Read this from my friend Rachel’s gmail profile and thought it was amusing.

http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/the-calculus-of-saying-i-love-you?page=1

Yea, I’m pretty bad. I actually really dig it when you can explain real life principals with science and math. Don’t get me wrong, I think you should tell someone those three magic words when it just simply “feels” right, but it was an interesting way of thinking about how to resolve the issue of the timing of the phrase, heh.

Avien – Slow Moon Groove
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It has been quite some time now since my last update. The past month of school was an absolute nightmare filled with many sleepless nights and non-stop studying.

Finals were a huge bitch. I had three finals to take scheduled one right after another: Wed (12/15), Thu (12/16), and Fri (12/17) for U.S. Government, Analog Integrated Circuit Design, and Ciruits II respectively. Although the schedule wasn’t that bad, it was the fact that I had two grad school applications for UC San Francisco/UC Berkeley and UT due on Wed (12/15) that fucked me over. The whole period before finals I basically spent working on grad school applications leaving me no time to study. *sigh* As a result, I ended up bombing all of my finals. Two out of my three finals I didn’t get to start studying for until ten o’clock the night before. It was awful. I had worked so damn hard the whole semester and then I was fucking it up. *sigh* Oh well…no big deal…SINCE I FUCKING GOT A 4.0 THIS SEMESTER!! HAHA! Couldn’t fucking believe it when I checked my grades. I know for a fact that I bombed all my finals, but I guess my grades were high enough to still keep my A’s!

So the day after finishing finals I took off to San Antonio with Derick, Joe, and Will to go live it up. Congrats to Luke for graduating and happy belated to Mr. Jason Fields who turned super old while I was taking finals. Got to meet up with Johnson while in SA too which was great.

We did the usual pre-drink at Ben’s before hitting up downtown. It’s funny, seems like I’ve been partying in SA more than Austin lately. I took my camera with me but the bitch was out of batteries so I won’t be able to do my usual mural of images. Oh well, pretty much the same old same old. Drunking at Medusa’s and Pat O’Brians again. Haha, this time it was Derick who got all fucked up on hurricanes. Thanks to Paul for buying five pizzas after we got out of the club. Damn, those were good. (For more pictures click here or the picture above)

So what else has been going on….hmmm…. Well before finals I got to do some nerdy stuff here and there. I finally beat the worst RPG I’ve ever played in my life, Final Fantasy II for Nintendo. Hadn’t touched that game in several months since it was so awful. If you want to beat all the Final Fantasy games, skip this one unless you’re truly hardcore. Its that bad.

Also got to finish seeing Samurai Champloo finally. I thought it was pretty good. Unique way of presenting the story. It kinda reminded me a little bit of Cowboy Bebop the way some scenes were done. It was directed by the same guy after all, Shinchiro Watanabe. Oh yeah, and since everyone asks who has seen it, I’m more of a Jin fan than Mugen. I need to set up a poll to see who’s the more popular of the two. Haha, Ivan = huge n3rd. I also watched an anime called Fruits Basket which was pretty good, if you have a huge vagina like me, haha. Um, what can I say, it was nice seeing something different for a change. No fighting, no mechs, just talking…about your emotions…and relationships, lol. Umm so yeah, if you’re a girl, I’m sure you’ll like it.

So thats pretty much what has been going on with me. During the break I get to work full time, do three more grad school apps, and take GRE’s again. Was supposed to take them today but wasn’t ready…*sigh*. Going to just have to reschedule and take them early Januray now. Lets see…I’ve also been updating the site a little bit. Still haven’t gotten the sidebar to stay when you read an individual post but hopefully will have that done sometime soon. Have more pictures up in the photo album so feel free to check those out. Also, going to try out a new song system since some people don’t like music automatically playing when you check the site out. From now on I think I’m going to keep the player at the top of my post and you can click play from there if you want to listen. Hopefully that should make everyone happy.

Gonna close this entry with a shout out to “Long Dong Ong” a.k.a “Maverick” a.k.a my boy Derick. Welcome to manhood friend. Everybody is growing up so fast. Seems like only yesterday we were lapping up those horribly unsanitary ice shots from the Omega house at “Pimps and Hoes” parties. Haha, cheers to ma boys.

Oh, and can’t forget to mention that Celeste is in town too, wohoo! Picked her up from airport shortly before finals. She’ll be visiting up until early January so yeah, it’s good to have her home. Alright, time to study…*sigh*

Been a little busy lately and what not. Spent most of last week building custom joysticks at Ryan’s, it was a bitch but we finallly got them all done. I’ll get a final results picture later on today.

After doing joysticks then went to SA to spend some time w/ this little lady.

This whole time I was in SA I basically felt like I lived there. Hung out w/ Johnny, Jean, Ben, and Luke. It was great. Even though TONS of drama ended up happening, overall it was a good experience.

I was supposed to leave Sunday, but then my gay lover “persuaded” me to stay. Spent the rest of my time in SA chillin w/ Ben at his pimp new place w/ the bad ass remote (controls his fan and his lights WHOA!).

IBM Status: I’m hired. I was supposed to start the 12th, but they couldn’t finish my paperwork in time, so now I start the 19th, but then I got this formal letter from IBM saying I start the 26th! WTF?! So called em up, hopefully be in by the 19th b/c I’m currently unemployed w/ tons of bills to pay that I’m behind on. I won’t get a paycheck from IBM until probably 3 weeks after I start working for them….I NEED MONEY!

All my closest friends are moving away from me, what is this? To my baby, Benjamin “T-Rex” Tran, you will be missed.