When the Axe-Man Comes

1:58pm: Back I guess
Well this is the first time I have updated in a very long time. So I will endeavor to keep this as short as possible by skipping most of the details. Basically I came back to Arlington and after a ton of work we got the building back where it needed to be for opening. That aside life has been ok up to this point. I have been spending a lot of time hanging around with my buds and playing computer games. The few high points are that Kylie let me use the Uber Master Key again. That is always fun. Aron, Keith, Stephen and I have been hanging out at the comic book store some too later and Aron won one of the tournaments and I won another just the other night. I also had a ton of fun last night but I can't write about it because some people who read this can't know about it. If you really want to know just ask me, lets just say it involved a late night trip to UNT. Oh yes, and also the Rook and me ended up hanging out late one night and that resulted in a long conversation about the current state of affairs of housing on campus and why there are so many problems and us finally reaching the solution that there are ways to make things better but they require change at a level higher then our s and the powers that be seem keen to keep things at a status quo. Maybe someday things will get better. It also resulted in the Rook attempting to see if he could fit inside my cabinet which he has yet to succeed at. My phone is still messing up so after a lengthy argument with my cell phone provider I have to fed-ex my phone home and they are going to get me a new one which will hopefully fix the roaming problems my phone has been having. We will see what happens. We also got 3 new staff members in this building and they all seem pretty cool. I have not gotten to know them all that well yet but so far so good. I guess that is everything important that has gone on. At least that I can think of right now. I will try to update more often or post something if i remember anything exciting that went on. Peace Y'all.

4:34pm: A Long Update
Well I have not updated in forever as some people seem to enjoy reminding me about. Anyway I figured I should go ahead and do so now then. I guess the best place to Start is at the beginning. I am at home and have been for several weeks now. It is kind of tiring being here for so long. I am super anxious to get back to Arlington. I still hold that Killeen is the butt crack of creation. Being home has its ups and downs. The food is much better and it is nice not to have anything I have to do but I miss my internet connection and being around my mother for very long is exhausting since me and her fight constantly. We never get along. The drive home was long but not too terrible. I missed most of the rain luckily however I did manage to get lost once on the way back. That does not sound so bad until you realize I made it back all 3 hours fine and got lost right outside of my hometown. I felt rather dumb for that one. Needless to say that added and extra 30 minutes or so to my trip.

Since I have been home I have spent most of my time playing videogames. I have mostly been playing Dungeon Siege 2 and Age of Empires 3. I miss playing WOW though and can not wait to get back to raiding the core. The guild got past Garr the other day in only 2 tries so that was pretty good news. The only sad news in that out of our like 12 MC boss kills we have like a dozen pieces of shaman loot. It is kind of ridiculous. Oh well, I guess that is the way it goes sometimes. They are trying Onyxia on the 7th so I am rooting for them.

Christmas has come and gone and it was overall ok. I picked up my usual gift of cash. My parents also got me some new speaker for my computer since mine blew out a couple of weeks ago. It was ok seeing family again even though all my little cousins seem to love to harass me and jump on me or whatever else they can do to bug me all 7 of them. I never really have anything to say to them. Christmas always means two things a fridge full of leftovers no one wants to eat that get to sit there for forever and arguments with my mother over leaving. You have to understand when we go places, me and my father will stay for an hour or two maybe and then we are ready to go. My mother can stay there for over 7 hours and not be ready to leave yet. You can see how this leads to fights. We are trying to get her to leave and she is being stubborn. It got really bad this year and we pushed it pretty far in out effort to get her to leave after like 8 hours to the point where she has not spoken to either of us in almost a week now. It does not really bother me. She can throw a hissy fit all she wants because we were there a long ass time. I swear it is next to impossible to get her to shut up sometime so this is actually a welcome reprieve from her constant talking.

Let’s see here what else has gone on... Oh I had a long talk with my grandmother and I think she understands me a little better now she was always kin\d of concerned about the way I seem to be so distant from everyone and don't really say much. It is really not all that surprising if you met my father you would know he is even more distant then me and some of my friends that have met him have kind of been shocked that he will only say one or two words to them over the course of a whole day. He is not a wordy person and not really prone to talking unless he feels like it or has something to say. I really don't even know all that much about him other then the fact that for the most part he wants people to leave him the hell alone. I did have one awkward moment though when I was watching comedy central and they were making fun of Brokeback Mountain and saying that they were already starting a sequel that was supposed to be more popular then the original and then went to a cut scene with two chicks making out right at the point where my little 7 year old cousin walked in and of course she asked me why those two girls were kissing. Now I am stuck with how to explain this to a kid. I tried to explain it was a joke and that didn't work so I figured that was a question best left to her dad and went for the honorable solution of changing the subject and distracting her with something shiny. You know the honorable way out.

