Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in soulofmyshoe's LiveJournal:

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
8:09 pm	Update and Job news! So I am not sure that anyone still reads this journal, on account of me not updating it in nearly two years, but Bridget requested I make a post, so I guess I will. For those who don't know, I moved to Austin, TX about 3 months ago.  I needed to go somewhere, and I had heard good things about Austin.  William moved with me, and we got a nice place here.  For these last three months, I have been doing sporadic computer contract work and trying to live frugally while looking for a Real Job©.  Well, as of yesterday, I have finally found myself one!  I am now an Information Analyst with the department of accounting at UT Austin.  What this essentially means is that I will be developing software applications for the university and training people to use it.  They will pay to train me for 6 months, then bump my pay up and make me a full-fledged member of the team.  I have been learning computer programming as a hobby for the last few months, and I have wanted to develop it into a career, but that is difficult because everyone wants someone with at least a couple of years of experience.  This position, therefore, is quite awesome for me.  Oh, and it pays quite well... and has good benefits... and I just found out today that I can wear jeans, a t-shirt, and tennis shoes to work if I so desire.  So I am very psyched about the whole thing.  They moved pretty fast too, as I had my first interview with them last Friday, had a second interview on Tuesday, and was hired about 30 minutes after the interview.  They surprised me by having seven people present at my second interview.  Apparently only one member of the team was missing.  I don't start until Sept. 4, because they have to get the training program ready for me, and I will be starting with another trainee.  This isn't so bad, except the job pays monthly, so I won't be getting my first paycheck until 6 weeks from now.  Ah well, I have made it so far here, I can make it another few weeks. Anyway, I am rambling, but that is most of what is going on in my world for the time being.  Look forward to my next update in approximately 2010! Kent Current Mood: accomplished (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 10th, 2005
4:40 pm	LAN Party The Eight Mile House will be hosting a LAN party this weekend on Saturday, November 12. If you like playing multiplayer computer games, try this (come over and have some fun with us.) A few points. 1. We used to have 2 8-port hubs, but one of them has broken, so we will not have very many wired ports available unless others bring hubs and switches of their own. Routers may be usable, but setting them up to work with our router is likely to be a nightmare, and to require complete reconfiguration of your router, so I would like to avoid them if possible. 2. We now have an 802.11g wireless router, so anyone who has the capability can connect to the network sans-cables. This is preferred if you are able to do it, because it frees up our few wired ports for those who have no other option. Therefore, if you have an externally connecting wireless card or device, please remember to bring it along. If you do not, please remember to bring a network cable. 3. Don't forget your power strip/surge protector. Someone always does. We may have an extra on hand, but don't count on one being available. 4. We have 3 working monitors that are not in use over here already. If you don't feel like transporting yours, you can use one of these. If you don't intend to bring a monitor, let us know, so that we don't have more than 3 people do this. If you have an LCD monitor, I expect you to bring it, as they help a lot with space issues. 5. Most of the games we play can be loaded on your machine here. Most are not particularly high in the system requirement area, so most computers built in the last few years should have no problem running the majority of them. 6. Although we have never discussed it, I am guessing that the setup will begin at around noon, as this is the norm for our previous LAN parties. If you want to show up a little earlier to claim a spot and get started setting up, you are free to do so (as long as it isn't too much earlier.) 7. We will probably have a few gaming consoles set up so that people who don't want to play a certain game or those who can't fit into the game being played will have other options. If you have any PS2 or XBOX games you want to play, bring them with you (as well as any necessary memory cards for maximum entertainment). Try to focus on multiplayer games, please. I have a multitap for the PS2, but I only have 2 controllers, so if others can bring a couple more, we can play 4 player games. 8. Bring snacks and drinks. We currently have jack in the house for party food, so be sure to bring things to snack on and drink. That is all that I can think of for now. If there is anything I am forgetting or others would like to mention, leave an addendum as a note. See you Saturday. Kent (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 4th, 2005
