$3.00+/gallon of gasoline...those were the good ole days

That's right. If Hurricane Rita does all the damage it could when it strikes Texas, gas could easily shoot up to $5.00+/gallon. Just look at all the refineries located in Rita's strike path. This could get a little messy.

Oil jumps

After seeing this, I can't really wonder why the oil prices jumped up today from Hurricane Rita in the Gulf of Mexico.

This is a floating oil rig that got torn from it's moorings in the Gulf of Mexico during Hurrican Katrina. It then got blown almost 60 miles north into Moblie Bay, and became wedged under this bridge.

Hurricane

Today, I arose early for my history section. And it was canceled. So I had a bunch of time on my hands, and, for the first time in a while, I wasn't rushed on a week day. That was cool.

But the TA is not the best teacher. I keep getting (or rather, picking) the worst TA. None of the TA's I've had can teach. THis guy will assign homework, telling the section to read some part of the book. Then, when in class, he'll discuss the portion of the book that we read. And discuss it to the point where I could have skipped the reading and, because of his explinations, still understand the reading.

It's not as bad as my first TA last year. Just as an example, he used the word 'theoretical' when describing the minimum length for a research paper. He was also very happy to give quizzes. One day he came to class and announced, "Today, since we missed a quiz last week, we're going to have two quizes." (To which a classmate muttered, "and the crowd goes wild," under his breath). Maybe God's trying to show me something through the TA's.

And a new hurricane is presenting itself. Hurricane Phillipe is now in the Mid Atlantic. Supposedly, according to the most recent computer model, it'll go up into the north Atlantic, but who knows how long that'll hold true. And that's in addition to Tropical Storm Rita that's now cruising in the Gulf of Mexico, which is predicted to hit Houston on Saturday.

My day

Yesterday was a tiring day.

I got up at 5:45 AM, cleaned my room, took a shower, finished my homework, and did several other miscellaneous tasks, then went to class at 10 AM. Then I went to work around 1. I got back at 6, got cleaned up, then had dinner with my girlfriend. Then we went to the theater and saw Lord of the Rings:Return of the King. That was about four hours there by itself. So, after walking her home around midnight, I finally got back at 1:30 or so (oh yeah, I had to go find a legal parking space). I was so tired, I just crashed in my bed and even forgot to turn my computer off.

Then, this morning around 11:30 or so, Lou IMed me. The only reason I know is because I had left my computer on and it made a noise that woke me up. After talking to her, I finally got up after about 10 hours of sleep (the most I've had in 2 weeks) and headed across the street to have breakfast.

But they had run out of waffle batter on the person in front of me in line! Oh well, I still got to have my doughnuts and coffee. MMMMM. Now I'm sitting here eating my breakfast, bloging and emailing.

One thing I was thinking about this morning was the heat. I'm not going to complain about it like some people do (these same people will complain when it gets too cold in the winter. I mean, come on, this is SC, it's not like the Artic or anything!). I don't mind it. I do like the feeling of going from the got and humid outside to the air conditioned indoors (or the inverse in the winter).

So far, today was very satisfing. I can't wait for the rest of the day!

You might be from a small town if...

You might be from a small town if...
1. You know what 4-H is.
2. You can name everyone you graduated with.
3. You ever went to a party that was held about 20 miles down a deserted dirt road.
4. You used to cruise the "main."
5. You said the 'F' word and your parents knew within an hour.
6. You schedule parties around the schedule of different police officers since you know which ones would bust you.
7. You ever went or thought about going cow-tipping.
8. School gets canceled for a sports team going to State.
9. You could never buy cigarettes cause all the store clerks knew how old you were.
10. When you did find someone old enough to buy smokes for you, you had to drive down country backroads to smoke them.
11. You never missed a Homecoming parade.
12. You still go home for Homecoming.
13. It was cool to date someone from a neighboring town.
14. You had a senior skip day.
15. The whole school went to the same party after graduation.
16. There's only 1 bar and it's a cafe by day.
17. The town next to you is considered "trashy" or "snotty" when it is just like your town.
18. Weekend excitement involves a trip to Wal-Mart.
19. Even the ugly people enter beauty contests.
20. You decide to walk for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask you if you need a ride.
21. Your teachers call you by your older sibling's name.
22. The closest "cool stores" are at least 45 miles away.
23. Whenever someone asks you where you're from and you tell them, they always respond with "huh?"
24. Your town does not exist on maps

ONE WAY

Our [not so] illustrious football team

Riding on the bus today, I was sitting next to one of the football players for our team. He was loudly proclaiming to the rest of the bus how he was "going to get really tore up tonight" and "be worthless until Friday night around 6."

Great example. No wonder our football players are in jail more then they're on the field.

Breakfast

Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day (besides dessert). Think about it. Waffles. Pancakes. French Toast. Then Think about all of the sugar products that are legal to eat for breakfast. Syurp. Cinnimon toast. Whipped cream (on the waffle). Fruit syurps.

And COFFEE!!

Mmmmm....

TGIF...I think

Something's not right here. It's Friday night, the one night the rest of the world uses to go out with friends. Whether to dinner, or to a movie, normal people use this night to go out and have fun on.

But, remember, I'm not normal. So what does my Friday night consist of? Getting off of work around 10:30 PM, driving home, crashing on the bed for five minutes, then getting up, changing into something comfortable, going over to my girlfriends, then finding out she's already left ans out with her friends, then going back to my room, and crashing in the bed again, and then rolling into my comfy chair.

So I am definately not normal. Even my sleep patterns aren't normal (but that's another story). I have to have money to survive, but that requires working when I'm not in class, which requires working nights and weekends. [sigh] Oh well, off to another fun filled shift tomorrow night!

I think I need to watch a movie or something. Something brainless.

War of the Worlds

I was reading today in the news how a military helicopter was fired upon as it flew over the Superdome in New Orleans, LA. In another incident, a large group of people, some armed with firearms, crowded a helicopter landing pad as the pilot hovered to land. The pilot then climbed and flew away from the pad, for fear of being shot at or the helicopter being climbed on and overloaded.

I imagine some image in my mind like a scene from the recent movie War of the Worlds. The scene that comes to my mind is the part where Ray and his two children are driving in the van, which then gets mobbed as people try to climb in the van. Ray then pulls out his gun, only to be held at gunpoint himself and the keys of the van taken from him. The camera then follows Ray and his children inside a resturaunt of sorts. However, in the background, the audiance sees the mob pulling guns on each other, all trying to commandeer the van, various people getting shot and killed over a material possession.

This is what I imagine, to some extent, to be happeing in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. To me, it not only is terribly sad, it just demonstrates the depravity of a person, rather than the "everyone's-bascially-a-good-person-down-deep" philosophy that's prevelent today