May 9, 2001

may 9, #2. [Firburn & Urik, “Take me, Love me”] yay i LOVE highspeed

internet connections, i just downloaded redhat linux 7.1 in just under 5 hours,

it would have taken you about 1.5 days to dl it on a 56k modem, so hehe, i

laugh at you all. my CD-R is going to be BUSY tomorrow, lol.

May 9, 2001

may 9, [Led zeppelin, “Ramble On”] well it’s wed, yep only two more days

here, only two. man i can’t believe it. i got up at 6 this morning and the

roomie was gone already, so i was like, hmm, and went back to bed. i got up

about 7:30 or so, went and did that whole morning thing, only two more days

that i’ll have to take a shower here. i’ll have to start taking shit out to

my car tomorrow. not really much going on here, it looks to be a nice morning,

i should go get some breakfast, but i’m not really in the mood to. i have

a final at 10, in 2 hours. it’s VB so it should be pretty easy. i hope it

is. i think my econm final is going to be the hardest by far. I’m going to

have to run this summer some time. i don’t like running. since most of you

don’t know what running means i guess i should explain it. every wed night

we have this ceremony called the tapping

out ceremony. basically what you do, is everyone in camp, about 600 people,

lines up shoulder to shoulder in dragon feild (that’s a looooong line and

a HUGE field). the runners stand at either end of the semi-circle, at the

center of the circle there’s three fires, call the call-out fires. in the

ceremony where it says light the call out fire, the runners run to the center

of the semi-circle following the curve and when they meet in the middle run

to the fires and light them with the tourch they are carrying. once they are

lit they follow the same path back to the ends of the line. now this is running

as fast as you can, wearing pretty much just underwear (that’s about the coverage

you get :)), carrying a flaming tourch that weighs about 15 pounds, and it’s

usually about 90 degrees and humid as hell cause we are right on the des moines

river. then they work throgh the ceremony. if you read the cermony which is

linked up there somewhere. it tells you all what happens, but you run the

line of about 600 people 4 times walk it 4 times and then the 5th time you

meet the other runner in the middle and then run to the call-out fire. it’s

alot of work.

May 8, 2001

may 8, [crazy town, “lollipop porn”] well two down two to go. this one really

sucked though. i think i did pretty good but it was over the entire book,

all 700 and some pages of it and you know what he chose to ask questions on?

one of them was “Currently the national deficit is:” and then he gave three

numbers that were really pretty damn close. and then another quesion was “Which

of these are less likely to be in an intrest group” and the choises were,

a college student, a single mother, a retired steel worker, or (i forget the

last one, but it was something to do with a rich white guy). lol. and i was

like wtf? it’s either college student or mother, but i wasn’t sure exaclty.

and then one of the questions was who the congress man from SD was, and i

was like, how the hell do i know, i don’t live here. and it wasn’t even a

multipul choise qustion, so i just wrote down that “this questions is unfair

to those of us that don’t reside in South Dakota” and then i put down the

iowa one, hehe. lol.which by the way is Greg Ganske.

May 7, 2001

may 7, #5. [craig david, “seven days”] yay, so i got my first final done

and over with, it was pretty easy, i got it done in 35 minutes, lol. yeah.

i dunno. i hope i did well, there was only one question that i really didn’t

know, so that was pretty, good. but unfortunitaly that question was worth

11 points.