I spent some time with my friends from high school the other night. It was pretty fun. Most of the group was there except for Georgy, and Jen. They both had stuff they had to do. I did talk to Georgy though and she let me know she got a spot in the next playgirl along with one of her "toys" so I am happy for her. As far as last night went though, it was great. There were a few points where I thought I was going to die from laughing so hard. We met up at the parking lot outside of Alex's house to go grab some food before we went to his place. He didn't come because he just got back from surgery and did not really want to go out. Dylan was running late due to family time so me, Gene, Shannon, Becca and Amanda were sitting around in Gene's car waiting on Zach and thought it would be funny when he got there to pop the trunk like we expected him to ride in the trunk and of course he rolled into it for fun. At that point Gene hopped out and slammed the trunk and drove off with Zach still in the trunk. That alone was pretty good but the best part came at the stop light where we popped the trunk and Zach stuck his head out and waved at the cars behind us before closing the trunk again. I bet their faces were priceless. I am sure they thought we were drunk by that point. At any rate we ended up at Wendy’s and grabbed some food before heading back to Alex's to meet up with him and Dylan.

We spent most of the night just hanging out and chatting but there were other things thrown in to give us stuff to do while that all went on. We started out playing monopoly on teams. I was with Zach and we play that game crazy. We were cheating so hard. We stole thousands of dollars from the bank, we would distract people and not throw money into the middle of the board when we were supposed to and of course we were doing things like making Alex and Amanda's dog piece hump Becca's shoe piece. We of course were the cannon. The best piece on the board. We also did things like trying to land in jail and making ridiculous trades that people thought we were stupid. We traded almost all our money plus like 5 properties for park place to with our boardwalk. We only had 200 dollars and those two properties and everyone thought we were nuts but we came back and one off those 2. Let’s just say people were afraid to land anywhere near out little property. It was great. We never actually had to even use our stolen money. It was funny though at one point we were so close to broke I was trying to pimp out Zach for extra money. After that we ended up laying twister and of course that ended interestingly since every time someone ended up in a bad position someone else would do something like smack their ass, kick their knee or anything else they could think of to try to mess them up. We also made a late night trip to IHOP and just generally had a blast. I think we may try to get together once more before we go but I am not sure yet.

Anyway I guess that is it. Sorry it is such a long post. Peace Y'all and Happy New Year!

2:05pm: One Hell of a Day
So, it has been requested of me by multiple people that i update this page more often and post haste since apparently I have not updated in forever. Let me give you the quick run down of events up till this point then. November went by and kind of a haze with lots of the usual things going on; Homework, Class, Clix, WOW, and Lack of Sleep. I worked over Thanksgiving with Keith. We didn't earn any extra pay and spent ten hours at the desk :(. I spent the whole time playing Wow. Me, Keith and Aron did go out to Tons that week though and got some excellent food. I think we will have to go back there soon. Me and my guild also decided to transfer off Illidan. :) So, far it is going pretty good. I like our new server a lot. Oh yes Keith bought me two Armor Wars boxes for Xmas and I pulled two uniques. It was pretty awesome. Yesterday was an interesting day. It went up and down and up and down. It started out fairly decent after I heard Keith just verbally pwn someone. It was really awesome especially considering the circumstances and that his opponent’s arguments fell through constantly. Then the day took a nose dive when I found a friend of mine had contracted an STD and has to go under the knife. I am not sure it will help but we will see. The day got a little better at the staff meeting where even though it was long we all got cookies Kylie and Diana made as well as the HDs bought every staff member some little gift to bring back some of their fonder memories of the year. Of course everyone's memory of me is of the BRS Bear. The only thing I can say to that is "that makes me a sad bear". I got a sticky hand, and Keith got some big green Elton John sunglasses and Aron got a batman mask. Overall it was a blast and we all went to late night breakfast and then played clix till 2 am. I won by the way thanks to Sunfire who rocked the board. :) I came back alter that night to find the toilet had overflowed and I got to spend 30 min that night trying to dry it all up. That was a not so great ending to the night. I guess that is it. Peace Y'all.

4:40pm: I realized I had not updated in a while
So yeah, I have not bothered to update this in quite a while and since work is going really slow, it seemed like as good a time as any to update this. So where to begin? Where to begin? I guess, I should give you a quick rundown of what has gone on me lately. Not much of anything. Today was preview day. It was basically how it always is, boring. I mostly just sat around at the desk extra early in the day. Right now Keith and Aron are both still here playing WOW at the desk while I type this. Aron is working on his paladin epic mount quest and Keith is grinding SM to try to get his new pvp warrior up to 60. I am just sitting here watching them play and listening to the radio. As far as my character goes, we got up to Magmadar the other day in our first core attempt. We have also downed the first four ZG bosses. I also finally got up to Grunt since I started doing Arathi Basin. I even had a game with 0 deaths. Me and Orom tore it up in there to the point where some people on a guild run asked us to come with them. Last night I saw my 2nd epic drop ever. One of our guild warriors got it. It was the polearm from raptor boss.

