Again with the waiting a long time to post. Not my fault though, I have been busy. I am climbing 3-5 days a week, getting in shape takes time and energy. I'm skiing more often, and going this weekend in fact. I'm also getting overwhelmed with school. I can't believe how much work this semester is, I thought it would be a sort of slack-off one. Not so much! I have Rhet, which is much reading and writing, and Water Management, which is way more work that it's 3 credit designator. I dont' know how it's legal to make it that many credits--it should be worth at least 5. Ecology isn't so bad, and neither is Safety Engineering. Senior design is picking up in the work load, and I sitll have my IDL class that I haven't started. I'm asking for an extension today.

An update from last time, I'm not playing broom ball anymore, I don't have time for yet another sport and they have enough women. Besides, it's fun, but not my cup of tea, I'd play hockey, but not that. I'm still bruised all over from various things, but no big bruises on my posterior anymore. The one from skiing finally went away. Maybe I'll get a new one this weekend ;) Hopefully not though.

Next week thursday is the down and above/sue generis show at St. Thomas. I can't wait for that one, and I'm trying to get everyone I know to go! There is also the annual Boiled in Lead show at 1st Ave on St. Patrick's Day. I'll have to see who wants to go with me for that one, but I'm not sure who will want to. Chris, maybe, he's always up for a good show, and maybe Will, and we'll see who else. It's a 21+ show though, so yeah. Rachel would go, but she'll be gone having fun without me, while I work all spring break. Well, not ALL of spring break. Renae and Graham are coming up maybe that last few days, so I'll chill with them and have fun, and there is always climbing and movie nights.

Ok, I should, **should** go do homework now. A neverending pasttime, but I have to get at it.

It's Almost two weeks after my last entry. I'm still sore. I went skiing yesterday and had a collision with one of the people I was skiing with. Oops, we're both ok from what I know of, just sore. I hope she's not to mad at me, I was falling and so kinda out of control. My bottom is bruised. I love sitting on hard campus chairs when it's not fun to sit.
I'm going climbing tonight again, like normal for a monday night and then I'm going to go play broom ball. The team needs me, or something. We have to have 2 girls to play for the team every week cause we're a coed team. So I have that going on. I have a lot to do for school too. I want a break now, not in a month. I suppose I should go eat some lunch or something. I'm going to go find some pads for broomball. My elbow is still sore from two weeks ago too. Oh well. More later.

I never new I could hurt this much...physically! It's not to bad, I spose, it's just been a while since my youth where climbing trees, and falling out of them was normal. Oh, and don't forget the falling off the bike, the wrestling with cousins, and the other dings and scrapes you get as a kid. I have many of them again, for acting like a kid with my activities, but none of that childish resistance to it. I played broomball for the first time last night. FUN, but painful. I want the nice real shoes that they wear, or at least elbow pads and knee pads. My elbow is so sore that I can't set it down anywhere, except fuzzy things, and I can't put weight on it when I do put it on fuzzy things. For example, lifting myself off the loveseat using my elbow---nope! My knee has a bruise on top of an bruise, on top of a bruise. Forgot that was possible too. It's pretty colors. My chins aren;t so bruised from skiing anymore, but my hip and leg still are from other activities of mine--like climbing. Sheesh!

Tonight is the first night I really haven't done much lately. I am doing homework (blogging is writing, and I have a rhetoric class, which this has nothing to do with, but I'm pretending that blogging is also homework), I'm doing housework...well thinking about doing housework. And, I'm seriously considering a nap! I know, it's already 6:30 at night, but I'm tired, and I deserve one! Ok, before I talk myself into a nap and out of the homework and such I had planned for this eveing I had better either say something here or go away and actually start. My am I a good procrastinator! Ooh, and I have to move my car tonight. Ok, I'm going to go do homework. Goodbye for now from this slightly flighty writer!

