Sorry

I'm sorry I didn't post at all last week. There's no excuse I guess. I was having kind of an off week and didn't really feel like writing. So if I actually had written about what was going on it would have been boring. Just about every day I tossed and turned until about 6am. And after 6 I would pass out for some really deep sleep. Which sucks because between 9, when I normally get up, and 12:30 when I leave for work is when I do most of the responsible adult type of things. And for some reason that's what I felt like doing last week. I felt like being an adult, I cleaned off my desk at work and made it look nice(I took Yoda home, he now sits beside Kermit under the Jet Li poster). I spent some time working on budgeting my finances. Also any sort of childishness I encountered last week seemed to grate on me more than usual. Some people probably thought I was being grumpy or something. But everyone has times when they don't feel like being silly or entertaining right? Maybe it's just me. I also didn't feel very........cuddly or huggy maybe is a better word.I don't know, I hope I didn't piss off Kate to much. I know Julie noticed a little, but she has other things on her mind.

I got my new boots for SCA stuff on Tuesday. They are huge though, the picture on the website shows them coming up to the man's knees. But they come halfway up my hip!! They look really silly when I wear my baggy pants. So I'll end up wearing some sort of tighter leggings until I can get either tights or britches that are more period. Jen said she saw a nice patern and would make a pair for me. I need to go find some nice yellow material for her to use. HEHE! I would like to wear yellow pants, but that would attract a lot of attention. I still don't know if I like attracting attention. It's nice when I have a good fight. But I don't do it for accolades, and I desparatley want to keep it that way. The sharks tooth/AOA thing was awesome because it was unnexpected. And the other two tourney's have been cool because there was very very little fanfare when I won. KC will be cool because there will be melee's to fight in. It's been a long time since I've been in a good melee.

On Thursday Kate and I went to see Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow. She really liked it, and I did too. It didn't loose it's appeal on the second viewing. And she jumped almost as much as Julie did when the creepy guy appeared on camera. She didn't screem though, which was good because my ear was a lot closer to her. On Friday Kate and I went to the Chinese buffet after she got off from work. That was pretty cool because I hadn't eaten all day. After that we went to Barnes and Noble so she could buy some Manga or something. She actually read them there at the store before she bought them. I picked up a book called Intellectual Morons which was facinating. In just the first chapter it explained some of the origins of the twisted leftist social structure that I experience here at the University. I will probably end up buying the thing, I guess I better do it online so I don't pay $25 for it.

On Saturday I didn't see Kate at all. The first time that's happend probably since she got back. Nancy had asked me if I could work for ESPN on the football game. I got a media parking permit and a press pass to get in the gate. I got up early on Saturday because I had to go to music rehearsal at church. For some reason early on Saturday is a good time to sing. I don't think I could get my voice warmed up before noon on a Saturday morning. But maybe that's why I'm not a singer. Anyway I got there and got a nice compliment, Shad likes the way I run the sound board better than the other guys. He thinks they are too timid and run the sound to quiet to minimize mistakes. I couldn't stay for the whole thing because I had to be at the stadium at 10:30. I got there and found the place where I was supposed to be. It was really cool how all the official people who normally boss you around totally ignored me when I had the press pass on. I could have gotten away with murder. But instead I was in an ESPN production truck with the tape editor guys. My job was to write down the timecode for each play and describe what happend during each one. I have horrible hand writing but I think I did ok. I was even able to help some of the editors when they needed to know some things about the "burg or fans here. There had to be millions(literally) of dollars worth of equipment in that truck, it was truly amazing. I got to watch the game on about 8 different monitors, one for each camera. They can zoom around like crazy and I could hear the director talking to them in addition to the anouncers. It really was cool. After the game I filled out paperwork and then went home, we were having a cookout and football game at my house. When I got there Dan, Mike and Aleck were there and we had a nice game going. But towards the end the Benito's came over to play too and the field was just to crowded to do much. I should have just had my team run the ball more, that would keep everyone involved. We finished the game and had barbecued chicken for dinner. After that I was really tired because I had been up since 8:30 that morning. I know I know that's not early for some people. But if I worked a normal schedule like everyone else that would be about the equivilant to 5am. Mr. Benito has a high end digital projector so we hooked our dvd player up to it and projected Star Wars against the side of the house. It was pretty cool to see. Dan had never seen it before so it was almost nesseccary. After it was over and everyone went home I was really tired but couldn't fall asleep. It was really frustrating, I thought about taking some NyQuil but I didn't. I have a hard time waking up after I take NyQuil.

On Sunday I picked Kate up and we went to Church. It was pretty cool to bring her to church, and the sermon actually had a good application to it. That along with the book I read were great insights into the postmodernist mind. Eeeeew that sentence just sounded way to intellectual, but yes I did write it don't worry. Sunday there was no practice because Jen decided to go to the war practice in NOVA. I was kinda pissed because it's the last chance I'll have to fight before Crusades and I wanted to sharpen up a little. She tried to call me on Saturday but I was at home so I didn't get the call. And she made a joke about me having rust on my sword that grated a little. The biggest beef I have with her is this: She doesn't hardly do any fighting at practice around here, she won't help with the new people or anything. So when she gives the excuse for not holding practice as "there being cool people up here to play with" it's kind of insulting. I shouldn't be insulted I guess, afterall it's good for her to fight lots of different people. However that's one of the things that I really really didn't like about Godfroy. He started spending less and less time fighting and working with new people. And started talking A LOT with scarves and important people. It does seem that she's kind of reaching for some recognition, through emails and name dropping. But it could just be my imagination. I'll talk to Connor tonight when I call him. I need to talk about KC, Raven, and fighting around here in Blacksburg. And I just need a guy to talk to I think. No offense to all my lovely female friends.But I do need some guy friendship every now and then. Speaking of guy friendship, Julie's friendship with Chris has gotten her in trouble. Andrea completley blew up at her last night and Julie is confused as to why. It turns out that Andrea thinks that Julie wouldn't be good for Chris or vice versa. So when they had a talk and Julie said that she didn't want to do anything except hang out, Andrea thought she meant that she would stay away from him. Meanwhile Julie being the extremely friendly person she is has been haning out a lot with Chris. And Andrea hasn't said anything to her until last nights blow up. I'm still trying to sort it all out and I'll probably call Jen tonight to see what's going on. But Julie spent the night with Kate last night, and if I know her she'll probably blame herself. Damn, I am really going to need some guy friends pretty soon lol. Speaking of guy troubles, Taikara finally broke up with her boyfriend. They are in the process of getting separate apartments. It was a lot more cordial than I thought it would be. And aparently Taikara is sleeping better and as a result has been in much better moods.

Today I came in early to help with a etownhall webcast meeting type thing. We filmed people in the studio and broadcasted it out onto the web. And the people took phone calls and email from the over 60 people watching the broadcast in hi def. It was pretty cool. Candle put a lot of work into it so I'm glad there was no problems. Also today we found out that Heckert was fired. Or that he's not working at the bridge anymore. Which opens the door for me to go over to the bridge. I don't know how soon it will happen but I'm reading over their procedures up there and I'm updating my resume. Hopefully I can get up there soon. The hours wouldn't be any better but I'd be able to have a salary and get my own place. I wasn't expecting this to come for another couple of months. But here's hoping that I can get over there.

Well that's all for now, I'll try to be more consistent on this thing. Especially with all that's going on. Ciao!