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I was off from work today again - and I spent the large bulk of the day shopping for Christmas presents.  I got gifts for my girlfriend, my two best friends (Lane and Bryan), my girlfriends little sister, and for my mom.  I still need to get gifts for my sister, my dad, and my girlfriends other little sister.  Oh and I also bought cards for a bunch of people.  Most of the time spent shopping was spent going between the 20 different jewelers at Stonebriar mall looking for the best ... well I don't want to say what it is in case she reads this, but the best "gift" for my girlfriend.  Then I came home and got information from different colleges trying to find out where I will be next year.  Stress... agh.. also, on top of that, I'm kinda fighting with my girlfriend right now.  It's bigger than our usual stuff.. I hope it works out and I'm doing my best to make sure thats so.  Oh and next weekend I am going camping with Lane and Bryan at Lake Lewisville.  I can't wait for that.  We went last Christmas break and it was one of the best times of my life.  The Christmas presents I got Lane and Bryan will relate to this trip.  On Saturday (Today is Wed) I have defensive driving from 8:30 am to 3:30 am, then dinner with my relatives after that, and then I leave for camping after that.  I'll come back Monday morning and then have Christmas with my biological father that afternoon or evening.  Then its back to work...  But I am really looking forward to this weekend.   Well I'm going to go now.. I need to do some more updates and call my girlfriend.  I miss her.  Happy Holidays all...

Today was my day off from work... I was supposed to get a lot done, and would have, had it not been for Stream (my old job). I went to pick up two paychecks they owed me from before, and after an hour of waiting in the lobby (plus an hour driving time back and forth), they couldn't find my check and I am forced to call back tomorrow for follow-up. Gay. Then I got a haircut. That wasn't so bad. Oh and I scheduled my defensive driving class finally... I'm taking that next Saturday. I actually did a lot of work on my webpage but I wasn't able to upload it b/c my sister was online. So you guys will have to wait until tomorrow to see the new stuff. I'm over at my friend Bryan's house right now and he just went to sleep. I just talked to my friend Lane online and he's coming up to visit next weekend - we're trying to plan a camping trip. It should be a blast if it goes anything like the last camping trip we had... that was awesome... Maybe I should write a story about that in Story Time. Look for that in the near future =). Well I'm tired and I have some important stuff to do tomorrow before I work 3 to midnight - so goodnight all... Take care.

Look at this!  Two days in a row!  Not bad, huh?  Anyway - I worked all day today.  I was up until about 6 am last night b/c my girlfriend didn't get off work until after midnight her time - in Hawaii.  It's 4 hours earlier over there - so it was around 430 am here by the time I was able to talk to her.  Then we got in a fight and finally got off the phone around 6.  I had to work at 10 am this morning, so I didn't get much sleep.  I stayed at work until about 745 pm or so, and haven't done much since...  Tomorrow is my day off, so I plan on getting all that stuff done that I need to do.  I plan on getting up around 10, but the chances of that happening aren't very likely.  Not much exciting happened today.  Take care all.

It's been a month - again - sorry guys I know I'm really bad at updating this thing.  Anyway, I quit Dell  =).  I hated it there.  I'm now working at Albertson's again and I like it there.  They pay me slightly better than Dell did also, which is surprising.  I work all the time though.  It consumes my life.  My first semester at UTD ended on November 30th, which is really early, but it has hardly felt like a break at all with as much as I've been working.  I am still with Hershey - and we're doing great.  Better than ever, in fact.  The only hindrance we've had of late is her ex-friend Jess.  For some reason Jess has this weird obsession with me and has trying to break me and Hershey up, but neither of us have let it affect our relationship.  She (Hershey) sent me a box of stuff from Hawaii so I could have some stuff that reminded me of her.  One of those items was a poem she wrote for me back in September.  I posted it in the poetry section  =).  She's amazing.  Aside from work and Hershey, I have been hanging out with my best friend, Bryan Adkins, a lot.  He's an incredible person and an incredible friend.  He's been my best friend since 5th grade and we still hang out all the time.  I lived with him last year in Austin, and I could not have asked for a better living situation.  We saw Proof of Life last night (Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan).  It was a pretty good movie.  We see a lot of movies, along with his bro Jon and another friend of ours, Jason Stowe.  I have a lot of stuff I need to do in the next few days, so I hope I can get it all done (Christmas shopping..).  Well that's enough for now I suppose.  I will honestly try to update this again SOON!  Love you all.