Updates galore!
Didn't do very much homework this weekend, BAD me! I had fun instead. I have to live right?!? (really, you should agree with me on this one, expecially anyone who has to go to something that begins with the letter C during the week!) So I had much fun. Friday I went climbing and then went to Lance's to work on my skis. 2.5 hours later they were ready to be played upon. Saturday I went skiing with Lance and Erin and Will, and then Lance's sister and Dad met us later. Skied for 12 hours, or rather, had boots on for that long. Good fun. I had a blast. Erin and Will had never skied before, but each caught on pretty well, and both want to go again-so yay. First half of the day was mostly green runs and everyone getting used to the snow again. I had an...experience...with a snow board. It was fun to try, but I didn't make it very far, cause the boots didn't fit the binding right, so I decided to use it as a sled instead. All the way down, speed, excitement, danger (those little orange fences can sneak up on you). Then I put it away and went back to skiing. Sunday I went to breakfast with Will and Lance and Erin, and then I made banana bread, and then I went to the Seconds Before, Casanatra, and Down and Above show at the 7th Street Entry. Great times!!! Went to the early show because I had stuff to do taht night, and wanted to go to bed early, and it was nasty icky weather out. (Although snow is beautiful and makes skiing more fun, I do not like driving in it with the wonderful idiocy passes for thought of some Minnesota drivers.) I had never seen Seconds Before or Casanatra before, and I have decided I like both, and will go see more of their shows. Down and Above played great again, as usual, and I loved the new song!!! No title yet I guess, but much energy and a bit of a different style. A good thing, I tend to lose interest in bands that can't or won't evolve. Next weekend I'm going to the Sue Generis show at the Hole on campus. That should be great too. (And don't forget the climbing, skating, skiing, lifting weights, homework, chillin, and procrastinating that has to happen between now and then) Hehe, I should really learn to budget my time better....Like eating or doing homework right now instead of blogging. Oh well, here's to Carpe Diem!

Well, two weeks of school are now complete! Time flies. I have more homework that is nice to give at this point in the semester and 90 percent of it comes from Nieber's class! The dork! You'd think he'd realize that he is not the only prof we have. I can't believe how much time he's making us put into lab and homework for his class. Then ontop of that, I have a rhetoric class which wants a bunch of writing to happen. Ecology had reading to do, and so does safety. Senior design is just loads of work. I don't care though. I have a life for once this semester, well I did last semester too, but it was mostly just a weekend life, and this life is an all the time life, and I'm not giving it up!


So two weeks is a short amount of time, but with everything that has happened, I feel like it's mid-semester already! Here's to crazy lives, I'll sleep when I'm dead!

