My life is kinda crazy. I've traveled to New Mexico, Colorado (Colorado Springs, Durango), Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, San Fransisco, Flagstaff and Minnesota so far this summer. On Monday i'm driving down to San Diego for a concert (Death Cab for Cutie, Mates of State, Spoon) which I'm really looking forward to.

At Arizona State this year I'm a leader for one of our christian groups so I've been working my ass off with that, and it's about to kick into high gear with all these new students coming in (Largest University in the country usually means lots of kids). I'll also be a part of two ultimate frisbee teams. VOTS Phoenix league and ASU Burning Man, plus I'll be taking 17 credit hours and working 3 days a week, I think I'm gonna die.

My best friends recently ex-girlfriend is all over me. We're sharing the same apartment for a week or two until I move into my new house with some buddies.....it's a terrible situation. If he finds out any of the stuff we've done.... that friendship might be over, he's absolutely insane for her. I'm kinda pissed about the whole thing because I like her too.

Work as a valet is hella fucking slow, I haven't made like any money this summer. I can't wait till it cools down here in AZ and people decide to come outside then I'll be making more cash.

I'm just curious as to how everyone's doing, you never really hear about very many people's personal lives on here and {I'm Interested}. Maybe there's a reason nobody posts about themselves lol, if this is lame just let it die.

Hmm. SN or email please, Denchi. :P

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Most of my summer has been doing annoying things like fighting ant infestations, getting up at 3am to kill slugs that slime round my kitchen, fixing the fan on my boiler, the switch on the refrigerator, looking unsuccessfully for a job, living on my own while waiting impatiently for my friends to move in, realising I'm looking forward to one of them in particular a bit more than should be expected between friends, thinking a lot about what to do once I've finished this degree (probably try for med school ).

So I came home for a break from the hell house and realise I've left both my cell phone chargers behind and they are now flat haha. Mom left me a message saying she wanted me to valet her car if she was to continue supporting me financially so I spent a whole day doing that (it was a mess lol), while she is on holiday in France. Cat went missing for two days but has come home since. Tried to defrost the freezer and stuck the screwdriver a bit too far in, releasing all the nice poisonous CFC gas, had to then move all the stuff into neighbours freezers while I wait to get it sorted...havent told my mom about that yet, might just..kinda wait and see if she notices or something.

I signed up to be a first year mentor at uni next year, basically you help get the first years settled in and get to put good things on your CV because of it, not really going to be a massive girl meeting prospect due to the slight imbalance in the male:famle ratio of physics students but you never know.

What else is there, errrm I managed to get a piece of cheesburger lodged in my gullet for nearly 2 days not a week or so ago, had to have a tube thing stuck down my throat to get it out, fucking no idea how I swallowed it without chewing it, or how I didn't choke on it but that was very very painful, especially when I laughed and I had hiccoughs for the whole time which drove me mad.

I also got very very drunk (this was just after seeing pirates of the carribbean 2, and i felt like drinking tons of rum) at my dads birthday party and ended up trying to fight him whereupon he promply kicked my ass and I stood on my new £200 glasses and smashed them, later I confessed to him in that drunken way how addicted I was to ffxi for like 2 years before, passed out, then told him it all again when I came to. He told me the next morning that we were talking (well I was talking, he just sat there listening) for nearly 4 hours lol, the only reason I think he managed to stay so long was his pschiatric training. The next morning at least I didn't have a hangover somehow, and he rings me occasionly to see if I'm ok in that tone of voice that tells me he's worried I'm playing ffxi again and if he actually thinks I am he will probably come down to my house and put his foot through my computer.


Other than that though I think my lifes been pretty average over the summer, looking forward very much to start of new semester even though I know after two weeks I'll be looking forward even more to the christmas break. Might even get an STI or something to liven things up.

