Archive for October, 2004

Weathering Stupidity

I’ve been in a Go-playing phase recently. I’ve improved from 30kyu to 23 kyu in a matter of a month. It’s very satisfying, as well as challenging and fun.
Interestingly, a number of my Go opponents are not oriental, as you might expect, but are instead European or Canadian. This is despite my playing Go on [...]

A Lack of Philosophical Interest

Since I live at a college that has two girls for every guy, it is rather impossible to avoid the opposite sex during any given day here. This is especially so in the particular classes I am taking; my Greek class, for example, has twenty students in it, but only two of them are male. [...]

Good luck, Robin!

I just wanted to wish my best friend and love of my life, the illustrious Robin Raven, the best of luck for her audition tomorrow!
::crosses fingers:: I’m sure you’re going to do really well tomorrow! Keep that chin up, and deliver the best monologue you’ve ever given!
I have faith in you, dear Robin… Now go [...]

geocities.com/EricJHerboso

Finally!     ::wipes sweat off brow::
My geocities site is finally back up, after a much needed cleaning up. The content is still more than a bit lacking, but I have the structure down — and that’s the hard part.
The main drawback of the site, of course, is the fact that it’s on Yahoo. Geocities used to be [...]

Genetic Indifference

As copied from my bound journal, dated 30OCT04.
Aargh!
At least I know from which side of the family my unrelaiability comes from.
Ugh. Ick. Ack. Bleh.
I’d been planning on this Halloween trip to my mother’s house for over a week. Everytime I called back and spoke to her, she would say, “Oh, yeah, Eric, I’m so glad [...]

Midterm Exams

I slept in today.
I don’t know quite how I managed to do it again. I seemed fine at first. But I couldn’t… I just couldn’t… ::sigh::
Anyway, that means I skipped my English class. More than likely, that class will be dropped soon. But no matter. English class isn’t important to my degree.
What far more concerns [...]

A Lack of Substance (or: From Flaky to Wiki)

I just finished my calculus midterm.
What I like most about take-home exams is that while taking the test you can listen to OCR songs and play games of chess and scrabble at the same time. Plus, if you get stuck on a problem, you can always sleep on it and try again the following day. I think that whenever I finally [...]

St. Joseph’s Chapel (or: Reason vs. Doctrine: A Schizophrenic Debate)

What a beautiful chapel we have on campus. The marble floors and the vaulted ceilings are nothing when put up against European standards, but the flamboyant tresses and angelic figures make up an impressive facade next to the other buildings in olde towne Mobile, Alabama, much as Hamlet shines next to the crap of modern writers, despite [...]