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Nintendo

Congrats to Shanna for beating Kingdom Hearts! I haven't had the chance to beat it, but I got through most of it. I let her borrow it and that is all she wrote, as they say. On other video game related things, I bought Joel and X Box and we have been playing Halo. Damn is that game fun. What more could you ask for other than killing some aliens? I don't know of anything. Another game I have been playing is Animal Crossing. This game is so time consuming. It happens in real time. For example, right now I am not playing the game, but things are still going on in the game. I am a cute little cat looking creature striking out on my own. I have to buy a house and furniture for the house and find work and things like that. I have to expand my house and decorate it pretty in order to get more points. It is really fun and you can do a lot of things. I think Joel is going to move into a town there so I can go and visit him and get more things. Oh, video games, you will be my demise.
I have to study for a test en espanol tonight. I have it tomorrow evening. Fun stuff. I haven't had much to update here lately. Joel and I are still trying to get a house. I haven't turned the paperwork in yet b/c we are waiting on some of his stuff but hopefully that will come in this week and by the end of the week the paperwork will hopfully be in. Yay. Well, last hour of work. I should find something constructive to do. Later...............

all you base are belong to us

Ahoy, me hearties. Today be talk like a pirate day. Don't believe me, eh? Avast! Look here, matey, and it all will be explained. Don't be every day ye get to talk like a pirate, savvy?
Driving 10 hours to get to a place that is less than 5 hours away = no fun.
Spending 4 hours just trying to get through Hattiesburg, MS = no fun as well.
That stuff happens when you have half a million people fleeing for their lives when they really didn't have to. Well, granted that no one knew where the storm was going, and it was a bad storm, just look about 45 minute to an hour to our east in the Mobile, Gulf Shores, Pensacola area, but none the less it was a sucky experience that I don't ever want to go throuh again, but will if I have to. Things are getting back to normal. Joel and I had a nice visit with Kristyn and Bryan and just sat and watched the weather channel for 3 days. They should dramatized the storm a little more. I don't think we got to see what it really was like to stand outside when any sane person would be miles from that spot. Really, Jim Cantore. You are supposed to be some sort of expert, not a dumbass. Our local weatherman even knows when to stay inside and he doesn't seem too bright sometimes.
Luckily all we have to clean up is pine needles, leaves and a few branches and no one got flooded out and there was no structural damage to anything of importance. I do think that the civil engineers in Mississippi are on crack. The hurricane evacuation thing didn't work out how it is supposed to. The infastructure is fucked when it comes to that. You have one road going east, one going west and one going north, each are two lanes and for some reason they didn't want to open both lanes going away from here, and in my town alone there are almost 30,000 people, and we aren't the largest city on the coast, far from it, so you see the problem. I think they need to work on that a little more. This was the first time a mass evacuation has been issued since the storm that made it law to leave when they tell you to came through here 30 years ago leaving a lot of people dead and the whole coast in ruin.

slow-poke ivan

I have read two books and written 3 papers and a part of a story in the last week. Not to mention going and talking to a mortgage officer. I have been busy. But what i really wanted to talk about is thimbles.
Ok, no really.
Fear is a funny thing. We, as humans, deal with it on a daily basis (perhaps some more than others). We fear confrontation, we fear getting in a car wreck, we fear getting caught if we are doing something we aren't supposed to do. These are all of course just examples of what we may face on a daily basis. It is a unique thing to be able to see fear as it builds though. Hurricane Ivan is a very strong storm and it is taking its sweet time in the Carribean right now and it has people where i live (and I am included in this) kind of scared as to what is going to happen. It is a weird thing to have people boarding up their homes and leaving. People gather water and batteries and ply wood as if these items alone will keep them safe from mother nature's hungry storm, and in reality, it won't. This place becomes a ghost town when evacuations are issued. It's crazy. There was a storm that raged through here 30 years ago by the name of Camille and people still talk about it. The survivors (my parents are in that group) are all the paranoid people you see freak out when a storm is anywhere in the ocean. They have every right to be paranoid because one day they woke up and everything they ever knew had changed forever. Ivan is a strong storm. If it comes here it will be utter devestation and I don't know how I would handle coming home to god only knows what. The mass exodus will be interesting to say the least. There are a lot of people that live here now, and most of them have no idea what it is like to go through a hurricane. They are in for quite a shock. Think of how awesome a thing has to be that people leave their homes and towns in droves. How awesome is mother nature? I personally don't want to stick around to find out.

for sooth

I will take from Shannon and post some pictures because I don't really have much to say. I was thinking, though, that after I finish reading some of these books for all my classes I will post some book reviews. I will have to get on that. And now some pictures.
Here is me and all my cuteness. The pictures are meant to illustrate my adorable hair cut. Unfortunately my adorable hair color isn't very apparent in the pictures, but it is the nicest shade of red with blonde streaks in it.

And here is my stack of books thus far in the semester. I have yet to buy the rest of them, but I would care to guess there are about 10 more I have to get before all is said and done this semester.

Later...