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hey, thought id reply since my life is exactly opposite of what it was while i played ffxi.

first off, i always liked you denchi, but not anymore. leader of a christian group? go fucking attempt to solo dynamis lord irl and die and save the rest of us some bull shit attempt at ignoring the truth in life.

i didnt mean to be so harsh, but i hope you find some knowledge in that statement and not merely an enraging ignorance within yourself.

my life's a long story, so ill sum it up. going to college soon, majoring in philosophy in english at university of washington in seattle. i host a philosophy website http://www.lesphilosophes.org but dont update it much anymore as im attempting to get agents for a book i want to write. if i get an agent ill tell you guys about the book, but if not i wont waste my time. besides that i work 40hrs a week, during which time id normally be wasting my life away on WoW so i dont mind the 200+$/week.

other than that ive just started to work out 1.5-2hrs a day at a 24hr fitness, once i go to seattle in 1.5months ill be taking classes in gung fu under bruce lee's dojo, one of three in the US he made. should be nice as ive studied gung fu before.

ehh, ill be surfing these boards throughout my life i believe, interesting that ive met so many people. ill still be here when i graduate from UW, when i graduate from law school, which i plan to be george town, duke, or harvard's, and when im rich, biatch.

basically no one's reading this anyways, but i like reviwing what ive done this summer, it makes me all warm in my webbed heart. my friend irl is like a true pimp, so he taught me how to fucking own girls, it's like a fucking video game i swear. since ive learned from him ive been 2/2 score with chicks, beforehand i was 1/4, sucked dick. anyways, i hate bragging about him since it sounds insane, which it is, so ill stop my tales there.

peace out niggas

btw wtf is yarr?

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FFXI: 75 Thief (retired)

Lol Koda sounds drunk. but I like him anyways, glad you're doing well.

I think we've had enough religion debates on the internet, so I'll just let what Koda said about religion slide.

But majoring in Philosophy? Why? I've taken probably like 5 classes in philosophy and I love the stuff. My two best buddies down here are both philisophy majors, one just graduated and one is about to and NEITHER of them recommends majoring in philosophy. There's no money in it. It's fine to take some philosophy courses but it's a rare day when I actually hear someone say "I'm going to go to college and major in Philosophy"

Koda hates Christians?

ROFL Koda is majoring in philosophy and he's attempting to rip on someone

Hrm well. I’ve been home now for about 23 days. Before that I spent 20 very surreal days traveling across Scandinavia by myself. And before that I spent the last 10 months living in Austria and traveling every chance I got. This time next month I’ll be 22 and that scares me. The fact this this year has even happened scares me. Everything seems so much like a dream and most days I don’t even recognize myself or my thoughts. I won’t see my mom till the end of this month, making it almost a year since I’ve seen her. I’m living with my dad now, something I haven’t done since I was 14. It’s really a strange situation, he has been pretty sick lately, so now he is being super nice to me for the first time in my life. I live in an apartment behind the house that my grandparents used to live in. It’s very quite, white, and lonely here and there are spiders and I hate spiders.
This coming week I’ll be trying to rescue things from our house, the bank left a note on our door saying we have a month to clean out before they repossess it. I’m the only real able member of the family in the city atm, so I’ll have to much of the work alone.
And well. In year I’ve lost my 3year relationship with Iggy and he has done nothing but toy with me since I’ve been back. My last remaining grandparents died while I was in Europe, and that’s been really hard to deal with. My family all used to live within blocks from each other and now we are scattered all over the country. My friends all used to live in the same neighborhood as me, and now they are all scattered too and some I still haven’t heard from since the storm. I haven’t done a creative thing in almost a year, I haven’t done anything that I’ve been proud of and I haven’t felt good about myself in a long time. I used to know what I wanted and how to get it and what the next step would be. And now I know nothing. Now I’m just sorta going along with everything with my eyes half closed, and I hate that. I’m not a controlling person, but I feel like I haven’t been in control of my own life in some time now.
I’ve been mostly working on these 2 term papers that I have due in September, one on western Europe-Japan comparative secularization and the other on contradicting US-Africa foreign policy. It blows my mind that I’m doing papers on such “grown up” topics, I don’t understand how I’ve gotten to this point where reading nonfiction has become fun. Furthermore, I don't really know anything about either one of these things or even how to begin to write a 60 page thesis. I start up at university here in week or so, I’ll be taking 21hours and a pottery class on the side. As usual, my financial aid is all messed up and I missed out on a $1000grant. In my spare time I’ve been doing lots of “dating”, which is scary and new to me since I’ve basically only been in long term relationships my whole life. For the most part it makes me feel like a completely boring and worthless person, since all I’m really comfortable talking about are video games and existentialism. I don’t watch tv and I think memorizing shit about actors and musicians is creepy. Thus, I’m boring and weird in the opinion of most people. Oh and I feel guilty whenever anyone buys me dinner and/or a movie.
So I guess I have post traumatic stress or something and need help aha. Wee.
But the good news is that I’ve become one of the most interesting people that I know, at the cost of most of my sanity.

