Yesterday I did something I've never done before...I went to a horse race, and let me tell you, it was amazing. I mean, I've watched the Kentucky Derby on TV many times, and it looks fun, but to be there in person, track-side, to see the horses thunder past...is like pure adrenaline. And of course when you win money, it's even better. It was the Breeder's Cup..like ten total races, and I bet on about 7 of them. I started out pretty good, on the first three races I won a total of about 25 dollars, then I lost the next one...and took a race off, then made a risky bet on several horses and lost 18 bucks..then I had a few more wins..but nothing good, then on the last race, I lost 6 bucks...I put money on a horse to win, and she came in second...lost by a head...it was a wonderful feeling...probably one of the best ways to lose money if I do say so myself.

Well, it's officially one week until my birthday, and the tension is mounting. Even though I know basically what my parents are getting me...mainly because I bought most of it myself and then they're paying me back...I dont' know what Steff is making me, she says it's a surprise and I'm not allowed to know until I get it...which by the way won't be until Thanksgiving break. I don't know what's up with that, seeing as how my birthday is two weeks before thanksgiving, oh well, I suppose I can hold out that long, because supposedly it's supposed to be a really good gift. Well, the fire alarm just went off about 30 minutes ago, and just as we were going outside, it started raining. So we all went into the BSU and waited for the rain to stop, Jeff, Steve, Jody and I played ping-pong while we waited for the rain to stop, and then for a little longer after it finally did. It turns out that some girls on the third floor were cooking and started a grease fire...what were they thinking?!

So I'm making some changes. I decided that I wanted to add some more links to my page, and I felt that if they were at the top it would clutter the look of the page, so I went for a new look all together. I like the way it's comming along, and I think it will look pretty good when I get it done the way I like it. I used my last In The Year 2000 today, so I'm not sure if I'll have them anymore, but I'll think of something new to fill the space, cause I dont' want it empty. I guess that will be all for this evening, I've got a calculus quiz tomorrow, and I have to wake up around seven, so I'm gonna do some studying and then get to sleep so I can wake up.

This moring I realized something, yesterday I did some laundry, and it cost me $1.50 to wash and dry my clothes and a towel and a pillow case, I guess that's not too bad. However, I'm not sure why I spent this much money. It has come to my attention in the past week that there are now two very useful products on the market that could virtually eliminate my need for a washer and dryer. The first of which is Febreez...this is a wonderful concept...cleans your clothes or any other fabric by just spraying it on and letting it dry, there's even a generic version called "fabric refreshener" that's about half the cost. So now that we've gotten our clothes clean...what about the wrinkles? Well that's this new stuff, you spray it on your clothes...give the fabric a little tug, and let it dry...when it does, the wrinkles are gone! AMAZING!! I'm telling you, it's the perfect clothes cleaning solution for college students. Someone should market these products together, and call it Washing Machine in a Bottle or something like that...I'd buy it.

Last night I went to see Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows, if can offer you all one small piece of advice it would be, DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY. With all of my amazing and wonderful Louisville connections I was able to see the movie for free, therefore, all I lost was about 2 hours of my life, which includes the ride to the theater, and back. The rest of you would be losing the same 2 hours, but also 7 or 8 bucks--which translates to three weeks cash allowence for the average college student. The plot was awful, and it had many major holes in it...and the moive was not scary...at all, the only time I closed my eyes during the whole thing was when the shot went from a dark room to a bright white hospital room, and that's just because it hurt my eyes. The moive itself is less a sequel than it is a moive about the first Blair Witch, it's annother "documentary" about some people that saw the first movie, that made it kind of dumb to begin with, then they go camping, and get high, and when they wake up the next morning, everything is trashed, and they can't remember what they did for a five hour period of the night, which they never suspect had anything to do with the fact that they were high...hmm...oh well, if you're really bored, and have money to waste, or can get in for free...you can see this movie if you really want to...however, if you don't have the money to spend, or are really wanting to be impressed or scared...you might just want to skip it and wait til you can rent it...or even better, wait for it to be on TV, then it's totally free.

Today, some wise words from George Carlin.

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch and you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities. You become a little baby, you go back into the womb, spend your last nine months floating . . . and you finish off as an orgasm.