Oh, that Final...

Well, the good news for the day is that I have another chance to take the final. The bad news is, it might not matter too terribly much. I've been so behind in that class on the labs and had to skip quite a few homeworks to try to keep up on the labs, which apparantly didn't work. Anyway, at least I get to try and pass, but I guess I'm not hoping for too much.

Final? what Final?

So, it's finals week. I did fairly well with my first presentation, which, because of the number of students in the class, amounted to a whopping 3 1/2 minutes. 3 1/2 minutes of pure brilliance. My first final exam went pretty well, too. My last one, which I'll probably take tomorrow, will most likely be horrible, but if everyone else performs as consistently as they have the rest of the semester, I should still do ok. So, what about the one in between my first and last? Well, here's how it's gone so far: ...Oh CRAP!!! That was tonight?!?!?!? Guess I failed that class. A pity, really. I have emailed the proffessor to see if he'll give me another chance, but my guess is he'll say something about university policy and blah blah blah I won't get to take it. Any guesses about what class I'll be repeating?

baseball

Normally, I'm not one for watching a lot of sports. I did get a little hooked on arena football, thanks to 잔 and the tickets he got from work. Generally speaking, baseball is at the bottom of the list of sports I'd like to watch. That all changed this weekend, at least for this one case. Some people from church acquired some tickets from the husbands place of work. The tickets he got were for a suite, and it was incredible. They have tons of really good food for you to eat and your own private balcony to watch the game from. It was just awesome. Definitely a step up from the cheap seats.

the dentist

I may be the only one who thinks this, but I find trips to the dentist pretty relaxing. It's a lot like getting a haircut, you just sit there, relaxing, while someone either cleans your teeth or cuts your hair. What could be bad about that? Anyway, my teeth are now shiny clean.
So far, the climbing thing is working out pretty well. 잔 should be coming to climb on Friday, so I'll finally get to climb more than the routes they have set up near the auto-belays. I'm looking forward to trying a couple of the overhang climbs.

trip to the desert

Well, the trip to the desert was pretty fun. So many people showed up for it, it was awesome. I got to see 모나 again, which was cool. Also, aunt 재니 was there, with a couple of her kids. I know I saw her sometime last year (I think) but it felt like I hadn't seen her for about a decade. It was nice to play around with 카선, one of her kids. Uncle 덥 was fun, like he always is. We went up into the canyon to shoot off some fireworks after the main show. In the main show, they kind of lit the mountain on fire, which was funny at first, then a little scary because of how big it got and how dry everything was, but they got it put out pretty quickly. I did the change thing again. Not many people can say their uncle has blasted them with a fire hose, but I can, and this time I came out of it about $5 richer. Granted, that's not a lot of money, but who cares? The other big news from the trip is 브리잿. She kind of took a spill on the quads, shattered the helmet she was wearing and twisted up her ankle a little, but she's fine.

In other news, I've begun rock climbing again. I've been going about twice a week, but I want to up that to 3 times each week. It's probably been 2 weeks since I started again, and I'm back up to doing 5.9's. I want to get lead certified this summer, so I better keep it up. I even bought shoes this time. The owner was pretty amused that I used to have a membership there, yet had never had shoes, a belay device, or a carabiner.

Oh, I also finally put away my stuff from the campout I went on a month ago. Probably, nobody cares about that, but It's a pretty big thing for me to have a clean room.

hmm....

So, I guess I don't update much. Anyway, I've been off school for about a month. I'll be repeating my Physics 220 this fall, but everything else whent pretty well. My brother got married, pretty cool time. Saw a few people I haven't seen in a while.

More recently, I went camping. I was totally excited that we were camping near some ghost town. Unfortunately, it turned out that the town was more like the ghost of a ghost of a ghost town. There were remains of two cabins, and a spot where a third cabin was likely to have been. There were some iron fens, not at all related to the rest of the town, which were also kind of cool. I had a pretty good time, mostly on the "hike" up to the cabins. We actually rode up in a truck, sort of off-roading, but still on a road, just a road in really, really bad shape. Seriously, there was a stream running down a decent length of the road. I'd have to say one of the big perks of going on this little excursion was meeting 애미. She's a really nice girl, likes doing outdoor things, and we seemed to get along quite well. I went with her and a few of her friends to a baseball game after we got back from the campout, one of which I met at the campout, another of which I knew from last summer. After the game, we went to see Disturbia. Honestly, it was a pretty good movie, although after watching it, I was left with a sort of creepy, sick feeling inside, which is odd considering the good guys win in the end.

So, what was the downside of last night? well, I kind of got the impression 애미 is interested in some other guy, though I'm not really sure about that. Also, she seemed pretty convinced I was bored at the baseball game. I wasn't bored, I just don't get particularly excited at any sports games, unless I'm playing. Even then, it's less of me being excited and more of me just playing. Otherwise, I'm kind of in a permanent state of relaxation. Let's be honest. I was kind of bored. Baseball sucks.

break

Christmas in the apartment wasn't really that bad, not that it was that good, either. It just sort of came and went. After I finally got home, I did some work for my boss and spent some time with my brother for a while, which was definitely cool. My other brother got engaged while I was home.

Now I'm back in school. I've got a gymnastics class and a swimming class this semester. They were supposed to alternate days, but because of scheduling problems, they are now back to back. It takes some serious getting used to doing 2 hours of gymnastics and then 1 hour of swimming, especially at 7 am. It gets even better with a car that won't start, making me leave at about 6:40 so that I can still get to class on time. If it sounds like I'm complaining, I kind of am, but all the abuse I put myself through in the mornings is totally worth it. Gymnastics has got to be one of my all time favorite things now.