Category: life

Last night, to me, was the first night of spring.  Erin came down for the night, and we threw around the frisbee on the quad.  Then we came home and had brats on the grill.  Nothing like mustard, ‘kraut, and brats to remind you of summer.

Last night was the first night this year that the windows were opened last night.  Unfortunately, I think that I won’t be able to leave them open for a long time, since it’s supposed to get a lil’ chillier later this week, but it sure was a nice change.  It’s always nice to air out the apt too, especially since it hasn’t been cold enough for the heat to come on, so the air has been sort of stagnant.

Spring time is so nice.

It was brought to my attention on Friday, that I hadn’t really posted much about about her.  In fact, after looking through the website, the only time I’ve even really mentioned her was in passing.

Well, since that entry about a month ago, she is now my girlfriend.  Actually this weekend she actually came down to visit me (every weekend previous to this, I had gone up to see her).  As I mentioned before, Bree was the setup person behind this.  She is going to school at Midwestern to become a physical therapist, and became friends with Erin.

Yes, I know what you’re thinking now.  “Her name is the same!”  Blah, blah, blah.  It happens, whatever, it’s just a name.  At first it was weird, but it didn’t take much to get over it.  She and I have a lot of the same interests, being outdoors, biking, camping, etc.  I just need to get her into climbing and I think we’re all set :).

This weekend we didn’t really do much, but we did celebrate Valentine’s Day on Saturday since we wouldn’t be seeing each other on Monday.  I brought her out to Silvercreek for dinner, and then we went out with some of her friends to a bar downtown Champaign.  It was a good time, and the food was awesome.  I had the lamb chops, which were fabulous, and she had Beef Tenderloin, which was also great. 

All in all, a good weekend.

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I park on campus for work and while leaving for lunch today, I had one of those weird moments.  So, I’m in my car pulling out of my spot, and this girl on the sidewalk looks at me, gets excited and starts waving at me.  Now, I have absolutely no clue who this girl is.  What is the right way to handle such a situation?  Is it to:

A: Wave back

B: Look at her like she’s a moron

C: Ignore her

D: Roll down the window and ask, “Who the hell are you?”

E: Ask her out for “pizza”

F: Attempt to run her over

I think I ended up doing something between B and C with a possible dash of F.

So, today I went in to see the dermatologist about the mole on my back.  He looked me over and said that it didn’t look serious, but that he would recommend getting it removed just because, and to have tests done on it.  That way, if tests do come back positive they can start looking at other spots too.  I give him the nod of approval and he asks if I wanted to have it done right then.

Well, I was only missing work, and since I was just fired, I don’t see why I really need to rush back.  I mean, I had someone covering for me anyways.  So, they prep me, and ask me all the good questions like if I have any allergies or anything like that.  Then, the lady stabs me a few times with a needle around the spot for local anesthesia, and then they start digging in.  All in all, the “surgery” took under 30 mins (at least that’s what their clock said), and that included stitching me back up.  Unfortunately, I was just anticipating the meeting, and so I had a parking ticket on my car when I got back to it. 

At the time, since I was anesthetized, I couldn’t feel anything.  Unfortunately, that’s not the case now.  It’s kinda swollen now, and is throbbing a bit.  However, they gave me a prescription of Vicadin in case the pain was too intense, plus I can take regular Advil or Tylenol.  Since it’s so swollen, it really makes it hard to move my arms around, because it keeps tugging on the stitches.  Slightly a pain.

However, the biggest pain is what they expect me to do to keep the dressings fresh.  Apparently, 3-4 times a day I’m supposed to clean it out with Hydrogen Peroxide, apply this anti-bacterial goo (only for the first 3 days), and then bandage it back up.  Now, this normally wouldn’t be a pain, but first of all, I can’t even see the area, and secondly, even if I could see it, I can’t really reach it. 

Thankfully Colleen has been nice enough to aid me in this task, at least once a day.  I figure that’s good enough anyways.  I mean, I’m not that dirty of a guy.  Am I?

Ok, well, actually this isn’t just a weekend update, but more of a collective update covering the last week and a half.  It seems as if many things have been going on, at least bigger things.  Unfortunately, many of the people that read this already know about them.  However, since this is sort of my personal diary, I thought I’d post anyways.

First news on the plate is that I’ve met someone.  The bad news, is that she’s in Chicago.  She’s actually a friend of Bree’s.  They go to school together.  However, I’m not gonna go giving Bree a bunch of credit, since I believe she’s the one that said something to the extent of, “I introduced you, that’s all I’m gonna do.”  Granted, it seems to have worked, since I’ve been up there the last 2 weekends hanging out with her. 

Since I’m up in Chicago so much, and, well, because I think I’ll be up there a lot more, I decided to break down and buy an I-Pass.  I’ve been up there at least the las 4 weekends, and I know for sure I’ll be up there again the next two, so it’s a good decision by me.  I mean, the tolls work out being half the price, and I don’t have to stop at each booth.  I just hope it gets here (ordered it online) before I leave on Friday to head to Milwaukee.

Oh yeah, heading up to Milwaukee with Binford, to go to an Alton Brown book signing.  It was either St Louis on Thursday, or Milwaukee on Friday.  I figured, Friday would work out much better, since I could take another 3 day weekend.  I’m hoping it will be a good time.  I mean, Good Eats is such a quality show, the book signing can’t be bad.  Right?

Well, that leads me to my next topic, but that one really deserves a new entry because it’s crazy enough to be its own.