Anyway outside of my gaming life school is going ok. All my classes are good except accounting which I am just barely scraping by in. I hate accounting. It is probably the most boring subject ever. I got registered for next semester as well. I will be taking database management, networking, business law, statistics and marketing. Yes some of that stuff sounds pretty boring to me. Statistics will probably be the worst. In other news Sarah has been hanging out with me a lot at the desk lately since her comp got busted. We have been having a debate about a particular issue we disagree on. Either way I am always happy for the company, since sitting at the desk for hours can get pretty boring sometimes. Oh and last night me and the Rook took the leftover pumpkins that were sitting around the office and splattered them allover an abandoned lot near campus at 1 am. It was great. Me, Keith and Aron hung out Thursday night and played clicks. I won one game and Aron won one. Poor Magneto got beat up badly. In retaliation, Aron brought out the big guns, the S-man himself and just kicked the crap out of everyone on the board. I bought some boosters and I pulled my 3rd Darkseid piece. Apparently that is my character of choice since I seem to pull ridiculous amounts of them.

On another note I still find myself in disagreement with some of the decisions made by housing. I heard some of their plans for next year and I can safely say sometimes I wonder about the competency of the higher levels. I have confidence in my direct bosses but beyond that and including at least one other hall director I do wonder about their competency and qualifications. It just seems like some things they do are not well thought out at all. One of my buds got in trouble for visitation and I find the explanation Josh gave me falling apart again since they were in an RA's room and there were no roommates to infringe on. So then, I was informed that "What if a resident saw". My only response to that is first off there is not a rule that requires that the resident be let into the room to see the violation. I still hold that especially since no one saw it that it did not require the actions that were taken. So the only conclusion I can reach then is that people are blindly following the letter of policy and not the spirit or intent. Down that path lies only stagnation and rotting souls when people can no longer think for themselves. I have not and never will encourage blind obedience to something for its own sake. However, that is what it seems is going on here. What makes it worse is if there is some kind of logical reason that it is thrown out to slate the letter of the rules. It is not right and I think the decision was flat out wrong. I know one of the people that made it is probably reading this so I will still say I think it is downright wrong and that given the explanation given to me it does not meet the parameters to be trouble. I know he is just doing his job but it still saddens me to know that we blindly follow rules that are not right to begin with for their own sake and not because they further anything at all about res-life.

Oh well I am just one man with an opinion and maybe someday I will get through to someone that continuing on this course of action is plain and simple retardation. Anyway that is what has gone on. One day things around here will change and people will be able to evaluate every situation individually the way it should be but until that day I will keep bitching about housing department. You know I was always a little bitter about them even before I got hired but now the longer I am around them the more I find myself getting more and more bitter the closer a look I get. Don't misunderstand me, it is not for the most part an anger directed at anyone in housing just the general way things are done. Some serious sweeping changes are needed around here in my opinion. I also know that me saying these things on here will probably come back to haunt me when I get fired or not rehired for next year but I am still going to express them here where I feel it is my right too. I promised to keep work separate from my opinions and when I am at work I do but I still have a bad feeling about saying them at all. But DAMN IT I refuse to just sit there and play like everything is all happy and well. I will NOT be that false with myself. I think I do a good job keeping the two separate but some people know about that duality of opinion I have. We will just have to wait and see if it comes back to haunt me. Guess that is it. On a sad note, the tray of leftover cookies that got left at the front desk is all out of the good kinds and only crappy oatmeal is left. Peace Y'all.

P.S. I also had a long talk with Aron the other day about how I don’t feel people around here work nearly as hard as they should. I always see a lot of slacking off and attempts to get other people to do their work for them or other things that should not be going on at work like calling friends. I by no means think I am some kind of example. In fact I know I don't work hard as I should. It just makes me mad that people can not be more serious about their work and more through especially. I get the impression a lot of people around here forget this is a job except at pay day. Me and Aron also talked about the message bags the hall directors put up in the staff room and I really don't like the idea. It was drilled into me as a child that these little encouraging things should not be expected or needed of anyone. My father made it very clear to me at a young age about when you are at work you are there to work. You are not there to have a good time, not there to have fun, not there to feel good. He made it very clear that you have a job to do so do it and be done with it and move on to the next project. I still have yet to live up to his standard yet. He reminds me constantly that I am lazy and don't work as hard as I should. I by no means encourage people to be like him but I do think a stronger work ethic would help. Maybe I expect too much of people but I just want people to do what they are supposed to correctly and get it done and not need all these little pushings and encouragements. Oh well that is all I have to say on that.

3:42pm: An Update while I am Bored at Work
Well Hall council had its Halloween party on Sunday. It went ok overall. We had about 80 people show up but I was still kind of disappointed in the turn out. I went as a secret service agent for the assistant hall director who went as the president. It was kind of fun though people kept asking me if I was a blues brother or a men in black agent as well. You can see a picture of me in it on my facebook. I look kind of cool. The party was not bad though. I had fun and I hope the people that were there did too. Monday was nuts. I must have had 4 times the normal amount of lockouts. I could not believe how many people were coming up to the desk. Anyway, the printer upstairs just ran out of ink so I am going to go take care of it. Later Y'all.

