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Break plans

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

I’ll cut to the chase: my break plans are not final–you can still be part of my break plans! Friday, December 16 – home after a day of snowboarding at Snowshoe Monday-Thursday, December 19-22 – working at Digital Sandbox Thursday, December 22 – extended family Christmas party Friday, December 23 – catching up with Owen […]

The rest of the semester (try #2)

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

So once again the university partially cancelled exams due to weather. My last exam that should have been at 7:45 this morning is now at 7:45 tomorrow morning. Thankfully, the professor is allowing us to take it at 3pm today, so it won’t throw off my snowshoe plans. I still have one project to finish […]

The rest of the semester

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

Exams: Signals and Systems: 7:45am tomorrow Electronics I: 5pm tomorrow CS: 7:45am tomorrow Projects: CS #5: midnight tomorrow (currently up to 204/300) CS #6: midnight tomorrow (not yet submitted) Thursday afternoon: Relaxation, let me know if you want to do something I’m thinking of throwing something nice on the grill for dinner Friday: Snowshoe at […]

Yay for sledding!

Friday, December 9th, 2005

It’s great sledding on the Blacksburg Municipal golf course. It’s even better when you go at 1am. Now I’m wondering whether I’ll have my exam tomorrow or if it will be pushed until Saturday. UPDATE: Exams before 1pm were pushed to Saturday. Mine was at 1:05, so I took it and feel good to be […]

My phone doesn’t like the cold

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

Just a quick alert to everyone: if you call me and I don’t pick up and I don’t seem to be responding to your voice mails, my phone has probably decided to turn itself off. It seems to do that frequently when I go outside and it’s cold. I’m trying to remember to check that […]

Highly valued, deeply fallen, greatly loved

Monday, December 5th, 2005

I’ve had multiple reasons to do a lot of thinking recently about the church and its response to the world. I grew up in a church that while the Gospel was preached, was very much a museum for “saints.” Very few in the church admitted their failings beyond the recited public confession we all read […]

Advent reading

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

Advent is the four weeks leading up to Christmas when Christians prepare for the birth of the coming Messiah. During what tends to be the busiest time of the year, I like to stop and refocus what’s going on in my life. It’s not about shopping for the best gift ever. It’s about the coming […]

Surviving the storm

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

The semester is almost over! I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. These last two weeks are still crazy for me. I have 3 projects still to do (one with full technical report), a homework assignment, a test, and five finals. It should be crazy, but this semester will be […]

Chris’ public speaking tip #1:

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Don’t plan out possible ways you could misspeak and how to recover from them. It’s too easy to make a Freudian slip and end up like this youth pastor from TX. Caution: you wouldn’t expect him to say what he says.

The Death of Chris (not really)

Friday, November 18th, 2005

I feel like I should explain the just broken blog silence. This semester has been kicking my butt. I don’t know why taking five in-major classes sounded like a good idea at the time. Even with the insane workload, this semester has been awesome. The fall 2005 vtONE event was truly awesome, and we’ve seen […]