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Wow Mintsy that's intense :-/

That's a whole lot of stuff to go through and I promise you'll be a better person for enduring it. Kinda cheesey, but what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

21 credits is great, 2 papers is great, you seem to have a lot going for you. That's more than a lot of people can say.

Update on the girl thing.

Apparently I'm irresistable, and my best friends ex-girlfriend kissed me all over. But she's hesitant to date me because of him, and also because I guess like tons of girls "confided" in her about liking me too, so she would feel bad if she took me.

So I'm have a plethora of girls fighting for me? This year is getting off to a good start. But I have a few prediction to make since I'm a huge tard. This is what I think is gonna end up happening.

Prediction: Everything goes to shit and I end up alone and losing friends.

But all the new Freshmen just got into campus yesterday and we woke up at 5am to help move kids into one of the dorms until about 10am. Then we went to all the "freshmen events" to peddle our club just like the 10000 other clubs. Got home at about 10pm tired and sweaty and watched Clerks.

And ALSO I just got back from San Diego when I went to see Death Cab for Cutie and Mates of State and Spoon and the whole trip was amazing, highlight of my year for sure absolutely surreal.

Anyways, yeah, ramble ramble, peace

that sounds like an atom bomb of drama right there. hope you're best friend is cool with it, lol.

where? details!

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The mikey's have a plan. Djay isn't all powerful.

If he knew.... or if we decide to date and tell him. He'd fucking kill me. I think he's still in love with her or something. :-/ but he also graduated in May and moved to San Fransisco to get a real job so he's not around anymore.

Hmmm... Where to start?

I'm at home in Indiana now waiting to go back to Grinnell College and start the semester. I'm a "rising" Sophomore Physics major, (haven't declared yet) and I'm very intense about school and things that interest me. I studied physics all summer at Indiana University (about two hours away from my home.)

I don't have any religious affiliation because I've been an atheist since I was twelve years old, but I respect other's religious choices as long as the person is intelligent in faith--i.e. they can defend their religious choice.

I'm just sitting in limbo atm, and this summer I've realized how much my friends have changed since we all left highschool--almost all have changed for the worse. I've become pretty sad about how they leave me one-by-one due to their changes. To pass the time, I've been playing alot of Shadow of Colussus, and I recently started watching Lost--a bad idea.

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Grinnel eh? I know a kid that goes there..... he's gonna be a Junior, name is Dan. big stoner. But actually this semester he's in Turkey so he won't be in Grinnel.

I've noticed the same thing about my friends back home too. Everytime I go home and visit them it's like they're sooooo much different, and so much worse off. It's almost to the point where I don't wanna hang out with them anymore :-/ I feel ya.

Ya, I looked Dan up on the directory, and I recognize the face but that's about it.

Hey, I play frisbee as well, but I haven't played on the Grinnell team in a while--I'll be traveling with them this fall.

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OMG!

Awesome. yeah last year I didn't play with the ASU team but this year I'll be back with them as well. See you at nationals

here's my nerdy grad school application essay if anyone gives a shit

August 18, 2006




Dear Admissions Committee,

What is it I admire most about research? It could be the amazing number of advances continuously borne from the rigors of that oft-undervalued process called the scientific method. From gene therapy carried out by retroviral reverse transcriptase to the induction of Islet cell growth via undifferentiated stem cells, the impact on humankind is undeniable. Maybe what draws me to research is the method itself. In addition to standing on the shoulders of giants, standing on the solid foundation of our own data, together we may unlock the mysteries of the universe. Quite possibly it is the feeling of helping others and knowing my research may indirectly bring a future smile to someone’s face. Of course it is all of these factors that lead me to the conclusion that the progress of scientific research must be continued with as much enthusiasm as it is today, and I would like to do my part in carrying the torch.