4:01 pm	My Family is Alive and Well As the title says, everyone in my family and everyone I know made it through the hurricane alive and uninjured (physically, at least). My family did not evacuate, but they live far enough north that they escaped the major destruction. I had not been able to get in touch with them at all, but I finally heard from my sister-in-law in a text message, and my mom managed to get through on her cell phone. All of their houses survived the storm as well. However, a tree fell on the house that I grew up in and crushed about half of it. My parents had just sold the place less than a year ago, so we really feel bad for the people who bought it, but they have insurance, and the guy owns a company that fixes places up, so he can do a lot of the work himself. In further lame news, about half the timber on our family land is down. That may not sound that bad, but the majority of our inheritance is in timber, so it is a financial hit. Since my dad and brother are foresters, and the land is very accessible, we may still be able to sell a lot of it. That seems very unimportant compared to the immense number of people who lost everything they knew. Our losses for this storm were not that bad, and I feel for all the people who got much worse. I hope they can get their lives back together as easily as possible, though it is obviously not going to be an easy process. Anyway, I just want to update so everybody would know not to worry about me or my family. For those who were concerned, thank you for worrying about me. Now you can divert your worry to those who truly need it. Lord knows there are plenty. Later everyone. Kent (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 21st, 2005
7:38 pm	Once again, I receive my memes from Simo. I am thinking about writing a real entry one day, but I have become really really lazy about it (and sadly, about many things). Anyway, here are the results, ( cut-for-your-pleasure ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 11th, 2005
4:15 pm	I don't post for a month, and my big comeback is... a dream entry. I ended up back at St. Thomas, where some sort of reunion of my class seemed to be going on, but there were others there as well from younger classes. I saw lots of people that I hadn't seen in a very long time, and I talked to several of them and was generally very excited to see them. I saw Davon, John, Anshu, Jess and many other people. At some point, after I spoke to Davon, who sort of ignored me because he was showing some girl I didn't recognize something about baseball, I began to feel left out and rejected and sort of depressed, so I stopped talking to people and just wandered the campus of St. Thomas. Apparently whatever was going on came to an end and all the people in each group had to gather together, but for some reason, I was exempt from this. I saw Jarrod and I went and said "You wanna get some coffee after this?" He nodded his head, and as I walked away, said "I love you too, man. I love you too." This was an odd response and I almost turned around and told him that I loved him, but I decided that because he had said "I love you too", he knew I cared already. Then I found Lorrin and spoke to her a little. I don't remember how the conversation got to this part, but she could tell I was upset or something, and she started crying and getting progressively more animated as she told me how important I was to her and others. She talked about some instance of Mr. Rudolph standing up for me because I was one of the only people in the class who paid attention and tried to learn. After more of this, she tearfully drew a drawing which was a face with the features replaced with symbols that I can't recall. I don't remember how, but I know that the drawing was supposed to show me how much she cared and how important I was to her, and that in order to create it, she had to give up her eyesight. That she was willing to do so much in order to reassure me was a heart-wrenchingly beautiful sentiment. She ran off tearfully, and I looked at the drawing. The gift had been given, and had had its effect, so I started to mess with the symbols and found a way to add eyes and eyebrows back to the face by removing some of the symbols. I could not make them straight, so finally I left the eyes at a diagonal to one another and I brought the picture to Lorrin, who had her eyes closed and was crying softly. I handed the drawing to her and I said "I gave you back your eyes." She opened them and looked straight at me. I told her they were still crooked, but that she could fix them, since she was better at that than me. She talked a little more about how much our friendship meant, and then I began to speak. I told her how much it meant that she was willing to do that for me. I reminisced about the days when our friendship was peaking, and we "talked for retardedly long periods of time on the phone every day." I said that, while we could not reclaim the relationship we had as teenagers, maybe we could create a new relationship as twenty-somethings. I felt a little dishonest here, because I doubted that we could ever have back the intense friendship we had then. Then I reached up and pulled out my loose eyebrow hair, which came out. Some of these hairs were extremely long: nearly a foot. Some of the longer ones, though not the longest ones, had a section in the middle which looked like the hair had been replaced by cotton fiber. I wanted to show them to