Current Mood: behind
MAN school caught up with me quick.
I'll spare you all the play-by-play of each day, but here's the summary:
MA 266 (differential equations) - again
AAE 301 (signals and systems analysis)
AAE 352 (structures II)
AAE 352 lab
CGT 226 (computer modeling - part modeling and advanced surface design)
13 credit hours.
Same old, same old, really. Difficult classes, I feel like I'm in over my head, the math involved blows my mind. I feel really...sluggish getting used to the routine, the workload, etc. Not crazy about trying to pass DE again, but what am I gonna do? Worried about student loans. Of course it wouldn't be a semester at Purdue for Ryan without problems with scheduling, registration, and student loan acceptance. a;sljdf;aljdf
On a scale of 1-1o, with 1 being Ferris Bueller's Day Off and 10 being Alexander's Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day, my schedule looks like:
Monday: 6
Tuesday: 4
Wednesday: 9 (5 classes spanning 7:30am to 5:30pm)
Thursday: 2
Friday: 7
A lot of my aero professors are downright crazy, but it's balanced by a generous amount of oh my god these guys are so smart. I also regret letting all my knowledge of CATIA atrophy over several years since CGT 163.
New apartment is nice, even though I kinda hate trekking up Chauncey Hill. Especially 3x a week at 7 in the morning. I am not used to early classes like this!
Improv is good. I've already seen a lot of familiar old faces, and it looks like we've got a good recruiting class, which couldn't come at a better time for us.
Several job fairs are coming up next week and I suppose it's high time for me to buckle down and try to seriously get myself out there and find some sort of internship for next year. If nothing else I do not want to work for university residences again (not that it is a bad job, I just don't think I can do it again). Side thought...the longest I've had any job so far was about 3 years and each time I started to get pretty stir crazy. I hope that if/when I get into my preferred "field"I will be more content and won't feel the need to jump around so much.
Lastly, Andy Ober gave Jenny and I some last minute freebies to go see another preseason game - Bengals @ Colts a week ago. So we got to see Lucas Oil Stadium up close and personal, and the Bengals won (something I am worried about not celebrating a lot in the coming months). That said, my new favorite Bengal is Corey Lynch - not just because he makes a great impact on our D, but he's also a rookie from Appalachian State. Which means he was part of the David team that brought down Michigan last year at the Big House, apparently starting a tradition.
:D Football season!
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9.04.2008
7.19.2008
on the verge
Current Mood: pensive
Somehow this wacky work schedule that I have opened up for a bit this month, and I just got back a few days ago from a whole week home, and I have to say it was one of the best visits home I can remember. Some highlights:
Got to hang out with Jared (one of Sis's college friends). Went swimming a lot. Burned myself lighting some rockass fireworks that we bought from a shady guy. Ate me some Gold Star chili. Visited Sis and Bradley's church and got to see what that was like - and hear Sis read one of her poems. Ate some of Dad's grill cookin'. Heard from an old friend that I kinda had fallen out of contact with. Gave some presents, got some presents like Bradley's old TV tuner card and a Carson Palmer jersey for my upcoming trip to Green Bay. Saw my Grandma's new apartment and learned some stuff about my grandparents. Rode a bike into a pool. Watched some great new movies. Went to a waterpark with some of my family courtesy of a family friend- and got my first sunburn. I ate downtown and tried sushi for the first time.
It was kinda like a whole summer break of fun compressed into a whole week. Awesome.
One other thing I got to do, which I'm setting aside as a special mention, was go target shooting with Mom and her fiancee Scott.
I've got "learn basic marksmanship" on my LoTtDBID. Previously, I've gone to the callout of the Purdue Rifle and Pistol Club and fired some handguns, I'd taken potshots at turtles with some small .22 rifles at Ronnie's house (waaaay back in the day), and fired some rifles and pistols with Kamikaze last summer. Still, I've never considered any of those any formal test of my ability, which is why I was excited to get to go target shooting. Up until that day the best I would say was that I'd messed around with some weapons but nothing more.
