lance

lance @ 2009-08-15T15:47:00

2009-08-15T20:47:21Z

Because awesomeness on this level deserves to be reposted everywhere: KIRK/SPOCK ON A BOAT!

Oh hey thar!

2009-05-22T23:37:39Z

So yeah, I'm still alive. The main reason I haven't been posting is because I'm feeling guilty over not having accomplished much of anything since graduating last August. While technically I've been looking for a job, my choices are pretty limited (Greenville and Commerce) until I manage to get my driver's license (yeah, yeah, I know). I did apply for an entry-level thing at Raytheon (defense contractor my dad works for), but I never got called back for an interview. The position wasn't really interesting to me, but it was something my dad had heard about from the person doing the hiring for it, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I haven't been able to find much since then. Either people want job experience or specialties I don't have...at least for local stuff. I've seen plenty of good jobs farther away, heh.

I turned 27 on May 1st. I don't feel like I should be that old yet.

I've been updating on Twitter slightly more regularly than on LJ, probably because it takes less time and most of the things I want to post don't require much space.

My brother and I finished Buffy a couple days ago. We've still got the last season of Angel to watch, but I'm kinda sad over it regardless. Though now we can go back and watch the commentaries/special features without fear of spoilers, heh. So many completely amazing episodes scattered throughout that series though. The Lost finale was completely evil, the Office finale was hilarious and heartwarming, House was pretty good, and I'm waiting until 24 is over to finish it off. The second half of the Dollhouse season was great -- definitely check it out if you gave up during the first five episodes -- and I'm glad to hear it was picked up for the fall. We have the first season of BSG also, but haven't gotten around to watching past the first episode.

Listening to the new Amorphis for the first time right now, enjoying it so far, but I think I still like Silent Waters better. That album is so catchy.

Currently reading Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, about halfway through and enjoying it. Mostly I just wish George R.R. Martin would finish the next Song of Ice and Fire book, dammit.

Still playing WoW, mostly for the three nights of raiding a week (pretty much the only fun thing in the game for me anymore) and keeping in touch with friends, more than anything else. Working through Professor Layton and the second Phoenix Wright game, both are great.

Think that's about it for now. Yeah, I really am just that boring, haha.

:D

2008-08-09T17:12:19Z

I am now a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems! Wheeee, free at last! :D

Meme Time

2008-06-25T23:25:28Z

Grabbed from eiluned.

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE. [I'm also adding: strikethrough the ones you HATED]
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 ~~Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy~~
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

3/4 of the way through A Feast for Crows now, maybe I'll start one of these after I finish it.

Finally discovered how awesome Moonsorrow is. I've had a couple things by them for a long time now, but must've not been paying attention at all in previous listens. Great melodies and atmosphere.

Made a 94 on the first of two major speeches, which is good since each one is 25% of the final grade. Pretty sure I can make at least a B in the class now, maybe an A. Which still seems kind of ironic, considering how quiet I am normally, haha.

In WoW news, arena season 4 started yesterday, so I finally replaced my last blue with the season 2 offhand. Latro's is way better for combat swords than it has any right to be, but I was getting tired of all the "why u using a blue swrod in ur offhand? lololololtard" comments from random people.

Need to register with the university's Career Services department soon, 'cause I'll probably need all the help I can get finding a job this fall, heh.

zomg an update!

2008-06-18T20:48:09Z

Since I obviously need more things to waste my time on, I signed up for Twitter. valfather is the username, feel free to follow me.

Taking speech and weight training during Summer I, both are going okay so far. I'm almost sort of enjoying speech, which is pretty surprising. It's a really small class (6 people) so we get shorter class times and less pressure since we're not talking to a huge group. Weight training is a lot more work with this instructor than the one I took it with before (had to drop partway through 'cause of too many absences, heh)...'bout halfway through the class now, and I'm not getting as tired/sore after each class as I was at first.

I applied for graduation the week before last. Just these two classes and a psych class in Summer II with the easiest professor I've had in the entire university and I'm done. I'm not sure whether that's really sunk in yet or not, heh.

Slowly working through the first Phoenix Wright game...I think I'm nearing the end of Case 3. I love it...makes me wish I had more DS games though.

