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Hello Folks. Its December! Every month I'm amazed at how fast time flies. But before we get into that, last month Anna asked us to each have a list of thanks in our next letter of the month, so lets do that first: I'm thankful for...
Well, that said, lets move on. The holidays are here! Usually I'm so pissed off after Thanksgiving that the stores were playing Christmas music before Thanksgiving was over, that after thanksgiving I'm pretty anti-holidays. But this year, I'm not falling to that. I'm really getting excited. I'm going to get to see all my old friends this year, and I'm stoked. I'm hoping to hang some lights in my new house! I'm excited about getting people nice gifts, and about getting new toys. As James would say, "Merry Fucking Christmas!" (or Hanukkah, or...). As of today, the worst of the stress from class/work/etc. is over. The SCALE conference was a few weeks back and it went very well. I had a lot of fun and learned a lot. I got to introduce some of the leading men in the field, which was cool. I also hit the American Music Awards and saw our boys play a killer version of St. Anger, and I got to see Evanescence perform, a new band on the top of my recent playlist. All in all, a very good time. I also gave a presentation at a local Unix users group which was a lot of fun. But most stressful of all has been this fucking class, that as of about 3 weeks ago has been absolutely no fun. I've nearly killed one of my groupmates, and I'm no longer interested in the material. It has been way more work than it's worth, and I'm sick and tired of it all. As of tonight, we turn in our last project! We do have a final in a little over a week, but that will just require some review the night before. For all intents and purposes, I'M FUCKING DONE!!! I can't tell you how great that is. However, we always have great quotes from working our class projects, and I would never deprive you of them. So here's two of the highlights from this month: Me, in reference to poking around in a directory we weren't supposed to modify:And while we're on quotes, heres a random tidbit from the office: There's kinky.... and then there's throwing buscuitsAnd this quote in an IRC chatroom is classic: I don't mind a virus wiping out all my important files -- but do you know how long it takes to build a good porn collection??And my personal favorite from a female friend in a random IM: Random tidbit I thought you might get a laugh or two out of: I actually managed to get myself off (discretely) on the airplane todayWork has been somewhat stressful, but nothing in comparison. I love my job. So, the upcoming US Tour is starting to take shape. They need to announce the fucking dates already so I can make plans. If they pull the same shit they did this year where the dates are announced weeks before they tickets go on sale (and some dates while other dates are already on sale), I will be PISSED. How the hell do you plan to do a tour, or part of a tour, if they don't tell you what the fucking tour is ahead of time?! At the very least, though, there's seven dates in California! =) I love this state. So I slept a lot last night, and I'm feeling better. I'm looking forward to sleeping a bit more regularly, and getting to the gym more regularly, and all that. I'm looking forward to doing some holiday shopping (ack! never thought I'd say that), and decorating, and all that stuff. The holidays are making me happier, and hopefully that will make me be nicer to people (see Matt, it's not faking, its just a side effect of getting in the mood). I'm definitely really excited about visiting everyone back in Florida. I want to say congratulations to our boys on their Grammy nomination as well as getting Some Kind of Monster accepted into the Sundance Film Festival! Also, some of you may know, I'm starting to get a bit into college football. I'm still no sports guy, but at the very least I keep up with how well USC (my school) does. So we kicked ass all season, and we were poised to go to the Sugar Bowl provided we beat OSU yesterday. I went to yesterday's game we we beat them pretty damn well (52-28)... but every good team we beat all year fucking lost yesterday as well. That, sadly dropped our strength of schedule. Both human polls (AP and Coaches) have now ranked us #1, but the fucking BCS put us at #3, thus we don't get to go to the Sugar Bowl!! Fucking BCS!!! See here. So anyway, I'm not big enough into sports to lose any sleep about it, but I thought it was pretty fucking lame. Nonetheless I was at the game and had a LOT of fun. I was on the 40-yeard line, row 3, thanks to my friend KC who's a Trojan Knight. I yelled a lot and had a lot of fun, and it was well worth it. Lastly, everyone check out my friend Marcus' music here. I'm hosting some of his MP3s for him, and he's got some great stuff. I recommend the Lesbian song. =) Everyone have a GREAT Holiday season, a safe and fun New Year, and I'll talk to you all in 2004!!! Phil |
GOOD USC beating OSU Fucking class is DONE November is over Holiday's are coming Going to see all my old friends Hopefully getting a Tivo for Christmas! Having all my music on my computer Thanksgiving was so peaceful Key Signing Party at work PGP The Lesbian Song BAD Fucking class Stress levels in November Not hitting the gym nearly as much as I wanted BABES OF THE MONTH Tara Reid Jennifer Garner Charisma Carpenter MOVIES I SAW Matrix Revolutions MOVIES I WANT TO SEE Return of the King Cat in the Hat The Last Samurai |