Bowling

Well, once again I am having trouble with Dr. Aggarwal as a professor... it seems like I will never figure out what he wants... Last semester he gave me my first B in about 3 years, and it looks like I am on track for getting another one... I took his class to prove to myself that I could do better, and then I have proved to myself that it is just his problem. ARG, grad school definitely sucks... I am working every Monday through Thursday night so it keeps me busy. I have my first test next week, and then another the week after. We'll see how they go...

I started both biking and playing soccer on the weekends... I completely forgot how much I love playing soccer, of course I am sore all over because of it. I got cleats and a brand new bike, plus accessories for each (a ball and water bottle, bike light, etc.)... My friend Kelley Jones invited me to do both, so she is very much thanked for getting me to exercise again. We are second place in the bowling league as well! Go us!

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, as I mentioned in the last post I completely redecorated my house, it is still only half way done because I ran into some problems... but slowly it will get done... That and grad school has kept me very busy...

Labels: bowling, grad school, kelley jones, sports

I went to Georgia this weekend with Tatiana. We first went to Milledgeville on Friday, where we surprised my cousin Bailey for her 21st birthday present. We went to Chili's for dinner and then we attended her birthday party. At around 11:30 Tat and I were tired so we went to Bailey's house to go to bed while her and her friends went "clubbing" in downtown Milledgeville. They got home at around 3:00 and woke me up, but it was fun to see them plastered... The next morning we all drove to Atlanta. In Atlanta we went to my cousin Austin's football game and then we went to a really really really nice restaurant. We were rushed at the restaurant because we had to be a t a comedy club, called the Whole World Theater, in downtown Atlanta by 10:00... It was hilarious... we had good seats as well... They gave out a free beer to everyone who was having a birthday, but I also got a beer because for the first skit they used my suggestion. However, I was DD and hate beer anyway, so I gave it to Bailey.

We rushed home on Sunday so that I could make it to bowling... I bowled the 3 best games ever, but we still lost one of the 3 games... and so we are still dead last since we started 2 weeks late and couldn't establish a handicap.

In the next 2 weeks I have like 100000 assignments due... to name a few:

• 5 page research paper on Neural Networks due the 28th
• Program that simulates K-d tree classification due the 1st
• Program that mimics footballpickem.net due the 1st
• File sharing program due the 7th
• Bookwork for Pattern Recognition due the 25th
• Bookwork for Pattern Recognition due the 1st

On top of all this work, I want to go and visit friends in Gainesville this weekend but I know I won't have time... well, despite the fact that Wilma will probably restrict travel to and from there anyway... Oh well, I have Jäger to keep me company and help reduce stress...

Labels: austin foster, bailey foster, bowling, grad school, tatiana treffehn

My roommate Dmitri goes running almost every night, and I have started to go with him... I have never been in so much pain in my life... He went on Friday as well as tonight and I ran 1.5 miles, and then walked 1.5 miles, each night... I don't remember the last time I ran more then about 10 steps... the pain is good pain though... hopefully I'll stick to it...

We were suppose to start the bowling league tonight, however, they lost our registration information and booked another team instead, so now we have to hope that some other team quits... I was pretty bummed about that...

I am completely and utterly addicted to the show "24"... It is amazing... My roommate has the first four seasons on DVD and Tatiana and I started watching them... we are almost done with season one (5 more hours)... It is really really really really good...

Labels: bowling, diet, dmitri sokgobenzon, exercise, tatiana treffehn

Grad school officially starts tomorrow and I am really excited... of course, I wouldn't have minded if Katrina hit near by so school would have been cancelled... also, if it hit closer New Orleans would not be completely destroyed... I hope everyone makes it out ok... I really want to visit there someday...

I haven't updated in a while, but that is because I have been busy helping my new roommates move in and playing Champions of Norrath on his Playstation 2... addicting game... I also was went bowling and played pool this week... I am joining the Billiards Club and the Pizza Bowling League... As a member of the Billiards Club I will get free pool at FSU's bowling alley... and it only cost $20 for membership... I want to get really good... For the Pizza League, Dmitri, Micah and I are on a team with another one of their friends... Every Sunday we will play 3 games of bowling and get 2 slices of pizza for only $6 a week... sweeeeeeeeeet... I love bowling...