Also slowly working through A Feast of Crows by George R.R. Martin. I wish he had included all the characters in this half of the book, only a couple of my favorites are in this one.

New Opeth, Keep of Kalessin, and Stormlord albums are completely excellent.

Music Reviews!

2008-04-22T14:12:08Z

A few things I've been enjoying lately. Right-click, save-as.

Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde - 02 - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
(France, 2007, 10.0 MB)
Often fairly accurately described as black metal meets shoegaze, imagine a slightly heavier version of Coldplay and Sigur Ros mixed together and you'll have a good idea of what to expect. The tremolo picked riffs typical of black metal are present, but the feeling and intent of the songs is much more optimistic, often even happy. Neige, the French black metaller behind the project, describes the album as a journey into the self-invented dream world he's found solace in since childhood. Memorable melodies, soft vocals, and a refreshing atmosphere. Recommended to all!

Amesoeurs - Ruines Humaines (EP) - 03 - Faiblesse Des Sens
(France, 2006, 9.24 MB)
Another French band Neige is involved with, Amesoeurs tries to capture the frustration they feel at the depersonalization, depression, and fear produced by living in modern urban society. Blending black metal, shoegaze, post-punk, and new wave, this 3-track EP is quite interesting. The song here is the most accessible they've produced so far, a darkly beautiful number with female vocals that starts out slow and picks up as the track winds on. Sounds like something you might hear in a foreign indie film.

Bonobo - Days to Come - 11 - Recurring
(London, 2006, 7.32 MB)
As with pretty much everything else I've heard from the Ninja Tune label, this is a delicious album. Chill trip-hop of the highest caliber, ranging from vocal tunes featuring the gypsy-trained Bajka to jazz-inflected ambient pieces to dreamy instrumentals like this track, all of it head-bobbing bliss.

Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Sunset Mission - 03 - Midnight Walker
(Germany, 2000, 11.4 MB)
Imagine post-apocalyptic noir jazz in a nightclub full of vampires. They started out as a doom metal project that bored me to tears, but eventually replaced the lead guitar with a sax player and downtuned the bass to create something entirely different and wholly memorable. Bass, drums, synths, and sax...perfect for listening in the dark on a rainy night -- so perfect, in fact, that the last track of the album even adds in its own rain sounds as a backdrop.

Baroness - The Red Album - 01 - Rays On Pinion
(United States, 2007, 14.1 MB)
Progressive sludge metal/rock from Georgia, these guys have catchy-as-hell riffs and guitar harmonies as well as a singer another reviewer quipped sounds like a "pissed-off lumberjack". Thoroughly enjoyable from beginning to end, a highly recommended record.

Primordial - To The Nameless Dead - 03 - As Rome Burns
(Ireland, 2007, 17.8 MB)
At the risk of oversimplification, this is Braveheart metal. Irish melodic black metal with a pagan politico-historical bent, meant and able to be taken seriously, soaring and inspired clean vocal work, and songs that stay in your head long after the disc has stopped spinning. Every track here is a total winner, it was tough to pick just one, but I love the epic feel of this one.

Septic Flesh - Communion - 08 - Persepolis
(Greece, 2008, 9.88 MB)
Brilliant orchestral arrangements, electronically processed gutteral vocals that actually sound evil, and crushing riffs abound on the best album this Greek death metal band has put out yet. Taking inspiration from mythology, history, and other sources, the subject matter of the album is a large part of the appeal for me. The track here is a dramatization of what is essentially the prequel to 300, the sacking of Persepolis by the Greeks. Other songs tackle Lovecraft, Anubis, the tower of Babel, Narcissus, and more. Well worth a couple of listens to see if it grows on you as much as it did on me.

Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge - 02 - Captain Morgan's Revenge
(Scotland, 2008, 11.2 MB)
Pirate-themed power metal. Complete cheese, but totally awesome. If you can't enjoy this you're not my friend.

CANDY: The Gateway Drug

2007-10-31T09:49:13Z

Bulleted Lists Are Nice

2007-09-04T22:01:29Z

A few things:

- I suck at updating.
- Started my next to last semester of college last week, everything's going well so far.
- I was made rogue class captain in my WoW guild a month or so ago. We had over 400 members before clearing out some inactive accounts recently, down to 365 now. As much as anything can be an accomplishment in an online video game, that was one.
- Deathspell Omega is an amazing band.
- Crash is a great movie...just watched it again last night for an online class.

