Man...there has been nothing interesting at all going on recently which is why there has been a lack of updates. Pretty much the most exciting thing that has happened all week is that I got Mega Man 9 Monday and holy crap is it hard. Gone are the days where I can just breeze through the 8-bit Mega Man games in a couple hours. It's taking countless number of hours and DEATHS to get through each stage. Especially when it comes to Wily's stages at the end. I got to the second stage boss, died and ran out of lives. Frustrated I saved and quit which actually sucks because if you continue, you can pick right back up on that same stage; but if you go to the stage select screen or quit, you have to start back at the first level (of Wily's castle), which was hard enough to get through! Oh well, if games were meant to be beaten in a day, they wouldn't be as fun right?

Last Saturday Amber, Chris, Jessica, and I went along with Kelly, Kevin, Russ, and two of his friends to Trexx in Syracuse. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a gay bar. Yet, it didn't seem THAT gay when we were there. I was expecting, I don't know, a lot more gay men. It just seemed like a regular bar to me, well, except for the Drag Queen dancing there lol. Jessica got sick and was throwing up for most of the night so they (Chris too) basically sat out in the car for most of the night. Sure sounds like a fun evening to me. We went to the B-Ville diner afterwards which is kind of funny because the Vanguard had their show in B-Ville hours earlier. Chris drove to Syracuse initially, and I drove home because he had to "attend" to Jessica. I had to stop multiple times on the way home because she had to throw up. Did I mention this whole pregnancy thing is really fucking annoying? Anyway...

As for this week, there has been literally nothing interesting happening. I've been going to class and going to work and not much else. I'm at work now, as updating from work seems to be the most convenient for me. We have our first practice for Boys Down the Hall tomorrow. We should be learning Chasing Cars, so long as Scott can manage to teach it to all of us. We don't have the sheet music for it.

This weekend is the Harvest of Sound, the Vanguard's home show. Not only do I get the see the marching band show in it's finished form for the first time, I also get my new cell phone that day. I'm finally due for my upgrade and I'll be getting a black LG Shine when I come into Auburn for the weekend. Yay!

My classes this semester are going really really well.

ENG 220: Amy Shore is the funniest/most awesome teacher I've ever had (with my SOC100 teacher coming in 2nd). She makes fun of everyone (in a nice way, kind of) and makes the class really interesting. The only real assignments we're going to have in that class are three major essays. Not looking forward to that, but she said she's going to make it as easy as possible for us.

ISC 220: Despite being very hard to understand, Professor Yoon is a great teacher. I admit, I was skeptical about having her in a classroom after taking her online ISC 110 course last semester with mistyped questions and unclear details, but having her in a classroom is much much better. She explains everything extremely well and makes everything very easy to understand. She's really giving me a good idea what Information Science is all about, and I really like it! I still don't really know what kinds of jobs are available in the IS field, but with all the internships Oswego offers, I shouldn't have too many problems finding something to do with my degree!

MAT 158: Stats. I hate math, but Professor Mosbo somehow knows how to make it interesting, kind of. The main thing that annoys me about the class is that he assigns homework but never checks, grades, or goes over it. I hate professors who do that, it makes it a lot harder to learn the concepts. Other than that the concepts in the class aren't too hard, I've been exposed to many of them before in previous math classes and he's pretty funny and nice too.

CSC 120: Ugh, don't even get me started on this class. It's so friggin' easy. This is the BASIC level programming class that I am being forced to take for my ISC major. I've already completed the higher level programming classes and now I'm forced to take two steps backwards. I know all the information already and it makes the class so easy. Professor Bosch is great though. He knows that I , along with a couple other guys know all the info already and offers bonus points on the assignments if we do more than what's expected of us, which isn't too hard considering anything basic I can add to the project nets me the extra points. This is the kind of programming class I wish they started me with in my freshman year. I might have still liked programming today, but now it's too late. This class is structured similar to the Visual Basic classes I took in high school. Everyone is sitting at a computer at all times while he gives directions in class, we're sitting there programming right along with him. It's very hands-on and that's the best way I learn. Oh well...I'll get an easy A in the class anyway...

MET 100: What can I possibly say about Professor Skubis...he's a huge science nerd. He's goofy and LOVES weather perhaps a bit too much. He spends half the class showing weather maps and forecasting the weather for the next few days and doesn't start giving notes until way over half-way through. He's a really exciting teacher, but somehow I still manage to fall asleep in his class until we get to the note-taking portion. Man that guy loves hurricanes....


That's pretty much everything I have to say for now.

This is Josh Farrell, signing off.

-Goodbye-