Bridget, because the long ones put Nathan's "freakishly long eyebrow hair" to shame. Lorrin suggested that the broken ones were created by plucking my eyebrows, which didn't much make sense, especially since I don't pluck my eyebrows except when I pull the loose ones out to keep them from falling in my eyes. I then ended up at my parents' old house, where my mom was watching television, and Elizabeth was sleeping on the couch. I walked into the downstairs guest bedroom, and Elizabeth was in there drawing or painting. I asked her how she was in both the bedroom and the living room, and she told me that she sometimes found art easier when she projected. I was unclear whether her body was in the living room and she was projecting into the bedroom, or the other way around. I tried to show her the lashes, but the longest ones were now missing, and the others had become thicker and consisted of alternating segments of hair and cotton fiber. She said something about the hairs and we talked for a bit, but the tail end of the dream is unclear. This was a very nice and satisfying dream. It felt important, and my be what Jung would classify as a "Big Dream." I will have to do a Jungian analysis of it, because I am curious what it would show. I have a general feel of the dream's purpose. It is really strange to me that Lorrin played the role she did. She and I were extremely close for like a year, but we have grown far apart since then. After I left St. Thomas, she became a completely different person, and the last few times I have seen her, it was odd and kind of uncomfortable. It is also interesting that some of the other people from that period of my life did not show up. Most notably, Tim did not make an appearance, which is really surprising to me, but I suppose that is how dreams work. The incident Lorrin mentioned regarding Mr. Rudolph (my seventh grade science teacher) never happened. Even if it had, Lorrin would not have known about it, as she was three years younger than me and went to a different middle school. In the dream, I remembered the incident, but I remember wondering how she knew about it. I also wonder about Elizabeth's role at the end of the dream. While the previous scene with Lorrin was manic, the scene with Elizabeth was serene and calm, like she was teaching me something about calmness. Unfortunately, I do not remember this part of the dream clearly, and I woke up before it seemed over. OK, kids, it is time for me to go take a shower and get ready to live. Hope you enjoyed reading my subconscious. I will try to make a meaty entry about my exciting life soon (HAH! Prepare to read about playing World of Warcraft and sleeping.) Later, Kent (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 6th, 2005
5:18 pm	It's official. I have a bachelor's degree. Wooo-hoooo!! Today I graduated from college. I graduated magna cum laude, and I also received highest distinction from the Scholars' College, which kicks ass and I didn't know about until today. Scholars' College Commencement was at 9 AM. That was less that great. The ceremony itself was quite nice however. There was a reception afterwards, and I received praise from several professors, which always feels good. Dr. Schicketanz in particular was extremely complimentary. He said I was one of the best students he has ever had. He also talked extensively with my parents for most of the reception. After the reception, my parents took me to eat at Mama's, which was nice, and surprisingly empty. I suppose that is what eating at 11 AM will get you. The university graduation ceremony took place at 3 PM. We got there around 2 (as we were told) and I waited around and goofed off for most of that hour. Then began the majesty. Whoopdedoo. They had the 50-year reunion people there, and they all went up and received their honorary second degrees in being old. Then the speaker spoke. It was quite possibly the WORST "speech" I have ever heard. He was some random taxidermist that contributed money to the university, so obviously this means we should give him an honorary doctorate and have him regale us with his memories of random nonsense. Seriously, he told all about his high school class and how he used to play football in high school and about his daughters and then how he played football at Northwestern and how he was blessed because of all of these things. Did you notice that none of this was relavent? Yeah. It was absolutely horrific. So much so that we were incredulous that he had nothing better to say. These speakers almost universally suck, but this guy was in a class of his own. On a positive note, the music as we were leaving definitely sounded as if it should be played at a circus, which made me happy. Also, Jeanne and Ciel and I spent the whole time completely ignoring the ceremony and joking around with one another. It's quite strange to realize that I am REALLY done now. I have a diploma and I graduated. Weird. No more papers for any of my professors. No more classes. Really, really strange. This will take some getting used to. I am gonna go take a shower now to wash away the dried sweat on my face. Polyesther is freaking hot. I don't know how anyone survived the 70s. Graduately yours, Kent (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
