Various events are occurring, and I like ALL of them!
Current highlights:
- Luis von Ahn invited me over to CMU to visit him, to meet other professors, to listen to some inauguration lectures!!! And I'm so happy because I'll be able to MEET the university, MEET the people, LEARN what everything is REALLY about!!!! I'm so happy about that!
- Scarleth is graduating!! YES!!!! I'm really happy about her - I was able to help her by lending her the money she needed to pay off her debt FAST! And now she paid it off, and now she can simply graduate... and get a degree... get paid more... do what she wants to... I'm really happy for her :) She was a bit anguished about that.
- I invited Emily and her boyfriend Andy to dinner at Macaroni Grill last night, and it was pretty nice. We talked about some of my stuff, we talked about some of their stuff, they told me some highlights about their trips to Europe - Spain and Italy - and I was so happy to pay for the meal. I'm not sure why - maybe it's because I can afford it now, or maybe it's because I really really like Emily, but in any case, I was honestly happy to pay - no sense of frugality pinched me at any time. And besides, I was doing it of my own initiative - it's one of the few things I've done of my own initiative - I wanted to spend some time with them, so I invited them over, and I took full responsibility for it. And I enjoyed it. Nice. It was just about us eating together, and nice conversation between nice company. For some reason I don't yet precisely understand, it was a breakthrough for me.
- I've been doing EXERCISE! :D Yup, I finally decided to make my body into a stronger, healthier, attractiver, faster, harder, effectiver one, trading energy, time, and a little pain for it. I think the purchase is worth it now - I'm in the early middle of my twenties, for my sake!
- Sometime either before or after I go to CMU, I plan on going to Chicago to visit my family. It's going to be quite a rush, especially with already-booked tickets to CMU and the WSI Go-Live week just before it, but I trust I can make it. I can make it! I can make it!
- My remote light-controller project does what I wanted it to do now (or most of it), but no one's paid much attention to it. I didn't much like that, so now I just kinda stopped working on it. I was going to show Anup some of it before he left, but he had to leave early and he said we'll go through it tomorrow. Oh well... That's when I started to write the bulky part of this blog.
- Mosko is here in Austin!! He just came today - he rented a car and is staying here in Austin for a couple of days - he's going to Houston on Saturday to the NIN (Nine Inch Nails) concert with his friend Tico. We plan on doing a fair amount of stuff while he's here - kayaking, partying, and bar-hopping are on the list. What else could we do? And since Emily also invited me to go to a party tonight, maybe we can all get together so we can all know each other! (I mean Mosko, Tico, Emily, and me). That'd be nice. We'll see what happens.
- Pedro wanted to go to Guatemala today, but he didn't have the money to buy the ticket yesterday, so I bought it for him. (I haven't checked my bank accounts lately, but I"m sure they're looking leaner that they have been during this year - let's see... Scarleth $6090, Pedro $857, Bidkar $100, Henry $220, and I gave my mom $500. That adds up to $7767. Wow. That's quite a lot. Only getting back $7267, though... hmmm... that's enough money to go on my own AWESOME WORLD-ROUND TRIP!!!! Including Europe, of course :D :D :D I just have to get it back to be able to spend it, though...
- Oh, and about Jerol!! Well, we went for that hike in the Greenbelt and it was REALLY nice! We walked up to where the very very nice view of the whole greenbelt is exposed, and we just stared at it for some time... then we went all the way down to the river and watched some turtles and BABY TURTLES! eat fish food and swim around. Walking further down the trail, we found an AWESOME rock bench!!!!! We just sat down there, and talked, and talked, and talked... for hours... it was almost 1PM when we left the Greenbelt - I like her personality a lot. She is very open and honest about everything, and has this calm temperament, with which I can very easily get along with. I like her - I think the little hike created a nice, close friendship bond between us. And then yesterday I ripped six of her CDs' music into her new pink iPod that Bryan gave her. She was SO grateful and happy about it! She even invited me over to dinner! But I couldn't... I already had plans with Emily. But we said we would go next week, so that's good :) I like Jerol. Such a nice person.
I'll keep you posted, Blog.
Evening!!
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