"If wishes were horses, then dreamers would ride,
But, that's not for me 'cause life passes wishers by.
Life's an adventure, you've gotta try something new...
I opened the door to my heart, and you walked into the room."
...
~~~Tricia, January, 2003~~~

Goodbye, Tracker. How I enjoyed you and your ability to know who came to my site. Though you were a usefull friend and I am saddened to part with you, it must be done. You have caused to many runtime errors in your day, and always in mulitiples of three. So, to thee, I say, goodbye, and goodluck tracking other peoples traffic. :(

Second day of classes is over, and yet more homework was given. I have to work on it, but I think I'll take a nap or something first. I have to clean the house again, and I have to work on work for work...(wow, yeah...um, wow), I was up late last night working on my journal, which I've promised myself I would write in everyday even if it's to say "I'm tired and can't write more than these words".

My whole body aches. I was skating last night, and I am good at falling! I think i managed to bruise something vital. I woke up this morning very sore. It was the good kind of sore though. The kind where you are happy to be achy cause you know that you were working out and getting in shape. (the bruises are pride wounds, and I'm happy about each of them! And yes, I realize I'm a bit off my rocker for thinking this!) I'm going to go skating again tonight, even though it is more than a little cold! It will make me stronger. And I will probably fall even more. This time though, I will have done 10, count them, 10 turns from frontwards to backwards off of my left skate in a clockwise direction!!!. (I'm not all that specific, really) I am going to work on stopping on my left skate too. I don't ask for much. Speed skating and power turns will probably be worked on as well. Not that you care what I'm goign to work on, or the play by play of my cold evening outdoors, but it's my blog and I can write what I want!

So far, classes are nice. Senior design won't be as hectic, Neiber's Water Management Engineering seems to be a lot of stuff I've seen before, and Ecology has a cool prof and not to hard of material, even though it's a lot of reading. I don't know about Rhetoric yet....we'll see from 5:30 to 8PM tomorrow night! I talked to Prof. Shutske about the Safety and Ethics Special Problems for 3 credits I'm taking with him, and we'll meet mondays from 1-2:30 so that is nice, only an hour and a half and it will probably be really independent. A few others from the dept. are going to take it with me so we can facilitate discussions and the like. Should be interesting and fun (I hope). So, this semester isn't going to be as bad as I feared. Oh, I'm sure that it won't go as fast as I want it to, and way faster than it should, but that happens every semeseter, expecially in spring. I can't believe I'll be done in 2 semesters. I think I'll pull the blankets over my head, and shut out the world. I don't want to think about a real joba nd a non college apartment and the rest of my life at this point. It's depressing. So I'll just pretend I'll be a student with my summers off forever as long as I can.

Well, I'm in a writing mood and I have so much I could say, but I think I have written enough for right now. I am going to work on some poetry, and see if I can't figure out the last two lines of lyrics that I wrote down...somewhere,...and I know the idea of, but just can't THINK of right now!!!. There is also a new poem or song floating about my head just itching to be written on paper. I'll keep you updated.

First day = complete!!!

It went rather well, and fast, and I know it will get harder. I got homework today! SUCK! I don't like homework and not on the first day. I have done that kind of plroblem before, hydrology, soil analysis water stuff, but grrr, I don't want to do it yet. I think I'm going to go ice skating here in a bit. It's cold, but it will be a good workout and I want to workout! I gots to go get ready for that.
Later!

It's the night before classes begin, and I'm really confused. I don't feel like classes are going to start tomorrow. There is none of that anticipation, the feeling that something new and different is about to happen. There is no picking out my outfit for tomorrow, no caring who new will be in my classes. None of it. I suppose I've been so busy these last two weeks with work and friends that I just didn't notice the day sneaking up on me, but it'd be pretty hard to miss. I think I've begun to reach my school saturation level. This is a bad thing. I usually get this way about 3/4 way into a semester not the first day. I'll have to make sure I work hard at school and don't let my grades slip at all. I have a lot to get done this semester, and maybe that is why I feel this way. I have senior design to finish, and I feel that it will be hard to do. I have my Rhet class to work on, and I have an IDL class I have three months to finish, and I won't have too much of my weekends to work with. I have a directed studies class which will be much out of class work. I still have 4 jobs I'm working at and between them I'll be putting in about 30 hours of work a week. Good for money, bad for studies. I also have a couple groups of people who I'm friends with who differing things on the weekend and I have to be able to do all of them! I go to shows with Chris and other people we both know. I go to hockey games with Beth and other people we know, and Now I go climbing and skating with Will and Lance and Erin. Then there is hanging with the roommates, and chilling with Katie when I go visit her, which I will this semester, and chillin in Green Bay with people there, and I have to get to Madison this semester, and there are other people here in the cities that I chill with. I know that if I'm not careful I'll end up burning out this semester.

So here's to this semester, may it be good, and great, and may I find the time to get everything done! Happy Tuesday everyone!

Well, I am supposed to write about what I did over the last month so here it is:
At home:
Slept a bunch. I hung out with Katie all the time wich was super cool. We finished our game of Baulder's Gate on PS2 and then worked on our Baulder's Gate 2 game on PC. I saw the family a bunch over the few days around Christmas time. For New Years Katie and I went to Hinterland Brewery to listen to Scotty play, and then we met Joe and went back to my place, nothing exciting happened. I went climbing twice and Rachel was up for the last weekend.

Here:
Working mostly. I can't believe I've been back and working for a week and a half. At the PCA mostly, but I did put in about 5 hrs at the helpline (ooh five hours) I know I know (I'm actually typing this from the helpline cause I can't seem to find any other time to make entries). I have a busy week. I worked from 8-8 on Monday and Wed. Tuesday I went out, Thursday I'm going out, though where and with who I'm not yet certain. Friday I'm going out, Saturday I'm going out, and Sunday I'm not sure again. Monday is a holiday and so I don't have to go to work (yay!!!) and then Tuesday is the first day of class :(

I have been climbing a lot more lately. I'm really excited. I liked climbing before this year, but I lost my climbing group, so until just now I haven't really been doing that much. But I'm back at it, and have been building up my hand strength and getting better. Erin climbs now, so I can climb with her when we're both in GB and around here otherwise.

Spring semester starts on Tuesday, in some ways I'm not ready for it, but in others...it's time. I have a year left, and I'd rather just like to start. There are only 15 weeks in this semseter, and I forsee it going very very fast. I have 4 classes that I'm going to be in, and two that I don't have to actually go to, but I have to finish. I have three jobs for sure that are going to occupy a lot of time, and people to see and concerts to go too. I am going to be one busy Tricia! That is it for now, I have to leave work and go get the cleaning done at home, and then go to THE BED!

Sweet Dreams

OK, so it's been almost a month. I finished finals and then went home for break, and then I came back, and it's already wednesday and I haven't updated. I plan to talk about what I did over break and what classes I'm taking and what things I did for fun soon, but I don't have time just yet. So for now. I'm back, I'm alive, and I'll be writing a lot more in the future. Look for updates on yet another blog...coming soon:)

Done futzing for now, I'll write about the weekend after I study for an hour or two :)

Well, I'm about 95% done with my new look for this page. I promised a new look, or some new colors, and I decided that since the other template I was using was being incredibly dumb, I would get a new one. After about an hour of struggling with this new one, I figured out how it worked. (yeah, my HTML is pretty rudimentary, but I am good at trial and error!). I am still playing with background color, and link color, but this is the look! Take my new poll, I changed the guestbook a bit, take the time to leave me a note there about whatever! I had a great weekend at the shows. I will update everyone on that later. Like anything that I start, lyrics, poems, stories (anything but homework) the page updates are going to occupy my time til I get it the way I want it. And, since I have the time right now, I'm going to go back to that. More later!

Ok, so I had a really strange dream last night. It involved a lot of people I knew, and a few places I have never been. I'm going to write down what I remember of it now.

First setting: Campground type area inside a gym at a non-descript school. Lots of cots and single and double beds are strewn around. Rachel and I have created a tentlike structure out of some paper bags, a few sheets, some 2X4s and a few cardboard boxes. We called it Espandeutchland and we spoke Gerspanglish there. We had a porch area with folding chairs and my little grill, and we had taken off the top part and were roasting marshmellows and hotdogs over the flame. They were yummy let me tell you! Across the gym, Karen had her single bed set up on a rug. Jenny was in another area and she had her double bed on wheels which she used as both a bed, and a taxi. Chris pushed the bed, and people got rides from one part of the gym to another cause for some reason, we were playing lava monster or something and didn't want to touch the floor in certain places. Chris had been taged by the lava monster though, so he could walk there, and he was a good lava monster and didn't go around tagging people.
**Scene switch**We are now in some sort of mall. We got there through a magic portal, a doorway, and we are running around being chased by something. I don't quite recall what it was that was chasing us. Katie and I and Rachel were together, and we ran into the Mars Musicland (that was it's name) and hid behind some drums...(they were very big drums). But then...the temptation of playing with the toys got to all three of us. Rachel grabbed another drum and began banging on it, and then she picked up the drumsticks and started doing lunch practice at a symbol. Katie picked up an electric guitar with a mural of DBZ charecters on it, and with a pick she *pilfered* from somewhere else...(hehe, you know where Katie) she began to tune it and play. I picked up a really really sweet fretless bass and plugged into the amp which was then magically in our area and after tuning a bit began to play as well. We all jammed for a few with katie and me on the improv. of a few songs we had apparenlty written, with Rachel in the back adding symbol claps at odd intervals...(she now had a foil and was practicing her flicks and trying to hit the "O" in the word on the symbol. Well, or racket gave us away and soon we had to abandon our new toys and run around the mall again. There were way to many people there and the middle of the hallway was packed with some form of art show, and it was hard to stay away. All the time we were trying to find one of two portals out...one back the the gym and another to a house.
*scene switches again* now we're magically into the house that was attached to the mall by a doorway. I look around and find the members of the band Down and Above looking at us like we're ghosts. Apparently they didn't know there was a portal to the mall in their house. It was actually Dave's house, I just knew this...and there were pictures of his family on the wall in the hallway. There was a bedroom in front of us, and it was kinda a yellow theme I guess, I don't remember to much of this part of the dream. I know that we: Katie, Rachel, and I, were now getting tired and looking for a place to sleep. I remember knowing we were not to sleep in the bedroom in front of us, so we began to explore the house. We walked past an astonished Dave and Ian walked out of another room, said hi, and walked to the kitchen to get a midnight snack of milk and cookies. We found another room and opened the door and walked through it and were back in the gym from the first scene.