12:06 pm	Alas, I have finally succumbed... I bought World of Warcraft. I have resisted it as long as possible, but it has now claimed me. Now that I am done with school, I may as well play it, cause I have lots of free time. My first character is an orcish warrior named Shbomlag (shout out to those of you who recognize this name, even though it wouldn't let me put an apostrophe in). So far it is reasonably fun, though I am hoping it will get better as I learn how to play and reach a high enough level that I can do things. The game eats time like nothing else though. I dropped 6 hours on it this morning without batting an eye. My next goal is to get it running under Cedega so I can play it in Linux without having to reboot into Windows. This will make the experience more enjoyable, because I have to stop everything else on my computer to go play it currently. Cedega officially supports it, so I assume I will figure it out eventually. If it works, I will probably legitimately buy Cedega. I have been thinking about it, but I didn't want to spend the money for it and then not use it. That would bring my cost per month to play WoW up to $30, however, which is less than happy. Anyway, this was an exceptionally nerdy and uninteresting post. Sorry to those of you I bored senseless. I will try to do better next time, honest. Kent (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 1st, 2005
1:56 am	Ups and downs Well, the last two days have been a mix of good and bad, but mostly ups. Yesterday was quite good. It was my last day of classes in my undergraduate career. I went in early because I checked my degree audit and it was telling me I still needed a math class. I took calculus at SLU, but for some reason it transferred over as the wrong math. When I went into Dr. Granger's office, he had already found it and taken care of it, so it was no big deal. Then I walked out into the hall and noticed a paper posted which had the names of people who had scholarships for this semester and had not accepted them. I scanned down the list and found my name on it. Apparently I got the LSC Research Scholarship again this semester, though they never sent me anything to inform me of this. So I went back into Dr. Granger's office, he made me an acceptance letter and I signed it and turned it in. Woohoo. +$200 for Kent. Then I went to Latin. Although I was early, I decided to wait til I was a minute late or so, because I am known for being late to Latin (among other classes). This was my last class in Scholars', so I waited outside the door til Dr. D'Amato came to look for me (because I knew she would). She said some kind words and wished me well, and then we decided to have class at PJ's in celebration. So we all walked over there and she bought us coffee. Aaron and I gave our presentations. Mine was short, but all was good. After class, I helped the Forum Council people set up for the Thesis Barbeque. It was also our philosophy professor, Dr. Snowden's, retirement party. Paul gave a good speech, Dr. Snowden talked a bit, and it was all good. Then we had the senior thing where we go up and talk about our theses and then we are pronounced educated. All in all it was a good time. Then we went to Chef Wok before going to Thesis Party. They screwed up my order, but the company was good. I bought some ouzo for the party. I saw it on the shelf at Maggio's and decided to get it because I hadn't had any since I was in Austria. We went to the party and all stood around in the rain waiting for the Jell-O wrestling to begin. Chanèl finally got there and we found Amanda, and the tournament began. It was a lot of fun to watch, and probably also to participate in. I got splattered and dripped with quite a bit of Jell-O, even though I wasn't wrestling or even judging the matches. Chanèl was the overall victor. She conquered Amanda quickly, then bested Charlotte the French amazon, then took out two others in a three-way match for the finals. She even bested Bridget in a challenge match afterward. I was very proud of her. Then the real drinking began. I had a good deal of ouzo and three beers. At some point during the night I ended up acting as a counselor for someone for quite a while. I think it may have been over an hour. After I got done with that, I came out, got another drink, and started dancing with Lindsey. She convinced me to have another drink after that, which may have been a bad idea in hindsight. But I had a lot of fun. After a while I ended up sitting in the kitchen chatting with Heebie, Josh, the Bridgets, Chanèl, Lindsey and various other people. Chanèl says I am an amusing drunk. This part is a little fuzzier, but I remember all of it, I think. Apparently I fell down at least once, which I don't remember, but I am uninjured, so it can't have been that bad. I hit on Lindsey a good bit. I hope I didn't say anything there that will cause awkwardness. I also remember weeping for a little bit at some point, though I really don't know why. I'll have to ask Bridget. She kept reminding me that I was having a good time. We got home a little after 4 and I passed out on the couch. I woke up around 9 and moved to my bedroom. Next time I woke up was about 1:30. I felt okay at first, but I started to feel sick after I had been up for a while. I tried to throw up cause I felt like I needed to, but I couldn't manage it. I eventually decided to go back to bed, and I woke up again at around 6:30 when my mom called. I have been a little morose today. Part of it is probably that I felt sick because of the hangover, but some of it is loneliness. I am not sure why I am feeling it so acutely today, when I just spent a day being festive with good friends, but the feeling is definitely there. I think I am going to try to go to sleep before too long, but I am not sure how well that is going to work since I've only been awake for like 8 hours. Maybe I can manage it if I take some melatonin. Anyway, this post has gotten long enough. Now that I have a lot of spare time, I may try to start posting more regularly. We'll see if that actually happens. Kent (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
