Adam Hinz: The Blog
On 2005-02-26 at 2/26/2005 11:09:00 PM...
wow......almost 3 weeks since I last wrote something here.First off, I fully intended to write here yesterday, because I was feeling like shit. I wanted to take a snapshot of my shit-feelingness so I could read it later and be like "hah! those were the days" or something. But I didn't, and now I'm in a great mood. So oh well...
Let me try and remember what has been going on lately. Last weekend our floor went skiing, which was a blast. I guess I realized how much I really really love skiing. And I was good! I was all swerving and stopping by doing the jump and turn thing. The only thing that sucked about the trip was we left at 4pm. I was ready to stay until 8. Oh well. After that we went to Glden Carrel (again with floor funds), ooooh man. It was a freaking awesome buffet and they freaking had steak! I had 2 great big slabs of steak. It was glorious.
The following week was kind of a bummer. I had a pretty big test in my crimology class, and lots of homework in everything else. It seemed like most of my time was spent in my room with homework. On top of that the weather was shit. Fuckin snow on Thursday.
Friday started out shit, but it ended wonderfully. It started out with 4 classes that seemed to go on forever. After that I went to the library to work on a project with my partner for my cs class. that lasted until about 6:30. Finally after that I was able to go home. This was the beginning of the good part of the day. I think I fell asleep around 7, and I woke up at 11pm. Ed came over to my room and we talked for about an hour in the lounge. What we talked about required a new paragraph.
Ed said that he and Kolski and Jeremy (lived on the floor last year) and Jeremy's little brother are seriously considering a backpacking trip to Europe, and they wanted to know if I wanted to go with them. HELL YES I want to go! He says we're looking at next christmas break, about 10 months from now. That should give us plenty of time to talk to our parents and get our plans settled and everything. The neat thing is we won't have too many plans. We're thinking in 21 days, we can spend about 3 days in each city and try to soak up as much of it as we can. We'll probably get a Europass, which lets us ride all the trains for a set price. It looks like we'll be hitting up London, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Athens, Berlin, and maybe Poland. (Berlin wasn't originally on the list Ed told me, but I demanded we go there...I've got friends to see!). But as of right now, 10 months before the trip, we are all optimistic that we can do this. So now all I have to do is work my ass off this summer and save up a shitload of cash.
Anyway, I stayed up until around 5, then slept until 9:30. As posted in my livejournal, I woke up surprised about 2 things: a) I was not pissed about waking up at 9:30 on a Saturday, and b) I was in a very very good mood. So today I relaxed most of the day, went for a little run (I am so out of shape...) and relaxed some more. Now, Skiba and I are about to go to Kroger, they've got more of those 6-pack cokes for $1.
So long!
Adam
On 2005-02-06 at 2/06/2005 11:32:00 PM...
WelllllWhat a nice weekend. I had a linear algebra test Friday, and I think it went really well. So that, on top of the beautiful 50-60 degree weather put me in a great mood.
What could make it better? My parents came down to visit me! So that was pretty cool. Friday night we ate at Lenny's then hung out at the hotel until around midnight. Tony spent the night with me at the dorm, on the floor, with no mattress or anything :) Saturday we saw "Finding Neverland" and it was most excellent. Then I came back to the dorm and did some quick Spanish homework, then I met a friend at the library and we compared answers on teh spanish, then we all ate at Red Lobster (minus my friend, just the family.....and Bridgett). Taht was most excellent. Then we hung out at the hotel for the rest of the night. Sunday we got up and ate at Penn Station, and that was most excellent. I found out that my friend who works there got fired, and today was her last day, so she was pretty pissed about that. I guess she said somethign and it was taken out of context, adn the manager decided to jsut fire her than deal with anything. After that, my parents had to leave so they left adn I think I did homework or something adn watched the super bowl.
Ok, so not the most exciting reading material, but it was a damn good weekend. Hah! And I didn't even drink anything!
Who wants to play frisbee tomorrow?
On 2005-02-04 at 2/04/2005 03:38:00 AM...
Once again I've put off writing in this thing for a few days. This time I meant to write on Monday, and now it's Thursday (well, Friday morning) and rather than sleep I'm gonna do this thing.This semester has been a whole lot harder than last semester. Last semester must have been a fluke or something, because I probably do more work in a week than I did all last semester. Here's a small breakdown:
Spanish 200 - all homework is online, which I don't really like.
German 100 - usually one small writing assignment a night.
E104 Crime in mass media - I usually have to read about 30 pages before monday, another 30 by friday, and I write a 1 page summary by Friday. This is probably the most time consuming class. The summaries are collected randomly 6 times throughout the semester, so I don't even know if what I'm writing will be graded. The class is extremely interesting, though (more on that later). If I didn't like it so much I would totally hate it.
C212 - one lab and one assignment a week. Also I have to read usually about 30 pages by Wednesday each week. Random quizes throughout the year.
Linear Algebra - I don't like this class too much. It's all about vectors and matricies. It's also very very abstract, which I suppose is what happens to math as you get higher up. I have usually about 30 problems a week all due Friday, and about 5 are graded. I would totally hate the class if my teacher wasn't such a good teacher.
so that's the low down.
k, so (queso)
On monday i was walking from my crime class to the next one with a friend of mine in my crime class who was also in my spanish class last semester. She was talking about how she had seen our old Spanish teacher a few days ago (the really hot one), and I looked across the street. I was like "Is that her right there?" and it was. So we yelled "Hola Edelmira!" and she yelled back "Hi! Como esta hijos?" And it was awesome.
On wednesday in our crime class, the teacher warned us of some pictures he was going to show us. He said they were pretty gruesome, and he was giving people the opportunity to leave the room. He told us he would show us a picture of a body being hanged, a girl who was strangled to death, JFK's head after he was shot, and a guy who shot himself in the mouth. Nobody left, and he showed us the picture. Afterwards, he used the fact that nobody left to demonstrate human's insatiable curiosity to see this kind of stuff, and that in part is why news stations focus so much on violent crime. So that was interesting.
It's almost 4, and I have classes from 8-11, and a linear algebra test at 1:30. So shit on that, I'm going to bed.
so long!
Edam