P.S. I hate lazy people. There are far too many people around here who I don’t think work as hard as they should and try to pawn too many things off on other people. I really think people need to focus more and just get stuff done instead of complaining about it or trying to get out of it. It just really irks me even when it is not me being asked to do it for them. GRRRRR.

3:40pm: Casino Night
So yesterday was an interesting day. Ravenna and I went various places around Arlington working on our Halloween costumes. We spent a couple of hours and like twenty bucks getting ready. I am going to wear mine to our Hall Council Halloween party. So, originally me and several other people were going to all get dressed up and go to casino night together but then the shit hit the fan. Basically one of the people that was supposed to go got some bad news and decided to stay back. Then Ravenna got in a fight with her boyfriend and dropped as well and basically it ended up with no one getting dressed up and I ended up going with Aron and Keith in my infamous floral shirt motif. It was a lot of fun but I did not win anything this year. Also the prizes this year really kind of sucked at least compared to the last two years. They also did not advertise nearly as well this year. Overall it was ok, and Josh and Di had some pretty good costumes, Josh especially. The highlight of the night was when Justen was just standing around talking to me and 5 random people rushed him and carried him off up the stairs for no particular reason. It was strange but funny.

Today has been an interesting day as well. It has been kind of slow but that is ok. I can definitely say there are about 3 things that drive me nuts in this office. Stupid people, lazy people who walk past the stairs to take the elevator down one floor, and the people who constantly push the bell button in the elevator. Me and Ravenna got bored today and built a castle wall across the front desks out of Halloween care packages. It was kind of funny. I guess that is all the news from here for today. Take it easy. Peace Y'all.

4:58pm: A New Entry
So, I have been taking exams all this week and have been so busy it is not even funny. I have had a ton of work to do too. I finally finished up my work on the student regent selection committee though. Hall Council meeting this week was thankfully short but we did vote on this years t-shirt design. I was also less then thrilled that half of my officers did not show up. That always bodes badly. The guild run on Molten Core did not go so well. It was fun but some people in the guild really need to grow up. We are slowly weeding out the loot whores and that is overall making the guild better but we are desperate for healers and devoted people. I was joking around and said a bunch of us should just re-roll priests and form our own guild and basically be mercenary priests for hire. In other news I found a good amount of time this week to play some games with Aron and Keith. That was a lot of fun.

Yesterday, I got a call at work from an RA asking me to calla round and find someone to work the on call. At the time I assumed it was because something came up or for some reason they could not call themselves like not being in the building or having the numbers. Later I found out I did all the calling so that person could take a nap. I was not happy at all about that. Especially when that person tried to play it up to everyone else like it was a choice and not tantamount to an order. Oh well, it was not cool. This same person also tried to guilt trip me this week about drawing comic pictures of the Ra's in the office binder even though I am only creative support and not the actual artist since it was more of a whole OA team thing. Still, apparently it is funny to use me for stuff in the binder but not funny if it is the RAs. Well, they can suck it up.

I have been given serious thought to next year. Marvin and Travis are both talking bout moving out and still wavering on the issue but the messiness of the room and how there is always a dozen people there is starting to get to me. Aron and Keith asked me to move to an apartment with them next year but that would mean giving up my job here, which would not be so cool. I may also live with Betsill and Dave. I will just have to see what happens. Last night was the first quiet calm night in my room in forever. It was great. I also bought Batman Begins the other day and got two free lemonades with it. I rather enjoyed that. I guess that is about it. I am at work now so I guess i should get back to it but not really since I have been here for over an hour and done approximately one thing. Saturdays are so boring here. Peace Y'all.

2:48pm: Bored at Work
So, yes I am bored at work. I usually am as work around here seems to come in spurts. I just got done with one exceptionally long spurt and now I am in the lull again. It was so hectic I was acctually gone from the desk for thirty minutes. Now I am just chilling and listening to the radio while poking some play-do I found. Kylie is messing with it too. I was kind of surprised to see my boss playing with play-do. It has been a really busy day though up to this point. The guild is going to try to do some of Molten Core on Thursday. Wish me luck. Guess that is all the news. Peace Y'all.

2:35am: Ultimate Rebel
I was told the other day that I am no longer the Ultimate Rebel I once was. Appherently I am just the housing bitch now because Cody, the ultimate rebel is basically no more since I had to stop breaking policy and also stop encouragig others to do that. Oh well, he is not dead just merely hibernateing nad get his strength back. Cody Hughes, Ultimate Rebel will return again someday. That is about it. Peace Y'all.