I had a ton of meetings to get ready for the school year as well, hour upon hours of them... he he... I also became the Treasurer of the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM)... which means I have a ton of stuff to do for that as well.. it'll be a busy a year...

There is a ton of stuff that we have to give to Goodwill, the problem is I don't know when I will have time for them to come out and get it... hopefully early in the week so I don't have to have it all cluttered in my living room...

So, I decided to take Distributed Application Development even though I have heard really crappy things about the teacher... I am just too excited about it and I also heard that the TA convinced him not to give tests, bur only to assign projects... and projects is what I want... I am also taking Pattern Recognition and Advanced Unix Program, both with teachers that I have had in the past (and loved)... and lastly I am taking the require Research class that I am really not looking forward too at all...

Labels: bowling, dmitri sokgobenzon, gaming, grad school, hurricane

Yesterday we went to a Dave and Busters like place called Main Event... first we bowled for an hour, which my arm is still sore because I used a 16 lb ball... I am getting really good at putting the spin on the ball though... anyways, once we were done with bowling we played some arcade games to win points (equivalent to tickets)... with $30 we won 2206 points because we found this one game that Megan was really good at... so we just kept getting points... but that was only after we wasted 10 of that $30 on skiball which gave us hardly any points at all... With the points Megan got a gumball machine and a stuffed animal... and then we both got cups with spiral straws and cool little parachuting aliens... oh, and I got a deck of cards... the gumball machine has got to be worth at least $20 alone... at least if you bought it at Spencer's Gifts it would have... so yeah, we made off pretty good... if only we didn't waste all that money on skiball we'd have a ton more points... Well, after that we played two games of pool before heading home and watching Hitch... which is a great movie by the way... Then I was stupid enough to introduce Megan to the Sims 2... 7 hours later I was able to pull her off so that I could go to bed... now she is obsessed with the game... I'll have to be more careful next time I suggest the Sims 2... it tends to have that affect on people...

Today was Megan's last day here... her sister suggested that we all go to this park down town that is a natural spring that pumps 36 million gallons a day into a creek... They gated it off and damned two ends to make the creek deeper near the spring and to keep the street runoff from polluting the immediate area so it is completely clear and clean... (even if a little kid would to pee in the springs, 36 million clean gallons would be there the next day)... at first the 68 degrees that it is year round is extremely cold after being in the 95+ degree air... but after about 5 minutes in the water it becomes rather refreshing... After swimming, we sat under an old tree and talked, which was just another way to relax...

Oh well, bed time...

Labels: austin texas, best friend, bowling, gaming, vacation

Well, after driving 1500ish miles to Minnesota I am now in Fort Lauderdale visiting my parents... It is pretty cool because now I am a guest in their house and they can't make me clean it... they are going to have a hard time getting use to that... but so far pulling the "I am a guest" card worked every time... It isn't like they can stop giving me money, because they don't anymore... ahhh... true relaxation... I wish Francisca was down so we could chill... I didn't really get to spend that much time with her with all the graduation things going on... Anyways... My graduation was exciting... I felt accomplished walking across the stage (the pictures they took to try and get money from you turned out really really good too so my parents bought some) Having all the people there made it much more fun... I was really happy I got to see Francisca, her family, Normi and the Rush's... my family was exciting to see too... B) I ate way to much in the last two weeks... man that cheese was good...

After the reception we went to the Nug and chilled there until we finally decided to go to Fridays (we being me) we went there and had a ball... I forgot to get points though so I was mad, but then Astrid said she could get them later because her hotel was near Fridays... YAY... 2750 points... go free food!!! anyways, after dinner Francisca and Normi left... B( and then Grandma, Astrid, Ken, Sean, Austin, Megan and I went to attempt to bowl, but the Crenshaw lanes on campus was closed for reconstruction and the other bowling alley had a 45 minute wait for a lane, then we even tried to go to Snookers to play pool but it was so fucking smokey that I didn't want to... so we went home and went to bed so that I could wake up and go to Minnesota the following morning...

