ahhh, it's ash wednesday, the day to start the Lent fast thing (catholicism...) and just like every other year, i couldn't think of what to give up/do for the 40 days. so i asked (e:amanda) stupid me... jk

and after arguing with her for over an hour that i can't give "something" up, i have decided to actually go with what she said i should do... but instead, to even go farther...

I'm not gonna say what it is, but amanda, you will figure it out soon enough.

oh my god, i already miss it, and im only a little over 10 hours into the 40 days... ahhhh

(but i am putting in the clause that under necessary circumstances... i will permit it :- i know, i know, but not for fun... just business)

i have a feeling my cell phone is gonna get a lot of use these next 40 days... call my room phone as much as possible!!!! do you even know that number??? ;)

congratulations (e:amanda)

you did it!!!

(and you didn't even mess it up!!!)

just a little bit further next time ;)

so I'm on this kick of telling stupid little stories, so here's another ;)

so... last night, i went out to the living room to sit and watch some TV with Imani, one of my roommates. ya know, just wanted a little break from the stupid pointless homeowrk i was doing...

and as i sit down, i start to hear this humming.... so i ask her, "what's that noise?" and at first she says she doesn't hear anything... and i think to myself, 'how can she not here that???' then she said she can kinda hear it and she must have zoned it out, but think's it must be from outside or something... i even asked her to turn the TV off to see if that was making the noise, but nope... still this humming noise.

then i see this look on her face... this little evil look, and i think to myself, 'Oh, my God, what is she doing???'

so i left the room a minute to go get something from my room and to leave her alone a minute... and by the way, I was begining to get really disgusted by what i thought she was doing...

then i came back, really not anxious to sit out there with her, and i still heard it... and by the look on her face i was even more convinced that she was up to something....

so as i was about to give up on sitting there with her, i reached under the coffee table in front of her to grab my sandals to go outside for a few minutes when i saw it....

she had a little foot massager under there... that's what was making all that noise...

I was like, "what the Hell, you knew all along what that noise was!" and yes, she did, but she knew what i was thinking and wanted to see how long i would go believing it....

ahhhh, hasn't my poor sofa gone through enough this semester??? ;)

but i guess the foot massaging didn't do the trick, cuz i just got back from her basketball game, and Duke beat them :(

maybe the other noise would have helped more ;) jk

every semester i hit this wall in which i get these assignments and i have absolutly no idea how to do them... but it's only the 3rd week, the start of the 3rd week... and i already don't know how to do this stuff :( what the hell!!!

i spent so long on my HVAC homework... but i guess since i never understood thermodynamics, it's understandable that i can't do this stuff... ahhh, so frustrating. my professors always just look at me like im a moron when i go to ask em for help on these assignments... but come on now... how am i suppossed to know how to calculate the enthalpy of the moist air at such and such relative humidity at both sea level and at 1525 meters above sea level??? ahhh, i don't even know where to find that.... this sucks...

but now I'm gonna try my masonry assignment, again... but like i said above, I never understood my concrete class so what makes me think I'm gonna have any idea how to do this masonry stuff???

ahhh, soo frustrating... and way too early in the semester to be this confused :(

ah ha!!! i finished the work i needed to finish with time to spare... so I'm gonna use that time to tell of what i learned as i was doing my work all day.

One of my roommates, Alex, get's her hair redone about every 2 weeks... i remember the first time i saw her right before she had it done i said to her, "oh my god, you cut your hair so short!" but no, stupid me... the long hair i always see isn't real... i was soo shocked at this, but whatever... so today and tomorrow she's getting it redone!!!

but before it can get done, she has to cut out the old one which was sewed in, there were literally brown threads that stitched her actual braided hair to this stuff that really reminded me of the "kid sister" doll, you know... the girl form of "my buddy"?





but my job this morning was to cut the threads... so nerve racking, i thought i was gonna cut her hair... and its so short already... i don't wanna cut any more...

well I'll tell ya, that was interesting... i would have never thought you could sew hair onto other hair... i've heard of it, but eeek, never actually saw it up close

and now and all day she has been sitting out on the floor in the living room and a girl from the track team is braiding these, what look to be 3 foot long hairs (after braded) to her head... it's been taking all day and I'm thinking will take long into the night... but still... it amazes me, so much effort...

and i thought brushing my hair and putting it in a pony tail after my shower, with the every few month trim, was enough work...

ok, well, that's all for now... gotta get to sleep ;)

My weekend (or 30 hours of it) summed up right here.

