MY MY! Has it really been that long since my last blog entry already? Man! How the time flies! I better get on this shizzel. Well what do i have to say...hmmm. Well I certainly have lots of little things. Well some not so little, but should at least be mentioned here i suppose.
So I gave my presentation in Power Design just this past wednesday. It was my frist presentation in front of a full class and proffessor in maaany years. I hate presentations! I was so close to getting all they way threw college with out having to do a formal presentation, so very close, doh! I was a nervous wreck up-to. But I guess I knew the stuff pretty well, like I didnt even need note cards, I was able to talk about each slide as they came. When it was all over, i could better see that it really wasnt that bad, infact, it went quite well. And even though it lasted about 32 min, I could tell that the class really liked it. Those animations and jumping around the slide show may have been a little inappropriate, but conformidy sux0rs!
Oh yeah, so while im on the topic of my power design class, My project 1 proposal was approved. It was just suppose to be a fictitous paper to get us use to the format, but when they were all handed in to the department for review, mine was acutally singled out. So out of no where, I am now in charge of the university engineering project to rehabilitate the Whittamore Solar Array. I took this class because I heard it wasnt a lot of work between projects, and now Im a university project chair and I even have to direct a bunch of students under me, argh more responsibility! Did not see this coming :-/
Um, last friday was Friday the 13th, ooooo scarry. Hmm nothing happened though, just a killer lan party, ill discuss that in a min. That was also my moms birthday. She lost my present. I gave her presents before i left for school at the end of summer, and said no one can open these untill their b-days get here. Well mom lost the one i gave to her. She eventually found it, apparently she put it with the xmas gifts by accident because, lol, I wrapped everyones bday gifts in xmas paper, hey, i didnt have bday paper, k? it all does the same job, conceils the inards. Oh and holly's bday was the last day of sept, shes 3 now.
Ok, so this lan party. It was Friday night at Pouzou's place. He was having a gathering and asked me to go, and it was a pretty good time. It turned into a starcraft lan party! My most favorate game of all time! And there was like more than 10 people plugged into the lan, so we were able to play all 8 slots in sc. NOYCE! Also, this one kid got sc to work on his linux machine, and this other kid gave me the most valuable thing ever, a fully updated broodwar expanded star craft that just works! Its a drag and drop install! MAN i wish we had that for my old highschool lan parties, would have saved so much time. I didnt have my camera that night, but i did take some pics on my phone, those will be up soon.
Lets see here, oh, so even farther back in time, on my last trip to UVA, I was able to partake in yet another completely new dinning experience. Khine and I ate at an Ethiopean restaurant, and it was pretty cool. Despite what most american stereotypes say about ethiopia in general, the food was actually very good, reaaaly spicey, had to keep blowing my nose, but very good none the less.
The food can be described as beeing almost like the foods at an indian buffet but what sets the ethiopean food apart is that almost everything is ground into a goopy paiste. Ok and the part that makes it the most unique... When Khine and I are up at the buffet table, she asks if I would like to try this rolled up bread like looking thing, I was like Ill just try some of yours, but she kept insisting I take my own, I really wanted to just try her share first, but she put one on my plate anyways. I was like fine, ill take it. Then we get back to the table, and I say, Wheres the silverwhere? She says there are none. My next reaction was, umm, do they use chopstix in ethiopea? nooo that cant be right. Its then that she holds up the rolled up bread stuff, and says, this!
So in Ethiopia, you eat your food with Injera. Its a porous semi sticky sour bread somewhat resembling a rolled up pancake. You tear off little pieces of it, and use it to glob up the food on your plate. So everything is a finger food! How coo is that!
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COMMENT: So proud of you! A University Project Chair, wow! Man! =D That is something! Way to go, Danny! Your name's gonna be inscribed somewhere after you leave.