so a birdie told me it was snowing in buffalo today... is this true??? ahahaha... sorry, i just find it funny that its snowing ;)
i was up in GA this weekend and the mornings were like 35-40 degrees and were were absolutely freezing, granted we were on the water and all we had on were 2 layers of spandex and a sweatsuit on over... but still!!! freezing!!!!
oh, but we are back here in miami, hehehe, it was funny, this morning i had on shorts and a tee as i was walking outside and my roommate told me "oh, you are gonna be cold out there" so i put on a sweater... what was she talking about??? it was warm out!!! ahhh, i love it!!!
but what i did notice is that christmas stuff is already up all over where were were in GA, and there is NOTHING here, nothing at all, and they really never really have much except for this big santa that they put up on this one corner in the middle of Coral Gables (the city UM is actually located in) and that even looks weird, i remember seeing it freshmen year and thinking "christmas in july" weird though, weird...
ahhh, what am i thinking about christmas for, thanksgiving hasn't even happened yet... oh i can't wait for some good food (i just hope my mom's not cooking, jk) heheheh ;)
but have some fun in that snow for me!!! and leave a little bit for me so i can go sledding, then it can all melt ;)

herm, well I don't really know what to write... but I haven't written much lately... been really busy with school work, I hate being busy with school work, no time for play :( but I get my first "vacation" of the semester, well acutally just a race up in Georgia, but a nice little change of scenery... we get to see colorful trees with the orange, and red and yellow!!! oh, but the cold :( oh well, its 3 days...
speaking of going up north, im gonna be home for thanksgiving!!! is there anything going on around then??? between the 24th and 28th???
what about the turkey trot??? I've always wanted to do that... or oh, I don't know... im up for anything, I have 4 days, and I get really bored of my family FAST!!! even on thanksgiving... woops :( oh well... im off ;)

wow, its been forever since i've gone trick-or-treating... like at least 8 years i'd say, but as a senior in college, i had the irrestable urge to go trick-or-treating. and it was soooo mcu fun!!!
however, there were several things i discovered last night:
1) trick-or-treating around a college campus doesn't work so well... their on to us not being little kids :(
2) it's totally different to do it in miami than in buffalo... all i remember about trick-or-treating when i was little was bundling up in my winter coat and possibly boots, and then my costume on top, running from house to house just to stay warm... here complete opposite, we had wife-beaters and shorts on wiith just sheets on top and were were sweating like crazy :( trying to slow down and take breaks frequently to air out, sick eh???
3) it might not be a good idea to dress up as a group of blue and maroon ghosts... apparently people thought we were "terrorists" or "talliban" or "arabs" and one women taking her kids around even told us something about how we better not be voting on tuesday, whatever that means (???) We were ghost, colorful ghosts cuz those were the only sheets we had. GHOSTS!!!
4) it's hard to play off being little kids when 3 of the 5 of us were over 5'8", you can really only squat for soo long and its soo obvious when you do that too
5) (on a political note) of all the houses with "bush" signs, only one answered their door and gave us a treat. all but one "kerry" sign house gave ussomething, and one that was out of candy even gave us money (???) didn't expect that... this is just another reason to vote for John Kerry!!! Kerry people are nicer to kids!!!
6) it's not the good candy you are hoping for from the next house, but for someone to just give out some water!!! (back to the hot miami aspect of it)
7) even at the age of 21, trick-or-treating is soo much fun!!!!

hello, so i had my fall midterm presentation for my little Sr design class... its a group of 6 of us designing everything to build a building. well it doesn't really get built, but you get what im saying...
anyways so my part of it is the architectural engineering part, so i get to make the building look pretty, or at least flow together as a building ;) but all i have so far is the site plan with the general layout of the building and the parking lot and a few trees and a little oval which is supposed to represent an upcoming pond that will have a little fountain in it to add to the aesthetics of the building (if it were to ever get built, which it wont)
our site is very sketchy, it is surrounded by govt buildings, namely the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. and we think our site was used as a dump for all of the organic materials (trees and such) from when all the other lots around it were cleared for the buildings to be constructed... and the absolute best part about it is all the records of what happened on our site from 1962-1976 were destroyed by some computer virus, so there are NO records... and of course all the buildings around us were constructed during that period, go figure... but hey, here is the site plan, hopefully it will show up, sometime the pictures i've put up don't show up, i think they are the wrong kinda something, but about all i do on the computer is autocad and AIM, so that does kinda limit me, huh??? well here ya go, oh, and I'll throw in the southwest isometric view as well ;) (as you can see we are in very preliminary stages)



oh, well i kinda don't think its gonna work :( no pictures for you
maybe I'll figure out how to do it later, they are BIG files, even after being shrunk down

ok, so im a senior, and im trying to graduate on time... well thats not gonna happen, i'm coming back next fall to finish up two courses i still need to graduate... ok, thats not gonna kill me, i get an internship this summer (hopefully) then finish up easy stress free fall then i graduate then i join the "real world"
And then comes the FE test i have to take. It is the Fundamentals of Engineering test... offered twice a year, but you have to register like 6 months prior to taking it. so since i have been planning on taking it in April, i have to get the application in by the 15th, as in October... woops, kinda waited till the last minute to do that, huh??? so on friday i realized, while i was sitting in the school's health center in an hour long wait to be seen (i've been sick all week, Yeah!!!) that the due date is very quickly approaching and not only do i have to fill out a bunch of forms, but have to get papers signed by tons of people, i need the seal of the school, and get other things notarized... and all this on a friday afternoon since monday is a holiday (but we still have school) and it really should get sent out before tuesday. oh, and i needed a passport photo... how random i thought, but why do they need to know what i look like???? ok so miraculously, i managed to get all this done, some things "kinda forged" but not by me so i didn't really feel guilty, and i got the seal and after our afternoon practice i managed to find a notary on a friday at 4:45!!! and then after shower, dinner and watching the beginning of GO, and searching out 2 different convenient stores, i managed to get a passport photo (two in fact) and then a little bit of grocery shopping then home to find a post office nearby that would be open on saturday after i got back from practice to mail this out.
so after i have located 2 (just to be safe) post offices just nearby... i thought to myself, "well the test date is Sat. April 16th. We usually have races almost every weekend in April. I should probably check to make sure i don't have anything."
Well what do ya know... Our ACC Championships in SC are on Sun, April 17th!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
and of course the stupid test is only offered on that date nation wide... and it's an 8 hour test from 8-5!!!! so i asked my coach about flying up to SC after it and i talked to my teacher about any other possibilities, and what did i come up with????
I can' take this test that i spent my entire friday getting signatures and stamps and seals for and a picture too... UNTIL OCTOBER 2005!!!!!
ahhh, so frustrating... so there ya go

and a complete side note, why are there so many buffalo people in favor of Bush???? it seams like every buffalonian i talk to is all "pro bush" and "bush is the greatest" what the hell, buffalo has been hit crazy hard by his bullshit, there really aren't many people there anymore making enough for them to get any of those god damn benefits, and look at the jobs, or what jobs??? oh yeah, the factory/ assembly line jobs that were created to pay min wage while tons of "real" jobs went elsewhere or just vanished.... but yeah, bush is "good" right? cuz he has "morals" and "oh, he's soooo cute" (?????) and my favorite, "unlike kerry, he actually knows what he's talking about" (again ??????) well whatever, i just don't get it. I guess i am just a dumb "liberal" hehehehehehehe