recently i have noticed more and more people who dont like me. some have gone so far as to say they hate me. i am going to relay some of the more recent scenarios so you can see what i mean.
on my way back from the bookstore i ran into one of my roommates who was talking to a girl i had never seen before. i walked up to them and joined
in the conversation. they were talking about buying books for their classes. usually at the beginning of each semester i have to fork out an extra $200-$300 for text books. this semester was an exception. i pointed out that i only had to buy one book this year. and it cost me $22. the girl i just met says, "i hate you."
well later i find out that i actually have to buy another book. and i have to go to the local "hogi yogi" to buy it. i guess it was by a local printing company who wanted a location closer to campus. so i go to the hogi yogi and find the lady with a booth set up next to the donuts. the book cost me $18. i point this out to a friend on AIM and she tells me that i suck.
later in the week i was at work talking with a co-worker. he was going on and on about how tough his work load is. he gets up at 5:30 am to train with the ROTC and has classes until noon, then comes to work all afternoon and so on. and he is right. his work load sucks. i have
three legitimate classes (ice hockey barely counts as a class). two of them have the same teacher. this teacher has yet to even lecture in either of the classes. the first day we went over the syllabus and got out early. the second day he was at a conference so no class then. and yesterday he took our pictures so he can learn our names. since he took pictures alphabetically, i got to leave in the first 10 minutes of both classes. and my other class is run by an old quack who loves busy work and thinks lectures should include as much inspirational, life-changing material as actual pertinent material. my co-worker hates me too.
then there is the house. i cant tell you how many people are jealous of our new house. i dont usually brag, but we got really luck on this one. we have two full size fridges, stadium seating (three couches and a lazy-boy), comcast (8Megs split five ways for the internet), two full surround sound systems, washer, dryer, dishwasher, home-made ice cream maker, bbq, private parking lot, 30 gallon turtle tank (they love it bytheway), what else... oh ya, it is NOT the villa!
let the hate mail commence.
this is a quick post to let everyone know that the new jet li movie "fearless" is awsome. i dont want to talk to much about it and spoil it. but it is very well done. plenty of great fight scenes, but not so many that i would warn the squimish from watching it. and it has a good moral.
so last weekend some friends and i went about two hours south and went 4-wheeling. we had two atv's (pretty nice one's i might add). from this trip i realized two things. first, i am getting one...eventually. second, it will have a 100-foot tow rope.
moydie was driving an atv with a girl who had never been on one before. just prior to their leaving i pointed out a really cool ridge by a dam to moydie. so naturally he wanted to go see. so off they went and on the other side of the dam they found a dried up resevoir. there was no visible water anywhere. so moydie started to cross the patch of mud where the water had once been. the mud patch was about 100 feet in diameter. about half way, moydie thought that he might be going too fast for the first-timer girl. so he slowed down. and sank. to the fenders.
so i drive around the mud a bit to see how close i can get with out sinking the other atv. after nearly losing my shoes, and ruining my pants i determine that we cant get my atv close enough for the tow rope on the stuck atv. this has to be the thickest mud i have ever seen. the top was a rock hard shell about 8 inches thick, below which was about the thickest, most grimy mud you can imagine for about 2 feet. so we go back to the cars and collect all of the rope and tie down cables and bungie cords we can find. it is just barely long enough to link the atv's together. so i rev up the atv and go and go and rev it some more and SNAP! we almost get cut in half by the tie down cables which have ripped in half and shot in opposite directions. i cant say i was surprised, but it was worth a shot.
they came back with shovel, plywood, a few lengths of some very heavy chain, and a 100-foot cable twice the thickness of the tow rope. so moydie and his dad crawl out to the atv and we toss them the shovels and the plywood. we attach the cables and chains together and i rev up the other atv. the only problem now is that the atv is so stuck that my front end comes up and almost flips the atv on top of me. so we get everyone who isnt in the middle of the mud puddle and put them on my atv. that was enough weight to keep my atv on the ground and get the other atv out of the mud.
recently i have noticed more and more people who dont like me. some have gone so far as to say they hate me. i am going to relay some of the more recent scenarios so you can see what i mean.
in the conversation. they were talking about buying books for their classes. usually at the beginning of each semester i have to fork out an extra $200-$300 for text books. this semester was an exception. i pointed out that i only had to buy one book this year. and it cost me $22. the girl i just met says, "i hate you."
well later i find out that i actually have to buy another book. and i have to go to the local "hogi yogi" to buy it. i guess it was by a local printing company who wanted a location closer to campus. so i go to the hogi yogi and find the lady with a booth set up next to the donuts. the book cost me $18. i point this out to a friend on AIM and she tells me that i suck.
three legitimate classes (ice hockey barely counts as a class). two of them have the same teacher. this teacher has yet to even lecture in either of the classes. the first day we went over the syllabus and got out early. the second day he was at a conference so no class then. and yesterday he took our pictures so he can learn our names. since he took pictures alphabetically, i got to leave in the first 10 minutes of both classes. and my other class is run by an old quack who loves busy work and thinks lectures should include as much inspirational, life-changing material as actual pertinent material. my co-worker hates me too.
then there is the house. i cant tell you how many people are jealous of our new house. i dont usually brag, but we got really luck on this one. we have two full size fridges, stadium seating (three couches and a lazy-boy), comcast (8Megs split five ways for the internet), two full surround sound systems, washer, dryer, dishwasher, home-made ice cream maker, bbq, private parking lot, 30 gallon turtle tank (they love it bytheway), what else... oh ya, it is NOT the villa!