2:33am: I am Tired
I am really tired so I am going to make this a quick update, I hope. Today was a fairly uneventful day. Rook did not come by and deliver my new copy of Dreamweaver so I will hopefully get that from him tomorrow. The only things of any real interest to note were that Aaron and Keith decided to Photoshop me on to more random things so that they could do their Cody around the World PowerPoint show. At dinner tonight someone knocked over a sneeze guard and it shattered and fell on a stack of plates and cups knocking them over and causing them to shatter as well. It was overall quite amusing to watch. I had OA staff meeting tonight and that went ok other then Aaron trying to convince Kylie I have this highly amusing strut that he feels she needs to observe.

Oh I found out I am working Thanksgiving night and Keith is working Thanksgiving afternoon. That should be loads of "fun". I know that that is probably going to be one of the slowest, most boring, work nights of the semester. I am quite sure that at some point that night it will get to the point where I end up calling the OAs at other buildings to see if anything interesting is happening there. I also have to let Kylie know by tomorrow if I intend to work the winter semester. I am not sure yet. I am really torn as to what is best. While I do miss my family to some extent and the better food at home I would also miss the freedom and independence here as well as my high speed internet. Though there is some sad news from today. One of the buttons on my shirt came off. That disappointed me greatly but I will be better as soon as i figure out how to reattach it. That is about it. Peace Y'all

P.S. Good Luck Jess. Give me a call as soon as you are up to it and let me know what happened.

12:56am: Busy, Busy, Busy
It was overall a so-so weekend. I got incredibly sick Friday night while hanging out with Keith and Aaron. It sucked hard. I basically felt like crap all weekend but I am mostly better now. It has been a pretty busy weekend, what with homework, student regent committee, work, and generally being sick. On Sunday, I'd had enough, so I sat around in my room all day basically doing nothing. It was fantastic. I even found time to go on our first Zul Gurub guild raid and we got the first two bosses down. I even won some new shoulders for my druid. Today I got up at 8 am and did not see my room again until 8 pm. I also started work on the Arlington Hall website tonight but my Dreamweaver was out of date and was not supporting the CSS, I wanted to use so Rook is getting me an updated one tomorrow. I hope to have the CSS static links done before the OA meeting. We will see what happens.

Your Birthdate: April 22

While sometimes employing unorthodox approaches, you are capable of handling large scale undertakings. You assume great responsibility and work long and hard toward completion. Often, especially in the early part of life, there is rigidity or stubbornness, and a tendency to repress feelings. Idealistic, you work for the greater good with a good deal of inner strength and charisma. An extremely capable organizer, but likely to paint with broad strokes rather than detail. You are very aware and intuitive. You are subject to a good deal of nervous tension.

I don't guess anything else major has happened lately. I am going to go watch Futurama now so, Peace Y'all.

2:41pm: The Update, What? What? The Update
The weather is great today. It is all cold and overcast and windy and I am loving it to no end. This really is the best time of year. I love the Fall. I had a Hall Council meeting on Wednesday and it went ok. I embarrassed Justen our treasurer for being late. I found it to be highly amusing even if some others did not. Also there was a big discussion about the moral and ethical implications of having a Halloween event at all, much less on a Sunday. I really dislike fundamentalist Christians. They seem to be against everything even harmless fun. I am glad they are not in charge or the world would not only be boring it would be full of Hypocrites. Oh, well. Sorry for the short update but I am at work and Kylie wants me to count pennies. Until next time enjoy the weather and hope it lasts. Peace Y'all.

3:15pm: The key and the Pizza
Josh Let me use the master key yesterday. It was so cool. :) I could not remember if I had told you that already but just in case, I will tell it again. I am also doing my first guild ZG run on Saturday at 8pm now that we have some priests. Wish me luck. Kylie also brought me pizza at the office today that was leftover from something she had at Cici's. So I got to use the uber elite key and part of a free pizza. It has been a good day.

12:16am: Work Work Work
So yes, I had to go to work today and I was really tired and it was fairly boring. I spent most of the afternoon doing accounting homework. I also really need to get to work on Kylie's website for Arlington Hall but I have been fairly busy and I need to do some backbone work before I can really work on is at work. Anyway, I hope to have the backbone done soon. I also had to work the desk tonight for the RA meeting like usual. However, they decided not o have meeting and instead cookout and hang out in the courtyards. Most people just said well at least you got paid for that hour but I still hold that I agreed to work that hour because they needed someone to help out, and I am ok with that. However I don’t consider their event to be work related and so one of them should really have been at the desk. Worst part of it all is that I did not even get anything except and angry man in my face while they listened to Micah strumming his guitar on the grass. To top it all off Micah and Keith have been photoshopping my photo on to all kinds of things and frankly it is rather annoying. Don't get me wrong they are funny photos but I still wish they would pick someone else. They have used me 4 times now and it is definitely time to pick a new target because it is getting old real fast. You know I try to be helpful and I try to be efficient and friendly and all I get is crap from people. So, Fuck most of You! That is right you heard me. I was told today I am basically just a pushover so to hell with you then, if I don't get any respect and all I get is mocked. Peace Y'all.

