anfin’s Blog

On Saturday, I took my usual trip to the computer lab and discovered that it is not open on the weekends. Rats. Clearly, a day without the Internet was unacceptable so I went to the bookstores to use the sample computers. Soon after I arrived, I got a call from Jonathan saying that he and Amy had some soon-to-be-donated household items and that they wondered if I might want some of them to be donated to me. I thought that was a good idea so Rusty and I headed down to Cocoa. I didn’t actually go shopping through their to-donate pile that day. Instead, we ended up playing their Wii for quite some time. For a while it was all three of us playing the Rayman Raving Rabbids game. By the end, it was established that Jonathan was better than us at almost everything, Amy excelled at the music and dancing games, and I could play the football game better than at least Jonathan. Afterwards, Jonathan and I played Zelda Twilight Princess well into the night/morning. I wasn’t actually playing, but I did serve as a bit of Jonathan’s memory of the game (since he hadn’t played in a year) and as a constant source of temptations such as, “Oh, you haven’t gotton the magic armor yet,” and ,”Have you gone through the dungeon where you can get unlimited fairies?”

I did finally go through the to-donate pile and am now the proud owner of several good pots and pans, some more sheets and towels, an ironing board, and most wonderfully a vacuum cleaner. Hoorah! In their endless generosity, Amy and Jonathan also took me with them on their shopping trip to BJs to get me some cereals and other dried goods to stock my kitchen. I’m still on a tight budget until my first paycheck, but this will definitely make things easier.

Jonathan and Amy also offered to dog-sit while I’m on my trip next week. Since bringing Rusty back next week would cost another tank of gas. I decided to go ahead and just leave him there when I headed back to Gainesville. When I did get back to Gainesville, I realized just how empty the apartment seems without him. This is going to be a very lonely week. However, I think Rusty is more comfortable in Amy and Jonathan’s more air-conditioned house. I’m going to have to turn down my thermostat when he gets back.

So I’ve officially been here for over a week, and I’m still alive. I don’t think I’ll continue these day by day posts, but we’ll see.

. . .you have the following dream:

I found myself in a dungeon of sorts fighting off evil vermin. At some point I realized to my dismay that I didn’t even have my sword to which I was so accustomed and that I was also unable to use my bow and arrows. Nevertheless, I was doing pretty well fighting the monsters off with only my Wii remote and nunchuck in hand. Unfortunately when I finished them off, the boss monster came out, and I knew that I needed my unusable arrows to defeat him. Then I noticed the character who I was apparently supposed to be using with my remote and nunchuck–a girl standing off in the corner talking on her cell-phone. She gave delayed responses to my signals due to her seemingly important conversation, and she kept waving me off when I yelled at her to get out of the way of the monster’s attacks before she lost more hearts. Using her to shoot the arrows was particularly difficult. I kept pointing my Wiimote at the monster but could not see the helpful little red bulleye to tell me where I was shooting. This was because she was shooting which meant that the bullseye only showed up from her point of view. Nevertheless, I/she finally shot him and he was diminished to a fire breathing rotating monster with glowing red eyes. The eyes were clearly his weak point so I tried to get her to slash them with her sword. She, however, did not try to do so, nor did she make any attempts to dodge his fiery breath. Every time I pushed the joystick to move her, she would stand there yapping into her cell-phone for several seconds until I was insistent enough for her to grudgingly follow my orders. I finally gave up on her and took her sword to fight the beast myself and then quickly defeated him. She didn’t seem to care and simply rolled her eyes and moseyed back to the corner to continue her conversation.

. . . and here is the photographic evidence.

The limit of x as math aproaches blue equals awesome

Pi: It’s not only delicious…It’s circtacular!

Why lie? Math is FUn!

Q: What do you call a eigensheep? A: A lamb. Duh!

Q: Why did the chicken cross the mobius strip? A: To get to the same side.

What a good idea somebody had.

