Monday – 31st October
Today was Halloween, so I brought my costume along and put it on after my gym session. In the Avion, I was Priest from that movie, James was a vampire, Tilford came as Luigi, and Lanie was Tigger. We all thought it would be a pretty awesome Halloween on campus, but the rain must have discouraged a whole lot of people from dressing up, and the fact that most people already had parties over the weekend.
It was quite fun just walking around, and the people who were in costumes all acknowledged one another. I had originally wanted to skate, but the wet weather meant I ended up walking instead of just being a bad ass costumed skater.
At night, I bought some candy from Publix, and the buy one get one deals meant I ended buying a little too much. I waited for the kids, but our neighborhood is ridiculously quiet and we got maybe 6 or so kids. The house is now has too much candy, but Jill assured us she’ll finish it.
Tuesday – 1st November
It was a busier day at the writing center compared to previous weeks. The Avion meeting went fine and we I brought back all the new ideas from the conference. We had the SGA general session later that night and it was a total waste of time. People basically spent a long time sitting there, just arguing back and forth. The end result was that the divisions are now totally pissed off. I for one really am not that interested in all these politics crap, but now it’s my problem. We’ll see what happens.
As if the day wasn’t bad enough, Jill’s drunk cousin came to cause more problems later that evening, and the whole house was up just making sure his drunk ass didn’t cause trouble in the neighborhood. Basically, the whole day was FUBAR and SNAFU. Karissa and Angelina had more problems to make a bad day even worse and I was on the phone just defusing that time bomb.
Wednesday – 2nd November
Classes were normal and just dull. Not having MA441 knowledge is really hurting me in AE301, because I don’t have the full appreciation of some of the mechanics involved and the derivation of the formulas which needs some advanced math skills. I could just blindly accept the formulas, but better consilience is obtained if you could derive everything if needed.
Yoga class on the other hand was very good because Megan didn’t do much strength poses today; it was all about balance and muscle control. I managed to do a very nice crow position and hold it there, something I don’t remember being able to do easily.
Thursday – 3rd November
Aerodynamics lab was extra long today and I went back home immediately after we finished. I had leftover tacos for lunch and just spent time being productive. Around 1pm, Karissa finally called and we went to surf in what has been the warmest weather in two weeks.
She’s fit and has snowboarded, so she didn’t think it would be that difficult, but she couldn’t find her balance point on the longboard! It didn’t help that the waves were kind of choppy and fairly big for a first timer either. She loved it though and while she was catching a breather, I caught a few epic waves with the longboard and rode them to close out.
She decided to try with the shorter board, one that wouldn’t get caught by the wave so easily, but instead she lost control of that and her finger got hit, taking a chunk of skin with it. While walking back, a rogue wave picked up boards and sent them straight at us. I managed to intercept the boards, but the longboard still went around me and she got pinned under it, slightly twisting her ankle.
I felt terrible for getting her injured, especially since it was Homecoming weekend and she was going to be cheering for it. I guess this is where you see that true surfing requires you to pay your dues. I’ve suffered numerous bruises, abrasions, sore neck, and lungs full of water to learn how to manage the water and respect the power. She dives, and her swimming isn’t bad, but surfing requires a totally different skill set.
In any case, we went back and managed to ice and wrap it with a bandage to compress it, minimizing the swelling. The surf session was cut short, but I’m glad her enthusiasm isn’t dimmed. Reggie and Navin aren’t interested in surfing anymore, although I’ll drag them out one day to use the longboard.
Friday – 4th November
Reggie had his wisdom tooth operation today, and despite our thorough planning, his impacted tooth meant I had to miss two classes to just make sure he was okay. It wasn’t too bad, because writing and thermo are subjects in which I’m doing well in, and I managed to inform the professors beforehand.
From a $300+ simple extraction, it suddenly ballooned into a $1000, anesthesia and sedative IV drip operation. The medical staff took really good care of him, but it just kind of shows that while America still has some of the best health care in the world, it’s at a very steep price. In Singapore you could probably get 90% of the quality for 50% of the price.
I had to accompany him to get his prescription and soft food which took a while, but I didn’t mind that. What annoyed me was that in his drug-addled state he kept talking rubbish and giving me shit. Discussions the next day revealed that he had no strong recollection of the things he did and said, and I told him exactly how much rubbish he gave me when I was cleaning the house and cooking later that evening.
I somehow still made it for my aerodynamics class and I was awake enough to take good notes even thought I don’t really understand much.
Karissa and I were supposed to go to see the comedian Bo Burnham, but she had stuff to prepare for homecoming, so I made shrimp linguini and went to sleep really early. The whole week I woke up at 7 or earlier and was up till late, so that was the first time I finally got to get some good sleep.
Saturday – 5th November
I went to school early for the Tau Beta Pi honor society meeting, and turns out Bianca was there too. It was a pretty fun meeting, and I learnt a lot about the society and that I definitely want to be part of it. It would be very useful to be in this network for the professional world.
I stuck around school doing homework till the Homecoming parade, which was kind of boring, and not many students attended. The tailgate party followed after that, which had a slightly better turnout, but the weather was annoying. Sometimes it’s a little sad that Touch N’ Go puts so much effort into setting all this up, but not that many people show up.
The basketball game was pretty much the same as last year’s and I was just there with the camera, taking whatever photos, and waiting for the Homecoming King and Queen to be crowned, which in this school is a little pointless.
There was even a ball after the game which was even more pointless, considering the number of people who attended was maybe 50 at max. For a school population of almost 6,000, that is a very sad number. Sometimes I wonder why they even bother, but the reverse is true, if they don’t try, they won’t know. Maybe this is why the ball was the first in years. There’s probably not going to be another one for quite a while. Maybe if they up the female population in 5 years, they could try again.
The guys came to pick me up and we all went to Derricka’s place for a while to just hang out and chill. Their place isn’t as fun to have a party as ours because it’s a lot smaller. However, more and more people just kept turning up and I had fun for a while, until the fatigue of the day’s events caught up to me. Reggie and I left early, and I was in bed by 2, while Navin and Jill didn’t come back till much later, after the Daylight Savings Time adjusted. They left her place at3am, but reached home at 2am, which is quite amusing. Karissa liked the sunflowers I gave her for her first successful game.
Sunday – 6th November
I had totally forgot about the change in time, so I ending up sleeping a lot longer than I thought I did. I left for school early to clean the Avion with the others and the office is now superb. There’s actually desk space to work on now. Even though we started production an hour later because of cleaning, it was really quick and I was out of the office by 4.
I managed to do some studying in library before going back and doing laundry. Reggie has been raving about Cici’s pizza and their buffet for the longest time, so a whole bunch of us went there for dinner. I was still tired from the weekend, and everything was kind of hazy. I do know I didn’t eat all that much because it isn’t exactly the healthiest thing in the world to be eating.