P.S. To anyone reading this, I am sure the fact that I am kind of upset right now will get passed around and everyone will make a big deal out of it but it is not. I will get over it. So, seriously if you are reading this I don’t want to hear/talk or be asked or informed about anything relating to this post 1st 2nd or even 3rd hand.

11:45pm: First Event
Today was such a hectic day. I ended up being pretty busy. I played Wow for part of the day and started questing the starting high end instances. Unfortunately, being one of the only healers currently is fairly trying sometimes. The guild is at the Zul'Curub level currently if we just had a few more healers. We have lots of warriors and rogues and even a few mages and shamen. We also currently are very short on warlocks, hunters, druids and priests especially. I am having a lot of fun with it though. I also had my first Hall Council event today. It went off much better then I hoped. We did a Grocery Bingo thing and got so many people that we ran out of bingo cards. It was an amazing turnout, especially for Arlington Hall. I was really nervous and worried when i found out Josh had not bought the bingo set right before start time but it worked out ok in the end. I also found out from his wife that apparently Big Red causes bad breath. Anyway, that is about it from me for today. Peace Y'all.

P.S. Oh and Megan regardless of what anyone says there is nothing here worth reading... nothing at all....*hides something suspiciously*

7:08pm: What A Day!
It was such a nice day outside today. This is my favorite type of weather. I love it when it is cloudy and over cast and windy. It feels like you are on the edge of a storm. Yes I also really enjoy storms, except when they knock out my power or internet. The day was even better since I did not have to work at all today. Yay me. Though, the one thing I don’t like about days I don’t work is that it feels like I have not done anything constructive or that I forgot to do something important. Oh well. I wanted to ask Josh today where he wanted the posters Hall Council made last night put up but he never called me back. I left a message for him with the OA working today but either he did not get it or did not come back to the office. The only other item of note today was that my Java professor got kind of annoyed at me for reading the paper in class but in all fairness she has been talking about the subject for so long even the desk should understand, yes some of her students don’t. Oh, well I guess that is the way it goes sometimes. Peace Y'all.

10:17pm: Ever Feel Like You Work Amounts to Nothing?
Today I actually did a fair bit of work but I think it does not amount to much. It just feels like the more I try the less I get done. I worked today and tried out the new temp card system and it came out ok, I guess. More people had their picture IDs then I suspected. So, that came out better then planned. I spent way more time at the front desk then I intended but that happens sometimes. I also had Hall Council Executive Board Meeting. It went ok but it still feels like we are in crisis mode and are not planning far enough head and I am afraid this may lead to burnout. I hope things get better. I am also really worried about how I am doing as President because I personally don't think I am doing nearly as well as I should be and I find myself questioning the wisdom of doing this. There are a lot of people counting on me and I don't know if I am living up to what they expect of me. I also went to Trinity tonight to speak about the Student Regent position but I had been told the wrong time so i made two nice long walks in this nasty heat for nothing. :( I really hope we get a good turn out for the Student Regent position and for our first Hall Council event on October 2nd. On a more positive note today Travis went to try and apologize to Taylor for some of the problems he caused and how he thought he was being unfair but could not find him. Hopefully this will mean some kind of reconciliation between those two and less drama in my life. This is definitely a step in the right direction, now that Travis has decided that Taylor is not such a bad RA or guy for that matter. That is it. Peace Y'all.

9:09pm: Meeting Night
So, today was a pretty hectic day. This is hopefully going to be a short update since I need to be working on Java. Basically I worked this afternoon and I had two different meetings to go to tonight. The student regent selection process is going well. There is still a lot of work left to be done on that though. I also had a staff meeting tonight. It was pretty good. They usually are but that is mostly because the 4 OAs are a lot alike in most aspects especially in our messed up sense of humor. The temp card policy got changed tonight and I am really unsure about how effective the new change will be, but I am just going to wait and see what happens.

**WARNING**
Cody's UnEdited Thoughts Follow - These are the things I won't say at work or to the Staff, So if you work here (and I know some of you do or are at least connected to those people) and might be offended or shocked to know what I really think. I suggest you stop reading at this point, because I am not gonna deny what I think and feel even if it does get me in trouble.

My roommate came in throwing a fit last night because he said he got in some pretty serious trouble by an RA over at KC last night for visitation and for generally being a jackass. I fully support that RA in getting upset at him for being a jerk but I do disagree with her course of action regarding the visitation rules. It concerns me greatly this year how so many RAs are so stuck to the letter of the rules that they are not able to back and look at the situation or the bigger picture or hell even use common sense. It is like housing department enslaved their minds and they but drones to some great hive collective. But I can not fault them for doing their jobs but I can still worry about this lack of ability to function independently of the Overmind. Personally that rules strikes me as a moral issue and not one that housing should be involved in at all. OH NO! Adults are enjoying each others company in the morning. This is obviously a sign of the looming Apocalypse. THE WORLD IS ENDING, AND THE 4 HORSEMEN ARE RIDING! THE SKY IS FALLING IN GIANT FLAMING STREAKS!! WORLDS ARE COLLIDING!!! GALACTUS< EATER OF WORLDS, HAS COME TO DEVOUR EXISTENCE!!!! CATS AND DOGS ARE LIVING TOGETHER!!!!! CHAOS INCARNATE HAS ARRIVED!!!!!! MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON ALL OUR PITIFUL SOULS FOR THE END IS NEAR!

