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11:45 am
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Re: A goat has been found
I pressed down on this laptop and that was the first fill in thing for the subject. Awesome.
I stayed up until 5:30 talking with Jenneh. That was the best idea ever. I'm sooooo tired ;_;
I get to go program today. Like, I have to go down to the lab and do everything forever for the transmitter board. Making sure my packets are correctly designed is the most important thing. I should probably start grouping things into bytes, but screw it, why?
My partner for artist collab wrote our paper last night. I read over it and it was good. A bit different, but that was because the voice wasn't mine or non-specific. We get to build the JFK assassination scene out of legos. How rad are we? MEGARAD
School is going well, I guess. I'm pretty sure I did poorly on my systems test, but I'd like to think I passed. We'll see tomorrow or Friday, I guess.
I keep forgetting stuff. I should find a better system. Notepads or something. I forgot about engineering week today and that was bad. I forgot about getting rooms for MEK last week and that was also bad. I think I'll go reserve another room today. Maybe our luck will be better next week and we'll get a good room (Senate or Escondito).
Secrat Cospray is going well. We're honestly like halfway done. Holy crap, right? WE'LL NEVER MAKE IT! JUNE IS LIKE IN 2 HOURS!
Anyway, I have find more places on the internet to visit. Maybe bash. It's been a while since I've gone there.
Colby
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01:51 am
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V-day
I've got a busy V-day ahead of me. I've got a paper to write, a program to finish, and to start writing stuff for my next story in nonfiction. I'm thinking of doing an instructional thing about how to build a PC, but adding in alot of humor. It will detail my building of Bertha 2.0 and how i was naked for the whole process. That's right, I did it. Now every time you see her, you'll think of me sitting in my room naked, putting her together.
My most recent paper went over really well, apparently, and that's good. I need to write more, and this is sort of a push in the right direction. I really hope that one day I end up writing every day. How rad would that be to just sit down every day and crank out a short story or a poem (ew) or just some piece of writing that let me hone my skill a little more. It's kind of like nina and beth's tuesday art thing, except mine's way more impossible because my major doesnt let me do anything ever for the rest of time D:
Anyway, I'm going to keep trying and try to make my head stay above water. Here I go!
Colby
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01:28 am
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POSTING IS HARD
New school year, new classes, old friends, cons, woo!
I went to Ikkicon, and apparently, I was a rad House. My costume was pretty sweet. Look on N*'s youtube account for the vid of our skit.
This is mostly a news post. I'll start updating more with thoughts instead of dumb things like this. I'm in the programming mentality now, so it's hard to elaborate on feelings and the like.
COLBY
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11:34 pm
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New Year!
Well, new school year at least. I had my tonsils taken out 2 weeks ago. My voice is pretty much back to normal, but that hydrocodone is starting to do a number on me. I've decreased my dosage to 2 tsps, and that seems to be effective, though last night's hydrocodone induced waking sleep thing produced plots for 2 weeeeeird short stories, both of which will be written when I find time. I have to write one like a valley girl. That'll be interesting.
Tomorrow is the T/Th thing for classes and I'm hoping that project lab goes well. Electronics 2 i'm worried about, but we'll just have to see if Storrs is a good teacher or not. I had him earlier and he kinda sucked, but we'll see. So far Communications looks challenging and film studies would be more fun if I hadn't had been so out of it due to the pain meds. Good thing I found the right dosage, huh? The tutor class should go well, as should discrete. My first homework in discrete is to describe the rules of the Addition Game (aka, how to add) to someone who's never heard of mathematics before. I'm almost done, but it's pretty ridiculous.
Metroid Prime 2 comes out tomorrow, so I'm quite excited about that :D! I've got a three hour lull in classes, so I'll use that time to eat and play the game. Excited is me!
Afest is this weekend. Can't wait. Secret cosplay will be revealed and hopefully well received. I say nobody's going to expect it and guess what? I'm pretty sure I'm right :D
I'll try to post more. Hopefully.