7:54 am	Chanèl is nuts So yeah, my roommate has lost her damn mind. She just bought a can of Surge on EBay for like $12 and then paid an extra $8 so she can have it by this Friday. This would all be fine, but the maniacal glint in her eye when she mentions it is kinda creepy. It's okay though, Chanèl, I still love you. In other news, I turned in the archival copies of my thesis yesterday, which means I am now COMPLETELY done with it. I also finished my Existentialism final and paper, so now all I have left for the semester is a Latin presentation on something or other, and the Latin final. Then I get to graduate. Hooray! In other other news, I am freaking sick. I have a nasty cold-like evil inside me. I think this is the sickest I have been in like two years (maybe the food poisoning incident was worse.) I have managed to make it through all the work that is swamping me through judicious use of some leftover percocet, which made me less aware that I was dying. Once I finish all the big stuff (most of it is done) I can let it run its course. Unfortunately this may mean that I will be sick for Thesis Party. I am hoping that I will recover enough that I can at least mildly debauch. I was originally planning on getting trashed, but I doubt now that I will, for it would be a bad idea. Even if I fully recover, the idea of a nasty hangover so soon after being sick is quite unpleasant, so I will probably only drink moderately. Truth be told, I am not so about getting drunk anymore. So yeah, I think I am going to go take a long relaxing bath, then translate some Latin before class. Pax ex, Kent (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 21st, 2005
12:19 am	Latin sucks sometimes I really don't feel like translating The Satyricon right now. What takes us like 3 hours to translate at home takes maybe 10-15 minutes of class time to go over. I missed Latin today. I didn't realize we had moved that class (we usually don't have class on Wednesdays). Dr. D'Amato called and screamed at Nathan til she realized he wasn't me. Then she yelled at me for a bit until I told her that I didn't realize we were supposed to have class that day. Furthermore, I hadn't done any of the translation yet, so me being in class would be pretty pointless. So now I get to go in a little early tomorrow so she can check my translation, so it was no big deal. However, this means I have to DO the translation, and I am so not in the Latin mindset right now. I don't want to read about affluent Roman hedonists. I want to read Shadow of the Giant, that's what I want to do. I want to take a nice long shower and then just chill out. I think I may go do the shower. Maybe it will help me focus afterward. Here's hoping. Kent (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 20th, 2005
2:07 pm	Simo's keeping me in memes We all have things about our friends that make us slightly envious. Not in a bad way, but in a "Wow! I wish I had that person's hair, eyes, money, relationship, toenails, whatever." So tell me what about me makes you envy me (cheap-ass ego boost/comment whoring, I know), then post this in your LJ and see what makes me envious of you. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 18th, 2005
6:03 pm	Since I'm meming... Comment here with your name and I'll tell you something I adore (or at least mildly like) about you. Afterwards, copy and paste this into your own journal. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
6:01 pm	From the mouths of Mooses :WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MY: Personality: Eyes: Face: Hair: Body: Clothes: Voice: Humor: Choice of music: Mannerisms: Family: 1. Who are you? 2. Are we friends? 3. When and how did we meet? 4. How have I affected you? 5. What do you think of me? 6. What's the fondest memory you have of me? 7. How long do you think we will be friends? 8. Do you love me? 9. Do you have a crush on me? 10. Do you know people who do? 11. Would you kiss me? 12. Would you hug me? 13. Would you do anything else to me? 14. Physically, what stands out? 15. Emotionally, what stands out? 16. Do you wish I was cooler? 17. On a scale of 1-10, how hot am I? 18. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it. 19. Am I loveable? 20. Describe me in one word. 21. What was your first impression? 22. Do you still think that way about me now? 23. What do you think my weakness is? 24. Do you think I'll get married? 25. What makes me happy? 26. What makes me sad? 27. What reminds you of me? 28. If you could give me anything what would it be? 29. How well do you know me? 30. When's the last time you saw me? 31. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't? 32. Ever held a grudge against me but never told me? 33. Do you think I could kill someone? 34. Do you think I already have? 35. Would you ever have sex with me? 36. Are you going to post this and see what I say about you? (14 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 13th, 2005
