Below are the 9 most recent journal entries recorded in Tsadrin's LiveJournal:

Monday, February 18th, 2002
5:53 pm	Day 9,10,11,12,13 & 14 It sure is easy for life to get complicated quickly. Last week my little premonition was a day to early. On Wednesday night I almost lost one of the more important people in my life right now. Dee and I had a falling out due to my overactive desire to maintain peace with my friends online. It?s a long and complicated story and I don?t know if I can even deal with trying to explain the whole thing. It took us a few days to reconcile our differences but in the end I think our relationship made out alright. Time heals all wounds they say? /smile I spent the weekend at my mother?s house again. On Friday my mother took me up to Parma so I could pay the State of Ohio my re-instatement fee so I can retake my driver?s examination. What amuses me right now is that I have to carry insurance?for a privilege that I can?t use. Once we got to Parma I discovered there was a two-hour wait so my mother and I went to Best Buy to pick up a few things I would need to network our systems (I decided to pay the money for the extra IP so I could use the cable modem on the weekends). While we were there I was pointing out a few new computer systems to my mother. We were looking at the package deals they were offering and she happened to notice that the last day she could take advantage of the rebates they were offering was the 16th (Saturday) so she said that we could go out the next day and we would purchase the system I had recommended (an HP 750n). Getting back to the DMV we discovered that the computers had crashed while we were gone and that the wait had become indefinite. Once I got to the counter to ask them how long they expected the systems to be down I wanted to know if there were any other options? Of course there were...I could just mail in my damn SR22 and re-instatement fee. Why they just didn?t tell me that in the first place I will never know. /sigh Once at home I called Roadrunner and asked for the extra IP. The CSR informed me of the ?special pricing? problem and I told her, yes, I was aware but we wanted the IP anyways. Well this woman was exceptionally competent and went to a supervisor and though it took a few hours of problem solving on their end we ened up with the new IP at the regular $10 a month! Woohoo! Many kudos to Roadrunner customer service! So the next day we got up and went to the Best Buy at the mall and we spent the morning/mid-afternoon buying her new system. For going through the effort of setting up her new computer my mother paid $100 towards a new Zip drive for me. /smile So by that evening my mother had a nice spiffy computer hooked up to a wonderful little home network that I can just plug my laptop into when I come visit? On Saturday night I had a wonderful turnout for my planned Najena Raid with the guild. Lots of role-playing and a good time was had by all. We were in that dungeon for over ten hours and managed to walk away with a small handful of goodies. Sunday we played D&D and my prayers were almost answered but alas we still have two short and annoying troublemakers in the party to make my paladin?s life miserable. /laugh Today has been less traumatic than I expected it to be. I was hoping to finish up some work on a short paper on Linguistic Determinism but I?ve just not had the motivation. Perhaps I?ll feel more inclined after Dee and I chat tonight. It is amazing how I look forward to our nightly chats. I always look forward to hearing about her day and telling her about mine. Well I?m going to go find something to drink and read a bit before I have to go to class. Until later? Current Mood: refreshed Current Music: It'll Be a Long Time by The Offspring (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 12th, 2002
11:13 pm	Day 8 part 2 Well I went through this whole day and still had no idea what it was that I was upset about this morning. I was able to catch Dee at home today because she was home early all excited about buying her new computer tonight. Her and I talked about our characters and the background for her enchantress. She has to be one of the finest role-players out there, I?m proud to be included in her circle of friends. Still no word from Ingrid about the e-mail I sent to her, I hope everything is alright with her. I hope I can get out this week to Ray?s. I?m in need of a few hours in a nice pub with some simple distractions. /grin I managed to do two loads of laundry and got to watch the new Buffy episode tonight, so that helped ease a pretty boring day. I?m looking forward to tomorrow being a bit more exciting? Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance (Comment on this)
