What else am I going to talk about?

So this post is just going to be about something going on in my life. I have nothing else to write about in these blogs!! I am running out of things to talk about! ! I have never been much of a writer and now I have to write 1000 words every week? I am going to run out of things quick. I will admit this is helping me write though. It is helping more with my casual writing and not so much with my formal writing. But that’s ok, cause I am an engineer and don’t need to write very much…..hopefully! :-p well that’s it for this week! Ill be back nextr week to force out another 1000 words for you! Peace! J

Galileo/Homework

So as some of you may know, I am a part of the Galileo living program here at Virginia Tech and I want to talk about that for a few minutes. I want to say how little of a life I am able to have because of all the homework and stuff we have to do in this program. Plus on top of that I have so much homework in all my other classes that it is just kind of overwhelming. I am trying to balance both my academic and social life. It is a lot harder than I thought it would be. The previous weekend I sat around and did a lot of homework, and I didn’t really go out much. I felt very anti-social. So this past weekend I decided to go out and have fun and see people and hang out with people and see the football game and just relax. And do you want to know where that got me? Well it got me here, stuck in my room on a Sunday afternoon doing nothing but homework basically all day. I went to 10 am mass, went to get a quick bite to eat with the friends I went to mass with, and got back to my room about 12. I have been in my room since doing homework. And will be long after this is posted because I still need to finish up my English paper, Galileo homework, engineering homework, and calculus homework. Like I said, I am so far behind now for having a decent social life this weekend. Ugh, why does college have to be like this? Why cant we just take classes a little at a time and do well in them? Oh, right, because life isn’t like that. Life is always busy and we will always be running around with too many things to do. I guess I will push through it now and get on with life so that maybe later in life I will have time to sit around and relax more.

What do you think about when you hear this four letter word?

Not having English class all this past week has been one of the best things that could have happen to me! It was such a refreshing thing knowing that I had an extra hour or so to do whatever I wanted to do. I would take a nap, do laundry, or even do some more homework that I had for other classes. I managed to actually write 2 papers this week for English because I got halfway through my first paper and couldn’t quite finish it. I talked about how me and my friends use the term “That’s What She Said” in basically all the conversations we have in a day. And they are always really good ones too. But I ran into a problem. I had nothing else to say. I had all my thoughts down and needed 600 more words. So I decided to rewrite my paper on something I think you could talk someone to death with. I chose to talk about love. The simple four letter word which we all use multiple times in a day to describe so much. We use it to describe how we feel about a sandwich, movie, friend, family, driving, a sport, walking, running, etc, etc. the list goes on and on. What do u think about when u think of the word love? Do u think about someone close to you in your life? Do you think about a family member? Friend? What? When I think about the word love I think of my family. And when I say family, I mean more than just my mom, my dad, and siblings. I live in a house with 8 other people and 5 dogs. I live with my mom, dad, two sisters, one brother, grandma, grandpa, and aunt. Having so many people in the house always makes for an exciting life. There is always someone in the house and always someone you can talk to. This is what I think of when I think about love. Everyone in the family loves each other and is willing to help each other no matter what the situation. My aunt, Kathy, has always been there for me and I am always there for her too.This one time, Kathy and I both had a rough day and we were both home. I was doing homework for school the next day and she was online dealing with some banking issues. She ended up coming into the office where I was working and asking me if I wanted to get some pancakes at IHOP to just get away from the house for a little and relax. It being around 11pm and me having a bunch of work to do I had to think about it for a second. And of course, me being a procrastinator, said yes immediately! We ended going to IHOP and getting a ton of food, pigging out, and talking till about 2am. It was so much fun! So I guess this is what I think about when I think about love. I think about family always being there for each other and having each other’s backs when they need something.

LOUD or soft music?