We went to the Elk Creek Hunt Club, a national target shooting circuit stop in Kentucky. I shot 12 and 20 gauge shotguns at small clay targets that were launched into the air by a mechanical thrower. I've never fired a shotgun before, never at a moving target, never at clay targets, and was using unfamiliar guns at a strange course - and I think I did pretty well.
Scott gave me a quick tutorial, and from there I shot four times at each of the 14 stations (for a total of 56 rounds, instead of the standard 100, to save money). The target shooting reminded me very much of Duck Hunt or similar games (which I suppose is the point) - except that it was much harder, and the targets moved with much more variety. For example, some arced down from over my right shoulder, some pairs criss-crossed, others rolled across the ground (called "rabbits"). I would guess that being good at shooting video games is a crossover skill to target shooting? I also learned the scoring system, the etiquette for being the thrower, and s'more gun safety. I ended up with a 54% accuracy over the entire course, with my best station being 4 of 4, and my worst 1 for 4.
I'm now a bit more confident that I can handle a gun, should the unthinkable happen.
And while I was home I really missed doing improv. It's been a long while since I've felt that...
Somehow this wacky work schedule that I have opened up for a bit this month, and I just got back a few days ago from a whole week home, and I have to say it was one of the best visits home I can remember. Some highlights:
Got to hang out with Jared (one of Sis's college friends). Went swimming a lot. Burned myself lighting some rockass fireworks that we bought from a shady guy. Ate me some Gold Star chili. Visited Sis and Bradley's church and got to see what that was like - and hear Sis read one of her poems. Ate some of Dad's grill cookin'. Heard from an old friend that I kinda had fallen out of contact with. Gave some presents, got some presents like Bradley's old TV tuner card and a Carson Palmer jersey for my upcoming trip to Green Bay. Saw my Grandma's new apartment and learned some stuff about my grandparents. Rode a bike into a pool. Watched some great new movies. Went to a waterpark with some of my family courtesy of a family friend- and got my first sunburn. I ate downtown and tried sushi for the first time.
It was kinda like a whole summer break of fun compressed into a whole week. Awesome.
One other thing I got to do, which I'm setting aside as a special mention, was go target shooting with Mom and her fiancee Scott.
I've got "learn basic marksmanship" on my LoTtDBID. Previously, I've gone to the callout of the Purdue Rifle and Pistol Club and fired some handguns, I'd taken potshots at turtles with some small .22 rifles at Ronnie's house (waaaay back in the day), and fired some rifles and pistols with Kamikaze last summer. Still, I've never considered any of those any formal test of my ability, which is why I was excited to get to go target shooting. Up until that day the best I would say was that I'd messed around with some weapons but nothing more.
We went to the Elk Creek Hunt Club, a national target shooting circuit stop in Kentucky. I shot 12 and 20 gauge shotguns at small clay targets that were launched into the air by a mechanical thrower. I've never fired a shotgun before, never at a moving target, never at clay targets, and was using unfamiliar guns at a strange course - and I think I did pretty well.
Scott gave me a quick tutorial, and from there I shot four times at each of the 14 stations (for a total of 56 rounds, instead of the standard 100, to save money). The target shooting reminded me very much of Duck Hunt or similar games (which I suppose is the point) - except that it was much harder, and the targets moved with much more variety. For example, some arced down from over my right shoulder, some pairs criss-crossed, others rolled across the ground (called "rabbits"). I would guess that being good at shooting video games is a crossover skill to target shooting? I also learned the scoring system, the etiquette for being the thrower, and s'more gun safety. I ended up with a 54% accuracy over the entire course, with my best station being 4 of 4, and my worst 1 for 4.
I'm now a bit more confident that I can handle a gun, should the unthinkable happen.
And while I was home I really missed doing improv. It's been a long while since I've felt that...
12.12.2007
paper towel oculardystrophy
Current Mood: awaaaake
I found this to be particularly humorous.
Also, THIS JUST IN -
Led Zeppelin: still awesome. Probably better than most bands ever will be.