1:17 pm	If a knife falls in the forest and there is noone there to hear it, don't catch it. So yeah... I was about to start chopping vegetables at about 5 AM Monday when I dropped my chef's knife, which I keep honed and meticulously sharp. Rather than let it fall the 5 inches or so into the open drawer below it, I grabbed it out of midair. I grabbed the blade, of course, cause the handle would be too logical. Anyway, I quickly withdrew my startled hand and the knife fell anyway. Unfortunately, the hand was still there long enough for the blade to cut a quarter-inch deep into my thumb, just below the joint. I moved my thumb a bit, noticed it had a mouth, then rushed to staunch the bleeding. Bridget and I tried to decide whether I should go to the hospital. I really didn't want to go to the emergency room at 5 AM, but we figured it would be a good idea to at least see if it needed stitches. So we made the trek to the Natchitoches E.R. There was noone there, so we went back pretty quickly. A bevy of nurses filled out forms for me, asked questions, and took vitals. The blood pressure machine decided it didn't like me, cause it kept returning no result, and the cuff popped off once. She replaced it with a bigger cuff, and then. after 4 or 5 more tries, it finally gave a result. So we went back to one of the rooms and waited for the doctor, who took a while. On the plus side, he managed to give me a lidocaine injection that did not burn like a bitch, which was an accomplishment. When he filled up the syringe for the lidocaine, he filled it all the way. Bridget and I stared at it sort of wide-eyed, thinking it was all going in. He said that if he doesn't fill it up, he always has to go back for more. That was a relief. Still, after he finished injecting it, my thumb looked quite pregnant (still with a mouth). In the end I got two stitches and that was that. We got back from the E.R. at about 7:30. I was still wound up, so I decided to call my mom and tell her what happened. Then I watched an episode of Grey's Anatomy (seemed appropriate). That show is pretty good, by the way, and the lead actress is very cute. Anyway, due to lack of sleep, I skipped Latin for the day. I sent Dr. D'Amato an email explaining and she sent me back a reply of "sunt lacrimae rerum", which means "There are tears to things". Anyway, I slept many long hours, then got up and procrastinated before working on my Research Day presentation (way to wait til the last minute, Kent). I took a 2 hour nap til about 9 AM, then set to work finishing it. I managed to get it all together, read through it twice, and then realized it was 12:30 and the presentation was at 1. I wasn't dressed and I live about 10-15 minutes from campus, so I realized I had a problem. I managed to get to campus right at 12:59, but I had to park at the library and run across campus to Russell, where the presentation was. I got there like two minutes late, but hey, that's my trademark, right. The room was PACKED. Apparently, both Dr. D'Amato's Latin class and Dr. Abney's undergrad linguistics class convened at my presentation. So I quickly set up my equipment, and began. There was only one empty seat and that filled up during the presentation. I stumbled a fair amount early on, because I was out of breath, but I managed to get myself collected after I played the first speech sample, and it went fairly smoothly after that. The problem was, I had about 11 minutes of speech samples. Coupled with the fact that I was 2 minutes late, that left me about 7 minutes of the 20 minute presentation to elucidate what I did with a year's worth of research. I rushed though everything, and managed to only cut like a minute or two into question time. I had to cut the last two voice samples short, for want of time. The people that came up to me afterward said I did a good job. I hope they weren't just being nice. Overall, considering to complete lack of time, I think it went pretty well. I got a few laughs and people seemed to be paying attention, so it can't have been too bad. I think my defense will be better, because I will have more time for it. Plus, this was sort of a practice round for the defense, so I am hopeful. Kent (1 Comment |Comment on this)