Hi friends. So while I’m sitting here procrastinating some more on the work I need to get done by the end of the day, I figured I’d actually post something. Being that I have nothing in particular to post about I will probably be rambling for the most part so if you have no patience for such things I suggest you don’t read on.

So let’s see. I’ve had Christmas break and started a new semester since the last post. My schedule is crazily confusing this semester. and it’s mostly because of my education class. The class meets over two class periods on Monday and Wednesday and then for only one class period on Friday. I do get to TA techniques this semester, and I’m having a fun time with that. However, my hours are weird because of having to work around the ED-20 schedule. My other class is CHM-34, otherwise known as Physical Chemistry II/Techniques II. What a combination, right? It doesn’t involve much lab time at all, but the lab reports are killer. I spent the better part of my long weekend (as in several hours a day and then some) trying to finish the first one, and it’s supposed to be the easy one. One of the hardest parts is working with a computer program called Igor. It’ll be a really useful program once I actually know how to use it, but until then it will be the bane of my existence.

I’m also playing intramural basketball and bowling this semester with IGU (Independent Girls United)(i.e. the team for upperclassmen girls who aren’t in a sorority but still want to play intramurals). IGU is doing really well in the overall intramural standings. I’m pretty sure that we are beating everybody else right now, and if we can do well in bowling and basketball it will stay that way. So far, bowling is going very well. There’s one girl on our team who scores of 130 every time she plays, and I’m also decently good despite what you all might have observed. As some of you know, it is generally my fervent goal to break 100, and I usually fail. I was thus very happy when I got a 105 in the first game, but I was a great deal more excited about the 167 in the second game. That’s right, 167–my new all-time record. It seems that I somehow gain some sort of temporary bowling skill every time I’m actually in competition.

Bowling may be going well, but my basketball team could be doing better. We lost our first game by about 30 points. Luckily, however, I am not on the IGU team that counts for points in the overall competition so that fact that my team stinks is not a huge issue. We actually played the other IGU team tonight, and they are very good (hopefully good enough to win the overall title) so they beat us too. It was still a lot of fun, and though I missed somewhere around a thousand shots, I actually scored a three-pointer (my first ever in any sort of officially organized game) on the buzzer at the end of the game. This may have been my only score the whole game, but let me tell you, I was excited. It may have been a complete mess of random luck, but it still happened. And my excitement from this led me to finally finish this post which I started last week. The end.

Well I’m still alive. Since my last post, we met up with Grace in Winchester and then went to London for a bit on the way to Stratford. I actually saw a few people from Furman at the train station who were on study abroad. We actually had to share a taxi with them to get to the train for Winchester because the train that was supposed to take us there was canceled. Anyway, we didn’t do a whole lot of touristy stuff in London, but we did go to see Guys and Dolls starring Patrick Swayze. He might have been the crowd-bringer, but I really think that his co-stars stole the show. Particularly the guy who played Sky Masterson and the girl who played Adelaide. Anyway, the play was fantastic even if it was a bit on the expensive side. We were all really glad that we went to that even if we didn’t get to do a lot else in London.

After the play, we took a sleeper train to Edinburgh. This wasn’t the most pleasant experience due to the fact that our seats were next to the heater which was kept on almost the whole time. We couldn’t really get to sleep because of all the heat even though people a few seats down were freezing. Oh well. We had fun once we got to Edinburgh. We spent yesterday touring the castle and Holyrood House and just generally exploring Edinburgh. For lunch we went to Deacon Brodies and had some traditional Scottish fish soup which I’m pretty sure contained parts of the fish which I am not accustomed to eating. We were ridiculously tired last night when we got to our nice rooms due to all the walking we did. Today we went on a tour of a part of old Edinburgh which is actually underground now. We also went to the Scottish National Gallery and some some cool paintings. So I’m about to run out of time so here some pictures and I’ll see you all in a few days.

So what do you do when you go to Walmart and buy a bag of baby carrots and get home and open them up to find out that they smell really gross and are really slimy in a disgusting sort of way? This is no simple hypothetical question, dear friends. I would really like to know.