It has been.... way too long. So I figured I should write something now, and here it goes.

School: It has obviously started, and we are currently in week 2. I love being able to tell people that I only have 4 days of school a week. I really need it too, considering how the other days I gotta get up at 7 to make it to school on time by 8, and the fact that I don't EVER get to nap anymore. Classes are okay. 228 - first class of the day with Dr. Noooooo - Tandon. Then 255 with Shaban, who is a very nice professor, however the workload is huge as I've found out tonight (good thing I started early, I'm a good boy). Then 306, which is hard to pay attention to because she is doing Materials/Chemistry so far, which sucks when it is supposed to be an EE course. Last but not least is Phil 230, which is really interesting actually and I'm ahead in the reading. It is interesting stuff. Only down side to the whole thing is that Prof Flores switched rooms!!! Now I have to walk alllll the way to the business building, and then back to McPhee's to work afterwards, instead of having every one of my labs AND lectures in building 20. Oh well, some exercise I suppose. Labs will suck, as always. I have Bryan as my lab partner again (Chemistry class all over again, except this time it's EE!) he's a cool dude, and the 306 lab teacher is from China, and I'm speaking to her in Chinese. Last is 255 lab, which I don't know how it will go, seeing as how I have 2 (count them, two) CE majors as my partners... hope they know what they're doing and that it will be easy and fast to get out of, but I highly doubt it. That is the conclusion of my school activities so far... oops, almost forgot. Textbooks - cost me close to $280 for 2 books, and I bought the EXACT SAME BOOKS, BRAND NEW AND SAME EDITION off of Ebay for roughly $150. I saved a ton!

Mom is in Taiwan, divorcing Dad and seeing Grandpa for what will most likely be the last time. He has lived a long and good life, and I thank him for giving me my Chinese birth name. The divorce I knew was coming, I just still can't believe that it is going to happen. I haven't heard from Mom yet, but I have been checking up on the brothers at home and they seem to be fine.

Work: I cannot ask for a better job as of right now. It is on campus, pay is not too bad, and as laid back as can be. Co-workers are all awesome - Ernest (he's there working way too much but is cool to hang out with and ask for help because I'm new), Elijah (I used to not like him but now that I work with him he's like a totally different person to me), Brent (asshole but at least I'm on his good side), Erica (I don't like her, she's got an attitude problem but I don't see her that much), Jeff (another new guy like me, he's pretty good and I've never worked WITH him so I don't know), Robert (teacher, funny dude), Greg (pin-tech master), Mike (haven't seen him much but he pin-techs anyways), Carissa (funny girl), and Jenn (manager). Overall they are all awesome. I bowl when there is no manager around, usually after like 4 or 5... and I have lockers to check out on my will. I'm getting the hang of pin-teching in the back and I'm bowling a whole hell of a lot. I keep breaking skin on my thumb though, and have to give it a couple days before I can bowl again... but this will just make it stronger. What a great job, and I'm getting plenty of hours right now, and they are good shifts too. Getting picked up is fairly easy, Joe or Andrew or Chris is nice enough to pick me up... I need to figure out the bus route soon, or Mike just needs to get his car soon for me to use.

House/Roommates: Great fun. Bunch of cool guys, Mike is easy to live with, and just friends all around. Drinking, and hanging out, watching TV, playing poker, etc. The keg-o-rator is working at full capacity, we have Coors Light in it right now... I usually don't like it but somehow it just seems to taste a bit more tolerable. I got my MGDs in the fridge, and Bicardo as well. They all seemed to take the dog situation much MUCH more easily than I expected, and very well. I was scared of some rash "No way" statements to come, but they kind of just accepted the fact that it was already DONE and I told them about it afterwards. Oh well, it is my decision, not theirs.

Gonna turn 21 soon. Like I said to Michelle today, it is something that I kind of look forward to but then again kind of not that big of a deal really. I don't care too much about turning 21 because of the fact that although it is the last age milestone that has "barriers being removed" such as drinking and buying alcohol, owning handguns, etc... not too much of a change of lifestyle as say... buying porn, voting, lottery, etc. However, it IS something I look forward to because of the fact that new life choices are going to be made. Examples: my new dog, my soon-to-be tattoo, parents seperating, etc. Those things are the things I look forward to, and say "I did that around the time I turned 21".

Looking forward to: my new buddy. He was born on 7-21, which makes him only about 10 weeks old exactly. He is such a cute puppy, although I'm not looking forward to house-training him and such. It will be a pain, but he will be my best friend for life (or at least for quite a while). What will be the name you ask? The name has already been decided: Apollo. How fun, when I go home for Christmas, Rocky will get to meet Apollo! That is so funny, even though I didn't name him for that reason. I named him Apollo because of Greek Methology again, and him having to do with the sun and such (like with me being "Helios"). Apollo, you and I will grow to love each other for the years to come.