For some other perspective, think of this:
I consider Led Zeppelin to be the greatest rock band, ever. They broke up in 1980 (6 years before I was born) because of the death of their drummer (John Bonham). The tribute concert they played at featured drums played by his son, Jason Bonham. Jason is 41 years old. That's a year older than my father.
I found this to be particularly humorous.
Also, THIS JUST IN -
Led Zeppelin: still awesome. Probably better than most bands ever will be.
For some other perspective, think of this:
I consider Led Zeppelin to be the greatest rock band, ever. They broke up in 1980 (6 years before I was born) because of the death of their drummer (John Bonham). The tribute concert they played at featured drums played by his son, Jason Bonham. Jason is 41 years old. That's a year older than my father.
10.15.2007
Folk Hero
Current Mood: impressed
TWO weeks of (almost entirely) football stuff!
Last week:
Oh wow I was so close to starting this with a string of cuss words, you have no idea.
First, the Bengals got manhandled by the Patriots. Yeah, whatever, I already wrote about how I wasn't exactly surprised by it.
Then, this weekend, the game I was totally pumped for - the Purdue/OSU game - was a bust. Okay, I went and had a great time, had pretty good seats with Future Roommates Greg and Chad, and even ended up sitting in front of fellow OSU fan Jamie. But our much touted #1-in-the-Big-Ten offense, averaging 40+ points per game, QB with about 16 TDs and only a few picks, outscoring opponents in the first half something like 100-3, 5-0 with consecutive 300+ yards of offense games - DIDN'T FUCKING SHOW UP against OSU. Now, like the Patriots in the MNF game, OSU really was favored to win. They were ranked in the top 5, we'd just barely sneaked into the top 25 at 23. It wasn't a shock or anything, and I wasn't really upset that we lost (I still want OSU to do well), but we didn't score anything - none points - until the last few minutes of the game against their second string. It was retarded. Our defense was actually trying to keep us in the game (wtf?) but kept coming up with turnovers in their redzone...not exactly the best field position, especially when Painter looked to only have about 30 yards per drive in him. The punting - a school record 12 times - was abysmal. Looked like we had some sort of punting palsy. I always feel like blaming the officials is such a "losers" comment, but there were a few calls I didn't care for. Even the halftime show was disappointing because they played to the wrong side of the field! At least our student section looked decent. Pretty much everybody wore black. Instead of being a Debbie Downer about OSU, I will really hope we beat Michigan this week because I hate them. Not only would they lose, we'd get back to the Ws (and be bowl eligible). A win-win, or "doublewin", if you will.
So I put away my fan towel and Boiler helmet and prepared for the Packers to roll over the injury ridden Bears on Sunday night. Not so. After a stunning first half (Brett had a QB rating over 130, over 150 yards of offense, a Green Bay running game that came from NOWHERE - 64 yards opening drive when the season average/game was about 50), the Packers gave up a 10 point lead slowly in the back half, like a dying animal. I mean, they were hemorrhaging plays and Brett ended up getting the all time interceptions record.
I went into this week's Monday Night Football hoping that 1 of 4 games would be a win, and that my boy Tony Romo wouldn't disappoint. The Cowboys were 4-0, were favored by everybody to stomp on the Bills, and the Cowboys D were giving up less points each week. Hell, Romo had 300+ yards in every game and only thrown 3 interceptions.
Yet, surprisingly, the Bills were nothing if not tenacious. After waiting 13 years to be on MNF, they were at the very least keeping pace with the Cowboys, at times looking like the stronger team. Romo was intercepted twice on his first two pass attempts. He would later fumble, and then be picked off Three. More. Times. The only reason I skipped the cussing at the onset of this post was because of two things:
1. Excellent (and I do mean excellent) play calling, coaching, clock management on the part of the Cowboys coaches in the last few minutes of the game
2. Mostly because of their kicker Nick Folk, who made not one but two career-length field goals in literally the last few seconds of the game.
