Week 2

Interesting. One of my classes has been reduced from an entire semester to three weeks. The professor, Dr. A, is returning to Indonesia due to his father being sick. This will make the remaining week and a half hell but after that it will get much better. Physics II is about 200% easier at LCU than it was at Tech, I'm not really worried about that class. The one class I am very worried about is Solids. I hate all Civil Engineering classes, they just flat out suck. I mean school has been in session for 9 days and I already have no idea what is going on in that class. Adiar called me tonight and he just happened to be working on a phone system at a Petroleum firm and started talking to the office manager and my name came up and she said they were looking for interns and so tomorrow I am supposed to call them up. I hope something comes of it because I need a job this summer. It sure does help to have friends, you never know when they will help you out. Speaking of friends I think my long standing friendship with Jake may be over. We were working on a project last semester and it was imprtant to me and he just stopped responding to my emails. Haven't talked to him in two months. Jake has always been like that though, he's not much of a dreamer and wants to analyze things to death. Nicole says I over analyze things, if she had to spend much time with Jake she may just kill him. Anyways, Nicole is coming over in a few minutes so I'm gone.

2006 Baby!

Wow!!! Time is starting to fly by, when I was a kid it seemed like summer time lasted for ever and a year was an unthinkable amount of time. At the age of 25 it seems the exact opposite, someone kicked on the hyperdrive and it seems social security and retirement are screaming torwards me. That may be a bit of an embellishment seeing how I am still in college but you get the idea. So, the spring semester starts one week from today and I am ready to kick some ass. Actually, that's how I feel at the beginning of every semester and by the end of it I feel like a guy that just received the beating of his life after saying nigger in a black bar. Things with Nicole and I are going well, she has really chilled out and I think things are just going to get better with her. The semester that is starting next week will be the third from finishing, that's right...I only have 3 semesters to go. I can actually see the finish line from here. Friends will be graduating this semester, people I have been with since the beginning here at Tech, others will be finishing in December and then a handful with me and even more the following semester. Okay, that sentence was like way too much useless information, I ment to say something about my friends that are graduating this semester. Okay, I have to go put some laundry into the driers and then Nicole and I are going to watch a movie. We watched Wedding Crashers earlier and it was pretty good, I enjoyed it.

yippee ki ya mothertrucker

This semester is over!!! it had to of been the fastest one yet, it was here and gone like a fart in the wind. Anyways, not all of my grades are in yet and there is some serious finger-crossing going on over here. As soon as finals ended I got sick and I am trying to get over it so that I can make the voyage home. The ride back from Thanksgiving by myself had to have been the worst ever. It seemed like it was never going to end...getting a little lost didn't help either...I hate the roads in Waco. It's 1am and I'm off to bed.

The Grind

Well, school has been going for almost a month now. Between studying, test, quizzes, homoe work, worrying, girlfriend and my officer duties I have NO time for anything else. An upper classman once told me that the farther along you get in school the easier it gets. I want to hunt him down and beat him. Things are not easier they are in fact harder than ever. I'm putting more hours into school than ever before!!!

Moving on...I have not heard a single thing from companies regarding an internship. This is making me worry! NO internship means no money and no money means I will have to work while going to school and I just don't see how I can swing that. I know of one person that works right now and he does it just for spending money and only puts in a few hours a week. I am going to put forth an effort to contact companies and see if I can't get something rolling. Not only that, I should meet a lot of industry people at the ATCE conference in Dallas that is coming up in a couple weeks. I'm going to give out every business card that I have!

That's all for now.