1:06 pm	Movie-Length Dream Well, I just had an awesome, and very long, dream. I don't really remember many details, but I know it was both sexual and adventurous (but not necessarily sexually adventurous). I managed to reenter the storyline after waking up like 3 different times, which may explain why I slept like 16 hours (Yay for days off from school). The part I best remember is taking an airship with two girls because we were on the run from these weird demon things. They kept trying to come up beneath us and catch us in a net. The first time they did, and one of their more important members was with the squad that caught us, but it was only his head. He complained about having to behead himself to get this message to us, at which point I grabbed his head and hurled it into a chasm. Then the rest of the entourage took off, and we got on our way. The next few times they tried, we realized ahead of time and I used a sword to cut the front of the net before they could secure us. Eventually we reached one of the girls' father, who were were going to for help (this girl was the primary love interest). At this point, a Norwegian guy named Håkon, who I know from Austria, made an appearance, but with black hair (he is actually blond, as are many Norwegians). The end of the story had to do with the girl talking to her father and him accepting that she had found someone who really loved her and he was very happy for us. I don't remember details, but it was romantic. Anyway, that's the gist of the dream. It had a fairly cohesive plotline that seemed almost more like a movie than a dream. Good stuff. Kent (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 31st, 2005
7:12 pm	Loggerheads I only have four words to say: finished....with....thesis....biatch (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
5:36 pm	One of these days I'll post a real entry. Maybe when I'm done with my thesis. Advanced Global Personality Test Results Extraversion |||||||||||||||| 63% Stability |||||||||||| 50% Orderliness |||||||||||| 46% Empathy |||||||||||||||| 70% Interdependence |||||||||||||||| 70% Intellectual |||||||||||||||||| 76% Mystical |||||||||||||| 56% Artistic |||||||||| 36% Religious || 10% Hedonism |||||||||||| 50% Materialism |||||||||||||| 56% Narcissism |||||||||||||||| 63% Adventurousness |||||| 30% Work ethic |||||||||||| 50% Self absorbed |||||||||||| 50% Conflict seeking |||||||||||||||| 70% Need to dominate |||||||||||||| 56% Romantic |||||||||||||| 56% Avoidant |||||||||| 36% Anti-authority |||||||||||||||| 70% Wealth |||||||||||||| 56% Dependency |||||||||||||| 56% Change averse |||||||||||| 50% Cautiousness |||||||||||||||| 70% Individuality |||||||||||| 50% Sexuality |||||||||||| 43% Peter pan complex |||||||||||| 50% Physical security |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Food indulgent |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Histrionic |||||||||||||||||||| 83% Paranoia |||||||||| 36% Vanity |||||||||||||||| 70% Hypersensitivity |||||||||||||||||| 76% Female cliche |||||||||||| 43% Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test personality tests by similarminds.com (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
9:32 pm	Geekiness The Deviant Geek You answered 78% of the questions as a geek truly would. You're a geek and you know it. You've got all sorts of fringe hobbies and socially unacceptable tendencies. Chances are, whenever possible, you hate to be grouped with other people and sometimes go out of your way just to be different. You're smart too. You're more willing to depend on your own brainpower to solve problems, instead of relying on others to pull you through life. You probably read a lot, and generally enjoy learning new things. So what's it all mean? You may be considered by some to be uncool, but you probably don't care either. In social situations you may be either slightly passive or slightly loud (geeks always fall into the extremes). In a nutshell, you answered enough questions correctly supporting a geek philosophy to be considered a more potent geek than 60% of the population. My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 69% on geekness Link: The True Geek Test written by ambientred on Ok Cupid (1 Comment |Comment on this)
4:14 pm	Apparently I know things... or guess well Bacardi 151 Congratulations! You're 134 proof, with specific scores in beer (80) , wine (100), and liquor (86). All right. No more messing around. Your knowledge of alcohol is so high that you have drinking and getting plastered down to a science. Sure, you could get wasted drinking beer, but who needs all those trips to the bathroom? You head straight for the bar and pick up that which is most efficient. My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 63% on proof You scored higher than 90% on beer index You scored higher than 96% on wine index You scored higher than 93% on liquor index Link: The Alcohol Knowledge Test written by hoppersplit on Ok Cupid (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 15th, 2005
10:39 pm	Headaches are double plus ungood Yeah, so I finally got a LiveJournal. Will I post in it? That really remains to be seen. For now, my reason for having it is to make it easier to check my friends' journals. A minor bitch. What the hell is the deal with LJ's insistence on ultrasecurity? It wouldn't let me use my customary password because it's "based on a dictionary word." I am a computer geek. I understand the value of security and all, but its a freaking blog. I could maybe understand it it my credit card companies or some online bank or something were to insist on difficult passwords, but they don't, and LiveJournal does. So I had to 133tsp34k my password so it would accept it. Now I get to try and remember that THIS site has a different password the most of my other sites. Yea. At least I can pretty much permanently sign in, so all is not lost. Anyway, I am off to the land of not writing in my LiveJournal. Later. Kent (4 Comments |Comment on this)