Daniel Sexsmith: Maker of Sex

Saturday, August 30, 2003

People have been bugging me to blog stuff lately. Well you know what, I have nothing to blog.

I can tell you that I went to my friend Tara's birthday party. Or how we went to karaoke and sucked gigantic ass (my singing, the karaoke was kinda fun actually).
I could tell you about how I've felt boring and pretty sucky lately.
I could also tell you about Megan and Katie's apartment problems. Clogged sink, low pressure faucet in bathroom, shitty shower head.
Maybe you want to hear about my trip to Hollywood. I walked around and looked at stuff.
How about the fact that all my classes are incredibly boring right now.
Or maybe the fact that my 2 separate lives are becoming one and I don't like that...

I haven't blogged because I'm sure none of you want to hear about that stuff.

Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Day three of classes. Classes today were: Math, Existentialism, Physics lecture and physics lab.

First was math, same old stuff, easy stuff blah blah. The class will hopefully become more challenging in a few weeks. But it's a good thing that it's easy right now I guess, just so I can transition back into "school" mode.

My existentialism class is going to be extremely depressing, but at least it is interesting. Last night I had to read The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy, I didn't really like the book all that much, but the discussion about it that we had in class today was very interesting. We talked about the claustrophobia of life and how through the plot/scene/focus progression in the book we see death's hands slowly constricting around Ivan until he does die. The book gets narrower and narrower in scope, moments before Ivan's death, focusing on it and only it when it happens. The most important moment in our life is death, it is when we evaluate our lives as a whole and judge to see if it had any worth. At least that's what we talked about in class.

Physics lecture was fun again today. I think I'm going to enjoy this class. Professor Burke is a pretty good, if unorganized, teacher and does a good job at keeping attention. He went on some more of his strange little tangents today and I will share some choice quotes with you right now:

Quotes by Professor Burke:

"You're supposed to be free because this is America, but somewhere there is a little Hitler in your mind."
"Try getting high by running or jumping, now THAT's crazy!"
"That's like when you drink too much and walk around Disneyland, things just get screwy"
"It's just simply *AHEM* *HAAAAAAAAM* *GIGIGIGI* *AAAAAR* *YEEEEEOOOOINK*"

He apparently has a movie that is in filming in Wyoming or something that might be released in theaters... crazy stuff.

Finally I had my physics lab (I only had it for about 20 minutes today though, thank god. Otherwise that would have been 5 straight hours of physics) and all that really happened was the TA went over the basics of the class... It's pretty much the same thing as last year. BORING!

Tuesday, August 26, 2003

I just started my first reading assignment for my Existentialism class. We are reading Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and I must say it is quite boring. I can't really get in to it and I still have about half of the book left. Oh well, it needs to be done by tomorrow too. I should finish it within an hour or 2.

I had one class today (my 8 am discussion was cancelled, we had nothing to discuss) which was CSCI 102, Data Structures and programming in C++.
Only one thing scares me about this course. Homework is either pass or fail. Either you get 100% on it or you get 0%, and A or an F. That's it. So hopefully I'll get all A's in there.

I noticed something strange while I was sitting in that class. About half of the class is left handed. Isn't it like 10% of the human population is left handed and somehow my classroom is 50% left handed. Guess it goes to show that left handed people are smart. Either that or computers are the tool of satan...

Monday, August 25, 2003

First day of classes and it doesn't seem like they will be that bad.

First class was math, pretty basic stuff we did today. Pretty much review. The teacher seems okay, nothing great but he's understandable.

Second class was Existentialism, Death and Meaningless. A pretty big class of about 150 students, but the teacher seems like a good one and we will be reading some classic existentialist stories so it shouldn't be too bad.

Third class was physics. I'm not a huge fan of physics but the professor is HILARIOUS. He'll be lecturing and then in the middle of nowhere ask the most random things.
I made a list:

Quotes by Professor Burke:

"This class is more important than... your mother"
"The string theory is just a bunch of mathematicians masturbating"
"What is that white stuff? HORSERADISH"
"If mass was stuff that came down from heaven... well, maybe hell... we'd have 20 pound rocks but not 25 pound rocks."
"A retarded monkey could do your homework"
"Does anyone have any beef jerkey?"