That'd be really ominous if I never posted more again due to a crazy accident in which I become allergic to the internet. You'd better kill me then, cause life without being able to see creepy pictures and talk about nothing for 12 hours isn't really a life at all.
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05:00 pm
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Photo Journal of trip to Denver
Yeah, so this past week was pretty tough for me. As a result, I decided to do some soul searching in Denver. Dunno why. Just seemed like a good place to go. So here's my photo journal of the trip.
( The Trip )
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02:38 am
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Wait, what?
The Imp of Perverse In Action
By: Colby Sites
Hi, my name is Kent and I was taken by the Imp of Perverse. You know, the one from Poe’s story? Yeah, that thing had me.
When I first read Poe’s story, I knew instantly what he was talking about— the little voice in your head that tells you to do things. Like when you’re in a boring class like Calculus and you think to yourself, I wonder what would happen if I punched the professor in the face and left. That voice is what had me.
I didn’t expect it at all. I usually have a great amount of will power. I’ve lost thirty pounds over the course of three months, given up the internet for Lent, and kept my desires at bay in favor of rational thought. Today was different though.
I was at the mall when my whims started to take over. My friend Robbie was inside Hot Topic looking at Nightmare Before Christmas shirts two sizes smaller than what he wears, when I thought to myself, What would happen if I went in there and started reciting quotes from the Bible?
I laughed to myself. They would probably pounce on me or try and strangle me with their chain wallets and spiked belts. I settled into the bench I was seated on and looked around. The second floor of the mall was packed today with more Goths that usual. I hate Goths. Robbie’s an exception since we had been best friends since childhood, but all other Goths I hate. They can’t get a grip on life and see how good they have it. Sometimes it just makes my blood boil.
Like at that instant. The more Goths I saw, the angrier I got, and the louder the Imp was getting. I wandered off down the hall in search of something to distract me from the Goths. Robbie would be a while yet and I needed a release.
I walked down the hallway a ways until I came upon what set me down my path: the Neo-Christian Conservative Hippie store Mother Earth and Christ. I entered the store, just to entertain the Imp.
Hemp shirts and woven sandals were on the shelves I passed until I came to what must have been a sign: a sign advertising bibles for sale. I still don’t know why I shucked out $17.50 for a bible, but I did.
The walk back to Hot Topic was not a comfortable one. I passed Goths left and right, the whole time clutching my Bible. It called out to me. It was a voice. It was the Imp.
I made it to Hot Topic and went inside. Goths surrounded me, engulfed me. I felt like I couldn’t breathe the air of their faux-black souls. Their angsting was deafening, a roar of fake problems that drowned out all sense and reason, except for one.
I climbed a shirt block and opened the tome. Before the cashier’s could lisp anything through their tongue rings, I started.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth; and the earth being without form and empty, and darkness on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moving gently on the face of the waters, then God said, Let light be! And there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good, and God separated between the light and darkness.”
“Thir, you need to geth down from there,” a girl with pink hair, tongue ring, and nametag that said Raven told me.
“He separated the Darkness, that’s you! But you can atone for your sins!” By this point, the Imp had me and was verbing the words out of my mouth. “If you miscreants throw down your arms, your pants that have all kinds of crazy nonsense pockets and ripped up shirts, you can atone! If you men stop wearing make up, and you girls cover up your ugliness a little more, you can all be set free of your sins!”
“Thir, I’m going to athk you one more thime, pleath get off of the block,” Raven said.
“Or, you can put a dollah in my bag!” I said. I placed the bag that the bible came in on the floor. “Come on! The path to salvation is through reform or in your wallets! One of the two will do!”
A timid kid wearing an Audioslave shirt walked up and put a bill in. The Imp didn’t care to see what it was.
“This boy right here has been saved!” I yelled.
“That’s it thir, thecurity ith on their way,” Raven threatened.
I gave her a puzzled look. “By God, I have no idea what you said young lady, but I can assure you, I did not like the tone in which you said it. I’ll be off now!”
She smiled the smug smile of a sneaky snake. “Good, now leave, Pat Robertthon.”
Okay, the Pat Robertson comment was too much.