8:37 am	Day 8 I woke an hour before my alarm this morning. It would be no big deal if it weren?t for the fact that I can't shake this feeling that something is wrong. I hate this... /sigh Current Mood: gloomy Current Music: Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down (Comment on this)
Monday, February 11th, 2002
1:58 pm	Day 5, 6 & 7 What a weekend. In typical fashion almost absolutely everything I had planned fell through in a way. Every time I think I have things under control something pops out that throws me for a loop? /smile Friday night I went to visit my mother in what has now become a weekly event. Due to the lack of reliable network access here on campus I have come into the habit of commandeering my mother?s cable modem on the weekends. An event she and my sister have come to point out to me has become burdensome. So in order to alleviate the problem I went out and purchased a hub so that we could connect both my laptop and my mother?s system to the modem. Well upon calling Roadrunner I discovered that in order to get the network to recognize both computers my mother would have to pay for another IP address. No big deal, I?ll pay ten dollars a month to have reliable service on the weekends. Well since my mother receives a special pricing on the Roadrunner service because she is a teacher they would have to cancel that just to add the price of the additional IP. Instead of the ten dollars a month it would be 20 dollars a month, a price I would pay only if I was still living at home. /sigh Well my Everquest weekend also didn?t pan out as well as I had hoped it to though I had a lot of fun. Friday night I played Willian, my elven bard, with Dee?s elven warrior in the region of the Lake of Ill Omen. After a few hours of that I remembered why I had retired Will in the first place? Maybe if Dee really wants me to play with her and her friends when she is playing her warrior I may make a druid and power-level him quickly to 20th. Saturday was pretty fun. Dee, her friends and I spent most of the day with our alts in Greater Faydark hunting orcs at the entrance of Crushbone. I actually had a lot of fun there and had completely forgotten about the Najena raid I had planned for that night. I will have to do some intense work this week to make up for the lack of guild activity this weekend. Sunday was where plans really fell apart. I spent most of the day running items from one character to another and when I finally had some time to play, Dee wanted to play with her enchanter and asked that I play my human cleric. I had no problem with that so we met up with her friends again on Orc Hill and tried to recreate the success of Saturday. Well after two corpse runs for Dee and one link death on my part I decided I needed to take a break. When I got home from my mother?s I logged on and went back to meet with Dee and we had a much better night together. One of Dee?s friends brought on her druid main and helped us on Orc Hill. After Dee leveled she went to bed and I logged on with Tsadrin and decided to see who was around. I spoke with a few guild members and went to the Oasis of Marr to harass the locals. Rachel was on so we spent some time catching up with each other. I really miss having the regular conversations with her. She?s become so busy and it seems so hard for her to find time for herself let alone time to chat with me so I never press it when she?s around, but she was in the mood to talk so her and I caught each other up on our lives (not that a whole lot is going on with either of us). Today I overslept and missed German so I?ll be spending some extra study time tonight to catch up. I?m just feeling a bit under the weather and I have so much to do it not helping my mood. I have to do laundry sometime today and my Industrial Psychology class is tonight. I also need to write Ingrid today and apologize for not being as attentive as I should have been. She?s been a really good friend and when she was on this weekend I didn?t take the time I should have for her. Well I hope to write more later after my day has really started. Until then? Current Mood: blah Current Music: In the End by Linkin Park (Comment on this)
Friday, February 8th, 2002
12:07 pm	Day 4 Well last night was quite interesting. Dee and I made plans for how our Everquest weekend was going to proceed. I?m actually amused she wants me to bring my bard Willian out of retirement to adventure with her elven warrior. Afterwards I logged onto EQ and joined my guild in a hunt in the Desert of Southern Ro in an attempt to hunt the elusive Ancient Cyclops. I had never been on this regular Thursday night hunt before and actually enjoyed the event quite a bit. /smile Later today my roomie Jason is taking Xaoc and I to Kenmore Komics. I?m hoping to pick up a few miniatures to use in our Sunday D&D game. I?m still trying to decide whether or not to play my Aasimar Paladin/Cleric or to create the Human Druid/Ranger I?ve been kicking