I'm doing science and I'm still alive!

Soooo I leave for Colorado in four days. I am so not ready. I am, however, going to print out all my tabs that I have saved on my bookmarks so that I can bring an anthology of music that I can play on the guitar. I also have to notify a bunch of people on LJ and Facebook and give them the link to this blog again, because I might never go on either site for the entire two months. Or I'll check them more rarely.

I'm going to ask my parents about a going away party on Sunday. Not anything crazy with pin the tail on the donkey, or beer pong, or anything like that, but maybe an outdoor cookout kind of thing. We'll see. :]

Actually, I'm getting a little nervous for this whole Colorado thing. I think I'll have lots of fun, but I've never done something like this before, so it's new and scary for me. It's exciting though, too.

Asking parents time!

Current song stuck in head: "Still Alive" - Portal soundtrack (end credits for Windows)

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Edit: No going away party! A coming back party, probably August 15 (Saturday).

SUPERMAX!

Gothic is a four hour drive from our country's only federal super-maximum security prison, where 22% of the inmates have killed other inmates, and 35% have tried to, so they keep most of the prisoners in solitary confinement for 23 hours (or more) of the day. And even then they only get to exercise alone because the only people they ever interact with there are correctional staff until they are proven worthy to send to a NORMAL maximum security prison.

Awesome.

Of course, the stats are from Wikipedia so take them with a grain of salt. But still. I could tour the only federal supermax this country has, from behind glass. And if a prisoner escapes, that's always fun. Though I doubt they will. They'd probably get killed by attack dogs and razor wire trying to escape.

Oh my God! The Unabomber is at that prison! And a couple Islamic terrorists. And someone convicted of aiding terrorists. And...a Christian Identity terrorist? And a surgeon-turned-serial-killer that poisoned his patients/victims instead of curing them. But that could sound worse than it is if it was assisted suicide. The Oklahoma City Bomber went there and was executed in 2001.

This whole post is almost totally irrelevant. I was just studying for criminal justice and decided to see how far I would be from the "Alcatraz of the Rockies."

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Edit: Here is an article from Times. Apparently the solitary confinement methods border on torture.

I don't know where I'll be tomorrow

So my plane schedule changed again. Hopefully this is the last time it will do so. But it might not be.

I dropped off my sleeping bag, sheets, blankets, and guitar for Chris to take to Colorado with him. And now I have no guitar. Sad face. =(

But on Sunday, Keri and I leave for San Diego! Woo hoo! And then home! Woo hoo again! Anywhere but school is okay with me. I only have one more exam left to go, in criminal justice, but I'm finding it difficult to study for it. I know it won't be very difficult, and I know that I could screw up on it and still be fine in the class because I've kept a pretty steady B in it all semester. I think I calculated that if I get a C on the final, I still get a B in the class. Though I guess I should go back to studying.

My friends and me are going to Buffalo Wild Wings tonight! Another woo hoo!

This is me after too much studying!

Currently listening to: "Wheel In The Sky" - Journey