Before I knew what was happening, the thick tome of the Holy Word was flying at the back of her head. This had been a dream of mine for quite some time, except that the girl would say something smug, turn, then I’d hit her with a toaster. Too bad I didn’t have a toaster, but a Bible worked out nicely.
All of the things I had ever wanted to do became attainable right then and there with the collision of Jesus to pink hair. I grabbed the nearest hot chick and totally made out with her. I then jumped up to the top of another clothes block and ripped the clothes from my body and shouted to the heavens, “I have the power!” But alas, this store was too small to contain my awesomeness. My dreams would have to be fulfilled in the hallway.
I stalked into the hallway and made out with the nearest hot chick. My emotions were running wild, and I thought to put them into a beam, aimed directly at the miscreants from Hot Topic. So, I did.
The Goths came surging through the doors to stop me from making out with another hot chick, or maybe to beat the Christian out of me, but they did not expect what happened next. As they bottlenecked through the door, I gathered all of my emotions into my hand. The emotions made a blue ball of energy and I screamed my battle cry.
“Hadoken!”
That could never happen, ever, unless had something to do with the Imp. Yes, of course, if I give in to my deepest desires, they will come true. A smile spread across my cheeks as I saw the Goths being blasted through the mall walls. My Hadoken worked.
I turned to the crowd that was gathering around me and smiled my wicked smile. They ran.
I moonwalked to the ledge of the second floor. It was only blocked off by a glass barrier that came up to my waist. With a swift kick, it was no more, and I was jumping. I hung suspended in air, almost like time slowed down, before landing on a vendor’s cart. Once the comedic cloud of dust cleared, the scene revealed that hotdogs were coming out of my mouth. I’ve always wanted to try that, ever since the days of Tom and Jerry.
I shook the hotdogs from my face and I looked to my left, where I spied the jewelers. Either they were stupid, or they had not seen what had been transpiring over the past couple of minutes. I walked up to them nonchalantly and said, “Let my try on that ring.”
The lady behind the counter smiled and pulled it out. The ring was placed delicately on my finger. She smiled at me, and I smiled back at her. I smiled at the ring too, especially as I walked out of the store without returning it or paying for it.
By now security had arrived and was waiting to take me down. I sauntered up to the man in blue and said, “Are you going to give me a ticket to the policeman’s ball?”
He laughed. “I’ve heard this one before. Yes, policemen have balls.”
I kicked him in the nuts. “I bet you wish they didn’t now.” Hey, if he wasn’t going to comply with one of my dreams, he may as well comply with another.
There were only two security officers and one was on the ground holding his balls. The other had none. She tried to mace me, but she was quickly disarmed and became hot chick number three to be made out with.
Both of the security guards were disarmed either physically or sexually, so it was time to move on. My dreams awaited, and it was time to make them true.
Screw Robbie, it was dream time. I sprinted through a wall and into the parking lot, leaving a hole the shape of my silhouette in the bricks. I ran to my car and started up the engine by hotwiring it. I ramped the parking lot divider, got on the service road, and ramped the median to get into the correct lane.
My insides felt more alive than ever. All of the things I’ve always wanted to do were now at my fingertips. I could do anything. But first thing was first.
I checked my Calculus syllabus and found my professor’s address. It was a Saturday and he was probably with his wife. But you know what? Screw that, he’s on my time now.
I crashed the car through his living room (yes!) and found him at the dinner table.
“Professor, you need to teach me a lesson now,” I said.
“May I finish my eggs first?” he asked.
I flipped over his plate. Then I flipped over the table for good measure. “Fuck your eggs, we gotta go!”
“’Kay,” he replied.
We hopped back into the car and sped off toward the college. My car was pretty beat up, but we managed to crash it through the front doors to the math building without it exploding. I sprinted downstairs with the professor in tote and kicked down the door to our usual classroom. I put him in the front of the class and I sat in my usual seat.
“Go ahead and lecture,” I instructed.
For twenty-five minutes, I was bored as hell. I lost my will to fulfill. But on the twenty-sixth minute, I remembered why I brought him here.