I just now fixed my website ... half of the links were down and I fixed those and updated the appearance of a lot of stuff.  Lots of stuff has been going on since I last wrote in here... I no longer work at Albertsons.  I switched to Dell as a technical support agent.  I've been working there since September 11th and I don't really like it at all.  I might stay because they offer to pay for Microsoft certifications and such, but who knows.  Tomorrow I'm going out for a job interview type thing with this company called the Longhorn Yacht Club.  They sell vacations to rich people, and all I have to do is eat dinner with the rich people and make them feel comfortable.  I'd be making somewhere in the ball park of 20 to 30 bucks an hour.  Also I'd be able to work with my best friend Bryan, which is awesome.  I'm still with Hershey, and we're doing great.  She has been in Hawaii now for 5 months and we have 5 more left until she comes home.  In a way it feels like "oh man we're only half way done..." because it's been hard while she's been away.  But I also think at times, "wow its all downhill from here, so no problem" because she's made me so happy to be with her that 5 months has seemed like next to nothing.  All I  know is that I have a lot to look forward to, and all these moments that I have had with her thus far will only be re-lived 10 times fold when she does come home.  Tonight I am going out with Katie Pickering, an old friend and kind of ex that goes to Baylor.  I'm excited to see her b/c it's been a really long time since we last hang out.  Take care everyone...

Ok so last night was one of the most eventful nights of my life.... I was working the overnight at Albertson's, as stated in my previous entry.  At about 3 in the morning, this young man walked into the store and waited for all of the other customers (which was just 1 more) to exit the store.  He then came up through my line with a 20 ox bottle of sprite.  He asked me for a pack of marlboro lights in a box, so I walked over to the lobby department to grab his cigarettes.  When I came back to my register, there was a note that said "give me all your money of i'll kill you"  I looked up at him asked "is this for real?"  He nodded his head yes, and I wasn't about to ask him if he had a weapon.  His hands were down in his pockets so I didn't know if he did or not.  I opened my register and was able to conceal my bigger bills (100's, 50's etc..) underneath my left hand.  I handed him all my 10s, 5s and 1s with my right hand and then lifted up my register knowing that I don't keep any money underneath.  I showed him that, making him believe I didn't have any big bills at all.  He grabbed the money and proceeded to exit the store.  I watched which direction he went and quickly ran to the phone to call 911.  Then, he ran back into the store...I was really scared at this point. Why would someone who just robbed you run back into the store?  He ran to the register, and saw me on the phone - and it was obvious why I would be on the phone - and grabbed something off the register and ran back out of the store.  I later saw on surveillance tapes that it was the note - he had accidentally left it on my register.  The cops came, asked me a bunch of questions, and apprehended some guy that ended up not being the same guy.  So the cops left, and my shift ended, so I left for home.  On the way home, I found a hat in the middle of the road on the street that runs behind the store.   I picked it up off the ground thinking that maybe it was the same hat he was wearing and possibly could link someone to this robbery.  If he robbed me, he'll rob someone else.  Maybe the hat has some hair samples or something that could identify him.  He's a loser.  But hey, I'm alive.  What doesn't kill ya only makes you stronger, right?

