weekly update 8/4/10

Theres some lyrics by M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold on his collaborative track wiht Slash of GNR fame on the latter's solo record that go somehting like this: "and still we march further away, singing out songs of yesterday, voices with nothing to say."

I feel somehow that applies to me this week as once again, i feel i have not much to say to you all this week. anywyay, onwards.

Last week fo work this week. ITs been very fun. The kids have been a handful at times but theyre fun. though one of them has categorically not payed attention when we've had to reprimand him. It surprises me how much energy these kids ahve sometimes as well as the personality types theyre already displaying. There's one kid who'll be the stereotypical Arrogant jock type (who knows if he'll do sports) because he ego is mildly inflated. there's the quiet kid who has lots of good ideas, but can be really shy in class work. There's the kid who will clearly be a scientist, or some sort of "ologist" person, because he loves knowledge and learnign about things. Then, there's the kid who always laughs and is reallly good at math and that sort of reasoning. we'll see how he ends up. Hopefully all of them stay in school.

so this past weekend i went up to NYC with my folks to see my sister. i got deathly sick the day we were heading up there, saturday, so yeah most of our plns for saturday got scrapped, except for getting awesome paninis from a place by my sister's apartment and hanging out. Also, i figured out that if i end up in NYC, 1) i wont have a car and 2) i really wan try and live in Astoria, Queens. Its a up and coming neighborhood wiht lots of cool stuff coming in. Saturday night my sister felt sick, so we all scrapped going to the NY Mets game as i was stil sick. Sunday i felt loads better but was fatigued from the cold meds. I really like NYC even if the Cabbies are a bit nuts.

So, i'm heading back to campus the day after next weeks post. if all goes well i'm driving out, and i'm leaving a day soner than normal so i can get the routes i'd use to get around in richmond, (groceries, movies, walmart, etc) down before stuff for NSO (new student orientation) staff starts. I'm an advisor aide this year for NSO which is awesome, but now i have to finish the book the freshman have to read. 368 pages in 10 days. whooo boy. but i'm an aide for a prof i like and who it'll help to get to know more, so thats awesome.

Two new TF pruchases with a Target giftcard, as a reward to myself for surviving work. PowerCore Combiner Huffer and Generations thrust. Awesome figures. More will come on my TF blog and on my youtube channel.

I'll end on a unrelated but very happy note, Prop 8 was ruled unconstitutional! yay!

Thats all this week, see told you i have not much to say.

--Zack