I don't have much else for now.

lance @ 2007-06-27T14:26:00

2007-06-27T19:26:57Z

I'm not sure if it's just the lack of sleep or if this really is one of the funniest things I've read this week, but...from the Wikipedia article on the Serial comma:

"The Times once published a description of a Peter Ustinov documentary: 'highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector.'"

Hahahahahahahahaha...

Test your musical perception!

2007-05-16T08:53:05Z

This was posted on one of the places I acquire music from and I thought it was interesting enough to share.

Tonedeaf Test

Rhythmdeaf Test

Adaptive Pitch Test

I got 75% the first time I took the tonedeaf test, 64% on the rhythmdeaf test, and 2.1 Hz on the adaptive tone test. Repeat attempts boosted my score, but they don't count.

Back in WoW for the summer...I am weak, only made it a little over two weeks. Just long enough to finish exams, heh. It's a good thing I don't drink, 'cause if my WoW addiction is any indication, I would end up a raging alcoholic.

Been playing the new Lake of Tears album a lot lately, great stuff.

lance @ 2007-04-30T18:23:00

2007-04-30T23:23:11Z

I've been clean from WoW for a week now, so I'm keeping AIM loaded up more often again. ru5tyb1ke5 is the name...heh. I cleared out my contacts since it seems most people have switched screen names or are no longer active at all. Reply here or IM with your current one, either way.

The new Porcupine Tree album is delicious. Somewhat similar to Radiohead, only better.

Best parody I've seen in a while...

2007-02-10T21:18:24Z

Hahahahahahahaha...

24 Hour Pizza Delivery

I decided to update, so it's probably snowing in hell.

2007-01-14T22:09:45Z

Y'know, it's easy to forget how totally awesome electricity is until it goes out. It died last night, came back on for about 20 or 30 minutes this morning, and then died again until around 1 PM -- so far, so good *crosses fingers*. We started a fire in the fireplace and slept in the living room last night, heh.

The super short version of all the posts I haven't made lately: aced two classes last semester and passed the others, got some stuff for Christmas, and the paid time on my WoW account expired about a week ago. I change my mind every 10 minutes about whether or not I will get the expansion and reactivate my account. It's not so much the game itself I would miss, but a handful of really great friends I've made and the fun times we would have exploring all the new areas and such.

In the meantime I've been playing FFXII, which is a decent enough substitute right now, but that may change once I've completed the main storyline and all the sidequests. As great as Balthier is, I almost think I like Basch more at the moment. I don't think I'm that far in yet, as I just got to the entrance of Raithwall's Tomb.

I've been trying contacts instead of glasses for a little over a week. Most days they do fine and are completely great, but the days where they don't they are a huge pain in the ass. My parents had problems tearing enough when they tried them, but that doesn't seem to be the case with me. Still, I think I'll probably just stick with glasses unless these turn out to be cheaper before insurance (which I won't have after I turn 25 in May, dangit).

Finished season 2 of House a while back, haven't started on 3 yet. Totally dropped off on watching Lost several months ago, not sure when/if I'll pick it back up. Season 6 of 24 starts tonight, woohoo!

Taking more classes this semester than I usually do...I should be able to graduate next Fall as long as I pass everything from here on out and there aren't any scheduling conflicts. The latter is probably the bigger worry than the former.

This CD is one of the best things I've heard in the last year, maybe longer. A must have if you are at all a fan of trip hop.

Yup.

2006-09-07T09:06:10Z

Sitting in front of a computer all summer + having taekwondo 4 days a week this semester = ow. Still, it's fun, though admittedly more masochistically so some days than others. Getting up to walk after I've been sitting for a bit makes me want to die. Either that or get replacement legs made of metal. The latter is probably the cooler option of the two.

Finished rambling out my first technical writing assignment, we'll see how it goes. Though he didn't seem to offer much in the way of expectations, so it should probably be fine.

I'm enjoying my classes this semster and I haven't played WoW since last weekend, so things are looking up. I did finally get a microphone for my computer though, so I can join in on the vent fun the next time I'm playing.

