In the past week I've been over to Seth and Crissy's house twice, both times for a party.

Party Uno.
The first was last friday for Crissy's birthday. It was the most bizarre party ever. Now, granted I had a wonderful time. But let me just relay some of the events of the night. It started off normal with introductions of other attendees, talking about what they had done to the house and eating dinner. However, after dinner our entertainment consisted of throwing a tennis ball back and forth over the top of their house. It took me a few tries but I finally managed to succeed once before we inevitably lost the ball. However, our friend Samanatha was unable to throw it over but managaed to somehow throw it straight at Seth who was grilling which resulted in a large "GONG" as the tennis ball bounced of the top of the grill he was holding. It was hilarious. This game also resulted in a great quote by Seth to Jacob who at the time was trying to catch the ball after it flew over the house. "Jake, that was one step away from a frolic." (Hmm, maybe that is not as funny if it's not in person). Anyway, the next game involved throwing the balloons which were decorating the house around until they popped, I did not participate in this but it took about 20 minutes of the party. Then we were outside again playing a normal game of bags and trying to light a fire. However, the fire was lit in part using table legs so the top of the table was free to amuse us as neccessary and of course did. The guys took turns standing on it, carrying and spinning each other around. Finally, before we left we played a great game of Scene it, also fairly normal, except my team lost. Oh well. It was really close and the other team had a similar crazed movie fan like me.

Party Dos.
The second party revolved around the season finale of Lost. This party was originally going to be at our place, but they have HD so why not. Seth and Crissy hadn't been watching the show like the other eight people there, but I think they are not sufficiently hooked. It was such a great episode that answered a suprising number of questions. My favorite part was Sayhid, Jin, and Sun finding the large foot statue with four toes. Plus there were some great storms coming through during the show which added to the mood and let us run outside during the commercials to watch the amazing lightning (They live in the country). I was with other storm lovers!!! Of course, what Lost party would be complete without some Dharma Intiative Chili. Now at your local grocer.


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A goose hissed at me the other day. During my breaks at work, I walk to the East Lagoon on Campus to enjoy the nice weather which I don't usually get to enjoy on campus normally. The lagoon is populated with ducks, geese, birds, etc. The geese families have these adorable goslings. It's so fun to watch them swim in a line with the Mom and Dad guarding the ends. But apparantly as my coworker Katie and I were walking to the island yesterday one goose thought we were a little too close to her goslings and hissed at us. It was rather funny to think that my first ever animal attack could come from a goose.



The job is going fairly well. I enjoy Davis Hall in the summer, much more relaxed. I've been named team leader which means I get to boss around the other students, all undergraduates. However, one of them has a personality that just doesn't mesh with mine and I could really use some prayer on how to respond to him. Other than that I really enjoy the work even if it is boring some of the time and I like the challenge of being the lead on the project, the creative opportunities, and that my computer is the only one with headphones. Yahoo radio is such a blessing.



My friend Jamie sent this to me. I laughed heartily. ;)

Not that you need another post to confirm I am a geek, but here it is anyway. I am one of the 10,000 finalists of The DaVinci Code Quest on Google. I finished their 24 puzzles and now am qualified to compete in the final challege where you can win some pretty awesome stuff valued at about $130,000!!! A trip for four to New York, London, Paris, and Rome, and a bunch of Sony Electronics like a laptop, a large flat screen tv, a walkman, digital camera, etc... Not that I have any chance of winning but it will be fun anyway. Plus as a finalist, I received a limited edition cryptex in the mail. (You can ooo and ahhh at my picures below). Plus, a congratualtory message from Sir Ian McKellen. Ah, Gandalf... Anyway, Make that my number two piece of free movie souveniers. My first was 3 pieces of actual film from the Lord of the Rings for going to Trilogy Tuesday. Who knows what else will I be able to obtain in the future? Mwah ha ha.

The monkeys behind Lost are some darn good typers. I am so hooked, it's ridiculous. Now they have a companion book Bad Twin(which I will read soon), a commercial for the fictional Hanso Foundation that aired during the show, plus (so far) three websites, an interactive game, and print ads. How crazy.

The Hanso Foundation

Oceanic Airlines

SubLYMONal

Friday, April 21: Tom graduted from UTI from the auto/diesel/industrial programs with perfect attendence, 3 Student of the Course awards, and a nomination for Alpha Beta Kappa (some honors thing). YEA! Happiness.

Monday, April 24: Tom is laid off from his job with Chicago International Trucking. Bummer. Temporary? Permanent? Who knows?

Friday, April 28: Tom gets his job back with Firestone.

Monday, May 1: I secure full time work for the summer with NIU working on a GIS project for a municipality. I get to work 10 hour days Monday throught Thursday 7:30-5:30 but hey I get Fridays off. (Unfortunatly, this is really all I know about the job. I don't even know what town/city it is. And the project manager isn't sure what's going on either. Typical. Maybe it will be like the beginning of my assistantship and I will get paid for doing nothing... doutbtful...)

Wednesday, May 3, 11:00 a.m.: I defend my thesis with a 30 minute oral presentation in front of my 3 member committee. They offer helpful suggestions/comments and try to delay going to their faculty meeting at noon. I was so thankful that they were all laid back. It helped calm my nerves.

Saturday, May 13, 9:00 a.m.: I walk for my graduation. Plus, I get to wear a hood.

Sunday, May 14: PARTY!

Monday, May 15: Tom starts school with International Trucking, 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. which means he can work for about 2.5 hours each morning and Saturdays. My summer job starts.

Mid-August: My job ends and I technically graduate. Tom's other school ends. BIG OLD FAT QUESTION MARK. Isn't life fun? (Who knows, I'll probably end up in Idaho. Actually, Idaho has fairly low gas prices, hmmm...)


I recently visited the Museum of Natural History here in my town. Who would have thought, right? Anyway, I guess some benefactor donated all of his "stuffed animals" from various hunting trips and safaris. So the musuem is mostly just these animals. They apparently have the largest African Elephant in the states. (They had to cut out part of the ceiling and raise it up in order to fit him in.) Anyway, while myself, Tom, and my Mom were visiting, there was a birthday party who were about to be subjected to a creepy crawler show so we joined too. We got to see geckos, scorpians, tarantulas, snakes, etc. So of course, that means, I got to hold them. I was quite suprised I did it, but I successfully held a trantula and a corn snake. Tom left when the tarantula came out. (He mumbled something about a "phone call.")

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