On the way to Minnesota we stopped at two casino's... we lost all our money twice... well, "our" money being grandma's money... I was up for a while both times... but you get addicted and they take your money back slowly... We made it all the way to Minnesota in 2 days... we drove 900 miles the first day and the rest the second... Tatiana did the most driving while Grandma didn't drive an inch (literally) because she slept the whole way between casinos... Tat wanted to though, I wasn't going to complain... we took turns though and when she drove I slept, and visa versa...

The day I got there grandma and I went to the liquor store and got some booze and that night we sat around drinking and talking about people and things... That was a riot... when she went to bed I watched the last samurai and some bonus features... long movie... but good... the next morning we woke up and went to some art thing she was suppose to go to... that lasted only like 10 minutes because there weren't enough seats for her... so then we went to Walmart where I bought shirts, socks, belt... and a watch... and grandma bought a printer... We went home and we tried to set up the computer and it turned out her monitor was crap... so we had to go out again and buy a monitor... we stopped at this yummy place and ate and then went to some outdoors store because it is famous... then we went to Walmart but they only had one monitor so we went to target, but they had none so we went back to Walmart to buy the one they had because there were no other stores anywhere near by... so we got home and took a nap because we were tired from all the activity... then I woke up and set up her computer... then I went and picked up some A&W rootbeer floats and hot dogs from the root beer stand... YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMY I love that stuff... then grandma went to bed and I watched TV until I too fell asleep... we woke up and we went to the airport so I could catch my flight...

I finished deception point (the Dan Brown book) on the first leg of the flight from the Twin Cities to Atlanta and slept most the way from Atlanta to Ft. Lauderdale... it was pouring in Ft. Lauderdale so the plane had to circle forever... finally landing, my ride was late because of the rain so I had to wait... it took us nearly an hour to get home also do to the weather...

I got home and watched about 3 hours of TV until Normi asked me if I wanted to go to starbucks, we went there and spent a good hour and a half talking about cool things because we are cool people... I tried to get her to tell me things that I knew she couldn't but she wouldn't which makes me wonder if there are things she shouldn't tell me... if that makes sense... oh well... I am a loooooooooooooser...

Oh well, now I need to pretend to be tired and try to go to sleep, but I know it isn't going to happen... I have relaxed so much that it let things get on my mind and that makes me not be able to sleep... so yeah... been up since 6:00, we'll see how long I take to fall asleep...

Labels: adriana infante, bowling, francisca amunategui, grandma, megan folts, normi cadavieco, rush family, sebastian amunategui, tatiana treffehn

Well, I went Orlando this weekend, it was uberly fun... I stayed at Joes on Friday and Saturday night... Friday night we went to ESPN Club on Disney Boardwalk... it was pretty expensive, but I still had fun... we had to spread out onto 4 tables since there were so many of us... Joe, his girlfriend, his roommate, and I went early to put our name on the list only to find out that there was no list so we waited for an hour until the other people finally showed up (after major drama because Shanon got lost on her way and was mad)... Overall though, it went well... Joe had one of every speciality drink they made and then he got a pretty lame birthday cake (it was free for birthday people)... it was really nasty so his other roommate ordered a HUGE ice cream Sunday that came in a football trophy bowl... and so we all chipped in a dollar (all 18 of us) so that she didn't have to pay for it... and we had 18 spoons and were all eating it (it had strawberries, oreoes, chocolate and vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, whipped cream, cherries... etc... you name it, it was probably on it... oh and peanut butter... I got there early Friday because Joe wanted me to meet his girlfriend... then we went to Blockbuster and bought ourselves xbox games...

