Well, i'm off to vegas for the next few days so u wont see any new posts here till i get back. Feel free to give my cell a call if you are so inclined and we can chat, as long as i'm not too busy playing . . . arcade games that is. Enjoy thanksgiving and dont study for finals yet!!

"Viva Las Vegas!"

Calc midterm yesterday went allright. Negative reactions from the people around me which means only one thing: friendly curve!! Hee hee, jk, i do care about your grades too. (curve! curve! curve!) If i did well, i'll have reestablished my confidence at getting good grades, which i must admit has been weakening a bit recently.

Chargers: lost 3 of their last 4 games, yet are still in first place. The only thing is that so are the broncos and the raiders. 3 out of 4 teams tied for first place. Phew. Needless to say the next two weeks will be very important.

Chang just made a website, which is surprising since i didnt think he would be the type to take time off from studying to do it. ;) Check it out here. (I've had problems linking in my blogs, so if it doesnt work the url is www.geocities.com/stephensyc)

One more day of easybreezy classes then its off to relax and be my normally wild and crazy self.

Status: essays written, midterms taken, ready to party in vegas (in a family oriented way of course).

"All of my life
Where have you been
I wonder if I'll ever see you again"

Mike Update: I will be gone all of thanksgiving vacation. My family decided (without my knowledge of course) to make another trip to our home away from home at Las Vegas. I believe that makes 3 trips this year. We'll be having thanksgiving dinner at some casino buffet, and i think this marks the first time we've spent thanksgiving in vegas, although i could be wrong. Anyway, it kinda makes me sad cuz i was looking forward to hanging out with all the out of towners who were coming back for the holiday, but i guess we'll have to wait till christmas. Or, if youre home soon enough call me wednesday night and maybe we can do stuff then.

Raymond, what is it with you and terrorizing little animals?

Calc mid term in 5 hours. Time to go study!!

Chargers: 7-4

"And if that day comes
I know we could win
I wonder if I'll ever see you again"

The popular topic around here lately seems to be winter quarter. Thanks to the miracle of webreg, i was able to sign up for my classes in a little less than an hour. I didnt get half of the classes i originally wanted, but overall i pretty much like my schedule. I have tuesday off, start late and end early on fridays, and have a good chuck of freetime between classes on monday and wednesday for lunch. The only thing that might be a bit annoying is that fact that i have one class on thursday, a math discussion, and its at 6:00 in the evening.

Countdown to Thanksgiving: 6 days! Which also means 4 day weekend. Thank goodness for that. I'll be studying for calc midterm this weekend. Cant afford to screw this one up.

Chargers at Miami. If we win on sunday, ill be in a really good mood going into the calc midterm on monday. So lets hope we win.

Did i mention how hot and sunny its been lately? The rate we're going we'll be spending christmas at the beach.

Random updates in and around the world of Mike . . .

Chang got contacts! How interesting. I stood there watching him try to get them into his eyes for a good 25 minutes. But hey, he got them in, so u gotta admire the determination.

Ole Chuck in love?? Whouda thought that, huh?

Two essays and a midterm next week. Fun fun fun. Thank goodness vacation is coming up. Okay, so its a 2-day semi break, but hey, ill take what i can get.

Its been so hot around here lately. Geez, and its almost december. The suns been burning so bright that my sunglasses tan is starting to come back again.

Speaking of sunglasses, i left them in my pants pocket during laundry. Oops. One of the lens popped out, but using my acute skills of craftsmanship, i was able to repair the damage. Actually, i pretty much just forced the lens back in until they seemed stuck enough. Hopefully it doesnt go flying out sometime while im wearing them.

Incredibly, i saw the geisel library at night for the first time a couple days ago. It looks even cooler in the dark with all its lights on.

Love triangles are never fun. Dont worry though, yours truly certainly isnt part of one.

Hey, for u out of towners coming back home for thanksgiving, make sure to give me a call so we can go do something fun.

So i get to work revising my essay for warren writing. My teacher emailed the class this checklist we're supposed to follow, after we had already written our rough drafts. So i'm looking at this checklist thinking i'm going to have to rewrite 75% of my essay, when i get back my rough draft from outside her office. She wrote "very, very good" despite the fact that i didnt do half of the things she stated on her checklist. So now im slightly confused and annoyed at the class, but oh well cuz its pass or fail.