around in my head. Maybe if a find a nice mini it will influence my decision. After we?re done with the geek run Jason will drop me off at my mother?s place for the weekend. I think my sister is getting a bit sick of me coming home just so I can use the cable modem so I promised her I would play a game of rummy with her tonight. I?m hoping to find some time to talk to my mother about my plans to go into education. She used to seem really adamant about my avoiding that path, but now she seems to think that perhaps I?d be a perfect middle school teacher. To be honest I always saw me doing HS level education if not college so I have no clue where she?s pulling this revelation. Well I?ve got sign off for now, I?ve got to write a nice long essay on the idiocy of attention sluts and do some damage control on the guild message board before things blow way out of proportion. It seems Damzil?s player is having difficulty in the proper way to communicate a grievance. More later? Current Mood: irritated Current Music: Paint it Black by The Rolling Stones (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 7th, 2002
11:49 am	Day 3 Well my first exam in Psychology of Language wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It was all short answer/essay, which is highly unusual for a psychology department exam, but I'm not the one grading the test. Dean Danks and the graduate student can grade 50+ student's essay tests and enjoy their weekend. /laugh Anyways the only issue I had was I couldn't for the life of me remember Zipf's Law (the length of the word in phonemes determines the frequency of use in a language) and I stared at an 8pt question on Modular vs. Connectionist Psycholinguistics and all I could think of was that idiot socialist Chomsky was a Modular theorist... I really hate how my mind sometimes fixates on a particular aspect of something and I can't break out of a particular chain of thought. Now I'm studying for my German quiz that I have today. Lucky for me my instructor told us what to prepare for; down to what questions she will be asking for a response on. Now if I can just figure out what on God?s green earth the difference is between Past and Present Participle use is in German. Of course I?m still having incredible issues with the use of sine and haben. Perhaps I should watch Lola Rennt and Das Boot again sometime soon. One of these days? Well now for a bit of a break and then it?s off to study more? Current Mood: good Current Music: Ode to Joy by Beethoven (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 6th, 2002
7:51 pm	Day 2 part 2 Never underestimate the idiocy of the various college advising departments at Kent State University. I have to wait a week before I can even find out from an academic advisor what the requirements are for a teaching certificate. /sigh On top of all that I found out that my style of emotes won't work on Livejournal so I have to change my way of doing things to express myself. /laugh I'm hoping to see Dee on tonight but with her busy work schedule I figure she'll be tied up till late so I will take the time to study for my German quiz and my first exam in Psychology of Language tomorrow. /crosses fingers If I manage to pass German this semester it will be a miracle. I've never been good at rote memorization except of the most trivial matter and this whole foreign language thing had evaded me since High School. /sigh Well off to study now, hopefully I'll have some good news tomorrow... Current Mood: tired Current Music: Pepper by Butthole Surfers (3 Comments |Comment on this)
12:42 pm	Day 2 Well I wanted to write a bit before running off to German II. I hopefully can get the information I need today from the College of Education. I need to find out exactly what classes I may need to take to get my teaching certificate or if that doesn't work, what hoops I'll need to jump through to apply to the MAT (Master's in the Art of Teaching) program. Sometimes I wonder where this is all going. I have these fuzzy and ill-defined goals. I know what I want but I'm not too concerned with the details right now and I'm not sure if I should be bothered by that or not. Well enough for now, I'll update some more later... Current Mood: okay Current Music: Story of my life by Social Distortion (Comment on this)
12:09 am	Day 1 Well I finally got Xaoc to send me the code required to create a journal. We just got back from our favorite little pub and I decided it was about time to christen this board. I hope to use this to express some of the emotions I've been dealing with recently. I was looking forward to talking to my friend from TX on MSN tonight after I got back from Ray's so we could talk but alas she's not around. Oh well, there's always tomorrow. Until next time... Current Mood: complacent Current Music: The Middle by Jimmy Eat World (Comment on this)