I was getting ready to finally update my facebook profile/picture/all that stuff, but I'm not sure I want to now that they've added all this new crap. Hrmmm.

It's almost 4 AM and I'm supertired, so that's probably all I can come up with at the moment. Time for sleeeeeeeeep.

Hey there!

2006-08-30T22:01:55Z

So, I'm finally going to start posting again. I haven't been doing so lately just because my day-to-day activities this summer would be incredibly boring to read about and I haven't accomplished anything monumentally important. Unless you consider playing lots of World of Warcraft important. Most of you probably don't.

Anyway, this semester should be pretty fun, since I have three great instructors and an easy one I've had before. My classes at the moment:

PSY 404 - Organizational Psychology
CSCI 233 - COBOL Programming
PSY 403 - Development of Modern Psychology
PSY 310 - Psychology of Diverse Populations (Capstone)
ENG 341 - Technical Writing

I'm fairly sure I'm going to drop 310 because it's an 8:00 class, the course material is pretty much the same as what I had in Social Psych, and there are probably capstones out there more relevant to my major. I've looked over and over again for something else to take instead, but the only classes I still need are either at the same time as one of my current classes or are being taught by professors that don't appear to be very good (hurrah for Rate My Professors).

I'm hoping to get involved in taekwondo again...dropped by the first class yesterday and got some info on everything. I'll probably attend the university class for review and to maybe help out a little and also go to the night practices that start next week. At least I can finally pick up my camo belt and certificate, heh.

I'm slowly working my way through George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords. Been meaning to read it for a long while but hadn't gotten around to it until now. I have the new one ready to read once I finish this one.

I'm caught up to the current seasons of Lost and 24...just waiting for late September and January to roll around for the new seasons, respectively. Finished the first season of Deep Space Nine, currently going through the first season of X-Files.

Not much new on the music and movie fronts at the moment.

Still playing WoW, still addicted...though now raiding is pretty much the main source of fun in the game. We've a got a great group of people, almost all adult or at least 18+ so there's very little drama, great teamwork, and a lot of joking around in vent. We went from being almost complete MC noobs to having everything up to Domo on farm status in two weeks. We tried Ony for the first time last Saturday and got her to 38% first try...weren't as lucky on subsequent attempts, but still. This sounds like gibberish to most of you, but hey. :)

I need to go get the mail, refill my drink, and get an early start on an assignment for technical writing, so that's it for now.

Happy birthday zarkia!

Whee...

2006-02-07T00:59:35Z

A happy birthday is in order for tygerofdanyte, who turns 21 today!

The first taekwondo practice of the semester is tonight. Actually, the second, but I didn't know about the first one until afterwards, so it doesn't count.

I pre-ordered the collector's edition of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion using a Barnes & Noble gift card from Christmas that made it cheaper than buying the regular edition anywhere else.

The first psychology movie night is tomorrow at 6:30 PM in BIN 126. We're watching and then discussing Rain Man, if any of you local people want to come.

I'm hoping I'll have the time and inclination to write a longer update when I get back from practice tonight, but we'll see.

lance @ 2006-01-27T06:49:00

2006-01-27T12:49:37Z

If http://www.rent-a-negro.com/ makes you think and feel, regardless of the content of your thoughts and feelings, damali ayo has accomplished an objective. I freely admit to having caught myself in the middle of stupid thoughts, so this wasn't totally uncharted territory for me, but I got something out of it nonetheless. I especially recommend reading the two interviews linked at the bottom of the press page of her main site (mousing over the squares constitutes the site's navigation system) for added context and additional material to mull over.

lance @ 2005-12-29T21:56:00

2005-12-30T03:56:09Z

:O

Duncan Sheik's new album comes out on the 24th and he's playing in Dallas the day after that. I wanna goooooooooo!

lance @ 2005-12-13T13:57:00

2005-12-13T19:57:12Z

As it turns out it wasn't random at all, just friends of the_lance...which isn't nearly as exciting. Ah well. I remember making similar comments in my journal about usernames I couldn't get before this one, so I can't blame him on that point. I wouldn't have approved of my friends trolling those journals for kicks, but there's no accounting for taste I suppose.

In marginally more important news, I am now a yellow belt! \o/

Just a couple more classes left and I'll be done 'til mid-January.

