Wichitas this weekend. Wohoo

So I'm sitting here in between my classes just ready for all of them to be over. After a busy Monday, Tuesday back from Spring Break I'm now back to chilling. Especially with the Climbing Rescue trip this weekend. I'm really excited, it's going to be pretty sweet. I just hope the weather stays nice. Speaking of trips btw, the Women's Backpacking trip is coming up on April 8th-10th. Chelsea, Erin and I are going to be leading it, so anyone that wants to go on it should sign up at the OPC. It's going to be sweet as well. Anyways, I gotta go to class. Later

Eventful Trip

This time around Amy and I actually had an eventful trip from Houston. Everything goes smoothly except for this one RV that is stuck in a ditch and a bunch of crazy drivers (most of them Tech students) until we hit 84. There Amy's left front tire blows out. Luckily this nice guy stopped and changed the tire for us. He was pretty dang fast too. Anyways, since the maximum speed limit on the donut is somewhere around 60-70ish or so Amy plays it safe and we drive back to Lubbock (the whole 118 miles) going 60. Naturally we get passed by everyone including the 18-wheelers we already passed on I-20. This entire ordeal only makes our total travel time 10 hours instead of 9.5, so it wasn't that dramatic. It still wasn't fun though at least I got a tan on my left arm. The only tan I got all of spring break. Ok, I really have to study for a quiz tomorrow.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us “the universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection of a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

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The end of spring break is approaching. During the last 8 days I did basically......nothing. Isn't that great? Not really cause I hate being lazy. It wasn't even spring break lazy, aka hanging out at the pool or the beach. I spend most of my spring break indoors. Aaaggghhhh and so on (see previous post to know how I feel about that). Ok, to make this otherwise long and rambling post short: I'm not motivated at all right now. I want to blame it on midsemester burn out but that is not the case. I'm doing the bare minimum to get by in my classes. I have two B's in classes I should have A's in. I totally failed my E&M exam before spring break. Blah. My personal life isn't going better either. I'm not gonna elaborate on all of those details cause I simply don't want too. Anyways, I know motivation and discipline is the key for all of this, so I'm just gonna stop talking about this and actually do it. (We'll see how long that will last) To make some more Sauerkrautish comments. My sister got a brand new car. A 2005 Toyota Corolla and it's pretty sweet. So while she get's to drive around Houston in that cool car of hers. I'll be making my trip back to Lubbock in my small, not so sweet but loyal and dependable Nina the Neon tomorrow. Cool thing is, it is now officially mine. I thought I had to share it with my brother once he starts driving or something. But nope, I get to drive it til it falls apart. (Which hopefully won't be too soon. It's already 6 years old. Anyways, I gotta pack some and then hang out with the fam some more. Namaste

Stuck Inside

Aggghhhh, I want to be outdoors so bad but unfortunately I have to do stinking hw over spring break. WTF is up with that. And those stupid people are fixing our screen, so I can't go into the pool. And tomorrow I have to go to Houston, so I can't go to the beach. And this stupid spell checker actually wants to replace the work "Aggghhh" with "Aggie". I never knew the word aggie is actually in a dictionary. Ridiculous. Anyways, I can't wait til I'm done with my hw, so I can go outside and I also can't wait for the Climbing Rescue trip either. I haven't had time to go outdoors in a while. I think I need to change my major or just become a climbing bum. Ok, that was enough venting, let's get started on this stupid physics hw.

Spring Break

So this spring break is definitely the laziest I have ever been. I was gonna write tons of coverletters for internships this morning and instead I changed the template of my blog and surfed the net for a bunch of useless stuff. Blah. Ok, gotta get my motivation back. I'm off to take a shower and finally write those coverletters and maybe even start my physics hw.

Heck Yes...

Wohoo, I can finally climb again or just simply screw up my fingerprints with things like knifes and lighters and superglue...haha j/k. The USCIS accepted my fingerprints......barely. The lady had to roll my left index finger around on the scanner at least 6 times until the machine was finally happy and said "pass" instead of "ridges disconnected". That cool hightech scanner/computer was awesome. Since they only had four of those, my mom got her fingerprints taken the old school way with tons of black ink. It was great. After that my entire family went to Clear Lake to watch my lil bros soccer game. Clear Lake beat them, they just always have been a good team. I also called Julie since she now is down here working for NASA. I think we are going to hang out spring break. After the game we all ate at "Eric's", which is the hotel restaurant at U of H my sister works at. Great food and we also got to meet my sis's Latin Lover. Like Lib she always ends up dating those. Haha, love ya Lib. Then my mom busted and did a face plant on the way back to the car. It was great. I have never seen my mom trip. I just love my family. They are awesome. We have some of the best and funniest conversations and misunderstandings ever. My brother is especially good at those. For example as we are walking to the car....

Alex: Where are we?
Mom: Didn't y'all learn orientiering in boyscouts. What did y'all do all the time?
Alex: Eat beef jerky!

Or while we are talking about my sis's Latin lover and races in general...
Alex: I always wondered why they call black people in the US black cause they have more of a brown skin color, but then I saw a picture in my geography book about Africa and holy shit they are black.

Even though it sounds kinda racist and one probably should have been there it was the funniest thing I have heard in a while. But anyways fact is my family is crazy funny and I love them so much and thus I'm gonna hang out with them some more. Later...

Procrastination

Procrastinating therefore updating this thing again. Update on my fingerprints since everyone just loves hearing this story for the 25th time. 2 more days and I think I'm gonna make it. Unless the Homeland Security Department is superpicky. Anyways as I was surfing the net I came across these pictures today. They are absolutly gorgous, this is why I like snowflakes so much. Cause they are beautiful and unique just like me. Just kidding. I think snowflakes are just amazingly mysterious and beautiful.

Snowflakes