So a bunch of girls on my team and I went to Busch Gardens, in Tampa, FL yesterday. We left Miami around 6:30 Friday night, drove on, and on and on, because our 3 and a half hour tour turned into a 6 and a half hour drive. Why, you may ask? Because the girl who gave me directions has never taken those directions, nor does she drive, so while she has lived in Tampa all her life, she really knows nothing of the area, or how to get to her house. So after driving around the Tampa area, back and forth for about 2 and a half hours with her laughing at the fact that she had no idea where, on the street she told us to take, we were.

Ok, so forget about that night, we found a hotel and gas station right before I was about to run out of gas (after miles of nothingness) at 1:00 in the morning, and we stayed the night there instead of going to her house.

Ok, so Saturday! That was Busch Gardens Day! We locked our wallets and cameras and everything in the lockers all day so I have NO PICTURES! But 2 girls did have their cameras so hopefully I can get some pictures from it here soon.

The rides were really fun. We rode em all (those that were running), several times. There were no lines for anything, so it was great! And of course, we checked out all of the animals!

(e:amanda), I think we should have gone there last year, aside from the rides, you would have loved it!

And then at the end of the day, after hours and hours of stuff, we went back on the ride we started out the day with (3 times in the morning, 3 times before we left) It was Gwazi, a big wooden roller coaster, fastest and longest in the southeast US. Ok, so the morning was so fun, it was fast and all, and threw you around like crazy, but still do-able, over and over again. Later on, before we left was a different story. It was still fun, but my brain had taken enough abrupt movements by that point that it just became painful. But of course we insisted on doing it again, and again. By the third time, after the first loop, my head hurt so bad that I was only waiting for it all to end, it was so sad to say that, but we still had fun!

Then we hoped in the car, and drove back, that was a long 4 hours (45 minutes of that spent at a Wendy's along the way somehow) and we were back on campus before 9:30. Then I hung out w/ my roommates for a little bit then fell asleep!

OH, OH, OH, the funniest part of the day! The last time we were on that roller coaster at the end, I'm sitting next to Yassi, we have our hands up the whole time, the ride stops, she looked at me and said, "I lost my bra!" Somehow it slipped up off of her and ended up by her neck by the end of it. We were so tired we just laughed so hard until we were just too tired to laugh anymore.

So there you go, 30 hours of my weekend
11 spent in my car
7 spent in the park
7 spent in a sketchy little hotel room

weird how that doesn't add up, eh???

Ok, so i guess since i don't have one, i don't fully get the thrill of a camera phone; however, what i experienced in class today just kinda... i don't know what to say aobut it... it was just kinda weird...

so im sitting in class, its a boring class, really boring, and just like 15 ppl in in a little classroom. So I'm messing around with the guy next to me, Danny, just doing whatever, to pass the time, ya know... and then the girl to my left, Beka, starts passing notes to me (i know... so middle school and stuff, but it passes the time alright!) and then as she is writing something i look past her... 2 seats past her, to her left, and what do i see??? the girl is holding her phone all funny while still peering into it... then she presses something... smiles... turns to the girl to her right, to Beka's imediate left and shows her what she just did...

She took a picture of Danny!!!

So i hit Beka for her to look... she sees it, and BURSTS OUT LAUGHING!!! well of course that forces me to start laughing (come to think of it, it really wasnt that funny, but at the time, it was the funniest thing in the world)

So we are laughing, and have to tell Danny... he gets all embarrassed, but what the hell... and we sat through the rest of class picking on Danny and watching these 2 girls take pictures of this other guy 2 seats in front of me (who does have really good eyes) and trying to take more of Danny.

Now who does that??? really now... It is a Tuesday/Thursday class. we meet 2 hours each of those days... isn't that enough time to see these guys that they need to take several pictures of them stare off into space as they are bored out of their minds sitting in class... and i have a bunch of classes with both of them and I'm sure those girls do too...

I guess im just saying "how pathetic are people that they sit in class and take pictures of cute guys?" Now I'm serious... i admit it, i did my share of what some may refer to as "stalking," but i never took pictures of him... (e:amanda) always wanted to to, but even that was too much for me...

what sick sick ppl, but it was still definitly funny and helpful in passing the time in that class a little better

Today, Wednesday January 26, 2005� quite a day!!!

