I am starting to see my 19 credit class schedule catch up with me. It is not that I can't handle it (because I can) but I am noticing that I have much less free time, and that I am forced to manage my time more efficiently (like not wasting time writing in this blog!). But it is ok, because Yohan has the exact same schedule as I do, so between the two of us, we can figure out any problem, and get each other motivated to do homework. Good thing indeed.

I got the new version of MSN Messenger, and it rocks. Now instead of setting your name to "Brian - Something new happened in my life", you can have your name as "Brian" and then have a personalized message that will show up in the main Messenger window only. So when you are chatting to someone, it only says "Brian says". It rocks. You can also have it show what music you are listening to, which is a semi cool feature. One focus that version 7 has is their "My Space" blogging service. I have looked around it, and it looks ok. I think I will try it out for a while (where I put my blog post both on Livejournal and MySpace). If you want the new beta of messenger, ask me for it and I will send it to you.

Last Wednesday was the first day of Lent, and so far I am not doing too well for it. On Ash Wednesday, I should have fasted (which I have heard a lot of different meanings for... it is either that you only have bread and water, or that you just eat very little during the day), but I didn't even try. Also, it is a day of obligation, which means that I should have gone to church, but I was talking to Danielle, and I didn't think that it would be nice to just get up and leave when we were talking about a sensitive subject like that. Then on Friday, I shouldn't have eaten meat... but I forgot about that too. Sigh... well for Lent I gave up gaming (like computer, console, and cell phone), but that has proven to be much easier than I thought it would be, so I am also giving up sugar because I think that I have been eating too much of that lately. That, on the other hand, is proving to be very very hard. I have only been doing that for about 15 hours, and I want sugar soooo bad. Not only that, but there is a huge box of it in my closet right now. Mmmm.... I want. *drool*

Football is over. AFC won the Pro Bowl. Now starts the off-season :(

There was a blood drive today, and for some reason the needle just looked so much more greusom today. Maybe it was because when it went in, blood kind of spurted over my arm. That didn’t make me feel any better. I don’t mind giving blood, but I hate the part when the needle goes in. But that is over, and I have done my good deed for the day. Yeah!

Let’s see... did anything else eventful happen? Hmm... oh yeah! For the first time in my life, I was not sitting at home on the computer on Valentines Day! Not only that, but I had fun planning the whole thing [Edit: I have to give credit to a lot of people for helping with planning including Danielle, Yohan, Chamea, and many others. Thank you for your help!!]. Ok... here is what I did. To start with, Yohan and I skipped Math to decorate Amaris's room (he wanted me to mention that he blew up the balloons). We put balloons and streamers all over her side of the room, and made it really cool looking, so that when she came back from her classes at 12:30 that she would have that surprise. After that, she would see a note on her laptop that had a poem on it, and a message for her to go to the 11th floor study lounge. In the study lounge was another poem that told her to go to the roof access door, and then a note on the roof access door that told her to go to the 10th floor pool table. Attached to that note was a bar of soap with a note that basically told her that she smelled (because she always says that she smells funny, or that I smell funny), and told her to go to the place that she would use soap (which is the showers). In there was a shower caddy that had a rose, and a 24 karat bracelet with it that had a very nice poem on it. She said that she couldn't believe how creative I was... and neither could I. Who knew that I could write poetry... much less five poems!

Later, I was trying to think ahead by sending Chris out to get the movie tickets ahead of time, but that plan fell apart because one theater didn't take credit cards or checks, and the other didn't open until 6:30. So we were running behind to start with, but somehow we got to the restaurant on time and had a great time. The food was great, and everyone had a good time making fun of me :P. After that we went to see Boogeyman, which was fun. Not a great movie... but good if you want a scare (because it scared me pretty bad at the beginning).

Good times. I know that I like Amaris, and would definitely be up for a second date. I guess I just have to figure out if she feels the same way. But it is now time to cut this long entry short.