so happened to be my mother's birthday too, so we spent a big part of the afternoon there. Yenny wanted to watch the skins game at home, though, so we left around kickoff and I pretty much spent the rest of my day at home. I did put my night and weekend minutes to use though. I ended up catching up with Brett for a little bit, along with some of my soldiers, and I left a few random messages with others.
Tomorrow will be busy. I haven't done enough work this weekend, so I will need to catch up on some reading and some writing before I wrap up the three-day. So...how about I stop flipping through fantasy football sites and get to bed already. Good night, all.
09 October 2005 0117 EDT
But yeah...kinda glad that the party is done with. I don't know why, but it's been really stressful thinking about that stuff. There's the wedding next weekend too; but after that's done, things should be able to get back to normal. I've got a mid-term coming up on Tuesday for one of my classes, and then I have to write a couple of mid-terms as well for my own classes. On top of that, we start drilling again in November, so there's a lot to do to get ready for that too. I've been slacking a little on that though. I've kept tabs on about half of the platoon - the rest, I've called and left a message or two, but I haven't gotten a hold of a bunch of my guys. And today, I had to skip out on the B Company parade over in Woodstock because of Lenny's bachelor party. I mean, that's not really anyone's fault. It's just a little unfortunate, though, because I would have really liked to have seen all of those guys again.
Anyway, tomorrow will be catch-up. I've got a bunch of studying and work and laundry and cleaning to do. Plus, I think I am missing some birthdays here. I know Thuy's and Tommy's birthdays are in October right around now. My mom and my grandmother are within a week from now too, with my brother's birthday in two weeks, just a few days before my own. Unfortunately, I already know what I'm doing for my birthday. After a nice long day at school, I'll be heading over to Mason for a three-hour class which includes a guest lecture. Hey, you win some and you lose some, right?