He was talking about limits as X approaches infinity, and in the middle of it, I stood up. The timing was perfect, as I knew it would be. He turned around to explain his point, and I punched him right in the face and walked out of the room.
One last dream. No doubt the cops were on my tail by now, and I didn’t have much time left. As the door to the room with the punched-professor in it was closing, I said to my victim, “I’ll be in the ballroom if the cops are looking.”
It never made sense to put the theater arts center next to the math building, but today, it was perfect. The big wooden doors were locked.
“By the power of Greyskull!” I yelled to the heavens and ripped the door from its frame.
I ran down the hall. Not much time left. I just hoped I remembered where the ballroom was. I had taken a class in Waltz last semester. I thought it was going to be a class over Walts, like Walt Disney, and other people named Walt. I was disappointed.
I threw the doors open, and there it was— the ballroom. It was a perfect replica of the ballroom from Beauty and the Beast, which made me happy. I climbed a pillar up to the second level and jumped to the chandelier.
I waited.
Some eighteen minutes later, I heard the cops down the hall.
“Okay, on my count, we storm the room and take out this maniac,” the person who I presumed was the captain said. They sure were loud about being secretive.
“3….” I readied my feet.
“2….” A dagger materialized itself in my hand.
“1….” I raised said dagger.
“Go!” I cut the rope.
The chandelier was now swinging toward the door. My strength was sapped. The dagger dematerialized itself as I held on with what little grip I had left in me. The chandelier crashed into the doorway and a mass of police officers.
The impact sent me flying through a wall and into the prop room. I landed in baseball uniforms from Damn Yankees. Not ironic at all, proof that my dreams were not coming true anymore.
“Freeze, you fucking psycho!” one of the non-demolished cops said.
“I can’t move,” I responded.
They were on me in an instant. I was cuffed and thrown into a cop car. I looked out the window and saw my Calculus professor giving me a friendly wave. I would have waved back, but that would have required strength and Houdini skills, neither of which I had anymore.
The Imp had been appeased. He would not be bothering me anymore. The sirens wailed and my insides squealed in delight. My smile said it all— the smile of a man who’s done it all and regretted none of it. I just hope my cell mate isn’t a Goth.
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12:57 pm
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Plans and stuff
Spring break is a few days away, and I'm pretty happy about that. I took a test today, and I know I got one wrong, but hopefully, I won't get much deducted for it. Feh. I've got a test tomorrow in Linear Systems, so imunna study my ass off at MEK tonight and after MEK. I may try to see Tami after MEK for a sec, since I couldn't see her at lunch. Or not. It really depends on how confident I am about my work.
Tami is amazing. Honestly, like she's really really amazing. I have high expectations that usually get defied by the girls I go out with. Y'know what? She's met and broke every one of em. Remember my post on Nov 7th about my cycle? I'm in stage 5, and I don't see myself leaving for quite a while, if ever. I haven't been this full of emotions in a long time. It feels good. I want to be a better person for her, it's weird. I just really really want to make her happy, since she makes me feel amazing without even trying. Good god, I'm in love.
Spring Break is going to be busy. I have to: get my hair cut, get my oil change, see about a job at best buy, see about summer school, edit my myth, do study guide for myth, do study guide for software engineering, try to write a short story, and hang out with everyone ever. So yeah, imunna be busy, but that's cool. I'm taking pictures of all the tech-o's to show Mike and Fe. And pics of Mike and Fe for the tech-o's to see. I'm also hopefully finding a converter to put our movies on my hard drive. My only regret is that we never got Gangs of Darkness on file. God, that was our masterpiece.
EDIT: Scratch that, found one!
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10:33 am
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oh crap, i have an lj, don't i?
Yeah, yeah I do. So, let's review some big news, eh?
These are my grades on my tests in software engineering, linear systems, electronics, and mythology, respectively: 85, 87, 90, 94. Yeah, I put em in ascending order, and what?
So, yeah, I'm doin aight in my hell load. I'm pretty surprised. Then again, my ability to do things is directly proportional to the work I have to do.
