Category Archives: Life

Knee

So I went skiing yesterday and managed to injure my knee to the point where I can barely limp around on it. My family has taken to calling me “cripple” and my girlfriend calls me “gimpy.”

I really hope this gets better fast…

Added Math 5385

I added Math 5385 – Computational Algebraic Geometry to my schedule. I’m hoping that the class is pretty easy as now I’m signed up for 19 credits, which is 2 more than what I did last fall with Marching Band. I’m sure I’ll still have a little free time, but the homework load this fall could be extreme (as every class I have has required/graded homework).

Look for class updates in a few days.

Dropped Pharmacology

I decided I was unqualified to take Pharmacology 4001 when they said that the prerequisites are upper division chemistry and biology. I’m not worried as much about the chemistry part as the biology part. Also the teacher didn’t seem that good, therefore I quit.

Down to 15 credits this semester.

Although now I’ll probably add a 4 credit math class (maybe Topology — it’s with Don Kahn — or Computational Algebraic Geometry with Moeckel).

Time to go try out some math classes!

Packing Up, Moving Out

This’ll be my last post before I leave for Spat Camp tomorrow morning. Updates will me sparse/intermittent for the next weeks or so as my only computer access will be at the libraries/kiosks on campus.

I’m bring a camera, so hopefully there’ll be a lot of pictures to show off as well.

Quitting

NB(Nota Bene): I’m back posting this since I forgot to actually post it on Sunday.

From this point forward, I am not an employee of Walgreens Co. It was a fun three years, but it was time in my life to move on. I couldn’t bear another fall of trying to balance classes, work and marching band.

Going Blind

I got some new contacts today. I can actually see again (not that I couldn’t before).

The current prescription is -3.75 in the left eye and -4.25 in the right. This is up from -3.25, -3.75 last time I had an eye exam. Here’s to hoping that they don’t get any worse so I can have LASIX in a few years.

Blooming Prairie

I just got back from a weekend adventure to Blooming Prairie and then Le Sueur, Minnesota.

Minnesota Brass had a performance Saturday night in Blooming Prairie so I caught a ride down there with some friends in Minnesota Brass. I watched the Minnesota Brass rehearsal on Saturday afternoon and then they performed at nightfall as part of a a 100th year anniversary for the local bank. The Govenaires from St. Peter also performed their show. The event was finished with some fireworks that were “choreographed” to music, but the CD kept skipping so it was really quite terrible. The fireworks, however, were pretty awesome, especially for a small town like Blooming Prairie.

That evening almost a dozen of us crashed at Gary Tashima’s house. His mother was way too polite, going way out of her way to make sure everything was perfect. Gary’s younger brother looks just like Gary—it’s quite remarkable.

We sat and talked for a while, it was awesome to be able to reminisce with old band friends and meet some new people who will be joining the University of Minnesota’s Marching Band this fall. (Spat camp starts in under a month).

The weather during the night was quite nasty, lots of noisy thunder peals and bright flashes of lightning. I slept in a tent with Matt Beyer and Ryan (aka “That Guy”), but we didn’t stake out the corners—“Oh it won’t be windy or storm…” I had the joy of dashing out in the rain at 5am to grab tent stakes from the car and put stakes in the corners so that the tent wouldn’t try to blow over with us in it.

On Sunday we drove over to Le Sueur so Minnesota Brass could march in their parade. Sarah Henning and I helped distribute water to the corps members during the parade. Afterwards we enjoyed some overly buttered corn and other fair goodies.

The weekend was wonderful with the exception of the numerous down times that Sarah and I faced since we weren’t in Minnesota Brass like everybody else we were traveling with.

And if I have to eat Dairy Queen one more time this weekend…