Wedding

My best friend and my sister got married today, they did it while being 600 miles away from each other. You say "how is this?". Well, they married different people. Jake married his high school sweetheart and my sister Emily married Jason, whom she met at college. All I can say is this has made me start thinking about so many things. First is that I am at the age where most people start having families and are already married - Responsible adults. Not to say that I am not responsible, I just am not married and have not even finished school yet. I have two more years of school to go, that will put me at 27 years old. Crap! Anyways, it is just making me think. I don't know what else to say. It has been a very long day and I am dead tired. I am going to have to force myself to go brush my teeth versus throwing this laptop in the floor and crawling under the sheets. Friday I finsihed my internship. When I had my exit interview my boss said that I need to work on first impressions. I guess that is true, I was looking through all the pictures that were taken on my digital camera and I am not smiling in one of them. Am I an unhappy person? NO. I am one of the biggest cutups you will ever meet but at the same time I am only that way around people I know really well. When you first meet me you may think that I am an asshole. That is just an assumption that a lot of people make. And this is one of the things that I was thinking about today and will be working on this from now on. I'm not really sure why I am that way, that's just the way it is. I'm not saying I am going to keep it up, just that I am who I am and I will work on it. I am rambling right now and it has to be in direct realtion to how tired I am. I am very very very tired. I think I already mentioned that. Alright, I think that I quit typing things worth reading about 5 minutes ago. Goodnight.

It's already over.

Tomorrow is my last full day at work. I can't believe it. The summer has flown by. It seems like it was just a couple weeks ago I was bitchin' about Billy Jacks. Well, Friday is my last day and I am only going in for a couple of hours to tye up loose ends. Later on Friday I have alot of things to do getting ready for the wedding and we have the rehersal and rehersal dinner. I can't believe Emily is getting married on Saturday! I hope things work out for her, I just think that Jason may not be able to provide for her in the way I would want. He was just fired from his job yesterday, a job that I got him. He 100% deserved to be fired and I can't believe that he would do what he did to deserve it especially when I got him the job...not a very good impression to make on the family. Anyways, Jason is 25 and has very few college hours completed and it will be atleast 4 years before he finishes school, this has caused Emily to forget about engineering and decide to go into dental hygene. I think that she made this change because she can be done in 2 years and this will bring money in while Jason is still in school. I don't think I need to say here how that makes me feel. Nicole has launched a new jewelry website that I think has the potential to take off, it's called we like beads. Well, I am heading back to Lubbock in one week and will be moving in to a new apartment. I hate moving!!! Atleast I no longer have to put up with Justin and Allyson, I really can not stand to even look at those two. That's all for now. I should be posting more frequently now that work is almost over.

It's been a month???

I have been so busy! I got up at 3:30 this morning and drove to Refugio for a meeting and ended up getting about 15.5 hours on the clock today. Anyways, I am going to bed. I really need to come back soon and write something with a bit more to it.

Why am I awake?

Here it is 1:30 in the morning and I should be in bed. I am tired. I've spent the past 2 1/2 hours checking out the songs I have in my library and I can't believe some of the stuff that is in here. It's amazing how my taste in music has changed over the years. My MP3 collection runs all the way back to 1997 when downloading music was a lot harder than it should have been. By the way, the RIAA sucks. Anyways, so, yeah I'm dead tired and don't feel like getting in bed. Or maybe I'm just to lazy to go to the bathroom and brush my teeth. This could very well be the reason I am still awake.

Internship

I really like the group I am assigned to this time around, we are responsible for the Tom O'Connor lease. Two out of the 3 engineers are around my age and this makes things easier, and my boss doesn't bug the hell out of me. As a matter of fact I have been working all week and my boss came to my office today just to "order" me to take a break and take advantage of all the pies and cookies some vendors had dropped off. Speaking of food, we have vendors dropping food off all day long, every day. So much for losing weight this summer. My only complaint is that the IT department is made up of a bunch of assholes, I got into it with two of them today. I called to tell them that after several emails informing them if a problem it was still not fixed, well this guy responded to everything I said with email us and then hung-up on me. I was perfectly nice the whole time. Well I ran into the head of IT in the hall and he jumped all over me and I told him that his guy was rude and he was being rude and he then told me that we would see how long I am able to keep my job with no computer access. He was a straight-up asshole. Anyways, I went and told me boss and he said that even if he did yank my access all it would take is one phone call from him and my access would be turned on. IT is a support staff and these guys act like they are God Allmighty. So, those guys are on a different floor and I should never see them.

Damn

I started my internship today, the company is good but the work is sooo boring. I thought the day would never end. One day down - 60 to go...

School: I made really good grades and then today finally got my last grade in and wouldn't you know it, I got a "D". This is VERY bad. This class is only offered once a year and I have to pass it before I can continue on taking classes in my major. SHIT!

Finals Are Over - Semester Is Over - Relaxation does not begin...

