Mike Nicholson

I had some big entry planned about my trip, but I'm too lazy, so you get my life in a nutshell.

I went to Canada to visit my net friend of many many years (yeah very dorky). It was a lot of fun. The power went out, but we just made the best of it and went stargazing.

I went home and the window fell off my airplane. It wasn't high enough for the masks to fall down, but it still made my ears pop and really freaked the pilot out. It was also very loud. We had to turn around to get it fixed, so the 1 hour link ended up taking 4 hours. We all missed our connections. I was routed through St. Louis for a 6 hour layover. I got to hang out with my parents, it was fun. With all the flight changes they lost my bag which I still have yet to retrieve.

Moral of the trip: make the best of bad situations.

With school out for summer (I got a 3.5 this past term), I'm focusing on work now. Work and silly things like my trip to Yosemite. My friends got hired and they're really, really fun to work with.

Yosemite trip leaves soon. We actually have a good camping spot! Tonight we buy food and tomorrow we leave. I must do some planning during work today.

Ok that's it in a nutshell. Have a nice day

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Hey everyone. I know I try not to bitch too much on here, but I'm angry so here it goes.

Fake people annoy the hell out of me. They wouldn't annoy me so much if they didn't keep fooling me. I'm just too trusting I suppose.

I had this person I was trying to befriend for a long time. We chatted a bunch. I helped them out with homework once or twice. I learned that they were often frustrated by the dramatic situations they found themselves in. They complained that they felt trapped by their current clique. I knew where they were coming from. I had felt this before, but not as badly.

Due to my compassion for their pain, I took it upon myself to help this person by proving to them that you can never be 'stuck' in a clique. The gossip and backstabbing can be side-skirted simply by hanging out with other people sometimes. I tried over and over for nearly a year to hang out with this person. From time to time we managed to meet up for a drink somewhere or something of that sort, but 95% of the time the person flaked out on me, or canceled at the last min.

After a year of this I finally asked what was up. Turns out that all the nice comments the person had given me were worthless. As it turns out, the times we had hung out were in secret.... they did not want to be seen with me because of what others would think and say.

I try not to let this kind of stuff get to me, but this one really really bummed me out. Here is this friendship that I had put large amounts of effort into only to find I was being defrauded the entire time. So, if anyone else wants to come forward and tell me that being around me is too scandalous, please let me know now so I can stop trying.

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Hey everyone.

Today was a fun day. I went to an AutoX race and really didn't do terribly; but, I could have done much better I think. Maybe I'll get better after a few more AuotX races.

Ok I'm sleepy now. I had something deep to say but I forgot. Maybe I'll remember for tomorrow.

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Hey everyone.

Well, summer is 1/2 over. It went by so fast.... It's also getting close to my big decision time.

For several months now I've had the strong wanderlust urge to travel. To solve this I came up with a plan including JET, backpacking across Europe, and generally bumming around the world for a few years working along the way. This would be an incredible experience, but it came to a stop when I realized two things. First, traveling for this long will destroy my already progressing career in the computer industry, and second, I almost have enough money to buy a house.

I cannot decide for the life of me. Should I follow my urge and take off for several years in an attempt to learn about others as well as myself, or should I take the responsible route and buy a house, keep working 9 to 5, and begin to settle down.

To make matters more complicated, I have little time left to decide about traveling. I was going to begin with JET due to its structure and guaranteed employment, but the selection / assignment process is extremely long. To leave in July 2004, I would have to apply within the next 1.5 months. Anyone have any advice?

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