Chargers: 7-3

"Here comes the night
Here come the memories
Lost in your arms
Down in the foreign fields"

So what's new in the life of Mike? Not much I'm afraid, as you have probably already guessed judging from the blandness of my last couple of posts. College is going ok. I dont have a whole lot of work and i find myself not working on much for large amounts of time. Chang said it was because i'm good at time management. I think its because i've just gotten lazy, or never quite recovered from senioritis.

As for the social life, i havent really made any new or great friends. I've made a couple acquantances in a couple of classes, so its cool to have someone to talk to everynow and then. Chang and Raza are pretty much my lunch buddies, along with various members of chang's suite. Me and vic havent hung out as much as id thought we would. Liz is the only person i've hung out with outside of school so far, which hasnt even been that much. Ah well. I'm sure ill meet lots of cool people in the future.

I think it would be cool to move into an apartment sometime in the new future. Anyone willing to be a roommate?

It has come to my attention that next quarter will be the last math course i need to take. No more math after that. Never. Ever. How interesting. Math has been a part of school for as long as i remember, but soon ill be all done with it. Wowza. I sound like such a nerd, but its gonna be a little weird when that happens.

Anyone hear of magic mountains' new coaster opening next spring? Its called Scream! And i'm not just excited, it actually has an exclamation mark. Scream!

Hey, Thanksgiving is in 2 weeks. How cool. Everyone's coming back to sunny san diego! Lets go do something fun.

"Not so long ago
Seems like eternity
Those sweet afternoons
Still capture me"

"I long for the warmth of days gone by
When you were mine
But now those days are memories in time"

Back in action . . .

Well, after a 3 day weekend up in catalina island, i arrived back home last night with a massive head ache that put me to sleep quite quickly. When i woke up i was still feeling the effects of it and was still pretty tired. Thankfully writing let out after about 20 minutes, which allowed me to get back home and catch up on more sleep (i'm spoiled, i know).

As for catalina island, it was quite pleasant. The boat ride there was kinda nice, it was the first time i was on a boat for while. The town of avalon was cool too, mostly shops and restaurants but still fun. It felt like being in smallville. We went on this bus tour that went around part of the town and drove up this hill and got a really cool view of the town and ocean. There was this really awkwardly shaped fat guy that we kept running into too. How interesting. Breakfast lunch and dinner there wer basically burgers, fish, french fries, and just about anything else fried. Yummy.

"A zesty partner can help you in your efforts to get ahead" -my fortune from a fortune cookie i got at a chinese buffet we ate at.

Its come to my attention that i waste lots of perfectly usable time doing absolutely nothing at all. I really dont know how i do it, but i have so much time to get work done but end up squandering the majority of it. Its really weird thinking back to junior year of high school when i used to work at least 6 hours straight everyday. Wowza.

"Life's empty without you by my side
My heart belongs to you
No matter what I try"

Well, today it is raining. I think this is the first time i've walked around campus in the rain. I like rain. It has something of a refreshing, cleansing feel to it. Walking through the rain alone is good for reflecting and thinking and stuff, but its always nice to have someone with you in the rain.

This week has been filled with warren writing work for our final essay. We are considerably ahead of all the other classes (mostly because out teacher doesnt follow the syllabus too closely) so it would be cool if we finished things early and didnt have class the last week or so.

This weekend me and the family are going up to catalina island. I've never been there and i'm not sure whats so exciting about it, but hopefully itll be interesting.

Jon comes home this weekend. Yay! Hopefully we can hang out before i leave.

Oh, and another thing. I checked my stattracker thing cuz i like to know how hugely popular my blog is, and it turns out someone found my site through a google search. Incredible. And if that isnt weird enough, the word searched was apparently "funny horse names". !?!?! If one of u are responsible or can explain this to me, please do.

"That time of year thou may'st in me behold"

My blog looks crowded on my computer. Ill try to move things around sometime, but being the advanced web master that i am itll take a bit for me to figure out all the html stuff.

This weekend i got charged for a parking permit i dont have, didnt get to hang out with any friends, lost money playing poker, ate some less than quality food, and the chargers lost. The bright side? Well, i got a new chair.

Chargers: 6-2

Hey check this out! I added this really cool tag board to replace the comments i used to have. Now everyone can tell me how great Mike's Cloud is!