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Spent the night out with Liz and met up with a bunch of my coworkers.

Kat and her bf, Kelly and her bf, Mike, Adrian… good times. Brian was there too, and Zack(?!). Haven’t seen him since he quit. Having an order of 8 Irish car bombs was pretty epic.

Saw a pretty good band at the Half Penny, and did a good share of drinking. Apparently I hold my liquor pretty well. That last Jack & Coke was pretty hard.

Not sure if we’re doing it again next weekend, but I sure hope so. A fight almost broke out outside of Blue Tusk and then Mike shows up out of nowhere (he left to go to a different bar) and broke it up. What a way to end the night =)

Finished my Statistics class earlier today, so that’s out of the way. Got one more class to take care of for the semester, which shouldn’t be anything too difficult. I glanced over the final project and it looks like complete cake. Spent the morning at work, where I found out what my new proposed job position is. Check this out: Production Engineer. Me? An ENGINEER? While I don’t think my work responsibilities entitle me to that, I’ll take it. If anything it’ll be amusing telling people that I’m an engineer. Engineers always sound like important people.

Got an essay to write tomorrow, and the apartment needs a cleaning. Not sure what else is in store.

The move into Liz’s apartment was pretty painless. Only took me a few trips back and forth from the house, and since it’s a 10 minute drive it didn’t seem like much time was taken to really transport stuff here. Got my desk all set up, my dresser and clothes in a spot, and any other miscellaneous stuff either went on a shelf or in storage. My desktop PC I’ll wait on setting up, along with the 5.1 speakers. Not really needed right now.

Aside from the move, Liz and I had a pretty decent weekend. Did some shopping Saturday night, then watched some epicly bad horror movie. Sunday we did more cleaning + moving around, and other shopping.

Today I started second shift. It felt awesome being able to sleep in late. Woke up around 10:30, got my hair cut, washed and waxed the car, went out for Indian with Liz, and then we went for ice cream. By the time we were done with that, I still had over an hour until my shift started. I’m already loving this schedule.

The night shift is pretty bare-bones right now. I trained 3 people who are computer literate (which makes my life much easier) and have enough of a brain to follow printed directions. Trust me, some of the people who land a job there don’t have a clue what they’re doing. But these guys do. I showed them what they needed to do, gave them printed directions, and by the end of the night they were ace. I was able to focus on my normal job too, with limited interruptions. I checked on them frequently to see if they had any questions, and did my best to help them with any problems. It worked out pretty well. In a week they’ll be on their own, I’m betting.

I had a week of vacation from my classes last week and they started up again this week. I’m really not looking forward to 11 weeks of Statistics, but oh well. It’ll be interesting to see how I’ll submit work over the internet.

Liz’s schedule changed a bit today so she won’t be home until 2:30. Gives me a little time here by myself, to which I’ll probably just putz around or maybe pop in a movie. Got a DVD of A Man Apart starring Vin Diesel. But after seeing Babylon AD last weekend I’m kinda afraid to see this.

Busy as ever with things not related to the internet so I haven’t really had a chance to give a real update. Oh well.

Liz and I went furniture shopping on Saturday and got a boatload of stuff. Set of 4 chairs for the kitchen, entertainment stand for the living room, and a boxspring & frame for the bedroom. Including the rental van, it cost maybe $500 in total. Not bad for all the stuff we got! Spent some time at the mall, then headed back home to organize everything. Had a fat kids night and splurged on pizza, ice cream, and baked pretzels while watching War. Surprisingly good considering I hadn’t even heard of it before. Can’t go wrong with Jason Statham and Jet Li together.

Slept in ultra late on Sunday – I blame the bed being even more comfortable now than ever – and just hung around the apartment for a few hours. I had to head home for Father’s Day shenanigans and Liz drove home to be with her family. Thanks to sleeping in late I didn’t get to bed until almost 1AM – but I woke up still feeling pretty refreshed.

Work was pretty good today. Last week, albeit being a productive one, was just bad for me. Sometimes all you need is a fresh start to get things going on the right foot, and today was definitely that.

Heading back to Liz’s parents this weekend for her brother’s graduation party, and next weekend is the huge Syracuse reunion tournament. Doesn’t give us much time to get the apartment in order since company’s staying with us during the tournament, but I’m sure we’ll be able to pull it all off.

I probably should work on some homework, so off I go.

Went pretty awesome for me.

Spending it with the girl is always the best.

Received money, some clothes, and a care package of goofy stuff from my sister. Much needed items. Liz got me some cool stuff too but I left it at the apartment; reminds me, I need to grab it at some point.

My mother’s a baking genius. The white (snow) is frosting, the blue (water) is Jello.

We *were* going to go to that rave but me and my tiredness prevented us, we went and saw Forbidden Kingdom instead. I enjoyed it, anything with Jackie Chan or Jet Li is good in my book. Putting them together is even better.

Sunday we spent the day cleaning out the apartment, we made a good deal of progress. Still more to do, but things are coming along. Also went for dinner at Ponderosa (haven’t been there in forever!) and a walk in the park. Good times.

I really hate feeling so exhausted all the time. Liz notices it too and I wish I had a way to not feel this way. It affects me at nights and on the weekends… pretty much whenever I’m not at work. I try to get enough sleep at night but I still can’t fall asleep at a decent hour. And on the weekends when I get to sleep in, I’m still tired. It’s getting tough for me to focus on my schoolwork when I don’t have the energy to get it done. I’m breaking it up into parts of the course of the week so I’m hoping that will help me. I know being on my feet for 8 hours a day will affect me but I didn’t think it would be this bad. Maybe I should try building up my stamina by working out on a more regular basis. But that requires energy. Oh catch 22′s, how you amuse me so. And don’t get me started on caffeine. I already have 2 cans of dew over the course of the day, and sometimes a cup of coffee. Something tells me adding more to the formula isn’t healthy for me.

This upcoming weekend is another rave (which I won’t be skipping out on, that’s for sure). Liz and I will be gone pretty much all of Saturday, but nothing planned for Sunday that I know of. Lazy day sounds good to me.

Kait’s party was fun, just wish I wasn’t as tired as I was. Work drains me all week.

Weather was absolutely beautiful this weekend. We took a walk in the park… 75 degrees (24 celsius for you metric people), no humidity whatsoever. I was in heaven. And being there with Liz made it that much better.

Liz and I made a MySpace profile for the panda I gave her. The photos are extremely awesome.

Don’t let R. Kelly in your kitchen.

I also need to crack down more on my schoolwork, trying to get everything done in one night doesn’t seem to work too well, seeing as though I left the apartment earlier than usual tonight to finish stuff up. I just hate my classes this quarter… project management and research methods. Nothing really interesting to me at all. It’s hard to stay focused on them.

Still loving my car to bits. It averaged 30mpg on the drive up to Oswego, so I’m pretty happy with that. And that was with the windows down and sunroof open.

Looking forward to work this week, as always. I’m enjoying the experiences I get there.