That is my main beef with some of the policies is that they are things that housing should not be involved in or that they treat their residents like they are 7. Maybe if they treated people better they would act better because you know because when you treat people like they are children it basically becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. I just can’t find a good reason to get on people's cases about that policy. The day that I bust someone for having a girl over is the day I know I died inside and that I traded my moral sense of right and wrong and my self respect for some cash and the less than glancing notice of the housing upper echelons. Basically, it will mean that my soul has rotted away and I am nothing but an animated shell of a person, a puppet on a string as it were. This is why I stick to my policy of judging the seriousness of violations based on my "are you being a jackass?" policy. It still allows me to do my job while not being the mindless hive drone so many others become. Basically if someone is not bothering anyone else or destroying stuff or hurting themselves then a passing warning is really all that is needed, maybe.

Anyway, those are my personal views on that and in no way reflect how I do my job. I just strongly disagree with housing on some issues and I always have and probably always will. Overall I think that there are a lot problems here and that there are no simple solutions but I really feel strongly that sometimes the housing department crosses the line. Just my two cents. But on a lighter note, for all those people who IMed me and told me that about my last post Hungry was not a mood you can all "Bite my shiny metal ass!", and that is all I have to say about that. Anyway, that is enough bitching for one night. I promise to try and make the next post more fun and happy. Though wish me luck as I try to remain a neutral party between the coming shit storm that will happen between my roommates and housing. It is going to be difficult since I am so close to both factions and am able to see both sides. Wish me luck on that one, and now back to my Java homework. Peace Y'all.

4:41pm: A Long TIme Since an Update
So, Yeah, It has been a really long time since I updated this. It seemed like as good a time to add something to it as any other. Besides, I am killing time waiting for dinner. So far this year has been pretty good overall. I work for Arlington Hall as an OA now as you all know and that has been pretty good. I really like the job. Though, it does keep me really busy. In addition to that, I am Arlington Hall Council President and on the Student Regent Selection Committee. I have hardly had time to play WOW much.

My druid, Velarin, is level 59 now. He was 56 at the start of the week and I have been power leveling since he has so much rested experience. He has rested experience all the way through 60. I am pretty happy about that. I also started a priest on the alliance side to play with one of my old buds from Killeen. It is still a pretty low level character. Though, I did take a bunch of really good screenshots lately.

Some of the guys I work with play as well. Aron had a 59 paladin and Keith had a 60 Rogue. Though, they both play alliance. I have also taken to hanging out with them a lot. We have found time to play Hero Clicks which is a game Aron got both of us playing as well as X-men Legends 2 which we are currently playing. We have all picked up characters that we really like and play a lot. Keith for example plays Colossus or Magneto, Aron plays Gambit or Cyclops, and I play Iceman or Nightcrawler.

I had exams last week. So far my Exam Grades are 88, 87, 100, 93, 84, and 83. Accounting II is not nearly so bad but that might be because I can actually understand my professor. For the first time ever I have professors who can speak coherent English. It is really nice. I also have Micro Economics, Intro to Criminal Justice (liberal arts elective), Programming in Java, and Organizational Management and Behavior. So far this year has been pretty good overall except for one thing.

My roommates have had an over abundance of disagreements with the new RA Taylor. He is really different then the old RA's which I think is the root of the problem. First off let me state that yes my roommates are a little too loud sometimes but it is not terrible. I know that they really dislike Taylor and they are far from the only ones on this floor. That might be why his floor had such a low turnout at his event. I don't think he is such a bad guy though I do think he is a little too "letter of the law" for my taste but that is ok. However that being said I don't want to upset or discourage him by telling him a lot of people on this floor dislike him because they think he is a hardass. Whatever, overall I just think that both parties involved could cool off some. I think a lot of the guys are too loud and not discrete enough sometimes. Overall my only thought is that I feel bad for him. It seems like he really wants to make a difference and get to know the guys on his floor but I fear the damage has been done already. We will just have to wait and see what happens, but I hope things get better.

On a lighter note me and my roommates did go through the housing policies and discover that since we moved in here we have broken every rule in there except one and even some that are not like adding on to the structural integrity of the building. The only policy in there that we have not broken yet is the one about carrying a bow or fencing sword around. Yes that does include everything else from theft, to vandalism, to fighting to pets to cohabitation. It is really a quite impressive and extensive list. Though for anyone reading this I have not broke any of them this year yet. o:) While looking through it I did discover that housing has some dumb rules especially concerning visitation and network usage, but anyone who knows me already knew I did not agree with housing on those points. The main problem I found is that they treat their residents like they are 7 and then are surprised when people act like it. It is not a hard equation but I really think housing would be better off to stop treating people like they are children.