So something I am sure everyone has noticed about people is to whether some like to blast music and be obnoxious with it or just have the volume high enough to hear it. I am one of those people who drive around with all the windows down in the car and the volume extremely loud. Usually my family knows when I am puling in my driveway because they heard music playing. I guess that comes from Djing. Cuz when I am driving around I notice people car-dance or smile or wave or whatever and those are usually people who are my own age or around it. I also get the reaction of the head shake and being yelled at by older people that I am a reckless teenager. I don’t consider my music to be as dangerous as the people who drive and try to yell at me at the same time and end up swerving. Those are the people who are reckless.

SICK BASS or little bass in music?

I am not going to lie the more bass you can pump from a system, the happier I am going to be. I love to feel the rumble from the bass of a song. And the reason I mention this is cuz I live on the 7th floor of lee and its all guys…so basically we all have a lot of electronics. And one thing I have noticed is that having a sick system will attract people into your room to see what the hell you are packing. I am in the process of making my own system to try and shake the hell out of my floor, but it may not be ready until next year. So don’t be expecting to see it anytime soon.

eye issues / i dont understand certain people...

So this past week, as most people in my English class know, I was in the hospital because I got an infection in the tissue around my eye. I am not quite sure how I got it, but I also had this problem sophomore year in high school. Because I am a diabetic, my immune system is not as strong as other people and it doesn’t help that im allergic to all antibiotic except one which only come in an I.V. form. So anyway, I had to have my mom come get me Wednesday, spent Thursday in the hospital for the infection and came back 1am Friday morning. Something I noticed while dealing with the insurance company, the doctors, and the nurses that people there, unless you are in the pediatric section of the hospital, don’t give a shit. They could care less most of the time. The doctor gave me the option of being admitted to the hospital out of the e.r. or to just get a prescription and go on my way. I asked the doctor for a prescription, and knowing my insurance would need him to call to clear me for the medicine, I also asked him to call the insurance and let them know. He wouldn’t respond to me asking with anything except “I don’t do that. You need to have your primary care doctor call them.” Now y would I have a doctor who didn’t write the prescription and didn’t see me for the infection call the insurance? Does that make any sense? Not to me it doesn’t. My mother and I continued to argue with him that he needed to do it, but still refused. We spent an hour there arguing and finally left. We ended up calling the doctor I had seen earlier that morning before being sent to the e.r. and asked her if she would call my insurance to help me out. She sadi she would happily do anything needed to get me the prescription. The doctor and my mother then spent the next 6 hours fighting the insurance company to clear me for the prescription. I feel like the only reason the insurance didn’t want me to get it was because the prescription of 20 pills is worth $2000. So finally I got the pills and now I am taking them and I am getting better each day. I am glad that everything worked out, but it was a pain in the ass getting here. So basically I wrote this whole story to talk about how some people in the world are so preoccupied with doing as little as possible in life and making sure they focus on themselves, that people don’t get proper treatment and people get screwed in the end. If the doctor hadn’t been willing to do something for me that wasn’t even her job I would still be suffering from the infection. Its people who don’t look to help people in their life who piss me off and make me even surer of what I want to do with mine. I want to do nothing but help people with any problem they may be having. I want to be the guy everyone comes to for help and I want to be able to help them. I don’t see myself doing anything else in life and it is hard for me to image being any other way! I don’t know....maybe that’s just me….

Weak Ass Funiture!

So this is going to be a short post, but is anyone else having a problem with their VT furniture breaking in their room? Because I have already broken two of my desk chairs and I am wondering if I am the only one doing this. The first one I messed up pretty bad and this second one is only slightly cracked. I swear I am not doing anything crazy. I sit in it and slightly rock back in it, like it is made to do. And somehow I crack the back of it. But at the same time, my roommate leans way back in his so it is about to fall back and his chair is in great condition! I don’t get it! oh, and most of my floor knows that I broke it because the other day I mentioned it and I got this reaction. “You’re the kid who broke his chair?! No way! How?!” Someone please comment of this as to what I should do!