Well I finished with finals today and it is a huge relief. I have only one final class grade in so far and it was a huge suprise, I could make nothing on the final and still get a C in the class well I went in to the final and circle "B" for every answer finishing in about 45 seconds. SO, I checked my grade today and actually got a B in the class which means I actually did very good on the final. SURPRISE. So now I have to start packing my house up and move it all in to storage and then I start my internship down in Houston on the 16th. Busy!

The Winter of 2005 Returns

Here it is May 3rd and it feels like February 3rd. Mother Nature has freaked out and blasted us with cold weather for several days now. I'm sitting here with a sweater on!

Here is my newly updated school site...

David Hunter - Texas Tech University - It's Me

Oh brother

I just found out that another friend of mine is engaged...great

The end is coming

Jake just called me. He asked Carrie to marry him, of course she said "yes". That pretty much means that everyone my age is now married or soon to be. I get a sick feeling just thinking about it.

Short Update

I have an interview/dinner in a couple hours with XTO Energy. I'm not sure that I even want to interview with them, I already have a job this summer but I guess if the job was right and the money good enough I would go work for them. Anyways, I need to go get in the shower, I'm looking like a mountain man - need to shave.

Well

I just got a call from XTO Energy and they want to take me out to eat on the 20th to discuss coming to work for them. I have already signed on with Hilcorp Energy but did not enjoy working for them over Christmas break and this summer would be more of the same. Not really sure what to do. Another thing is that the XTO job would be in Midland while the Hilcorp job would be in downtown Houston and that is where Nicole is going to be. I guess I'll just go and listen and here what what they have to say, it can't hurt.

Fun Fun Fun

Well I have spent the day taking a Cal 3 test and looking at apartments. Both things are totall different tasks but equally suck. The math test only had 5 problems on it but they had weird symbols that made no sense to me, I am passing this class and have no clue what the material is or how to work it. As far as the apartment searching - I am moving out of my house in the middle of July and have to find a new place to live but since this is a college town this process must start now, 4 months from when I plan on leasing, otherwise I will be living in a very undesirable part of town.

Speaking of Surprises

After writing about Sideways I thought that I would let you in on another non-mainstream gem I have come across. I was in an electronics store in Dallas over springbreak and this ipod was playing this song that I had never heard before and it was great so I checked it out and it was by a group called Modest Mouse. Who the hell is Modest Mouse? Well I don't know, but I do know that I really like thier song Float On, I play it way more than I should. Anyways so Sideways and Float On should be checked out.

Sideways - it doesn't suck...

So, I just got in from seeing Sideways. I don't know what it is about this movie but I really liked it. I think the characters are what pulled me in because the movie itself certainly does not have much of a plot but this is a rare case where the movie actually survives and may even be the best I have seen this year. Anyways, it was over 2 hours long and I could have sat there for another 2 hours watching these people. What can I say, this movie really grabbed my attention.

Home Alone

Well it is Easter weekend and I am by myself - no roommates, no girlfriend. I am not complaining, this is going to be a nice little break from everything. I was going to go meet my parents in Arkansas but with the price of gas and it being just over 500 miles I decided to skip that trip. I am a petroleum engineering major and high gas prices are great for me but just not at this time, I wish this would of held off until I graduate. Geez. Anyways, I need to get off here and see if I can't find something to do with my time.

Back in Lubbock

I'm back in dusty, cold Lubbock. I can't wait to graduate and move to a better climate. The trip was fun, Jake is planning on proposing to Carrie soon. Anyways, I'm tired and don't have the energy to type.

Dallas (Eulles)

Well, I am in Dallas for a couple days, got here yesterday afternoon. Today I went to lunch with a "rainy day" friend, Cory, who I haven't seen in about two years. I really fell bad for the guy, he must weigh about 400 pounds, it was pretty bad. Anyways, the actuall reason I came to town was to see my buddy Jake, I've known him for over trn years now and we still remain good friends even though we haven't lived in the same town for over 5 years. I guess this was a weekend to catch up because my friend Tim Taylor called me Friday and I haven't talked to him in almost 2 years. It's scary seeing everyone, including myself, grow up and what type of life's we are forming. Anyways, I will be here until tomorrow, I don't think Nicole can take another day without me since what she has going on in her life.