Considering what a by-the-book blowout this was supposed to be, it was a strangely entertaining and exciting football game for Monday night, and I'm really happy Dallas came away with the win, despite Tony Romo's 5 attempts to be Brett Favre. This would set us up for an excellent matchup of the undefeated Patriots vs. the (barely) undefeated Cowboys the next week on Sunday.
Drew Brees...c'mon buddy. Give Purdue something to be proud of!
The last minute heroics even kept me from being upset over my fantasy football loss to Jenny by less than 3 points, leaving me tied for 4th with her at 2-3.
Oh, and the Yankees were forced out of the playoffs (by the Indians, for the record, but it could've been by the country of Poland, for all I care). Awesome.
This week:
Purdue lost to Michigan 48-21 in what is nicely called a blowout. Can't say I'm surprised (sounding like a trend yet?), but I'm wondering what I can do to fix this feeling. Like, can Purdue have a shitty season opener and then surprise everybody by winning their last 8 games? I'm sick of "settling" for bowl games. Yeah, 8 bowls in 9 years is nice, but I'm sick of being consistently below the top tier Big Ten teams like OSU, Michigan, Wisconsin. Fuck, even our Bucket game vs. IU is no longer looking safe. Eh, at least maybe this "crazy year of college football" (crazy in that the BCS keeps changing, and top teams keep falling in upsets) means we have a chance - heads down, work hard, and let the chips fall where they will. For my money, I still contend that Appalachian State's victory over Michigan was a greater upset than Stanford over (then) #2 USC because Stanford is at least in the same division, even if they are considered perennial floor mats in their conference (I don't care about your 40 point difference). Besides, even if Michigan lost to Oregon the week after Ap. St., they certainly turned their shit around, much to Purdue's dismay.
It feels odd that college football is about half over. And the NFL?
Bengals lost again 27-20 to the lower-middle-class Kansas City Chiefs. I try not to really put much stock in historical trends, but the Bengals have apparently been pretty good off the bye week - not that it made any fucking difference this year. T.J. had a great game (good for my fantasy team), but Carson Palmer has been intercepted twice each of his past four games. We have other receivers, but the QB needs to get it done. That, and our entire defense.
Green Bay had a slugfest with "that other indian team" (Jenny and I kept confusing the Chiefs who played the Bengals with the Redskins who went up against the Pack), coming away with a 17-14 win. Favre is officially the NFL's most intercepted QB, but that happens when you play forever, moreso as a gutsy gunslinger which I truly think he is. Key play was Woodson's interception for a TD.
THE SAINTS FINALLY WON over the Seattle Seahawks, 28-17 on Sunday night. That is such an important event that it gets an entire sentence hyperlinked. Reggie Bush was dynamite (again, yay fantasy football) and Brees showed everbody what Purdue does...well, not "best", but "acceptably", and it's about damn time, too. Seahawks didn't play so hot to be sure, but the Saints are no longer winless (something the poor Dolphins won't change against the Patriots next week - owww).
The only other game I cared to watch this weekend was the Clash of the Unbeatens - Patriots vs. Cowboys. Now, it should definitely be noted that Tony Romo was awesome and threw for only one interception, but it wasn't enough to win. Cowboys lost to who are quickly becoming the Yankees of the NFL, the Patriots, 48-27. Not much to say here...Cowboys led for a bit in the third, but Tom Brady is breaking records like "6 consecutive games with at least 3 TDs" and other stuff like that. All the Patriots at the post-press-conference act all humble and act like they have not played well, but it's pretty hard to believe them. Now I place my best hopes that they'll be defeated by things like injuries, the other two thirds of the season, and the Indianapolis Colts in a few weeks.
