in a trendy setting

lunch today is provided by panera, but funded by my proletarian sweat.
work is really slow today, and probably wil be from now on. Bury + Partners, our biggest client at westlake, moved downtown to 3 floors of the Frost bank building. So they took their business with them to the downtown burks. good for them. i still get paid the same for less work. which i can deal with. :D
the first mate is ill once again. she believes it to be a cold. oh well, not much i can do for that but to make her comfortable.
Ich denke, dass mein Exam um Montag gang gut. i have an epics paper due tomorrow, but it's only 4-6 pages, so c'est facile. then next monday, i have a deviance test, but that class is now pass/fail, so meh. and of course cleaver's class is always a joy.
Leveled vilduil to 64 and a half so far. got lockpicking back to level, same with poisons. now i just need farm more leather to get that up to snuff. i think this weekend will be good for WoWing it up. i'm very cyclical in my desire to play. but i need to read more and watch my netflix. but it's only tuesday, so there is more school-week to complete first.
I'm loving the new laptop. it's perfect. i really like that it's tiny and i actually prefer that over a big screen. i could just use alittle more battery life. but that's the only complaint.
I need to still transfer over my files from the old computer, but i can't get the burks ftp to work from home. no idea why. and i don't have an external harddrive, althought they are inexpensive... So instead i'm gonna try to import files a few gigs at a time with my lifedrive. i just have to sit down and do it. maybe while i'm watching one of my netflix....brilliant.
i love fresh baked french baguette. the outside is hard and crunchy, but the inside is fluffy.
wow, this is a pretty well developed post. that's unusual :p
well, the battery is gonna die soon. so this is it. transmission out.

last night...i had a dream about you...

Ye Gods!

so, the birthday season is officially over after last night. Had dinner yesterday with Uncle Tim and Elaine at Maudie's after Epics. It was great. both the first mate and i had the verde chicken enchiladas. We had great conversation with the elders. Elaine's a total lefty like us.
Sunday (my birthday) i got my new laptop. It's the HP DV2221us. The screen is a 14.1", but it's great. it's very similar to the first mate's, but smaller. Civ 4 and WoW work well on it. i finally got vilduil's lockpicking past 300 so i can pick Outland chests and lockboxes. woohoo!

wii!

tonight was great. all four of us wii-bowled. dad won two games, but so did i and i claimed the highest score of the night. in power throws, i was the best too. basically, i am the greatest.

the run up to 21

well, spring break is here. 3 days of work, then 3 days of camping. then 1 day of partying.
hopefully there will be a new computer involved in the mix. also, financial stability would be great too. :D
been feeling pretty crappy lately. allergies are a bitch. my throat is still sore and scratchy. i need to exercise more, it makes me feel better.
school goes well, but i need to get more of my reading done. but there are much more exciting things to than read sociology, like play WoW or watch the DVR.
I think i would like to do a research project (thesis, dissertation, independent study, whatever) on the influence of music on social movements and their public influence. how does the music and artists connect with the people and get them active and/or vocal? i know that music in the sixties for the civil rights movement influenced people, the punk movement of the seventies. heck, even the songs sung by slaves in the fields to get them to the north would be somewhat relevant. there's a lot of material out there. it's just a matter of collecting it, analyzing it, synthesizing it and writing it. woohoo!