not a good day

so i don't want sympathy, or that ''awww'' treatment from anyone because i am writing about my overall not-so-good day, i just thought i would tell how crappy a day can go and still somehow survive it all.

5:15am-Alarm goes off for morning crew practice
5:19am-roll out of bed and make my way out of the room to get ride to docks
5:40am-get to docks to begin running warm-up
5:49am-get back from run, realize two people of our 8-man boat are missing (damn them)
5:59am-still waiting for other 2, can't get ahold of them, get changed from rowing in the good boat to rowing in the old heavy boat (acceptable, as the girls did have all 8, but still crappy)
6:12am-waited 5 more minutes for slackers and brought boat down to water (still only have 6 rowers)
6:17am-seat to boat doesn't fit in slides, have to find new one
6:28am-find seat that fits, now the problem is getting it into the slides
6:34am-get seat that works in, finally pushing off the dock
6:37-6:45am-because of missing two people (in bow of boat) boat steering sucks and weave back and forth through the channel to portage lake
6:45am-trying to move 3 and 4 seat to bow and 2 seat, doesn't work because the seats don't fit (see boat description below)
6:55am-coach thanks us for trying, and sends us back to the docks to go home
7:00am-7:15am-put boat back on trailer and head back to dorms

(got up at 5:15am for two hours to do absolutely nothing)

12:05pm-lunch, spill glass of milk
1:24pm-sit down to start reading for my math quiz, realize i have geology at 1 and am 19 minutes late at that point...didn't really matter, but still
3:07pm-Math quiz...need i say more
7:20pm-spill glass of water on desk, all over laptop, statics book, and statics homework
7:21pm-fire drill...talk about bad timing, didn't get much time to clean up and dry out my laptop
8:00-8:10pm-redo first part of statics homework
8:10-11:00pm-work on second problem of statics homework...and not finish
11:00pm-find out i have practice again in the morning
11:00-11:45pm-Hall grilled cheese social (one of the plusses of the day)
11:45-12:00pm-clean up...put everything away, and try to get to bed
12:10am-crawl into bed for a wonderful 5 hours of sleep before practice

all times are eastern time for all you peeps back home (that means subtract one hour for your time) and are only guess, fairly accurate guesses, but still guesses none-the-less.


boat description (seat names)
even numbered rowers have port oars, odd numbered rowers have starboard oars

back of boat-stern front of boat-bow
leftside-port
coxswain, stroke, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, bow ---->
rightside-starboard




as always,
peace

whats up with tech?

hello
it is 12:12 am and i am bored out of my mind....not because i have nothing to do (because i have LOTS of stuff to do) but because nothing seems to interest me right now at school. I am loving crew, and i think that that is probably keeping me from going insane, but other than that school is just sucky right now. my math teacher, is going over graphing functions in the fourth dimension...yes i said it, the fourth dimension...wrap your mind around that for a minute...also, there are classes that just dont seem to be teaching me much about civil engineering (i.e. fourth-dimension stuff in calc, and electric charges in physics) or keep my attention (i.e. igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic rocks). and these classes seem to drag on and on and on and on.....

the other problem is that i think i am going through withdrawls...no, i am not a drug-addict that needs his fix...when i hang out with my friends, i am always hanging out with 'the guys'....all the time...i have a handful of female friends but my friends pool is way to concentrated the other way...what about engineering keeps women away from MTU...i mean this world is supposed to be a much more equal (in terms of women and men being equally represented in different career fields), but damn not my profession...

well that is my random 10 minute vent, still don't know if people are reading this

peace

back to school

back to school, back to school, to prove to my daddy that i'm not a fool....i've got my backpack on, my shoes tied tight, i hope i don't get into a fight....

well back to the wonderful world of michigan technological university, and all of its wonders

wonder number one: the ridiculous amount of snow (300 inches last year)
wonder number two: the outdoors (anything outdoors you can think of...we've got it)
wonder number three: the fact that there are zero girls here (and by zero i mean ZERO)

now that i am back for the semester and i have high speed internet, i should be posting more often so keep your eyes open and if you want anything just post a comment of your own.

peace