I guess that is about it. Take it easy. Peace Y'all

P.S. I also found my copy of the UTA Dorm Jam. It is our fire alarm that someone remixed with music that is really cool. I was really glad I was able to locate it again.

1:37am: Another Day Gone By....
Well The last couple days it has been pouring down rain. I hope it quits before I have to move back in, up in Arlington on Friday. Yesterday I ended up watching Gphoria, the video game awards, and was really dissapointed this year. They really slipped on the presentation this year. They presented very few awards on show and spent way too much time talking about the games. All I can say is I was overall very dissapointed, other then with the legend award which went to creator of pong. A very deserving individual.

Well, today I got a haircut and went and saw my grandparents before I headed back. I also went out to eat at Medinas tonight for some great mexican food. It was awesome, as always. The only other news today that was slightly amusing was what me and my father heard on the weather channel. The anchorman was talking about a flash flood and a horse trailer that got caught and swept away in the water. He said they saved all the horses but "FORTUNATELY the driver died". I was rather in shock about this until I realized he must have meant unfortunatly. Still, it was one of the oddest things I have ever heard an anchorman say.

That is it guys. Peace Y'all.

2:10am: Time for an Update
So the other day, my mother makes me wake up early and go all the way over to my grandparent's house because my uncle is supposed to be coming to town. Only he decides not to show, so I end up getting up and having to go someplace for no reason. I was really thrilled about that. Anyway, we get over there and my mother decides I need to help her and her brother move the old fridge out of her office and put in a better old fridge. Both are like 30 years old and made of steel so are heavy as crap. I will let you figure out how happy I was about having to that on a weekend. Anyway, we get back to my grandparent's and she wants me to clean the yard and cut the hedges. I did grab some of the junk out of the yard but the hedges did not get done. It did not help at all she kept telling me which items she wanted one at a time so I had to make several trips. She is pretty bad about that. After that, I finally got to sit down inside only for some of the cousins to deicde to stop by and bring at least 6 of their kids. Kids.....so noisy and they love to bother me. At any rate, we got out of there 2 hours later then promised.

On a more positive note, I made her make waffles the other morning to make up for the fiasco. That helped somewhat. I also got around to cleaning up my truck today. It is a lot less dirty now and getting closer to being ready to get out of here. Man I want out of here so bad. Oh, yes I also saw this little WOW poem online today and thought I would share it with everyone, even if most of you probably do not understand the humor in it.

"I'm a little ninja short and stout, I grab all the loot and hearthstone out.
All the people on ventrillo scream and shout, I'm the warrior in full devout!"

That is it. Peace Y'all.

1:58am: Long Time Since my Last Update
Not a whole lot has gone on since my last update. I am spending a lot of time at home and being bored for most of it. I really need to get out of this house and more importantly I need to get back to Arlington. The lack of a stable internet connection is making it so I can't play WOW and that alone is driving me up the walls. I can't wait to be back in Arlington. Man I miss my T1 line. Not too much else to tell around here, other then every day I keep hoping to wake it and be part way into August. So far, no luck. Only other interesting thing of late was me and Jess got into a contest to come up with two items you could get at Walmart and take up to the cashier that would mess with them the most. We came up with some pretty good combos. Ironically, later today I saw someone talking about the same thing on TV. Was kind of weird. Oh well, guess that is about it. I will go back to playing Morrowind for the third time and trolling the WOW forums now. Peace Y'all.

1:31pm: Got this from Amanda


Peace Y'all.

3:37am: Got Bored
I got pretty bored the other night so I started reading random things online and one of the things I found was a disscusion of philosphical questions and astrophysics. It was a pretty good but some things that were disscussed I had no idea about so I set out to go look them up. I went ahead nad found Fermat's Last Theorem since that was one of the things being discussed. Basically it says for x^n +y^n = z^n to be true then n can not be greater then 2. I was gonna look up superstring theory too but I got tired nad it looked like a long read. I will proud try to read it tommorrow. If you are wondering hte main question from what i was reading online was what would happen if an unstoppable force collided with an immovable object. Purely a philosphical question but was good for some thought. That is it for what is new. Peace Y'all.

3:20am: Something New
Saw this today. Thought it was interesting so figured I would post it. I was looking for an error but I did not see one. If you do let me know.

Take a simple equation:
1 = 1

Sub in A and B:
A = 1
B = 1
A = B

Multiply by A:
A*A = A*B

Subtract B squared:
A*A - B*B = A*B - B*B

Factor:
(A-B)*(A+B) = B*(A-B)

Cancel out (A-B):
A+B = B

Solve:
1+1 = 1
2 = 1


interesting? I thought so. **In a side note if you sub back in right before you cancel out it becomes 0 = 0** Peace Y'all.