Ok, here's the lowdown on my hospital trip. Thursday night at 1, I was in Tami's room (I'll talk about her later), and I sat up to find that my eye started hurting. Right behind my right eye and above it was this crazy pain, I don't know why. I ignored it and went home. Well, it was pretty docile Friday, but I went to my grandma's house, where I lost her house key in a trip to get Tylenol sinus. I went to sleep at 9, and woke up at 3:45. A few minutes later, my eye started hurting again, but this time it was bad. I tried going back to sleep, but it's kinda hard when it feels like a snake is behind your skull trying to gnaw its way out. No, not a regular snake, y'know that huge one from snakes on a plane with those awesome teeth? Yeah, that one. Anyway, it got too much for me. I thought it was a sinus problem and that it needed to be drained immediately or something, so my grandma took me to the emergency clinic. They admitted me to the hospital, and did a cat scan on my head. The doctor told me that it was just a migraine and then shot me full of imitrex. He then gave me a prescription and I was on my way.
So yeah, I've got a new girlfriend, and she's nothing short of amazing. Most anime/vg girls get really boring or annoying after you talk to em for more than 10 minutes, but definitely not tami. She's a pokefag, and a narutard. I hate both of those shows, but it gives me material to make fun of her with, and that's cool. She's hot, and smart, and original, and caring. She sews and knits! WTF! It's crazy! Also, she cooks! Could you get a more awesome woman?! My studies say not! She likes anime, video games, badly dubbed/subbed anime is funny to her. Good god, she's so much like me that we're really compatible, but different in enough ways that I can't predict what she'll do next. That means she's interesting and not something i can control. Good god, she's awesome.
Anyway, I'm gonna take some Advil, put clothes on and get ready for lunch.
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11:10 pm
[Link] | When am I gonna actually update with a real entry? when i get emo, prolly. which, with the way i've been feeling lately, is probably gonna be soon. anyway, here's another survey thing!
(x) stayed single for the whole year
( ) got your first kiss
( ) kissed someone new
( ) made-out for the first time
( ) made-out in a car
( ) made-out on a car
( ) kissed in the snow
(x) celebrated Halloween
( ) kissed in the rain
(?) fell in love
( ) had your heart broken
(?) broke someone else's heart
( ) had a stalker
(?) mooned someone
( ) went over the minutes on your cell phone minutes
(x) had a good relationship with someone (if relationship doesnt have to be a gf)
( ) suffered through teenage heartbreak
(X!XXXXXXX!!!!!!)someone questioned your sexual orientation
( ) gotten married
( ) had a divorce
( ) dated someone you'll never forget
(x) done something you've regretted
( ) lost your true love
( ) lost faith in love
( ) found the faith again
( ) kissed under mistletoe
WORK/SCHOOL
( ) got a promotion
( ) got a pay raise
( ) changed jobs
( ) waited until one day before to begin a project
( ) lost your job
( ) quit your job
( ) dated a co-worker
( ) dated your boss
( ) dated your boss' daughter/son
( ) got fired from your job
(x) took an honors/advanced class
(?) broke the dress code (does wearing a skirt count?
( ) sent to the principles office for misbehavior
(x) Got straight A's
(x) met one teacher you really like
(x) met one/a few teacher you really hated
( ) Failed a class
( ) cut class
( ) skipped school
(x) got into a fight with a classmate
(x) did something you were proud of
(x) discovered a new talent
(x) proved yourself an idiot
(x) embarrassed yourself in front of the class
( ) fell in love with a teacher
(x) intentionally tripped someone at school
( ) got lead in the school play
( ) made a varsity team
(x) were involved in something you'll never forget
OTHER
( ) painted a picture
( ) wrote a poem
(x) ran a mile (if you count up all the times i ran this year, it's prolly a mile)
(x) saw a live concert
( ) shopped at Hollister or Abercrombie and Fitch
( ) posted a blog on MySpace
(x) listened to music you couldn't stand
(x) double-dipped
( ) skinny-dipped
(x) went to a sleepover
(x) went camping
( ) threw a surprise party
(x) laughed till you cried
(x) laughed till you almost peed in your pants
( ) flirted shamelessly
( ) visited a foreign country
(?) broke in a line of waiting people (wtf does this even mean?
