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Gained two new members to the family today.

Kevin fostered the kittens first when their momma had them under his porch. He already had four cats and a dog (and 2 birds) so the place was kinda full. Lindsey and I talked about adopting them a few times, she said it was up to me; I told him to bring them to the lab with him.

My car's backseat now smells like cat food, Kevin brought me what was left and it was open. Suicidal MTSU student jumped out in front of me and when I slammed on my brakes it pour all over the place. (it probably would have happened anyways, I wasn't going that fast when it happened)

Got the girls dewormed, distempered, tested negitive for feline leukaemia and FIV.
Silver and Mithril, 8 weeks old.

Just finished washing them with Dawn soap. I held them one at a time and got soaked while Lindsey did the wetting the scrubbing. I probably have a bunch of tiny red spots and scratches, but they were very well behaved.

Wanted to take cute wet kitty pictures, but washing was a 2 person job.

Pictures on the way.

Survived the storms. Had a friend [edit:crash not cash] at my house, his folks house was smashed. House is insured, so far it seems like they're doing fine.

Thought I'd let my family and friends know. If anyone is curious about getting it done, I'm completely comfortable talking about it. It didn't hurt much, recovery was quick and easy.

The last few days my wisdom teeth have been acting up. Quite painfully.
Luckily I still have left over hydrocodine. I only used two of them after the surgery and have already used 6 or so for my tooth.

Its funny how guys act so tough, yet when some of the guys in the lab heard about it, they squirm and talk about how bad it must hurt. Even when I talk about how it doesn't hurt much, they're against it.

They rather have their girlfriends stay on birth control, which can fuck with their body chemistry and has all sorts of side effects. Or risk needing an abortion, or getting pregnant. Having a kid is definitely more painful and dangerous than a quick little out patient procedure.

One last thought, it really fucking annoys me how EVERYONE, including the doctors keep talking about how its a permanent decision. You think? So is having a child, no one forces me to wait until I'm 25 and convince a doctor I won't change my mind for that. And when you tell people you want to have children one day, people don't ask why or say that you will change your mind.

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

However, the reader should be alert to the difference between examples of specific translations, where this convention is used, and generic productions like A -> X1X2,....,XN, where the subscripted X's represent an arbitrary list of grammar symbols, and are not instances of one particular nonterminal called X.

--Textbook for my Compiler class.

I stayed up until 5:30 reading Zodiac by Neal Stephenson. Lindsey woke up about when I finished. You were right Jason, I really enjoyed it. Makes me want to study chemistry more, which is good since it was one of my goals for the summer. Slinky got sick again over the course of the night.

So, I stayed awake to be with her until she left for work, then walked to the store to get him some wet food, which seems to agree with him more. Also milk and apples!

Very tired, if this were a pen it'd look all slanty and messy by now. Goodni

In the past couple of months I have been pretty busy. Went to Canada to visit long missed relatives and see Newfoundland for the first time since I was about three. Passed Calculus II in summer school with a B. Moved in with Lindsey (shes written a little more about that.) And just recently bought a pair of badass skates for my 25th birthday and have been learning to use them better. Between all that and the classes I've been taking, I could write all day, but I just wanted them all mentioned at least.

This fall I am:
    Taking Python, Intro to AI, Advanced Data Structures, Operating Systems, and Intro to Philosophy. I am also working as the lab assistant at the computer science lab, which it turns out involved tutoring the first two c++/general programming classes. (CSCI 1170 and 2170)

Busy Busy Busy, but rewarding.

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Figured out some minorly neat "hackerish" things about webservers from an emailed warning while I was working the helpdesk. Wondering how the full time people will reacte to it on monday. (It got me twiddling around our system, just as a student, not any sort of helpdesk admin) It's amazing what I could get into, Nothing too secure, but neat to see the structure of things. Probably shouldn't say more, might sound worse than it is.
Also, been mentally preparing for the obfuscated C contest and coded a crazy trick in assembly thats mostly just neat from a hey, look what I can do point of view. Maybe I'll post it if I decide I can't use it in the contest.
Sleepy. Almost time for home. Yay late night "hacking" <- old school definition.

I love the ninja feeling of biking with your hands in your pockets, in the dark, hitting an invisible speed-bump, and nailing your one chance to pull your hands out and catch the handle-bars as you're going flying over them.

[18:52] Michael Neal: you know the phrase, "thinking outside of the box"? You refuse to acknowledge the presence of a box.
[18:53] matt.street@gmail.com/Meebo: *grin* thanks, thats high compliment

I finally got a 20/20 on one of my assembly labs. The ones that he grades like a Nazi. And funny thing about this particular lab, half the people in the class were late to getting it finished.

So, I just added LJ chat to my meebo, and now I can post by sending a message to frank the goat. Neat!

Played some great Frisbee about 2:00am with Brad and Jason. Then they went off towards bed, I brainstormed, showered, got inspired while showering. Programmed, needed more time to digest. Watched The Last Starfighter.

Now It's 6:40am, I'll saying good morning to Lindsey soon. (Chatting while she's at work)
Back to programming, it's flowing again.
For me, I think 5% of any real programming is done on the toilet.
Another 10% is in the shower and probably 10% on my bike.

So, maybe this means I can geek out of my own projects, work, or school, and I can still have time to get back into jogging, skating, biking, working out. I like to mix up my workouts, partly because I want to be better at running, but I don't want to blow out my knees.

