Fulfilling one small promise at lightning speed!

I said I'd post pictures of my WALL-E sticker so here they are!


WALL-E in his new home on Marvin's cover which is getting quite full actually.


A close-up of the sticker.  

If anyone else wants to press this particular sticker I still have the original image I used, already cropped and ready to upload to metacafe or where ever.  So I'll e-mail it to whoever wants it.  Though it's not exactly hard to find a picture of your own, just google images of Wall-e.  :-D

I'll make more updates soon.  
Skull out.

From now on I will always have my camera with me!!!

So my first class of the day on Mondays and Wednesdays is Ethics.  Today after class I was walking to the Union with Robin to help her finish up her chem lab for today when I look down at the path and see a Praying Mantis the size of my hand, sitting in the middle of the walk way.  I immediately picked it up and at that moment Jackie and several of Robin's friends showed up and we had quite a crowd examining the Mantis and exclaiming over how cool it was for about 5 minutes.  I then set it down on one of the large rocks along the side of the path, took a couple of pictures with my cell phone, and continued on to the Union.  I passed that rock several more times during the day and the Mantis must have liked my choice of location because he was there the entire day!  So from now on I carry my camera so I can take good pictures of the random cool things that happen and then post them here.  

Promises delayed, but not broken

So I said I was gonna try and keep up with regular posts, and while that did not indicate that regular == daily I do seem to be coming up on a time when they would be considered not regular.  I've also taken a lot of pictures that I want to post to show off, among them the WALL-E sticker I had cafepressed for my laptop.  Unfortunately I have not yet had time to upload those pictures.  Hopefully I will have an opportunity soon to do that but as it is I'm writing this quickly between homework assignments that I didnt expect to have to worry about for almost a week!  So I promise I'll get those pictures up, it will just have to be an eventuality rather than an immediate thing.  Now back to the grind stone...

Back to School!

So today was the first day of classes at PACE where I'm majoring in Environmental Studies.  It was an interesting day, but fun too.  For my first class of the day, which was supposed to be Normative Ethics, I accidentaly walked into a Law 101 class.  I liked the professor though, oh well.  One of the people I met yesterday, Alyssa, was in class with me which is cool, we'll be able to bounce philisophical ideas off each other.  After Ethics I had lunch, where I had an argument with a ketchup dispenser, and lost.  Just imagine how that would feel, losing an argument with a ketchup dispenser.  So I had no ketchup with my fries today.  I got to pet a Barred Owl while passing through the activity fair which was pretty sweet.  Then I went to Environmental Chemistry.  The last chem course I took I did not enjoy, but I think this one could be fun.  I like the professor anyway, and we'll be going on a few feild trips which is always a good thing.  Public Speaking was right after chem, and lo and behold, Alyssa and I are both in that class too!  After we found that out we compared the rest of our schedules to see if we shared anymore classes, which we didn't.  Two in the same day is still a pretty big coincidence though.  I hope tomorrow goes as well as today did because if so, this semester will be shaping up into a good one!

A visit to Annapolis, another photo(b)log...

We left Myrtle Beach on Friday afternoon and arrived in Annapolis that night at about 11pm.  The next day, my parents woke up bright and early and told us to come meet them at breakfast when we were ready.  By the time my sisters and I had woken up, showered, gotten dressed, and walked to where my parents had gone for breakfast, they had been finished and waiting for us for an hour. After we had all eaten, we strolled around the harbor a bit and I got a new t-shirt and hat.  Emily began to complain she wasn't feeling good, so we dropped her off at the hotel room and the four of us went to visit the Naval Academy.  Unfortunately I didn't take take nearly as many pictures as I should have, but I got a few.  


Inside one of the Academy halls, This building looks a lot like the RPI Armory (and it actually was an armory for a while).  The floor is designed to be used as an ice rink, but because of the age of the building, that function was recently discontinued.  


Apparently the first in command at the Academy has to worry about being attacked a lot because he has a few mounted guns like this one around his campus residence.  


This is the main entrance to the dorms, this grandeur is no delusion.


Entrance to the hall of honor.  


This is Tecumsah, warrior spirit of the students.  He stands guard outside the dorm building.  The students have dressed him up as Iron Man.


Tecumsah from behind, I thought the left side of the plinth looked very cool from this angle.

During our tour of the Academy we were brought to see the Crypt of John Paul Jones, The man who said "I have not yet begun to fight" in response to a request for his surrender during a naval battle in the Revolutionary War.  



The sarcaphogas of John Paul Jones.  


His ceremonial sword along with some medals he might have worn.  The medal on the far right was awarded to him (very)posthumously, though I've forgotten what it was for.  


After the tour we got to see the midshipmen (not cadets, those are army recruits) forming up to march off to a football game.  The sea of white was quite impressive.  






After we left the Academy we reaquired Em, and went walking through town to do some shopping and get dinner.  After dinner we took a walk around the historic district of Annapolis.  

A view of the state house.


We found Fleet Street...


...but no demon barber.


My dad and I though this was an ironic combination of signs.  


We also went for a ghost walk through the city.  There were some cool stories, and some creepy stories, but as with every other ghost walk I've been on, we saw no ghosts.  I have pictures from the walk, but none of them are especially good so I'm not going to bother posting them.