(x) volunteered to help out others
( ) visted a new state
(x) told someone you were busy when you weren't
(x) partied to celebrate the new year
(x) cooked a disastrous meal
(x) lost something important to you
(x) lied about how old you were
(x) got a gift you adore
( ) got arrested
(x) prank called someone
(x) saw a college football game in person
( ) involved in a car accident
(?) still in love
( ) wished you died
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01:12 am
[Link] | 1) Was 2006 a good year for you?
i've never had a bad year. just ones that are less good.
2) What was your favorite moment of the year?
so many. meeting my current favorite group of friends at tech would be one. midnight breakfast is a good one too.
3) What was your least favorite moment of the year?
when i was all pissy on my birthday
4) Where were you when 2006 began?
oh crap. umm, justin's house i think. or somewhere else with justin
5) Who were you with?
justin, prolly pete, prolly weston, prolly phillip
6) Where will you be when 2006 ends?
justin's house
7) Who will you be with when 2006 ends?
see 5
8) Did you keep your new years resolution of 2006?
i said i was gonna get a girlfriend, so no
9) Do you have a new years resolution for 2007?
prolly the same one
10) Did you fall in love in 2006?
*sigh* prolly a few times
11) If yes, with who?
can't say :D
12) If yes, do they know?
none do. most people i fall for don't know
13) Are you still in love with them?
maybe...
14) You regret it?
not at all. i regret being this emo and trying to hard to get a girlfriend instead of just letting it happen
15) Did you breakup with anyone in 2006?
nope, did that last december. woo!
16) Did you make any new friends in 2006?
omg, did i
17) Who are your favorite new friends?
miranda, definitely. sesca, rachel, kandace, nicole, and the rest
18) What was your favorite month of 2006?
oh boy, ummm. prolly sometime in march. i just started going to mek and was editing my 2nd novel. and i found alot of amazing friends
19) Did you travel outside of the US in 2006?
sadly, no
20) How many different states did you travel to in 2006?
1- connecticut
21) Did you lose anybody close to you in 2006?
no. but i gained alot of people that are now close to me, so there's more to lose
22) Did you miss anybody in the past year?
prolly
23) What was your favorite movie that you saw in 2006?
ugh, again. Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny, stranger than fiction, talladega nights, clerks 2
24) What was your favorite song from 2006?
you don't want me to make this list, really. i'll just list one. Dragonforce- Fury of the Storm
25) What was your favorite record from 2006?
+44's cd, the new D cd, the raconteurs, and my dragonforce cd
26) How many concerts did you see in 2006?
2- both piano squall
27) Did you have a favorite concert in 2006?
the first piano squall concert. although he did give us bread in the second one
28) Did you drink a lot of alcohol in 2006?
lol, none
29) Did you do a lot of drugs in 2006?
yeah, but they were all OTC or prescribed
30) How many people did you sleep with in 2006?
i never actually went to sleep with another person in my bed this year, but i came close a few times!
31) Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year?
i'm a little regretful that i fell for so many people. but not ashamed, no
33) What was the worst lie someone told you in 2006?
"whatever, i'd fuck a hole in the wall" Sean still hasn't.
34) Did you treat somebody badly in 2006?
probably, i definitely wouldn't doubt it
35) Did somebody treat you badly in 2006?
i don't think anyone did
36) How much money did you spend in 2006?
ps3, wii. come on. i spent my fair share
37) What was your proudest moment of 2006?
4.0's all year, camping for ps3 and wii, making friends with the most amazing people on campus.
38) What was your most embarrassing moment of 2006?
losing an argument over how amazingly gay pokemon is
39) If you could go back in time to any moment of 2006 and change something, what would it be?
i'm pretty happy with how i did things. i'd like to ask some questions, then have that person never remember that i asked it, but other than that, it's all good
40) What are your plans for 2007?
1-do the best i can in college
2-get a girlfriend
3-play video games
4-????
5-PROFIT!
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