Today wasn't so much fun...I went to Calc II at 11 and it was incredibly hard and discouraging.  I have never found math difficult in my life, and this is just way hard.  I don't think it's the material so much, but more the manner in which my professor conveys it.  Also, the speed at which he tries to teach just makes things more difficult.  If he slowed down for 2 seconds he could be much more effective.  Anyway, after a frustrating class period, I was faced with the obstacle of straightening out my financial aid that had somehow been screwed up from last year at UT to this year at UTD.  So I went to the Admissions/Records Office and talked to the registrar.  I filled out this form to verify that I am enrolled this semester and she was going to send it in so my financial aid would then pick back up.  However, she couldn't send the form until Sept. 9th.  This posed a problem seeing that today is the last day to make a payment for tuition.  So I then went down to the financial aid office and waited in their line.  Upon arrival of the appointed secretary, I was informed that my records showed that I didn't even apply for financial aid, which is bs.  So I was then instructed to fill out a form for an emergency student loan; which I did.  I turned that in afterward to some other guy, who took it to this back room in the office.  After about 30 minutes this big woman came out and handed me another form I was to take to the Bursar's office to make a payment.  So I go to this office, and the line is about 42 miles long.  It's the last day to make payment so everyone in the world and their mothers dog is there to make their payment. So I wait through this incredibly long line by myself, since I know about 0 people that attend this university.  I tried listening in to other people's conversations to entertain myself, but I think these two girls caught me listening in so I was kind of embarrassed.  Anyway, I finally reached the front of the line and this other big woman took care of my student loan that I have until November 20th to pay off.  I just hope my financial aid follows through before then, b/c that's a lot of money.   Then I went to this other office, the "Info Depot" to get my student ID made.  That was my last office visit today. Then I went to the bookstore to check out the prices of the books I need to buy, which are COMPLETELY ridiculous, and guess who I see... The two girls who caught me listening in to their conversation.  Now they think I followed them to this bookstore which is stupid.  Anyway, I guess it was kind of funny looking back on it now.   I then came home and crashed until about 9 pm, and I have to work tonight from midnight to 6 am at Albertsons.  Fun.  I hope I get some visitors tonight.  My girlfriend and I are doing awesome now, by the way  =).  As stated below in yesterday's entry, we were having some problems, but they are resolved now.  Every thing is hunky dory yo.  K I'm tired of typing.

It's barely the 25th.  I'm up waiting to talk to my girlfriend's sister about some important stuff in my life right now.  Today has been a stressful day for many reasons I don't feel like discussing on here.   I went to school today...oh yeah...I chose UTD.  I had tennis and computer science today.  That's my new major, computer science.  I'm actually really excited about it.  Like my old major was Economics, and even though it was easy I totally dreaded it.  Computer Science is supposedly really hard but I'm really looking forward to the material I'm going to learn.  Besides that I've mostly been stressing over this current situation with my girlfriend.  Everything is going to be fine, it's just stressful right now.  It's crazy.  I love her.

I went into work today at 11:30...after another night of around 3 hours of sleep or so.  I gotta stop doing that, b/c I never feel totally awake anymore.  I think I'm an insomniac, like Edward Norton (Tyler Durden  - not the alter-personality) from Fight Club - I'm never really asleep and I'm never really awake.  Anyway, I got off work around 5 and I am going to hang out with Bryan Adkins tonight.  I'm trying my hardest not to stress about the life-altering decision I have to make between UT and UTD.  If you don't know about that...you can read about it by clicking on the link on the main page.  I know God will lead me to the right decision; it's just hard to fathom going to either one right now.  I have days where UT is the apparent choice, but lately it seems as though UTD is the clear decision.  However, today was definitely a UT day.  You can vote for either one on the main page..just click the VOTE button.  Well I gotta go...  my head hurts.

Today was the first time I've worked on my webpage since May 15th.  This two month break was not by choice, but I just fixed my computer the other day so I am now able to work on it again.  I was off from work all weekend.  Oh yeah, I work at Albertson's now back in Plano.  Just a job for the summer.  I'll quit either when:  I go back down to Austin for school, or, stay here in Plano and begin working at Stream and attending UTD.  I have a girlfriend now, and I miss her a lot.  I'm not sure exactly when she's coming back from Hawaii, but I can't wait to see her.  I've been hanging out with Bryan Adkins a lot lately, and I probably will again tonight.  I have to write my essay for my application for UTD, so I should probably go now.  I also want to download some more MP3's from Napster before I go to bed.  Life is good right now.  I'm happy.

I just finished my last final today; the human body.  Although the class was horrible and so were the tests, I'm really glad I took it because I met some really cool people in that class.  It's so weird that my first year in college is already over.  I know everyone always talks about how time goes by so fast...but I think that maybe God made me skip like 100 days or so because it went by even faster for me.  Have you ever wondered why the best girls always have boyfriends?  Or is it I always just want what I can't have?  Who knows...  I move back to Plano tomorrow.  Everything is packed and ready to go.  