My name is John Lattier, and I am currently a biology student at Georgia State University. I have maintained a 3.8 GPA, including a GPA of 4.0 in biology and chemistry. I will be graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Biology in May 2007, and I would love to join the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Emory University to pursue a PhD.

One of my long-term goals is to conduct research that will help find a treatment for Type I diabetes. My younger brother has been a Type I diabetic since the age of 12. His struggles have opened my eyes to the dire need for research in this area. I am very interested in islet cell transplantation, beta cell regeneration, immune system tolerance, and gene therapy. As I pursue a graduate degree, I am open to a wide variety of related research topics spanning physiology, endocrinology, immunology, and genetics. Topics such as intercellular signaling, protein function in association with human autoimmune diseases, cellular differentiation, and gene characterization are just a few of the many biological research topics that peak my interest. Alongside research, I would like to someday teach as well. I have chosen to apply to your institution because of its national prominence and its unquestionable dedication to biological research.

After receiving an Associate’s Degree in Physics from Austin Community College in 2000, I was employed in the medical field as a laboratory assistant. Based on my wonderful experiences with Quest Diagnostics in Tucker, GA, where I led a program that reduced lost and missing specimens by 75%, I decided to return to school after nearly five years in industry. Determined to pursue an undergraduate degree in biology, I have earned straight A’s in the 4 semesters since returning. It is very difficult to successfully return to college after such a long time, and I consider this a defining characteristic of which I am very proud.

I am currently in my second semester of undergraduate research at Georgia State University. During the summer of 2006, I completed an undergraduate research program with Dr. William Said, studying the kinetics of the enzyme catalase. Because of my efforts, I was selected as the summer representative to accompany Dr. Said to the Georgia Academy of Sciences annual meeting in March 2007. My current research project began in July 2006 with Dr. Zehava Eichenbaum, for whom I also work a part-time job as a lab assistant. Under the instruction of Dr. Eichenbaum, I am studying the effects of metal starvation on the growth of Streptococcus pyogenes. The purpose of this research is to determine the characteristics of the S. pyogenes iron uptake and metal transport operons. I also have plans to enroll in a Spring 2007 undergraduate research course, but the topic has yet to be decided.

This Fall, I am part of the Georgia State University Student Council, where I will act as an adviser on issues relating to undergraduate programs. Through the Tri-Beta Biology Honors society, I have gone on field trips, listened to speakers, and dedicated volunteer hours with the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at the Atlanta Zoo. As a member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, I regularly receive news about current scientific research in this field. I have a second job working on Saturdays at the South Atlanta Center for Endocrinology where I assist Dr. Sabrina Rene with general office tasks.

My passion for biology is unwavering, and it dates back to the beginning of my employment in medical diagnostics in 2001. Aware of the responsibilities of scientific research, I will meet challenges and setbacks with increased interest rather than discouragement. I believe I would be an asset to Emory University because I am highly motivated, dedicated to my research, and determined to succeed.

Thank you for viewing my application. I look forward to hearing from you.




John Lattier

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I'd let you in Whisp. That's an impressive undergrad record


Update: best friends ex-gf is..... yeah, stuff. I dunno, I'm in a dilly of a pickle. She does things I would have never thought she'd do.......and I guess that really threw me off. I thought if I made out with her a little it wouldn't be so bad because we could take some time to figure things out. But nope... she's pretty ok with doing other stuff, and seems to enjoy it more than I do. So yeah, I live with her for another like 2 weeks. this is gonna turn out soooo good. /sarcasm

long story short:
-school starts tomorrow (zero period starts at like 7am, whic leads to the next point...)

-i normally sleep at 3am during the summer, now i have to wake up at 5am ish so yea im gonna feel shitty

-i have a crush on the new chick at work but im confused since shes not even close to the type of girls i like

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Yeah class starts tommorow for me as well. But my first class is at 12:40pm

you could always take nyquil to try and get your sleep schedule back on track?

Well college is starting this upcoming Friday for me. About 90% of my friends from HS are gone; Two of them are going to a uni a block away from me though.

I'm kinda freaked about it all now. I literally spent 3 years settling myself into my life at HS, finally got established, and now I have no fucking idea what to expect.

Move in Friday, start classes monday, start failing in approx. 3 months!

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School starts slowly for me; September 1st or so for my one highschool class and then my college classes start September 18th which is cool