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I really have nothing to comment on. Well, I do, but given the publicness of this forum, I can't mention it. If you really want to know, email me and if I deem it ok for you to know, I will tell you. It was a long, somewhat disapointing and enlightening evening.

C-bob and I just got back from driving around aimlessly. I dunno why, we both couldn't really sleep so we went out. Not much out there to do at 2 AM. We went to SuperSaver. I am tired now though, so I will probably sleep soon.

Hitting lessons on Sunday and I'm really excited. I hope it's as much fun as C-bob makes it out to be. I think it will be really good and I hope to learn a lot.

That's about enough from me. Peace.

Hair Cut!

I got my hair cut today, and all is well. The stylist, she's really cool, decided to play around with it and give it some style, which by it self was really nice and cute, but really not me. I got home and redid it so that I could be happy. I like the overall look though and I really needed a haircut.

Went out this morning with Amber, we looked at couches and went to Toys R Us. We also did lunch at Applebee's, which was delightful. (I feel like we should start having little tea parties or something. Not sure why, I think it's because I'm crazy)

I got my resume and cover letter sent off for that job at UNL. They should get it tomorrow and hopefully they will actually get back to me about doing an interview. It would be nice to actually get an interview with someone. No idea what the deal is with Wessie, but this is getting old and I don't really care any more. The least they could do is call me back, but that hasn't even happened. Jerks.

Get to do an Xperiment with C-bob tonight, that should be fun. Not that it's anything amazing, but I'm curious none the less. Nothing else to do really today, so I might go watch TV or play video games. Who knows.

Me... posting...

So I figure I should do a post, since that's what this blog and website are all about, being all updated and what not.

So yes, I am going to start doing hitting lessons on Sunday. I don't plan on keeping my lessons on Sundays, but for this week, that would work best. C-bob and I are talking about doing lessons on the same night, like back to back, so that should be cool.

I really do like baseball and I forgot just how much fun playing a sport can be. I was shagging balls today as C-bob was hitting and I realized just how much I love playing out in the field. I love chasing down grounders and getting a good hold on it before throwing. Even staying on the ones that I bobble is fun for me. I really like standing there, watching the hitter and trying to judge where the ball will go. The more I stood on the field today, the more I began to feel a presence at 2nd base. I think I would like to play 2nd base. That's my thoughts right now anyway.

So I also realized tonight that I can't really base my opinion on someone as a person based on a single phone conversation with them. If I always based people on my first impressions of them, I probably wouldn't have any friends right now. So I am going to be more open minded, but still laugh about the conversation below. I'm sure he was probably kind of nervous and I don't know if I was all that helpful myself. Just going to have to wait a few weeks before I make any real calls about what said person is like.

I am going to apply for a job at UNL this week. There's an opening for a lab manager at Love Library, so I'm going to send them my resume and see what happens. I can do that job and it shouldn't be too hard to get. Hopefully I can get an interview and the people from my old job will give me a good recommendation.

Anyway, that's about all I have to say. Go baseball!

Strange Conversations...

So I decided today that I was going to sign up for 6 weeks of hitting lessons, just like C-bob is doing. I'm thinking, no big deal, just call and set up the appointment, right? Oh no, first I get to visit crazyland!

Here's the basic rundown....

Guy Answers: Spring Trainging, this is (guy).
Me: Yea, I wanted to sign up for hitting lessons.
Guy: Uh, hold on... *slightly muffled in back* are we still .. girls... ? (parts cut out)
Guy (to me): Do you want to do baseball or softball?
Me: baseball
Guy: Baseball?
Me: Yea, I used to play softball but I want to switch to baseba...
Guy: Who are you going to play with?
Me: Well there's a league in town, the Nebraska Adult Baseball Association...
Guy: So what would you like to do?
Me: The 6 week, 30 minute sessions...
Guy: something.. so.. the 6 minute, 30 week sessions...
Me: yea, the 30 min, 6 week sessions...
Guy: Ok.. so that's like.... $Num?
Me: uh, yea.....
Guy: So when would you like lessons..
Me: How about Sunday, since I'll already be on that side of town..
Guy: Oh, where do you live?
Me: Accross town..
Guy: So like a 20 minute drive?
Me: Yea...
Guy: Well we don't really do lessons on Sunday... we have teams that are gonna start renting the cages on Sundays...
Me: Well, I mean it doesn't have to be Sunday...
Guy: Well, it's just that we don't really work on Sunday... uhm.. what time Sunday?
Me: Around 3?
Guy: Uhm, how about earlier? Like around noon?
Me: Are you guys even open then?
Guy: Yea, well, we are here... we get here around noon.. (side note, they open at 2)
Me: uhm.. I don't know... I mean if you don't do lessons on Sunday.. then...
Guy: Well I mean I don't know what you do on Sundays, like.. go to church, have breakfast, with yer family.. watch football, ya know... football games... with your family... (something something) football...
Me: Can we just do Sunday for this week?
(something.. im forgetting)
Guy: Well we have one lady that came in on Sunday...
Me: Yea, that's my friend
Guy: Yea, I figured that.. she's moving her lesson this week though, since she's going out of town...
Me: Yea, I know...
Guy: So is that the 16th? No.. that's next week... wait.... uh... what day is today? uh..
Me: the 10th...
Guy: yea.. the 16th.. what time?
Me: 2:00? (he starts to make a noise)
Me: Just for this week!
Guy: uhm.. ok... 2pm... Angela...
Me: The 16th then?
Guy: What?

That was great, I'm sure I forgot somethings but overall that was scary. I ended up calling back and talking to someone else after that just to make sure everything was alright. Oy.

Hello There Friends

So I went to bed at around midnight tonight and I almost fell asleep. Only then the old brain kicked in and kept running the same thoughts over and over at just the right tempo to be really annoying. So I rolled over and grabbed my journal and wrote the stuff out, thinking that would serfice and calm my mind. So I get everything written out, go to turn of the light when I remember something I wanted to write in my writing journal.

So I pull the writing journal out and get a few observances for the day written down, go to cap the pen and get some sleep when my brain kicks over again and for some reason I have to write. So I have ventured into another story. I have a another vague story frame (this makes three stories that are currently torturing my brain) down in my writing journal now. Then I decided to do some major character sketch work. I know the main character of this story very well and the others a little bit. I know how they are all connected and I know their story.

For those that must know, it's the story of Max, Sam and Amy. Three seemingly average people with a lot of problems between them. One of the story starts is this:
"Sam was never as smart or as talented as his bestfriend, but he had one thing that drove Max crazy. Sam had Amy."

So the basic story is that Sam, Max and Amy are all mutual friends. Max has always been secretly in love with Amy but has never acted upon this. For him, the mere thought that she would pick Sam over him is almost more than he can handle. Sam may be his bestfriend but Max just doesn't see why they are together when he is convinced that Amy is "the one" for him.

Anyway, I don't have the story written yet, but I do have a couple different starts at it. Along with the other stories in my head, the sooner I can get them out on to paper, the better, for my own sanity.

I did some more thinking about my book idea too. I am planning on writing a book about a baseball team and I realized that I had to make some character changes to one of my main characters because he was too similiar to the character of Max in the above story. The characters had the same name, which cannot work because I know they are not the same people. So I modified the baseball players character name a bit but still need a new last name. His name is now Matthew Jacob (something) and he goes by MJ.

So after doing character sketches until 3:45 AM, I thought I would try sleeping. My brain and body had other ideas though and I finally just gave up and came to the computer. Good old blogger, always something for me to do here.