So I didn't get to see Lindsey at all today. *Sad* Our forth anniversary.
Also, I stayed up working on homework at the Bizlab, ended up getting a couple of hours extra of work because the ITD guy there asked if I minded covering for him. That was yesterday. Now tonight/this morning I was supposed to work from 4:30pm till 8:30 after having classes, I'm still here because my replacement never showed up and I figured I'd get some more hours.

Spring break is on the way. Gonna do some writing, try to get my STA level finished, clean up a little, and then do some casual programming study. I'm pretty caught up and clicking in my 3 comp sci classes, so not alot of worry with that.

Ready for the weekend, really.

Well, the lease is up the end of June. Me and Lindsey plan on moving in together, not sure of the place yet, though Chelsea place is the most likely atm. Theres talk of a moving in party. I'd like to be mostly moved in before I do something like that,

I'm think of putting up a list of stuff we'd like/need for the place. Some of it will probably be kinda pricey for a movein gift, but I'd like people to just let me know if they see a good sale, or one used or at Thirft store, etc.

So far I know we need:
A good carpet Vacuum.
Washer and Dryier
Probably bookshelves, specially full height ones.
Toaster (can't believe I still don't have one)
Good desks, we both need one, but she really does.
Think she's got alot of dishes and stuff coming to her.

I'm kinda uncomfortable when people bring stuff, hell, I don't really know how to accept birthday gifts most times, but beer and chips is always welcomed at a party.

Other thing about moving, I'd really love to find a home for Chirp. There is only so many cats I can take in. He's fixed, had his shots, and a sweetheart. Any help?

I'm becoming aware of how much I'll miss living with Jason, and how impatient I am about moving in with Lindsey.

Getting a little overwhelmed feeling in school. I'm thinking about dropping my American History II class. It's at 8:00am, I'm not great at history, and there is a lot of reading to keep up with. I'll talk to my prof. first. I still have a couple of weeks that I can drop a class and get a W instead of a grade.

Me and Lindsey have been looking into the mechanics of moving in together when my lease is up. She has written about this much more in her journal than mine. Course, I haven't been writing, have I? We're probably going and checking a place out in Smyrna Saturday morning.

We're going to see To Kill a Mockingbird tomorrow, it's for my argumentative writing class. Also in the class, have to do a big research project with another student. We're thinking about something relating to the Kinsey Reports and human sexuality. Taboos and whats considered normal, that kinda thing.

Sigh  I enjoy all of my classes, I just don't have the attention, time and energy for all of them it feels like. I'm still doing pretty good, but I need to be making pretty much all A's.

I need to get to MTSU early, to read a chapter of my Discrete Mathematical Structures for Computer Science book, at the bookstore, because I haven't gotten my copy from amazon yet.
And no, this has nothing to do with the above part.

Told Lindsey over chat that I needed to get out today, some minutes later April called and asked if I wanted to go with her friends to the mall.

Drove up to Nashville with them to the Opery (sp?) Mills Mall. Been wanting a pair of heelys for a very long time. Looked over several, thought about my bank account and bought a pair.
Spent the rest of the excursion learning to "heel". It is fun, and tricky, pretty damn tricky at first.
Never fell. Got okay at it.
Example, couldn't find the same exact stle:
Black and White, size 12.


Soon after I got home, Stranger than Fiction finished downloading.
I cried quite abit at the end.
Hey, I'd rather cry at a moving comedy/drama than a tragedy. It's been a very long time since I had any real sort of cry so maybe it's much easier now (built up?).

There's no doubt in my mind, when it comes to the happiness I've known in the last several years, more credit goes to Lindsey than she'll ever know.

So, lets all hope I don't screw that up, nor break my neck.

Can't sleep, clowns will eat me!

Essence of entropy You're 12% obsessive

You're a little TOO normal, aren't you? It wouldn't be a surprise if you tend to overlook a lot of details in daily events, simply trusting your instincts. The upside of this is that you see the big picture more than most people ever will. The downside is you probably lose a lot of time going over things repeatedly. Did you know that buses have route numbers on the front, and sometimes route names? That'll save you a few hours right there when you go bouncing around the city.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on Obsession

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The Dork You scored 48 anxiety, 67 awkwardness, and 32 neuroticism!

You aren't particularly anxious, and you don't count things--but you do notice sometimes that you don't exactly fit in. Polite people would call you an eccentric, but you truly are The Dork! And proud. Just because you feel a little awkward at parties doesn't mean you're not happy with yourself and fairly relaxed. Your low anxiety score implies that you are able to relax, can enjoy the here and now, and have a healthy amount of self-confidence. Your high awkwardness score implies that you are socially inept, probably stick out from the crowd, and perhaps feel uncomfortable in large groups of people, such as at parties. Your low neuroticism score implies that you don't exhibit subtle neurotic behaviors--your nails are probably an acceptable length, your pencils aren't covered with bite marks, and your bookcase isn't arranged alphabetically by genre. Congrats! __ See the other results! Well-Adjusted The Neat Freak The Dork The Geek Phobic Obsessive-Compulsive The Subtle Neurotic The True Neurotic

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on anxiety You scored higher than 99% on awkwardness You scored higher than 99% on neuroticism

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