on Wednesday, April 30, 2003


as my fish makes out with the glass

listening to::
FIF, as i am often found doing.
a taste of My Evil Plan to Save the World:
"My evil plan to save the world,
just you wait 'till it's unfurled,
it'll go down in history.
It's prophetic, no it's not pathetic.
I can't believe I made it up myself."
and now... ...something completely different::
time for an "in-Terpstra-tive dance". do doo do do do de doo doo doo.
for the full effect see Dave Terpstra. he'd be glad to do it for you. i promise.

funniest thing that happened in Computing for Engineers today::
Dr. Clauss in the midst of going on and on about structures (of course, something which i have no comprehension of), stops speaking. everyone feels like there's some sort of void in the room, and we all quickly realize it is her voice. yes, the room was definitely lacking her voice for at least 5 seconds, and somehow it seemed to make the room seem very ominous and foreboding.
...hmm...perhaps that's not the correct context for forboding ...hmm... no, wait. i checked with Microsoft Word's spell-checker, grammer-checker, thesaurus, and periodontist. they all affirm that i have used forboding correctly. especially since i put it in italics and boldness. doesn't that make it seem more foreboding? i mean, come on, when you read this post, doesn't it just give you chills and make you tremble in fear of the word foreboding? i know it does to me, and heck, i'm the one writing it.
so anyway, back to my story::
oh man, do i go on tangents or do i go on tangents??? wow. i do that all the time, as i'm sure you know, if you've ever talked to me. i just get going and all these connections start popping up in my head. it's like, i'm thinking about a story, and something that the story reminds me of pops in and says "hey! i'm important--talk about me." then i'm talking about that thing and here comes another one: "oh hey Bryan, talk about me too!" and then
ACK!! i did it again. sorry. well, not really.
okay, back to the story for real this time::
so Dr. Clauss isn't speaking anymore. everybody kind of looks up from checking their email, chatting, buying underwear off of ebay, or whatever else they were really doing when they were acting like they were taking notes. Dr. Clauss is now staring down our row right at Boerckel. after a minute, she says, "is......that.....a black line across...your face? what is that?" the entire class turns to look at Joel, and he quite sheepishly removes the black thread that he previously plucked from his shirt and, for some reason that i couldn't figure out, strung across his forehead and tucked behind his ears. Joel now look very sheepish and holds up the thread to show Dr. Clauss what it really was. everyone laughs at Joel, and it kind of makes me sad. sort of.

the end.