So first of all, today my rowing team (here at U Miami) participated in a national fundraiser, Row for Humanity! Pretty much its just a bunch of different rowing programs across the country join together in this ergathon to raise money for their program and to give a portion of the money to Habitat for Humanity. (and I'd like to add that we, all 43 of us, did a habitat house right around here on the 22nd... now that was hard work!!!!)

So the ergathon went well... it was fun!!! It was 12 hours straight of rowing from 7am to 7pm on the ergs, each of us rowed two, 1 hour pieces in the middle of campus right outside out University Center (on the Rock). And when we were picking the times I thought I was being all smart choosing to go from 8-9 and from 3-4. Well, just like Buffalo... we have gotten some cold temps lately too...:( yeah, they don't compare, but still... cold for Miami, like in the 50's and 60's, and one night was even in the 40's!!! Ok, so my selections of times was way off... first, the early one was chilly, but luckily rowing for an hour really warms you up!! But my second shift at 3 was stupid!!! So the sun did come out throughout the day and it did get warm... and just as the sun was directly in our faces, it was time for me to get on for my 3:00 shift, ahhhhh!!! It was soo painful to see, and soo draining. We survived, but it was rough, and of course, right as we got off the ergs at 4:00, the sun went behind a tree and then around 4:30, right behind the building to provide complete shade... ahhh, oh well, I was done by then!!!

All in all, we had a fun little ergathon!!!

Next order of business is TODAY IS AUSTRALIA DAY!!!! Did anyone know that??? I definitely never heard of it, but I supposed I wouldn't since I live in the US and have never been to Australia, but having 2 girls on my team who are Australian and very proud of it, we got to celebrate this wonderful day!!! Well kinda... they made us this Australian dessert... oh, it was sooo good!!! Sooo sweet!!! It was like meringue that you get on a lemon meringue pie but it was crispier, so that was the substance of this treat. Then it was topped off with whipped cream and strawberries!! It was sooo good!!! So HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!!!!



Next order of business is the sad part of today :( On January 26, 2004, something happened... something very bad... I lost a great friend of mine :( Her name was Lumiee, she was a 1996 Chevy Lumina. She had a shiny grey (with a tint of tan) exterior and a nice cozy maroon interior. She was my very first car!!! I bought her in September 2000 at the beginning of my senior year of High School. My parents were sick of driving me to practice at 5:00 in the morning every morning so it was inevitable I was gonna buy one and Lumiee was the one I choose!!! I loved her. We went through soo much together, so many trips between Miami and Buffalo and all throughout both as well :) We got along so well!!!

But a year ago today, as I was driving myself and 4 other girls from my team back from practice to the cafeteria, I lost her. :( A woman drove through a stop sign and into me, sending Lumiee and the 5 of us inside of her into a tree. We even took the full sized palm tree out, leaving only a 2 foot high stump for a few weeks until the maintenance people removed that.

It was hard parting with her, but I knew as soon as I climbed out the window, ran to the passenger side door and made sure everyone else was out, that she was gone. Her entire front end was in the shape of a V, and I was convinced she was about to blow up from all of the dust I saw (for anyone who has not been in a car accident with airbags involved, the white dust that smells like gunpowder... is not smoke, so yes, your car is probably a mess, but don't worry, it's probably not on fire or about to explode).

But as I walked away from her and emptied her out (I couldn't believe they made me do that in the middle of the road, take out everything, golf clubs, snow brushes, everything) she was still on (I guess I just jumped out w/o taking the keys out) and her music played on... just as the thought of Lumiee, my very first car, the one that I will always hold in highest regard, will always drive on in my heart...

Lumiee, I love you and miss you very much

And this is a picture of her in her last winter in Buffalo when my mom got her stuck in the end of our driveway...

Happy birthday Paul (from me this time)
go wild tonight, you 28 year old... wow... that's pretty old isn't it???
JK!!!

ahhhh, i just typed this whole big thing and i pressed something else and the whole thing was gone... woops... anyways....

so to sum it all up since i don't feel like retyping it all, My roommate is moving out on me... and i feel bad saying this, but i really can't wait for her to go. I know i am gonna be getting someone new and that will be annoying, but jess, the one moving out, has come to be such a draining person to live with.... ahhhh now ya see, i got into detail about this just a minute ago, but like i already said, im not really in the mood to retype that all up again...

but school has started... classes are boring... we have our first erg test (rowing thing) of the season tomorrow morning, and the miami vs duke men's basketball game is on right now, i should be there, but getting tickets was too hard with class and all so I'm gonna go watch it on TV w/ alex!!!

Go CANES!!!!