Uh, okay.

2005-12-13T04:12:23Z

Yay, I got my first insulting comment from a random LJ user! My life is now complete. <3

Actually, two users now. It's a conspiracy!

I never want to move my arms or legs again. :(

2005-11-15T20:42:31Z

Have a totally awesome birthday, nedroid! The robot monkey is in the mail. Hopefully the reinforced steel banana kept him occupied.

blondieoubre, you have no idea how much I envy you right now, because hoooooooooooly craaaaaaaaaaaaap...that was the most evil, horrible, utterly and completely exhausting workout in the history of my life. I will be surprised if I can move tomorrow. Still, in some twisted and totally illogical fashion it managed to be fun all the same. It hit everyone hard, but probably me worst of all 'cause I'm overweight and about as out of shape as you can get. Eventually it won't be so bad, but right now... ;_;

At least we got our orange belts, certificates, and patches today. Well, those of us who signed up with ATA anyway.

Aside from karate and history, I am woefully behind in my classes. I uninstalled WoW last night and aim to keep it that way until after finals. I just don't get things done otherwise. :|

Subway's chocolate chip cookies are pretty freaking good. :9

That's about it.

:D

2005-10-28T20:46:33Z

Woobaby!

lance @ 2005-10-25T23:55:00

2005-10-26T04:55:58Z

Before the 25th turns into the 26th (though they're turning 26 on the 25th, heh) I'd like to wish eiluned and kouban very happy birthdays. Woo!

Although I haven't updated in four weeks, I have been reading everyone's entries and commenting occasionally. As it turns out our belt test was postponed until last Thursday, during which everyone who was able to test passed. Mr. Hill, our instructor's instructor and a totally awesome dude, was there and mentioned several people including myself as having done very well in regards to our one-steps. Our instructor wants me to go to the tournament this Saturday, but I can't make up my mind. On the one hand I'd like to actually get out and show some initiative for once...on the other it would suck if my knee gimped out at the wrong moment (which it's still doing from time to time). Even if I don't compete I might go anyway just to cheer on the five or six students from our class that are going. Also, I'm registered with ATA now. Even if we can't get an actual class set up to count as our second PE credit she'll be able to work with us one-on-one informally as long as she's teaching here.

I don't have much to say about my other classes and I doubt anyone is really that interested anyway. I'm doing well in one, okay in a couple others, and not so well in another. Suffice it to say that my procrastinating habits are going to get me again if I don't pick up the pace soon. The good news is that everything is salvageable. The trick is that I actually have to do that instead of just saying I will. :|

In WoW news, my priest is 46 and I have a rogue that I love dearly that hit 30 last weekend. My two best friends on the server hit 60 recently, so I'll probably try to work on my priest exclusively from now on in order to actually start grouping with them again. Since I cleared my talents and moved to a full shadow spec soloing is even easier now than it was before.

I'd like to make this journal into more of a journal instead of just a "what I've been doing lately" type of thing. Partially because I just don't do that much (and thus don't have much reason to update) and also because I've been noticing how...non-social I am. Not anti-social, as I like being around people and hearing what they have to say, just...failing to interact with anyone. I know it's entirely in my head and not something else 'cause I'm almost a chatterbox around my brother and to a slightly lesser extent the rest of my family. Put me in a group, however, and I just don't have much to say. No idea what it is.

Hm. Anyway, I'm gonna do my economics reading and then get some sleep.

lance @ 2005-09-20T02:22:00

2005-09-20T07:22:41Z

Sigur Rós' new album, Takk..., is just...wow. All of the tracks are good, but a few of them just absolutely floor me.

In addition to other things I've been reading more of The Wizard, which is equally awesome.

I really don't have much to say at the moment.

lance @ 2005-09-17T19:51:00

2005-09-18T00:51:15Z

Yay, Facebook finally added TAMU-Commerce. I've added what few people I was able to remember the names of, so if you have an account there go check to see if I got you. If not,
view my profile and add me! If you don't have an account, go get one. I'll try to get a picture up within the next few days so I can appear in search results.

Half-Price Books is having a 20% off everything sale this weekend, so we might head over there tomorrow.

In other news, I am entirely all too ready for the Starbucks in the university library to get built.