*scene switch* In the gym, our really cool house had been taken over by partying other people, and so we went in search of a place to stay. Rachel found a single bed somewhere, and Katie to the Jenny taxi over to her area, wherever that was. Karen, whose area rug we came out of the portal by offered me her bed, but I didn't want it, or anything to do with the gym...I don't remember why I was so not happy with it, but I was, SO...I went around looking for a place to sleep (I find looking for a place to sleep in my dream rather amusing) and when I found nothing, I procured a strange looking cot type thing and walked back to the portal. Unfortunatley the portal led to the mall again so I had to run away from whatever was chasing me until I found the door out. I ended up back at Dave's house...which I've never been to, never seen, and don't even know where it is, and I put my cot up in the hallway. I had an alarm clock to wake me up and everything. The cot went up really strangely...I pulled out this mattress which was like a bean bag, and I'm not sure who came to talk to me at this point, it was the drummer Zach I think...he told me that I couldn't sleep on the floor in the bean bag cause I'd be woken up by the birds, so I reached into the tentbag the cot was in and pulled out two folding chairs and made my cot out of a bean bag and two folding chairs. Then the house changed, and it was still the same, but I was in the basement instead, and I set my alarm and fell asleep...That's right! I fell asleep in my dream, and I woke up a bit later-still in the dream, and walked over to our house in the gym through the portal where Katie, Rachel and I were eating more hotdogs and then I woke up for real.

I don't know what this one means, if anything. I know that it's odd for me to dream of the memebers of dna. I don't know them particularly well, so why should they be there right? I think it had something to do with the email they sent out about the shows this weekend. Something was in there about Dave's basement I think...The gym and the tent/campground...I can't even begin to imagine, as with the mall. I understand the musicland part, and I understand the sleeping bit, cause I was really tired yesterday...I have strange dreams. I had another last night when took my nap about the world ending and it was lightening and I knew if I concentrated hard enough it wouldn't end, but if I lost concentration it would, and I was out to eat.

*shrug* Well, I'll leave it up to everyone to figure out what they mean, and for now...I'm going to go work on ideas for yet another website...

Woo hoo! It's the last day of classes tomorrow. I can't believe it. I thought this day would never come, and here it is! I can't wait for next Sunday, I will be done with finals then too. As of today all my official homework is turned in, so for the first time in months...i don' t have some huge project sitting on directly in front of me, waiting to pounce and ruin my sleeping. I took a nap today, woke up to blog and check my email, and I fully intend on going right back to bed when I'm done with blogging. I have to go to work tomorrow and to my LAST TWO CLASSES and then after work Rachel, Jenny and I are going to go work out!

I started working out again...wow, I had forgotten how much it hurts to lift weights (two days after the lifting). Then this weekend, there are a few great shows. There are more than this I'm sure, but these are the ones that I'm attending...Friday night-Toys for Tots charity show at the Quest. Playing are Skywind, Cringe, Down and Above, and Passing Thru on the main stage, and Black Flood Diesel, Lifelike, Ten Dark Years, Slighted and Wayne Kile in the Ascot Room. Saturday night-Banehinge, Sound and Fury, Down and Above, and Passing Thru at Cabooze Sunday-The Gaels at the Dubliner. So I that to keep me busy along with Christmas shopping, and baking, and studying for finals, and the projects due next week that I refuse to think about now. Today I'm all about pulling my covers over my eyes, and shouting, can't see it, it's not there! AND, I'll have a distraction for finals week as well....(wow this part has lots and lots of links. I challenge you to visit them all...)

I will be going to Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, opening night,Wed of next week, at 8PM. I saw the WB special on it, and taped it, and I have read the book at least 3 times in the last year now. I am so excited for this movie. I saw some things I am not sure I'm going to like that are changes from the book in the little teaser special, and I heard one thing about the movie and a certain Faramir...but I will not say what--for two reasons. 1)I don't think it's true and I don't think the source is reliable and 2) people would kill me if I said anything cause I didn't want to know this, and I don't think that anyone really wants details...they want to see it for themselves. So I'll see it in LESS than a week, and I'll let everyone know at that time if what I knew ahead of time actually came to pass....

So for now, I'm going to finish checking my email, and then I'm goign to get clean and go to bed...Yay for tonight!

I have Two Towers tickets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --(and that is all)

Well, I have been busy busy again today making changes. You will notice comments look a bit easier to read and so do the comments on the poll. They are still in inverse order, I'm not changing that, and I can't change that on the poll comments. I'm thinking about changing color schemes too...keep an eye out!

I have a new poll, and it's not at the bottom of the page this time!!! It's just under my guestbook. Answer the poll, sign the guestbook!

Happy Day back to school after thanksgiving break!Well...Ok, let's pretend you don't have to go to school, or at least take classes when you are at school. Then Happy Monday. Ooh, and also--

Happy 2 weeks and 2 days till the opening of Lord of the Rings II: The Two Towers!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't wait to see that movie. It's in the middle of finals week for me, which means of course that I'm going to have to either wait til the end of finals week to see it, so be like. I don't care and go anyway. We'll see what happens. I would really like to see it opening night. Maybe that will happen, I don't know ;-)

I had a great weekend. It was really nice to be home and not have to worry about school, or getting up insanely early, or having to go to work. Ooh, and I ate way to much, but that is ok too. I went out to the bars and played darts. Darts are way to much fun I have decided. I am going to play them more often!

Finals are just around the corner. This should bother me, but hey...it doesn't. I'm beyond caring for at least a week. Besides, I have other projects that are do between now and the 13th. Nice that the last day of classes is Friday the 13th. That just doesn't bode well for finals taking. I can't believe Christmas is in three weeks from Wed. What the heck?!?!? I want one more week. THen again...maybe not. I'd rather have 2 hectic weeks and finals than three hectic weeks and finals, don't you agree?