Wrapping things up, I think I'm starting to get the hang of this fantasy football thing. I don't want to be accused of hubris (especially against a league half filled with people who aren't really paying much attention to their teams), but I had a decisive victory this week. It was 123.6 to about 43 vs. the Zombies - I say "about" because the only player on either team playing is Eli Manning, still gaining a few meager points as he wraps up a win against the Falcons as I type on Monday Night Football. Unless Manning somehow breaks football as we know it and scores 80 fantasy points in the next 10 minutes, I've got this one wrapped up ("you gotta lock that down"). I'm now tied for 2nd place at .500 (I'm so excited to be so...mediocre? I guess .500 is bigger in football than, say, on a test), and we're about halfway through the regular fantasy season. I'm already excited for next year's draft!
Finally, as a special treat anybody who has read this far, or had the presence of mind to skip to the end for the summary, please watch this video around 1:25.
TWO weeks of (almost entirely) football stuff!
Last week:
Oh wow I was so close to starting this with a string of cuss words, you have no idea.
First, the Bengals got manhandled by the Patriots. Yeah, whatever, I already wrote about how I wasn't exactly surprised by it.
Then, this weekend, the game I was totally pumped for - the Purdue/OSU game - was a bust. Okay, I went and had a great time, had pretty good seats with Future Roommates Greg and Chad, and even ended up sitting in front of fellow OSU fan Jamie. But our much touted #1-in-the-Big-Ten offense, averaging 40+ points per game, QB with about 16 TDs and only a few picks, outscoring opponents in the first half something like 100-3, 5-0 with consecutive 300+ yards of offense games - DIDN'T FUCKING SHOW UP against OSU. Now, like the Patriots in the MNF game, OSU really was favored to win. They were ranked in the top 5, we'd just barely sneaked into the top 25 at 23. It wasn't a shock or anything, and I wasn't really upset that we lost (I still want OSU to do well), but we didn't score anything - none points - until the last few minutes of the game against their second string. It was retarded. Our defense was actually trying to keep us in the game (wtf?) but kept coming up with turnovers in their redzone...not exactly the best field position, especially when Painter looked to only have about 30 yards per drive in him. The punting - a school record 12 times - was abysmal. Looked like we had some sort of punting palsy. I always feel like blaming the officials is such a "losers" comment, but there were a few calls I didn't care for. Even the halftime show was disappointing because they played to the wrong side of the field! At least our student section looked decent. Pretty much everybody wore black. Instead of being a Debbie Downer about OSU, I will really hope we beat Michigan this week because I hate them. Not only would they lose, we'd get back to the Ws (and be bowl eligible). A win-win, or "doublewin", if you will.
So I put away my fan towel and Boiler helmet and prepared for the Packers to roll over the injury ridden Bears on Sunday night. Not so. After a stunning first half (Brett had a QB rating over 130, over 150 yards of offense, a Green Bay running game that came from NOWHERE - 64 yards opening drive when the season average/game was about 50), the Packers gave up a 10 point lead slowly in the back half, like a dying animal. I mean, they were hemorrhaging plays and Brett ended up getting the all time interceptions record.
I went into this week's Monday Night Football hoping that 1 of 4 games would be a win, and that my boy Tony Romo wouldn't disappoint. The Cowboys were 4-0, were favored by everybody to stomp on the Bills, and the Cowboys D were giving up less points each week. Hell, Romo had 300+ yards in every game and only thrown 3 interceptions.
Yet, surprisingly, the Bills were nothing if not tenacious. After waiting 13 years to be on MNF, they were at the very least keeping pace with the Cowboys, at times looking like the stronger team. Romo was intercepted twice on his first two pass attempts. He would later fumble, and then be picked off Three. More. Times. The only reason I skipped the cussing at the onset of this post was because of two things:
1. Excellent (and I do mean excellent) play calling, coaching, clock management on the part of the Cowboys coaches in the last few minutes of the game
2. Mostly because of their kicker Nick Folk, who made not one but two career-length field goals in literally the last few seconds of the game.
Considering what a by-the-book blowout this was supposed to be, it was a strangely entertaining and exciting football game for Monday night, and I'm really happy Dallas came away with the win, despite Tony Romo's 5 attempts to be Brett Favre. This would set us up for an excellent matchup of the undefeated Patriots vs. the (barely) undefeated Cowboys the next week on Sunday.
