Monday, May 10, 2004

Welcome to Vana'diel
Oh, dear.

I fear that which I have opened is all consuming.

One of the benefits to getting married is getting gifts from relatives. One of the benefits to marrying someone who is awesome is that you can spend gift money on things that are completely not practical. Thus begins my saga...I went to Electronics Boutique (I call it electronic goatee) and bought:

Final fantasy 11 $87.00
Network Adapter for PS2 $39.99
USB keyboard $29.99

Enter the world of Vana'diel. I have to admit it took a call to Sony and a few hours to get things set up, and installing FF11 took 2 hours of downloading (especially after accidentally restarting my PS2). My first steps into the online world were timid, and I had no idea what to do in the game. There are insane amounts of commands! I'm creeping along, and have joined parties with a few other low-level people and its mad fun! I'm totally addicted. I'm a simple level 7 warrior now but can change and advance to all kinds of different things. Its a blast. You meet people that are fun, and chatting is easy with the keyboard. I'll update on how I'm doing every once in a while.
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Thursday, May 6, 2004

Tifa? I got no boobies.

Tifa:
Very optimistic person, loves to keep things in
high spirits. Usually the peron who trys to
cheer up the uncheerable, and suceeds.


What FF7 char are you??
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This is to scare you
A sample of the writing I've been doing which has been keeping me from OB (rightfully so):

Flavoenzymes catalyze a variety of chemical reactions, but we will focus on oxidations with molecular oxygen. Flavoprotein oxidases are a useful natural system to mimic with imprinted polymers because they will oxidize a substrate without an external cofactor. The catalytic system involves two half-reactions where the substrate is oxidized by the flavin, and the flavin is subsequently re-oxidized by molecular oxygen. Vanillyl-alcohol oxidase8 (VAO) serves as a good model for the flavoenzyme oxidases because it is the most studied and well known system, and it can oxidize a variety of substrates. There are about 200 crystal structures available in the Protein Data Bank for FAD and FMN dependant proteins. The common features of all of these enzymes were reported in a review by Mattevi9 which highlighted the orientation about the flavin in the catalytic site.

Not that anybody actually wanted to read this stuff.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2004

motivated
I'm really not motivated at all. I've spent the last two weeks working on papers. I'm halfway done, which is promising.

The real problem is that its managing to demotivate me in other aspects of my life. Curses!

I'm sure that I'll get past my motivational block tomorrow, seeing as though its comic book-day! (New comics hit the stores on wednesday). I'm still waiting for my Blade of the Immortal #88, which mysteriously didn't show up two weeks ago. I ordered it, but haven't seen it yet. It might come in tomorrow, lest thumbs be broken!

How's everyone else doing? Give me a rating from 1-10. One is absolutely horrible and 10 is super-fantastico (the o is optional)
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Monday, May 3, 2004

Deodorant is the opiate of the masses
I've always been the lazy, forgetfull type. Especially in the morning its hard to get me to do much of anything, and I don't eat breakfast or put much care into what I'm wearing in the morning. So, along those lines I used to forget to put on deodorant every once in a while. What I found out was that it didn't really matter when I forgot it. Nobody noticed (girlfriends didn't say anything and they get the closest to you) and I didn't think I particularly smelled either. So I gave up the old spice and stopped using it. It didn't make much of a difference. I'm an every other day showerer too! Unless someone sticks their face in your armpit they really can't smell anything. Conclusion; deodorant is worthless. Occasionally you hear about health risks from using it too. My suggestion to you is to try giving it up. I imagine it won't work for everyone, nervous people get 'fear sweat' and that is kinda potent but give it a shot. Odor is pretty natural, and perfumes have animal pheremones in them I believe. I don't want to smell like a sexed up deer!
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Wooop!
I'll try not to post too much about marriage, though obviosly its going to be on my brain for a while. (Narration): I met Rachael because she was my friend in college's girlfriend, and got to know her through hanging out with him. She was always really nice, but I never really thought of her as girlfriend material cause she was dating my pal. I lived with him for two years and all of us roommates started to realize that their relationship was crappy. He used Rach for money, and she would do things purposefully to hurt him when she was unhappy (the short version). They had been together for like 9 years and really should have broken up a long time ago. They did, and he moved to Detroit for a job. Me and rachael became friends later that year in the summer and would watch Iron Chef and go see movies (as friends). There had been a long standing plan to go on a trip across country (the three of us, before the break) and although rachael figured it was a wash I really wanted to go. We planned and went just the two of us, staying in a hotel outside of Chicago (we could hear a shooting range, and it was all RV's), drove to my Dad's in Omaha, then up to the Badlands and camped. We went to Yellowstone, camped for two days and kept west to Idaho (sucked) and then to Portland to stay with her brother at his house. It was a 16 hour drive to Portland and we had started to really stress out from driving. Her bro had a hot tub and we crashed in that for a while which was great. We slept in a guest bedroom, with two single beds pushed together. What happened was both of us started to wake up having fell in the middle "crack" of the beds. What follows is history and the beginning of us getting one hotel bed for the rest of the trip whenever we couldn't camp. There's a bunch more details, but that's the beginning of it all!
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Monday, April 26, 2004

News
So the thinking is that its ahernia. I don't really know how to spell it, hopefully thats correct. More tests on Wednesday. The upside to things is that I am now married. If anyone wants wedding pictures I'll send you one, but I'm not sure that anyone would want one. It was great, we got married in a Rhododendron garden, simple with only three other people as witnesses (one baby). The whole thing took about 3 minutes and I now wear a ring on my left ring-finger. So that is pretty cool although I don't feel any different.

All that I have to say elsewise is cheer up! two of the three MyO sites I go to have been really down lately so I hope things start going better for y'all; although there's not much I can do to help.
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Thursday, April 22, 2004

?
And the doctors find.......nothing. Worthless. I guess its better than bad news.
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The Deal
So here's the deal. Th ebiggest thing that's happening is that my fiancee has been having a pain in her side for a while now, and has gone to the doctor several times about it (no good answers from them). recently they found something which I won't go into detail about, but brings up the big "C" scare. She went in to get an ultrasound yesterday, and I (we) still don't know what the result is. Scary as that is, I'm trying to remain positive and optimistic basically so I can be supportive. This is all framed by school, where I had to give an hour long presentation last night, and had to reschedule my advancement to candidacy exam. Things are adding up, with the thought of my future wife's ailment always in mind. We are getting married on Sunday afternoon too, and I really hope it isn't dampened by bad news.

Today I find out that since my research isn't funded, I may have to be a teaching assistant for the summer, but then can't because it conflicts with my trip to Japan in June. So now my professor has to borrow money from the school to pay for me. I really don't like being a burden but there's nothing I can do about it right now really.

Doesn't all that sound like fun? Hopefully I can find some more positive things tommorrow, things are due to get better next week at least.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Wednesday: Day of Doom
So today is shaping up to be a really really bad day. I'll leave it at that for now, but post tomorrow with details in case there are more tales of crappiness to share before the day ends...
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