In other news, I couldn't but help get a sinking feeling when I realized that the Engineering Student Council president doesn't know what the FE exam is. Yikes.
I realized today that classes have started back up. May kind of disappeared on me! Anyway, sometime this week I have to sit down with Dr. Leonard and Shalana to figure out exactly what I'm doing for my honors thesis thingy. Apparently there's some money available if we work on ECLSS, but I'm not sure what we have to do to get it.
You know, if I was leader of Iran or Saudi Arabia or pretty much any other country in the world, I'd be having kittens right now. A nation that has just attacked another soverign nation without provocation - a nation that is openly looking to pick another fight with someone, anyone - has just announced that it wants to lift a 10-year ban on nuclear arms research.
How is it that this doesn't strike the American people as wrong? I must be missing something.
Oh the blinding stupidity of it all. *sigh* If I've ranted once, I've ranted a thousand times, so I'm just not going to say anything this time. Read it and weep.
Last week when I found out that Josh was leaving, I gave my boss Jackie's resume. I talked to a couple people here and Jackie came in this morning for an interview. He's got a job here at QORE if he wants it. Should be interesting. ;-)
And no, I did NOT literally punch Jeff in the stomach! That was my sister. *grin*
Thanks (and Happy Birthday!) to Greg for hosting an impromptu eclipse party last night. Not only were we able to view the eclipse through his telescope, but we all got to taste elk roast for the first time. Yes, elk. It was good too.
Theoretically my sister is now on her way to Huntsville. She was running about an hour late when last I talked to her, but I assume she's left by now. I don't really have any plans for the weekend, except maybe to go see a movie with everyone tomorrow. The rest of the time is kind of up in the air at the moment. Hopefully she won't be too bored by my decidedly unexciting lifestyle. ;-)
*giggle* Look! It's me! Well...okay, not really, but the comic's funny anyway. I'm not angry, I'm just a little jumpy. On edge. It's just one of those mood-swing kind of days. If I had a tail, it'd be twitching.
As of yesterday I have been working at QORE for a year. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. ;-) At least it's a job, and honestly not a bad one. Funny how time flies - it sure doesn't seem like a year has gone by.
I was looking through my old Geocities sketches page and I realized that I haven't posted anything new since 2001. Yegads, but those things are old. I started thinking that I should throw some new stuff up there, since I'd like to think I've improved at least a little. *looks pained* Then I realized that I haven't actually finished a single drawing since June of 2001. *blink* That's just sad, people. I've started on a few drawings over the last two years, mostly just to study something I have trouble with, but I either lost interest or just never had the time to finish them. Even last summer when I wasn't taking classes I hardly ever picked up my sketchbook.
Drawing is like dance. It's something I love to do, even if I'm not particularly good at it. Both are activities I'd like to get back into doing. I feel like I've lost touch over the last few years with lot of the things that make me happy. Why? Well, there's all kinds of reasons I could come up with. They bear a pretty strong resemblance to the reasons I throw up for loosing touch with some of my friends. School, work, too busy, yadda yadda blah blah blah.
I finally have free time again and this summer looks like it's going to be the perfect opportunity to get back into some of those activities. With my foot still messed up, ballet is out for the moment, but I'm also thinking about trying a few new things. I'd like to try bellydancing, and yoga looks like fun. Maybe I could con Jess into taking yoga. ;-)
Same song, second verse, but at least then there was hope that things could change. Now it's pretty much a done deal. Backbone regrowth nearly complete. Maybe one day I'll get to regrow a heart too.
I find it quite irritating that Bush, whose permission to fly was revoked by the military (he was suspended, assigned to a disciplinary unit, and not allowed to fly military assignments again), shows up to congratulate REAL military personnel wearing a flight suit and acting like an equal.
The man skipped out on a year of his National Guard duty! He refused two DIRECT orders to appear for duty, and then he failed to show at the disciplinary unit he was assigned to! He was a mediocre pilot at best and even that he threw away because he refused to take a simple drug test.
He has nothing in common with the troops in Iraq. Nothing. But somehow we watch him greet those men and women in military garb, using their homecoming as a platform for his self-congratulatory speeches, and the only one who has the balls to speak up and say THIS IS WRONG is 85-year old Robert Byrd.
"But I do question the motives of a desk-bound president who assumes the garb of a warrior for the purposes of a speech." And quite right too. There is no justification for Bush's blatant misuse of the Lincoln's homecoming. If you think there is, I'd love to know how you defend your opinion.
Update: Mike sent me this link. The pics are of the area surrounding Tech Hall (the building I've been living in for the past few weeks for those of you who don't go here).
We were supposed to give our canoe presentation to the city ASCE chapter today, but because of the weather we had to cancel it. No one was showing up, we couldn't get the trailer out of the JRC parking lot, and the weather didn't look like it was getting any better. I feel bad for bailing on them, but we just couldn't do it. They've rescheduled us for July, which actually works out better anyway.
In other news, I didn't know Jessica was leaving for THREE WEEKS. I knew she was leaving, but I assumed it was only through the weekend, since she's been talking about working a couple jobs this summer. Somehow three weeks was never mentioned until Jeff told me last night. I wish I had a job that would let me go for three weeks at a time. Of course, it helps that she tapes classes and classes don't start until May 27th, but still....it'd be nice to have a vacation like that.
