We watched the debate in Chauncy's (Our uber-awesome game-room with FIVE tvs, yes my school has too much money) tonight. The focus on the debate was homeland security and the war on terrorism, which is a wholeheartedly boring and overdiscussed topic in the first place, but both candidates found a way to make it interesting I suppose.

Some lvl. 9'ers were playing Trivial Pursuit down there (and sitting right in front of the main TV, no less) and talking up a storm. About halfway through the debate, I could see everyone giving them this evil eye, like “shut the fuck up or leave.” One of them rolled the dice or something and was reading the next question out loud when I got fed up, and I walked up to them and quietly told them to either leave or pay more attention to the debate.

Both made many valid arguments. Kerry continued to reiterate that he would solve the nations problems in the four years in office, and he actually promised Americans this. Bush stayed true to his beliefs that you can promise anything you want, but actually fulfilling those promises is difficult to do. Its interesting to note that Kerry believes that he can accomplish his goals in a mere four years, while Bush is more realistic and realizes that things take time. He made an interesting argument with respect to Russia when he said you can't always do what's popular, you have to do what's right. The distinction he makes between himself and Kerry is that he will alter his methods but never vary his plans to reach his goal, while he beleives Kerry always attempts to do what is popular.

All in all, I thought it was an excellent debate. The talk about North Korea and Iran got a little out of hand, and Iraq was mentioned more than it needed to be, but the homeland security questions were answered well, in addition to the questions on how they percieved the character of their opponent. Waiting until next Thursday for the second debate, and the VP debate on Tuesday.

me: i wish i could go back to the 80s when i was just a kid and nothing in the world mattered
kelley: but what would you change if you could
me: i had my legos, and i had my innocence.
kelley: i don't know what id do differently, really.
me: now i have neither.
kelley: legos and innocence…we should start a band and call it that
me:i would go back to the 80s and stay there forever
me: thats what i'd do differently… stay there. never leave

We had another B-level IM football game tonight, versus Pike. We had about 8 guys out there, and Pike brought about 7. We decided to play anyway, and it was a great game. We ended up losing by only one point… and we ran out of time on the eight yard line. But it was a lot of fun. Especially playing short-handed, and in the Fraternity league.

On the way back from the fields, we walked by Cook Stadium and saw a bunch of trophies sitting next to the trash can. They were huge! They were all rifle trophies from the eighties… We all grabbed one to take back, so we'd feel like winners at something. Mine says First place 1986-87. We were walkin back to the Apartment when a car drove by, so I ran up into the street waving the trophy and screaming “We won! We won!” It was a pizza guy, and he waved back, saying “Hell ya! good job!” Haha. I bet he was wondering what the hell we won, and why I had a bigass trophy. We're dorks.

I set up the trophy on one of our coffee tables, its a conversation piece. The little rifle guy on top is a little wobbly, I'll need to fix him so he doesn't fall off. Plus he's all a little dusty, I should wipe it down, too.

I still got some homework to do tonight, but its not due until 4:20 tomorrow. I have three 2-page summarries to write by Thursday at noon, but only my 9am class on Thursday. So I guess I better finish this homework up before I leave tonight.

Stabbing Westward fucking rocks.

Homework hasn't turned out to be too terrible yet today. I did my ECE200 early, and got my lab group meeting out of the way. I've taken a look at the ADES hw due Tuesday, and I'm going to wait on the Wednesday ECE250 until tomorrow. Got RH330 to do for Thursday, thats the one I'm worried about. Which reminds me, I need to read for that…

I'm really starting to feel the crunch. Junior year is tough, and I'll take whatever breaks I can get in the day. I don't know how I got through the last two years without a cell phone, because that thing is like my dayplanner now. Dates, meetings, birthdays, phone numbers… everything goes in there. Maybe I should get an iPaq. Or maybe I should just get my damn iPod (where is it? I hate UPS.)

The Worx is closed on the weekends now? Subway is open, but sometimes you just get tired of the subs. We were talking about the design of the apartment hall the other day, and we figured it must have been designed by seniors in high school. Only public restrooms are on the first floor, and the 2nd/3rd floors don't connect to the other wings.

Wow its cold in here. I like it. 68 degrees of pure shivery!

Nothing like waking up on a Sunday morning at 1:30 in the afternoon.

Went to the ATO party because my roomies were on the list. Didn't get back until 3:30. Now I gotta whole weekends worth of homework to do because I haven't started on any of it yet. Hopefully its not that bad. Two labs to finish, a paper to write, and homework to start in 3 of the classes. Ugh. This school gets worse every day. Ok, back to my fantasy football team.

We went to the Vault last night for a party they were having down there. Its across from ISU, so we drove over there and met some people before walking over. Its in the basement of these guys' house, and there were about 200 people down there. We were there for about an hour before the music stopped and the lights came on. Word started trickling through the party that excise showed up. Then the guy came over the loudspeaker saying “if you are 21 and have your ID, come to the front.” I was like, screw that, I'll chill with my friends.” Then five minutes later he said it again as cops started coming down the stairs. “If you are 21 and have your ID, you need to get the hell out of here right now.”

So I put down my beer and walk up the stairs, and pass 3 cops on the way up. A cop asks me if I'm 21, I say “Yessir,” and he keeps walkin. Never checks my ID. I waited outside for an hour with the other 21+ year olds, and watched as people slowly came out. Six cops were writing tickets inside. Wow, that really sucks. I met some cool people out there, though. Tonight, we're seeing if some people want to come over to the apartment first and then we might head out to Delta Sig or the ATO party.

Went and watched the 'bama game down in the cafe, they got the LCD flat screen set up down there. It looks awesome. Too bad 'bama lost. But I did decide to get a new hat, because my old one fell apart. (its broken-in, though.) I'll just add it to my growing collection of hats. Got about 6 hats now, and need a few more colors.

ADES test wasn't soo bad, like I thought it would be. I totally bullshitted the last problem, but I may squeeze a few points out of it. C+, I'm hoping for. The rest was fairly simple, hoping to not have made a lot of stupid mistakes. Not knowing how to do the last one is a direct result of me not bothering to learn it.

Don't have class until 4:20… What should I do? Dunno. Maybe its naptime.

Ashley changed our board to a quote from earlier this week:

“One girl was like the ugliest girl in the world. And the other girl was like… her twin.”

She looked like she fell out of the ugly tree, hit every ugly branch on the way down, then rolled down the fucking ugly hill, into the ugly ocean and got eaten by the ugly shark. Which then threw-up.