Beginnings

Well, I've never truly had a blog before, and I've lately felt the need to keep a journal or something similar. I hate Xanga, and Facebook doesn't really cut it. Thus, blog.

The plan for this blog? Simply a record of my days and life and my thoughts relating to them. Will all of it be true? Only as true as I believe it be, and I've sold myself some pretty big lies in the past. We'll just assume that it's all true.

I'm sure my posts will vary from day to day on format, topic, style, and many things besides. Hopefully, there will be some loyal readers out there.

So, we'll start with an introduction of me. Who am I? What drives me? What am I like? I'm sure we'll learn several of those things together, as I don't always know myself as well as I would like.

My name is Eric, and I will sign everything as Wolfos. That being a nickname that has several meanings to it, which might be explored at some point.

I'm a Christian. I'm also really getting to the point of struggling with myself over my faith. Why do I believe? Am I really good enough to be saved? Why would God want me? At this point, I'm working on reconciling several important issues within myself.

At this moment, I am a Junior Chemical Engineering student at TTU. I'm in an apartment close to campus, and I have two roommates. I am have just recently turned 20, so you can do the thinking to realize that I'm young for where I am in life.

I have no girlfriend to speak of, and I am not actively searching for one at the moment.

You'll also notice that I like good grammar, spelling, and punctaution, and I will do my best to maintain that on my blog as a courtesy to any readers.

I am an avid Jack of all Trades. My many interests will become apparent as I write more and more here on the blog.

I have a sense of humor, though it doesn't always come through in my writing.

I'm a XXXX personality type (google MBTI personality test), and I'm not sure what to do with that. I scored less than 10 from the center of all the personality types when I've taken it.

I don't make friends easily, and thus have few that I would call close friends. I also have a habit of moving past old friends to new friends (and my old friends usually seem content to let me go).

Well, that's enough of an introduction, feeble though it is really. But, on to the main event! Let's try and write what today has been like.

Well, my day started late. It actually started somewhere around twelve-thirty this afternoon. That means that I missed all my classes for the day. Now why was that? First, I was up until somewhere around 5 am the previous night reading a book (Shadow Puppets, more later) and decided that I should try and sleep a couple hours before class. HA! Despite having two alarms set, I slept through them both and slept soundly through the morning.

Well, having missed all classes, I resumed reading Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card and finished it within an hour or so. Then, I began the sequel: Shadow of the Giant. Having now read every book in the Ender series, I look back over the questions posed by Card and have only my own convictions to offer as answers. At the risk of spoiling the books for those who have not yet read them, I will only say that I hope to see Bean's story concluded and that Peter wasn't so bad after all (he was actually the best I could have hoped for).

In the middle of the Shadow of the Giant, I got a call from Josh W. He's a fellow ChemE (Chemical Engineer), and he's in several of my courses this year. Our group for Transfer Science I was meeting to work on our presentation, and I needed to head over. So, I quickly showered, dressed, and headed out. We got a fair amount of work done on it, but we'll be finishing it in the morning.

During the meeting, I learned that the Organic Chemistry lab was only going to be open for certain hours in the next couple of days for make-up labs. Readers should now that I needed to redo two past labs. To make the Thursday session, I'll have to miss my Transfer course at noon and settle for attending Transfer's second session only (it meets twice on Thursdays). Fingers crossed for getting both done at once, but I'll probably have to beg for another session Friday afternoon.

Well, after that, Josh and I ended up at a local social club (not a restuarant, so you can smoke!) called Cosmo's for their infamous wing night. While there, we also learned about a new way to play pool called Speed Pool. Basically, two people take turns sinking a 15 ball rack as quickly as they can. The person with the lowest cumulative time wins. The average time for the game we saw was somewhere around 1 minute and 5 seconds; that's fast! The best time was a mind-blowing 46 seconds. All I can say is wow.

After that, I came back here and finished the Shadow of the Giant. Then, I pondered what I needed to do and wanted to do. If there's one thing I'm noticing about myself lately, it's that I'm becoming very melancholy and even depressed when left alone. That's only recent, and I'm not entirely sure why I feel that way. Who knows? Maybe writing stuff down will help me figure it out. That is one of the reasons for this blog. Anyway, back to the story.

Things that I have going tomorrow:
1. Make-up exam + possible quizzes for Organic Chemistry at 8 am.
2. Make-up labs at noon.
3. Presentation for Transfer Science.
4. Figure out what happened in Differential Equations (Diff Eqns) from Hayden.

Well, it's only getting later, and I have to get my prelabs done for tomorrow. Here's hoping that it all goes smoothly and quickly!