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After my lone final last week and my five this week, I'm finally done with this semester and school for Spring. I knew it would feel good to be finished regardless of the outcome, but to be honest I've been worried the past month about some of my grades. I don't mind barely passing the classes I don't care about, but I was at risk of affecting my GPA too much or even having to repeat IDS 396 W, and that would have REALLY messed up my plans for the rest of 2009. Right before my last final last night, I got word that some of the final grades were already posted on webportal, and I was debating whether to check them and risk hearing the seemingly inevitable news. However, something told me to go ahead and check, and sure enough I did fine on all my finals and projects, enough to keep my grade steady. What a relief! So as scheduled, I only have two more classes to take during Fall, which I already checked and they're available during the evenings. It has me wishing I had actually walked this semester, but maybe I'll just wait. It's not really a big deal to me anyway, but I should do it for my mom if nothing else.

It sounds like there's a ton of plans cooking up for summer so it'll be nice to be free for all of it. And I want to start by having a fantastic memorial day weekend. I really want to have a good barbeque, we don't do that nearly enough anymore and we used to have some pretty epic ones. 

Friday, June 12 - 7:05 PM      

Saturday, June 13 - 6:05 PM  

Sunday, June 14 12:35 PM

*Definitely going to at least one...maybe hotel trip, Saturday night and Sunday day game?

Tuesday, June 16 - 7:05 PM

Wednesday, June 17 - 7:05 PM

Thursday, June 18 - 12:35 PM

*Nice weekday interleague game

Tuesday, June 23 - 7:10 PM

Wednesday, June 24 - 7:10 PM

Thursday, June 25 - 1:40 PM

*Probably a longshot, unless we make another Seattle vacation out of it

Friday, July 3 - 7:05 PM

Saturday, July 4 - 4:05 PM

Sunday, July 5 - 1:05 PM

*July 4th weekend vs. the Dodgers, sweet

Thursday, July 9 - 7:15 PM

Friday, July 10 - 7:15 PM

Saturday, July 11 - 6:05 PM

Sunday, July 12 - 1:05 PM

*San Francisco trip, and last series before the All Star break

Friday, September 4 - 7:10 PM

Saturday, September 5 - 7:10 PM

Sunday, September  6 - TBD

*Last weekend series in LA

Also, for a weekend baseball roadtrip, San Francisco and Oakland are in town together only once, while Los Angeles and LA of Anaheim are in town twice:

Philadelphia @ San Francisco

Friday, July 31 - 7:05 PM

Saturday, August 1 - 6:05 PM

Sunday, August 2 - 1:05 PM

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Florida @ Los Angeles

Friday, July 24 - 7:10 PM

Saturday, July 25 - 7:10 PM

Sunday, July 26 - 1:10 PM

Minnesota @ LA of Anaheim

I also think we should have our own place to practice during the summer. I say we throw all our money into it and have a fat studio with everything we've ever wanted. We should make a point to record everything in us before it slips away: indie stuff, hardcore, Jetlag, pop punk, whatever. That's living. I want new guitars!

AND, even though I feel like I'm more productive on my own, once songs are pretty much complete we should bring Eli in to play guitar 2 and add more depth.

The whole procedure really wasn't bad at all, despite all the speculation built up from others' experiences and stories. I was under the whole time (well mostly). I don't think he gave me much of anything during the procedure because I woke up twice; the first time he game a little more anesthesia, second time toward the end he just said "fuck it" and finished up. I can remember opening my eyes, seeing strange colors, and trying to speak, probably to tell him I was awake. It was hard because there was so much shit in my mouth and I was hopped up. Also, the numbness in my lips and chin went away in about 2 hours, while others said they were numb for 14! 

Anyway, it went by really quickly and to make up for the lack of drugs during the thing, he hooked me up with some Oxycodone, the stronger, bigger brother of Hydrocodone (Vicodin). Everything I needed for post surgery enjoyment was in one spot in Santee: Sav-On filled my drugs, Lucky had my hot and sour soup, and Best Buy provided 21st Century Breakdown limited edition. I promptly went home, popped a couple and blasted my first listen. Also Flo brought me ice cream, thank you! : )

I don't take the whole image seriously with Green Day's rock opera trend. But there are some good songs and I enjoyed it. They do know how to record an album, they're veterans now.

1. Going to Stone with my mom and then talking about death on the drive back home...weird.

2. Playing baseball for 4 hours and then going to the beach, in 62 degree cloudy weather, to swim in the water.

3. Doing a shot of Hennessy with a pincher bug in it (I assume) and Grey Goose with Martin.

My first final is today, followed by 5 next week. AND, the Fall 2009 schedule has been posted with the two classes I need, both after 5 PM. I'm going to have a free summer and travel to India I suppose. 

This semester is REALLY winding down now with only one week left of "classes" and the next week begins finals. I say "classes" because I'm not quite sure which ones are holding meetings and which ones aren't; the ones I actually went to the last few weeks pretty much already wrapped up. Even so, there's not much left except finals anyway so I'm just going to hit them hard and finish this up as quick as I can.

The last two weeks were really a load but provided a finale to most of the courses. I finished two big semester presentations, one last week and one this week. Those cost the majority of my free-time all semester, so I gasped as I finally came up for air when they were over. AND I did pretty well on them; the MGT 405 basically crowned me king of bullshit because everybody knows that class is a joke, unless for some reason you major in management, but I clinched our grade by nailing all the stupid questions they threw at us. The other more useful and relevant presentation went well last night, and I'm just glad it's all over. With the 50 or so page report of our work at designing an information system, at least I have something pretty to bring into interviews now.

After arriving home tired but satisfied, it would have been perfect to top off the week seeing Star Trek with everyone but I had to finish this last SQL project. Man, that shit is a bitch. And it just goes to show how this class is run and how outdated it really is by his instructions on turning it in: "Please turn in before noon on Friday (when there are no classes) and slide it under my office door". So I had spend lunch driving out there just to turn it in. But, again, I'm just glad it's over and I hope I did enough to keep my grade up. I really slacked in that class toward the end.

In a couple hours it will be weekend time though! I'm going to swim after work (finally : /) and then take my entire extended family to Stone tonight for my mom's late but important 50th birthday. I'm down to make it a double tomorrow too. Can't wait to go with Martin, and glad to see your first blog since who knows when!!