I'm leaving on a jet plane...don't know when I'll be back again....

I skipped a lot of days there but it's kind of hard to keep up sometimes.  I moved a ton of my stuff out today...I want to get these gay finals over with but it's kind of sad moving out at the same time.  I took my final for Art History today; I think I aced it but who knows.  I talked to Vanessa at lunch today.  Maybe I'll ask her to do something tonight.  I move back to Plano in 4 days...almost there.  I saw Gladiator for a third time when I was in Plano a few days ago.  It's awesome.  I also saw American Beauty for the first time last night.  It was pretty good.  OH!  I didn't get to see Amanda!!  I'm really disappointed about that, but I guess it all works out in the end.  K I'm tired now so I am going to nap.

It's Monday now, and we don't have any classes because we have finals coming up.  I am really concerned about my Economics final, but I guess we'll see how it goes.  I saw Gladiator for a second time yesterday with some friends.  It's still awesome.  Today I am packing up some stuff and going back to Plano for a day or two.  I will get to see Amanda Boren =).  I just talked to her on the phone last night, and I got a letter from her yesterday.  At the movie yesterday, it was kinda weird, because I went with two girls that I am interested in.  I didn't want to make a move on one or the other.  Oh well.  Girls are retarded anyway.  I saw Sonia this weekend, my friend from OU.  It was really good to see her since I haven't in so long.  Life's pretty good right now.

Friday...at last.  Not that it really matters, every day seems like the weekend now.  Class doesn't seem to stop me from staying up or going out.  Anyway, I am VERY excited today because I now have plans to meet with AMANDA BOREN next week sometime around Tuesday.  If you don't know who Amanda Boren is, I guess you wouldn't understand why this is so incredibly awesome, but trust me, it is.  She is is Tampa, FL right now but she will be in Dallas all next week so we made plans to visit sometime over the next week.  Tonight we're going to see GLADIATOR.  I think it will be awesome...it's opening night.  I played in the most RETARDED StarCraft game today, that I totally had won until Lane somehow built a nydus canal and won.  It was gay.  I bought this mug from 7-11, but it's no regular mug.  It's not a Big Gulp.  It's not a Super Big Gulp.  It's not a Big Gulp Plus.  It's a SUPER BIG GULP PLUS.  It's like 2 feet tall and 2 feet wide and keeps drinks cold for 27 days, or something.  K maybe that was a little exaggerated, but it's pimp anyway.  I filled it with Dr. Pepper form my dorm cafeteria this morning and its still cold and not watered down.  It kinda hurts my wrist to hold it for a long time though.  I'm going to go get ready for the movie.  Bye Bye.

I just got back from Gladiator.  I just want to say that it's AMAZING.  Go see it.  One of the best movies I've ever seen.

A good friend of mine that I hadn't seen in a while came over last night (Ben Wills) and we hung out until about 7 am when I crashed while watching Ace Ventura:  Pet Detective.  It was really cool to see him again and catch up on times.  We played ping pong for a while and then just chilled and talked.  Hopefully we will be hanging out more.  I actually went to a class today!  It's sad that I am proud of going to one class...lol. I have finals in about a week in a half.  Kinda stressful.  MP3's own.  I can't believe this year is almost over already.  I've been thinking a lot about the people I'm really going to miss after this year.  My best friend Bryan is staying in Plano next year and I know I will miss him a lot, but there are also a lot of people I met this year that I don't know if we will keep in touch next year.  The realization of who your friends really are is kind of a weird feeling.  I'm hungry.

I'm kinda disappointed with things right now...my parents laid down a big fat "no" for my road trip that I was so looking forward to.  I'm also kinda stressing over finals that are coming up.  I just registered for Fall 2000 classes and I didn't get all the classes I wanted.  Right now I am registered for 5 classes and 17 hours.  Those classes are:  Microeconomic Theory, American Literature, Spanish II, Business Calculus II, and Weight Training.  Sounds pretty tough, right?  That's what I am thinking too.  Girls are frustrating as usual.  My neighbor is cool.