Saturday I went to Epcot first thing in the morning, but for the first time ever my parents didn't leave South Florida before 5 AM... they actually left at 7 so I was there an hour before them... so I had to find my way away from Epcot and went to a place closer to where they were so I could meet up with them... We parked one of our cars at Publix and drove together once they finally arrived... So once we finally got there we ate... first thing once we got into the park... some pastry place, pretty good... then we went through the educational rides for a while... Megan and I got a fastpass to the ones with long lines... when we finally were suppose to go on those rides we split up from my parents... of course, knowing my luck (it has happened on every ride I have been on since I was 12 it seems like, all three of them stopped in the middle of the ride... and say they are experiencing difficulties... when I went to Islands of Adventure a while back every ride stopped for some reason or another... the Dragon ride, twice... once they made Francisca and I get off because she had no sandals on, the other time who knows what happened... also the Spider man ride broke for like 20 minutes when I was inches from getting on it... This all started at Oktoberfest the year that the ride crashed killing 6 people... it broke down when I was in line to ride it... it didn't open until the next day (the day it crashed)... lucky I wasn't there the next day... that same year I went on a ride there called the "Frisbee" it spun like one of those gravity machines that throws you against the wall, and it rocked at the same time (like one of those big ships that go upside down and sit there)... that was probably the worst (as in the best) I have ever been on... buutttttttttttt... the girl two seats from me vomited... ALL over everyone next to her... luckily we were spinning the opposite direction, otherwise I would have had it in my mouth... like almost everyone else... luckily it didn't cause a chain reaction because then I would have gotten it too... poor girl... more importantly poor people... Oh well... back to the story... ok, so... once we finally got through with those rides we met my parents in Germany for dinner/lunch... it was about 3:30 at the time... it was a buffet they had all the German goodness... Schnitzel, Kartofflen (Potatoes), Wurst, Semmel mit Kase und Fleisch (bread roll with cheese and meat), Sharf Senf, Curry Ketchup... und am bestem die Apfel Strudel mit Vanilla Sosse... it was really really really really good... ALSO they had freshly made Spetzi (for those of you who don't know, which is probably most if not all, Spetzi is a drink in Germany that is made from mixing Coke and citrus drinks... yummy goodness) I loved it... so did my family... I only spoke German for the whole 3.5 hours we spent there... I told the waitress that it was my Dad's birthday so when the band came on they announced it and sang happy birthday to him in German... everyone was swaying their Steins around singing along... or mumbling that is... so finally when we were done we went on to the other countries in a rush because it was raining and cold... we completely skipped France because it isn't worth our time... he he... we watched some video about Canada though, but that is because we happened to walk by when it was starting...

So when I got back to Joe's, the party was about to start... the cops broke up the party... that was another exciting yet scary thing that happened... that happened at 1:00 I think because I remember Joe complaining after he was excited about being the first party out of his friends to be broken up...

The next morning I was woken up by my sister at 11 something because she wanted me to go to Melbourne (my Grandma's house) and watch the Vikings loose... I got up and left Joes and picked up Patti went... We had fun in the car ride catching up... There was a ton of food at my Grandma's house too which made it worth while... Once the game was over we drove back and then I watched her play video games for about an hour and then Eric, she and I went bowling because it was Sunday night and they had a special 1.50 per game and 1.50 for shoes... we played 3 games we all won one... the last game the score was pretty low because all of our arms were tired but it was REALLY close 84 (Me), 85 (Patti) and 86 (Eric)... I won the second game with a 120... my first game sucked because I was using a 12 lb ball rather than the 15... after bowling we went to walmart and then we went back to her house and I passed out... The next morning I woke up and drove home in 3 hours and 10 minutes... I love cop radars and loud music... When I got home I played video games like usual but then at 8:00, since it was cold, I ran around the block... I was going to do the same today but it is below 30 tonight and that is too cold for any clothing I have... I don't want to get sick again...

Today was my first meeting for my TA job... It seems like it is going to be easy so I am excited... I checked out my office... not bad... not particularly good either though... but now I have access to a fridge and microwave so I can eat on campus... I also got everything worked out pay wise and filled out my time cards for the first two weeks even though I didn't work... I found out that I actually don't start until next Thursday, and then I only work 2 hours... so for the first 4 weeks I will only have worked, including meetings and getting use to the software, about 5 hours and I will have been paid $800 for it.. B) that is $160 an hour... B) I have a lot of responsibility on my hands though once everything gets rolling... I am the administrator or whatever and that brings with it making sure everybody is happy...

so within the next month I will be getting about $1500+ from all my different jobs... what they owe me and what they will owe me... life is good...

This weekend I am going to dive head first into the whole grad school/job applying thing... I just don't know what to do for the statement of purpose... we'll see... ok, well I think I have even started to bore myself with this blabbing so that's enough...

Labels: bowling, eric rubinstein, francisca amunategui, grad school, joe castelbuono, ketchup, lori folts, megan folts, patrick folts, patti botero, publix, sick, vacation, work