Drew Brees...c'mon buddy. Give Purdue something to be proud of!
The last minute heroics even kept me from being upset over my fantasy football loss to Jenny by less than 3 points, leaving me tied for 4th with her at 2-3.
Oh, and the Yankees were forced out of the playoffs (by the Indians, for the record, but it could've been by the country of Poland, for all I care). Awesome.
This week:
Purdue lost to Michigan 48-21 in what is nicely called a blowout. Can't say I'm surprised (sounding like a trend yet?), but I'm wondering what I can do to fix this feeling. Like, can Purdue have a shitty season opener and then surprise everybody by winning their last 8 games? I'm sick of "settling" for bowl games. Yeah, 8 bowls in 9 years is nice, but I'm sick of being consistently below the top tier Big Ten teams like OSU, Michigan, Wisconsin. Fuck, even our Bucket game vs. IU is no longer looking safe. Eh, at least maybe this "crazy year of college football" (crazy in that the BCS keeps changing, and top teams keep falling in upsets) means we have a chance - heads down, work hard, and let the chips fall where they will. For my money, I still contend that Appalachian State's victory over Michigan was a greater upset than Stanford over (then) #2 USC because Stanford is at least in the same division, even if they are considered perennial floor mats in their conference (I don't care about your 40 point difference). Besides, even if Michigan lost to Oregon the week after Ap. St., they certainly turned their shit around, much to Purdue's dismay.
It feels odd that college football is about half over. And the NFL?
Bengals lost again 27-20 to the lower-middle-class Kansas City Chiefs. I try not to really put much stock in historical trends, but the Bengals have apparently been pretty good off the bye week - not that it made any fucking difference this year. T.J. had a great game (good for my fantasy team), but Carson Palmer has been intercepted twice each of his past four games. We have other receivers, but the QB needs to get it done. That, and our entire defense.
Green Bay had a slugfest with "that other indian team" (Jenny and I kept confusing the Chiefs who played the Bengals with the Redskins who went up against the Pack), coming away with a 17-14 win. Favre is officially the NFL's most intercepted QB, but that happens when you play forever, moreso as a gutsy gunslinger which I truly think he is. Key play was Woodson's interception for a TD.
THE SAINTS FINALLY WON over the Seattle Seahawks, 28-17 on Sunday night. That is such an important event that it gets an entire sentence hyperlinked. Reggie Bush was dynamite (again, yay fantasy football) and Brees showed everbody what Purdue does...well, not "best", but "acceptably", and it's about damn time, too. Seahawks didn't play so hot to be sure, but the Saints are no longer winless (something the poor Dolphins won't change against the Patriots next week - owww).
The only other game I cared to watch this weekend was the Clash of the Unbeatens - Patriots vs. Cowboys. Now, it should definitely be noted that Tony Romo was awesome and threw for only one interception, but it wasn't enough to win. Cowboys lost to who are quickly becoming the Yankees of the NFL, the Patriots, 48-27. Not much to say here...Cowboys led for a bit in the third, but Tom Brady is breaking records like "6 consecutive games with at least 3 TDs" and other stuff like that. All the Patriots at the post-press-conference act all humble and act like they have not played well, but it's pretty hard to believe them. Now I place my best hopes that they'll be defeated by things like injuries, the other two thirds of the season, and the Indianapolis Colts in a few weeks.
Wrapping things up, I think I'm starting to get the hang of this fantasy football thing. I don't want to be accused of hubris (especially against a league half filled with people who aren't really paying much attention to their teams), but I had a decisive victory this week. It was 123.6 to about 43 vs. the Zombies - I say "about" because the only player on either team playing is Eli Manning, still gaining a few meager points as he wraps up a win against the Falcons as I type on Monday Night Football. Unless Manning somehow breaks football as we know it and scores 80 fantasy points in the next 10 minutes, I've got this one wrapped up ("you gotta lock that down"). I'm now tied for 2nd place at .500 (I'm so excited to be so...mediocre? I guess .500 is bigger in football than, say, on a test), and we're about halfway through the regular fantasy season. I'm already excited for next year's draft!
