In Shallow Sholes, English Souls Do It

Heyo. It's been awhile. I've been purty busy dealing with things over here. Tyler, my roommate and best friend here, won't be able to live with me next year. He won't tell me why, but he says he's lucky not to be going to jail. Do you think that helps me? Now I have to decide whether I want to live on my own, find new people to move in here, or find someone to move into a smaller place with. Complications, complications.

The weather is getting nice here and we've started venturing outside. For spring break I decided with 10 minutes to pack that I wanted to go down to Oregon and camp with some friends. They pulled up to my house in a van. Van-essa to be specific. Van-essa also happened to have a keg strapped to the middle where the seats had been taken out. Nice job, eh? It was an awesome trip where I had to tent-hop. Luckily I was only there for two nights so only had to do that once. The second night, I kindly agreed to sleep in a different tent so my friend could get his groove on. It was half-way through the day when I realized Brian was missing, as well as one of the girls we were with. Let's just say I knew ahead of time he would be asking me to move. So I slept in my friend Yancey's tent who also tried to get his groove on. That didn't work.

I'm going to be a bridesmaid! My cousin Mira is getting married next March in Tucson, AZ and my parents said they would pay for me to go. Suh-weet. The bachelorette party in Vegas though...I have to pay for that one. But that's in January, and I'll be 21. Noice. Other than that I'm going to Arkansas this summer for about a week. I have to see the relatives for the first time since I was 7. Eek. By the way, Courtney, are you still planning on doing thanksgiving at your place? If you are, I need to plan to start saving. If you aren't, we need to figure something out so we can see eachother without your dad saying no.

Lauren, Justin, and Micah...It was awesome seeing you guys this past couple of months. I hope you had a great time, and hey, maybe you'll move out here? I can be pretty persuasive you know...lol. Liz, I got your message the other day. I drink bubbly-water here and everyone looks at me funny, but me and you know that bubbly-water kicks ass. Chris, I'm sorry you hate Oklahoma. You can always try and get a hold of Florian...haha. Just Kidding. Heather, haven't heard from you in awhile, but hope all is going well. Katie, next time you stop through Seattle, let me know, we should hang out again. Paul, you're so close, but so far. I have another friend out in Walla Walla. I may just have to drive out there...

Hope everyone's doing great. Don't hesitate to call me. I like hearing from you. Plus it's nice to get away from emotion-killing rugby players and active-avid girl friends.

More bad Valentine's Day karma...

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO43214/

Hey,
So I know that everyone seems to have dropped off the planet with this, but oh well.. I have time until my next class and I'm bored... Um... Everything is good, it's snowing right now and I really wish I was going up to the mountains but I'm not... I am getting a car soon, so trips to the mountains are in my future... yay!
Classes are fun, well not fun but amusing and not nearly as... blah as last term, so that's good, it's more exciting stuff this year... which is good cus I'm gonna have to work on studying more... yay? maybe not so fun...
um, I'm looking at getting an apartment with my friend Lily next year... Hannah (my roommate) was going to live with us, but she can't afford more than $400 a month in rent and expenses and that's just going to be a pain because she wouldn't be able to pay for things... ya... so anyway, that's nice by next year no more dorms and no more bus! yay! I take the bus down to Denver once this weekend and then Lily picks me up and that's it for buses for me! I'm ridiculously excited about that...
Um, Christmas was good... Kazakhstan was fun and then I stopped over in Switzerland on the way back. It was so weird to be there without you guys! I missed you so much! I kept expecting to see everyone somewhere! Of course I did see Joe but not for nearly long enough...
Anyway, time for Chem now yay!
But I miss all you guys horribly...
Love
Katie

I check it to

I've just been waiting for everyone to switch over to the new version of blogger. I have no new exciting news except that I got a car. Yes Lynsey, I will come visit you shortly. As soon as I have a long weekend. We can meet halfway for some snowboarding? Oh yeah, and if you haven't seen already, I updated my website a bit so go check it out.

Since no one pays attention

So, I check this thing often and there's never anything new. I'm going to write something new. I just started my second quarter of my second year and I'm officially a junior. I've been put into my major of English w/ an emphasis in Creative Writing. I'm pretty sure I'm going to do grad school here too because they offer publishing internships. My teachers have been really encouraging and I've submitted some poems to the campus literary arts magazine. We'll see how that goes when they put it out in May. My fingers are crossed that I'll get in. I'm taking tons of writing classes which are getting confusing as all hell and to top it off a class on 'Representation of Otherness.' Exciting huh?

I'm still working at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. It has its ups and downs. Right now it's up because I don't work long days and deal with post-holiday depressed people who are irritable and like to bitch anyone out. I know a girl who is probably quitting soon, and I'm hoping for her position when she quits. Fingers crossed on that one. I don't plan on staying at Bed, Bath, and Beyond my whole life but god forbid I dare to want a raise too early. I pretty much know the entire store by now and if you have any questions about bedding, bath, or kitchen stuff...don't hesitate to ask. I only give answers to few people, and you guys are included in that few.

Other than all the extra stuff I'm doing okey I guess. I have a good group of friends although people come in and out of it. I've kept my apartment relatively clean and my roommates in check. One of them decided to let a bunch of his freeloading friends stay up here a few nights in a row. I think I scared them off with one of my furious cleaning spress though. Noice. I figure he's moving out at the end of the lease though so I'm already getting ideas of who should move in next. It's never too early!! Trust me.

I've made an entirely new batch of cookies that tops all the rest. Apple-spiced drops. Scrumptious if I don't say so myself. Which reminds me; I wanted to make some tonight before people start coming over for the party, but I need to get beer pong balls. Grr. I've got two hours. It'll work. So I guess that means I gotta go. If you can, you should come up and visit. I'm collecting people. 2 down, a few more to go. Courtney!!! Convince your dad that I need you!

Winter

Yay, it's winter here. Here is a picture of winter, here.

For a second, I was freaking out

But then I saw a post on slashdot about what math classes undergraduate computer science majors should take. Then I saw this comment:

For students who want to actually do research in computer science: They're in the wrong department. The best preparation for graduate work in computer science is an undergraduate degree in mathematics. If they insist on getting their undergraduate degree in computer science, I'd recommend as an absolute minimum three calculus courses, two general discrete math courses, one linear algebra course, one course in number theory, two courses in statistics, one course in real analysis, one course in complex analysis, two courses in numerical analysis, one course in linear programming, one course in formal languages and automata, one course in graph theory, and one course in combinatorics. Depending upon the student's interests, I'd also recommend courses in group theory, galois theory, and coding theory.

Thank God! I thought I was going to be a failure.