august 31, 2008

this is my last weekend before school starts. i should be living it up, getting all i can out of this fun city before my life is overtaken by the responsibilities of being a researcher, a student, and a teacher. should be great. i'm sick. i have a cold, and i don't feel like doing anything at all.

i have homework, too. not only did one of my professors assign reading, but i am giving a group meeting next week. i have to be prepared to lead an hour long discussion about some of the work i did this summer and about some of the research my adviser wants me to do in the future.

i should be busy, but i am lazy. i've watched a lot of CSI and Law and Order.

august 13, 2008

tonight i am going to see Radiohead. they are one of my most-favorite bands, i like them so much that i don't even care that "most-favorite" is not even a real word. i have seen them twice before, and both occasions mark a couple of the most relaxing/awesome evenings of my life. think of me in music heaven tonight.

august 11, 2008

I don't usually get into sports. Sure, I like going to baseball games, and I'll watch pretty much any type of playoff or championship game, but I wouldn't call myself a fan. That all changes with the coming of the olympics. I really enjoy watching pretty much all of the events and routing for the US athletes (or someone else if for some reason we didn't qualify to compete). I especially like the swimming events!

august 3, 2008

i wish someone had told me that i wasn't going to be able to relax this week. i did a lot of fun things, but i wouldn't call any of them relaxing. monday was the concert, tuesday was science club, wednesday was a flurry of errand running for household stuff, thursday was softball, friday was drinking (!), and saturday was paintball. ok, so sunday is nothing, i will relax today.

that's right, i wrote that i played paintball. i went with a group of ten people that i know from school; and we joined all the open play scenarios. basically they split all the people that want to play and give take us to different paintball fields and tell us the object of the game (raise your team's flag or defend the fort against attackers). they let us play until someone actually wins or 20 minutes. at the end of the day i ended up with as many itchy bug bites as paintball welts. nevertheless, i had a lot of fun.