Finally, as a special treat anybody who has read this far, or had the presence of mind to skip to the end for the summary, please watch this video around 1:25.
10.04.2007
alternate income
Current Mood: awe
The following is a very R-rated trailer for the upcoming film John Rambo (set to release in January). It looks like the "Batman Begins" of the Rambo series. Awesome.
As the guys at Cracked.com put it, I love the part "where Rambo starts decapitating people and turning entire human bodies into hamburger meat".
The following is a very R-rated trailer for the upcoming film John Rambo (set to release in January). It looks like the "Batman Begins" of the Rambo series. Awesome.
As the guys at Cracked.com put it, I love the part "where Rambo starts decapitating people and turning entire human bodies into hamburger meat".
9.29.2007
powdered fruit
Current Mood: groggy
Hey everybody. I don't solicit reader action often, and there's probably some overlap between blogs anyway, but if you could take a moment to click over here and help out Current Roommate Alex, we'd both be grateful. Popular Science magazine came to Purdue the other day and asked students to make videos about why they should get 5,000 dollars (as part of their "Pimp My Dorm" contest). CRA has been dying to go to Japan since...since I've known him, and he's actually got a shot at winning this.
Speaking of winning, Purdue beat Notre Dame 33 to 19 and we are now 5-0! Next weekend's match up vs. unbeaten OSU should be amazing - I am fired up!!
Hey everybody. I don't solicit reader action often, and there's probably some overlap between blogs anyway, but if you could take a moment to click over here and help out Current Roommate Alex, we'd both be grateful. Popular Science magazine came to Purdue the other day and asked students to make videos about why they should get 5,000 dollars (as part of their "Pimp My Dorm" contest). CRA has been dying to go to Japan since...since I've known him, and he's actually got a shot at winning this.
Speaking of winning, Purdue beat Notre Dame 33 to 19 and we are now 5-0! Next weekend's match up vs. unbeaten OSU should be amazing - I am fired up!!
9.25.2007
to great lengths
Current Mood: very happy!
Hey wow! After a number of failed ventures, fellow Fool Andrew hooked me up with his roommate's unused ticket to the Purdue-OSU game, and for really cheap! Jeeves, ready my black and gold...
Coming up in the next few days:
House M.D. season 4 premiere
The Office season 4 premiere - 1 hour special*
Dexter season 2 premiere
and later
Scrubs final season 7 premiere
Hey wow! After a number of failed ventures, fellow Fool Andrew hooked me up with his roommate's unused ticket to the Purdue-OSU game, and for really cheap! Jeeves, ready my black and gold...
Coming up in the next few days:
House M.D. season 4 premiere
The Office season 4 premiere - 1 hour special*
Dexter season 2 premiere
and later
Scrubs final season 7 premiere
9.20.2007
olympic laundry
Current Mood: regretful
I'm almost afraid that Purdue is going to have a late October meltdown because of record levels of win converging on our campus.
October 26th: Bradley is trekking up here to hang out with me and hear a talk by the Dalai Lama. Later that evening is the Ship of Fools Halloween Extravaganza (Friday night improv, and then our annual party), and I've got a costume that will blow everybody away.
October 27th: Neil fucking Armstrong and at least 14 other Purdue astronaut alumni are coming to Purdue to dedicate the newest engineering building on campus - the $53 million dollar Neil Armstrong Hall. Included is a special NASA presentation the entire weekend.
October 28th: Jenny and I will be celebrating our two year anniversary. Hints have been dropped that part of it will be spent going to see Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman (the hosts of Mythbusters) give a presentation on their favorite myths busted, outtakes, and other science.
October 29th: Monday Night Football with the Green Bay Packers. Sweet.
October 30th: new Avenged Sevenfold album release.
I'm almost afraid that Purdue is going to have a late October meltdown because of record levels of win converging on our campus.
October 26th: Bradley is trekking up here to hang out with me and hear a talk by the Dalai Lama. Later that evening is the Ship of Fools Halloween Extravaganza (Friday night improv, and then our annual party), and I've got a costume that will blow everybody away.
October 27th: Neil fucking Armstrong and at least 14 other Purdue astronaut alumni are coming to Purdue to dedicate the newest engineering building on campus - the $53 million dollar Neil Armstrong Hall. Included is a special NASA presentation the entire weekend.
October 28th: Jenny and I will be celebrating our two year anniversary. Hints have been dropped that part of it will be spent going to see Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman (the hosts of Mythbusters) give a presentation on their favorite myths busted, outtakes, and other science.
October 29th: Monday Night Football with the Green Bay Packers. Sweet.
October 30th: new Avenged Sevenfold album release.
9.06.2007
bring me some pasta!
Current Mood: so happy
This isn't breaking news or anything, but I just heard about it. Deal.
What's better than:
David, Dan, Eric, Jamie - the time for rejoicing is now!
I don't care if it makes the Big Ten conference look like more of joke than it already is, or if it hurts our revenue- the point is that a major team paid a tiny North Carolina team (from a town of 14,000) to come all the way out to "The Big House" (Michigan stadium - seats 100,000 fans), and they didn't take it seriously. Appalachian State has won their I-AA conference two years in a row and played 100% heart all game, including some explosive speed and a clutch blocked field goal at the end.
There are some fans spouting some bullshit that a I-AA team can't "win" over such a big team, that only a top 25 can "lose". As if labeling it that made any difference - the point is that Michigan expected to stomp on them, and it ended up embarrassing them in front of everybody. As an OSU fan, I couldn't be much happier with that.
On top of all of that...
So excited!
*Why the hell do I care about the Boise State Broncos all of the sudden? Two words:
Trick. Plays.
They went undefeated last year (but got screwed out of the championship game because of the rating system). I think they play well, but honestly, I'm rooting for them because they run trick plays more than once a season, like most teams. Reverses, the Statue of Liberty play, fake field goals, you name it. AWESOME.
This isn't breaking news or anything, but I just heard about it. Deal.
What's better than:
- Purdue opening their season with an easy win over Toledo, 52-24 ?
- OSU looking great without their Heisman winner, 38-6 over Youngstown St. ?
- Notre Dame falling to Georgia Tech, 33-3 ?
- Boise State* beating Weber State, 56-7 ?
David, Dan, Eric, Jamie - the time for rejoicing is now!
I don't care if it makes the Big Ten conference look like more of joke than it already is, or if it hurts our revenue- the point is that a major team paid a tiny North Carolina team (from a town of 14,000) to come all the way out to "The Big House" (Michigan stadium - seats 100,000 fans), and they didn't take it seriously. Appalachian State has won their I-AA conference two years in a row and played 100% heart all game, including some explosive speed and a clutch blocked field goal at the end.
There are some fans spouting some bullshit that a I-AA team can't "win" over such a big team, that only a top 25 can "lose". As if labeling it that made any difference - the point is that Michigan expected to stomp on them, and it ended up embarrassing them in front of everybody. As an OSU fan, I couldn't be much happier with that.
On top of all of that...
- Purdue plays Eastern Illinois this weekend for our first home game.
- Tonight, the NFL season kicks off with the Indianapolis Colts (who won the Superbowl last year) vs. the New Orleans Saints. This is especially big for me because everybody 'round here in Indiana is a Colts fan, but Drew Brees (Saints QB) is from Purdue.
- Lastly, this weekend is the first matchup in my fantasy football league. My team, the Lafayette Mustangs take on Bradley's, the Cincinnati Zombies.
So excited!
*Why the hell do I care about the Boise State Broncos all of the sudden? Two words:
Trick. Plays.
They went undefeated last year (but got screwed out of the championship game because of the rating system). I think they play well, but honestly, I'm rooting for them because they run trick plays more than once a season, like most teams. Reverses, the Statue of Liberty play, fake field goals, you name it. AWESOME.
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